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“They’re Basically Destroying Golf” – Rich Eisen on Brooks Koepka Leaving the PGA Tour for LIV Golf
The Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down a Maine education policy that made K-12 schools with religious instruction ineligible for taxpayer-backed tuition aid, continuing the conservative majority court’s general trend of ruling for religious interests.
Anchorage Assembly Meeting, 6/21/22
Must Read Alaska video.
Prayer starts at 0:45
https://www.facebook.com/mustreadalaska/videos/1365264050552034/
I transcribed some of what Dan Fagan said on his June 13th show (audio below).
Dan was going through Alaska’s election results for Congress, and came across Christopher Constant’s few percent. Dan explains the proper response.
“Now Christopher Constant. … I know it’s easy to hate the left. … They make our lives harder when they get into power. [He mentioned grocery store prices now.] So it’s easy to say ‘I hate these people….’ But we have to really guard our hearts.
In summary, this latest iteration from Adams is a considerable expansion on what he and Nyquist originally claimed, which was limited to the container ship invasion—supposedly coming this November (which won’t happen). Adams seems to be downplaying the imminent timing, for fear he will lose face when he’s wrong, but the specifics of these growing and more bizarre claims are so off-base in terms of military strategy, you need to disregard the entire package. The war with Russia and China is coming, as I’ve long predicted, but learn to detect what is real from the “sky is falling” disinformation to comes from Adam’s “insider sources.”
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World Affairs Brief, June 10, 2022 Commentary and Insights on a Troubled World. Copyright Joel Skousen. Partial quotations with attribution permitted. Cite source as Joel Skousen’s World Affairs Brief (http://www.worldaffairsbrief.com).
THE BOGUS CLAIM OF IMMINENT WAR WITH CHINA AND RUSSIA
Even though I covered most of this bogus claim recently, I still keep getting frantic emails from people wondering if it’s true what Mike Adams and Jeff Nyquist continue to talk about. As I’ve said before Mike Adams continues to rely on “insider sources” for the hype he puts out, and this follows that pattern. Jeff Nyquist, except for being a conspiracy denier relative to our own government, has heretofore been pretty level-headed about the Russian and Chinese threat. But he too has been deceived by this latest “leak” from inside China. About the only thing that is true is the headline—that “Russia and China are planning a simultaneous attack on the US” But, it’s not imminent as the leak claims. Here are excerpts from the claims at Natural News [in italics].
From: Joel Skousen’s World Affairs Brief, June 17, 2022 (Last 2 paragraphs were added from the Yahoo article, Kremlin Cronies Say Putin Is Ready to Go Full Kim Jong Un)
PUTIN ADMITS TO TERRITORIAL EXPANSION
Some have doubted my claims not only about the falsified Fall of the Soviet Union, but Putin’s plan to reconstitute that union by reclaiming “lost lands.” This week Yahoo.com covered Putin admitting to a plan to regain lost territory.
Russian President Vladimir Putin paid tribute to Tsar Peter the Great on the 350th anniversary of his birth on Thursday, claiming that modern Russia is once again on a historic quest “to return and fortify” its lost lands. Erasing any doubt about the true motivation of his invasion of neighboring Ukraine, Putin told an audience of technology students in Moscow that the lot of re-conquering Russia’s former territories fell to their generation. They blithely smiled throughout the speech, without a hint of a reaction to the imperial ambitions of their leader which have abruptly re-shaped their future.
First half is interesting about the ethics of the LIV tour, funded by the Saudis, threatening the PGA’s future.
Author and award-winning golf writer Rick Reilly joins Rich Eisen in-studio where he explains how Phil Mickelson went from one of his favorite players to ruining his legacy after joining the Saudi-backed LIV Tour, what the PGA Tour must do to stem defections to the upstart rival league, and touts his new book ‘So Help Me Golf: Why We Love the Game,’ and shares his favorite stories about golfing with Hall of Fame announcers Al Michaels and Vin Scully and much more.
Rick Reilly Talks New Golf Book, Mickelson, LIV vs PGA Tour & more with Rich Eisen | Full Interview
Rich Eisen reacts to Greg Norman and the LIV Tour’s big misstep right out of the gate when they removed golf journalist Alan Shipnuck from Phil Mickelson’s press conference at the organization’s first ever event.
ESPN Senior Writer Kevin Van Valkenburg tells Rich Eisen why the controversial Saudi-backed LIV Golf Invitational Tour is here to stay after paying hundreds of millions of dollars to the likes of Phil Mickelson and Dustin Johnson, if there’s any panic inside the PGA Tour offices with the number of high-profile defections to the LIV Tour, and when/if the tour will be able to land a TV partner.
Related:
“History fails to record a single precedent in which NATIONS SUBJECT TO MORAL DECAY have not passed into political and economic decline. There has been either a SPIRITUAL AWAKENING to overcome the moral lapse, OR a PROGRESSIVE DETERIORATION leading to ultimate national disaster.” – Douglas MacArthur
More than half of Democrats AND Republicans believe America will ‘cease to exist’ as a democracy, new poll finds
The Yahoo News/YouGov poll shows that 55% of Democrats and 53% of Republicans share that belief in a stunning sign of pessimism about the country’s future.
Additionally the poll found that a majority of Republicans – 52% – say it’s likely that ‘there will be a civil war in the United States in [their] lifetime’ while half of independents – 50% – and a plurality of Democrats – 46% – agree.
Assembly vice chair cuts mic of youth member, who tries to defend Youth Advisory Commission’s authority
By Suzanne Downing -June 17, 2022
Anchorage Assembly continued today to try to take away power from the Youth Advisory Commission; the Assembly’s left-leaning majority doesn’t like the direction the commission has taken, which is often contrary to the majority’s positions.
There’s no single individual alive today who has hurt the financial bottom line of Alaskans more than former Anchorage Daily News publisher and owner Alice Rogoff.
The ignoring of the statutory formula Permanent Fund dividend calculation that is on the books has cost Alaska families’ tens of thousands of dollars over the past several years. The vision to raid the Permanent Fund Earnings account shrinking Alaskans yearly dividends was birthed in the heart of Alice Rogoff.
Back in 2014, with her vast wealth, Rogoff vaulted herself into a kingmaker. She was instrumental in creating the so-called “Unity Ticket” in the governor’s race. Rogoff, behind the scenes, worked with Big Labor bosses and other swamp creatures to create the Bill Walker-Byron Mallott ticket to run against Republican incumbent Gov. Sean Parnell.
Anchorage Assemblywoman Meg Zaletel has a huge rainbow sticker on her laptop at this meeting where they are trying to change the process for selection of the youth representative. The outgoing rep, Sarah Price was too conservative, which they need to make sure can’t happen again. Meg claims the Anchorage Assembly is “not partisan” at minute-6:00 in the Must Read Alaska video this still image is taken from.
At 5:45, Price said this Assembly is partisan, which it is, having an openly ‘woke,’ extremely liberal majority. Zaletel interrupted Price, calling for a point of order, saying “the Assembly is a non-partisan body by design, and I don’t want this information out.” Chair Suzanne LaFrance shook her head when Price said they’re partisan. But they clearly are.
Zaletel’s other giant sticker says: “THIS IS DENA’INA ELNENA” [This is the Dena’ina people’s land]. Decoded, Zaletel seems to be telling us that Anchorage is not rightfully Anchorage citizens’ land (Native and non-native). Anchorage is still only the Alaska Natives’ land. Thus, in Zaletel’s ‘woke’ logic, us non-natives have no right to call Anchorage our city. So Zaletel has the right to rule us as trespassers — unless we’re homosexuals, who are somehow grafted in. All others better start packing their bags — which we will not!
Must Read Alaska is at Alaska Airlines Lounge – ANC.
https://www.facebook.com/mustreadalaska/videos/1193963748020166/
“You have to count your victories. You have to cherish them. You have to credit people when they have the boldness to advance the cause of sanity. Because that’s the war we’re fighting. It’s insanity verses sanity. This idea that boys can compete with girls is insane. Last night in the Mat-Su school district, they voted you must be a female to participate in female athletics.” – Dan Fagan, 6/16/22
Jodi’s article: Private School, State Reimbursement: Family Choice
Jeff was joined by Jodi Taylor, board chair of the Alaska Policy Forum. They discuss why her family moved to Alaska, how she met her husband Treg Taylor (the current attorney general), a recent article about the state reimbursing parents for some private school classes, how this has been going on for several years, the benefits of the program, and how education can be improved in our country.
“MORE THAN HALF of our students are NOT proficient readers by third grade,” yet we have the highest cost per student in the country! – Jodi Taylor
Her oldest daughter attends BYU.
Jodi Taylor – Episode 243
South Dakota is now abortion free. The Plains state has become the second in the nation to not have any operating abortion centers as the last abortion business, run by Planned Parenthood in Sioux Falls, has stopped killing babies in abortions.
Related: Second Order Thinking & Why Its Important — Ask: “And then what…?”
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“So much of the left is first order thinkers — meaning they never get past step one. The goal is ‘hey, wouldn’t it be great if we were all equal?’ Therefore, they’ll print money and hand it out? They don’t get past that step. What’s the unintended consequences? What’s going to happen next? ‘Well, we don’t know. We just think this is a good social justice outcome.’ That’s the left.
It sounds good at the surface, and it completely breaks down when you move to the next step.” – Nick Begich at minute-33:
Second-Order Thinking And Why It Matters In Business
Second-order thinking is a means of assessing the implications of our decisions by considering future consequences. Second-order thinking is a mental model that considers all future possibilities. It encourages individuals to think outside of the box so that they can prepare for every and any eventuality. It also discourages the tendency for individuals to default to the most obvious choice.
In life and in business, it is tempting to prioritize decisions with small upside that provide instant gratification. This is often referred to as first-order thinking, which is simplistic and superficial by nature. First-order thinking does not consider the negative ramifications of a decision in the future.;…
Second-order thinking is a mental model that allows individuals to travel beyond their comfort zones and objectively analyze the consequences of future decisions.
Dustin Darden tests the limits of inclusivity at the Anchorage Assembly and gets trespassed off the property — after being given a copy of the Pride Month official resolution and standing for an official photo.