TRUMP V. BIDEN: Michael Ramirez explains.

NOW YOU KNOW: Lead actors in a series of hypocrisy.

NO, ENCOURAGE THEM: Let them destroy each other.

CAN WE SHOOT BACK? Liberal group includes call to ‘Shoot Republicans’ in letter to FCC.

MORE -- will.

STAYING IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS is practically child abuse.

OF COURSE: Leftist University of Texas students continue to demand police off campus.

It's so much easier to riot when the police aren't present....

NOT 'MAY' -- Will.

TRUE PRIVILEGE: CVS launches a program that forces hourly employees to discuss their “privilege.”

I saw this coming years ago and moved my business to a smaller local independent pharmacy.

On the brighter side (I guess), they've also automated their checkout lines so they now have fewer hourly employees to indoctrinate....

NOT LOOKING TOO GOOD: Facebook using news feed to showcase positive stories about itself.

The comments are ... shall we say ... not positive.

BUT THEY SHOULD: Heads won't roll.

Now more than ever.

REQUIEM FOR 9/11 REMEMBRANCES:

It's 10 days later and I've finally calmed down.

That day started with me taking -- and preparing to post -- this picture

which has been my more-or-less standard remembrance for the last nearly 20 years. Then, as usual, I started looking around the internet for other interesting remembrances I might link to -- and I was appalled by the number of 'arrogant elitist jerks whose only skill is preening and preaching at their alleged lessers'^* who have taken their cue from the tyrannical Biden administration to try and drive 9/11 down the memory hole.

For the record, a requiem is a funeral mass, which after reviewing the mainstream and governing class (of course I repeat myself) 9/11 coverage seems an appropriate post title.

Here are a few examples:

PRESIDENT BIDEN says he will visit Ground Zero, the Pentagon and Shanksville on the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. And give a prerecorded message....

Here is a better idea: stay away.

Biden has no business setting foot in those sacred places on that hallowed day. I take no joy in saying this. As a general rule, I believe that when a president attends a ceremony on behalf of the American people, he is not representing himself but the office of the presidency. We respect that office, even if we do not respect the man who occupies it.

But this is different.

REMEMBERING 9/11/01: Twenty years later, solemn ceremonies are separated by politics.

BIDEN AT DOVER: at his considerable worst.

TRUMP, BIDEN, AND 9/11: The good, bad, and ugly.

AMERICA-HATING DEMOCRATS hit all the wrong notes on 9/11 anniversary.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: American Studies department’s only 9/11 event focuses on ‘anti-Blackness.’

VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION shows (then deletes) video promoting 'culturally responsive and inclusive lessons' to do with 9/11.

The video in question was titled "Culturally Responsive and Inclusive 9/11 Commemoration."

Notes from those who have seen the video highlight that there is an attempt to get rid of the idea of Muslim responsibility for the 9/11 attacks. "We’re not going to reproduce a false assumption of Muslim responsibility for 9/11."

I'm ashamed to admit I once lived in Virginia.

There were a few positive posts. Here are two:

AFTER 9/11: Will remembrance lead us back to unity?

MALLARD FILLMORE remembers the best.

We cannot let this Biden kakistocracy of corrupt, morally bankrupt petty martinets continue drive this country below third-world status. We just cannot.

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^*Thanks, Kurt Schlicter, for those descriptive words.

UPDATE: Another small bright spot.

A 9-11 ceremony in real America.

That's my daughter speaking at the ceremony. My pride is overflowing.

NO, THE 'ECONOMIC CATASTROPHE' WAS TRIGGERED NOV. 3, 2020: Yellen warns failure to raise debt ceiling could trigger 'economic catastrophe.'

I'VE BEEN EXPECTING A STOCK MARKET DECLINE EVER SINCE JAN. 20TH: Dow Jones tanks nearly 600 points as doubts swirl over China's property market.

Is this the precursor? Or just a blip?

CONTRIBUTE TO AMERICA'S DECLINE: Give us your tired, your poor, your Democrat voters.

Linked from the Fox News cartoon page.

SEE NO EVIL, HEAR NO EVIL, SPEAK NO EVIL has been updated.

OR LATER. Manchin wants to pause voting on $3.5T spending bill until 2022.

How about until 2025?

I DON'T THINK this is a cartoon.

POWERLINE'S WEEK IN PICTURES had a clear favorite this time:

Even though mocking Ocasio-Cortez and 'Even We Have Standards' were pretty good.

FALLING LEAVES 2021, WEEK 2:

It cloudy and rainy today, so the pictures are not as crisp as last week. Let's start with the storm clouds, the picture taken from a neighbor's driveway.

Trees are green and the brush beneath is thick. There is actually another house down the hill but it won't be visible till the leaves are almost all gone, and not easily even then.

Here's the neighborhood's main drag, looking to the north. While still mostly green, there are leaves littering the road (it'll get worse - much worse) and one can see the paucity of leaves on the trees in front of the carport. Some of that is leaf fall, but mostly I think a result of last year's late freeze.

Looking west directly out of our driveway, it's still mostly green, but the missing leaves are obvious. Leaves are falling steadily in our 'back 40', again mostly as a result of last year's freeze damage.

Here' my standard view of the pond, taken from our back deck. Compared to last week the pond is greener as the sediment from the earlier heavy rains has begun to settle out. It's hard to tell, but it does appear that the pond is a bit more visible from the deck.

Our daughter-in-law was here last week, so the path down to the pond is now the path to Bear Lake. That brown in the middle of the picture is our neighbor's house, about 200 yards away. Since the undergrowth was mostly cleared out last year and not yet regrown, their house is about as visible as it ever will be. Note that all the trees still have their leaves -- I suspect that the density of the forest through there may have had a mitigating effect on last year's freeze.

And finally the pond, er, Bear Lake. It's still pretty lush and green, but you can see little tinges of brown here and there throughout the tree line.

Until next week....

IT'S ALREADY ILLEGAL if you're a Democrat.