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The same is simply not true for the Democratic Party. And as the octogenarian President Joe Biden shows all signs of imminently launching his re-election campaign, even the mainstream press is starting to fret.

The New York Times, the closest thing to Democratic Party Pravda, has over the past year run a series of urgent articles sounding the alarm on Mr. Biden’s unprecedented presidential age and declining cognitive abilities. Last July, the Times ran an article titled, “At 79, Biden Is Testing the Boundaries of Age and the Presidency.” Last November, another Times article was titled, “President Biden Turns 80, Making Him the First Octogenarian in the Oval Office”; and earlier this month, left-wing commentator Michelle Goldberg

Upon a closer examination of the chaos at the southern border of the United States, it occurs to me that two of the situations the U.S. faces today have stark similarities to a seminal event that occurred on a farm in upstate New York some 54 years ago.

It was officially called the Woodstock Music and Art Fair, but the town fathers in Woodstock decided they couldn’t (and wouldn’t want to) handle the expected crowds the festival was likely to attract. Other nearby towns were considered (White Lake, Saugerties), but organizers finally found and settled on a 600-acre dairy farm in Bethel, N.Y. —

50 miles or so from Woodstock — owned by a compliant and easygoing farmer named Max Yasgur.

You may not be able to pick us out, but my brother David and I were two of the faces in that crowd of nearly 500,000 mostly twenty-somethings who gathered on Max’s property in the summer of 1969 (Aug. 15-18) for what is now known simply as the Woodstock Festival.

As my brother and I headed north on New York State Highway 17W, the radio advised us that the crowd was growing too large, that there was no water to drink, the few toilets on titled her column, “Biden’s a Great President. He Should Not Run Again.”

The Times followed Ms. Goldberg’s column with a number of responsive letters to the editor, which ran last week under the title, “Is Biden Too Old to Run Again?” What’s more, on Thursday, Politico and CNN published nearly identical articles strongly suggesting White House palace intrigue and a party apparatus torn about what to do with its senile commander in chief: Politico’s piece was titled, “Senior Democrats’ Private Take on Biden: He’s Too Old.” CNN’s eerily similar article was titled, “Biden’s age is a hot topic as he looks to extend his time in the Oval Office until he is 86.”

Clearly, many in the Biden site had become steaming boxes of offal and were already overflowing, gas stations had run out of gasoline, and food was hard to come by. My brother and I looked at each other upon hearing this and agreed that “All right; this sounds like fun!” It was.

We had to park about a mile (maybe two) away from the entrance as traffic had completely stopped on 17W. I abandoned my car on the side of the road, and we began hoofing it, along with thousands of others making their way single file and abreast with one goal in mind: to get to the music festival. For the most part,

White House are leaking like a loose faucet. Even more notably, the liberal press, which would normally protect an incumbent Democratic president at all costs, is the one stirring the pot. Some card-carrying members of the insular Washington press corps are worried about the re-election prospects of the oldest-ever sitting president, who in his first term has presided over a calamitous Afghanistan withdrawal, 40-year-high inflation, soaring violent crime rates and the worst humanitarian crisis at the southern border in U.S. history. And who can blame them?

At the same time, disposing of an incumbent president — as the recent revelation of Biden’s illicitly retained classified documents and local inhabitants were thoroughly bemused but friendly and helpful. They, of course, had never seen anything like the army of high-spirited bedraggled hippies swarming through their neighborhoods.

When we finally arrived, there was no gate, nothing to stop anyone who didn’t have a ticket from getting in. The entrances had been completely overwhelmed, and the fence laid flat hours before.

As we walked toward the stage, we heard the plaintive words of Richie Havens’ calling out from his song, “Freedom.” Bert Sommer performed his own material.

John Sebastian from The Lovin’ Spoonful, Melanie, Arlo Guthrie, Joe McDonald of Country Joe and the concomitant appointment of a special counsel to investigate his scandalous negligence indicate some in the Deep State may also desire — necessitates finding a replacement candidate.

And therein lies the rub. Of the three leading alternative candidates for the Democrats’ 2024 presidential nomination, there are no appealing options. All three, in fact, are terrible options.

I speak here of Vice President Kamala Harris, U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and California Gov. Gavin Newsom.

The fact that Kamala Harris is unlikable, unliked, generally

Please see HAMMER on C4 the Fish and well, pretty much every 1960s hit maker other than the Rolling Stones and the Beatles appeared onstage over the next three/four days.

It wasn’t easy to sleep. It also wasn’t easy to wash, eat or use a toilet. My brother and I stayed up all night, as most people did that weekend.

Melanie sang “Beautiful People” sometime after midnight, as I recall, and Janis Joplin arrived in a helicopter, but don’t hold me to any time schedule, as this was a long time ago and the 30 hours or so that I spent at the festival rolled up into one long day’s night.

After the rain came the mud,

Another adverse event is our inability to stop the accelerating melting of ice in the huge ice sheets and glaciers in Antarctica, Greenland, and around the world. Data from two NASA-supported Grace Missions indicates that the massive Greenland and Antarctica ice sheets have been losing ice mass since 2002. It is likely that the tipping point has passed where increasing melting of ice can be slowed or stopped within foreseeable time frames.

The ice age that created these huge ice sheets and glaciers occurred 100,000 years ago. That ice age lasted until 25,000 years ago. Only another ice age can replace lost ice sheets and glaciers.

In 2020, the Royal Society reported on recent studies estimating that since the end of the last ice age, average temperatures have risen by 4 to 5 degrees Celsius (7-9 degrees Fahrenheit). That change has occurred over the last 7,000 years.

But the society also reported that CO-2 in the atmosphere has risen by more than 40% in the past 200 years, much of this since the early 1970s. The current speed of warming is now 10 times that occurring at the end of the ice age.

Back to another adverse event in the making. Ice sheets and glaciers contain most of the earth’s freshwater. The ice sheets and glaciers of Antarctica, alone, contain twothirds of the earth’s freshwater, which is melting into the salty oceans, raising sea levels.

The ice sheets and glaciers at the North and South poles and around the world, in Greenland and other countries, act as enormous reflectors of the sun’s rays, pushing 90% of the sun’s heat in that area, back into the atmosphere. This ice is melting at an accelerating rate. When the reflecting shield is gone, it cannot be replaced.

The Washington Post in January 2021 published details of a report that stated that Earth is losing 1.2 trillion tons

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