Wednesday, March 29, 2017
There are Lies, Damned Lies and Juan Williams
If Mr. Williams' inability to tell the difference between legal and illegal immigrants is caused by a brain tumor, please rush him to the nearest hospital. If he is merely parroting the same Leftist talking points that conflate legal and illegal aliens, then he should be ashamed of himself.
Tuesday, March 28, 2017
Monday, March 27, 2017
Sunday, March 26, 2017
Saturday, March 25, 2017
Earth Hour at Casa de Proof: Every Light In The House is On
Trace Adkins - Every Light In The House is On
Friday, March 24, 2017
Thursday, March 23, 2017
Tuesday, March 21, 2017
Proof In Charge
Your humble blogger
will be on hiatus for the next two weeks.
While I’m enjoying the sun and fun at the beach, co-blogger and
long-time friend Proof
will be in complete charge of the joint.
Sophie The Wonderdog
is looking forward to spending time with her little buddies Tika and Teddy and
being spoiled rotten by my friend of 40+ years.
I put up a banner
saluting the king of absurdity, Al Franken AKA Stuart Smalley. He deserves to be mocked hard and often. The banner is my contribution.
Proof has the keys to the liquor cabinet. Go easy on the guy while
I’m gone. And don’t worry…I made sure
the ladies for our regular Monday feature “Flowing Curves of Beauty” are queued
up. (I can’t afford to have Proof post another round of Star Trek babes.)
Take care. See ya on the flip side.
Monday, March 20, 2017
Flowing Curves Of Beauty
Many are the women, who can take
their clothes off seductively, but women who can charm as they dress?
Sunday, March 19, 2017
And…It’s Ruined
Come on, admit
it. Your brackets got busted when Northwestern
beat Vandy. Maybe your brackets survived
but were later blown up when the Badgers kept ‘Nova out of the dance.
The NCAA says more
than 99% of all brackets were busted by the end of the First Round.
just checked my bracket pic.twitter.com/yUGtikuBzt— Mina Kimes (@minakimes) March 16, 2017
Today’s games will
complete the Round of 32 and will punch the remaining tickets to the Sweet 16. Will the
Road to the Final Four be a regional matchup between my beloved Duke Blue
Devils and those dastardly Tarheels of Carolina? I’m
banking on it.
Saturday, March 18, 2017
Hillary Clinton: "I'm Ready To Come Out Of The Woods"
The woods around Chappaqua have been filled
with screaming and blame-tossing for the last four months as Granny Clinton
searched for how it all went wrong. The unfortunate locals who wandered those forlorn
acres have been terrorized by ominous piles of rocks and sinister twig figures
reminiscent of The Blair Witch Project.
Speaking at a St. Patrick’s Day event in Scranton the sore loser said,
“So, I was thinking, like OK, what do we do?
You know, walk in the woods. You know
you can only do so much of that. I’m ready to come out of the woods.”
The trees said, “Oh thank God. She never shuts up!”
I
blame Hansel and Gretel for leaving a trail of breadcrumbs for her to follow.
Friday, March 17, 2017
Wave Your Tiny Arms In The Air
Monopoly® was created
on March 19, 1935, when Parker Brothers acquired the rights to it and since
then an estimated 1 billion people have weighed the merits of buying up
utilities and railroads or trying to hit it big with Boardwalk hotels.
Hasbro who owns the rights to the board game announced today,
“the boot has been booted, the wheelbarrow has been wheeled out and the thimble
got the thumbs down."
In their place will be a tyrannosaurus rex dinosaur, a
penguin and a rubber ducky.
I blame Russia for this!
@latimes To make the game more attractive to Generation Snowflake, they should have picked a diaper, a pacifier, and a safety pin.— Joe di Matteo (@diMatteoNY) March 17, 2017
@latimes Rubber ducky automatically gets Water Works.— Paul Needham (@ThePaulNeedham) March 17, 2017
Fuckin T-Rex aint going to jail. How about that. https://t.co/zcXmpN5sOk— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) March 17, 2017
Thursday, March 16, 2017
Chelsea Clinton’s New Book: Daddy’s Cigar Is Missing Again
I kid.
Former First Daughter
and offspring of Web Hubbell (again I kid), Chelsea Mezvinsky (nee) Clinton has
written a children’s picture book featuring the title She Persisted inspired
by Sen. Elizabeth Warren who was punished for impugning Jeff Sessions during a
debate on his confirmation for Attorney General.
The book will tell
the stories of 13 women who overcame immense opposition to achieve their
goals: Harriet Tubman, Helen Keller,
Nellie Bly, Maria Tallchief, Claudette Colvin, Clara Lemlich, Ruby Bridges,
Margaret Chase Smith, Sally Ride, Florence Griffith Joyner, Oprah Winfrey and
Sonia Sotomayor. Not a peep about Warren
from whom she stole the “she persisted” publicity stunt. Meh.
Chelsea should have
included other women who persisted—Kathleen Willey, Paula Jones and Juanita
Broaddrick.
UPDATE: Welcome readers of The Pirate’s
Cove. We’re grateful to The
Admiral for linking to this post.
McCain’s War
The long-simmering
war between John McCain and Rand Paul boiled over Wednesday on the Senate floor
when McCain directly
accused Paul of working for Russian President Vladimir Putin.
McCain was speaking
in support of a bill advancing Montenegro’s bid to join NATO. Foreign Ministers invited the tiny Balkan
nation to start accession talks to become the 29th member of the alliance in
December of 2015.
Graphic
via Radio
Free Europe/Radio Liberty
Montenegro's Slavic
ally Russia has strongly opposed its membership. Russia sees the move as a way to cut off Moscow’s
strategic access to the Adriatic Sea.
Serbia is Russia’s only traditional ally in the region.
There is no
compelling reason to bring Montenegro into NATO. It adds nothing to the
alliance with a military of just 2,000 and will become one more ally dependent
on the United States.
In 2013, only 38
percent of Montenegrins supported accession.
Many of them are Serbs who remember NATO's role in the Balkan wars of the
1990s. Prime Minister Milo Đukanović, who has run Montenegro since
1991, was a staunch ally of former President Slobodon Milošević of Serbia who
was handed over to the War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague for genocide and crimes
against humanity including the infamous massacre of civilians at Srebrenica in
1995.
Furthermore, Duško
Marković, became Montenegro’s prime minister in November 2016 amid complaints
of election irregularities and the support of the Democratic Party of
Socialists (DPS).
The National
Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism at the
University of Maryland drew up the Global
Terrorist Data which recorded a large number of terror attacks in the
Balkans between 1970 and 2015. Montenegro
includes 38 cases including the unresolved case of the killing of Goran Žugić,
a security adviser to President Milo Đukanović, in the capital of Podgorica in
2000.
A published report appearing in The
Washington Times in November of 2015 reveals Croatian intelligence identified
a possible Islamic State leader who set up operations in Kosovo and Bosnia-Herzegovina
and began to organize scores of Islamist fighters who left the Balkans to join
the Islamic State or al Qaeda’s Nusra Front in war torn Syria and
Iraq and have since returned home.
“We have identified a
possible Islamic State leader for the region and are monitoring the jihadist
fighters returning to the Balkans, and there is much to be concerned about,”
said the official, who spoke only on the condition of anonymity because he was
discussing sensitive intelligence.
The concerns have
been exacerbated by the refugee crisis sweeping Europe, which has security
officials in the Balkans worried that an Islamic State sleeper cell could slip
into the region disguised as Syrian refugees seeking asylum.
With a large Muslim
population and a weak economy that leaves young, poor men vulnerable to
radicalization, the Balkans region is experiencing growing fears that terrorism
may be breeding among its civilian population.
“The threat is real,
and the region is a potential tinderbox for radicalization,” the Balkan
diplomatic official said.
I have been willing
in the past to defend Sen. McCain against challenges to his patriotism and
heroism, but his attack on Rand Paul was egregious.
When Sen. Elizabeth
Warren attacked Jeff Sessions during his confirmation hearings Majority Leader
Mitch McConnell muzzled her when she impugned the motives and conduct of the
nominee for Attorney General. Where the
hell was the “Post Turtle” when McCain viscerally accused Rand Paul of working
for Putin?
A McCain spokesperson
clarified the senator’s words, “Senator McCain believes that the person who
benefits the most from Congress’s failure to ratify Montenegro’s ascension to
NATO is Vladimir Putin, whose government has sought to destroy the NATO
alliance, erode confidence in America’s commitments to its allies, overthrow
the duly-elected government of Montenegro, and undermine democratic
institutions throughout Europe.”
His office further
stated: “Senator McCain, and certainly the people of Montenegro, would
appreciate an explanation from Senator Paul as to why he sought to prevent this
small, brave country from joining in the defense of the free world.”
In responding to
McCain’s McCarthyite broadside Paul said, “Currently, the United States has
troops in dozens of countries and is actively fighting in Iraq, Syria, Libya,
and Yemen. In addition, the United States is pledged to defend 28 countries in
NATO. It is unwise to expand the monetary and military obligations of the
United States given the burden of our $20 trillion debt.”
Senate Rule XIX (2)
stipulates “No Senator in debate shall, directly or indirectly, by any form of
words impute to another Senator or to other Senators any conduct or motive
unworthy or unbecoming a Senator.”
McCain should be
punished.
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Wednesday, March 15, 2017
CNN: Two-Thirds Of Its Own Viewers DO NOT Trust The Network
Voters still remain
dubious of much of the political news they are getting. According to a Rasmussen Reports Poll published on January
4, 2017 of viewers who watch Fox News
most often, 50% say they trust the political news they are getting. That
compares to 43% of MSNBC viewers and
just 33% who tune in mostly to CNN. That means two-thirds of CNN’s own viewers do not trust “the most trusted name in
news.”
CNN’s share of
viewers will likely see a downward slide into oblivion when the next poll is
taken; after all they led the charge on fake news with the phony Russian
dossier filled with wild and salacious falsehoods about Donald Trump.
Let’s not forget
about Don Lemon defending four black racists who kidnapped and tortured a
mentally disabled man while live streaming it on Facebook or frequent guest
Marc Lamont Hill who called for rioting in Baltimore and called
African-Americans willing to serve in the Trump Administration as “mediocre negroes.”
So CNN Money headlined a story on their
website, “Why A Defiant Girl Is Staring Down The Wall Street Bull.” State Street Global Advisers installed a
bronze statue called “Fearless Girl” in front of the famed “Charging Bull”
statue a day before International Women’s Day to “bring attention to an
initiative to get more women on their clients’ corporate boards”. Beneath the girl’s feet is a plaque which
reads: Know the power of women in leadership.
She makes a difference.
Anxious to show
Feminazis the cable network has their back, they re-promoted the days-old piece
with a tweet implying it had some sort of feminist significance:
New York's “Fearless Girl” statue stands her ground against the Wall Street bull, even in the snow https://t.co/66S1V9KFJ6 pic.twitter.com/bSMjVJ78kN— CNN (@CNN) March 14, 2017
@redsteeze you have to admit,she is pretty fearless. She is wearing the same outfit in a blizzard that she wore on a 65 degree day!— Bengiii (@Craaazzyuuh) March 14, 2017
You wanna talk impressive—the Mona Lisa has
been smiling for 513 years despite her continuing presence in France and the
four presidents carved into Mount Rushmore have remained vigilant for 90 years
despite periods of brutal cold and sweltering heat.
BREAKING: Fearless Girl's reaction to Maddow's big scoop! pic.twitter.com/VIYvsywQYK— Sean Spicier (@sean_spicier) March 15, 2017
MSNBC/Maddow Riding The Hindenburg
Does anyone actually “follow” Rachel Maddow’s Twitter feed
except liberal eggheads? I started
watching Tucker Carlson Tonight and
immediately switched to MSNBC to
watch what turned out to be the Second Coming of The
Mystery of Al Capone’s Vaults.
For 18 minutes Madcow
gave her fans a long-winded tirade that was, quite frankly, weapons-grade
tinfoil hattery. I guess her “foolproof
bullshit detector” isn’t so foolproof after all.
What’s next? Will she now purport that Vladimir Putin has
assured the American people he won’t interfere with the NCAA basketball
tournament while blinking in Morse Code that Duke will win the championship?
The mockery has landed
on her like a sumo wrestler.
@michellemalkin Maybe she has proof that Trump cut the tags off of his mattress.— 🇺🇸⚾️BBMOM⚾️🇺🇸 (@bjdcmom) March 15, 2017
Tuesday, March 14, 2017
Monday, March 13, 2017
SJW Trek: "Resistance"
The Democrat party reminds me quite a lot of the Borg. It is made up of many disparate and sometimes competing factions, assimilated by a liberal hive mind, animating their every move.
I won't say "soulless". You could, though!
Sunday, March 12, 2017
Saturday, March 11, 2017
Don’t Go Away Mad, Just Go Away!
Same shit. Different day.
The left is seething over the firing by Attorney General Jeff
Sessions of 46 US attorneys who served under Teleprompter Jesus.
The
Justice Department said some US attorneys, as in prior transitions, already had
left the department. Sessions asked the remaining 46 presidentially appointed
US Attorneys to tender their resignations.
Why
would Sessions keep in place those appointees given the fact Acting Attorney General
Sally Yates—unmistakably sympathetic to Obama’s non-enforcement policies—insubordinately
refused to defend a lawfully issued executive order endorsed by Justice’s
Office of Legal Counsel on the president’s travel ban?
The sore losers on
the left seem to be suffering from self-induced amnesia—after
all Obama’s attorney general, Eric Holder said in 2009, “Elections matter. It is our intention to have the US attorneys
that are selected by President Obama in place as quickly as we can.”
After Bill Clinton’s
inauguration, he fired all 93 US
attorneys. Not a peep was uttered. Not. A. Peep.
It is interesting to learn that one US attorney, Preet Bharara,
decided to be defiant of Sessions’ request to resign:
Source says US Attorney Preet Bharara doesn't plan to resign, will make President Trump fire him (Reporting from @LauraAJarrett @jaketapper)— Dianne Gallagher (@DianneG) March 11, 2017
His defiance was laughably short-lived:
I did not resign. Moments ago I was fired. Being the US Attorney in SDNY will forever be the greatest honor of my professional life.— Preet Bharara (@PreetBharara) March 11, 2017
One need not search
very long for the reason behind his defiance.
On November 30, 2016 The
Washington Examiner published a juicy tidbit regarding the relationship
between Sen. Chuck Schumer and Bharara.
“The aggressive New York Democrat, who is set to lead Senate Democratic opposition to Trump's agenda next year, disclosed that Trump sought out his advice on Bharara last week."
"’President-elect Trump called me last week and asked me what I thought about Preet Bharara continuing his role as US attorney,’ Schumer said in a statement. ‘I told him I thought Preet was great, and I would be all for keeping him on the job and fully support it.’"
Bharara served as
chief counsel to Senator “Upchuck”.
According to The
New York Times Bharara tainted a corruption case against New York
Assemblyman Sheldon Silver
"Mr. Silver’s lawyers moved to dismiss his indictment because Mr. Bharara had orchestrated a 'media firestorm' that tainted their client’s right to a fair trial. Such motions are considered long shots, but Judge Valerie Caproni of Federal District Court in Manhattan wrote that Mr. Silver had a legitimate argument that the case should be thrown out because Mr. Bharara, 'while castigating politicians in Albany for playing fast and loose with the ethical rules that govern their conduct, strayed so close to the edge of the rules governing his own conduct.'”
Bharara’s office had
also been accused of “judge shopping” by the United States Court of Appeals for
the Second Circuit in the insider trading case against the hedge fund traders
Anthony Chiasson and Todd Newman.
In 2012, a string of prominent insider trading
convictions landed him on the cover of Time magazine with the headline ‘This
Man Is Busting Wall St.’ The New York Post’s Page Six spotlighted his
appearance at this year’s Vanity Fair Oscar party in Los Angeles, featuring him
in the same paragraph with Jane Fonda, Angelica Huston and Steve Martin.
When does Bharara's gig on CNN start?— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) March 11, 2017
UPDATE: Welcome The Pirate's Cove readers. We thank the Admiral for linking to this post.
Frau Blucher: Bowling At The White House
President Trump has
invited members of the House Freedom Caucus, who are skeptical of the GOP Obamacare
replacement plan, to the White House next week for a few frames of bowling.
The Republican
replacement bill, the American Health Care Act, cleared hurdles in the House
Ways and Means and Energy and Commerce Committees this week along strict party
lines. Speaker Ryan is hoping
to bring the bill to the floor in the next few weeks.
Republicans have been
vowing to repeal and replace the disastrous ObamaCare law since before it was
passed seven years ago, and with Trump in the White House, GOP leaders on
Capitol Hill are hoping to make good on their promise this year.
Frau Blucher (horses begin to whinny) is having none
of it. Speaking at a breakfast in
Washington hosted by the Christian
Science Monitor Nancy Pelosi sneeringly quipped, “If he’s in a deal-making
mood does that mean bowling at the White House in return for legislation? I mean, I find the charm offensive offensive. I really do.”
“I think he’s making
fools of his own people, quite frankly. You don’t agree philosophically in what
the legislation is? Let’s go bowling at
the White House, OK? Come on.” she
added.
Nancy Pelosi must
face so many intellectual challenges each day like breathing and blinking that
just combing her hair is impossible.
Pelosi’s predictions
about Teleprompter Jesus’s signature legislation have been egregiously
erroneous. For example: by ramming Obamacare down our throats
Democrats lost control of the House, she said Americans would eventually love
the ACA but they don’t, she was convinced Hillary would win the presidency and
Obamacare would be saved but she lost the election.
A few weeks ago
Pelosi told some high-ranking members of Congress had Hillary won the election
she would have left Washington DC safe in the knowledge that her legacy would
be safe in Granny’s hands. She, no
doubt, would have been offered and ambassadorship to Rome and lived happily
ever after.
Last year she almost
lost her speakership. She doesn’t have
the sniveling Harry Reid or Teleprompter Jesus to help her do battle against
the Republican majority. What a pity. Said no one EVER.
We are making great progress with healthcare. ObamaCare is imploding and will only get worse. Republicans coming together to get job done!— President Trump (@POTUS) March 11, 2017
You can understand the left and their hatred of bowling. Obama once bowled a 37. Thirty-seven. Not 137 or 237. 37. A grown man.— Sean Spicier (@sean_spicier) March 11, 2017
Friday, March 10, 2017
Paul Ryan’s PowerPoint Pitch
I left a meeting to make this pic.twitter.com/mcS7cnAySy— Dan Amira (@DanAmira) March 9, 2017
"it would be very meta of me to place one of my old Paul Ryan memes inside this new Paul Ryan meme" -me, ten minutes ago pic.twitter.com/BFuHjGsGTo— Haley Byrd (@byrdinator) March 9, 2017
IT'S FINE EITHER WAY @SpeakerRyan omg pic.twitter.com/oaSrfd9K5Y— Shoshana Weissmann (@senatorshoshana) March 9, 2017
This has gone a little overboard, y'all... pic.twitter.com/VNY6jndJQx— Josh Perry (@MrJoshPerry) March 9, 2017
Thursday, March 9, 2017
Tuesday, March 7, 2017
Fat Babs Doesn’t Need People Who Need People. She NEEDS Pancakes.
Barbra Streisand tweeted President Trump is
making her fat because she takes out her anger toward him during MSNBC’s
morning news by eating pancakes smothered in maple syrup testing the capacity
of yoga pants to withstand anything.
Trump just accused Obama of tapping his phones. Seriously crazy times. Time for more pancakes.— Barbra Streisand (@BarbraStreisand) March 5, 2017
Barbra Streisand says Trump-caused stress is making her fat. No word yet on what's making her stupid.— THIS JUST IN... (@weknowwhatsbest) March 6, 2017
Thanks Trump!
In Other News From The Motherland
WASHINGTON, DC—Field Reporter Ivan Ivanovitch Ivanov just
filed a report revealing Russia’s ambassador to the US, Sergey Kislyak, has an
open social calendar now that no one in The Beltway will talk to him.
Ivanov also notes
Bullwinkle Moose confessed he had recently spoken with noted Russian spies Boris
Badenov and Natasha Fatale. He has agreed to recuse himself from the next
cartoon. It was either recuse himself or
report to the nearest railroad station for transport to a Russian gulag.
Sposob poyti, Ivan. Spasibo.
Are We Witnessing A Subversive Attack To Undermine A Sitting President?
“Let me tell you, you take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday of getting back at you,” Chuck Schumer said on television. “So even for a practical, supposedly hard-nosed businessman, he’s being really dumb to do this.”—Sen. Chuck Schumer, January 4, 2017 during an appearance on the Rachel Maddow Show
Last Saturday morning
President Trump dropped a bombshell with his Twitter accusation that
Teleprompter Jesus had wiretapped his phones at Trump Tower and ever since everyone’s
hair has been on fire.
The rabid junkyard
dogs began frothing at the mouth insinuating the president’s Tweet was “unhinged”.
Kevin Lewis,
spokesman for The World’s Most Dangerous Community Organizer, said in a
statement later in the day, "A cardinal rule of the Obama Administration
was that no White House official ever interfered with any independent
investigation led by the Department of Justice.
As part of that practice, neither President Obama nor any White House
official ever ordered surveillance on any U.S. citizen. Any suggestion
otherwise is simply false."
Moments after Lewis’
statement was released, Obama’s former speechwriter, Jon Favreau tweeted, “I’d
be careful about reporting that Obama said there was no wiretapping. Statement just said that neither he nor the
WH ordered it.”
Somebody in the government had been spying on Trump’s team and
giving top secret information to anti-Trump media outlets. On January 19, 2017 The New York Times carried a headline reading: Intercepted
Russian Communications Part of Inquiry Into Trump Associates.
You
have to read the sixth paragraph of the published report written by Michael S.
Schmidt, Matthew Rosenberg, Adam Goldman and Matt Apuzzo to learn the FBI “aided
by the National Security Agency, the CIA and the Treasury Department’s Financial
Crimes Unit” had accelerated their efforts but “found no conclusive evidence of
wrongdoing.” “One official said
intelligence reports based on some of the wiretapped communications had been
provided to the White House.” [emphasis mine]
If
no conclusive evidence of wrongdoing was found why does “the paper of record”
continue to suggest the probes continue?
Only
a Pollyanna would dare believe “remnants” of the Obama Administration had
nothing to do with bugging National Security Advisor Michael Flynn and leaking
the transcripts to Obama-friendly media outlets or surveilling Senator Jeff
Sessions. Sessions, after all, has no
experience in running guns into Mexico like Eric Holder did and he most
certainly did not engage in a conversation with the husband of the woman who
was the target of an FBI investigation about golf and grandchildren a la
Loretta Lynch.
John
Crudele reckons
the investigation President Trump has called for could turn into a big headache
for the Democrats.
“WikiLeaks, which dumped hundreds of thousands of Democrats’ e-mails onto its site, never had one e-mail that came from Hillary or was sent to her.”
“WikiLeaks had promised what it called the fourth phase of e-mail dumps the week before the election, but that’s the only promise it didn’t keep. So, what happened? My guess is that President Obama’s stern warning to Vladimir Putin caused the Russian president to stop the promised leak of Hillary’s personal e-mails.”
“Any investigation of the Russian hacking is liable to result in Hillary’s e-mails being read, and perhaps released.”
Paul Gregory writes:
“The media’s focus on Trump’s Russian connections ignores the much more extensive and lucrative business relationships of top Democrats with Kremlin-associated oligarchs and companies. Thanks to the Panama Papers, we know that the Podesta Group (founded by John Podesta’s brother, Tony) lobbied for Russia’s largest bank, Sberbank. ‘Sberbank is the Kremlin, they don’t do anything major without Putin’s go-ahead, and they don’t tell him ‘no’ either,’ explained a retired senior U.S. intelligence official. According to a Reuters report, Tony Podesta was ‘among the high-profile lobbyists registered to represent organizations backing Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich.’ Among these was the European Center, which paid Podesta $900,000 for his lobbying.”
“That’s not all: The busy Podesta Group also represented Uranium One, a uranium company acquired by the Russian government which received approval from Hillary Clinton’s State Department to mine for uranium in the U.S. and gave Russia twenty percent control of US uranium. The New York Times reported Uranium One’s chairman, Frank Guistra, made significant donations to the Clinton Foundation, and Bill Clinton was paid $500,000 for one speech from a Russian investment bank that has ‘links to the Kremlin that was promoting Uranium One stock.’ Notably, Frank Giustra, the Clinton Foundation’s largest and most controversial donor, does not appear anywhere in Clinton’s ‘non-private’ emails. It is possible that the emails of such key donors were automatically scrubbed to protect the Clinton Foundation.”
“Let’s not leave out fugitive Ukrainian oligarch, Dymtro Firtash. He is represented by Democratic heavyweight lawyer, Lanny Davis, who accused Trump of ‘inviting Putin to commit espionage.’”
Bloomberg’s
Michael Riley reported US progressive groups are being targeted by Russian
hackers who have scoured their emails for embarrassing details and attempted to
extract hush money according to sources familiar with the probes being
conducted by the FBI. The Center for
American Progress and Arabella Advisors received ransom demands accompanied by
samples of sensitive data.
Former Attorney
General Michael Mukasey said that Trump is probably
right that Trump Tower was bugged.
Undoubtedly by the Justice Department which became weaponized against
him. To wit, Obama’s attorney general, Loretta Lynch declares
in a video for Senate Democrats:
“I know that this is a time of great fear and uncertainty for so many people. I know it’s a time of concern for people, who see our rights being assailed, being trampled on and even being rolled back. I know that this is difficult, but I remind you that this has never been easy. We have always had to work to move this country forward to achieve the great ideals of our Founding Fathers.”
“It has been people, individuals who have banded together, ordinary people who simply saw what needed to be done and came together and supported those ideals who have made the difference. They’ve marched, they’ve bled and yes, some of them died. This is hard. Every good thing is. We have done this before. We can do this again.”
We see
what you did there Loretta. We are familiar with your “code language”.
Monday, March 6, 2017
Logan: A Movie Review (Of sorts)
I
will attempt to do this with as few spoilers as possible, but for those
of you who expect some glimpse of nudity in your R rated movies, the
only bit comes in a bit of a false start, where the movie seems to
begin, but we see Ryan Reynolds in his Deadpool character, (FYI, he's
not in the movie) press his or a butt-double's cheeks against the
frosted glass of a phone booth for a funny trailer for his next movie.
The
R rating is for language and violence. Lots of violence. The movie is
set in the not too distant future. (Allowing, I suppose, room for one
last Wolverine picture if the cash and box office of this one is enough
to entice Hugh Jackman for one more go round, which apparently he said
was his last) We see Logan, who has retired from superheroing and
derring-do, as the owner/operator of a limo service. Logan, who was born
before the Civil War, has to be around 200 by now. They would have
shown the cake with 200 candles, but even in the future, fire marshals
won't allow that much open flame in a structure!
Logan
isn't healing as fast as he used to. His beard is turning gray, he needs
reading glasses and was coughing so much throughout the movie I wanted
to give him a lozenge. He's taking care of Professor X, who, let's just
say it's best for everyone if we keep the old guy sedated.
Unfortunately, the kind of drugs the professor needs are not covered
under Medicare part B. Everyone tells the professor that when he's
hearing voices, he's just "hearing voices", so no one believes him.
Turns
out, he really has been communicating with a young girl mutant,
threatened by an evil corporation making mutants to use as weapons.
(When mutants are outlawed, only outlaws will have mutants!) The rest of
the movie is the body count of taking this girl to some haven that may
or may not exist, from whence they can flee to Canada. (I'm not sure if
Trump is still president that far into the future, but if liberals see
themselves as the good mutants, this may be their last best hope!)
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