Tuesday, January 30, 2018
It's Over. Thank God It's Over.
The obscene, incestuous spectacle is over; the 2018 Grammy Awards closed to abysmal ratings. Even the "I Really Wish I Were President" hand puppet act by Hillary Clinton was not enough to generate much interest.
Send in the clowns
Maybe it was the more than three and a half hour run time, maybe it was the surprise Hillary Clinton cameo and political stances than seemed to take up more airtime than the music or maybe it was the move to a January broadcast that hobbled last night’s Grammys. Regardless of the reason, somewhere the 60th annual Grammy Awards lost the groove – at least when it comes to ratings and viewers.
It was the lowest rated Grammy in nine years. It was a close runner up to my high school graduation video featuring my shop teacher's paper silhouette portraits and the Smithtown Indians cheerleaders pyramid blooper reel.
With a 12.7/21 in metered market ratings, the Recording Academy’s big hootenanny was also way down from the early numbers from the LA-based February 13, 2017 59th annual show. By way down, I mean a just over 20% decline from last year to what looks to be an all-time low for the ceremony.
Next year I suggest that the Grammy producers include a video of Greatest Indictments Ever of the Obama Administration. That may draw a crowd.
Monday, January 29, 2018
Friday, January 26, 2018
The Fog Of War
Have you gotten tired of all the back and forth blogging and tweeting that take us from "Trump is Toast" to "The Deep State is Going Down?"
Does anyone really know what is truly happening? I have a strong feeling that if they do, they're keeping mum about it, for good reason. The number of unsolved homicides and suspicious suicides surrounding national political intrigue is enough to give anyone pause.
I believe we are experiencing the Fog of War. Both sides are using smoke screens to obscure their maneuvering, to draw the public's attention away to something shiny while actual events are occurring. This is to be expected. And let's not doubt for a minute that there is a war in progress and it still could go either way. Mueller wants to hang Trump's pelt on his tent post and Trump wants to destroy the bureaucratic and financial/global interests that drive so much of this nation's foreign and domestic policies.
During much of my recuperation from surgery I have tried to follow the various threads/sources that allegedly reveal the various plots and subplots that are gripping the nation's political elites. I feel that I am little more informed than I was several months ago simply because ... who can you trust? Who is spinning and who is straight? Who sees through the chaff and who is co-opted?
To no one's surprise, the Kabuki theater antics of the media are of no help at all.
But in the flood of emails that have received so much attention there are several opinions I have formed/strengthened that I can espouse:
Does anyone really know what is truly happening? I have a strong feeling that if they do, they're keeping mum about it, for good reason. The number of unsolved homicides and suspicious suicides surrounding national political intrigue is enough to give anyone pause.
I believe we are experiencing the Fog of War. Both sides are using smoke screens to obscure their maneuvering, to draw the public's attention away to something shiny while actual events are occurring. This is to be expected. And let's not doubt for a minute that there is a war in progress and it still could go either way. Mueller wants to hang Trump's pelt on his tent post and Trump wants to destroy the bureaucratic and financial/global interests that drive so much of this nation's foreign and domestic policies.
During much of my recuperation from surgery I have tried to follow the various threads/sources that allegedly reveal the various plots and subplots that are gripping the nation's political elites. I feel that I am little more informed than I was several months ago simply because ... who can you trust? Who is spinning and who is straight? Who sees through the chaff and who is co-opted?
To no one's surprise, the Kabuki theater antics of the media are of no help at all.
But in the flood of emails that have received so much attention there are several opinions I have formed/strengthened that I can espouse:
- The upper level management of the FBI was/is severely politically compromised. No surprises here.
- The upper level management of America's intelligence community was/is likewise compromised. The extent of this is somewhat surprising.
- The upper level management of all three branches of our government is lying through their teeth in one way or another. No surprises here either.
- Everyone at these stratospheric levels knows what the others at this level are doing and they are all scared spitless. Hence the lies, hence the Fog of War.
Eventually heads are going to roll. Bet your bottom dollar on this.
Whose heads?
Good question.
It will probably take several months before we know. Grab some popcorn and adult beverages of your choice, it will take a while before all the maneuvering is done and the strongest (smartest? most clever? most ruthless? most prepared?) emerges as the winner. I sincerely hope Trump emerges victorious, but probably not unscathed.
It will probably take several months before we know. Grab some popcorn and adult beverages of your choice, it will take a while before all the maneuvering is done and the strongest (smartest? most clever? most ruthless? most prepared?) emerges as the winner. I sincerely hope Trump emerges victorious, but probably not unscathed.
What really ticks me off is that the Fog will probably not be completely swept away for years. The Fog surrounding the assassination of President Kennedy still lingers and I have a feeling that present day events will be no different.
But that's just my opinion. What do I know...
But that's just my opinion. What do I know...
Tuesday, January 23, 2018
Vacation Mode Activated
“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives
means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving
advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our
wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a
moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and
bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face
with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.”
─Henri J.M. Nouwen, Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life
─Henri J.M. Nouwen, Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life
Back in mid-October of
last year I received an alarming phone call at 6:00 AM from my best friend of
40-plus years. She informed me she was
having her daughter-in-law take her to the emergency room. Her son rushed to her side and called for an
ambulance instead.
I travelled to the
beach to visit her in-hospital for what I thought would be the last time I would
ever see my best friend alive.
To make a long story
short, she was placed in intensive care and very nearly died. She was released from the hospital 18 days later. She had suffered from cerebral hypoxia, a
depravation of oxygen to the brain, and suffered substantial memory loss. Mercifully, her memory has mostly returned.
Its time to visit my
friend again so, I am packing up the PT Cruiser and Sophie The Wonderdog and
heading to the beach to see my best good friend for a couple of weeks and celebrate her 77th birthday.
Monday, January 22, 2018
Did Schumer Bend The Knee?
Democrats lost the
shutdown war. They declared for weeks they would not back any funding bill
without a bipartisan agreement to protect so-called Dreamers. As Day Three of a
government shutdown dawned, Democrats folded like a cheap suit voting to reopen
the government.
The
White House labeled the government closure the “Schumer Shutdown” sending the
Democrats into a bit of a panic. The
label stuck and the stench of fear clung to them like a skunk had sprayed them as
the New York Times and the Associated Press blamed them for shuttering the
government.
What did the Democrats get out of the
shutdown? Not a damned thing. President Trump has managed to show
Republicans how to show some spine and in so doing they, I strongly believe,
have managed to erase some of the stigma of past shutdowns.
“Today's cave by Senate Democrats—led by
weak-kneed, right-of-center Democrats—is why people don’t believe the
Democratic Party stands for anything,” said Stephanie Taylor, co-founder of the
Progressive Change Campaign Committee. “These weak Democrats hurt the party
brand for everyone and make it harder to elect Democrats everywhere in 2018.”
Oh, dear Stephanie. The
Night King called for Schumer to bend the knee or he would destroy him. Senator Schumer’s formal act of submission
was a glorious sight to behold. Crying
Chuck will be treated with leniency, but there will be no trust in this lying 10
lb. blivet in a 5 lb. sack.
I tweeted this to Sen.
Schumer early this morning:
@SenSchumer If this is what you’re asking true citizens of the United States to do you are egregiously mistaken senator. pic.twitter.com/4JROUqgxVL— PoliticalClownParade (@PoliticalClownP) January 22, 2018
And now for some comedy
gold I present disgraced poodle, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz:
Dem spin on the shutdown is hilarious today. Brooke Baldwin asks DWS to name one thing Dems got to justify shutting down the government:— Eric Hartmane (@erichartmane) January 22, 2018
"The potential for momentum." pic.twitter.com/JtlhB3SHI6
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Flowing Curves Of Beauty
Newton's lesser known law of physics: For every male
action, there is an equal and opposite female over-reaction.
Sunday, January 21, 2018
Schumer Shutdown: The State Of Play
After a continuing
resolution to keep the government open was passed in December of 2017,
Democrats signaled they would not support future spending bills, even clean
ones, until the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), Children’s Health
Insurance Program (CHIP), and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)
were addressed. FISA
is a done deal. CHIP was funded for six years
with the House spending bill that passed on January 18th and DACA
permits won’t expire until March 5th.
President Trump issued
a six-month enforcement delay on DACA when he decided to wind down the program
gradually last September, citing the Obama-era program as constitutionally questionable.
The delay was meant for Congress to get the DACA legislation right.
The mantra from the Left
when the government shutdown became effective was Republicans control the White
House, the House and the Senate. The
Senate make-up is comprised of 51 Republicans, 47 Democrats and 2 Independents
who caucus with the Democrats. The
Democrats do not control the Senate, but they can obstruct any and all bills
due to the 60-vote threshold required to pass legislation. Majority Leader McConnell asked to take up
the Continuing Resolution that would have prevented the shutdown, but Sen. Schumer
objected.
During the 2013 debt
ceiling negotiations, Sen. Schumer noted tying immigration to budgetary matters
was an exercise in chaos.
“You know, we could do the same thing on immigration. We believe strongly in
immigration reform. We could say, ‘We’re shutting down the government, we’re
not gonna raise the debt ceiling, until you pass immigration reform.’ It would
be governmental chaos.”
As Congressional
leaders and White House officials ran around Capitol Hill like chickens with
their heads cut off during a rare Saturday session, Chuck Schumer spoke with a
poster strategically placed in the background as he spoke from the floor. The poster read: Trump Shutdown.
Rep. Bradley Byrne
(R-AL) spoke from the well of the House with a poster behind him as well which
had a photo of Schumer and his 2013 quote:
“A government shutdown is the politics of idiocy, of confrontation, of
paralysis.” This rankled the Democrats
who objected to the poster’s presence on the floor. There was a vote and The Great Poster War of 2018 was
settled allowing Byrne to continue his speech.
On Saturday evening, McConnell
said he would force another vote on a short-term funding bill at 1 a.m. Monday,
unless there's an agreement before then. That will ramp up the pressure on both
sides to come up with a deal over the next 24 hours.
Meanwhile, the Twitterverse
rightly mocked the Schumer Shutdown. The
graphic above uses an image from the 2009 film The Road. Within the graphic I took a tweet from
Jonah Goldberg I found most amusing. His
tweet was a perfect smackdown of a tweet from CNN’s
Jim Acosta lamenting a “completely empty” snack machine in the White House.
5:55 in DC. Dusk falls. GAO and CBO have devastated the Botanical Garden with their pitiless battle for control over the Rayburn Office Building. Corpses lie amidst shattered glass, illuminated by the burning piles of draft legislation. Look away, someone says, but you cannot.— (((Megan McArdle))) (@asymmetricinfo) January 20, 2018
Saturday, January 20, 2018
Democrats Overplayed Their Hand In Shutting Down The Government
Sen. Majority Leader
Mitch McConnell castigated Democrats from the Senate floor saying Democrats
forced a "completely avoidable" shutdown. "What we have just
witnessed on the floor was a cynical decision by Senate Democrats to shove
aside millions of Americans for the sake of irresponsible political games."
“This is completely
unfair and uncompassionate for my Democratic colleagues to filibuster
government funding, harm our troops and jeopardize health coverage for
9 million children (CHIP) because extreme elements of their base want illegal immigration
to crowd out every other priority,” McConnell said.
Only five
Democrats voted to advance the bill: West
Virginia’s Joe Manchin, Joe Donnelly of Indiana, Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota,
Missouri’s Claire McCaskill and newly elected Sen. Doug Jones of Alabama.
Republicans who broke
ranks by voting against the Continuing Resolution to keep the government open
were Rand Paul of Kentucky, Little Miss Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Utah’s
Mike Lee and Jeff “Nutcake” Flake of Arizona.
John McCain was absent while battling brain cancer.
Blame properly assigned pic.twitter.com/1EpVTNd0VG— Fusilli Spock (@awstar11) January 20, 2018
When even the "Old Gray Lady" is calling out Senate Dems for shutting down the government, you know the #SchumerShutdown is a total disaster. https://t.co/vY7Yae4N7M— Josh Kivett (@JoshKivett) January 20, 2018
We got a government shutdown and progressives cancelling their New York Times subscriptions on the same day.https://t.co/j5OW8yBfG5— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) January 20, 2018
CNN’s Martin Savage
conducted a roundtable interview with five Democrats from Youngstown, Ohio. Each
of them crossed party lines to vote for President Trump in 2016.
Savage’s questions focused on the voters’ opinions of his first year in office. The responses from the diverse group of voters left the interviewer’s jaw on the floor and serves as further evidence a majority of Americans do not agree with shuttering the government over the DACA program.
Savage’s questions focused on the voters’ opinions of his first year in office. The responses from the diverse group of voters left the interviewer’s jaw on the floor and serves as further evidence a majority of Americans do not agree with shuttering the government over the DACA program.
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Friday, January 19, 2018
Welcome To The Twilight Zone
Fired FBI Director
James Comey graduated from William & Mary in 1984 with a double major in
chemistry and religion, and will teach for a full academic year beginning this
fall according to Reuters.
William & Mary
President Taylor Reveley said,
“Jim Comey is among William & Mary’s most distinguished alumni. Over the
years, he has been deeply committed to his alma mater. He understands to the
core of his being that our leaders must have an abiding commitment to ethical
behavior and sacrificial service if we are to have good government. Our
students will benefit significantly from his experience and wisdom.”
That statement clarifies
Comey’s absurdly holier-than-thou tweets.
“But justice roll down like waters and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream” Amos 5:24 https://t.co/o89PSY1YBd— James Comey (@Comey) December 1, 2017
You just can’t make that kind of thing up....incredible— GordonđŸ‡ºđŸ‡¸ (@StopTheLibCoup) January 19, 2018
Too bad Charles Manson died, he could teach the Law class
Word is Bill Clinton is teaching chivalry at the same place. https://t.co/yIkVJ3Mm6v— BlueReaganite (@ThinBlueLR) January 19, 2018
Facts Contained In Memo Are “Jaw-Dropping”
After the release
yesterday of a 4-page memo outlining surveillance abuses by the United States
government, Republican lawmakers approved making it available to all members of
the House of Representatives. It has
been suggested the memo contains answers to questions regarding abuse of the
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).
It is clear, based upon
responses from leading GOP leaders there was a bias against Hillary Clinton’s
opponent in the 2016 Presidential Election by the FBI and the Department of Justice.
Rep. Steve King (R-IA) tweeted,
"I have read the memo. The sickening reality has set in. I no longer hold
out hope there is an innocent explanation for the information the public has
seen. I have long said it is worse than Watergate. It was #neverTrump &
#alwaysHillary. #releasethememo."
Rep.
Matt Gaetz (R-FL), called for the public release of the memo's information. “The House must immediately make public
the memo prepared by the Intelligence Committee regarding the FBI and the
Department of Justice. The facts contained in this memo are jaw-dropping and
demand full transparency. There is no higher priority than the release of this
information to preserve our democracy."
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH)
and Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) called the memo "alarming" and
"shocking," respectively.
“Part of me wishes that
I hadn’t read it, because I don’t want to believe that those kinds of things
could be happening in this country that I call home and love so much,"
Meadows added.
Rep. Jordan explained, "Here
is the process: Chairman Devin Nunes in the Intelligence Committee in the House
can bring the committee back together. They can have a vote. If the majority of
the Committee votes to release these documents, the Executive Branch gets a certain
amount of time to review them. If the Executive Branch gives the thumbs up they
go public. This could happen real quick. Chairman Nunes is committed to getting
this information to the public."
Stay tuned. This is a one helluva fast-moving scandal
many have described as more egregious than Watergate.
All of this is good to know. And it's perfectly understandable that the members of the House committee are outraged. But if the end results is not a series of indictments and prosecutions for flagrant criminal sedition, the Obama/Hillary corruption will be enshrined as law.— Christopher G. Adamo (@CGAdamo) January 18, 2018
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Thursday, January 18, 2018
Trump The Winter Olympics
South
Korean President Moon Jae-in lavished praise on President Donald Trump for making
a "huge" contribution to bringing North and South Korea together for landmark talks.
After the first
intra-Korean talks in over two years, the President indicated the United States
would be willing to speak to North Korea “under the right circumstances,”
although it was far from clear whether this would pay dividends.
According to the South
China Morning Post, in a joint statement the North pledged to send a large
delegation to next month’s Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in the South, but made a
“strong complaint” after Seoul proposed talks to denuclearize the Korean
peninsula.
South Korea asked its neighbor
to halt hostile acts that stoke tension on the peninsula, and in return, the
North agreed that peace should be guaranteed in the region.
South Korea announced it
will march under a unified Korean flag, according to Reuters Sports. The BBC reported the two nations have also agreed to
field a joint women's hockey team although they will compete separately in
other sports.
While the two Koreas
have agreed to allow their teams to walk together in the Winter Olympics, North
Korea will not be able to field a team for the Summer Olympics having recently lost
two of their best
sprinters who defected across the DMZ back in December.
Hungary Passes “Stop Soros” Laws
Hungary built long
fences along its southern borders in late 2015 to stop the flood of migrants fleeing
war-torn Syria.
Between January and
November 2015 an estimated 1.5 million people are estimated to have crossed the
EU external borders illegally.
As the crisis became
untenable that year, European Union Chief Jean Claude-Juncker made an impassioned
plea for Europe to take in their share of refugees saying, “To me, it is clear
the Member States where most refugees first arrive─at the moment, these are
Italy, Greece and Hungary─cannot be left alone to cope with this challenge.”
In 2016, there were 29,432 applications
for asylum in Hungary. Of that number
22,835 were men, 6599 were women and 8551 were children.
According to a published
report from EuroNews,
Germany was asked to grant asylum to 27,536 migrants and France to take in 19,714.
Wikipedia
lists the number of terror attacks in Germany at four since 2015 and France has
been stricken a total of five times by terrorists. Each attack was officially listed as committed by radical Islamists.
On September 6, 2017
the European Union Court of Justice dismissed a challenge by Slovakia and
Hungary over the mandatory quota program.
#ECJ dismisses Slovakia’s and Hungary’s challenge to Council’s migrant relocation decision https://t.co/mgbSrzXMp1— EU Court of Justice (@EUCourtPress) September 6, 2017
The mandatory quota
system was approved in September 2015 by a majority of EU member states, but
was rejected by Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Romania and Hungary. Poland supported the plan, but later strongly
opposed it when the Law and Justice Party came
to power.
After attending a meeting
of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria, Germany Hungarian Prime Minister
Viktor OrbĂ¡n announced Hungary would refuse to take in refugees declaring he is
following the will of his people─a deliberate jab at Germany’s Chancellor
Angela Merkel─whose open-door policy has come under fire.
“Most refugees,” said
OrbĂ¡n, “come to Europe not because they are fleeing dangerous conditions at
home but because they want to take advantage of economic opportunities. As
such, they shouldn’t be considered ‘refugees’ so much as ‘Muslim invaders.’”
In a published report
today in DailyMail-UK,
“Hungary has introduced new laws which it says will penalize groups that
receive foreign funding to aid illegal immigration.”
“The government has
dubbed the new legislation the 'Stop Soros' laws, because it blames
Hungarian-American billionaire and philanthropist George Soros for Europe's
migration challenges─in part because of his funding of groups that support the
rights of refugees.”
“The ‘Stop Soros’ laws
include mandatory registration of some non-government organizations that
'support illegal immigration'”, officials say.
“A 25% tax would be
imposed on foreign donations that NGOs collect, and activists could face
restraining orders that preclude them from approaching the EU's external
borders in Hungary. Furthermore third-country nationals could also be subject
to a restraining order anywhere within the country.”
“Exact details are not
clear because the bills will only be published and submitted for public debate
on Thursday. But pro-government media reported that they could result in a ban
on Soros─who has U.S. and Hungarian citizenship─from entering the country.”
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Wednesday, January 17, 2018
Remember Flake's Impassioned Speech When Obama And Holder Went After The Media? Yeah, Me Neither.
Arizona Sen.
Jeff Flake’s speech on the Senate floor this morning absurdly ignored how the “free
press” he chose to defend against President Trump colluded with Clinton, Inc. and
the Democrat National Committee to destroy him.
It was what I would describe as a “deep state” oratory and a simultaneous
job interview for MSNBC or CNN which shall be henceforth referred to as The
Empire of Lies.
In his 2,117-word diatribe
Flake decreed,
“No politician will ever get to tell us what the truth is and is not. And
anyone who presumes to try to attack or manipulate the truth to his own
purposes should be made to realize the mistake and be held to account. That is
our job here. And that is just as Madison, Hamilton, and Jay would have it.”
“Of course, a major
difference between politicians and the free press is that the press usually
corrects itself when it gets something wrong. Politicians don’t.”
We
knew for days before Flake’s missive he intended to compare President Trump’s
disdain for the “fake news” to the savage Soviet dictator Josef Stalin. As more and more people became aware of his
intent, he drew an unrelenting backlash and tried to walk it all back with this
tweet:
There is no comparison between POTUS & Stalin. Stalin was a maniacal killer. The point I will try to make in my speech is POTUS should not use a phrase so associated with Stalin like “enemy of the people” to describe our free press. https://t.co/RglEML84vz— Jeff Flake (@JeffFlake) January 15, 2018
The Twitterverse had a
few tongue-in-cheek thoughts for “Snowflake” following his speech today:
The mullah were all sunshine and happiness toward the press before Trump. https://t.co/rowLA12Hsu— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) January 17, 2018
Remember that wonderful time just a couple of years ago when Iran, North Korea, etc., were bastions of press freedom, and freedom in general, before Trump tweeted about fake news? Those were some good times. https://t.co/pbnRX8JnXW— Derek Hunter (@derekahunter) January 17, 2018
we're basically all agreed that the White House press corps embarrassed itself completely yesterday during the Trump health briefing, right? is anyone putting a silver lining on that shitshow?— Ruthless T. Firefly (@BecketAdams) January 17, 2018
When Doody Calls
“My father was a
mailman.”
That bit of idyllic
family history has me wondering why no other offspring of mailmen have sought
to run for president. Obviously, John
Kasich distinguishes himself as the pick of the litter; uniquely qualified and
profoundly prepared to lead the country.
Seth McLaughlin, Politics Desk Reporter for The Washington Times
wrote,
“From his perch in the Ohio
governor’s mansion, Republican John Kasich is keeping a keen eye on President
Trump’s every move and showing a willingness—some say eagerness—to hurl rotten
tomatoes toward the leader of his Party when he gets upset with the act.”
“He has become a go-to
anti-Trump source for the media and often doesn’t even wait for the press to
call. Instead, he leaps in to pile on after presidential missteps.”
“While insisting he
wants Mr. Trump to succeed, Mr. Kasich has pointedly refused to rule out
mounting a primary challenge against the president in 2020. He said he wants to
maintain a voice in the party because ‘you never know when duty calls.’”
Kasich is a rude
SOB. Ask the Ohio State trooper he
called “an idiot” when he ticketed him for failing to yield to an emergency
vehicle; or the crusade he went on making sure his local Blockbuster store took
the film “Fargo” off its shelves.
“Usually,
I speak out against the status quo on behalf of the little guy, but sometimes I
get a little crazy and go off about something like this Fargo business, with no
real expectation but to let off some steam. I can’t imagine it’s all that much
fun to be on the receiving end of one of my tirades, but I’m here to tell you
it isn’t much fun to be making the delivery either.”
Kasich is a
hothead. While on the campaign trail
during the 2016 presidential election, he got angry and grabbed
a recorder from a reporter for The Financial Times who made the mistake of
asking why he should be the nominee of the Republican Party having won only one
state.
Kasich has a long
history of uttering gaffes. He showed off his love for Hispanics by saying he always
leaves a nice note for the Latina maids at hotels. A month after that
comment, he said anyone who would have problems with his cuts to social
security should “get
over it.” Kasich praised all the women who came
out of the kitchen to vote for him during his first political run in the
1970s.
While campaigning in
New York, he took it upon himself to condescendingly
explain Bible stories to rabbinic scholars.
His most covered gaffe was
when he advised
a young woman worried about the college rape epidemic to avoid alcohol-fueled
parties.
“Kasich eating” was one
of the top Internet searches during the campaign. Then-candidate Trump scorched the mailman’s
son proclaiming, “I have never seen a human being eat in such a disgusting fashion.”
The Ohio governor has
no plans to challenge Democrat Sen. Sherrod Brown who is up for re-election
this year, but the chatter for the 2020 presidential election has heated
up. “There has to be fundamental chance,
in my opinion, with all of us. I’m
willing to be a part of that. I want my
voice to be out there,” Kasich said.
The pick of the mailman’s
litter has spoken.
Tuesday, January 16, 2018
Presidential Physician Destroys The Left’s Narrative Confirming President Trump Is A Stable Genius
CBS News
White House Correspondent Mark Knoller tweeted, “On
the president's mental acuity, Dr. Ronny Jackson said, ‘The president is very
sharp, very intact.’ He declared the president ‘fit for duty─for this term and
another,’ if he's re-elected.”
It was
indescribably satisfying to watch Adm. Ronny Jackson during today’s extraordinary
press briefing humiliate the mainstream mongrels who have mercilessly hounded
this President.
As Tom
Rogan noted at The
Washington Examiner, “…to
the chagrin of much of the press corps, Jackson seemed medically wowed by
Trump's health. The former "Apprentice" host, he said, "has as a
very unique ability to just get up in the morning and reset." It was
amusing to watch as the decorated military officer delivered an intellectually
robust and professional performance to a press corps that had hoped he would
say Trump was insane. As the limited, mouth-foaming reactions on Twitter now
attest, Jackson is beyond reproach for all but the most ardent liberal
fanatics.”
“The admiral's
conclusion? All clinical data indicates Trump is currently very healthy, and he
will remain so for the duration of his presidency."
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The 51st State? Independence Declared From “Commiefornia”
An effort to stand
guard over liberty is taking shape in the least likely place I know of─California.
Four years ago, a
venture capitalist named Tim Draper sought to split Commiefornia into six
parts. The effort failed miserably.
"The current state
of California has become governed by a tyranny," the founding group’s Vice Chairman
Robert Paul Preston declared.
“After years of over-taxation,
regulation, and mono-party politics the State of California and many of its 58
Counties have become ungovernable. The nature of the State becoming
ungovernable has caused a decline in essential basic services such as education,
law enforcement, fire protection, transportation, housing, health care,
taxation, voter rights, banking, state pension systems, prisons, state parks,
water resource management, home ownership, infrastructure and many more.”
Claiming the authority
of Article 4, Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution, the aspiring 51st state
plans to convince California's legislature to split
the state before submitting the resolution to Congress.
Despite
obstacles, doubters, and obvious long odds the group stands united in their
statehood dream.
“We have to demonstrate that we can govern ourselves before we are allowed to
govern,” Tom Reed, a founder, told CBS.
The list of
dysfunctions crippling “Commiefornia” would easily fill a volume: a dysfunctional legislature that has been gerrymandered
to protect virtually every seat; a dysfunctional proposition system enables
special interests to craft protected fiefdoms via the ballot box; recalcitrant
public unions who don't see anything wrong with public servants getting 90% of
top-pay in pensions while still earning big bucks as "contract employees",
an enormous population of undocumented workers who pay only sales taxes and
whose employers pay no payroll taxes only scratches the surface.
I’m rooting for these
courageous citizens and hope their dream of statehood is realized.
Monday, January 15, 2018
Race Baiter: MLK Would Have Wanted Impeachment Of President Trump
Denise McAllister is a
cultural and political commentator for The Federalist, Real Clear Politics, and
Hot Air. Today she posted a piece at PJ Media entitled, “Martin
Luther King Jr. Tells Us To Take Personal Responsibility, Not Blame Others”.
One paragraph stood
out: “Rage roams our streets looking for those to blame, always searching for
fuel to maintain its fire. And there is always plenty to find in this fallen
and imperfect world. Bitterness never fails to find a broken promise, a
thoughtless word, a failed policy, or a lingering disappointment on which to
feed.”
Enter Maxine Waters
(D-CA), John Lewis (D-GA), Frederica Wilson (D-FL) and Earl Blumenauer (D-OR)
who have announced they will skip President Trump’s State of the Union address
on January 30.
Waters marked MLK Day
on Twitter by suggesting the civil rights icon would have advocated for the
impeachment of President Trump were he still alive today.
If MLK was alive today, he'd be marching not only for civil rights & protecting voting rights, but to urge Members of Congress to accept their responsibility to save the U.S. from a dangerous man who has no respect for our Constitution & no concern for strengthening our democracy— Maxine Waters (@RepMaxineWaters) January 15, 2018
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would have encouraged every responsible human being to march for justice, to march for peace, and most of all, to march for the impeachment of Donald Trump. #ThankYouMLK50— Maxine Waters (@RepMaxineWaters) January 15, 2018
Jonathan Turley, a nationally
recognized legal scholar who has written extensively in areas ranging from
constitutional law to legal theory to tort law appeared on Fox’s The Story with Martha McCallum. He noted that
legislators do not need to be present for the SOTU and neither does the
President. He may merely deliver a
written statement to the Speaker of the House.
“Having said that, it’s
a long tradition. The members have to
distinguish between the officeholder and the office,” Turley said. “It’s not about them. People are really upset with their
government.” Turley called attending the
address an “institutional responsibility.”
Jeff Flake Proclaims The Second Coming Of Comrade Stalin
Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ)
plans to deliver a speech later in the week torching President Trump’s attacks
on the Empire of Lies known as the mainstream press. He also intends to compare the President of
the United States of America to Josef Stalin.
Flake’s senate term
ends in January 2019. From now until
then, he intends to deliver a series of speeches outlining how Donald Trump’s
presidency has impacted the country.
Excerpts of his speech
were provided by Flake’s office to NBC’s Kasie Hunt.
“2017 was a year which
saw the truth—objective, empirical, evidence-based truth—more battered and
abused than any other time in the history of our country, at the hands of the
most powerful figure in our government.”
“Mr. President, it is a
testament to the condition of our democracy that our own president uses words
infamously spoken by Josef Stalin to describe his enemies.”
“The free press is the
despot’s enemy, which makes the free press the guardian of democracy. When a
figure in power reflexively calls any press that doesn’t suit him ‘fake news’,
it is that person who should be the figure of suspicion, not the press.”
“The similarities to
Stalin should be a source of great shame for senators,” Flake will add.
Flake’s specious
criticism is the benchmark of someone whose thirst for stupid is unquenchable;
his ignorance of Stalin’s savagery alarming.
Upon the death of Stalin in 1953, the millions he incarcerated cheered
at the demise of one of history’s most murderous dictators.
In Episode 1 of “Russia’s
War: Blood Upon The Snow” , the
opening narration reveals to the viewer: “Unknown to the Soviet people, before
his death Vladimir Lenin drew up a testament; an assessment of the leaders who
would come after him. The outstanding personalities
he recognized were Leon Trotsky and Josef Stalin. But his postscript contained
a political time bomb─a condemnation of Stalin’s character and his suggestion
that Stalin’s post of General Secretary should be taken from him. The testament was never made public.”
“Blood Upon The Snow” features
rarely seen archival war photographs and astonishing footage from over a dozen
countries...some of which are believed to be the only filmed evidence of some
of the most infamous WWII atrocities, such as the Katyn Forest Massacre of
4,000 Polish officers by the Soviets.
The filmmakers assert it is the only documentary evidence of Stalin's
Order 227, his brutal decree to embattled troops at Stalingrad that any Red
Army soldier in retreat would be shot by "blocking units" bringing up
the rear. It provides remarkable insight
into what led to the death of 65 million Soviets during Stalin’s reign of
terror.
Comrade Flake’s contempt
is enraging. He is employing something
purely Soviet: Make accusations and then
end things by suggesting someone be locked up in a psychiatric facility.
Flowing Curves Of Beauty
Man:
Am I healthy enough to use Cialis or Viagra?
Doctor: Yes, you’re healthy enough, just not attractive
enough.
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