Tuesday, December 31, 2019
Monday, December 30, 2019
Flowing Curves Of Beauty
Its funny life has never given me lemons. Anger
issues, anxiety, stress, reasons to drink, a serious dislike of stupid people,
but never lemons.
Sunday, December 29, 2019
Thursday, December 26, 2019
Something Wonderful
A couple in Australia
who have been married for two years experienced a heartwarming
Christmas in Sydney's Royal Prince Alfred Hospital.
Last year, in early
December, Victoria Millar had an MRI to determine why she had been suffering
with bad migraines that were waking her from her sleep. The results revealed
she had a 6 centimeter tangled mesh of abnormal blood vessels connecting
arteries to veins in the brain known as an arteriovenous malformation (AVM).
AVMs form accidentally
prior to birth and can form almost anywhere in the brain, brainstem, or spinal
cord, but they are most common in the main cerebral hemispheres. An AVM near or on the outer surface of the
brain can cause bleeding and damage to brain tissues and may be fatal or
disabling.
On November 14th, she
had brain surgery to remove the AVM, but the surgery took longer than
expected. After 20 hours in the
operating room Victoria was moved to the recovery room. A scant 20 minutes later her brain began to hemorrhage,
and she was rushed back into the operating room. The doctors worked on her for six more hours
but decided to stop when they realized they were “doing more damage than good.”
Her husband Richard was
told the next morning that Victoria would not make it through the day. The doctors said she might live about two
more hours and he needed to “call the family to say their goodbyes.”
Victoria defied the
odds. She was placed in a medically
induced coma for a couple of weeks and has steadily improved. She is still unable to speak due to her tracheotomy
but is able to communicate in writing.
The thing she’d been asking for was to see her three dogs Marlin,
Jackson and Rosie.
“Vic's everything is
animals. Her dogs are her babies until we have real babies,' her husband
said.
On Christmas Day,
Richard brought the beloved dogs to the hospital to see his wife. The hospital staff orchestrated the visit. Victoria was given the best Christmas present
ever when she was wheeled outside to greet them.
Wednesday, December 25, 2019
Because He Came As A Babe
Hebrews 2:14-18h
14 Inasmuch then as the children have partaken of flesh and blood, He Himself likewise shared in the same, that through death He might destroy him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,
15 and release those who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
16 For indeed He does not give aid to angels, but He does give aid to the seed of Abraham.
17 Therefore, in all things He had to be made like His brethren, that He might be a merciful and faithful High Priest in things pertaining to God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people.
18 For in that He Himself has suffered, being [d]tempted, He is able to aid those who are tempted.
As the First Adam was created sinless, so Christ, the Second Adam, was also sinless. He was born of the Lineage of Abraham so He too could assume the position of High Priest.
The Old Testament High Priests could only enter the Holy of Holies once a year on the Great Day of Atonement, but they had to first offer a sacrifice for their own sins before they could enter,
As our Heavenly High Priest, Christ needs no additional sacrifice for He was/is sinless. For the past 2000 years He stands before God the Father to offer continuous propitiation for us.
His birth is the greatest event in all history. Everything pales in comparison.
So Merry Christmas! We have already received the greatest gift of all!
NOTE: Propitiation—the act of atoning for sin or wrongdoing especially appeasing a deity, the act of placating and overcoming distrust and animosity; placation, conciliation.
14 Inasmuch then as the children have partaken of flesh and blood, He Himself likewise shared in the same, that through death He might destroy him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,
15 and release those who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
16 For indeed He does not give aid to angels, but He does give aid to the seed of Abraham.
17 Therefore, in all things He had to be made like His brethren, that He might be a merciful and faithful High Priest in things pertaining to God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people.
18 For in that He Himself has suffered, being [d]tempted, He is able to aid those who are tempted.
Christ was completely
human in every sense of the word for He was born of flesh and blood as we are
and shares our same nature. He understands suffering and temptation as we
suffer and are tempted.
As the First Adam was created sinless, so Christ, the Second Adam, was also sinless. He was born of the Lineage of Abraham so He too could assume the position of High Priest.
The Old Testament High Priests could only enter the Holy of Holies once a year on the Great Day of Atonement, but they had to first offer a sacrifice for their own sins before they could enter,
As our Heavenly High Priest, Christ needs no additional sacrifice for He was/is sinless. For the past 2000 years He stands before God the Father to offer continuous propitiation for us.
His birth is the greatest event in all history. Everything pales in comparison.
So Merry Christmas! We have already received the greatest gift of all!
NOTE: Propitiation—the act of atoning for sin or wrongdoing especially appeasing a deity, the act of placating and overcoming distrust and animosity; placation, conciliation.
Tuesday, December 24, 2019
Monday, December 23, 2019
Flowing Curves Of Beauty
I must have a really nice backside and I know
this because every time I'm finished talking to someone at work and I turn to
walk away I hear them mutter, "What an ass."
Sunday, December 22, 2019
Saturday, December 21, 2019
And Now For Something Completely Different
Two weeks ago I was introduced
to Doodle Chaos and the mesmerizing music visualizations of a young man named Mark.
Today, I’m sharing Tchaikovsky's
”Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy”. Hold
on. I know what you’re thinking. Rest assured this piece is as quintessentially
Christmas as mince pies, fir trees and carols.
It captures the magical world of children, toys, snowflakes and candy
all set to an abundant and perfect score.
The music has found it's way into such movies and television shows as Home Alone, John Wick: Chapter 3 –
Parabellum, Pet Sematary, The Knight Before Christmas, The Forevers, The Hustle,
Monty Python's Flying Circus, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, The Simpsons
Christmas Stories and even the wildly popular video game Tetris.
I hope you enjoy the
little guys on sleds whooshing down the lines of the sheet music. I admire and envy the uniqueness of Mark’s ability
to create something so entertaining.
Friday, December 20, 2019
Pinocchio Pelosi Takes A Polygraph Test
On Wednesday, as the U.S.
House of Representatives prepared to impeach President Trump, Speaker of the
House Nancy Pelosi said, trying in vain to squeeze her Botox-injected grill
into a somber pout, “I solemnly and sadly open the debate on the impeachment of
the President of the United States.
Her caucus broke out
into raucous celebratory applause as she read the vote count on the Articles of
Impeachment forcing her to “sternly”
shut them down lest the charade be revealed.
The following day
during her weekly address, Pelosi gloated, “We’ve been hearing from people all
over the country since last night and this morning; it seems like people have a
spring in their step because the President was held accountable for his
reckless behavior. No one is above the law and the Constitution is the ultimate
law of the land.”
Pelosi continued, “I
have a spring in my step because of the moral courage of our caucus,” adding “because
the vote was carried out so prayerfully and so solemnly but so definitely.”
Even Stevie Wonder
could play a game of “Spot The Liar.”
"this is a somber and an historic moment,” i announce with the utmost gravity, raising my voice slightly so as to be heard above the squeaking of my clown shoes.— 𝚒'𝚖 𝚊 𝚑𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚠𝚊𝚢 𝚝𝚜𝚊𝚛 (@BecketAdams) December 19, 2019
Wake Me Up When Durham Actually Indicts Somebody
So, the guy who voted for
a communist for President of the United States of America in 1980 is being
closely scrutinized by United States Attorney John Durham. Not for that. No.
Brennan literally cast
a vote for Gus Hall, the Kremlin’s man in Washington, to become the next
president. That was the year Ronald
Reagan challenged incumbent President Jimmy Carter.
When Brennan was asked
a standard question (Have you ever worked with or for a group that was
dedicated to the overthrow of the United States?) for a security clearance when
applying for a job with the CIA, Brennan recalled at an annual conference for
the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation that he “froze”. “This was back in 1980 and I thought back to
a previous election where I voted for the Communist Party candidate,” said
Brennan.
In pre-Obama America
that little tidbit would have been a sure-fire disqualifier.
So, here we are today
and U.S. Attorney John Durham’s criminal investigation into the origins of the
FBI’s ”Russia investigation” is “taking a close look” at former Obama CIA
Director John Brennan.
The New York Times reported,
“He wants to learn what Mr. Brennan told other officials, including the former
FBI Director James B. Comey, about his and the CIA’s views of a notorious dossier
of assertions about Russia and Trump associates.”
Durham is also
reportedly taking a close look at whether Brennan made contradictory statements
between his private and public remarks about the anti-Trump Steele dossier and
about “any debate among the intelligence agencies over their conclusions on
Russia’s interference” in the 2016 presidential election.
Brennan was CIA Director
during President Trump's transition into the White House and left office the
same day he was inaugurated on January 20, 2017.
Once out of Langley, Comrade
Brennan tore into the President, accusing him of “treason” (among other
crimes) in countless television appearances and bitter tweets. It got so
vicious the President ordered the revocation of his security clearance.
This action is part of a broader effort by Mr. Trump to suppress freedom of speech & punish critics. It should gravely worry all Americans, including intelligence professionals, about the cost of speaking out. My principles are worth far more than clearances. I will not relent. https://t.co/TNzOxhP9ux— John O. Brennan (@JohnBrennan) August 15, 2018
In addition, the Administration pulled
clearances for former FBI Director James Comey, former Director of National
Intelligence James Clapper, former National Security Agency Director Michael
Hayden, former National Security Adviser Susan Rice, former FBI attorney Lisa
Page, former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, former FBI
counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok, former FBI Deputy Director Andrew
McCabe, whose security clearance was deactivated after he was fired and Bruce
Ohr, who is still in the Justice Department.
Part of the President’s statement
reads:
“Mr. Brennan has a history that calls into question his objectivity and credibility. In 2014, for example, he denied to Congress that CIA officials under his supervision had improperly accessed the computer files of congressional staffers. He told the Council of Foreign Relations that the CIA would never do such a thing. The CIA’s Inspector General, however, contradicted Mr. Brennan directly, concluding unequivocally that agency officials had indeed improperly accessed congressional staffers’ files.”
“More recently, Mr. Brennan told Congress that the Intelligence Community did not make use of the so-called Steele Dossier in an assessment regarding the 2016 election, an assertion contradicted by at least two other senior officials in the Intelligence Community and all of the facts. Additionally, Mr. Brennan has recently leveraged his status as a former high-ranking official with access to highly sensitive information to make a series of unfounded and outrageous allegations – wild outbursts on the internet and television – about this Administration. Mr. Brennan’s lying and recent conduct, characterized by increasingly frenzied commentary, is wholly inconsistent with access to the Nation’s most closely held secrets and facilitates the very aim of our adversaries, which is to sow division and chaos.”
You’ll pardon me for
being highly skeptical about Durham’s criminal investigation into the
unprecedented FBI probe of a presidential campaign, the egregious abuse of law
enforcement responsible for an attempted silent coup and three years of media
and political hysteria.
UPDATE: Welcome readers of Whatfinger News.
Thursday, December 19, 2019
Pelosi Is Not Suited To Play Three-Dimensional Chess With Mitch McConnell
During the protracted impeachment clown show on the floor of
the House of Representatives yesterday, we heard Democrats proclaim our
democracy is in a “clear and present danger” from a president who has turned
around a sagging economy adding 266,000 jobs last month. The unemployment rate
ticked down to 3.5% matching a 50-year low.
Consumer confidence is up and so is bond market confidence. Our military is now stronger than at any time
in our history. I could go on, but these
are things you already know.
House Majority Leader
Steny Hoyer (D-MD), the second-ranking lawmaker in the House, said Wednesday
that Democrats must discuss a last-ditch gambit to delay sending Articles of Impeachment
to the Republican-controlled Senate to prevent it from summarily discarding the
case against President Trump.
Politico
reported that senior Democrat aides said the House was “very unlikely” to take
the steps necessary to send the Articles to the Senate until at least early
January.
“So far we haven’t seen
anything that looks fair to us,” Pelosi told reporters at a news conference
just moments after the House charged Trump with abuse of power and obstruction
of Congress. “That would’ve been our intention, but we’ll see what happens over
there,” she said.
If Pelosi holds onto
the Articles of Impeachment, some Democrats hope it will put pressure on Mitch McConnell
to negotiate the trial rules with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. Its abundantly clear to this observer that
House Democrats got hit over the head with a clue bat when they realized their
tenacious hold on the process and the narrative of impeachment would end the
moment the Articles go over to the Senate.
Any delay in transmitting
the Articles will make this sham impeachment process look more political,
not less. Talk about being in a pickle.
Three-dimensional chess requires a higher understanding and
mastery of politics, diplomacy and warfare that goes far beyond the
comprehension of ordinary observers.
If Pelosi and her minions want to play hardball, Mitch
McConnell could open the trial and then litigate subpoenas for Hunter Biden,
Adam Schiff, Schiff’s staff, the whistleblower and the dirty cops at the FBI if
he were inclined to be mischievous.
There goes their narrative and Trump challengers Pocahontas and
Commie Sanders would be precluded from campaigning. That would be a pity. [snicker]
Following a Trump rally in West Virginia in August of 2017,
Charles Krauthammer made an appearance on Fox’s Tucker Carlson Tonight
show. Its relevant to what has been
happening to this president for three years.
Krauthammer died ten months later.
He couldn’t know his warning would be prophetic.
UPDATE: Welcome readers of Pirate’s
Cove. We thank the Admiral for the
linky-love.
Wednesday, December 18, 2019
Swamp Wars: The Rise Of Trump
When last we left a
galaxy far, far away, rampant Trump Derangement Syndrome had landed a decisive
blow against the forgotten men and women of America. However, a heroic act by
Jedi Master Donald Trump to drain the swamp was set to inspire the deplorables
to defeat the vast array of coastal elites hellbent in overturning an election through
impeachment.
The Force be with you
always.
Dear Sen. Schumer, In An Era Of Video, Everyone Has Receipts
Cryin’ Chuck Schumer is
painfully aware his colleagues in the House of Representatives failed so miserably
in their impeachment inquiry that they managed to steer public opinion away
from removing President Trump.
Democrats are staunchly
in favor of impeachment. Republicans staunchly
disapprove of the farce. Among
independents, their support for impeachment, much less removal, erodes by the
day. Worst of all for Democrats, the
battleground states and Congressional Districts won by President Trump in 2016
are even less supportive.
His pleadings to Senate
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to compel testimony from witnesses the House
didn’t pursue through the courts and additional White House documents fell on
deaf ears.
The House Intelligence
Committee through the malignant liar Adam Schiff insisted “the evidence of the
President’s misconduct is overwhelming, and so too, is the evidence of his obstruction
of Congress.”
Not so fast.
On the very same day
Sen. Schumer was playing the role of the Red Queen in Alice In Wonderland (Sentence
First…Verdict Afterwards), Judge Rosemary Collyer of the FISA Court blistered
the FBI declaring it misled the Justice Department and the court when it sought
permission to wiretap a former Trump campaign aide.
"The frequency
with which representations made by FBI personnel turned out to be
unsupported or contradicted by information in their possession, and with which
they withheld information detrimental to their case, calls into question
whether information contained in other FBI applications is reliable,"
Collyer wrote.
The judge ordered the
FBI to outline by Jan. 10, 2020, any changes it has made or plans to make to
improve surveillance allowed under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. The
law, enacted in 1978, outlines procedures investigators must follow when they
ask judges for permission to conduct electronic surveillance of people suspected
of acting as foreign agents.
Sen. McConnell isn’t
going to give in to Schumer's demands. "The Senate is meant to act as
judge and jury, to hear a trial, not to re-run the entire fact-finding
investigation because angry partisans rushed sloppily through it," he said.
Let’s hop in the
Wayback Machine after the House took its historic vote to impeach Bill Clinton
in 1998 when Schumer warned, “We’ve lowered the bar on impeachment so much that
it will be used as a routine tool to fight political battles. My fear is that when a Republican wins the
White House, Democrats will demand payback.”
Monday, December 16, 2019
A Christmas Carol For The Trump Era
On a frigid evening in
the nation’s capital just days before Christmas, a mean-spirited and ruthless
fibber named Adam Schiff works meticulously on a speech he plans to give on the
floor of the House of Representatives.
Despite the harsh
weather, Schiff refuses to pay for another lump of coal for the fireplace to
warm his office. His cruelty and
bitterness have a chilling effect on his toiling staffers.
Suddenly, Eric Swalwell
bursts into the office offering holiday greetings with an exclamatory, “Happy
Festivus!” The grumpy Schiff responds
with “Bah! Humbug!” refusing to share in his Festivus cheer.
The hour
is quite late, but Schiff follows his same old routine of taking dinner in his
usual Beltway bar and returns home through the dank Washington streets. Just before entering the house, the
doorknocker on his front door, the same one he has passed through every day
catches his attention. A ghostly image
in the curves of the knocker gives the scoundrel a momentary shock. He looks away then refocuses and sees nothing
but a doorknocker.
Slipping
the key into the lock the doorknocker comes to life. It’s the peering face of President
Trump. Unsettled by the vision, Schiff
mutters to himself, “You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a
crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato. There’s more gravy than of grave about you,
whatever you are!”
He plods
up the wide staircase to his bedroom. He
prepares for bed when the carvings on his mantelpiece suddenly transform into
visions of voters shouting their disgust with him and the role he has played in
the impeachment proceedings. Determined
to dismiss the strange visions, blurts out, “Humbug!”
Moments
later Schiff hears footsteps thumping up the stairs and, in a flash, a ghostly
figure of Jonathan Turley floats through the closed and locked door. He tells him he is there to save him from the
growing contempt Americans have for all Democrats in 2020.
Turley
leads Schiff to an open window and gestures to him to look out. He sees a throng of spirits each of whom is
bound in chains. They wail about their
failure to lead honorable lives and their obsession with impeaching a president
simply because they hate him for winning in an electoral landslide.
Turley
warns that Schiff will be visited by three spirits and quickly leaves him
trembling alone in the dark.
In this
retelling of the classic Dickens tale, the Spirit of Impeachment Past recounts
Schiff’s egregious lies about the FISA warrants, the Russian witch hunt and the
deceitful Articles of Impeachment he and his minions rammed through their
committees.
At the
stroke of one, a second spirit, the Spirit of Impeachment Present, appears
before him. He whisks him away to a
number of Christmas gatherings of Americans who are better off than they were
four years ago and are dismayed with the Democrat Party and their railroading
of a duly elected president. Finally, the
Spirit takes him to the White House where President Trump is hard at work for
the forgotten men and women of this country.
Schiff is bewildered at the sight.
He wonders aloud, “How, in the face of all the forces arrayed against
this man, can he continue to successfully make the country great again?”
As the
clock strikes two, Schiff is visited by a hooded phantom coming toward him. Schiff kneels before him asking if he is the
Spirit of Impeachment Yet To Come.
The
menacing wraith takes Schiff to the New York Stock Exchange where a group of
businessmen discuss the death of the economy; a dingy pawn shop on the
Southside of Chicago where shady characters sell the personal effects from a
dead man; the dinner table of a family who were forced to go back on food
stamps and the husband and wife expressing relief at the death of an
unforgiving man to whom they owed money.
Schiff
struggles to understand the lesson of the silent ghost. In that moment he finds himself in a
churchyard where the Spirit points to a freshly dug grave. Schiff draws nearer and reads the inscription
on the headstone: 2020 General Election.
Schiff
inquires if nothing can be done to change the future. Mockingly, the ghost quotes the Mueller
Report. “No collusion. No obstruction.” The ghost reminds him the Horowitz Report
revealed his own lies about the FISA warrants and his contact with the
whistleblower.
Unlike
Scrooge who faced an imminent moral reckoning, our character is faced with the very
real prospect of a quick death in the Senate of the Democrats’ impeachment
dreams. They do not have the bipartisan
takedown of this president and the public tenaciously resists impeachment over the
Ukraine fantasy.
In the
end Tiny Tim, perched upon President Trump’s shoulders, shouts for all to hear “God
bless us everyone!”
UPDATE: Welcome readers of Whatfinger News.
Flowing Curves Of Beauty
I would never join an online dating website. I
prefer to meet someone the old-fashioned way—through alcohol, poor judgment
and bad life choices.
Sunday, December 15, 2019
Saturday, December 14, 2019
The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Democratic Presidential Debate News
The sixth masochistic
Democratic Presidential Debate scheduled for Thursday, December 19th has run
into trouble. What trouble you ask? Just the worst. Its awful.
Just plain awful.
Last week contract
negotiations between a food service operation at Loyola Marymount University,
the site of the debate, and Local 11 of Unite Here broke off. The collective bargaining talks had been
ongoing since March of this year.
Biden, Buttigieg,
Klobuchar, Sanders, Steyer, Pocahontas and Yang who all qualified for the
debate have threatened to skip the event vowing they would not cross the picket
line of the striking workers.
The Democratic National
Committee said in a statement that it was working with all parties involved to
find "an
acceptable resolution" that would allow the debate to go forward.
"The DNC and LMU
learned of this issue earlier today and it is our understanding this matter
arose within the last day," Xochitl Hinojosa, the DNC Communications Director
said. "While LMU is not a party to
the negotiations between Sodexo and Unite Here Local 11, Tom Perez would
absolutely not cross a picket line and would never expect our candidates to
either."
What the hell are eager
Democrat debate watchers going to do now?
I’ve got it! Watch the football
game. It’s on a Thursday night, right? [checks
schedule] Dammit, they’re aren’t anymore Thursday night games scheduled. Maybe they could admire their lint ball collection again.
Well, there’s always Al
Gore’s movie “An Inconvenient Sequel”.
It must be streaming on Amazon Prime or Netflix or Hulu, right? Wasn’t that climate panic brat on the cover
of Time as their Person of the Year the other day? Yeah, that’s the ticket.
On the plus side, Uncle
Joe won’t be bumbling and stumbling, and that annoying geriatric communist won’t be shouting at
clouds, so there's that.
Friday, December 13, 2019
Hillary’s New Face: Ooof!
According to a
published report appearing in the Daily
Mail UK, Granny Clinton looked “wonderfully youthful” and “radiant” at the
Imperial Theatre in New York City recently.
Her
glowing skin was noticeably smoother and her plumped-up cheeks more defined
than earlier in the week, when she spoke at the Jewish Labor Committee's Annual
Human Rights Awards Dinner.
An aesthetic expert claimed “it could be the result of Botox, injectable dermal
fillers and a procedure known as Blepharoplasty.
It would have been
cheaper to just put a brown paper bag over her head.
Why spend all that money on cheeks that look like ass cheeks. Why didn’t she go ahead and spring for the
mustache bleach too?
I still recognized her
though. The hairy witch’s wart on her
nose was a dead giveaway.
Yep can have serious side effects ,as shown here on the exclusive interview. pic.twitter.com/tuZH7XwRQU— Gerry Roberts (@TheRealGRoberts) December 14, 2019
MOBILIZE NOW: Let The 31 House Democrats In Trump Districts Know They Will Be Voted Out
Tell the Democrats
listed below if they vote for impeachment they will get voted out. PERIOD!
If you visit their
House website, they provide a generic email contact form you can fill out. I suspect these will be largely ignored. So, included in the list below is each
representative’s Washington, DC office phone number. If you prefer, you can also send them a tweet
advising them you oppose their sham impeachment of President Trump and expect
them to vote NO.
We have until
Wednesday, December 18th to put maximum pressure on these vulnerable
legislators.
Jeff Van Drew NJ 2nd CD (202) 225-6572 @CongressmanJVD
Democrat Rep. Kendra Horn blasted by constituents outraged by the Democrats' partisan impeachment effort:— Chris Martin (@chrisjdmartin) December 13, 2019
"We're mad as hell. Why did you allow this sham to go on?"
"You're in a lot of trouble if you vote for this"
"Get back to work for the American people!" pic.twitter.com/nEW3sMAXAC
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