Timothy Birdnow

One of the things that has me so riled about this destruction of Roy Moore is the way it is being done and the knock-kneed response of Republicans who should know better. This thing reminds me of Chamberlain at Munich in 1938; desperate to avoid any conflict with Hitler the British Prime Minister carved Czechoslovakia up and served it ala mode to Der Fuehrer in servitude and abject fear. Saying "Peace in our time" Chamberlain wound up unleashing the largest war in human history - all because he was too cowardly to stop Hitler. The little corporal had the audacity to take what was not rightfully his and Western leaders gave it to him out of fear of the very thing which they themselves unleashed.

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"Raging against the establishment for the sake of raging is an agenda for losers, and it will cost conservatives the votes in Congress they need to achieve conservative goals.” —The Wall Street Journal (Courtesy of the Federalist Patriot.)

"Supporting the Establishment for the sake of support is an even bigger loser" - Birdnow's Aviary

Rage against the Establishment is entirely justified, as the GOP has controlled Congress for all but a couple of years since the late 1990's and has been unwilling to act. Now, given both houses of Congress and the Presidency, they still fail to act and treat the base as if it is the enemy. Apparently the Wall Street Journal thinks we should support people who are leading us down the path to hell more slowly. That is, in the insider world of the WSJ, "smart politics".

The Journal fails to understand that eternal retreat is not a winning strategy in war or politics. Oh, and energy and passion far outweigh passivity and ennui.

I've never seen a store offer to let a shoplifter keep half of what he is stealing if they catch him. Apparently the WSJ and other establishmentarian outfits disagree.  That is precisely what our friends in the GOP have been doing...

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This from P.J. Media via Judicial Watch:

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Jack Kemp

Target stock is at 54.49, down over $5.50 a share today based on dissapointing pre-Christmas sales. Gee, I wonder why.

Rush is saying that Judge Moore was a DEMOCRAT until 1992. That explains his early behavior!

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Gateway Pundit points out that the signiature allegedly by Moore in the Allred accuser Beverly Young Nelson's yearbook is in two different colored inks.

While the message is in black ink, the part that says;

"Moore DA, 12-22-77, Olde Hickory House,”

Is in blue. Hmmmmm.

Another interesting thing, who writes this:

"To a sweeter more beautiful girl I could not say, ‘Merry Christmas.’ Love, Roy Moore DA, 12-22-77, Olde Hickory House.”

Really, who? Nobody writes DA after their name just because they are a lawyer. on a private message, nor Olde Hickory House just because that is where he signed it. And who has grown men not associated with their school sign their yearbook anyway? And the message itself is poorly worded, as it say "to" and then "I could not say" which is illogical. Moore is clearly a more eloquent and literate man than that.

Oh, and yearbooks come out at the end of the year, not at Christmas time.

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Bingo!

Alabama news station WKBG reports that the Washington Post has been making robocalls offering money for dirt on Roy Moore. They've got the tape and you can listen for yourself.

The article states:

Here is the text of that voicemail message received by Pastor Al Moore in Creola. more...

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Here it is[l/lik] - the real target of the Roy Moore sex scandal.

From The Hill article:

"The Moore controversy has also reignited questions about past allegations concerning Trump. The White House's official position on the women who accused Trump of sexual harassment is that they are lying, press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said last month."

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I told everyone when the Left allowed harvey Weinstein to be taken out that they were doing this to reinvogorate their tried-and-true weapon. Sex charges weren't working anymore, largely because the Democrats had been going hog wild while making these charges and they had to regain the moral high ground. So they tossed out Weiner and Weinstein and a few others and, in the spirit of moral righteousness, are now turning their guns on the big game.

Weinstein was always about getting Trump. Mark my words. And so is this despicable smear on Roy Moore.Sadly, the idiots in the GOP have already tossed Moore overboard and pitched the anchor on top of him. Even Mike Lee and Ted Cruz have shown their yellow backsides in this. I cannot believe the pucillanimous character of these "leaders" who should understand exactly what this is about and why it is happening. Doesn't the Wapo - Domaine de Romani-Conti of fake news - involvement in this give the game away? And the timing? And the fact that the Wapo writer just happened to overhear a conversation while down in Alabama? And all this after a bitter primary race where Mitch McConnelll spent millions to elect Luther Strange and lost. Doesn't anyone else think this is strange? Why didn't Big Luther and Mitchie the Pooh hear about this?

Why wasn't it reported by, say, a Birmingham newspaper or some other local news source? Why not by National Review? Isn't it odd that it was the Washington Post?

The Republican Party is playing with fire. This illustrates quite plainly that the Party bosses are unwilling to allow the voters to choose their own candidates. This could lead to a permanent split in the party, with voters walking out in disgust. And it should.

This is rather like being married and having your spouse not only cheat on you but then demand alimony. then expecting you to not move out. If there was ever an argument for the cration of a third party this would be it.

I am coming to believe that the GOP is like the city of Sodom; not even one righteous man. more...

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Mitch McConnell spent millions of dollars in a deep southern state and lost - but refused to accept the will of the voters. Not I'm not talking about Alabama and Roy Moore but a few years ago in Mississippi, where McConnell supported gerirtric pork belly Thad Cochrane.

Conservative Hq. reminds us all about it.
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Dana Mathewson

Received today from Martha's Catholic priest friend"

Indignation over monuments to historical figures is beginning to turn into a kind of blind hysteria. In America, the Confederate dead, former Supreme Court justices, Christopher Columbus, and even the 19th-century physician known as the "father of gynecology” are all in the crosshairs. In Germany, some have called for removing statues of Martin Luther because of his anti-Semitism. Implicit in all this is a certain naiveté and presumption: if we had been around back then, we would not have committed those offenses. Jesus’ words to the scribes and Pharisees, however, is a remedy for that kind of self-righteous, simplistic thinking.

The scribes and Pharisees, the religious elite of first-century Judaism, believed themselves the heirs of righteous forefathers. Jesus speaks directly to this presumption: more...

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A quick thought on Roy Moore's answer to the charges of molesting a then 14 year old girl nearly 40 years ago; He has said far too much. Moore has denied even knowing the girl, a very stupid mistake if he is lying. Moore is a lawyer, and has been in the public eye, quite visibly, for all this time. He is not a stupid man. He has to know that it is a mistake to deny this if he is guilty. As Bill Clinton said to Paula Jones, if everyone just denies remembering anything there is no way it can stick.

Moore need only say he didn't remember her - or more usefully that he knew her, perhaps spoke with her a time or two, and maybe even was concerned about her as she seemed like she may have been troubled. This is plausible deniability. But Moore denies having met her at all. That would be an act of stupidity on Moore's part if he were guilty.

It would be very easy for Moore to spin this as a troubled youth and a fantasy. A young girl in desperate need of some attention (since her parents were divorcing) making up a story about how an older man had been overcome with ardour for her. But he's not taking that tact.

As James Hirsen pointed out a, Leigh Corfman has made similar accusations against three of her pastors in times gone by.

Purportedly Moore’s main accuser Leigh Corfman has had three divorces, filed for bankruptcy three times, and has been charged with multiple misdemeanors.

Posts on Moore's FB page indicate that Corfman, has claimed several pastors at various churches made sexual advances at her.

— James Hirsen (@thejimjams) November 10, 2017

Oh, and if anyone doubt the political nature of this one should disabuse themselves of the notion by noting that Gloria Allred, queen of sexual misconduct smears, has has slithered out from under a rock over this. Allred has pervected the sex smear to destroy Republicans (see Herman Cain) and no doubt she has some Clinton Cash to spread around.

By the by, Moore is threatening to sue the Washington Post for this.

The Post found four women whom Moore dated as teenagers. His conduct towards all four might well have been basically the same. The unstable woman of the four might well have embellished.

I’m not saying she has. Her allegations may be true. But based on what has been reported so far, I think her most serious allegations — the ones that, if true, would constitute criminal conduct — are more likely false than true.

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2017/11/the-allegations-against-roy-moore.php

When I read the Washington Post’s account of Roy Moore’s alleged sexual misdeeds towards Leigh Corfman, one detail rang particularly false. Corfman told the Post that she spoke with Moore on her phone in her bedroom. As one woman of my acquaintance who lived in the deep South during that era guaranteed, 14 year-old girls in Alabama didn’t have phones in their rooms back then.

Corfman, it turns out, was no exception. Aaron Klein reports that Corfman’s mother, Nancy Wells, told Breitbart News that her daughter did not have a phone in her bedroom during the period when Moore allegedly called the girl.

However, Wells stands by the rest of the story reported by the Post.

Does Corfman’s faulty recollection about the phone undercut the thrust of that story? I spent decades working with and examining witnesses. In my view, Corfman’s mistake about the bedroom phone is the kind of error people often make when trying to remember details from the distant past. I don’t think her mistake regarding this detail bears much on her overall credibility.

Corfman’s claim of sexual misconduct by Moore is not a detail. If she is erring about this matter, she’s not failing to remember something incidental. Her "error,” if she’s making one, is of a different nature — a lie, a delusion, or a substantial embellishment.

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The Army plans on meeting their recruitment quotas by mining mental institutions.

From the Independent Sentinel:

"People with a history of "self-mutilation,” bipolar disorder, depression and drug and alcohol abuse can now seek waivers to join the Army under a new policy. We’re going to give people with a history of mental illnesses guns and grenades, machetes but we keep hearing we shouldn’t allow people with mental problems have guns.

The Army needs 80,000 new soldiers by September 2018. Last year, they took in 69,000, loosening up the restrictions on poor scores on aptitude tests, gave waivers for pot smokers, and offered hundreds of millions of dollars in bonuses."

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The author mentions meny of teh problems with this, such as suicide risks and rapes of foreign women, but misses one of the key points; these people will cost the U.S. taxpayers huge sums of money in medical care. It's a free mental health plan should they get in.

The author also blames a good economy for a lack of recruits, but is this so? Is it not, perhaps, equally the fault of the political correctness that has infected the military, from the abolition of "don't ask don't tell" making gay sex an oopen and protected thing to the transgenderising (well, Trump at least ended THAT). Feminism plays a large part, too, where women are given lesser standards than men. Oh, and if you go to war the rules of engagement mean you often lose your life frivolously because you aren't allowed to fight back. Fighting in the military was a way of channeling a restless and combative spirit. Now it is worse than useless for this as the person so encumbered is put into battle and not allowed to fight.

It's a wonder we can get anyone to join.

So we are going to remedy that by recruiting the insane. Gee, that's a winning strategy!

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When George W. Bush was President of these United States he was often accused by the media and their Democrat allies of being stupid, of being dull, of lacking curiosity. At the time I and many others defended him; he had an MBA from Harvard, after all. But now I'm not so sure.

Recently the former President (a President who brought back many of the most idiotic policies of the Carter White House, such as solar panels and wind farms) recently took a swipe at the current President and, more to the point, at the voting public who elected him

Speaking at a George W. Bush Institute event in New York the former President had this to say:

"[W]e can’t wish globalization away,any mo more...

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Selwyn Duke

Scandals take many forms. If you could be transported back to antebellum times, for example, would you not find scandalous the desire to perpetuate the legal institution of slavery? This brings us to the Alabama special election to fill Jeff Sessions’ vacant Senate seat, a contest now front-and-center with the recent sex allegations made against GOP hopeful Judge Roy Moore. Moore denies the charges, but there are certain things that can’t be denied.

Democrat Doug Jones, Moore’s opponent, has some noteworthy positions. He’s pro-prenatal infanticide. It’s not a stance he took 40 years ago but has since abandoned, and it doesn’t mean he’s accused of once having kissed an underage girl.

It means he believes in the murder of underage girls — and boys. That’s beyond scandalous.

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There is no mention of whether Weiner will include a "revealing" photo of himself in his return letter.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2017/11/11/oh-my-anthony-weiner-is-looking-for-pen-pals-while-in-prison-n2408131?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=

Oh My: Anthony Weiner Is Looking For Pen Pals While In Prison

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A quick thought; we have been hearing much about how we have to figure out "how to pay for the tax cuts" by our leaders and our media.  Somebody explain to me how you "pay for" a tax cut?  If you offset a cut with a raise elsewhere you do not have a cut but a restructuring. Restructuring has some uses, but if you want to ignite economic growth you aren't going to do it with a restructuring. A cut means reducing taxes, not shuffling them around like deck chairs on the Titanic.

Precise language people!

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