November 11, 2017

Dubious Reporting by WaPo on Moore

Timothy Birdnow

If you doubt the political nature of the Roy Moore accusations, just read this paragraph from the "investigative report":

"Neither Corfman nor any of the other women sought out The Post. While reporting a story in Alabama about supporters of Moore’s Senate campaign, a Post reporter heard that Moore allegedly had sought relationships with teenage girls. Over the ensuing three weeks, two Post reporters contacted and interviewed the four women. All were initially reluctant to speak publicly but chose to do so after multiple interviews, saying they thought it was important for people to know about their interactions with Moore. The women say they don’t know one another."

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The Trumpet that Ever Calls Retreat Sounded At American Thinker

Timothy Birdnow

Writing at American Thinker the normally lucid Ned Barnett seems to have suffered an aneurism in his thinking on the Roy Moore libel attack.

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What We Owe the War Dead

Daren Jonescu

Back in the days before moral relativism and progressive historicism rendered all war (except communist revolutionary war) an unambiguous evil — that is, before "giving peace a chance,” regardless of the conditions upon which that peace was to be purchased, became an unqualified (and therefore non-relative?) good — art about war was expected to comprise both the pain of loss and the legacy of heroism.

Today, by contrast, "serious” art about war must focus only on the absurdity, emptiness, or futility of it all. Thus, in an age that conflates its petty materialism with righteous sophistication, we are losing the compulsion to keep faith with those who traded everything earthly on our behalf,in exchange for a bit of eternal dignity. In neglecting this compulsion, we lose that part of ourselves whence also derives such old-fashioned concerns as conscience, responsibility, and loyalty.

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Hollywood and Pedophilia

Fay Voshell

In a scene from "I, Claudius,” a 70s television drama based on the life of the Roman emperor who ascended to power after Caligula’s death, Claudius relates the dismay of Julius Caesar when the emperor discovers the extent of his daughter’s promiscuity. The accused are lined up before Caesar and confess their sins.

Finally, after hearing out all the fornicators, a frustrated and overwhelmed Caesar exclaims, "Is there anyone in Rome who has not slept with my daughter?”

A similar question could be asked of the Hollywood and Washington swamp critters coming out of the woodwork either to confess their sins or to expose those who sinned against them: Is there anyone who has not been harassed by or forced to sleep with people like Harvey Weinstein?

However, even more ominously for Hollywood, the lowlifes who have a penchant for pedophilia are being exposed by Cory Feldman, while at the same time Kevin Spacey, who is accused of molesting underage boys, provides ratification of Feldman’s accusations. Both men present a worry for Hollywood’s LGBT communities, as they have always sought to separate themselves from accusations of pedophilia, insisting that gay sex is practiced among adults who are completely consensual partners who wish to be married for life.

Amidst all the accusations, it is hard to avoid the conclusion that professional saviors of actors’ and politicians’ reputations and careers, seeing the likes of Weinstein going to the block, have advised their clients to get ahead of the coming storms of judgment by preemptively confessing, savagely beating their breasts while at the same time they beat a judicious but hopefully temporary retreat from the public gaze.

In Kevin Spacey’s case, he is being erased from Hollywood’s collective memory.

Literally.

His appearances in Netflix’s "House of Cards” are cancelled. His shoots in Ridley Scott’s upcoming film All the Money in the World are being expurgated, with actor Christopher Plummer taking his place. One is reminded of others who have been erased from history, like Nikolai Yezhov, Leon Trotsky and Bo Gu were eliminated from the collective memories of Communist regimes.

For the truth is that Spacey, who followed Hollywood’s political correct rules in "coming out” in order to ransom himself, must wonder what he has done wrong, much as the accused Soviet and Maoist show trials must have wondered why their heads were suddenly in the noose.

After all, the milieu in which Spacey lives and works has promoted films and lifestyles that have seen no particular wrong in promoting sexual activities of all types. Hollywood’s films are routinely vehicles for celebrating every permutation of the sexual revolution, as many producers have bought into cheap philosophical musings on post-modernist deconstruction of everything, including sexual morality.

The questions are, "Why Spacey? Why now?”

Not that most will feel sorry for him, but the actor must be confused, for it wasn’t so long ago that Roman Polanski was applauded in absentia at the Oscars, receiving a standing ovation from Meryl Streep, even though he had raped a drugged 13-year-old girl.

Why was Polanski applauded? For one thing, Polanski was and for some still is considered an artiste to whom no moral judgments apply. His creative genius apparently puts him beyond the condemnation doled out to less talented mortals. Polanski escapes condemnation much like the artist Paul Gauguin, who though he deserted his wife and children and took child mistresses to whom he gave the gift of syphilis, is forgiven. The greatness of his art has been deemed to transcend his pusillanimous sex life.

The fact is that Hollywood’s condemnation of Spacey, who apparently is truly guilty of child abuse, is completely arbitrary. Hollywood has no real moral basis for the finger pointing, for to judge justly requires a knowledge of right and wrong; and Hollywood in general does not believe in right and wrong, particularly when it comes to sexual behavior.

What’s left in the absence of a moral thermometer is total arbitrariness. Arbitrariness provokes fear, not true repentance. Arbitrary judgment and fear are always the results when the concepts of moral truth are infinitely flexible.

Since it is unlikely that genuine moral indignation is behind the current show trials now being played out in Hollywood (and in D.C.), we have to ask ourselves, to what end are all these displays of accusation and repentance being employed? What is truly feared? What sacrificial lambs are being given up in order to protect people behind the curtain? Who is being protected while a few are led to the gallows?

It is hard not to come to the conclusion that Spacey and others are being sacrificed in order that more powerful people who do not want their sexual proclivities revealed are not exposed. Certainly, Elijah Woodand Corey Feldman, along with other former child actors, have stated that pedophile rings including some of the world’s most powerful, famous and influential figures not only exist, but continue to operate freely because the deeds done in secret are covered up.

One need only think of the Rochdalesex abuse scandalin England. Police and other law officials looked the other way while young girls were drugged and passed around to "Asian” men who raped them. According to reports, some of the guilty men are still walking around freely.

The list of powerful people who are child abusers is no doubt quite long. There are still unanswered questions about Jeffrey Epstein’s "Lolita Express.” Who among the famous are implicated in the child abuse happening on Epstein’s private island? Is it fair to ask just who was involved in the orgies aboard Epstein’s jet,” which according to the Daily Mail and other publications, Bill Clinton boarded 26 times in three years -- apparently accompanied at least once by Spacey?

Isn’t it fair to demand reporters and law enforcement do some serious investigating of sex crimes committed against child actors in Hollywood? Isn’t it fair to demand Hollywood, which has produced exposés like Spotlight, which documented the sex abuse scandals afflicting the Roman Catholic church, turn that same glaring spotlight on its own denizens of the child sex underworld? If the demand is that Catholic priests clean up what Hollywood deems as unspeakable acts, isn’t it fair to ask Hollywood to uncover its own scandals while demonstrating genuine change in the way it operates? Hypocritically targeting a few lowlifes while indulging in ritualistic breast-beating is not enough. There has to be real change, including stopping the glorification of sexual deviance in films -- starting with romanticizing pedophilia.

Time will tell. In the meantime, most will not be convinced Hollywood’s repentance is genuine by the social execution of a few stars like the odious Kevin Spacey.


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Special Deals to Honor Vets

Jack Kemp forwards this:

Best Food Deals on Veterans Day for Those Who Served

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/timothymeads

Starbucks, Crispie Creme, Dunkin Donuts, Home Depot, Bed Bath and Beyond, and a host of other companies have special deals for Vets.  Check it all out.

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November 10, 2017

A Horse Head in Bed for Roy Moore

Timothy Birdnow

Way down yonder in Alabamy there is trouble a-brewing. Seems Jeff Bezos's propaganda rag The Washington Post has penned a hit piece on former 'Bama Judge Roy Moore, you know, the guy who beat the Establishment candidate for the U.S. Senate despite the best efforts and a huge pile of money from Mitch McConnell, and the Swamp is screaming for Moore's head. The charge? That a 32 year old Moore had forced an unwilling (I mention that because in Alabama as in Arkansas one never knows about the legality of early bloomers and their beaus) 13 year old girl into carnal acts. In short, he is accused of Weinerism, or Weinsteinism (Weinsteinerism?). Oh hell; he's accused of being a dirty pervert. more...

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Why did Bowe Bergdahl Get Off?

Timothy Birdnow

On February 17, 2005 two border agents shot an illegal alien drug dealer on the border at El Paso Tx.and were sentenced to prison. Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean received 11 and 12 year sentences respectively. Why? The drug dealer (who would later be convicted of importing tons of marijuana to the U.S.) had resisted arrest and was shot in the back. The agents were doing their jobs and ended up in prison as a result.

In 2011 Sgt. 1st Class Charles Martlan was nearly given a Dishonorable Discharge for stopping an Afghan police commander from raping a young boy inside a U.S. base. Political pressure was brought to bear and the military relented. The soldier was a decorated Green Baret, a true American hero.

So why was a deserter who voluntarily joined the Taliban given little more than a DD? Bergdahl voluntrily put himself in harm's way and one must wonder if he really was captive or if he had voluntarily joined the enemy. Still, it was crystal clear he was a traitor and deserter who should have been punished. A military court simply kicked him out of the army and let him be on his way.

If border guards go to jail for protecting America's border and if decorated special forces officers are to be kicked out for protecting innocent young children why wouldn't Bergdahl get prison time" The Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) allows for a punishment of death in the case of desertion during wartime - a state that was clearly present. And we traded a peck of the worst, more vicious terrorists for Bergdahl. SWtrange.

Question; was bergdahl working for the DIA or some other military spy operation? Is that why the Obama Administration was so eager to have him back - and why he was treated so kindly by the military court? Or was it that the Obama Administration wanted to claim they left no one behind and were willing to give away U.S. security to do that - and the military court had to justify the price paid for Bergdahl?

We will likely never know, but I suspect the latter. Too many institutions were horribly corrupted by eight years of Obama and the "deep state" has been covering for the BHO ever since.

Any thoughts?

BTW, Bergdahl sounds like a screwball; a ballet dancer and Buddhist who was kicked out of the Coast Guard for "unspecified" reasons and who seemed to spend much of his time hanging with the natives.  There is more to his story than meets the eye, methinks.

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November 09, 2017

Loses in Governor's Races a Victory for Trumpism

Timothy Birdnow

Yesterday there was much discussion on talk radio about the defeat of Ed Gillespie in the Virginia gubernatorial race. The news media naturally spun this to be a defeat for President Trump, who was not running and largely stayed out of the whole fray. Even Rush Limbaugh seemed to be chewing on the edges of this, looking for the reason why Gillespie lost. Healthcare stood accused, for instance. But in the end it comes down to one simple thing.

It was a huge victory for Trump.
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Near Riot at NYC Closing of Ferguson the Play

Jack Kemp forwards this. It is a fundraising appeal, but makes some very interesting points.
go to the web page

You made FrackNation possible. You supported it when we needed help, so now I'm asking for your help again. Making FrackNationwas a lot of fun. Even when Julie Sautner threatened to pull a gun on me, I was happy. I was also a little nervous, but I was happy because I knew that people only get angry when you expose their lies. I was confident my journalism was on the right track.

And something similar has just happened with the closing night of FERGUSON the play in New York.Basically, a near riot situation erupted on closing night when one of the actors suddenly decided to lecture the audience with fake news and politics. Thankfully, he was quickly shut down, but that wasn't enough, as the arguments and shouting spilled out into the lobby and 30th Street Manhattan. I was accused of "White Arrogance" by cast member Cedric Benjamin.

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How Obama Stole the 2008 Primary Election

Jack Kemp forwards this:

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2017/11/down_the_memory_hole_obama_stole_the_2008_primary_with_help_of_dnc_.html

November 9, 2017

Down the Memory Hole: Obama Stole the 2008 Primary with Help of DNC

The country is shocked, shocked that the DNC colluded with the Hillary campaign to anoint her as their nominee. In her 2015 caper, Clinton made a backroom deal with the DNC. In 2008, Barack Obama used outright election fraud and thuggery, the tried and true Chicago methods. to steal the nomination directly from the voters. When he got far enough, the DNC pressured Hillary’s pledged superdelegates to violate their voters’ wishes and award Obama an unearned victory.
Obama’s illegal shenanigans in the 2008 Democrat primaries were far worse than Clinton’s – and will never be widely reported.
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A thought on the Bowe Bergdahl travesty

Dana Mathewson

The subject came up at Bible Study tonight -- between the pastor's husband (ex-Navy) and me, just the two of us -- and although neither of us liked the fact that it appears that the judge let Bergdahl skate, Howard said "Here's what I think it is: with all the former Army guys out there in the world, who hate the verdict the way they certainly will, Bergdahl's life isn't worth a plugged nickel. Somebody will get to him before long, and they probably won't leave much for anybody to find. But if he'd been stuck in, say, Leavenworth, you KNOW he'd have been done in, within a very short time, and then the military'd have to do something about it."

Makes sense when I hear a military man say it. Any thoughts?

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November 08, 2017

Obama Admin did Dubai Ports on Steroids Deal

Timothy Birdnow

Anyone remember the Dubai Ports outrage? When George W. Bush, an internationalist, tried to give port managemehnt to a company from the Islamic state of Dubai, the public was enraged and made it quite plain, eventually kiling the idiotic deal. Well....

Conservative Hq details a worse deal consummated under the watchful ey of Her Majesty Hillary.

According to the article:

"There is a U.S. government inter-agency review board called the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) whose responsibility is to conduct a thorough review of any commercial acquisition of U.S. infrastructure or property by a foreign entity that may have national security implications.

This is the same interagency group that approved the Uranium One deal.

Unfortunately, during a five-year period from 2009-2014, the CFIUS staff chairperson was a Pakistani ex-patriate named Aimen Nabi Mir, who has direct connections to both the Pakistani intelligence service and the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood. As we now know, it was during this timeframe that both the Gulftainer lease and the Uranium One deal were permitted to go forward by CFIUS.

Thanks to the remarkable investigative efforts of Mr. Jones and Ms. Fanning, it has now come to light that the implications of the CFIUS failure to appropriately review the Port Canaveral Gulftainer deal go far beyond original concerns about this Middle East-based ports company acquiring such strategic access to all the container operations at this key port along Florida’s Atlantic coast.

Indeed, Port Canaveral is near a number of important U.S. facilities—including the Navy’s East Coast ballistic missile submarine base, two U.S. Air Force Space Command bases and NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Additionally, Port Canaveral and its container facilities are connected directly to rail and road lines that provide ready transportation access to the entire country.

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The result? We gave a thirty five year lease to a prime port near our nuclear and space facilities to a company with ties to Iran and North Korea.

The obama Administration was too stupid by half; one cannot say they were stupid because they were so efficient at it. Treason anyone?

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How Moral Equivalency Normalizes North Korea

Daren Jonescu

"Today’s report that Fusion GPS CEO Glenn Simpson met with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya both before and after her meeting with Donald Trump, Jr. in June 2016 is breathtaking. It is clear the Democratic National Committee and the Clinton campaign paid for a consultant who was using Russians in an attempt to create the appearance of collusion through false offers of dirt on Hillary Clinton. Even the Closseau-like Robert Mueller should be able to piece this together and see that Fusion GPS is at the center of his investigation into the 2016 election.

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Trump Jr. Framed by Fusion GPS

This from Americans for Limited Government:

Nov. 7, 2017, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement reacting to the revelation that Fusion GPS CEO Glenn Simpson met with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya both before and after her meeting with Donald Trump, Jr. in June 2016:

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Single payer praises -

Wil Wirtanen

https://www.investors.com/politics/columnists/single-payer-is-failing-overseas-we-shouldnt-adopt-it-here/

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Agitators, regulators and predators on the prowl

Paul Driessen

Corrupt anti-science, anti-industry agencies have gained disturbing power in recent years. This article recounts the incredible example of an EU agency that exerts major influence over the use of chemicals, especially in Europe, but also in the USA and world. As the article and linked sources demonstrate, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has engaged in unbelievably shoddy and even fraudulent science – and rampant collusion with anti-chemical activist groups – to pave the way for predatory lawyers to sue Monsanto and other companies for billions of dollars over phony cancer risks.

The only thing that overshadows that behavior is the conniving of one of IARC’s principal scientists. It’s an unbelievable saga.

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Jesse Jackson accused now

Jack Kemp

Now Elmer Gantry....errr....Jesse Jackson is accused of sexual misconduct. I'm shocked, shocked. That this wasn't brought out before.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5060399/Writer-claims-sexually-harassed-Jesse-Jackson.html
‘He grabbed my thigh, saying "I like all of that
right there"´: Journalist claims she was sexually
harassed by Rev Jesse Jackson as she
forced a smile for these picturesDaily Mail [UK], by Ariel Zilber Original Article 11/7/2017 7:32:36 PM

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Dames at Sea story doesn't hold water

Jack Kemp

Dana Mathewson first voiced that he sensed that something was off in this story...

http://nypost.com/2017/10/30/lost-sailors-story-doesnt-add-up-experts-say/

[linl=http://nypost.com/2017/10/30/lost-sailors-story-doesnt-add-up-experts-say/]Lost sailors’ story doesn’t ad

ANOTHER 2C FROM DANA:

They also tell stories of being mauled by huge storms -- that knocked out their engine -- but the Coast Guard and other services have no record of any such storms anywhere in the areas that these gals could have been in.

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Indians can't Dress up as Indians for Halloween

Dana Mathewson


AND THE MADNESS CONTINUES – FROM COLLEGE FIX:
 Put this one in your peace pipe and smoke it — a Native American faculty member at the University of New Mexico has been condemned for wearing a headdress on Halloween. She reportedly wore it to a pumpkin carving contest at the school. "Just because you’re Native American, does not give you a free pass to rock a headdress or a tomahawk,” Joaquina Castillo, co-president of the KIVA Club, a Native American group on campus, told KRQEnews. "She was actually being awarded for most authentic costume, which is just an even more big slap in the face,” Castillo said. KIVA Club members told the news outlet they found the costume racist and an example of cultural appropriation, arguing that the faculty member who wore it is part of the Navajo Nation and headdresses are not part of that tribe. Hmm. She mentioned that being Native American doesn't give you a "free pass" to wear certain things. Question: Who gives out the free passes? How does one get that privilege? I'd love to hear the answers.

Guys -- and gal -- I'm wondering if we couldn't come up with our own Onion-style riff on this? In fact, I wonder if The Onion has already done so?

It would probably be something like, here I am at a Halloween party wearing a kilt, and somebody zings me because my "people" (the ones I know about, anyhow) came from Lowland Scotland (at least I think they did), and it was the Highlanders who developed kilts.

Yeah, I know it's not common knowledge and therefore not as "edgy." Plus, I'd have to be drinking something like Highland Park Scotch, distilled in the Orkney Islands, rather than a Lowland Scotch (can't think of one at the moment -- Johnnie Walker, maybe?).

Alright, somebody else's turn now.
 
 

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The changing world energy economy

Paul Driessen

West Virginia University engineering professor Jim Smith and his student, Alex Hatch, have written an interesting examination of the reasons why economic growth now outpaces the US and world growth in energy consumption. After decades of operating almost in tandem, energy use per unit of output has shrunk. In 2015, they note, energy demand grew by just 0.8 percent, whereas the total GDP of OECD nations grew by 2.7 percent.

The primary reason is the rapidly improving efficiency of equipment and facilities that are powered by oil, natural gas, coal and other fuels. Those efficiency gains are likely to continue, which bodes well for the world in numerous areas.

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