September 12, 2017

A flock of Jacob's Sheep now back in Israel for the first time since Biblical times

Dana Mathewson

This is different from the political stuff I usually send. Inspiring!

https://www.breakingisraelnews.com/94197/unique-sound-jacobs-sheep-shofarot-sounds-call-messiah-photos/#/#OIWG3AgzB9WSVAuQ.97

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Time to contact Gov. Moonbeam!

Dana Mathewson

And tell him Do Not Allow Parole for this savage!

 http://tammybruce.com/2017/09/outrageous-murderer-manson-follower-leslie-van-houten-granted-parole-again.html

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Let's start the day with some Theatre of the Absurd

Dana Mathewson

And such things are easy to find these days.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/09/12/florida-looting-crackdown-is-white-supremacy-claims-author-sarah-jaffe.html


I think this woman's mother let her play with plastic bags as a kid. .

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September 11, 2017

Dems Toss Away Flyover Catholic Vote

Jack Kemp

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/democrats-give-away-the-rust-belt-by-alienating-catholics/article/2633808

OHIO VALLEY — A clip of Martha Plimpton's exuberance over the "best" abortion she ever had played out on the television overhead of a gas-station counter somewhere along U.S. Route 422 between Ohio and Pennsylvania.

A woman with a name tag noting her as the manager rolled her eyes and said to no one in particular as she went about stacking the shelves behind the counter, "And they wonder why people don't vote for Democrats around here anymore."

Plimpton, 46, is best known for her role in the 1980's Steven Spielberg classic kid adventure movie "The Goonies." She made her remark in an interview with Dr. Willie Parker at a #ShoutYourAbortion event in Seattle in June.

After saying Seattle was the home of some of her family, she went on to cheer what she did in her teens: "I also had my first abortion at the Seattle Planned Parenthood. Yay!"

With equal exuberance, she also revealed her Seattle abortion wasn't her last.

Read the rest...

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Kid Rock Gleeful Over Sharpton's Daughter's Arrest

Jack Kemp

http://nypost.com/2017/09/10/kid-rock-gloats-over-sharpton-kids-bust/

Kid Rock, who has been feuding with Al Sharpton, was gloating Sunday over the arrest of the reverend’s daughter.

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Birth Control Causes Homosexuality?

Jack Kemp

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2017/09/birth_control_and_homosexuality_unintended_consequences.html

September 11, 2017
Birth Control and Homosexuality: Unintended Consequences
By Mike Konrad
In the 1980s, I had a boss who had gotten a masters degree in psychology from New York University. He was a brilliant man; could have been a doctor. He told me a story that explains much of what we see in society today.
It seems that while doing his graduate work in the early 1960s, he had to do research on lab rats, which were given the synthetic hormones used in the then new birth control pills. The results, he told me, showed that the grandchildren of these lab rats would have high rates of homosexual behaviors. From what he told me, the findings were suppressed. Apparently, the powers that be wanted "the pill” to pass muster. What happened to the second generation of rats that followed was of no consequence to them.
Then my boss told me: The first generation of kids born to mothers using the pill have already arrived. But we should expect in another generation a noticeable increase in homosexual behavior, as they would be the second generation. As that was then still in the future, I was shocked.
This was told me in the mid '80s. By his reckoning, we should have seen a societal explosion of homosexuality starting around 2000, and subsequently. And, of course, we have seen such an explosion. His prediction came true.
Now, to many classic conservatives – whether religious or merely social – homosexuality is a choice, something which can be learned and/or unlearned. The problem is: There is a degree of evidence that it may be contrariwise in some individuals.
I invite one to look at this short CBS 60 Minutes documentary about what happens to lab rats treated with sex hormones early on their development. There is a body of evidence that early hormonal manipulation can have horrific consequences.

We have to ask ourselves, what happens to all those women using hormonal contraceptives when they stop their pills in anticipation of wanted pregnancy. Does the normal human cycle return immediately, or is there a rebound effect where, even if ovulation occurs, the ambient hormonal background in the womb is screwed up? This article addressed the question of whether gonadal steroid exposure during prenatal development is one of the factors, in at least one of the pathways, that lead to variability in sexual orientation outcomes. Based on the compelling evidence that prenatal testosterone exposure influences children’s sex-typical play behavior, on the well-established links between childhood play interests and adult sexual orientation, and on the evidence showing altered sexual orientation in women exposed to high levels of androgens prenatally, because of CAH, the answer appears to be "yes.” - National Institutes of Health

This next quote seems to confirm what my boss told me that the effect will skip a generation to the grandchildren.

According to a newly released hypothesis, homosexuality might not lie in DNA itself. Instead, as an embryo develops, sex-related genes are turned on and off in response to fluctuating levels of hormones in the womb, produced by both mother and child. This benefits the unborn child, however if these epigenetic changes persist once the child is born, and has children of its own, some of these offspring may be homosexual. - SciTechDaily

There you have it. The anecdote related to me 30 years ago, by my boss, has some scientific merit.
There is a Catholic order of nuns, the Children of Mary, which in 2012 distributed information about this connection – which caused quite some controversy. To be honest, Catholicism's insistence on clerical celibacy sort of undercuts their concern with reproductive health; but the nuns may have a point.

Contraception Video, Produced By Children Of Mary Order, Links Homosexuality With Birth Control – Huffington Post

The Video – (Click Here)
I do not agree with Catholicism's ban on artificial contraception. As long as it is non-abortifacient, I cannot see how it poses a moral issue among married couples. To be fair, it is not just a Catholic issue any more. Some classic Protestants have adopted similar views, such as with the Quiverfull movement.
There is also the secondary issue that hormonal pills can lead to chemically induced miscarriages/abortions, even if that is not the intent of the user. The hormones can prevent a fertilized egg from implanting in the uterus. I do agree with those who see problems in altering the hormonal balance in a woman's body, which leads to this abortifacient action.

So while I would take exception to the Catholic/Fundamentalist Quiverfull prohibition against condoms, I would agree with their condemnation of hormonal birth control pills.
But this poses a tertiary issue.
There is a body of evidence – apparently being suppressed by the popular media – that these convenient chemical alterations of women's bodies is part of the reason for the increase in Western homosexuality. The media now shows homosexuality as a heroic choice. Do they ever admit that it might be a chemically induced aberration?
We were taught in school that our makeup was determined by our DNA; but there is a new science called epigenetics which is indicating that environmental effects may alter how our genes are expressed. While conservatives deny that there is a gay gene, per se, they may have to admit that there may be an epigenetic trigger.
Normal DNA, in a normal fetus, subjected to unstable hormonal fluctuations in a womb, which until recently had been subjected to artificial hormones, may express itself in developing a child given to homosexual tendencies. The child's DNA may not be unusual, but the chemical bath under which the child developed may have set off triggers which led to an altered orientation or proclivity.

New Clues That Sexual Orientation Could Be Epigenetic
In addition, evidence has shown that women who are exposed to androgen early in life are more likely to identify as homosexual or bisexual. - Medscape (2015)

This leads to a further issue. It is the province of moralists and many conservative Christians to dismiss, as hogwash, the claim of homosexuals that they were born that way. The inability to isolate a gay gene is proof that it is not genetic. However, it may be epigenetic.
This further introduces more moral issues, particularly to those who would decry homosexuals as willfully degenerate. It may not be a much of a choice as classic moralists might want to think.
Now, I happen to think homosexuality will destroy any society where it is unchecked. I am opposed to gay marriage, because it violates biology. I am also opposed to the media's glorification of homosexuality as the equivalent of normal orientation. It is not.
However, a considerable portion of the blame may be with the pharmaceutical companies which push these pills. Initial tests, done 50 years ago, seem to have shown what problems would arise. My boss' fearful predication told to me 30 years ago has come true.
No doubt, our culture and media compound the problem by encouraging homosexual behavior in individuals who might be easily persuaded to revert back to normal proclivities. However, we may have to address a frightening problem that even were we to re-Christianize our societal worldview – highly unlikely - there will be a considerable swath of individuals who were irrevocably damaged in utero; and who may be beyond complete re-adjustment.
The best that can be suggested is that women be fully informed of the dangers of taking hormonal birth control; and a certain degree of Christian charity – by which I do NOT mean approval – be tendered to those individuals who say they cannot change. In plain terms, society should not allow gay marriage, but should make provisions for individuals who cannot change.
Ideally, the withdrawal of hormonal birth control from the marketplace would be a solution, forcing women to revert to older barrier and prophylactic methods. However, our social engineers would remind us that this would result in poorer women – code word for blacks and minorities – having more unwanted babies, as they are too "uneducated” to know how to use simpler birth control methods which require a few seconds of extra effort.
And that is the real issue. Social engineers will continue to sacrifice generations of children to the moloch of gender dysphoria to keep the unwanted subterranean Morlocks of society at bay. The unintended consequence is that quite often the individuals hurt will not be in the poorer classes, but in the sections of society they would want to see reproduce.
Mike Konrad is the pen name of an American who wishes he had availed himself more fully of the opportunity to learn Spanish in high school, lo those many decades ago. He writes on the Arabs of South America at http://latinarabia.com. He also just started a website about small computers at http://minireplacement.com.

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Rush & Trump's houses appear okay in FL

Jack Kemp

From the Palm Beach Post's website:

In West Palm Beach sustained winds of 51 mph, gusts up to 76 mph

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There was some damage in West Palm Beach, but not that much.

There is a beachfront storm surge on Rush Limbaugh and Trump properties, but the left which wanted both destroyed will be sorely disappointed. A storm that would have destroyed both homes would also have destroyed thousands of people's homes. But the left doesn't care.

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The Supremely Overconfident Hillary

Jack Kemp

What can I say? The woman - and her voters -were totally delusional.

Jack

http://freebeacon.com/politics/clinton-confident-victory-second-home-chappaqua-accommodate-white-house-staff/
Clinton Was So Confident of Victory She Bought Second Home in Chappaqua to Accommodate White House Staff
BY: David Rutz

September 10, 2017 11:23 am
Hillary Clinton was so confident of victory last year that she bought a second house next to her residence in Chappaqua, New York, to accommodate White House staff during presidential retreats there.

"I thought I was going to win," she said.

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The Hurricane Harvey Hustle

Paul Driessen

Climate alarmists wasted no time claiming Hurricane Harvey was caused or worsened by fossil fuels. Greenhouse gas-driven global warming made the Gulf of Mexico warmer and its air more moisture-laden, thereby feeding Harvey’s strength and moisture content, said one climate and weather "expert.” Harvey was due to "this administration’s climate denial, racism and callousness,” an Antifa allied activist ranted.

Of course, they would never credit fossil fuels or carbon dioxide emissions for the record 12-year absence of Category 3-5 hurricanes striking the United States. Nor would they take time to learn the real reasons hurricanes form, strengthen or drop enormous quantities of rain – or study the long history of powerful, wet hurricanes, especially in the Gulf of Mexico. My article examines these issues, amid what could still be a long 2017 hurricane season.

The Hurricane Harvey Hustle

Facts about Harvey trump attempts to use it to advance manmade climate cataclysm agendas

Paul Driessen

"When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight,” English essayist Samuel Johnson observed 240 years ago, "it concentrates his mind wonderfully.” That’s certainly true in the climate change arena.

After ending US participation in the Paris climate treaty and abolishing many government restrictions on fossil fuel use, the Trump Administration began preparing red team-blue team examinations of the science behind claims of "dangerous manmade climate change.” Asian, African and even European countries are building still more coal and gas-fired power plants. A recent poll found that only 28% of Americans think climate scientists understand the causes of global climate change "very well.”

All this is certainly concentrating the minds of climate alarmists, who are also taking former Obama advisor Rahm Emanuel’s cynical advice to "never let a crisis go to waste.” The new climate hustle is on.

The record 12-year absence of Category 3-5 hurricanes striking the United States had to end at some point, and Hurricane Harvey definitely underscored our recent good fortune. Alarmists wasted no time in asserting that Harvey was due to or worsened by mankind’s greenhouse gas emissions. As Irma beefs up and brings more widespread devastation, it too will likely achieve iconic climate chaos status.

Fossil-fuel-driven global warming made the Gulf of Mexico warmer and its air more moisture-laden, thereby feeding Harvey’s strength and moisture content, said one climate and weather "expert.” A century ago a storm along the same path would have been less intense and brought less rain, claimed another.

Harvey stalled over Houston because manmade climate change caused "a greatly expanded subtropical high pressure system,” which led to "very weak prevailing winds” that failed to steer the storm back into the Gulf of Mexico, a third putative expert asserted. An Antifa climate activist ranted that Harvey was due to "this administration’s climate denial, racism and callousness.” Another railed about climate murder.

Any journey back to climate and weather reality should begin by noting that doctrines of manmade climate cataclysm asserted that the record 12-year interlude between major US hurricanes should never have happened. The overall reduction in major hurricanes in recent decades shouldn’t have either.

Weather historian Roger Pielke, Jr. says 14 Category 4-5 hurricanes made landfall along US coasts, during the 44-year period between 1926 and 1969. In the ensuing 47 years, 1970 to 2017, just four struck the US mainland, including Harvey. Some, like the 1935 Labor Day Hurricane in the Florida Keys, were incredibly powerful. NOAA’s Hurricane Research Division counts 10 Category 4-5 monsters between 1920 and 1969 (50 years), but only four since then. Either way, it’s a huge reduction.

Harvey lost its Cat 4 status shortly after making landfall, so winds declined as a major factor after they destroyed Rockport. What devastated Houston was the vast quantity of rain: some 19 trillion gallons of water in the Houston/South Texas area alone. By comparison, Chesapeake Bay holds 18 trillion gallons.

Worse, all this rain came in just a few days. Harris County (Greater Houston) alone got 1 trillion gallons. The Mont Belvieu area got 51.9 inches of rain – the highest rainfall total in any storm in US history. The 16 inches of rain August 27 at George Bush Airport is the single wettest day in Houston history.

However, previous storms were not far behind. Hurricane Easy deluged Florida with 45.2 inches in 1950; Tropical Cyclone Amelia dumped 48 inches on Texas in 1978; and Tropical Storm Claudette inundated Texas with 54 inches in 1979. In fact, Claudette emptied 43 inches in just 24 hours on the little town of Alvin, Texas; that one-day record still stands. Buffalo Bayou topped out at 62.7 feet this time – but it reached 54.4 feet in 1935. All the Texas storms were along its Gulf Coast.

All you need is the right (ie, wrong) confluence of events. As climatologist Dr. Roy Spencer explains, when a strong tropical cyclone has access to abundant moisture evaporating from a large body of warm water like the Gulf of Mexico – and that situation combines with little inland movement by the cyclone – you get record rain. So why did Hurricane Harvey settle in for a long haul over Houston?

There was no "expanded subtropical high pressure zone,” WeatherBELL Analytics chief forecaster Joe Bastardi points out. What happened with Harvey was the "exact opposite.” What trapped Harvey was a predicted MJO phase 2 – a major cool trough associated with the eastward moving disturbance of clouds, rainfall, winds and pressure that traverses the planet every 30 to 60 days or so. "Normally,” there would be no major trough that far south to stop a storm, Bastardi notes. But this time there was.

So instead of moving inland (which it did later), Harvey stalled. Its circular winds remained stuck in the trough (or what Weather Channel founder John Coleman calls a "void”) until surface pressures around it changed, and the storm was able to move to the northeast. It was "an unusual pattern,” an unusual confluence of events, says Coleman, but it was "not unprecedented.” Amelia and Claudette demonstrated that. Name just one hurricane that was ever "steered back” into the Gulf of Mexico, Bastardi challenged.

If the exact same tropical storm had simply moved inland at 13-15 mph, while generating the same total amount of rain, the downpours would have been spread over a much wider area, perhaps many states, with no flooding disaster, Dr. Spencer points out. But Harvey did not move inland for days.

In fact, "hurricanes that enter Texas often stall or meander, and are very wet. That’s why half of the top ten wettest US tropical rainfall events have been in Texas,” adds consulting meteorologist Joe D’Aleo. It has nothing to do with human-caused climate change.

"Hurricanes are nature’s way of taking heat out of the tropics and re-distributing it to the temperate regions,” when summers are hot and waters are warm, as the planet rotates, notes Bastardi. They require a unique combination of circumstances, with sufficiently warm sea surface temperatures being just one, adds Spencer. "The Gulf of Mexico is warm enough every summer to produce a major hurricane.

"But you also usually need a pre-existing cyclonic circulation or wave, which almost always can be traced back to the coast of Africa.” Why some systems intensify and others don’t is still not well understood.

Multi-decadal sea surface temperature (SST) oscillations in the Atlantic occur on a cyclical basis, as does the total energy accumulated each year by tropical storms and hurricanes. However, their origins and mechanisms are likewise still unknown, Dr. Michel de Rougemont notes.

It is impossible right now to separate all these natural factors from alleged manmade influences. Or to look at hurricane history and August SST anomalies over the years – and discern patterns that can be attributed to human-caused (or even natural) global warming. Those claiming an ability to do so must prove their claims, produce their data and algorithms, defend their thesis before red team experts, and not be allowed to assert "proprietary” data or point to secretive black box computer model simulations.

Houston flooded not just because of the sheer volume of water. The city is built on impermeable clays and former swamp lands that have subsided in many places over the decades from the steadily increasing weight of buildings, homes, other structures, and concrete and asphalt roads and runways. It is close to sea level, with little topographic relief, insufficient drainage, and reservoirs that can handle most big rains but not those that Harvey brought. Deluges thus have few places to go, except upward, over dams and into homes. It’s no wonder the area has experienced floods throughout its history.

To use this tragedy to advance anti-fossil fuel agendas is disgraceful. Right now, and for the foreseeable future, they are the bedrock of our civilization, jobs, living standards, well-being and life spans. To drive up their costs, or replace them now with expensive, unreliable "renewable” energy would be disastrous.

Fossil fuels allow us to track storms, warn people and get them out of harm’s way. They bring rescue boats, helicopters, high-rider vehicles, water, food, clothing and new building materials to stricken communities. They could do the same for Bangladesh and other countries that face natural disasters – and have been bereft of electricity and decent living standards for too many generations.

Meanwhile, those in the path of Irma (and storms that will inevitably follow) should prepare their family, home, neighborhood, community and state. Houston should prepare now for the next one.

Paul Driessen is senior policy analyst for the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (www.CFACT.org), and author of Eco-Imperialism: Green power - Black death and other books on the environment.

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Good Strategy

Wil Wirtanen

https://spectator.org/as-im-being-audited/

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September 10, 2017

Is the Pope Catholic? Maybe not this one

Jack Kemp

it appears Pope Francis wants to dissolve the central control of Rome and make the entire Church organization into "Cafeteria Catholics." This is anarchy. Believing Catholics will come up with their own traditional Catholocism but under a new name - with an old faith.

Jack

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/09/world/europe/pope-francis-liturgical-reform.html?


VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis, who has used his absolute authority in the Vatican to decentralize power from Rome, made a widespread change Saturday to the ways, and words, in which Roman Catholics worship by amending Vatican law to give national bishop conferences greater authority in translating liturgical language.

Read it all!

This from Jack:

I once heard Michael Medved speak at a synagogue in New York. He made a remark concerning Reform Judaism that would apply to Pope Francis' form of Catholicism.

Medved described Reform Judaism as "The Democratic Party with holidays."









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American Express, the NFL, a Florida mansion - and me

Jack Kemp

It's funny how things one has a limited connection to in life eventually even out.

In the mid-1980s, I programmed computers for the large brokerage Shearson-American Express. It was in a big bulding that was a cubicle factory. Salaries there typically ran from $25,000 to $32,000, not a lot of money if one had to support a family or just oneself in New York City. Many people started to leave after getting a few years of big name corporate experience to go work in jobs much closer to their suburban homes, often for more money. But even without an increase in pay at their new jobs, the savings in time, energy and monetary cost in commuting was enough of an incentive to leave.

The American Express people, who worked in another building, had no concept of middle class lives. One year the small, symbolic bonuses in January were delayed for some thin excuse. But when the NY Giants won the Superbowl (while playing in New Jersey), American Express offered millions to throw them a parade in Manhattan. The late Mayor Koch had refused to pay for the parade because the Giants brought in no business to the City itself. Koch, in his typical manner, brashly stated, "Let them march in Moonachie (a very small New Jersey town near their stadium)." When I voluntarily left the company for another job, during my exit interview I mentioned the delay in bonuses and offer to pay for the Giant's parade. And then I said, "The next time one of the (accounting) computer programs goes down (stops working), let them call up Phil Simms (the Giant quarterback at that time) to come in at 1 A.M. to fix it." Even the Personnel guy laughed at that one.

But what was even more insulting than the parade that seemed to hold up our bonuses was a previous stunt attempted by the American Express Travel people as a "favor" to their middle class computer programmers.

It seems American Express created a very fancy tour that involved flying to Hawaii or somewhere else in the Pacific (at one's own additional expense, of course) and then boarding a huge motorized yacht, really a steel hulled square rigged ship, that would then sail to an even further Pacific isle. It was a trip involving perhaps two or three months as the passengers sailed around the Pacific. When the Amex Travel people saw they couldn't fill the cabins on this ocean going extravaganza, they actually printed some one page flyers (no gold leaf trim) and placed them at our department head's secretary's desk for all of us programmers to pick up and so be able to take "advantage" of this "discounted" tour (they knocked $1,000 or so off the fee, cutting it to a mere - if my memory serves me - $3000. As if the typical middle class programmer could afford this price and also afford being away from work - or their chldren's school - for three months. The elitist snobbery of this offer, which shouted, "Other people are loaded - and you're not!" to the computer programmers was totally not comprehended by the American Express Travel people. It would eventually yield a strong game changing backlash.

In the glowing description of the yacht on the one page flyer, they mentioned that this huge ship was built in Germany personally for E.F. Hutton and his wife, Marjorie Merriweather Post. E.F. Hutton, as some readers may recall from tv commercials of that era, was the creator of a major stock brokerage firm on Wall Street. And his wife, Marjorie, was the daughter of the Post Cereals magnate, the maker of Grape Nuts. Their daughter, who sailed on this yacht in her youth with her parents, was the actress Dina Merrill. The family also built a luxurious estate in Florida.

Well, American Express eventually sold their brokerage business. And as for the luxurious estate in Palm Beach, Florida named Mar-a-Lago, it was eventually sold at a fire sale price to a man with humble middle class beginnings. A certain real estate developer named Donald J. Trump.


2c from Dana Mathewson

You all remember the "When E.F. Hutton talks, everybody listens" ads/commercials, I'm sure. Well, during the 80's I was supporting a certain computer system at Carborundum in Niagara Falls, and every year, its year-end processing run needed a heckuva lot of baby-sitting, providable by exactly one of their programmer-analysts: me. I would typically take a "portable" computer and a modem home from work to do the job. Now, in those days a portable computer was a Compaq "luggable" which weighed about 40 pounds. And a modem connected at 1200 bps. I was alone in the house, that being a couple of months after my wife had left me for Martha's husband -- but that's another story. We had a pulse-dial line (yes, modems could handle it) and we also had call-waiting. There was a way to disable that when calling out with a modem, but I didn't know the character string to dial (can you BELIEVE I didn't know all there was to know at the time? It's true -- you heard it right from me.)

Well, the night I was having to baby-sit the system coincided with one of the nights E.F. Hutton was making one of their big selling pushes in the area, and every half hour or so they'd cold-call everybody in my neighborhood. Knocking my computer connection to the company mainframe off the air, of course. I was having a hard-enough time concentrating on things, being in a rather fragile mental state due to my marital status (also feeling I'd rather be on the phone chatting with Martha, whom I was already beginning to romance). And that night I particularly did NOT want to "listen to E.F. Hutton!" I called the phone company the next day and dropped Call Waiting (we only had it because my wife needed it for a business that was -- obviously -- no longer being run out of our home!). Good thing they were able to do it immediately, because I was baby-sitting the system the next night too

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Run Joe Run!


Jack Kemp

Townhall.com reports that Joe Biden's daughter said her dad is considering running for President in 2020.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2017/09/09/bidens-daughter-yeah-dad-is-considering-running-for-president-n2378978?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=

I guess the Muppets two old guys in the balcony, Statler and Waldorf, are either Trump or Bernie supporters and so are not available.

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The Poor Man's Snobbery

Jack Kemp

Fay Voshell wrote a fine piece at American Thinker about Racism as the Ineradicable Sin. http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2017/09/racism_the_ineradicable_sin.html

I enclose below two comments, one by FeralCat and a reply to Feral by myself, directed at both FeralCat and you.

Comments:

* FeralCat • 8 hours ago
The supremest ineradicable sin is actually virtue signaling.
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The Race Card is the most rapid-fire, all purpose, over used and abused, ad hominem and vapid weapon of smear, mass deception, diversion and greed ever conceived by man. It is a weapon under which the most wild eyed and feeble minds are severely crouched and can be played with the greatest of ease by even the most reason and integrity challenged, and in fact, was designed especially for use by them. It is void of justice. It is void of liberty. It needs no footing in rationality. It resembles a witch hunt and is, in plain and clear fact, similar to a lynching At times it is the last refuge of hate filled and money and power hungry scoundrels and at other times the first as they attempt to mass murder intellect, justice and freedom of speech. It has no expiration date. It doesn’t even appear to have a half life. There are those who theorize that it may continue to exist indefinitely in some form even after time itself has come to an end.
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Or, if you prefer, as Roger L. Simon put it, "Anybody who plays the race card in our country today is less than pond scum. It has become the 21st century equivalent of accusing someone of witchcraft in eighteenth century Salem. Anyone who uses the race card should be considered a pariah automatically. It's almost always projection"

JackKemp (replies to) FeralCat • 2 minutes ago
Right you are, Feral Cat - as well as Fay Voshel.


In Europe, they used to say that anti-semitism was "the poor man's snobbery." Today the same could also be said of knee jerk anti-white people sentiments and proclamations. But the new, expanded snobbery isn't merely limited to poor people making such a claim. A high profile example is Colin Kaepernick, a pampered, wealthy black who used to work in a business which made many blacks and Hispanics millionaires (including himself), claiming how downtrodden he and other blacks are. These are all people who grew up well after the end of 1) racially segregated housing and water fountains 2) a racially segregated military (started in the 20th Century by Democrat Woodrow Wilson) 3) a lack of federal Civil Rights Laws. If Kaepernick had more musical talent, he might have sung "Ole Man River" from the musical "Showboat" while on the 49ers sidelines last season.
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The race card is today, in a vast majority of cases, cheap, lazy excuse for not making an effort to learn something. And, as Fay Voshel says, to not relate to and hate one's neighbor. In fact, the people who play this card are often troubled people who also "Hate their Neighbor as Themselves."

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Trump Shafts the GOP

Jack Kemp

https://townhall.com/columnists/jonahgoldberg/2017/09/08/desperate-for-a-win-trump-shafts-his-party-n2378480?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=
Desperate for a Win, Trump Shafts His Party

Jonah Goldberg
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The news that President Trump abandoned Republicans to strike a deal with Congressional Democrats on a three-month extension of the debt limit yielded a predictable response from his predictable cheerleaders: It was brilliant and typically shrewd for the author of "The Art of the Deal" to take the very first offer the Democrats made and ask for nothing in return.
Less obsequious observers on the right claimed that this was the long-prophesied moment. The seventh seal had been broken. Donald Trump was "pivoting" at last. "The pivot is real and it's spectacular!" proclaimed Ben Domenech, the publisher of The Federalist.

In the lexicon of Trumpism and anti-Trumpism, "pivot" has many meanings. But in this context, pivot means to reach across party lines and work with Democrats, giving the shaft to his own party, or at least to the conservatives in the GOP.
Such a move has been feared by many conservatives from the earliest days of Trump's candidacy. The former New York Democrat holds no deep love for ideological conservatism, and many of his favorite issues -- protectionism, infrastructure, etc. -- are more naturally part of the Democratic portfolio.

But those fears didn't pan out at first. The president and congressional Republicans tried mimic the Democrats in the wake of Barack Obama's victory in 2008 and run the table, particularly on Obamacare "repeal and replace," on a partisan basis. Unfortunately, the GOP couldn't get it done. This infuriated many conservatives, Republicans and Donald Trump himself, and to some extent rightly so.

End excerpt.

This from Jack:

The comments to this piece are mostly negative. The readers call Jonah Goldberg a RINO Never Trumper. He may be just that and part of Trump's Republican opposition himself. But the trouble is the bottom line criticism Goldberg makes is valid, namely that Trump hasn't planned for or figured out a way to beat his opposition on the GOP side while handling the Democrats. And it's not like Trump has to do all the figuring himself - he has help like Gorka and Bannon (even though they are not now working in the White House). Basically, what Goldberg is saying is that Trump has not come up with a way to either destroy his oppositon or waylay their fears with some masterful move. It's a fact that we still have Obamacare and the Middle Class is hurting from that. If you want to say that Goldberg is complaining that Trump hasn't found away to defeat GOLDBERG's efferts to twart him, I agree - but it appears that Goldberg kind of agrees with that conclusion himself in that Goldberg wants Trump to prove him wrong in his fears and conclusions. The period between now and New Years Day 2018 - and possibly into Election Day 2018 - is crucial.

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Conservative Fall Guys

Jack Kemp forwards this:

http://theresurgent.com/they-are-setting-up-conservatives-as-the-fall-guys/
They Are Setting Up Conservatives As the Fall Guys
By Erick Erickson | September 8, 2017, 05:00am | @ewerickson


Remember when Donald Trump blamed the House Freedom Caucus members for the failure to repeal Obamacare? Good times. All they wanted to do was actually repeal Obamacare. The House Republican leadership drafted legislation that did not repeal it, but claimed it did. They got Trump to savage the conservatives in the House to try to get them to cave.

It is going to happen again.

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Dogs on kill list are now searching Texas for survivors

Jack Kemp

Watch embedded news video of how a senior woman started a training program for search dogs in the U.S. in the 1990s.

https://www.aol.com/article/lifestyle/2017/09/07/dogs-once-on-kill-lists-now-harvey-heroes/23200352/

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Genesis of the Progressive Nightmare

Wil Wirtanen

Excellent article on the root cause of our problems.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2017/09/1913_the_turning_point.html

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Is this Arkansas? No - it's Minnesota

Dana Mathewson

Who knew TIME was still being published? Of course, this kind of thing is right up their alley. But I blush for the state I now live in.

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2017/09/on-the-cover-of-time-magazine.php

This is what you get when you open your state to immigrants who... er... don't share your values. Too bad she and her "husband" don't live next-door to Gov. Doofus. Oh, that's right. He's so medicated he wouldn't even notice.

JACK KEMP REPLIES:


Married to her brother? And this is legal in Minnesota? Where's the city police or the state attorney general?

And this from Dana:

(Ahem) it's part of their culture. Who are we to judge?

/sarc off

A NOTE FROM TIM:

And here the Left wants universal health care which will allow them to tell us how to eat, what to drink, how to live. Isn't anyone at least nominally concerned with inbreeding? Liberals always sneer at people from Tennessee or Arkansas or Missouri for being inbred, but that apparently doesn't apply to Muslims.

Question; if this cduple gets divorced are they still brother and sister? And do the kids calll the father their dad or uncle?

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Korean nukes are only part of Russia and China's war against the West

Dana Mathewson

We've been unable to see the forest because we've been paying too much attention to the trees.

http://freebeacon.com/national-security/bodyguards-kim-jong-un/

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