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Timothy Birdnow

Here's a little rhyme to go with our reason today. With apologies to Robert W. Service.

The Attempted Cremation of Donald J.

There are strange things done there in Washington
by the men who steal our gold
The Halls of Power can sure get sour
when invaded from outside their mold

There are plenty ofl fights and some vicious sound bytes
but the worst that they ever did thump
was the night of dejection when they lost the election
to that orange little toad Donald Trump!

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Jack Kemp

Illinois Pioneers Election Manipulation at the State Legislative Level

By Michael Bargo, Jr.

Chicago has long been nationally famous for manipulating election results. Its reputation for registering voters with a cemetery address, registering the homeless, and allowing people to vote more than once is legendary. What is not so well known is how Illinois has, along with other blue states, established new methods of stealing votes at the level of the state legislature. more...

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Timothy Birdnow

Here's a poem I wrote from the archives. No special reason to post it now but I found it and felt like it.



Timothy Birdnow

Twas the week after Paris and all through the E.U.
Third World hands in the piggy bank sticky as glue
the stockings were hung round the smokestacks with pains
in the hopes for some dollars and ill-gotten gains.

The usual suspects, NGO's like Greenpeace
Were happily dreaming of all they could fleece
With Merkel in her kerchief and Obama with his dash
there was much happy passing of taxpayer cash

Then from drunken pols there arose a resolution
demanding America pay restitution
Away to the microphones the leaders all flew
to promote the monstrosity all of them drew

Even Clinton showed up, with a naked intern
in the hopes of a quickie and money to burrn
When what to our wondering ears should we hear
but predictions of doom, and destruction and fear

With a little old diplomat whistling a tune
We knew in a moment it was Ban-ki Moon!
more rapid than eagles his demands did they rocket
and swift as a bird did he pick out our pocket

"Now 'bama and Merkel and Hollande and Howard
Cameron and Putin you'll all be devoured!
You'll pay very dearly for emitting CO2
now pay through the nose till your nations turn blue"

And never was mentioned the role of the Sun
at that covetous conference called COP21
And on Capitol Hill there was little offense
as Paul Ryan sold out GOP constituents

Sporting a beard, like a pirate in wait
Ryan pushed out  an omnibus overflowing the plate
two trillion he gave to Obama to blow
while POTUS won't let oil from Canada flow

Obama just lauged, his eyes oh, so merry
he was getting the money he pledged through John Kerry
while conservatives wail and their teeth do they gnash
Old "Bam mocks Ted Cruz and does a does a Trump bash

With a deluge of words he went straight to his work
claimed the climate is changing and old Trump is a jerk
and putting his finger straight up in the air
a government shutdown  Obama did dare

In Paris they cheered at America's screwing
while the RINO'S  sat idly by with their mooing
And  here and in Europe people pour cross the border
all for the dream of a U.N. World Order

Now a framework exists for the socialist gent
to steal our money and build world government
and Pope Francis complained from his fine Papal  car
"is it really so bad to say Alluha Ahkbar?"

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Jack Kemp

Caroline Glick knows this Israeli history as well...

Golda Meir, even before she was Prime Minister, used to meet with the Russians because in the late 1940s she was Israel's Minister Plenipotentiary to the Soviet Union - and she spoke fluent Russian.

From Wikipedia:

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Several cyber security bigwigs and a number of other top FBI mandarins are walking away from the Bureau. According to the Wall Street Journal:

"Senior U.S. intelligence officials warn that the country is at a "critical point” facing unprecedented cyberthreats, including Russia’s ongoing attacks on the American political system. The retirements also come as the FBI is facing regular criticism from President Donald Trump and his supporters, and is working to attract and retain top cyber talent. more...

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According to an Oxford study, over half a billion dollars have been spent on social media efforts to manipulate public opinion worldwide since 2010. From the article:

"Including U.S. government programs aimed at countering extremists such as Islamic fundamentalists, about $500 million has been spent worldwide on research, development or implementation of social media "psychological operations” since 2010, the authors estimated.

"The manipulation of public opinion over social media platforms has emerged as a critical threat to public life,” the researchers wrote. They warned that, at a time when news consumption is increasingly occurring over the Internet, this trend threatens "to undermine trust in the media, public institutions and science.” more...

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Dana Mathewson

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Dana Mathewson

Andrew Napolitano has an article on Fox News today about "Trump knows more about negotiating than his hysterical critics." It's a good one.

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Danha Mathewson

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Dana Matewwson

I have been hearing lots (and have tuned out most) of the criticism of Trump's performance in Helsinki. If you listen to some of the "respected pundits," you'd think -- to use Star Trek terminology -- that Trump "gave away the home world." I've kept in mind that most of the criticism is from people who have never sat down at a desk across from a foreign leader, even a friendly one, so it's mostly Monday-morning armchair quarterbacking.

I think William Katz, of Urgent Agenda, puts things in very good perspective here, and I'll quote him:

And so it goes. Democratic complaints are a joke. However, the criticism of President Trump's performance at yesterday's press conference with Putin is bipartisan, and the president has to take note. His comments were sloppy and poorly chosen. In truth, this president is not terribly articulate on his feet. He exaggerates, he brags, he is far too effusive, especially in his attitude toward Putin, a thug if ever there was one.

Oh yes, it's true, other presidents have done the same or worse. President Nixon actually quoted Chairman Mao during his visit to China, honoring a man who'd killed millions. President Roosevelt sat down with Joe Stalin, and gave plenty away at Yalta. And Obama restored relations with the criminal Fidel Castro without asking for anything in return that would help the Cuban people. Jack Kennedy got completely rolled by Nikita Khrushchev at a summit in Vienna in 1961. All true.

But people forget, and Trump is president, intensely disliked by the press and by most of the Washington swamp dwellers. They want to bring him down, and he gave them the chance with his loose tongue.

As Laura Ingraham remarked, his rhetoric is one thing, but his record is far better. He generally gets what he wants, and gets far more than Field Marshal of the World Barack Obama ever dreamed of. But then he steps all over his achievements with his open mouth. We forgive him, but we're getting tired of it.

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Wil Wirtanen

Another Walter Williams home run.

Read it here.

From the article:

By creating and enforcing neutral rules, we minimize conflict. Consider one area of ruthless competition where that’s demonstrated — sports. The 52nd Super Bowl featured the Philadelphia Eagles and the New England Patriots. A lot was at stake. Each player on the winning team would earn $112,000; losers would get half that. Plus, each winner would get a Super Bowl ring that might cost as much as $40,000.

Despite a bitterly fought contest and all that was at stake, the game ended peaceably, and winners and losers were civil to one another. How is it that players with conflicting interests can play a game, agree with the outcome and walk away as good sports? It’s a miracle of sorts. That "miracle” is that it is far easier to reach agreement about the game’s rules than the game’s outcome. The rules are known and durable. The referee’s only job is evenhanded enforcement of those rules.

Suppose football’s rules were "living” and the referee and other officials played a role in determining them. The officials could adjust the applications of the rules. Suppose the officials were more interested in the pursuit of what they saw as football justice than they were in the unbiased enforcement of neutral rules. In the case of Super Bowl LII, officials might have considered it unfair that the Eagles had never won a Super Bowl and the Patriots had won five. If officials could determine game rules, team owners, instead of trying to raise team productivity, would spend resources lobbying or bribing officials. The returns from raising team productivity would be reduced. Also, I doubt that the games would end amicably. The players probably wouldn’t walk off the field peaceably, shaking hands and sharing hugs, as they do now.

Read the whole article at GOP USA.

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Dana Mathewson

Chicago could soon test universal basic income program

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The United Nations seeks to impose unrestricted migration on the nations of the world. Here's the straight dope:

"The text of the United Nations Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration was finalized last Friday, an inter-governmentally negotiated agreement prepared under the auspices of the United Nations to cover all dimensions of international migration. It will be formally adopted by UN member states at the Intergovernmental Conference to Adopt the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration to be held this December in Morocco. UN Secretary General António Guterres said the Global Compact reflected "the shared understanding by Governments that cross-border migration is, by its very nature, an international phenomenon and that effective management of this global reality requires international cooperation to enhance its positive impact for all. It also recognizes that every individual has the right to safety, dignity and protection.”
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Paul Driessen

Whether we are managing people, business processes, visionary leadership or important innovation efforts, the need to mitigate stupid, wasteful directives, interjections and interruptions has become an essential requirement if we are to grow socially and economically, says retired Professor James Smith. It’s the key to successfully teaching, mentoring, leading and managing our resources to "to precipitate the next great something.”

Unfortunately, those among us who once were mostly just a nuisance have become abundant, noisy, persistent, often serious troublemakers who make life and progress far harder to navigate – to the point where they gravely disrupt our progress and social harmony. Maybe we just need a few people with the courage and presence of mind to speak out, step forward and refuse to take it anymore, Professor Smith suggests.

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I am afraid that there is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don't want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public.

Booker T. Washington

Ch. V: The Intellectuals and the Boston Mob

A group of black incoming freshman to Washington University in ST. Louis were wrongly stopped for a "dine and dash" incident at an International House of Burgers, er, Pancakes in the near suburb of Clayton, Mo.
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Mandalay Bay is suing the shooting victims in order to get the case into Federal court.

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Conservative HQ fleshes out some of the more interesting things in the Putin Summit. From the article:

"One of the crazier moments of the news conference was when Putin schooled the media on the legal framework by which Robert Mueller could move forward with his charges against the 12 Russians named in the recently announced indictment:

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Romney, who calls Russia our "No. 1 geopolitical foe," doesn't seem to realize it's the 21st century. #RomneyNotReady http://t.co/xcvhOAFS
— The Democrats (@TheDemocrats) October 22, 2012

You know, when Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State she made a big show of her "Russian reset" including carrying around a big cardboard button. Yet when President Trump meets with the Russian President and actually tries to reset relations with the world's second most powerful country (and Russia IS the second most powerful, despite ambitions by China to the contrary) he is branded a traitor. Strange.

When Barack Obama told Russia's Potemkin Village President Michael Medvedev that he would have more flexibility after the election he was a statesman. Trump fails to publicly scold Putin and he's a villain, in the pay of Russia. Strange; Obama was being statesmanlike promising to give Putin more once he no longer has to face the voters.

When Hillary brokers the sale of a quarter of all uranium in the U.S. to a Russian company in return for big donations to the Clinton Foundation that was just a fluke. When Trump meets with Putin and offers him nothing of substance that's an outrage.

We seem to have a serious problem with misplaced anger in this country. more...

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