November 13, 2019
Anyone remember the old B movie "The Brain that Wouldn't Die"? Looks like the star just did.
Virginia Leith, Star of 'The Brain That Wouldn't Die,' Dies at 94
What, did you think I was talking about AOC?
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That she should, Dana! November 12, 2019
Please read the entire article. It's worth the time and effort. https://thefederalist.com/2019/11/11/why-pete-buttigieg-is-the-most-destructive-candidate-for-christianity/There’s nothing like seeing #PeteForPresident trending in fourth place nationwide on Twitter to remind you Pete Buttigieg is still very much in this presidential race.
In the crowded field of Democratic contenders for the White House in 2020, Buttigieg is near the top, polling behind only Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren, and Bernie Sanders. According to RealClearPolitics’ latest aggregate of polls, in the early primary state of Iowa, Buttigieg trails only Warren, holding 17.5 percent support — and for good reason.
Buttigieg’s resume glows with accolades and qualifications. He is a Harvard University graduate, a military veteran, and a Rhodes scholar, and each time he takes the stage, we are reminded he is a polished, articulate candidate who models presidential decorum. He embodies social progressivism and diversity, even being LGBT, and he speaks a farsighted message of unity and bipartisanship and faith. This multilingual, Midwest mayor of South Bend, Indiana, checks all the boxes, including religion.
And he is without a doubt the most dangerous candidate for Christianity and the gospel.
Pete Preaches a False Gospel of Affirmation
Faith-related comments have become routine for Mayor Pete. It seems each time Buttigieg has a microphone or an audience, he pontificates about the moral high ground he occupies — or at least all the reasons Republicans have lost their claim to it.
For example, during a GLAAD-sponsored LGBT presidential forum in Iowa, Buttigieg was asked how he would respond federally to state versions of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which the host characterized as legislation "allowing individuals to claim broad exemptions from generally applicable laws … often weaponized to discriminate against LGBTQ people, religious minorities, single parents, and more.â€
Buttigieg replied:
The thing that is so upsetting is that not only is it abusive toward LGBTQ Americans, but, in my view, it’s abusive toward the idea of faith. Faith is supposed to be about making people whole and making people better off, and when faith is used as an excuse to harm somebody, to me that is an insult to religion itself.
"Are rural and religious communities really going to get behind this idea?†the host asked. "Because, you know, I would want nothing more than to see the churches I grew up in really change.â€
"I think it can happen when we ask people to be attuned to the importance of compassion and supporting each other,†Buttigieg said, affirming the notion that churches should fundamentally change core teachings to embrace LGBT activism. "It is amazing how many people can move past those old harms when you appeal to what is best in them … to bring out the best of what’s already somewhere inside of us.â€
Never mind that the mayor completely contradicts the Christian doctrine of total human depravity — a foundational tenet of the gospel — to support his secular sexual ethic, but it is imperative to note that Buttigieg’s threat is not primarily due to being immoral versus moral. Comparing Buttigieg with an angry or scandalous politician — or even with the man occupying the White House — makes the mayor radiate what looks like goodness.
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Developed nearly 40 years ago, the "broken windows" theory of policing was adopted by New York City police commissioner William Bratton and Mayor Rudy Giuliani in the mid-'90s. Simply put, if police concentrate on obviously visible signs of criminality like broken windows, subway fare-dodging, and the like, then greater acts of criminality -- like muggings and murder -- will follow suit. New York City had entered a longterm decline in the 1970s, culminating (if that's the word) in the see-nothing/do-nothing administration of Mayor David Dinkins, when it looked like the city might fully collapse.
Dinkins survived one whole term before Giuliani came into office, bringing Bratton and the broken windows theory with him. The results of their experiment were as clear as they were nearly instantaneous, and the city entered a renaissance so enduring that even years of undoing by progressive Democrat Mayor Bill de Blasio haven't fully undone it.
Today on the other side of the country, incoming San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin promises that he "will not prosecute cases" involving "public camping, offering or soliciting sex, public urination, blocking a sidewalk, etc." In other words, my lovely former hometown, already rife with such activities, is about to get a whole lot worse.
Green follows with an entertaining (if you didn't have to be there) description of what the city was like some 25 years ago when he was a youngster, just starting out, and living there. I will let you read the full article to find it.
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My experience was San Francisco a quarter-century ago. Today, things are so much worse that the city has become as famous for its electronic poop maps as it is for its skyline and hills. I used to joke back then -- not in a funny way -- that the problem with the city was that it treated the homeless like an endangered species. Tomorrow, you won't even be able to get a ticket for "public camping, offering or soliciting sex, public urination, blocking a sidewalk, etc.," by the new D.A.'s own stated policy.
What do you call the opposite of broken windows policing? Maybe we should call it, "look the other way while aggressive panhandling vagrants pee out the broken window." Or how about: "Hookers, and Pushers, and Tramps, oh My!" Or more succinctly, "the non-policing theory of policing." Whatever you want to call it, America's most beautiful city is about to enter a Dinkins-style decline -- on purpose, by design, and as promised by incoming D.A. Chesa Boudin.
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For what it's worth, Boudin's election victory was cheered on by Democrat presidential contender Bernie Sanders, who promises to do to America what Boudin will do to San Francisco.
Please read the entire article, here https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/weather-underground-baby-elected-san-fran-da-chaos-to-follow/ and reflect on the fact that unless we actively keep Democrats out of office wherever they appear on the ballot, we will experience San Francisco in our hometowns!
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Here is an article from the Nature Conservance from last month. The Liberals there argue for leaving your fallen leaves on your yard.
Brilliant idea. I fear my neighbors may not like it so much, though.
This is typical shallow liberal thinking. From the article:
So, we are to leave the leaves to allow disease-carrying pests to thrive.
I don't know about anyone else, but my goal is to reduce insects, not help them repopulate.
Also, leaving them on the yard is ultimately a fire hazzard. People burn leaves because they are flammable. In California a part of the problems with wildfires stems from environmentalists not allowing the removal of deadwood. But leaves add fuel to any wildfire. Granted, they are less likely to cause major burning, but when yu have a hot fire they will add both flame and smoke.
Also, they get slippery when wet, can hide mice and other rodents, and produce mold.
But none of that matters to the rotting vegetation in the skull set.
So, by all means, leave your yard waste to accumulate. Just don't call me when you come down with Bubonic Plague or some insect-born illness.
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Didn't know he had one.
Jimmy Carter Admitted to Hospital for Surgery to Relieve Pressure on His Brain
Seriously, while I enjoy laughing at the feckless arrogant fool that is Jimmy Carter, I don't wish him ill. Let's all say a prayer or two for the former President. He may be a jerk and buffoon, but he is also a human being.
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What makes a genius? That's what everyone wants to know.
The study of Einstein's brain has been ongoing and is still quite controversial.
From Discover Blog:
From there it gets weirder. Part of the area controlling speech, called the Broca’s area, was unusually convoluted, and areas controlling the facial muscles around the mouth were enlarged (a finding reminiscent of the photo of Einstein sticking out his tongue). Falk noted extra convolutions in the frontal lobes, which are believed to be involved in thought experiments. The right superior parietal lobe, which receives visual and spatial information, was large, too. Co-author Frederick Lepore wonders if the parietal lobes were the locus of Einstein’s ability to envision space-time curvature.
The reality is Einstein authored four papers that could have won him the Nobel Prize. He won it for his explanation of the photoelectric effect. (Einstein postulated photons, which helped unite the two theories of light - light is in fact a stream of discrete particles that move in a wave, so it is both wave and particle, solving the argument that had raged for decades and ending the feud between Newton and Huygens once and for all.) Einstein also explained Brownian motion, and used it as the first direct proof of the existence of atoms.
But he is most famous for his two theories of Relativity.
Einstein's work was rarely highly mathematical; he preferred to use simple analogies "thought experiments" to illustrate his point. In fact, Einstein's great talen was his imagination; he could visualize things in a way alien to everyone else. For example, he came up with Relativity by imagining what it would be like to ride on a beam of light.
Something was clearly different about his brain.
There is plenty of criticism of these studies of Einstein's brain. For instance, what came first, the chicken or the egg? Did Einstein's brain change over time to appear the way it did due to his work, or was it the way it was that made him so good at his work? Also, the extraction of the good doctor's brain was, um, less than careful and the brain is pretty carved up. As one scientist pointed out, EVERY brain is unique and if you poke around it you can justify any personality trait.
So in the end we don't know what made Einstein so amazing.
One of the great arguments of our day is the old fight between people who are convinced Man is just a hunk of meat and the brain is the essence of humanity and those who believe in a spirit independent of the body. The study of Einstein's brain is almost a microcosm of that; some insist his brain must show marked differences because it is the brain and the brain alone that is the essence of the mind. Others say, well, we are always finding thinking in different spots of the brain and there is a soul that simply uses the gray matter. This argument has intensified since the rise in neurobiology. The more we learn about the brain the less we know, it seems. In fact, Richard Feynman argued that the brain did not follow Classical or Quantum physical principles and required a whole new paradigm. (Feynman, the boy genius of the Manhattan Project, is himself a prime candidate for brain research. His I.Q. was only 127, but he was a superlative genius by any stretch; he just stunk at what he was bad at. Feynman transitioned from physics to neurobiology when physics began to peter out as a cutting edge discipline.)
At any rate, I urge readers to read the whole article; it's a fascinating look into the mind/brain debate.
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Looks like one of Adam Schiff's main witnesses just went rogue.
From World Net Daily:
Dr. Fiona Hill, who served as the White House's top adviser on Russia until July, centered a portion of her Oct. 14 closed-door testimony on the infamous dossier compiled by Steele.
The Steele dossier contained accusations of a conspiracy between the Russian government and then-candidate Donald Trump.
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It was widely considered to be riddled with false intelligence, and many of its claims remain unsubstantiated even after the conclusion of the investigation.
Hill told lawmakers that Steele was desperate to "drum up business" and obtain work, which made him vulnerable to be misled by his Russian sources.
Hill goes on to explain why the "dossier" is false. She worked with Steele, and knew he was desperate to obtain clients. She thinks he probably accepted what the Russians told him because he wanted to believe it.If the Russians loved Trump so much why did they leak to Steele?
It doesn't matter; Adam Schiff and the rest of the Dementocrats are determined to impeach this President no matter the case, and they will simply suppress any adverse information, with the help of a sycophantic, obedient propaganda outlet that calls itself the Media.
There isn't much chance this isn't going to the Senate, in my opinion. The only way this will is if public opinion polls show the issue completely tanks with the American People. If it is even lukewarm they will go forward; they have to if they want to hold on to the radicals, who now control the party platform.
Pelosi never wanted to actually impeach Trump; she was content to cast suspicion on him. That actually worked better. But the rabid dogs of the Left demand this thing go to the mat.
I rather suspect this will either be done quickly to get it out of the way well before the election (right now it's sucking all the oxygen out of the room for the Democratic candidates) OR it will be dragged out so that it goes to the Senate just before the election. They can ill-afford this thing going to the Senate next summer.
I think that witnesses do not matter in this. Nor does a lack of them. Another article at WND argued that the witness list being rejected proves the Democrats aren't interested in a fair trial and it will hurt them. Nonsense; any reasonable person already knows that. It's the great unwashed, the people who do not know anything beyond the mainstream news, who are the target audience, and they will never hear about this. The media will cover for the Democrats.
One way or another this is going to come down to the Senate.
And I'm not at all sure the GOP is going to hold the Senate. They have too many seats up for grabs next year. That is why I predict we won't have the articles sent to the Senate before the election; the Donks will have played their hand and lost. They need to take the Senate first, or at least weaken it enough to make a flipped GOP Senator or two adequate to remove the President.
Of course, the base may not be willing to wait. That is what we should encourage.
Demand a trial by the end of the year. That should be the GOP response; put up or shut up.
Of course, the GOP can screw up a nocturnal emission. And we can't trust any of these pucillanimous pipsqueeks. Just look at how even the good ones cower. Nikki Haley, for instance, did a good job of defending Trump, but even SHE had to insert weasel words. (I've never trusted her.) I think most of the GOP would flip if it were convenient.
I once watched a nature special on bison in a Canadian park. The wolves would come, and, despite being outnumbered and overmatched by the larger prey, would sit and wait until,eventually, the skittish herbivores broke ranks and ran, allowing the wolves to bring down the slower animals. The buffalo could easily trample the wolves, but they are too frightened to do anything but think of escape. There is no reason wolves should be able to prey on bison.
The Democrats are like wolves and the GOP like the buffalo.
I am not at all sure what will happen in the Senate when this thing finally goes to trial. Trump and the GOP need a massive counterstroke to use when it does. The Donkeys will have something up their sleeves, I assure you. The CIA has been doing this kind of thing overseas for decades. There will be a psyop run at a critical moment. Trump and his supporters had best be prepared with a counterpunch.
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Harvard - America's leading institution of higher learning - is hosting "sex week". According to the College Fix this gala event will feature such scholarly workshops as:
Anal sex 101: What, what in the butt?
Oral sex 101: Getting a head in life
Fat phobia
Sticky; a self love story
Feel those good vibrations: toys 101
I'm not making this up. They are actually hosting seminars in such things, as well as in tranny sex and other such things.
On sale are a host of plugs, restraints, corsets, and whatnot. Everything the well equipped pervert will want for Xmas.
This is what it means to receive a college education in modern America.
No wonder the young are all marching for Communism.
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Joe and Jill went up the Hill to catch Ukrainian money
Hunter fell down and almost broke old Joe's crown
His run is now getting runny!
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Jason D. Hill tears into Scoldilocks.
Here is a tasty morsel from Front Page Mag:
The truth, as one anonymous blogger aptly put it, is that your generation is unable to work up to forty hours per week without being chronically depressed and anxious. Its members cannot even decide if they want to be a boy or a girl, or both, or neither, or a "they.†They cannot eat meat without crying. I might add that your generation needs "trigger warnings†and "safe spaces†as pre-conditions for learning in school. Its members have a pathological need to be coddled and protected from the challenging realities of life. Your generation is the biggest demander and consumer of carbon spewing technological gadgets and devices. An hour without any of them and too many of you succumb to paralyzing lethargy. Your generation is the least curious and most insular set of individuals one has ever encountered. Your hubris extends so far that you think you have nothing to learn from your elders.
Yes, we have betrayed you: by capitulating the world of leadership to bored, attention-deficit children who spout bromides, platitudes and slogans that a rudderless and morally relativistic culture accepts because a significant number of its denizens have become intellectually bankrupt and morally lazy.
Read the whole thing!
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November 11, 2019
Iran is enriching uranium at a clandestine site, According to Fox News:
The International Atomic Energy Agency said in its confidential quarterly report distributed to member states, and seen by news agencies such as Reuters and the Associated Press, that Iran has begun enriching uranium at its underground Fordo facility, a move prohibited by the 2015 nuclear deal.
Iran's stockpile of low-enriched uranium still exceeds the amount allowed by the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, as the country continues to enrich uranium up to 4.5 percent, above the 3.67 percent allowed under the 2015 deal.
Does this surprise anyone? The Obama nuclear deal was designed to give Iran nuclear weapons. Is it any surprise they secretly sped up the process?Are our intelligence and policy people really this stupid?
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A teacher's aid explains what's wrong with public education.
From the article:
During my school’s professional development sessions, where expert guidance is supposed to improve our instructional practice, my principal had us write positive words on Post-its and then share them with other groups. It amounted to walking around my school’s cafeteria for 45 minutes reading "respect†and "warmth†scribbled in red pen.
A few days later, my district brought in a speaker to pitch "culturally responsive†pedagogy to the entire district. While his speech was emphatic, most staff searched their phones with the brightness dimmed while a group of football coaches sat behind me silently mocking the speaker. Assuming each teacher makes about $25 an hour and my district has just shy of 1,500 teachers, that three-hour speech cost nearly $115k.
Other costs compound this systemic waste. For my ineffectual support role, I get a district computer that costs several hundred dollars, with insurance added to it. There’s the time spent managing my pay and benefits, an administrator handling my observations and feedback, and a supervisor for everyone in my position across the district. While these final costs are minor in comparison to a district’s total budget, they’re not inconsequential. In a rough calculation, Brookings estimates that U.S. schools spend almost $1.4 billion a year on teacher observations. Little costs add up.
Read the article; it's well worth your time.
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The follow-up to the interview above then related the European fascism or monism of the late 19th century and early 20th century to the German green movement that played no small role in the Holocaust. Thanks to the strong relationship between biology and ecology, how green was the holocaust is a very pertinent question - Is America Implementing a Nazi Style Ecology through Agenda 30?
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It is becoming increasingly obvious the "whistleblower' whose accusations are being used to fuel an impeachment inquiry is a CIA plant. This man works for the CIA, has deep ties to John Brennan, former CIA director and Trump hater, as well as ties to Joe Biden and is a loyal Democrat. He was a holdover, and served briefly on the National Security Council at the behest of Mr. Brennan.
In short, this and the earlier "Russian Collusion" meme are black ops, the kind the CIA has used overseas for decades.
In fact, we now speak of the "Deep State" all the time. We know it's there; a combination of the security agencies, the Democrats, the Media, and Academia as well as the tech companies and other giant corporations.
Paranoid, right?
No. President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned of this very danger. In his farewell address to Congress, the President darkly warned:
- A huge increase in newer elements of our defense; development of unrealistic programs to cure every ill in agriculture; a dramatic expansion in basic and applied research-these and many other possibilities, each possibly promising in itself, may be suggested as the only way to the road we which to travel.
- But each proposal must be weighed in the light of a broader consideration: the need to maintain balance in and among national programs-balance between the private and the public economy, balance between cost and hoped for advantage-balance between the clearly necessary and the comfortably desirable; balance between our essential requirements as a nation and the duties imposed by the nation upon the individual; balance between action of the moment and the national welfare of the future. Good judgment seeks balance and progress; lack of it eventually finds imbalance and frustration.
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
Here Ike calls it:
Isn't that exactly what has happened to America? The rise of the computer, with everyone online, has handed an empire to the tech companies and to the young people who know how to use the modern technology. In all of our intelligence services we use computers, and as a result the age of the people in responsible positions has dropped. We now have kids running programs in the CIA, the NSA, etc. It's why Ed Snowden was had access to so much classified information; he was a computer geek, and it fast-tracked him. He wasn't ready for such responsibility.
I suspect this is playing out across the board in every aspect of our government. And, of course, our government is composed of people who can vote more money to themselves.
This is exactly what Eisenhower warned against.
Donald Trujp posed an existential threat to the power of the Military Industrial complex. He wanted to cut back on our international adventurism - something that would cost a lot of the Deep State, the arms makers, the intelligence agencies, the cyber people, etc. He wanted to upset the carefully planned international order, bringing China to heel and promoting the return of manufacturing to the U.S. The foreign policy eggheads had carefully planned an itnerdependent world, a precurser to world government. Trump wanted to upend the careful plans. See, Chinaw would be the engine, the manufacturing base. The Arab world would provide the oil. The U.S. would be the tech sector. Agriculture would be done in places like Mexico, as well as some light manufacturing. it was a careful division of labor and eventually the world would be so interdependent that it would make no sense NOT to have world government.
This was the exact model used to create the European Union. The E.U. was born of a plan by France to tie Germany's economy to Frances in an anaconda embrace. They brought the rest of the European countries on board, then began systematically dismantling their sovereignty. Germany was to become the industrial heart of the E.U. Each country had a specific niche, and were largely not allowed to go outside of that because they would then be in competition with the other member countries. It worked (sort of) so now the elites in the U.S. and around the world are trying to impose this on a global scale.
But Trump represents the people who oppose this. I'm not saying Trump is some great champion of freedom, just that he saw this vast swath of Americans who didn't want the world the MI Complex was trying to create and Trump exploited it. Well, that is an unforgiveable sin because it shows there is NOT an inevitab\ility to this, that is is a policy, not a sweep of historyas the elites would have us believe.
That could not be tolerated. Trump has to be destroyed.
At any rate, Mr. Eisenhower forsaw the Global Warming scam and other such things as well:
Akin to, and largely responsible for the sweeping changes in our industrial-military posture, has been the technological revolution during recent decades.
In this revolution, research has become central; it also becomes more formalized, complex, and costly. A steadily increasing share is conducted for, by, or at the direction of, the Federal government.
Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been over shadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields. In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers.
The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded.
Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.
It is clear Ike understood exactly where we were heading back then. He saw it more clearly then than we see it now.This coup against a duly elected President is being run by the military industrial complex that Ike warned about so many decades ago.
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November 10, 2019
So-called "whistleblower" Eric Cinderfella, er, Ciaremella is nothing but a partisan who stands to profit from a Biden Presidency.
From Conservative HQ:
According to reporting by Paul Sperry for RealClear Investigations, Ciaramella left his National Security Council posting in the White House’s West Wing in mid-2017 amid concerns about negative leaks to the media. He has since returned to CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia.
"He was accused of working against Trump and leaking against Trump,â€
said a former NSC official, speaking on condition of anonymity to
discuss intelligence matters.
Federal documents reported by
Sperry reveal that the 33-year-old Ciaramella, a registered Democrat
held over from the Obama White House, previously worked with former
Vice President Joe Biden and former CIA Director John Brennan, a vocal
critic of Trump who helped engineer the Russia "collusionâ€
investigation of the Trump campaign during the 2016 election.
Sperry reported Ciaramella worked with a Democratic National Committee operative who dug up dirt on the Trump campaign during the 2016 election, inviting her into the White House for meetings, former White House colleagues said.
The DNC operative, Alexandra Chalupa, a Ukrainian-American who supported Hillary Clinton, led an effort to link the Republican campaign to the Russian government. "He knows her. He had her in the White House,†said one former co-worker, who requested anonymity to discuss the sensitive matter.
As a CIA officer specializing in Russia and Ukraine, Ciaramella was detailed over to the National Security Council from the agency in the summer of 2015, working under Susan Rice, President Obama’s national security adviser. He also worked closely with former Vice President Joe Biden.
Federal records reported by Mr. Sperry show that Biden’s office invited Ciaramella to an October 2016 state luncheon the vice president hosted for Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi. Other guests included Brennan, as well as then-FBI Director James Comey and then-National Intelligence Director James Clapper.
Several U.S. officials told RealClearInvestigations that the invitation that was extended to Ciaramella, a relatively low-level GS-13 federal employee, was unusual and signaled he was politically connected inside the Obama White House.
This is clearly a black op against the President, the kind the CIA used to run against foreign leaders they didn't like.Read the whole article; it's an eye-opener.
This guy blows alright, but not whistles!
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Liberals are just plain creepy. Now they are putting up a giant mural of Scoldilocks aka Greta Thurnberg to peer down over San Francisco, as a way to shame the "woke" crowd.
This girl is well past the expiration date on her fifteen minutes.
But what does this say about the liberals who want her judgmental puss scowling at the people of San Francisco? Little sister is watching you!
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I love blue on blue violence. I doubt the Democrats will be able to choose a nominee before the convention and the fight will simply be glorious.
"I'd do her" a brief history of Michael Bloomberg's public sexism
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In 2016, I was one of a small number of pundits who predicted that Donald Trump would win the presidential election. This was not because I fully appreciated Trump’s appeal to voters; rather, because I had been saying for years that Hillary Clinton would never be president. She was an appallingly bad candidate, which her party inexplicably failed to understand.
I am now ready to say the same about Elizabeth Warren: she will never be president. She, too, is a terrible candidate, incorporating most of Hillary’s flaws and none of her modest virtues. If I had to choose between being locked in a cell for four years with Hillary Clinton or Elizabeth Warren, I would choose Hillary. Hands down. Warren makes Hillary look warm and fuzzy.
Here are some more specific reasons why Warren’s candidacy is doomed to failure:
l) Pretty much everyone now understands that Warren’s "Medicare For All†proposal will bankrupt America, require confiscatory taxes on the middle class, and destroy the stock market, among its other evils. The plan is so bad that leaders of the financial industry ("Wall Streetâ€) have warned that if Warren is the Democrats’ nominee, they will support President Trump. For Wall Street to support a Republican is almost unthinkable, but if the Democrats nominate Warren, it will happen.
2) Warren is all in on taxing Americans to pay for health care for illegal aliens: Elizabeth Warren Confirms Her Medicare For All Plan Will Cover Illegal Immigrants. This will cost her countless votes.
3) Warren is now contemplating suspending all deportations of illegal immigrants, apparently including those who commit violent crimes. This would be a violation of her oath of office even more profound than Barack Obama’s. More important, it is deeply unpopular.
4) Warren has bought into the most outré elements of the Democrats’ increasingly weird coalition. This was her response to the question, "Who (or what) are (or is) the backbone of our democracy?†One can imagine how Democrats of prior generations might have answered that question. This was Warren’s response:
Ah, dear readers, Cherokee Lizzie's response is in the form of a Tweet in this article, and they do not post well in this software. Besides, I need a reason to send you to the full article, which is here: https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/11/elizabeth-warren-will-never-be-president.php I guarantee her response will amaze and horrify you!
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November 09, 2019
Stop teaching about the Second World War in favor of - Climate Change? Some Millenials think so.
I love the responses to this imbecile:
A reality t.v. contestant and "influencer" -whatever that means - in Britain ma,ed Freddie Bentley argued on Good Morning Britain for less history and more virtue signaling after contestants on The Apprentice couldn't identify when WWII began and ended.It might help them to learn what an actual Nazi is as opposed to thinking it's anyone that disagrees with them.
— Blue Army Faction QC (@BlueArmyFaction) November 1, 2019
History is the bedrock upon which everything is built. That is why it is said those who do not remember history are doomed to repeat it; you have to know where you've been before you can understand where you are going.
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