December 08, 2019

Juvenile Despair

Timothy Birdnow

Broken homes, too much pressure in school, cultural and social anomie and confusion, sexual pressures, and all the electronic gadgets are making these poor children despair. Our society has become an enormous child abuser. This has to stop. .

Suicide Rate for Kids Ages 10 to 14 Nearly Tripled in the Past Decade. Why? And What Can We Do?

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Stocking Stuffers

Timothy Birdnow

I give you - drumroll please - the Instant Legolas.

This semi-automatic bow is the brainchild of one Joerg Sprave.

Definitely a stocking stuffer for this Christmas!

Here's another stocking stuffer. Public assistance Barbie!  What the poor children will get this year!

Maybe they can come up with a DMV Barbie, one that rolls it's eyes and demands extra paperwork then hollers "Next!"

Or a scary Barbie who says "I'm from the government and I'm here to help!"

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December 07, 2019

Trump to Escalate U.S. Middle Eastern Entanglement?

Timothy Birdnow

Trump may be planning on deploying U.S. troops to the Middle East to contain Iran.

According to the Jerusalem Post:

Multiple reports citing unnamed officials say Trump is planning to deploy the troops to counter increased Iranian adventurism in the region. On the record, the Trump administration has denied the reports.On Wednesday, the Journal reported that the increase came in part at the behest of the Israeli government. Aides to the president reportedly also pushed for the increase.Top Israeli officials were unnerved in September when Trump pulled most American troops out of Syria, effectively abandoning its Kurdish allies to the predations of Turkey and Syria.

Once again, it is "unnamed sources" being cited by mainstream journalists. There is every reason to suspect this is fake news.

It should be pointed out that the primary source was the Wall Street Journal. Now the WSJ has a conservative editorial board, but in fact the news page is actually very liberal.

According to Wikipedia:

In a 2004 study, Tim Groseclose and Jeff Milyo argue the Journal'snews pages have a pro-liberal bias because they more often quote liberal think tanks. They calculated the ideological attitude of news reports in 20 media outlets by counting the frequency they cited particular think tanks and comparing that to the frequency that legislators cited the same think tanks. They found that the news reporting of The Journal was the most liberal (more liberal than NPR or The New York Times). The study did not factor in editorials.[85] Mark Libermancriticized the model used to calculate bias in the study and argued that the model unequally affected liberals and conservatives and that "..the model starts with a very peculiar assumption about the relationship between political opinion and the choice of authorities to cite." [The authors assume that] "think tank ideology [...] only matters to liberals."

And the Wall Street Journal has been solidly NeverTrump.

So what? Well, getting us out of wars and foreign entanglements was one of Trump's campaign pledges. If he is seen as escalating our military involvement in the quagmire of the Middle East it may well cost him politically. I smell a rat here.

On the other hand we are not privvy to what the President knows, and it may be he has to consider this move.

Any way you slice it, this is a bad sign. And it is something Mr. Trump can ill-afford to screw up.

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A Cure for Pancreatic Cancer?

Timothy Birdnow

Here is a fascinating article from the Jerusalem Post.  It is claiming that  Israeli researchers have cured pancreatic cancer in mice.

From the article:

A new treatment developed by Tel Aviv Universitycould induce the destruction of pancreatic cancer cells, eradicating the number of cancerous cells by up to 90% after two weeks of daily injections of a small molecule known as PJ34.

[...]

The study, led by Prof. Malka Cohen-Armon and her team at TAU’s Sackler Faculty of Medicine, in collaboration with Dr. Talia Golan’s team at the Cancer Research Center at Sheba Medical Center, was recently published in the journal Oncotarget.Specifically, the study found that PJ34, when injected intravenously, causes the self-destruction of human cancer cells during mitosis, the scientific term for cell division.The research was conducted with xenografts, transplantation of human pancreatic cancer into immunocompromised mice. A month after being injected with the molecule daily for 14 days, "there was a reduction of 90% of pancreatic cells in the tumor,” Cohen-Armon told The Jerusalem Post. "In one mouse, the tumor completely disappeared.”

Pancreatic cancer is one of the deadliest forms of cancer, and this would be a huge leap forward. Let us hope it can translate to human therapy.

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Social Slobberers

Timothy Birdnow

Fulton Sheen saw it all clearly back in the '60's:
From Lifesite News:

In a video recorded in the early 1960s, Archbishop Sheen lectured television viewers about what he called "false compassion” for criminals, prostitutes, drug addicts, and homosexuals. "False compassion, which is gradually growing in this country, is a pity that is shown not to the mug, but to the mugger; not to the family of the murdered, but to the murderer.”

It is the "social slobberers,” said Sheen, who "insist on compassion to the mugger, the dope fiend, the throat-slashers, to the beatniks, to prostitutes, to homosexuals, to the punks, so that today the decent man is practically off the reservation.” He reiterated, "This is a false compassion.”

A former professor of theology, the archbishop identified the origins of false compassion. "It started in literature,” he said. It was in the work of William Saroyan and John Steinbeck, for example, "where pity was extended through their novels to the good-natured slob.” It is in such novels that pity is shown, he said, "to every kind of pervert and degenerate.”

That pretty much describes modern America, does it not?

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Eyeing Little Girls with Bad Intent

Timothy Birdnow

Craig Willms, one of our older contributors from the Birdblog days, observes that Biden is, well, creepy.

Craig states:

As crude as Trump can get he never comes off as a total creep like Biden did in this confrontation.

I replied:

I think this may have finished Biden. Not yet; he has to hang in there because of the impeachment. If he quits now the main reason for the impeachment is gone. But I don't think he has a snowman's chance in Hades of getting the nomination at this point.

Craig answered:

Any chance the little kids in pool stroking his legs has something to do with it. My God he's got a weird touching fetish...

And my final answer:

I think Ian Anderson based Aqualung on Biden, Craig!

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December 06, 2019

Pope Francis Calls Trump Herod

Timothy Birdnow

Pope Francis again proves he's an un-Christian man.

Pope Francis Compares Trump to Herod, Who Tried to Kill Jesus

From the article:

Speaking with his brother Jesuits during his recent visit to Thailand, the Argentinian pope minced no words in his thinly veiled condemnationof the U.S. president and his administration, suggesting that like a modern-day Herod, Mr. Trump separates families at the border while allowing drugs to freely flow into the country.

"In other parts there are walls that even separate children from parents. Herod comes to mind,” Francis said. "Yet for drugs, there’s no wall to keep them out.”

"The phenomenon of migration is compounded by war, hunger and a ‘defensive mindset,’ which makes us in a state of fear believe that you can defend yourself only by strengthening borders. At the same time, there is exploitation.”

In this Q&A session, the pontiff also proposed that the rise of populism is at the root of migrants’ problems in Europe.

"I must admit that I am shocked by some of the narratives I hear in Europe about borders,” the pope said. "Populism is gaining strength.”

So it has nothing to do with "no-go" zones in Paris, with rapes of Swedish girls, with riots and terrorist attacks. It's all just hatred of those who are different!

And what of Francis' statement "who am I to judge" when asked about homosexuals? He is certainly judging Trump here!  Strange how he suspends judgment on politically correct issues and matters of Faith and Morals (something he is supposed to champion) but is quite quick to condemn someone with whom he disagrees.

Francis is a whitened sepulcher.

Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden, and the other Democrats support abortion, yet Francis has little to say about that. Odd, isn't it, since Herod murdered the children much as do the "Catholic" Democrats.

Someone asked why the Cardinals haven't removed Francis. I answered:

The Cardinals who put him in wanted to remake the Church, and since then Francis has appointed his own yes men.

Also, you can't really demote a Pope, not without a schism. That's happened in the past. There is no mechanism to "impeach" a Pope (despite a crying need here.) https://canonlawmadeeasy.com/2013/01/31/pope-removed-from-office/

It should be pointed out that Raymond Burke, who was the Prefect Emeritus of the Apostalic Signiature - the equivalent of Chief Justice of the Catholic Supreme Court, - has on a number of occasions accused Francis of heresy. Francis then simply demoted Burke, exiling him to a ridiculous ceremonial post as Patron of Malta. See https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/theologians-accuse-pope-of-heresy-39597 and https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/pope-francis-accused-of-heresy-by-clergy-and-theologians

There is some question about whether Francis is an anti-pope, as Benedict is still alive. Benedict was probably forced out by the "pink mafia" - a group of powerful homosexuals embedded in the hierarchy of the Catholic Church.

At any rate, Francis eschews the primary mission of the Church, which is the salvation of souls, in favor of liberal virtue signaling and social justice. .

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Law Prof Witness on Tape Hating on Trump

Timothy Birdnow

One of the impeachment witnesses, Professor Pamela Karlan, just got caught with her hand in the cookie jar.

From Western Journalism:

Rediscovered footage shows Stanford Law School professor Pamela Karlan at the 2017 American Constitution Society National Convention explaining just how far her hatred of Trump goes.

Karlan chairs the ACS board of directors, where she uses her elitist law background to push her viewpoints to the nation.

"I came in from the airport yesterday and I got off the bus from Dulles down at L’Enfant Plaza and I walked up to the hotel,” Karlan said at the convention, "and I was walking past what used to be the old post office building and is now the Trump Hotel.”

"I had to cross the street of course.”

Of course, she couldn't dirty her feet with Trump cooties!

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St. Nicholas Day

Timothy Birdnow

Today is the Feast of St. Nicholas, the origin of the Santa Claus legend.

Nixholas (b. March 15, 270 d. December 6,320) was the Bishop of Myra, a city in Asia Minor. He is sometimes called St. Nicholas the Wonderworker because of the many miracles associated with him. He is the patron saint for pawnbrokers, brewers, sailors, prostitutes, thieves and a host of other people.

That prostitute angle is interesting; Nicholas was reputed to have saved three girls from a life of indentured prostitution by anonymously dropping a bag of gold to cover their debts.

He attended the First Council of Nicaea and was allegedly temporarily defrocked for slapping the heretic Arius.

He was alleged to have been imprisoned and toruted under the purge by the Emperor Diocletian. It is claimed that Constantine released him during his reign.

Nicholas was known to give gold and necessities to those in need.

There are many stories associated with this mysterious saint. According to the Saint Nicholas Center:

One story tells of a poor man with three daughters. In those days a young woman’s father had to offer prospective husbands something of value—a dowry. The larger the dowry, the better the chance that a young woman would find a good husband. Without a dowry, a woman was unlikely to marry. This poor man’s daughters, without dowries, were therefore destined to be sold into slavery. Mysteriously, on three different occasions, a bag of gold appeared in their home-providing the needed dowries. The bags of gold, tossed through an open window, are said to have landed in stockings or shoes left before the fire to dry. This led to the custom of children hanging stockings or putting out shoes, eagerly awaiting gifts from Saint Nicholas. Sometimes the story is told with gold balls instead of bags of gold. That is why three gold balls, sometimes represented as oranges, are one of the symbols for St. Nicholas. And so St. Nicholas is a gift-giver.

One of the oldest stories showing St. Nicholas as a protector of children takes place long after his death. The townspeople of Myra were celebrating the good saint on the eve of his feast day when a band of Arab pirates from Crete came into the district. They stole treasures from the Church of Saint Nicholas to take away as booty. As they were leaving town, they snatched a young boy, Basilios, to make into a slave. The emir, or ruler, selected Basilios to be his personal cupbearer, as not knowing the language, Basilios would not understand what the king said to those around him. So, for the next year Basilios waited on the king, bringing his wine in a beautiful golden cup. For Basilios’ parents, devastated at the loss of their only child, the year passed slowly, filled with grief. As the next St. Nicholas’ feast day approached, Basilios’ mother would not join in the festivity, as it was now a day of tragedy. However, she was persuaded to have a simple observance at home—with quiet prayers for Basilios’ safekeeping. Meanwhile, as Basilios was fulfilling his tasks serving the emir, he was suddenly whisked up and away. St. Nicholas appeared to the terrified boy, blessed him, and set him down at his home back in Myra. Imagine the joy and wonderment when Basilios amazingly appeared before his parents, still holding the king’s golden cup. This is the first story told of St. Nicholas protecting children—which became his primary role in the West.




Another story tells of three theological students, traveling on their way to study in Athens. A wicked innkeeper robbed and murdered them, hiding their remains in a large pickling tub. It so happened that Bishop Nicholas, traveling along the same route, stopped at this very inn. In the night he dreamed of the crime, got up, and summoned the innkeeper. As Nicholas prayed earnestly to God the three boys were restored to life and wholeness. In France the story is told of three small children, wandering in their play until lost, lured, and captured by an evil butcher. St. Nicholas appears and appeals to God to return them to life and to their families. And so St. Nicholas is the patron and protector of children.



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Iran Caught Red-Handed

Timothy Birdnow

The U.S. Navy has intercepted  Iranian made weapons and missiles headed to Yemen.

From the Washington Free Beacon:

The weapons shipment represents a further escalation by Iran as it seeks to arm anti-American terrorist factions across the Middle East. The weapons and missile parts seized by U.S. military personnel are among the most sophisticated officials have seen. The smuggling operation directly violates a United Nations Security Council resolution.

Two points to ponder here: first, the Iranians have money to give this stuff away because Barack Hussein Obama gave it to them. And they are doing this at a time when there are protests and serious discontent over austerity measures and high prices. In other words, the regime cannot afford this but is doing it anyway.

 Second, this has been going on for a long time but only now are we actually looking for it.

If Iran were truly innocent in all this, the victim, they would not be arming Jihadists overseas. They would understand that this makes them look bad. Would they take steps against the U.S.? Sure, but they would do it themselves. Proxy attacks are evidence, in my opinion, of their guilt.

In a sane world we would shut off all trade with Iran. But our "friends" in Europe don't want that, and are happy with Iran exporting murder and mayhem in return for oil and other profits.

Recently French President Macron and other E.U. leaders joined with the Little Boy Tru of Canada in mocking the American President. Some friends.

At any rate, Iran keeps escalating and will continue until we strangle their economy or that cat who fell down a well way back when climbs back out and launches the end of time.

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Biden goes Bananas in Iowa, Calls Overweight Man "Fat"

Timothy Birdnow

Joe Biden loses it, calling a stocky, elderly questioner fat and challenging him to a pushup contest in an Iowa event.

According to the liberal Talking Points Memo:

The unidentified voter, who said he was not a Republican, told 77-year-old Biden he had "two problems” with him as a candidate; the first one being his age, and the other being Hunter Biden’s involvement with Burisma, a Ukrainian gas the former veep’s son previously worked for.

The man acknowledged President Donald Trump’s scheme to pressure Ukraine into announcing an investigation into Biden, but he accused Biden of similarly abusing his power as vice president in Ukraine (there is no evidence Biden nor his son have done anything wrong).

"You’re selling access to the President just like he is,” the voter said.

"You’re a damn liar, man,” Biden snapped. "That’s not true. And no one has ever said that, no one has proved that.”

"I’ve seen it on the TV,” the voter responded.

"You’ve seen it on the TV,” Biden retorted. "No, I know you do. And by the way, that’s why I’m not sedentary.”

He proceeded to challenge the man to a fitness contest: "Let’s do push-ups together here, man. Let’s run. Let’s do whatever you wanna do.”

[...]

After more heated back-and-forth between the two men, Biden said, "Look fat, look, here’s the deal, here’s the deal-”

And they accuse Donald Trump of not being stable...

Watch the exchange yourself.

Biden's people are trying to spin this by saying he said "facts" not "fat" but there is clearly no c in the word when Clueless Joe says it - to an elderly, overweight gentleman.

This man was wanting to be reassured by Mr. Biden and was insulted for his efforts. Does Biden really think this is the way to win people over?

No doubt the media will try to hide this.

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The Climate Warriors

Selwyn Duke gives us the dirt on a proposal by the U.N. to use military force to impose climate control limitations.

U.N Military Action to Enforce Climate Agenda - it May Happen, Say Academics

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Trump Walks out

Timothy Birdnow

The Progressive site Common Dreams has a sneering essay attacking President Trump for getting angry at foreign leaders in NATO who were caught mocking the American leader. Common Dreams drips their contempt:

Hours after video surfaced of world leaders appearing to mock him at a cocktail function the night before, President Donald Trump on Wednesday cut short his visit to the 2019 NATO Summit in London with a parting shot at Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, one of the people caught on tape ridiculing the U.S. leader.

"Well, he's two-faced," Trump said in response to a question about Trudeau during a news conference alongside German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

The video of world leaders mocking Trump, which was released Tuesday night, showsTrudeau, United Kingdom Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, and French President Emmanuel Macron appearing to discuss the U.S. president, though he is not mentioned by name.

.@JustinTrudeau, @EmmanuelMacron, @BorisJohnson and other VIPs shared a few words at a Buckingham Palace reception Tuesday. No one mentions @realDonaldTrump by name, but they seem to be discussing his lengthy impromptu press conferences from earlier in the day. (Video: Host Pool) pic.twitter.com/dVgj48rpOP

— Power & Politics (@PnPCBC) December 3, 2019

The president's resultant anger was predicted byThe Atlantic's McKay Coppins, among others.

"Trump's entire life has basically been a revenge march fueled by moments like these," said Coppins. "There is nothing he hates more than important people laughing at him."

Uh, no, they aren't laughing at HIM but at US, the American People. The President's response was actually quite mild and what we expect of our leader.

Remember, these are the people who WE protect with our tax dollars. Macron couldn't punch his way out of a paper bag, and neither could his Mickey Mouse nation. America liberated them, and protected them from the Soviets, and protect them even now from the Russians. Ditto Britain. Ditto Germany and the rest of the corrupt European Union.

One of the reasons Trump was elected was because Americans were tired of playing the patsy. Europe and everyone else took our money and protection and badmouthed us behind our backs. Sometimes not so behind our backs. They sneer at and mock us. They do it because nobody is more reviled than a benefactor; it reminds the recipient of the kindness they are the weak ones, the powerless ones. The rich, the strong, are often despised, especially when they are nice.

For years Americans have had to put up with this ingratitude and disrespect. We were told by the Establishment who wanted to be loved and admired by the Europeans that it was the price we had to pay for being the World's lone superpower. To maintain our "coalitions" we had to take it and keep writing checks.

But inevitably Americans bagan asking why. Why do we have to take it?  Why do we need these creeps anyway?  They do little for us. They take our money, money we have to borrow from the Chinese, and for what? The Soviet Union fell thirty years ago. Prior to that we needed them, maybe, but what exactly does NATO do now? It's just an institution, one that benefits the upper crust twits of the E.U.

THAT is at the core of this mockery of Trump, and his walking out was the right response. It's past time we cut these jackasses loose.

Oh, I'm not saying we completely alienate them or stop dealing with them entirely, but I am saying it's time we stop allowing them to insult us and still expect us to pick up the check. If they want to play that game they are welcome to defend themselves. I doubt the Russians will invade; we don't have anything to lose by pulling troops out of these countries.

I love this part of the article:

Filmmaker and political commentator Lexi Alexander saidof the video that it didn't show the world leaders with any awareness of the consequences of Trump's actions—rather, said Alexander, they were treating the president as simply a source of amusement.

"People are dying because of Trump," tweeted Alexander. "Lots of people. All over the world. That's what bothers me about this video. It doesn't feel like they're aware of that. He's not just a harmless buffoon."

People are dying? Where was this idiot during the Obama era when we tried to topple the Syrian government, or when we toppled the Libyan government?  Trump's policy has saved lives. He is reducing our geopolitical interventions. This is a completely unsupportable statement, but like any good liberal the filmmaker propogandist simply says a thing and it them becomes Truth in his godlike mind.

In the end, I would have been terribly disappointed had Trump failed to hit back at little Canadian boy and those poppinjays in Europe. It's no small part of why Mr. Trump was elected in the first place.


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The Black Jim Crow

Timothy Birdnow

This from Warner Todd Houston:

New York High School Students Walk Out Because There are too Many White Kids

And this from yours truly:

They are free to attend a private school if they choose, one that is predominantly minority. Oh, but that would mean they would have to use their own money! They don't want to share with the people they demand underwrite their expenses.

In short, they want us to subsidize their bigotry.

Look, if they want their own nation without whites they can immigrate to some uninhabited place. The Falkland Islands come to mind; an archipelago the size of New Jersey with a population that is smaller than a Friday Night high school football game. Or they can simply segregate themselves by choice, opening their own businesses and schools and other institutions and these will largely be segregated (but they can't fully segregate them because of the Civil Rights Act - which was for their benefit and something they had demanded. So get used to it; white people have had to do so.

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December 05, 2019

Biden Says Nyet to Testifying Against Trump

Timothy Birdnow

Joe Biden, the touchie-feelie candidate for President who started the whole impeachment thing with his quid-pro-quo demands that the Ukraine fire a prosecutor investigating his son in return for military aid, is now refusing to testify against the President in an impeachment trial.

From The Blaze:

Peter Doocy of Fox News asked the former vice president of the possibility of being called to testify.

"If there's a Senate impeachment trial, they might want to call you as a witness is that something where you would appear voluntarily?" asked Doocy.

"No I'm not going to let them take their eye off the ball," responded Biden.

"The president is the one who has committed impeachable crimes and I'm not going to let him divert from that. I'm not gonna let anybody divert from that," he added.

Democrats have begun an impeachment inquiry based on the accusationthat the president withheld military aid from Ukraine in order to pressure them to investigate Joe Biden's influence in their country.

Allies of the president have defended him by saying that there was enough evidence to seek an investigation into decisions Biden made as vice president that could have benefited his son, then a consultant at a Ukrainian energy company.

Hair Club for Men Biden openly bragged on camera about how he got the Ukrainian prosecutor fired for investigating his cocain-addled son, who was given a job on the board of Barisma, a natural gas company based in Ukraine.

If Biden knew he was innocent he would have no problem going before the Senate. But he would be under oath and he can't afford THAT.

In any legal proceeding - and despite what those hack lawyers were saying at the impeachment hearings these ARE legal proceedings - you have the fundamental right to confront your accuser. Biden is one of the accusers.

Imagine if, during the Clinton impeachment, they had simply dragged in every bit of hearsay evidence against Clinton. They could have talked about Vince Foster and his strange death, or about any of the other dead people around Mr. Clinton. They could have mentioned the intern who was on the witness list who was shot while sitting in a coffee shop. And they could have talked about James Riady, Charlie Trie, and a host of other shady characters. They didn't. They stuck to Lewinsky and witnesses who could corroborate her story. In fact, they didn't even call Betty Curry, Clinton's staffer who knew where all the bodies were buried. They didn't call Carville. They didn't call anyone not directly related to the matter at hand, which was perjury before a federal court and obstruction of  justice. Clinton would later be convicted of those crimes in a court of law.

But this?  This is a circus, with endless accusations made by a parade of partisan hacks with no direct connection to anything and no evidence of any crime.

The Democrats would have raise the Devil had the situation been reversed. And the media would have done likewise.

So now the epicenter of it all is saying he won't cooperate.

This is more an auto da fe than a serious inquiry.

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Chivalry and the Reality of Physical Power

This from Tim McNabb:

Women are far more vulnerable than men, and feel a persistent sense of vulnerability that men simply do not feel.

This is not to say that men do not feel hinky, nervous or afraid, but that the default sense of vulnerability is perhaps a 1 on men, and a 4 for women.

Chivalry is, at its best, a code of conduct for men whereby we voluntarily retain our dangerousness and subordinate it to doing good - protecting the vulnerable and innocent.

Men in a natural state are indeed just power monsters scrabbling for control. Chivalry was an all but unalloyed good that made men better able to cooperate with one another and certainly made men better as it pertains to womenfolk compared to the natural state.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBT9LasyC3E

A word from Mr. Birdnow:

Tim, Remember the Kerry sisters? Those were the two girls who got thrown off the Chain of Rocks Bridge by a gang of black thugs. They made the mistake of thinking everyone was good; they were on that bridge to show their cousin a poem they had written about tolerance! They didn't understand that any male on an abandoned bridge at night poses a threat. The men threw the male cousin off the bridge too, but he survived. It's not JUST a vaginal thing.BTW my mother had taught them when they attended St..Jerome; she said they both had a lot of self-confidence
and she wasn't surprised they wouldn't take proper caution.

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December 04, 2019

Congress Wants to Ban Payday Loans

Timothy Birdnow

Congress wants to ban payday loans.

From the Washington Times:

Rep. Glenn Grothman, Wisconsin Republican, are the cosponsors of a bill called the Veterans and Consumer Fair Credit Act, (the VFCA bill has nothing to do with veterans and several veteran groups have written to complain of this ruse). It would cap interest rates on short-term and emergency loans at 36 percent. Critics of short-term lenders say they "target” low-income and minority Americans. The left says this new law would "save” low-income Americans between $5 billion and $10 billion a year.

[...]

For Americans tangled in these kinds of financial tight spots, payday lenders are saviors, not devils. The $5 to $20 fee for an emergency cash loan is a small price to pay. Except that many in Congress don’t think so. They complain that a $10 or $15 fee for a $200 loan paid back in two weeks can have an annual percentage rate interest or up to 400 percent. But an APR is a totally irrelevant statistic on a 10- or 14-day cash advance. The Wall Street Journal has calculated that the APR for a bounced check or a late credit card payment can sometimes exceed 1,300 percent. Are we going to eliminate credit cards too?

One vital on-the-street reality that the consumer advocates and politicians fail to take into account is that payday and online lenders have actually helped low-income areas in an important way: They have largely replaced loan sharks. The interest rate on an unpaid loan to the loan shark isn’t a $10 or $20 fee, but a broken arm.

It also speaks volumes of the motivation of the Fair Credit Act and its supporters that the law would exempt credit unions. These are tax-exempt institutions that are direct competitors to the payday and online short-term lenders –- and they’d like nothing better than to run the competition out of town –- just like McDonald’s would love to shutter Burger King. Credit unions are also major funders of many of the consumer interest groups hammering payday lenders. So it might be too charitable to even say that VFCA supporters are primarily driven here by a misguided concern for the financial well-being of lower-class Americans.

But the motives really don’t matter here — the results do. Run short-term lenders out of business, as some states have already done, and the victims are the people who can no longer use the convenience of these services that were once down the street. There is evidence that many Americans living near a state border, drive out of the state without payday lenders into the states that have them. If Reps. Garcia and Grothman have their way, Americans won’t even have the option of doing that anymore. It’s a law that only the loan shark could love.

Who will then fill in when these businesses go under? You know.

This is just another way of getting the working poor and lower middle class dependent on government handoouts. That and it promotes unionization of low paying jobs. 

Why a Republican would attach his name to this is beyond me.

Payday loan companies provide a very useful service to the community, and do not extort or intimidate people. Putting them out of business WILL empower organized crime; people will have to go to loan sharks for the kinds of loans they are receiving now from these institutions.

This is just another example of the Washington worldview, where everything is under their thumbs and America is centralized.

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Harris' 2020 exit leaves potentially all-white debate, causing consternation among Dems

Dana Mathewson

This is actually funny. Whoever it was that concocted the "rules" for who is included in the debates, and who is not, came up with a mishmash that was supposed to ensure that "minority candidates" would be included at all costs. What could possibly go wrong? Well, Booker and Castro didn't make the cut, and now that Dear Kammie is out of the picture (through no fault of her own, if you believe her rant), the next debate will be lily-white. Except, of course, for the minimal Indian Squaw Spreading Bull. And should we count Bernie as red?

The sudden exit of Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif, from the 2020 presidential campaign is causing a panic among some within the Democratic Party over the remaining candidates who are participating in the upcoming debate, who are all white.

Despite qualifying for the December debate, Harris announced earlier Tuesday that she was suspending her candidacy amid sinking poll numbers and fundraising.

"In good faith, I can’t tell you, my supporters and volunteers, that I have a path forward if I don’t believe I do," Harris wrote in an email to supporters. "So, to you my supporters, it is with deep regret -- but also with deep gratitude -- that I am suspending my campaign today."

Her departure leaves only six candidates on the debate stage: former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., and billionaire Democratic donor Tom Steyer.

 The other candidates of color have yet to meet both requirements set by the DNC to participate in the December debate. The requirements include having at least 200,000 unique donors and reaching four percent in four DNC-approved polls or six percent in two DNC-approved early state polls.

Both tech businessman Andrew Yang and Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii, have met the donor requirement to qualify for the December debate but have yet to meet the polling requirement as they each only have three polls and have until the December 12 cutoff to earn the fourth.

Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., has met the donor requirement but does not have any qualifying polls so far. Former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro has not met either requirement and previously failed to qualify in the November debate.

Yeah, I suppose Yang counts as "colored," though Orientals hardly look yellow these days. And remind me again how Tulsi counts as a "person of color." Is it because she's a native of Hawaii?

Anyhow, this story is here: https://www.foxnews.com/media/harris-2020-exit-leaves-potentially-all-white-debate-causing-consternation-among-dems

And there is other analysis of the Kamala debacle on Fox News. Greg Gutfield, who can always be counted on for plenty of snark, calls her a "big jerk" in response to an Axios interview in which she questioned if America was ready for a "woman of color" to be elected president. https://www.foxnews.com/media/greg-gutfeld-unloads-on-kamala-harris-you-are-a-big-jerk All those politically-active black women in South Carolina rejected her in favor of (gasp) Donald Trump, if I'm not mistaken. But Democrats never want to take the blame for their own mistakes. Kammie can now join the Hillary Clinton Moan and Groan tour. Unless Hillary throws her hat into the ring again, in order to save the world from Trump again, then we'll have to wait awhile for her next Loser Tour.

Chris Stirewalt offers up a thoughtful piece, where he opines that

"I think the verdict on Kamala Harris is, it wasn't clear why she was running for president," said Fox News digital politics editor Chris Stirewalt on Tuesday, following the California senator's announcement that she is dropping out of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary race.

"She was a biography and a campaign looking for a purpose or a message or a reason," Stirewalt said on his Fox Nation show "Halftime Report."

In a post on the website Medium, Harris wrote:"My campaign for president simply doesn’t have the financial resources we need to continue."

"She was the front-runner until Joe Biden got in the race," Stirewalt said, pointing out that Harris initially appeared to have great potential. "She looked like she was what Democrats wanted, a woman of color from a big blue state... Everything seemed right -- except for her candidacy."

The rest of his article is here: https://www.foxnews.com/media/kamala-harris-out-2020-buttigieg-biden

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IG is a Swamp Rat

Timothy Birdnow

The Inspector General - the man who we have invested so much hope in - is the swampiest of swamp rats, and appears to have ties to the people perpetrating the coup against President Trump.

From Judicial Watch courtesy of World Net Daily:

Judicial Watch explained:

During Atkinson’s tenure at NSD, he was senior legal counsel, first to NSD head John Carlin (Robert Mueller’s former chief of staff when Mueller directed the FBI) and later to acting NSD head Mary McCord. McCord accompanied then-Acting Attorney General Sally Yates to see White House Counsel Don McGahn regarding Michael Flynn.

During the period Atkinson was legal advisor to Carlin and later McCord, the FISA court found there was "significant non-compliance with the NSA’s minimization procedures involving queries of data,” otherwise known as spying, under the Obama administration. Additionally, during this period, DOJ-NSD was working in coordination with the FBI Counterintelligence Unit on Operation Crossfire Hurricane, which included former FBI officials Bill Priestap, Peter Strzok and Lisa Page. Page was the intermediary between FBI Counterintelligence and DOJ-NSD.

Since becoming Inspector General, Atkinson also has come under scrutiny for his handling of the so-called "whistleblower” complaint raising concerns about President Trump’s dealings with Ukraine, which became the basis for the ongoing impeachment proceedings against Trump.

An issue of concern, Judicial Watch noted, is his decision to violate "the standing practice of requiring whistleblowers to present firsthand information in order to have their complaint considered both 'credible' and 'of urgent concern' for submission under the Intelligence Community Whistleblower Protection Act."

Don't expect anything from this whitewashed report.

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Iran Cracks Skulls

Timothy Birdnow

Iran has smashed the steel-toed boot down, according to the Ass Press.

The AP is reporting that Iran has just acknowledged it used security forces to violently put down protests across the country. The Iranians tried to portray the protesters as rioters or foreign-funded insurgents.

Amnesty International is estimating that 208 people were killed by the Iranian military forces. An estimated 7,000 people have been arrested.

Protests have broken out since the U.S. led embargo on Iranian goods and oil has driven the price of gasoline and other oil products in Iran up beyond what most Iranians can afford. That embargo was imposed when Iran attacked a number of foreign cargo vessels and other things around the Middle East.

This is a sign of desperation on the part of the ruling Islamic regime.

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