May 09, 2019
Colorado School Shooters were Liberals
Timothy Birdnow
The Colorado school shooters were transgendered, Trump-hating, Obama loving leftists.
Read about it at Godfather politics.
Funny how the media first tries to blame Conservatives, then when it turns out they are liberals the news just quietly dies.
The Colorado school shooters were transgendered, Trump-hating, Obama loving leftists.
Read about it at Godfather politics.
Funny how the media first tries to blame Conservatives, then when it turns out they are liberals the news just quietly dies.
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"Big Boy" Rides Again!
Dana Mathewson forwards this:
https://www.foxbusiness.com/features/union-pacific-big-boy-locomotive-railroad-restoration
From the article:
What a truly awesome piece of machinery!
https://www.foxbusiness.com/features/union-pacific-big-boy-locomotive-railroad-restoration
From the article:
With steam blasting from its sides, and a mighty roar of the whistle, enthusiasts, curiosity seekers and history buffs on Wednesday watched a restored Union Pacific locomotive depart Evanston, Wyoming, on a journey marking a seminal moment in America’s history.
"It’s an amazing piece of machinery,†said Chris Cannon, a self-described train buff visiting from Fredericksburg, Virginia. "For years, people were saying one would never be rebuilt, and now, here it is.â€
The "Big Boy†locomotive, developed in the 1940s as the world’s largest steam-powered engine, returned to the rails to commemorate the creation -- and construction -- of a rail system from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
Called the "Transcontinental Railroad,†it spawned the American rail industry, linked the industrializing East with the developing West, and helped to build a country recovering from a period of devastating Civil War.
On the eve of the railroad’s 150th anniversary, the Union Pacific No. 4014, just one of 25 "Big Boys†ever produced, thundered from southwest Wyoming to Ogden, Utah, as spectators gathered along the route to catch a glimpse.
"It’s an amazing piece of machinery,†said Chris Cannon, a self-described train buff visiting from Fredericksburg, Virginia. "For years, people were saying one would never be rebuilt, and now, here it is.â€
The "Big Boy†locomotive, developed in the 1940s as the world’s largest steam-powered engine, returned to the rails to commemorate the creation -- and construction -- of a rail system from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
Called the "Transcontinental Railroad,†it spawned the American rail industry, linked the industrializing East with the developing West, and helped to build a country recovering from a period of devastating Civil War.
On the eve of the railroad’s 150th anniversary, the Union Pacific No. 4014, just one of 25 "Big Boys†ever produced, thundered from southwest Wyoming to Ogden, Utah, as spectators gathered along the route to catch a glimpse.
What a truly awesome piece of machinery!
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The Fingerprints of God
Timothy Birdnow
Here is an interesting bit of science. Gravity waves - which were just detected a few years ago although scientists knew they had to exist for a long time - may leave "fingerprints" that make indirect detection of waves that have already passed visible.
From the Livescience article:
Here is an interesting bit of science. Gravity waves - which were just detected a few years ago although scientists knew they had to exist for a long time - may leave "fingerprints" that make indirect detection of waves that have already passed visible.
From the Livescience article:
The universe might "remember" gravitational waves long after they've passed.
That's the premise of a theoretical paper published April 25 in the journal Physical Review D. Gravitational waves, faint ripples in space and time that humanity has only in the past few years managed to detect, tend to pass very quickly. But the authors of the paper showed that after the waves pass, they might leave a region slightly altered — leaving behind a sort of memory of their crossing.
These changes, which the researchers termed "persistent gravitational wave observables," would be even fainter than the gravitational waves themselves, but those effects would last longer. Objects might be shifted slightly out of place. The positions of particles drifting through space might be altered. Even time itself might end up slightly out of sync, running briefly at different speeds in different parts of Earth.
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That's the premise of a theoretical paper published April 25 in the journal Physical Review D. Gravitational waves, faint ripples in space and time that humanity has only in the past few years managed to detect, tend to pass very quickly. But the authors of the paper showed that after the waves pass, they might leave a region slightly altered — leaving behind a sort of memory of their crossing.
These changes, which the researchers termed "persistent gravitational wave observables," would be even fainter than the gravitational waves themselves, but those effects would last longer. Objects might be shifted slightly out of place. The positions of particles drifting through space might be altered. Even time itself might end up slightly out of sync, running briefly at different speeds in different parts of Earth.
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Media Narrative
Eddie forwards this:
How Media Narratives Became More Important Than Facts
From the article by Sharyl Attkisson:
Read the whole thing at the Epoch Times.
How Media Narratives Became More Important Than Facts
From the article by Sharyl Attkisson:
My own take is that—as our industry has changed in ways that have become undeniable to most—I was a bit of the canary in the coal mine. By that, I mean I believe I was among the first to really pay attention to the increasingly effective operations to shape and censor news—the movements to establish narratives rather than follow facts—and to see the growing influence of smear operations, political interests, and corporate interests on the news.
It’s not that I’m smarter than my peers, and I’m surely far less smart than many, but my particular brand of off-narrative reporting happened to draw the intense attention of the smear operators and propagandists, so I began to study it.
A case in point: the smear that was promulgated when I left CBS. It was often incorrectly reported that I told CBS management I was quitting due to liberal media bias. That false story turned out to be convenient for both political sides, and largely survives today. It simply wasn’t rooted in fact. And I don’t recall reporters even asking me whether it was true. Once a few articles reported that it was, others simply copied the claim and adopted it as if established fact, eventually without attribution. Now there would be no point in trying to clarify it. After all, Wikipedia says it’s true. No going back from that.
Powerful smear groups and certain interests—including some within CBS at the time—started the narrative that I was "conservative,†not because they necessarily believed it, but as a tool to "controversialize†the reporting I was doing that was contrary to powerful interests. The idea is that if I can be portrayed as a partisan, then my reporting can be more easily dismissed.
The Narrative Requires
In fact, prior to the operation to push the narrative that I was "conservative,†my reporting had been lauded by a diverse group of observers, including the likes of Rachel Maddow, who once delivered an entire monologue on an investigative expose I did on the "charity†of then-Rep. Stephen Buyer (R- Ind.). My most recent Emmy award was for an undercover investigation into Republican fundraising.
But the narrative requests—nay, requires—that we forget all that. We must focus on the supposed miraculous metamorphosis. Depending on who’s spinning, they may insist I was a rational journalist who went crazy one day and flew to the dark side of conservatism. Or they may say I used to be a devoted liberal, but decided the big money was in pandering to Republicans, so I sold out. The details aren’t important. You are simply to come away with the notion that my reporting is now politically conflicted.
It’s not that I’m smarter than my peers, and I’m surely far less smart than many, but my particular brand of off-narrative reporting happened to draw the intense attention of the smear operators and propagandists, so I began to study it.
A case in point: the smear that was promulgated when I left CBS. It was often incorrectly reported that I told CBS management I was quitting due to liberal media bias. That false story turned out to be convenient for both political sides, and largely survives today. It simply wasn’t rooted in fact. And I don’t recall reporters even asking me whether it was true. Once a few articles reported that it was, others simply copied the claim and adopted it as if established fact, eventually without attribution. Now there would be no point in trying to clarify it. After all, Wikipedia says it’s true. No going back from that.
Powerful smear groups and certain interests—including some within CBS at the time—started the narrative that I was "conservative,†not because they necessarily believed it, but as a tool to "controversialize†the reporting I was doing that was contrary to powerful interests. The idea is that if I can be portrayed as a partisan, then my reporting can be more easily dismissed.
The Narrative Requires
In fact, prior to the operation to push the narrative that I was "conservative,†my reporting had been lauded by a diverse group of observers, including the likes of Rachel Maddow, who once delivered an entire monologue on an investigative expose I did on the "charity†of then-Rep. Stephen Buyer (R- Ind.). My most recent Emmy award was for an undercover investigation into Republican fundraising.
But the narrative requests—nay, requires—that we forget all that. We must focus on the supposed miraculous metamorphosis. Depending on who’s spinning, they may insist I was a rational journalist who went crazy one day and flew to the dark side of conservatism. Or they may say I used to be a devoted liberal, but decided the big money was in pandering to Republicans, so I sold out. The details aren’t important. You are simply to come away with the notion that my reporting is now politically conflicted.
Read the whole thing at the Epoch Times.
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National Lost Sock Memorial Day
Timothy Birdnow
Happy LNational Lost Sock Memorial Day! I hope we all can put aide our differences on this most sacred of days to remember our fallen comrads in foots.
Please take a moment or two to reflect in silence the service of those great foot coverings that have fallen in battle, much like our arches.
Godspeed, dear friends!
This day has special meaning for me. I used to have a terrible problem with my socks disappearing. I had a dozen unmated socks and couldn't for the life o me figure out where they were going. I found out one day when I caught my dear cat Blackberry sneaking down the stairs with one of my socks; he had been building a little hiding place in the basement and padding it with my dirty socks for months! He dropped the sock as soon as I caught him, but he was busted! It was adorable. I sure do miss him; he was my best friend.
Happy LNational Lost Sock Memorial Day! I hope we all can put aide our differences on this most sacred of days to remember our fallen comrads in foots.
Please take a moment or two to reflect in silence the service of those great foot coverings that have fallen in battle, much like our arches.
Godspeed, dear friends!
This day has special meaning for me. I used to have a terrible problem with my socks disappearing. I had a dozen unmated socks and couldn't for the life o me figure out where they were going. I found out one day when I caught my dear cat Blackberry sneaking down the stairs with one of my socks; he had been building a little hiding place in the basement and padding it with my dirty socks for months! He dropped the sock as soon as I caught him, but he was busted! It was adorable. I sure do miss him; he was my best friend.
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President Nancy Pelosi
Timothy Birdnow
Dana Mathewson and I were discussing the prospects of the '20 elections, and I pointed out the dire situation the GOP finds itself in. The Republicans are defending 22 Senate seats while the Democrats just 12. Given the fact that I couldn't believe the public would ever hand the House over to the Democrats after the temper tantrum they threw over Brett Kavanaugh, and yet the American People did exactly that, I fear there is nothing to stop the Democrats from taking control of both Houses of Congress.
Here's something I would never have considered until now; When Richard Nixon faced impeachment there was a scheme afoot to deny his appointment of Gerald Ford for veep, so that the Democrats could steal the Presidency.
Senate.gov has the story:
Now, if the Democrats can tie Mike Pence to the "Russian Collusion/Obstruction of Justice/Jaywalking/cutting off tags from mattresses scandal they could perhaps impeach them both, in which case Nancy Pelosi becomes Madam President. In the past I would never believe anyone would dare try that, but this looks like an increasingly possible move by the Democrats if they wind up in control of both Houses of Congress, and that is entirely possible.
That would tear the country apart.
Dana Mathewson and I were discussing the prospects of the '20 elections, and I pointed out the dire situation the GOP finds itself in. The Republicans are defending 22 Senate seats while the Democrats just 12. Given the fact that I couldn't believe the public would ever hand the House over to the Democrats after the temper tantrum they threw over Brett Kavanaugh, and yet the American People did exactly that, I fear there is nothing to stop the Democrats from taking control of both Houses of Congress.
Here's something I would never have considered until now; When Richard Nixon faced impeachment there was a scheme afoot to deny his appointment of Gerald Ford for veep, so that the Democrats could steal the Presidency.
Senate.gov has the story:
Six years later the amendment was implemented by none other than President Richard Nixon. Following Spiro Agnew's resignation, Nixon nominated Gerald R. Ford as his new vice president. Confronting the scenario that he had described in his earlier testimony, Nixon could not choose the candidate he preferred, John Connally. Because the Democratic majorities in both houses of Congress opposed Connally, the president was forced to settle for someone more likely to win confirmation. For the Democrats, there was also some irony involved. Less than a year later, when Nixon himself resigned, it was the former Republican leader of the House who succeeded him. Had the Twenty-fifth amendment not been adopted, the resignations—or impeachments—of Nixon and Agnew would have handed the presidency to the Speaker of the House, a Democrat.
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Ford's nomination was subject to confirmation in both the Senate and House, where Democrats held commanding majorities. Because of the Watergate scandal, congressional Democrats were concerned that the individual they confirmed as vice president might well become president before Nixon's term was completed. Liberals expressed displeasure with Ford's conservative voting record on social welfare and other domestic issues and his undeviating loyalty to President Nixon's foreign policies but did not believe they could withhold confirmation merely because of policy disagreements. A few liberals, led by New York representative Bella Abzug, tried to block action on Ford's nomination, anticipating that Nixon's eventual removal would make House Speaker Albert president. Albert, however, pushed for Ford's speedy confirmation.
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Ford's nomination was subject to confirmation in both the Senate and House, where Democrats held commanding majorities. Because of the Watergate scandal, congressional Democrats were concerned that the individual they confirmed as vice president might well become president before Nixon's term was completed. Liberals expressed displeasure with Ford's conservative voting record on social welfare and other domestic issues and his undeviating loyalty to President Nixon's foreign policies but did not believe they could withhold confirmation merely because of policy disagreements. A few liberals, led by New York representative Bella Abzug, tried to block action on Ford's nomination, anticipating that Nixon's eventual removal would make House Speaker Albert president. Albert, however, pushed for Ford's speedy confirmation.
Now, if the Democrats can tie Mike Pence to the "Russian Collusion/Obstruction of Justice/Jaywalking/cutting off tags from mattresses scandal they could perhaps impeach them both, in which case Nancy Pelosi becomes Madam President. In the past I would never believe anyone would dare try that, but this looks like an increasingly possible move by the Democrats if they wind up in control of both Houses of Congress, and that is entirely possible.
That would tear the country apart.
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May 08, 2019
WHO ARE THE 21st CENTURY DEMOCRATS?
William Been
The Democrats of the modern era are reminiscent of Alger Hiss and the Communist Party during federal hearings in the middle of the 20th Century. Alger Hiss was a master of deception, trickery, phony forgetfulness, deflection, denial, and blatant lies presented with an unbelievable arrogance as documented in the book Witness by reformed Communist Whittaker Chambers. Hiss was also a federal employee that was highly regarded by cabinet Secretaries and even Supreme Court justices.
Near the end of Grand Jury proceedings, evidence became proof involving the typewriter that was used to retype high security State Department documents that Hiss had stolen and then typed to provide the content to Chambers for delivery to the Communist Party. It was then that Chambers left the Communist Party and saved these copied documents as personal security. Several years later, the copies were then given to federal prosecutors as proof of Alger Hiss being a Communist operative.
It was known that Alger Hiss had owned a typewriter that was missing with Hiss denying any knowledge of where it could be located. As a result, he had dismissed the retyped documents as being evidence because there was no link to prove he had either provided or typed the documents. It was simply Chambers word vs his while he and the Mainstream Media had cast Chambers as being a liar with mental problems throughout the hearings.
Unknown to Hiss, the FBI had located the typewriter, established it was the one that typed the documents and provided proof that it was the missing Hiss typewriter. When confronted with this undeniable truth, Hiss quickly responded in a way that caused laughter from the Grand Jury and was probably the only humorous part of the 799-page book:
"I am amazed,†Hiss answered coolly, "and until the day I die, I shall wonder how Whittaker Chambers got into my house to use my typewriter.â€
The similarity in the behavior of Alger Hiss to those in the Democrat Party of today is absolutely remarkable and is such in multiple dimensions including the character assassination endured for years by Whittaker Chambers as compared to the incessant Democrat attacks on President Trump!! That both men survived those attacks is most likely a direct result of their awareness and belief in God as a source of strength supporting our blessed nation as envisioned by the Founders and George Washington on his inauguration day.
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Pope Francis calls for World Government
Timothy Birdnow
Pope Francis keeps getting crazier and crazier. Now he is calling for a "supranational entity" to enforce U.N. edicts aka world government.
From LifeSite News:
I guess Pope Francis missed the class on the Book or Revelations, or Ezekial, or Daniel.
For that matter he missed the point of the Tower of Babel story. Francis is a modern Nimrod.
Or the False Prophet prophecied in Revelation.
At its very best a "supranational" entity would be as cumbersome and unresponsive as any large empire. People have always hated empires because they give orders but fail to provide compensory services. At worst a material empire like what Francis envisions would be a hellhole of corruption and despotism. Why is a spiritual leader, whose primary purpose is to save souls from Hell, overly concerned with the political structures? It's none of his business, frankly.
Pope Francis keeps getting crazier and crazier. Now he is calling for a "supranational entity" to enforce U.N. edicts aka world government.
From LifeSite News:
Speaking to members of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences in the Vatican’s Apostolic Palace, the Pope said: "When a supranational common good is clearly identified, there is need for a special legally constituted authority capable of facilitating its implementation.â€
"Think of the great contemporary challenges of climate change, new slavery and peace,†he told members of the Pontifical Academy, who are meeting this week at the Vatican for a plenary session themed: "Nation, State, Nation-State.â€
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In his address to the academy, the Pope said that while "the principle of subsidiarity†requires that "individual nations must be given the power to operate as far as they can reach,†nonetheless "groups of neighboring nations — as is already the case — can strengthen their cooperation by attributing the exercise of certain functions and services to intergovernmental institutions that manage their common interests.â€
The thrust of the Pope’s remarks, however, focused on growing trends toward nationalism which he said threatens migrants, the "universal common good†and the power of the United Nations and other transnational bodies to implement the Sustainable Development Goal agenda.
I guess Pope Francis missed the class on the Book or Revelations, or Ezekial, or Daniel.
For that matter he missed the point of the Tower of Babel story. Francis is a modern Nimrod.
Or the False Prophet prophecied in Revelation.
At its very best a "supranational" entity would be as cumbersome and unresponsive as any large empire. People have always hated empires because they give orders but fail to provide compensory services. At worst a material empire like what Francis envisions would be a hellhole of corruption and despotism. Why is a spiritual leader, whose primary purpose is to save souls from Hell, overly concerned with the political structures? It's none of his business, frankly.
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Big Oil goes Big Green
Paul Driessen
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We climate skeptics (aka realists) are constantly pilloried, and our sound science dismissed, with unfounded accusations that we are bankrolled by Big Oil. It’s the Big Lie, told over and over – along with the lie that we are "climate deniers,†rather than just doubters of unverified claims that humans and fossil fuels are now driving climate change, and that today’s climate and weather are "dangerous†and "unprecedented.â€
This article by David Wojick lays out the facts, and the ironies – including the huge irony that it is now Big Oil that is funding Big Green … and climate alarmism … while giving nothing to climate realists.
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Trump Kicks Chinese out of Long Beach
Timothy Birdnow
Trump kicked the Chinese out of the port of Long Beach. High time.
Obama fostered the deal which put the Chicoms in control of a major U.S. port.
From the American Thinker article:
About time.
Trump kicked the Chinese out of the port of Long Beach. High time.
Obama fostered the deal which put the Chicoms in control of a major U.S. port.
From the American Thinker article:
China's Cosco Shipping Holdings, which bought out its 75 percent–owned Hong Kong–based Orient Overseas International (OOCL), was forced to sell its Port of Long Beach Container Terminal ownership to Macquarie Infrastructure Partners for $1.78 billion.
The Obama administration had no problems with OOCL signing a 40-year lease with the City of Long Beach in 2012 for control of America's second largest and most automated container handling operation. The sweetheart deal was part of the "Middle Harbor Redevelopment Program" to fund a $1.5-billion expansion through 2020.
But one of the first major actions of the Trump administration's Department of Homeland Security in March 2017 was issuing a "Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S." national security hold on Cosco's acquisition of a former U.S. Navy port facility.
China operates six of the world's ten busiest container ports. The Chinese government has also funded the construction and operations of 43 ports in 35 countries under its "One Belt and One Road" (OBOR) initiative launched five years ago, according to China's Ministry of Transport.
About time.
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Takin' Out the Trash
Dana Mathewson
No, this wasn't from a satire site. https://www.foxnews.com/us/ocasio-cortez-garbage-disposal
No, this wasn't from a satire site. https://www.foxnews.com/us/ocasio-cortez-garbage-disposal
And she wonders why lots of people make fun of her. . .
A WORD FROM TIM:
Remember when George H.W. Bush was mocked by the media for not knowing how to self-scan in the grocery store? He at least had spent twelve years in the Naval Observatory and the White House. She has no excuse - plus this is old tech, not new.
She was a rich kid in spite of what she tries to pretend; she probably never actually had to deal with garbage.
A WORD FROM TIM:
Remember when George H.W. Bush was mocked by the media for not knowing how to self-scan in the grocery store? He at least had spent twelve years in the Naval Observatory and the White House. She has no excuse - plus this is old tech, not new.
She was a rich kid in spite of what she tries to pretend; she probably never actually had to deal with garbage.
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Lies about GOP Healthcare Plan
Timothy Birdnow
Here is an example of how the Left operates. Republican Congressman Mo Brooks - a good, solid Conservative - made a point that has often been made by liberals themselves about health care and the author of this piece twists his words and trashes him for it.
Here is the actual quote from Brooks as told to CNN's Jake Tapper:
And here is how author Michael Stone frames it:
That is NOT what Brooks said. Brooks was admitting something that has been a common refrain among liberals, that the general public does a great deal of harm to their own bodies by poor living. This is ubiquitous in the Left; campaigns against smoking, alcohol consumption, eating fatty foods, eating sugary foods, not exercising, etc. are all a hallowed part of the liberal worldview. They have always demanded the right of society to dictate to the individual for "their own good" and insisted that the state has a compelling interest in protecting the individual from his own actions, whether he or he likes it or not. Mo Brooks is not demanding any of this - just that people who may be suffering from lifestyle illnesses pay their fair share.
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Here is an example of how the Left operates. Republican Congressman Mo Brooks - a good, solid Conservative - made a point that has often been made by liberals themselves about health care and the author of this piece twists his words and trashes him for it.
Here is the actual quote from Brooks as told to CNN's Jake Tapper:
My understanding is that (the new proposal) will allow insurance companies to require people who have higher healthcare costs to contribute more to the insurance pool. That helps offset all these costs, thereby reducing the cost to those people who lead good lives, they’re healthy, they’ve done the things to keep their bodies healthy. And right now, those are the people — who’ve done things the right way — that are seeing their costs skyrocketing.
And here is how author Michael Stone frames it:
In essence, Congressman Brooks is arguing sick people don’t deserve affordable healthcare because "people who lead good lives†don’t have pre-existing conditions; and if you do have a pre-existing condition, you probably deserve it because you have not been living a "good†life.
In addition, Brooks believes healthy people should not be responsible for sick people because people without pre-existing conditions have "done things the right way.â€
In addition, Brooks believes healthy people should not be responsible for sick people because people without pre-existing conditions have "done things the right way.â€
That is NOT what Brooks said. Brooks was admitting something that has been a common refrain among liberals, that the general public does a great deal of harm to their own bodies by poor living. This is ubiquitous in the Left; campaigns against smoking, alcohol consumption, eating fatty foods, eating sugary foods, not exercising, etc. are all a hallowed part of the liberal worldview. They have always demanded the right of society to dictate to the individual for "their own good" and insisted that the state has a compelling interest in protecting the individual from his own actions, whether he or he likes it or not. Mo Brooks is not demanding any of this - just that people who may be suffering from lifestyle illnesses pay their fair share.
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May 07, 2019
A letter to William Barr
Dana Mathewson
Please pardon my recent absence from posting directly. I am back to my usual spring situation of being, for a short time, gainfully employed.
This post is from Power Line, and I believe you all should read the entire article. It rips Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller a few new ones, pardon the expression. And he greatly needs to have them ripped!
Emmet T. Flood, special counsel to President Trump, has sent a letter to Attorney General Barr. Although Barr is the addressee, Robert Mueller is the main target. The letter is a blistering attack on Mueller’s report with a shot at James Comey thrown in.
Flood gets right to the point:
Flood cites two major ways in which the Mueller report suffers from this defect. The first problem centers around its statement that the evidence "prevent[ed] [the special counsel’s office] from conclusively determining that no criminal conduct occurred†with respect to possible obstruction of justice. Flood explains that "conclusively determining that no criminal conduct occurred†was not Mueller’s assigned task, because making conclusive determinations of innocence is never the task of the federal prosecutor.The [special counsel’s report] suffers from an extraordinary legal defect: It quite deliberately fails to comply with the requirements of governing law.
This is a long one, but essential to understanding everything that Mueller did wrong, and what AG Barr is up against as he sets out to correct things. The entire article is here, and I greatly urge you to read it! https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/05/a-letter-to-william-barr.php
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Three Out of Four Democrats Prefer Kavanaugh over Ginsberg
Dana Mathewson
From Fox News courtesy of Urgent Agenda:
From Fox News courtesy of Urgent Agenda:
A Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Twitter poll asking what type of Supreme Court justices social media users would like to have on the bench apparently backfired when 71 percent of respondents selected "justices like Brett Kavanaugh†compared to just 29 percent who chose "justices like Ruth Bader Ginsburg.†The poll, which is not scientific and open to anyone with a Twitter account, was posted on May 3 and stated it had two more days before it closes. There is likely no pairing currently on the Supreme Court more dissimilar than Ginsburg and Kavanaugh.
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LGBT woman defaces Poland's famed Catholic icon
Jack Kemp
JACK's NOTE: This painting is Poland's most revered sacred Christian (and Catholic) object. Defacing this is like, in Poland, defacing The :Last Supper painting.
Woman held in Poland for adding LGBT symbol to revered icon
A WORD FROM FAY VOSHELL:
JACK's NOTE: This painting is Poland's most revered sacred Christian (and Catholic) object. Defacing this is like, in Poland, defacing The :Last Supper painting.
Woman held in Poland for adding LGBT symbol to revered icon
A WORD FROM FAY VOSHELL:
The
LGBTQ+ movement is currently the spearhead of the Left, which has been
anti-religion from its inception. To put it another way, the LGBTQ+ movement is an anti-God accelerant stoking the increasingly inflammatory attacks on believing Jews and Christians.
The
Judaic/Christian mores are an affront to those who believe in sexual
anarchy and who see sexual desire in all its variants as definitive of
human identity. The moral law as upheld by over four thousand years of
Jewish and Christian scholars and believers is seen as an unjust
inhibitor of and impediment to the realization of any sexual desire,
not matter how perverted and fetishistic it becomes. Just witness the
trans movement.
I
don't know if the Polish government will deal with this case strongly.
Even secularists could rally to defend an ancient artifact, but I don't
think they will any more than they did when Jewish artifacts were
confiscated and synagogues destroyed during an era throughout which
scarcely anyone seriously protested.
Christians themselves will have to take up the fight, as there is little help elsewhere.
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It's what you Crave
Timothy Birdnow
Sometimes you just have a hankering for Chinese...
Police searching for man who broke into 8 Chinese restaurants in 2 days
Sometimes you just have a hankering for Chinese...
Police searching for man who broke into 8 Chinese restaurants in 2 days
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California Kookerie; Washington Mural must Die!
Timothy Birdnow
A California car wash for the frontal lobes in California may remove a mural of America's first President because it 't "traumatizes" students.
Selwyn Duke gives us the skinny:
Is there nothing the Left won't pollute?
Now this mural was done by a communist and it attempts to favor Marxist ideas, but that is not why they are seeking it''s removal. No; the Progs simply don't want any of our history left unmolested.
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A California car wash for the frontal lobes in California may remove a mural of America's first President because it 't "traumatizes" students.
Selwyn Duke gives us the skinny:
No matter the storied American figure, symbol, or tradition, you can bet the culture renders will find a feeling out there to justify its destruction. And so it is at a Northern California school that may remove an 83-year-old George Washington mural that’s supposedly "offensive and demeaning†and "traumatizes students and community members.â€
Of course, the mural just might have some relationship to the institution’s name — George Washington High School — which, we can surmise, will one day also be on the chopping block.
The "Life of Washington†mural dates from 1936, when the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) campus opened. At issue are two of the work’s 13 panels, which portray, respectively, "Washington gesturing toward a group of explorers who are walking by the body of a presumably deceased Native American depicted in the color gray†and "Washington next to several slaves performing various types of manual labor,†relates the College Fix.
Of course, the mural just might have some relationship to the institution’s name — George Washington High School — which, we can surmise, will one day also be on the chopping block.
The "Life of Washington†mural dates from 1936, when the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) campus opened. At issue are two of the work’s 13 panels, which portray, respectively, "Washington gesturing toward a group of explorers who are walking by the body of a presumably deceased Native American depicted in the color gray†and "Washington next to several slaves performing various types of manual labor,†relates the College Fix.
Is there nothing the Left won't pollute?
Now this mural was done by a communist and it attempts to favor Marxist ideas, but that is not why they are seeking it''s removal. No; the Progs simply don't want any of our history left unmolested.
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May 06, 2019
Surprise! Universal Basic Income is a Flop
Timothy Birdnow
In yet another example of Liberals having an epiphany that the rest of us had long, long ago, studies show that Universal Basic Income, that hip new liberal scheme of paying everyone on Earth money just for existing, doesn't work.
The UK Guardian has the story:
Well,Surprise! Surprise! Surprise! Who would ever have guessed that a no-age social security benefit for everyone wouldn't work!
How many times can these people reinvent the wheel after experimenting with square wheels, octogonal wheels, flat wheels, etc.?
Giving people money simply raises the cost of everything, making the minimum worthless. And, of course, it does nothing to reduce the amount of inequity there is between the haves and have-nots. In the meantime it discourages work for the poor, and also kills jobs at the bottom rung. It's an idea that is stupid beyond words.
In yet another example of Liberals having an epiphany that the rest of us had long, long ago, studies show that Universal Basic Income, that hip new liberal scheme of paying everyone on Earth money just for existing, doesn't work.
The UK Guardian has the story:
A study published this week sheds doubt on ambitious claims made for universal basic income (UBI), the scheme that would give everyone regular, unconditional cash payments that are enough to live on. Its advocates claim it would help to reduce poverty, narrow inequalities and tackle the effects of automation on jobs and income. Research conducted for Public Services International, a global trade union federation, reviewed for the first time 16 practical projects that have tested different ways of distributing regular cash payments to individuals across a range of poor, middle-income and rich countries, as well as copious literature on the topic.
The cities trying out universal basic income
It could find no evidence to suggest that such a scheme could be sustained for all individuals in any country in the short, medium or longer term – or that this approach could achieve lasting improvements in wellbeing or equality. The research confirms the importance of generous, non-stigmatising income support, but everything turns on how much money is paid, under what conditions and with what consequences for the welfare system as a whole.!
The cities trying out universal basic income
It could find no evidence to suggest that such a scheme could be sustained for all individuals in any country in the short, medium or longer term – or that this approach could achieve lasting improvements in wellbeing or equality. The research confirms the importance of generous, non-stigmatising income support, but everything turns on how much money is paid, under what conditions and with what consequences for the welfare system as a whole.!
Well,Surprise! Surprise! Surprise! Who would ever have guessed that a no-age social security benefit for everyone wouldn't work!
How many times can these people reinvent the wheel after experimenting with square wheels, octogonal wheels, flat wheels, etc.?
Giving people money simply raises the cost of everything, making the minimum worthless. And, of course, it does nothing to reduce the amount of inequity there is between the haves and have-nots. In the meantime it discourages work for the poor, and also kills jobs at the bottom rung. It's an idea that is stupid beyond words.
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Dehumanizing Tlaib"s People who "Just Want to be Free"?
David Dickinson
Rashida Tlaib, who responded thusly to a New York Times headline today that simply stated (correctly) that there were hundreds of rockets fired by militants from Gaza into Israel, and that Israel responded with air strikes:
(One of the rockets fired From Gaza didn't make it and landed In Gaza, killing a pregnant Palestinian woman and her child. Israel was of course blamed)
DANA MATHEWSON REPLIES:
The response ought to be along the lines of "When will the so-called Palestinian people finally grow up?"
TIM REPLIES:
And who exactly are the "Palestinian People" in the first place? I pointed out at Canada Free Press there a nonesuch.
To quote my article:
It should be pretty clear that the "Palestinian People" are a made up group of illegal immigrants who settled in Palestine when the British started bringing in jobs that Englishmen "just wouldn't do". They are a hodge-podge of Arabic peoples who showed up in the 20th century.
That is why Tlaib's self-identification with them is so obnoxious; she is self-identifying with a group that didn't even exist until a short time ago and she does it despite being an American, which should be her identity.
And they have been offered their own homeland and rejected it because it meant recognizing Israel's right to exist. They would rather die than do that.
That's a strange way to behave for people who "just want to be free".
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Rashida Tlaib, who responded thusly to a New York Times headline today that simply stated (correctly) that there were hundreds of rockets fired by militants from Gaza into Israel, and that Israel responded with air strikes:
"When will the world stop dehumanizing our Palestinian people who just want to be free? Headlines like this & framing it in this way just feeds into the continued lack of responsibility on Israel who unjustly oppress & target Palestinian children and families. "
(One of the rockets fired From Gaza didn't make it and landed In Gaza, killing a pregnant Palestinian woman and her child. Israel was of course blamed)
DANA MATHEWSON REPLIES:
The response ought to be along the lines of "When will the so-called Palestinian people finally grow up?"
TIM REPLIES:
And who exactly are the "Palestinian People" in the first place? I pointed out at Canada Free Press there a nonesuch.
To quote my article:
Now, it must be understood; the Romans did not take all the Jews, and there remained Jews in the land who maintained an unbroken succession. There simply were other settlers who lived alongside them.
In 637 Jerusalem fell to Muslim Caliph Umar the Great. It remained in Muslim hands (sometimes benevolently, sometimes not - in 1077 Emir Atsiz ibd Uvaq slaughtered the inhabitants for rebelling against his rule, for example) until 1099 when the First Crusade attempted to reopen the pilgrimage roads to Jerusalem and the Latin Kingdoms were established. They lasted 70 years.
It must be understood that Islamic kings of various sorts ruled over the land, but it was still the same indigenous peoples living there - Jews, Christians, and some Muslims. The Jews never left. This is important to understanding their claim to the land; they never relinquished it.
There is no mention of a "Palestinian Peoples†by ancient historians.
And this land did not flourish under Islamic rule; Mark Twain, upon visiting the region in 1867, described it as:
â€.... A desolate country whose soil is rich enough, but is given over wholly to weeds… a silent mournful expanse… a desolation… we never saw a human being on the whole route… hardly a tree or shrub anywhere. Even the olive tree and the cactus, those fast friends of a worthless soil, had almost deserted the country.â€
And the Jews outnumbered the non-Jews the entire time. See this graph.
Once the Ottoman Empire dissolved and the region came under British control, the population began skyrocketing - the population of both Jews and non-Jews. The Palestinians came because the Jews developed what had been largely a wasteland, and they came to find employment. The standard of living was far better in Jewish Palestine than in the Arab lands.
In 637 Jerusalem fell to Muslim Caliph Umar the Great. It remained in Muslim hands (sometimes benevolently, sometimes not - in 1077 Emir Atsiz ibd Uvaq slaughtered the inhabitants for rebelling against his rule, for example) until 1099 when the First Crusade attempted to reopen the pilgrimage roads to Jerusalem and the Latin Kingdoms were established. They lasted 70 years.
It must be understood that Islamic kings of various sorts ruled over the land, but it was still the same indigenous peoples living there - Jews, Christians, and some Muslims. The Jews never left. This is important to understanding their claim to the land; they never relinquished it.
There is no mention of a "Palestinian Peoples†by ancient historians.
And this land did not flourish under Islamic rule; Mark Twain, upon visiting the region in 1867, described it as:
â€.... A desolate country whose soil is rich enough, but is given over wholly to weeds… a silent mournful expanse… a desolation… we never saw a human being on the whole route… hardly a tree or shrub anywhere. Even the olive tree and the cactus, those fast friends of a worthless soil, had almost deserted the country.â€
And the Jews outnumbered the non-Jews the entire time. See this graph.
Once the Ottoman Empire dissolved and the region came under British control, the population began skyrocketing - the population of both Jews and non-Jews. The Palestinians came because the Jews developed what had been largely a wasteland, and they came to find employment. The standard of living was far better in Jewish Palestine than in the Arab lands.
It should be pretty clear that the "Palestinian People" are a made up group of illegal immigrants who settled in Palestine when the British started bringing in jobs that Englishmen "just wouldn't do". They are a hodge-podge of Arabic peoples who showed up in the 20th century.
That is why Tlaib's self-identification with them is so obnoxious; she is self-identifying with a group that didn't even exist until a short time ago and she does it despite being an American, which should be her identity.
And they have been offered their own homeland and rejected it because it meant recognizing Israel's right to exist. They would rather die than do that.
That's a strange way to behave for people who "just want to be free".
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Movement to Eliminate 12th Amendment
Timothy Birdnow
A movement has begun to elect the Vice President of the United States. According to ABC News:
What they also probably don't know is that the Veep used to be the runner up in the national election. In other words, Hillary Clinton would be the Vice President today! Can you imagine the bile and backstabbing with such a situation? But it made sense at the time; the Framers believed there would be half a dozen candidates for President and that the representatives of the Electoral College would vote for their home state man, so they instituted the Vice Presidency as a second choice candidate.
Also, the Veep was not a member of the Administration, and in some ways was not even a part of the Executive Wing, his primary responsibility being to Preside over the senate. There was a great deal of argument over whether the Vice President was a member of the Executive or Judicial branch of government.
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A movement has begun to elect the Vice President of the United States. According to ABC News:
There’s a national push for voters to elect the U.S. vice president separately from the president.
Vice.run, is a campaign that seeks to create a separate and independent ballot line for the vice president in 2020. The group is trying to collect—from all 50 states—voter signatures and pledges in support of the separate vice president election.
I guess these people don't know they would have to amend the Constitution before they could implement this. Vice.run, is a campaign that seeks to create a separate and independent ballot line for the vice president in 2020. The group is trying to collect—from all 50 states—voter signatures and pledges in support of the separate vice president election.
What they also probably don't know is that the Veep used to be the runner up in the national election. In other words, Hillary Clinton would be the Vice President today! Can you imagine the bile and backstabbing with such a situation? But it made sense at the time; the Framers believed there would be half a dozen candidates for President and that the representatives of the Electoral College would vote for their home state man, so they instituted the Vice Presidency as a second choice candidate.
Also, the Veep was not a member of the Administration, and in some ways was not even a part of the Executive Wing, his primary responsibility being to Preside over the senate. There was a great deal of argument over whether the Vice President was a member of the Executive or Judicial branch of government.
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