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Tuesday, February 27, 2018
Monday, February 26, 2018
Flowing Curves Of Beauty
A guy
asked his personal trainer at the gym which machine he should use if he wanted to
impress the ladies...he took one look at him and said, “the ATM".
Sunday, February 25, 2018
A Disgraceful, Incompetent, Grandstanding Sheriff
Blinded by political
correctness and organizational stupidity and ineptitude, numerous governmental
agencies and the Broward County Sheriff’s Department were demonstrably clueless
about the relentless, disturbing and well-documented behavior of the Parkland
assassin.
Twitter was awash with Americans
calling for Sheriff Scott Israel to resign.
So egregious was the
show of cowardice by four Broward County deputies and the dereliction of duty
by Sheriff Israel that Roger Simon opined, “He
could have flown across the country in a hot air balloon, dropping buckets of
blood and guts and trailing a banner reading "I'm Gonna Shoot Up a
School," and these clowns wouldn't have done anything.
When Cruz actually started shooting, they behaved like the most
execrable cowards, the police hiding behind cars while students and teachers
were dying. That their boss, Sheriff Scott Israel, still has his job is
the most incomprehensible development of all.”
On Saturday Bill Hager,
Florida State Representative, was moved to pen a letter
to Florida Gov. Rick Scott:
Dear Governor Scott:
This month’s tragedy in Parkland is something we all
hope to never witness. Each day, new details emerge about potential interagency
breakdowns and miscommunications. We must utilize all of our resources to
ensure that a horrific act such as this never happens again. In the meantime,
you have the power through Florida Statute 112.52 (1) to remove Broward County
Sheriff Israel for neglect of duty and incompetence. Various news outlets have
confirmed that the School Resource Officer and three Broward Sheriff Deputies
were on campus at the time of the attack and chose to take cover themselves
rather than stepping up to protect our students. Not one of these trained
officers made an effort to enter the building to protect students and teachers
and save lives. It was not until deputies from the Coral Springs Police
Department arrived, a Department not under the authority of the BSO, that
uniformed officers actually entered the school and took action.
Additionally, it has been reported that there were 23 calls
to the Broward Sheriff ’s Office relating to Nikolas Cruz and his home, as
well as 39 visits by Broward Sheriff Deputies. Sadly, this will not be the
first time a review of the Broward Sheriff ’s Office will be done.
After the mass shooting at Fort Lauderdale Airport last
year a report from BSO found that BSO failed to create a unified command
structure during the emergency, suffered from poor radio communication and set
up an insufficient crime scene perimeter, among other faults according to Bob
Norman of ABC Local 10. An investigation by Sheriff Israel into the unfathomable
inaction of these deputies will do nothing to bring back the 17 victims. The
Sheriff was fully aware of the threat this individual presented to his
community and chose to ignore it. Sadly, he was not the only one that ignored
it. DCF, Broward County Schools, the FBI and the BSO all had the pieces to put
this puzzle together but failed to communicate. While you do not have authority
to remove anyone at the FBI, you do have the authority to remove Sheriff
Israel, and I encourage you do to so immediately.
I, along with others on
Twitter, did what we could to spur CNN’s Jake Tapper to ask Israel hard-hitting
questions during his interview with Sheriff Israel on CNN’s State of the Union.
.@JakeTapper Manipulating children’s terror into hostile groupthink is dangerous. #ResignSheriffIsrael Instead of advancing the Democrats’ agenda, please address the cowardice of the Broward County deputies. Be honest just this once as you interview Sheriff Israel. #CNNSOTU— PoliticalClownParade (@PoliticalClownP) February 24, 2018
To my great surprise,
Tapper did grill this tool. Here’s his
answer regarding Rep. Hager’s letter to Gov. Scott:
"Of course I won't resign," says Sheriff Scott Israel, after a Florida state representative calls for Gov. Rick Scott to remove Israel for "neglect of duty and incompetence" #CNNSOTU https://t.co/zp7l37uIzV— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) February 25, 2018
Asked if he and his
deputies had done things differently might this shooting never have happened,
Israel answered:
.@JakeTapper asks Broward sheriff if he thinks the Parkland shooting might not have happened if his office had done things differently.— Ellison Barber (@ellisonbarber) February 25, 2018
Sheriff responds: "If ifs and butts were candy and nuts OJ Simpson would still be in the record books." pic.twitter.com/D3aTk8RIsC
Not one
shred of remorse. This, dear Democrats,
is your anti-gun hero.
Then he went on to praise his leadership as “amazing.”
Saturday, February 24, 2018
Too Stupid To Insult? Of Course Not!
Yesterday Marie Harf, former
Senior Advisor of Strategic Communications for Obama’s Secretary of State John
Kerry, who is inexplicably a “commentator” on Fox News, appeared on the cable
news network’s program Outnumbered. GOPAC
Chairman David Avella was on the couch as well as Harris Faulkner, Sandra Smith
and Trish Regan.
As the country
continues to discuss the Parkland school shooting, the discussion turned to
supporters of the Second Amendment.
Harf, from whom you get
nothing but stupid, spouted off saying “Justice Scalia wrote, ‘the Second
Amendment is not unlimited’…Republicans, and you just did it, say any gun
restrictions that Democrats put forward is ‘against the Second Amendment. That’s
not the case! You can be a supporter of the Second Amendment and also say,
‘maybe we shouldn’t have high magazine clips,’ for example.”
NOTE TO MARIE: High Magazine
Clips: A device for securing printed material in a lofty location.
HIGH MAGAZINE CLIPS!!!! pic.twitter.com/BFXC7XOvug— Amber Athey (@amber_athey) February 23, 2018
Friday, February 23, 2018
Special Programming Alert
CNN, the
most busted name in news, announced Jake Tapper will be “interviewing” Broward
County Sheriff Scott Israel, er, Barney Fife on Sunday, February 25.
The blurb
for the show indicates the survivors of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High
School shooting will talk about their “Never Again” movement and their call to
action for lawmakers.
We
learned today through Sgt. Jeff Heinrich of the Coral Springs Police Department,
his officers “were stunned and upset the four original Broward County Sheriff’s
deputies who were first on the scene did not join them as they entered the
school. We already knew about the yellow
belly deputy assigned to the school as a resource officer who waited outside listening to screaming schoolkids as they were being ambushed and killed. The other three deputies were hiding behind
their squad cars with their weapons drawn.
Will Jake
Fapper ask ol’ Barney to apologize for his grandstanding at the town hall? Will he ask him if he, too, is a coward for withholding
information about those officers? Will
he point out their slogan really isn’t “To Protect and Serve” but instead “To Cower
and Then Blame” or “Shelter in Place, Good Luck.”
911. What’s your emergency? #ResignSheriffIsrael
Isolating Kim’s Rogue Regime
President Trump was
slated to announce the largest-ever round of sanctions targeting Little Rocket
Man’s regime at the 2018 Conservative Political Action Conference.
According to excerpts
released to the media he would announce, "The Treasury Department will
soon be taking new action to further cut off sources of revenue and fuel the
regime uses to fund its nuclear program and sustain its military by targeting
56 vessels, shipping companies, and trade businesses that are assisting North
Korea in evading sanctions."
Leaving the formal
announcement to Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin in a later briefing from the
White House the President did say, “I do want to say it, because people have
asked, North Korea, we imposed today the heaviest sanctions ever imposed on a
country before. Frankly, hopefully, something positive can happen. We will see.
Hopefully, something positive can happen.”
The sanctions announced
today will target 56 trade companies, merchants, and vessels that have
continued to prop up the Kim Jong Un regime and its pursuit of nuclear weapons.
They will also target
27 shipping and trade companies, 28 vessels and at least one individual, from
countries including China, Panama, Taiwan, Singapore, North Korea, and
Tanzania. Among those targeted are companies that “have been used to engage in ship-to-ship
transfers prohibited by the United Nations.
“These designations are
a critical part of our maximum pressure campaign to diplomatically and
economically isolate North Korea,” according to a second senior administration
official adding, “The purpose of the latest sanctions is to show Kim Jong Un
there is no other path for him to take except denuclearization.
In a published report
from The Washington Examiner, “U.S. Coast Guard officials are also expected to
issue a global shipping advisory to accompany the newest sanctions to ensure
countries are aware that they will face very significant consequences for
evading our sanctions.”
In the months since the
Trump administration last imposed sanctions against Pyongyang, North Korea has
sought to disguise its vessels by painting over their names and intentionally
disabling their collision avoidance systems in order to prevent others from
seeing their movements. Last week, Japanese military officials reported
witnessing a ship-to-ship transfer in the East China Sea that likely violated
previous sanctions, according to local
media reports.
Mnuchin would not
discuss whether the sanctions would ultimately be enforced by a full naval
blockade of North Korea. But he noted that United Nations Security Council
resolutions allow the United States to board and inspect the cargo of any
vessel with the consent of the country whose flag flies on the ship.
The new actions, which
come on the eve of closing ceremonies of the 2018 Winter Olympics in South
Korea, had been in the works for months but came "as soon as they were
ready," Mnuchin said. The Trump administration has signaled the
coming sanctions for weeks, including a visit by Vice President Pence to
South Korea this month.
Additionally, the
Treasury Department designated a Taiwanese citizen, Tsang Yung Yuan, and two
companies he owns or controls for coordinating North Korean coal exports with a
Russia-based North Korean broker and attempted $1 million oil deal with a
Russian company sanctioned for dealing with the North.
Harry Kazianis, Director
of Defense Studies at the Conservative Center for the National Interest said,
“Cumulatively speaking, the sanctions imposed on North Korea in total since
2017 are some of the biggest ever imposed on a nation state.”
See the full statement
by the US Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control here: https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sm0297
Thursday, February 22, 2018
The Coward Of Broward County
One week after a psychotic
savage murdered 17 school children inside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High,
Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel had to tuck
his tail between his legs when it was revealed his deputy, Scot Peterson,
heard the gunfire and rushed to the building but never went inside to confront
the shooter. Instead the coward waited
outside listening to the screams of those being murdered. Not only that, but it was the Coral Springs
PD who first tried to save lives and stop the carnage.
The admissions made by Israel
added to the growing list of missed signs. The FBI has already admitted that in
January it failed to follow up on a tip that could have prevented the shooting.
Knowing as he did that
Peterson cowered outside explains Sheriff Israel’s deflection of responsibility
during last night’s CNN propaganda shit show.
Peterson chose to
resign after he was suspended without pay. His decision was made after
investigators reviewed surveillance footage. Israel said the tape may never be
released
WPLG
Local 10 News reported two other Broward County Sheriff’s Department
officers, Edward Eason and Guntis Treijs, have been placed on
administrative duties pending further investigation. Both officers were
involved in 23 calls for service at the shooter’s home and may not have
followed protocol.
What would you say ... you do here, @browardsheriff?— jon gabriel (@exjon) February 23, 2018
Local Fox affiliate
WSVN said it sent a reporter to the home of the coward for an
interview when the reporter was met by six Palm Beach County Sheriff’s deputies
"standing guard outside." The
family requested protection; something not given to those kids.
Additionally, @browardsheriff sat on that stage with me last night fully aware that his deputy had been outside and armed while this madman had four minutes to massacre — and said NOTHING.— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) February 23, 2018
Fanaticism And Ignorance Is Forever Busy And Needs Feeding
“Fanaticism and
ignorance is forever busy and needs feeding” is a line from the film “Inherit the Wind”, a 1960 film
adaptation of the 1955 play by the same name written thirty years after the
famous Scopes Monkey Trial.
Journalists were
looking for a showdown in 1925 when a high school teacher had been charged with
violating a state law which forbade the teaching of Charles Darwin’s theory of
evolution which denied the divine creation of man.
Conflicts arise when
people do not value or respect differing beliefs. “Inherit the Wind” attempted to
convey the need to fight for the freedom to think for one’s self and the need
to respect opinions which differ from their own.
Last night, CNN was
looking for a showdown by hosting a propaganda event in Sunrise, FL featuring
the students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Rep. Ted Deutch, Sen.
Bill Nelson, Sen. Marco Rubio, NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch and Broward County
Sheriff Scott Israel. Ben Shapiro described it as a “stacked show
trial.”
That’s precisely what
it was which brings me back to the line “fanaticism and ignorance is forever
busy and needs feeding.” People cheered
for a massive gun ban and unabashedly accused their political opponents of
being murderers.
These traumatized children were carefully organized by liberals.
These traumatized children were carefully organized by liberals.
Cameron
Kasky, one of the students, lashed out at Sen. Rubio saying, “I'm sorry, I know I'm
not supposed to do this, but I'm not going to listen to that. Senator Rubio,
it's hard to look at you and not look down the barrel of an AR-15 and not look
at Nikolas Cruz, but the point is: You're here and there are some people who
are not.”
He asked Rubio if he’d
stop accepting money from the NRA. Rubio
waffled. Kasky asked the question again and again and again, until eventually Rubio
provided a tepid answer.
The so-called town hall
quickly devolved into a grotesque version of the appalling Jerry Springer Show. On full display last night was tribalism
masquerading as urgent social policy.
They booed a rape victim’s story.
The questions asked by
the students were scripted
by CNN’s producers.
Colton Haab, a Junior
ROTC student and survivor of the school shooting said he was going to
participate in the town hall but decided not to when the network provided him
with a list of scripted questions according to ABC affiliate WPLG-TV.
Haab said he was
planning to ask about school safety and the possibility of using veterans as
armed security guards in schools. After being told he had to ask a scripted
question, Haab decided not to attend.
CNN refuted
Haab's claim Thursday morning on its communications page on Twitter saying, “There
is absolutely no truth to this. CNN did
not provide or script questions for anyone in last night’s town hall, nor have
we ever.”
Haab saved lives that
day by using Kevlar sheets to protect his classmates. I don’t think calling this young hero a liar
is a good look for the most busted name in news.
CNN would
never sell its soul but will cheerfully rent it out for desperately needed ratings.
In another spectacle, Broward
County Sheriff Scott Israel confronted NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch, telling her
she was not standing up for the victims of a school shooting in Florida.
“I understand you’re
standing up for the NRA and I understand that’s what you’re supposed to do, but
you just told this group of people that you are standing up for them. You are
not standing up for them until you say, ‘I want less weapons.’”
The sanctimonious sheriff,
along with the FBI failed the victims of the Florida shooter. Despite repeated
calls to authorities, Cruz was never arrested and was basically cleared as
being “no threat to anyone or himself,” as one therapist said in a police
report from Sept. 28, 2016.
Attorney General Jeff
Session declared, "It is now clear that the warning signs were there and tips
to the FBI were missed. We see the tragic consequences of those failures."
Have you noticed how the Broward Sheriff’s Office has been spewing Democrat gun control talking points?— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) February 18, 2018
Well, turns out the Sheriff has some interesting friends.
How convenient for them that he’s getting so much media attention... #FloridaSchoolShooting #Parkland pic.twitter.com/uSHFgujho9
If you in any way
believe last night’s show trial wasn’t about Democrats attacking the Second
Amendment and disarming law-abiding citizens get a load of what one
Democrat said this morning.
Sen. Brian Schatz (D-HI)
said he is not interested in compromising with the National Rifle Association
on gun control. “I am normally interested in compromise. Not this time. I
cannot imagine a bill that would make a difference that the NRA supports. We
don’t need to cut a deal with them, we need to beat them.”
Wednesday, February 21, 2018
God’s Ambassador, Billy Graham, Is With The Lord Now
In a mission that
lasted 60 years, Rev. Billy Graham preached in his soft-spoken Southern style
to more than 210 million people in 185 countries─more than anyone else─and
reached hundreds of millions more through his radio and television ministry.
The charismatic
evangelist’s counsel had been sought out by presidents from Harry S. Truman to
Barack Obama.
In 1983, President
Reagan gave Graham the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America’s highest
civilian honor. When the Billy Graham Museum and Library was dedicated in 2007
in Charlotte, North Carolina former presidents George H.W. Bush, Jimmy Carter
and Bill Clinton attended.
Rev. Graham was
regularly listed by the Gallup organization as one of the Ten Most Admired Men
in the World, whom it described as the dominant figure in that poll since 1948
making an unparalleled 46th appearance and 39th consecutive appearance.
"My home is in
Heaven. I'm just traveling through this world."
Rev. Billy Graham was a
servant of God and brought millions to Christ through his example of compassion
and love. He said he missed his wife, Ruth, and he missed Heaven. Now he has
crossed over for his great reunion. May we always remember his legacy and follow
his passion for Christ.
#BillyGraham has met every President of the U.S. since Harry S. Truman. Rest in peace our hero. We love you pic.twitter.com/wtyLMKGAto— headlines WIKI🔹 (@headlinesWIKI) February 21, 2018
Pelosi’s Stunning Border Security Solution
House Minority Leader
Nancy Pelosi attended a town hall meeting in Phoenix which was broadcast live
on Facebook and hosted by AZCentral on Tuesday.
She denounced the idea
of a border wall saying the wall is “never going to happen.” She added, “I’m not the wall’s biggest
advocate in Congress, but I do know that representatives in the House and
senators in that body from the border wall areas have some serious objection to
a wall because they know how detrimental it can be to community trade.”
Her solution?
“Let’s talk about where
a more serious structure might be necessary, where fencing will do, or mowing
the grass so people can’t be smuggled through the grass. That’s something.”
The stupid is strong
with this one. Here’s the proof:
Tuesday, February 20, 2018
The Kremlin Hoped To Paralyze Our Government
"I once said, ‘We will bury you,’ and I got
into trouble with it. Of course, we will not bury you with a shovel. Your own
working class will bury you."─Soviet
Premier Nikita Khrushchev
We have an adversary
that thrives on our division. The notion that Russian interference in 2016 was
unprecedented reflects a willful ignorance of history.
Rob Goldman, Vice President
of Ads at Facebook, went on Twitter roughly eight hours after Deputy Attorney
General Rod Rosenstein read the indictment from the office of Special Counsel
Robert Mueller of 13 Russian operatives for interfering in the 2016
presidential election.
Very excited to see the Mueller indictment today. We shared Russian ads with Congress, Mueller and the American people to help the public understand how the Russians abused our system. Still, there are keys facts about the Russian actions that are still not well understood.— Rob Goldman (@robjective) February 17, 2018
The main goal of the Russian propaganda and misinformation effort is to divide America by using our institutions, like free speech and social media, against us. It has stoked fear and hatred amongst Americans. It is working incredibly well. We are quite divided as a nation.— Rob Goldman (@robjective) February 17, 2018
The majority of the Russian ad spend happened AFTER the election. We shared that fact, but very few outlets have covered it because it doesn’t align with the main media narrative of Tump and the election. https://t.co/2dL8Kh0hof— Rob Goldman (@robjective) February 17, 2018
Most of the coverage of Russian meddling involves their attempt to effect the outcome of the 2016 US election. I have seen all of the Russian ads and I can say very definitively that swaying the election was *NOT* the main goal.— Rob Goldman (@robjective) February 17, 2018
Over the course of eleven
presidential elections between the end of World War II and the fall of the
Soviet Union, there have been three well-documented secret attempts to
influence an American election.
In a published report
from Smithsonian
Magazine we learn Adlai Stevenson II, the Democratic nominee for president
in 1952 and 1956, had advocated a ban on the testing hydrogen bombs. Stevenson lost both bids for the presidency
to Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Stevenson publicly
stated he would not seek the nomination again in 1960, but Soviet Ambassador
Mikhail A. Menshikov hoped he would reconsider. On January 16, 1960 Menshikov
invited Stevenson to the [Soviet] embassy in DC for caviar and drinks to thank
him for helping negotiate Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev’s visit to the
United States. But there was an ulterior
motive. At one point, Menshikov pulled notes from his pocket and began
delivering Stevenson a message he said came directly from Khrushchev,
encouraging him to seriously consider another run for president.
“…We are concerned with the future, and that America has
the right president. All countries are concerned with the American election. It
is impossible for us not to be concerned about our future and the American
Presidency which is so important to everybody everywhere.”
[SKIP]
“In Russia we know well Mr. Stevenson and his views
regarding disarmament, nuclear testing, peaceful coexistence, and the
conditions of a peaceful world. He has said many sober and correct things
during his visit to Moscow and in his writings and speeches. When we compare
all the possible candidates in the United States we feel that Mr. Stevenson is
best for mutual understanding and progress toward peace.”
[SKIP]
“We don’t know how we can help to make relations better and
help those to succeed in political life who wish for better relations and more
confidence. Could the
Soviet press assist Mr. Stevenson’s personal success? How? Should the
press praise him and, if so, for what? Should it criticize him and, if so, for
what? We can always find many things to criticize Mr. Stevenson for because he
has said many harsh and critical things about the Soviet Union and Communism!
Mr. Stevenson will know best what would help him.”
The report ends by
noting, “Stevenson did eventually face the Soviets again. After becoming UN Ambassador under President
Kennedy, the winner of the 1960 election. Stevenson was tasked with presenting
evidence to the world the Soviets had placed nuclear weapons in Cuba during the
Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. His showdown with Soviet Ambassador Zorin is one
of the key moments of the Cold War. After asking the Ambassador point blank
whether Russia had missiles in Cuba, he pressed the issue. When the Ambassador
hesitated to answer, Stevenson said, ‘I am prepared to wait for an answer until
Hell freezes over, if that is your decision.’”
In 1968, the Soviet
Politburo strongly favored Democratic presidential candidate, Hubert H. Humphrey
out of fear of Republican nominee Richard Nixon, a vehement
anti-Communist. Soviet leaders ordered their ambassador in Washington, Anatoly
Dobrynin, to approach Humphrey with an offer of clandestine funding for his
campaign. Humphrey politely declined saying, “it was more than enough
for him to have Moscow's good wishes."
Nixon won, but instead of confronting the Soviet Union, he embarked on an
era of détente and signed the first strategic arms limitation treaty, much to
Moscow’s relief.
NOTE: If you read The
Washington Post’s review
of Dobrynin’s book “In Confidence” by Robert G. Kaiser, you will be left with
the impression he “maintained a personal moral code while representing men in
Moscow who did not.” It is
unquestionably an adroit attempt to whitewash his role in the Soviets' espionage
programs.
In 1976, the Soviet
Union again secretly adopted measures to influence a U.S. presidential
election. Early that year, the KGB warned the Politburo that Sen. Henry “Scoop”
Jackson (D-WA), known for his fierce opposition to the Soviet Union, stood a
good chance of gaining the Democratic nomination.
To “conquer world
public opinion” the
KGB set up a special department, Service A, to discredit the United States.
Service A, prepared a
wide-ranging set of measures to discredit Jackson, sending
forged FBI letters to prominent U.S. newspapers and journalists claiming
that Jackson was a closeted homosexual. Even after Jackson’s campaign faltered
and he dropped out of the 1976 race, Service A kept up its homophobic war of
disinformation against him, hoping to prevent him from ever again becoming a
viable presidential candidate.
The drama series, “The Americans”, was created by former CIA
agent-turned-author Joe Weisberg for the FX network; a story about a pair of deep-cover
Soviet spies masquerading as a stereotypical Washington couple whose children,
neighbors, co-workers and friends are completely unaware of their activities. They
pose as travel agents; but at night, they weave a web of confidants, lovers,
dupes, and historical figures from the Reagan-era Cold War. The startlingly
realistic plot twists force the viewer to consider the real cost of an
undeclared war.
The
series is, of course, fictional but there’s an interesting “briefing” at the
website Spy
Museum which details the story of The Cambridge Five. In 1934, before the Great Purge of the
Communist Party, the repression of peasants and Red Army leaders, Soviet intelligence
officer Arnold Deutsch met with five Cambridge University graduates.
All were dedicated Communists
and demanded no financial compensation for their espionage services. In time,
the Soviet strategy of recruiting young, disaffected members of the British
elite would yield rich rewards. Each
quickly obtained key positions in the British government and intelligence apparatus. They did immense damage to Western security
when they learned of American efforts to build an atomic bomb, provided
documents of “inestimable value” on the Allied strategy in the Korean War and
disclosed Project Venona which broke encoded Soviet diplomatic messages.
I raise the issue of
the Cambridge Five simply to illustrate the point that so many are willing to
do harm to America. It makes you wonder
about dirty dossier author Christopher Steele, himself a Briton.
Many Americans have
forgotten the lessons of the Cold War and the disasters witnessed in the
crumbling economies and failed institutions of Communist and socialist
countries in the 1990s. Communism was on its last leg, it appeared, and its
little brother socialism was not far behind.
Little did we know that
the fires of socialism were being stoked in corners all across America where it
is held in higher regard than in nations that have suffered under it. It is
obvious where such thinking abounds and continues to spread: in our colleges
and universities. The ideologies of professors and educators have proven
stronger than facts. The “benefits” of socialism and Communism are taught from
the Ivy League to the local community college. A generation has been taught a
lie and they now believe it.
Monday, February 19, 2018
Don’t You Dare Do It!
I
was listening to iHartRadio on my Fire TV stick Sunday when Pennsylvania’s
Democrat Sen. Bob Casey warned
Special Counsel Robert Mueller against issuing a report on his findings in the ongoing
investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election near the upcoming
2018 midterm elections. The direness of his warning reminded me of the
1965-1968 sci-fi TV show Lost In Space
with the robot that constantly warned Will Robinson of some impending danger.)
Casey
told host John Catsimatidis (Cats Roundtable AM 970 in New York 8:30 – 10:00AM)
doing so would distract from the mid-term elections and/or cause people to
question the election's integrity.
"I don't think
we'll know anywhere near the full story until Mueller issues his report,"
Casey said. "But once you get into the summer and you get close to the
election, I think it's a mistake for him to release it late. I think he should wait until
after the election."
If you go to the 8:20
mark at the link you can hear his remarks for yourself.
Casey is up for
re-election this year. Lou Barletta is seeking to unseat Casey who has
represented the Keystone State in the Senate since 2007.
Rep. Lou Barletta, a Great Republican from Pennsylvania who was one of my very earliest supporters, will make a FANTASTIC Senator. He is strong & smart, loves Pennsylvania & loves our Country! Voted for Tax Cuts, unlike Bob Casey, who listened to Tax Hikers Pelosi and Schumer!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 11, 2018
It
is a fact the Democrat Party wants to puff up Casey’s resumé for 2020─a kind of
Tim Kaine without the dramatic eyebrows.
The folks of Pennsylvania may well remember Bonusgate─the
scandal which saw Carl Romanelli illegally stiffed in 2006 by the pro-Casey
Democrat machine and then-State Treasurer Bob Casey.
Casey’s
campaign “friends” worked the political system to eliminate Romanelli. If Romanelli were in the race, chances are Casey
would not now be a US Senator. Rick Santorum would have another term. What Casey knew or should have known is worthy
of debate.
The dirty linen exposed
was one of the biggest corruption scandals in state government history. Its
intricate web involved the siphoning off of state funds, overseen by Casey’s
Treasury Department to pay state government employees for spending their time
working for Democratic candidates moving the Democratic Party’s goals further
along. One of the major goals was to oust Romanelli from his rightful place on
the PA ballot. Through massive corruption, they succeeded. Yet, Casey still
stands.
Romanelli theoretically
needed “only” 67,070 valid signatures. He exceeded the requirement by almost
50%. Each petition sheet held as many as 50 signatures and as few as one. The
campaign against Romanelli and others, dubbed Bonusgate was big and corrupt.
Attorney General Tom Corbett led an investigation leading
to the arrest of six state representatives and 19 staffers. Somehow, State
Treasurer Casey was not implicated. The logical conclusion is that Senator
Casey had nothing to do with it. What he knew or should have known is worthy of
debate.
The dirty linen exposed
was one of the biggest corruption scandals in state government history. Its
intricate web involved the siphoning off of state funds, overseen by Casey’s
Treasury Department to pay state government employees for spending their time
working for Democratic candidates moving the Democratic Party’s goals further
along. One of the major goals was to oust Romanelli from his rightful place on
the PA ballot. Through massive corruption, they succeeded. Yet, Casey still
stands.
The grand jury
investigation discovered that from 2004 to 2006, PA House Democratic Caucus
employees secretly grabbed $1,641,550 in taxpayer money while working hard to
elect Democratic candidates.
A Primer on "Common Sense" Gun Laws
First, let me say that I share in the loss and mourn with those who lost loved ones in that terrible Florida school shooting. Some people want to take advantage of those raw emotions to see if they can obtain some political advantage in what really ought to be a time of mourning. But I want you to fully understand that what the anti-gunners mean by "common sense" gun laws is not necessarily what the rest of us call "common sense". The phrase itself, "Common sense gun laws", polls well. I mean, it's obvious, isn't it? Who in their right mind could object to "common sense"? Poll any number of people if you think we should have "common sense gun laws" and you will get a majority, maybe even unanimity!
The gun grabbers then try to use that superficial verbal agreement, since nearly everyone agrees we should have common sense guns laws, then, you should have no problem accepting the ones they're proposing, regardless of how ineffectual they might be, whether or not they solve the problem, and whether or not there are unintended consequences to Constitutional rights, public safety or both, so long as we label them "common sense". There's the bait and switch.
A Democrat, John Dingell, of Michigan said in 1965,
"We now have on the lawbooks of this nation over 20,000 laws governing the sale, distribution and use of firearms.”
I guess it's pretty safe to assume we've added some since then. Yet, for all the "common sense" gun laws already on the books, the people whose ultimate goal is the complete elimination of privately owned firearms (the honest ones will tell you that. Stop laughing!), the anti-gunners want ever-increasing restrictions on firearms, the quantity, the quality, the ease of ownership, the cost of ownership, until they have made it too prohibitively expensive or onerous to obtain, and erode the Second Amendment rights of honest, law abiding Americans to keep and bear arms. At least you common ones! We with political clout and wealth will still require our bodyguards to be fully armed!
"But, but...you might say, we still have terrible school shootings. We have to do something!!" Aye, and we can. But before we trip down the primrose path of passing new laws, pause a moment and consider what effect new laws will have if they are enforced exactly the same way as the 20,000 plus we already have?
Flowing Curves Of Beauty
Isn’t the internet great? A man ordered a mail-order bride
from Eastern Europe and received an email confirmation that his Czech was in
the mail.
Sunday, February 18, 2018
Whoever Fights Corruption Should See To It He Does Not Himself Become Corrupt
In 2014 the Department
of Veterans Affairs was awash in a scandal over massive wait times in its
health care system, particularly at one hospital in Phoenix. In the aftermath,
Congress and the White House took steps to reform the VA.
The scandal put a
national spotlight on some of the financial incentives the VA used to encourage
quicker and better care and how those incentives drove some VA employees to
cheat the system, so they could continue getting pay bonuses even as they delivered
abominable services to the men and women who have served this great nation.
When President Trump
took office, he appointed a new Secretary of Veterans Affairs making
accountability a major focus of VA reforms.
A scathing
report has emerged which found Secretary of Veterans Affairs David
Shulkin’s chief of staff attempted to cover up travel expenses incurred by
Shulkin's wife, Dr. Merle Bari, by doctoring an email with false statements
making it possible for Bari to travel at taxpayer expense.
The report comes as
Shulkin, the only holdover from the Obama administration in President Trump’s
Cabinet, is in the midst of a difficult attempt to overhaul the troubled VA
and, in particular, its health care system.
An 11-member Veterans
Administration delegation, including Bari and six members of Shulkin's security
detail, traveled to Great Britain and Denmark last July, at a total VA cost of $122,334,
according to the report. The trip included a tour of Westminster Abbey,
attendance at the women's final at Wimbledon and a cruise along the Thames
River.
Inspector General
Michael J. Missal began his review last October after The Washington Post discovered
Shulkin and his wife had spent nearly half their time on personal activities
during the European trip. The VA said the two flew commercially and taxpayers
covered her airfare as part of "temporary duty" travel expenses.
The audit found the
trip violated a cost-saving directive that Shulkin himself had issued to the Department
weeks prior to the trip to avoid unnecessary expenses.
Vivieca Wright Simpson,
who had served at the Department for 32 years, had been a target of critics
within the VA for what they saw as bureaucratic inaction on a host of reforms proposed by President
Trump’s administration. She had previously served as Shulkin’s chief of
staff at the Veterans Health Administration before he was promoted to the Department’s
top post. Simpson is the same person who
in 2014 tried to get VA employees to hide evidence of the VA wait-time scandal
from members of Congress. She has since
resigned.
IG Missal’s
findings included (1) the Chief of Staff’s alteration of a document and
misrepresentations to ethics officials caused Secretary Shulkin’s wife to be approved
as an “invitational traveler,” which authorized VA to pay her travel costs
(although only airfare was claimed); (2) Secretary Shulkin improperly accepted
a gift of Wimbledon tickets and related hospitality; (3) a VA employee’s time
was misused as a personal travel concierge to plan tourist activities exceeding
that necessary for security arrangements; and (4) travelers’ documentation was
inadequate to determine the trip’s full costs to VA. The OIG did not assess the
value of the trip to VA or determine whether the Europe travel, as conducted,
was “essential,” per VA policy. The IG
has also referred the matter to the Department of Justice for potential
criminal prosecution.
Shulkin, in an
appearance on Capitol Hill on February 15th, suggested her emails may have been
hacked by individuals working against his leadership team.
“We act with the
highest ethical character,” Shulkin said. “I relied upon my staff to do this,
and in retrospect, I wish that I had asked more questions.”
According to a published
report by The
Daily Caller, Shulkin implied to Congress she might not have been
responsible for that email; it might have been a hacker impersonating her. He insisted the department
has “found there are people sending emails from her account that aren’t her.”
In that same Daily
Caller report, it was noted, “An hour after he left the newsroom the Department’s
website posted a statement saying it had found no evidence of any hack, either
in June or on Wednesday. “We have thus far found no
credible or conclusive evidence of a compromise to our email system or a
user’s account.”
Some observers
questioned Shulkin’s claims that someone was impersonating his chief of staff
and were suspicious that his allegations coincided with the release of the IG
report.
At least one
lawmaker, Rep. Mike Coffman (R-CO) an Army and Marine Corps veteran
and member of the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, called for Shulkin’s
resignation due to what he says is manipulation of evidence and the implication
to legislators that there was credible reason to think the email might not be
real.
“What we know now is
there’s no evidence of a hack. I think he’s trying to muddy the waters on this.
It’s not the issue itself, it’s the cover-up, it speaks to his lack of
integrity,” he said.
For the record Shulkin
has reimbursed the government the money for his wife’s unauthorized travel and
intends to repay The Invictus Games for the Wimbledon tickets.
Also, The Daily Caller learned
from a senior department official the Secretary has an upcoming official trip
to the Vatican with his wife. The source reiterated that the trip is currently
on the books, saying the pair are scheduled to travel to Vatican City from
April 20 to 29 to attend the Pontifical Council for Culture.
“I am not going on any
trip to the Vatican or any trip abroad. That is not happening” Shulkin
responded.
The Vatican is one of the
few countries in the world that does not have a military. The Council for
Culture includes a show of European art and religious history.
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