Specifically, Buck and Adam demand more details of the $1.7 billion payment the U.S. made to Iran as part of the deal,"
Thursday, November 24, 2016
Iran deal cover-up and obfuscation continues, despite Republican inquiries – TheBlaze
Iran deal cover-up and obfuscation continues, despite Republican inquiries – TheBlaze:
"Buck Sexton welcomes Adam Kredo, senior writer for the Washington Free Beacon, to the program to investigate the continued reticence of the Obama Administration regarding specific details of the massive international agreement aimed at preventing Iran from acquiring or developing nuclear weapons.
Specifically, Buck and Adam demand more details of the $1.7 billion payment the U.S. made to Iran as part of the deal,"
Specifically, Buck and Adam demand more details of the $1.7 billion payment the U.S. made to Iran as part of the deal,"
Not too much edyoukatin' goin' in dem schools-----Students bewilderedly thankful for Obama
VIDEO: Students bewilderedly thankful for Obama:
“The main thing I think that he did was try to unify this country,” one student said, before admitting that it was “tough” to say whether the country is more unified today than it was prior to Obama taking office.
Several students were also unable to answer for the skyrocketing premiums under the Affordable Care Act, with one student admitting she was unsure how insurance works because, “my mom pays my insurance.”
One student even erroneously attributed the Supreme Court’s legalization of same-sex marriage to President Obama, and was unable to name any of the president’s other initiatives, explaining, “I don’t know, actually.”
Others faced a similar problem when trying to name policies they were thankful for, with answers including, “I don’t have any specifics,” “I have no idea,” and “Can I phone a friend?”
A popular theme throughout the day were allusions to Obama as the “cool president,” with many students thanking him for personality traits as opposed to policies.
“Thank you for being the funniest president of all time,” one student said, prompting another to chime in that “he does seem to have a good sense of humor.”
- "In honor of the holiday, Campus Reform visited the University of Maryland to find out if students are thankful for Obama’s presidency, and if so, what exactly they’re thankful for.
- They had no idea, so most students just fell back on their most truthful answer: Obama is just "cool."
- “...my mom pays my insurance.” Tweet This
“The main thing I think that he did was try to unify this country,” one student said, before admitting that it was “tough” to say whether the country is more unified today than it was prior to Obama taking office.
Several students were also unable to answer for the skyrocketing premiums under the Affordable Care Act, with one student admitting she was unsure how insurance works because, “my mom pays my insurance.”
One student even erroneously attributed the Supreme Court’s legalization of same-sex marriage to President Obama, and was unable to name any of the president’s other initiatives, explaining, “I don’t know, actually.”
Others faced a similar problem when trying to name policies they were thankful for, with answers including, “I don’t have any specifics,” “I have no idea,” and “Can I phone a friend?”
A popular theme throughout the day were allusions to Obama as the “cool president,” with many students thanking him for personality traits as opposed to policies.
“Thank you for being the funniest president of all time,” one student said, prompting another to chime in that “he does seem to have a good sense of humor.”
Yes, their hate has driven them insane-----Business Owner Refuses Service to "Racist, Sexist, Fascist" Trump Supporters
Business Owner Refuses Service to "Racist, Sexist, Fascist" Trump Supporters » Alex Jones' Infowars: There's a war on for your mind!:
"The owner of an Internet marketing company in Albuquerque is refusing to do business with Donald Trump voters due to their support for a “racist, sexist, fascist”.
In a blog post, 1st in SEO’s Matthew Blanchfield writes that the company “will no longer do business with any person that is a registered Republican or supports Donald Trump.”
“If you are a Republican, voted for Donald Trump or support Donald Trump, in any manner, you are not welcome at 1st In SEO and we ask you to leave our firm,” states the post, labeling Trump a “racist, sexist, fascist”.
The company has also vowed to “aggressively advertise” the fact that it won’t do business with Trump voters, with Blanchfield appearing in a KOB4 news report in which he insists the decision is driven by “morality, justice and doing what’s correct”.
...The left preaches “tolerance” and “diversity” until the cows come home except when it comes to diversity of opinion, at which point leftists turn into the most vindictive, intolerant people imaginable.
...After Grubhub CEO Matt Maloney sent out an email asking that “hateful” Trump supporters working at the company resign “because you have no place here,” the company’s stock price plunged, forcing Maloney to walk back his statement in an effort to calm the backlash.
Blanchfield’s blog post (which will almost certainly be deleted soon) appears in full below."
"The owner of an Internet marketing company in Albuquerque is refusing to do business with Donald Trump voters due to their support for a “racist, sexist, fascist”.
In a blog post, 1st in SEO’s Matthew Blanchfield writes that the company “will no longer do business with any person that is a registered Republican or supports Donald Trump.”
“If you are a Republican, voted for Donald Trump or support Donald Trump, in any manner, you are not welcome at 1st In SEO and we ask you to leave our firm,” states the post, labeling Trump a “racist, sexist, fascist”.
The company has also vowed to “aggressively advertise” the fact that it won’t do business with Trump voters, with Blanchfield appearing in a KOB4 news report in which he insists the decision is driven by “morality, justice and doing what’s correct”.
...The left preaches “tolerance” and “diversity” until the cows come home except when it comes to diversity of opinion, at which point leftists turn into the most vindictive, intolerant people imaginable.
...After Grubhub CEO Matt Maloney sent out an email asking that “hateful” Trump supporters working at the company resign “because you have no place here,” the company’s stock price plunged, forcing Maloney to walk back his statement in an effort to calm the backlash.
Blanchfield’s blog post (which will almost certainly be deleted soon) appears in full below."
Book: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed reveals al Qaeda’s plan to destroy U.S. through immigration – TheBlaze
Book: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed reveals al Qaeda’s plan to destroy U.S. through immigration – TheBlaze:
"In an explosive new book, CIA contractor James Mitchell talks of his time as an interrogator of al Qaeda leaders and alleges that their plan was not to destroy the U.S. militarily but to use lax immigration laws, weak politicians and procreation to take the nation down from the inside.
The Washington Post published excerpts from Mitchell’s “Enhanced Interrogation“:
[Khalid Sheikh Mohammed] said the terror attacks were good, but the “practical” way to defeat America was through immigration and by outbreeding non-Muslims. He said jihadi-minded brothers would immigrate into the United States, taking advantage of the welfare system to support themselves while they spread their jihadi message. They will wrap themselves in America’s rights and laws for protection, ratchet up acceptance of Sharia law, and then, only when they were strong enough, rise up"
The Washington Post published excerpts from Mitchell’s “Enhanced Interrogation“:
[Khalid Sheikh Mohammed] said the terror attacks were good, but the “practical” way to defeat America was through immigration and by outbreeding non-Muslims. He said jihadi-minded brothers would immigrate into the United States, taking advantage of the welfare system to support themselves while they spread their jihadi message. They will wrap themselves in America’s rights and laws for protection, ratchet up acceptance of Sharia law, and then, only when they were strong enough, rise up"
Obama to pardon cast of HAMILTON for cultural appropriation
Obama to pardon cast of HAMILTON for cultural appropriation
"As all of us on the progressive left already know, the racist hate crime of "cultural appropriation" is only to be enforced against those of the white male heterosexual persuasion.
However, since the rigged electoral victory of November 8, 2016 and the pending hostile takeover of the American presidency by the fascist politically incorrect Donald J. Trump, all rules of social justice enforcement are now in jeopardy.
Fears among the social justice warriors and safe-spacers are that Mr. Trump will utilize the powers of his phone and pen to apply racial fairness among the masses.
As such, reports from inside the White House are that President Obama will soon take the unprecedented action of issuing a presidential pardon to the entire cast and crew of the hit Broadway show HAMILTON for its cultural appropriation of dead white men from the 18th century.
However, since the rigged electoral victory of November 8, 2016 and the pending hostile takeover of the American presidency by the fascist politically incorrect Donald J. Trump, all rules of social justice enforcement are now in jeopardy.
Fears among the social justice warriors and safe-spacers are that Mr. Trump will utilize the powers of his phone and pen to apply racial fairness among the masses.
As such, reports from inside the White House are that President Obama will soon take the unprecedented action of issuing a presidential pardon to the entire cast and crew of the hit Broadway show HAMILTON for its cultural appropriation of dead white men from the 18th century.
Cultural Appropriation - Hate Crime
Not Cultural Appropriation - Not a Hate Crime
When asked about the impending pardon, HAMILTON actor and cast mouthpiece Mr. Brandon Victor Dixon said:
We sir, we, are the not-so-diverse cast of HAMILTON who are alarmed and anxious that the new administration will not protect our right to appropriate dead white men — or defend us and uphold our inalienable politically correct rights, sir. But we truly hope that this pardon will force Mr. Trump to uphold our un-American values.
The White House could not be reached for an official response."
We sir, we, are the not-so-diverse cast of HAMILTON who are alarmed and anxious that the new administration will not protect our right to appropriate dead white men — or defend us and uphold our inalienable politically correct rights, sir. But we truly hope that this pardon will force Mr. Trump to uphold our un-American values.
The White House could not be reached for an official response."
Laura Ingraham’s hilarious Thanksgiving joke won’t be told around Hillary Clinton’s table!
Laura Ingraham’s hilarious Thanksgiving joke won’t be told around Hillary Clinton’s table! | BizPac Review:
"One of the leading candidates for a position in President-elect Donald Trump’s administration has sounded off on the news that Trump won’t push to prosecute Hillary Clinton.
Conservative radio host Laura Ingraham, who is said to be in the running to be Trump’s press secretary, had a hilarious take on it Wednesday.
"...But, as others have pointed out, just because Trump isn’t going to push the issue doesn’t mean that incoming Attorney General Jeff Sessions, whose decision it will ultimately be, won’t go after her."
"One of the leading candidates for a position in President-elect Donald Trump’s administration has sounded off on the news that Trump won’t push to prosecute Hillary Clinton.
Conservative radio host Laura Ingraham, who is said to be in the running to be Trump’s press secretary, had a hilarious take on it Wednesday.
"...But, as others have pointed out, just because Trump isn’t going to push the issue doesn’t mean that incoming Attorney General Jeff Sessions, whose decision it will ultimately be, won’t go after her."
Hillary Clinton LOST the Election by 10 MILLION Popular Votes? – Eagle Rising
"The neo-Nazi Dictatorship’s chosen one, Hillary Clinton and their propaganda machine would like us to believe she won the popular vote by almost 2 million. What they are not telling us, is over 3 million of her votes were cast by illegal aliens, almost 2 million votes came from dead people, and almost 3 million people were registered to vote in more than 1 state."
Give Thanks but don't ignore the danger-----All Americans, left, right and center want their government to protect them from foreign threats.
All Americans, left, right and center want their government to protect them from foreign threats. – Medium:
"They want their families to be safe.
They don’t want to live in fear that everything they hold precious, their loved ones, their communities, could just disappear.
They trust their elected officials to see this obligation is fulfilled.
That trust is often given, not earned and when our leaders fail us, many simply don’t know.
There are few dangers more devastating than a nuclear weapons attack.
If the attack on 9/11 had been a nuclear detonation of equivalent force to the two airplanes and the collapse of the Twin Towers, the explosion would have wiped out most of Manhattan.
The cost of recovering from 9/11 was almost $400 billion.
The cost of recovering from one nuclear attack on a U.S. city might exceed the entire U.S. economy.
In addition to the cost, the threat of a nuclear attack is enough to undermine U.S. foreign policy and America’s ability to protect itself in the dangerous world in which we live.
Yet, after eight years of Obama’s stewardship of America’s nuclear deterrent and missile defenses little has been done to ensure U.S. missile defenses outpace the threat.
Here is why we should worry.
Thirty-three minutes is the maximum time it would take a nuclear-tipped missile from the farthest point of the earth to reach the U.S.
It is also the title of our film, first released in 2007 and recently updated, to warn Americans what our government needs to do protect us.
This new version may be America’s final warning, explaining the danger we face, how rapidly threats have developed, and how little Washington has done .
This is a clarion call to get it right before it is too late.
"They want their families to be safe.
They don’t want to live in fear that everything they hold precious, their loved ones, their communities, could just disappear.
They trust their elected officials to see this obligation is fulfilled.
That trust is often given, not earned and when our leaders fail us, many simply don’t know.
There are few dangers more devastating than a nuclear weapons attack.
If the attack on 9/11 had been a nuclear detonation of equivalent force to the two airplanes and the collapse of the Twin Towers, the explosion would have wiped out most of Manhattan.
The cost of recovering from 9/11 was almost $400 billion.
The cost of recovering from one nuclear attack on a U.S. city might exceed the entire U.S. economy.
In addition to the cost, the threat of a nuclear attack is enough to undermine U.S. foreign policy and America’s ability to protect itself in the dangerous world in which we live.
Yet, after eight years of Obama’s stewardship of America’s nuclear deterrent and missile defenses little has been done to ensure U.S. missile defenses outpace the threat.
Here is why we should worry.
- Russia has dramatically expanded and upgraded its nuclear arsenal.
- China has put massive efforts in hiding the extent of and future plans for its nuclear weapons.
- North Korea has made dramatic progress in its missile and nuclear weapons programs.
- The danger of nuclear proliferation is more present than ever.
Thirty-three minutes is the maximum time it would take a nuclear-tipped missile from the farthest point of the earth to reach the U.S.
It is also the title of our film, first released in 2007 and recently updated, to warn Americans what our government needs to do protect us.
This new version may be America’s final warning, explaining the danger we face, how rapidly threats have developed, and how little Washington has done .
This is a clarion call to get it right before it is too late.
Obama Says He's Had A Scandal-Free Administration. Here Are 11 of His Scandals. | Daily Wire
"This is demonstrably false. Obama's presidency has been mired with numerous scandals that would be blared on the news 24/7 if he were a Republican. But because he's a Democrat, too many people buy Obama's argument that his presidency has been scandal-free. Here are 11 of Obama's scandals.
1. Operation Fast and Furious. "
History for November 24
History for November 24 - On-This-Day.com
Zachary Taylor (U.S.) 1784, Bat Masterson 1853, Scott Joplin 1868
Dale Carnegie 1888, William F. Buckley, Jr. 1925, Pete Best 1941 - Musician (Beatles), early member of the Beatles
1859 - Charles Darwin, a British naturalist, published "On the Origin of Species." It was the paper in which he explained his theory of evolution through the process of natural selection.
1871 - The National Rifle Association was incorporated in the U.S.
1874 - Joseph F. Glidden was granted a patent for a barbed fencing material.
1903 - Clyde J. Coleman received the patent for an electric self-starter for an automobile.
1940 - Nazis closed off the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw, Poland. Over the next three years the population dropped from 350,000 to 70,000 due to starvation, disease and deportations to concentration camps.
1963 - Dallas nightclub owner Jack Ruby shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald live on national television.
1969 - Apollo 12 landed safely in the Pacific Ocean bringing an end to the second manned mission to the moon.
1971 - Hijacker Dan Cooper, known as D.B. Cooper, parachuted from a Northwest Airlines 727 over Washington state with $200,000 in ransom.
Wednesday, November 23, 2016
LIBERTY REVIEW
LIBERTY REVIEW:
https://libertyreview76.blogspot.com/2016/11/november-23-2016-gates-by-tammy-derouin.html
It is time we start looking at the positive side
to the outcome of this election.......
https://libertyreview76.blogspot.com/2016/11/november-23-2016-gates-by-tammy-derouin.html
The Gates
By Tammy Derouin
Some things never change.
Our-soon-to be former president is encouraging the protesters and
rioters to show their displeasure with the outcome of the election. Instead of calling for calmness, he is once
again stoking the fire. Should we really
be surprised?
Obama’s presidency has been a continuous, non-stop attempt to
create unrest. It’s as if his policies
and dictatorial orders were an intentional attempt to divide the American
people. A Clinton presidency would have
continued the war against Americans.
Those who refuse to see reality may continue to deny the truth, but I
think history will eventually put all speculation to rest.
We cannot always control what is going to happen, but we
gain some control when we decide how we are going to proceed and handle the situation. How you react to an action, in many cases,
determines whether things will escalate or simmer. There is usually a bright or positive side
even when things don’t go as you envisioned.
I understand that many Americans are disappointed in the outcome
of the election. Many of the reasons
being thrown around are imaginary fears, being fueled by their party. The election is over, Mr. Trump has won. Let’s give him the same chance that so many gave
Mr. Obama upon his unbelievable rise to the presidency.
I also understand that we are living in a time when hypocrisy
is king. We know very well that if the
tables were turned, Obama and his party would be condemning such unruly
behavior if they were the target. We
would be assured that our rights and freedoms are not on the chopping block,
despite eight years of proof to the contrary.
Where do we get such men?-----Refusing To Abandon The Wounded, Chaplain Emil Kapaun Remained Behind to Care for His Men and Died in a Korean POW Camp - Page 2 of 2
Refusing To Abandon The Wounded, Chaplain Emil Kapaun Remained Behind to Care for His Men and Died in a Korean POW Camp - Page 2 of 2:
"...A Final Service
...As the men were ravaged by dysentery and disease, he boiled their water, washed their clothes, and treated their wounds.
The guards would often mock him for his faith and force him to stand in the cold naked for hours.
He never lost his faith and he never ceased to serve the men.
On Easter of 1951, he led a service using twigs put together as a cross and a small prayer missal he had hidden.
However, disease began to take its toll on Kapaun.
He developed a limp from a blood clot which was followed by dysentery and pneumonia.
Once the North Koreas realized his condition, they sought their chance to rid the camp of the man who inspired so much hope in the men.
He was taken to a “death house” against the pleadings of the men where he would be left without food or water to die.
Kapaun’s words to his men were simply, “I’m going where I’ve always wanted to go.”
He died on May 23rd, 1951 and while he was initially honored with the Distinguished Servce Cross, subsequent accounts would result in upgrading to the Medal of Honor.
He inspired the men in battle with his gallantry, he inspired the men in the POW camp with his mercy, and he can know continue to inspire us all with his dedication to service and sacrifice."
"...A Final Service
...As the men were ravaged by dysentery and disease, he boiled their water, washed their clothes, and treated their wounds.
The guards would often mock him for his faith and force him to stand in the cold naked for hours.
On Easter of 1951, he led a service using twigs put together as a cross and a small prayer missal he had hidden.
However, disease began to take its toll on Kapaun.
He developed a limp from a blood clot which was followed by dysentery and pneumonia.
Once the North Koreas realized his condition, they sought their chance to rid the camp of the man who inspired so much hope in the men.
He was taken to a “death house” against the pleadings of the men where he would be left without food or water to die.
Kapaun’s words to his men were simply, “I’m going where I’ve always wanted to go.”
He died on May 23rd, 1951 and while he was initially honored with the Distinguished Servce Cross, subsequent accounts would result in upgrading to the Medal of Honor.
He inspired the men in battle with his gallantry, he inspired the men in the POW camp with his mercy, and he can know continue to inspire us all with his dedication to service and sacrifice."
Julian Assange On Google: They 'Do Things The CIA Cannot'
Julian Assange On Google: They 'Do Things The CIA Cannot':
"Julian Assange cautioned all of us a while back, in the vein of revelations similar to those provided by Edward Snowden, that Google — the insidious search engine with a reputation for powering humanity’s research — plays the dark hand role in furthering U.S. imperialism and foreign policy agendas.
"Julian Assange cautioned all of us a while back, in the vein of revelations similar to those provided by Edward Snowden, that Google — the insidious search engine with a reputation for powering humanity’s research — plays the dark hand role in furthering U.S. imperialism and foreign policy agendas.
...This cult of government and non-government insiders have a firm belief their goals should be the unassailable, unquestionable motivator for American imperialism — whatever the U.S. thinks best as a “benevolent superpower,” so should the rest of the ‘non-evil’ world.
“They will tell you that open-mindedness is a virtue, but all perspectives that challenge the exceptionalist drive at the heart of American foreign policy will remain invisible to them,” Assange wrote in When Google Met Wikileaks.
“This is the impenetrable banality of ‘don’t be evil.’
They believe that they are doing good.
And that is a problem.”
...Fortune, calling Cohen a “fascinating fellow,” noted that, in his book Children of Jihad, the young diplomat and technology enthusiast “advocates for the use of technology for social upheaval in the Middle East and elsewhere.”
...It wasn’t until weeks and months after this gathering Assange fully realized how closely Google operates in tandem with the government of the United States — and how perilous the innocent mask of its public intentions truly is in light of such cooperation.
“They will tell you that open-mindedness is a virtue, but all perspectives that challenge the exceptionalist drive at the heart of American foreign policy will remain invisible to them,” Assange wrote in When Google Met Wikileaks.
They believe that they are doing good.
And that is a problem.”
...Fortune, calling Cohen a “fascinating fellow,” noted that, in his book Children of Jihad, the young diplomat and technology enthusiast “advocates for the use of technology for social upheaval in the Middle East and elsewhere.”
...It wasn’t until weeks and months after this gathering Assange fully realized how closely Google operates in tandem with the government of the United States — and how perilous the innocent mask of its public intentions truly is in light of such cooperation.
Ironically enough, in Wikileaks’ publishing three years later of the Global Intelligence Files — internal emails from private security firm, Stratfor — Cohen’s and Google’s true depth of influence became strikingly apparent. Assange wrote:
“Cohen’s directorate appeared to cross over from public relations and ‘corporate responsibility’ work into active corporate intervention in foreign affairs at a level that is normally reserved for states. Jared Cohen could be wryly named Google’s ‘director of regime change.’ According to the emails, he was trying to plant his fingerprints on some of the major historical events in the contemporary Middle East. He could be placed in Egypt during the revolution, meeting with Wael Ghonim, the Google employee whose arrest and imprisonment hours later would make him a PR-friendly symbol of the uprising in the Western press. Meetings had been planned in Palestine and Turkey, both of which—claimed Stratfor emails—were killed by the senior Google leadership as too risky. Only a few months before he met with me, Cohen was planning a trip to the edge of Iran in Azerbaijan to ‘engage the Iranian communities closer to the border,’ as part of Google Ideas’ project on repressive societies.”
A defiant Trump blasts TV news in private meeting — then snubs New York Times - The Washington Post
A defiant Trump blasts TV news in private meeting — then snubs New York Times - The Washington Post:
"President-elect Donald Trump met Monday with television news executives and some well-known TV journalists and repeatedly told them that the campaign reporting about him was “unfair” and “dishonest.”
Participants in the meeting at Trump Tower in New York described it as a contentious but generally respectful gathering.
But if the media elite attended in hopes of improving relations with the forthcoming Trump administration, that wasn’t quite in the cards."
Participants in the meeting at Trump Tower in New York described it as a contentious but generally respectful gathering.
But if the media elite attended in hopes of improving relations with the forthcoming Trump administration, that wasn’t quite in the cards."
A Vanquished Press Fails To Comprehend Its Defeat by Trump
A Vanquished Press Fails To Comprehend Its Defeat by Trump - The New York Sun
"...I was prompted to examine the Obama record through the eyes of one of his most articulate supporters by my sharpish exchange with the editor of the New Yorker, David Remnick, on Fareed Zakaria’s television program two weeks ago.
Mr. Remnick said that he thought he was “hallucinating” when he heard me say that Donald Trump is neither a racist nor a sexist, and I replied that I had a similar sensation when I saw President Obama in the ten days before the election telling large crowds that Trump was an admirer of the Ku Klux Klan.
...Mr. Obama steadily receives an approval rating of between 50% and 55%, between 10 points and 20 points below FDR, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon pre-Watergate, Reagan, and, for the untroubled parts of his time, Bill Clinton.
But this is a levitation produced by his unusually fluent but detached personality, given that for the last six years two-thirds of Americans polled have steadily thought the country was going “in the wrong direction.”
...This, Mr. Remnick wrote, brought the elusive legacy to the fore. The legacy is: avoiding a depression, “rescuing the automobile industry,” Wall Street “reform,” Obamacare, marriage equality, “banning torture,” the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, the end of the Iraq War, “heavy investment in renewable-energy technologies,” the appointment of Justices Sotomayor and Kagan to the Supreme Court, killing bin Laden, the Iran nuclear deal, the opening of Cuba, the Paris agreement on climate change, and two terms “long on dignity and short on scandal.”
So this is the legacy the president and his press-ubiquitous claque are clangorously raising heavenwards like a messianic effigy.
...Donald Trump is the oldest and wealthiest person elected president, the first not to have had a public office or high military command, the first to pay for his own campaign, and the first since Washington to waive his salary.
He has defeated the Clintons, the Bushes, the Obamas, and almost all the dishonest, myth-making national press (including David Remnick).
The national political press has declined even more precipitously than the political class, and the president-elect was elevated despite the animosity of both, a signal achievement whose significance those who have been vanquished show no signs of grasping.
"...I was prompted to examine the Obama record through the eyes of one of his most articulate supporters by my sharpish exchange with the editor of the New Yorker, David Remnick, on Fareed Zakaria’s television program two weeks ago.
Mr. Remnick said that he thought he was “hallucinating” when he heard me say that Donald Trump is neither a racist nor a sexist, and I replied that I had a similar sensation when I saw President Obama in the ten days before the election telling large crowds that Trump was an admirer of the Ku Klux Klan.
...Mr. Obama steadily receives an approval rating of between 50% and 55%, between 10 points and 20 points below FDR, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon pre-Watergate, Reagan, and, for the untroubled parts of his time, Bill Clinton.But this is a levitation produced by his unusually fluent but detached personality, given that for the last six years two-thirds of Americans polled have steadily thought the country was going “in the wrong direction.”
...This, Mr. Remnick wrote, brought the elusive legacy to the fore. The legacy is: avoiding a depression, “rescuing the automobile industry,” Wall Street “reform,” Obamacare, marriage equality, “banning torture,” the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, the end of the Iraq War, “heavy investment in renewable-energy technologies,” the appointment of Justices Sotomayor and Kagan to the Supreme Court, killing bin Laden, the Iran nuclear deal, the opening of Cuba, the Paris agreement on climate change, and two terms “long on dignity and short on scandal.”
So this is the legacy the president and his press-ubiquitous claque are clangorously raising heavenwards like a messianic effigy.
- A depression was avoided by doubling 233 years of accumulated national debt in seven years to get an annual economic-growth rate of 1%, as 15 million people have dropped out of the work force.
- The auto rescue could have been much better designed and even Chapter Eleven for Chrysler and General Motors would not have repudiated corporate bonds altogether, would have provided a pittance for the equity-holders rather than nothing, and would not have handed control of much of the industry to the self-destructively greedy United Auto Workers who were at least half the problem in the first place.
- Wall Street “reform” has meant stifling red tape, a witch hunt among traders and fund managers but continued fiscal subsidization of those who substitute velocity of money-transactions in place of activities that add value, precisely the practice that Mr. Obama denounces elsewhere in Mr. Remnick’s article as creating the menace of increasing unemployment and income disparity, dangers that this administration has done nothing to allay.
- “Banning torture” means stopping waterboarding, which is frightening but not painful and may, in some conditions, be justifiable in counterterrorism. “Marriage equality” is a state-by-state matter and the legalization was by the Supreme Court, and the whole issue is the applicability of the word “marriage,” not the right to same-sex civil union. Lilly Ledbetter, for the 99% of readers who would not know, involves the Supreme Court decision allowing limitations on claims of discriminatory pay-scales to begin at the last paycheck — hardly a ground-shaking tweak of the law, though a respectable reform.
- Justices Sotomayor and Kagan are acceptable judges but no better than most confirmed under recent presidents of both parties. The whole court has gone to sleep while the Bill of Rights has putrefied, and there is no sign that Justice Kagan, an ex-solicitor general, will do anything about it.
- “The end of the Iraq War” was thoughtlessly hasty and spawned the Islamic State, handed 60% of Iraqis to the overlordship of Iran, and helped generate an immense humanitarian crisis (a fact that Mr. Trump and Senator Sanders were the only presidential candidates to acknowledge).
- The “opening of Cuba” just legitimized the Cuban seizure of American assets and accomplished nothing for anyone, least of all the victims of the Stalinist Castro regime.
- The Paris climate-change agreement was unspecific piffle about an unproved threat.
- Two relatively scandal-free terms could be said of all 13 previous two-full-term presidents except Grant and Mr. Clinton.
- The elimination of bin Laden is conceded as a fine achievement, and Obamacare, “heavy investment in renewable-energy technologies,” and the Iran nuclear deal are all almost unmitigated disasters...
...Donald Trump is the oldest and wealthiest person elected president, the first not to have had a public office or high military command, the first to pay for his own campaign, and the first since Washington to waive his salary.
He has defeated the Clintons, the Bushes, the Obamas, and almost all the dishonest, myth-making national press (including David Remnick).
The national political press has declined even more precipitously than the political class, and the president-elect was elevated despite the animosity of both, a signal achievement whose significance those who have been vanquished show no signs of grasping.
Study showing 'Fake News' beating 'Real News' looks like garbage
Study showing 'Fake News' beating 'Real News' looks like garbage | Washington Examiner"Fake news *beat* real news on Facebook over last 3 months of election," Ben Smith at Buzzfeed tweeted out.
Alex Wagner, newly named an anchor at CBS, tweeted "Here's a thing: viral fake news outperformed real news in the last 3 months of the election."
These tweets link to a Buzzfeed story headlined "Viral Fake Election News Outperformed Real News On Facebook In Final Months Of The US Election."
The story has interesting data about the proliferation of a few fake news stories, but it comes nowhere near proving the headline or Ben Smith's tweet, that Fake News Beat Real News.The methodology is a mess in many ways.
The BuzzFeed study looked only at the top 20 election stories, in terms of engagement, by fake websites and compared it the top 20 election stories from a tiny list of mainstream sites.
The list included left-leaning opinion-heavy outlets like Huffington Post and Vox.
- They didn't include Yahoo News and the Daily Mail, two of the most-read news sites in the U.S.
- Also excluded: Reuters, BBC, Associated Press, Bloomberg, and, ahem, the Washington Examiner. You could add the Boston Globe, the Chicago Tribune and the major newspapers in every city besides New York, L.A., and D.C.First, it doesn't measure how much traffic went to fake election stories versus real election stories — it only picks the top few stories in each genre.
- Second, the study only chooses from a handful of mainstream sites. Third, the "Real News" stories often aren't real news at all—a point which doesn't undercut the conclusion as much as it shows the silliness of the comparison.
- So the "Real News" numbers are from an incomplete, odd, and unexplained subsample of the media.
Also, the "Real News" isn't even Real News.
Look at the top "Real News" stories to which Buzzfeed compares the fake news stories.
Here's the top "Real News" stories:
- "Trump's history of corruption is mind-boggling. So why is Clinton supposedly the corrupt one?" As the headline suggests, this is a liberal opinion piece, complaining that the media doesn't report enough on Trump's scandals.
- No. 2 is "Stop Pretending You Don't Know Why People Hate Hillary Clinton." This is a rambling screed claiming that people only dislike Clinton because she is a woman.
- The No. 3 "Real News" story is "Melania Trump's Girl-on-Girl Photos From Racy Shoot Revealed," published at the New York Post..."
DOJ Fines Denver Sheriff Dept. For Excluding Noncitizens When Hiring – For America
DOJ Fines Denver Sheriff Dept. For Excluding Noncitizens When Hiring – For America:
"The Denver Sheriff Department will accept a penalty from the Department of Justice after a federal probe found it wrongly made U.S. citizenship a job requirement during a recent hiring spree.
The sheriff’s department — the biggest sheriff’s office in Colorado — will pay a $10,000 fine after it required applications for deputy sheriff jobs to be U.S. citizens when hiring from the beginning of 2015 through March 2016. The department went on a hiring spree of 200 deputies as part of its ongoing reform."
The sheriff’s department — the biggest sheriff’s office in Colorado — will pay a $10,000 fine after it required applications for deputy sheriff jobs to be U.S. citizens when hiring from the beginning of 2015 through March 2016. The department went on a hiring spree of 200 deputies as part of its ongoing reform."
Pope Francis Equates Christianity to Communism
Pope Francis Equates Christianity to Communism:
"In an interview with Pope Francis published November 11 by the Italian newspaper, Repubblica, the supreme authority of the Catholic Church equated Christianity with Communism when asked about his views on Marxist ideology.
“It is the communists, in all cases, that think like Christians.
Christ has spoken of a society where the poor, the weak and the excluded are those who make the decisions.
Not the demagogues, or the barbarians, but rather the people and the poor that have faith in God or not that we have to help obtain equality and liberty.”
...There have been a variety of reactions following the Pope’s comparison between Christianity and the Communist ideology.
The Spanish journalist and writer Hermann Tertsch tweeted that, “The apology for a criminal ideology surprises at the Vatican. Although almost nothing there can surprise now.”
“It’s inconceivable that we attend so frivolous of a criminal ideology with 100 million murdered. From the Vatican,” Tertsch said. Source: ABC
"In an interview with Pope Francis published November 11 by the Italian newspaper, Repubblica, the supreme authority of the Catholic Church equated Christianity with Communism when asked about his views on Marxist ideology.
“It is the communists, in all cases, that think like Christians.
Not the demagogues, or the barbarians, but rather the people and the poor that have faith in God or not that we have to help obtain equality and liberty.”
...There have been a variety of reactions following the Pope’s comparison between Christianity and the Communist ideology.
The Spanish journalist and writer Hermann Tertsch tweeted that, “The apology for a criminal ideology surprises at the Vatican. Although almost nothing there can surprise now.”
“It’s inconceivable that we attend so frivolous of a criminal ideology with 100 million murdered. From the Vatican,” Tertsch said. Source: ABC
What they do when they are in charge-----Row erupts after Woolworths staff state the store is now Muslim - and they will not be selling Christmas decorations
Row erupts after Woolworths staff state the store is now Muslim - and they will not be selling Christmas decorations - Mirror Online:
"A huge row erupted after staff at a popular Woolworths branch said that they were now a Muslim store - and would not be selling any Christmas decorations this year.
Shocked locals were told the news when they discovered that the Christmas selection including decorations and chocolate Santas had been taken down just a few days after they were put on display.
When shoppers asked why the decorations had been removed, a staff member at the store in Germany is reported to have said:
"We are a Muslim business now.
We do not want to sell Christmas articles."
Disgruntled shoppers were told that the German Woolworths store would not be stocking Christmas Decorations this year.
Branch manager Seda Capakcur, 25, confirmed to local media that some Christmas items were no longer sold at the store..."
"A huge row erupted after staff at a popular Woolworths branch said that they were now a Muslim store - and would not be selling any Christmas decorations this year.
Shocked locals were told the news when they discovered that the Christmas selection including decorations and chocolate Santas had been taken down just a few days after they were put on display.When shoppers asked why the decorations had been removed, a staff member at the store in Germany is reported to have said:
"We are a Muslim business now.
We do not want to sell Christmas articles."
Disgruntled shoppers were told that the German Woolworths store would not be stocking Christmas Decorations this year.
Branch manager Seda Capakcur, 25, confirmed to local media that some Christmas items were no longer sold at the store..."
Steve Russo - Detroit’s Federally Imposed $50 Million...
Steve Russo - Detroit’s Federally Imposed $50 Million...:
"Detroit’s Federally Imposed $50 Million Handicapped-Accessible Sidewalks.... To Nowhere
To think, a generation ago, Detroit was the wealthiest city in the nation per capita income.
Then the democrats got a hold of it for 60 years.
It is mostly dead now. https://spectator.org/55101_killing-city/
Then the democrats got a hold of it for 60 years.
It is mostly dead now. https://spectator.org/55101_killing-city/
Killed by the left's "Model City", dystopian and demographic transformation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SSK052lAdA
The shell of a city that remains is desperately impoverished.
But at least its many sidewalks to nowhere are handicapped-accessible....
But at least its many sidewalks to nowhere are handicapped-accessible....
EXCERPT: In a city where poverty is high, schools are broken and crime is rampant, the federal government has forced Detroit to spend more than $50 million in the past decade for sidewalk ramps that often lead to nowhere.
...About 12% of the "Mandated" ramps have been installed on sidewalks that are impassable due to the city’s decay.
...And as a side note... Detroit is demonstrating almost in real time that the earth is perfectly capable of undoing whatever Man can throw at it, thus mocking the hoax of "Man-Caused Global Warming-Cooling-Hot-Cold-Wet-Dry Climate BS...
Read it all!
Obama races to pass final slate of regulations - Convention of States
Obama races to pass final slate of regulations - Convention of States:
"The administration averages 2.2 new rules per day; last Tuesday and Wednesday they pushed 10 out the door. Rules have included more draconian restrictions on the oil and gas industry as well as measures aiming to help highly skilled immigrant workers get green cards.
The Obama administration has enacted over 20,000 new regulations since he took control of the White House. Congress would have to repeal 14 regulations a day over the next four years to tackle them all, and that’s assuming they work 365 days a year (which, obviously, they don’t)."
The Obama administration has enacted over 20,000 new regulations since he took control of the White House. Congress would have to repeal 14 regulations a day over the next four years to tackle them all, and that’s assuming they work 365 days a year (which, obviously, they don’t)."
LOL! Oklahoma TV Station Gives Liberals DIRECTIONS TO CANADA On Air
LOL! Oklahoma TV Station Gives Liberals DIRECTIONS TO CANADA On Air (VIDEO) – American Lookout:
"Hilarious!
The Tulsa Fox affiliate did a helpful addition to their traffic report.
After talking about the traffic in Tulsa, the host answered a “special request.”
The special request was this: Help Liberals figure out the way from Oklahoma to Canada.
Complete with a mapped route and tips about living in Canada, he gave Liberals what they need to move to Canada.
Watch (via AR News 1936):
From the video:
Host:
"Hilarious!
The Tulsa Fox affiliate did a helpful addition to their traffic report.
After talking about the traffic in Tulsa, the host answered a “special request.”
The special request was this: Help Liberals figure out the way from Oklahoma to Canada.
Complete with a mapped route and tips about living in Canada, he gave Liberals what they need to move to Canada.
Watch (via AR News 1936):
From the video:
Host:
“Earlier we had some folks make a special request.
I know a lot of people said that if their candidate lost the election, they’d be moving to Canada.
Not sure why, but that was some of the folks’ promises out there.
So let me give you the quickest and directest route to Canada . . . Now, when you get to Canada – this is serious stuff! – When you get to Canada, here, make sure you’ve got either your card or your passport to get into Canada . . .”
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