And they still repayed him with hate and lies-----George W. Bush Never Left Washington Until December 26th For One Incredible Reason

George W. Bush Never Left Washington Until December 26th For One Incredible Reason – American Military News:

"While President Obama has been at his favorite vacation spot in Hawaii for days now, it not always was this way.

In fact, for the 8 years of George W. Bush’s presidency, he never left the D.C. area until the day after Christmas. One year a reporter, the Washington Times’ Joseph Curl, was curious why the President simply stayed at nearby Camp David instead of spending Christmas at his beloved Crawford ranch and asked a White House staffer.

“So all of us can be with our families on Christmas.”

This shook Curl who wasn’t used to this treatment. Additionally, President Bush sent a separate plane to pick up the press corps the day after Christmas so that they could bring their families if they so chose.

This perk no longer exists, meaning if any member of the press or staff wanted to go with family, it would cost over $1000 instead of around $100.

If the press remembers President Bush for nothing else, they will for the tremendous generosity he showed them.

_________________

From the Washington Times:

Every year, in the week between Christmas and New Year‘s, I think about George W. Bush.

It was in that week each year for the eight years I covered him as a reporter that he gave me a spectacular gift — and he knew it."

Why conservatives could be the biggest winners of the Left’s post-election freak-out

Why conservatives could be the biggest winners of the Left’s post-election freak-out
"...Continuing the trend of the Obama years, Democrats were repudiated at every level at the ballot box. 
Most stingingly, the Left lost the presidency to a figure who offended its sensibilities perhaps more than any other, on the basis of style and rhetoric, in Donald Trump.
Predictably, the Left is apoplectic, reacting emotionally rather than rationally over a defeat that stunned it.
While going through various stages of grieving, what is perhaps most heartening is the fact that the Left has apparently learned nothing. 
In so doing, it risks severely marginalizing itself.
In short, by continuing to call plays from the same playbook, the Left risks doing to itself what Jimmy Carter did against Ronald Reagan in 1980: Turning itself into the “There you go again” party in its myopia.
Whether or not Americans broadly internalized such realities, they did reject what the Left was selling.
...In so doing, the Left apparently overplayed its hand.
As with casting its political foes as racists for decades, it devalued the labels it ascribed.
It showed its inherent biases and double standards.
It protested too much.
...In its words and actions, the Left has shown that it has learned nothing:

• Casting Trump as Hitler while engaging in sickening hagiography for Castro; 
• claiming that the election was lost because of the Russians or fake news stories (rather than as a reaction in part to the false narratives of “real news” sources consisting of sneering progressive elites, or the world the Left has constructed in which there are no truths); and 
• showing an unwillingness to change direction in terms of policy but rather to push further left underscore its sore loserdom, hysteria, and delusion.

...Let us hope that the Left keeps it up.

FBI issues warning to U.S. churches after ISIS calls for terror attacks – TheBlaze

FBI issues warning to U.S. churches after ISIS calls for terror attacks – TheBlaze:

"The FBI has issued a warning to U.S. churches to be vigilant for threats coming from Islamic State sympathizers after the terror groups called for attacks around the Christmas festival. "

Time To Rescind 1965 Immigration Reform Act

Time To Rescind 1965 Immigration Reform Act | US Defense Watch:
"Much like the Titanic that sank on April 15, 1912, the United States stands at a critical juncture in the history of our nation.
Few realize it, but, like the Titanic, this nation smashed into a piece of legislation in 1965 that was never asked for or approved by the American public.
In 1965, our ‘Captain’ Lyndon B. Johnson along with helmsman Senator Teddy Kennedy, Jacob Javitz and Howard Metzenbaum drove America into an iceberg of massive, unrestricted immigration that opened up the flood gates with the “Immigration Reform Act.”
At first, the flow of one million immigrants annually wasn’t noticed.
We were benevolent.
We lived in a big country with only 194,000,000 (million) people.
We enjoyed plenty of room and resources.
However, the massive flow of humanity from that legislation still pours into our country 51 years later and few seem to notice–much like the party-goers and dancing on the Titanic that kept up for hours after hitting the iceberg in the North Atlantic.
However, even the invincible Titanic could not survive the onslaught from the constant flow of incoming water–slowly, methodically stealing its ability to stay afloat.
Today in the United States, 100 million immigrants later and pouring in at 1.5 million annually–both legal and illegal–our nation shudders from San Francisco to New York and from Chicago to Miami.
We rose from 194 million to 326 million in five decades.
What was once a benefit to our country is now a full-scale overpopulation, linguistic, sociological, religious, terrorist, cultural and societal crisis..."
Much more!

Obama’s appalling UN betrayal

Obama’s appalling UN betrayal | New York Post:
"Friday’s failure to veto an anti-Israel resolution at the United Nations sets a new low in the annals of American diplomacy.
It was a shocking betrayal of a firm US ally, and of longstanding bipartisan US policy — a sneaky, dishonest move by a lame-duck president to express his pique at the president-elect and land a final vindictive blow on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
In the process, he sought to tie his successor’s hands in a way that no past president — especially his own predecessor, George W. Bush — has ever before done.
President Obama has now empowered the economic war against Israel, just to get even with a leader who dared to defend his own country’s best interests.
A day earlier, Egypt had withdrawn its support for the extremist, one-sided resolution condemning all Israeli activity beyond the 1967 cease-fire lines.
That’s when Team Obama spread the word that it would’ve abstained — which prompted Israel’s enemies to revive it for Friday’s vote, where Washington indeed declined to veto..."

Lunch video-----How the Minimum Wage Hurts Young People

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Mainstream Media’s Trump Opposition Exposed Their Bias & Irrelevance | National Review

Mainstream Media’s Trump Opposition Exposed Their Bias & Irrelevance | National Review:

"No wonder the fading establishment media is now distrusted by a majority of the public, according to Gallup — and becoming irrelevant even among progressives.

Once upon a time in the 1960s, all the iconic news anchors, from Walter Cronkite to David Brinkley, were liberal. But they at least hid their inherent biases behind a professional veneer that allowed them to filter stories through left-wing lenses without much pushback."

Bethlehemian Rhapsody 1 with captions

Lesbian couple BURNED their home to the ground, wrote anti-gay slurs, and BLAMED neighbors

Lesbian couple BURNED their home to the ground, wrote anti-gay slurs, and BLAMED neighbors - The Right Scoop:
"MORE hoaxing from liberals today! This one is from Tennessee where a federal jury has ruled that a lesbian couple burnt their home to the ground, wrote anti-gay slurs on it, and blamed it on their neighbors.

From the New York Daily News:

A lesbian couple faked a hate crime that left their home a pile of charred rubble at their Venore, Tenn., property in 2010, local reports said.

An insurance company caught on to the ruse months after the blaze and accused Carol Ann and Laura Stutte of perpetuating a hoax and blaming the fire on their neighbor, the Knoxville News Sentinel reported.

A federal jury ruled in favor of the insurance company’s belief that the couple spray-painted an anti-gay slur on their own garage to spin the fire as a hate crime based on their sexual orientation.

The homeowners intended to bank on an insurance claim of more than $276,000, American National and Casulty Company alleged in court documents obtained by the News Sentinel.

Here’s an old report of how sad the lesbians where at ALL THE HATE:

Some doofus even set their photos to music, to illustrate the sadness of ALL THE HATRED EVERYWHERE:

Oh look here they are accepting a check for $10,000 to help them after ALL THE HATRED – wait, isn’t that fraud?

...Except it was a hoax for insurance money. What scumbags. 
As I said before, not only is this just a deeply cynical and terrible thing to do, but when they’re caught they make things WORSE for their cause because real incidents are then seen with suspicion. 
Morans."

Everyone should be treated with respect — unless you’re a Republican

Everyone should be treated with respect — unless you’re a Republican | New York Post:
"’Tis the season to spread joy and cheer — unless you’re a liberal still bitter about the election.
Thursday, Ivanka Trump and her family were accosted by Dan Goldstein, a lawyer from Brooklyn, who yelled at her that her father, who has yet to take office, was “ruining the country.” 
It wasn’t a spontaneous outburst.
Goldstein’s husband had tweeted from the JetBlue terminal at JFK Airport that Goldstein was “chasing” Ivanka and her family to “harass” them.
“Why is she on our flight? She should be flying private,” Goldstein reportedly shouted...
The last few years, we’ve seen the creation of safe spaces, though they’re usually for protecting fragile leftists from disagreeable thoughts and arguments.
Lunatic men badgering women on planes in front of their kids apparently is fair play — if that mother is related to a Republican you don’t like.
...The Trump hate has gone around the bend when the family of the president-elect is gleefully harassed.
The buzzword following Trump’s victory has been “normalization” — as if simply by pretending he isn’t president, then he won’t be.
...This disassociation isn’t convincing the millions of Americans who voted for Trump that he’s any less legitimate.
..The left is trying to turn the whole country into a liberal safe space — safe for them, dangerous for anyone who disagrees with them. They’ve lost their minds."

Mainstream Media’s Trump Opposition Exposed Their Bias & Irrelevance | National Review

Mainstream Media’s Trump Opposition Exposed Their Bias & Irrelevance | National Review:

"No wonder the fading establishment media is now distrusted by a majority of the public, according to Gallup — and becoming irrelevant even among progressives.

Once upon a time in the 1960s, all the iconic news anchors, from Walter Cronkite to David Brinkley, were liberal. But they at least hid their inherent biases behind a professional veneer that allowed them to filter stories through left-wing lenses without much pushback."

The Dems mindset, in one sentence

The Dems mindset, in one sentence – Da Tech Guy Blog:
"This good morning, after breakfast and a shower, I was browsing the Memeorandum trends looking for topics to write about, when this one popped up:

Why the white working class votes against itself

When you see a headline like that, you know it’s either at the New York Times or at the Washington Post; sure enough, it’s the WaPo.

It starts by asking,

Why did all those Economically Anxious™ Trump voters reject policies that would have helped relieve their economic anxiety?

The headline and the opening sentence are based on the following premises:

a. The white

b. working class

c. doesn’t know what’s good for them,

and

d. the Dems know better than the voters themselves.

‘m kay.

Having established points a-through-d above, the author, Catherine Rampell ventures into the speculative weeds,

Maybe they believed any Big Government expansions would disproportionately go to the “wrong” kinds of people — that is, people unlike themselves.

Again, Rampell takes for granted another premise: that all remedies, actions and initiatives must necessarily depart from

Big Government Expansions.

Munificent, paternalistic government raining manna down on the working, or not: the stuff that Dems’ dreams are made of.

I was going to do a fisking, but William Teach did a very good job already.

The article’s most revealing statement, and perhaps the most honest one, is this (emphasis added):

But there seems to be universal agreement, at least among the Democratic politicians and strategists I’ve interviewed, that the party’s actual ideas are the right ones.

In plain English, Democrats universally agree they’re right and everybody else is wrong.

Pauline Kael is attributed with having said in 1972, “I live in a rather special world. I only know one person who voted for Nixon. Where they are I don’t know. They’re outside my ken.” Rampell joins Kael in the land of liberal provincialism, but at least forty four years ago Kael acknowledged her own provincialism..."

AM Fruitcake

History for December 24

History for December 24 - On-This-Day.com:
Ignatius (Loyola) 1491, Benjamin Rush 1745, Kit Carson 1809



James Joule 1818, Howard Hughes 1905, I.F. Stone 1907



1814 - The War of 1812 between the U.S. and Britain was ended with the signing of the Treaty of Ghent in Belgium.


1865 - Several veterans of the Confederate Army formed a private social club in Pulaski, TN, called the Ku Klux Klan.


1943 - U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt appointed Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower supreme commander of Allied forces as part of Operation Overlord.


1966 - Luna 13 landed on the moon.


1968 - Three astronauts, James A. Lovell, William Anders and Frank Borman, reached the moon. They orbited the moon 10 times before coming back to Earth. Seven months later man first landed on the moon.


1979 - Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan in support of the country's Marxist government.



1985 - Fidel Castro, the Cuban president, announced that he was a non-smoker.


1990 - Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman were married.

Gun Control Laws Conflict with Data about Gun Owners & Crime | National Review

Gun Control Laws Conflict with Data about Gun Owners & Crime | National Review:

"The fallacy of believing that the way to reduce shootings is to disarm peaceful people extends from domestic gun-control laws to international disarmament agreements. If disarmament agreements reduced the dangers of war, there would never have been a World War II.

The decades leading up to that war were filled with international disarmament agreements. As with domestic gun-control laws, the agreements were followed by peaceful countries and ignored by belligerent countries that built up huge war machines, such as in Nazi Germany and imperial Japan."

For First Time Ever, Fewer Michigan Charter Schools

For First Time Ever, Fewer Michigan Charter Schools [Michigan Capitol Confidential]:
"...This year, however, is the first time since the first Michigan charter school opened in 1993-94 that the number of charter schools in Michigan went down.
School choice advocates attribute the reduction in part to the closure of 14 charters over the last three years for academic reasons.
The state of Michigan is unable to identify a non-charter public school that has ever been closed due to poor academic performance.
According to a state database, there were 302 charter schools operating in the 2014-15 and 2015-16 school years.
There are currently 299 charter schools, according to the Michigan Association of Public School Academies.
...“The fact that it remains very difficult to get authorized in Michigan hasn’t changed because the legislative cap on the number of charters has been eliminated,” Naeyaert said..."

CT school bans word ‘white’ from game cheers: ‘Given current social climate’

CT school bans word ‘white’ from game cheers: ‘Given current social climate’ | EAGnews.org: "EAST HAMPTON, Conn. – A Connecticut principal is siding with political correctness over school spirit by injecting race relations into a student chant.
Students at East Hampton High school have chanted “blue” and “white” – school colors – for years, but principal John Fidler thinks the word “white” could be construed as racist, so he posted a notice that the cheer is “under suspension,” WFSB reports.
Students, of course, immediately sounded off on social media.
Fidler thinks the word “white” alone is offensive to some folks.
...“Given the current social climate across our country, our use of the ‘white’ cheer is under suspension,” he wrote in a notice ahead of the winter sports season.
“Please show your pride in our town and in our school through other means when cheering on our teams.”...

House panel investigating Planned Parenthood reveals additional criminal referrals – TheBlaze

House panel investigating Planned Parenthood reveals additional criminal referrals – TheBlaze:

"Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), the chairman of the House Select Panel on Infant Lives, revealed Wednesday that the panel has issued additional criminal and regulatory referrals for tissue procurement businesses and abortion clinics to federal, state, and local authorities."

Hate hoaxes and fake news are separate issues united by mainstream media’s narrative agenda

Hate hoaxes and fake news are separate issues united by mainstream media’s narrative agenda – Da Tech Guy Blog:
"Hate is a real issue. 
Americans have plenty of it. 
They demonstrate it all the time. 
The difference between hate today and hate in the recent past is that it’s now manifesting in the form of hoaxes perpetrated mostly by the left. 
They don’t want to be seen as hateful, so they turn their own hate into “clever” ruses to paint the right as the “real “haters.

Fake news is a real issue. 

...Today, we’re seeing the two collide in spectacular fashion. 

They’ve always had a secondary relationship in that hoaxes would be perpetrated and the media would investigate and report if necessary, but the boundary that separated them has collapsed. 

Today, the media’s standard operating procedure is to report the hoax first, investigate (or maybe not) later.

Why did this happen? 
Did the media become suddenly more gullible? 
No. 
This is willful. 

Ever since about a month and a half before the election, mainstream media started their “ready, fire, aim” stance on hate hoaxes because they realized they needed it to propagate their narrative agenda. 

They’ve learned two important things: falling for a hoax will not decrease ratings/readership, and they can source each other rather than investigate in order to justify their choices.

Here are four major hate hoaxes that have been reported in the last 24 hours:

• Police arrest black man for church arson that was blamed on Trump supporters
• University of Michigan Oppressed Hijab Wearer Shown to Be Another Hoaxer
• As Delta prankster confirms, media’s problem is they are susceptible to their own hopes and dreams
• Lesbian couple burned their home to the ground, wrote anti-gay slurs, and blamed neighbors

In all four cases, there were reasons for the media to doubt the stories. In all four cases, the narrative of white and/or conservative and/or Trump-supporting and/or bigoted “people of privilege” persecuted and/or harassed and/or discriminated against some variation of minority. In all four cases, the hoax was reported before confirmed and later it was revealed by law enforcement or conservative media that we had all been duped..."

A religion of peace...-----Disturbing Clip: Father Urges Daughters to Blow Themselves Up

Disturbing Clip: Father Urges Daughters to Blow Themselves Up
"A fighter from the terrorist group formerly known as Jabhat al-Nusra filmed his two daughters preparing to blow themselves up. 
One of the children is thought to be the eight-year-old girl who carried out last week’s suicide bombing at a police station in Damascus. 
The child was the only person killed in the attack.
The video was widely shared on rebel-aligned social media on Wednesday.
“Why are you sending your daughters?” jihadist Abu Nimr asks the girl’s mother from behind the camera, according to a translation by The Independent. 
“One is seven and the other is eight, they're young for jihad.”
“No one is too young for jihad, because jihad is a duty for every Muslim,” she answers him.
“You want to surrender so that you're raped and killed by the infidels?” he asks the girls. 
“You want to kill them, no? 
We're a glorious religion, not a religion of humiliation, isn't that so darling?
“You won’t be scared, because you're going to God, isn't that right.”
Jabhat Fatah al-Shams is one of the many Islamist rebel groups fighting against the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria’s ongoing civil war.

Lunch video-----The Government vs. the American Character

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Crimes Against the Electoral College, DOJ Silent

Crimes Against the Electoral College, DOJ Silent:


"The age of Obama will be remembered for the grotesque perversion of law. The latest example is Justice Department and FBI inaction when it comes to death threats to members of the Electoral College who were voting for Donald Trump.

I was on Fox and Friends this week to discuss the failure to respond to these efforts to undermine the constitutional order:"

Merkel wanted refugees to be lorry drivers

Merkel wanted refugees to be lorry drivers | Fox News:
"German Chancellor Angela Merkel in September tried to push through a plan that would allow refugees to be trained and hired as lorry drivers – just months before a lorry was used by a suspected asylum-seeker to mow down civilians during Monday’s Berlin terror attack.
Merkel encouraged companies to hire refugees – even if they hadn’t yet been granted asylum – as drivers and also wanted to make it cheaper for migrants to trade in their foreign driver’s license for a German one, The Daily Express reported.
...Anis Amri is suspected of hijacking a lorry and killing the driver before going on his rampage at a Berlin Christmas market that killed 12 and wounded 48.
Authorities continued on Thursday to hunt Amri."