Al Qaeda targets U.S. trains - Washington Times

Al Qaeda targets U.S. trains - Washington Times:

"a new target — America’s trains — in an upcoming edition of its terror magazine, Inspire.
Issue No. 17 is headlined, “Train Derail Operations,” and will spell out ways to create rail disasters in a transportation system that lacks the stiff security procedures of airline travel.
It’s competing Sunni extremists group, the Islamic State, for more than a year has advocated using vehicles to mow down innocents. Its murderous followers have weaponized vehicles in Nice, Berlin and London, creating hundred of deaths and injuries."

How they "think"-----If You Are Married to a Trump Supporter, Divorce Them

If You Are Married to a Trump Supporter, Divorce Them
"With every week, life under the Trump administration becomes more unnerving. 
The administration is trying to “phase out” the 15,000 trans people in the military, Trump is basically threatening nuclear war with North Korea and Mueller is tapping a Grand Jury to look into the Russia connection.
We live in interesting times, and by interesting, I mean on the very verge of the second dark ages. 
Or, at least, some people believe that.
Other people believe everything is fine, somehow.
...Unsurprisingly, there are a lot of articles with advice on topics like “How To Survive Being Married to A Trump Supporter."
...I’m going to save you three years of therapy where you and your partner try to “agree to disagree.”
If your partner is a Trump supporter and you are not, just divorce them.
"Supporting Trump at this point does not indicate a difference of opinions.
It indicates a difference of values."...
Read on if you can stomach the drivel...and hate...

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History for August 13

History for August 13 - On-This-Day.com
Lucy Stone 1818, Annie Oakley 1860, Bert Lahr 1895


Alfred Hitchcock 1899, Ben Hogan 1912, Fidel Castro 1926 - Cuban leader


1521 - Present day Mexico City was captured by Spanish conqueror Hernando Cortez from the Aztec Indians.


1846 - The American Flag was raised for the first time in Los Angeles, CA.


1889 - A patent for a coin-operated telephone was issued to William Gray.


1932 - Adolf Hitler refused to take the post of vice-chancellor of Germany. He said he was going to hold out "for all or nothing."


1942 - Henry Ford unveiled his "Soybean Car." It was a plastic-bodied car that weighed about 1000 lbs. less than a steel car.


1942 - Walt Disney's "Bambi" opened at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, NY.


1959 - In New York, ground was broken on the $320 million Verrazano Narrows Bridge.


1961 - Berlin was divided by a barbed wire fence to halt the flight of refugees. Two days later work on the Berlin Wall began.

China To North Korea: You Hit The U.S., We're Not Helping | Daily Wire

China To North Korea: You Hit The U.S., We're Not Helping | Daily Wire:

"China has delivered an ultimatum to North Korea: If they hit the United States, they're on their own.

The state-run Global Times wrote in an editorial, "China should also make clear that if North Korea launches missiles that threaten US soil first and the US retaliates, China will stay neutral."
However, should the U.S. and South Korea strike North Korea first, then "China will prevent them from" implementing regime change in North Korea.
The editorial continued:"

The way we were-----Barry McGuire - Eve of Destruction

The Boob-tube-----What's My Line? - Lucille Ball & Desi Arnaz (Oct 2, 1955)

OFFICIALS: Federal Prosecutor Investigating Visa Fraud in Wasserman Schultz's District Shot Himself in Head - But NO GUN Was Found

OFFICIALS: Federal Prosecutor Investigating Visa Fraud in Wasserman Schultz's District Shot Himself in Head - But NO GUN Was Found:
"A federal prosecutor’s body was discovered on a Hollywood, Florida beach on May 24.

He was shot in the head.
Beranton J. Whisenant, Jr.’s body was found in May by a random individual. 
The police were investigating at the time to determine if Whisenant’s death was a “homicide, suicide, or something else.”
Whisenant worked for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Miami in its major crimes unit. 
He was handling several visa and passport fraud cases in Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s district.

Now this…
Officials say Beranton’s death was a suicide and he shot himself in the head.
But no gun was ever found.

The Sun-Sentinel reported:

Detectives and a medical examiner found Whisenant had shot himself in the head, Hollywood police said.

Police searched for two blocks north and south of the crime scene but couldn’t find the gun or any other weapon.

He was assigned to the Miami office of the U.S. Attorney’s Office and been hired as federal prosecutor a few months earlier."

IT’S COME TO THIS: Newsweek’s Nina Burleigh, Who Offered Bill Clinton Oral Sex...

Instapundit » Blog Archive » IT’S COME TO THIS: Newsweek’s Nina Burleigh, Who Offered Bill Clinton Oral Sex, Decries Mrs. Tru…:
"IT’S COME TO THIS: Newsweek’s Nina Burleigh, Who Offered Bill Clinton Oral Sex, Decries Mrs. Trump’s Degrading High Heels.

Meanwhile, New York magazine’s women-oriented spin-off Website The Cut has an article titled “Political Peroxide — Blonde privilege,” in which the leftwing racial grievance division really has their decoding machines turned up to Bletchley Park levels:

Fox News America is a place where all the classic signifiers of privilege and wealth work on overdrive: country-club-issue blue blazers with brass buttons and khaki pants, and above all else, for women, that yellow-blonde, carefully tended hair — a dog whistle of whiteness, an unspoken declaration of values, a wink-wink to the power of racial privilege and to the 1980s vibe that pervades a movement led by a man who still believes in the guilt of the Central Park Five.

As James Taranto likes to say, if you can hear the dog whistle, you’re the dog. 
Or as Alex Griswald of the Washington Free Beacon tweets, “Really banner day for progressive publications attacking conservative women for their appearance.”

Donald Trump: North Korea will 'regret' taking any action against Guam - Washington Times

Donald Trump: North Korea will 'regret' taking any action against Guam - Washington Times:

"President Trump said Friday that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un “will regret it fast” if he takes any military action against the U.S. territory of Guam.
“If he does anything with respect to Guam or any place else that’s an American territory or an American ally, he will truly regret it and he will regret it fast,” Mr. Trump told reporters at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey.
He warned that the U.S. will take action against Mr. Kim’s regime “if he utters one threat, in the form of an overt threat — which, by the way, he has been uttering for years, and his family has been uttering for years.”"

Happening everywhere!-----In Indonesia, Chinese Deity Is Covered in Sheet After Muslims Protest - NYTimes.com

In Indonesia, Chinese Deity Is Covered in Sheet After Muslims Protest - NYTimes.com

HONG KONG — A 100-foot statue depicting a Chinese deity was covered with an enormous sheet this past weekend in East Java Province, Indonesia, after Muslims threatened to tear the colossus down amid mounting ethnic and religious tensions across the country.

...On social media, Muslims assailed the statue as an “uncivilized” affront to Islam and the island’s “home people,” and a mob gathered this week outside the East Java legislature in the city of Surabaya to demand its destruction.

Statues deemed un-Islamic have been destroyed or vandalized around Indonesia in recent years, and several Chinese temples have been set on fire. 

...The recent anti-Chinese animus is driven in part by an increased influence of extremist Muslim ideology in the country’s politics, experts said.

When We Can No Longer Tell the Truth... | The Daily Sheeple

When We Can No Longer Tell the Truth... | The Daily Sheeple

Lies, half-truths and cover-ups are all manifestations of fatal weakness.

When we can no longer tell the truth because the truth will bring the whole rotten, fragile status quo down in a heap of broken promises and lies, we’ve reached the perfection of dysfunction.

...You know the one essential guideline to “leadership” in a doomed dysfunctional system: when it gets serious, you have to lie. In other words, the status quo’s secular goddess is TINA–there is no alternative to lying, because the truth will bring the whole corrupt structure tumbling down.

Lies, half-truths and cover-ups are all manifestations of fatal weakness. What lies, half-truths and cover-ups communicate is: we can no longer fix our real problems, and rather than let this truth out, we must mask it behind lies and phony reassurances.

...Pathological liars and cheats rely on self-preservation and misplaced loyalty to mask their own failure and corruption. A hint here, a comment there, and voila, a culture of lying is created and incentivized.

Obscuring the truth is the ultimate short-term expediency. Now that it’s serious, we have to lie.We’ll start telling the truth later, after everything’s stabilized..."

Read on!

Lunch video-----Bill Clinton on Virtues of North Korean Nuclear Deal - History Repeats I...

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College student gets 100 days in slammer for registering dead voters for Dems | Fox News

College student gets 100 days in slammer for registering dead voters for Dems | Fox News:

"A Virginia college student was sentenced this week to 100 days incarceration for submitting fraudulent voter registration forms listing the names of dead people and other faulty information for a political organization connected to the Democratic Party."

Articles: Had Hillary Clinton Won the Election...

Articles: Had Hillary Clinton Won the Election...:
To paraphrase Robert Frost, America has taken the road less traveled.  
We elected a political outsider.  
What might America look like today if Hillary had been elected?  

• Had she won we would not be hearing a single word about Russia.  Not a whisper.  It was not on the left's radar at all...  
• Hillary and her campaign aides have long been involved with Russia for reasons of personal gain.  Clinton herself got $145 million in donations to the Clinton Foundation for allowing Russia to take over twenty percent of all uranium production in the U.S. Her campaign chairman, John Podesta, is reaping the financial benefits of being on the board of a Russian company, Joule,... 
• Had Hillary been elected, the Clinton Foundation would be raking in even more millions than it did before.  She would be happily selling access, favors and our remaining freedoms out from under us.   
• She would be further eviscerating our military and 
• she would be raising taxes to fund Obamacare even though it is a clear and present disaster...
• Had HRC won, she would be implementing thousands of new regulations on businesses to further hamstring the economy.  She would let the fascist freaks at the Environmental Protection Agency have their way with every aspect of our daily lives:  Our cars, our showerheads, our toilets, our rainwater in our yards, etc. ...

Much more, read on!

This Is How America Would Wage A Nuclear War Against North Korea | Zero Hedge

This Is How America Would Wage A Nuclear War Against North Korea | Zero Hedge
"It is time to think about the unthinkable..."

The standoff between the United States and North Korea continues to escalate with neither side willing to back down.

With each passing day, the possibility of open warfare breaking out seems to increase as each side ups the ante. Indeed, President Donald Trump has ratcheted up his rhetoric in recent days—seemingly threatening to launch a nuclear first strike against North Korea.

...If tensions with North Korea boil over into open warfare—or if Trump decides to launch a preemptive strike—there are military options available to the United States. 
However, the collateral damage that might be wrought onto South Korea and Japan could be devastating.

“We would not necessarily need to resort to a nuclear strike,” one retired Defense Department official told The National Interest.

“We have conventional capabilities and capacity to take out many of the threats we are most concerned with. It wouldn't be easy, of course.”

...But what are the military options available to the United States should it come to war?

Arms control advocates note that a preventative nuclear first strike would be a gross violation of international law. “Talk of targeting North Korea with nuclear weapons is delusional and should be off the table,” Kelsey Davenport, director for nonproliferation policy at the Arms Control Association..."
Read it all!

Blogger: MuskegonPundit - Overview stats

Blogger: MuskegonPundit - Overview stats

#1 This week 1965-----I Got You Babe - Sonny and Cher Top of the Pops 1965

Blog: What single-payer looks like, up close and personal

Blog: What single-payer looks like, up close and personal: 
"My wife and I took my 91-year-old mom to the emergency room yesterday because she had a bad pain in her back and said she now needed 24-hour care.  
After ten hours waiting, she was finally admitted.
As I heard her continuous, continuous screaming and crying, when her blood pressure went to 220/130, at which point she asked God to help her and that it was time to go, and as she had two morphine shots, other pain relievers, and finally a muscle relaxer, I learned that none of that would allow her to be admitted under Medicare.
A C.T. scan showed that in a fall, she had caused an acute fracture in a vertebrae.  
She had literally broken her back.  
The same bureaucracy was at work when I was told that this alone would also not be accepted as a legitimate cause for a stay at the hospital, according to Medicare.  
You see, a broken back, according to the bureaucrats at the government, merits only observation, not admittance, because three days in the hospital might cause Medicare to have to pay for 20 days of acute nursing home treatment.
Thank goodness my mom also has a UTI, is dehydrated, isn't eating, and isn't confused, because that might be good enough for Medicare.  
The doctors are not even sure that all of this will qualify mom for Medicare coverage..."
Read on!

You ought to know!

Debbie Wasserman Schultz is a threat to national security | New York Post

Debbie Wasserman Schultz is a threat to national security | New York Post:

"As it turns out, Awan had access to Wasserman Schultz’s emails at both Congress and the DNC. He had been given the password to her iPad, which might also explain why she refused to turn over the server to the FBI.

Wasserman Schultz claims she defended Awan to the bitter end, because he’s Muslim and she didn’t want to see him demonized in an Islamophobic witch hunt. But that excuse doesn’t cut ice. Awan exhibited a pattern of shady behavior over the course of his employment. Yet instead of questioning him, she covered for him — and endangered the security of Congress’ computer networks in the process.

Such negligence should not be rewarded with another term in office."

Articles: Obama Looted Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac

Articles: Obama Looted Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac:
"President Obama never was shy about using his phone and pen to achieve what he could not get from Congress on regulatory matters.
But documents revealed last week show the Obama administration may have been willing to get around congressional decisions on spending by using a slush fund of sorts funded by the profits of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, the two government-sponsored home loan giants.
...In response to the mortgage crisis of 2008, Congress passed the Housing and Economic Recovery Act, which provided $187.5 billion in government loans for Fannie and Freddie and placed them in conservatorship under the newly established Federal Housing Finance Agency.
But Fannie and Freddie were not in such bad shape after all, and in just a few years, they were turning profits and on course to pay back the government with interest and still have money to pay dividends to their investors.
In 2012, the Obama administration came up with a plan to divert those profits to the Treasury that became known as the Net Worth Sweep. ...
The dividends were a problem for the administration because it made it hard to explain why it needed to abscond with Fannie and Freddie’s $241 billion in profits, execute an improper taking against the shareholders, and spend the money without congressional approval.
Some even pushed to change accounting methods to make Fannie and Freddie look worse on paper and/or force them to “need” loans to survive..."
Read on!

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