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Thursday, June 21, 2018

No, Not Everybody You Hate Is a Nazi | Trending

"...But I do find it strangely reassuring that no matter what happens, our moral, ethical, and intellectual betters on the left will always brand the targets of their outrage du jour as Nazis.

For example, a few weeks ago, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement tweeted the following:

...But wait! Everybody knows that ICE is bad, so there must be a reason this is bad. Did you notice the tattoos on that guy's arm? Actor and genetic anomaly Ron Perlman sure did:

...As it turns out, Ron Perlman was wrong.
That is not an Iron Cross on that guy's arm:

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Justin Gaertner is a combat wounded U.S. Marine who continues to serve his country as an ICE computer forensics analyst, helping solve criminal cases & rescue abused children. The tattoo shown here is the symbol for his platoon while he fought in Afghanistan. pic.twitter.com/BaOBxaAMHS

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Read the full ICE statement regarding erroneous attacks on ICE employee for #military tattoo: pic.twitter.com/BwA8kFWNFV

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Replying to @ICEgov

Read the full ICE statement regarding erroneous attacks on ICE employee for #military tattoo: pic.twitter.com/BwA8kFWNFV

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Per Gaertner, the tattoo on his left elbow is “Titan 2,” the symbol for his platoon while he fought in Afghanistan. The writing on his right arm is the Spartan Creed which is about protecting family and children. pic.twitter.com/qs8H3tkd6l

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...Oh. Well, why would that stop anybody from calling him a Nazi? Their feelings don't care about his facts.

The whole moronic debacle got started by Talia Lavin, a "fact-checker" for the New Yorker. The magazine has apologized for the error, but I still want to know what they're paying their "fact-checkers" to do all day. This seems like a fact that would've been pretty easy for Lavin to check, but she didn't even bother.

Why didn't she bother? Why did she just assume the worst? Does she even know?

Perlman has apologized as well, sorta:

U.S. Disaster Zones: Are You Living In A Place Where Disasters Are Common?" | Zero Hedge

U.S. Disaster Zones: Are You Living In A Place Where Disasters Are Common?" | Zero Hedge
"With constant media bombardment of fears of a nuclear war, many have begun to prepare for a disaster.
But government uncertainty isn’t the only thing on the minds of the masses.
Volcanic activity appears to be increasing and earthquakes seem to be getting more severe.

That begs the question: do you live in a disaster zone?

In just the past 16 years, parts of Louisiana have been struck by six hurricanes.

Areas near San Diego were devastated by three particularly vicious wildfire seasons.

And a town in eastern Kentucky has been pummeled by at least nine storms severe enough to warrant federal assistance.

These are obvious red flag areas, but what about the rest of the country?

The New York Times has put together a map showing which areas in the United States were subjected to the most disasters which caused monetary losses by ZIP code between 2002 – 2017.

The statistics for living in the “red zones” in the above map are not comforting either.

About 90 percent of the total losses across the United States occurred in ZIP codes that contain less than 20 percent of the national population, according to an analysis of data from the Small Business Administration..."

Read on.

#1 This day 1971-----Carole King - It's Too Late/I Feel The Earth Move (BLOCKED IN GERMANY)

Where Have All the Children Gone? | Intellectual Takeout

Where Have All the Children Gone? | Intellectual Takeout:
"It’s summer vacation, but you might not know it from the absence of children on streets and sidewalks, in parks and public spaces.
Just as afternoons and weekends during the school year are more void of children than ever before, so too is summertime.
Where are all of these young ones?

Increasingly, they are contained in structured, adult-led, often indoor activities where they are told what to do, what to think, and how to act.
Those play-filled afternoons with the neighborhood kids we remember from childhood?
Gone.
Those long summer days outside with friends, roaming in woods or water?
A quaint memory.
Today, for many children, nearly every waking hour of their day is orchestrated by someone else.
Free, unstructured, unsupervised childhood play in our public spaces is an artifact of a by-gone era.
...Quiet neighborhoods aren’t the only consequence of this trend away from natural childhood play. Mounting evidence reveals a rise in childhood mental health issues as children’s play declines..."

You ought to know!

Why the OIG Report Should Scare the Hell Out of YouThe American Spectator

Why the OIG Report Should Scare the Hell Out of YouThe American Spectator:

In other words, the Democrats want to win in November to protect corrupt executive branch departments from their boss. That would be Donald Trump, who won the presidency in a free and fair election. This is what should scare you about the OIG report. The Inspector General is not merely afraid of reprisals from the most powerful government police organ on the planet, his report hedges his bets because he isn’t sure that our democratically elected representatives are going to win the war they are fighting with the deep state. He knows that if the Democrats win in November, the deep state will devolve into a police state.

The Donald!!-----TROLL LEVEL: GRANDMASTER. Don’t worry, the Republicans, and your President, will fix it! pic.t…

JUNE 20, 2018

TROLL LEVEL: GRANDMASTER.

AM Fruitcake

History for June 21

History for June 21 - On-This-Day.com
Martha Washington 1731, Al Hirshfield 1903, Jean-Paul Sartre 1905

Jane Russell 1921, Mariette Hartley 1940, Meredith Baxter Birney 1947

1834 - Cyrus McCormick patented the first practical mechanical reaper for farming. His invention allowed farmers to more than double their crop size.

1893 - The Ferris Wheel was introduced at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, IL.

1940 - Richard M. Nixon and Thelma Catherine ‘Pat’ Ryan were married.

1963 - In St. Louis, Bob Hayes set a record when he ran the 100-yard dash in 0:09.1.

1963 - France announced that they were withdrawing from the North Atlantic NATO fleet.

1985 - Scientists announced that skeletal remains exhumed in Brazil were those of Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele.

1989 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that burning the American flag as a form of political protest was protected by the First Amendment.

2004 - SpaceShipOne, designed by Burt Rutan and piloted by Mike Melvill, reached 328,491 feet above Earth in a 90 minute flight. The height is about 400 feet above the distance scientists consider to be the boundary of space.

Wednesday, June 20, 2018

LIBERTY REVIEW

LIBERTY REVIEW

https://libertyreview76.blogspot.com/2018/06/play-book-by-tammy-derouin-u.html

Play Book

By Tammy Derouin

The U.S. Constitution is our guide, our play book. It must be followed in order to maintain our freedom and prevent tyranny from taking hold. Rules and laws are in place to maintain order and to create a certain level of civility. Without them, life would be chaotic.

Image result for flickr commons images u.s. constitution

Can you imagine what it would be like if individuals were not being held accountable and possibly getting away with crimes, right before your eyes? In the United States, everyone is supposed to be treated equally under the law. Political affiliation, an individual's last name or former job title isn't supposed to make a difference. If it did, we would no longer have equal justice under the law.

Rules exist in every segment of our life. The world of sports is a good example. Each sport has a standard set of rules; a play book. If an official decides to not enforce the rules equally or if favoritism becomes acceptable, problems will arise. In order to maintain a fair playing field for all players, rules must be enforced equally. The fans would not accept a crooked game. Most sports enthusiast know the rules and aren't afraid to call out an official who may have made an improper call. The call may be reviewed or checked by other officials.......

The way we were-----Focus - Hocus Pocus

Boob-tube-----24 NEW SHOWS OF FALL TV 1987

Trampling Out the Vintage Where the Sour Grapes Are Stored

"By any reasonable account, the historic meeting between President Trump and Kim Jong-un, resulting in an agreement pledging to work toward a stable and enduring peace (over six decades after the Korean armistice was signed at Panmunjom) was an incredible achievement.
In fact, had Obama or Clinton achieved as much, we would expect a ticker-tape parade down Fifth Avenue.

North Korea has agreed to completely denuclearize and has begun the process, according to reports of satellite imagery, and has agreed to return the remains of U.S. military who perished in North Korea.

...In fact, the usual press fluffers which hailed Obama’s deals with Cuba and Iran, to name two recent Democratic foreign policy disasters, were bilious about it.

Ed Driscoll at Instapundit scrolled through NewsBusters for a decent example of the media backflips:

PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF…oh, sod it, it’s The View:

● Shot: The View Bashes Trump for Meeting Kim Jong-un: Went ‘Too Far!’

-- NewsBusters, today.

● Chaser: View Hosts Trash ‘Hypocrite’ Mike Pence for Not Giving North Korea Due ‘Respect’ at Olympics.

-- NewsBusters, February 12.

● Hangover: The View’s Behar: Obama Critics Hate ‘Reaching Across the Aisle’ to Iran, Cuba.

-- NewsBusters, March 21, 2016.

The President acknowledged, too, the hypocrisy of the press:

Donald J. Trump
‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump

“A year ago the pundits & talking heads, people that couldn’t do the job before, were begging for conciliation and peace -- ‘please meet, don’t go to war.’ Now that we meet and have a great relationship with Kim Jong Un, the same haters shout out, ‘you shouldn’t meet, do not meet!’

Read all!

IG Report on FBI: No Bias Conclusion May Not Be Supported | National Review

IG Report on FBI: No Bias Conclusion May Not Be Supported | National Review
But who knows?

You’ve got to hand it to Michael Horowitz:

The Justice Department inspector general’s much-anticipated report on the Clinton-emails investigation may be half-baked, but if it is, it is the most comprehensive, meticulously detailed, carefully documented, thoughtfully reasoned epic in the history of half-bakery.
Why say do I say the report “may be half-baked”?

Why don’t I just come out and declare, “The report is half-baked”?

Well, I figure if I write this column in the IG’s elusive style, we’ll have the Rosetta Stone we need to decipher the report.
See, you probably sense that I believe the report is half-baked.

But if I say it “may be” half-baked . . . well, technically that means it may not be, too.

I mean, who really knows, right?
If that annoys you, try wading through 568 pages of this stuff, particularly on the central issue of the investigators’ anti-Trump bias.

The report acknowledges that contempt for Trump was pervasive among several of the top FBI and DOJ officials making decisions about the investigation.

So this deep-seated bias must have affected the decision-making, right?

Well, the report concludes, who really knows?
Not in so many words, of course.

The trick here is the premise the IG establishes from the start: It’s not my job to draw firm conclusions about why things happened the way they did.

In fact, it’s not even my job to determine whether investigative decisions were right or wrong.

The cop-out is that we are dealing here with “discretionary” calls; therefore, the IG rationalizes, the investigators must be given very broad latitude.

Consequently, the IG says his job is not to determine whether any particular decision was correct; just whether, on some otherworldly scale of reasonableness, the decision was defensible.

And he makes that determination by looking at every decision in isolation.
But is that the way we evaluate decisions in the real world?...

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GOP will hit FBI, DOJ with 'full arsenal of constitutional weapons' if they don't comply with subpoena, Gowdy warns | Fox News

GOP will hit FBI, DOJ with 'full arsenal of constitutional weapons' if they don't comply with subpoena, Gowdy warns | Fox News:

Image result for flickr commons images trey gowdy

Gowdy reiterated on "Fox News Sunday" that the IG report was deeply concerning.
"I don’t know what [Special Counsel Robert] Mueller has," he said. "I do know this: that bias is so pervasive and everyone who has ever stood in front of a jury and had to explain it in a way will tell you it is the most miserable feeling in the world and I’ve never seen this level of bias."