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The House Democrats Rule — Impeach him! Impeach him! Impeach him!

November 7, 2019/in Commentary, Elections, Policy, Politics, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by Tim Bryce

Twelve more people were shot in Chicago today, what shall we do?
“Nonsense! Nonsense! Impeach him! Impeach him!” the House Democrats rule.

The fires are burning out of control in California, what should we do?
“Nonsense! Nonsense! Impeach him! Impeach him!” the House Democrats rule.

Our cities are decaying and facing financial collapse, what can we do?
“Nonsense! Nonsense! Impeach him! Impeach him!” the House Democrats rule.

Thousands try to enter the country illegally each day, what will we do?
“Nonsense! Nonsense! Impeach him! Impeach him!” the House Democrats rule.

Our country anxiously awaits approval of new trade deals, what shall we do?
“Nonsense! Nonsense! Impeach him! Impeach him!” the House Democrats rule.

Our homeless are sleeping out in the cold, causing health hazards and a blight, what should we do?
“Nonsense! Nonsense! Impeach him! Impeach him!” the House Democrats rule.

Illegal immigrants are treated better than our own people in need, what can we do?
“Nonsense! Nonsense! Impeach him! Impeach him!” the House Democrats rule.

Our infrastructure crumbles, bridges and roads collapse, what will we do?
“Nonsense! Nonsense! Impeach him! Impeach him!” the House Democrats rule.

The National Debt spirals out of control, what plan have we got, what shall we do?
“Nonsense! Nonsense! Impeach him! Impeach him!” the House Democrats rule.

The economy is booming, people are working, the country is strong, what is wrong?
“Nonsense! Nonsense! Impeach him! Impeach him!” the House Democrats rule.

The Mueller Report found nothing, Russia was a hoax, why can’t we stop?
“Nonsense! Nonsense! Impeach him! Impeach him!” the House Democrats rule.

There’s no evidence of corruption, collusion or abuse. Haven’t we got something better to do?
“Nonsense! Nonsense! Impeach him! Impeach him!” the House Democrats rule.

The Congress has ground to a halt. It is time to get to work or should we retool?
“Nonsense! Nonsense! Impeach him! Impeach him!” the House Democrats rule.

Keep the Faith!

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Millennial Wishes There Were Some Historical Examples Of Socialism We Could Study To Have Some Idea How It Might Turn Out

November 6, 2019/in Commentary, Satire/by The Babylon Bee

PORTLAND, OR—Local socialist millennial man Matthew Hatter lamented Monday that there are no concrete examples of socialism he can point to in order to have some kind of idea how it would turn out.

“If only there were other countries that have tried socialism before,” Hatter said to a friend at an ethical coffee shop, Commiebrews, Monday afternoon, after he finished his paper route. “Then, we could see if there are any pitfalls.”

Hatter said it’d be nice if there were books that covered things like world history and economics that we could read. If that were the case, Hatter said, we could abandon socialism if it looked dangerous or proceed with socialism if every country that implemented it were incredibly successful.

“Like, say some countries in South America tried socialism before and everybody starved to death,” he said. “Or if there were major superpowers who implemented socialism and then, like, 100 million people died—that would be really bad. We could look to these ‘books of history’ and decide that wouldn’t be the route for us.”

“Alas, sadly, this isn’t the case, so the country will just have to be pioneers and try socialism to see what it’s like.”

Hatter said he’s just glad that if socialism turns out to be terrible, no other country would be dumb enough to follow in our footsteps.

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Katie Hill Affair and its Aftermath are Signs of America’s Decline

November 6, 2019/in Commentary, Culture War, Elections, News, Policy, Politics, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by Selwyn Duke

It’s truly not shocking that a political leader would be a reprobate behind closed doors. From Caligula to the Marquis de Sade to Bill Clinton, the depraved have always been overrepresented among the ruling classes. It is for this reason that what’s even more distressing about the Katie Hill affair than what she did is the reaction to it from the broader society — including “broadminded conservatives” defending her.

Hill, the former Democrat congresswoman whose resignation from office took effect Nov. 1, certainly is our time’s Thoroughly Modern Millie. Her escapades have acquainted us with a new term, “throuple,” and she exhibited the cherished “diversity” in illicit affairs of having relations with both a man and a woman, each of whom held different underling positions. To top it off she was seen in intimate photos with a bong and the now obligatory tramp stamp (oh, yeah, sorry — “body art”).

She’s also fashionable in her lack of appropriate shame and in her externalizing; à la Monica Lewinsky, she’s blaming everyone for her scandal but herself. It’s “right-wing media,” her vindictive husband, a “misogynistic culture,” political operatives (is there Russian collusion, too?), and she has plenty of defenders.

Hill has said that none of this would be happening were she a man; commentator-cum-comedian Bill Maher chimed in and, in addition, claimed that Republicans never resign in these situations.

What a testimonial to fascist leader Benito Mussolini’s statement about how he learned, when a journalist (surprised this was his former career? LOL), that you could tell one lie one week and another two weeks later with impunity because people have short memories.

Does the name Mark Foley ring a bell? He was the GOP congressman from Florida who resigned in 2006 for transgressions similar to Hill’s; he sent inappropriate messages to male pages and allegedly had sexual contact with of-age former pages.

Then there’s Eric Massa, the Democrat congressman from upstate NY accused in 2010 of sexually harassing and groping two male staffers (he claimed they were tickle fights), who also resigned. More recently, Democrat Al Franken was washed out of the Senate in 2018 for sexual misconduct. He, Massa and Foley are men. I believe they still are. Moreover, a House rule Hill violated “was enacted last year in response to nearly a dozen male members of Congress resigning amid sexual harassment allegations” (emphasis added), reports The San Diego Union-Tribune.

Oh, as for Massa, Nancy Pelosi at the time called him “a very sick person” and “poor baby,” the latter sarcastically. And Katie Hill today? Pelosi says the lesson is to “be careful when transmitting photos” (be decadent, but don’t get caught).

So the truth is precisely the opposite of Hill’s claim: Were she a man, no one would even entertain her pathetic whining. In fact, she’d be called a cheatin’ dog.

But, hey, 2006 and 2010 and last year were even longer ago than two weeks back, and today’s Left is disappointed that Pelosi didn’t give Hill a “You go, girl!” The New York Times was a bit more circumspect, calling her case “complicated” and bringing to mind the apocryphal saying, “Moral issues are always complex matters — for people who have no principles.”

So I’ll enlighten the Times with the timeless. Hill claims she’s a victim of a “double standard,” but it’s her own standard. The aforementioned House rule is a #MeToo-inspired prohibition enacted late last year forbidding members from dating staffers — and Hill voted for it! She also didn’t mind piling on then-SCOTUS nominee Brett Kavanaugh with vicious value-signaling. It’s poetic that she’s been hoisted with her own petards.

What may be true is that Hill’s husband sought revenge. But so what? His possible bad motives don’t negate her bad behavior. Besides, how many political scandals aren’t exposed by people with ill intent? Did Kavanaugh’s accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, have only the purest motives? People party to scandals generally aren’t beatification-ready and are often driven by a desire for personal gain or vengeance.

But what truly bodes ill for our civilization, reflecting a virtue/vice tipping point, is the increasingly common belief that there was nothing at all wrong with Hill’s actions. CNN commentator Aisha Moodie-Mills perfectly epitomized this sexual devolutionary moral relativism/nihilism, saying last Monday of Hill that there “was nothing necessarily improper about this woman living her best life” (sheesh, I’d hate to see her worst one).

Note that she didn’t say “the” or even “a” best life, which could connote an objective standard; she stated “her best life,” implying it’s all relative, a matter of taste, like eating chocolate ice cream. (Of course, the term “best” then is inappropriate. For who is to say one “taste” is better than another?)

Bespeaking more still of the tipping point, though, sadly, is that even “conservatives” now are conserving this degraded attitude. Just consider Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), a generally very sane and apparently honorable man. Calling the ethics investigation into Hill “absurd,” he claimed she was targeted only for being “different.” Well, I suppose we’re all different. Foley and Massa and the Marquis de Sade were certainly different. But when those differences amount to violating both divine and worldly laws, the differences are damnable.

Gaetz tweeted Oct. 24 that the “only person who seems to have a gripe is @RepKatieHill’s soon-to-be ex,” again reflecting relativism. It’s only her ex’s “feelings” that matter — and only to him — you see, because we know feelings are real (subjective truths, anyway) while right and wrong is just a “social construct.”

Gaetz also said that the issue was “generational” (so is civilizational collapse), with other millennials sympathizing with Hill. “Who among us would look perfect if every ex leaked every photo/text?” his tweet also read. This couldn’t be more distant from the point.

There’s a lot of real estate between “perfect” and patently immoral, “perfect” and objectively unethical, “perfect” and hypocritical. Moreover, were perfection a prerequisite for upholding moral standards, we flawed humans couldn’t have any moral standards, not against lying, lewdness, rudeness, “racism” or anything else. I don’t know if you attended Sunday school, Mr. Gaetz, but we’re supposed to love the sinner but still hate the sin.

Gaetz is correct in saying that millennials (and many others) won’t take issue with Hill’s photos because compromising pictures from their past are often floating about. But here’s a little Philosophy 101: Right and wrong isn’t determined by what people, even great masses of them, have done and want to justify. Right doesn’t become wrong because wrong becomes a rite.

Man has always sinned. But civilization is maintained by repenting and changing our ways — or, at worst, sinning privately — and professing morality publically. As for dumbing down standards and leading others toward Perdition just to self-centeredly salve our feelings, this is likely a far greater sin than whatever it is we aim to justify.

But the above errors were predicted. The great G.K. Chesterton wrote in 1926 that the “next great heresy is going to be simply an attack on morality; and especially on sexual morality.” Hence our Sexual Devolution.

Chesterton also observed that the “business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected.”

“Even when the revolutionist might himself repent of his revolution, the traditionalist is already defending it as part of his tradition,” he continued. “Thus we have two great types — the advanced person who rushes us into ruin, and the retrospective person who admires the ruins.”

Face it, Katie Hill is simply very, very wrong, objectively and unchangeably. So are those who, awash in what used to be leftists’ central ism, relativism, busy themselves conserving yesterday’s liberals’ mistakes.

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Facebook’s Media Deal Will Sideline Conservative Outlets

November 6, 2019/in Commentary, Culture War, Elections, News, Policy, Politics/by Rod Thomson

It’s a little difficult to tea-leaf the precise motivations of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in creating agreements with news outlets that will ultimately inject millions of dollars into those failing businesses.

Social media, specifically Facebook, has eviscerated advertising revenues in traditional media outlets, particularly newspapers. Craig’s List had already drained the classified advertising revenue from newspapers and Facebook led the way in sucking gobs of display advertising away from the papers — not to mention their own marketplace taking share away from Craig’s list.

In response, newspapers have been dinosauric in their business model response, but quick to vilify Facebook for destroying the plodding business model of the venerable Fourth Estate. Of course, they never look in the mirror to see that part of the loss can be attributed to the incredibly low trust level they now earn, particularly since being unmasked as raw Democrat partisans in the age of Trump.

Further, they’ve also led the way in attacking Facebook and Zuckerberg for allowing Russian bots to “influence” the 2016 election for Trump — which of course they did not, as all reasonable people know the relative pennies spent were meaningless. But newspapers are no longer reasonable organizations, at least when it comes to covering national politics.

So it’s certainly possible that Zuckerberg is simply trying to purchase their quiet, by creating a system where they will get a share of revenue from readers consuming their content on or through Facebook. That might be too cynical. He may accept the need for a vibrant media and not recognize it is not an honest one. A combination of these motives seems the most likely.

Even Vox notes this:

“Facebook News helps Facebook not by generating revenue but by making other newspapers happy.”

Maybe more importantly for our purposes, however, these beknighted newspapers will now enjoy most favored media status on Facebook, meaning they will be part of the new Facebook News tab.

This is another cannonball to the hull of conservative media outlets trying not to be sunk to the billions of eyes on Facebook. Facebook, and even more so Twitter and Youtube, have worked to marginalize conservative outlets and individuals through shadow-banning, outright banning, disallowing ads, hiding posts and generally de-platforming. It’s one, long uphill battle because of the clear progressive Democrat orientation of Silicon Valley and the instinct of the progressive to shut down disagreeable speech.

But this new arrangement makes life even harder for conservative outlets. When Zuckerberg announced the move recently, there was literal applause from the media. My inference: the applause from media executives was about the money; the applause from the journalists was about a step toward the return of sole information proprietorship they once enjoyed.

Zuckerberg explained that Facebook will pay “partners” from a variety of mainstream outlets from traditional media outlets including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, NPR, CNN, Bloomberg and the alphabet soup news networks to such egregiously online-only leftist outfits as Buzzfeed and Business Insider to publish their content. The list will also include large metro area news outlets, such as the Los Angeles Times and Boston Globe and so on — which of course are all the same people. Geographic diversity, worldview unanimity.

Not surprisingly, the list includes Fox News (Rupert Murdoch has been pushing hard for this) but interestingly, it also includes Breitbart — which caused howls of derision among the media gatekeepers, claiming Breitbart is “known for pushing white nationalist talking points, conspiracy theories, and polarizing political content of dubious quality.” Pretty easy prediction: Breitbart won’t stay on the list because, as mentioned above, the progressive instinctively wants to block speech with which they disagree.

Facebook has refused to release the full list. So it’s not clear there are any other right-leaning outlets such as the Washington Examiner, New York Post, Daily Caller and Daily Wire. But it means Facebook will be shoveling money and eyeballs towards some media and not others.

While this is yet another pathway for shunting conservative news and commentary outlets, this avenue would also seem to pose a threat to Facebook. By picking and choosing certain news sources, giving them a special platform and creating a fiduciary relationship with them, the social media company may well be more vulnerable to the charge of being a publisher, and not just a platform. Such a designation change would be catastrophic for Facebook.

But by appeasing the media, it may take some of the political heat off the publishing charge, allowing Facebook to continue doing business with its 1.6 billion daily users and hundreds of thousands of advertisers.

In Facebook’s media deal, Facebook wins, mainstream media wins. Conservative media, not so clear, but the red flags are everywhere.

Mike Pence or the Muslim Brotherhood — Who is more dangerous to the safety and well being of gays?

November 6, 2019/in Commentary, Culture War, Healthcare, News, Policy, Politics, Religion, Science/by Dr. Rich Swier

In 1905 Sigmund Freud put forth the idea that homosexuality was the product of a child’s upbringing. Freud wrote, “The presence of both parents plays an important part. The absence of a strong father in childhood not infrequently favours the occurrence of inversion [homosexuality].”

In a September 29th, 2018 article titled Sexuality Part 1: The Aberrations – Sigmund Freud Richard Bukowski, administrator of Psych Reviews wrote:

Inversion (Homosexuality)

The first aberration Freud outlines, which he says includes “no small number of people”, is what he called Inversion, or Homosexuality. He describes the basic categories of absolute inverts, who enjoy exclusively their own sex, amphigenic inverts who are essentially bisexuals, and contingent inverts who resort to homosexuality when there is inaccessibility to other heterosexual objects. These simple categories, at this early time in psychology, break down into different opinions of homosexuals and how they identify with their orientation. Freud says, “inverts vary in their views as to the peculiarity of their sexual instinct. Some of them accept their inversion as something in the natural course of things, and insist energetically that inversion is as legitimate as the normal attitude; others rebel against their inversion and feel it as a pathological compulsion. The fact of a person struggling in this way against a compulsion towards inversion may perhaps determine the possibility of his being influenced by suggestion. It is safe to assume that the most extreme form of inversion will have been present from a very early age and that the person concerned will feel at one with his peculiarity.”

On October 19th, 2019 BOLD Democrats sent out a fundraising email titled Homophobia Alert: Mike Pence is AMBUSHING Pete Buttigieg (help >>). The email stated:

YOU HAVE NOT SIGNED: Add your name to stand with Pete Buttigieg against Mike Pence’s homophobic attacks >>

Mike Pence has a DISGUSTING history of homophobia and anti-LGBT policies — and now he’s coming after Pete Buttigieg.

We’re delivering this petition denouncing his attacks on Pete and the LGBT community tomorrow at noon, but our petition is missing one crucial element: your signature. Please fix this error and add your name immediately >>

This email came out just after a federal judge struck down the so-called “transgender mandate” vacating an Obama-era requirement that doctors perform gender-transition surgeries upon request on October 15th, 2019. The case involed was Franciscan Alliance v. Azar.

The term homophobia was first introduced by George Weinberg, a psychologist, in the 1960s.

This is just one of a series of fundraising emails from the Democrat Party trying to paint Vice President Pence as “homophobic” and anti-gay. What Vice President Pence believes is that marriage is between one man and one woman. He also voted as a member of Congress against bills to give special treatment to people based upon their “gender identity” versus their biological sex at birth.

But perhaps the BOLD Democrats need to read a statement by Egyptian journalist and Muslim Brotherhood (MB) member Amer Shamakh on the website of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party. The Middle East Media Research Institute in an article titled Article On Muslim Brotherhood Website: Election Of A Gay U.S. President Will Lead To Pressure On Arab Countries To Permit Homosexuality; The Prophet Muhammad Ordered The Killing Of Homosexuals reported:

Below are excerpts from Shamakh’s article:

“After the world has experienced an extremist U.S. president who alarmed the world, especially the Muslims, with his madness and his strange decisions, it may in the future experience another [kind of] U.S. president: a gay one… The official U.S. candidate [sic] for the 2020 presidential election is 37-year-old Pete Buttigieg, a Democrat, who is currently mayor of South Bend, Indiana. He has been married for a year to his partner Justin, and the two have now declared that they want to start a family!

“This pervert wishes to gain the votes of his fellow [LGBTQ] Americans, whose number has increased many times over in [the past] 25 years. Surveys indicate that during this period the number of Americans who support homosexuality increased fivefold, the number of homosexuals in U.S. society rose from 3% in 1990 to 20% in 2014, and the number of those favoring marriage among these perverts rose from 11% in 1990 to 49% in 2014. This means that 20% of Americans are gay, and that 50% of Americans support the gay 20% and recognize them [as legitimate], in spite of their crime that contravenes human nature… and does not exist even among animals.

“Sadly, this is true not only for the Americans. This phenomenon is widespread, and is spoken about openly in all Western countries, without exception. It has become one of the [human] rights and one of the foreign policy goals of Western countries, and is a top priority of bodies like the U.N., the World Bank, and Amnesty [International]. In Europe and America, gay liberation is now regarded as a major principle of the human rights agenda and [human rights] lobby, including a variety of organizations that pressure regimes and governments.

Read more.

What is most revealing is how Democrats and the media white washed Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi after the raid that killed him. Perhaps they forgot about a man named Omar Mateen? The Counter Extremism Project in an article titled ISIS’s Persecution of Gay People noted:

At about 2 a.m. on June 12, 2016, 29-year-old U.S. citizen Omar Mateen shot and killed 49 people and injured 53 more at Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida. Right before the attack, Mateen made a 911 call, during which he reportedly pledged allegiance to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Following a shootout with police in which Mateen was killed, ISIS officially claimed responsibility for the attack, announcing that “an Islamic State fighter” had “targeted a nightclub for homosexuals.” (Sources: Washington Post, TIME)

The shooting was a brutal reminder of ISIS’s willingness and capacity to carry out an attack overseas—whether by radicalizing and inspiring individuals online to carry out so-called “lone-wolf” attacks, or by carefully building terror networks and providing operational support. The Orlando attack, which stands as the deadliest shooting on American soil, was also an echo of ISIS’s systematic hostility and persecution of gay people in Iraq and Syria.*

For example, in early May 2016, an ISIS court charged a young Syrian man with the “crime” of engaging in gay sex. In front of a crowd numbering in the hundreds in Manbij, Syria, ISIS fighters threw the young man from the top of a building as punishment for his so-called “crime.” This is but one case of how ISIS exploits pre-existing religious and social biases against gay people among the populations under its control in order to justify their persecution, a practice that has reportedly continued into 2017, despite territorial losses. (Sources: ARA News, Iraqi News, Daily Mail)

The Democrat Party is looking at Pete Buttigieg to become either their nominee for president or perhaps the vice-president running mate to say a Joe Biden or Elizabeth Warren.

How will this impact the Muslim majority countries in their relationship with the United States? Will this be looked upon as a wedge to legalize homosexuality in Muslim majority nations?

Clearly at least one Muslim journalist is raising the issue. But Vice President Pence is clearly not someone that either Democrats or gays need to fear when it comes to the LGBTQ community.

This is us! A person age 65 or older has a net worth 47 times greater than someone under 35.

November 5, 2019/in Budget and Finance, Commentary, Economy, Elections, Policy, Politics/by Dr. Rich Swier

This commentary was received from a longtime international friend of ours. A thoughtful commentary indeed:

The typical U.S. household headed by a person age 65 or older has a net worth 47 times greater than a household headed by someone under 35, according to an analysis of census data released Monday. They like to refer to us as senior citizens, old fogies, geezers, and in some cases dinosaurs. Some of us are “Baby Boomers getting ready to retire. Others have been retired for some time. We walk a little slower these days and our eyes and hearing are not what they once were. We worked hard, raised our children, worshiped our God and have grown old together. Yes, we are the ones some refer to as being over the hill, and that is probably true. But before writing us off completely, there are a few things that need to be taken into consideration.

In school we studied English, history, math, and science, which enabled us to lead America into the technological age. Most of us remember what outhouses were, many of us with firsthand experience. We remember the days of telephone party-lines, 25 cent gasoline, and milk and ice being delivered to our homes. For those of you who don’t know what an icebox is, today they are electric and referred to as refrigerators. A few even remember when cars were started with a crank. Yes, we lived those days.

We are probably considered old fashioned and outdated by many. But there are a few things you need to remember before completely writing us off. We won World War II, fought in Korea and Viet Nam. We can quote The Pledge of Allegiance, and know where to place our hand while doing so. We wore the uniform of our country with pride and lost many friends on the battlefield. We didn’t fight for the Socialist States of America; we fought for the “Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave. We wore different uniforms but carried the same flag.

We know the words to the “Star Spangled Banner, America, and America the Beautiful by heart, and you may even see some tears running down our cheeks as we sing. We have lived what many of you have only read in history books and we feel no obligation to apologize to anyone for America .

Yes, we are old and slow these days but rest assured, we have at least one good fight left in us. We have loved this country, fought for it, and died for it, and now we are going to save it. It is our country and nobody is going to take it away from us. We took oaths to defend America against all enemies, foreign and domestic, and that is an oath we plan to keep. There are those who want to destroy this land we love but, like our founders, there is no way we are going to remain silent.

It was mostly the young people of this nation who elected Obama and the Democratic Congress. You fell for the “Hope and Change” which in reality was nothing but “Hype and Lies.” You youngsters have tasted socialism and seen evil face to face, and have found you don’t like it after all. You make a lot of noise, but most are all too interested in their careers or “Climbing the Social Ladder” to be involved in such mundane things as patriotism and voting. Many of those who fell for the “Great Lie” in 2008 are now having buyer’s remorse. With all the education we gave you, you didn’t have sense enough to see through the lies and instead drank the ‘Kool-Aid.’ Now you’re paying the price and complaining about it; no jobs, lost mortgages, higher taxes, and less freedom. This is what you voted for and this is what you got. We entrusted you with the Torch of Liberty, and you traded it for a paycheck and a fancy house.

Well, don’t worry youngsters, the Grey-Haired Brigade is here, and in 2016 we took back our nation. We may drive a little slower than you would like, but we get where we’re going, and in 2020 we’re going to the polls again by the millions.

So the next time you have the chance to say the Pledge of Allegiance, stand up, put your hand over your heart, honor our country, and thank God for the old geezers of the “Gray-Haired Brigade.”

Footnote: This is spot on. I am another Gray-Haired Geezer signing on. I will circulate this to other Gray-Haired Geezers all over this once great county.

Can you feel the ground shaking??? It’s not an earthquake, it is a:

STAMPEDE!!!!

You and I are Members.

In God we STILL trust!

Calling All Rosa Parks Americans

November 5, 2019/in Commentary, Elections, Policy, Politics/by Lloyd Marcus

The insanity going on before our very eyes regarding Democrats’ and fake news medias’ latest campaign to impeach Trump over nonsense is infuriating millions of Americans. It is the equivalent of Adam Schiff flooding the airwaves with the lie that Trump stole his car and must be impeached for it. Meanwhile, Schiff’s car is parked untouched in his driveway for all the world to see. Ignoring the truth that Schiff’s car was not stolen, Democrats and fake news media cart out a dozen witnesses (whistle-blowers) who claim they saw Trump commit the crime.

This is exactly what is going on with Schiff’s outrageous claim that Trump committed impeachable crimes during his phone call with the Ukraine president. Schiff publicly read a bogus version of the conversation between Trump and the president of Ukraine. Trump brilliantly countered Schiff’s lie by releasing the actual transcript of their phone call. Ignoring the actual transcript, Democrats and their fake news media cheering section are still promoting the false narrative 24/7 that Trump must be impeached for what Schiff claims Trump said on the phone call. This is in-our-face arrogant corruption.

Behaviorally, Schiff, Democrats and fake news media are saying we’re kickin’ your president out of office and there ain’t nothing you smelly Walmart-shopping Trump voters can do about it.

I received an expletive-filled ranting phone call from a businessman friend in California. He was livid watching Pelosi, Schiff and their fake news media minions on TV arrogantly promoting a false picture of Trump while seeming to get away with it. He kept screaming, where are the ******* Republicans on our side who are fighting back? I talked him down from throwing a brick through his TV. My friend’s frustration and anger is felt by millions; outraged that Democrats and fake news media are attempting to use nonsense to disenfranchise them, reversing their decision to elect Trump.

The Democrat Party, fake news media, ANTIFA, the Southern Poverty Law Center, Black Lives Matter, and LGBTQ enforcers are nothing more than anti-American and anti-Christian hate groups. They have launched a no-holds-barred war on traditional Americans. They have zero tolerance for any opposition to them transforming America. Along with social and financial destruction, opposing them could cost you your life.

Black civil rights hero Rosa Parks was an excellent example of courage. Tired after a long day at work, Rosa took a seat in the front of the public transit bus, ignoring the mandate that blacks must sit in the back. When ordered to give up her seat to a white passenger, Rosa said, no. Folks, we need thousands of Rosa Parks Americans who refuse to be bullied by the anti-American mob.

I salute Jaelene Hinkle, an outspoken Christian on the US national soccer team. Jaelene is a perfect example of the courage we need to see displayed across America. When ordered to wear a “rainbow” jersey honoring homosexual pride, Jaelene said, no. Wisely, Jaelene said, “If you live for people’s acceptance, you’ll die from their rejection.”

Courageous outraged parents across America are protesting drag queens reading homosexual indoctrination stories to their kids in public libraries. So what does Kaiser Permanente do? They featured a drag queen reading to children in their commercial. Why would Kaiser do that considering that you could fit all the drag queens in America in a phone booth? Clearly, this is another major corporation saying, screw you, mainstream Americans. In essence, Kaiser is saying, we’re cramming the normalization of debauchery down your throats whether you like it or not.

For years, I warned of LGBTQ enforcers’ hidden scheme to force us to celebrate their anti-biblical lifestyle, while portraying themselves as victims who only desire tolerance. People laughed and called me paranoid. Today, if Democrats win the presidency, HR 5, the deceptively named “Equality Act”, will become law. It mandates that every American kneel in worship to LGBTQ perversion. Christians are already being thrown into jail and run out-of-business for saying no to LGBTQ enforcers demanding that they betray Jesus.

LGBTQ enforcers ignore dozens of bakeries who would gladly make a cake for their same sex wedding. They bang on the door of the Christian baker and demand that he bake the cake for their homosexual wedding or suffer dire consequences. Obviously, this is not about acquiring a cake. It is about punishing and forcing Christians to surrender to their LGBTQ false god. Because of its condemnation of homosexuality, legislation is underway to ban the Bible by declaring it hate speech.

Nervous Nancy Pelosi knows she cannot successfully impeach Trump. She would need the votes of 67 senators and that ain’t happenin’. So her game plan is to use her fake news media minions to deceive the American people. They will promote the lie 24/7 that Trump has been or should be impeached. Pelosi hopes to kill Trump’s presidency via death by a thousand cuts.

Mary Kay Ash of Mary Kay Cosmetics said, “The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.” In other words, leadership flows from the top down. Trump is a leader like no politician before him. His courage should inspire all of us who love our country to courageously stand up for principles and values which have made her great. Just say no to anti-Christian and anti-American traitor’s bullying demands. Spread the good news about what Trump has done and is doing to keep America great.

My enraged California friend passionately said, “We must save our president!” I am doing my part by writing articles, campaigning for Republican candidates, and touring singing my new Trump Train 2020 song. I guarantee my song will pump you up!

Even More Political Correctness

November 5, 2019/in Commentary, Culture War, Elections, Policy, Politics, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by Tim Bryce

For some time we have witnessed how political correctness has affected our speech, manners, even our senses of humor and history. We are asked to forget everything taught to us as it was undeniably wrong, at least according to the far left. Normally, such antics would be dismissed as silly, but then again, there is a subliminal agenda underway here. Two recent examples remind us of how strange it is becoming.

For many years, the expression “okay” was considered a quick way to verify something was satisfactory and ready to go. The question, “Are you okay?” would normally be answered with a thumbs-up gesture or the “OK” symbol expressed by holding up your hand and having the tip of the index finger touch the tip of the thumb. The people at NASA used it for years during the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs, not to mention the Space Shuttle and other programs. The expression became so popular, just about everyone used it in all walks of life.

This all changed recently as “OK” is now considered an expression of racism, and as iconic as the one finger salute. Today, the Left contends the hand gesture is a symbol of “White Power” as the three fingers are alleged to represent a “W” (for White), and the thumb/index finger connection represents a “P” (for Power); “White Power.” I don’t know who exactly dreamed this one up, but it is a real stretch of the imagination to do so.

We may laugh at the use of this symbol as a mark of white supremacy, but an actor at Universal Orlando didn’t find it amusing when it cost him his job. The actor, who remains unidentified, was dressed in character and made the “OK” symbol while standing behind the back of a biracial girl in a photo on the set of a movie. Universal confirms the story. In addition, the Anti-Defamation League updated its data base of hate symbols last week with the “OK” gesture.

Frankly, I never realized NASA was so racist. 😉

Next, we recently learned the use of mathematics is racist. Calling it “Weapons of Math Destruction,” Dr. Cathy O’Neil, a mathematician from Harvard, contends math, particularly statistics, has been used extensively to regulate blacks by whites. As such, math is used for discrimination and therefore is evil. She explains this in a recent YouTube video. This one is particularly hard to swallow, maybe it is her green hair that is at the root of all this.

I saw an interview on Tucker Carlson recently where another liberal defended the notion of math being used for racist purposes, but took it further by contending all whites are, by definition, racists. I was confused by this as she was white as well. Perhaps she meant all liberals are nuts for suggesting such an idea.

All of these taboos are getting out of hand and I wonder when it will ever stop. Probably never.

The next thing you will hear is that expressions such as “please” and “thank you” denotes racism as it suggests subservient behavior towards others thereby creating a master/slave relationship. In this case, they are mistaking simple manners with racism.

So, is political correctness “OK” with you? Oy!

Also see: “More Political Correctness Run Amok” (Oct 23, 2018)

Keep the Faith!

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America’s Democrats Bow to Chinese and Soviet Marxism

November 4, 2019/in Commentary, Culture War, Elections, Policy, Politics, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by Kelleigh Nelson

“We are indebted to Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin for giving us a weapon. The weapon is not a machine-gun, but Marxism-Leninism.” – Mao Zedong

“The goal of socialism is communism.” – Vladimir Lenin

“A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.” – Mao Zedong

“Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.” – Vladimir Lenin

Voltaire, who died in 1778 in France said,

“To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.”

And just who rules over us? Despite our populist President and Republican Senate majority, it appears as though the Democratic Socialists are running the country and have been for nearly a century.

Sometimes a seemingly innocuous situation can demonstrate to the world where many corporations’ true values lie, especially when they kowtow to Communist China’s big stick. Even the NBA has shown its colors in bowing to the Reds. Daryl Morey, the general manager of the Houston Rockets, sparked backlash in China after tweeting support for the protests in Hong Kong. He was immediately excoriated by Lebron James and others who knelt to Communist China over American freedoms, all for the love of money.

While Hong Kong fights for freedom from mainland China, America’s youth rally behind the communist Democratic candidates believing that utopia exists for everyone with socialism.

Comments from my previous article regarding the 1941 Lend Lease Act attest that some older Americans understand the extent of Soviet/Marxist espionage within our country. A Vietnam veteran wrote this:

Reading your article infuriates me no end when I consider that I served six years in the USMC during the Vietnam era and recalled the mantra and government propaganda of how good people died in the swamps and jungles on the pretense of defeating communism while communism grew fat and sassy on American soil. As I told people many times, ‘Kill a commie in Vietnam you get a medal; come home and kill one on American soil and you get life in prison.’

The fact that they exist in our government, much less are allowed to exist, is an insult to every person who died or was injured in Vietnam.

I was saddened, and infuriated when I read Trevor Loudon’s latest article stating that Russia had to be saved from Hitler’s destruction.

Another comment was from Mary who is 80 years young:

I was just a child, but I remember my father talking about the Lend Lease Act as he read the editorial page at the breakfast table. Every time the Act was mentioned, it was preceded by the word, ‘damned.’ Even though many years have passed, when I started reading your article, I knew full well what the Act entailed. My father despised all those people surrounding Roosevelt and he would often allude to the fact that none of our allies ever paid back the money the U.S. lent them during WWI. Thank goodness President Trump understands the complexities of our entangling alliances. I pray he is re-elected.

Bowing to Beijing

Brett Decker’s book, Bowing to Beijing, gives a clear picture of what Communist China is truly like.

China is “stealing technology, ripping off patents and trademarks, manipulating and even counterfeiting U.S. currency, breaking trade laws, misrepresenting military spending, selling toxic toys to American children, dispatching armies of foreign agents to influence U.S. politicians, testing U.S. resolve on sensitive diplomatic issues, purchasing stakes in our banks and buying up our land, taking control of Hollywood, nurturing U.S. commercial dependency on Chinese business, building a blue-water navy, expanding its nuclear arsenal, and hacking our computer networks.” (Page 6, Bowing to Beijing)

More than one million Turkic Muslims, the Uighurs (pronounced wee-grrs) have been put in detention camps in China’s western region of Xinjiang to “re-educate” them into communist converts. The cruelty by the guards is rarely told, including gang rapes and medical experiments.

China’s government is more authoritarian than ever despite increased trade with America. It is not becoming more free and capitalistic as some experts believe. As we make China richer, and their military stronger, it is becoming correspondingly less free.

The Reds arrest and torture any with faith that is antithetical to Marxist atheism.
Reporters’ freedom is nearly non-existent…there is violent fear of reprisal.
Freedom of speech is non-existent, those who speak out disappear.
Freedom of assembly is verboten. Farmers, factory workers, white-collar professionals are mowed down if they dare to join in any mass movement. Remember Tiananmen Square.
No one thrives without approval and active backing of their communist overlords.
Life is not respected, although the one-child plan has recently been removed. The organs of executed inmates (dissidents) are harvested for transplants in the global market. They refuse to recognize life and trample the rest of basic rights.
Criticism in any form is rejected and can end anyone who complains in prison.

Decker tells that the Penal Meat Market is very real. A shot to the back of the head keeps organs intact. The body parts of prisoners bring a tidy profit, and, “If you want a heart, kidneys, unlined skin, they’ll shoot a prisoner to order,” said two Chinese organ traders.

Forced labor for prisoners is a way of life, and they make products for the West. They are padlocked in dormitories and forced to work up to 18 hours a day in subhuman environments. Apple, IPods, Bluetooth accessories, Ikea products and Marks and Spencer clothing are just a few of the items made by slave prison labor.

In China’s officially atheist nation, being a Christian or believing in God is considered subversive. There is and continues to be a savage campaign against Christians despite Christianity being the fastest growing religion in the People’s Republic, but militant government atheists are pushing back. (Page 16-31, Bowing to Beijing).

Mao Zedong said, “Communism is not love, Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.” This is what America supports as most-favored-nation (MFN) trade status for China. In 2002, President George W. Bush granted permanent trade status to Communist Red China.

Western Complicity

Glenn Reynolds, Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Tennessee wrote praise for Vladimir Bukovsky’s book, Judgment in Moscow, Soviet Crimes and Western Complicity. Reynolds said, “Russian interference in Western politics has been in the news of late, but Bukovsky’s deep dive into Soviet era documents demonstrates that for much of the 20^th century, since at least the 1930s, it was not paranoid fantasy, but cold, hard fact.”

Soviet dissident Vladimir Bukovsky spent twelve years in Russian psychiatric hospitals, prisons or labor camps. The Soviet Union expelled him in 1976, but in 1992, he was asked to return to Russia as an expert witness at a trial against Boris Yeltsin. He requested access to the Central Committee archives and copied and smuggled out thousands of pages before being discovered. His findings were published in Judgment in Moscow in 1995 and translated in French, Russian and other European languages.

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His book documenting Western complicity didn’t find a U.S. publisher for almost 25 years. It was finally published in English in May of 2019 by a small California publishing house. Bukovsky passed away in Cambridge, England on October 27^th, 2019 at the age of 76. Please read his bio, and Diana West’s eulogy for this great warrior for freedom.

Soviet Russia is no different than China, and Bukovsky proved that time and again. He wrote, “Any sane person knows full well when he has entered into collusion with evil.” Bukovsky knew that engagement by the West with despots only leads to corruption, not freedom. He wrote, “The voice of conscience whispers that our fall began from the moment we agreed to ‘peaceful coexistence’ with evil.”

When Putin became president, Bukovsky was quick to realize what this meant for Russia: the KGB was back. Putin spent 16 years in the KGB before entering politics. Judgment in Moscow tells of murder by Putin.

McCarthy was Right

Stanton Evans’ book, Stalin’s Secret Agents, The Subversion of Roosevelt’s Government substantiates the pro-Red influence on American policy during the Cold War, and Blacklisted by History, verifies that the anti-anti-Communists won by destroying Senator Joseph McCarthy.

For recent documentation, one need only read Diana West’s book, The Red Thread which thoroughly connects Obama henchmen Nellie Ohr, James Comey, John Brennan and others to socialist/communist ideology. West’s American Betrayal tells the whole sordid tale of three Soviet agents who influenced President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to pass the Lend Lease Act resulting in massive support of Soviet Russia during WWII over and above Great Britain and even our own country.

American Socialism/Communism

Today’s Democratic Party communists are pushing the same party line used by the Russian Bolsheviks and Mao’s Single Party State in China. Our history is being destroyed, education in America has become politically correct propaganda from kindergarten through higher education, free speech is censored despite the First Amendment of the Bill of Rights, unborn human babies are murdered daily now reaching over 60 million and states have legalized infanticide, the media constantly lies with impunity, and public decorum, civility and respect for property has disintegrated.

Democratic presidential candidates are spewing their proletariat utopia, which has influenced so many Americans who have never been schooled in American history or our Constitution. Shockingly 45 percent of young Americans prefer socialism, and even 26 percent of baby boomers agree.

We’ve all heard of progressive taxation, punishing the wealthy by taxing them at higher rates, and wealth redistribution via “earned” Income Tax Credits, the only venue program fund to be considered a high risk for improper payments.

American History

It’s been sixty years since American high schools taught our history, our Constitution, the American Revolution for independence and how our founders fought for freedom. Mao Zedong’s revolutionary takeover of China in 1949, expelling Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalist Party to Taipei, Taiwan and destroying the history of the Republic of China and the Qing Dynasty is now happening in America.

Protestors on the small island of Taiwan do not want Red Chinese mainland in control. They wave American flags, show pictures of President Trump, and sing our national anthem. Their call is freedom!

Political correctness is blinding the eyes of our young. Schools have been renamed because they were previously named to honor Civil War generals such as Stonewall Jackson and others.

American statues of southern veterans are destroyed, without even a glance at their true history. Robert E. Lee is vilified despite the fact he gave freedom to inherited slaves ten years before the war, and that his wife taught black folks to read and write, against the laws of the time.

General Nathan Bedford Forrest rode with Tennessee’s sheriffs to disband the KKK and was vilified while on stage, when he kissed a black woman’s cheek. Remember too that his black servants, not slaves, chose to go with him to war.

We are not only revising our history, but we are destroying it…just as Communist China has done since 1949, and as Russia did before them after the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution.

American Education

For more than a century, American education has been watered down. Decades ago, phonics was eliminated in the first grade of our government schools, Latin was eliminated in our high schools. Even cursive writing has been eliminated, although a few states have brought it back. Today’s education from kindergarten to post graduate degrees is nothing but leftist (communist) propaganda. By the late 1800s, academic basics were being slowly eliminated.

Common Core socialist education is rampant. Children come home telling their parents they’ve ruined the world, that climate change is real, that socialism is good, that collectivism is wonderful and all people will be equal. Christianity is verboten, but Islam is taught and girls are even dressed in hijabs. Our colleges and universities are loaded with communist professors and the students are radicalized. Individualism is hated. Millions of Americans are functionally illiterate and 20 percent of high school graduates can’t read.

Chinese children are taught to excel in math, science, technology, engineering, etc., but they are fed the Marxist propaganda. Kindergarten students in Communist Red China are forced to sign away their religious beliefs.

American education today is a carbon copy of the propaganda sold to children in communist countries like Red China and Soviet Russia.

Baby Murder

There’s little difference between China and America’s love of abortion and infanticide. The “Dying Rooms” of China are similar to the dying rooms of America. In both countries unborn children are murdered daily by the thousands, but the reality is that like China, born alive infants of abortion are left alone to die.

When Obama was in the Illinois legislature, he voted against the Born Alive Infant Protection Act (BAIPA) several times. He preferred they died alone in back rooms after they survived murder by their mothers.

The transcript from the 1995 BBC television documentary tells the story. Chinese infants who were about one year old, or even younger, were tied to beds at night to die. Once, an infant’s fingers and hand were eaten by rats. We’ve moved into that ungodly, evil realm.

Infanticide in America has been greenlighted. Attorneys for David Daleiden submitted a closing argument brief detailing that live births are occurring inside the abortion facilities and that these newborns are routinely killed and their organs harvested while still alive. Link

California’s Governor Newsom has signed a bill mandating free abortions at colleges and universities.

Marx and Satan

There is no doubt that social media is censoring everything conservative, and everything that pertains to our once proud Judeo-Christian heritage. Christianity was long ago tossed from our government schools; it’s not allowed in much of anything anymore. Society is purposefully devoid of God. Marxist doctrine is atheistic and hates the Creator. Voluntary Christian prayers are not allowed in schools, but mandatory Islamic prayers are okay.

China only allows versions of the Bible sanctioned by the state. Children under 18 cannot enter churches, crosses have been removed, and many churches destroyed. In America leftists and Hollywood depict Christians as fools who believe in fairy tales.

Here is a partial list of religious removals across America. Atheists are the antagonists, and the Democratic Party has become the communist anti-God movement.

Conclusion

Pastor Wurmbrand’s book, Marx and Satan tells the story of what it’s like to be a Christian prisoner in communist controlled Romania. Wurmbrand was tortured for 13 years in and testified to our Senate what he suffered under Romania’s Nicolae Ceaușescu.

This must never happen to America. We must stand for freedom, and having done all, to stand. Ephesians 6:13 KJV

Meet Ann Davison Sattler running for the Seattle City Council

November 4, 2019/in Commentary, Elections, News, Policy, Politics/by Dr. Rich Swier

It is always important to listen to citizens when they send us an email. Laura sent us an email about the November 5th, 2019 non-partisan District 5 race for the Seattle City Council staying:

If possible, I hope you can also post an article to support Ann Davison Sattler who is running for Seattle City Council in District 5. The person who she is running against, Debora Juarez is rude to people. Here is a video as proof of the rudeness of Deborah Juarez:

Seattle, like many cities, is controlled by those who have ignored the people. Ann Davison Sattler wants to change that holier than thou attitude of the members of the City Council. In the above video the gentleman is clearly concerned that the sitting members of the Seattle City Council are more interested in their cell phones than they are interested in what he has to say. He even quotes George Orwell and the proclamation by the pigs who control the government in the novel Animal Farm,

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

Seattle can count itself among many West Coast cities that have become Animal Farms, where the people are being treated like animals by those who control the government.

Perhaps it is time for a change of direction in Seattle? Perhaps Ann Davison Sattler is the one person who wants to treat all of the citizens of Seattle, Washington as equals?

To learn more about Ann Davison Sattler please click here.

Obama Canceled After Activists Dig Up Old Presidential Campaign Where He Opposed Gay Marriage

November 2, 2019/in Commentary, Satire/by The Babylon Bee

CHICAGO, IL—Former President Barack Obama caused a stir while speaking at a summit in Chicago. He called out “cancel culture,” telling people that doing things like being “judgmental” and “casting stones” wasn’t helping anyone and was just causing further divisions.

This caused immediate outrage from the left. “So now he doesn’t want us judging NAZIS?!” exclaimed progressive activist Lucia James. Now knowing that Obama is a nazi-sympathizer, activists dug into Obama’s past for other evidence of alt-right sympathies and soon made public a discovery: Back in 2007 and 2008, Obama ran a presidential campaign in which he opposed gay marriage.

Obama at first denied the allegation that he said these things over a decade ago, but when confronted with the evidence admitted he had run as a presidential candidate who opposed gay marriage. He claimed he has now learned his lesson and asked for forgiveness.

Left-wing activists say, “Absolutely not.”

“Forgiving that homophobe would be an insult to all the oppressed people who got oppressed,” said online commentator Austin Cross. Activists say that instead of forgiving him, they will cancel him and also hunt down anyone who voted for the homophobe Obama in 2008 so that they as well can be cast into the outer darkness away from the light of wokeness, where there will be “wailing and gnashing of teeth,” though occasionally you get to “enjoy a joke from Dave Chappelle.”

Nationals Elites vs Astros Americans

November 2, 2019/in Commentary, News, Policy, Politics/by Lloyd Marcus

Counselor to the president, Kellyanne Conway, appeared on Fox and Friends wearing a Washington National’s baseball cap in honor of them winning the World Series. Kellyanne excitedly said, “Since president Trump came to office the Capitals, the hockey team, the Mystics and the Nationals have won their first championships.”

I am not as forgiving of the Nationals as Kellyanne. I have not followed baseball for years. My buddy Bob is an avid baseball fan, extremely excited about his Nationals finally making it to the playoffs. So, I became an instant Nationals fan.

I joined Bob in rooting for the Nationals to win the World Series. Politics never entered my mind. President Trump attended a World Series game in Washington DC and Nationals fans booed him. They even had the audacity to chant, “Lock him up!” That’s when the cold political reality hit me. These fans are elitist swamp dwellers. They are not everyday Americans because most everyday Americans cannot afford a ticket to the World Series.

I was shocked when my blue collar West Virginia handyman told me how expensive it is to take his son and wife to a regular season Nationals baseball game. I have fond childhood memories of my cousin Buntsy and I having enough money to regularly attend Baltimore Orioles games at Memorial Stadium. I was blown away when I walked through the tunnel, up the ramp to see the stunningly beautiful green baseball field. Tickets were priced for everyday people.

When those Washington Nationals fans booed my president, I wanted the Nationals to lose the series. That may not be fair to the Nationals players, but that is how I felt. In my mind, the series became Washington elitists vs America.

About Bob: My friend of over 30 years is a minister, author and huge Trump supporter. He is also the luckiest guy on the planet. Whenever there is a raffle or drawing, Bob typically wins. He has caught an amazing number of foul baseballs and home runs at major league baseball games.

In 1999, Bob and I attended a game at Camden Yards. Bob went to the restroom. Oriole Jeff Conine hit a home-run over my head. When I turned to look, Bob emerged from the tunnel holding the home-run ball high into the air, grinning ear to ear. Amazing. Bob gifted that baseball to me.

Watching professional sports should be a non-political enjoyable pastime. Rush Limbaugh often says liberals corrupt or destroy everything they touch. All I wanted to do was support my buddy by rooting for his team to win the World Series. Nationals fans infected with Trump derangement syndrome even screwed that up.

Despite their venomous attack of our president, it is appropriate for Kellyanne to take the high ground by celebrating the Nationals winning the championship. The Houston Astros winning the series would have made my day.

Petition launched to Impeach Hawaii Democrat Governor David Ige

November 2, 2019/in Commentary, Culture War, Policy, Politics/by Dr. Rich Swier

A group led by Darious Edwards started a petition to The Office of Hawaiian Affairs to impeach the Democrat Governor of Hawaii David Ige. The petition states:

We call for the impeachment or resignation of Governor David Ige For not upholding the laws that protect the Hawaiian people, Hawaiian sacred land, and the laws protecting Mauna Kea. David Ige is choosing to protect corporate business over the rights of its own residents of that state that he was elected to govern and has failed to uphold his duties. We also call for the complete stand down of all government officials that have been sent to the big island to cause harm to our peaceful protectors and wasting the tax payers dollar! 15 unlawful arrest have been made due to his own person interest in a multi billion dollar investments.

In the United States history 7 Governors have been impeached for failing to uphold their duty or Governing and protecting its people. We ask that Governor David Ige be removed from office and replaced temporarily with the Lieutenant Governor of Hawaii given that he Immediately stops all the atrocity that is taking place in the state of Hawaii, and if he fails to do so with personal interest we the people demand for a snap election (early election) without his approval.

Impeachment can be a long and hard process and doesn’t happen in one day so we ask that if the House of Representatives considers the needs for the people and that they temporarily shut down the Construction of the 30 meter telescope Until a final Court ruling is established

we also ask the support from our state representatives Brian Schatz and Mazie Hirono to support the residents on this matter.

Please help save the land, culture, and people of these beautiful islands before it’s to late. Please sign and share this petition soon before damage and desecration has begun. Mahalo

The state goal was 35,000 signatures. The petition currently has 58,367 signatures.

Those wishing to sign the petition to Impeach David Ige click here.

Michelle: Many Around the World Feel Barack is ‘Their President’

November 2, 2019/in Commentary, Policy, Politics, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by Discover The Networks

Speaking at the Obama Foundation Summit at the Illinois Institute of Technology on Tuesday, former first lady Michelle Obama said her husband, former President Barack Obama, could have built his presidential library anywhere because so many people around the world feel he is “their president.”

Michelle O. explained that Chicago’s Jackson Park was selected as the site for the Obama Presidential Center because it was close to the couple’s former home and situated near her South Side childhood home. “There’s power in the selection of Jackson Park,” the former first lady said. “Barack and I don’t do things incidentally. There’s a strategy.”

But she pointed out that “Barack’s presidential library could have been anywhere in the world, because there are so many people who feel like he is their president.” Not so many people inside the U.S. feel that way, however.

“New York wanted it. Hawaii wants it,” she added. No word on whether Kenya wanted it.

Michelle Obama

On February 1, 2008, Mrs. Obama said, “I don’t think there is a person of color in this country that doesn’t struggle with what it means to be a part of your race versus what the majority thinks is right.”

While campaigning for her husband on February 18, 2008, Mrs. Obama told an audience in Milwaukee, Wisconsin: “[F]or the first time in my adult life I am proud of my country because it feels like hope is finally making a comeback.” Later that same day, in Madison, she said, “For the first time in my adult lifetime, I’m really proud of my country, and not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change.”

In March 2008 a New Yorker profile quoted Mrs. Obama saying, in a stump speech she had made in South Carolina, that the United States is “just downright mean” as a nation. “We have become a nation of struggling folks who are barely making it every day,” she told churchgoers in that same state. “Folks are just jammed up, and it’s gotten worse over my lifetime.”

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