Covering (D) Senator Asses in Ukraine

Below we noted the wording of Bolton regarding Giuliani as "a hand grenade who's going to blow everybody up."

Just who is "everybody"?

Well, now we have another piece to that puzzle.

...Remember Devon Archer, Hunter Biden's business partner? He had previously been a top fundraiser for John Kerry, who was Secretary of State at the time. And soon after Devon and Hunter joined the Burisma Board, the company channeled $90,000 to a lobbying firm called ML Strategies, which was headed by none other than David Leiter, John Kerry's former chief of staff.

That's handy because then-Secretary of State John Kerry himself has visited Ukraine with promises of U.S. aid and assistance. Well, Leiter registered as a Burisma lobbyist in mid-2014. But in the year leading up to that, he gave close to $60,000 to Democrats, including a select group of U.S. senators who would later be instrumental in pushing cash towards Ukraine's energy sector, directly in line with Burisma's interests.

He donated to Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., four times and to Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., three times. A month after the last of those donations, both Markey and Shaheen were among four senators who wrote a letter to President Obama that said, "We should leverage the full resources and expertise of the U.S. government to assist Ukraine in improving its energy efficiency, increasing its domestic production and reforming its energy markets." ...

--FoxNews quoted at AmThinker



Rest assured, this is only the beginning.  This is the reason that Trump's appointee Hill was having screaming meemies about 'Giuliani taking over Mideastern foreign policy' or some such happy crap.  Giuliani is, instead, pulling the manure-covering off the rotten stinking mess of (D) pay-for-play.


One suspects it ain't just Democrats, either.

Be Prepared! Corn, Wheat, Soybeans Slammed by Snow

This year's crop yields were not going to be great; rain delayed the planting and rain has delayed harvesting, too.

Then came a blizzard, bringing the possibility of "total loss" to the Dakotas and parts of Minnesota and Iowa.

Got your canned goods ready??

Why Milwaukee Is Sunk, Part 2

We mentioned the atrocious Milwaukee Health Department situation a few days ago.

Now we'll mention Milk-Carton Tommy Barrett's priorities.  Hint:  they begin with "Gimme Moar Money"!!

Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett is warning the city will see further cuts in police positions without the county sales tax increase that has been proposed by Milwaukee-area leaders.

"If this does not happen, there will be even more cuts to the Milwaukee Police Department next year, which is something that I am trying to avoid," Barrett said at a meeting of local elected leaders....

That's a variation on the School Board tactic:  "Gimme Moar Money or we'll take away all the sports!!"

Tommy will take away all the cops.  

Tommy will NOT take away the Choo Choo.  Tommy will NOT take away libraries, nor reduce City salaries and benefits by 10% merely to maintain law and order.

Nope.  Gimme Moar Money or the kid gets it.

The good news?  You can move out before Milwaukee becomes Baltimore.

What Does Bolton Have to Hide??

In a way, this statement is something I expected to see.

Former national security adviser John Bolton called President Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani "a hand grenade who’s going to blow everybody up,"...

Focus on the word "everybody."  Who, exactly, is "everybody"?

Later in the same story (remember, this is what Schiff WANTS you to know)...

....She also described a meeting on July 10 between herself, two Ukrainian officials, Bolton, Energy Secretary Rick Perry, Sondland, and Kurt Volker, who was special envoy to Ukraine at the time. The purpose of the meeting, according to Hill, was to discuss technical assistance to Ukraine’s national security council.

Bolton, who had been uncomfortable with the meeting, quickly broke it up only to have Sondland suggest they continue discussions in another location. Hill then testified that Sondland mentioned Bursima, the Ukrainian energy company for which Hunter Biden served on the board. Hill stated that she was surprised the company would be mentioned in the presence of Ukraine officials and tried to end the conversation.....

 Bolton doesn't like conversations about corruption, eh?  And neither did Hill.

Interesting.

"Saint Yovanovich"??

Apparently the dame that Obama appointed as ambassador-ette to Ukraine was quite a piece of work.  Now it's clear why she ran to the loving arms of Adam Schiff after being FIRED by President Trump.  Within a couple of weeks, she'll be claiming "death threats."  Sure.  That's credible. /sarc

..."Judicial Watch has obtained information indicating Yovanovitch may have violated laws and government regulations by ordering subordinates to target certain U.S. persons using State Department resources," the watchdog group said in a press release. "Yovanovitch reportedly ordered monitoring keyed to the following search terms: Biden, Giuliani, Soros and Yovanovitch."...

That would be called "SPYING" in a free society.  And you'll recognize every single name on the list.

Jack Posobiec, One America News Network Host
Donald Trump Jr., son of President Donald Trump
Laura Ingraham, Fox News Host
Sean Hannity, Fox News Host
Michael McFaul, President Obama’s Ambassador to Russia
Dan Bongino, Fox News Contributor
Ryan Saavedra, Reporter at the Daily Wire
Rudy Giuliani, President Trump's Personal Attorney
Dr. Sebastian Gorka, Former Strategist for President Trump and host of Salem's "America First" Radio Program
John Solomon, Executive Vice President at The Hill
Lou Dobbs, Fox Business Host
Pamela Geller, Political Commentator
Sara Carter, Investigative Reporter and Fox News Contributor

What makes you think that YOU are not being monitored?

NarrativeNews Awakens to Ethics!!

NarrativeNews (not to be confused with Journalism News) suddenly awakens to "ethics" in government.

And the target of their pearl-clutch today is ..................ta-DAH!!...........a Republican.

We have run Google and DuckDuckGo searches on NarrativeNews items denouncing Democrats for NOT having raised Hell about Quid-Pro-Joe Biden's addict-son.  Zip, Zero, Nada.

Nor Kerry's kid.

Maybe it just took them a while to get to the letter "E" in the dictionary??

I pay for the subscription and read this crap so you don't have to.  You're welcome.

Fed Unions No Longer Complete Bloodsuckers

Courtesy of Surber:

"Trump executive orders curtail union business on the taxpayer dime. Unions must pay for their own offices and represent workers using their own funds."
The story said, "The latest data from the Office of Personnel Management estimates the union subsidy costs $178.8 million, with federal employees spending 3.6 million hours conducting union business. It is important to note that these figures are estimates that do not include the cost of office space and other perks, and likely lowball because federal agencies do a poor job tracking and recording the hours spent on official time and the costs....

The EO's on this were written 17 months ago and have been in Fed courts ever since--until last week when an honest judge agreed.

Fake News? Damn Right It Is!!

This should lead to a LOT of fired ABCNews twinks.

But it won't.  Because credibility is simply not important.  Only The Narrative is important.

Remember this:  ABCNews is owned by Disney.  Disney made several fortunes with fiction.

Why change now??

Grim Sums Up the Mess in Syria

It's fair to say that Grim disapproves of Trump's troop-withdrawal.  Strongly disapproves.  And Grim (not his real name, friends) has spent plenty of time in the Middle East in the employ of the United States--not all of which time was spent in uniform, either.  Read between the lines.  And read his whole post; there's a lot there beyond the pull-quote I have here.

So what does he have to say?

...The root of this failure -- which may turn out to be the biggest American strategic loss since Vietnam or Korea -- is the failure of our institutions to come to grip with the drift of Turkey and the failure of NATO. The President, foolishly, is selling this as a choice he made for reasons of his own. The truth is he didn't have any choice. It's ugly, and in the medium to long term we could turn it around if we start putting the pieces in place now. But right now, today, there's not a thing we can do to stop the Turks that doesn't do more harm than good.
None of that cuts against Mr. McCarthy's point, though. Almost none of our elected leadership or class of journalists understands any of that. They all think this is happening because Donald Trump 'greenlit' the invasion. To some degree it's his fault for talking as if that were so. Nevertheless if you understand how this works, you quickly see that there wasn't a choice to be made. There were only orders to be issued, and obeyed, in spite of the massive human tragedy they entail....

Out of respect for Grim, I'll leave that up there with only the observation that IMHO, the United States is not now, and never should be, a beat-cop for the world.  This was dumped into Trump's lap by his predecessor(s). 

As to Viet Nam, one of the reasons that the US was involved (certainly not the ONLY one, and maybe not in the 'top three') was that a big player in the Military-Industrial Complex was concerned that if South Viet Nam fell, "market share" would be lost.  I know that because I had that conversation one Sunday afternoon with an EVP of that company.  Ike was right.

Billions, Billions, Who's Got the Billions??

The Obama government (which included Joe Biden and John Kerry, remember....) was extremely generous to the Ukrainian government.

So was the International Monetary Fund.

But there are a few questions.

...At one point in time, Kolomoisky had been placed on a US Government Visa ban list due to his questionable business practices; however, shortly after Archer Devon and Hunter Biden joined the board of Burisma, that ban was mysteriously lifted, and there has been no investigation into these missing funds.

Where are the billions of dollars that went missing in the Ukraine? What do Obama, Biden and Kerry and their children know about where the money is and are they connected?...

Maybe some of it is traceable to land-and-building in Martha's Vineyard?

And--just sayin'--was the disappearing money on the list of things that Obama's ambassador-ette to Ukraine would NEVER INVESTIGATE?  Was it one of the things that she ordered the Ukrainian government NOT to investigate??

 

AG Barr Surprises, Pleasantly!

I've been skeptical of AG Barr, principally for his actions in the Ruby Ridge matter, where he defended actions by the FBI which were, frankly, indefensible.  But that does not diminish the sagacity of what he said at Notre Dame last week.

U.S. Attorney General William Barr on Friday expressed his disdain for the spread of secularism in the U.S., blaming progressives  and the decline of religion for a plethora of problems plaguing the nation, including drugs, violence, and mental illness during a speech at Notre Dame Law School.  “Among the militant-secularists are many so-called progressives. But where is the progress?,” Barr asked rhetorically. “The fact is that no secular creed has emerged capable of performing the role of religion,” he added...

Almost as though Patrick Deneen wrote the speech for him--or maybe Timothy Gordon, eh??  Or more likely, Aquinas, Aristotle, Augustine, John Paul II, or maybe  Edmund Burke.

Anyhow, the Usual Suspects belched forth the Usual Lies:  Hitler, Prison Camps, Free Speech, Tyrants, Conspiracy Theory, State Religion,..........you get the picture.  Only those wearing a crucifix will escape The Doom of Religion!! 

(Bp. Seitz has not yet issued a screed identifying Barr as a Raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayciss.  But he will.)

Bp. Seitz: It's All Raaaaaaaaayciss!!

At some point in time, the mature and discerning Catholic just stops reading and/or listening to these guys.

...9. How do we begin to understand the El Paso matanza? How should we think about racism and white supremacy? 

10. The never-ending mass shootings leave us feeling dazed, wounded, fearful and helpless. Causes and solutions seem evasive and our nation’s political life is broken. The Catholic Church in the United States supports the ban on assault weapons that lawmakers senselessly let expire in 2004 and our Church continues to advocate for reasonable regulations on firearms that Congress still won’t pass.2 The constant pressures on families and the embarrassing lack of access to mental healthcare in this country surely also play a role.

11. But the mystery of evil motivating attacks like the El Paso matanza goes deeper than these. It is something more complex than laws and policies alone can fix. What else explains the perversity of attacks on African Americans, Jews, Muslims, Sikhs and other communities? 

12. This mystery of evil also includes the base belief that some of us are more important, deserving and worthy than others. It includes the ugly conviction that this country and its history and opportunities and resources as well as our economic and political life belong more properly to ‘white’ people than to people of color. This is a perverse way of thinking that divides people based on heritage and tone of skin into ‘us’ and ‘them’, ‘worthy’ and ‘unworthy’, paving the way to dehumanization.

In other words, racism. 

13. Racism can make a home in our hearts, distort our imagination and will, and express itself in individual actions of hatred and discrimination. Racism is one’s failure to give others the respect they are due on account of being created in the image and likeness of God. And it is more than that. 

14. If we are honest, racism is really about advancing, shoring up, and failing to oppose a system of white privilege and advantage based on skin color. When this system begins to shape our public choices, structure our common life together and becomes a tool of class, this is rightly called institutionalized racism. Action to build this system of hate and inaction to oppose its dismantling are what we rightly call white supremacy. This is the evil one and the ‘father of lies’ (John 8, 44) incarnate in our everyday choices and lifestyles, and our laws and institutions. ...

Yup.  That's where I stopped.  Word-salad ending in "raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayciss!!" is not helpful, is not pastoral, and frankly, is offensive.  The 'systemic racist (homophobe, sexist) mantra is mindless, for sin is personal, not 'systemic,' and not 'corporate.'  

Have a gun?  Raaaaaaaaaaaaayciss!!  Want a border for your country?  Raaaaaaaaaaaayciss!!  Think Trump is good for the country?  Raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayciss!!

But wait!!  There's more!!

You can be a "white supremacist" too!!  All you have to do is "build this system of hate"  or  "oppose its dismantling."  Which--if you're white--you're doing.  All day, every day.  Raaaaaaaaaaaaaaayciss!!

No, it doesn't make sense.  It's Episcopal Word-Salad.  It's not teaching, sanctifying, or ruling.  It's just more noise.

RoJo's On To the "Intel Community" Games

Last week, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) stated that he does not trust CIA, nor FBI, nor 'any of them'---presumably NSA and Pentagon intel.

RoJo's not the only one.

[Another] option to get back at Trump is through impeachment and conviction, especially through assets within Congress. But before any collusion-delusion proponent cries “conspiracy theory,” recall that President Eisenhower warned Americans in his 1961 Farewell Address about the threat that the “military-industrial complex” poses to the liberties and democratic processes of the American people. Actually, Ike planned to use the term “military-industrial-congressional complex” but changed his mind at the last minute. He was referring to the intimate, integrated relationship between members of Congress and the Pentagon, CIA, and NSA. At the risk of belaboring the obvious, Eisenhower is not perceived to be a “conspiracy theorist,” the term that the CIA popularized to keep people from examining the Kennedy assassination too closely. ...

Ah, yes, the "congressional component" of that military-industrial complex.  Noted.

So is RoJo a Conspiracy Theorist, as fat-boy at NBC called him?  I doubt it.

Cartoons!!

All stolen from PowerLine--and they have even more!!

Obozo Pays Off His Pals--And LOTS More!!

If you think "Ukraine" is all about Trump, the Bidens, an oil company, and a couple of Ukrainian bureaucrats and prosecutors, you're hopelessly naive.

(Just like I was until I saw this video.)

Whatever else Boekh is, he's a remarkable digger-of-facts.  This video puts most of it together in a pretty neat package, even though the story is damn complicated.

So watch the video, and notice how Obozo, Clinton, and Biden paid off a bunch of their friends with US tax dollars laundered through Ukraine.

Then you'll know why Giuliani has to be stopped at all costs.

Oh, yah!  Remember Marie Yovanovich, the traitor-"ambassador" to Ukraine?  She's a LOT dirtier than you may have heard from the MSM dummies.

So far, there's about $2 BILLION 'missing' in Ukraine.

Come to think of it, Tony Podesta's "missing," too.  Co-incidence???

Amazonian Infant Slaughter. Listen and Learn!

Here, Voris demonstrates that the Bishops of Brazil are inveterate liars.

And "amazonian practices" include killing babies who are deformed.  Or are twins.

So Catholics should "listen and learn" from the amazonians.

Thanks, but no thanks, Excellencies.  And please don't stop near here in the US.  It's possible that we'll lose control of ourselves, being un-evangelized by the Holy Sparklefart Unicorn Amazonians.

Why "Russia!! Russia!!!"???

There's a good reason that Mueller--the corrupt perjurer--kept the 'dossier' on the front burner, as explained by Sundance in great detail.

Briefly, it was because the "dossier", false as it was, kept the "foreign intel matter" appearance, so that Mueller could run otherwise illegal NSA database searches all the livelong day.

Since it was a 'counter-intel' matter, it was NOT "domestic spying", see??

This is what the Illuminati-Establishment-Cloud People think of you, you ignorant slobs.  Your job is to pay taxes to support them (and when they need extra money, they'll just call up their pals in the Ukraine.  Or Communist China.)

Doh. SDNY "Investigating" Giuliani

The Manhattan US Attorney's office has a reputation for being a Clinton/Obama den of vipers.

Therefore, we are not surprised to hear that they are "investigating" Rudy Giuliani.  Rudy will probably get the same treatment as Trump is getting from Schitt and Pelosi:  lying, distorted, press releases with no foundation but with lotsa sensational possibilities.

That's why the quotation marks around 'investigating.' 

Curious, though:

...The investigators are examining Giuliani’s "efforts to undermine the American ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch" who was recalled in the spring as part of what the NYT states as fact was "Trump’s broader campaign to pressure Ukraine into helping his political prospects", a "fact" which Trump has repeatedly denied....

This would be the Yovanovitch who was appointed by Obama and who notoriously interfered in a Ukraine election while dissing Trump at every opportunity, and who--against orders from State--decided to testify before the Schitt committee.

It would also be the Yovanovitch who supervised the leaker who supplied the exact language used by "whistleblower 2" about Trump's foreign policy.  (Go to 35:00 in the video, although the whole thing is VERY interesting.)

In other words, another Democrat-aligned corrupt lying weasel.

Yup.  That one.

Telling the Grandchilluns About Heresy

We expect to see the oldest g-chilluns (14, 12) in the next few days at a K of C-sponsored church social.

That occasioned a call to son-in-law with the question;

"How much--if any--of the situation in Rome should be discussed in front of them?"

It's fair to say that not in my entire life did I ever think that I'd have to ask that question.  But it's clear that Pp. Francis is a material heretic.  He's diabolically clever about that, never repeating for the record what he's alleged to have said or meant, and never clarifying for the record the grave ambiguities in Amoris.  If he confirmed what is alleged, of course, he'd become a formal heretic and automatically ineligible to sit on the Chair of Peter.

And yes, I use the adverb "diabolically" deliberately.

I don't want the topic to come up.  On the other hand, children are a lot smarter than parents think they are, something we learned the hard way here.

Well, that 'valley of tears' phrase is there for a reason, eh?

   

Thicken the Plot: NSC, Comey, Italians, Schiff-Staff

Kinda wondering how all the super-secret White House conversations about various international affairs and internal discussions get into the press?

Kinda wondering about how the Italian government, "Russia-gate", and the CIA are connected--and let's toss in Comey, too?

Still at a loss of how Adam Schiff, the shit-eating snake, just so happens to have a lot of third-hand information cut-and-pasted together into "whistleblower complaints"?

Bongino puts it all together for you.  The breadcrumbs in this trail are as large as driveway gravel.

Frankly, if I were Trump, I'd be locking out the computers of every CIA and NSC staffer, then firing the whole bunch.

Every f&^%king one.