Trump spoke today about the necessity of the US competing successfully in the world economy, not just "partnering" to achieve "comity" with countries whose real objective is to overtake the US economically (and then, militarily).
This couldn't come at a better time.
...If
the economy is so solid, and the job market is so historically tight,
how come it’s now skirting a technical real wage recession, and why is
the paycheck slump for manufacturing now nearly two years old?
My
term “technical recession” doesn’t exactly match the standard version
of an economic downturn – two straight quarters of contracting output.
But it’s pretty darned close: at least two straight quarters over which
some indicator (in this case, inflation-adjusted wages) has dropped
cumulatively....
The real wage data released today by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)
reveal that this is exactly the situation for the entire private
sector. (These real wage data don’t include public sector workers since
their paychecks are mainly determined by politicians’ decisions, not by
market forces.) Since June – five data months ago – constant dollar
hourly pay is down 0.56 percent. Indeed, this measure of compensation
has now decreased for four straight months. One more and we’re in
technical recession territory....
The Clinton/Bush/Obozo Globaloney schemes--which translate to Importing Deflation--have begun to bite, hard, and it's not just manufacturing. Services, particularly retail, have also been hit hard on the wage front over the last few years.
Good to see that somebody gets it....
Monday, December 18, 2017
Ball's In Your Court, Leah
Club for Growth is supporting the guy who was a Marine. (That's the sum total of his campaign so far, folks....)
Anyhow, they're no fans of Leah Vukmir, and they fired for effect here.
...Vukmir has increasingly demonstrated a penchant for big government over the free market, as well as a brazen disregard for taxpayer dollars. With this kind of attitude, it is likely that a Senator Vukmir would stand with the D.C. establishment in supporting debt limit increases, corporate cronyism, tax increases, and pork projects. After all, she supported all of these polices in the state legislature....
There are quite a few examples of that behavior in the letter.
Hmmmmm.
Anyhow, they're no fans of Leah Vukmir, and they fired for effect here.
...Vukmir has increasingly demonstrated a penchant for big government over the free market, as well as a brazen disregard for taxpayer dollars. With this kind of attitude, it is likely that a Senator Vukmir would stand with the D.C. establishment in supporting debt limit increases, corporate cronyism, tax increases, and pork projects. After all, she supported all of these polices in the state legislature....
There are quite a few examples of that behavior in the letter.
Hmmmmm.
WMC on the Wrong Side, As Usual
Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce (the Chamber of Commerce) is now running ads which are very deceptive (imagine that!!) concerning 'property taxes' and how Republicans are going to raise same on the poor little mom & pop merchants and therefore jack up the cost of everything so you can no longer buy a can of beans and you will die.
What a crock of crap.
Here's the (very simplified) issue. National big-box stores (not mom, pop, and the kiddies) do not want to pay adequate property taxes on stores they vacate. They claim that since the store is not operating, it is not producing revenue, and therefore it is "over-valued" by local assessors because assessors value the property based on its revenues as part of the formula.
Umnnnhhh......
When you sell your house and it is un-occupied for 2-3 months before the buyers move in, do property taxes cease? Hell, no!
"Well! It's not used for anything, right? How can it be taxed??" you say.
Glad you asked!!! You know why those taxes do not cease? Because the building (and land) still requires a certain amount of services. It still takes up space which COULD be otherwise useful, and fully taxed.
As to your eventual starvation because of "higher prices", yadayadaydada......Crock of Crap #2!
When BigBox underpays its property tax, YOU make up the difference in YOUR property taxes. (Unless the city reduces its spending, of course. Hah!! Just joking) So would you rather starve to death because BigBox is stealing from you, or because BigBox charges you more for crap you don't really have to have (72" TV, anyone?)
The Chamber of Commerce has overplayed its "You Will STARVE!!!!" tagline again and again. They've used that crapola to justify illegal immigration (or a 'legal' slave-labor/temporary-worker) because if they have to pay actual market rates for labor, grapes will cost $50.00/lb., or something.
Of course, if you are unemployed due to illegal/slave-labor, you don't care what grapes will cost because YOU CAN'T BUY THEM ANYWAY.
This crap is the same crap they've used for importing cheap China-made stuff (like cars!) and exporting good jobs to Mexico, China, and Korea.
Call your legislator and tell them To Hell With WMC. Shove it right back into their face for a change.
What a crock of crap.
Here's the (very simplified) issue. National big-box stores (not mom, pop, and the kiddies) do not want to pay adequate property taxes on stores they vacate. They claim that since the store is not operating, it is not producing revenue, and therefore it is "over-valued" by local assessors because assessors value the property based on its revenues as part of the formula.
Umnnnhhh......
When you sell your house and it is un-occupied for 2-3 months before the buyers move in, do property taxes cease? Hell, no!
"Well! It's not used for anything, right? How can it be taxed??" you say.
Glad you asked!!! You know why those taxes do not cease? Because the building (and land) still requires a certain amount of services. It still takes up space which COULD be otherwise useful, and fully taxed.
As to your eventual starvation because of "higher prices", yadayadaydada......Crock of Crap #2!
When BigBox underpays its property tax, YOU make up the difference in YOUR property taxes. (Unless the city reduces its spending, of course. Hah!! Just joking) So would you rather starve to death because BigBox is stealing from you, or because BigBox charges you more for crap you don't really have to have (72" TV, anyone?)
The Chamber of Commerce has overplayed its "You Will STARVE!!!!" tagline again and again. They've used that crapola to justify illegal immigration (or a 'legal' slave-labor/temporary-worker) because if they have to pay actual market rates for labor, grapes will cost $50.00/lb., or something.
Of course, if you are unemployed due to illegal/slave-labor, you don't care what grapes will cost because YOU CAN'T BUY THEM ANYWAY.
This crap is the same crap they've used for importing cheap China-made stuff (like cars!) and exporting good jobs to Mexico, China, and Korea.
Call your legislator and tell them To Hell With WMC. Shove it right back into their face for a change.
MKE Priest: "I'm Gay!"
Ordained in 1992, so this isn't exactly a shock. While a lot of Catholics blame +Rembert Weakland for everything wrong with the Church in Milwaukee, this man began his studies while +Wm. Cousins was the Archbishop of Milwaukee. his predecessor, Wm. Cousins, had serious problems in the seminaries. Under Cousins, both the major (college and post-grad) AND the minor (high-school) seminaries were infested with homosexuals--administrative, teachers, and students. Not much changed during Weakland's reign.*
The linked item is very carefully written, of course. One gets the impression that the priest has never engaged in any homosexual conduct, and of course we fervently hope that that is true!! At the same time, it is notable that Benedict XVI repeatedly banned homosexuals from ordination (and from seminaries). Benedict was no dummy. To have homosexuals in the priesthood is analogous to having women joining men in combat in the military. Lots of downside risk. Lots.
No matter what Father Greiten says, the fact is that homosexuality is a grave disorder. Some homosexuals handle it pretty well; others do not. We will also question Cozzens' speculation that 25-38% of Catholic priests are homosexuals. Since about 5% of the general population is so afflicted, a 5X-7X multiple would be an extreme outlier, to say the least.
UPDATE: The priest has his own page and has Somatic Experiencing. Or something.
*A close reading of Fr. Greiten's story hints that his minor seminary years were spent at St. Lawrence near Fond du Lac, WI.
(Personal footnote: I was present at the groundbreaking for St. Bernadette parish, the first pastor of which was Fr. Ahrens who went there from St Mary/Elm Grove. Small world...)
The linked item is very carefully written, of course. One gets the impression that the priest has never engaged in any homosexual conduct, and of course we fervently hope that that is true!! At the same time, it is notable that Benedict XVI repeatedly banned homosexuals from ordination (and from seminaries). Benedict was no dummy. To have homosexuals in the priesthood is analogous to having women joining men in combat in the military. Lots of downside risk. Lots.
No matter what Father Greiten says, the fact is that homosexuality is a grave disorder. Some homosexuals handle it pretty well; others do not. We will also question Cozzens' speculation that 25-38% of Catholic priests are homosexuals. Since about 5% of the general population is so afflicted, a 5X-7X multiple would be an extreme outlier, to say the least.
UPDATE: The priest has his own page and has Somatic Experiencing. Or something.
*A close reading of Fr. Greiten's story hints that his minor seminary years were spent at St. Lawrence near Fond du Lac, WI.
(Personal footnote: I was present at the groundbreaking for St. Bernadette parish, the first pastor of which was Fr. Ahrens who went there from St Mary/Elm Grove. Small world...)
Kleefisch Warning
Maybe Joel Kleefisch is modeling his hunting after Dick Cheney's?
Probably smart to keep one's distance when he's armed.
Probably smart to keep one's distance when he's armed.
The Gerrymandering of Alabama?
Our less-than-bright Wisconsin Democrats should pay attention to this item.
Democrat Doug Jones won the Alabama special Senate election, 50 to 48 percent...even as Jones won, he carried only one of the state’s seven congressional districts....
Huh. Must be gerrymandered, eh?
Sorry, but only a second-class tuna or an angry (and ignorant) Democrat can make that argument.
...[Alabama is truly gerrymandered] only if you believe that following the prevailing interpretation of the Voting Rights Act is underhanded. That doctrine is that redistricters must maximize the number of “majority minority districts,” which in the case of Alabama means maximizing the number of black-majority districts....
...Jones’ 50 percent of the votes enabled him to carry the same number of Alabama’s seven congressional districts — one — as Hillary Clinton’s 34 percent enabled her to carry. But Jones got 47 to 49 percent of the two-party votes in four other congressional districts. If his performance came to be the new normal, Republicans in those districts would be very vulnerable to Democrats....
Maybe Wisconsin Democrats want to repeal the Voting Rights Act, or its prevailing interpretation? Be our guest.
Democrat Doug Jones won the Alabama special Senate election, 50 to 48 percent...even as Jones won, he carried only one of the state’s seven congressional districts....
Huh. Must be gerrymandered, eh?
Sorry, but only a second-class tuna or an angry (and ignorant) Democrat can make that argument.
...[Alabama is truly gerrymandered] only if you believe that following the prevailing interpretation of the Voting Rights Act is underhanded. That doctrine is that redistricters must maximize the number of “majority minority districts,” which in the case of Alabama means maximizing the number of black-majority districts....
...Jones’ 50 percent of the votes enabled him to carry the same number of Alabama’s seven congressional districts — one — as Hillary Clinton’s 34 percent enabled her to carry. But Jones got 47 to 49 percent of the two-party votes in four other congressional districts. If his performance came to be the new normal, Republicans in those districts would be very vulnerable to Democrats....
Maybe Wisconsin Democrats want to repeal the Voting Rights Act, or its prevailing interpretation? Be our guest.
Sunday, December 17, 2017
Obama Screws Americans (Again)
I don't know what the mullahs have on Obama, but it sure worked.
...the Obama administration derailed an ambitious law enforcement campaign targeting drug trafficking by the Iranian-backed terrorist group Hezbollah, even as it was funneling cocaine into the United States, according to a POLITICO investigation....
It's about time that Obozo is frog-marched into a courtroom. He doesn't have much in terms of balls--he'll break easily. Unless Mooch shoots him first.
...the Obama administration derailed an ambitious law enforcement campaign targeting drug trafficking by the Iranian-backed terrorist group Hezbollah, even as it was funneling cocaine into the United States, according to a POLITICO investigation....
It's about time that Obozo is frog-marched into a courtroom. He doesn't have much in terms of balls--he'll break easily. Unless Mooch shoots him first.
Replay Refs Change Games
Green Bay was robbed because the replay refs awarded a TD to the other guys.
Pittsburgh was robbed because the replay refs took away a TD in the closing seconds.
NFL viewership continues to slide. Surprised??
Pittsburgh was robbed because the replay refs took away a TD in the closing seconds.
NFL viewership continues to slide. Surprised??
For Dave in Madistan and Charlie, Wherever He May Be
Blaska remains a never-Trumper as does Sykes. (I assume that about Charlie because I never heard nor saw anything more about him after his stint at MS-LSD.) RedState is becoming an embarrassment on the level of Joe Buck, to mix it up a bit.
Here's Klavan to help them get it.
Here's Klavan to help them get it.
...People almost never adjust the way they look at life. It would mean risking their sense of their own wisdom and virtue.
This is why so many pundits both on the left and right are completely blind to what happened this year in politics....
He's being gentle, which we all should be, as it is the Christmas season.
...Donald Trump — a political neophyte, a New York loudmouth who plays fast
and loose with the truth, a massive egotist and a not altogether
pleasant human being — has delivered conservatives one of the greatest
years in living memory and has made our government more moral in the
process....
...After a year of Trump, the economy is in high gear, stocks are up, unemployment is down, energy production is up, business expansion is up and so on; ISIS
— which took more than 23,000 square miles of territory after Obama
left Iraq and refused to intervene in Syria — is now in control of a
Port-o-San and a book of matches; 19 constitutionalist judges have been appointed and 40 more nominated; the biggest regulatory rollback in American history has been launched (boring but yugely important); the rule of law has been re-established at the border;
we're out of the absurd and costly Paris Accord; net neutrality, the
most cleverly named government power grab ever, is gone; our foreign
policy is righted and revitalized; and a mainstream news media that had
become little more than the information arm of the Democratic Party is
in self-destructive disarray. If the tax bill passes before Christmas,
it will cap an unbelievable string of conservative successes....
Yah.
There are some troubles remaining, of course. Trump seems to think that the deficit and the national debt are features, not bugs. And he does have that troublesome Progressive-Moronic couple, JarVanka, hanging around pestering him with really stupid ideas. He has NOT built the wall, nor has he eradicated Socialist Medicine and the Pocahantas Board.
Next year in Jerusalem??
...Our government is more moral now. How is this possible when Trump has
sex with Vladimir Putin disguised as a Russian prostitute, when he kills
and eats black people in his spare time, when he hates women and goes
into insane temper tantrums fueled by 48 cans of Diet Coke a day?...
...Trump has made our government more moral by making less of it: fewer
regulations, fewer judges who will write law instead of obeying the law,
fewer bureaucrats seeking to expand the power of their agencies, less
money for the government to spend on itself....
Uhmmhhnnmmhhhh.....well.....that's really a 100-year project, assuming that there is no armed insurrection to push it along further.
But yes, he's done well. Arguably better than Cruz would have and CERTAINLY better than any of the others who thought they were up to it.
OMG!! Putin Talked to Trump!!!
Better call Pencil-Neck Schiff so he can leak wrong stuff to CNN.
Here's the RIGHT stuff:
...Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday phoned President Trump to thank him for a tip from the CIA that thwarted a terrorist attack being planned in St. Petersburg, the Kremlin said…
Putin told Trump that the information provided by the CIA allowed Russian law enforcement agencies to track down and detain a group of suspects that was planning to bomb the centrally located Kazan Cathedral and other crowded parts of Russia’s second-largest city....
He owes us a solid.
Here's the RIGHT stuff:
...Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday phoned President Trump to thank him for a tip from the CIA that thwarted a terrorist attack being planned in St. Petersburg, the Kremlin said…
Putin told Trump that the information provided by the CIA allowed Russian law enforcement agencies to track down and detain a group of suspects that was planning to bomb the centrally located Kazan Cathedral and other crowded parts of Russia’s second-largest city....
He owes us a solid.
Kitty Cat or Really, Really, Big Cat?
A small discussion has emerged about whether the cat in the linked story/video is a cougar or just "a large housecat" as the Wisconsin DNR has said.
You be the judge.
You be the judge.
Rubio Gets Funding for Illegals
Little Marco seems to have only one enduring objective, which is to give lots of aid and comfort to illegal aliens. And he managed to pull off another one last week--by screwing larger families!
...The conference bill includes language from the Senate tax plan that allowed parents of so-called “anchor babies” to receive the tax credit.
“In order to receive the child tax credit (i.e., both the refundable and non-refundable portion), a taxpayer must include a Social Security number for each qualifying child for whom the credit is claimed on the tax return,” the bill states.
Jan Ting, a professor of law at Temple University, wrote an analysis recently about the Senate bill’s language.
“Because of birthright citizenship, any children born to illegal aliens become automatic U.S. citizens. Thus, illegal aliens can still receive billions of dollars in tax credits for their U.S.-born children,” Ting wrote in a post on the Center for Immigration Studies website.
Existing law allows taxpayers with a Taxpayer Identification Number to get a refundable tax credit, which many illegal immigrants reportedly have....
I'm confused. Is Little Marco a United States Senator, or a Senator from Illegals?
So you may ask: how did Little Mario pull this off?
Simple. Your 16-year-old will not be your child when he/she turns 17!! See??
...The conference bill includes language from the Senate tax plan that allowed parents of so-called “anchor babies” to receive the tax credit.
“In order to receive the child tax credit (i.e., both the refundable and non-refundable portion), a taxpayer must include a Social Security number for each qualifying child for whom the credit is claimed on the tax return,” the bill states.
“Because of birthright citizenship, any children born to illegal aliens become automatic U.S. citizens. Thus, illegal aliens can still receive billions of dollars in tax credits for their U.S.-born children,” Ting wrote in a post on the Center for Immigration Studies website.
Existing law allows taxpayers with a Taxpayer Identification Number to get a refundable tax credit, which many illegal immigrants reportedly have....
I'm confused. Is Little Marco a United States Senator, or a Senator from Illegals?
So you may ask: how did Little Mario pull this off?
Simple. Your 16-year-old will not be your child when he/she turns 17!! See??
Trump To Take on China
Finally, someone who gets it.
...American and Western elites had facilitated China’s ascendance through political negligence, said Bannon. Decades-old predictions of China’s integration into the global economy cultivating political liberalization in the communist state, he added, had not come to pass.
Chinese mercantilism and central planning, said Bannon, had been reinforced over time as a function of Western elites’ openness to China’s joining of post-WWII Bretton Woods international economic system – contrary to the aforementioned predictions from “geniuses” of inevitable democratization in the communist state...
"Geniuses" which included Tricky Dick Nixon and Henry Kissinger, by the way. And of course, the US-based profiteer-enablers such as the "Big Three" of Detroit and a variety of aerospace/electronics/weapons manufacturers. Think of the technical giveaways of the Clinton regime.
Quoting Bannon's speech directly:
We'll see how this shakes out. Trump's revolution is only beginning.
...American and Western elites had facilitated China’s ascendance through political negligence, said Bannon. Decades-old predictions of China’s integration into the global economy cultivating political liberalization in the communist state, he added, had not come to pass.
Chinese mercantilism and central planning, said Bannon, had been reinforced over time as a function of Western elites’ openness to China’s joining of post-WWII Bretton Woods international economic system – contrary to the aforementioned predictions from “geniuses” of inevitable democratization in the communist state...
"Geniuses" which included Tricky Dick Nixon and Henry Kissinger, by the way. And of course, the US-based profiteer-enablers such as the "Big Three" of Detroit and a variety of aerospace/electronics/weapons manufacturers. Think of the technical giveaways of the Clinton regime.
Quoting Bannon's speech directly:
...China has become more and more wealthy, and yet it has become more of a mercantilist authoritative system. Their business model is total rejection of free market capitalism. Their business model is a total rejection of the international rules-based order that American taxpayers underwrite with their dollars, and the young people in America – the working class young people in America – underwrite with their blood....What China needs is a populist revolution, but they don't have the Second Amendment.
We'll see how this shakes out. Trump's revolution is only beginning.
Yes, The Deep State Committed Treason
This item is interesting because it fits in with everything that has been made public so far, and because there is no good reason to discount it.* It is VERY important to understand that this was done NOT BECAUSE TRUMP, but because Hillary--that is, the objective was to extend the extreme corruption of Obama, both domestic and international, using the doddering old bag as the instrument. Trump just happened to be the nominee.** (And why Wisconsin is a part of this!!)
From the beginning it was a set up to find dirt on Trump campaign
insiders and if possible to topple Donald Trump’s presidential
aspirations.
Before and after the 2016 election. And while this operation had many moving parts and alternating players, the mission to unseat Trump never changed. And it remains ongoing.
Before and after the 2016 election. And while this operation had many moving parts and alternating players, the mission to unseat Trump never changed. And it remains ongoing.
Paul Manafort was wiretapped. Cater Page was wiretapped. Donald Trump
Jr. was wiretapped. Jared Kushner was wiretapped. Gen. Michael Flynn
was wiretapped. And likely there were others.
And none of it was very legal....
There's a bit more explanation of who was involved, and then we get the top-of-the-fold names on the soon-to-be-issued (don't we all hope?) indictment:
...The Deep State caretakers involved are familiar names: James Comey (FBI), John Brennan (CIA), James Clapper (ODNI), Loretta Lynch (DOJ), Jeh Johnson (DHS), Admiral Michael Rogers (NSA). And then-director of GCHQ Robert Hannigan who has since resigned from the esteemed British spy agency....
Below the fold: Treasury, DHS, and Preet Bharara, who thought he was going to remain in place as a very significant traitor-mole.
Read it all, folks.
*If you want to discount it, think of disinformation. That's always a possibility.
**It's entirely possible that this treason would have been committed against ANY (R) nominee; the methodology was already tested by Francis Schmitz, Kevin Kennedy, John Chisholm, Asswipe Falk, other Statist criminals, and co-operating judiciary. Here, there were no wiretaps that we know of. Yet.
There's a bit more explanation of who was involved, and then we get the top-of-the-fold names on the soon-to-be-issued (don't we all hope?) indictment:
...The Deep State caretakers involved are familiar names: James Comey (FBI), John Brennan (CIA), James Clapper (ODNI), Loretta Lynch (DOJ), Jeh Johnson (DHS), Admiral Michael Rogers (NSA). And then-director of GCHQ Robert Hannigan who has since resigned from the esteemed British spy agency....
Below the fold: Treasury, DHS, and Preet Bharara, who thought he was going to remain in place as a very significant traitor-mole.
Read it all, folks.
*If you want to discount it, think of disinformation. That's always a possibility.
**It's entirely possible that this treason would have been committed against ANY (R) nominee; the methodology was already tested by Francis Schmitz, Kevin Kennedy, John Chisholm, Asswipe Falk, other Statist criminals, and co-operating judiciary. Here, there were no wiretaps that we know of. Yet.
Saturday, December 16, 2017
This Is Sykes' New Network Home, No?
So here we are, cruising the interwebs, and up pops an MSLSD video.
Charlie Sykes appears on this network, too.
Charlie Sykes appears on this network, too.
The FEEBS: Not Just Crooks, But STUPID Crooks!!
It's a two-fer--actually, a three-fer.
You get Stoopid FEEBS #1 and #2 texting about their immoral and illicit screwing and panting.
Then you get Stoopid FEEBS #s 1 & 2 texting about #1's desire to overthrow the Trump Presidency--and #1 bragging that he has the plan to do so.
Finally, you get Stoopid FEEBS (both of the morons) doing that while in all likelihood being monitored by foreign intel.
"Intel"? you say? Yup. Because Stoopid FEEB #1 happens to be the #2 in the FEEB "counter-intel" department.
If it were a criminal offense to be stoopid, both these horny jackwads would be in Leavenworth until their skeletons turned to powder.
You get Stoopid FEEBS #1 and #2 texting about their immoral and illicit screwing and panting.
Then you get Stoopid FEEBS #s 1 & 2 texting about #1's desire to overthrow the Trump Presidency--and #1 bragging that he has the plan to do so.
Finally, you get Stoopid FEEBS (both of the morons) doing that while in all likelihood being monitored by foreign intel.
"Intel"? you say? Yup. Because Stoopid FEEB #1 happens to be the #2 in the FEEB "counter-intel" department.
If it were a criminal offense to be stoopid, both these horny jackwads would be in Leavenworth until their skeletons turned to powder.
A Feature, Not a Bug!!
Some are unhappy with the Trump Presidency.
Over 700 employees at the Environmental Protection Agency have quit or taken early retirement during the Trump administration so far, bringing the agency close to employment levels not seen since Reagan....
Over 700 employees at the Environmental Protection Agency have quit or taken early retirement during the Trump administration so far, bringing the agency close to employment levels not seen since Reagan....
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!
Friday, December 15, 2017
The FEEBS: Lying, Hiding It, Lying Again
The President visited the FEEB academy today to speak at graduation.
Wonder how it feels to step into a foot-deep lake of raw sewage......as these kids are going to do.
Anyhow, the FEEB Lying-School graduates are now stonewalling Congress AND the Office of Special Counsel. That takes balls: the FEEB Lying-School knows damn well that no "non-disclose" is owed to the FBI by Congress--nor by the Special Counsel.
Wonder if Comey's thinking about his life in Leavenworth. And McCarthy. And Strzok. And Strzok's sweetie-pie/co-conspirator.
Leavenworth. Maybe they'll get to meet their heroine, Hillary!! And her retinue of lying bitches Abedin, and Yates, and.....well.....it's a very, very, long list.
Wonder how it feels to step into a foot-deep lake of raw sewage......as these kids are going to do.
Anyhow, the FEEB Lying-School graduates are now stonewalling Congress AND the Office of Special Counsel. That takes balls: the FEEB Lying-School knows damn well that no "non-disclose" is owed to the FBI by Congress--nor by the Special Counsel.
Wonder if Comey's thinking about his life in Leavenworth. And McCarthy. And Strzok. And Strzok's sweetie-pie/co-conspirator.
Leavenworth. Maybe they'll get to meet their heroine, Hillary!! And her retinue of lying bitches Abedin, and Yates, and.....well.....it's a very, very, long list.
Comey/Strzok Collusion With Hillary Crime
What we have here is "collusion."
Hillary violated the Espionage Act with her toilet-server emails bearing compartmentalized intel. That's obvious and clear to anyone with an IQ above freezing temperature.
Then Strzok and Comey--colluding with Hillary's CRIMINAL VIOLATIONS, moved a few words around in their "report" on the investigation.
...“The edits to Director Comey’s public statement, made months prior to the conclusion of the FBI’s investigation of Secretary Clinton’s conduct, had a significant impact on the FBI’s public evaluation of the implications of her actions,” Johnson wrote to Wray....
Prepare for nothing to happen.
Hillary violated the Espionage Act with her toilet-server emails bearing compartmentalized intel. That's obvious and clear to anyone with an IQ above freezing temperature.
Then Strzok and Comey--colluding with Hillary's CRIMINAL VIOLATIONS, moved a few words around in their "report" on the investigation.
...“The edits to Director Comey’s public statement, made months prior to the conclusion of the FBI’s investigation of Secretary Clinton’s conduct, had a significant impact on the FBI’s public evaluation of the implications of her actions,” Johnson wrote to Wray....
Prepare for nothing to happen.
Thursday, December 14, 2017
Bureau of Federal Killers (and Liars)
Through ColdFury, we are reminded of the FBI's actual history.
It ain't pretty, and it began back with Hoover. They've executed a lot of people (without trial or conviction) and generally have worked only on behalf of the Establishment. Slander, innuendo, and flat-out lying under oath are also a part of the Feeb Manual. To them, you have no rights; all that "citizen" stuff you learned is crap.
IOW, don't trust them. Ever.
So today's events are not new. And you can expect that the overall direction of the FBI will never change, because that would mean that the Establishment had fallen.
It ain't pretty, and it began back with Hoover. They've executed a lot of people (without trial or conviction) and generally have worked only on behalf of the Establishment. Slander, innuendo, and flat-out lying under oath are also a part of the Feeb Manual. To them, you have no rights; all that "citizen" stuff you learned is crap.
IOW, don't trust them. Ever.
So today's events are not new. And you can expect that the overall direction of the FBI will never change, because that would mean that the Establishment had fallen.
The Lying Liars of Wisconsin's "Ethics" Board
It's too bad that the Wisconsin "Ethics" board employs a bunch of people that have no ethics at all.
But then, what do you expect from them? Actual morality?
Robin Vos appointed one of the defenders of this bunch of lying liars. You should not be surprised: Vos is a Major General in the Establishment Pubbie army. So when he says that he's been "in touch" with his appointee so that he could 'better understand' the position of the Lying Liars Without Ethics, he's just greasing Jay Weber's rope.
But then, what do you expect from them? Actual morality?
Robin Vos appointed one of the defenders of this bunch of lying liars. You should not be surprised: Vos is a Major General in the Establishment Pubbie army. So when he says that he's been "in touch" with his appointee so that he could 'better understand' the position of the Lying Liars Without Ethics, he's just greasing Jay Weber's rope.
Green Weenies Go Pubbie!!
The Green Weenies are attempting to get (R) support.
Scott Coenen, executive director for the newly formed Wisconsin Conservative Energy Forum, says the group will target Republican lawmakers with educational outreach on the benefits of renewable and alternative energy sources....
Yah, well, maybe. Coenen claims that windmills and sunshine are almost/nearly/not-quite/really really close to the costs of natgas/coal energy. Almost/nearly!! We'll assume that his "cost" figures include the enormous storage batteries which will be needed when there is no wind and/or it's cloudy, or night-time. We're assuming that because we are nice guys.
Here are the rest of the suspects. I know they are suspects because Tommy Thompson is on the list.
...Tommy Thompson; former state Rep. Mark Honadel; Matt Neuman, president of Neumann Companies and co-owner of SunVest Solar; Wisconsin Counties Association Outreach Manager Jon Hochkammer; Wisconsin Young Republicans Chairman Jake Margis; Ryan Owens, a UW-Madison professor of political science; and Debbie Crave, vice president of Crave Brothers Farmstead Cheese in Waterloo......
Yup. Tommy "stick-it-to-'em" Thompson, who loves Big Gummint and whose tax-for-Selig routine is still taxing everyone in SE Wisconsin. Neumann likes solar, so long as HE gets the tax credits, and clearly, so long as he's selling the product. We'll see about the rest.
Scott Coenen, executive director for the newly formed Wisconsin Conservative Energy Forum, says the group will target Republican lawmakers with educational outreach on the benefits of renewable and alternative energy sources....
Yah, well, maybe. Coenen claims that windmills and sunshine are almost/nearly/not-quite/really really close to the costs of natgas/coal energy. Almost/nearly!! We'll assume that his "cost" figures include the enormous storage batteries which will be needed when there is no wind and/or it's cloudy, or night-time. We're assuming that because we are nice guys.
Here are the rest of the suspects. I know they are suspects because Tommy Thompson is on the list.
...Tommy Thompson; former state Rep. Mark Honadel; Matt Neuman, president of Neumann Companies and co-owner of SunVest Solar; Wisconsin Counties Association Outreach Manager Jon Hochkammer; Wisconsin Young Republicans Chairman Jake Margis; Ryan Owens, a UW-Madison professor of political science; and Debbie Crave, vice president of Crave Brothers Farmstead Cheese in Waterloo......
Yup. Tommy "stick-it-to-'em" Thompson, who loves Big Gummint and whose tax-for-Selig routine is still taxing everyone in SE Wisconsin. Neumann likes solar, so long as HE gets the tax credits, and clearly, so long as he's selling the product. We'll see about the rest.
Wednesday, December 13, 2017
Another Bigmouth From New York
Peter King considers himself to be The Arbiter of all right and wrong.
Well, he's a loudmouth from New York. There are a couple of those circulating in the news. But only one is the President. And that President was advised by one Steve Bannon.
Peter King has a very good track record on abortion and a pretty good track record on gun rights. But he's wrong--and dangerously so--on his "racism" flapjaw vis-a-vis Bannon.
Careful, Peter.
Well, he's a loudmouth from New York. There are a couple of those circulating in the news. But only one is the President. And that President was advised by one Steve Bannon.
Peter King has a very good track record on abortion and a pretty good track record on gun rights. But he's wrong--and dangerously so--on his "racism" flapjaw vis-a-vis Bannon.
Careful, Peter.
Dr. Ed Peters Forgets Propaganda
The estimable Dr. Ed Peters disputes Dr. R. DeMattei's take on "magisterial authority."
Peters is right. Legally, the flapjaw from Pp. Francis and some Bishops around the world, is nothing but a dust-bunny. It has no LEGAL, and little if any MAGISTERIAL consequence.
But I would gently remind Dr. Peters of the Bishops' Committee on the Liturgy dustup. Rembert Weakland chaired the music sub-committee of BCL. That committee--lacking a quorum--issued a "licet" on using hootenanny, guitars, etc. during the Mass. Rembert did a happy-dance announcing same.
The proclamation had NO legal force; since there was no quorum, there was no licit vote, and the "permission" was invalid.
Uh-huh.
The proclamation was propaganda, and the propaganda prevailed.
With all due regard to Dr. Peters, that is the lesson to be learned.
Peters is right. Legally, the flapjaw from Pp. Francis and some Bishops around the world, is nothing but a dust-bunny. It has no LEGAL, and little if any MAGISTERIAL consequence.
But I would gently remind Dr. Peters of the Bishops' Committee on the Liturgy dustup. Rembert Weakland chaired the music sub-committee of BCL. That committee--lacking a quorum--issued a "licet" on using hootenanny, guitars, etc. during the Mass. Rembert did a happy-dance announcing same.
The proclamation had NO legal force; since there was no quorum, there was no licit vote, and the "permission" was invalid.
Uh-huh.
The proclamation was propaganda, and the propaganda prevailed.
With all due regard to Dr. Peters, that is the lesson to be learned.
Blaska and Me
Has anyone ever seen my wife and Blaska's wife in the same room at the same time?
...The Missus is binge-watching the Hallmark channel. If I hear one more cute kid’s piping voice exclaiming “the spirit of Christmas” I’ll go postal....
I feel your pain, Dave.
...The Missus is binge-watching the Hallmark channel. If I hear one more cute kid’s piping voice exclaiming “the spirit of Christmas” I’ll go postal....
I feel your pain, Dave.
Trump Goes Off the Rails
PowerLine warns: Trump & Co. is working to bend you over the table and take it.
...I reported on President Trump’s re-nomination of Chai Feldblum as EEOC commissioner. Feldblum is an LGBT activist and the architect of the Obama administration’s radical LGBT agenda, including its policy mandating that transgender individuals can use the restroom of their choice. She believes that in almost all cases where the sexual liberty of gays conflicts with religious belief, “sexual liberty should win because that’s the only way that the dignity of gay people can be affirmed in any realistic manner.”
Now, a source tells me that the White House is pushing to have the Senate committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions vote Feldblum out of committee tomorrow during executive session....
Got Vaseline? Because that's what will be required under the regime of Ms. Feldblum, a pervert with lots of Federal guns at her disposal. This is rumored to be some sort of deal with Schumer, but it also fits neatly with the Jared/Ivanka worldview. (One question: how did Jared ever win his "Orthodox Jew" card?)
Tell your Senator that Mr. Trump can shove Ms. Feldblum up his own ass, thankyouverymuch.
...I reported on President Trump’s re-nomination of Chai Feldblum as EEOC commissioner. Feldblum is an LGBT activist and the architect of the Obama administration’s radical LGBT agenda, including its policy mandating that transgender individuals can use the restroom of their choice. She believes that in almost all cases where the sexual liberty of gays conflicts with religious belief, “sexual liberty should win because that’s the only way that the dignity of gay people can be affirmed in any realistic manner.”
Now, a source tells me that the White House is pushing to have the Senate committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions vote Feldblum out of committee tomorrow during executive session....
Got Vaseline? Because that's what will be required under the regime of Ms. Feldblum, a pervert with lots of Federal guns at her disposal. This is rumored to be some sort of deal with Schumer, but it also fits neatly with the Jared/Ivanka worldview. (One question: how did Jared ever win his "Orthodox Jew" card?)
Tell your Senator that Mr. Trump can shove Ms. Feldblum up his own ass, thankyouverymuch.
Tuesday, December 12, 2017
The Slimebags: Democrats and Statists, All
This is the national story:
...It now appears that an elaborate plot was crafted to generate phony accusations of dirty ties to Russia that would be used to get a FISA Court warrant to “unmask” members of the Trump campaign, and thereby enable spying on that campaign. We do not know how many members of that campaign were “unmasked” (i.e., spied on), but there are suggestions that the list ended up quite long.
Bit by bit, evidence is leaking out connecting the members of that cabal at senior levels of the Department of Justice and the FBI with shadowy operatives in the private sector....
Which happens to mirror, precisely, the Wisconsin John Doe story. Lies were concocted to justify a "legal" investigation which turned into a wholesale compromise of ALL personal communications.
Here, the commentariat forgets John Chisholm and the Kenosha judge-ette--a high-school pal of Francis Schmitz, by the way--in favor of Schmitz himself, and the rabid dog Falk in Madistan. (Is he still on the State pay-tit??)
Don't forget any of them. When you see them, be sure to spit in their direction.
...It now appears that an elaborate plot was crafted to generate phony accusations of dirty ties to Russia that would be used to get a FISA Court warrant to “unmask” members of the Trump campaign, and thereby enable spying on that campaign. We do not know how many members of that campaign were “unmasked” (i.e., spied on), but there are suggestions that the list ended up quite long.
Bit by bit, evidence is leaking out connecting the members of that cabal at senior levels of the Department of Justice and the FBI with shadowy operatives in the private sector....
Which happens to mirror, precisely, the Wisconsin John Doe story. Lies were concocted to justify a "legal" investigation which turned into a wholesale compromise of ALL personal communications.
Here, the commentariat forgets John Chisholm and the Kenosha judge-ette--a high-school pal of Francis Schmitz, by the way--in favor of Schmitz himself, and the rabid dog Falk in Madistan. (Is he still on the State pay-tit??)
Don't forget any of them. When you see them, be sure to spit in their direction.
Hey, Nihad! Just Go Away
The whine that goat-cheese cannot overcome.
Nihad Awad, executive director and founder of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), argued that President Trump is “empowering Christian religious extremism in the United States” by announcing his intention to move the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv to Jerusalem....
(Meantime, CAIR is empowering Muzzie bombers in the US.)
..."He’s trying to create controversy strong enough to distract the attention from the fact that he and many people in his administration have been dealing a blow to our national interests, to our systems of governance,” he added. “He has been an embarrassment to our nation, an embarrassment to this White House and an embarrassment to our democracy.”...
Whose nation, Nihad? Is it "your" Palestine or "your" USA? Make up your mind, twit. Or better yet, STFU and go back to "your" Palestine, wherever that may be.
Nihad Awad, executive director and founder of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), argued that President Trump is “empowering Christian religious extremism in the United States” by announcing his intention to move the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv to Jerusalem....
(Meantime, CAIR is empowering Muzzie bombers in the US.)
..."He’s trying to create controversy strong enough to distract the attention from the fact that he and many people in his administration have been dealing a blow to our national interests, to our systems of governance,” he added. “He has been an embarrassment to our nation, an embarrassment to this White House and an embarrassment to our democracy.”...
Whose nation, Nihad? Is it "your" Palestine or "your" USA? Make up your mind, twit. Or better yet, STFU and go back to "your" Palestine, wherever that may be.
Frau Kommandant-in-Chief??
Some woman blackrobe apparently thinks she is the commander-in-chief of the US military.
A federal court has ruled that the Trump administration must comply by January 1 with the Obama administration's 2016 policy of allowing transgender recruits into the military.
District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly's ruling denies White House attempts to prevent self-identifying transgender individuals from entering military service dating back to last summer. ...
I must have missed that election.
A federal court has ruled that the Trump administration must comply by January 1 with the Obama administration's 2016 policy of allowing transgender recruits into the military.
District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly's ruling denies White House attempts to prevent self-identifying transgender individuals from entering military service dating back to last summer. ...
I must have missed that election.
Another US Attorney, Another Mistrial
Francis Schmitz, the voyeuristic ex-US attorney, is not the only US attorney who has problems with justice. (Don't like the term 'voyeur'? Ask Leah Vukmir about that.)
Anyhow. In Nevada, the Fed prosecutor has earned the distrust of the court.
...U.S. District Judge Gloria Navarro hinted a mistrial may be imminent after she recited a long list of evidence and witnesses that government prosecutors did not provide to defendants within an appropriate amount of time, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reports.
The information withheld from the defendants, Bundy and three others, was “sufficient to undermine the confidence in the outcome of the trial,” Navarro said....
S'pose this Nevada prosecutor will retire on a taxpayer-paid pension with health bennies, too??
Anyhow. In Nevada, the Fed prosecutor has earned the distrust of the court.
...U.S. District Judge Gloria Navarro hinted a mistrial may be imminent after she recited a long list of evidence and witnesses that government prosecutors did not provide to defendants within an appropriate amount of time, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reports.
The information withheld from the defendants, Bundy and three others, was “sufficient to undermine the confidence in the outcome of the trial,” Navarro said....
S'pose this Nevada prosecutor will retire on a taxpayer-paid pension with health bennies, too??
Monday, December 11, 2017
The Deep State: "We're All Married!!"
Y'all know that the #2 jackwad in the Feebs is married to a woman who took $$$umpty-thousands from McAuliffe, a Clinton crony, for her (D) campaign in Virginia. So that #2 Feeb, ....well.....
Now we learn this:
A senior Justice Department official demoted last week for concealing his meetings with the men behind the anti-Trump"“dossier" had even closer ties to Fusion GPS, the firm responsible for the incendiary document, than has been disclosed, Fox News has confirmed: The official's wife worked for Fusion GPS during the 2016 election.
Contacted by Fox News, investigators for the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) confirmed that Nellie H. Ohr, wife of the demoted official, Bruce G. Ohr, worked for the opposition research firm last year....(Fox News quoted at AOSHQ)
Fusion apparently invented most of the contents of the "dossier" specifically to use against Trump. Fusion was paid by the Clinton campaign (using the DNC as a cutout).
DOJ, supposedly led by a straight-shooting (R), lied like Hell to Fox News when asked about this piece of shit and his piece of shit wife.
Now we learn this:
A senior Justice Department official demoted last week for concealing his meetings with the men behind the anti-Trump"“dossier" had even closer ties to Fusion GPS, the firm responsible for the incendiary document, than has been disclosed, Fox News has confirmed: The official's wife worked for Fusion GPS during the 2016 election.
Contacted by Fox News, investigators for the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) confirmed that Nellie H. Ohr, wife of the demoted official, Bruce G. Ohr, worked for the opposition research firm last year....(Fox News quoted at AOSHQ)
Fusion apparently invented most of the contents of the "dossier" specifically to use against Trump. Fusion was paid by the Clinton campaign (using the DNC as a cutout).
DOJ, supposedly led by a straight-shooting (R), lied like Hell to Fox News when asked about this piece of shit and his piece of shit wife.
And We Are Paying for Hospitalization....Because....????
Another Muslim, another terror attack.
This one failed, so we (trust me, WE the taxpayers) are caring for him in a hospital.
Why?
This one failed, so we (trust me, WE the taxpayers) are caring for him in a hospital.
Why?
Ex-Jesuit Goes All "Prophet-y", Condemns Self
Jerry Brown is a former Jesuit.
That explains a lot about Jerry, who is also a slobbering panderer and first-order butt-kisser of Hollywood/Silicon Valley money-people.
It's not surprising that Jerry has his very own foreign and immigration policies, not to mention his enviro-wack policies. See, when Jerry left the Jesuits, he began worshiping some other gods.
In fact, he's become a prophet!!
California Gov. Jerry Brown doesn't think President Donald Trump fears God.
“I don't think President Trump has a fear of the Lord, the fear of the wrath of God, which leads one to more humility...(quoting from CBS News.)
The guy with his very own foreign policy, enviro policy, and immigration policy tells the President that the President 'needs more humility.'
That from a guy whose State is burning down as we type. So, Jerry, you have the ashes. All you need is a little sackcloth.
*Cough* Wasn't FIRE one of those 'signs of the wrath of God' Jerry?
That explains a lot about Jerry, who is also a slobbering panderer and first-order butt-kisser of Hollywood/Silicon Valley money-people.
It's not surprising that Jerry has his very own foreign and immigration policies, not to mention his enviro-wack policies. See, when Jerry left the Jesuits, he began worshiping some other gods.
In fact, he's become a prophet!!
California Gov. Jerry Brown doesn't think President Donald Trump fears God.
“I don't think President Trump has a fear of the Lord, the fear of the wrath of God, which leads one to more humility...(quoting from CBS News.)
The guy with his very own foreign policy, enviro policy, and immigration policy tells the President that the President 'needs more humility.'
That from a guy whose State is burning down as we type. So, Jerry, you have the ashes. All you need is a little sackcloth.
*Cough* Wasn't FIRE one of those 'signs of the wrath of God' Jerry?
The Communist Hypocrite Marches Today
We already know that Jacob Flom of the "Young Workers' Committee" is a Communist. He'll be marching around today to protest a KKK lunchbox-sticker. He's a hypocrite, of course, as you'll see below.
The Communist will have company.
...Coalition of Black Trade Unionists, NAACP, AFL-CIO, Voces de la Frontera, LULAC, Jewish Community Relations Council, the Milwaukee Dr. Martin Luther King Justice Coalition, Citizen Action of Wisconsin, Young People's Resistance Committee...
There's an old saying which is useful here: birds of a feather flock together.
From what we know of the KKK, which is Senator Robert Byrd's homey-gang and the enforcement arm of the Southern Democrats from 1866-1960 or so, it is a despicable organization. Members should be run out of town on a rail for their racist and murderous anti-Catholic stands.
Communists should be run out of town on a rail for their murderous anti-Catholic stands, too.
Goose/Gander/Sauce, Jacob, you f*&^%$g hypocrite.
The Communist will have company.
...Coalition of Black Trade Unionists, NAACP, AFL-CIO, Voces de la Frontera, LULAC, Jewish Community Relations Council, the Milwaukee Dr. Martin Luther King Justice Coalition, Citizen Action of Wisconsin, Young People's Resistance Committee...
There's an old saying which is useful here: birds of a feather flock together.
From what we know of the KKK, which is Senator Robert Byrd's homey-gang and the enforcement arm of the Southern Democrats from 1866-1960 or so, it is a despicable organization. Members should be run out of town on a rail for their racist and murderous anti-Catholic stands.
Communists should be run out of town on a rail for their murderous anti-Catholic stands, too.
Goose/Gander/Sauce, Jacob, you f*&^%$g hypocrite.
Sunday, December 10, 2017
Actually, I Did NOT Write This Book
You can check with my family. I know the principles very well.
HT AOSHQ, which has a long list of .....ahhhh......unusual.....books.
HT AOSHQ, which has a long list of .....ahhhh......unusual.....books.
December 12 in USCCB-Speak
Our Lady of Guadalupe appeared in Mexico to a peasant whose Bishop was skeptical, until the Lady's cloak spilled a batch of fresh roses mid-winter.
That got the Bish's attention, and the Lady is now patroness of the Americas and the unborn.
But THIS year, the US Catholic Bishops were doodling their wish-list, and came up with a new reason for the feast-day: the Lady is now "in solidarity" with the illegal immigrants. (And the NOT-illegals, of course, but who cares about them, anyway??)
The USCC employs far too many people who have nothing much to do. In the spirit of St Francis, they ought to sell that building, distribute the proceeds to the poor (such as the illegals), and send all the ex-employees out as missionaries to Bangladesh. Or Eritrea.
That got the Bish's attention, and the Lady is now patroness of the Americas and the unborn.
But THIS year, the US Catholic Bishops were doodling their wish-list, and came up with a new reason for the feast-day: the Lady is now "in solidarity" with the illegal immigrants. (And the NOT-illegals, of course, but who cares about them, anyway??)
The USCC employs far too many people who have nothing much to do. In the spirit of St Francis, they ought to sell that building, distribute the proceeds to the poor (such as the illegals), and send all the ex-employees out as missionaries to Bangladesh. Or Eritrea.
About Jacob Flom, the Communist
Channel 6 found a "young workers' committee" union member who does not like KKK signage on worksites.
We don't like that stuff either.
But that "young worker" may--repeat, MAY--have an interesting background.
...I name names. Jacob Flom is a chapter president, and told me at the IVAW national convention last year that he’s a communist using IVAW to recruit veterans to his radical communist ideology. Oh yeah, he was in the air force for a little while after 9/11 and never left CONUS. He’s not even an Iraq vet...
At one time, the AFL-CIO had expelled all its Commie members. Originally, they were separate organizations--but the AFL took over the CIO when it was clear that the CIO needed serious sanitizing. Apparently the Commies are now welcome to return. You can bet that Old Man Meany is spinning wildly in his grave.
Frankly, no Commie should be virtue-signaling any damn thing at all, and Channel 6---Ted Perry's bunch--should find someone else to interview.
We don't like that stuff either.
But that "young worker" may--repeat, MAY--have an interesting background.
...I name names. Jacob Flom is a chapter president, and told me at the IVAW national convention last year that he’s a communist using IVAW to recruit veterans to his radical communist ideology. Oh yeah, he was in the air force for a little while after 9/11 and never left CONUS. He’s not even an Iraq vet...
At one time, the AFL-CIO had expelled all its Commie members. Originally, they were separate organizations--but the AFL took over the CIO when it was clear that the CIO needed serious sanitizing. Apparently the Commies are now welcome to return. You can bet that Old Man Meany is spinning wildly in his grave.
Frankly, no Commie should be virtue-signaling any damn thing at all, and Channel 6---Ted Perry's bunch--should find someone else to interview.
Saturday, December 09, 2017
Shaver Was Murdered
.,..and screw the jury who found otherwise. It's on video at the link.
The cop is a rogue, fired soon after the murder, and his sergeant is also rogue, has retired, and has left the country. (That sergeant must have a long list of enemies, no? Leave the COUNTRY??)
There are good cops, and there are these shitballs.
The cop is a rogue, fired soon after the murder, and his sergeant is also rogue, has retired, and has left the country. (That sergeant must have a long list of enemies, no? Leave the COUNTRY??)
There are good cops, and there are these shitballs.
What's Wrong With the World, Fr. Rutler Style
Those of you who don't know from Fr. George Rutler are missing a real treat. He's a Roman Catholic priest from the English tradition (speaks actual English!!) and very well-studied. He is a priest in the NYC Archdiocese; a few years ago he was assigned to St. Michael the Archangel parish in Hell's Kitchen. (Perhaps he was too straightforward with some bureaucratic poobah in NYC.)
Anyhow, to gather support for this parish from people who actually have money (not easily found in Hell's Kitchen) he sends out a sermonette every week.
Here's a taste of the current one:
...Our society has employed cleverness to justify moral madness, rationalizing a radical overhaul of social order as “hope and change.” George Orwell anticipated this in his “doublethink” which means holding two contradictory beliefs simultaneously and accepting both of them, so that, for instance, ignorance is strength, war is peace, freedom is slavery. Currently there are those who call censored speech “freedom of speech” and redistribution of wealth “income equality,” and who varnish anarchy as “resistance.” Infanticide is responsible parenthood, infidelity is independence, decadence is progress, common sense is bias, and natural law is hate speech....
...The same people who ask “Who am I to judge?” judge right judgment to be tactlessly judgmental, and they politicize the judiciary to appoint justices who will usurp the function of legislators. Certainly, our Lord forbids any attempt to judge the human heart or the fate of a soul (Matthew 7:2), but blurring the line between right and wrong, which the theologians call antinomianism, turns an entire culture into a raucous asylum.
Indeed!
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Anyhow, to gather support for this parish from people who actually have money (not easily found in Hell's Kitchen) he sends out a sermonette every week.
Here's a taste of the current one:
...Our society has employed cleverness to justify moral madness, rationalizing a radical overhaul of social order as “hope and change.” George Orwell anticipated this in his “doublethink” which means holding two contradictory beliefs simultaneously and accepting both of them, so that, for instance, ignorance is strength, war is peace, freedom is slavery. Currently there are those who call censored speech “freedom of speech” and redistribution of wealth “income equality,” and who varnish anarchy as “resistance.” Infanticide is responsible parenthood, infidelity is independence, decadence is progress, common sense is bias, and natural law is hate speech....
...The same people who ask “Who am I to judge?” judge right judgment to be tactlessly judgmental, and they politicize the judiciary to appoint justices who will usurp the function of legislators. Certainly, our Lord forbids any attempt to judge the human heart or the fate of a soul (Matthew 7:2), but blurring the line between right and wrong, which the theologians call antinomianism, turns an entire culture into a raucous asylum.
Indeed!
Want more? Send a contribution here: St Michael the Archangel Parish, 424 West 34th Street New York, NY 10001
Deep State in Wisconsin, Judiciary Edition
The judge appointed to oversee the fallout from the criminally-conducted "John Doe" seems to have a lot of sympathy for the Nazi-storm-trooper tactics of Schmitz, Chisholm, et.al.
At least, that's what he told Wiggy in a series of tweets back in the day.
But not to worry!!! The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel managed to twist the story so that the judge is actually a Rightist-Klan kinda guy.
At least, that's what he told Wiggy in a series of tweets back in the day.
But not to worry!!! The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel managed to twist the story so that the judge is actually a Rightist-Klan kinda guy.
Trumpet Player Has Guts. Good!
This is unprecedented. I've seen well over 100 symphony concerts live (and another few dozen on the teevee) and I've NEVER seen this happen.
A classical musician walked off the stage after a pop singer mocked a Christmas carol and criticized Republicans in the U.S. Congress. Manny Laureano, Principal Trumpet for the Minnesota Orchestra, made the silent protest during a Rufus Wainwright concert in Minneapolis’ Orchestra Hall on the evening of December 2. Wainwright,...
Actually, it's "DOOFUS Wainwright," based on the rest of the news story. Doofus is a professional pain in the ass (in more ways than one) and virulent anti-Christian.
The trumpet player may catch Hell from the symphony, of course. And he should toss it right back at them.
A classical musician walked off the stage after a pop singer mocked a Christmas carol and criticized Republicans in the U.S. Congress. Manny Laureano, Principal Trumpet for the Minnesota Orchestra, made the silent protest during a Rufus Wainwright concert in Minneapolis’ Orchestra Hall on the evening of December 2. Wainwright,...
Actually, it's "DOOFUS Wainwright," based on the rest of the news story. Doofus is a professional pain in the ass (in more ways than one) and virulent anti-Christian.
The trumpet player may catch Hell from the symphony, of course. And he should toss it right back at them.
WI. "Ethics" Chief Doesn't Know from Fifth Amendment
The Deep State is in Madison, WI. And--as Brad Schimel has shown--it is a criminal enterprise there, just as much as in Mordor-on-the-Potomac.
We note that the Wisconsin "Ethics" Board chair seems to have a problem understanding the Fifth Amendment. The Fifth is what IS INVOKED when demanding right-to-counsel in a CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION.
...Halbrooks provided WisPolitics.com a timeline that showed the pair told DOJ they would have to talk to the commission before agreeing to the interview because it “previously instructed outside counsel before taking individual interviews.”...
...Halbrooks said DOJ wanted to speak with Bell and Buerger separately, which necessitated outside counsel because Buerger is the staff attorney who would otherwise represent Bell in such an interview.
“We had to have somebody there listening,” Halbrooks said, stressing, “There was no refusal to answer.”...
You want "listening"? Buy a tape recorder.
It wasn't "listening" you wanted, Halbrooks.
By the way, this Buerger guy, who played a prominent role in the CRIMINAL JOHN DOE events, is going to get an "attaboy" from the "Ethics" Board. Surprise!!
It's a f*&^%*g joke out there.
We note that the Wisconsin "Ethics" Board chair seems to have a problem understanding the Fifth Amendment. The Fifth is what IS INVOKED when demanding right-to-counsel in a CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION.
...Halbrooks provided WisPolitics.com a timeline that showed the pair told DOJ they would have to talk to the commission before agreeing to the interview because it “previously instructed outside counsel before taking individual interviews.”...
...Halbrooks said DOJ wanted to speak with Bell and Buerger separately, which necessitated outside counsel because Buerger is the staff attorney who would otherwise represent Bell in such an interview.
“We had to have somebody there listening,” Halbrooks said, stressing, “There was no refusal to answer.”...
You want "listening"? Buy a tape recorder.
It wasn't "listening" you wanted, Halbrooks.
By the way, this Buerger guy, who played a prominent role in the CRIMINAL JOHN DOE events, is going to get an "attaboy" from the "Ethics" Board. Surprise!!
It's a f*&^%*g joke out there.
Pence's In-House Lawyer?
Apparently VP Mike Pence has a small menagerie.
...it's legitimately funny to say that living with 2 cats, a rabbit, and a snake...
Pence is keeping a lawyer in his residence?
...it's legitimately funny to say that living with 2 cats, a rabbit, and a snake...
Pence is keeping a lawyer in his residence?
Where Is the Wisconsin Bar Association?
Wisconsin's Attorney General has issued a lengthy, documented report on criminal activities of various Wisconsin lawyers in the "John Doe" (v. 1, 2, and 3) schemes. Owen's blog has the link and several damning excerpts.
Before the Wisconsin Bar Association's reputation becomes like that of the Hollywood Producers' Association, it should move to disbar these louts. And "louts" includes the various District Attorneys who were involved, as well as their toady-lackey-slimeball assistants.
The Bar is pretty good at whacking lawyers who steal from old ladies and who are rapists. We'd hate to think that the Bar Association coddles lawyers who flagrantly flout court orders while on clearly political-driven witch hunts.
Or, of course, the Bar could ignore it and hope that this all goes away. Trust me: it won't.
Before the Wisconsin Bar Association's reputation becomes like that of the Hollywood Producers' Association, it should move to disbar these louts. And "louts" includes the various District Attorneys who were involved, as well as their toady-lackey-slimeball assistants.
The Bar is pretty good at whacking lawyers who steal from old ladies and who are rapists. We'd hate to think that the Bar Association coddles lawyers who flagrantly flout court orders while on clearly political-driven witch hunts.
Or, of course, the Bar could ignore it and hope that this all goes away. Trust me: it won't.
Friday, December 08, 2017
Shun These Crooks-Liars-Scumbags
These are the people who should never be tolerated in our society. By no co-incidence, they are all Democrat Party (or Stalinist/Checkha Party) members.
...Former Special Prosecutor Francis Schmitz, Former GAB employee Kevin Kennedy, Former GAB employee Shane Falk, Former GAB employee Molly Nagappala, Former GAB employee Jonathan Becker, Elections Commission Counsel Nathan Judnic, Milwaukee ADA David Robles, Milwaukee Administrator James Krueger, Milwaukee DA Investigator Robert Stelter...
John Chisholm is not named here, but is a co-conspirator.
Why is Kevin Kennedy drawing a fat pension from the State?
Connect the dots: Schmitz is a former US attorney. Think the Deep State stops at the borders of Mordor-on-the-Potomac? Think again.
...Former Special Prosecutor Francis Schmitz, Former GAB employee Kevin Kennedy, Former GAB employee Shane Falk, Former GAB employee Molly Nagappala, Former GAB employee Jonathan Becker, Elections Commission Counsel Nathan Judnic, Milwaukee ADA David Robles, Milwaukee Administrator James Krueger, Milwaukee DA Investigator Robert Stelter...
John Chisholm is not named here, but is a co-conspirator.
Why is Kevin Kennedy drawing a fat pension from the State?
Connect the dots: Schmitz is a former US attorney. Think the Deep State stops at the borders of Mordor-on-the-Potomac? Think again.
The Extremists Sue Ariens
The Muslim extremists in NE Wisconsin are using lawyers instead of bombs. (It's up to you to figure out which is worse.)
...An Islamic advocacy group is suing a Wisconsin manufacturer, alleging it failed to accommodate 19 Muslim employees who wanted to take prayer breaks during work time.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations wants the Ariens Co. to rehire the former employees and give them back pay and damages. The group’s federal lawsuit, filed Wednesday in Green Bay, also asks the Brillion lawn mower manufacturer to reinstate a more lenient religious accommodation policy that would allow employees to take short breaks for prayers at different times, such as dawn and sunset....
Interesting, because:
1) ...the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission investigated the allegations several months ago and dismissed the complaint....
and
2) ...The company said many Muslim employees who continue to work at the plant comply with the two-break policy and are able to fulfill their religious practices during those times....
There's always some damn lawyer who's looking for revenue.
...An Islamic advocacy group is suing a Wisconsin manufacturer, alleging it failed to accommodate 19 Muslim employees who wanted to take prayer breaks during work time.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations wants the Ariens Co. to rehire the former employees and give them back pay and damages. The group’s federal lawsuit, filed Wednesday in Green Bay, also asks the Brillion lawn mower manufacturer to reinstate a more lenient religious accommodation policy that would allow employees to take short breaks for prayers at different times, such as dawn and sunset....
Interesting, because:
1) ...the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission investigated the allegations several months ago and dismissed the complaint....
and
2) ...The company said many Muslim employees who continue to work at the plant comply with the two-break policy and are able to fulfill their religious practices during those times....
There's always some damn lawyer who's looking for revenue.
Lyft Driver-Shooter Pulls Gun and Does Dumb Stunt
This guy will probably lose his CCW. And if he's charged with reckless some-damn-thiong, he'll lose the case in court, too.
...His passengers were trying to get out of the car while it was moving, but not until he put the car in park did the doors unlock and all four bailed out.
"I got out the same time they did. I turned around. I had my firearm concealed. I turned around. I already had a round chambered. I fired four shots down range. I could have hit them easily. I didn't shoot to hit anyone. I wanted to scare the s*** out of them because I didn't want to get shot myself."
When asked why he felt the need to open fire if they were running away, the driver was matter-of-fact.
"When you're in that position and you're outnumbered by four, you want to make sure they get the message to keep running."...
Uhmmnnnn, no. You use a firearm ONLY when your life--or that of another--is in grave danger. If Dindoo Nuffin and his bros are running away, your life is NOT in grave danger, stupid.
He should be forced to memorize Ayoob Massad's book "In the Gravest Extreme."
...His passengers were trying to get out of the car while it was moving, but not until he put the car in park did the doors unlock and all four bailed out.
"I got out the same time they did. I turned around. I had my firearm concealed. I turned around. I already had a round chambered. I fired four shots down range. I could have hit them easily. I didn't shoot to hit anyone. I wanted to scare the s*** out of them because I didn't want to get shot myself."
When asked why he felt the need to open fire if they were running away, the driver was matter-of-fact.
"When you're in that position and you're outnumbered by four, you want to make sure they get the message to keep running."...
Uhmmnnnn, no. You use a firearm ONLY when your life--or that of another--is in grave danger. If Dindoo Nuffin and his bros are running away, your life is NOT in grave danger, stupid.
He should be forced to memorize Ayoob Massad's book "In the Gravest Extreme."
Thursday, December 07, 2017
"Loser", Defined!!
You know you're a loser when you STILL come in second competing against real women.
Weinstein Splatters on Lasry
Mr. Lasry has a lot of Virtue.
...Following the 2016 U.S. election, Lasry and the Milwaukee Bucks became one of three NBA teams to openly state they would not be staying at Trump branded hotels when on the road...
That's his story, anyway.
There's an entirely different story being told in court.
The suit claims that ... Lasry knew of Weinstein’s “pattern and practice of predatory sexual conduct toward women” but covered it up for years because of their close relationship with the Hollywood producer, ESPN reported.
Lasry made his fortune buying and selling junk-bonds and BK distressed assets. Maybe that "junk" part got out of hand. *cough*
...Following the 2016 U.S. election, Lasry and the Milwaukee Bucks became one of three NBA teams to openly state they would not be staying at Trump branded hotels when on the road...
That's his story, anyway.
There's an entirely different story being told in court.
The suit claims that ... Lasry knew of Weinstein’s “pattern and practice of predatory sexual conduct toward women” but covered it up for years because of their close relationship with the Hollywood producer, ESPN reported.
Lasry made his fortune buying and selling junk-bonds and BK distressed assets. Maybe that "junk" part got out of hand. *cough*
Virtue? Or Sheer Smugness?
It looks as though Sasse doesn't get the difference between virtue and smugness.
If he were actually virtuous, he would NEVER blast forth his intentions-to-be-virtuous.
If he were actually virtuous, he would NEVER blast forth his intentions-to-be-virtuous.
Modernity and Lousy Church Music
Cadged this from a Fr. Schall essay over at Crisis (you should support them!!) Fr. Schall's essay has to do with the current crisis in the Church--and current politics. But the genius of Schall is such that the essay applies to church music, too.
...Eric Voegelin once remarked, in his 1968 book, Science, Politics, and Gnosticism, that modernity was largely the result of Christian men losing their faith in the transcendent order. They shifted their allegiance almost exclusively to the enterprises of this world. The separation of faith and works left works with an autonomy of their own, instead of, as in the Catholic tradition, seeing the transcendent end directing the things of this world to their own natural order....
We (properly) understand that the transcendent order includes beauty, goodness, and truth. The further from any of these qualities, the less the transcendence. That sentence should remind you of Pius X's statement on the ideal sacred music being Chant and polyphony modeled on Chant; that the further music strayed from the model, the less 'sacred' it will be.
Why "less sacred"? And what's this "Chant model"?
...The crux of the matter is the real presence and how it is maintained. The Mass presupposed the same Sacrifice that Christ endured. There is only one Mass in the history of the world. It is conceived on an altar. It requires priests authorized to make the Sacrifice present to the congregation. All, priests and people, face the same direction historically. The heart of the Church’s presence in the world is the Eucharist and the other sacraments.
If Christ is not really present in the Eucharist, the Mass soon becomes a meal, not a sacrifice. The altar is changed into a table. The priest is not an alter Christus but a leader of the congregation. The bread and wine are memorials that remind us of the Last Supper. The leader is gradually not a bishop or a priest...
The Real Presence, of course, remains a mystery, as does (e.g.) transubstantiation. Chant is mysterious, too; it does not "resolve" neatly with chords, nor does the music have a nice, neat, meter; instead, the music depends entirely on the Word--the text which IS the Word (cf. Ratzinger's lecture to church musicians, Vienna, 1985).
I have taught Chant to beginners. They do NOT understand this "Word/text" thing--and I've encountered active resistance to the concept from "church musicians." The beginners will grasp it much more quickly than 'the musicians,' because the beginners have no worldly-formed pre-existing (and deficient) concept of "Sacred" music. In fact, non-musicians--usually pastors--do not "get" the concept that music moves the soul. They just let "the musician" do whatever. Ugh.
The essay itself is about the self-destructive nature of the Protestant revolt, by the way. Worth reading!
...Eric Voegelin once remarked, in his 1968 book, Science, Politics, and Gnosticism, that modernity was largely the result of Christian men losing their faith in the transcendent order. They shifted their allegiance almost exclusively to the enterprises of this world. The separation of faith and works left works with an autonomy of their own, instead of, as in the Catholic tradition, seeing the transcendent end directing the things of this world to their own natural order....
We (properly) understand that the transcendent order includes beauty, goodness, and truth. The further from any of these qualities, the less the transcendence. That sentence should remind you of Pius X's statement on the ideal sacred music being Chant and polyphony modeled on Chant; that the further music strayed from the model, the less 'sacred' it will be.
Why "less sacred"? And what's this "Chant model"?
...The crux of the matter is the real presence and how it is maintained. The Mass presupposed the same Sacrifice that Christ endured. There is only one Mass in the history of the world. It is conceived on an altar. It requires priests authorized to make the Sacrifice present to the congregation. All, priests and people, face the same direction historically. The heart of the Church’s presence in the world is the Eucharist and the other sacraments.
If Christ is not really present in the Eucharist, the Mass soon becomes a meal, not a sacrifice. The altar is changed into a table. The priest is not an alter Christus but a leader of the congregation. The bread and wine are memorials that remind us of the Last Supper. The leader is gradually not a bishop or a priest...
The Real Presence, of course, remains a mystery, as does (e.g.) transubstantiation. Chant is mysterious, too; it does not "resolve" neatly with chords, nor does the music have a nice, neat, meter; instead, the music depends entirely on the Word--the text which IS the Word (cf. Ratzinger's lecture to church musicians, Vienna, 1985).
I have taught Chant to beginners. They do NOT understand this "Word/text" thing--and I've encountered active resistance to the concept from "church musicians." The beginners will grasp it much more quickly than 'the musicians,' because the beginners have no worldly-formed pre-existing (and deficient) concept of "Sacred" music. In fact, non-musicians--usually pastors--do not "get" the concept that music moves the soul. They just let "the musician" do whatever. Ugh.
The essay itself is about the self-destructive nature of the Protestant revolt, by the way. Worth reading!
Wednesday, December 06, 2017
The Stench of Lawyers and Their Deep State
Well, well, well. Owen placed a link on his blog--a link to Brad Schimel's report on the (mostly illegal) activities of the John Doe/G.A.B./Special Prosecutors who made up a law and then subpoenaed every damn thing they could think of.
They also ran the M-16A1 equipped pre-dawn raids on homes of Republicans. Not Democrats--just Republicans--some in their pajamas, some not home at the time so their kids could be scared half to death--and NONE allowed to call an attorney or anyone else.
(Those guys open-carrying in Milwaukee? They were thinking of John Chisholm's typical approach to any conservative.)
Anyhow.
Did you know that there was a THIRD John Doe? And that there was no "authorization" for it? And that John Doe captured millions of pages of emails from- and to-various Republicans, elected and non?
Oh, yes. There was. And the Deep State is right here in Wisconsin.
I'd love to think that John Chisholm will be leaving Milwaukee in tar and feathers (over his pajamas) after a pre-dawn armed raid including flash-bangs, while his wife is held at gunpoint as the mob clears out their possessions; and at the same time, the two slime-dog "assistants" of his are dragged out of town behind speeding cars and their goods are burned on the street.
But that won't happen.
They also ran the M-16A1 equipped pre-dawn raids on homes of Republicans. Not Democrats--just Republicans--some in their pajamas, some not home at the time so their kids could be scared half to death--and NONE allowed to call an attorney or anyone else.
(Those guys open-carrying in Milwaukee? They were thinking of John Chisholm's typical approach to any conservative.)
Anyhow.
Did you know that there was a THIRD John Doe? And that there was no "authorization" for it? And that John Doe captured millions of pages of emails from- and to-various Republicans, elected and non?
Oh, yes. There was. And the Deep State is right here in Wisconsin.
I'd love to think that John Chisholm will be leaving Milwaukee in tar and feathers (over his pajamas) after a pre-dawn armed raid including flash-bangs, while his wife is held at gunpoint as the mob clears out their possessions; and at the same time, the two slime-dog "assistants" of his are dragged out of town behind speeding cars and their goods are burned on the street.
But that won't happen.
Is Bob Lutz Nuts?
Bob Lutz is, like Lee Iacocca, a legend in the auto biz. Lutz worked with Iacocca at Chrysler, then moved to GM just before it became Government Motors. He's written a couple of books on the car biz; both are probably interesting, to say the least.
Recently, Lutz has been making noises about 'self-driving' cars and 'the end of the automotive era.' Some of those noises are.......uhhhmmmnnn.....nuts.
...Lutz’s article begins with the assertion that the end of the automotive era is upon us. “We’re now getting to the point where the automobile can’t fulfill its primary purpose anymore,” he said, “which is to move people from place to place on the surface of the Earth, easily and efficiently.” He pointed out that human-driven cars lead to a loss productivity, which provides an incentive to shift to autonomous cars. “We have so much traffic congestion that enormous amounts of time is being lost in all the major cities and urban conglomerations around the world in traffic.”...
Ol' Bob's point of view is fine, if you happen to live in a very large city. Detroit, NYC, LA, SFO, Chicago, Atlanta--yah, well, OK. But for the other 70% of the country's inhabitants, Bob Lutz is nuts. Here's more proof:
...“Is this a huge change? Yes! Is it hard for people to get used to? Yes! We had the same thing when we still had horses,” he said. But in high traffic areas, the autonomous cars, which he predicts won’t be owned by anyone but will be shared among people as a paid service, will help make transportation more efficient. “In a way it restricts some of the freedoms we’ve had up to now,” he said, “but on the other hand it opens up incredible new possibilities and mainly it’s gonna give everybody time back.”...
There is simply no comparison whatsoever between horse-based transportation and car-based transportation. None. And Bob, take a hard look at "community-owned" goods. You might remember the term "maintenance," Bob. Who's going to do that? You want to "share" a car last occupied by a vomitous drunk, Bob? Be my guest!
Ol' Bob has been drinking the socialist-dictator juice too heavily. Smart guy, but nutso-batso prophet.
Recently, Lutz has been making noises about 'self-driving' cars and 'the end of the automotive era.' Some of those noises are.......uhhhmmmnnn.....nuts.
...Lutz’s article begins with the assertion that the end of the automotive era is upon us. “We’re now getting to the point where the automobile can’t fulfill its primary purpose anymore,” he said, “which is to move people from place to place on the surface of the Earth, easily and efficiently.” He pointed out that human-driven cars lead to a loss productivity, which provides an incentive to shift to autonomous cars. “We have so much traffic congestion that enormous amounts of time is being lost in all the major cities and urban conglomerations around the world in traffic.”...
Ol' Bob's point of view is fine, if you happen to live in a very large city. Detroit, NYC, LA, SFO, Chicago, Atlanta--yah, well, OK. But for the other 70% of the country's inhabitants, Bob Lutz is nuts. Here's more proof:
...“Is this a huge change? Yes! Is it hard for people to get used to? Yes! We had the same thing when we still had horses,” he said. But in high traffic areas, the autonomous cars, which he predicts won’t be owned by anyone but will be shared among people as a paid service, will help make transportation more efficient. “In a way it restricts some of the freedoms we’ve had up to now,” he said, “but on the other hand it opens up incredible new possibilities and mainly it’s gonna give everybody time back.”...
There is simply no comparison whatsoever between horse-based transportation and car-based transportation. None. And Bob, take a hard look at "community-owned" goods. You might remember the term "maintenance," Bob. Who's going to do that? You want to "share" a car last occupied by a vomitous drunk, Bob? Be my guest!
Ol' Bob has been drinking the socialist-dictator juice too heavily. Smart guy, but nutso-batso prophet.
Importing Deflation: Wage Edition
Some people--like, for example, the Chamber of Commerce--don't want you to see this stuff.
...the rise in productivity comes at the expense of the wages of the American worker who saw unit labor costs (wages) decline 0.2% (against expectations of a 0.2% gain) - down for 2 straight quarters for the first time since 2014.
Real compensation declined 1.1% YoY - falling for the fourth straight quarter......
Just in time for Christmas!!
Graphs at the link.
...the rise in productivity comes at the expense of the wages of the American worker who saw unit labor costs (wages) decline 0.2% (against expectations of a 0.2% gain) - down for 2 straight quarters for the first time since 2014.
Real compensation declined 1.1% YoY - falling for the fourth straight quarter......
Just in time for Christmas!!
Graphs at the link.
Canada Pretty Much Off the Rails
Fleeing the Establishment State here in the USA by going to Canada?
That's crazy. Canada is several steps further into NutHouseLand than even California. For the time being.
That's crazy. Canada is several steps further into NutHouseLand than even California. For the time being.
"No Guns" Milwaukee??
A few folks open-carried on a project in north-central Milwaukee. I won't defend the guy who was brandishing (idiot!!), and open-carry is NOT concealed-carry; but there is an interesting followup here.
...City policy prohibits workers from taking dangerous weapons to the workplace, and some aldermen have voiced concerns about subcontractors bringing guns to work -- something that's against city policy....
The City supplies armed guards for its Mayor, of course.
Anyhow. The "policy" that you see on this news-report appears to encompass ONLY City employees, not contractors, nor sub-contractors.
For the time being, the City of Milwaukee is solvent; thus, people who really need work will have to bring the Vaseline and bend over to the City's demands, Constitutional or not. Solvency, however, is only a matter of time.
...City policy prohibits workers from taking dangerous weapons to the workplace, and some aldermen have voiced concerns about subcontractors bringing guns to work -- something that's against city policy....
The City supplies armed guards for its Mayor, of course.
Anyhow. The "policy" that you see on this news-report appears to encompass ONLY City employees, not contractors, nor sub-contractors.
For the time being, the City of Milwaukee is solvent; thus, people who really need work will have to bring the Vaseline and bend over to the City's demands, Constitutional or not. Solvency, however, is only a matter of time.
Milwaukee Juvie-Judge: 'We Can't Lock Them Up'
There are reasons that people carry guns in the City of Milwaukee.
This judge is one of them.
...Judge Joe Donald is the Presiding Judge for Milwaukee County Children's Court. He's in charge of deciding the fates of hundreds of kids every year.
"It is very difficult to say with certainty whether any particular penalty is going to stop a kid from re-offending," he says. "It's a matter of putting the right kids, in the right situation, for the right length of time."
Judge Donald says sending juveniles to places like Lincoln Hills remains a final resort.
"If we do that, as a system, we have failed," he says. "Simply locking them up, in my opinion, is not a solution." ...
He is of the opinion that Lincoln Hills is too far away from the Little Darlings' homies. Hard for the rest of the crew to visit them, ya'know, without car-jacking some old lady at Bayshore.
This judge is one of them.
...Judge Joe Donald is the Presiding Judge for Milwaukee County Children's Court. He's in charge of deciding the fates of hundreds of kids every year.
"It is very difficult to say with certainty whether any particular penalty is going to stop a kid from re-offending," he says. "It's a matter of putting the right kids, in the right situation, for the right length of time."
Judge Donald says sending juveniles to places like Lincoln Hills remains a final resort.
"If we do that, as a system, we have failed," he says. "Simply locking them up, in my opinion, is not a solution." ...
He is of the opinion that Lincoln Hills is too far away from the Little Darlings' homies. Hard for the rest of the crew to visit them, ya'know, without car-jacking some old lady at Bayshore.
Vatican: Global Warming Will Bring On Last Judgment
Apparently some denizens of the Vatican have learned 'the day and the hour.' It'll be about 10 years from now.
In its newly released “Final Declaration: Our Planet, Our Health, Our Responsibility” from a November workshop on climate change, air pollution and health, the Pontifical Academy of Sciences warns that “there is less than a decade” to put in place a series of sweeping measures to counteract the effects of human-induced climate change. “The time to act is now,” it reads.
Hmmm.
Well, you've been warned.
In its newly released “Final Declaration: Our Planet, Our Health, Our Responsibility” from a November workshop on climate change, air pollution and health, the Pontifical Academy of Sciences warns that “there is less than a decade” to put in place a series of sweeping measures to counteract the effects of human-induced climate change. “The time to act is now,” it reads.
Hmmm.
Well, you've been warned.
Grassley Has This One Right
Sen. Corn-a-Hole Grassley floated "immigration reform" vis-a-vis the DACA bunch. There's a lot of good stuff here.
...The GOP plan, dubbed the Security, Enforcement, and Compassion United in Reform Efforts, or SECURE Act, would offer three-year work permits to 690,000 DACA illegal-immigrants in exchange for ending chain migration, requiring mandatory screening to exclude illegals from jobs, closing asylum loopholes used by migrants to get into the United States, and penalizing so-called “sanctuary cities” which refuse to cooperate with federal immigration-enforcement agencies....
AFAIC, we can keep the DACA kiddies and deport their parents, who are illegals. But that ain't gonna happen, so the next-best thing is keep the DACA kiddies and cut off all their cousins, uncles, crazy aunties, and 4th-cousins-twice-removed from showing up tomorrow.
Some GOP Senators--generally, the ones owned by landscapers, roofers, and meatpackers--disagree.
Screw them.
...The GOP plan, dubbed the Security, Enforcement, and Compassion United in Reform Efforts, or SECURE Act, would offer three-year work permits to 690,000 DACA illegal-immigrants in exchange for ending chain migration, requiring mandatory screening to exclude illegals from jobs, closing asylum loopholes used by migrants to get into the United States, and penalizing so-called “sanctuary cities” which refuse to cooperate with federal immigration-enforcement agencies....
AFAIC, we can keep the DACA kiddies and deport their parents, who are illegals. But that ain't gonna happen, so the next-best thing is keep the DACA kiddies and cut off all their cousins, uncles, crazy aunties, and 4th-cousins-twice-removed from showing up tomorrow.
Some GOP Senators--generally, the ones owned by landscapers, roofers, and meatpackers--disagree.
Screw them.
Tuesday, December 05, 2017
Wisdom!
Great quote!!!
Ronald Knox once said, “He who travels in the barque of St. Peter had better not look too closely into the engine room.”
Found at Crisis Magazine. Thanks.
Ronald Knox once said, “He who travels in the barque of St. Peter had better not look too closely into the engine room.”
Found at Crisis Magazine. Thanks.
The Abomination of Desolation: Church Music
James Macmillan is a first-rate musical artist/composer. He's also a Catholic, and therefore has some comments which are relevant to the "music in the church" question.
...This has been especially dire in the Catholic Church, where deliberately misapplied readings of “the spirit of Vatican II” has turned much of the musical practice in liturgy into a pitiful laughing stock. Anglicans will know what the problem is too — those aisle-dancing and numbskull jogging for Jesus choruses, maudlin sentimental dirges, faux American folk music and cod-Celticness. The American musicologist Thomas Day described this kind of liturgy as “a diet of romantic marshmallows indigestibly combined with stuff that grabs you by the scruff of the neck and shakes you into submission with its social message”.
In the 1970s many well-intentioned types thought that such “folk” music and pop culture derivatives would appeal to teenagers and young people and get them more involved in the Church, when the exact opposite has happened. It is now thought that these trendy experiments in music and liturgy have contributed to the increasing risible irrelevance of liberal Christianity, and that liturgy as social engineering has repulsed many. Like most ideas shaped by 1960s Marxist ideology it has proved an utter failure. Its greatest tragedy is the wilful, disingenuous de-poeticisation of Catholic worship. The Church has simply aped the secular West’s obsession with “accessibility”, “inclusiveness”, “democracy” and anti-elitism, resulting in the triumph of bad taste, banality and a deflation of the sense of the sacred in the life of the church.
The liturgical “progressives” who have created this have been at loggerheads for decades with the musicians of the Church, whom they accuse unfairly of being reactionary and Tridentinist...
Yup. Although there are bright spots--mostly in the Old Rite parishes--the Marxist push of certain US Bishops in the 1960's has been very effective. Macmillan's descriptions are accurate, and the de-population of the churches is a very good measure.
HT: PertPapist
...This has been especially dire in the Catholic Church, where deliberately misapplied readings of “the spirit of Vatican II” has turned much of the musical practice in liturgy into a pitiful laughing stock. Anglicans will know what the problem is too — those aisle-dancing and numbskull jogging for Jesus choruses, maudlin sentimental dirges, faux American folk music and cod-Celticness. The American musicologist Thomas Day described this kind of liturgy as “a diet of romantic marshmallows indigestibly combined with stuff that grabs you by the scruff of the neck and shakes you into submission with its social message”.
In the 1970s many well-intentioned types thought that such “folk” music and pop culture derivatives would appeal to teenagers and young people and get them more involved in the Church, when the exact opposite has happened. It is now thought that these trendy experiments in music and liturgy have contributed to the increasing risible irrelevance of liberal Christianity, and that liturgy as social engineering has repulsed many. Like most ideas shaped by 1960s Marxist ideology it has proved an utter failure. Its greatest tragedy is the wilful, disingenuous de-poeticisation of Catholic worship. The Church has simply aped the secular West’s obsession with “accessibility”, “inclusiveness”, “democracy” and anti-elitism, resulting in the triumph of bad taste, banality and a deflation of the sense of the sacred in the life of the church.
The liturgical “progressives” who have created this have been at loggerheads for decades with the musicians of the Church, whom they accuse unfairly of being reactionary and Tridentinist...
Yup. Although there are bright spots--mostly in the Old Rite parishes--the Marxist push of certain US Bishops in the 1960's has been very effective. Macmillan's descriptions are accurate, and the de-population of the churches is a very good measure.
HT: PertPapist
Yes, Virginia: Some People Are More Equal
Not only the loser-lump-in-pantsuits, but her lawyer and....ahhh.... "aide."
...The FBI agent who was fired from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation team for sending anti-Donald Trump text messages conducted the interviews with two Hillary Clinton aides accused of giving false statements about what they knew of the former secretary of state’s private email server.
Neither of the Clinton associates, Cheryl Mills and Huma Abedin, faced legal consequences for their misleading statements, which they made in interviews last year with former FBI section chief Peter Strzok...
It's reported that the FBI is (FINALLY!!!!!) under investigation. At the rate this is going, we can simply convert the Hoover building to a prison to save a lot of time and money.
...The FBI agent who was fired from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation team for sending anti-Donald Trump text messages conducted the interviews with two Hillary Clinton aides accused of giving false statements about what they knew of the former secretary of state’s private email server.
Neither of the Clinton associates, Cheryl Mills and Huma Abedin, faced legal consequences for their misleading statements, which they made in interviews last year with former FBI section chief Peter Strzok...
It's reported that the FBI is (FINALLY!!!!!) under investigation. At the rate this is going, we can simply convert the Hoover building to a prison to save a lot of time and money.
Monday, December 04, 2017
FusionGPS and the Wall Street Journal
A long, long, long time ago, high-school debate teams could quote from the Wall Street Journal's news pages without fear of criticism from debate judges. (In contrast, a quote from Time magazine was death.)
Things have changed. Now the WSJ's "news" operation is complicit in disinformation efforts by Fusion GPS, a Russian propaganda outlet. It is NOT a co-incidence that the term "disinformation" originated with Stalin's propaganda corps.
And Fusion GPS' butt-buddy relationships with WSJ reporters is also present with CNN (surprise, surprise, surprise!!!) But it doesn't end there; the Clinton machine and the slimebucket lawyer Elias are also part of the act.
You remember the Bible story wherein Abraham begged God to save Sodom if there were only 10 good people therein?
Well, I don't think God would save Washington, DC.
Things have changed. Now the WSJ's "news" operation is complicit in disinformation efforts by Fusion GPS, a Russian propaganda outlet. It is NOT a co-incidence that the term "disinformation" originated with Stalin's propaganda corps.
And Fusion GPS' butt-buddy relationships with WSJ reporters is also present with CNN (surprise, surprise, surprise!!!) But it doesn't end there; the Clinton machine and the slimebucket lawyer Elias are also part of the act.
You remember the Bible story wherein Abraham begged God to save Sodom if there were only 10 good people therein?
Well, I don't think God would save Washington, DC.
BangZapBoom! SCOTUS Backs Trump Travel Orders
PowerLine has the story.
...the U.S. Supreme Court gave the Trump administration a major victory, staying the orders of two lower courts that enjoined enforcement of the president’s revised travel ban. This means that the orders can be enforced, and travel from the affected countries can be banned or limited, while the courts continue to process appeals in the two cases....
Seven to two. The Prune and the Wise (?) One were the two. Doh.
...the U.S. Supreme Court gave the Trump administration a major victory, staying the orders of two lower courts that enjoined enforcement of the president’s revised travel ban. This means that the orders can be enforced, and travel from the affected countries can be banned or limited, while the courts continue to process appeals in the two cases....
Seven to two. The Prune and the Wise (?) One were the two. Doh.
Going Armed in Milwaukee
Wiggy brings to our attention a picture of some guys doing highway work in Milwaukee--while open-carrying.
OMG!!! TEOTWAWKI!!!! Civilization Is ENDED!!!
So say the Usual Leftoid Suspects.
So happens I know someone who works in the City of Milwaukee, near the old Evinrude plant on ~60th St., every day. And he, too, open-carries, because he has a family that wants him home every night.
That's all the reason anyone needs. Screw the Leftoids. And if they don't like it, well, let's hope they don't do anything foolish. I know for a fact that they can't run faster than 940 feet/second.
OMG!!! TEOTWAWKI!!!! Civilization Is ENDED!!!
So say the Usual Leftoid Suspects.
So happens I know someone who works in the City of Milwaukee, near the old Evinrude plant on ~60th St., every day. And he, too, open-carries, because he has a family that wants him home every night.
That's all the reason anyone needs. Screw the Leftoids. And if they don't like it, well, let's hope they don't do anything foolish. I know for a fact that they can't run faster than 940 feet/second.
Question for Jimmy Kimmel
Mr. Kimmel avers that he is a Catholic.
So Mr. Kimmel: is voluntary abortion acceptable to you? If not, why not?
End of quiz.
So Mr. Kimmel: is voluntary abortion acceptable to you? If not, why not?
End of quiz.
Sunday, December 03, 2017
Two Mediocre Teams. Too Bad.
That Green Bay/Tampa game was kinda sad to watch; it was a question of which team would NOT give it away, but that's about all.
Greg Jennings was a nice fresh voice, who obviously memorized the first half of the Encyclopedia of Bromides. His partner apparently couldn't tell a 1-yard run from a 5-yard run. Still and all, they're a lot better than Joe **ck and that other ogre.
Rats. It'll be a short season for Packer-watching.
Prediction: Clay Matthews gets traded in the off-season.
Greg Jennings was a nice fresh voice, who obviously memorized the first half of the Encyclopedia of Bromides. His partner apparently couldn't tell a 1-yard run from a 5-yard run. Still and all, they're a lot better than Joe **ck and that other ogre.
Rats. It'll be a short season for Packer-watching.
Prediction: Clay Matthews gets traded in the off-season.
The End of Liberty?
From Old Europe, a professor at the Jagellonian warns us.
...I think freedom has ceased to be a highly valued commodity. What is happening is that some groups demand certain privileges, often called “rights,” and other groups seem favorable to these demands because they see in them a vehicle for constructing a new society compatible with their outrageous ideologies. When we see, for example, privileges granted to homosexuals, including the right to marry and adopt children — rather unusual privileges, to be sure — we mistake it for the growth of freedom in general. But this is an erroneous conclusion....
...Take gender. It is a strange concept, and rather absurd, because not only does it undermine the obvious biological differences on which the existence of the human race has depended from time immemorial, but it makes this strange concept an instrument to reconstruct the entire human culture, including the humanities, art, law, philosophy, even natural sciences and mathematics. Its aim is to restructure society and the human mind — to make a mental, political, social, and cultural revolution — not to enlarge our freedom. One can compare it to Marxism and its theory of class struggle, which some people in the past believed serves the cause of freedom while in fact it is a tool for a revolution...
....[and] soon the revolutionaries tighten their grip on society and impose the new rules that are stricter and more humiliating than before. The world before the gender revolution certainly had more freedom than it has now. Laws were less intrusive, the humanities more open and diversified, philosophy less dogmatic, human relations less legalistic. Likewise, as a result of granting privileges to homosexuals, we have experienced significant encroachments on the freedom of speech and many other liberties, and, consequently, on liberty in general.
No question that that was the direction the Obozo Administration took--and its fetid remnants in Mal-Justice, "Education," HHS and its guns-for-hire IRS will continue to take. No, I did not forget Congress' GOPe toadies.
Will the Trump revolution persist long enough to largely eradicate the rot?
...I think freedom has ceased to be a highly valued commodity. What is happening is that some groups demand certain privileges, often called “rights,” and other groups seem favorable to these demands because they see in them a vehicle for constructing a new society compatible with their outrageous ideologies. When we see, for example, privileges granted to homosexuals, including the right to marry and adopt children — rather unusual privileges, to be sure — we mistake it for the growth of freedom in general. But this is an erroneous conclusion....
...Take gender. It is a strange concept, and rather absurd, because not only does it undermine the obvious biological differences on which the existence of the human race has depended from time immemorial, but it makes this strange concept an instrument to reconstruct the entire human culture, including the humanities, art, law, philosophy, even natural sciences and mathematics. Its aim is to restructure society and the human mind — to make a mental, political, social, and cultural revolution — not to enlarge our freedom. One can compare it to Marxism and its theory of class struggle, which some people in the past believed serves the cause of freedom while in fact it is a tool for a revolution...
....[and] soon the revolutionaries tighten their grip on society and impose the new rules that are stricter and more humiliating than before. The world before the gender revolution certainly had more freedom than it has now. Laws were less intrusive, the humanities more open and diversified, philosophy less dogmatic, human relations less legalistic. Likewise, as a result of granting privileges to homosexuals, we have experienced significant encroachments on the freedom of speech and many other liberties, and, consequently, on liberty in general.
No question that that was the direction the Obozo Administration took--and its fetid remnants in Mal-Justice, "Education," HHS and its guns-for-hire IRS will continue to take. No, I did not forget Congress' GOPe toadies.
Will the Trump revolution persist long enough to largely eradicate the rot?
Only When Hillary's in Leavenworth, Beeyotch!
Feinstein, truly a California representative, wants to impeach Trump on "obstruction of justice" grounds.
Uh-huh.
We won't demand that Hell freeze over for that, DiFi.
We'll just demand that Hillary goes orange-dress at Leavenworth, for espionage.
Still wanna play?
Uh-huh.
We won't demand that Hell freeze over for that, DiFi.
We'll just demand that Hillary goes orange-dress at Leavenworth, for espionage.
Still wanna play?
NFL Attendance Woes....
Gateway has a lot of pix showing a lot of empty seats in NFL stadia today.
The surprising two: Chicago (it's really a VERY warm day) and Atlanta (a very big game.)
Less-noticed: it's become extremely easy to get Packer tix. Don't know if there are empty seats at Lambeau, but it's usually impossible to get tix at prices that college students can afford--and that's what we're hearing today.
Hmmmm.
The surprising two: Chicago (it's really a VERY warm day) and Atlanta (a very big game.)
Less-noticed: it's become extremely easy to get Packer tix. Don't know if there are empty seats at Lambeau, but it's usually impossible to get tix at prices that college students can afford--and that's what we're hearing today.
Hmmmm.
Pp. Francis Escalates the Church's Civil War
We live in interesting times. So interesting that the question "Who's on first?" is germane.
This week, the Vatican's organ for promulgating the Official Acts of the Apostolic See, Acta Apostolicae Sedis (AAS), has published its October 2016 issue, containing Pope Francis' infamous Letter to the Buenos Aires Bishops. AAS not only published this letter, declaring that there are "no other interpretations" ("No hay otras interpretaciones") of Amoris Laetitia other than those of the Buenos Aires bishops, but it also published the full Buenos Aires guidelines themselves, which permit Holy Communion in some cases for couples in a state of permanent and public adultery who are not committed to living in complete continence. ...
Ehhrrmmm. Here's the specific passage from the letter:
6) In other, more complex circumstances, and when it is not possible to obtain a declaration of nullity, the aforementioned option [living in continence] may not, in fact, be feasible. Nonetheless, it is equally possible to undertake a journey of discernment. If one arrives at the recognition that, in a particular case, there are limitations that diminish responsibility and culpability (cf. 301-302), particularly when a person judges that he would fall into a subsequent fault by damaging the children of the new union, Amoris Laetitia opens up the possibility of access to the sacraments of Reconciliation and the Eucharist (cf. footnotes 336 and 351). These in turn dispose the person to continue maturing and growing with the aid of grace. ...
"Diminishing responsibility and culpability...."--such as, how, exactly? Alcoholic haze? Navigation error into the wrong bedroom? Too many turns at Spin the Bottle or Strip Poker? If this weren't se damn serious, it could be funny.
And then we get to "damaging the children." WAT?? It's impossible to imagine how remaining continent will 'damage chilluns.' Yes, I know, the case has been offered whereby a wife, abandoned by Hubby #1, marries (adulterously) Hubby #2 without whose support wife and children might have to live in the streets, (etc., etc.) So wife submits herself to #2's demands. She apparently has no family, no friends, no social-service agencies, NO ONE from whom she can beg or borrow a living, except this Hubby #2. My, my.
OK. Ask yourself how many times you've seen exactly those circumstances......we'll wait.
Back? OK, then, how many times?
Uh-huh. Well.
You see (and smell) the camel's nose, my friends. The times, they are a-....ah....interesting.
And it gets better! The "Who's on first?" thing apparently reaches right into the heart of the Vatican.
...Marco Tosatti says that even some who have been ideological supporters of the pope are allegedly losing patience with his brashness:
...And further, if what we have learned from two different sources is true, this annoyance extends to the Vatican. A cardinal of great renown, a former diplomat, who has served an impressive career at the head of Congregations and in high offices in the Secretariat of State, is said to have reproved the Pope for his actions [as Pope], saying to him essentially, “We elected you to make reforms, not to smash everything.” News of this conversation — if it can be called a conversation — has spread through the Vatican, because it took place at a high decibel level, which carried through the fragile barrier of the doors and walls. The cardinal in question was one of those who supported the candidacy of Jorge Mario Bergoglio in the conclave of 2013....--quoted at onepeterfive
Yah, well, you voted for him, turkey. "Reform" means different things in Peron-speak, I guess.
Apparently, this is not the first time HH has been batted about by the gang who (apparently) cannot shoot straight, as OnePeterFive makes clear. Read the link; it's worthwhile.
Anyhoo....we live in interesting times.
This week, the Vatican's organ for promulgating the Official Acts of the Apostolic See, Acta Apostolicae Sedis (AAS), has published its October 2016 issue, containing Pope Francis' infamous Letter to the Buenos Aires Bishops. AAS not only published this letter, declaring that there are "no other interpretations" ("No hay otras interpretaciones") of Amoris Laetitia other than those of the Buenos Aires bishops, but it also published the full Buenos Aires guidelines themselves, which permit Holy Communion in some cases for couples in a state of permanent and public adultery who are not committed to living in complete continence. ...
Ehhrrmmm. Here's the specific passage from the letter:
6) In other, more complex circumstances, and when it is not possible to obtain a declaration of nullity, the aforementioned option [living in continence] may not, in fact, be feasible. Nonetheless, it is equally possible to undertake a journey of discernment. If one arrives at the recognition that, in a particular case, there are limitations that diminish responsibility and culpability (cf. 301-302), particularly when a person judges that he would fall into a subsequent fault by damaging the children of the new union, Amoris Laetitia opens up the possibility of access to the sacraments of Reconciliation and the Eucharist (cf. footnotes 336 and 351). These in turn dispose the person to continue maturing and growing with the aid of grace. ...
"Diminishing responsibility and culpability...."--such as, how, exactly? Alcoholic haze? Navigation error into the wrong bedroom? Too many turns at Spin the Bottle or Strip Poker? If this weren't se damn serious, it could be funny.
And then we get to "damaging the children." WAT?? It's impossible to imagine how remaining continent will 'damage chilluns.' Yes, I know, the case has been offered whereby a wife, abandoned by Hubby #1, marries (adulterously) Hubby #2 without whose support wife and children might have to live in the streets, (etc., etc.) So wife submits herself to #2's demands. She apparently has no family, no friends, no social-service agencies, NO ONE from whom she can beg or borrow a living, except this Hubby #2. My, my.
OK. Ask yourself how many times you've seen exactly those circumstances......we'll wait.
Back? OK, then, how many times?
Uh-huh. Well.
You see (and smell) the camel's nose, my friends. The times, they are a-....ah....interesting.
And it gets better! The "Who's on first?" thing apparently reaches right into the heart of the Vatican.
...Marco Tosatti says that even some who have been ideological supporters of the pope are allegedly losing patience with his brashness:
...And further, if what we have learned from two different sources is true, this annoyance extends to the Vatican. A cardinal of great renown, a former diplomat, who has served an impressive career at the head of Congregations and in high offices in the Secretariat of State, is said to have reproved the Pope for his actions [as Pope], saying to him essentially, “We elected you to make reforms, not to smash everything.” News of this conversation — if it can be called a conversation — has spread through the Vatican, because it took place at a high decibel level, which carried through the fragile barrier of the doors and walls. The cardinal in question was one of those who supported the candidacy of Jorge Mario Bergoglio in the conclave of 2013....--quoted at onepeterfive
Yah, well, you voted for him, turkey. "Reform" means different things in Peron-speak, I guess.
Apparently, this is not the first time HH has been batted about by the gang who (apparently) cannot shoot straight, as OnePeterFive makes clear. Read the link; it's worthwhile.
Anyhoo....we live in interesting times.
Another Detroit FAIL
60 years ago, Detroit was a beautiful, bustling, major US city.
Now it can't even demolish its own stadium.
Now it can't even demolish its own stadium.
As Usual, Feebs and Mal-Justice Behaving VERY Badly
The corruption of the FBI, Dep't of Mal-Justice, (and the IRS) goes deep and is very long in the tooth--probably extending all the way back to LBJ or so. Of course, the rot and stink spread at different rates in the different agencies, and also at different levels of management. But there's little question that the people working at Mordor-on-the-Potomac offices are, by and large, compromised.
They should all be demoted back to entry-level slots and relocated to small-town offices. I'm sure that Fargo ND, or Kalispell MT, or Hudson WI, could use an FBI guy or assistant-to-the-deputy federal prosecutor, or a new IRS phone-answerer. There are prolly open slots in Alaska, too.
Cong. Nunes has been hot on the trail of these slimebags for quite some time. He's seen a lot of documents that have not made it into the press--whether MSM or actual "free" press--and knows where a lot of bodies are buried.
And Nunes is PO'd.
House Intelligence Committee chairman Devin Nunes has issued an angry demand to the FBI and Department of Justice to explain why they kept the committee in the dark over the reason Special Counsel Robert Mueller kicked a key supervising FBI agent off the Trump-Russia investigation....
The Feeb in question was ALSO a "key" investigator into the Clinton tarmac-meetup with Lyin' Loretta Lynch and into the Hillary toilet-server espionage case. The Feeb in question was clearly anti-Trump--and so was a Feeb lawyer whom he was bopping on the side.
Sheesh.
...The committee's broadly worded subpoena for information related to the so-called Trump dossier went to the FBI and DOJ on Aug. 24. In follow-up conversations on the scope of the subpoena, committee staff told the FBI and DOJ that it included information on the circumstances of Strzok's reassignment.
On Oct. 11, Nunes met with deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein. In that meeting, Nunes specifically discussed the committee's request for information about Strzok.
In an Oct. 31 committee staff meeting with the FBI, bureau officials refused a request for information about Strzok.
On Nov. 20, the committee again requested an interview with Strzok. (Three days earlier, on November 17, Strzok met with the Senate Intelligence Committee.)
On Nov. 29, Nunes again spoke to Rosenstein, and again discussed Strzok.
On Dec. 1, the committee again requested to speak with Strzok.
After each occasion, the FBI and DOJ did nothing.
Yah--until yesterday's NYT and WaPo stories about Strzok's re-assigment came out, as though dropped from the sky by magic unicorns using pixie-dust.
Corrupt slime.
They should all be demoted back to entry-level slots and relocated to small-town offices. I'm sure that Fargo ND, or Kalispell MT, or Hudson WI, could use an FBI guy or assistant-to-the-deputy federal prosecutor, or a new IRS phone-answerer. There are prolly open slots in Alaska, too.
Cong. Nunes has been hot on the trail of these slimebags for quite some time. He's seen a lot of documents that have not made it into the press--whether MSM or actual "free" press--and knows where a lot of bodies are buried.
And Nunes is PO'd.
House Intelligence Committee chairman Devin Nunes has issued an angry demand to the FBI and Department of Justice to explain why they kept the committee in the dark over the reason Special Counsel Robert Mueller kicked a key supervising FBI agent off the Trump-Russia investigation....
The Feeb in question was ALSO a "key" investigator into the Clinton tarmac-meetup with Lyin' Loretta Lynch and into the Hillary toilet-server espionage case. The Feeb in question was clearly anti-Trump--and so was a Feeb lawyer whom he was bopping on the side.
Sheesh.
...The committee's broadly worded subpoena for information related to the so-called Trump dossier went to the FBI and DOJ on Aug. 24. In follow-up conversations on the scope of the subpoena, committee staff told the FBI and DOJ that it included information on the circumstances of Strzok's reassignment.
On Oct. 11, Nunes met with deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein. In that meeting, Nunes specifically discussed the committee's request for information about Strzok.
In an Oct. 31 committee staff meeting with the FBI, bureau officials refused a request for information about Strzok.
On Nov. 20, the committee again requested an interview with Strzok. (Three days earlier, on November 17, Strzok met with the Senate Intelligence Committee.)
On Nov. 29, Nunes again spoke to Rosenstein, and again discussed Strzok.
On Dec. 1, the committee again requested to speak with Strzok.
After each occasion, the FBI and DOJ did nothing.
Yah--until yesterday's NYT and WaPo stories about Strzok's re-assigment came out, as though dropped from the sky by magic unicorns using pixie-dust.
Corrupt slime.
Saturday, December 02, 2017
There's No "There" There
The efforts of CNNNBCSEEBEEESSABC are noticeable--and will echo for a long time, sorry to say. But in the end, there is no "there" there.
Flynn--on orders from Jared--contacted the Russki ambassador on December 29th. Trump was the President-Elect, not a "candidate," and Obama had just poked the Bear (probably to screw up relations before Trump's inauguration.)
Flynn asked the Russkis to cool their jets about Obama. He also asked the Russkis to lay off Israel.
At the time, Flynn was the National Security Chief-Designate, not just a 'private citizen.'
Did he lie to the FBI about the contacts? Yup. And he allocuted. He will have that on his record.
Flynn--on orders from Jared--contacted the Russki ambassador on December 29th. Trump was the President-Elect, not a "candidate," and Obama had just poked the Bear (probably to screw up relations before Trump's inauguration.)
Flynn asked the Russkis to cool their jets about Obama. He also asked the Russkis to lay off Israel.
At the time, Flynn was the National Security Chief-Designate, not just a 'private citizen.'
Did he lie to the FBI about the contacts? Yup. And he allocuted. He will have that on his record.
So what?
Friday, December 01, 2017
Brian "Stooopid" Ross
Apparently this Brian Ross guy is vying for the Dan Rather Humiliation award or something.
...If Trump told Flynn to talk to Russia before the election, as a candidate, that’s a big deal. Not necessarily criminal but possibly criminal....
Since Ross used the word "candidate", the clear implication was "before the election."
Whoops.
...But if Trump told Flynn to talk to Russia after the election, well, that’s no big deal. He was the president-elect, he’d be sworn in within two months...
And yes, indeed, it was President-Elect Trump who made the request to Flynn.
Ross is the boob who mis-identified the Aurora (CO.) shooter as a Tea Party guy, too.
...If Trump told Flynn to talk to Russia before the election, as a candidate, that’s a big deal. Not necessarily criminal but possibly criminal....
Since Ross used the word "candidate", the clear implication was "before the election."
Whoops.
...But if Trump told Flynn to talk to Russia after the election, well, that’s no big deal. He was the president-elect, he’d be sworn in within two months...
And yes, indeed, it was President-Elect Trump who made the request to Flynn.
Ross is the boob who mis-identified the Aurora (CO.) shooter as a Tea Party guy, too.
Owen's Battle at NPR
Had the opportunity to listen to Wisconsin Public Radio/NPR's discussion program this morning.
Owen of Boots/Sabers was one participant; the other was a hard-core (D) lawyer from Wausau. And when I say "hard-core (D)" I mean it; this woman was a member of the Electoral college, hand-picked by big-time (D) poobahs. Finally, the woman was at one time a resident of Illinois which, on its face, is a serious......
Anyhow.
In contrast to Owen's Mitt Romney approach, the woman was a tiresome, bitchy, attack dog. She managed to insert attacks on Trump, Walker, and Moore into every single topic on the program. She would have attacked Trump over the weather forecast had one been aired.
In other words, she really had nothing of substance to contribute, despite her credential of being an attorney--a fact on which she hammered, hammered, hammered. Came across as a David Gruber with a large, ugly, political axe to grind.
Tiresome. Frankly, I don't know why Owen bothers, other than the fact that he's a good citizen and hopes that someone out there might think that he's made good points.
Owen of Boots/Sabers was one participant; the other was a hard-core (D) lawyer from Wausau. And when I say "hard-core (D)" I mean it; this woman was a member of the Electoral college, hand-picked by big-time (D) poobahs. Finally, the woman was at one time a resident of Illinois which, on its face, is a serious......
Anyhow.
In contrast to Owen's Mitt Romney approach, the woman was a tiresome, bitchy, attack dog. She managed to insert attacks on Trump, Walker, and Moore into every single topic on the program. She would have attacked Trump over the weather forecast had one been aired.
In other words, she really had nothing of substance to contribute, despite her credential of being an attorney--a fact on which she hammered, hammered, hammered. Came across as a David Gruber with a large, ugly, political axe to grind.
Tiresome. Frankly, I don't know why Owen bothers, other than the fact that he's a good citizen and hopes that someone out there might think that he's made good points.
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