Bigoted Anti-bigots

Many streets across America are awash with Soros-funded protesters writhing in agony over the Trump election, Their hysterical histrionics often border on the comical as they denounce our president-elect for the litany of his PC sins ... often devoid of rhyme or reason. One champion of these ragtag groups of savages is the original poseur ... Elizabeth Warren who is on her own private warpath with Trump ... see: CNBC Story.

As he often does, Trump cannot ignore these fulminating discontents as he tweeted that they are protesting the fair results of our democratic process. In truth, as they protest their fancied bigotry of Trump, they are displaying their own dangerous form of bigotry ... for which the only cure seems to be some serious reflection on the meaning of full and fair elections. Anarchists are sustained on raw emotion posing as logic and need some reeducation of what reality brings.

Even that liberal overtalker, Chris Matthews, has noted the futility of these unwashed thugs ... see: Real Clear Politics Commentary. These hooligans need to realize that the nation has spoken and "they lost."

Even President Obummer is trying to put a shine on a sneaker as he sees his legacy spiraling down the drain ... see: The Hill Article. This man-child governed for eight years against the will of the people and now sees the results of his "change" about to be changed. But he will still have one legacy likely to survive the Trump steamroller -- Cuban cigars.

See also: The Diplomad's Comments.

Headlines

These headlines are real ... they have all been discovered on Internet news sites.

Wikileaks bombshell: John Podesta owned 75,000 shares of Putin-controlled energy company

Pence to overflow VA crowd: 'This is a movement'

Fed's collect record $3.27 trillion in taxes ... deficit jumps 34% ...

Witness refutes Trump [sexual] assault claim ...

Jill Stein: Hillary could start nuclear war ...

CIA plans Cyberstrike on Russia

Clinton Foundation internal audit: 'We may have misled IRS'

Jake Tapper says [Donna Brazille's] leak to Clinton campaign 'very, very troubling'

'Global warming' activists disappointed Hurricane Matthew wasn't worse ...

Geert Wilders to face trial on charges of inciting racial hatred

Cable race: Maddow tops Megyn ...

Obama to lift ban on importing Cuban cigars, rum, drugs

Flag Ceremony

Secretary of State John Kerry traveled to Havana, Cuba today to mark the official opening of the United States Embassy there with a flag ceremony. He showed up in a Che Guevara tee shirt and cutaways. And, instead of hoisting the Stars and Stripes there for the first time in fifty-four years, he threw Old Glory over the embassy fence.

But before leaving to return to the United States, Kerry was rumored to be seeking to buy a large parcel of prime ocean-front property at a rock-bottom price. He also was thought to be buying a few cases of the best Cuban cigars.

Afterward: Since my wife didn't understand the reference of throwing the flag over the fence, I guess I need to explain. John Kerry, who once served in Viet Nam, became an anti-war activist (see above picture) and, in order to show his displeasure, threw his military medals over the White House fence. Years later someone visiting Senator Kerry's office saw his medals on the wall and ask where they came from. Kerry responded, "Oh, those were someone else's medals that I threw."

Inside Information

Did you ever wonder why go-getters go into government?  It generally isn’t to “serve the public” as they often profess.  Plain and simple, it is to get wealthy.  And the way that they get wealthy is most often with inside information.  Yes, yes I know that private-sector people go to jail or pay big fines for trading in tidbits of data that the rest of us don’t have access to (see: Bloomberg Story ), but just look at the number of millionaires who are in Congress ... many of whom were relative paupers before they went to Washington.  As a perfect example of such unfair leverage, just recently the President of Cyprus transferred millions of Euros out of his country right before the banks were shut down and depositors lost large chunks of their savings … see: Intellihub Story

Remember John F. Kennedy buying a lifetime’s worth of Cuban cigars just before he imposed an embargo on that country?  This vignette is chuckled about now but it is representative of the type of advantage insiders in government have.  It was just last summer that Congress passed a revised law that forbade its membership from trading on privileged information that they picked up during their closed-door sessions … see: CNN Story.  However, the ACLU and this country’s judiciary seems to be rolling back even this sensible law … see: Jurist Story .

When I was a callow youth I was a investment analyst on Wall Street and, thus, I have seen from the inside what being in the catbird seat can do for one’s bank account.  I had to live under very strict guidelines vis-à-vis insider trading, yet learned that there was quite a bit of slew still in these restrictions.  I also quickly learned to ignore whispered tips that I often received ... for they often were given to benefit the tipster and not myself.  But what I did learn was to pay attention to was that flash of fear that crossed the eyes of a CEO when I asked about his company’s outlook … or the overcrowded parking lot of a company which was expecting a current boom to continue indefinitely.  Insider information very often is an elusive concept.

I still remember one of my fellow analysts asking if another analyst thought that XYZ company was a good buy.  The reply he got was, “Well if Arnie Mankowitz’s (our economist) GNP forecast is correct …”  To which he got this terse reply, “Forget Arnie Mankowitz’s forecast, this is real money!”

Afterward: See how the insider trading law has been eviscerated here: Breitbart Story