Revealing

From daily timewaster blog

Mortality rates are too small by 1,000 ... except NY, by 100.

Today’s Poser

Will Bernie Sanders’ dropping out of the Democrat presidential race mean that he will now have a fourth house?

Artifices

The world that the major media outlets paint for America is an artifice ... an artifice with a comfortable connection to previous establishment constructs.

The world that Trump offers is also an artifice ... an uncomfortable reality that dismisses many tenets that we thought were sacrosanct ... and, claims he ... were leading our nation into a Clockwork-Orange dystopia ... such as we see in many Democrat-controlled urban areas. He has offered America a rocky path back to that shining city on the hill.

I like Trump’s illusion better.

Today’s Poser

Politics ain’t beanbag. — Finley Dunne

Is the Biden campaign bribing Warren to stay in the presidential race until the Democrat convention?

Today’s Poser

What’s the point of having many billions of dollars if you can’t fuck with people? — A prominent Democrat politician

Obvious Truth

The very best way to inoculate yourself from any possible criminal suspicion or prosecution is to be a Democrat and run for President of the United States.

Shazam!

Like clockwork, the day after the election in Broward county, Florida ... a container of 20,000 uncounted ballots is found behind the cottage cheese in a high school cafeteria refrigerator. Somehow, these ballots are just enough to swing the election to the Democrat.

Power line Pic

Big Wheel

There once was a man from Mobile

By the age of six, he had learned how to steal.

Later, in a smokey backroom chat

He became a Democrat.

Now a Senator, he is a real big wheel.

The Real Collusion

From Mostly Cajun blog

Lookin' Foreward

From Mostly Cajin blog

A Poser

When Donard Trump fully converts to the Democrat party, is the Main Stream Media still going to accuse him of being a Nazi, a sexist, a racist, an anti-Semite, a white-supremacist, a xenophobe, an Islamophobe and a Putin cock holster? And are Comey and Mueller then going to slink off into the night? Also, will the seas then continue to recede? Finally, will he win the next Profiles in Courage Award from what is left of the Kennedy clan?

Democrat Bumper Stickers

The DNC has put out an appeal for a new slogan to rally the party for the 2018 elections. (What does that say?) Greg Gutfeld has come up with a number of clever ones that fit on bumper stickers. Here they are: Fox News Video. Of course this has inspired me to compete in this silly contest. How about the following:

REVERSITY!

My other car is a Tesla. Vote Blue!

Ohm was a Democra! RESISTANCE!

Democrats Cum Buy Ya Health Insurance ...

Who gave you Obamacare, Obamaphones, Obamamoney? We got more ideas. Vote Democrat!

She's gone but other Democrats are still here ... HELP!

Trump Trump!

Dems Demand Dem Demons Demoted

Vote Left to Vote Right

Hack Russia, Vote Blue!

Witch Hunt

The Benghazi Select Committee's 800 page report came out today and revealed that Hellary Clinton was the highest Cabinet officer in a real-time Situation Room meeting debating how to respond to the attack on our Benghazi Consulate and CIA Annex. Even after our Secretary of Defense, Leon Panetta had given the order to send a rescue mission, this critical meeting not only kept this order from being carried out, but then spent two hours concocting the political red herring that it was an Internet video that sparked this assault ... not Islamic terrorism. The indecision coming out of this exercise in cover-up caused the rescue squad in Spain to sit on the runway for three hours ... changing their clothing back and forth from uniforms to mufti four times because of the vacillation coming out of this meeting.

Of course, that heartless Democrat currently running for America's presidency claimed that there was nothing new in this report even though she had obviously not read it. "Time to move on," she mewled. If Hellery either gave the stand-down order to Panetta's rescue directive ... or if she acceded to such an order coming from the White House ... she is clearly unfit to serve as our Commander in Chief. And her posse is claiming that Trey Gowdy has just concluded a $7 million witch hunt. Probably true ... but we all now know who the witch was who was instrumental in causing the death of at least two brave Americans.

Representative Gowdy has requested that reporters, politicians and ordinary Americans read this report before they finally form their conclusions on this affair. I kind of doubt that many will, but, if you are a seeker of truth, here it is: Benghazi Report. As a reader of this blog confessed yesterday, he doesn't want to deal with such complexities. I know that this is what our cunning Clinton crone is counting on.

Afterward: To me, the door is not closed on this Benghazi affair unless and until we know who gave the stand-down order to the Marine rescue team ... no way.

Magic Words

No, they're not "hocus pocus" nor "abracadabra" ... they're "radical Islam." Now, both Hellery and Obummer have coordinated their message, sarcastically saying that the phrase that the president was forever loath to utter was somehow magical and, if said, would solve our terrorist problem. "Is there a military strategy that is served by this [phrase]?" Very clever ... very political ... very Clintonian ... to take a long-standing negative and turn it against Trump and the Republicans (myself included) ... see: The Hill Video.

Now, this phrase, which the president first used in this political turn-about, is no longer a refusal of our president to identify our enemy, it is now an indication of the pettiness of his opposition. How wily ... yet how very insidious. If the president now says these words, it will be to mock his and Hellery's opposition ... it will not be to take the first step toward rallying the country against our enemy.

How low we have sunk ... and how very dangerous things have become ... when our enemy is elevated by this political legerdemain by Trump's opposition. Such a snide identification of our mortal enemy as mere "magic words" says nothing more than we should not consider them as our enemy ... but as evidence of misguided paranoia on the part of those who would resist.

I realize that this logic is somewhat circuitous  ... and may not register with many (the reason why it as so diabolically clever) ... but nevertheless it is real ... and causes me more than a modicum of concern for our collective willingness to resist those forces which are clearly coming over the hill.

I agree with Trump ... when the president and presumptive Democrat candidate feel that they can belittle him for suggesting a first step in defeating the radical Islamists is to call them by name ... "there is something going on here." I also agree with Trump when he says that Obummer seems more angry toward him here than he is toward the Orlando shooter.

Afterward: See also: Powerline Comments.

Conservation of Energy

In physics there is a law that states that, "in a closed system, the total amount of energy is conserved," Apparently, this is also true in politics ... as recently exemplified by Mitt Romney's attack on fellow Republican and presumptive presidential nominee, Donald Trump. Since Romney could really not find the gumption or the traction to attack with force his Democrat opponent, Barack Obummer, during his run for this same post in 2012, Romney. therefore has plenty of energy leftover to vilify his follow-on Republican candidate ... see: NBC News Story.

It is really a shame that these recent brickbats could not have been used four years ago against his then Democrat opponent, Obummer. Romney might have saved our country a whole parcel of grief over this last leaderless term of our now child president.

And has Romney directed any of his current vitriol against Trump's presumptive opponent, Hellery Clinton? No? Strange!

Afterthought: Many of those voters, who didn't pull the lever for Romney in 2012, are now cheering him on ... so sad.

The In Crowd

"I'm in with the in crowd" -- Dobie Gray Sings

Yes, it's true ... many too many people traditionally vote for candidates whom they think are going to win. That is why media companies produce polls based on biased samples or on questions slanted to get the results they want. And this is why, more and more often, we are seeing polls that miss the actual voting results by an embarrassing degree ... particularly in times like the present when there is a popular revolt growing against such media manipulations.

So, is Hellery beating both Trump and Cruz by the amounts being touted in most of the current media polls ... and losing to Kasich (the Republican candidate preferred by Democrats to be run against)?

I have my serious doubts ...

Afterward: Now in one non-media poll it is a little closer ... see: George Washington University Poll.

The Difference between the Parties

There is an interesting and bright-line difference between the Democrat and Republican parties in the United States. When, in 2008, there arose within the Democrats a charismatic fraud and a charlatan, the old guard and media outlets of this party embraced him enthusiastically and rode him to power. Now, in 2016, when an equivalent bigger-than-life blaggard appears within the Republican party, the establishment of this party disavows him and goes into full panic mode ... trying to excise him like a cancerous tumor.

A Tale of Two Parties

The two party system in the United States is a sham. The Democrat party is no longer recognizable as the home of Sam Nunn, Herbert Humphrey, Barbara Jordan and JFK. This party, under the leadership of Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid has successfully moved far left and is about to take this turn even wider. This party no longer wishes the United States to be the leader on the world stage (a stance once called isolationism) and has alienated many allies. It no longer wants a strong military ... witness our president's recent veto of the military appropriation legislation. It wants open borders with very loose enforcement of immigration laws. It is anti-capitalistic ... except for Mom and Pop capitalism ... according to Hillary Clinton in the recent Democrat presidential debate ... and crony capitalism ... according to our president. It favors single-payer health care. It desires European-style nanny-state Socialism with very high taxes funding an ever-growing welfare state. It tolerates repressive Communist governments in Cuba, Venezuela, and China. It has fully swallowed the myth of global warming as a way of expanding the reach of government. It embraces political mendacity ... now dismissed as "spin." It abets the Black Lives Matter movement ... clearly an anti law enforcement cabal.

The Republican Party, under the leadership of Mitch McConnell and John Boehner, is effectively Democrat-light ... a bunch of prancing eunuchs. It only offers token resistance to all the excesses of the galloping Left. It lives in dread of the slings and arrows of the main-stream media (clearly an arm of the Democrat party). It can only give lip service to resisting the tax and spend policies of our fifth-column politicians ... in fact often adding its own precious ornaments to frequent congressional Christmas-tree legislation. It is a party that has lost its way after Ronald Reagan showed it how powerful conservative policies could produce domestic economic growth and international hegemony. Somehow, these lessons were submerged by their own success. Now, some on the Right have realized this backsliding and are trying to restore the idealism that wrought these national benefits. However, the old-time Republican establishment is resisting such a revitalization ... and would prefer the comfort of the current status quo.

Enter Donald Trump who has sensed the frustration of the conservative class in this country and has the communication skills to convince many of them that he can champion the roll-back of the Democrats' excesses. Whether he can or not seems unimportant to his acolytes as they see the demise of our national identity and are willing to grasp any avenue out of  this perdition.

Feet of Clay

John Hinderaker of the Powerline blog points out that in a recent CNN interview, Donald Trump's thoughts on immigration have gone through a bit of a metamorphosis and that he is now sounding very much like the Democrat that he has been most of his life ... see: Trump Goes Soft on Immigration. Has the stalwart Trump suddenly gotten feet of clay? In particular please, dear reader, explain how Trump's following stream-of-conscious quotes from this interview sound any different from what Senator Chuck Schumer or Jeb Bush might spout:

Then we have a law, right? You’re supposed to come in legally. I would get people out, and I would have an expedited way of getting them back into the country so they can be legal ... We have to bring great people into this country, okay? And I want to bring — I love the idea of immigration, but it’s got to be legal immigration. Now, a lot of these people are helping us, whether it’s the grapes, or whether it’s jobs, and sometimes it’s jobs, in all fairness, I love our country, but sometimes it’s jobs that a citizen of the United States doesn’t want to do. I mean, there are jobs that a lot of people don’t want to do ... We’re going to something. I’ve been giving it so much thought, you know you have a — on a humanitarian basis, you have a lot of deep thought going into this, believe me. I actually have a big heart. … I mean, a lot of people don’t understand that, but the DREAMers, it’s a tough situation, we’re going to do something, and one of the things we’re going to do is expedite — when somebody’s terrific, we want them back here, but they have to be legally –.

Is Trump getting squishy and back-peddling on his previous diatribe against illegal Mexican criminal immigrants? Perhaps as with most controversies, The Donald likes to stake claims on both sides of the issue. And he says he is not a politician ...