Tidbits

- During the attack on the US compound in Benghazi, our intelligence agencies picked up electronic communications coming out of there in Farsi (Persian). The suspicion was that this operation was directed by Iran’s Soleimani.

- The Diplomad suggests that the above Benghazi speculation may be true and also that Iran may have given up Soleimani to the US because he was creating too many problems for the Iran leaders ... see: The Diplomad.

- It is reported that President Trump convinced Putin NOT to supply Iran with Russia’s latest anti-ballistic missiles last year ... a major win for us and loss for Iran. (Obviously another case of Trump colluding with Russia.)

- DC scuttlebutt has it that Pelosi’s timing of sending the impeachment articles to the Senate may have been to disadvantage Senators Bernie and Warren by tying them up before the Iowa caucus ... and therefore favoring Biden.

- Mark Steyn revealed today on the Rush Limbaugh radio show that Prince Harry and Meghan Markel, while in Canada, will be staying at the house of the billionaire who had sold 20% of America’s uranium to Russia ... with the blessing of Comey and Hillary. You can’t make this stuff up!

- Mark Steyn also revealed that, during the Bill Clinton impeachment trial, he was covering it and staying at the Mayflower hotel in DC. Toward the end of the trial, Monica Lewinsky, as a potential witness, was also staying at this same hotel. One morning, Mark Steyn pushed the elevator button to go up to his room. When the elevator door opened, there was Monica who waved him off saying, “I’m going down.”

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From Powerline blog

Or gave lip service ...

Joke of the Day

Monica Lewinsky and "The Energizer Bunny" were seen exiting together from  from the Clinton compound in Chappaqua.

The candid comment from the Secret Service was that this was a "double header."

Lip Service

Who said, "Thank you ... for standing up against the sexual scapegoating of women and girls"? Why it was Monica Lewinsky of course ... once again making an attempt to become relevant in a world which treats her as a joke. So she sheds a tear and preaches to the world how unfairly she has been treated after she pursued and captured Bill Clinton in some sexual scapegoating of her own ... see: New York Times Story.

Do we remember who was the initial aggressor in this relationship? As I recall when she got that intern job at the White House she bragged to her friends that she was going to take her knee pads with her. She followed this up by flashing Slick Willie her thong whilst delivering pizza to the Oval Office.

Not that President Clinton needed any encouragement to whet his rampant randiness. As an old friend of mine used to say, he would do a snake if it would stay still long enough.

So Monica Lewinsky made herself a punch and into a punch line ... yet somehow wants the world to forgive her her trespasses. I suppose I could forgive her, but not if she keeps up with this sackcloth and ashes lip service about her victim-hood. But I  also don't think I can forget the bordello that she and that Lothario from Hope, Arkansas made of the our nation's White House.

Blue Dress Blues

Her name has become synonymous with fellatio. She "brought her knee pads with her to the White House" when she was given an internship there at the age of 22. She almost brought down the man "she loved" when she was clever enough to save her blue dress covered with Bill Clinton's yuck and he lied under oath about his compulsive trysts.

Her name of course is Monica Lewinsky. Now she is on another attempted comeback trail ... eliciting sympathy from knee-jerk liberals for the inequity of the public reaction to her youthful indiscretions vis-a-vis Slick Willy's ... see:  CNN Video. All over lefty television, her story is being repeated with the syrupy background of lamenting violins and empathetic paeans.

But I'm not quite so moved ... and have one question surrounding her plea for reconciliation. Is it that the public has treated her so shabbily since her giving lip service to the president ... or has Bill Clinton been given multiple dispensations by a doting American public for taking predatory advantage of this young subordinate?

That would be the real inequity ...

Old News

There must be a half life to scandals … and so, the Clinton's just released, this past Friday night, a dump of many documents from the Clinton Library relating to their numerous sordid scandals … Whitewater, Monica Lewinsky, the pardoning of Mark Rich, Vince Foster, etc. … see: UK Telegraph Story and News10 Story. (The bigger the scandal, the longer must be the half-life ...) Many of these documents were heavily redacted and some were held back altogether. To use a tired old chestnut, this document dump was clearly and cynically meant to inoculate the Clinton's against further use of this information. In any future discussions they can, with a dismissive wave of the hand, offer the pusillanimous slight, “That’s old news!”

I find it very curious that good (or I might say evil) politicians seem to sense the exact timing of the aging process of scandalous stories in which they are involved. Thus, Hillary Clinton can put off any testimony about Benghazi until the American people (and the media) will dismiss any damaging revelations as “old news.” (Somehow Nixon never found the exact timing of this half-life process … although he surely tried.) I, on the other hand, react entirely the opposite way. Seeing politicians play this game of rope-a-dope just incites my outrage even more ... at this politician … and at the American people for allowing themselves to be so easily manipulated.

I guess I am forever cursed with my out-of-step mind.

And even more curious, after a sufficiently long delay (using some mysterious formula), the public may again have an appetite for the details of a particular scandal … the Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson affair comes to mind. How do I respond to such ancient revelations? My normal reaction is, “That’s old news!”

The I Word

Impeachment for President Obama is being bandied about more and more … particularly since his administration's scandals seem to be piling up faster than BMWs on a foggy San Diego freeway. The ones that are pushing even many lefties over the edge are the Veterans Administration mismanagement and Taliban prisoner swap deal … see: The Hill Story. Much as I would like our fearless leader to face this easily-justified well-of-the-Senate humiliation … it just isn’t going to happen for two reasons:

1)     President Clinton escaped this process with higher approval ratings than before he started … primarily because the gullible American public thought that it was about his assignations with Monica Lewinsky when it was really about his lying under oath. This realization that spin can easily trump truth has made the Republican Party quite gun shy (excuse the pun).

2)     No one really wants to impeach the first black American president … and Barack Obama knows it all too well. This is why we are suffering though these scandal escalations that will likely continue until the last wagyu steak has been consumed at the White House.

Even this Taliban prisoner exchange scandal still has a few wacko lefties trying to defend Obama with twisted logic and pained expressions. I guess Lincoln was right when he quipped about the various populations of foolish people. Surprisingly, I even believe that Mr. Haughty at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue may release Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (the mastermind behind the 9/11 World Trade Centers’ destruction) before he finishes rubbing American noses in the excrement left behind by his mentor, Saul Alinsky.

So we Americans will still have to suffer through 2 ½ more years of lavish presidential self-indulgences, foreign-policy disasters, and Constitution-defying domestic ukases by our tyrant wannabe. The only I-word that we will likely experience will be surrounded by “me” and “my” when we watch Obama’s chin-in-the-air Teleprompter claptrap.  

Not a very happy thought.

Headline of the Day

Monica Lewinsky

Binders

The Chinese once bound women's feet under the misguided notion that it was very sexy ... and, possibly, with the side effect that it kept their women close to home (even though such binding was actually performed by women.).  Now, there seems to be a (frivolous?) Democrat attempt to suggest that Mitt Romney had used binders as a different mode of subjugation.  When he was Governor of Massachusetts he leafed through "binders full of women's resumes" looking for women to hire for his cabinet and administration (see: Washington Post Story).  Even the previous WaPo story kind of poo-poos the meme that has arisen around Romney's comment in the Tuesday night Presidential debate.  I agree.  This is clearly silly-season strategy and rhetoric.

To suggest that looking through binders full of women's resumes is somehow a degradation of the fairer sex appears to this misogynist as laughable.  I wonder if Slick Willy Clinton ever looked through binders full of women's resumes when he zeroed in on Monica Lewinsky as his White House intern?

Afterthought:  Perhaps the Dems are trying to imply that Romney wanted women to become constipated?

Threesomes

Supposedly, Monica Lewinsky is writing a "tell-all" book which is said will reveal the intimate details of her affair with former President Bill Clinton ... including the shocker that Bubba liked threesomes with her ... see: NY Post Story.  For this soul-bearing Monica is being given an advance of $12 million ... not bad for getting a few Oval Office rug-crumbs on your back?

Now our former Lothario-President  is claiming that the American public is naive to the point of being easily confused (see: Breitbart Video).  I imagine in the recesses of Bill Clinton's mind ... in this disrespecting of those who (twice) elected him ... is his previous brilliant deflection-answer when asked about his affair with Monica, "I did not have sex with that women, Miss Lewinsky ... not a single time."  (Non-naive translation: "I, in fact, did have sex with Monica and asked people to lie about it ... but this happened multiple times.").

And this is one of our most popular ex-Presidents ... and the one who is carrying the water for our current Oval Office bumbler.  I think I need to take a hot, soapy shower.