Another Whiff

Greta Thunberg

My perspicacious wife asks — why not the Hong Kong protestors? I wholeheartedly agree ... 

Headlines

These headlines all came from Internet news sites. Guess which ones came from Politico?

Is State Dept. going easy on Russian diplomats?

Hillary Clinton calls GOP the 'death party'

Refugees to US cut in half

Military chiefs want transgender enlistments put on hold

Grassley, Feinstein want answers from Lynch

Federal court upholds law allowing refusal of service to LGBT couples

Georgia seeing huge decrease in food stamp use ...

Legacy on line: Obama return to campaign trail to save Democrats

Macron's EU charm offensive stops at Eastern Europe

Time Magazine falsely claims Planned Parenthood funding used for mammograms

Universal health care bill stalls in California ... 'The plan is dead' ...

Turkey claims U.S. promised to confiscate weapons from Kurds

Headlines

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

Women's March turns nasty ...

[Women] Marchers vow to never leave Washington, DC

Sean Spicer rips media for lying about crowd size at Trump inauguration

Trump's first full day: Prayer, bowling and a visit to the CIA

Trump calls out Time Magazine for fake news story about removing MLK bust from Oval Office

Madonna: 'Thought about blowing up the White House'

Fox News declines to renew contract for George Will ...

Trump protester displays ISIS flags, beheading videos ...

Measles outbreak grows in L.A. despite strict new vaccination law ...

[Ashley] Judd: Trump has 'wet dreams' about daughter  ...

[Trump's] Address reportedly written by Bannon, Miller

Maher to Clintons: 'I never want to see either of you, ever again'

Crazy Toxic Stuff

From his bully pulpit, President Obummer is once again attacking the right-wing media for poisoning the minds of Americans by "pumping out crazy toxic stuff." Apparently it is not enough for the libs in this country to have most of the mainstream media in their corner ... CBS, NBC, ABC, PBS, NPR, BBC, CNN, MSNBC, the Washington Post, the New York Times, USA Today, Time magazine, the Atlantic Constitution, the Chicago Tribune, the LA Times and (increasingly) Fox News, etc., etc.

What is the toxic right-wing media? Some talk radio such as Michael Savage, Rush Limbaugh, Howie Carr, etc. and a few Internet blogs/news sites, such as the Drudge Report, Powerline, Breitbart, Michelle Malkin, Fletcher's Castoria, etc. And even these new media outlets are being manipulated and surpressed by virtually all the social media sites ... which are now clearly lining up on the left.

Are we Americans still allowed to pick and choose how we get our news and opinion? It would seem that, if Obummer has his way, the answer is "no". Those perceptive writers of our Constitution anticipated demagogues such as our current president and gave us the First Amendment guaranteeing freedom of the press ... now expanded to all our media outlets. But this freedom seems too much for our current political leadership. And, if you peruse the many comments on this blog, this poison supposedly is corrupting my thought processes to the point where I am requested to use only thought-police-approved sources.

I don't recall ever castigating any commentaters on this blog for how they get their news or opinion ... so why should I be so conscripted? All too often the arguments I make here are refuted by Trump-style pejorative comments, not reasoned logic ... something one should not expect from ACLU card carriers. So I would dearly appreciate it if our president and his acolytes stop calling me and mine names or asking us to limit our reading only to lefty-endorsed outlets. Refute us with your burning reasoning ... not that of Obummer-approved spin-meisters. This is dangerous rhetoric coming from our POTUS.

D'OH!

Mark Halperin of Time magazine recently said that the media pretty much does what Obama wants (see: Breitbart TV).

D'OH!  (In both contexts)

Although Halperin is a liberal, let's not forget that, not too long ago, on the Morning Joe show on MSNBC he called Obama "a dick."  Welcome over from the dark side, Mark ...

Purloined Powerline

The Powerline blog (see: Powerline) ran an entry this week on "things I don't care about" which idea I found so compelling I have decided to "borrow" it.  (I've also borrowed their above graphic.)  So here are the things that cause me to switch channels, turn off the radio, or start daydreaming about a zesty Bloody Mary:

- The Miss America contest
- The very latest Apple Inc. Iphone®
- Saltine® crackers
- Time magazine (or Newsweek, etc.)
- Sting (or Bono or Paul McCartney, etc.)
- Doonesbury (I borrowed this one from Powerline too)
- James Sokolove TV ads
- Thomas Friedman's solutions to the world's problems
- Robo telephone calls (no matter from whom)
- The Emmy's
- Falling-to-earth space junk
- Pasteurized apple cider
- Chrysler® cars
- Debby Wasserman Schultz
- Anyone living on the fictional Wisteria Lane
- Pizza from nationally-franchised companies
- Wagnerian operas
- Lists of things people don't care about (just kidding)

Juxtaposition XIII

They surely must be pulling our collective leg ...  (And even though both Presidents were/are 6' 1", TIME, in its Photoshop-wisdom, has to make Obama the taller of the two.)

Juxtaposition XII

Time Magazine - 1962

Time Magazine - 2007

The ultimate in recycling ... even to the article on living with cancer!

Update:  Always be suspicious of what you find on the Internet.  I found the 1962 1977 cover on the usually reliable Powerline blog ... and they have since recanted the 1962 1977 image as being Photoshopped from the 2007 image by some unknown party.  See their explanation HERE