Headlines

Schumer calls on VA to explain use of unproven drug on vets

Mnuchin says jobless numbers ‘may get worse before they get better’ — unemployment may hit 25%

Dr. Birx: ‘Nothing from CDC I can trust’ ...

California to mail out 21 million ballots. What could go wrong?

Mnuchin: Trump administration ‘carefully’ monitoring reopening

Coronavirus live updates: VA spent $208,000 on Trump-promoted malaria drug to treat vets

Florida nursing home fatalities spike dramatically ...

73 percent of US adults: China holds blame for coronavirus deaths

Court halts ban on mass gathering at Kentucky churches

‘Back to where we started’ — New York coronavirus hospitalization drop to March levels, Cuomo says

White House aides rattled after infections strike inner circle ...

Scalise: Obama, Biden should answer for their role in Flynn case

Obvious Truth

If necessary, Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff will burn down the White House to deny Trump his presidency.

Fractured Definition

Donkey — what President Trump uses to open the door to the White House

Mother Goose Me

There was a crooked man and he smirked a crooked smile.

He found a crooked e-mail inside a crooked file.

He goosed a crooked women who called him a crooked louse,

And they all lyed together in a White crooked House.

The Death of Humor

No way guys. I understand that the old man who lives there uses dead children to score points with his base.

The pallbearers are Jimmy Kimmel, the New Yorker magazine editors, Stephen Colbert, and the SNL"comedy" writers ...

Fixin' Things

Donald J. Trump is now our new president. When he entered the White House, he found the following To-Do list on the refrigerator:

Fix immigration
Repair our foreign relations
Renegotiate trade pacts

Fix the tax system

Defeat ISIL
More economic growth

Reduce over-regulation

Fix veterans' affairs

Rebuild our military

Fix Obamacare

Solve cyber security problems

Fix our schools

Bring government spending under control

Fix our infrastructure
Box in North Korea

Inprove race relations
Bring jobs back

Stop terrorist attacks

Fix our entitlement system

There were no check marks ...

Huma, Phone Home!

He's at it again. Anthony Weiner is back doing his ugly thing ... sexting, with crotch shots and all, to women he finds online. Don't let your children read the following story and, if you do read it yourself, be prepared to take a shower afterwards ... see: NY Post Story.

This man is not just sick ... he may well be so deranged to be dangerous. Being that his wife, Huma Abedin, is constantly away helping Hellary climb any stairs, Anthony is at home babysitting their son and burning up the Internet with salacious messages describing his Lothario passions. Being that such behavior has already destroyed his political career, it is very strange that he has been unable to rein in these abarrant behaviors.

If, God forbid, Hellary is elected president, I can't imagine that Huma won't be a regular resident of the White House ... attending to her partner-in-crime's every need. And, if this comes about, will Weiner also be invited to ply his nastiness out of one of the back bedrooms? Being that our first residence needed to be fumigated after Bill Clinton left there in 2001. I suspect that, after Hellary were to leave, it may need to be razed.

Afterward: Huma has had enough ... see: Daily Mail Revelation.

A Loose Cannon

Hellery Clinton is now calling Donald Trump "a loose cannon." I suspect that anyone who has been awake for the last ten months would agree with this micro-aggression ... however quite a few do not hold it against him. Matter of fact, some, like myself, think that such an artillery piece rolling around in the White House would keep many of the United States's antagonists up at night ... not knowing what President Trump might do next.

Yes, some of the other loose cannons in the world might try to out-Trump Trump ... setting up possible dangerous confrontations. But Iran's Khamenei, Syria's Assad, North Korea's Kim Jong-un, and Russia's Putin have been saber-rattling enough as it is. I suspect that a lot of their bluster is because of the shrinking violet that we currently have ensconced at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. But much as Obummer has tried to emasculate the United States, we are still a formidable military might ... and I doubt if any of these martinets would be willing to truly test us.

That leaves China. A great deal of China's economic future is dependent on its chief customer's continued buying spree ... and that chief customer is us. In a very obvious way, if China were to start hostilities with the United States, it would be cutting off its fire-breathing snout to spite its dragon face. So I suspect that China may cross the street to avoid any real confrontation with Trump ... at least for his tenure.

So ... like so many of Hellery's campaign bombasts ... this latest fusillade has likely misfired.

A Perfect Anecdote

I am frequently accused of using anecdotal evidence to make a point. Ah, but those accusing we, who wish to have voters' identification validated, have found the ultimate anecdote to press their case against supposed "voter suppression." I doubt that a more sorrowful case of someone fighting the system to get a picture ID -- so that she could be validated -- could be found than this 107-year old black woman from Washington, DC  ... see: Yahoo Story.

Even though this woman, Virginia McLaunn, doesn't need this ID to vote in DC, she did need it to board airplanes to go to media interviews around the country. So perhaps this is really a story about airline-travel suppression. I am also curious about how this woman got into the White House to do a sit down and photo op with President Obummer prior to this exploding anecdote. Wouldn't she also need a photo ID for this visit? And I am also equally curious about her method of buying any schnapps that she might consume ... as she would also need a photo ID for that too.

Oh well, no logic is too strained or anecdote too tiny when liberals are trying to generate media outrage over one of their pet causes.

Food Fight

Civility is just about dead. Almost every issue is a food fight these days. The Oscars. Both party's nomination processes. The replacement for Scalia on the Supreme Court. The immigration issue. Free speech on college campuses. Black Lives Matter activism. The climate.

What is the genesis of all this mud slinging? If one starts connecting the dots back from Donald Trump's brand of playground shenanigans, it is not too surprising that one ends up on the steps of the White House. The public discourse has steadily gone down hill since the 2008 elections when Obummer (yes, I have also been sucked into this base rhetoric) repeatedly gave a not-too-disguised middle finger to his political foes. Or, even further back, when Bill Clinton was using a cigar as a sex toy.

Is there any stopping this downward spiral? My guess is that it must run its evil course. Eventually the public will get disgusted with all this banality ... most likely, if Hellery gets elected, it will be when we choose the next president in 2020. Then, once again we will have to fumigate 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

Blackmail?

In light of the revelation that the NSA has been intercepting phone calls made by those in Congress, a caller to a talk show yesterday put this fact together with much of the counter-intuitive behavior that has been exhibited in our legislature (recent omnibus budget vote) and in our court system (John Roberts' strange flip flop on Obamacare) ... maybe even within the administration. Could it be that our White House, through this or an equivalent process, has assembled many juicy pieces of scandalous data on many in our legislature and on our courts ... and are using this info to sway the opinions of these individuals?

Add to this the possibility that there might have been a few brave souls who didn't bow to such revelation threats and thus were made examples of  ... Senator Menendez? ... General Petraus? ... This coercive behavior essentially would duplicate what J. Edgar Hoover did when he ran the FBI.

Am I being politically incorrect again?

Sad Day

Russia is accusing the United States of covering up ISIS's smuggling of oil through Turkey to pay for its worldwide terrorist actions ... see: Yahoo News. It is a sad day when one (me) is tempted to believe Putin's propaganda over what the White House is avowing ... a sad, sad, very sad day.

The Kite Runner

Anyone who has read or seen "The Kite Runner" will remember some of the more disturbing passages in which Afghani boys were repeatedly raped by sinister Afghani men. Supposedly this is a cultural norm in this 12th century country and so the United States military has taken the antithetical  posture of forbidding its personnel from interviening when they witness such evils ... even when they take place on our own military bases there ... see: New York Times Story.

I sure hope that this policy is questioned in the confirmation hearings for Obama's newly-chosen Secretary of the Army. And can I add this to my list of gay accommodations in The Obama Agenda? And yet we tweet with futility from the White House about #BringBackOurGirls! We are such unadorned hypocrites.

Blood on their Hands

President Obama's Svengali, Valarie Jarrett, recently met with the leaders of the Black Lives Matter movement in the White House ... see: Breitbart Story. Apparently, the Obama administration, being in their waning days, feel that the slimy optics of such get-togethers can no longer hurt them ... or that the media will not cover such outrageous indiscretions. For the White House to lend prestige to this ragtag bunch of anti-police chowder heads does nothing but encourage more violence against our thin blue lines.

Yes, I believe that President Obama and his quislings have blood on their hands every time an officer of the law is gunned down by a radical racist who has been encouraged or abetted by this sick antisocial movement. The Black Lives Matter mob is based upon a lie and supported by slope-headed anarchists ... and to welcome them into the White House does nothing but display this administration's blatant disregard for the President's oath of office. He did twice swear to protect the American people from all enemies foreign and domestic ... wrong on both counts. Ms. Jarrett, such seditious actions really do matter ... shame on you!

Observations

Here are a few short cranky observations that have come to me as a result of all the societal roiling that is now taking place:

- Is nothing sacred anymore? After the Supreme Court decision on gay marriage, Valarie Jarrett had the White House bathed in the rainbow colored lights of the homosexual community. Perhaps next we might put the head of a penis atop the Washington Monument?

- Mexico, it is felt, has designs on reacquiring much of the Southwest United States that it lost in the Mexican-American War. This movement even has a name,  the Reconquista Movement ... see: Wikipedia Entry. The simple strategy that Mexico is using is to flood this region with Mexicans ... and then have them, by sheer strength of numbers, vote for U.S. succession and to rejoin Mexico. My candid thoughts on this possibility is first to allow Mexico to re-acquire California ... just as long as it also assumes all of its crushing debts and entitlement obligations ... and grants Mexican citizenship to Governor Jerry Brown. After a bit, it might then have second thoughts about this brand of imperialism.

- Macy's has just stopped carrying all products that sport the Donald Trump name ... because of his comments on illegal immigrants coming in from Mexico. Yes, I can understand this wimpy-form of political correctness on Macy's part. But, if Macy customers were going to buy fewer Trump products because of this man's recent comments, they are obviously going to buy even fewer of them now that Macy' is no longer stocking them.

- Cuba and the United States are reopening embassies in each other's countries. However, Cuba says that it will not re-establish diplomatic relations until the United States cedes back Guantanamo and also stops broadcasting Radio Marte (like the old Radio Free Europe) into Cuba ... see: Breitbart Story. My question is ... who is going to populate these embassies if we don't have mutual diplomatic relations? Or does this mean that President Obama has already caved to Cuba on these two issues?

The Heavy Hand of Government

If you can't trust the government, then whom can you trust? Well, apparently NOAA's reputation as an impartial observer of global warming has once again taking a hit as it has been revealed that, over the last two years, it has been revising down older recorded temperature data from Maine in order to make it look like things have been warming up there ... and in the rest of the country ... when in fact they haven't. John Hinderaker of Powerline has just pointed this out in his recent blog posting ... see: Powerline Blog Entry for all the sordid details.

This fast and loose revisionism is about as smarmy as a supposed "scientific" government agency can possibly become. I realize that such malfeasance might get them in good with the current Democrat administration ... but, longer term, this can't be good. I suggest that this agency now is vying with the IRS, the State Department, HHS, the Secret Service, the EPA, the White House, the VA, the CDC, NSA, and the TSA for this year's Heavy Hand of Government medal ... an award which I just coined.

Perhaps we could have an annual ceremony for the winner ... with all the hoopla of Oscar Night? With Al Gore or Michael Moore as its Master of Ceremonies?

Russians Hacked White House

Apparently Russian hackers broke into the White House computer systems through a breach in the State Department's cyber-security systems ... see: CNN Revelation. To me this is an exciting development. Perhaps these Ruskies can now reveal to us Americans where Obama was born and what his college records contain?

(Could this reference to the "State Department" be, in fact, Hillary Clinton's private e-mail server?)

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.

Summit Politics

It looks like the White House is once again trying to bamboozle the American public into believing that they are, in fact, administering. It is calling a "summit" to counter "violent extremism" (its pet term for the you-know-whats) ... see: Breitbart Squib. This is a tired old cliche, these show summits, where the president sits at a big table surrounded by oodles of important-looking people who, in the presence of photo-op cameras, go through a pantomime of serious discussions.

It would seem to this silly observer that countering Islamic terrorism could and should be done behind closed doors with a few administration operatives who know how to get things done ... you know, the Dick Cheney types ... not that there really are any of those around these days. All these show summits tell me is that President Obama is still not serious about dealing with this world-wide jihadist threat ... which is obviously growing daily.

Curiously, the only type of serious secret meeting that the White House convenes behind closed doors recently is the one where the president met with 15 Islamic movers and shakers ... see: Breitbart Story.

Hmmm?

Afterward: I am reminded of the Judy Garland/Mickey Rooney meme. Whenever there is a problem, Valerie Jarrett pipes up with, "I know, let's have a summit!"

From the People ...

Who brought you global warming. 

John Podesta is leaving the White House after over a year heading up the president’s effort to combat global warming. Isn’t it just a little ironic that the man who claims that global warming is “settled science,” also believes in UFOs and space aliens … see: Yahoo News Story. And for further background, see: CBS News Story.

Podesta’s next gig is as a member of Hillary Clinton’s posse … perhaps to work on her campaign … perhaps to beam her up.