Mauritius?

Every so often I check from whence the readers of this blog come on-line. Usually it is the United States ... less often, Russia or China. But today I was taken aback when, by a country mile, the most hits to this blog site came from Mauritius! Now Mauritius is a small French archipelago in the south Indian Ocean with a population of 1.26 million ... see: Wikipedia Entry. What in heaven's name has this blog been discussing that peaked the interest of these islanders?

Calling the Kettle Black

I had forgotten all about these State Department fiscal lapses ...  mainly when Hellery was in charge. Apparently six billion dollars (with a "b") somehow is at risk as a result of "sloppy" contracting and records administration there ... see: Washington Free Beacon. The compelling question is: How can so much money be in jeopardy? Is this an indication of the inattention that Hellery paid to her department's operations when she was in charge? Or was she focused on other matters? The Clinton Foundation perhaps?  Can she be trusted therefore with our entire country's finances?

And Hellery is castigating Trump for his Atlantic City casino bankruptcies ...

Imagine ...

... if Russia or China or Iran or whoever managed with whatever means to shut down the Internet for some period of time. The world has become so dependent on this technology that I believe such an event would cause societal extremis. Just imagine:

- The millions if not billions of people being deprived of their latest news fix from the many Internet sites that now substitute for newspapers. Then a robbery in Peoria or a flood in Perth would not seem quite so important ...

- Social media no longer giving millennials and the other young "gens" the latest updates of the going-ons in their electronic tribe. Face to face communication might just reappear ...

- Tweeters and other instant-message purveyors not being able to comment in real-time to the latest political and social outrages. Politics would then become less strident ...

- Bloggers and other opinion writers being constrained to the lethal gauntlet of trying to get their letters to the editor published in their dying local newspaper ...

- The lack of a e-mail capability making snail-mail letters and FAXes the fallback methods of text communications. Postal carrier mail delivery loads would therefore skyrocket ...

- Television news and opinion programming being deprived of the wellspring of news items from around the world ... instead, being forced to report only about local fires, weddings and traffic accidents ...

- Terrorists and [blank] Lives Matter protesters not being able to coordinate the logistics of their sit-ins or suicide bombings. Wouldn't that be a shame? ...

- Stock market trading being required to go through a telephone call to a broker ... trading volumes would decline dramatically ...

- On-line shopping disappearing ... Amazon, Alibaba, etc. would quickly fold and dying shopping malls would suddenly be reborn. UPS and FedEx package volumes would crater ...

- On-line banking, credit card transactions and money transfers vanishing. Cash would reemerge as the primary unit of commerce ...

But now thinking about it, I'm not entirely sure that the world would be that much worse off ...


Afterward: I forgot ... imagine all the government workers who would be forced to be productive instead of watching porn all day ...

Rigged

To use Donald Trump's words, "the system is rigged." There is more rigging in government ... and, in particular, this administration ... than on the biggest of clipper ships under full sail. One of the best examples of same is FBI Director Comey's partial exoneration today of Hellery Clinton in her private e-mail scandal ... see: FBI Document.

Again for those in a hurry, here are some key passages:

From the group of 30,000 e-mails returned to the State Department, 110 e-mails in 52 e-mail chains have been determined by the owning agency to contain classified information at the time they were sent or received. Eight of those chains contained information that was Top Secret at the time they were sent; 36 chains contained Secret information at the time; and eight contained Confidential information, which is the lowest level of classification. Separate from those, about 2,000 additional e-mails were “up-classified” to make them Confidential; the information in those had not been classified at the time the e-mails were sent. 

Although we did not find clear evidence that Secretary Clinton or her colleagues intended to violate laws governing the handling of classified information, there is evidence that they were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information.

Separately, it is important to say something about the marking of classified information. Only a very small number of the e-mails containing classified information bore markings indicating the presence of classified information. But even if information is not marked “classified” in an e-mail, participants who know or should know that the subject matter is classified are still obligated to protect it. 

With respect to potential computer intrusion by hostile actors, we did not find direct evidence that Secretary Clinton’s personal e-mail domain, in its various configurations since 2009, was successfully hacked. But, given the nature of the system and of the actors potentially involved, we assess that we would be unlikely to see such direct evidence. We do assess that hostile actors gained access to the private commercial e-mail accounts of people with whom Secretary Clinton was in regular contact from her personal account. We also assess that Secretary Clinton’s use of a personal e-mail domain was both known by a large number of people and readily apparent. She also used her personal e-mail extensively while outside the United States, including sending and receiving work-related e-mails in the territory of sophisticated adversaries. Given that combination of factors, we assess it is possible that hostile actors gained access to Secretary Clinton’s personal e-mail account.

So Comey and Lynch will both be reappointed were Hellery to win in November. Hooray! And our mighty clipper ship of state will sail on ... fully rigged.

However, Director Comey didn't address in this release the possible public corruption of Hellery's office in how she solicited foreign donations for the Clinton Foundation in exchange for State Department favors. But, I think we all also know the probable results of this sewer cleaning.

Headlines

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

Robot-powered burger joint threatens fast-food workers

July 4 message from Putin to Obama: Let's have better ties

Tim, the Kenyan elephant, seeks human help after being hurt by spear

Divided Poland mulls total abortion ban ...

Scientists FlipFlop back to Global Cooling?

Fido forever: dog cloning clinic

Those [in Dhaka mass killings] who could recite the Quran, spared

Huma admits Clinton burned daily schedules

U.S. Surpasses Saudi [Arabia] in oil reserves

Dems drop platform requirement that illegals learn English for amnesty

[National] debt jumps $100 billion ... in one day!

About 1.6 million people didn't make their Obamacare payments

Powder Puff Journalism

The New York Times has given the Hellery Clinton machine an opportunity to describe what her presidency might be like in her first hundred days. If there was ever a more fictionalized, self-serving, voting bloc patronizing collection of bribery (keeping Loretta Lynch on as AG) and pissant propaganda, then I have seldom seen it in the American media. Assuming you have not just eaten, then take a gander at this brown-nosing blather that the Times is trying to pass off as serious journalism ... NY Times Puff Piece.

If you don't follow hyperlinks, let me just here give you a small taste of this pathetic pandering puffery:

Should she win the presidency, Hillary Clinton would quickly try to find common ground with Republicans on an immigration overhaul and infrastructure spending, risking the wrath of liberals who would like nothing more than to twist the knife in a wounded opposition party. 

In her first 100 days, she would also tap women to make up half of her cabinet in hopes of bringing a new tone and collaborative sensibility to Washington, while also looking past Wall Street to places like Silicon Valley for talent — perhaps wooing  Sheryl Sandberg from Facebook, and maybe asking Tim Cook from Apple to become the first openly gay cabinet secretary.

Former President Bill Clinton would keep a low public profile, granting few interviews and avoiding any moves that could create headaches for his wife, like his recent meeting with Attorney General Loretta Lynch during theF.B.I.’s investigation into Mrs. Clinton’s email practices. 

Mrs. Clinton would even schmooze differently than the past few presidents have. Not one to do business over golf or basketball, she would bring back the intimate style of former Presidents Ronald Reagan and Lyndon B. Johnson, negotiating over adult beverages. Picture a steady stream of senators, congressmen and other leaders raising a glass and talking policy in the Oval Office with her and her likely chief of staff, John D. Podesta, as her husband pops in with a quick thought or a disarming compliment.

The byline on this powder-puff piece is Patrick Healy. Mr. Healy wrote a similar piece on Donald Trump in May wherein the slant was decidedly mocking ... see: Trump's First Hundred Days. May I assume, if Hellery wins, this sycophant will be appointed Ambassador to Bermuda?

Being that the Times takes marching orders from the Democrat National Committee, I think that more hit pieces should be soon appearing in the pages of the Gray Lady ... smearing Donald Trump with the same gusto that penned these Hellery Clinton wet kisses.

And we thought that the age of yellow journalism was at the beginning of the last century.

Afterward: Powerline is in agreement ... see: Powerline Blog.

New World Order

Sweden needs to be more understanding. Muslim immigrant men have been running amok ... sexually molesting young girls, the youngest being 12, at a music festival in Stockholm and elsewhere ... see: Breitbart Article. The reason that the mores of Sweden need to change is that these invited guests come from a culture where women are objectified, have few rights, and are required to cover every inch of their bodies, except their eyes, with clothing. So when these same men see young women who consider themselves to be the equal to men, expressing their love of music, and exposing legs, arms and full faces, they naturally feel that these women want to be sexually groped by them.

And if the Swedish media and authorities don't take kindly to such behavior, then they are obviously Islamophobes and need to be reeducated to the beauty and benefits of opening up their hearts to different cultures. Diversity and inclusion are now the most important virtues in life ... far more valuable than liberty, morality and personal privacy. The sooner that the Swedes and the rest of Europe learn this Merkel message, the sooner that they will reap the benefits of this new world order.

Am I right?

Rockets Red Glare ...

Bombs bursting in air ...

Oh, say can you see ...

It's a lot easier viewing a bombardment than being the target of one!
Let us celebrate and thank those targets who helped give us our freedom.

Now let's also try our damndest to keep it!

Happy Independence Day!

Relativity

No, this blog entry has nothing to do with Einstein. It is about comparing our presidential politicians on the important issues. For instance, Donald Trump wants to build a wall on the Mexican border to stop the hoards of illegals from entering the United States ... whereas Hellery Clinton has been advocating for "open borders," with little or no restriction on who, how, when or where immigrants enter the United States. And since a huge proportion of recent immigrants end up receiving public assistance, to me, this is a recipe for "The Decline and Fall of the American Empire." Yes, and a disproportionate percentage of these illegals end up committing other crimes ... please peruse: The Center for Immigration Studies ... another good reason for enforcing current immigration laws.

Like most Americans, both Hellery and The Donald are "free traders", but Trump believes that the devil is in the details. Pacts like TPP and NAFTA give up too much U.S. sovereignty and economic leverage according to Trump and need to be renegotiated. Whereas Hellery thinks that these trade agreements are just fine ... even though the evidence shows that NAFTA has decimated U.S. manufacturing. Yes, the lefties say that automation is the chief reason for the decline in what was once U.S. manufacturing employment levels. If that be the case, why then relocate factories off shore since the labor content is so low anyway? This does nothing but cause our balance of payments to sink further into the red.

The Democrats and Hellery are hell bent, every time there is a terrorist attack at home, in blaming the gun if there is one involved. The terrorist's culpability is somehow secondary. If the weapon of choice is not a gun ... say a pressure cooker or a box cutter ... then lefties bend over backwards to find some other reason for this terror other than the Religion of Peace. Donald Trump however brags that he has a license to carry a firearm and often does. He promises that he will be a staunch defender of the Second Amendment ... whereas Hellery will appoint new justices of the Supreme Court who will surely gut this precious American civil right. Trump also recognizes that Islam is the common denominator in most of this terror and wants stricter vetting of immigrants from Muslim nations where such terror is rampart. Hellery wants to import tens of thousands more of these potential "Allahu Akbar" miscreants.

Dear reader, this is enough relativity for today. Trust me, I will entertain you with more in the not too distant future.

Twisted

Yesterday the FBI deposed Hellery Clinton for over three hours regarding her possibile criminal use of a private e-mail server while she was Secretary of State. How did Hellery characterize this consequential deposition using her predictably twisted Clintonian semantics?

She called it an "interview"!

This woman never disappoints ...

One Small Step

Credit for the following idea goes to Howie Carr on talk radio in Boston. There is lots of ringing of hands about localized Islamic terrorists who have been inspired and/or learned their trade over the Internet ... using social media sites and chat rooms. Yes, the United States should encourage these social-media plutocrats to pay some attention to these terrorist threats instead of pushing their liberal agendas. And there have been some preliminary developments taken in this direction ... but surely not enough.

However, the much bigger issue is, in fact, the access to the Internet itself. If we have intelligence agencies worth the billions we spend on them, we should be able to identify the loci ... be they radio stations or ISPs or cell towers or whatever ... of where the ISIS and other radical Islamists are accessing the net ... be it in Raqqa or Benghazi or Kirkuk or whereever. Then use some precision ordinances to destroy these internet transmission points ... over and over again if necessary

I think this simple one-step strategy is called nipping the problem in the bud. Can there be any reason why this has not been done already? (Just like, why did it take us over two years even to begin to attack the oil infrastructure that was funding ISIS?)  If there is a rationale for sitting on our hands here, I shudder to contemplate it.

Data Schmata

There is an edict that has driven much of my thinking over the years ... and that is, "Data drives out speculation." This, of course, assumes that the data is pure and uncorrupted. Wrong again, Pollyanna! It appears that the climate-change "alarmists" worship another false aphorism ... "Speculation drives the data!"

It now appears that scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) have corrupted their original, almost twenty years worth of, raw data to suit their global-warming speculations ... and we are not allowed to know who these culprits are ... see: Daily Caller Article.

So, if we can't trust the data schmata, whom can we trust? Barack Obummer perhaps?

Afterward: I didn't think about it when I first wrote this blog, but "schmata" inYiddish means a cheap dress. So data that has been corrupted by ideology is certainly cheap and raggedy.

Reading my Blog?

These are two pictures from this week's  Powerline blog's "The Week in Pictures". It appears to me that my blog's original thoughts may be getting a little more distribution than I have imagined. See if you regular readers don't agree?

Who's the gun-toting bitter Klinger now?

See: Bitter Klinger.

reddit Gallery CCCLXIX

Another excursion into the world of reddit Pictures. See: reddit Pics for sources.  Do yourself a favor and click on pictures to enlarge them.  Enjoy!

Cool Haircut

Monument to Sacrificed Lab Rats

Devil's Flower Mantis

Bonsai Castle

The Strahov Monastery Library

Full Moon

California just added six more gun and ammunition control laws to its already formidable array of such legislation ... see: Daily Caller Article. Now we can surely sleep well at night because there never again will be any mass shootings in the Golden State! Its Governor, Jerry Brown, sees these new strictures as companion law to his three-year old edict making California a sanctuary state for most illegal immigrants ... see: Breitbart Article.

Me thinks there must be a full moon forever in the skies above Sacramento!

Headlines

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

[Trump] outperforms McCain and Romney with Hispanics

Update: Austria presidential election annulled over voter fraud

Miami named 'worst city' to live in

Cops find $25M cash during Miami drug raid

Japan top court approves blanket surveillance of country Muslims

[Facebook] employees subjected to KGB-like scrutiny

Majority of Dems want a third term for Obama

Bust: 'Diamond of Century' fails to sell in London

Sound of Silence: Paul Simon to quit music

Skittles goes all white to celebrate LGBT pride

Tesla driver killed on 'autopilot' mode

'Clock Boy' Ahmed Mohamed returns to Texas

A Big Deal

It's a big deal ... a really big deal!

Attorney General Loretta Lynch and ex-President Bill Clinton recently schmoozed in private for at least a half an hour in an "impromptu" but highly suspicious meeting on Lynch's airplane on the Phoenix airport tarmac ... clearly not an easy thing to pull off ... see: EarthLink News Item. It has been even suggested that this meeting was requested by Clinton. Lynch has averred that their conversation consisted of personal reflections about travel, family, golf, etc. and did not deal with Hellery Clinton's e-mail server investigation or her Benghazi problems. But she didn't include the Clinton Foundation in this denial. I wonder why?

AG Lynch talks a really good game ... but her recent actions are looking a lot more like President Nixon's AG, John Mitchell, as the political days pass. (Mitchell later spent some time in the slammer.)  In this case the appearance of Lynch's impropriety seems overwhelming.

And in a related development, the Department of Justice has just indicated that it won't release Hellery's e-mails that deal with the Clinton Foundation for 27 months ... well after the coming election ... see: Daily Caller Article. Coincidental?

Carl Bernstein, of that Watergate team of Woodward and Bernstein, yesterday said that AG Lynch should recuse herself from these Hellery investigations and defer to her career prosecutor ... see: Breitbart Article.

And former AG Mukasey under George W. Bush agrees that she should recuse herself from all of these Hellery matters ... see: Breitbart Article. Notice what he suggests in these comments about this meeting being requested by Clinton.

This morning AG Lynch indicated that she may not override any recommendations about these matters made to her by the FBI and her deputy prosecutor ... a very small step ... if we can believe her. (It was reported this morning by the New York Times, an apparent arm of the Democrat National Committee, that Lynch would not override such recommendations ... a huge difference.)

But it is clear that this contretemps is still growing more scandalous as the hours pass ... a gigantic deal.

Afterthoughts: 1) If AG Lynch appoints a Special Prosecutor in this matter, you'll know she intends to push things out beyond the election; and 2) I almost innocently titled this blog posting "Lynch Party" but then thought better of it.

Afterward: A reader writes that if Bill Clinton and Loretta Lynch are such close friends that they can converse about family, etc. for a half an hour, that this should have been enough to cause her to recuse herself in the first place.

Pillow Talk?

(This item reminds me of the Mary Matalin/James Carville surprisingly strange bedfellows.)

Are Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough a romantic item? Page Six, the gossip column of the New York Post seems to think so ... given that Mika recently got a quiet divorce and Joe was divorced three years ago ... see: New York Post Revelation.

Anyone who has watched the Morning Joe program on MSNBC over the years should have noticed that Joe's politics have been moving left and Mika's, right. Perhaps pillow talk has something to do with this melding of their political minds?

"I'm a Baaaad Boy ..."

Abbott and Costello

Very few readers of this blog were probably alive when Lou Costello frequently mewled this on-screen apology after being caught by his partner, Bud Abbott, with his proverbial hand in the cookie jar. I guess Trump supporters are also expected by Hellery Clinton to mimic this humiliating retreat after she has accused them of xenophobia, misogyny, homophobia, Islamophobia and many other "dog whistle" phobias ... see: Breitbart Article.

In typical Democrat play-book fear-mongering fashion, Hellery is once again trying to assemble all the hyphenated voting blocs in America into one diverse melange to prevail over generally open-minded conservatives. And she just might do this ... if we let her ... by admitting to or performing any of her phony phobic rhetoric.

Not me coach!

Blinders

I was on a Skype call yesterday with some college classmates and I was put in the uncomfortable position of having to explain why I am going to vote for Trump. To a man, my classmates, many of whom profess to be Republicans, were down on The Donald ... and I do understand their aversion ... because Trump has an uncanny way of sticking his finger in the eyes of the establishment. I won't say that they were looking down their noses at him, but they clearly weren't in awe. Nor am I ... but I still think I would prefer having a finger in my eye than a suicide vest going off next to me.

Maybe it is my humble background ... but I have never considered myself as refined. For instance, I still like Dick Cheney when most liberals ... and many conservatives ... hate him with a passion. For what? Because he showed a determination and uncanny competence in protecting us after 9/11. Our current president, Obummer and his presumptive successor, Hellery, refuse to show half the competence to protect us as both Cheney and Trump obviously engender. Those two elite Democrats, Hellery and Obummer, are wearing blinders to our grave dangers for reasons that confound me. Perhaps it is their predilection for globalism? Maybe it is their desire to hold on to power by not admitting incompetence? Maybe it is inherent anti-Semitism that has caused them both to be so pro-Muslim? Perhaps, it is just a Saul Alinsky style revolutionary fervor? Maybe it is all those things and more?

But whatever it is, they both are wearing blinders and Donald Trump, as crude as he comes across, isn't. He is a realist of the first order ... perhaps the reason why he has been so successful in business. That is why I will vote for him whatever are the ancillary risks. I do know that, if Trump is elected, he will do some un-conservative things that I won't like ... and he will blurt out some unpresidential zingers. (So I guess I can also be accused of wearing blinders.) But I am convince that he will do enough good things to help put our country back on a path toward renewed greatness.

Soft Power (continued)

My eyesight is beginning to come back, so I can now add to my previous blog, Soft Power. I am far from even a novice in understanding the convoluted bureaucratic structure of the European Union ... see: Wikipedia Entry ... but I think I can see many of the political implications of this mare's nest of undemocratic governance.

Angela Merkel deserves much of the blame. (or credit) for the possible unraveling of the European Union. But as we can see, she is not giving up quietly. The consternation she deserves centers around the progressive lunacy that inspired her to invite hoards of Syrian refugees to come to Germany last year ... causing a migration catastrophe throughout Europe. Once these immigrants are in Europe,  EU rules allow them to relocate anywhere among its member states. Whether this was Merkel's boneheaded or calculated move is in dispute, but her public invitations caused a heap of turmoil that ultimately lead to Brexit ... see: Breitbart Article.

I know, I know that the latest theory is that it was the free flow of immigrants from Poland and other Eastern European EU members that caused most of the dyspepsia among working- class Brits. But, this might also be because these Eastern Europeans are real workers and were more visible than the tidal wave of Syrians and other Muslims who moved invisibly onto home relief throughout Britain. But the narrative that it was not these Muslim masses that triggered Brexit is, to say the least, self-serving.

I also know that some feel that what put Great Britain over the Brexit top was the new EU restrictions on electric tea kettles, toasters and hair dryers. That just may have partially been the case ... for from undeserved power comes unmitigated hubris. However, this whole EU muddle is full of cross currents including some who feel that even greater European integration (as indicated in my previous blog post) is not in the cards ... see: CNBC Opinion.

My personal opinion is that Merkel is power hungry and will not be sated nor satisfied with her loss of European influence. The EU (read France and Germany) are feeling petty and punitive after Brexit ... see: CNBC Story. It is even rumored that the EU has just notified Great Britain that, in order to maintain current trade relations, that the Brits will have to accept the free flow of immigrants like was in place before Brexit. Pretty tough talk, no? Thus, I surmise that Merkel's soft-power strategy is still her path forward.

Headlines

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

Maine's First Lady takes summertime waitress job to pick up cash

Federal Judge: Constitution outdated, no value studying it ...

English will no longer be [an] EU official language

Flashback: Hillery pitches TPP 'gold standard'

Barry Gibb to release first album since '01

Obama pushes military to salute transgender, cross-dressing soldiers

China to Mars 'by end of decade'

FBI didn't inform some people they were on the ISIS kill list

Keystone XL pipeline company sues Obama and U.S. For $15 billion under NAFTA

Democrat platform calls for taxpayer funded abortions

Obama to hasten pivot towards Germany as top ally

University of North Carolina: Christmas is a 'microaggression' now

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.

Soft Power

What Adolf couldn't do with his Panzer tanks, storm troopers and blitzkriegs, Angela is doing with her soft power. Anyone who has traveled to Europe in the last five years can easily observe what country dominates the European Union ... Germany ... just notice the number of BMWs, Mercedes, and VWs on the roads throughout Europe. And now Angela Merkel, after the Brexit vote,  is taking it to the next level ... offering to consolidate their fighting, taxing and financial forces for the rest of the EU ... basically becoming the throne room to a pan-European superstate ... to read the alarming details, see: Daily Express Article.

More on this when my vision clears up after my recent eye surgery ...

God Knows

Pope Francis has said that the Catholic Church should ask forgiveness of gays for how they have been treated by his church in the past ... see: Yahoo News Story. I'm confused ... is this pontiff  referring to how well Cardinal Law was pampered and protected after it was clear that he enabled hundreds if not thousands of little boys to be molested by American Catholic pedophile priests? Or is he referring to something else? Only God knows ...

Bitter Klinger

I know that I have to catch up to modern times ... as defined by Obummer. By that I mean that I and the entire military establishment MUST now accept transgender, cross-dressing soldiers as part of everyday barracks life ... this, according to the latest diktat of our lame duck in the White House ... see: Breitbart Article.

Yes, I do remember how Corporal Klinger, in the MASH award-winning TV series, would frequently dress up as a woman in an attempt to be sent home on a Section 8 code infraction. But that was funny because it was so bizarre ... and Klinger wasn't for-real transgender. Now the bizarre has become normative in a society that has been fundamentally changed according to the twisted mind of our current president.

Not only is military cross-dressing WAACy, it is rubbing the noses of our fighting forces in the bohemian life-styles of the fringes of our society ... apparently the fringes so favored by Obummer. If our president toys with the tradition of our military bending to civilian control to push our men and women in uniform to embrace what, to many, would be unembracable, he is jeopardizing the whole notion of such civilian control. Either that or he is trying to emasculate those who need to be powerful.  Whichever way, it is a foolish leap into the uncertain abyss of social engineering.

I have, in previous posts, discussed how I thought that Obummer would try to punish his minions in his last year in office ... haze us if you will ... see: Hell Year. Unfortunately, I was correct ... and we are clearly in for seven more months of such gratuitous challenges. Whether this will cause this country's people to embrace the maudlin mind set of this man-child is yet to be determined.

Headlines

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

George Will bolts Republican Party

Home ownership at 48-year low

Sun goes blank during weakest solar cycle in a century

Biden: Japan can go nuclear 'virtually overnight'

Claim: Obama limiting air strikes against ISIS ... to protect environment!

Many experienced GOP strategists unwilling to work for Trump

Obama designates gay bar as a national monument

Maher: Lot of liberals talk about gun control but don't know sh*t about guns

AP: Clinton [State Department] calendar hides 75 meetings with donors

Motivational speaker [Tony] Robbins' coal walk burns 30

Massive turnout for LGBT gun training

Service dog dies saving FL owner from alligator

reddit Gallery CCCLXVIII

Another excursion into the world of reddit Pictures. See: reddit Pics for sources.  Do yourself a favor and click on pictures to enlarge them.  Enjoy!

Brexit

Blue Lobster

Violet-backed Starling

One of the Seven Deadly Sins

Chilian Marble Caves

You Might be a Conservative ...

If you fly both an American flag and a Gadsden flag from your Ford pickup truck

If you keep your VCR just to replay your collection of "Firing Line" video tapes

If you don't have a "charitable" foundation

If you are a member of the NRA even though you don't own a gun

If you wear a belt AND suspenders

If your Confederate flag is folded up at the bottom of your sock drawer

If you refer to them as Obummer and Hellery in your blog postings

If you actually work for a living and pay your income taxes in full and on time

If you prefer Dunkin' Donuts over Starbucks coffee

If you use promotional AARP cards for discounts at motels even though you're not a member

If you mouth the words to the Stars Spangled Banner when it's played

If your American car is over five years old and full of dings

You Might be a Liberal ...

If you have attended Burning Man more than twice

If you think Al Sharpton is a real Reverend

If you believe that "women's reproductive health" means women's reproductive health

If you majored in Gender Studies at MIT

If you donated your SSI check to Black Lives Matter

If you can use "diversity" and "inclusion" in the same sentence

If you still display your college Che poster in your retirement home

If you have a Bernie bumper sticker on your Prius

If you have more than five EBT cards

If you passed out doobies during Occupy Wall Street

If you wore Birkenstocks to your 25th high school reunion

If you never mouth the words to our National Anthem

If you call 22-caliber rifles "weapons of war"

If you make fun of rednecks

Rule Britannia!

Brexit wins!   New new world order?

Headlines

Half of Sanders backers WON'T back Clinton

Brain eating amoeba kills teen

Rangel: Americans don't need guns, but I 'deserve' armed guards

California exodus increases as costs, taxes skyrocket

Aging monkeys become more selective regarding their social circle

Kremlin program: Teleportation by 2035

ANOTHER: Baltimore cop not guilty of murder in [Freddie] Gray case

NYC orders businesses to make gender-neutral bathroom signs

Pope, flanked by migrants, says 'let everyone come'

Clinton IT specialist invokes the 5th more than 125 times in deposition

Listening to Mozart lowers blood pressure

CA to close last nuclear power plant

Afterward: I spoke to one of my blog readers tonight and he thought that I was making up these headlines. No! No.! No! These headlines are those which I have selected from numerous Internet news sites and which have struck my fancy ... be they weird, funny, scary, ironic, etc. None are made up. If you wish to see the story behind any headline, just copy and paste it into Google or another search engine and you will likely get the details. If I put them in as links, I would be a news aggregator which I choose not to be. Have fun with just this little capsule of our strange world!

Misdirection

The Obummer administration does one thing really very well ... changing the subject of course. This is with the sleazy cooperation of the elite media and those peevish parolees in the House of Representatives.  It was a mere ten days ago that the self-declared ISIS supporter, Omar Mateen, killed 49 patrons of the Pulse gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida.

And how has this story been portrayed? Not as an Islamic terrorist act nor as an anti-gay hate crime by a Muslim? No, it is another random act of violence somehow perpetrated by guns alone. Our increasingly political Attorney General, Loretta Lynch, even retreated into Clintonian legalese when she said that we may never know the "precise" reason for this massacre.

And the media are co-conspirators in this political misdirection. They have been running banner headlines and op-eds blaming the guns used by Mateen, even though both were obtained legally. And a small Pack N Play group of militant Democrats staged a tantrum yesterday on the House floor to do what? To change the subject once again away from the embarrassment caused by the blatant incompetence and/or subterfuge of Obummer and his band of Muslim Brotherhood wannabes.

Common sense be damned! This misdirection is comparable to a pickpocket who elbows you in the side as he slips your wallet out of your back pocket.

Never mind that the Republicans have offered multiple fair gun laws that might help curb gun violence ... all of which were filibustered by the Democrats ... for it is not really the laws that the Democrats and elite media want. They want the issue ...  and to be able to change the subject away from radical Muslim extremism.

The reason for this misdirection is beyond adult understanding ... given that Muslim jihadism is being papered over ... putting everyone, even these truculent Democrats, in peril. Is it that winning elections is more important than our lives?

An Analogy

For those of you who are perplexed by techno-jargon:

Computer Timesharing : 1970s :: Cloud Services : 2010s

In other words The Cloud is nothing more than a scalable, sharable computer remote processing and data storage service available over the Internet just as Timesharing was once a scalable, shareable remote computer-processing and data-storage service available over dial-up phone service. The only difference was that Timesharing was sharing the resources of a single computer (at a time) whereas The Cloud is sharing the massive integrated resources of a computer-server and data-storage farm.

Pantsuit Aflame

Hellery Clinton has denied that her private e-mail server was ever hacked ... and has also denied that there were any materials "marked classified" on this server. Well, we know that this second statement is now "inoperative" and it is beginning to look like the first is a whopper too. We just were told that the Clinton Foundation, the Hellery Clinton Campaign, and the Democrat National Committee (DNC) have all had their computers hacked by the Russians ... see: Yahoo News Story. (Thanks to a reader, my son, for this reference.)

For an interesting example of what these Ruskies got from the DNC breach (Hellery's many requirements, other than her huge fees, for when she speaks at some event) see: Daily Caller Article. Notice that one of these demands is for a stenographer ... soooo she must have transcripts of her Goldman Sachs payola talks too.

Now, kind reader, if the Russians can hack into these three Hellery treasure troves, why would they not be able to do the same with her puny e-mail server? Someone's pantsuit is once again aflame ...

Sovereignty

There is a classic battle in governance between the amount of sovereign power that resides at each level of government ... local, state, national and on up to the ultimate, world government. The United States went through paroxysms during its founding regarding how to allocate powers between the states and the federal government. The solution was resolved in the Tenth Amendment stating that "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." What complicates this power give and take is how this sovereign power is achieved ... by a democratic process, by subterfuge, by the sword, or by the claim that God/Allah/etc. bestowed it.

Enter Brexit, this Thursday's vote in Great Britain as to whether this country will exit the European Union, an unelected quasi-government that has usurped many of the sovereign prerogatives that were once reserved for the British people. All sorts of liberals in the U.S. including Obummer and Hellery ... and even members of the Conservative party in Britain, including the Prime Minister, David Cameron, are urging that the Thursday vote results be "stay."

What insanity would cause peoples to give up rights and powers to a bunch of bloated bureaucrats in Brussels who are constantly trying to force immigrants upon them and onto their welfare roles? And for that matter, why would the American people allow any of our rights to be transferred to those truculant tsars on the East River in New York City, the United Nations? This failed attempt at world government has, as far as I can determine, done nothing significant for the betterment of mankind other than spending mountains of (mostly U.S.) money on five-star hotels and expensive meals.

This gives me an idea. Can we, here in America, have a vote to exit the U.N. which, after a little research, I find was not mentioned in our Constitution? It would seem to me that the surrender of any of our inalienable rights to these mostly third-world hangers-on should have required a democratic process ... namely an amendment to our Constitution ... which I don't recall happening.back in October of 1945. Maybe we should have this seemingly Constitution-required  vote now?

Headlines

Germany slams NATO's 'warmongering' on Russia

Apple won't aid Republican conventions

LYNCH: Transcript of Orlando 911 calls will have references to 'Islamic terrorist' removed

Bear attacks woman running marathon ...

Gaffe of the century: NYT says St. Paul ordered Christains  to execute gays

China builds fastest supercomputer without the help of American chips

Turkish police fire tear gas, rubber bullets at gay pride parade

REPORT: Syrian 'refugees' rape little girl at knifepoint in Idaho

Activists plan 'world's largest fart-in' during Hillary DNC speech

Bikers patrol Phoenix [Trump] rally

Blood test to offer 5-year heart attack forecast

$50,000 ticket for NBA finals game 7 breaks Stubhub record

The Trump Trap?

It is very clear that Donald Trump is not a politician polished to the satisfaction of our media elites. He constantly offers up gritty suggestions that, prior to his becoming the presumptive Republican candidate, were thought as entertaining and, yes, TV ratings' grabbers. One of his primary opponents, Marco Rubio, thought that he could neutralize Trump by echoing his sleezy style. He was very, very wrong. His brief foray  into Trumpdom (remember the small hands allusion) quickly sank his nomination chances. In fact, Rubio soon realized his mistake and apologized for stepping out of character ... but it was too late.

Now, both the elite media and Trump's political opponents (one and the same) seem to be wallowing into this same dirty ditch ... thinking, by emulating Trump's coarse communication style, that they can diminish him. I just heard Elizabeth Warren call Trump a "small, insecure money grubber" and Mika Brzezinski say that Trump was "vomiting" out his latest political counterattack. Will this verbal toxicity turn the American voters against The Donald? Judging by my wife and daughter, I might say "yes." But, to me, it also sullied these two anti-Trump speakers. I also somehow doubt that my Massachusetts family is representative of most Americans. It awaits both parties' conventions and the political advertising onslaughts later in the summer before it can be determined how this mud wrestling match turns out.

If you want my guess, it would bet that those who think they can win by out-playing Trump at his grime game are fooling themselves. But what do I know?

Top Gun Control

Every Saturday morning the Powerline blog published a series called "The Week in Pictures" highlighting the best political cartoons of the previous week ... usually under a themed banner. I look forward to seeing it every week. This week's theme is gun control and it has a number of LOL items which I am compelled to pass on ... see: The Week in Pictures. Take a few moments off and have a few chuckles.  I have teased you with one of the better ones above.

Socialist Social Media

Apparently Silicon Valley social-media billionaires have a death wish as they are fairly  unanimously supporting the left by suppressing the free speech of conservatives on their social-media sites. I say "death wish" because, if Bernie Sanders would be given his head, they might be stripped of all their capital "ill gotten" gains ... after all "they didn't build that" did they?

Let me review the most recent censorships of right-leaning post on social media sites that have been suppressed by these limousine liberals:

Twitter Hates Milo Again

reddit Cracks Down on Trump Supporters

Facebook Shadowbans Migrant Crimes

Google Search Results Favor Democrats

Facebook "Trending" Favors Left

Instagram Censors Conservative Group

Google Putting Trump E-mails in Spam Box

Now, kind readers, aren't you proud of our capitalist system that allows such entrepreneurs to flirt with committing hari-kari?

Headlines

Iranian cleric: Immoral women are causing climate change

60% drop in newspaper jobs as online takes over

UN: America needs 'robust gun regulations'

NASA unveils electric powered plane ...

AR-15 sales surge among gays and lesbians

Curry wife slams 'rigged' NBA

USA powering up first nuclear reactor in decades

U.S. trade deficit highest in 7 years

McCain unleashes: Obama 'directly responsible' for Orlando

Obamacare premiums to skyrocket again

Record cold Antarctica ... -112 degrees F.

Growing trend for stressed workers, using BONDAGE to relax

Taliban using 'honey trap' boys to kill Afghan police