Muddy Water

• • ? Over at Q and O Bruce goes into some detail on Hillary Clinton trying to point the finger at anybody and anything but Hillary Clinton for her loss in the recent presidential election.

  It may be fake news, but

In a discussion elsewhere, I am asked;

Is there one #$@&__@  thing that anyone can talk about anymore without resort to technical epistemology?

To which I responded….

No.
We haven’t been able to work outside those confinements for some time

So they named Donald Trump person of the year over at Time Magazine?

Hmm.

Given that it was only a year ago that Angela Merkel was given that honor, with an Isis leader being in second place, you’ll forgive me

Billy Beck says today:

“The saddest life is that of an aspirant under democracy.  His failure is ignominious and his success disgraceful.”
(H.L. Mencken)
There was a time in my life when Col. John Glenn was an indisputable hero to

Me, elsewhere…

?As far as I can see the primary issue with the United Nations is that they seem dedicated to the proposition that all cultures are created equal… and that they give that misbegotten and extraordinarily dangerous idea the

First the Big Mac inventor dies at 98.

Now this…

Peng Chang-kuei, the Taiwanese chef who invented General Tso’s chicken, a dish nearly universal in Chinese restaurants in the United States, died on Wednesday in Taipei. He was 98

The inventor of the Big Mac just passed on, at age 98.

Read that again to yourself. Quietly. Let it sink in.

Gee. Who would have expected this, except those who heeded our warnings?

President-elect Donald Trump is apparently losing his luster, according to conservative political commentator Ann Coulter.

Coulter, one of Trump’s biggest supporters, made headlines throughout the campaign season

Billy Beck, elsewhere…

I’m actually going to cite That Woman Whose Dread Name Should Never Be Mentioned In Polite Company:
It was Ayn Rand who gave me my first clue to this. Her concept of “pressure-group warfare” is incisive and

Hmm.

Don’t look now, but maybe a scientific consensus exists concerning global warming after all. Only 36 percent of geoscientists and engineers believe that humans are creating a global warming crisis, according to a survey reported in the peer-reviewed Organization Studies

So ABC News reports that it was a Christmas party what brought on the San Bernardino attack last year.
2 points to notice here. First, it wasn’t Islam, it was Christianity caused the problem. At least so says the news

So it would appear.
So, where is all the whining about connections to the evil empire we heard about Ted Cruz’ wife?

Uh huh.

And, yes, I’ll say “I told you so”. 

?Please…. Pay attention to those around the table with you this day. Look them in the eye. Let them know. Give thanks for them while you have them. Consider that no relationship is forever, since we are all mortal.
Put

How many campaign promises need to be broken before it rises to the level of betrayal of the voters?

People, this is precisely what I warned about before the election. Is this really what you wanted?
I will doubtless hear about how I’m not giving it a chance.

Whoever ends up being the Attorney General, Sessions, or whoever has