Here’s the irony of the day.
In the former home of Mahatma Gandhi, we find the following quote, prominently posted:
“It is doubtful that the efforts of the Mahatma would have succeeded except that he was appealing to the conscience of a Christianized people”
— Bertrand Russell
So here we have, posted in the home of a Buddhist, the words of a militant atheist, extolling the virtues of Christianity.
So much for the argument that the judeo-christian ethic is not Central to Western culture. The constant claim that the judeo-christian ethic is an evil to be overcome is similarly bombed out of existence.
At the bottom line culture exists, and it matters.
From Reality and Denial:
From the New York Post:
Derkach held a press conference earlier Wednesday in Kyiv where he claimed to have documents showing how Burisma Holdings paid Joe Biden the lobbying fees.
“Funds in the amount of $900,000 were transferred to the US-based company Rosemont Seneca Partners,” Derkach told reporters, referring to the investment company the younger Biden founded with Chris Heinz, the stepson of former Secretary of State John Kerry.
R&D responds:
Woah – a Ukrainian politician is now accusing Joe Biden of receiving $900,000 for “lobbying activities” from Burisma , which Derkach is claiming were routed to him through Seneca.
Burisma Holdings is the very same company his son was working for (and getting paid $50,000 a month).
Now, hang on, Biden claimed he had no clue what his son was doing. He even said he NEVER discussed Hunter’s work.
But now he’s accused of taking payments from the same company as Hunter was.
Of course Nancy Pelosi was fighting against the path towards impeachment until such time as Trump started making moves toward investigation of the Ukraine and their dealing with the Democrats.
“Accuse Your Enemy Of What You Are Doing, As You Are Doing It To Create Confusion”
–Karl Marx
Yeah, move along citizen. Nothing to see here.
Breaking news: Canada holds elections, Justin Trudeau still(apparently) Prime Minister.
Granted this is not the lead story from north of the border. However, for more Canadian reaction we need to wait for our double secret agent to extract herself from South Dakota.
Sobeit, I happened to address young a woman as Lady. She rather indigently informed me that she was not a lady, but rather a woman. I did not bother to explain the distinction. A woman is a biological female of a certain age. Whereas the word Lady refers a certain degree of cultural refinement. The former is merely a biological fact. whereas the latter is a compliment. I never extended that compliment to her again.
Meanwhile north of the border, from Dennis Prager, Townhall:
Air Canada announced last week that it will no longer use the phrase “ladies and gentlemen” on board its flights. The policy is part of a “commitment to respect sexual identity, diversity, and inclusion,” the company said in an internal memo.
Instead of the gender-specific “ladies and gentlemen” (and “mesdames et messieurs” — all announcements on Air Canada are in English and French), flight attendants are to address passengers as “everybody” and “tout le monde.”
LGBTQ groups are delighted.
Most other people are not.
May Canada become the first nation to be able to take a jet back to the stone age. Air Canada makes a strange choose. She rejects language which polite society uses and takes as a compliment. Yet Air Canada does so in a European language. The airline panders to the tiny minority which prides itself in rejecting biology. However the same airline ignores the population with a primary language which is not European.
Amazing, that nobody in the Lamestream media has spent much time on this from Redstate and other sources….
You may have noticed in reports about illegal immigration that there’s been a precipitous drop in apprehensions at the border. That’s not because there are fewer being caught, that’s because there are fewer coming across.
That’s in large measure due to the cooperation deal that President Donald Trump struck with Mexico.
In fact, even CNN has had to admit Trump’s success, as Newsbusters observed.
In an astonishing case of pigs flying, CNN actually ran article on Sunday by Catherine Shoichet and Natalie Gallón, “Why some say Mexico already built Trump’s wall — and paid for it.”
In it they note that Mexico has effectively built the wall, that Mexico by marshaling thousands of their troops to prevent people from coming in and not going north to the U.S. is acting as the wall itself.
Perhaps not so amazing.
If it makes the left look like fools, ad particularly if it makes Trump…or anyone outside the big government establishment look good, they’ll never touch the story.
I say no adult should be allow entry to our country unless they can demonstrate that they smart enough to understand the nature consequences of their actions and to understand legal right and wrong, from Breitbart
An illegal alien accused of murdering four Americans over the course of a week in Nevada is set to claim that he is “intellectually disabled” in order to avoid the death penalty.
Wilbur Ernesto Martinez-Guzman, a 20-year-old illegal alien from El Salvador, was charged with murdering 56-year-old Connie Koontz, 74-year-old Sophia Renken, 81-year-old Gerald David, and his 80-year-old wife, Sharon David, between January 10 and 15 after prosecutors said he was looking to steal money from his victims to buy more meth. The state of Nevada is seeking the death penalty.
To avoid the death penalty, though, Martinez-Guzman will seek to the deemed “intellectually disabled” which would make him ineligible for the death penalty, the Associated Press reports:
What say the Supreme court on cognitive intelligence from USA Today:
The court ruled that Florida must apply a margin of error to IQ tests administered to Freddie Lee Hall, 68, who killed a 21-year-old pregnant woman and a deputy sheriff in 1978. The state had argued that any test score above 70 made prisoners eligible for a death sentence, despite medical guidelines that permit scores to reach 75.
“Intellectual disability is a condition, not a number,” Justice Anthony Kennedy said in the 5-4 ruling, joined by the court’s four liberal justices.
If as the Supreme Court so boldy asserts, intellectual disability is a condition, hence not a trait subject to constitutional protection, which can be judges by mortal jurists; then this same condition can, and should, be judged by immigration officials. Any aliens who can demonstrate his intellectual ability should be immediately deported. Democrats relax. This standard will not be applied to Kennedy Klan males. After all, if any alien is to intellectually disabled to be held to account to obey our laws, he is too stupid to be allowed to legally stay in our country.
I keep seeing stories about this, this morning. Rick Moore:
The funniest story of the weekend is the news that Mitt Romney has a formerly secret Twitter account under the name of “Pierre Delecto” that he used to respond to critics and favorite and post anti-Trump tweets.
I’m now very sure that Romney would have been a complete disappointment as president. He’s as petty a man as Obama.
Yeah, well, it’s not like we haven’t been saying this all along.
Over at American Greatness Angelo Codevilla notes:
Retired Admiral William McRaven devoted the bulk of a New York Times op-ed to appropriating for himself the moral and hence political authority of generations of soldiers and sailors (pointedly, especially the female ones) who have sacrificed for America, for “the good and the right.” Then he gratuitously stated—citing no specifics, as if everyone already knows—that “President Trump seems to believe that all these qualities are unimportant or show weakness.”
McRaven concludes, “it is time for a new person in the Oval Office—Republican, Democrat or independent—the sooner, the better.” At the very least, McRaven called for impeachment ahead of an election, or perhaps for a coup, and pretended to do so on the military’s behalf. In fact, his was just one more voice from an establishment that has squandered the public’s trust, senses that it can no longer win elections honestly, and is pulling out all the stops.
It pretends to be trying to take down Donald Trump. In fact, it is trying to do something much bigger: Invalidate the votes of the “deplorables” who oppose them.
McRaven is basically arguing for the divine right of kings.
I have argued for the last 3 years that the reaction of the big government types, both Democrat and Republican, to the election of Ronald Reagan, as well as the election of Donald Trump, has nothing whatsoever to do with the individuals I name.
Proof? Postulate with me, a President Ted Cruz, who is certainly not a favorite of establishment Republicans, and certainly not a favorite of Democrats of any stripe. Does anybody truly suppose that the reaction of the establishment of either party would be any different with Ted Cruz in the oval office then it would be with Trump? Ironically the same question could be asked about Bernie Sanders.
This is not nor has it ever been about Trump. This is about the globalists seeing their power base diminished and reacting in fear to that movement.
And lest you think that’s just happening here in the states, think again. Remember my comments from just a couple of months ago…
Consider the Brexit movement. Consider the recent elections in Germany. Consider the rather startling unpopularity of Macron in France. Consider Viktor Orban over in Hungary. The umbrella movement in Taiwan.
Everywhere you look around the globe, we are seeing long empowered establishment politics being removed or at least resisted, and for the most part the people taking this action have not been heretofore involved with politics all that much.
The resistance to establishment politics is happening all around the world, and the establishment is reacting in fear.
By the way, given the original intent of the founders, as regards the role of government, I would call the comments of McRaven treasonous at the least.
Reynolds says:
Okay, Angie, now that you’ve admitted the obvious, you want to apologize for calling the people who warned you that it would turn out this way racist xenophobe bigots?
Of course, that’ll never happen. If only this stuff was predictable.
(Do hit all those links. There’s a substantial amount at each one.)
It does however, all come down to one thing:
Multiculturalism is destruction.
From: Ed Chenel, A police officer in Australia
Hi Yanks, I thought you all would like to see the real
figures from Down Under.
It has now been 12 months since gun owners in Australia were forced by a new law to
surrender 640,381 personal firearms to be destroyed by our own government, a program costing Australia taxpayers
more than $500 million dollars.
The first year results are now in:
Australia-wide, homicides are up 6.2 percent, Australia-wide, assaults are up 9.6 percent;
Australia-wide, armed robberies are up 44 percent (yes, 44 percent)!
In the state of Victoria…..
lone, homicides with firearms are now up 300 percent.(Note that while the law-abiding citizens turned them in, the criminals did not and criminals still possess their guns!)
While figures over the previous 25 years showed a steady
decrease in armed robbery with firearms, this has changed drastically upward in the past
12 months, since the criminals now are guaranteed that their prey is unarmed. There has
also been a dramatic increase in break-ins and assaults of the elderly, while the resident
is at home.
Australian politicians are at a loss to explain how public
safety has decreased, after such monumental effort and expense was expended in ‘successfully ridding Australian society of guns….’ You won’t see this on the American evening news or hear your governor or members of the State Assembly disseminating this information.
The Australian experience speaks for itself. Guns in the
hands of honest citizens save lives and property and, yes, gun-control laws affect only the
law-abiding citizens.
Take note Americans, before it’s too late!Will you be one of the sheep to turn yours in?
WHY? You will need it.
Not only does Mrs. B.J. Clinton still want to be president, she wants to be the first female president. Among other things Clinton called Tulsi Gabbard a Russian tool. For her part, Representative Gabbard did not refrain from returning fire, from Twitter:
Great! Thank you @HillaryClinton
. You, the queen of warmongers, embodiment of corruption, and personification of the rot that has sickened the Democratic Party for so long, have finally come out from behind the curtain. From the day I announced my candidacy, there has been a …
There is nothing like the shreek of a cat fight in the morning.
I’ll just leave this here.
Turkey has agreed to a ceasefire in northern Syria between its forces and their allied rebels and U.S.-backed Syrian Kurds, Vice President Mike Pence announced.
Pence met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday to push for the ceasefire.
“It will be a pause in military operation for 120 hours, while the United States facilitates the withdrawal of YPG (the People’s Protection Units) from the affected areas in the safe zone. And once that is completed, Turkey has agreed to a permanent ceasefire and the United States of America will work with Turkey — will work with nations around the world — to make sure peace and stability are the order of the day in this safe zone,” Pence said at a news conference.
Don Surber notes all this and says the mainstream media blew the real story;
This morning at 8, BBC posted a story, “Turkey’s Erdogan ‘threw Trump’s Syria letter in bin.'” It was Fake News.
This afternoon at 2, President Donald John Trump announced Erdogan agreed to a cease-fire along the Syrian border.
Once again, the press got the story all wrong. President Trump knew what he was doing and succeeded where his predecessors had failed. He removed American troops in order to bring peace to a section of the Middle East. He used tariffs, not soldiers, to force the issue.
The Washington press corps covering President Trump is incompetent and corrupt as it violates the public trust by deliberately trying to sabotage the man the American people elected president.
President Trump’s mediation of the Kurd-Turk dispute is award-worthy. The press blew the story by attacking our president. Amid all the false reports of coming calamity and impending genocide, I advised readers to Trust Trump. He earned it.
The problem is “Earned” is not in te vocabulary of the left. We are talking about a group of people that refuses to earn their elections, preferring to steal them. A group of people who rather than encouraging folks to earn what they need by way of a job, …
Oh, you get the idea.
Anyway they keep doing this…. Take as a recent example, Ukrainegate. The left tried to get out in front of the story, putting Trump in the worst light possible, only to be exposed as liars when the President released the full unredacted transcript Clearly, the left feels that they can’t wait for the facts, apparently feeling that if they do they’ll have no way to sell their defective product known as the Democrat party, to the American people.
Surber posts several examples at the link above and I strongly advise you read it all.
I have made a career of eating in greek diners. Have learned a few things, Such as, I can never pronounce the owner’s name. That waitresses tend to young married mothers working to feed their kids. Lastly and most important, don’t get between a mother and her ability to feed her children. We all have our red lines. even an English working class bloke, video:
Observations, note the diversity of the blokes on the platform. I will not say that the red line has moved. I will say there is a red line. Finally, I suggest that for the anarchists’ safety that they do not operate beyond the cover a friendly police force.
Hat tip: Watts Up with That.
An interesting article today in Useless Toady from Jason Williams, who was given an assignment to run back to the middle of Ohio and talk to the folks there about who they would support for president.
I quickly came to the realization that this was going to be a challenge soon after arriving for my 2½-day stay in early September. I found that a lot of folks didn’t want to talk about Trump. They didn’t want to put themselves out there for fear of being verbally bludgeoned on Facebook and Twitter or in the grocery store or even at church.
And those who did want to talk, well, they seemed to speak for those who wanted to remain silent: They’re tired of certain cable news networks and the leftist political class stereotyping them as a bunch of toothless, racist, backwoods rubes.
“I don’t want to talk about it because you can’t have an opinion unless it’s their opinion,” an African American Trump supporter said about the left. “Either you believe the way they believe, or you’re a racist or a homophobe. The reason I’m working is because of what Trump’s done. I just want to put my hard hat on and go to work every day.”
Hmmm.
The first thought that occurs to me is, this well-justified anger and mistrust of the the media is the simple and direct answer to the question of how the pollsters got 2016 so very wrong.
History tells us repeatedly, that this is exactly how every socialist from Hitler to Stalin came to power. The voters recognize this, and they’re simply not willing to play that game.
The second… as I said yesterday, the electorate has even more to be angry about, amazing enough, than it did after eight years of Obama…. even if they’re not overly talkative about how they feel about it.
I propose a new phrase to describe these folks: “The Silenced Majority”. (I add the “ed” on the end to differentiate somewhat from the group that Nixon was talking about.)
They will figure very large on election day… Much larger than any polling will indicate.
Fox reports:
Rep. Elijah Cummings, the powerful House Democrat who represented Baltimore for more than two decades and was a vocal critic of President Trump, died early Thursday after battling health problems, his office said in a statement
Sorry, but I won’t be shedding any tears. The man was as corrupt as they come. Enriched himself at the expense of his district.
Good riddance.
Now if only his district would stop voting Democrat, we might actually be able to save Baltimore.
Roger Simon in addressing the bidding war that was last night’s “Debate”…
I also wonder if as many people will continue to vote in Drudge’s polls, now that he’s joined up with the Never-Trump crew. Maybe he should start a new magazine with Bill Kristol.
Ya know, Roger, I must say I’ve been saying similar things to freinds of late, though I haven’t as yet mentioned such things here in BitsBlog.
However, I will now.
What would have caused the relatively sudden turn-around at The Drudge Report, who made themselves famous by not accepting anyting the Lamestream media coughed up a face value, and who now seemingly is now accepting anything they offer up?
One cannot help but wonder is th money of George Soros hasn’t somehow managed to buy off Drudge and company.
