I find it interesting that nobody has asked where the Mexican gang member who was in this country illegally, got the gun, that he killed the police officer with. Is it one of the guns that got run to the drug lords in Mexico by the Obama Administration? Could that account for the silence?
According to news reports I’m seeing now this morning they’ve arrested the guy.
Is there anybody looking at this situation who can’t blame the insane sanctuary laws in California for this police officers death?
And isn’t it amazing how many people are willing to chastise the president for supposedly not respecting the rule of law, when they support illegals?
Could the juxtaposition be any clearer? We have an illegal immigrants killing a legal immigrant who happens to be a police officer. The direct cause of this tragedy? The insanity over the open borders policy favored by the left. that’s a point that a number of the sheriff’s in California are now making.
It’s time for the arrest and conviction of those supporting sanctuary laws. Particularly, those in government. It has never been clearer is that they are a clear and present danger to the public safety Ella to say nothing of unconstitutional.
Barring that, all federal aid to any state town or municipality that supports sanctuary should be eliminated. since Federal late is the only thing that’s keeping California float these days, the results should be swift in coming.
The question is, do we have the courage to enforce our own laws?
I am sure that the man who’s chief claim to fame is being Amy Schumer’s cousin, a/k/a Chuck Schumer(D-NY) has a front door with a lock, and uses the lock. Yet Chuckles may thinks locks are good for him but not for thee, from Conservative Review:
Would you let criminals take your home and hurt your family, or would you pay for a front door that locks?
It typically costs roughly $1,500-$2,000 to purchase and install a no-frills exterior door on your home. Not cheap at all. But would you agonize over the cost for a minute when the entire cost and safety of your whole home and its occupants are on the line, especially when dangerous criminals, burglars, and murderers are specifically targeting your neighborhood for infiltration?
Call Chuckles and tell to get out from behind his locked front door, and to due is duty, let the People have their front door with a lock.
The same boiling water that softens the potato makes the egg hard.
It’s not the conditions you’re in, it’s what you’re made of, that matters.
A Bithead’s Christmas
Edtor’s note:
Once again as in years past, I’ve found my inbox filled with messages from longtime readers who wonder if I’m going to be re-posting “A Bithead’s Christmas”, and begging me to do so.
As I believe I’ve told you in previous years, I get more email about this one single post, these 2900 or so words, then I have about anything else written here. And it happens every single year. Either this one post is particularly good, or the rest of it is comparatively bad. You’ll forgive me if in my vanity, I believe the former. I take that they’re using Email, instead of simply leaving comments, to mean that I’ve struck a very personal and private nerve. Touching people in that fashion is a very rare thing, and one I take very seriously, so the answer to the question is “Yes, of course I’ll run it again”.
Understand going in, it may not be politically correct. I seek no absolution, no forgiveness, for it’s being overtly Christian in nature, any more than I seek absolution or forgiveness for anything else that I put into these spaces. It is what it is, because Christmas is what it is, and because I speak my mind on the topic at hand, whatever that is.
Christmas, and thereby, Christianity itself, has been going on for a little over 2000 years, in spite of all the naysayers, protesters and government regulations that history has managed to toss up in those 2000- plus years. It does so, because at the core of it all, is a message…….. a message that all the naysayers, protesters and government hacks will never understand, much less conquer. It is a message that will survive the ravages of time, government, and liberals, fascists, and anything and everything else, long after you and I are no longer even a memory in this world. The Christmas message, you see, is eternal, and ever green.
(Evergreen. I am suddenly struck with the symbolism here)There is something of a journalistic precedent for this as well. . . I do not pretend to hold myself quite so high in the world as these media outlets who have such traditions as “Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus”… but they’ve been getting away with such things for well over 100 years, so I suppose I can get away with it, here.
One of the things that man has always found fascinating about the Christmas story, is that you can reread it all your life, and every time you reread it, you find a new truth buried within it, so perhaps that’s WHY we get away with repeating such stories. It’s perhaps where such traditions come from.
So with all this in mind, and with the hope of helping you find new meaning in this season… and peace… a personal peace… in these troubled times, I will offer once again this year:
A Bithead’s Christmas
I find myself wanting to take more seriously, the challenge of writing to the subject of Christmas, today, than I have in years past. It’s not clear in my mind as to why, but this isn’t unusual… I never really do have a firm grip on why I want to attack a subject in these spaces. In fact, the writing of a coulmn for me has becomes more an effort of exploring a subject; the codification of random thoughts. The act of putting those thoughts into words on a screen allows me to think about, and RE-think about the subject at hand. My thoughts on a given subject often do not fully take shape until such time as I’ve re-written them twice. Often, indeed… usually, the ideas are already there, waiting to be cast into words, but not fully defined until the act of sitting down and typing them out. I suppose this subject is no exception.To this effort, some blogs, this time of year will quote the great Gospels of Christ’s arrival, and expound on that. And that’s worthy, and right. Some others will take the secular angle of the holiday and go off on that. That too, is fine, though frankly it’s always for me missed the core of the topic, a little.But not me, for either of those tacks. Not this year. I’m going to go off the beaten path, for this post, at least in context of this blog, given it’s Christmas, and off the beaten path in terms of the Liturgical calendar, given it’s me. I’m going to stick with the meaning of Christmas, but to point it up, I’m going to turn to something a little later… about 30 years later… for my subject. I trust you’ll see why when I’m done.This story is in Matthew, Mark, and Luke. We’ll use Luke’s version for the purpose.
In Luke 18 it reads:
15 Now they were bringing even infants to him that he might touch them; and when the disciples saw it, they rebuked them. 16 But Jesus called them to him, saying, “Let the children come to me, and do not hinder them; for to such belongs the kingdom of God. 17 Truly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child shall not enter it.”
Now, all three versions add a little something to the story, and I suggest you read them yourself to get it all.
Most times that Christians hear this text or read it, a child is being baptized. The apparently intended thrust of reading it in those situations is to make a loose connection with the Children being accepted by Christ. And, that’s a valid angle for the story. But, think about the story line, here, so you can get the flavor of what I’m going to describe to you. There’s a far bigger angle that many miss.See, Christ has been playing “superstar” for a while, now. He’s been attracting flat out huge crowds wherever he goes. The disciples are starting to become concerned for the (human) well being of Christ. Children are, then as now, a source of some stress to adults already under stress, so the disciples decide, wordlessly to give the Lord a break. But Jesus says.. “Hey… No.. Let ’em come… It’s OK. ” Apparently, seeing some remaining resistance in their eyes, he reinforces the command with a statement that must have shaken them badly. “It’s to the likes of these as belongs the Kingdom of God.”Now, It’s not hard for us to imagine what’s going on in the minds of the disciples…. They must have felt a little put back… While not saying so, they must have figured they had an inside track to Heaven. (Shrug) It’s human nature.The passages don’t record if they said anything, but you just know what they’re thinking, here… “Comon, Jesus… We’re tryin’ to give you a break here! And you elevate these lowest of low, mere children, into the ownership of heaven? You raise a polite nothing to a path to heaven and eternity? What’s THAT about?”And you know, Jesus knows it too. He knows full well what they’re thinking, because watch what he comes back with: “I’ll tell you the truth;”, he says, “Unless you change… Unless you transform, and accept the kingdom of heaven like a child, you’ll never enter it.”But what does he mean, here? He’s talking, I’m afraid, about how you lose touch with happiness and the sense of wonder, as you become an adult. That loss prevents us from seeing the Kingdom of heaven as it is.For most of us, the happiest times of our lives was when we were children. When we’re younger, we have less in the way of cares, and troubles. Let’s admit, too, that as we get older, we become aware of, and allow more and more sadness into our lives.It’s true; It’s a hard world out there, and being adults we’ve come to understand this, in a way of understanding that only long exposure and experience… and lots of scar tissue, can bring.It seems that every year we have more worries and concerns.
Oh, yeah, do we EVER worry. We worry about our health, and those concerns increase with advancing age. We worry about our jobs, about our investments, our savings, about the future in general. Retirement is a concern. Will we have enough? We’re too fat, we’re too skinny. We’re too tall, we’re too short, our once wavy hair is still waving… Only, it’s waving bye-bye. We worry about the future our kids will have and the normal growing up problems, but we also worry about the future that we’ve left our kids. We look at the news, and we wonder what kind of a world have we left them? We even worry if we worry too much.We’ve seen marriages and relationships we thought would pass the test of time, pass away, instead. Things we had hoped would come to pass, didn’t, and those we’d not dreamed, in our wildest nightmares would happen, did. We see loved ones die. Jobs disappear. Hearts get broken.And friends, those are just the hum-drum… The everyday worries that every generation has had, since Cain bopped his brother’s bean with a rock. Then you get into the problems particular to us and our times; AIDS, oil shortages, cancer, drugs, the way our own technology seems to be spiraling out of our control…
And Islamofacists.
Ah, yes, there’s nothing at all, to my mind, like the specter of 3000 plus people dying on national television, in Washington, NY and Pennsylvania… while we watch, to remind us that we’re not in control.And yes…. it’s all about control, if you think on it for long. All these things I’ve listed are worries about things we cannot control, try as we might.
The list of these reverses, these scars, gets longer as the years progress, and it starts eventually, to break down the positive outlook in every one of us… Each according to their ability to resist. Each step, each worry, each bit of emotional scar tissue, if you will, moves us farther away from the relative joy of our comparatively carefree childhood.By now the sharper among you will notice where I’m going with this; This is where Christmas comes in. This is why Christmas holds a special place in our hearts, and our traditions.You see, even for the not-so-religious, it is a time of renewal of our fragile human spirit. All of the hurts, small and large, become less pronounced, and fade under the soft glow of the lights, the candles, the fireplace, and the smile of the children.
Have you ever noticed that it’s the children, in fact, that do us the most healing? Christmas, it’s said, is for the children. Presidential speechwriter and WSJ columnist Peggy Noonan noted recently about some of the qualities of children:
“They are susceptible to wonder. A child can look at a red toy car in the red-green glow of Christmas tree lights and imagine an entire lifetime. A child can play with a new doll and smell good things being cooked and hear sweet music and it can make that child imagine that life is good, which gives her a template for good, a category for good; it helps her know good exists. This knowledge comes in handy in life; those who do not receive it, one way or another, are sadder than those who do.”
Of course, we move away from that ability as we grow older. Our long experience has hardened us to the realities of the world around us, and perhaps jaded our point of view. But here comes Christmas, which gives us, individually and collectively, the chance of looking at the world through the wonder-filled eyes of a child once again… Becoming childlike ourselves in the process, and becoming healed and renewed.The experience is a far deeper one for those who have accepted the Christmas promise, and it’s meaning. Reacting to that promise includes allowing someone else to run the controls of our lives. Remember I said it was all about control? Well, I want you to think about the features of being a child. It was Randall Jarrell, I think, who once quipped:
“One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.”
Well, let’s remember.
You’re NOT in control of much of anything. Someone who knows better, and is by far more powerful than we, is running things. And looking back, I’m sure most of us would conclude that having that situation back would be of comfort to us. Haven’t we all wished to resign from the world of adulthood at times?
I guess this would be a good place to slip in a parallel story.
Consider the fictional person of Ebeneezer Scrooge. Think about how the story develops; He’s had some serious emotional setbacks in early life… and those have become a self-feeding, never ending circle by the time we meet him, 7 years after his best friend’s death.
All these setbacks have made him cold, and hard, and for all outward appearances, non-feeling. He’s covered with emotional scar tissue. Being hard, is his way of dealing with what he cannot control. Only after his overnight experience do all these cares get swept away, along with his anger of not being able to control his situation…. The realization comes to him that he never really WAS in control in the first place, so stop fretting about it all… Think about what are essentially the first words out of his mouth as he realizes that the weight of his worries.. Not unlike worries you and I have had, are gone; “I’m as light as a feather….” The weight of that scar tissue… And all the concerns they represent having been lifted off his shoulders…“…and as giddy as a Schoolboy!”
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Child.
“I’ll tell you the truth”, he said, “Unless you change.. Unless you transform, and accept the kingdom of heaven like a child, you’ll never enter it.”
Amazing parallels, aren’t they?
I’m reliably informed that Charles Dickens was not as a rule what one would call very religious. Yet, in looking at the parallels in these two story lines, I must wonder in all honesty if he didn’t have some help with “A Christmas Carol”.Now, you’ll notice I took some liberty with the way the Biblical text was quoted. Some liberty, I say, but not very much, really, since it’s long been pointed out by Bible scholars that the word that earlier versions of the text had as ‘change’ were really translated from the ancient Greek word for “transform”. This is a major point, because it demonstrates what the first step is, and whose it is… yours.And no, change and transformation are not the same thing. The best description I’ve ever thought of to explain the difference between the two, runs along these lines:If I take a rock, and in the other h
and I take a large hammer, and I hit the rock with the hammer, and break it, I’ve changed that rock. If I take that same rock, and take a small hammer and chisel, and very carefully, perhaps over a period of decades, sculpt that rock into a flower, I’ve still merely changed that rock.Transformation, on the other hand, is when the rock itself, as a matter of responding to it’s own will, becomes a flower. And of course that’s beyond the normal power of the rock, by any standard we know.
What Christ therefore is saying is, that we must become children, as of a matter of our own will. Which is, as I say, impossible by any standard we know…. Which in turn leads us to the source of all things, who teaches us how, and gives us the power to do it.
You see, the externalities I mentioned, the lights, the fire, the children…and that which Dickens writes of… the giving, the being open to what joys are around us, and so on, helps toward the goal of understanding the Christmas promise, but it’s not the whole deal.
At the core of it all… (and this is a connection that, alas, many people never make…) is that the one whose birth is being celebrated every December the 25th, is the one who takes over that long list of worries. But understand, here…THAT’S WHY WE CELEBRATE!!
With those worries removed, lives get changed, hearts mended, child-like perspectives restored in a way that the lights, carols and greenery can never do on their own. And the newly remade Childrenfind that t
he authority and responsibility and all the ponderous weight connected with them, are taken away by the one who said “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me”.
Now, I must warn you; There are those who will resist being told all of this… to the point of removing such joy as they find, wherever they may find it, often using the power of governments, and force of arms to have it removed from town squares and schools, mocking, persecuting and yes, even killing those responsible for the spreading of the news of this miracle.
It’s a sad truth, that a world used to darkness, you see, will continually fight to see the darkness continued. That warning given, however, I will say to you also, that it’s no accident, Christmas being called the season of light, and that Christ is called the light of the world.
If I have one wish for this Christmas, it is that you will be open to the light…. With the wondering eyes of a child.
It is, I think, tragically humorous to watch The Usual Suspects complaining about the withdrawals that Donald Trump has decided on, from Syria.
What’s really amazing about all this, is that after the record of the last 15 years or so in that part of the world, they’re still having a brain hemorrhage when the rejection of the long disproven conventional wisdom finally occurs… Particularly given the Trump record of the last two years being “unexpectedly” correct about, while going against the conventional wisdom that they promulgated themselves.
Let’s face a few Stark realities.
At the moment we have something on the order of two thousand troops in Syria. What are we supposed to do with that number with the stated goals, which by the way have been bloated three times already, since Obama sent troops over there?
Remember the original mission was to eliminate ISIS? While the mission there has been largely successful to that end, we have not managed to completely eliminate them. News flash; That’s not happening. Not with that few people, and certainly not with the standard rules of engagement that we’ve been inflicting on our military the last number of years.
It’s going to take a lot more people, a lot more time, and a lot more blood than Americans traditionally have been willing to invest. Does anyone remember when I said we needed to stay in Iraq for an extended period of time …perhaps 20 years .. with a large number of people for that mission to be successful? It’s as I said before Barack Hussein Obama assumed the office….
I figure that was part of the idea, going into Iraq in the first place: Establishing a democracy in such a place, after all, would certainly lend itself to work toward altering, and, need I say it, pacifying, Islamic society, and controlling the more violent and radical elements. My take is that if such a person or group is to rise up against the Wahhabists or Salfi, they will be the product of a freshly reformed, and democratic Iraq. Which would do a fair job of explaining why the Syrias and the Jordans and the Irans are so very concerned, just now.
The very reason that those hardline Islamic states are so concerned about the insertion of democracy into Iraq is because they see ….apparently more clearly than we… that democracy, for all its faults, has one major advantage ; That it by its very nature injects social change, by way of what I will call “Social Darwinism”. Such evolution has no chance whatever under, say, a Saddam… but it DOES stand a chance under a Democracy. Under a democracy, the ideas and ideals of western culture will filter through, as they have every other place where Democracy has been installed. Japan, for example. South Korea. Etc.
This change will undoubtedly allow a more western attitude, and thereby will create the environment in which Islam’s Luther can stand forth. But this isn’t going to be a quick process. It’s going to be along slow and likely (given whom we’re dealing with) very bloody process, because changing hearts and minds is always the longest , slowest, hardest job there is. And, of course, that assumes we actually have the courage to see it through. Given the recent election, I have my doubts.
We have to stick with the plan. The consequences of not doing so are utter failure, for both they, and us. I say again; It’s not going to be quick. We in the west, cannot expect that kind of seed change to occur overnight. What we’re talking about, is dragging Islam and its followers fast forward from the fourteenth century. We cannot do that quickly, or by force and not expect violent reaction. Forced change, is never long lasting , and seldom satisfactory for anybody concerned. What needs to be done therefore, is to create an environment in which an Islamic version of Luther can stand forth, so that the culture can change ITSELF.
We weren’t willing to do it then, what in hell makes anyone think we’re going to be willing to do it now?
Secondly, we may not like Assad, but part of that bloated assignment was to get and keep Assad out of power. That’s not happening either… and the fact is, even if it does, we’re going to end up with Syria being nothing more than an Iranian puppet state, which I’m sorry isn’t any better than the current situation and in many ways, worse.
I suspect the real objection to pulling out of Syria at this point from The Usual Suspects is they don’t like the way Asad is going to eliminate ISIS. Cries of “we are turning the project over to a war criminal” kind of loses its impact, when the indications are he’s going to get the job done in a quarter of the time, and certainly far less in the way of American casualties, than we have already spent over there unsuccessfully trying to accomplish that goal. The problem of course here is that Assad will use methods not approved by the United Nations.
Hah!
Well, to be perfectly honest with you I can’t think of anything that indicates the futility of the entire concept of the United Nations than their lack of success in the middle East. The major problem, of course is that they consider all cultures to be equal. It’s that fallacy that is kept that region inconsolate since the end of the second World War.
I also suspect and suppose that a lot of the objections from the American left about this, stems from the fact that Assad doing essentially mop-up and consolidation operations there, puts Iran in a bad spot in the region. I also suspect that that was largely the reason that Obama sent troops over there in the first place… To keep Iran at the table. Iran being involved in anything extremely counterproductive to the prospect of peace for the region.
And yes I think the reversal of that policy is one reason that Jim Mattis walked out the door. Those policy differences, particularly America’s support for Israel, which has been better reflected by Donald Trump’s presidency but then by any other since Reagan, has always been a problem for Mattis. The New York Sun observes;
The idea that the resignation of General Mattis as secretary of defense is a startling development that comes out of the blue strikes us as wishful thinking on the part of critics of President Trump. The general may have been irked by Mr. Trump’s plan to pull our GIs out of Syria. The record suggests, though, Mr. Mattis’ tenure as defense secretary has long been on borrowed time.
For in respect of policy, General Mattis has always struck us as crosswise with the president. This was foreshadowed before the 2016 election, when the general, at the time the former commander of CentCom, was interviewed by Wolf Blitzer at an Aspen Security Forum in Colorado. That’s the appearance where the Jar Head blamed our troubles in the Middle East on Israel.
Donald Trump’s instincts are correct in the matter, apparently being driven by the concept that there are no good actors in The region and that therefore whoever the United States decides to get behind in terms of helping them to win, the United States loses… not only money lives and prestige, but losses in terms of morality. When there’s no good options, and you pack up and go home.
Trump recognizes the United States has over the last several years been showing that it is unwilling to play this game the way it is supposed to be played, so at that point it becomes time to get out.
Parting thought: Does anybody remember a couple of years ago when we were told that Donald Trump would start to wars? Here he is removing us from two wars.
Guess who’s complaining?
In a limited defense of the late Senator Joseph McCarthy, membership in the Communist Party was protected by the Constitution.
Constitution of the United States, Article VI:
The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the members of the several state legislatures, and all executive and judicial officers, both of the United States and of the several states, shall be bound by oath or affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.
So are Senators Senators Mazie Hirono (D-HI) and Kamala Harris (D-CA) idiots or just plain stupid, from Catholic News Agency:
A judicial nominee faced questions from Senators this month about whether membership in the Knights of Columbus might impede his ability to judge federal cases fairly. The Knights of Columbus say that no candidate for public office should have to defend his membership in a Catholic service organization.
Senators Mazie Hirono (D-HI) and Kamala Harris (D-CA) raised concerns about membership in the Knights of Columbus while the Senate Judiciary Committee reviewed the candidacy of Brian C. Buescher, an Omaha-based lawyer nominated by President Trump to sit on the United States District Court for the District of Nebraska.
Hat tip and reax, American Conservative:
The Knights of Columbus! A Catholic fraternal and social service organization, to which 1.6 million Catholic men around the world belong! It was created in the 19th century because Catholics couldn’t be Freemasons, and because anti-Catholic and anti-immigrant prejudice kept Catholics out of other fraternal and social service organizations.
And now anti-Catholic bigotry is coming back in the guise of progressivism.
Pox on any government official, or candidate for such office, who deigns to ask, or answer, such a question. A proper response would be, with all due respect Senator, under Article 6, I decline to answer. Unless Senator Harris has an issue with all charities, having a problem with a Catholic charity is violation of the Constitution. If Harris is not smart enough to phrase her question in matter which does not question of candidate religion, she not smart enough to be President.
Contact Senators Hirono and Harris and feel free tell that their constitutional ignorance and religious bigotry is not welcome.
The hoplophobes who try to brand their personal paranoia try to label their fears as Common Sense Gun Control. The hoplophobes tell you, over and over, that you don’t need guns because the police have guns and are their to protect you. Yet the courts, over and over, rule that the police have no duty to protect you, from South Florida Sun-Sentinel:
A federal judge says Broward schools and the Sheriff’s Office had no legal duty to protect students during the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
U.S. District Judge Beth Bloom dismissed a suit filed by 15 students who claimed they were traumatized by the crisis in February. The suit named six defendants, including the Broward school district and the Broward Sheriff’s Office, as well as school deputy Scot Peterson and campus monitor Andrew Medina.
Bloom ruled that the two agencies had no constitutional duty to protect students who were not in custody.
Hat tip and Reax, Bearing Arms:
[T]he law requires these potential victims to be disarmed. It makes it impossible for them to defend themselves from an attack, even while the state has absolved itself of any responsibility to protect those they’ve disarmed.
Frankly, it’s disgusting.
The good new for those inclined to rush a newspaper, say the Sun Sentinel, is that the police has no duty to rush into stop you. So say the judge who work from their armed and protected courthouses.
FYI: Tony Podesta is still not under indictment for failing to register as a Foreign Agent.
I have been suspicious of the backstory surrounding the demise of The Weekly Standard into a GOP establishment organization, for some years now as I wrote last week.
Today comes this information, from Frontpage
These days, Kristol is using Defending Democracy Together, a 501c4 dark money organization of “conservatives and Republicans “, to try and primary Trump. Components of DDT include, Republicans Against Putin and an analysis of Russian troll tweets. Beneath the concerns about national security and Russia, Kristol’s organization shares a funding source with a platform for the greatest Russian intel coup.
As Julie Kelly of American Greatness recently revealed, DDT is heavily funded by Pierre Omidyar’s Democracy Fund. Omidyar is a French-Iranian billionaire who is known for funding campaigns against national security, not for it. Omidyar’s best known media investment is The Intercept, a site that does everything from distributing Qatari propaganda to defending anti-Semitism.
Read the whole article of course but pay particular attention to the last paragraph;
The National Summit for Democracy was the Omidyar equivalent of Soros’ Democracy Alliance. Despite the grandiose name, the “National Summit” apparently only managed to attract some 90 participants including Bill Kristol, Evan McMullin, Senator Jeff Flake and the Washington Post’s Max Boot.
This new information has done nothing to allay my suspicions of that whole situation with Weekly Standard, Kristol in particular.
Add to that the actions of Jeff Flake are beginning to make more sense now.
As the environment panic monger trumpet the latest United Nations male bovine excrement, pause to consider, and watch, Algore’s prediction from ten years ago, from Anthony Watts, Watts Up with That:
Ten years ago, @AlGore predicted the North polar ice cap would be gone. Inconveniently, it’s still there
On December 14, 2008, former presidential candidate Al Gore predicted the North Polar Ice Cap would be completely ice free in five years. As reported on WUWT, Gore made the prediction to a German TV audience at the COP15 Climate Conference:
Video:
Once an idiot, always an idiot.
But, because the perps are leftists, nobody out there cares.
How bad is it when Governor Moonbeam says that the Democrats have moved too far to the left?
Who is responsible for the tragic death of 7-year-old Jackeline Caal? If you ask the Democrats, it was not her moron father who dragged her into a desert and gave her no food or water for several days, but the officers who rescued her from the desert and worked to save her life.
The left in this country is upset that tear gas was used by the Trump Administration to control the Border, against what may fairly be described as an invasion Force… and yet never complained once how about the 48 times tear gas was used in the Obama Administration for the same purpose, and reasonably close to the same location.
Meanwhile, today, the French are tear gassing their own citizens, upset at uncontrolled immigration high taxation, over-regulation and so on. In short, they are very much annoyed at a government which no longer represents them.
Lesson:
Right leaning govts use force against Invaders, whereas
Left wing govts use force against their citizens.
The Democrats are currently screaming that any expenditure that benefits a campaign must be registered.
So far the Muller investigation has blown literally hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars.
So, the question becomes, is the entirety of the Mueller investigation to be considered an unregistered and illegal campaign contribution to the Democrat Party, provided by the United States taxpayer?
