Heterosexuality: Enjoy Life, Live Long

First the ground rules. One the one study rule. It is a known fact that one study proves everything. Two, the Arthur Kellerman Rule, correlation is the same a causation, from Red State:

One of the most celebrated groups in the mainstream media is transgendered people or people who suffer from gender dysphoria.

This lead to transgenderism becoming a fad that had many people claiming to be transgendered, especially among the young. However, data now shows that those young people who do embrace a life of transgenderism seem to have abnormally high suicide rates.

The study comes from the American Academy of Pediatrics, which reveals that half of those who say they are transgendered attempt suicide at a rate of near or at 50 percent[.]

Remember if it only saves but one life. Trannyism kills. Embrace your god given heterosexuality, and live.

The New York Times has a history of fabricating these things. Here’s a refresher course for you…

A few years back they were caught red-handed deceiving their readers in such a way.

In a lengthy anti-fracking article they claimed that senior industry experts and insiders believed the industry to be little more than a “Ponzi scheme” … “set up for failure”.

They even had the emails from a series of senior insiders where these doubts were expressed.

According to the New York Times, one “energy analyst” wrote, “Am I just totally crazy, or does it seem like everyone and their mothers are endorsing shale gas without getting a really good understanding of the economics at the business level?”

Another “federal analyst” said in an industry email, “It seems that science is pointing in one direction and industry PR is pointing in another.”

Well unfortunately for the New York Times, the emails were from the Energy Information Agency – a government organization – so this meant Senate investigators were able to find the original emails and work out the identity of all these different senior experts. It turns out the federal analyst, the energy analyst and the officer turned out to be the same person who was actually an intern when he wrote the first email and in an entry level position when he wrote the other comments. Yes, that’s right, the “Paper of Record” misrepresented an intern/junior employee as a senior official to push an agenda.

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We have all seen in recent days just how low the the left will go, for example in Brett Kavanaugh hearings.  They’ve been caught in lie after lie after lie.

And remember that the paper of record itself is the paper of Walter Duranty… Who would have been proud at this latest effort to push the leftist agenda.

So now we see the worst president in American history hitting the campaign Trail again.

he was out in California the other day saying he wanted people to vote and to bring back some sanity to American politics. Of course, he wants to have everyone vote Democrat.. which of course is the opposite of Sanity, particularly in California, the poster child for voting anything but Democrat.

But what is the real motivation here? What is it that is bringing Obama out to break long-standing tradition where American Presidents once they’re in office don’t tend to come out to campaign events?

I dare to submit to you the idea that the reason Obama is doing this is desperation. Self-protection. the Obama spy Scandal, where Obama and his Justice Department’s and his FBI were spying on any opponent of Hillary Clinton particularly Donald Trump is in the process of being laid bare. Obama knows he’s going to be in serious trouble if this investigation continues in the only way to stop that is to get Democrats in office insufficient number to make sweeping those events under the rug possible.

Reposted from 9/13/01

It is recorded in our history books that when he looked down at the ship full of smiling, victorious faces… faces of his flyers, just having returned from Pearl Harbor, Japanese fleet Admiral Yamamoto was quiet, pensive, even apprehensive. He later wrote in his private diary,

“I fear all I have done is awakened a sleeping giant and filled him with a terrible resolve.”

As this column is written, it is the second night after the dastardly attacks on the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan, and the Pentagon. In that amount of time, I have heard, on the news channels, and on the internet, a phase batted about several times, in various refinements, when discussing these attacks: “Like Pearl Harbor”.

Something in that phrase struck a deeper chord with me. It was, at the same time, unsettling, and reassuring. And about 20 minutes ago, my memory finally coughed up that quote from Yamamoto, and with it, my entire thought process about these events crystallized. In that revelation, it occurred to me I’d already written about what I was feeling.

In that column, I wrote of my worry that our influence on the world stage had suffered seriously, under the weight of Bill Clinton’s international bumbling. Well, Bumbling isn’t the right word. Bullying, is perhaps more accurate, yet still not spot-on.

I said, then:

“From Oslo to Camp David, Clinton has pushed Israel to the bargaining table, and pressured her to give up vital strategic and cultural assets she has no business giving away, if survival is at all on her agenda. Ehud Barak, by his giving into Bill Clinton (who, along with his staff including Jim Carville, did much to put Barak into office), has done little more than demonstrate just how empty the Palestinians’ peace talk really is, and how desperate Clinton was to be seen as a good President, his crimes against his oaths not withstanding. Consider….

At Clinton’s insistence, Barak offered Arafat the keys to the kingdom; just about all of the West Bank and Gaza, plus East Jerusalem and even Palestinian sovereignty over the Temple Mount. How do the peace loving Palestinians respond? Yasser Arafat turned it all down, and gave us another few nights of headlines, filled with kids in the street throwing stones, and being shot, occasionally. He also sent his armed forces, (You recall, they’re supposed to be policemen?) to fire at the Israelis, apparently hoping for an excuse to tell the rest of the world how Israel is a war-mongering nation.

Of course that should have been a signal to about anyone with a brain that he didn’t give a damn about peace. All he and his followers are interested in is the destruction of Israel. It should have also been a signal that Clinton’s attempt at a legacy backfired, big time, and more, that it didn’t have a chance to start with…. something that Clinton should have known, did he have any understanding of the
situation at all. You will recall, perhaps that back in 1992 , Clinton more or less bragged he had no understanding of matters of foreign policy. This was never quite so clear as during this monstrosity Mr. Clinton unleashed on the world.

For Israel’s part, all of this has been laid at the feet of Ehud Barak, perhaps unfairly. No, I don’t think he was the man for the job, and clearly was only in the PM’s position because Clinton’s people worked so hard to get him there, apparently hoping to set up Clinton’s brokering a of peace deal. Easy to do when you have the PM of Israel owing you his election. But Barak apparently was under pressures he had no control of, having nothing to do with politics at home, or the Palestinians… both of which were quite out of his control to begin with, in any event.. He was concerned with Israel continuing to get support from the US. In this concern, he saw Israel as being on the controlled end of the puppet’s string… and knowing that if he did not capitulate to Clinton’s demands, that vital US support would wither as quickly as Benjamin Netenyau’s prime ministership did, when it became clear he wasn’t going to buckle to Clinton’s concession demands.

And Barak wasn’t alone, nor was the left in Israel, in this perception of US control versus Israel’s survival. Yitzhak Rabin, hardly a liberal even by American standards and certainly not under Bill Clinton’s extortion based control to the extent that Barak was, saw the same problems. His longtime friends, according reports I’ve seen,
tell us he was deeply troubled over the prospect of losing US support… and therefore bought into the ‘land for peace’ deals being brokered by the liberals in the US. This was something I predicted he wouldn’t have done.

Israeli voters, seeing this happening, and clearly annoyed with the US control over Israel’s dealings with the Palestinians, trounced Barak in the polls. Unless one considers this anger, the election of Ariel Sharon, his replacement, is hard to fathom, since he has never been overly popular, as best I can tell. But perhaps the people of Israel are finally figuring out what the real story is.. that in truth, there is no dealing with the Palestinians, and Arifat.

One hopes that they’ve not been too late in coming to this conclusion. If they are, world war seems fairly certain to me… possibly nuclear in nature.”

When I re-read that, I knew I’d found what I’d been feeling, and why the Yamamoto quote had been nagging at me. I was feeling a deep anger. Justifiable, deep and abiding anger. Anger not only at the terrorists who arranged and executed the events of September 11th, but anger at the policies which here at home led us to this pass.

I said, back in February:

“Others learned the lessons, painful as they tended to be. Chaimberlin’s England, for example,along with the remainder of the free world, learned about appeasement of a mortal enemy the hard way. The American left, apparently not having leaned the lesson taught by the infamous socialist, Hitler, was taught the lesson again, by another band of socialists, as Soviet tanks rolled into Afghanistan 40 or so years later. “

What’s this leading up to?

Well, dear reader; the conclusion that we are now paying the price for Clinton’s presidency. One can only hope we have paid the full price…. But I doubt it.

A rash statement, say you? I think not. Consider the timing of this attack on the US.

Clinton, far from being firm with the Arabs, was giving them just what they wanted, following the World Trade Canter bombing in 1993; legitimacy, to use as a tool against us. Ironic; he’s supposed to be representing US. And to boot, we were ripping Israel apart for them.

I have stated several times, that Clinton’s sole purpose here was to save his legacy. But how to achieve his goal? By bowing to Arab terrorists, and bullying Israel into giving in. So, while that’s going on, everything is sweetness and light. America decides to elect George W Bush, who will (rightly) support Israel and the Arabs aren’t too happy.

And since Clinton also decimated our military, you ability to mount a credible defense is so laughable as to encourage attack…

Boom.
Boom.
Boom.
And, splat.

Likely 20 thousand people dead, and as many injured, all in one afternoon, along with the likelihood of many more to follow.

Oh, I hear you squirming already… particularly those on the left… those who have always defended Clinton before, regardless of any fact. I hear you saying:

“Shouldn’t we be concerned with catching, and dealing with the people who ordered and financed all this? And as Americans, shouldn’t we be sticking together?”

Oh, certainly. String them up. Cut off all relations with the Palestinians, and do it now. No question. And Military action isn’t out of the question, either.

And yes, I think we all as Americans should stand together in times like these. And, no, I’m not trying to gain political points, here… this problem affects every one of us.

Logic dictates that actually solving a problem, necessarily includes that both the problem, and the causes of that problem which can be controlled, be identified, so that action can be taken to ensure that such problems cease to exist.

Now, like it or not, we can’t do much about extremist causes. But we CAN control them to the point where they don’t cause us nearly the concern, by not acceding to their demands, as Chamberlain did, and as Clinton did. We can support our longtime friends in the world. Clinton ran fast and loose with that requirement, in an effort to be remembered for something better than the long list of shady dealings and downright criminal acts, and what happened to be running down his leg at any given moment.

Trouble was, and remains, that Clinton was dealing with Yassir Arifat. Arifat’s comments, following the attack, as compared to the reactions of his people, (dancing in the streets at our losses) show him to be a liar of the first order, or that the Palestinian people are not under his control, or both. As a result, Arifat’s commitments were useless to us, and yet useful to the Arabs who wish and work for the destruction of America,her citizens and her friends.

Would it not have been simpler, would it have not cost less life, I ask, to elect a president who can keep his pants on, rather than get us into international trouble because of half-baked efforts at obscuring his own history? Something we should consider at the next election. As I said in February; Our future, assuming we have one, depends on it.

In any event;

My heart and my prayers go out for the persons lost, the persons yet trapped, and their families and loved ones.

My great respects go out to those rescue workers, paid and otherwise, who carry on the fight that all will not be lost. Your wounds from this, I fear, will be greater than the wounds on those you struggle to save, because it is a cold fact that you will not succeed in saving all of them, and you know it going in. To you falls the task from which no sane person could walk away unaffected… and yet you go in, willingly. And that is a wonder to all Americans, and most people in the rest of the world.

My respects also go out to the many law enforcement and military officials who are working to gather information toward the capture of those who ordered and executed this attack… at times risking THEIR lives.

We each, all of us, need to take out own kind of action in times of crisis. We feel we have the need to accomplish something to help to solve the issue. The people I mention above are doing that, certainly.

But my personal resolve is to work hard toward making sure we have Presidents who actually respect and want a strong Israel. As a start, that means making sure we never again have a president of the lowly in-the-gutter presence of a Bill Clinton.

Yours should be as well.

I only hope it’s not too late.

Editor’s note: That was written in one of the very first posts on this blog. It was that event which caused me to start this blog, in fact, and so today marks the start of Bit’sBlogs’ 8th year of operation as such. The older post I refer to was one of a weekly series I did at one of my old websites, and that text was echoed at the time on Usenet, though I doubt many of us have access to that anymore. Still, that old post still reflects my hope that we are not too late to prevent such slime from entering the White House again. But in looking at the statements and the track history of Barack Ovama, I am again reminded that the chances are always high that we’ll fall under the spell of such people again.

That can only happen, however, when we forget the lessons of that terrible day. Which is why Obama and his supporters invest so much time and effort into separating that day from the people who gave it to us, and their at best misguided, pacifist policies.

I can only urge us to Never Forget, knowing that all too many have. Well, here’s a reminder.

08:37am—

I’d come into work just like any other morning.

Where I was working at the time is closed, now, and so is the department that I was working for. But I can see he layout of the place in my mind, and can even taste the coffee I was drinking that morning, from the Seattle’s Best down on the second floor. ( French Roast so strong you could stand a fork up in it.) Oddly, I remember too about the conversation with the guy running the place about how I was glad I didn’t have to fly to get to work. You know the kind of meaningless nonsense people engage in to pass the time. Little did I know.

By about a half hour ago, I had grabbed two new HP 8150 printers …huge boxes…and was installing them on the 4th floor printer room. My cell phone went off; my boss.

” Eric”, he says, “how you doing on those printers?”

“Just about physically installed”, I told him, “though I’ll have to tell the servers about them.”

“Fine.” he says. “That was fast… By the way, you may want to come up here, to the meeting room; someone just flew a plane into the World Trade Center”.

“Oh? OK…. be up in a few”.

I went up to my office on the 7th floor, firguring some small private plane had made a course error or some such thing. I got up there in time to see the scope of the issue, and was there only a few minutes when we noted a second plane hitting the second tower.

It was of course at that point that my vauge understanding that this was no accident became a full-on conclusion that it most certainly wasn’t.

I remember calmly going back to my desk, and checking the internet connections to the outside world, and noting that my traffic indicators were screaming that internet traffic was peaking pretty wildly… and making appropriate notes to my supervisors, since the workflows would be affected… my gates to the west coast for example were well into the red, and the POP in NYC was apparently not responding at all. My supervisors of course being occupied with the news, would never read them.

Looking back, I suppose I was looking for somerational way to respond…. some way to apply normalcy to all of what I’d just been witness to. Of course, my response was more mechanical than rational. But you fall to the mechanical, I guess, in situations like that. All you can do is continue, while you sort things out.

By 2pm that afternoon, though, what became this blog had been fully registered at Blogspot, and I was writing. As it turned out, BitsBlog wasn’t made public until the next day, due to an error on my part. But I didn’t much mind. I was writing for ME, that day. An outlet for what I’d seen. What I was feeling. It’s a cold fact that I became an activist for my own viewpoint, that day. By the way Blogdom increased that week, I’d say I wasn’t alone.

But you know… It’s the big occasions you recall with that kind of clarity. The morning JFK was killed for example, I remember being annoyed that the family TV… an old RCA black and white monster my dad had bought used somewhere, took so long to warm up. I wanted to know what was happening, right NOW, beep it, and this thing wasn’t helping.

It’s right that we remember.

A blast from the past, the late Vincent Foster’s name is back in the news, from Daily Wire:

[Ken] Starr said that he ultimately decided not to bring [Perjury] charges against the then-first lady [Mrs. B.J.] because it would be difficult to prove that she lied when she said “I don’t recall” and “I don’t remember.”

“What was clear was that Mrs. Clinton couldn’t be bothered to make it appear as if she were telling the truth,” Starr concluded.

In the late 1990s, The Washington Post released a timeline of events pertaining to the Whitewater land deal, writing that in 1993 “Deputy White House Counsel Vincent Foster file[d] three years of delinquent Whitewater corporate tax returns.”

The very next month Foster was found dead in a Washington Park — which authorities ruled was a suicide. The Post reported that “Federal investigators [were] not allowed access to Foster’s office immediately after the discovery, but White House aides enter[ed] Foster’s office shortly after his death, giving rise to speculation that files were removed from his office.”

Foster sure as heck did not commit suicide in Fort Marcy Park.  Dead men don’t walk.  Who is to say if Mrs. Clinton’s faulty memory was the result of a criminal cover-up, or just too much Chardonnay.  If would have been nice if Starr had bothered to interview Mrs. Clinton’s personal secretary, Betty Curry.  Tampering with a potential crime scene is a felony.

Today is the day that you’re going to see read and hear a lot about the events of 17 years ago in New York Washington and in Shanksville Pa…

… but you’re probably not going to be hearing very much at all how about the cause of those events.

Islam.

That’s the cause for the whole thing that very few people will dare to speak about. And why do we refuse to say anything about it? Political correctness.

Future historians will look back at this, and will state flatly that those who refusef to identify the problem correctly did so because they didn’t want the problem solved….that they were in fact working against America specificallyand Western culture in general.

So yet another of the protected class is claiming that the reason that they lost was because the judges and the rules were totally unfair, sexist, racist, fill in the blank.

Hillary Clinton was unavailable for comment.

Along Comes Spiked:

So now we know what ‘the resistance’ really is. It’s the establishment. It’s the old political order. It’s that late 20th-century political set, those out-of-touch managerial elites, who still cannot believe the electorate rejected them. That is the take-home message of the bizarre political spectacle that was the burial of John McCain, where this neocon in life has been transformed into a resistance leader in death: that while the anti-Trump movement might doll itself up as rebellious, and even borrow its name from those who resisted fascism in Europe in the mid 20th-century, in truth it is primarily about restoring the apparently cool, expert-driven rule of the old elites over what is viewed as the chaos of the populist Trump / Brexit era.

But, let’s cut to the chase:

The New Yorker piece, like so much of the McCain commentary, praises to the heavens the anti-Trump theme of McCain’s funeral. McCain famously said Trump couldn’t attend his funeral. And that in itself was enough to win him the posthumous love of a liberal commentariat that now views everything through the binary moral framework of pro-Trump (evil, ill-informed, occasionally fascistic) and anti-Trump (decent, moral, on a par with the warriors against Nazism). Even better, though, was the fact that orators at the funeral, including McCain’s daughter Meghan and both Bush and Obama, used the church service to slam Trumpism, without explicitly mentioning it, and in the process to big-up what came before Trumpism, which of course was their rule, their politics, their establishment. The Washington political and media set might seem bitterly bipartisan, said the New Yorkerwriter, but it is also ‘more united’ in one important sense – ‘in its hatred of Donald Trump’.

Hatred of Trump has become the moral glue of the bruised elites who have been either pushed aside or at least dramatically called into question by the populist surge taking hold in the West. And so motored are these people by the shallow moralism of Anti-Trumpism that they are happy to marshal even a life as complex and interesting and flawed as McCain’s to the service of hurting Trump. A former Al Gore adviser, Carter Eskew, wrote in the Washington Post: ‘In death, John McCain is about to exact revenge on Donald Trump.’ Unwittingly revealing the Old Testament streak to the new elite religion of Hating Trump, Eskew said that as ‘McCain ascends to heaven on an updraft of praise, Trump’s political hell on Earth will burn hotter’. On why it suddenly started to rain when McCain’s coffin was brought into the Capitol, a CNN journalist said: ‘The angels were crying.’ What century is this?

The religious allusions, the talk of vengeance against Trump, the misremembering of McCain’s life so that it becomes a moral exemplar against the alleged crimes of Trumpism, exposes the infantile moralism of the so-called resistance. Albert Burneko, assessing some of the madder McCain commentary, says there is now a ‘condition’ that he calls ‘Resistance Brain’, where people display an ‘urge to grab and cling on to anything that seems, even a little bit, like it might be the thing that Finally Defeats Donald Trump’. Even if the thing they’re grabbing on to is actually a bad thing. Like a seemingly endless FBI investigation into the elected presidency. Or George W Bush, whose moral rehabilitation on the back of Anti-Trumpism has been extraordinary. Or neoconservatism: this was the scourge of liberal activists a decade ago, yet now its architects are praised because they subscribe to the religion of Anti-Trumpism. Being against Trump washes away all sins.

Indeed.

But here’s the thing. For all the focusing on Trump, it’s not about Trump and never has been.

Postulate a Ted Cruz presidency. Does anybody truly believe that the reaction to Cruz would be any different than it has been with Donald Trump?

Here it is..Far from being about Donald Trump per se’, this reaction is about anything to the right of Fidel Castro. Anything without the Democrat name in front of it, and without socialist policy attached to it.

Reread that last paragraph.

If there is anything that’s surprising about that last paragraph, it’s that anyone claiming any understanding of all what’s going on in Washington these days, doesn’t understand it.

Once you do understand that, you’ll begin to understand how the establishment of both parties has been working against the people all along.

Why go after Trump particularly? For the same reason that Hitler went after the Jews. You need a target to focus your hatred on. Because Trump happens to be in the White House. And because of the moment he’s the biggest impediment to the advancement of the Democrat liberal agenda… (The position that John McCain could never claimed by the way.)

Okay the question from this is how long it’s going to take before we have charges of extraterrestrial influence in Trump’s election.

New York State junior senator Silly Gilly, b/k/a Kristen Gillibrand(D – NY), plays the fear and loathing card in opposition to President Trump’s nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to United States Supreme Court, from Breitbart:

Like other Democrats, Gillibrand believes that Kavanaugh would — despite the actual legal realities — overturn the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision that made abortion on demand the law of the land.

In fact, only one sitting Supreme Court justice, Clarence Thomas, has said he would vote to overturn Roe v. Wade, and even if the decision were overturned, it would not criminalize abortion but return abortion law jurisdiction to the states.

`“I think he’s a dangerous nominee,” Gillibrand said. “I think he’s dangerous for women.”

“I think he intends to criminalize abortion in this country,” Gillibrand. “I don’t think he will protect women in this country.”

The Supreme Court lacks the constitutional power to criminalize abortion.  Moreover, the mere reversal of Roe v. Wade would not criminalize abortion, but rather only return the question to the several states, where it would in large part remain legal.  The road to ending the Harry Blackmun Abortion Holocust goes thru Roe, but does not stop them.  Ultimately we must rid ourselves of the Margaret Sanger that we abort our way to killing undesired minorities.

We have lost about a million unborn Americans a year since Blackmun opened the floodgates to abortion Hell. Nothing Kavanaugh can do will come near Blackmun’s death toll.

I have often stated that our concept of Rights is a cultural one. I think this can be best explained with a parallel.

The laws of science, are not laws in a very real sense. They cannot dictate what happens in the real world, they are interpretations of what man sees in the world.

By the same token then, when Thomas Jefferson wrote about the new American culture and its belief that all men are created equal, Etc., he was reflecting the culture’s observation based belief of what is.

It is at this point that a certain amount of pragmatism enters my argument, with the observation that cultures that recognize those basic rights have a tendency to do better in the world than those that do not.

I will expand on this as time allows

Found elsewhere:

Nike, I love your gear, but you exhaust my spirit on this one. Your new ad with Colin Kapernick, I get the message, but that sacrificing everything thing…. It just doesn’t play out here. Sacrificing what exactly? A career? I’ve done that both times I chose to stay home and be with my kids instead of continuing my business climb… and it wasn’t sacrificing everything. It was sacrificing one career and some money and it was because of what I believe in and more importantly, who I believe in.

At best, that is all Colin sacrificed… some money and it’s debatable if he really lost his career over it. Maybe he sacrificed the respect of some people while he gained the respect of others. Or maybe he used one career to springboard himself into a different career when the first was waning. I don’t know. What I do know is, he gained popularity and magazine covers he likely wouldn’t have gotten without getting on his knees or as you say, “believing in something.” I’m also thinking the irony is that while I am not privy to the numbers, it’s likely he gained a lucrative Nike contract. So yeah… that whole “sacrificing everything” is insulting to those who really have sacrificed everything.

You want to talk about someone in the NFL sacrificing everything? Pat Tillman. NFL STARTING, not benched, player who left to join the Army and died for it. THAT is sacrificing everything for something you believe in.

How about other warriors? Warriors who will not be on magazine covers, who will not get lucrative contracts and millions of followers from their actions and who have truly sacrificed everything. They did it because they believed in something. Take it from me, when I say they sacrificed everything, they also sacrificed the lives of their loved ones who will never be the same. THAT is sacrificing everything for something they believe in.

Did you get us talking? Yeah, you did. But, your brand recognition was strong enough. Did you teach the next generation of consumers about true grit? Not that I can see.

Taking a stand, or rather a knee, against the flag which has covered the caskets of so many who actually did sacrifice everything for something they believe in, that we all believe in? Well, the irony of your ad..it almost leaves me speechless. Were you trying to be insulting?

Maybe you are banking on the fact we won’t take the time to see your lack of judgement in using words that just don’t fit. Maybe you are also banking on us not seeing Nike as kneeling before the flag. Or maybe you want us to see you exactly that way. I don’t know. All I know is, I was actually in the market for some new kicks and at least for now, I’ve never been more grateful for Under Armour.

Apparently, the author here isn’t alone.

NIKE STOCK PLUNGES AFTER TAPPING KAEPERNICK AS ‘JUST DO IT’ CAMPAIGN POSTER BOY

Bbct: Ed

Of course now we find out that Nike actually signed the paperwork months ago and just now got around to announcing it. One has to wonder if this isn’t stock manipulation, and why the SEC isn’t investigating along those lines.

There’s a lot here to discuss and a lot to absorb so I’m going to imply issue these Snippets as they occur to me and in no particular order.

#Blumenthal: the guy who lied about being a soldier in Vietnam is questioning Kavanaugh’s ethics.

#Going after judge Kavanaugh’s kids? Welcome ladies and gentlemen to today’s Democrat Party. every time you think they couldn’t possibly sink any lower, they say “hold my beer”.

#The ultimate setup was the Parkland shooting victim father claiming that Cavanaugh turned away from him. He was doing so because he was instructed by security to do so. That’s on video. these facts are not going to stop the Democrats from trying to use this to paint him as the next Hitler.

# The kind of arguments being offered by the Democrats are nonsensical in the extreme. Cory Booker for example, is claiming that the hearing is being rushed. The fact of the matter is, it’s taking longer to go through this process with this nominee then it has with any recent US Supreme Court nominee. Similarly, the Democrats complain about the lack of documentation. The fact of the matter is, there has been more documentation provided on Kavanaugh and then from any other US Supreme Court nominee recently… Indeed, the half-million documents submitted in support of the Cavanaugh nomination are more than were submitted for the last five U. S. Supreme Court nominations, combined. These ridiculous tactics are intended to delay as long as possible, hoping to wrench control of the situation away from the GOP… If not now, in 2018.

# Every single one of these Democrat idiots on the committee, and most of the Democrats in Congress, have already announced that they’re going to vote against Kavanaugh, on party line, regardless of what gets done or said. So, this isn’t at all about fact. Rather, this is Kabuki theater intended to generate Democrat votes by reinforcing the Looney left base.

#Sasse made some fairly decent points at the opening statements of the hearing, but the rest of his activities seem to be intended to mollify the GOP establishment, not the GOP voter. That’s a guy I’m going to have my eye on in the future… A somewhat jaundiced eye at that.

#When people like Sassse, and heaven save us, Lindsey Graham, are both able and inclined to dismantle Democrat arguments on these matters as effectively as they have been, I think we can take that as a measure of just how far off the deep end the Democrats have gone.

#However the most effective speaker was Ted Cruz.( I still insist we would have been far better off with him leaving the show from 1600 Pennsylvania. ) He pointed out during his remarks that because the 2016 presidential election was held with an open US Supreme Court seat, and because the appointment of Supreme Court judges was high on the list of topics in the debates during that election cycle, there is kind of a super legitimacy for Cavanaugh’s nomination. Cavanaugh is precisely the kind of Supreme Court judge that Donald Trump promised as a candidate. In other words, precisely the kind of Judge that the American people wanted. It’s hard to conclude anything but that such Supreme Court nominations are precisely why Donald Trump was elected.

#We can thank heaven that John McCain is not involved in this process. Out of spite and nothing else, he would be voting no against judge Kavanaugh, and his arguments would be equally nonsensical with the Democrats.

# Not a bit of this would be happening if the federal government was in its proper role. The founders never envisioned the federal government affecting the daily lives of Americans. the growth of government to that degree is the fault of the establishment of both parties as I have said here repeatedly.

# The Democrats have been operating on the far side of the edge of the world for so long that nobody’s paying attention anymore. They have cried wolf for far too long for anybody to care anymore. In other words, Democrats, welcome to the world that you’ve created. the only people who are going to be swayed by their arguments during this hearing are going to be the people that would have been voting for them anyway, and who in the end having a clue as to what the issues really are.

#And in case you doubt that this is all Kabuki theater on the part of the Democrats, let’s take some statements from the Democrats recorded in 2006 when he was up for the seat on the DC Court…

#At the end of all of this, and as President Obama is famous for having said, elections have consequences. The childlike temper tantrums coming from the Democrats are both predictable and futile. The Cavanaugh nomination will be approved, and judge Cavanaugh will be Justice Cavanaugh.

# Final thought. Is this really what democracy looks like? Or does it look to you as it looks to me, the brownshirts of the left, trying to shut down a deliberative process?

Before you donate to a charity, you should know the purpose of the charity and how actually go to the stated purpose. On line donations are no more than a drive-by charity, without the registration and regulation, from NY Post:

A kindhearted homeless veteran who helped a stranded woman with gas money has been left “devastated” after learning that a nearly half-million-dollar fortune he got through GoFundMe is gone, a lawyer for the man revealed Tuesday.

Johnny Bobbitt, a Philadelphia vagrant, only received about $75,000 cash, a camper and a 19-year-old pick-up, out of some $400,000 raised for him by Kate McClure and Mark D’Amico.
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Johnny Bobbitt, left, with Kate McClure and Mark D’Amico
Couple who raised $400K for homeless hero ordered to hand over remaining funds

The couple got the money from some 14,000 online donors, who were moved by the story of Bobbitt giving McClure his last $20 to help her fill up her tank on I-95 earlier this year.

Chris Fallon, an attorney for Bobbitt, said that the couple informed him through their lawyers Tuesday that the rest of the cash was now gone

Maybe the Lord knows where the bulk of the four hundred thousand dollars collected in the name of Johnny Bobbitt went. It did not go to Bobbitt.  Think twice before you wire you good money to a total stranger, no matter how compelling their yarn is.

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