No, I’m not talking about the classic 1972 LP.
At this moment, there’s a great deal of speculation with regards to Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and how long it is before she tosses in the towel.
Ginsburg made it fairly clear that she was going to stick it out as long as possible so that the court did not move away from the leftist claptrap that it’s been offering up for the last couple of decades. I strongly suggest that such balancing acts no longer matter and Ginsberg is going to figure this one out very shortly. As best I can see right now this is not a matter of if but when.
Of course Ginsburg officially responds that she’s feeling fine at 85 without any serious issues. Personally I don’t know many 85 year olds that can make that claim.
By the way… How old was Antonin Scalia when he died, with a pillow over his head in the home of a heavy Democrat supporter and contributor with no autopsy?
Oh yeah. 79.
Some of you may recall that Gimsburg took some serious criticism during the Obama Administration, from democrats for risking flipping that seat on the court to an actual conservative. They wanted to see her retire before Obama was out of office. Well, she didn’t, and now we can be reasonably sure that she’s not going to survive the next 3 years, not wearing black robes in any event.
Meanwhile, you know you’re in trouble as a party when the only thing between your rank-and-file members and regular Psychotherapy sessions is someone who can’t stay awake for an hour.
By by the way, based on a release I’ve seen this morning the Trump Administration already has several people they’re looking at to replace Kennedy. I’m chewing on that list now and will be posting something this evening.
! Did you know that historically speaking Donald J Trump is the biggest contributor to the ongoing clown show that is Charles Schumer? Of course, given the current circumstances I suppose those donations have come to an end. After all, what we’re dealing with in those cases is play for pay. It’s simply how you do business in New York City. But here’s the thing, with that change what happens to Schumer’s viability as a candidate for reelection?
! I’m starting to run into an error a little more frequently with dictation on my Android devices. As an example yesterday saw autocorrect turn “Gestapo” into “gazpacho”.
! Cuomo the Lesser has rendered New York State the worst in the Union 4 doing business. When you can outdo California’s screw-ups, you’re really doing something.
! You know, the way some people are fighting border security, particularly Democrats, one can’t help but imagine that they have a stake in human trafficking and drug trafficking.
! with all the Wailing and gnashing of teeth over the immigration issue at the Supreme Court yesterday, somehow this little gem got missed;
! Finally, let’s talk about this Civil War we keep hearing about. One side has one third of the guns in the world and about 8 trillion bullets. The other side doesn’t know what bathroom to use.
Liberal heads are exploding all over the country. The US Supreme Court actually applied the Constitution to their arguments and found those arguments wanting. Here’s the text of the ruling.
Of particular note…
Finally, the dissent invokes Korematsu v. United States, 323 U. S. 214 (1944). Whatever rhetorical advantage the dissent may see in doing so, Korematsu has nothing to do with this case. The forcible relocation of U. S. citizens to concentration camps, solely and explicitly on the basis of race, is objectively unlawful and outside the scope of Presidential authority. But it is wholly inapt to liken that morally repugnant order to a facially neutral policy denying certain foreign nationals the privilege of admission.
If that doesn’t poke a hole in the left’s arguments about this, I don’t know what does. The court is clearly drawing a very thick- line distinction between citizens and non-citizens as they should. Citizenship may not mean much to the left, but it means a great deal to the constitution and those that follow it.
See post, at 26–28. The entry suspension is an act that is well within executive authority and could have been taken by any other President—the only question is evaluating the actions of this particular President in promulgating an otherwise valid Proclamation.
Exactly so. The objection here the court sees clearly is an objection to the president himself, not to the order given. Any Democrat would have gotten by with it.
It’s nice to have a Supreme court that has a fairly decent grip on reality.
The dissent’s reference to Korematsu, however, affords this Court the opportunity to make express what is already obvious: Korematsu was gravely wrong the day it was decided, has been overruled in the court of history, and—to be clear—“has no place in law under the Constitution.” 323 U. S., at 248 (Jackson, J., dissenting).
(emphasis is mine)
Glenn Reynolds also observes the ruling and says:
.Ouch. I believe this is also a formal overruling of Korematsu, since it’s signed by 5 justices. Note that FDR’s action is properly characterized here as racist.
So, not only is their current argument defeated both in court and logically but their icon was taken down a peg too.
About time.
I mean it. Is Maxine Waters totally around the bend?
The answer unfortunately is no, she’s not.
It would be far too easy to label her as such and thereby dismiss her. But I dare to suggest to you that her attacks are well-timed and well-reasoned.
Like so many of the rest of the Democrat Party, including the Press, Maxine Waters is engaged in an advertising campaign, a PR stunt. Such things usually do not hold up well to close examination, but, that doesn’t mean that such campaigns are not effective, particularly when some people want to believe the nonsense. People buy advertising all the time and the reason they do so is because they make money off of it. It works.
There have been lots of calls particularly on social media for her arrest and her public humiliation, being dragged away in irons and so on, but Donald Trump seems to have the right idea, labeling mad Maxine the new face of the Democrat Party.
I believe it would be far more effective to let her continue doing what she’s doing. The Democrats are going to be forced by her continuance to do one of two things. Either shut her up, or Defend her.
Let’s see how that goes over at the midterms, hmmm?
With how many members of the Senate Intelligent Committee did New York Simes whore Ali Watkins sleep, from Daily Caller:
Ali Watkins, currently with The times, faced scrutiny after a Department of Justice investigation revealed that she was having a romantic relationship with Senate Security staffer James Wolfe, a man around 30 years her senior, while she was working at other outlets like BuzzFeed news and Politico.
But Watkins did not limit her romantic entanglements to just one source.
As The Times reported Sunday, Watkins “briefly dated another staff member of the committee.”
As a public service announcement, Bitsblog advise all members and staff of the Senate Intelligence Committee to go a health care agency and get checked for sexually transmitted diseases.
Representative Barbara Lee(CA – 13) thinks we live in some alternative universe:
(Newser) – While US officials scrambled to rectify the migrant-separation policy and heated discussions erupted at the White House, immigration talk heated up the Sunday dial. “It was heart-wrenching. The images that we seen on the media really speak volumes to what’s taking place but when you see it in person it’s horrific,” said Rep Barbara Lee on CNN’s State of the Union after visiting detention facilities in Texas, per the Hill. At one location, she said, there wasn’t enough bedding for people being held. “It’s just tragic. I mean these people are being criminalized.” Others saw a different universe:
Lord knows in what universe Lee resides, but in this universe in the United States, illegal immigration is well illegal.
It occurs to me that the difference between “Masterpiece” and “Red Hen” is that in the latter case, nobody was attempting to use the force of government to enforce their wishes.
Boy I hope so. I certainly don’t want them breeding, either.
Let me take you back in time just a little bit.
Following Judicial Watch’s 2015 report on the 2013 meeting, Senator McCain issued a statement decrying “false reports claiming that his office was somehow involved in IRS targeting of conservative groups.”
So, now comes this:
“Judicial Watch today released newly obtained internal IRS documents, including material revealing that Sen. John McCain’s former staff director and chief counsel on the Senate Homeland Security Permanent Subcommittee, Henry Kerner, urged top IRS officials, including then-director of exempt organizations Lois Lerner, to ‘audit so many that it becomes financially ruinous.’ Kerner was appointed by President Trump as Special Counsel for the United States Office of Special Counsel.”
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So. As Billy Beck noted elsewhere, Lerner was running on McCain’s leash.
I’ve said this before and I will say it again. The one thing that the establishment GOP (and in this I include John McCain) fear more than anything else on the planet… More than losing elections to Democrats, more than Donald Trump, more than anything is actually being conservative. They will fight conservatives tooth and nail. Just like the Democrats. Until such time as you reckon with that fact, none of the rest of this is going to make any sense at all.
And they wonder how somebody like Trump got elected.
I submit to you that the crying little girl on the cover of Time Magazine just recently is an excellent symbol for today’s Democrat Party.
Small people, constantly wailing and crying and carrying on, and in the end, she’s also a fake.
TIME Magazine issued a major correction Friday on a story about the infamous sobbing Honduran toddler Yanela Denise — but insisted that its cover image linking the migrant girl to President Donald Trump’s “zero tolerance” border enforcement policy is still accurate.
So, fake but accurate. Gee, where have we heard this one before?
I’m going to start you with this.
This is a quote from Notre Dame professor and noted theism skeptic, Thomas Nagel..
.“I speak from experience, being strongly subject to this fear myself: I want atheism to be true and am made uneasy by the fact that some of the most intelligent and well-informed people I know are religious believers. It isn’t just that I don’t believe in God and, naturally, hope that I’m right in my belief. It’s that I hope there is no God! I don’t want there to be a God; I don’t want the universe to be like that. My guess is that this cosmic authority problem is not a rare condition and that it is responsible for much of the scientism and reductionism of our time. One of the tendencies it supports is the ludicrous overuse of evolutionary biology to explain everything about human life, including everything about the human mind …. This is a somewhat ridiculous situation …. [I]t is just as irrational to be influenced in one’s beliefs by the hope that God does not exist as by the hope that God does exist.”
Now , understand, please,that I’m not making a religious argument here. However, I think the Nagel quote points to something in human nature that is driving what the left has been doing for some time now… Namely, irrationally denying something they don’t want to be true, but so obviously is true.
It was this irrational denial that Dr. Thomas Sowell was referring to, when he said:
Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
This is fairly well exemplified by a quick look at recent history.
After years of being told by Jimmy Carter that we were never going to see America growing again in influence power and wealth, that those days were behind us, Reagan came along and proved him wrong. He told us our best days were ahead and then demonstrated such.
After 8 years of a disastrous Obama presidency, being told by Barack Hussein Obama that we were never going to see America growing again in influence power and wealth, that those days were behind us, Trump came along and proved them wrong. He told us our best days were ahead and then demonstrated such.
Now, I’m not pointing to these instances to make anyone equal, nor am I suggesting that any one of them was perfect for the presidency. They most certainly were not and are not.
But here’s the thing; It’s not the individuals in question that made the humongous leaps of economic growth and status in the world for the United States, rather it was and is the ideas and the ideals driving them… Believing in big government, or conversely, as Reagan stated flatly believing that government, far from being the solution, is the problem.
The disaster that was the presidencies of Jimmy Carter and Barack Hussein Obama versus the wild success stories of Ronald Reagan and now Donald Trump,… The differences between those, are remarkable in scope, and frankly undeniable in import, if one is rational about it. And these are not the only examples of course, simply the most glaring.
You see, the issue isn’t that there isn’t evidence to be found, there is a small mountain of evidence. the real issue is that it’s difficult to accept. There are, you see, consequences to acceptance of such obvious truth.
Their pride gets damaged, their power diminished and they look like the complete fools that they are. And there’s the rub.
If you accept the obvious fact in these cases, and you’re a leftist, in fact if you are a supporter of the establishment of either party, your entire worldview is rendered invalid. The left’s position being somewhat more obviously wrong but the GOP establishment as well, because of its willingness to compromise with people who are obviously working against our good, is exposed for all to see.
And that my friends, is what they are “resisting”.
You left us when we needed you most. Your incisiveness, your insightful wit and your unwillingness to sugarcoat things. We have had some disagreements with you, but thankfully most of them have been minor. That said, you have earned our respect.
Rest in peace.
The former civil right group turn left wing extortionist, the Southern Poverty Law Center(SPLC) claim to fame was her lawsuit which bankrupted the Klu Klux Klan(KKK). The SPLC has since morphed into what she claims to hate, a group of extreme hatred and bigotry. Now in as the shoe turns department, the SPLC may meet her deserved fate, organizational death, with her own weapon, the civil lawsuit, from Daily Wire:
In a joint statement published Wednesday, dozens of leaders of nonprofits who are banding together for a potential defamation lawsuit against the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) warned that those who rely on and repeat the “misrepresentations” of the left-wing organization are “complicit” in its defamation of American citizens.
“Editors, CEOs, shareholders and consumers alike are on notice: anyone relying upon and repeating its misrepresentations is complicit in the SPLC’s harmful defamation of large numbers of American citizens who, like the undersigned, have been vilified simply for working to protect our country and freedoms,” the leaders wrote.
Granted real hate group exist, Planned Parenthood for example. However it long past time for editors to quit outsources their demagoguery.
The United Nations initially was sold to the American people on the idea that nations of Goodwill could band together and positively influence the cultures of the whole world towards betterment. Toward the best of humanity.
Since then however, it has been beset and overrun by the misguided notion that all cultures are equal… And so as a result of that nonsense, observe your new United Nations Human Rights Commission:
China
Cuba
Iraq
Qatar
Saudi Arabia
Venezuela
Burundi
Bangladesh
United Arab Emirates
It reads like a murderer’s row of human rights abusers, doesn’t it? Worse, there are some of those in the United States who would have us judged by these abusers.
I have some problems with Donald Trump, but the removal of the United States from the UN Human Rights Council is not one of them.
I’ve been saying for a long time now, unapologetically, (and somewhat tongue in cheek) that the interests of World Peace would in fact be well served by dropping a nuke on Turtle Bay. This is a I rather glaring example of why I think that’s the case.
At a minimum the United States should remove itself from the United Nations altogether, remove the United Nations from these United States as well, and stop paying into this farcical organization.
Rick Moore:
Koko the “talking” gorilla has died. I expect that before the day is out some lefty will state that Koko died of a broken heart over Trump’s immigration policy.
I’m dyin, i tell ya
