davidl on September 13th, 2016

Clinton_Hillary_pretty_in_orangevia, Stacy McCain:

[Mrs. B.J.] Clinton said Monday night she’s “met a high standard of transparency” about her health and didn’t think the pneumonia was “going to be that big a deal.”
Clinton said she felt dizzy and lost her balance Sunday, but did not lose consciousness, and is now “feeling so much better.”
“I was supposed to rest five days — that’s what they told me on Friday — and I didn’t follow that very wise advice,” Clinton told CNN’s Anderson Cooper in a phone interview.

So the best excuse the woman formerly known as the Smartest Woman in the World can muster is that she was too stupid to follow her doctor’s advise. Assuming, against all odds, that Mrs. Clinton is telling the truth this one time, what does say about her judgement. The mere fact that she impugns her own judgement, or lack thereof, is in of itself damming.

davidl on September 12th, 2016

In the view of the elite media, the health, or lack thereof same, of Big Thigh, b/k/a Mrs. B.J. Clinton just went from wacko right wing conspiracy to legitimate campaign issue, from the WaPo:

Hillary Clinton falling ill Sunday morning at a memorial service on the 15th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks will catapult questions about her health from the ranks of conservative conspiracy theory to perhaps the central debate in the presidential race over the coming days.

“Secretary Clinton attended the September 11th Commemoration Ceremony for just an hour and thirty minutes this morning to pay her respects and greet some of the families of the fallen,” spokesman Nick Merrill said. “During the ceremony, she felt overheated, so departed to go to her daughter’s apartment and is feeling much better.”

If you examine the linked video, you will see that Mrs. Clinton is being assisted carried  into her van before she does her face plant.   This not a picture of a woman in good health.   The media can no longer sell its lies about Big Thigh’s (rapidly)  failing health.

More video:

If Big Thigh somehow gets elected and survives to January 20,  she will not serve out the day as President,  from the Twenty-Fifth Amendment:

Section 3.

Whenever the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that he is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, and until he transmits to them a written declaration to the contrary, such powers and duties shall be discharged by the Vice President as Acting President.
Section 4.

Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.

The democrats have a history running dying candidates for President.

Eric Florack on September 11th, 2016

?Folks in all honesty, the issue is no longer whether or not Hillary Clinton will be president. The issue is whether or not Tim Kaine will be president.
And guess what? He came running at the top of the ticket wouldn’t be getting nearly the response that Hillary Clinton has.
I’ve been saying all along that Hillary Clinton would eventually eliminate herself in the process. That has all but proven correct. At this point it’s just a matter of time

davidl on September 11th, 2016

Big Thigh, a/k/a Mrs. B.J. Clinton, has called some supporters of Little Finger, a/k/a Donald Trump deplorable.   Who is Bill Clinton’s wife to call anybody deplorable.    Mrs. Clinton is fervid defender of legal infanticide, abortion on demand,  and staunch opponents of secure borders.   Mrs. Clinton has devoted her time in public service protecting her sexual predator husband.   She would rather let in unvetted Muslim immigrants than allow law abiding American to exercise their Second Amendment rights.

But Big Thigh’s passion is using public service to amass private wealth.    Mrs. Clinton a person of modest abilities, and scant achievements,  has an immodest lust for money.    At least Little Donny gouged his money from the private sector.   In contrast Mrs. Clinton has gotten rich feeding off the taxpayer’s money, for which she thinks she deserves a promotion.

 

davidl on September 9th, 2016

Clinton_Hillary(old)Given that the green environmental warriors wackos tell us their theory of, and prescription for, so-called anthropogentic global warming should be regarded as a fact because the science is settled, as a claimed 97% of scientists purported to believe in the theory

Therefore, Mrs. Clinton is too sick to serve as President, because the majority of responding physicians, from PR Newswire:

Hillary’s Health Concerns Serious, Say Most Doctors Polled by the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS)

TUCSON, Ariz., Sept. 8, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Concerns about Hillary Clinton’s health are “serious—could be disqualifying for the position of President of the U.S.,” say nearly 71% of 250 physicians responding to an informal internet survey by the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS). About 20% said concerns were “likely overblown, but should be addressed as by full release of medical records.” Only 2.7% responded that they were “just a political attack; I have confidence in the letter from her physician and see no cause for concern.”

Does anybody dare to dispute the science?

davidl on September 6th, 2016

Phyllis Schlafly the most important woman in American politics of the previous century has died at age ninety-two, from American Power:

Phyllis Schlafly, whose grass-roots campaigns against Communism, abortion and the Equal Rights Amendment galvanized conservatives for almost two generations and helped reshape American politics, died on Monday. She was 92.

[…]

In her time, Mrs. Schlafly was one of the most polarizing figures in American public life, a self-described housewife who displayed a moral ferocity reminiscent of the ax-wielding prohibitionist Carry Nation. Richard Viguerie, who masterminded the use of direct mail to finance right-wing causes, called her “the first lady of the conservative movement.”

Mrs. Schlafly killed the Equal Rights Amendment. By the time she got done the ERA was farther away from ratification than when she started.

davidl on September 5th, 2016

The women running for President of the United States, the Commander-in-Chief, is so incompetent that she would not be qualified to serve as junior level officer in the military.   The woman has no clue on how to handle classified information and is too brain damaged as even remember being trained on it.   I have not held a security clearance since 1989, yet I know more about handing and protecting classified information than does Mrs. Clinton, from Ashe Schow, Observer:

This woman, touted by many in the media and by Democratic politicians like President Barack Obama as the “most qualified” person to ever run for president, thought the “(C)” on her emails—which denotes classified material—referred to… paragraphs marked in alphabetical order. Yes, this allegedly competent woman thought people put paragraphs in alphabetical order and that, for some reason, only the third—or “C”—paragraph needed to be marked.

Clinton also couldn’t give the FBI “an example of how classification of a document was determined,” according to FBI notes. She said she didn’t remember “receiving any emails she thought should not be on an unclassified system.” Oh, and she also could not recall receiving training on how to treat classified material.

I doubt that a single McDonald’s franchisee holder would be willing to hire any person as incompetent as Mrs. Clinton to manage on of their restaurants. Would you?

Eric Florack on September 3rd, 2016

?Billy Beck points up a quote last week…

“In my lifetime, we will see pedophiles protected by law, likely under the Americans With Disabilities Act.”
(Karen DeCoster Campbell)

Says Billy; ” do you doubt it?”

I don’t for several reasons. I’d like to get into a few of them here but first let’s look closely at the historical trend on this kind of thing.

I respond with a quote of my own to Billy.

“We have all had a moment when all of a sudden we looked around and thought: The world is changing, I am seeing it change. This is for me the moment when the new America began: I was at a graduation ceremony at a public high school in New Jersey. It was 1971 or 1972. One by one a stream of black-robed students walked across the stage and received their diplomas. And a pretty young girl with red hair, big under her graduation gown, walked up to receive hers. The auditorium stood up and applauded. I looked at my sister: “She’s going to have a baby.”

The girl was eight months pregnant and had the courage to go through with her pregnancy and take her finals and finish school despite society’s disapproval.

But: Society wasn’t disapproving. It was applauding. Applause is a right and generous response for a young girl with grit and heart. And yet, in the sound of that applause I heard a wall falling, a thousand-year wall, a wall of sanctions that said: We as a society do not approve of teenaged unwed motherhood because it is not good for the child, not good for the mother and not good for us.

The old America had a delicate sense of the difference between the general (“We disapprove”) and the particular (Let’s go help her”). We had the moral self-confidence to sustain the paradox, to sustain the distance between “official” disapproval and “unofficial” succor. The old America would not have applauded the girl in the big graduation gown, but some of its individuals would have helped her not only materially but with some measure of emotional support. We don’t so much anymore. For all our tolerance and talk we don’t show much love to what used to be called girls in trouble. As we’ve gotten more open-minded we’ve gotten more closed-hearted.

Message to society: What you applaud, you encourage. And: Watch out what you celebrate.”
Peg Noonan

The upshot here is this….
As a matter of political discussion and as a matter of trying to find our bearings, we ask ourselves ” At what point did things get out of control?”
Most certainly the answer to that question is not the most recent societal change, the most recent time when we gave up our values our principles, Who We Are.
It is however the first time. Long ago.

And we, some of us, laughed at those who in that long ago time, warned us that this would happen…. that it would steamroll out of control and ruin us in the process.

I dare to suggest you that one of the reasons that we’ve failed so miserably in keeping our definitions of what is wrong, is that we have failed so miserably in keeping our definitions of what is right. And why?
It’s difficult to stand up for what is right… Facing ridicule from those that are wrong. We don’t want to be seen as out of touch or cruel are old fashioned mean, or what have you.

In letting that happen, we let evil in.

It’s now to the point where there is no act, no behavior, that you can’t find some politician, or some professor somewhere to trot out and defend that behavior and say with great passion that the behavior, however vile or criminal and anti societal is perfectly normal and that we shouldn’t judge the people that do it because it’s perfectly normal. One example.

Of course we know very well these days what the result of treating all cultures as equal is. 

But, where did this come from?

Consider G K Chesterton…

But the new rebel is a skeptic, and will not entirely trust anything. He has no loyalty; therefore he can never be really a revolutionist. And the fact that he doubts everything really gets in his way when he wants to denounce anything. For all denunciation implies a moral doctrine of some kind; and the modern revolutionist doubts not only the institution he denounces, but the doctrine by which he denounces it. 

Thus he writes one book complaining that imperial oppression insults the purity of women, and then he writes another book in which he insults it himself.

 He curses the Sultan because Christian girls lose their virginity, and then curses Mrs. Grundy because they keep it. 

As a politician, he will cry out that war is a waste of life, and then, as a philosopher, that all life is waste of time. A Russian pessimist will denounce a policeman for killing a peasant, and then prove by the highest philosophical principles that the peasant ought to have killed himself. A man denounces marriage as a lie, and then denounces aristocratic profligates for treating it as a lie. He calls a flag a bauble, and then blames the oppressors of Poland or Ireland because they take away that bauble. The man of this school goes first to a political meeting, where he complains that savages are treated as if they were beasts; then he takes his hat and umbrella and goes on to a scientific meeting, where he proves that they practically are beasts. In short, the modern revolutionist, being an infinite skeptic, is always engaged in undermining his own mines. In his book on politics he attacks men for trampling on morality; in his book on ethics he attacks morality for trampling on men. Therefore the modern man in revolt has become practically useless for all purposes of revolt. By rebelling against everything he has lost his right to rebel against anything.’ (G.K. Chesterton,Orthodoxy, 1909)

Now, of course Chesterton is talking about the Russian Revolution.. but look closely and you’ll see many Americans doing precisely what he describes here, and unsurprisingly, many of them for the same reasons.

Now, ask yourself will Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump even make a dent in this problem? Because frankly, that’s the biggest problem we face.

davidl on September 2nd, 2016

The process of attaching professor to one’s name,  only indicates an employment status, either current or past, but is no indication of actually subject  mastery, from Watts up with That:

Three professors co-teaching an online course called “Medical Humanities in the Digital Age” at the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs recently told their students via email that man-made climate change is not open for debate, and those who think otherwise have no place in their course.

Reax, from Mr. Watts:

Just look at these people. The class is taught by professors in Genetic engineering, English (with old cooking recipe collections), and Sociology/Social Justice.

This three professor collectively barely reach the Bill Nye level. Professor Haggren’s specially is genetic engineering in yeast. Professor Laroche is an English professor and Professor Skahill is sociology professor.

Whereas Steven Crowder is but a comedian, but he brings more facts to bear than the three professors, and unlike the ladies is not looking to shut down any who might disagree with him, video:

Comedian 3, lady professors from University of Colorado 0.

davidl on September 1st, 2016

Little Finger, a/k/a Little Donny, b/k/a Donald Trump went to Mexico, in somewhat of a surprise Little Finger did not stub is big toe, from Red State:

[Trump] stood, podium beside podium with a world leader. Indeed, a world leader with whom Trump has been at odds, in a country that he has roundly attacked and said was not America’s friend. He stood beside him as they each gave measured statements. Trump talked about his deep affection for Mexico, for Mexican Americans, and for President Nieto. It was, in the small, diplomatic. For Trump, on the Trump grading curve, it was almost presidential.

It is not quite a Neal Armstrong sized step, but for Little Donny, all steps, forward, are big steps. And unlike Big Thigh, b/k/a Mrs. B.J. Clinton, at least Donny can walk.

Eric Florack on August 31st, 2016

?Elsewhere….
Buddy, I’ve got a real news flash for you. Did you notice Mitch McConnell celebrating on the floor of the convention because his entire State delegation went all in for Trump?
Have you noticed how as serially Trump flip flops on his positions they start looking more like what Jeb Bush originally proposed when the establishment was backing him?
I’ll tell you what happened. The GOP establishment is now breathing a sigh of relief because they managed to sidestep conservatism and conservatives again. They used Donald Trump as a foil against conservatives. Now that he’s got the nomination the real deal is coming out and it’s looking more and more like the establishment.
Donald Trump is the establishment. He is the establishment candidate. The one we warned you about.

davidl on August 30th, 2016

The Reverend Jesse Jackson, a house nigger for the democrat black plantation, does not want black voters to vote for Little Finger, a/k/a Little Donny, b/k/a Donald Trump, and Jackson so state in the Chicago Sun-Times:

Trump’s personal history of racial bigotry includes a federal housing discrimination lawsuit; an ad calling for the death penalty of innocent young black males in the Central Park Five rape case; an attempt to discredit Obama’s presidency with the “birther” issue;

From Telegraph(UK):

It was not until April 2008, at the height of the intensely bitter Democratic presidential primary process, that the touch paper was properly lit.

An anonymous email circulated by supporters of Mrs Clinton, Mr Obama’s main rival for the party’s nomination, thrust a new allegation into the national spotlight — that he had not been born in Hawaii

Birther theory thy mother is Mrs. Clinton:

innuendo suggesting Obama became editor of Harvard’s Law Review because of his race; a campaign demanding Obama’s educational transcripts, implying his admission to colleges rested on something other than intellectual merit;

Barack Obama’s supposed intellectual acumen is an urban myth with no evidence to suggest otherwise.

complaints that a judge was unable to treat him fairly in court because of his Hispanic heritage; and promoting false and stereotypical information about the black community.

What do blacks have to lose by electing Trump? He will appoint Supreme Court justices who do not support black interests.

Supporting black interests would involve ending the Obama and Clinton open door immigration policy which flooding black cities, like Chicago, with Mexican drug gangs.

He will support racially discriminatory voting laws like North Carolina’s. He will not fix the damage done by the Shelby court decision to the Voting Rights Act. And he will not support a $15 minimum wage.

How is raising the minimum wage going increase demand for black employees? The minimum wage is a job killer, and black unemployment is already too high.

?I keep hearing that the difference between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton is that Donald Trump says bad things and Hillary Clinton does them.

What that little campaign slogan doesn’t say is that there’s a reason for that. As yet Donald Trump hasn’t had the power of government behind him. In fact,  that’s the only difference between them. Is there anybody that seriously imagines is that what comes out of Donald’s mouth won’t come out of his pen once he has the power of government in his hands?

The power of government can corrupt the most straight-laced individual on Earth, the ones most dedicated to the proposition that our Founders put forth.

Putting people into positions of power that don’t share those views and in Trump’s case clearly don’t understand those views is equally dangerous to putting somebody into office that we know is under criminal influence an investigation.

That’s what we’re facing here.

davidl on August 28th, 2016

Social Justice Warriors need to get over their delusions that everybody else should echo their particular preferences, from Nina Revoyr, Los Angeles Times:

Last month, two friends and I backpacked for a week in the Sierra Nevada. We hiked through meadows dotted with wildflowers, slept beneath snow-draped peaks and met plenty of other hikers: the dad and son whose Green Bay Packers caps sparked a conversation about our mutual ties to Wisconsin; scientists from UC Santa Cruz studying flowers and rock formations; five recent college grads from Kentucky who were hiking the John Muir Trail before they scattered to begin their adult lives.

[…]

This near-total absence of people of color — which I’ve noticed on past trips as well — was particularly striking because it was such a contrast to my everyday life. I live and work in Los Angeles. The majority of people in my working life are Latino, African American or Asian, and the people in my personal life, including my Mexican American spouse, are reflective of the city’s population. And yet, a few hours’ drive from Los Angeles, there was hardly a person of color to be found. We were on public lands — including Kings Canyon National Park — but the people enjoying them weren’t representative of the public.

Racism is making assumptions based on race. Nina Revoyr is a racist. She assumes that as persons of pallor like to hike therefore so should persons of color. Revoyr should look closer to her home for answers. I live outside, just barely, Rochester, NY, a city with a significant population of color and oh by the way, a mayor of color.

You can have a diverse population in the same park, but they are not engaged in the same activities. Hiking it helps to be exposed to, but if is not in your nature to hike you won’t. I hike with plenty of grandparents you expose their grandchildren to hiking but fail to get them interesting in the activity.

I see plenty of blacks, especially in our more urban parks, but I see very few on the hiking trails. I take as an indication that while blacks are perfectly willing to do to particular park, they not inclined to go for a hike.

Revoyr should not take his a sign of some nefarious oppression but rather as evidence that free people are free do make their own choices, even if Revoyr doesn’t particularly care for them.

Eric Florack on August 26th, 2016

I’ve been asked several times now by Trump supporters why I’m spending so much time attacking Donald Trump and not so much time attacking Hillary Clinton.
There are two answers to this, both of which are very relevant. 
The first being there’s no person in this country who does not understand the depth of the charges against Hillary Clinton. I know she is evil, we ALL know.. Constantly preaching about that isn’t going to move the meter at all. Her supporters simply don’t care. Preaching to me about how evil Hillary Clinton is, isn’t going to sell me on anything. Isn’t going to tell anybody else either.
The second part is a little more direct.

Because for all of her lying, at least she’s not falsely claiming to be representing the conservative Viewpoint as Donald Trump is.