You know, I can’t help but Wonder, Ben, if the reason Al Jazeera signed off was because given what laughingly passes for mainstream media in this country, it wasn’t a duplication
Restrooms have traditionally been segregated by sex, to wit men’s rooms and women’s rooms. Public restrooms are either designed for males or females. Hint, men’s rooms have urinals. Further, sex is an immutable god given trait We were conceived as either a male or female and will die as such.
The idea that we can freely choose or change our sex, like changing a pair of socks, is pure rubbish. Curt Schilling dared to offend the speech police by making the common sense suggestion that me not be permitted to use the women’s room, image:
Is this the type of person whom you feel should be sharing a girl’s room with your daughter?
Reax, Right Wing News:
Transsexuals are of course sacred to liberals, who regard it as so intolerable that anyone would not encourage male deviants to use private facilities intended for women and girls that many musicians who are past their prime and struggling to regain relevance (Bruce Springsteen, Ringo Starr, Pearl Jam, Bryan Adams) noisily refuse to perform in states like North Carolina where this is not allowed
Yet is the left which accuses conservatives of waging a War on Women?
You let your country down. I will not forget.
That is all
Let’s Ponder this one for a minute. Donald Trump, according to the reports I’m seeing this morning got something like five hundred thousand votes in New York City. Wheres, Hillary Clinton got over a million. Think….Bad as she is she got over twice the number of Voters.
Will someone please explain to me how in the name of Sanity anyone expect Donald Trump to win in the general over Hilary Clinton?
If Donald Trump wasn’t running for president himself, what candidate would he be supporting, do you suppose?
If history is any guide, he’d be supporting the leading candidate from both the Democrat and Republican parties.
Ponder the implications.
I’ll let this internal Memo from the Trump campaign explain to you what this is all about
So much for making sure that all votes count
The Snark of the Day, Donald Trump:
“I wrote this out, and it’s very close to my heart,” he said at a rally in Buffalo on Monday night. “Because I was down there and I watched our police and our firemen down at 7-11, down at the World Trade Center right after it came down.”
Hat tip: Dan Spencer, Red State.
Will this be the day they stop picking on Donald?
Me, elsewhere….
If the truth is insulting, maybe the problem isn’t the truth teller.
But let’s examine these New York values were talking about? Are these values the same that caused New Yorkers to elect Hillary Clinton and Chuckles the Clown Schumer consistently? The cause them to elect the Socialist mayor Bill de Blasio? That caused them to vote overwhelmingly Democrat in every election since Reagan? Yes, I believe we are. Any more dumb statements you’d like to add?
There’s an awful lot being made just now reports that Donald Trump is doing very well in New York Pennsylvania and California.
( Leaving aside the fact that the majority of the reports that I’m seeing coming out of those states show Trump at less than 50%.)
But, let’s try a little thought experiment, you and I.
Here goes….Why would Donald Trump be doing extraordinarily well in the traditionally liberal stronghold of New York Pennsylvania and California?
Seems to me that what we’re looking at is a tacit admission that Donald Trump is not a conservative, hmmm?
Edit: side note to David. Noticed your addendum and liked it. Not quite sure why it disappeared though I suspect it’s because I forgot to refresh my database on this end. My apologies
Words of wisdom from Hips to Big to Fail, New York Daily News:
Gun violence and killings by police are “part of the same threat” that faces young African-Americans, Hillary Clinton told a congregation in Westchester Sunday.
“Guns are not the answer to anything,” Clinton said while stumping at Grace Baptist Church in Mt. Vernon. “They are the answer to nothing except pain and heartbreak and ruined lives.”
Clinton has made a group of mothers whose children were killed by gun violence or in police custody a core part of her campaign, and was joined by three of them Sunday.
No word yet on when, or if, Mrs. Clinton plans to give up her armed Secret Service protection.
It is silly world in which we live. New York State co-ed asks the Mummy, John Kasich, how to avoid sexual assault. Kasich tells her, in part, to obey the law. Social Justice Warrior fit to tied. video. Note the co-ed was circa eighteen. The legal drinking age in the Empire State is twenty-one. Evidently the idea of minor women staying sober and not getting sexually assaulted offends social justice warriors.
Comrade Bernie
Team Bernie is not happy with the T-Shirt and related merchandise.
The idea of private property anti-revolutionary, capitalist. It is the collective Bernie. Practice what you preach.
Playing the trump card on Donald, from
Leon H. Wolf, Red State:
The only problem is that it requires Trump supporters to remember way back, back to the days before the primordial ooze was formed, six whole months ago, which is farther back than any Trump supporter can recall at all. At the time, Trump was being pressed gently about two facts: 1) that his companies tended to go habitually bankrupt, leaving his creditors in the lurch and 2) that he once attempted to use eminent domain to screw an old woman out of her home so he could build a limousine parking lot for one of his casinos.
Trump’s response to these undoubtedly true charges was “I took advantage of the laws of this country and did what any businessman would have done.” There was no justification offered for why these actions were right or fair; they were legal and they helped Trump get ahead, so his minions actually used them as evidence that Trump was a brilliant business man possessed of great foresight.
Now comes Ted Cruz, and he is showing Donald Trump how ruthless calculation is done.
When Trump screws investors he calls himself a smart business man. When Ted Cruz reads, understands, and uses the political system, Donald complains the system is rigged. No Donny, the system isn’t rigger. You are lazy.
I don’t know about you guys but I’m getting damn tired watching drug prostitute himself and his organization for the Donald.
Earlier I compared Donald Trump to Phineas Taylor Barnum. My analogy was in error. P.T. Barnum at least knew how to run a circus. A better comparison to Trump might be Jesse Ventura who run for Governor of Minnesota as a joke but won and got stuck in office.
The Trump campaign is stuck on stupid, video:
Hat tip: Sara Gonzales, Red State.
Mean while back in the land of the sane, Ted Cruz is making reasonable sounding comparisons, video:
Cruz may not ooze charm, but he is both polite and reasonable. That would put him two up on Dim Won.
Over at National Review online, Rich Lowry puts together is good analysis of what’s happening on the ground as I have seen yet:
Maybe the Trump campaign will radically improve its delegate-selection game or perhaps Cruz hurts himself in some fundamental way in coming weeks, but barring those things or some unforeseen event, it is going to be a Cruz-friendly crowd on the floor of the Republican convention in July. It is a mistake to think of delegates as insiders as we usually think of the term. Yes, some of them are state party officials, but many more of them are activists. Very few of them will be naturally inclined to share the hostility to Cruz of Washington and certain parts of the donor class. On top of this, the Cruz campaign is out there doing all it can to make sure supporters are selected as delegates. This is why if Trump is a good distance away from 1,237 — say, short 50 delegates or more (100 would be safer) — you have to favor Cruz at a convention.
The indications I’m seeing now suggests it isn’t even going to be that close. For all of this whining and carrying on that the Trumpkins are treating us to about how they’re going to shove Romney or John Kasich, Jeb or somebody down our throats again, the fact of the matter is there’s no way that’s going to happen. Slow the GOP maybe, but it’s not suicidal.
And before you start in about how NR is the house organ for the GOP, and that Rich is swinging the bat for Ted Cruz, let me set you straight. The GOP establishment is scared to death of Ted Cruz and rightly so. Moreover, Rich Lowry the last I looked was no major fan of Ted Cruz, either.
Ted Cruz will be the nominee.
Statement of the regime’s Secretary of State, from Reuters:
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Monday called his visit to a memorial to victims of the 1945 U.S. nuclear attack on Hiroshima “gut-wrenching” and said it was a reminder of the need to pursue a world free of nuclear weapons.
The first U.S. secretary of state to visit Hiroshima, Kerry said President Barack Obama also wanted to travel to the city in southern Japan but he did not know whether the leader’s complex schedule would allow him to do so when he visits the country for a Group of Seven (G7) summit in May.
I am sure that had Forbes Kerry been President in 1945 he would have agonized over a decision to end the war started by by Empire of Japan with a minimum loss of American and Japanese lives. Fortunately for me, President Truman was made of sterner stuff.
Statement of President Harry S. Truman, 6 August 1945, from PBS:
Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima and destroyed its usefulness to the enemy. That bomb had more power than 20,000 tons of TNT. It had more than two thousand times the blast power of the British “Grand Slam” which is the largest bomb ever yet used in the history of warfare.
The Japanese began the war from the air at Pearl Harbor. They have been repaid many fold. And the end is not yet. With this bomb we have now added a new and revolutionary increase in destruction to supplement the growing power of our armed forces. In their present form these bombs are now in production and even more powerful forms are in development.
[…]
The United States had available the large number of scientists of distinction in the many needed areas of knowledge. It had the tremendous industrial and financial resources necessary for the project and they could be devoted to it without undue impairment of other vital war work. In the United States the laboratory work and the production plants, on which a substantial start had already been made, would be out of reach of enemy bombing, while at that time Britain was exposed to constant air attack and was still threatened with the possibility of invasion. For these reasons Prime Minister Churchill and President Roosevelt agreed that it was wise to carry on the project here. We now have two great plants and many lesser works devoted to the production of atomic power. Employment during peak construction numbered 125,000 and over 65,000 individuals are even now engaged in operating the plants. Many have worked there for two and a half years. Few know what they have been producing. They see great quantities of material going in and they see nothing coming out of these plants, for the physical size of the explosive charge is exceedingly small. We have spent two billion dollars on the greatest scientific gamble in history — and won.
[…]
We are now prepared to obliterate more rapidly and completely every productive enterprise the Japanese have above ground in any city. We shall destroy their docks, their factories, and their communications. Let there be no mistake; we shall completely destroy Japan’s power to make war.
It was to spare the Japanese people from utter destruction that the ultimatum of July 26 was issued at Potsdam. Their leaders promptly rejected that ultimatum. If they do not now accept our terms they may expect a rain of ruin from the air, the like of which has never been seen on this earth. Behind this air attack will follow sea and land forces in such number that and power as they have not yet seen and with the fighting skill of which they are already well aware.
If Harry harbored any doubts and lost any sleep over the atomic raids on Hiroshima and later Nagasaki, he sure did not convey them. Possibly because of President Truman’s action to end the Japanese war of aggression, I am here. Had Harry gone the route preferred by Forbes Kerry, I might well not be here.
