The sorry state of the democrats is that their political-media establishment has now been forced to pass the Village Idiot, a/k/a Vice President Joe Biden as honest. What next? Will they try to pass Joe off as smart? Unlike Mrs. Clinton, Biden can express open candor, without a script, video:
Sadly for presidential wannabe Biden, the person at the other end of the phone for that infamous Three in the Morning phone call will not te a sycophant ala Stephen Colbert.\
Hat tip: Ed Morrissey, Hot Air.
We have been telling you for years, from Christopher Massie,
Buzz Feed
While defending Kentucky Clerk Kim Davis’s refusal to issue marriage licenses out of her religious opposition to same-sex marriage, Mike Huckabee said Wednesday that the Supreme Court’s 1857 ruling in Dred Scott v. Sandford — which held that all blacks, free or enslaved, could not be American citizens — is still the law of the land even though no one follows it.
Radio host Michael Medved quickly pointed out to the former governor of Arkansas that the decision was overturned by the 13th Amendment. (Although the 13th Amendment ended slavery, the birthright citizenship clause in the 14th Amendment overturned the Dred Scott decision.)
They make em dumb in Arkansas.
We all know the Kim Davis is being held in contempt of court charges. But that’s not the real reason that she’s being held in jail without bail, is it? Al Capone was convicted not on his gangster activities but on tax evasion charges. Does anybody really suppose that was why he died in jail?
I mean really. What is so blessedly important about this woman’s action? They’re holding her without bail. Even murderers get bail.
What we’re dealing with here is the criminalization of Christianity in action. Remember, we’re talking about the party currently infesting the White House being the party that booed God during the last presidential cycle at their convention. Remember that one?
All this is about is the left rebelling against Christianity. Nothing more than that. Not rebelling against religion in general, but Christianity. If it were religion in general, theyd be rebelling against Islam as well, and they are not. Rather we have the left openly welcoming Shariah law. Until such time as you get your arms around that, none of the rest of this is going to make sense.
And no, I’m not kidding here. Ponder this question ….What kind of reaction would we see were Kim Davis a Muslim? Would they be hauled off to jail?
I was curious to see if anybody else that addressed that question, so I went wadeing through maybe a gigabyte worth of data with the search engine to come up with one, and here’s a piece of it...
The answer, to reasonably aware people, is no, of course not. No lawyer would want the optics of sending a Muslim woman to jail for her religious beliefs. No gay couple would want that tied to their names in the media. The couple would have quietly found a different county to issue them a license (though that may be getting harder within Kentucky, as another county clerk is also refusing to issue licenses). Steven Crowder showed that Muslim bakeries were refusing to provide cakes for gay weddings. And yet we don’t see the ACLU rushing to condemn them and sue them the way they have pontificated against Kim Davis. Hmmm, I wonder why that is?
The truth is that in this day and age, the heckler’s veto has become self-imposed. Those who wish to look “tolerant” and “progressive” would never single out a group that they perceive to be “oppressed” – or has a radical contingent that believes in throwing gay people off buildings or stoning them to death. After all, when was the last time a Christian group in America stoned anyone to death? But we’ve already seen beheadings by Muslims in the United States. No gay couple would dare to challenge a Muslim clerk and have her thrown in jail for contempt – because they would always fear who might come out in support of that clerk. In contrast, the gay couple has no issue with pressing contempt charges against the Christian clerk, because they have no fear of her family or her supporters. And then Muslims who have issues with the duties in their jobs – serving or transporting alcohol, for example – are to be given “special” consideration.
Welcome to America in 2015, where the morals and legal responsibilities of Christians can be challenged in court, all because their detractors know that they are too civilized to use violence. Soft bigotry of low expectations, indeed.
It’s an interesting point. Christians are far easier target. In much the same way that rich women in furs are more often robbed than motorcycle gangs in leathers are. The robber is much more likely to survive the former than the latter.
As for the claim that Kim Davis was denying taxpayers services they have the legal right to, let’s ponder for a moment the specter of Lois Lerners IRS denying conservative groups tax exempt status, shall we? The woman still out walking around, free as a bird, getting or government pension. And Kim Davis is in jail without bail.
Unlike the IRS, what would prevent somebody from driving literally about 15 miles up the road to the next County, to get a certificate? This is not about denial of service, this is about forced acceptance.
And who among us didn’t roll our eyes watching the comical spectacle of the White House press secretary saying that nobody has the right to break our laws?
Leaving aside the fact that this is the most corrupt administration in history, including the IRS scandal, the use of the EPA for illegal power grabs, etc,, we’re not even talking about forced acceptance of the law. What we’re talking about is forced acceptance of a court order in support of homosexual marriage which is something to this day that still doesn’t have enough support to make it past a referendum.
Every time the question of homosexual marriage has come up in the legislative process, particularly by way of voting, it’s been turned down in massive numbers. Overwhelming. So this isn’t a case of the will of the people being forwarded, but the will of a few activist judges, and a White House that hates America.
The question before it is when one is employed by the government, does one lose their 1st Amendment rights? The answer the judge came to might be legal, but is it right?
Lets be very careful about insisting that there is no higher power than government , particularly where individual rights are concerned. You may get your wish. Never forget, my friends, that every despot in history from Hitler on down had the force of law and government on their side. Everything they did was legal.
All that said, it does appear that’s the case that will be brought by Davis’s lawyers is not without merit. All is not lost.
It does appear to me that Kim Davis has legal ground to stand on here… specifically within the Religious Freedom Restoration Act that Kentucky and about 20 other states signed onto. Eugene Volokh looks at this, in The Washington Post the other day. As usual with Eugene, his article doesn’t clip cleanly, because of the complexity of the issues he covers. But I advise you’re reading it.
To all three Dan Rather fans, aside from Robert Redford, Dingbat Dan is not gone. Rather Dingbat has adopted a Spanish accent and taken the persona of one Jorge Ramos, from Ruben Navarrette Jr., Daily Beast:
That’s where Ramos—rather than submit to peer review—portrays himself as the only real journalist left in North America who isn’t afraid to speak truth to power. It’s where, instead of apologizing for breaking the rules, he insists that all journalists should break the rules more often. It’s where Ramos, in effect, demands amnesty for himself by arguing that he committed no sin.
Ramos and Rather share an over inflated ego, the idea that their personal opinion is synonymous for fact, and their right to speak supersedes all others. Ramos is still a Mexican citizen. He can legally return, and take Rather with him.
Kim Davis, Gavin Newsome, Baraack Obama and Mrs. Clinton has a couple of things in common. One, they are all elecrted democrats. Two they are all criminals. The first three openly admit to breaking the law. Mrs. Clinton pleads she too stupid to understand the law. Yet of these four aforementioned criminals, only Davis is in jail. Davis’ apparent mistake of openly invoking the name of the Christian God. Whereas, Newsome and Obama pleaded loyalty to some higher, secular god. As for Mrs. Clinton she denied she had an obligation to protect classified information. Enough said. From Sean Davis, Federalist:
Davis’s arrest was met with cheers by same-sex marriage advocates who for some reason did not demand imprisonment of officials who lawlessly issued gay marriage licenses in clear contravention of state and federal laws. Take, for example, Democrat Gavin Newsom, who is currently the California lieutenant governor. Back in 2004, when gay marriage was banned under California state law, Newsom openly defied the law and used his power as the mayor of San Francisco to force taxpayer-funded government clerks to issue gay marriage licenses:
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Just like Kim Davis, who is an elected Democrat, Newsom justified his lawlessness by citing his own conscience and beliefs about right and wrong rather than deferring to the actual laws of his state.
Open defiance of public laws is only permitted for social justice causes, and not Christian causes. Maybe Davis should just convert to Islam, and became a member of politically protected group. Democrats in high level office are free to choose which laws to obey. Low life clingers to the Bible has to accede to the wisdom and guidance of their betters.
Read slowly, if you must, Mrs Clinton takes a Clinton crony, Bryan Pagliano, and puts on the public payroll to manage her supposed private email server. When Mrs. Clinton resigns, Paglaino goes back on the Clinton family payroll, from Daily Caller:
The State Department IT worker who managed Hillary Clinton’s private email server while she was secretary of state will plead the Fifth Amendment if called to testify about his work on the Democratic presidential candidate’s mysterious email setup, his attorney informed the House Select Committee on Benghazi this week.
The committee subpoenaed Bryan Pagliano on Aug. 11, according to The Washington Post. In addition to testifying on Sept. 10, committee chairman Trey Gowdy asked Pagliano to produce documents related to the servers he managed on behalf of Clinton.
Evidently, the woman formerly known as the Smartest Woman in the World, never studied conflict of interest while she was a Yale Law School. So why did Mrs. Clinton feel it was necessary to insert her political operative in the State Department technological support staff? I assert it was done by Mrs. Clinton to facilitate the removal of classified information, for Mrs. Clinton’s personal convenience. What say you?
Here’s a bit of George Will from the archives
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But Reagan is 63, and looks it. His hair is still remarkably free of gray, but around the mouth and neck he looks like an old man. He’s never demonstrated substantial national appeal. His hardcore support today consists primarily of the kamikaze conservatives who thought the 1964 Goldwater campaign was jolly fun. And there’s a reason to doubt that Reagan is well suited to appeal to the electorate that just produced a democratic landslide. If a Reagan third party would just lead the “Nixon was lynched” crowd away from the Republican party, and into outer darkness where there is a wailing and gnashing of teeth, it might be at worst a mixed course for the Republican party. It would cost the party some support, but it would make the party seem cleansed.”
So said George Will during the 79 80 election cycle.
Now, please understand before we go any further. This post is not specifically about George Will, but about a line of thinking that he represents here, and it’s one he apparently has never recanted. His insistence in the 76 cycle for Gerald Ford to be the nominee, and his insipid in objections to Reagan’s campaign even then, are of an exact match with his current objection to anyone who dares be conservative. And understand, I do not consider any of the establishment GOP to be of the right.
And yes, we’re talking about his whining about Donald Trump.
Do I consider Donald Trump to be the next Ronald Reagan? No.
That said, I can’t help but notice that his comments as regards Trump and for that matter to a lesser degree Ted Cruz and so on are so close to match to his rhetoric during the 1980 cycle that one could easily substitute one for the other with a simple change of names and dates. Does anyone really suppose, that assuming Trump is moved out Of The Way by some event, that Will wouldn’t be breaking out his poison pen to use against the new non establishment frontrunner?
The fear that Will shows us when he mentions the 64 cycle and Goldwater, is a cancer among the GOP leadership, that has long since metastasized. Despite being shown that their fears are unfounded and being shown a specific path to victory, and an overwhelming victory at that, the GOP establishment is so wrapped up in its fears, that it refuses to actually be conservative. So deeply rooted are those fears, that it’s my belief that even assuming somebody like a Cruz is elected and ends up being a wildly successful president from a conservative point of view, those fears will never be put to rest.
If Reagan and his successes did not teach the GOP establishment the truth of the matter, simply repeating those successes under another name isn’t going to teach them either. Remember, gang, the GOP establishment wasn’t too happy about Reagan back in the day either. That’s how we ended up with Bush for a vice president. The leadership felt the ticket needed what they called balance. They thought Reagan was…. sing along together children…., “too conservative”.
So long as people like John Boehner and Mitch McConnell are running the show, the lesson will never be learned institutionally speaking.
To try and explain this, I’m going to draw a parallel from the Christian world, that I hope will give you a framework to understand my thought here. It has long been observed by Christian scholars that there is a large delta between Christian doctrine and Christian tradition. So steeped in that tradition are many people that when it’s pointed out that that tradition runs directly afoul of Christian doctrine, and specifically the Bible, the tradition still thrives. It’s by far the easier path to lean on tradition then it is to actually examine the Bible to find the actual doctrine.
Alas, so it is with me GOP leadership. The rank and file of the GOP is by far more conservative than the leadership is, and has a better idea of what we are supposed to be about. The leadership is so wrapped up in its fearful traditions, that it stands no chance whatsoever to fight for the values they claim to support. Which, in turn, is how we end up with the John McCains the Mitt Romney’s and the Jeb Bush’s of the world. And how it is that we have a huge number of the of the rank and file sitting on their hands during every election cycle.
One can easily understand why the conservative gets disrespected by the GOP leadership. After all, they are being asked by the tenants of the conservatism to reject the use of the power that they have in their hands to “effect change”. It doesn’t take too many years for somebody with power in their hands to start seeing it as a good thing as opposed to the evil that needs to be controlled as the founders saw it. I suggest that this is precisely why the founders never foresaw the terror of multi-decade “service” in government. Do you know, that if there was a 12 year limit on service in Congress for example, was that over a half of the congressman and senators would have to go find themselves a real job?
Clearly the intent of the founders was to make sure that people coming into both houses of Congress would not be there long enough to become infected by the love of power. By the love of government power.
There’s something else, here too. The GOP establishment is deathly afraid of being seen as conservative, because they’re still shooting at the political center. Well, children, the political center is a myth. It does not exist in this country. Never has.
Consider the liberal reaction also to George W Bush, whom they compared to Adolf Hitler. And Bush wasn’t a conservative. Neither was his old man. Both of them wear at best centrists. Trust me when I tell you, that the left isn’t going to like this any less if we actually stand up for our beliefs.
Which brings me to my final point for this lesson. There’s a reason they don’t stand up for our beliefs, the leadership. It’s because they don’t believe in them. I’ll say this again, the GOP leadership needs to be replaced immediately.
We are now seeing indications that the GOP rank and file has had enough and is about to go nuclear on the leadership. 15 years ago I argued against such an eventuality. Its to the point now where I’m actually looking forward to it because I see it as the only way to save the GOP.
It goes without saying that the best way to end talk of yet more gun control is to ask the hoplophobes, hello Geraldo Rivera, to give up their guns, video:
Nobody ever accused Rivera of either being very smart or basically honest. For example, Rivera admits that his loudly proclaimed eighty-five thousand guns death since Sandyhook, include more suicides than homicides Look, Geraldo suicide is a choice, not a problem If you don’t like suicide, don’t commit it. Now shut up.
More guns in the hands of law abiding citizens means less crime, from Breitbart
The NRA tweeted, “Since ’91, Americans have acquired over 170 million new firearms and violent crimes have declined by 51%.”
This information squares with the findings of a Congressional Research Service (CRS) study covering the slightly shorter period of time from 1994 to 2009. For those years, CRS found that Americans purchased approximately 118 million firearms, and the 1993 “firearm-related murder and non-negligent homicide” rate of 6.6 per 100,000 fell to 3.6 per 100,000 by the year 2000. It eventually fell all the way to 3.2 per 100,000 in 2011.
That is more than a 50 percent reduction in “firearm-related murder and non-negligent homicide.”
The only good gun control is the ability to hit at what you aim.
The Snark of the Day, from Deborah C. Tyler:
Unless you are referring to pronouns, never use the word “gender.” It is a harmful humanist hoax. There is no such thing as gender discrimination, only sex discrimination. If your tax dollars are going to support gender studies, you are being fleeced.
Hat tip: American Thinker
From the Department of Self-Congratulation, Nanny State advocate concludes Nanny State is good, from Fox News:
Regulating fast food kids’ meals that include toys may end up making the meals healthier, according to a new study.
If a proposed new policy in New York City is approved, then fast food meals that come with toys would contain fewer calories overall, and fewer from fat and sodium, researchers report.
“We can create policies that will nudge us toward healthier behaviors,” said senior author Marie Bragg, of NYU Langone Medical Center in New York.
The proposed policy, which was introduced to the New York City Council, says fast food meals that come with a small toy must include a serving of fruit, vegetable or whole grain. The law would also limit meals with toys to no more than 500 calories, and it would place additional restrictions on fat and salt.
Mind you, everything the government has told you about food has been shown to be wrong. But damn the facts, and full speed ahead with yet more government regulation.
I doubt that Mrs. Clinton has any memory surfing the ‘Net and engaging in an on-line discussion. For if such knowledge still resided in her brain cells, she would have never made such an amateur mistake, from Urban Dictionary, Godwin’s Law:
A term that originated on Usenet, Godwin’s Law states that as an online argument grows longer and more heated, it becomes increasingly likely that somebody will bring up Adolf Hitler or the Nazis. When such an event occurs, the person guilty of invoking Godwin’s Law has effectively forfieted the argument
From Daily Mail(UK}
And, she [Mrs. Clinton] said, continuing, ‘I find it the height of irony that a party which espouses small government, would want to unleash a massive law enforcement effort, including perhaps, national guard and others, to go and literally pull people out of their homes and their work places, round them up, put them in, I don’t know, buses, boxcars, in order to take them across our border.’
Master Gonzalez, then age six, was in our country legally and protected by court order, yet Clinton administration jack-booted thugs kidnapped Gonzalez at gun point in order send him back to Fidel Castro’s Cuba. No one was ever prosecuted for the Gonzalez kidnapping.
Hat tip and BSWK, Kate, Small Dead Animals.
Lucky for what these estimated eleven million wetbacks, Mrs. Clinton only appears interested in arresting legal immigrants.
Note to Mrs. Clinton, removing some eleven million illegal aliens and sending back to their homes in Mexico, or where ever, is not analogous to yanking over six million Jews from their home to send the to death camps. At least not in the mind of a sane person.
Maybe in her younger days, before all her brain trauma, Mrs. Clinton was smart enough to distinguish real terrorism from opposition to her particular political agenda. Yet I digress,for even if Mrs. Clinton once could, she is no longer capable, from Buzz Feed:
During a speech in Cleveland Thursday, Hillary Clinton compared her Republican challengers’ views on women to those of terrorist groups.
“Marco Rubio brags about wanting to deny victims of rape and incest access to health care, to abortion. Jeb Bush says Planned Parenthood shouldn’t get a penny. Your governor right here in Ohio banned state funding for some rape crisis centers because they sometimes refer women to other health facilities that do provide abortions,” Clinton said.
“I would like these Republican candidates to look a mom in the eye who caught her breast cancer early because she was able to get a screening for cancer. Or the teenager who didn’t get pregnant because she had access to contraception. Or anyone who’s ever been protected by an HIV test.
Mean while back in the real world, from Daily Mail(UK)
ISIS executes 19 girls for refusing to have sex with fighters as UN envoy reveals how sex slaves are ‘peddled like barrels of petrol’
The women refused to practice ‘sexual jihad’, a Kurdish official has claimed
He also claimed money, distribution of women has created a rift within ISIS
ISIS published ‘price list’ of captured Yazidi, Christian sex slaves last year
UN envoy verified the document as genuine after spending time in region
The same woman who gave us the Cold War Redux, with her inane reset button, now fancies herself as capable of leading the Free World. Spare me.
Ran this one by Billy at his place a short while ago..,
Billy, I’m still chewing on the comments you made what, almost two weeks ago now? …. about the Planned Parenthood tapes, and with the additional tapes that are now out, there was a quote that popped into my mind that I couldn’t quite identify.
I’m sure you know how it is, you get a little snippet going, and for some reason can’t seem to make the rest of it in your memory.
Understand, that the search for this quote was being driven by the need to describe what we see in those videos as simply one more attempt at dehumanization have a certain class of human being. We’ve seen it several times in the past, & I believe I posted a graphic that describes that.
The quote comes from Viktor Frankl, he a death camp survivor. Says Frankl…
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The gas chambers of Auschwitz were the ultimate consequence of the theory that man is nothing but the product of heredity and environment–or, as the Nazi liked to say, of ‘Blood and Soil.’ I am absolutely convinced that the gas chambers of Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Maidanek were ultimately prepared not in some Ministry or other in Berlin, but rather at the desks and in the lecture halls of nihilistic scientists and philosophers.”
What about that quote cannot be applied directly to what we are now witness to in those videos?
I totally understand that these moral midgets consider that they are operating in the interest of the greater good. That said I offer a challenge. Can anyone name a historical atrocity where in the perpetrators weren’t operating under that illusion?
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To this I will add the graphics that I posted a while back.
Then we have the specter of mrs. Clinton today telling us that she feels that pro-life people are terrorists. Or worse than terrorists. Then again, I don’t think there’s very many people anymore who don’t have a firm understanding of mrs. Clinton’s lack of a moral soul. The most recent video has representatives from Planned Parenthood describing glibly to each other about shipping severed heads through the US mail. And mrs. Clinton fully supports these animals.
I fear that history will judge us severely, and correctly, as being the most barbarous in history. Given human history, that’s saying something.
Will get into discussing the motivations for this tomorrow, but I think I’ve given you enough tonight to think about.
Photo by Adam Ward
The perpetually enraged, black, homosexual Obama supporter, and the murder of Alison Parker and Adam Ward, Vester Flanagan is dead, to be missed only by CNN, which will be deprived of going 24/7 on his murder trial.
I pose a question, why does our media continue make celebrities of a mass murders and yet purport to be puzzled when mentally unstable young men resort to murder to become celebrities, even if only the postmortem kind? No film at eleven.
Hat tip and more, Amy Miller, Legal Insurrection:
This morning, Virginia reporter Alison Parker and her cameraman Adam Ward lost their lives after a former co-worker ambushed their live shot with his own camera and a handgun. The attack was aired on live TV, horrifying both their colleagues, and viewers of the WDBJ’s early morning show.
Ward managed to capture footage of the shooting before falling to the ground; things went dark on the broadcast, but his camera caught a shot of the gunman.
Black, homosexual, Obama supporter, Loretta Lynch gets to take this case off.
Peggy Hubbard is not the first person with this message, nor even the first black. Ben Carson has similar, if more eloquent thought. However, Ms Hubbard does offer the message with the primal passion of a momma grizzly. Enjoy the video”
Hat tip: Darleen Click, Protein Wisdom
