Friday Musical Interlude - Let's stick Together

This was later covered by Bryan Ferry in 1976, but Wilbert Harrison wrote the song and originally recorded it in 1962. Both versions, first Wilbert Harrison:

Bryan Ferry does a quality cover:

People will die

I had to share this Reason video because, it's brilliant and funny simultaneously. And because people will die.

9-0 or not, SCOTUS was pretty convincing on travel ban

Firstly, here's the details on the court ruling.

And the 9-0?

Newsweek on a despicable and highly disrespectful page where they had a Gollum version of president Trump, argued that "Per curiam" does not mean unanimous.

"Per curiam" doesn't mean unanimous, sir. And three justices couldn't reinstate the whole ban because the others wouldn't let them.

— Cristian 💫 (@cristianafarias) June 26, 2017

Okay, maybe unanimous, maybe not. But,

Per curiam refers to a decision handed down by the court as a whole, without identifying any particular judge as the author. It is the opinion of the court as a single body. Most decisions on the merits by the Supreme Court and other appellate courts in the U.S. are signed by individual justices. Even when such signed opinions are unanimous, they are not termed "per curiam." Per curiam decisions usually deal with issues the court views as relatively non-controversial.

[Emphasis added] Non-controversial means it was closer to 9-0 than 5-4. The left is busy in publication after publication trying to convince themselves this is not a win for president Trump.  But come October, this will be a convincing win for the president, should he decide to extend the order beyond 90 days (which arguably he could do, given the obstinate inaction on his Executive Order, he has every right to impose at this point). What do I mean by convincing? At least 6-3 in support of his temporary ban.

Trying to convince yourself it will again be overturned at this point is to truly take leave of your senses.  This was not a 5-4 decision, and the October revisit will not be either.

MUST SEE: CNN is crashing and burning, slowly.

Just wow.  "Nothing burger".

Trump wins on travel ban

The media is spinning this as a partial win and that only 'parts' of the travel ban will go into effect.  But those excluded based on existing relationships constitute a small percentage of those affected by the ban.  The real win, is the fact that the Supreme Court recognizes that the president does indeed possess national security powers and that lower court rulings were the ones overstepping their bounds.  A full case will be heard before the Supreme Court in October.

Project Veritas catches CNN telling the truth on Russia

The truth is out there. And James O'Keefe is finding it. [Note - some strong language]

Google caught in the act of manipulation

Google's being fined by the E.U. for discriminatory search results.

The European Union’s antitrust regulator on Tuesday fined Alphabet Inc.’s GOOGL -1.42% Google a record €2.42 billion ($2.71 billion) for favoring its own comparison-shopping service in search results and ordered the search giant to apply the same methods to rivals as its own when displaying their services.

Here's my question, and it's pretty much a rhetorical one: If Google is manipulating search results on shopping services, and it's being run by anti-Trump, anti-Republican, and anti-conservative silicon valley liberals, isn't it possible probable that they are doing the same on political stories?

Caught in the act by the E.U., they'll likely appeal the fine. But should they lose expect them to make the minimal changes necessary to avoid other lawsuits or fines. In other words, don't expect Google's shopping products to drop out of the top 3 results. By extension, don't expect them to alter search results to a level of fairness where Fox News pages on apolitical story come in ahead of NBC's or CNN's. That's not going to happen.

Sarah Palin has the right to say "I told you so"

What a contrast.  Back in 2008 you had this from T Boone Pickens, "billionaire investor, philanthropist and energy reform activst" who warned against expectations that domestic oil drilling could ever contribute significantly to American energy independence.

Forget what candidate Obama was saying at the time, about bankrupting coal and promising to increase drilling (something he clearly did not follow through on). Meanwhile the most mocked woman in America, possibly ever in the history of the mainstream media, Sarah Palin was saying this - for which she was roundly mocked as not seeing the reality of American energy:

Flash forward 9 years to this.  Yesterday in Bloomberg:

Donald Trump will tout surging U.S. exports of oil and natural gas during a week of events aimed at highlighting the country’s growing energy dominance.

The president also plans to emphasize that after decades of relying on foreign energy supplies, the U.S. is on the brink of becoming a net exporter of oil, gas, coal and other energy resources...

“It’s about utilizing our abundance of resources at home to create jobs and grow the economy, and at the same time use those to strengthen America’s leadership and influence abroad,” said Michael Catanzaro, a special assistant to the president on domestic energy.

...The U.S. is on track to produce 10 million barrels of oil per day on average next year, according to a forecast from the Energy Information Administration -- a milestone that would shatter a record set in 1970.

For reference purposes only two countries in the world produced 10 million barrels per day in 2016, Russia and Saudi Arabia.  America is indeed on a path to energy independence, after an eight year stall under then president Obama. Granted not all that wealth of resources is from Alaska, but if anyone has the right to say, "I told you so" today, it's Sarah Palin. 

Explosive: Democrats linked to phony Trump dossier

Democrat party credibility.

Breaking News, via NY Post:

A secretive Washington firm that commissioned the dubious intelligence dossier on Donald Trump is stonewalling congressional investigators trying to learn more about its connections to the Democratic Party.

The Senate Judiciary Committee earlier this month threatened to subpoena the firm, Fusion GPS, after it refused to answer questions and provide records to the panel identifying who financed the error-ridden dossier, which was circulated during the election and has sparked much of the Russia scandal now engulfing the White House.

What is the company hiding? Fusion GPS describes itself as a “research and strategic intelligence firm” founded by “three former Wall Street Journal investigative reporters.” But congressional sources says it’s actually an opposition-research group for Democrats, and the founders, who are more political activists than journalists, have a pro-Hillary, anti-Trump agenda.

“These weren’t mercenaries or hired guns,” a congressional source familiar with the dossier probe said. “These guys had a vested personal and ideological interest in smearing Trump and boosting Hillary’s chances of winning the White House.”

Fusion GPS was on the payroll of an unidentified Democratic ally of Clinton when it hired a long-retired British spy to dig up dirt on Trump. In 2012, Democrats hired Fusion GPS to uncover dirt on GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney. And in 2015, Democrat ally Planned Parenthood retained Fusion GPS to investigate pro-life activists protesting the abortion group.

It seems Republicans and the Trump administration have gotten off their heels and moved to being on offense. More to follow, most certainly.

Global Warming is Pseudoscience

Professor Ivar Giaever, the 1973 Nobel Prizewinner for Physics trashes the global warming/climate change/extreme weather pseudoscientific clap-trap and tells Obama he is "Dead Wrong". This was the 2012 meeting of Nobel Laureates.

Sunday verse

Leftist propaganda vs. The Red Pill

Fellow Canadian Gavin McInnes speaks on the documentary The Red Pill, takes a look at the double standard when it comes to men's rights in today's society as compared to the free reign given to the likes of Michael Moore and Al Gore. McInnes is spot on - any movie that does not advocate for undeniable evil (e.g. murder,"the killing of children") should be allowed to be seen, particularly when it comes to documentaries.  Ideas can be debated, it's when you don't give ideas a chance that you homogenize the population and destroy real diversity (the diversity of ideas), which is something the left argues it stands for, universally.  Clearly that's not true.

Look, not every idea is a good idea.  Some are terrible.  But if you let those terrible ideas be heard, and then counter them with counter arguments ultimately people will see them for what they are: bad ideas.

I think ultimately this is the only place the progressive left has left for itself to go.  They have become so strident in their screaming down and censorship (both overt and covert) of opposing ideas, that people are finally starting to catch on. This is why Trump won the election.  It's why no one believes his approval ratings are or were ever at 39%  (outside of the leftist echo chamber, the shrill media and perhaps some despondent establishment, do-nothing Republicans).

The only way out for the left is to return to previous form and allow a platform for the right and then hope that they can drown out those ideas by sheer volume of counter opinion.  I don't believe they've grasped that it's their only way out of irrelevance now.  Even if they do already realize it, it's going to take them decades to undo the damage they have done to themselves.

I watched an interesting video this morning, Milo Yiannopoulos appeared on the Anthony Cumia show and they covered a wide range of topics over 48 minutes. But relevant to the topic at hand, Milo and Anthony both touched brilliantly on the same issue of how the left has done tremendous damage to itself. You can catch the entire video here or here [warning - strong language].

Saturday Learning Series Bonus - Top 10 Airport design secrets

A bonus Saturday Learning Series item today - the Top 10 design secrets of airports.

Saturday Learning Series - Why the U.S. military made GPS free to the public

Without going into whether the decision was the correct one or not, this video explains the GPS satellite network and why it was made available to the public and for commercial use, for free.  An interesting watch.

Et Tu, Captain Jack Sparrow?

Liberal assassination culture cancer keeps spreading.  Even Captain Jack Sparrow is pulling out the bloody Trump head now - or maybe he was inspired by the Trumpeques Julius Caesar assassination fantasy play.

Johnny Depp apologizes for 'bad joke' about assassinating Trump https://t.co/dnygWCx6HK

— The Washington Times (@WashTimes) June 23, 2017

31,487 Scientists say 'no' to global warming alarmism

The debate on climate change (aka global warming) is over?  Only if you ask everyone who agrees with you. 31,000+ highly acclaimed scientists not only disagree, but have spoken out about it.

Ben Shapiro slam dunks the epi-pen argument

In my last post I focused on the argument style suggested in a video to try to help put forth conservative arguments in a way that is on the offensive without being aggressive.  Here, conservative stalwart Ben Shapiro discusses the EpiPen discussion on health care in a way that is factual but puts empathy at the forefront, and he does so very effectively.

It's a different style as he is answering a question rather than asking it, per the previously mentioned video, but equally effective; rather than focusing on a solution, he ties it very specifically back to the urgency and immediacy of the issue with respect to those affected by the pricing issue.

Being passively on the offensive on immigration

The video below talks about the impacts of immigration on Western Civilization. While it is interesting in its own right, what is really fascinating is the approach recommended in addressing the issue with liberals.  The smart approach recommended is portable to other arguments that conservatives espouse.

Being passively on the offensive is an interesting approach and merits the attempt.

Friday Musical Interlude - Children

Robert Miles 1996 song Children (this is the Dream version).

Good times: A little bit of Hannity

Just for some feel good news. Sean Hannity's monologue on the Ossoff loss.

Pelosi clings to power

Via NBC News, Nancy Pelosi is on the losing side again and Democrats are calling for her to step aside. Instead she's mounted a desperate, clingy defense akin to "Mine!"

At this point she must be a really bitter clinger.

Well, ya.

President Donald Trump has the left, particularly the media left, apoplectic.  Tweeting out today he has no tapes of Comey.

The president clearly understands media misdirection in a way the media has yet to grasp.

...whether there are "tapes" or recordings of my conversations with James Comey, but I did not make, and do not have, any such recordings.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 22, 2017

I think some heads might actually explode when they realize the Nixonian tapes they thought they were going to get, don't exist and the dead end on the obstruction is really that - a dead end.

Ummmm, er, what?

Townhall force Hugh Hewitt's getting a show on progressive liberal MSNBC?  I get it from Hugh's perspective; de-hypnotizing a lost generation of ultra-leftist youth who have zero exposure to truth and reason.  Good luck with that uphill battle Hugh, seriously - I mean that.

But MSNBC?  They were languishing in the ratings until president Trump won.  There's no need to try to attract conservative viewers.

Maybe they think they can corrupt Hugh Hewitt to a progressive liberal leftist.

MSNBC, which has been soaring lately in both ratings and in advertising prices, is giving radio host Hugh Hewitt his own show, adding another conservative voice to a lineup that already includes Fox News poach Greta Van Susteren and former George W. Bush communications hand Nicole Wallace.

Hewitt's self-titled show will air on Saturday mornings at 8 a.m., starting June 24, as part of an expansion of the network's weekend programming in July. TVNewser first reported the news, which was then announced by the company.

In giving Hewitt his own show, MSNBC is sure to raise eyebrows, considering that the network has been doing well mostly on the strength of left-leaning opinion journalists like Rachel Maddow and Lawrence O'Donnell. NBC News chairman Andy Lack is known to favor hard news, and has programmed the network to feature a broader range of editorial opinions in addition to traditional newsmen like Brian Williams.

As an aside, note that the story overlooks the fact that if Brian Williams is a traditional newsman, the traditional newsmen ARE the problem.

Take Ossoff - Dems lose, again

Republicans win, again. Jon Ossoff, the latest Democrat poster boy for anti-Trumpism, and a man who tried to sound like a conservative in his commercials lost to a Republican.  Democrats are proving they cannot beat not only Trump, but in more general terms, elections.

Republicans held on to a hotly contested U.S. House seat in Georgia on Tuesday, beating back an aggressive challenge that showed the Democrats’ inability to turn opposition to Donald Trump’s presidency into electoral gains.

Republican Karen Handel, a former Georgia secretary of state, beat Democrat Jon Ossoff, a onetime congressional aide, in the most expensive House race in history and the most significant test of the two parties’ political strength since Mr. Trump’s election.

In nearly complete results, Ms. Handel had almost 53% of the vote to just over 47% for Mr. Ossoff, the Associated Press reported.

In winning the seat, Republicans overcame a Democratic advantage in campaign spending and demonstrated that Mr. Trump retained political capital in the district.

The trend of Democrat losses continues.  This race was a lot closer than it should have been but that's largely attributable to the massive spending Dems threw at trying to win what would have been a mostly symbolic victory.

The awesomeness that is Dinesh D'Souza

This should be a required lecture at every safe space college and university in the country. Dinesh D'Souza teaches university students about the real world. 

Bonus content:

SCOTUS unanimously gets it right.

Even Ruth Bader Ginsburg agrees that first amendment rights protect disparaging trademarks.  Why? Because it's the first amendment. Someone deciding what's offensive and what's not is inherently autocratic and anathema to freedom of speech, isn't it?

Obviously this band was self-aware enough to fight for the right to name themselves and it was a conscious decision to do so.

WASHINGTON — In a decision likely to bolster the Washington Redskins’ efforts to protect its trademarks, the Supreme Court on Monday ruled that the government may not refuse to register potentially offensive names. A law denying protection to disparaging trademarks, the court said, violated the First Amendment.

The decision was unanimous, but the justices were divided on the reasoning.

The decision, concerning an Asian-American dance-rock band called the Slants, probably also means that the Washington Redskins football team will win its fight to retain federal trademark protection.

The law at issue in both cases denies federal trademark protection to messages that may disparage people, living or dead, along with “institutions, beliefs or national symbols.”

The NYT editors must be eating their own livers right about now.

Milo's comeback trail

A 40 minute appearance on Dr. Drew.

Sunday Links

Some interesting (and often quick) reads for your Sunday morning.

-Via The Right Pundit, CNN is deliberately getting even the simplest things wrong. 

-Via The Right Scoop, only 80% of the Trump Russia investigation left to go. Clearly the timing is designed to push an impeachment vote circa 2018 or 2020 elections.

-PJ Media says it's not a civial war, it's an American divorce.

-Via Poweline, St. Louis Cardinals stand up to LGBT bullying and let a Christian speak.

-Gateway Pundit updates us on the "crazy fake Indian".

-Let's hope Politichicks are wrong about this one, but I suspect they are not. We're literally on a highway to hell it seems.

-In local news....

-Wizbang says, shun Coulter.

-Small Dead Animals succinct take on communist flavored ice cream.

Mainstream outlets:

-United States of Fury

-Recusals and more recusals

-Burying Obama's Legacy 

-Sheriff David Clarke, out

Odds & Sods:

-We have a Republican Congress.  Why are we wasting time on things like this?

-Whatever happened to Protein Wisdom???

-Update - continue not bothering to check on former conservative turned crazy lunatic leftist website Little Green Footballs (deliberate link miss).  It still sucks sewage.

Sunday verse

Related to the verse above, I discovered an interesting blog post by Debunking Atheists here, that talks about the Biblical understanding of a spherical earth and the origins of the flat earth idea.

The Lighter Side of Trumpian Deregulation

Crisis? What crisis?

President Trump has rolled back some obsolete but on-going government efforts to combat...Y2K. The fact that this needed to be deregulated is as sad as it is funny.

Seventeen years after the Year 2000 bug came and went, the federal government will finally stop preparing for it.

The Trump administration announced Thursday that it would eliminate dozens of paperwork requirements for federal agencies, including an obscure rule that requires them to continue providing updates on their preparedness for a bug that afflicted some computers at the turn of the century. As another example, the Pentagon will be freed from a requirement that it file a report every time a small business vendor is paid, a task that consumed some 1,200 man-hours every year.

“We’re looking for stuff everyone agrees is a complete waste of time,” Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney told reporters at the White House. He likened the move to the government “cleaning out our closets.”

It's not exactly draining the swamp but at least it's a move that's in the right direction and not the government adding more burden to itself.  Nevertheless I'm sure this will get tied into the Russia collusion investigation by the left.

Saturday Learning Series - Reagan's Star Wars Win

Curious Droid covers president Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative and how it caused the Soviet Union to bankrupt itself trying to compete.  You won't see it in the mainstream media, but Ronald Reagan won the cold war for democracy.

It's ironic that the left, formerly so enamored of the Soviet Union now see Russia as the biggest bogeyman in America's geopolitical arena. Even president Obama thought that Russia as a problem, was so 1980s. Yes, Russia is a serious geopolitical foe (and president Trump knows it). The Soviet Union was worse - we do a disservice to ourselves to forget just how bad it really was. Just as we do ourselves a disservice to now use Russia as a pawn in a purely political game designed to destabilize an American president.  It seems almost treasonous.

Friday Musical Interlude - Strange style Sultans of Swing

Dire Straits classic Sultans Of Swing performed on a gayageum by Luna.

Comically accurate

Democrats are trying to revive the dead horse they've beaten into the ground on the phony Russian collusion theory.

Meanwhile fake news gets tweeted by Jim Acosta of CNN.

Acosta Tweeted, “WH official on hospital visit: “President Trump did not meet with Scalise and did not go into the room where Scalise is being treated.”

This was proven to be fake.

Follow the link and read the full story, it's a good callout on fake news.

Sanders' quasi-response to supporter sniper.

Following up on my earlier post, here's some background on the Sanders supporter who took sniper shots at Republicans, this video points out more detail about the shooter and Bernie Sanders' milquetoast response:

Shocking: Liberal violent rhetoric just got real, dropped the rhetoric part

Liberals, in this case a Bernie Sanders supporter, are turning from violent rhetoric to violent action.  The over-the-top rhetoric is inciting real world violence.  It's time for the left to get a grip and start acting responsibly.

The far left have blood on their hands. And let's not forget the former agitator-in-chief, former president Obama:

And now they are trying to assassinate Republicans.  This has the potential to escalate quickly and horribly and Democrats who have been covertly encouraging this had better step back quickly and noticeably, NOW before the country devolves into chaos.  Or maybe, that's just what they want.

Hey left, this is what big government means

This is what you are fighting to accomplish - your own subjugation via "environmental specialists" and similar bureaucrats.

Liberals pull out all the entertainment stops

Some liberals have moved on from ranting about president Trump winning the election to once again using their strong suit (the entertainment industry) to disparage the president. I'm not expecting much from Roseanne Barr's show reboot.  That is not much new. Meanwhile, the NYT newspaper is sponsoring a president Trump assassination Julius Caesar play. For real.

New York's venerated theater organization, the Public Theater, is facing a PR disaster over its long-running free "Shakespeare in the Park" series. The organization is mounting a production of Julius Caesar, which (spoiler alert!) ends with the Roman politician being assassinated. Many far-right online personas—including Donald Trump Jr.—consider this to be offensive given that Caesar appears Trump-like in this particular production. (It depicts him with blonde hair and modern attire.)

A flurry of online trolling and hysteria over the show has resulted in two corporate sponsors—Bank of America and Delta—cutting ties with the Public Theater. But not everyone is ready to cut and run. Today the New York Times, another corporate sponsor, confirmed to me that it will continue supporting the theater.

Kathy Griffin redux.  I wonder if this still applies?

Roseanne reboot because...Trump

Flashback to prior disrespect.

It looks like wacko liberal turned bizarre libertarian turned anti-Trumpian loudmouth Roseanne Barr is coming back to tackle president Trump because, apparently no one else on TV is doing it.  Wait, what???

Expect comedian Roseanne Barr to tackle Donald Trump and the current reality of ordinary Americans when a revival of her popular family sitcom debuts on ABC mid-season.

ABC Entertainment president Channing Dungey just isn't certain Barr will personally identify the U.S. president. "I don't know whether Roseanne (Barr) will speak about Trump by name. But she's going to speak very honestly," Dungey told the Banff World Media Festival on Monday during a keynote address.

"We're going to be tackling some of the topics that are in the conversation today. I'll leave it that," she added. Original castmembers Roseanne Barr, John Goodman, Sara Gilbert, Laurie Metcalf, Michael Fishman and Lecy Goranson will return 30 years after the original Roseanne comedy debuted, this time with new kids and grandchildren thrown into the mix for new story-telling.

"Now we will have three generations — Roseanne, her kids and her kids have kids who are teenagers. So we'll bring back a point-of-view that has really been missing on the air," Dungey said. By that, the ABC Entertainment boss is talking about a push by her network to deliver TV shows that speak to U.S. audiences as a whole, including those that elected Donald Trump as the U.S. president, and not just to the coasts.

It sure sounds like speaking to those who voted for president Trump is going to positioned as a lecture. Progressive liberals still don't get it. ABC is moving from outrage, to lecturing. Wait and see, then tune out.

Sunday verse

Saturday Learning Series Flashback

The reason I started the Saturday Learning Series years ago, was James Burke and his series Connections.  Here's the first brilliant episode of a brilliant series (one of several brilliant series by historian Burke.

veetle-Connections S01E01 The Trigger Effect by pip3000

U.K. votes, barely, to keep Brexit alive

Theresa May read the tea leaves wrong.  Pollsters two months ago had her perched to get a mega-majority if she called a snap election.  Predicated on a mandate to strongly negotiate Brexit, she did so.  It was partly political but it seemed to be a shrewd move.  As election day approached the popular support numbers for the conservatives tanked and May has barely hung on to maintain a coalition government with the pro-Brexit DUP party.

It turns out the move by May was a political blunder, but to be fair, it was one she didn't see coming.  It will be interesting to see what the post analysis brings out.  Did ultra-leftist Corbyn bring out, a la Obama, a stronger than anticipated youth contingent of voters?  Or did, as the British MSM seemed to expound, lose popularity as people got to know her better?  At least an aggressive Brexit negotiation is still on track, but the election really feels like a badly missed opportunity for the Tories (conservatives) in the U.K. to strengthen their position for the next several years.  But in every problem there is opportunity.

Expect an emboldened Corbyn to be even more outrageous than he has previously and with that exposure comes the opportunity to paint him as the extremist that he really is, setting May (or her successor) up for a strong victory next time around.

For a great analysis of the results themselves, check out the Legal Insurrection take here.

Friday Musical Interlude - Obama stuttering "If" remix

OMG, too funny! With a guest appearance by president Trump.

Trump lawyer makes some great points on Comey

Via USA Today:

Comey early testimony highlights

Via Fox 10 Phoenix, a few important portions of the James Comey testimony today:

NYT article on collusion was fake news:



Comey took "I hope" to mean an order. That doesn't mean it was.

Marco Rubio brilliantly questions James Comey

As I mentioned on Twitter, I am pleasantly surprised at how well Marco Rubio did in questioning Marco Rubio.  He may have gone 95% of the way in acquitting the president of any wrongdoing in a matter of minutes.

This is not the entire exchange (which I will share as soon as I can find), but it's a good chunk of the exchange.

South Carolina - please primary this guy

Lindsey Graham is trying to walk a centrist line but consistently ends up undermining conservative values.  In this case, the CBS news headline takes his line about "half of what Trump does is not okay" and makes that the headline.  For the left, Graham is a useful idiot.  And in his attempt to walk a thin line Graham spends most of the gotcha interview "defending" Trump's innocence.  But his willingness to disparage Trump in general makes a great headline for the left.  South Carolina, please primary this guy. Get. Him. Out.

President Trump is moving forward on health care

While Democrats pound sand on Trump and Russia, the president is moving forward on his agenda.  In the end this approach to politics from the left is going to work in president Trump's favor. The president's remarks start at 2:50.

Coats and Rogers initial answers made continued hearings pointless

I'm watching Shepard Smith on Fox News trying to make smoke out of wet noodles on the testimony today of the denials made in the Senate committee hearing with Dan Coats and NSA chief Mike Rogers about feeling pressure to do anything illegal, or immoral ever. Yet people like independent senator King tried to create some spectacular sound bites to make it seem like the two were stonewalling.

That should be the end of it - at least so far as those two were concerned but questioning continued, needlessly. But facts were never the point.  If inveterate liberal Shepard Smith of Fox was trying to spin this, I can't imagine what the likes of MSNBC and CNN must be doing right now. 

White House leaker caught

It's no surprise the leaker was an avowed Bernie Sanders supporting socialist.  This is against the law. It's counter to national security.  She will and should be, imprisoned if proven guilty in court.  It sounds like she has already implicated herself.

How CNN fakes its news.

Mark Dice shares some behind the scenes CNN manufacturing of the news.  What's interesting is not the content of the broadcast, but rather what CNN is doing here behind the scenes. It's must see stuff.

Judicial Watch - new Hillary Clinton email troubles

Hillary Clinton is out there complaining about her loss again.  Maybe she should have kept her head down and moved on.  Judicial Watch has released new information about Hillary Clinton and her email scandal.  I doubt any new investigation will be opened as a result of this but it doesn't matter.  What matters is that she violated national security protocols and should not be allowed near government ever again.

The real cause for anyone concerned about national security should be ensuring that her reputation is besmirched to the point that she cannot possibly undertake another run for the presidency or anything near it.  She's too irresponsible to be in government and the public needs to understand that.  Only mainstream media style repetition and volume can accomplish that.

Suggestions on avoiding pop culture's swan dive into excrement

I've blogged about this notion in the past - pop culture has over time, become bland, uninspired and beyond that, often disgusting. Forget comparing Eminem to Bach, how about comparing the Black Eyed Peas' Boom Boom Pow (2009) to Roxy Music's song Avalon (1981).  It presents an intensely noticeable decay of effort, quality,  thoughtfulness talent and skill, in just a span of  28 years.  And yet the former video has over 260 million views (as of this writing) compared to a mere 10 million for the latter.  And there are far worse offerings than the Black Eyed Peas - there are some truly disturbing things out there masquerading as entertainment and culture.

Granted there's a generational shift in viewing habits - buts that is precisely part of the problem, isn't it? What have we let ourselves become?  As Paul Joseph Watson explains - culture is supposed to elevate us, but it has deliberately, done the exact opposite, reducing people to our basest level.  It's truly sad what society has become.

As conservatives we might have lost the culture war in terms of entertainment media, education in schools, and of course the news coverage of event but we still have ways to win. I used to think that taking back those elements was crucial to cultural victory. But that will take generations to achieve. Fox News has been highly successful (until recently) in offering alternatives to the likes of CNN's bias. But Fox's status in that regard is now in question. We cannot rely on Facebook, Twitter or Google searches to be unbiased.

But as parents we still have one thing we can control - our own family agenda. And that's where we can instill a generational shift in ideas. How? By changing the venue of our children's activities. There are no politics in soccer camp. There is morality we can choose to expose our kids to in Sunday School. There are piano lessons, swimming lessons. There are no disgusting rap lyrics in a family walk in the park. There are no violent video games at the beach. There is no lewdness is a game of Monopoly.

Filling our children's time up with family activities and physical activity has the double effect of bonding with quality time and removing the incredibly negative impacts of cultural decay. No, it's not always free or cheap, but it can be if you are creative. And yes, it is time consuming as an adult to spend time reading to your children and doing all of these activities. I didn't say it was an easy or cheap. It's an exhausting effort to be sure. But isn't investing in the development of our children the greatest responsibility of parents? Are they not worth it? And in terms of saving your country, it's the one weapon you can use to have a direct impact on the future.

I must confess that I did not do perfectly in this regard myself. I did merely okay. But knowing what I know now I hope to do better with my grandchildren someday.  Which brings me to my last point - support.  Undertaking this effort requires support.  It requires family and it requires a community of like-minded people with similar objectives to support each other and develop community activities that support these objectives.  But it is all achievable, and reducing the cultural decay could be a beneficial side effect.  Not only growing the alternatives to the decay, but a lowering demand for the social tripe being proffered might jolt the culture into some better alternatives as a means of survival for artists and musicians.  In any case, it's better than doing nothing but complaining.

The European migration crisis exposed

Paul Joseph Watson does some investigative journalism on the 'refugee crisis' in Europe.

Sunday verse

Don't get me started on how wrong this is.

China has reduced human life to the equivalent of a machine part. How feudal.

Attention U.K. citizens, this is why you need to vote for Theresa May

More terror in London.  A stronger mandate for exiting the E.U. and giving Prime Minister Theresa May the strong backing to negotiate BREXIT forcefully and not leave the U.K. subject to any whims of the E.U. - especially on immigration and national security issues.

What you need to know about Canadian immigration

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, son of former Prime Minister and prime purveyor of multi-culturalism Prime Minister continues Canada's trend of subverting our own culture for political gain (re-election).  The problem is snowballing and Canada's future will be affected.

The Far Left have co-opted the term Far Right for political purposes

This video from Rebel Media explains quite well how the term "far right" has been twisted by the far left for the purpose of 1984-thought-crime-style censorship of ideas.  The one exception I have with it is that it skims over the Nazi far right misnomer.  Nazi is the German truncation for the term National Socialist.  Socialist means far left, not far right.  Other than that, great video.

Kathy Griffin career implosion, day 2

Earlier today I watched Kathy Griffin's version of the Obama apology tour mixed with Hillary Clinton style meltdown.

Listening to Kathy Griffin's blame shifting press conference, one thing is clear, she should have shut up after her apology yesterday #tcot

— Dean_L (@Dean_L) June 2, 2017

After what appeared to be a heartfelt apology for going to far, today Griffin was all about blameshifting and justifying her action. If the grotesque, ISIS-esque 'comedy' was not career suicide, today's news conference should do it.

Griffin, who asserted that she has been contacted by the Secret Service, said the Trumps are “trying to ruin my rights forever.”

She sounds like a 6 year old. The Secret Service are engaged in due diligence - something Griffin should have done prior to participating in a mock beheading of a sitting president. As for the Trumps - how did she expect them to react? Stop pretending to be a victim mere days after you engaged in a mock bloody execution of a sitting president. Nobody's buying it, not even CNN.

Friday Musical Interlude for Trump haters

Remember when being a liberal meant peace symbols and love your enemy?

Let's Work Together (Canned Heat).

Trump presidency has turned the corner on jobs

Looking at this CNBC graphic, it isn't immediately obvious the positive impact president Trump's election has had on job creation in America.

Assuming we allow November private sector jobs added to fall under the president Obama tally, from May 2016 through November 2016 his economy added an average of 170,000 jobs per month over 7 months. Since president Trump's election job creation has increased dramatically on speculation that his business-friendly agenda would mean better profits for business and more jobs for America.  Hiring started in November, but let's leave that one in Obama's column and start president Trump's tally in December.  

Over 6 months president Trump's economy has added an average of 233,333 private payroll jobs per month over 6 months.  That doesn't sound like a dramatic increase over his predecessor but it represents a 37.25% increase in jobs added over the previous Obama span.

Anyone trying to argue that those are really jobs added by the Obama economy doesn't understand the speculative nature of the free market.  Businesses are wise to act based on coming events not historical events.  To react as slowly as the latter means to be at a competitive disadvantage and that means economic death.  The stock market alone is proof that reaction speeds are quick.

Further to that point, if the Obama economy was so rosy, why did it suddenly leap ahead after Trump became president elect?  Why not any time in the 8 years prior to that?  Yes the unemployment rate dropped from over 10% to under 5% under president Obama.  But that fact excludes the dismal labor participation rate's historic lows under president Obama.  Less people were trying to get jobs because they had given up on looking for work.

President Trump is bringing those people back into the labor market at the same time as improving job creation.  Thatès even before his tax plans are enacted.President Trumpès economy will boom if it is enacted.  To that end, Republicans must act both on his Obamacare replacement and his tax plan or they will miss a golden opportunity to rout Democrats in 2018 and again in 2020.

Trump-Russia event BINGO

Enjoy this Trump Russia BINGO card. Fill in a square whenever that event happens..

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