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I live streamed most of Trump’s MAGA event in Topeka. One of the warm-up people (I think Trump’s campaign manager) asked the huge crowd, “is anybody tired of winning yet?” I don’t normally shout at my computer screen (except during college football) but I couldn’t help myself, “No!!!” Between Trump ‘s administration racking up wins and Republican senators finding their spine during the Kavanuagh confirmation, I can’t remember the last time there was much energy for a midterm election. Ego is the anesthesia that deadens the pain of stupidity DISCLAIMER: These are the author's own personal views and do not represent the views of the author's employer. | |||
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| I believe in the principle of Due Process  |
Only one thing worse than not getting what you want, and that is getting what you say you want. Hoorah for Harry! Link to original video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ny3kpDbEm08 Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me. When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown | |||
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| Why don’t you fix your little problem and light this candle  |
Here here!! I second this toast. I love this place and it's people. I lost hope last friday but watching you guys wade through it has been a shot of adrenaline to the soul. This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it. -Rear Admiral (Lower Half) Joshua Painter Played by Senator Fred Thompson | |||
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| Staring back from the abyss  |
Primaries don't matter to Murkowski. Even when she loses them she runs in the general anyway. ________________________________________________________ "Great danger lies in the notion that we can reason with evil." Doug Patton. | |||
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| I believe in the principle of Due Process |
Their refusal to surrender is an object lesson for the GOP. American Spectator David Catron The most important words spoken by Brett Kavanaugh to the Senate Judiciary Committee on September 27 were these: “I will not be intimidated into withdrawing from this process.” By then, his family had received multiple death threats and he himself had been relentlessly slandered. But the judge refused to surrender. And the nominee was by no means the only victim of vicious Democratic attacks. Senator Susan Collins, whose vote would inevitably be crucial to his confirmation, was the target of constant harassment and her staff received numerous threats of violence. Her response to these disgusting tactics mirrored that of Kavanaugh: When I have a caller who tells a young staffer in my office who does case work that he hopes she is raped and impregnated, we have really reached a new low … The people of Maine know me well enough that that’s not ever how I would make a decision and I am deeply offended by this effort. The courage of Kavanaugh and Collins in the face of such attacks is an object lesson for the Republicans. Conservative voters are intelligent enough to know the GOP can’t win every battle in a political environment dominated by Democrats and their accomplices in the media as well as the deep state, but they do expect the Republicans to fight the good fight. This is why Lindsey Graham, so frequently the subject of criticism by conservatives, suddenly emerged as a hero in the Kavanaugh confirmation battle. It is why even Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has earned so much conservative praise. They put up a genuine fight this time — and won. It’s probable that the original Democratic strategy anticipated a withdrawal of Kavanaugh’s nomination shortly after they launched their premeditated smear involving Christine Blasey Ford and her implausible tale of sexual abuse. Their previous experience with the Republicans in the past decade or so would certainly have led them to expect capitulation. And, even when the expected surrender didn’t happen as quickly as planned, the Democrats and their accomplices in the media were probably still confident that the cumulative effect of the additional accusations they began trotting out one by one would soon cause Judge Kavanaugh to cave. The Democrats were almost certainly overconfident after Ford managed to put on a superficially compelling performance during the morning session of the September 27 Judiciary Committee hearing. They were clearly surprised to see Kavanaugh come out swinging that afternoon, and that neither the President nor the judge himself had any intention of withdrawing the nomination. Even worse, from the Democratic perspective, the Republicans on the committee also showed no sign of raising the white flag. There were obvious expressions of surprise on their faces when Lindsey Graham lit into them about their disgraceful tactics: Boy, you all want power. God, I hope you never get it. I hope the American people can see through this sham.… This is the most unethical sham since I’ve been in politics. And if you really wanted to know the truth, you sure as hell wouldn’t have done what you’ve done to this guy. Graham thus reminded the voters that the real enemy to our fundamental freedoms is the Democratic Party. Chuck Schumer, Dianne Feinstein, and their co-conspirators deployed such a vicious campaign of slander and dirty tricks against Kavanaugh because the electorate has deprived their party of the power to enact its wrong-headed and unpopular agenda through Congress. In order to foist their will on the nation, therefore, the Democrats must impose it through the Court. They were desperate to prevent President Trump from appointing a second Supreme Court justice. They failed, as the Wall Street Journal reported: The Senate confirmed Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court on Saturday, cementing a conservative majority on the nation’s top court after a blistering battle over sexual-assault allegations leveled against him.… Judge Kavanaugh was confirmed by a two-vote margin, with 50 in favor, 48 opposing, and Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R., Alaska) voting present. This is not merely bad news for the ability of the Democrats to promote their agenda via the Court, the tactics they employed to kill Kavanaugh’s nomination may well have killed the fabled “blue wave.” They have been counting on a huge turnout by anti-Trump voters to give them a majority in the House of Representatives and possibly the Senate. But the polls suggest that the dirty tricks they deployed against the judge may have energized the Republican base instead. As Stephen Kruiser pointed out in this space a few days ago, “Yes, the Democrats have energized the base with this heinous stunt, it just happened to be the wrong base.” The enthusiasm gap that favored the Democrats a couple of months ago has “evaporated.” During the confirmation process, Schumer, Feinstein, et al. provided an illuminating glimpse of the dystopian future that awaits the nation if the Democrats win majorities in the House and Senate. And a lot of conservative and independent voters were unnerved by that look into the crystal ball. As Ben Shapiro puts it at the Daily Wire, “What they saw scared the bejeezus out of them.” Republicans usually turn out in higher numbers than Democrats for midterm elections, and the “Kavanaugh effect” will probably increase that built-in turnout advantage. But that’s no reason to be complacent. The good guys won this fight because the voters elected Donald Trump President. He nominated an excellent judge to sit on the Supreme Court, who overcame a vicious smear campaign because he had the courage to look the Democrats in the eye and tell them, “You will never get me to quit. Never.” That inspired Republicans like Senator Collins to resist constant harassment and threats of violence to do the right thing. In the end, the key to the continuing political success for conservatives is to vote for Republicans who will fight the good fight. We know they can do it. We watched them do it this week. Link Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me. When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown | |||
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I’ll be out of state in November. But my mail in ballot will arrive any day. | |||
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Now in Florida |
A couple of great comments from John Nolte @ Breitbart in a rundown of the biggest winners and losers in this whole sorry affair: Winner: The Federalist Society "They found a man so qualified, only a witch hunt could bring him down. They found a man so decent, the witch hunt failed." Loser: The Matriarchy "I am not arguing The Patriarchy is perfect, but we have just spent 18 days living inside The Matriarchy only to discover it is a circle of hell built on a foundation of nightmares — of shrill injustice led by mindless mobs cheered on by brown-nosers like Jake Tapper who conceal their bullying behind “virtue” as they proclaim we’ve “heard enough from men.” Overall, I cannot think of a worse three weeks for those who wish to put an end to the stereotype about women being spiteful, driven by emotion, and lacking in reason." | |||
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| Crusty old curmudgeon  |
Here is my celebratory drink from yesterday. Here's to you Justice Kavanaugh:  12 yr old Macallan scotch. Jim ________________________ "If you can't be a good example, then you'll have to be a horrible warning" -Catherine Aird | |||
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| Lawyers, Guns and Money  |
Jim, I had the same... cheers! "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." -- Justice Janice Rogers Brown "The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth." -rduckwor | |||
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| Slayer of Agapanthus |
WINS THE INTERNET TODAY!! "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye". The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, pilot and author, lost on mission, July 1944, Med Theatre. | |||
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No,no,no, disbarment is not what we want. The Creepy Porn Lawyer is the gift that keeps on giving. He is the quintessential representative for the Liberal, Socialist, Democrats we need to keep him around. “We’re in a situation where we have put together, and you guys did it for our administration…President Obama’s administration before this. We have put together, I think, the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics,” Pres. Select, Joe Biden “Let’s go, Brandon” Kelli Stavast, 2 Oct. 2021 | |||
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| Mired in the Fog of Lucidity |
Oh, now he's catching grief! He was welcomed and embraced by DiFi and company just last week. Bad case of buyer's remorse, I guess. This from Byron York: Byron York: Did Jane Mayer, Ronan Farrow, and Michael Avenatti give Trump his biggest victory yet? by Byron York | October 07, 2018 09:50 AM A lack of contemporaneous evidence was always the greatest weakness of Christine Blasey Ford's allegation that at a high school party in 1982 — 36 years ago, when she was 15 years old — a drunken 17 year-old Brett Kavanaugh forced her onto a bed, tried to undress her, and, when she tried to scream, covered her mouth with his hand. But the second biggest weakness in Ford's story was that it did not appear to fit into any pattern. There were no other allegations that Kavanaugh had done anything similar to anyone else. In the notorious #MeToo cases of the past year — which all involved powerful adult men, like Harvey Weinstein and Matt Lauer and Charlie Rose, and not adolescents like the Kavanaugh of 1982 — the man abused a number of women. It was not something he did just once and then stopped. But in the case of Kavanaugh, Ford stood alone. Alone, that is, until two stars of the New Yorker — Ronan Farrow, who wrote key exposes of the #MeToo scandal, and Jane Mayer, who was attacking Republican Supreme Court nominees when Farrow was in grade school — published the story of Deborah Ramirez. Ramirez claimed that sometime during the 1983-1984 academic year at Yale, when both she and Kavanaugh were 18 year-old freshmen, there was a small dorm-room party at which Ramirez — drunk, 'on the floor, foggy and slurring her words' — remembered Kavanaugh exposing himself to her. Ramirez admitted that there were "gaps" in her memory because of drinking. And she suggested that as recently as a few weeks earlier she barely remembered the alleged incident, if at all. It was only after "six days of carefully assessing her memories and consulting with her attorney" that she recovered enough recollections to come forward. Despite contacting "several dozen" classmates, Mayer and Farrow could not find any eyewitnesses to confirm that Kavanaugh was at the party, much less that they witnessed the alleged event happening. But Mayer and Farrow did find one classmate, who would not allow his name to be used, who "said that another student told him about the incident either on the night of the party or in the next day or two." The classmate said he was "100 percent sure" that he was told about Kavanaugh's alleged misconduct at the time. Some Republicans ridiculed the story for its flimsiness. The New York Times reported that it "had interviewed several dozen people over the past week in an attempt to corroborate [Ramirez's] story, and could find no one with firsthand knowledge." But Democrats had a second sexual-misconduct allegation against Kavanaugh. It could be the beginning of a pattern. Then came Michael Avenatti, whose hours of appearances on CNN and MSNBC bashing the president and touting his client, the porn star Stormy Daniels, had given him a following among the resistance. (That exposure also served as a base from which Avenatti is now exploring a Democratic run for president.) Shortly after the New Yorker story broke, Avenatti came forward with a new client, a woman named Julie Swetnick, who said that in 1981 and 1982, when Kavanaugh was 16 and 17 years old, she "became aware" of "efforts" by Kavanaugh to spike the punch at house parties she attended. "I also witnessed efforts by [Kavanaugh friend] Mark Judge, Brett Kavanaugh and others to cause girls to become inebriated and disoriented so they could then be 'gang raped' in a side room or bedroom by a 'train' of numerous boys," Swetnick wrote. "I have a firm recollection of seeing boys lined up outside rooms at many of these parties waiting for their 'turn' with a girl inside the room. These boys included Mark Judge and Brett Kavanaugh." Swetnick wrote that she herself was raped at a party "where Mark Judge and Brett Kavanaugh were present." The Avenatti-Swetnick story represented the moment when the anti-Kavanaugh forces jumped the shark. The allegation was off-the-scale serious: Who knew Brett Kavanaugh was a high-school Bill Cosby? But Swetnick produced no witnesses to the events she alleged, nor could she produce witnesses who confirmed even that such events occurred, nor could she produce witnesses who confirmed her presence at any such events, and, she was not even part of Kavanaugh's social circle at the time (Swetnick was older than the others and from a more distant suburb of Washington and attended public school there, outside the tight-knit group of private school students with whom Kavanaugh hung out). In short, Avenatti and Swetnick had nothing beyond an incendiary accusation. Nevertheless, some Democrats embraced the story to push the notion that there was an accumulating weight of sexual misconduct accusations against Kavanaugh. "We already have three credible reports of sexual misconduct by Judge Kavanaugh," said Sen. Mazie Hirono, referring to Ford, Ramirez, and Swetnick. Pressing for an FBI investigation, Hirono said it "certainly should cover the three credible reports that have come forward." "We now have three credible accusers of sexual assault," said Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, issued a press release headlined: "Senate Democrats: FBI Must Investigate All Three Credible Allegations of Sexual Assault Against Judge Brett Kavanaugh." Other Democrats on the committee sent out the same release. The talking point got some pickup in the press. ABC News asked President Trump: "Mr. President, there are now three women accusing Judge Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct. Are you saying that all three of these women are liars?" Democrats had their pattern. They demanded Trump order the FBI to interview people who might have knowledge about all three accusations. But at the same time, there were doubts. Some Kavanaugh opponents were hesitant to embrace Swetnick's allegation; it seemed too much, even for Resistance-minded Kavanaugh opponents. And then, right before the vote, Mayer and Farrow published an update to the Ramirez story in which they convinced their previously anonymous source who had heard of the alleged incident to speak on the record. That source, a college professor named Kenneth Appold, said that he had tried to contact the other student who told him about the incident. "[Appold] said that he had not been able to get any response from that person, despite multiple attempts to do so," Mayer and Farrow reported. "The New Yorker reached the classmate, but he said he had no memory of the incident." And that was that. The FBI interviewed four people about the Ramirez allegation: Ramirez herself, two alleged witnesses named by Ramirez, and a friend of Ramirez's from college. (A third alleged eyewitness refused to talk.) As for Swetnick, the FBI interviewed Mark Judge, who also figured in other allegations, but did not interview Swetnick herself. The much-demanded investigation apparently added little or nothing to what was already known about the Ramirez and Swetnick stories. And that meant the Kavanaugh matter was back to square one, Christine Blasey Ford. In that case, FBI interviews with six people associated with the allegation also apparently produced no more supporting evidence than was known before. By the time the Senate voted, the Democrats' pattern of "three credible accusers" had fallen apart, and the original allegation was as unverifiable as it had been on the day it was made. Some Democrats began to point fingers at Avenatti for messing everything up. One Democrat, Sen. Gary Peters, said Avenatti's involvement had turned the Kavanaugh confirmation "into a circus atmosphere." But it wasn't just Avenatti. There was, in fact, a pattern in the allegations against Kavanaugh — a pattern of progressively weaker and more desperate-sounding accusations. The Ford allegation came without any contemporaneous evidence to support it. The Ramirez allegation was vague to begin with — the accuser admitted she was drunk and had a poor memory — and fell apart completely for lack of corroboration. And then Avenatti brought the circus. Together, the allegations created the impression of Democrats grasping at any straw they could find to stop Kavanaugh. First came their faith-based "I believe Dr. Ford" declarations of support for Ford. Then came Ramirez and Swetnick. Successively weaker allegations against Kavanaugh did indeed do damage, but against the accusers more than the accused. And now there is Justice Kavanaugh. https://www.washingtonexaminer...-biggest-victory-yet | |||
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Great day, a win for decency and our nation’s future. But, the mob is still out there and scheming. The video below is a satire, but one that is so full of truth as to be uncomfortable - and reflects what we have seen from the media these last few years. Get out to vote Nov, get your friends and family to vote. Judge BK - raised a glass to you and your family. Firefighter “Forigive your enemy, but remember the bastard’s name.” -Scottish proverb | |||
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another sign the DEMs have entered new territory of dirty mob based politics: Interview w SEN Hirono (D, Hawaii) BASH: It’s another thing to run senators out of restaurants and go to their homes. Is that going too far? HIRONO: I think it just means that there are a lot of people who are very, very much motivated about what is going on. Because what happened with Judge Kavanaugh from the very beginning, this is not a fair process. What the Republicans did was to telegraph after Dr. Ford’s account came forward, what they telegraph was, one, Dr. Ford, we don’t want to hear from you. Two, if we have to hear from you, we will rig the hearing — BASH: Should they be going after people at restaurants? HIRONO: This is what happens because when you look at white supremacists and all that, this is what’s coming forth in our country. There is a tremendous divisiveness in our country. This is the kind of activism that occurs and people make their own decisions. If they violate the law, then they have to account for that. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Hirono is talking about the same kind of tactics as Maxine Waters. Who is leading the DEMs now ? There is no senior DEM leader that has the clout to call for civil behavior. There are no DEM "adults"; they all spout lies and are pushing ideas that have no chance of being successful. It is impossible to compromise w people who have such a radically biased view of reality. I have wondered from time to time what would have happened if Schumer had taken Donald Trump's offer from the early days of the Trump administration. President Trump offered Schumer the chance to sit down and negotiate. But the DEMs went into full bore attack mode. | |||
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__________________________________________________________________________________ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself. Richard M Nixon It's nice to be important, it's more important to be nice. Billy Joe Shaver NRA Life Member | |||
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| Mired in the Fog of Lucidity |
Wonder what her favorite restaurant is? | |||
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| I believe in the principle of Due Process |
Nothing. If Schumer is acting nice, reasonable, agreeable, he doesn’t mean anything by it. He is just trying to put you off your guard. Trump knows this better then just about anyone. He is utterly untrustworthy, completely phony, unctuous, insincere, the Eddie Haskell of his generation. Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me. When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown | |||
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Legalize the Constitution |
“Unctuous?” I don’t know, but tell he’s “Eddie Haskell” and I nod my head sagely. _______________________________________________________ despite them | |||
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