Author: Poetrooper

Want to know what liberal movers and shakers really think about us, the kind of folks who read and comment here at TAH? Surf on over to Daily Caller’s article by Robert Donachie where he quotes a Silicon Valley tech CEO as to what she honestly thinks about locating some of those high-paying jobs in Middle America. Here’s the essence of it:

Melinda Byerley, MBA and founder of Timeshare CMO, a Silicon Valley-based tech start-up, tweeted out Saturday afternoon describing what middle America could do to “get more jobs in their area.”

Byerley says that the first thing those in middle America need to realize is that “no educated person wants to live in a shithole with stupid people.” Particularly, in a “shithole” filled with people who are “violent, racist, and/or misogynistic.” In Byerley’s opinion, “big corporations,” do not consider moving to the heart of America because “those towns have nothing going for them.”

The towns have “no infrastructure, just a few bars and a terrible school system.”

The MBA claims that “we,” the educated people, like herself, “would like to live a more rural lifestyle,” but they “won’t sacrifice tolerance or diversity to do so.” Especially, these folks do not want to live in “states where the majority of residents are voting for things against their own interests,” solely, because these voters “don’t want brown people to thrive.”

She declares that if middle American towns can begin fixing their schools, and, essentially, “clean up their act,” then people like Byerley will “want to live there.” She even says that the fixing these problems would bring the “best and brightest” of our youth who “would rather scrape by in SF than live in a huge house somewhere if it meant dealing with with bigots and backwards ideologies every day,” to middle America.

Boy, I guess Melinda sure set ol’ Poe straight on what we have to do here in Arkansas to get more of her kind to move here. She sure knows how to inspire folks into throwing at the welcome mat, doesn’t she? Actually, it’s refreshing to hear one of these pompous liberal assholes tell the truth about how they really view America. Wouldn’t you dearly love to hear what she honestly thinks about the military?

Over at American Thinker, editor, Thomas Lifson, reports on a very misleading report by CBS Radio about the recent racial attack in Chicago by four black “yutes” on a mentally disabled, young white man:

In the brief Thursday morning report– which attracted attention when a listener posted the clip on Reddit Friday– here’s how CBS characterized the attack:

The viral video of a beating and knife attack in Chicago suggests the assault had racial overtones. CBS’s Dean Reynolds tells us the victim is described as a mentally-challenged teenager.

In the video he is choked and repeatedly called the n-word. His clothes are slashed and he is terrorized with a knife. His alleged captors repeatedly reference Donald Trump. Police are holding four people in connection with the attack. [Emphasis added by Mediaite]

The report is technically correct, but widely misleading. By noting the attackers used the n-word during a racially-motivated attack while “referencing” Donald Trump, the clear implication is that the victim was black and his attackers were racist Trump fans.

Now we have some fairly sharp readers here at TAH, folks at accomplished at separating truth from fiction, the purpose of the site in fact, and yet I’ll wager that almost every one of you who heard nothing more than this report:

In the video he is choked and repeatedly called the n-word. His clothes are slashed and he is terrorized with a knife. His alleged captors repeatedly reference Donald Trump. Police are holding four people in connection with the attack.

Would be fairly sure that the victim was black and the yutes were white, right? And that, folks, is precisely why why ol’ Poe believes American journalism needs to be thoroughly and completely purged, from high school journalism teachers right on through college journalism departments up to and including the highest positions in the media news industry.

When someone asks a question for which the answer is glaringly obvious, there’s a traditional sarcastic response: does a wild bear s— in the woods? My every consideration of the recent dealings between our inept president and the president of the Russian Federation leaves me with a mental image of a steaming heap of Russian “contempt” piled right in the center of that desk Barack Obama is so fond of using as a foot rest.

Let’s not go into all the lead-ups to the most recent events that have shown the world quite obviously what happens when you match up a community organizer against a KGB colonel. It is no match, as the world has long suspected and now knows without question: that Democrat jackass in our White House has just had his haunches chewed to a pinkish political pulp by a nimble Russian Bear. Despots the world over are chuckling into their sleeves that this arrogant product of political correctness and its ugly stepchild, affirmative action, is now, in the very last weeks of his ruinous reign, finally getting his comeuppance in a totally satisfying public manner.

Although I must credit Vladimir Putin for outmaneuvering our inept Barry, make no mistake: I trust Vlad no farther than I could toss an angry Ursus Rubeus, so please save yourselves the heated comments labeling me a traitor or whatever. The truth is, I simply can’t help but feel a sense of satisfaction seeing this phony in our White House finally expose himself for the inept pretender he is. That he has managed to do it so openly is even more satisfying. My suspicion that Obama’s actions are more focused on creating difficulties for the incoming American chief of state than actually punishing Russia for any cyber-transgressions inclines me even more to take delight in the way he has been outmaneuvered on the world stage and shown to be the ineffectual fool he has always been. And I do believe that the Russian bear has taken a healthy dump in our Oval Office.

I can hear Barry now: “Will somebody get in here and get this pile of Putin’s bear poop off my desk? Well, damn all if I didn’t get it on my shoes!”

Crossposted at American Thinker

Like many of you, when I first heard of Donald Trump’s choice for secretary of state, I was a bit uneasy. I’m a capitalist, to be sure, but I’ve always tempered my enthusiasm for the principle with a strong sense of distrust of those who rise to its highest levels of leadership for the simple reason that common sense will tell you that you have to be a bit of a shark to survive the process. So when Donald announced that his SecState will be the CEO of one of the largest corporations on the planet, my antennae began to quiver.

Now, just in time to add some harmony to our holidays, comes this recounting, originally published in the Dallas Morning News, from Texas small business owner Emily Roden, published on Christmas Eve by The Daily Caller, of her service as a juror for a criminal trial in North Texas several years ago. A fellow juror was a tall, distinguished, silver-haired gentleman with an aura of command about him. For that, his fellow jurors wanted him to serve as foreman, but he demurred, indicating he’d be satisfied simply to serve as one of the jury. It was about then that the other jurors discovered that the fellow, who looked as though he could have played a wealthy oilman on Dallas, was, in fact, just that: a wealthy oilman from Dallas. He was Rex Tillerson, CEO of ExxonMobil.

What Ms. Roden – who, by the way, did not vote for Trump – goes on to recount about Mr. Tillerson and his impact on seeing that justice was done by that undecided jury makes for a very nice, warm, fuzzy read for Christmas Day. I won’t steal anyone’s thunder by revealing the Christmas treat here, but I think if you click in there and read Roden’s account, you will not only feel better about Donald Trump’s selection, but maybe even feel better about the world around you for a bit. May this make your Christmas better – it did mine.

Merry Christmas, all y’all!

Crossposted at American Thinker

Recently Ex-PH2 wrote of Christmas and Grinches and commenters made it abundantly clear that Grinches are no less despised by TAH followers than Stolen Valor thieves. Well, coming out of Polk County, Florida is a story of a Grinch who is also an alleged thief of the most despicable intent and unbelievable proportions. According to Sheriff Grady Judd, his department is holding Tammy Strickland/Rivera of Eagle Lake on 166 felony and 28 misdemeanor charges involving theft by fraud from the county’s Toys for Tots program. Due to the high number of offenses, bail was set at $180,000 which apparently is unattainable for Strickland/Rivera in spite of her being the proprietor of a tax preparation service and driver of a Cadillac. From the Lakeland Ledger:

Judd expressed unabashed glee several times during the news conference at Strickland’s arrest. He noted Strickland told arresting deputies, “I guess I’m going someplace else,” when informed of her bond amount.
“Yeah, Tammy, you’re going someplace else. You’re going to where we lock up Grinches. You’re going to Grinch city,” Judd said.

Perhaps during her Christmas stay at Grinch City, Tammy will come to feel the embracing warmth of the holidays as other inmates such as Big Tonya and Mumu Mama teach her the finer points of how they always get such satisfaction out of their very own Toys are Twats program.