Category: Politics

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.

It is not yet Christmas and here I am thinking of New Year’s resolutions. The subject was not on my mind until I saw MTV’s New Year’s resolutions for white men. To quote Dave Barry, “I swear, I ain’t making this up.” Go check it for yourself.

When you choose one group or another as the reason for your perceived failures without so much as a peek into the mirror might it be that those reasons reside within. Is it not within the realm of possibility that our failures are a product of our works? History shows for any society to lay their problems on the doorstep of a particular group of people is a precariously tread path.

“To find the cause of our ills in something outside ourselves, something specific that can be spotted and eliminated, is a diagnosis that cannot fail to appeal. To say that the cause of our troubles is not in us but in the Jews, and pass immediately to the extermination of the Jews, is a prescription likely to find wide acceptance.” – Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind

I do not imagine that an attempt at exterminating white men would be very successful, but if you listen to some of these rabid haters it is clear that if some thought they had the power they would certainly give it a try. Christians are another story. It seems we offend a lot of people these days also. For many years, there has been a concerted effort to strike us and what we believe from the American psyche and to the extent that business owners are sued and fined because they do not support homosexual marriage. Exterminating Christians? It is already being allowed across the Middle East and North Africa. Here? If we are the perceived root of problems?

I have spent a lot of time trying to figure out how we turned into such a whiny, self-absorbed society. A real wuss society. I believe we have turned many of our children into neurotic messes. I read the news and look at the cover of a National Geographic magazine picturing a 9 year-old transgender. I am at a loss as to how that happens. Most certainly the child was coached up by a parent. We turn out masses of partially educated “college” graduates who are convinced that the world’s problems rest on the shoulders of white men. Did they arrive at their institution of higher education with this preconceived notion? Or, was it pumped into their partially filled brains at one of our universities few of which require any study of Western Civilization? Students arrive at these institutions largely illiterate of US history and civics and leave there not much better off. They are offended by everything, they need safe spaces, free speech zones and when the reality that much of America does not think as they do hits them they require crying rooms and counseling. Men who want to be men cannot. Masculinity is frowned upon. Women who want to be women cannot. Feminism outweighs femininity. Anyone who endorses the natural order things is scorned as a bigot – an ist or a phobic.

How about we arrive at some American resolutions? Let us be a country once again. A people united with a commonality, an allegiance to the ideals that made us great in the first place. Not divided groups vying for superiority. And make no mistake that is where we stand. That is where we allowed career politicians and activists to bring us. Right on the brink of self-destruction. Right to the point where some half-educated, half raised, brainwashed, participation trophy recipients feel the need to come up with resolutions for my life. Go to hell. Geeze, does that make me an angry white man?

Take a look in your mirror. A long hard look. Physician, heal yourself! – From Luke 4:23

© 2016 J. D. Pendry

Los Angeles lawyer Randy Schoenberg got the warrant unsealed which the FBI issued for Huma Abedin’s computer in the waning days of the election campaign and now he’s decided that there was no smoking gun which would have prompted that warrant, according to USATODAY;

“I see nothing at all in the search warrant application that would give rise to probable cause, nothing that would make anyone suspect that there was anything on the laptop beyond what the FBI had already searched and determined not to be evidence of a crime, nothing to suggest that there would be anything other than routine correspondence between” Clinton and Abedin, Schoenberg said in an email to USA TODAY. It remains unknown “why they thought they might find evidence of a crime, why they felt it necessary to inform Congress, and why they even sought this search warrant,” he said…Clinton campaign officials echoed Schoenberg’s complaints Tuesday. Campaign spokesman Brian Fallon said on Twitter that the “unsealed filings regarding Huma’s emails reveals Comey’s intrusion on the election was as utterly unjustified as we suspected at time.”

This along with the “hacked election” meme will probably headline news broadcasts for the next four years.

At the same time, Comey was in possession of evidence showing Russia was hacking into the Democratic Party apparatus, and Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., accused him of holding back “explosive” information about Russian interference…former president Bill Clinton said his wife “fought through everything, and she prevailed against it all.” But she couldn’t endure the combination of the FBI’s interference and Russian meddling.

I don’t care how or why it happened, I’m just glad that it did. The last time I checked, the FBI director works for the President. Someone should check into reasons why Obama didn’t want Clinton to be president.

Over at American Thinker, writer, Peter Skurkiss, has a piece with the interesting premise that one way to limit the out of control growth of federal government, Trump’s draining the swamp, is to decentralize it by moving various federal agencies out of the bloated federal district and into more geographically centralized and mainstream American locations. While many of the commenters agree this could help return some sanity to federal bureaucrats by making them live among those their edicts affect, others point out the risk, noting that Californians moving to Oregon, Washington and Colorado were like metastasizing political cancer cells. Many other commenters are of a mind that severely reducing the bloated agencies in size is more important, while others think that both moves have merit.
Whaddaya think here at TAH?

The Cubs won the World Series, Army beat Navy, and some semblance of sanity may be creeping into Washington. Altogether it was a decent second half for 2016. My morale is high and I aim to keep it that way. It does not matter to me what holiday if any you celebrate or what deity if any you worship. None of it offends me unless your idea of celebrating includes preventing anyone else from celebrating. So have yourself a grand old time. My main concern is that the Russians may have hacked Santa’s naughty and nice list and Wikileaked it leaving lump of coal recipients across the land demanding investigations and flailing for excuses.

In our tiny house on the hill last year, we had 2 Granddaughters, a Son and Daughter-in-law, a Sister-in-law, a Niece, and Grand Niece and Grand Nephew. Pendry manor was bursting at the seams with happy noise coming from all directions. We filled practically an entire pew for the candlelight service. And Santa visited the kids, young and old, right after. My Granddaughters were hoping for a white Christmas, unfortunately the temperatures were around 70. Still, it was a special Christmas, the best in many years. The day after Christmas we took everyone to Washington DC touring . On December 27th, the temperature there was 76. There were more people at the Smithsonian and on the Mall than you would encounter there on a summer day.

I remember Christmas from my youth. My brother Jerry, may he rest in peace, and I would trudge further up the hill from our house and roam through the woods until we found a decent looking tree to take down with a crosscut saw. He generally did the work and carried the heavy end of the tree back to the house. He did not need me to tag along and slow him down, but I am sure Mom convinced him that he did and I am grateful for the memory. Not long after he was in the Army and ultimately off to Vietnam. Not so long ago, he stood final muster. Merry Christmas brother.

I also remember my Mother’s molasses stack cake with applesauce between the thin layers. Does anyone make those anymore? Then there was the first thing I always looked for beneath the tree on Christmas morning, a bag of hard candy with my name on it. Our Christmas tree always sported candy canes that disappeared a few each day as they did when our Son was home and growing up. It was something revisited when our Granddaughters were here. Although these well mannered young ladies were hesitant to take one from the tree, Grandpa talked them into it. Unfortunately they did not share my childlike passion for peppermint candy canes, but they humored me.

I was the Lone Ranger, Red Rider and Zorro. I took my six-shooters, sword and mask to school. No one called the swat team. Had they, practically every boy at Wyoming grade school would have been carted off to the pokey for toy guns and pocket knives. Along with the other half dozen boys who got the same thing bought from the same coal company store, I thought I looked rather snazzy in my Zorro hat and cape. If we were not having cap buster gunfights or playing mumbley peg we were playing tackle with a new football someone got for Christmas. Those were different times – grand but very different.

Train tracks primarily used by coal trains formed a border between our school and the rest of the neighborhood. It was from those very tracks that my little league baseball coach announced to our principle and the rest of us down on the outdoor basketball court that President Kennedy had been shot. One day a train was stopped on the tracks. During school recess, Sammy, Bucky and me crawled between and under the stopped coal cars and went to the coal company’s store to look at the toys. The result was one of my frequent visits with Mr. Stoneman’s board of education. Not sure if it was the thrill of climbing through or under the rail cars or the following whoopin that helps the memory remain clear. Certainly it is a Christmas memory worth keeping. May you recall your good times.

From Suzie-Q and me and our family to you and yours, have a very Merry Christmas and a blessed New Year.

© 2016

I do so wish I could lay claim to creating that moniker, folks, but in truth, it belongs to Spencer Jakab at the Wall Street Journal, who coined it for his report on the latest corporate crime against stockholders. Among all the other liberal insanity we’ve witnessed since the recent elections, apparently someone at cereal manufacturing giant Kellogg’s must have gotten his social justice panties in a twist. In a stroke of petulant political payback, this poor individual decided to cancel all further advertising with conservative web giant Breitbartnews.com, a huge Trump supporter throughout the campaign.

In a countermove that would make proud its defunct feisty founder and namesake, the management at Breitbart.com immediately launched a #DumpKelloggs campaign with an anti-Kellogg’s petition calling for signers to grab that famous Tiger by his tail and swear off ever buying another product of any kind from that bunch of liberal Froot Loops. The bright folks at Breitbart further called for a boycott from its 45 million monthly readers of the cereal giant until it gets all those liberal Pop-Tarts back in the box.

Recent history for such corporate liberal nose-thumbing at conservative America does not provide Kellogg’s stockholders with much to look forward to, as last year’s bathroom boycott of Target proved out. Target’s openly leftist CEO took that retailer over that liberal lemming cliff by making all bathrooms in his stores “gender-neutral” for customers who think they’re members of the opposite sex. Though those running Target were initially defiant, substantial reductions in sales and an almost 20% drop in their stock price made them reconsider. With competitors like Walmart gaining market share while Target’s shrank, Target pledged to spend $20 million to build standalone restroom facilities in its stores.

Sources are already reporting that Kellogg’s sales are underperforming the competition like Post Holdings and General Mills, with wiser investment heads advising that this is a fight Tony the Tiger won’t win. Cereal sales are already a declining market, what with millennials and their changing morning time habits, so this is obviously a bad time for Kellogg’s liberal leadership to pick a fight with what could well turn out to be the most determined and prolific cereal killer in the history of the nation.

Hey, those Breitbart dudes have got a lot of Snap, Crackle, and Pop. Know what I mean?

Crossposted at American Thinker