The New York Post has absolutely nailed the Hillary coronation with this very funny cover:
Whatta gracious gesture, waiving her usual speaking fee. Trust me, if we let her get into the White House, she’ll be raking that much in for her “charitable foundation” on a daily basis.
The most irritating member of the #NeverTrump bunch, due in equal parts to his bully pulpit and his propensity for self-promotion, Erick Erickson, former editor of RedState.com, the self-ordained Saint Erick of Pure Conservatism, lost no time in using Bill Clinton’s convention speech to take another shot at Donald Trump. While swooning like a White House intern, the guy actually uses the Clinton marriage arrangement to criticize the multiple marriages of the Republican candidate. Good grief, Erick, even Democrat zealots have long recognized the Clinton marriage as a political alliance and a social beard to conceal his sexual addiction and her preference for women, things that Bill long ago confessed to multiple mistresses.
What’s worse is that Erickson gets suckered by that famous “Aw shucks” phony, country-boy shtick that Bill employs when he’s really trying to mislead you, to the extent that he resurrects that old excuse for Bill’s bad behaviors that he’s a bad boy you’d like to have a beer with. Yep, a supposed political sophisticate like Erickson gets sucked in like a wide-eyed schoolgirl:
Bill Clinton is still the guy you want to have a beer with. He paraded through a tour of states on what Hillary had done for the little guy. He talked about their marriage. He completely skipped 1998. But he came to rehabilitate Hillary’s image in the eyes of the American people and I suspect the old charmer charmed a good number of people.
Well, maybe you want to drink with the “old charmer,” Erick, but I think I could find someone better to drink with than a corrupt grifter, a disgraced perjurer and nationally disbarred lawyer who is also a sexual predator and serial abuser of women, an accused rapist and a known recreational associate of a convicted pedophile billionaire aboard an airborne pedophile playpen and at a secluded island of pedophiliac pleasures. For a vastly righteous conservative of such high and mighty principles, you sure don’t seem to mind who you bend elbows with, do you, Erickson?
Maybe you’d better ditch those beer goggles, son.
Even you Trump naysayers here at TAH, and there are plenty of you, have to take some enjoyment from the way the guy sticks it to the liberal media. He did it again yesterday with a press conference which sucked all the media oxygen out of the Democrat convention and sucked in all the liberal media with his appeal to Russia to publicly release the 30,000 emails deleted by Hillary Clinton. The Trump campaign set the trap and all those brilliant journalists from the left wing media pounced right into it, with cries of treason against Trump and outrage that he had violated national security.
But wait…weren’t we assured by Hillary herself that those 30,000 emails were harmless, dealing with Chelsea’s wedding plans, Hillary’s yoga and dinner recipes? So why is it now that Hillary’s media lapdogs, after years of going along with her dismissal of those emails as harmless personal fluff, are suddenly fearful that there’s some content in there that may constitute real national security matters? So which way is it you yapping poodles, harmless recipes or national security?
Trump laid the trap and those media fools never saw it coming. If you believe that the enemy of your enemy is your friend, you have to admire Trump, even if only grudgingly, for sticking it to the liberal media, who are no friends to our military and bitterly disliked by many here at TAH.
I am not making this up. From FoxNews:
Hundreds of Bernie Sanders supporters are expected to stage a Fart-In Thursday at the Democratic National Convention meeting in Philadelphia.
An assortment of Socialists, beatniks, and leftwing rabble-rousers plan to consume massive quantities of pork and beans in preparation for the pungent protest.
Normally I’d say “YGBSM!” about a story like that. But given the intended “protest” activities, well . . . maybe that would be inviting disaster.
And God help us all if they find enough raw onions, chili peppers, pickled eggs, and stale beer to go with the beans. (smile)
AZtoVA sends us a link to the Military Times where they report that mobile phone service Defense Mobile dropped thousands of troops’ and veterans’ service without warning.
The company is in the process of restructuring, said its chief executive officer, Anthony Montoya, who recently took the helm. “The company wasn’t doing well. I’m trying to get it on the right track,” he said.
He declined to specify how many veterans and service members have been affected.
Montoya said the company lost coverage with some of its carriers.
The company has been providing refunds, and those are being processed through PayPal in generally three to five days, he said. “And our team has been working with folks to switch to new carriers” to port their phone numbers, he said. “We’re working with them every day.”
Yeah, well, your customers need some warning, dude. Generally, I use companies that support the troops, but I would never use a company who has the troops as the main part of their business plan. They tend to take the troops for granted.
I made it all the way through the Republican Convention without getting so enthused that I ran to this computer and made a contribution to the Trump campaign. I usually wait until fairly late in presidential campaigns to donate because past experience has taught me the hard lesson that the first donation opens the floodgates of solicitation via email, snail mail, and telephone. Besides, I figure that’s when my candidate needs cash the most, in the late stages of the fight, when it’s getting down to the nitty-gritty and a lot of the early supporters are beginning to feel tapped out.
But damn all, that phony redskin, Fauxahontas Warren, just sent me frothing to this keyboard to donate my first hundred bucks way too early by my normal practices. I simply could not help myself; listening to the litany of lies flowing so glibly from that self-proclaimed savage, who has spoken with a forked tongue throughout her career to gain advantage over her peers, utterly drove me to violate my own policy. I know, I know: it’s gonna cost me bucks – a few hundred more than usual, most likely – because now those Republican fund-raisers are going to be coming after me from every point of the conservative compass.
You know what? I don’t care. I am so determined that a conniving, corrupt criminal and her pedophile husband will not sit in our White House that I’m willing to put my bucks where Donald’s mouth is. He’s not perfect, but he’s a damned sight better than the alternative. So tonight, way ahead of my normal schedule, I sent him my first hundred bucks, and I’ll certainly send more – I hope not before this Democrat Convention is over, but that depends on who they put up there as speakers and how gratingly irritating they are. I’m praying they don’t put that phony, shrieking Fauxahontas back on stage, because I’m here to tell you, folks: that woman may not be a natural Native American, but she’s for damned sure a natural fundraiser for Trump.
And it’s gonna cost me money…
Crossposted at American Thinker
Davy sends us a link about a story in DeKalb County, Georgia, where the County Commissioner race is heating up. It caused incumbent Sharon Barnes Sutton to accuse her opponent, Steve Bradshaw, of Stolen Valor for some of his claims during the campaign.
Barnes Sutton claims Steve Bradshaw changed his story about being a commander in the Army during a local radio interview on the video.
It’s an allegation Bradshaw refutes. He provided us with documentation to show that he served in the gulf war and his first assignment was as a platoon leader in charge of four army tanks.
“I can assure you that Steve served honorably in the Army,” Gulf War Veteran Kevin Brau said.
And just one day before the District 4 runoff election, Bradshaw’s comrade on the battlefield has come to his defense to set the record straight.
I guess that the election is scheduled for today. We’ll see how that works out for Barnes Sutton.
Added 7-27-2016; Bradshaw got 75% of the votes in the primary.
Illinois passed a stolen valor law according to the Alton Daily News, but I don’t know why they bothered. Phonies caught lying about their military service for profit get hit with a whopping $200 fine.
For example, Robert Kerkorian, the former police chief of Waukegan, IL got his job in the police department and ultimately became police chief largely because he falsely claimed to be a Navy SEAL. That’s worth $200, right? By the way, when Kerkorian was busted for his lies, Waukegan Mayor Motley defended the valor thief.
Vietnam War veteran B.G. Burkett wrote a book about investigating so-called stolen valor. He said the Illinois law should be harsher. “I don’t want to say it’s worthless, but it’s not going to have much effect one way or the other.”
Burkett said he has found egregious examples over the decades of people, including police chiefs and politicians, pretending to be veterans. “I’d like to see them make it a felony, particularly if they’re getting money.”
Retired Navy SEAL Larry Bailey, who works alongside Burkett to expose fraudsters, said there’s something more powerful than a fine. “Actually the greatest punishment can be the public recognition as a fraud,” Bailey said.
So, Illinois’ new law keeps us in the Stolen Valor business.