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Category: “Truth or fiction?”

  • Get the Butter: Lobsters Die In Crash

    Someone provided a link to this story about PETA whining over the deaths of lobsters in a recent accident in Maine.

    People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals want to build a memorial to lobsters who died in a rollover accident near Brunswick, ME.

    https://bangordailynews.com/2018/08/29/news/midcoast/peta-hopes-to-build-memorial-where-lobsters-may-have-died-in-brunswick-crash/

    “Countless sensitive crustaceans experienced an agonizing death when this truck rolled over and their bodies came crashing down onto the highway,” PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman said. “PETA hopes to pay tribute to these individuals who didn’t want to die with a memorial urging people to help prevent future suffering by keeping lobsters and all other animals off their plates.”

    Brunswick Police have indicated that they have no information on how many, if any, lobsters died in the crash. – Article.

    Some information on lobsters is probably a worthwhile endeavor at this point.

    For example, the male lobster, being the romantic fellow that he is, not only digs a burrow for the female lobster he’s courting. He also lines it with specifically selected bits of this and that, which he has scavenged from the local sea bottom, and includes a perfume of his own making to lure in the object of his affections.

    Lobsters apparently do not have a limit to their lifespan. The oldest lobsters recorded are, among others, the Big Dipper, caught by some Maine lobstermen, estimated to be around 50 years old; Patrick, who lives at the Devon, UK, aquarium, age 50++; Larry, from Florida, estimated to be 110 years old; Louie, age 132, who had been living in Pete’s Clam Bar in Hempstead, NY, until he was returned to the wild; and George, age 140, who was caught off Newfoundland, but ended up in New York, and was returned to the wild.  http://www.oldest.org/animals/lobsters/

    The amorous nature of the lobster species does not lessen with age, either. The older they get, the more they reproduce. Unlike the mayfly, whose lifespan begins when they leave the larval stage, and ends 24 hours later, lobsters seem to have no limit to their lifespan, which means that if they gain approximately 7 pounds per year and the 4th lobster on that list weighed in at 51.5 pounds, he was around 365++ years old. If the lobstermen hadn’t caught him in 1926, he’d probably still be down there at the bottom, luring in the girls and making little lobsters.

    Think about that the next time you want oysters. You might be better off with lobster.

  • The Real FISA Scandal

    I held off posting this article because the author’s bluntness generated my own questions.  I’m only posting a portion of it. The full article is at the link here:

    https://www.city-journal.org/html/real-fisa-scandal-15706.html

    The Real FISA Scandal by Andrew Klavan.

    Subtitle: a bill for eight years of willful media blindness is starting to come due.  Published in City Journal 2/4/2018

    Scandal is not an exact science. But on a scale of “nothingburger” (Bret Stephens of the New York Times) to “worse than Watergate” (GOP congressman Steve King), the information in the House Intelligence Committee FISA Memo comes in at about a solid seven. It now seems very likely the FBI and Department of Justice deceived a FISA court with an uncorroborated piece of Democrat-funded oppo research in order to obtain a warrant to spy on American citizen Carter Page. If, as seems reasonable to conjecture, the broader target turns out to have been the Donald Trump presidential campaign for which Page had recently worked, the needle on the scandal meter will begin to edge up into the red zone.

    Let’s put it this way: if this sort of thing had gone on under President Trump or even George W. Bush, the Times would have announced the news in front-page headlines so large it would have taken two strong men just to carry the letters to the press room. An enormous collection of Times reportage on the subject—with a black cover and some title like “The Path to Tyranny”—would have been on the bookstore shelves within the month.

    And yet mainstream journalism’s reaction to the memo has so diverged from its past practices—and indeed from the media’s usual narrative about its own heroic role in our republic—that it constitutes a sort of meta-scandal within the scandal that in some ways is more dispiriting than the FISA scandal itself.

    America’s news centers—from 42nd Street in Manhattan all the way to 57th Street in Manhattan—did everything within their power to suppress, taint, and minimize the impact of the memo, even before they knew what was in it. “President Trump’s assault on the nation’s law enforcement apparatus is unlike anything America has seen in modern times,” wailed a Times “analysis” (the paper’s term of art for front-page editorializing). “The memo is the most explicit Republican effort yet to discredit the FBI’s investigation into Trump and Russia,” reports CNN, increasingly the most trusted name in hysteria.

    -break-

    The article is rather long but worth the time it takes to read the entire piece, at the link posted above. City Journal comes from the Manhattan Institute, a think tank that seems to be taking a rather jaundiced view of “trends” in society and their effects on people in general.

    This is eight months later, Kavanaugh is the SCJ nominee (probably the best choice) and Donald McGahn is White House Counsel. Coincidence? I don’t think so.

    McGahn is cooperating with the Special Counsel Investigation into whether or not there was collusion with the Russians (which ones, for Pete’s sake??!?!?) to tamper with the election in 2016.

    So the question about McGahn’s “spill” to NYT and SCI is simple: is he feeding them stuff with Trump’s consent, or is he in cahoots with them? I’d say he’s feeding them stuff, enough to make them look as bad as they are. By “bad”, I mean scrambling to find a way to get rid of Trump before his term of office ends. It comes up occasionally in news articles.

    And you have to wonder why, in view of the damaging things that were done by the previous administration – things that were an obvious intent to subvert a legitimate government – why were the media mavens so eager to fall in line behind someone whose sole intent was to destroy their freedom to be stupid fools? Why are they so blind to it?

    Well, my response is simple: take a hard, hard look at the dumbfuckery that Ernest Hemingway got himself into by agreeing to write article for NKVD publications here in the USA and overseas. He certainly wasn’t stupid, by any measure. He was a war correspondent. He drove an ambulance during WWI and subsequently got a news gig during the early days of the war in Europe, which included Franco’s attacks on the Spanish government, to report the news to US media centers. He did file reports steadily, probably by telegraph or possibly by telephone or wireless radio. What he did not see or understand, until the very end of his life when he was kicked out of Cuba by Fidel Castro and lost his home La Finca in Havana to the Cuban government, was that he was never viewed as anything but a pawn in the game of spreading communism.

    A few weeks ago, I reported on ‘Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy’, a biography of Hemingway by Robert Conquest. I got five chapters into that and had to put it down, because I really wanted to punch Hemingway as hard as I could. How anyone with his level of intelligence could be so easily duped was beyond me, but the NKVD people in New York, Europe, and elsewhere knew exactly how to feed his ridiculous ego enough to do that, and at the end, after writing ‘The Old Man and the Sea”, his last novel, he realized how much he had been had. He ended his life because of it.

    He was nothing but a tool in the very skilled hands of Stalin’s spy/propaganda network. That applies to the entire pack of idiots scrambling now to find some way to get rid of Trump ASAP. With them, it seems to start in kindergarten and roll all the way into college, fed every bit of believable stupidity you can possibly imagine, and throw in some Tootsie Rolls while you’re at it.

    I don’t know whether to be angry at these fools, or just point at them and laugh, because they are leading themselves into a swamp that drains into a black hole and will never leave it if they don’t see how they’ve trapped themselves. At this point, I don’t care what happens to them. The power hungry people in Washington who are now scrambling eagerly to try to find a way to dump Trump are digging their own black holes right now.

    But that question still goes unanswered: why are they so willfully blind to the traps they are setting for themselves?

    Why?

  • Newsroom Commando Ralph Peters Cashiers Himself

    This is from Poetrooper. As spenorty as it is, I think he’s getting his game back in spades.

    Cashiering is a historical military ritual in which an officer who has betrayed his oath or failed in his duty is required to stand before the assembled troops and have all symbols of rank and service stripped from his uniform, to demonstrate most forcefully the disgrace he has brought upon himself and possibly them.  His cap is knocked off and crushed underfoot; epaulettes or shoulder boards are ripped from his tunic; brass buttons are cut away; all medals, awards, and symbols of rank and past service are torn off and dropped in the dirt; and finally, his formal sword is broken over the knee of a fellow officer, with the two pieces scornfully cast at the disgraced officer’s feet.  It is a rite of personal and professional degradation, purposely intended to convey as much contempt and evoke as much shame as possible, to deter other officers from bringing such dishonor upon themselves and their services.

    This weekend, retired Lieutenant Colonel Ralph Peters went on CNN’s dubiously titled Reliable Sources and, in the presence of the show’s serially unreliable host, Brian Stelter, and all those unfortunate souls in airport waiting areas across the nation being force-fed this liberal Sunday-morning drivel, cashiered himself.  It appears that fulminating Trump Derangement Syndrome brought this former Fox News military analyst to perform this sad ceremony.

    To his credit, he did a bang-up job of it.

    First, Peters said:

    Well, the most dreadful part is that we have a president who does not respect our system of government, does not understand our government, who is not interested in understanding our government, who believes that the Constitution is a menu from which he can choose only the most delectable items, who disdains career bureaucrats, who doesn’t respect the Constitution.

    Whap!  There went Peters’s headgear.  Then this self-anointed Russia expert proceeded to do one of those Russian kick dances on his fallen headdress while ripping away his shoulder boards with this:

    But the twin – the evil twin of that is that I believe, as a former Russia analyst for most of my career, and having worked directly with Russian intelligence services, I am convinced that the president of the United States is enthralled to Vladimir Putin.  There is no other way to explain his behavior.  And he perfectly fits the profile of the kind of people the Russians target.

    Poor Peters continued this ritual of self-abasement by ripping away his buttons and medals with this:

    I left Fox because as a former military officer who took an oath to the Constitution, I could not be part of a channel that to me was assaulting the Constitution, the constitutional order, the rule of law.  But that said, Fox isn’t immoral, it’s amoral.  It was opportunistic.  Trump was a gift to Fox and Fox in turn is a gift to Trump.  As you observed earlier, it’s a closed loop and so people that only listen to Fox have an utterly skewed view of reality.

    Peter’s sword-breaking was reserved for this observation:

    [P]eople supporting Trump are radicals.  These … couch potato anarchists … don’t have a program to make America great again, and by the way America is great right now, rather, they’re destructive.  They want to tear things down.  They want vengeance.  And Trump is brilliant at that.  He’s done what autocrats and charlatans and false messiahs throughout history have done. He’s told core supporters, you’re not to blame for the mistakes you made. You’re not to blame for your failures. It’s them, it’s the minorities, it’s the immigrants, it’s fake news, it’s the deep state.

    As a combat veteran, which Peters is not, I have to wonder if this sneering, whiny-voiced news show commando has a clue as to how many millions of his military family he has just branded as destructive, vengeful, racist couch-potato anarchists, followers of a false messiah and derelict in our oaths to the Constitution.  It is a fact that a substantial majority of military personnel, whether active-duty, retirees, or veterans, are conservative in their politics, so Peters had to know he was spitting in the faces of millions of his former comrades.  While not enamored of some of Trump’s antics, many of us see him as something of a political Patton – a bit headstrong, perhaps, and sometimes crude in his language, but nonetheless an effective, hard charging leader who knows who and where America’s antagonists are and takes the battle to them with whatever weapons are called for.  And wins.  We, and I suspect our enemies as well, find it hard to imagine this president drawing a bright red line for an adversary and then turning tail when it is defied, leaving America to be mocked by some pissant potentate as it was under his presidential predecessor.

    Except for a few former senior officers fearful of losing their monetized security clearances with the cushy sinecures in corporate boardrooms and network greenrooms those bring, this loose-lipped, self-cashiered light colonel is most likely going to find his newly chosen political parade ground a lonely place indeed.  As Peters’s disloyal diatribe gets around the military community he has so scurrilously slandered, he soon may wish that he had performed an additional historical military ritual: seppuku, the Japanese face-saving rite of self-disembowelment.

  • Florida Man Charged in Stand Your Ground Shooting

    This one seems to be a puzzler. Several factors are involved here, so before you post something emotionally charged, consider this:

    1 – Florida has a ‘stand your ground’ statute on the books, in place since 2005, prior to the Zimmerman (Latino?) shooting of Trayvon Martin (Black) and everything that followed.

    2 – Unless otherwise informed, I believe almost all states do have a self-defense statute on the books. Even Illinois, with its tight-assed gun regulations, has that on the books.

    3 – In this case, Drejka is white and McGlockton, the deceased, is black. Both of them have/had volatile tempers and were/are quick to pick a quarrel.

    4 – Elections come up in a few months.

    5 – CNN appears to be attempting to influence a court procedure, a very bad thing to do.  How can a jury be impartial if media source like CNN has prejudiced potential jurors against accused persons? Article 8 of the US Constitution, 5th and 6th Amendments are all impinged by such an attempt.

    The original decision was to not arrest Drejka, based on the self-defense “stand your ground” statute, after McGlockton shoved him to the ground.

    CNN has published an article in which it says that Drejka has a history of making threats toward other people.  https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/14/us/florida-stand-your-ground-previous-incidents/index.html

    Apparently, the busybodies at CNN are determined to create a major incident, possibly including racist stuff, out of something that was a squabble which turned into a shoving match and someone got killed.

    CNN’s attempts to try Drejka and fry him in the media, instead of letting the justice system do its job, are obviously based on their agenda to promote antagonism and magnify reactionary behavior to events, with no consideration for the real outcome.

    Would they have spent so much time on this if McGlockton had been a white man, and/or if Drejka used a knife instead of a gun?

    This is Reuter’s report on this incident:  https://www.reuters.com/article/us-florida-shooting/florida-man-charged-in-stand-your-ground-shooting-officials-idUSKBN1KY1VG

    Reuters is simply reporting the facts of this event, not attempting to promote an opinion in you, the reader.  So this brings up an important subject: freedom of the press.

    Is it more important to let CNN run with its attempts to stir up controversy and trouble,  a clear indicator that they have a hidden agenda, instead of shutting them up? Is their obvious bias toward causing trouble going to show not just overt prejudice, but also a very obvious attempt to influence the judicial system and the outcome of real-world trials?

    If CNN, and others of their ilk, try someone in the press – nothing new, by the way, it has happened for a long time – who will be able to get a fair trial? And should CNN, et al., be held responsible for such interference when/if evidence is found to show that an accused person was, in fact, NOT the guilty party, despite their attempts to hang him high? This, also, is not something new.

    Since it appears to me that CNN is doing everything possible to hang Drejka to keep him from getting a fair trial, what is the solution to their miscreance?

     

  • Secret Communications During – uh, arguments?

    I heard there was a Secret Code

    That broke their minds and stopped them cold

    But that’s just silly rumor stuff now, isn’t it?

    I’ve been working on some Seekrit Squirrel stuff for a while – which I can’t talk about because it’s… well, classified, y’know.  But I did come up with some secret codes that might be worth considering as a way to confusticate the Bad Guys and make them scratch something besides themselves.

    Since seekrit squirrel codes are being stolen and posted online all the time, I though that new language called Gibberish might be useful. And if you can figure out what the first bunch of lines mean, let me know.

    Akcie998nJK – 65tcls; xoejav; mervno ashtoer refpepepit

    Sldi w3en3

    Fkwp; 938rf-d

    Flwerijt92kdf’ d’cicu23k ccf9wskcnva ;dld9 vld8avw 3kj

    There’s also that part about ‘The cat is in the pan. I say again, the cat is in the pan.”

    Next, we have chitchat between the Strikeforce Control Group and the hot doggers (strikers, ground and aerial).

    Note to Chef d’Équipe:

    Translation: Bomber to Striker One Guidon:

    We’re ordering 30 pounds of onions, 30 pounds of potatoes and 4 cartons of tabasco for dinner

    Translation: we’re dropping 30 bumper crops of conventional bombs and 15 MOABs plus 4 incendiary bombing runs

    Is there any smell with those onions? Negative. We provide only the best materials when we have dinner guests.

    Translation: are any of those bombs loaded with nerve gas or chemicals? Negative. All are non-chem, non-nuke and clean.

    SHOPPING LIST (Targets Assigned, Logistics Required)

    5 lb potatoes – all red, no russets = carpet bombing 5 runs

    5 bottles of super hot tabasco sauce = incendiary bombing 5 runs

    Cooking spray – 6 cartons = 6 squads of fighter-bombers or for land forces, 6 brigades of heavy artillery-based infantry, plus aerial backup

    Who’s jumping out of the cake at the end?  Yo mama!

    Translation: Homing in on target now.

    How many candles on it?  Nine big fat ones!

    Translation: Nine Fatboy nuke mines are planted and primed.

    Don’t be late for dinner.

    Translation:  Get all Groundpounders the hell out of that valley now-now-now!

    Okay,  and leave the light on for us, willya?

    Translation: There in eight.

    I noticed that when that dead messenger homing pigeon from WWI was found in a chimney a couple of years ago, those old codes could have gone without translation if someone hadn’t found and bought an old code book at a curiosity shop.  I’m guessing that truckers still have that old ‘Breaker-breaker’ thing.

    Since someone is always trying to steal secret codes, I think keeping it as simple as possible is a good idea.  You know what I mean: if hours are like days, it will take 3.75 days to rebake this batch of cookies (repair the warp drive and get us out of here).

    I’m just waiting for someone in a tight spot to put out a Mayday call as James Kirk requesting permission to set off the Corbomite Device, which will destroy all lifeforms and shipping without a 250 mile radius of ground central.

  • What Fools These Liberals Be….

    Ed Rogers posted an article in Jewish World Review, which was picked up and posted by the Washington Post and by my morning newspaper.  http://jewishworldreview.com/0518/ed_rogers051018.php3

    In the article, he reports that Hillary Clinton whined that being a capitalist “probably” hurt her when campaigning against democratic socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., in 2016, that maybe she should have used the word socialist.

    As he indicates, Republicans are chasing their tails, trying to avoid that ‘deer in the headlights” appearance and Democrats are wondering if they’ll have to answer questions about whether they support capitalism or socialism when 2020 campaign season comes up. He also takes a look at the current crop of millennials.

    I’ve been wading through a biographical account of Ernest Hemingway’s involvement in spying for the nascent Soviet Union when he was a journalist in the USA and following events in Spain during the Franco Revolution, at the outbreak of World War II. It’s written by Nicholas Reynolds, (Writer, Sailor, Solider, Spy) a curator for the CIA’s museum (yes, they have one, but can you get tickets to it?) which follows Hemingway’s journey from the aftermath of the 1935 hurricane that whacked the Florida Keys and his discovery that War Bond soldiers who had been recruited to go to the Keys to do housing construction had not been evacuated, and almost all of them had died when the hurricane struck. He was outraged. He began to hate Roosevelt (a New Deal socialist if there ever was one) and was easily persuaded by the editor of The Masses, a Communist publication in the USA, to write articles for them – and later, to spy for the NKVD, the precursor to the KGB. At some point (I haven’t arrived there yet) he was also recruited by the OSS (pre-CIA) to work for them.

    He spent time with the Castros during their ouster of Batista. He thought they were buddies. He believed Fidel when that goat told him he carried a copy of ‘For Whom the Bell Tolls’ in his backpack. It  was not until Fidel Castro confiscated Hemingway’s beloved home La Finca in Havana and kicked him out of Cuba, that Ernest Hemingway, the brilliant author, WWI ambulance driver, and hard-driving war correspondent, realized that he had been hosed.

    While Hemingway was being led around by the nose, mostly because his contacts knew how to feed his massive, expansive ego, Josef Stalin was executing anyone he perceived as a threat to his position. When he’d gotten rid of Trotsky,  he turned on his senior Army officers, which included Massiliev, the most senior and most experienced of them. This comes from Robert Conquest’s ‘The Terror: a Reassessment”, which I have only glanced through. Twelve senior, experienced, loyal Russian Army officers were executed, while Hitler was just beginning his rampage through Europe. The mass grave was found near St. Petersburg a while back.

    Conquest wrote the first edition of ‘The Terror’ based on eye witness accounts. When the Iron Curtain fell, when the Soviet Union was disestablished, he went to Russia to research those accounts and provided back up for them in the ‘Reassessment” edition.

    I think it’s a good idea to have both of these titles on your bookshelves. They are thoroughly researched works.

    Why am I writing about this? Because the mind-numbingly blasé attitude of the socialist side of the millennial crowd is that it wasn’t done right. It isn’t done that way.

    Wrong, kiddies. Very wrong.

    Stalin did it exactly right: eliminate any and all who may even vaguely oppose you, quickly and thoroughly. All he needed was unquestioning obedience, which he got through fear, mass murder, forced labor at gulags, and starvation. Thanks to his embracing Lysenkoism and outright mass murder, 27,000,000 people died of starvation, execution, hard labor in the gulags, and just plain freezing to death.  Hitler did it right, putting Germany first, and slaughtering 14,o00,000++ German and European citizens, just because he could.  Mao Tse-Tung did it right, letting 30,000,000++ Chinese people starve. Why would he care? They breed like rabbits, don’t they? You always need more laborers. Pol Pot did it right: get rid of the older generations because they knew too much and resisted him and his Khmer Rouge. Ask the survivors of his rampages.

    Ho Chi Minh was a Communist. He blackmailed the French at the end of the French-Indochina War into forking over ransom cash for their 15,000 prisoners of that war. He knew exactly how to do it right. The Viet Cong meant nothing to him, so he used them. That spilled over into the 1960s and became our war when Kennedy sent advisers to the South Vietnamese government, and you know the rest of that story. But it wasn’t really over. When the NVA rolled their tanks into Saigon in April, 1975, the city was rapidly being abandoned because the South Vietnamese knew what they’d face if they stayed. And that is what it is: a Communist country, following China’s economic model. You can run a business and make a profit and they love tourists there. But if you speak out against the government in anyway, you will be sent to a re-education camp, so shut up.

    The point is that they ALL knew how to do it right: get rid of any people with opposing ideas, independent thoughts, etc., and squelch the rest through Pure Terror. That’s how it’s done right  (I can hear someone squawking now!) Ask Vlad Putin about it. He was the head of the KGB for a very long time.

    As you’ll see when you read the article linked above, the millennials who belong to the Bright Idea Club all have these wunnaful-a, wunnaful-a ideas about things like a monthly stipend for everyone and guaranteed jobs – all things you get in a Communist world – but all cooked up with no idea where the money comes from to pay for these things. What they need is a harsh lesson in the reality that it creates. When have any of them gone hungry, frozen or exhausted from hard labor – ever?

    When I watched the demise of the Soviet Union, when Mikhail Gorbachev was quoted on the news as saying “We can’t do this any more. We are broke,” and he dissolved the Politburo, I realized that there would be future generations who never had to face the possibility of missiles launched from Cuba toward their homes in the northern Midwest. And they would take this safety for granted.

    Sometimes, I detest being right.

  • We the People Do Not Follow False Prophets

    This is not about gun control.

    It’s about what drives the control freaks to want to deprive American citizens of the right to own this or that, do this or that, and say this or that.

    I spent some time this week reading a chapter from a book about the madness behind the near-to-religious fanaticism in people who insist that we’re all doomed and the world is going to end tomorrow unless all of us agnostics and antitheorists kowtow to the New Religion of Climate Whoosiewhatsis.  Some of the more flagrant cranks offered to strangle you in your bed.

    Because it’s Lent, and because Easter falls on April Fool’s Day this year, I suggested some place else that people who wish to relieve themselves of the Burden of Unbelief spend some time (and substantial cash) in the company of the Monks of Carbon Apostasy.

    I will happily include in that a visit to the Brethren of Guns ‘n’ Ammo Apostasy.

    While I was poking fun at the hysterics of fanaticism and pseudo-religious fervor we witness in so-called liberals, I wasn’t too far off on the pseudo-religious aspect of it. “Catastrophe”, “worse than ever”, “doomsday” and other hyperbole  connected to climate references is advertising language, used to sell a product which, in this case, is not just climate change, but rather disastrous climate change.

    “Repent, and give us your money and you’ll be saved from this Looming Catastrophe!!!  Algore needs more of your money, so send it!! All of it!!!”

    Does anyone besides me remember Jim and Tammy Faye Baker?

    It is baloney, and we all know it, but the uninformed, naïve twits who fall for that stuff swallow it as if it were chocolate syrup on vanilla ice cream. They are drawn into it because it provides them with some sort of pseudoreligious ecstasy. They become part of what they think is a Higher Order. This is not a joke. When you try talking to them in a reasonable way, to point out that the disaster hasn’t happened yet, and likely won’t, that they are being deceived, they refuse to listen, and either run off or start those lame-ass personal attacks.

    It is the same thing with guns. The fact that no one is forcing the anti-gun crowd to buy, own, rent, touch or even look at a gun is immaterial. They don’t get that part at all, nor do they care. They insist on being terrorized by guns.  It feeds their need for some kind of emotional fulfillment. Frankly, I doubt that the majority of them go to any religious edifice unless there’s a funeral – and even then, they’d probably rather have it in a gym. In a large enough edifice, they can wallow in their Worship of the Dead. Something is missing in their souls. Perhaps a visit to the confessional would help them.

    We know exactly how, why, and when guns are pounced on by the media as horrifying objects at the very moment a shoot-shoot-bang-bang event occurs. The fact that the media as a group act worse than African jackals sniffing for blood and scrounging for scraps when something dies only emphasizes their blood lust. And they have that, in spades. They wallow in it. They are just as addicted to this lust for blood as a crackhead is addicted to crack cocaine, or a junkie who shoots up, or some kid stealing painkiller opioids from a medicine cabinet because he will do anything to get high.

    What’s the source of this need to hammer the public about blood and gore?  I’m not sure, but if you are familiar with real history, not the foppish made-up crap being taught now, you know that we humans as a species have a long, long trail of spilled blood, because we are apex predators, just like lions, bears, wolves and sharks. The Romans had organized theater for it in gladiatorial games. The sight and smell of bloodletting can make you randy, even if you won’t admit it to yourself. But now, we are more civilized.  We have football and pizza instead of brutal sword fights and dormice pickled in grape leaves.

    It isn’t something new. The media have always been like this, but the current crop of media mopes seems to have gone off the deep end into a cenote of blood thirstiness that would put Dracula and Caligula to shame. The ‘jump to a conclusion’ hysterics that followed immediately on the heels of the Parkland school shooting were too disgusting for words. It was like watching a kettle of vultures gathering in the sky, looking for a corpse to tuck into before the animal is even dead – except that vultures don’t do that. (No offense meant to vultures in general.)

    It is not only the media that act this way, as individuals and brainless zombies. They can smell blood on the pavement long before it dries. They count on the same blood lust in their viewers. They know their audience well enough to throw these ghoul parties ‘Live! On TV!”

    However, as we found very shortly after the choreographed hysterics, abusive displays of frightened children on live TV, and a complete lack of simple decency, the media were so completely wrong and so full of utter shit, that they completely lost any credibility they might ever have had.

    How quickly did that story die away, once their falsehoods were exposed? Stepped on their own cranks, they did.

    Further information was released on a daily basis and the massive errors by the Liberaltwits became nothing but an embarrassment to journalism. They made damned fools of themselves in the process, sending real journalism further down into the sewers. One can only hope that they will never recover from their own deceit, and that in fact, it will become worse and worse until they are fully exposed for what they are: the false front faggot-bearers for Totalitarianism.

    The pseudo-religious hysterics also apply to the Guns & Ammo corner, and all things related to them as one liberal, self-involved, greedy politician after another jumps into the spotlight to try to blame inanimate objects for what people do. A gun cannot function without a human using it, any more than my 9 inch cast iron skillet can cook bacon without my putting bacon into it and turning on the stove. Ammo won’t load itself into a magazine, nor will my paring knives jump out of the kitchen drawers without assistance.

    These transparent and lame attempts to promote fanaticism are not doing too well. They are slowly crumbling. I think that the Leftherds were counting on We the People as a group, being dumb enough to not think for ourselves, and they were wrong again.

    We the People aren’t remotely the dumbasses that they think we are.

    Nor are We the People as stupid as they are. We the People can still tell a hawk from a handsaw. They cannot.

    Therefore, We the People must remain vigilant. We the People cannot afford to yield even one inch. Give them no quarter. We the People have a tough fight ahead of us, but we should be able to say ‘You should have seen the other guy.’

    Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose… “Me and Bobby McGee”  Writers: Fred L Foster / Kris Kristofferson

  • WOLF!!!

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    I haven’t paid a whole lot of attention to the twitterpating going on in the media, the WH or otherwise. But it appears to me that the liberal side of the journalistic bench is more interested in trying to destroy the United States government by bullying Trump than they are in reporting the real news.

    I think that part is quite plain. It’s six months into his administration and they still haven’t unseated him. It must hurt their feelings that they can’t bully him into leaving on a Friday. Filing and reporting fiction as news is merely one symptom of their spoiled brat behavior. They want to be in control, but are not, and they are showing us how butthurt they are about it. If you can’t see that, you’re not paying attention.

    I know how much the lefties despise him, and how much the lefty media really hate his guts. They’re as transparent as glass about it. But the leftist media don’t have to like him. A critic with opposing views is a legitimate stance. It’s as necessary to have critics as it is to have ‘all ahead full’ on the dial.

    In a free society like ours, the liberal media have the right, as observers, to criticize his policies and his rather boorish behavior. I wish he’d put a sock in it, myself. They don’t have the right to lie their asses off about him just to get attention and try to destroy his administration. It tells us how desperate they are to get rid of him by the use of verbal assassination and imaginary tales of villainy.

    He isn’t Richard Nixon. No matter how much they want to turn him into Tricky Dick, it ain’t gonna happen.

    Mr. Trump is a lot tougher than they are or could possibly imagine being. They think he’s as weak as they are. Unless I miss my guess, he’s laughing up his sleeve at them, and letting the rest of us know by all that twitterpating. Since I don’t do twitterpating, I miss that silly stuff unless someone posts it somewhere. He’s making very good use of their own weapons against them and they can’t stand it. It’s the ‘right back at ya’ response. It must hurt to be beaten at your own teenybopper gossipy little bitch game.

    The conniving by the leftist media to destroy Trump is a symptom of  their growing desperation.. If that weren’t so, would they be making up stories about him and those around him that are obvious fiction, or engaging so heavily in character assassination by publicly perjuring themselves?

    They’ve forgotten one simple rule that they should have learned, but ignored or dismissed: in a free country, freedom of speech and freedom of the press do not give them the right to lie about someone and state it as fact just because they hate him, especially when there are enough people watching their nonsense who can easily and quickly debunk it with real-world facts. Those who are checking and debunking leftist media’s reports are the curbstrap on the bit that gets the runaway horse’s attention.

    This is nothing more than grade school bullying by a bunch of little kids in adult bodies. Not one of them has had an original idea since they left 4th grade. They are stupid enough to believe their own drivel, and think everyone else is as stupid as they are, which is a massive failure on their part. Their ‘mob action’ is less about reporting than it is about being in the spotlight.

    I said several months ago, before the November elections took place, that at some point, the political pendulum had gone as far to the left as it could. I said it would start to slowly swing in the other direction. In physics, Newton’s laws of motion hold true. They also hold true in the political arena. I was right. When Trump was elected, the political pendulum began its swing toward the right and will eventually center itself.

    Remember the kid who cried ‘wolf!’?  The leftist media are doing a fine job of discrediting themselves with their antics and fallacious reporting. If they do enough fake news reporting, then when one of them stumbles across something real and reports it, no one will believe them.

    The leftist media are not paying attention to what is really important: the pending recession that I brought up yesterday. It can put a lot of overpaid people out of work, including them. And frankly, I would not mind seeing a long line of them bunched up behind each other at the entrance to a Depression-era soup kitchen, like those guys  lined up in the photo.