It’s Monday, February 29th, 2016…which means it must be a Presidential election year. But before we begin, a brief observation regarding a consistent theme we’ve detected running through a recent spate of racially-motivated “hate” crimes. Submitted for your perusal, Exhibit “A”…
Marine Assaulted At McDonald’s, As Gang Yelled ‘Do You Believe Black Lives Matter?’
Marquez, 30, who is one of two Marines depicted carrying then-1st Sgt. Bradley Kasal out of the so-called “Hell House” in a famous photograph(above), was assaulted at a McDonald’s after he was finished eating. Marquez told the Washington Post a group of teens and young men approached his table and asked him if he “believed black lives matter.”
A witness claimed Marquez had used a racial slur before the attack, Fox 5 reports…
Followed by Exhibit “B”:
University of Albany students who claimed to be victims of racist attack charged
Three black female college students who claimed to be victims of an assault by a group of white men and women have been charged themselves. Officials at the University of Albany announced Thursday that two of the women, Ariel Agudio and Asha Burwell, have been charged with misdemeanor assault and falsely reporting an incident. The third woman, Alexis Briggs, has been charged with misdemeanor assault.
The women, all 20 years old, claimed they were attacked early on the morning of Jan. 30 while riding a bus. They claimed that they were called racial slurs and were physically attacked while bystanders looked on.
The false report charge against Aguido and Burwell stem from 911 calls the women made reporting the incident. In one of the calls, Agudio tells the dispatcher, “It was a racial crime. They were calling us [N-word] and all this stuff…And if someone doesn’t come and take this down or something, I’m going to call the news.”
Hillary, of course, mirroring her blind support for her meal ticket…er,…husband in the face of innumerable claims against him for sexual assault, sided with wrong party without even whiffing the reality of the facts surrounding the incident:
Holy shades of “The cops acted stupidily”, Batman!
You know where we’re going with this. All of it sounds great; except he…
…didn’t say it, and they…
…never heard it!
By the perverted logic of the Modern Left, Sheriff Bart would have been justified in pumping the resident racist of Rock Ridge…
…full of lead rather than ignoring the insult…particularly as the insult was never hurled in the first place!
Here’s the juice: these incidents, along with the increased violence against police the nation is experiencing almost daily, is the direct result of a President who has, from his first day in office, used racial and class division to distract from his determinedly Marxist agenda, as well as the harm it’s visited upon the very people he purports to protect.
Hillary can only offer more of the same.
Oh,…although we remain dead-set against his candidacy, here’s a reason we almost wish Trump were already elected:
Another Host of The View Threatens to Leave America If A Republican Wins
Back in January, The View co-host Whoopi Goldberg mused the idea of leaving the United States if Donald Trump were elected president. Now, it seems as though she’ll have a travel buddy. Fellow co-host Raven-Symoné (whatever the heck THAT is; from the look of her lipstick, she’s a Baltimore offensive lineman who blocks as well as Michael Oher!!!), no stranger to controversy herself, said that she plans to leave the country if a Republican is “nominated.”
From Yahoo:
During Thursday’s episode of ABC’s daytime talk-fest “The View,” Raven-Symonè made a bold declaration — and a promise that we will hold her to.
“My confession for this election is if any Republican gets nominated I’m gonna move to Canada with my entire family,” she asserted.
Sooo…all a Republican need do to force Raven-Symoné and her brood out of the country is to be nominated. Hasta la vista, baby! And take these two racist rejects…
…make that THREE racist rejects (Don King being daid), with you!
Now, here’s The Gouge!
First up, writing at Townhall.com, John Hawkins offers…
…though we’re going to focus on what we consider the four most important:
“1) Trump has favorability ratings that make him unelectable: The American public is very familiar with Donald Trump and people hate his guts. Trump’s current favorable/unfavorable rating is34/58. Just as a point of comparison, the two biggest landslides in history were against Jimmy Carter (33/58) and Walter Mondale (34/40). Trump is so unpopular with the general electorate that we might as well be running Jared Fogle or Bill Cosby.
2) Trump consistently loses to Hillary Clinton in head-to-head polls: Given that so many people know Trump and already dislike him, it’s hard to understand why anyone thinks he’ll win in November. That’s especially true since the public already knows both him and Hillary Clinton well and he consistently loses to her in head-to-head match-ups. Hillary has 20 wins, 4 losses and 1 tie against Trump over the last 25 polls. Those numbers are more likely to get worse than get better.
…4) He won’t be financially competitive in a general election: Hillary Clinton and the Super PACs supporting her will probably spend north of 2.5 billion dollars against Donald Trump. Trump has no Super Pacs and has made not taking money from big donors a centerpiece of his campaign. If you take away the value of his name, Trump would probably have to liquidate his entire fortune to compete financially with Hillary. (Assuming his net worth is anywhere close to what he says it is!)Even if that were possible, which it’s not, Trump has been very reluctant to spend his money. He even admits that hedoesn’t know how he’d fund his campaign in a general election.
5) Trump’s strategy is entirely dependent on the mainstream media: Liberals in the mainstream media have been giving Trump a free ride because they think he’ll be easy to beat in the general election. The day he becomes the nominee, they’ll turn on him just like they did with John McCain and he’ll face hostile treatment in every media venue.The moment that happens, Trump’s core campaign strategy will no longer work…”
Trumpeteers, there are 36 more…all of which make infinite sense if you approach the issues they raise logically rather than allowing your understandable frustration and raw emotion to overrule your reason.
In a related item, also courtesy of Townhall.com, Guy Benson suggests an alternative to electoral suicide:
“It is with no small measure of trepidation and hesitation that I wade into these waters, but I feel as though I must. Much is at stake, and time is running perilously short to affect needed change — so I ask you to hear me out, even if you’re inclined to disagree. Over recent weeks and months, I haven’t been shy about voicing my opposition to the presidential candidacy of Donald J. Trump. I fully recognize that this stance instantly alienates a portion of my readership. I’m comfortable with that; we will agree to disagree on this question, which I happen to consider critically important. My intended audience for this piece, therefore, is not committed Trump backers, but rather anyone else who considers him or herself a conservative-leaning voter. In my estimation, Mr. Trump has habitually fallen well short of demonstrating that he can be counted upon to govern as a conservative. His capriciousness, his impulsivity, his incoherence, his mean-spiritedness, his pettiness, his chronicdishonesty and his policy ignorance are un-presidential in the extreme. And based on empirical data, he appears particularly ill-equipped to defeat an otherwise highly-vulnerable Hillary Clinton in the fall. Last night’s flailing debate performance served as a reminder of how wholly unprepared he is, on both temperament and basic knowledge, to be president.
…So there you have it: A barely-plausible desperation heave toward the endzone with Team Trump playing prevent defense (which, for him, includes taking lots of potshots). President Rubio, Vice President Kasich, and Justice Cruz — with a primetime convention speech from Dr. Ben Carson, detailing his remarkable life story and path to improbable achievement. That’s not how many people would have drawn things up at the onset of this cycle, but here we are. Much is on the line for those of us who believe the country cannot afford a Hillary Clinton presidency — which I truly believe a Trump nomination would usher in, despite occasional doubts and cross-currents. Sure, there are a thousand fair objections to the scenario I’ve laid out. I’m not entirely sold on it myself, to be candid. I’m not reflexively hostile to other theories and scenarios (such as the state-by-state strategic voting plan to try to force a contested convention, or a Rubio/Cruz or Cruz/Rubio unity ticket), but this is the one I’ve settled on. And there’s no time to wallow in endless debate. A moment of truth is upon us.Right now. Either Trump’s opponents and their supporters will set egos and preferences to the side in pursuit of a common end, or the outcome they claim to abhor will come to fruition.Which is precisely why I’ve chosen to speak out. Based on the delegate math, the unforgiving calendar, and the exceedingly high stakes at play, my choice has been made for me: It will either be Trump or Rubio, and I choose Rubio.(As do, subject to the caveat detailed below, do we!) I urge you — which sounds better than ‘beg you’ — to consider joining me in this call. There’s no time to waste.”
Trumpeteers, here’s your man:
Seriously, Donald; Hewitt asks a legitimate question, and you respond with an utterly low-brow, meaningless put-down?!? And if Hugh’s ratings were so low, why was a big, swinging d*ck like yourself appearing on his show in the first place?!?
One question which identifies the missing piece of Guy’s puzzle: if Kasich and Cruz are going to give up their Oval Office aspirations, what’s Rubio sacrificing? How ’bout the Gang of Eight…and all they stand for?!?
Rubio needs to offer a solemn vow to the American people no immigration reform without first securing our border, and NO citizenship for anyone who entered the country illegally; PERIOD. You want citizenship? Get in line behind those who played by the rules.
Had Marco made this move last summer, Trump would be an afterthought of the 2016 campaign.
Speaking of afterthoughts, courtesy of NRO‘s The Corner, Jonah Goldberg reports on…
“…Frankly I think Christie should be ashamed of himself. I could list a lot of reasons for that, but some of them would probably amount to me projecting my complaints about Trump onto Christie (about which subscribers to the G-File can read shortly).
So I’ll just give one based entirely on Christie’s terms. Christie spent a year telling the world that the entitlement crisis is the gravest threat to the future of the country (for instance, in the January 14 debate: “The reason why no one wants to answer entitlements up here is because it’s hard”). But the day after Trump insisted that we don’t need to touch entitlements and that we can balance the budget by finding “waste, fraud and abuse” and eliminating Common Core, Christie comes out and celebrates Trump as the guy the country needs. Christie boasted constantly about the need to tell the American people hard truths and he endorsed the guy who tells little more than easy lies.What a profile in courage…”
No…not sad: simply par…
…for Christie’s course! He’s never been…and never will be…in anybody’s corner but his own; and given his girth, it’s a crowded corner at that!
Moving on, courtesy of G. Trevor, the great Victor Davis Hanson details the unfortunate but inevitable results of 5o years of Progressive politics and policies: welcome to…
“2016 is a pivotal year in which accustomed referents of a stable West are now disappearing. We seem to be living in a chaotic age, akin to the mid-1930s, of cynicism and skepticism. Government, religion, and popular culture are corrupt and irrelevant—and the world order of the last 70 years has all but collapsed.
Neither the president nor his would-be successors talk much about the fact that we are now nearing $20 trillion in debt—in an ossified economy of near-zero interest rates, little if any GDP growth, and record numbers of able-bodied but non-working adults. (The most frequent complaint I hear in my hometown is that the government lags behind in their cost-of-living raises in Social Security disability payments.)
No one can figure out how and why America’s youth have borrowed a collective $1 trillion for college tuition, and yet received so little education and skills in the bargain. Today’s campuses have become as foreign to American traditions of tolerance and free expression as what followed the Weimar Republic. To appreciate cry-bully censorship, visit a campus “free-speech” area. To witness segregation, walk into a college “safe space.” To hear unapologetic anti-Semitism, attend a university lecture. To learn of the absence of due process, read of a campus hearing on alleged sexual assault. To see a brown shirt in action, watch faculty call for muscle at a campus demonstration. To relearn the mentality of a Chamberlain or Daladier, listen to the contextualizations of a college president. And to talk to an uneducated person, approach a recent college graduate. (Or one of their professors!)
If all that is confusing, factor in the Trimalchio banquet of campus rock-climbing walls, students glued to their iPhone 6s, $200 sneakers, latte bars, late-model foreign cars in the parking lot, and yoga classes. Affluence, arrogance, and ignorance are quite a trifecta.
…In Weimar America, that Will Smith has a 25,000 square-foot mansion, but not a 2016 Oscar nomination, is proof of endemic racism and deprivation.
I wish all this could end well. But history’s corrective to 1930s chaos was a different—and deadlier—sort of chaos.And so ours may well be too.”
“Attorney General Loretta Lynch this week tried to assure House Republicans about the impartiality of her department’s investigation into Hillary Clinton’s State Department emails by noting that it would be handled by career government officials.This claim could stand a little parsing.
The probe into her possible mishandling of classified information “is being handled by career independent law enforcement agents—FBI agents—as well as the career independent attorneys in the Department of Justice,” Ms. Lynch said Wednesday. “They follow the evidence, they look at the law and they’ll make a recommendation to me when the time is appropriate,” adding that the probe is being “conducted as every other case.”
That’s what they always say, and it is nice to think so. But there’s reason to doubt given the example of Justice’s investigation into the IRS targeting of conservative groups before the 2012 election. To lead that probe, then Attorney General Eric Holder appointed Barbara Bosserman, a trial attorney in the department’s Civil Rights Division.
Ms. Bosserman’s appointment was curious given that her area of expertise is civil rights, not tax law. She had also donated $6,100 to President Obama’s campaigns and the Obama Victory Fund in 2008 and 2012. That’s no small donation on a career employee’s salary and suggests some serious political loyalty.
Ms. Bosserman’s conflict of interest came to light only after Justice stonewalled congressional requests for information about the status of the IRS probe.The House Oversight Committee then began investigating Justice’s investigation. In September 2014 we wrote about the involvement of former department spokesman Brian Fallon, now a press secretary for the Clinton presidential campaign.
The House also discovered that Justice had assigned former IRS tax attorney Andrew Strelka to the case brought against the agency by Z Street, a pro-Israel group that claimed its tax-exempt status had been delayed because of its political leanings. Mr. Strelka had previously served as a presidential management fellow working in the IRS tax-exempt office managed by Lois Lerner, who by the way was also a career government official with clear anti-Republican political leanings.Mr. Strelka was removed from the case before being deposed as a witness.
Justice closed its investigation of the IRS last October with no criminal charges…”
To borrow a phrase from the immortal Jimmy Malone in The Untouchables, “This town stinks like a whorehouse at low tide!”
Finally, in what we can only describe as News of the Bizarre meets the Crime Blotter, courtesy of Ed Harvey…
Woman dies after lover forgets to take cucumber out of her mouth
“Hey…this cigar tastes like tunafish!”
A German man who allegedly killed his lover with a cucumber is now facing up to five years in prison. Rica Varna died after Oliver Dietmann put the vegetable in her mouth — and left it there — after the two used it as a sex toy, the Daily Mail reported.
Dietmann, 46, who is on trial for negligent homicide, told the court in Mannheim that on July 19, 2014, he invited Varna, also 46, to his place,where they polished off four bottles of wine and several glasses of schnapps. Dietmann admitted to putting the cucumber in her mouth, but said her death was an accident.“Suddenly I saw there was smoke coming from the kitchen,” he testified. “I forgot that I had put a piece of meat on the stove for my dog.”
“I ran to the kitchen, fed my dog and then went on to the balcony to smoke a cigarette.” By the time he returned to the bedroom, Varna was unconscious. “I tried to get the cucumber pieces out of her mouth,” he said, adding that they were too mushy.
Medical experts said Varna fell into a coma after the cucumber cut off her breathing. “The defendant must have known that he should not have left her for so long on her own,” prosecutor Reinhard Hoffmann said.
So much for a vegetarian diet. Holy Swinging with the Finkels, Batman…not to mention Bill’s Monica-flavored cigars!
The defendant is probably a lot of things, but we’d be willing to bet Bill Gates’ net worth knowledge about anything useful ain’t one of ’em!
We’re down in Florida on a brief golf trip through Wednesday; so until March 4th, we bid you adieu!
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