On February 13, 2018,
in Uncategorized,
by magoo1310
It’s Friday, February 2nd, 2018…but before we begin, courtesy of Arthur Seeligson, a brief campaign announcement from Oprah Winfrey:
“Hi, I’m Oprah. I’m the spokespersonfor Weight Watchersbut can’t control my weight. I tell you how to run your marriagebut I can’t commit to marriage.I tell you how to raise your kids but I don’t have any. I am very spiritual, but don’t go to any church or identify as Christian.Even though I knew about Weinstein and the casting couch, I was silent, but I support the Me too movement. I am racist to the core, but blacks can’t really be racist, so that doesn’t count. I’m black and female, so I check all the boxes. I praised Denmark for their Socialism, though I am a billionaire due to Capitalism, the economic system that allowed a dirt poor child from Mississippi to rise to world renowned fame and wealth. The first time I openly endorsed a presidential candidate it was a black one, Obama. Before a black candidate, I was not political.Vote for me, and I will give you transformational change, the kind you got from Obama.“
Yeah,…that oughta work! So here’s to Oprah in 2020:
Bring it on!
Now, here’s The Gouge!
We lead off the first edition of February with a few random thoughts on Trump’s SOTU address. First, just as you can tell a lot about a man by the friends he keeps, so too America can learn all it needs to know about Progressives by the things they won’t applaud:
Which includes their reaction to Trump’s rather stirring explanation as to why true, America-loving patriotsalwaysstand for the National Anthem:
But if the reaction of the Dims was bad, the MSM’s analyses were worse, with MSDNC’s Chris Matthews and Joy Reid, as usual, leading the lowing herd, as Tucker Carlson observes:
All which is part and parcel to why, courtesy of George Lawlor, NRO‘s Heather Wilhelm sees Liberals as what she terms…
“As America edges closer to the 2018 midterm elections, expect to hear a growing herd of weirdly confident political pundits talk about a coming and inevitable “blue wave” — you know, the overwhelming mass election of Democrats to Congress that’s sure to come as a response to the presidency of Donald Trump.
This very well might happen. It also very well might not. When it comes to the current rush of breezy “blue wave” chatter, I’m reminded of a simple lesson that even the biggest knucklehead in politics should have learned by now. It’s a truth that applies not just to politics, but to life, so take heed: Unless you’re Nostradamus and can trick a bunch of people by waving around a dramatic-looking beard and some mystical-sounding quatrains, don’t go around making broad and overly confident predictions. They might end up making you look daffy.
History is full of terrible predictions uttered by smart and prominent people — “Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau,” from an economist in October 1929, is one particularly amazing specimen — so perhaps we shouldn’t be too harsh. The urge to predict is clearly hard to resist. But there’s a second and simpler reason to tread carefully around blue-wave predictions for this fall, and it is this: Strangely, the Democratic party’s strategy for 2018 seems to revolve around reminding people how happy they are that Democrats aren’t in charge.
Mexico…El Salvador…what’s the difference?!? After all, according to Joy Reid, MS-13 doesn’t exist!
Witness prominent left-leaning responses to Trump’s State of the Union address, which earned an impressive 75 percent approval rating in a CBS News poll. Eight out of ten of the viewers in the poll “felt that the president was trying to unite the country, rather than divide it,” and “two-thirds said the speech made them feel proud.” Sure, we can argue about the policy implications of the address, but that’s been true for almost every State of the Union in the history of the nation. (“Free” community college! The magical “creation” of hundreds of thousands of jobs! An army of hydrogen cars!) In short, it was a well-written, well-delivered speech.
Perhaps that sounds boring to you, so it’s high time for some hyperventilation. Over to you, Democrats!CNN’s Sally Kohn called the speech “scary” and “terrifying.” Elizabeth Warren tweeted that she attended only because she wanted its horrors “burned into my eyes.” But it was perhaps MSNBC’s Joy Reid who took the cake, tweeting out a bizarre and amazing word salad trashing various American institutions: “Church…family…police…military…the national anthem…Trump trying to call on all the tropes of 1950s-era nationalism. The goal of this speech appears to be to force the normalization of Trump on the terms of the bygone era his supporters are nostalgic for.”(She left out mom and apple pie!)
Ah, I can see the campaign posters now: “Can’t stand church and family? Neither can we!Vote for the Democrats in 2018!” It’s mind-boggling, isn’t it? I mean, come on, people. Pretending to be a normal human being can’t really be that hard.
Or maybe it can.Look, if you will, at the Democratic party’s leading lights.(Dim bulbs though they be!)There’s Nancy Pelosi, America’s favorite rich lady from San Francisco, who has somehow decided to combat the increasingly popular GOP tax cut by going around telling Americans that the extra $1,000 in their pocket equates to “crumbs.” There’s Bernie Sanders, who might start yelling at you about socialism at any moment. There’s Planned Parenthood’s Cecile Richards, whose retirement sparked excited speculation about a future run for office, perhaps even in Texas! (This is kind of hilarious, given what happened the last time the Democrats ran an abortion zealot for governor in Texas, but again, it’s almost as if they’re trying to lose.) There’s the astoundingly cynical Kirsten Gillibrand, a former tobacco lawyer and gun-rights defender magically transformed into a passionate #MeToo sexual-harassment crusader — complete with a recent (and convenient) spurt of indignation directed at Bill Clinton, whom she was perfectly happy to pal around with when he was helping her campaign.
Then there’s Hillary Clinton, who (like a bad case of The Clap) simply will not go away.
Many Democrats will tell you that none of this really matters; all that matters, they insist, is that they are not Donald Trump. (As a reminder, Donald Trump won the presidency largely because he was not Hillary Clinton.) “There is absolutely nothing the Democrats could do that would be dumber than setting aside their criticisms of President Trump to focus solely on some ‘affirmative’ agenda,” wrote Paul Waldman in Wednesday’s Washington Post. Anger against President Trump, he argues, is all the Democrats need. When you think about it, maybe he’s right.
When you look at the party’s actual agenda — voting against tax cuts, cheerleading for abortion, rooting for government regulations, fighting against school choice, fixating on identity politics, and so on and so forth — things aren’t very pretty. Perhaps it is best to look away. “
Since we’re on the subject of things from which it’s best to look away…
…as Jim Freeman notes at Best of the Web, here’s a headline from The Daily Caller which might well have been ripped from the front page of most newspapers…outside of The New York Times and the WaPo…back in 1998:
“The White House looks set to release the House Intelligence Committee memo on 2016 government surveillance abuses, which means the attacks on the document by Democrats, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the media are going to get wilder. To help navigate through the spin, here’s a handy guide for what to look for, and what to ignore…
…Mostly, ignore what is certain to be a nonstop shriek that this memo is out of context, that it omits facts or cherry-picks data or makes unfair allegations. You know, sort of like what Democrats and the media did this past year in their “Russia investigation.” The difference here is that the memo only needs to provide a few facts for the country to understand if there was FISA abuse.
“With respect to Washington governor Jay Inslee’s renewed proposal for a “carbon” tax on that state’s greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions, a number to keep closely in mind is: 2/1000 of a degree.
That would be the global temperature effect in the year 2100 if Washington were to reduce its GHG emissions to zero immediately.That figure comes from the Environmental Protection Agency’s climate model, under a set of assumptions that exaggerate the effects of emissions reductions.
Obviously, the effect of the governor’s proposed tax would be vastly smaller. And by the way, the governor’s proposal would not apply to jet fuel, as Boeing is the state’s largest private employer. Even with that glaring concession to political reality, Inslee apparently still believes that the state should make itself a moral example and “mark the way.” Sorry, but the federal bureaucracy until Donald Trump assumed the presidency was way ahead of him. Implementation of the Obama administration’s entire package of climate policies would have reduced temperatures by 25/1000 of a degree, while the Paris agreement, if implemented fully, would yield a reduction of 17/100 of a degree. Those effects, by the way, would be too small to be measured reliably.
And so Inslee’s claim that his proposed tax would “save our children” from droughts, flooding, fires, and other “existential threats” is (Like everything else about the junk science of anthropogenic global warming) preposterous…
…Willie Sutton, who robbed banks because “that’s where the money is,” would be proud. Whatever Inslee’s spending preferences for the revenues, interest-group competition within the legislature guarantees that good intentions would yield quickly to ordinary pork-barrel politics. With no prospect of environmental improvement and little of real beneficial spending, what is the rationale for a tax on “carbon?” Why not on zucchini?“
Think about it: 17/100 of a degree in temperature reduction…at best…in exchange for untold trillions of dollars in lost productivity. And all to promote sources of “clean energy” which are anything BUT clean.
Which brings us, appropriately enough, to The Lighter Side:
Then there’s this series of memes forwarded by Mark Foster:
Finally, just to show you criminal perversion knows no particular race, color, religion or sexual preference, we’ll call it a week with yet another sordid story straight from the pages of The Crime Blotter featuring two of Maryland’s finest:
“Three children lived in a Maryland “house of horrors” in which they were beaten, assaulted with a stun gun and forced to eat dog feces while locked away by two women, police said Wednesday. Amanda R. Wright, 29, and her live-in girlfriend, 25-year-old Besline Joseph, were arrested Wednesday morning after police began investigating possible child abuse at the Mardela Springs home on Jan. 26, FOX45 Baltimore reported. Three children — ages 8, 9, and 10 — were found in the home and removed by Child Protective Services officials.
Police said Joseph and Wright were beating the children since last summer. The couple would allegedly beat the children with their bare hands, extension cords, belts and sticks. The children were so badly beaten they suffered bloody noses, cuts and bruises, police said. But the alleged assaults didn’t stop there.Wright and Joseph would also injure the children with a stun gun, officials said.
The children were also allegedly forced to eat dog feces, and the only other items they received were bread, water and oatmeal.They were also reportedly locked in closets or the house’s basement. The couple instilled fear in the children by threatening to kill them if they told anyone about the alleged abuse, FOX45 reported.
…Wright and Joseph were charged with first-degree child abuse, second-degree child abuse, first-degree assault, second-degree assault, reckless endangerment, neglect of a minor, stalking, use of a dangerous weapon with intent to injure and false imprisonment…causing ingestion of a bodily fluid, preventing/interfering with report of suspected child abuse or neglect, and conspiracy to commit first-degree child abuse.“
If either Wright or Joseph ever sees any light other than that which soft breaks through the bars of a jail cell will be more than either one of them deserves.
Then again, as Will Munny so eloquently observed…
After all, this bein’ the People’s Dimocratic Republic of Maryland, they’ll probably give this depraved Dynamic Duo an award for LBGTUVWXYZ courage under adverse circumstances.
We’ll be heading down to Puebla, Mexico tomorrow on a missions trip with our church, and likely won’t be back in the saddle until Wednesday, February 14th. So, ’til Valentine’s Day…
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