It’s Friday, March 29th, 2019…but before we begin, here’s another sign a significant number of Americans don’t know their a*s from their elbow, including “journalist” Ann Schmidt, who penned this report:
“Come with me; I will take you to Burbank by van.”
“Keanu Reeves doesn’t have to be in a movie to be a hero.The 54-year-old actor was on a United flight from San Francisco to Los Angeles on Saturday when the plane had to make an emergency landing in Bakersfield, Calif., according to USA Today.
Reeves hardly missed a beat, allegedly taking the lead in figuring out the best way to complete the last 100 miles from Bakersfield to Los Angeles. The “Matrix” star’s everyday heroics were captured on the Instagram story of Brian Rea, a freelance cartoonist who illustrates The New York Times’ “Modern Love” column, and recorded by other social media users who posted the video on Twitter.
Rea’s story showed a collection of images and videos of the trip, beginning with Reeves boarding the flight in San Francisco, followed by the announcement of the diversion to Bakersfield.
After announcements that they would complete their trip on a bus, Reeves could be seen discussing the logistics of the trip and waiting for their luggage with other passengers at the Bakersfield airport. The next video clip showed the “John Wick” actor in a van with other passengers, reading facts about Burbank and playing country music from his phone.“
Not exactly the stuff of JFK and PT-109. We in no way mean to belittle Reeves for acting like a normal human being, let alone going out of his way to be helpful; rather we’re calling into question what social media deigns to define as “courage”.
Sorry, but when a movie star sharing a van from Bakersfield to Burbank after an in-flight emergency constitutes anything remotely like “courage”, AOC will occupy the White House.
With all due respect to the memory of the late Mrs. Bush, and regardless of whether USA Today actually quoted her correctly, we’re not certain the males in her family were ever anything but RINOs. After all, her husband’s policies and broken promises brought us 8 years of Bill Clinton, and her oldest son’s 8 years of Obama. And absent the intervention of The Donald, the nomination of Jeb would most certainly have ushered in 8 years of Hillary.
Hardly a record of which to be proud…let alone one calling for criticism of the man who likely saved the political party her family supposedly supported.
Now, here’s The Gouge!
First up, as Gregg Re records at FOX News, for the umpteenth time…
…for about the same period of time, we frankly feel they’re BOTH full of sh*t! Still, when it comes to Schiff…
…his is a stench (not to mention his look!) which is particularly unpleasant, carrying as it does more than a hint of treason. C’mon: Schiff…along with Swalwell and Pelosi…are the House equivalents of Tommy Flanagan:
Lying is in their blood!
Next up, writing at NRO, the great Victor Davis Hanson weighs in on…
“…the hysteria that helped prompt the Mueller investigation was in part whipped up by those who had knowingly acted unethically or illegally during and also after the 2016 campaign. These Obama officials bet on the sure-thing but wrong horse and suddenly, after Nov. 8, 2016, feared that they were soon to be subject to lots of criminal exposure.
Assume that both the ruse of “collusion” and James Comey’s leaking gambit to prompt a special counsel’s investigation were thus the preemptive defenses of an assortment of crimes by Obama-era officials, such as lying to federal officials, conspiracy to obstruct justice, illegally leaking confidential or classified documents to the media, deceiving a FISA court, and myriad conflicts of interest. In other words, there were never any evidentiary reasons to appoint a special counsel other than to divert attention away from an array of wrongdoing. After 22 months, that fact finally became clear even to a largely partisan group of attorneys, once eager to become folk heroes by aborting the Trump presidency.
Let us hope both that Attorney General Barr can now turn to the real illegal behavior of an entire array of Obama-administration officials, and that the public at last can have access to unredacted documents that record their frenzied and illegal efforts.
…In the end, Mueller’s investigation really did prove to be a witch hunt, just as half the country came to conclude. It has probably forever ended the idea that a special prosecutor can be useful or fair. It has curtailed foreign-policy options and prevented the traditional American realist approach to Russia as a triangulating counterweight to China. It ruined the lives of innocents such as Carter Page and the reputations of dozens of others such as General Michael Flynn. It divided the country in its transparent violation of any sense of disinterested investigation and turned the idea of American jurisprudence into a version of the Soviets’ “Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime.” And now that it is over, we should not forget what it wrought and those who empowered it.“
ANDhold them accountable for a conspiracy which was, at its heart, an attempted coup against a duly-elected President.
In other words…
Speaking of those needing to be held accountable for their illicit actions, Townhall.com‘s Guy Benson gives us the latest from The City That Stinks Like a Whorehouse at Low Tide:
“…Basically every single thing Foxx and her team did in this case was arguably unethical, or at least ran contrary to professional best practices,according to the nation’s guild of prosecutors. And somehow, the optics are getting even worse. Remember her ostensible “recusal” from the case, given her inappropriate conversations and potential conflict of interest? Er, about that, via the Chicago Tribune…”
Reports the Obama appointee who oversaw and blessed this travesty by sealing its records was heard to say…
…remain unconfirmed. But like the fable of Trump colluding with the Russians, he COULD have said it!
“Maryland and especially its biggest city, Baltimore, have long been aggressive in using powers of condemnation to assemble land for subsidized megaprojects. As Stephen J.K. Walters and Louis Miserendino showed in a 2008 paper, the giant projects have regularly flopped, been enmeshed in political cronyism or both.
But that’s only the start of the state’s smash-’n’-grab approach to the use of eminent-domain power.Maryland has made a habit of using eminent domain against targets that go beyond real estate and fixed property and attempting to seize intangible and movable assets, such as contracts, trademarks and copyrights, as well as office furniture, inventories and the like.
In 2014 its lawmakers threatened to condemn the intangible assets of the TV series “House of Cards,” which filmed in the state. In 1984 they moved to condemn and seize the Baltimore Colts, a step that backfired spectacularly when the owner packed the football team into vans at night and moved to Indianapolis.
In 2009, then-Gov. Martin O’Malley threatened condemnation to keep the venerable Preakness Stakes horse race, including its trademarks and other intangible assets, from leaving Baltimore. It stayed. In the ensuing 10 years, the economic rationale for keeping the Preakness in Baltimore have dwindled to nothing. The race is held at Pimlico, a decrepit facility in a severely depressed section of the city that is hard for visitors to get to and sits idle the rest of the year.
The owners of the race and track, Canada’s Stronach Group, have focused renovation energies on the Laurel Park racetrack midway between Baltimore and Washington, where the race would continue to benefit the greater Baltimore economy and would likely have a more secure future. But Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh has filed suit, asking a court to use condemnation powers to award ownership of the racetrack and the race to the city.
Pause to think how a city nationally famed for its failures at running such basic services as police and schools is going to turn around a struggling facility and event in a sector of the sporting world, horse racing, itself long in decline. Most likely state taxpayers would end up subsidizing the event and facilities even more heavily than they now do.
Then think what message this sends other large enterprises eyeing the city…
The city’s relations with its best-known remaining institution, Johns Hopkins University and Hospital, are so rocky that several of its leading elected officials fought a pitched battle this year trying to keep Hopkins from gaining approval to run its own campus police force, something long since permitted to many other universities both public and private, including the University of Baltimore.
The message to others that might think of coming to Baltimore? If you do, we’ll consider your property—including your intellectual property and business relations—ours to grab in the future. That won’t exactly get tomorrow’s enterprising ambitions off to the races.“
…all of which are currently gathering dust in a warehouse. No word on whether Pugh has an interest in the warehouse in which the books were stored.
Pugh has defended the deal, claiming the books sharing tips on nutrition and exercise were provided to schools and daycares…despite Pugh having no discernible training in nutrition, and no experience in exercise outside of jogging!
And in today’s edition of the EnvironMental Moment, NRO’s Kevin Williamson reveals people really like free sh*t…until they discover its true cost:
“Writing in the New York Times, Sean McElwee has produced an example of one of my favorite genres of political writing: “The idealized version of my preference is ideal.”
McElwee’s finding is that people love greenie-weenie schemes if you emphasize the benefits and promise that the costs will be minimalandpaid for by someone else. “People Actually Like the Green New Deal,” the headline reads.
I’m open to the implicit argument that congressional Democrats are not, technically speaking, people, but they do not seem to care very much for the Green New Deal: Senator Mitch McConnell offered his colleagues a chance to vote for a non-binding resolution in favor of the Green New Deal, and not one—not one!—Democrat was willing to push the “Yea” button. Some voted against, and some (43) voted “Present.” If only Arlen Specter had been there to vote Craigellachie.
One wonders whether McElwee ever has met a conservative. Noting a West Virginia election in which Republicans criticized a local coal producer for polluting the water, McElwee writes in wonder: “Pause for a moment: Among the most conservative voters in one of the most conservative states in the country, the winning message was clean water.” Because…what, Republicans previously ran on a “Hell Yeah Pollute the Bejesus Outta That Drinking Water!” platform?This is what happens when partisans start believing their own bullsh**. It makes you stupid.
People love clean water that somebody else pays for, and high-paying jobs that someone else pays for, etc.McElwee writes:
In our latest polling with Civis Analytics, a data science firm founded by alumni of the Obama campaign, we informed respondents that the Green New Deal is a Democratic proposal. Voters were told that the Green New Deal would “phase out the use of fossil fuels, with the government providing clean energy jobs for people who can’t find employment in the private sector.All jobs would pay at least $15 an hour, include health care benefits and collective bargaining rights.” Many commentators have argued that the Green New Deal would become unpopular when voters were informed of the cost, so we added that the plan would “be paid for by raising taxes on incomes over $200,000 dollars a year by 15 percentage points.”
This is pretty much pure horsepucky, of course. Would that 15-point tax hike on incomes over $200,000 actually pay for a program to “phase out the use of fossil fuels”?Nobody knows, since nobody knows what that would cost, since the technology to phase out fossil fuels does not currently, you know, exist. (I am writing this on an airplane, which is not kept in the air by happy thoughts.) Cookies poll pretty well, cookies that other people pay for poll very well, and cookies that magically appear on a plate thanks to magical f***ing magic are the most popular of all. But there ain’t no cookies like that.
What are the words you’re hearing in the back of your mind right now? “If you like your doctor…you can keep your doctor.”…”
More on that last subject on Monday!
In a related item detailing the deliberate deception or willful blindness at the heart of every Progressive policy, the WSJ‘s Kim Strassel focuses on…
“Democrats are struggling over the direction of their party, and this week things got more complicated. In addition to the splits over the Green Leap Forward, Medicare for All and constitutional rewrites, Robert Mueller’s report has opened a new divide. It’s Team Reality vs. Team Bitter Enders.
Granted, the end of the special counsel’s probe is a shattering blow to Trump haters. So long as Mr. Mueller continued his investigation, the left and its media mates were free to spin collusion claims and nurse hopes of a toppled Trump presidency. Anyone who pushed back was told to sit down, shut up and wait until Mr. Mueller ruled. He now has. The party is over.
…The question for reality-minded Democrats is how they put the Russia genie back in the bottle. It was supposed to spell the end of Mr. Trump.If they play their cards wrong, it could help him to re-election.“
It may not be over ’til the fat lady sings…but we hear her warming up.
Which brings us, appropriately enough, to The Lighter Side:
Finally, we wrap up the month with this assortment of memes from Shannon Bush and Balls Cotton:
And last, but certainly not least, our personal favorite:
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