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Looks like welcome news in PM...
Grins...after several close calls it took ...SPARTY to take them out...you could hear the gnashing of teeth from all the ones with busted brackets...
Morning EZ
Judge Jeanine is back – and took the high road
By Peter Barry Chowka
See also: Judge Jeanine is back – without a word about her two-week suspension
I think Jeanine Pirro took the high road on her program Saturday. She returned, did a great show, looked and sounded fabulous.
Her guests all congratulated and honored her.
She has the support of the POTUS!
Fox News, via The Wrap
Why should she acknowledge the dedicated, low down leftist and Moslem critics who have attacked her and ratchet things up another notch, feeding the beast? That would be lose-lose.
This is the MSM, after all, not an Internet podcast. You have to choose your battles carefully. (Ask Sean Hannity re: his attempt to report on the Seth Rich affair in 2017 and the blowback that followed.) I see what Pirro did, or didn't do, as a brilliant strategic move. She's b-a-a-a-c-k and stronger than ever, doing her job, looking ahead to the future where she will continue to play an essential role in MAGA.
Read more: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/04/judge_jeanine_is_back__and_took_the_high_road.html#ixzz5jqFotfS2
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Awesome...I'll enjoy it while the cool is here...
Morning AJ...41 on the way to 62...might get a shower today.
You fool you fool...well my NASCAR picks sucked...picked 2 and 42 for a combined 3 points...LOL
Morning Larry
Of to work...will log in from there...Happy Moanday
We have had that law here for a few years...no biggie...I have about 8 cloth bags...along with a few plastic reusable ones...keep them in the car so I don't forget them...I'm sure it's coming to your State soon...I'm just surprised it has taken so long.
Morning P_S_H
Oh I agree...but from a party that chooses Billary...you never know...LOL
Morning MG
Goooo Sparty
AND YES...if Sparty wins it I win both the brackets I'm in...woot woot
Excellent, thanks Dan...listening now...but will have to get back to it...DiTime...Bull had posted the full show the other day...I wasn't able to log in to get to Rush as there was no fast forwarding...will finish in a bit...
Well AOC is still too Young to run...but if she was able...would get slaughtered in a debate where she had to think on her feet.
You never know.
Thanks...you too
Just found this...
Grins...would only happen once...
OK time to get to work...lunch is over...BBIAB
Fantastic article Dan...thanks for posting it.
Howdy AJ...love your idea for the back...working on a few projects of my own..this way Di and I can have Breakfast/coffee on the big back deck in the morning Sun and a nice tea/beer sipping shaded area on the front Porch addition...
I was wondering if he would get hit on that...he's toast...but should be allowed due process...not defending him...just saying.
Democrats are now demanding answers from Biden, who claims he does not recall the incident.
Of course he doesn't recall...there were soooo many...what would make her stand out??...there is a reason they call him Creepy Uncle Joe.
EXACTLY why I leave the toilet seats....UP...LOL
Silly man...haven't you heard??...Computer virus...
Afternoon Gman
Morning MG...hope all is well where ever you happen to be at the moment...
Thanks...GL to you as well
2-4-42-48 for me please
4-2-18 for me please
.this is the END of the END
nod nod wink wink...sure it is...
Woot woot...sounds like the making of a GREAT day...morning Bull
Dammit EZ...you aren't supposed to start Sunday off with a tear jerker...but...Hallelujah...and thank you she did a fantastic job...and GM...I'm passing that one to Robbie
That was 2004 they documented the Hog in Gloucester County...I'm sure in 15 years they have made it to your area...my advice would be to contact your County Ag dept...describe the issue...they will let you know if they have had sightings in your County and they might want to come take a look...if indeed it is a Feral Hog you do NOT want them staying in your area...IMO prime area for them to settle and thrive in.
DiTime...enjoy your afternoon.
Just in for a minute to call Mum to wish her a Happy Mothers day for tomorrow...Dianna didn't want me waking up at 1 AM to call her and this will surprise her...check out the link for the video...Hilarious...ok on to my call and back to work...Johnson moved up in my opinion as well.
Watch the long faces as Jeh Johnson, Obama's DHS Secretary, tells MSNBC that the border is 'truly in a crisis'
By Thomas Lifson
I have significantly upgraded my opinion of Jeh Johnson, President Obama's secretary of homeland security. Appearing Friday on Morning Joe, he was honest and blunt in addressing the border crisis, drawing on his own experience and implicitly rebuking the Democrats' talking point that this is a "manufactured crisis."
The one-minute video below is a classic of sorts, and well worth your time. Johnson was serious as he spoke these words (hat tip: Breitbart for the transcript):
YouTube screen grab.
"When I was in office in Kirstjen Nielsen's job at her desk, I'd get to work around 6:30 in the morning and there'd be my intelligence book sitting on my desk, the PDB, and also the apprehension numbers from the day before," Johnson revealed on MSNBC's "Morning Joe." "And I'd look at them every memory morning, it would be the first thing I'd look at, and I probably got too close to the problem.
"[M]y staff will tell you if it was under 1,000 apprehensions the day before, that was a relatively good number. And if it was above 1,000, it was a relatively bad number, and I was going to be in a bad mood the whole day. On Tuesday, there were 4,000 apprehensions. I know that a thousand overwhelms the system. I cannot begin to imagine what 4,000 a day looks like. So, we are truly in a crisis."
This apostasy seems to have shocked the panelists:
YouTube screen grab.
Here is the one-minute segment:
Read more: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/03/watch_the_long_faces_as_jeh_johnson_obamas_dhs_secretary_tells_msnbc_that_the_border_truly_in_a_crisis.html#ixzz5jg8K4g1L
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I'm just curious why someone hasn't thrown in AOC's face...why she catches a Plane to shuttle back and forth instead of catching the AmTrak express??..I mean...we only have 12 years and need to start immediately to save the world right???
She obviously is just another tool...as we already know...OK out I go...back later...have fun
Morning P_S_H
I'm about to go out and mow some in the front...and maybe get some work done on the Porch extension...Di and I plan to have quite a few glasses of Iced Tea and maybe even a beer or two out there.
The outdoor cafe style I have set up for the big back deck is great for morning coffee and BBQs...
Yes sir...Amazon...after AOC booting them out of NY is spreading the wealth instead of one huge campus...they are adding 800 jobs to their N. Austin location...Engineers and Techs so not just the assembly workers and shippers.
Others are coming here as well...we have a huge pool of talent here and they are bringing more in so yes...housing will boom.
My little piece of Heaven is perfect for me...Di and I can be quite happy here...quiet secluded neighborhood within walking distance to several stores and within several miles of any shopping we want...
In Texas we don't even need a license to hunt Ferel Hogs...but you better know where to shoot them...we have some HUGE ones in Texas and they are very dangerous...just looked and it could be in Jersey as well
https://www.nj.gov/agriculture/divisions/ah/pdf/NJDA_Feral_Hog.pdf
Morning K
Agree
LOL...{{{Hugs}}} later my friend
Feathers flying, Fox Bernie heads into the Democratic henhouse
By Monica Showalter
Three weeks after signing a "loyalty pledge" to the Democratic Party in order to run for president with that party's resources on that party's ticket, socialist Bernie Sanders has something else in mind, hiring a team of rabid far-leftists with long records of detesting the Democrats for his presidential campaign.
James Varney of the Washington Times has a delicious report:
Sen. Bernard Sanders has amassed a presidential campaign team of pit bulls skilled in the art of internal party warfare — and in many cases is still grinding axes over the way he was treated by the Democratic Party in his 2016 run for the White House.
Three members of his team didn’t even back Hillary Clinton, the Democratic nominee, and instead supported the Green Party in the general election.
Others have made a career of ripping the very people Mr. Sanders now faces in the 2020 Democratic primaries.
What a guy.
And for Trump supporters, that means popcorn time.
Democratic operatives are warning that these actions by Bernie amount to 'slash and burn.'
Obviously, after the way Democrats treated Bernie during the 2016 campaign, scores are being settled. Democrats back then cheated Bernie of the likely victory of the nomination he garnered through a sneaky campaign of leaks, collusion with media allies, and rigging the actual totals through party-picked 'superdelegates.'
What that now means for Democrats is Bernie biting back, coming back as a fox to the henhouse, shaming the Democrats into adopting his crazed leftist policy prescriptions as now part of its platform, pushing the Democrats into far-left nutbag territory as they try to unseat President Trump.
If I thought this would win, perhaps it would be bad. But it's far more likely to bring casualties to the Democrat side than the Republican. Noisemaking from socialist "it girl" Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez aside, a large contingent of the Democrats who did re-take the House and won seats in the Senate ran on moderate platforms to win, meticulously persuading red-state voters that they wouldn't do anything crazy. Those Democrats are about to be cut off as the knees as Bernie crazitude takes over the Democratic presidential platform and forces them all into conforming to its demands.
It might be not a problem except that Bernie has some very nasty, redolent of socialist Venezuela, ideas. Now he's being buttressed with nasty people all in for fighting dirty who mean to shake the Democratic Party up.
Bernie isn't going to take it anymore from Democrats, so despite that loyalty pledge to the Democratic Party, all of the moderates are likely to be pitched over the side.
That leaves House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer with yet another problem on their hands, as if they didn't need more with the arrival of Rep. Ilhan Omar, leaving them to try to maintain control of their party splitting out and being pushed to the far left.
But it's what they deserve. For the rest of us, time to heat up the stove for some crunchy popcorn.
Read more: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/03/feathers_flying_fox_bernie_heads_into_the_democratic_henhouse.html#ixzz5jfKiRDHH
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Omar blames flow of illegals on 'white nationalism'
By Monica Showalter
Rep. Ilhan Omar is at it again, and as you may imagine, the famously America-hating congresswoman is not too happy with America. According to Sean Hannity:
Recently sworn-in Congresswoman Ilhan Omar weighed-in on the country’s escalating border crisis this week; baselessly blaming the migrant caravan’s arrival in El Paso on “white nationalism.”
“This is abhorrent and inhumane. It’s without a doubt a reflection of what white nationalism is doing to our country. As a country, we have to acknowledge that this is how people are being treated here and decide that we are better and we must do better,” tweeted Omar.
Did we just read that right? Illegal immigration and its consequences are all the work of 'white nationalism'? The people she pictures in her crazy tweet have all been detained for choosing to migrate illegally.
Weird stuff, given that the people being detained are coming here to actually live. Why would anyone want to move to a place festering with "white nationalism"? Someone should ask her.
Is she saying the illegal immigrants who broke U.S. law to get here are masochists?
Perhaps she recognizes that the U.S. let her in, and given that the Central Americans are higher on the human development scale than the land of her birth, all of them have a right to come in unvetted.
Or is she just waving the 'racism' stick, confident that Americans will gladly bow to it, regardless of her twisted logic, and then presumably skip that little matter of rule of law to allow all unvetted comers in?
Obviously, it's the latter, and her aim is to support Democrats by importing Democrats, using the perceived vulnerability of Americans to racism charges as a means of getting unvetted migrants into the U.S.
She knows that about this place like the back of her hand and she's working it.
It's a sorry way to get what she wants, given that poor people migrate away from hellholes, not toward them. Is she saying that America, and all its "white nationalists" have some kind of mesmerizing power to force migrants to come here regardless of what they really want, same as she said about the Jews of Israel in one of her famous anti-Semitic rants? She probably does think this.
Omar is a socialist, so her perspective is disastrously disordered. Maybe someone should ask her why these detained migrants mysteriously drawn to all that "white nationalism" aren't moving instead to socialist paradises such as Venezuela or Cuba, both of which are closer to the point of origin of the migrants, bearing no language barriers.
Not going to happen with the current press, so she's going to get away with putting that out as part of the Democrats' ongoing 'narrative.'
It still stands as absurd, however, showing how far gone she is on the logic front. She'll whip out the racism stick for literally anything.
Image credit: Lorie Schaull, via Flickr, detail // CC BY-SA 2.0
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Why the American Revolution Worked and the French Revolution Didn't
By Mike Konrad
Look what happened after they took God out of the schools
I consider myself an amateur historian, though some of my readers might place more emphasis on the amateur than historian. One thing that has puzzled me is why different results sprang from the American and French Revolutions. It might have something to tell us for today.
On the surface reading, the American and French Revolutions seem to hold similar ideals. Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness does not seem that far removed from Liberté, Egalité, and Fraternité. And if one says the American slogan does not mention equality, the Declaration of Independence surely does.
We hold these truths to be self-evident: That all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights[.]
Many claim that the difference is that the French document is godless. However, both the American Declaration of Independence and the French Declaration of the Rights of Man invoke the deity.
And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence ... –Declaration of Independence, 1776
Therefore the National Assembly recognizes and proclaims, in the presence and under the auspices of the Supreme Being, the following rights of man and of the citizen: … –Declaration of the Rights of Man, 1789
There can be no doubt that there was an influence of Deism that motivated some of the intellectuals behind both revolutions. Indeed, Thomas Paine, the most influential deist of all time, was critical to both struggles. Paine wrote "Common Sense" for America — which cemented public opinion in favor of the American Revolution — and he would later be elected to Revolutionary France's National Convention. Thomas Jefferson wrote the American Declaration and was consulted on the French document.
So why did the revolutions veer so far apart in results?
Some say the French Revolution heralded those rights as coming from the state, while the American Revolution said those rights came from God. But that is not so clear. The French document asserts that such rights are natural and immutable, and one of the French declaration's writers was Abbé Sieyès, a French Catholic clergyman.
The aim of all political association is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man.
So we have two similar documents and revolutions, often with the same participants involved (Lafayette and Paine, etc.). Yet one was a success, while the other was a nightmare, which had to be re-run a few times until France got it right, or at least got it a bit better.
Others delve into conspiracy theories and the role of freemasonry. The name of Adam Weishaupt and the Illuminati crop up. Far too many claim that Weishaupt was Jewish, and their theories devolve into dark anti-semitic nuttiness. In reality, though Weishaupt had Jewish ancestry, he was raised Catholic.
Born in 1748 in Ingolstadt, a city in the Electorate of Bavaria (now part of modern-day Germany), Weishaupt was a descendant of Jewish converts to Christianity. Orphaned at a young age, his scholarly uncle took care of his education, and enrolled him in a Jesuit school.
If that does not stop the nuttiness and the conspiracy theorists, how do they explain that Washington was a freemason, yet our revolution worked?
The basic answer is that the lower levels of freemasonry are just a club of freethinkers. Not everyone involved with the Knights of Columbus is a Jesuit infiltrator for the pope, and not every freemason is on the occult fringes of the society. It was often just an excuse to take a night out from the wife and meet with the boys at the local club. There the latest politics could be discussed, while beers were quaffed — without the wife asking for help with the kids.
The simple answer to our question is more fundamental: the American people saw their revolution as stemming from biblical principles. Though deist himself, Paine knew he would have to appeal to Scripture to win over the American people in his writings. Indeed, Paine's "Common Sense" cited the Old Testament as condemning monarchies. He cemented the point with this statement: "For monarchy in every instance is the popery of government."
That must have settled the issue for Americans, the vast majority of whom were serious Protestants at that time. The American Revolution was seen as an outgrowth of Christianity, not a condemnation of it. It was the next step in the Christianization of society.
While deists were among the leaders of the Revolution, they did not see Christianity as an obstacle to the struggle, but rather as a partner. Some of the more serious denominations took up the patriot cause. They had been persecuted under England's Anglican hegemony and were in favor of the freedoms promised by the Revolution.
Not so with the French. The vast majority of the French were Roman Catholics, and the Catholic Church and clergy were often hostile to the French Revolution. The Catholic Church tended to get along with monarchies. The Church liked stability and concordats.
This led to the French revolutionaries rejecting Christianity altogether. They set up the competing Cult of Reason and the Cult of the Supreme Being.
Robespierre organized a "Festival of the Supreme Being" in the summer of 1794. Having recently eliminated his adversaries Hébert and Danton, Robespierre delivered the keynote speech. In it he explained his idea for a civic religion worshipping a deist "supreme being" while resisting the more extreme tendency of some to eliminate spirituality outright through an atheistic "cult of reason."
The chief difference is that the American people appealed to the God of the Bible. As they did not reject Christianity, they put brakes on what was acceptable in their revolution.
The French leaders were disgusted with Christianity. Maybe this was due to the corruption of the Catholic clergy and the Church's partnerships with the monarchy. Their solution was to ditch the Christian ethic, and they devolved into the Terror.
It is not that the American people were not faced with a corrupt clergy. The Anglican church was heavily royalist. But the American people did not see a rejection of Christianity as the solution — rather, many embraced the more serious sects of Christianity as the answer.
This is the chief difference between the American and French Revolutions. After the American Revolution, America was arguably more serious about Christianity, while French Christianity was throttled. Over time, in Europe, Christianity, both Lutheran and Catholic, took a beating.
Of course, this is rarely mentioned in history classes today. We hear that the American Revolution was deist, which it was not, or that it was wholly secular. In truth, much of the patriot side appealed to what we would call the principles of the religious right today. Sometimes, a good historian will note the real background. (See "Was the American Revolution a holy war?")
This is also the chief difference between the Republican and Democratic Parties today. The Democratic party has rejected any pretense of biblical ethics, and Democrats have devolved into insanity worthy of Robespierre.
One side sees the Bible as essential to freedom, while the other side sees it as hostile. The Democratic Party has adopted the European model, and with it will come European results.
Mike Konrad is the pen name of an American who wishes he had availed himself more fully of the opportunity to learn Spanish better in high school, lo those many decades ago. He runs a website, Latin Arabia, about the Christian Arab community in South America.
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