Liberalism has gone so far in this society that people do not know how bad it has gotten.
So, even if you were argue the same way you would have thirty years ago, it would be considered unacceptable. It is only unacceptable because the society is not the same as it was thirty years ago.
Some people might think that this is a good thing. But not everything about it is good, nor those who wish to change it further do so with our best interest at heart.
I'm not giving them the benefit of the doubt. I have watched these people for a long time. I absolutely do not trust them. This business with Trump absolutely CONFIRMS this.
Anybody who aligns with them in any way, such as John McCain has, does not have my support.
EVER.
Things may be going too fast for most people, I suppose. A starving man, or a man dying of thirst, must not be given too much too soon.
But you people are going to have to go one way or the other. It is either death or life. Going the way of the left is certain death.
Thursday, May 10, 2018
Kamala Harris' questioning Haspel
John McCain urges that Haspel not be confirmed. He plays up to the likes of Kamala Harris.
Here is a partial transcript given on the use of waterboarding. It is Kamala Harris and Haspel.
Harris' asks if it is immoral, and Haspel seems not to answer yes or no, as Harris wishes.
Now here is a question that follows Harris' line of thinking: is it immoral to kill an enemy?
Because if it is immoral to aggressively interrogate an enemy who wishes to kill you, then why is it moral to kill him? Get what I mean? These people wish to disarm you so that an enemy can kill you at will, and you are defenseless in the face of their aggression.
John McCain is one of these who do not wish to get their hands dirty because they wish to be above it all. It is more important to defend the country than to maintain their own "morality". Otherwise, why have a military at all?
John McCain's "morality" does not impress me at all. As for Kamala Harris, she wishes to burnish her liberal credentials. Anything the liberals touch turns to excrement, so that is what you vote for when you vote for her kind.
Here is a partial transcript given on the use of waterboarding. It is Kamala Harris and Haspel.
Harris' asks if it is immoral, and Haspel seems not to answer yes or no, as Harris wishes.
Now here is a question that follows Harris' line of thinking: is it immoral to kill an enemy?
Because if it is immoral to aggressively interrogate an enemy who wishes to kill you, then why is it moral to kill him? Get what I mean? These people wish to disarm you so that an enemy can kill you at will, and you are defenseless in the face of their aggression.
John McCain is one of these who do not wish to get their hands dirty because they wish to be above it all. It is more important to defend the country than to maintain their own "morality". Otherwise, why have a military at all?
John McCain's "morality" does not impress me at all. As for Kamala Harris, she wishes to burnish her liberal credentials. Anything the liberals touch turns to excrement, so that is what you vote for when you vote for her kind.
Whine industrial complex
Remember George Will? He is now firmly in the camp of the Never Trumpers. Not only that, he has lost his love for veep Mike Pence, who doesn't seem to be getting their message.
There are those who have said that the GOP would rather lose elections, as opposed to having their gigs threatened.
Most of the gigs, if not all of them, are of the variety of professional complaining. I now hereby dub this phenomenon as the Whine Industrial Complex. The Never Trumpers fit into this category. They have raised it up to a fine art.
What makes a whiner? A person who doesn't actually do anything can be a whiner. You see, a whiner feels powerless, but perfect. They love to consider themselves above it all, and they just can't let their own hands to get dirty, or they won't be clean anymore.
As for yours truly, I have distanced myself from the Whine Industrial Complex by taking the money out of the Whine. No money will be accepted here, but I will bitch endlessly about everything, which seems fine with me. If it ever gets more serious around this lame ass society of ours, I will be ready, willing, and able to pitch in what I can. That includes opening up enough cans of Whoop-Ass to do the job that is desperately needed.
If it also means that I will get "my hands dirty" by supporting the likes of Donald Trump, then let it be so. I prefer some action, even if it means that I might get a little dirty and mussed up before it is all over.
The Whiners will never do anything about the cultural rot around us, except complain. They will ratify the left in the high-jacking of America, and toppling it in the way the 9/11 terrorists did.
There are those who have said that the GOP would rather lose elections, as opposed to having their gigs threatened.
Most of the gigs, if not all of them, are of the variety of professional complaining. I now hereby dub this phenomenon as the Whine Industrial Complex. The Never Trumpers fit into this category. They have raised it up to a fine art.
What makes a whiner? A person who doesn't actually do anything can be a whiner. You see, a whiner feels powerless, but perfect. They love to consider themselves above it all, and they just can't let their own hands to get dirty, or they won't be clean anymore.
As for yours truly, I have distanced myself from the Whine Industrial Complex by taking the money out of the Whine. No money will be accepted here, but I will bitch endlessly about everything, which seems fine with me. If it ever gets more serious around this lame ass society of ours, I will be ready, willing, and able to pitch in what I can. That includes opening up enough cans of Whoop-Ass to do the job that is desperately needed.
If it also means that I will get "my hands dirty" by supporting the likes of Donald Trump, then let it be so. I prefer some action, even if it means that I might get a little dirty and mussed up before it is all over.
The Whiners will never do anything about the cultural rot around us, except complain. They will ratify the left in the high-jacking of America, and toppling it in the way the 9/11 terrorists did.
Wednesday, May 9, 2018
The Iran Pseudo Treaty
Trump killed it, with good reason. The purpose of going to the Senate for ratification was given in the Federalist Papers. It is to help prevent "ruinous" treaties. The Iran Pseudo Treaty could well have been that.
It is already ruinous because it quit on the sanctions regime that may well have worked if it continued. It is already ruinous because it financed Iran with billions of dollars. Iran has made no secret that it would like to destroy Israel if it could. These crazy mullahs would likely use nuclear weapons if they got them, and handing over billions supercharged their efforts.
But the biggest reason to shit can this treaty was because it was an end around to the Constitution. Kerry even admitted it.
Now if we could just shit can Mueller.
Update, 9:11 am same day:
More here. Yep, the Constitution provision against ruinous treaties was overturned in the same spirit in which it was to protect. And Majority Leader McConnell enabled it.
5:06 pm same day:
This has got to be pathological. What I have read about this is that the Iranian Parliament never ratified it, and that's the same story here in America. Besides that, nobody in Iran seems to have signed off on it at all.
So, what kind of deal is it that isn't agreed to by both parties? It is a fiction. The Iranians have gulled the United States and all of the Western Europeans into dropping the sanctions and giving them a hundred and fifty billion bucks.
It is also questionable that they have kept the deal at all. After all, if they could get all this from the West for basically nothing, they can't have much respect for us. Yes, and that would make them right.
Until we get our own house in order, there is no reason why this country should be respected.
5:31 pm:
What I said at the time, which has a timeframe of about 11.19.15. My post was a couple days after that.
Actually, the "Deadwoods" in the GOP had to have had something to do with this.
It is already ruinous because it quit on the sanctions regime that may well have worked if it continued. It is already ruinous because it financed Iran with billions of dollars. Iran has made no secret that it would like to destroy Israel if it could. These crazy mullahs would likely use nuclear weapons if they got them, and handing over billions supercharged their efforts.
But the biggest reason to shit can this treaty was because it was an end around to the Constitution. Kerry even admitted it.
Now if we could just shit can Mueller.
Update, 9:11 am same day:
More here. Yep, the Constitution provision against ruinous treaties was overturned in the same spirit in which it was to protect. And Majority Leader McConnell enabled it.
5:06 pm same day:
This has got to be pathological. What I have read about this is that the Iranian Parliament never ratified it, and that's the same story here in America. Besides that, nobody in Iran seems to have signed off on it at all.
So, what kind of deal is it that isn't agreed to by both parties? It is a fiction. The Iranians have gulled the United States and all of the Western Europeans into dropping the sanctions and giving them a hundred and fifty billion bucks.
It is also questionable that they have kept the deal at all. After all, if they could get all this from the West for basically nothing, they can't have much respect for us. Yes, and that would make them right.
Until we get our own house in order, there is no reason why this country should be respected.
5:31 pm:
What I said at the time, which has a timeframe of about 11.19.15. My post was a couple days after that.
Actually, the "Deadwoods" in the GOP had to have had something to do with this.
These guys wouldn't be "homophobes", now would they?
Well, truth is truth, even if the words being used are rather ugly.
We have this brand of you know what running the country now. Witness that the former Boy Scouts will now admit openly declared homosexuals to leadership positions.
Whatever the liberals touch turns to garbage. The entire country is in their cross hairs.
Use of the words in this video are going to be offensive to many these days, but I am very close to the point of not giving a damn.
It expresses the point colorfully and truthfully. Truth is my gold standard.
Being called a "queer" used to be a fighting word. Use of this word was intended to be the ultimate insult. Perhaps people today don't like to be called something like that now, either, even if true.
We have this brand of you know what running the country now. Witness that the former Boy Scouts will now admit openly declared homosexuals to leadership positions.
Whatever the liberals touch turns to garbage. The entire country is in their cross hairs.
Use of the words in this video are going to be offensive to many these days, but I am very close to the point of not giving a damn.
It expresses the point colorfully and truthfully. Truth is my gold standard.
Being called a "queer" used to be a fighting word. Use of this word was intended to be the ultimate insult. Perhaps people today don't like to be called something like that now, either, even if true.
Cohen news
The left is hyping something, I suspect. There is a story about Cohen receiving a bunch of cash after the election. It was supposedly from some Russian oligarch.
Now, the question to me is this: how did Stormy Daniel's attorney get that information?
Was it a leak from the Cohen raid? Or is it fake news? If it is not fake news, then where did it come from? How do you verify it? What was the money for?
I suppose the whole point of the leak, should it be from a leak, is to carry out the trial in the media.
This is why the raid was questionable in the first place.
Did you ever notice how Democrats' secrets stay that way, and GOP secrets do not? Obama's records stay sealed. Slick Willie's medical records stay sealed, but George W. Bush's DUI doesn't. Trump's sealed record didn't stay that way with respect to a certain court case. The Democrats made a lot of hay on those disclosures, and tend to avoid a lot of bad publicity when their own records stay sealed.
If Obama was known to have claimed to have been a foreign student, how would that have affected the 2008 election? If McCabe hadn't sat on the the emails turned over by Weiner's lawyer, how would that have affected Hillary's campaign?
Such things is why the GOP is beyond hopeless. This is a stupidity that is legendary in its foolishness, and self-defeatism.
If this was a legitimate counter intelligence operation, wouldn't they have wanted to remain secret until they were ready to indict? Instead of that, this is plastered all over the news. It is for the politics of it, they don't even need a conviction of anything wrong in order to get Trump out of office.
It may not be anything wrong with what Cohen did, even if he did it, you know. But that is not the point.
Yep, it was the good 'ol GOP dopes who enabled all this.
Now, the question to me is this: how did Stormy Daniel's attorney get that information?
Was it a leak from the Cohen raid? Or is it fake news? If it is not fake news, then where did it come from? How do you verify it? What was the money for?
I suppose the whole point of the leak, should it be from a leak, is to carry out the trial in the media.
This is why the raid was questionable in the first place.
Did you ever notice how Democrats' secrets stay that way, and GOP secrets do not? Obama's records stay sealed. Slick Willie's medical records stay sealed, but George W. Bush's DUI doesn't. Trump's sealed record didn't stay that way with respect to a certain court case. The Democrats made a lot of hay on those disclosures, and tend to avoid a lot of bad publicity when their own records stay sealed.
If Obama was known to have claimed to have been a foreign student, how would that have affected the 2008 election? If McCabe hadn't sat on the the emails turned over by Weiner's lawyer, how would that have affected Hillary's campaign?
Such things is why the GOP is beyond hopeless. This is a stupidity that is legendary in its foolishness, and self-defeatism.
If this was a legitimate counter intelligence operation, wouldn't they have wanted to remain secret until they were ready to indict? Instead of that, this is plastered all over the news. It is for the politics of it, they don't even need a conviction of anything wrong in order to get Trump out of office.
It may not be anything wrong with what Cohen did, even if he did it, you know. But that is not the point.
Yep, it was the good 'ol GOP dopes who enabled all this.
Tuesday, May 8, 2018
Deliverence: "What law?"
There is a scene from the movie Deliverance, in which a sexual assault and, subsequent to that, a killing resulted. It happens in an area being evacuated because a dam project, in which the area in which they are situated will be flooded.
The men involved, other than the one having fled the scene, who was involved in the sexual assault, discuss what to do about the dead man. They decided to bury the dead man, and get out of the area.
Note that in the discussion, the man responsible for the killing ( played by Burt Reynolds ) does not want to go in front of a jury in that area.
Reynolds' character knows the law. You get the trial in the district in which the alleged crime occurs. This is in the US Constitution. However, in his case, that would be a decided disadvantage, as this was a mountain man, and Reynolds' character was an outsider.
Okay, what's the point? Something that I have been mentioning over and over again. In Washington DC, no Republican is going to get a fair shake. Likewise, no Democrat is going to be indicted.
An example of why this is true can be determined from the discussion in Rush's show today. But Rush did not talk about that. Too bad.
Mueller doesn't indict anyone. He obtains an indictment by seating a Grand Jury, which hears the evidence that the prosecutor presents. Mueller must convince the jury that probable cause exists to show that a crime occurred and who was responsible. This Grand Jury must have been awful easy to convince, I'd say. It seems to me that this jury is biased, and it was probably a bunch of Democrats in Washington DC, and they didn't need a whole lot of evidence to be persuaded that a crime occurred.
In other words, it is a political trial. Rush's point is that they did not expect the Russians to show up for their trial. Mueller's team asked for a delay, because the Russians' appearance was unexpected.
I criticized Mueller's team for being incompetent. Actually, they are likely to be incompetent as well as corrupt. Also, Mueller and this team is supposed to be all-stars. Once again, it is all hype, These guys were unprepared, and they had a case that wasn't a case. They had to bail because they knew that they could not win, most likely.
Anyway, these sophisticated types in DC are really no better than the country hicks depicted here in the movie.
Of course, it would be nice if Rush could explain as well as I just have.
The men involved, other than the one having fled the scene, who was involved in the sexual assault, discuss what to do about the dead man. They decided to bury the dead man, and get out of the area.
Note that in the discussion, the man responsible for the killing ( played by Burt Reynolds ) does not want to go in front of a jury in that area.
Reynolds' character knows the law. You get the trial in the district in which the alleged crime occurs. This is in the US Constitution. However, in his case, that would be a decided disadvantage, as this was a mountain man, and Reynolds' character was an outsider.
Okay, what's the point? Something that I have been mentioning over and over again. In Washington DC, no Republican is going to get a fair shake. Likewise, no Democrat is going to be indicted.
An example of why this is true can be determined from the discussion in Rush's show today. But Rush did not talk about that. Too bad.
Mueller doesn't indict anyone. He obtains an indictment by seating a Grand Jury, which hears the evidence that the prosecutor presents. Mueller must convince the jury that probable cause exists to show that a crime occurred and who was responsible. This Grand Jury must have been awful easy to convince, I'd say. It seems to me that this jury is biased, and it was probably a bunch of Democrats in Washington DC, and they didn't need a whole lot of evidence to be persuaded that a crime occurred.
In other words, it is a political trial. Rush's point is that they did not expect the Russians to show up for their trial. Mueller's team asked for a delay, because the Russians' appearance was unexpected.
I criticized Mueller's team for being incompetent. Actually, they are likely to be incompetent as well as corrupt. Also, Mueller and this team is supposed to be all-stars. Once again, it is all hype, These guys were unprepared, and they had a case that wasn't a case. They had to bail because they knew that they could not win, most likely.
Anyway, these sophisticated types in DC are really no better than the country hicks depicted here in the movie.
Of course, it would be nice if Rush could explain as well as I just have.
This story follows a pattern
Just noticed the headline with respect to the kid who shot up the Florida school recently.
You may recall all of the push towards gun control after the event. Sometimes, echoes of that continue to this day.
Anyway, what I noticed there is this pattern with respect to liberal initiatives. Once they fail, it always leads to something worse. You would expect the opposite. Once a program fails, it should be discredited and ended. But what we have here is that the liberals take their failed program and try to gain from it.
So, this Cruz kid was a part of a program in which he was able to escape the system that was designed to keep him from buying guns legally. Subsequently, after the system failed to reform the guy, he buys a gun, and he kills a bunch of kids. The liberals respond with a push for more gun control. But what should have happened was that the program ended, and the law firmed up more so as to catch a problem like this before it had a chance to get a whole lot worse.
It looks like premeditated failure to me. People are likely to try to forget the whole thing, but this needs to be scrutinized over and over again so as to inoculate the country from the depredations of the left towards the rest of society. It is a warlike attitude that is at work here. War needs to be countered aggressively. It is not being done now, and these people have a lot more success than they should have.
Updated same day at 11:26:
You can also note the pattern in the Mueller investigation. What looks like incompetence may actually end up being rewarded. For example, with regard to the investigation, these people want Trump out of office. Even if every single one of the charges fail, or are overturned, they would still be rewarded for their incompetence if Trump were to be actually forced out due to these proceedings.
That is why they must be stopped and then punished this time. No more of this.
You may recall all of the push towards gun control after the event. Sometimes, echoes of that continue to this day.
Anyway, what I noticed there is this pattern with respect to liberal initiatives. Once they fail, it always leads to something worse. You would expect the opposite. Once a program fails, it should be discredited and ended. But what we have here is that the liberals take their failed program and try to gain from it.
So, this Cruz kid was a part of a program in which he was able to escape the system that was designed to keep him from buying guns legally. Subsequently, after the system failed to reform the guy, he buys a gun, and he kills a bunch of kids. The liberals respond with a push for more gun control. But what should have happened was that the program ended, and the law firmed up more so as to catch a problem like this before it had a chance to get a whole lot worse.
It looks like premeditated failure to me. People are likely to try to forget the whole thing, but this needs to be scrutinized over and over again so as to inoculate the country from the depredations of the left towards the rest of society. It is a warlike attitude that is at work here. War needs to be countered aggressively. It is not being done now, and these people have a lot more success than they should have.
Updated same day at 11:26:
You can also note the pattern in the Mueller investigation. What looks like incompetence may actually end up being rewarded. For example, with regard to the investigation, these people want Trump out of office. Even if every single one of the charges fail, or are overturned, they would still be rewarded for their incompetence if Trump were to be actually forced out due to these proceedings.
That is why they must be stopped and then punished this time. No more of this.
Rosenstein's instructions to Mueller were "secret"
Updated:
5.8.18:
More here...
The judge would be doing us all a great service if he dismissed the case against Manafort. The case has languished at the DOJ for a decade. I suspect that there is little merit to the case in the first place.
the original post follows:
5.6.18:
Asked by Judge Ellis as to their authority in creating a criminal case out of a intelligence investigation, the Mueller gang said it was a "secret".
Reminds me of the scene in the movie Animal House, where Dean Wormer puts the Delta House fraternity on "double secret probation".
So, is Rod Rosenstein acting out the part of Dean Wormer? Is Mueller the Niedermeyer character, who Dean Wormer describes as a "sneaky little shit"?
Actually, Rod Rosenstein looks like the sneaky little shit, and Mueller looks like "Flounder".
Update:
Saw this on Free Republic. Yeah, it might look like I got the idea for the post elsewhere, but I didn't. Nobody got it from me either, too new.
5.8.18:
More here...
The judge would be doing us all a great service if he dismissed the case against Manafort. The case has languished at the DOJ for a decade. I suspect that there is little merit to the case in the first place.
the original post follows:
5.6.18:
Asked by Judge Ellis as to their authority in creating a criminal case out of a intelligence investigation, the Mueller gang said it was a "secret".
Reminds me of the scene in the movie Animal House, where Dean Wormer puts the Delta House fraternity on "double secret probation".
So, is Rod Rosenstein acting out the part of Dean Wormer? Is Mueller the Niedermeyer character, who Dean Wormer describes as a "sneaky little shit"?
Actually, Rod Rosenstein looks like the sneaky little shit, and Mueller looks like "Flounder".
Update:
Saw this on Free Republic. Yeah, it might look like I got the idea for the post elsewhere, but I didn't. Nobody got it from me either, too new.
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| Free Republic |
Fleeting thoughts
Update to 5.6.18 post:
Link to Hill op-ed via Instapundit.
5.8.18: comment:
The argument only vaguely resembles this one below. After writing this, I would like to re-state what I meant. It is like this: a cop investigates, but he doesn't prosecute. An FBI agent investigates, but he doesn't prosecute. There should be a firewall between the investigative authority and the court.
Rosenstein's directive fuses them together into one office. Not only that, it does it in a way that bypasses the law with respect to establishing a crime first before locating the suspect. What this Mueller investigation has done is select the man and then find the crime. It must be disallowed and Mueller should be dismissed.
the original post follows:
Many times over the years that I have been writing this blog, I have noted that thoughts have a way of appearing and disappearing. These thoughts may have been worth a post, but having had the thoughts, and not having made notes of the thoughts, the ideas slip into the ether, so to speak.
I just had one of those thoughts, and now, I am in possession of the keyboard in front of me, and the motivation to write about it. Provided that I don't forget about it first.
It is about Rosenstein once again, so, I will pause here and review what I want to discuss...
...be back once I finish...
...okay back.
The point with Manafort is that the cases Mueller is prosecuting are over a decade old. No charges were brought from that case, but are being revived now. What this judge Ellis is looking for is the authority to bring back something essentially from the dead.
Actually, I reviewed Rosenstein's letter to nominate Mueller. Rosenstein did give Mueller authority to prosecute. This appears to be the bone of contention. You cannot conduct both an investigation of possible "collusion", and then prosecute based upon that. This is much too sweeping of an authorization. It is the investigation of a political act based upon something that may be criminal. But whatever is said to be criminal must be done on another authority, not Mueller's.
What Sundance at CTH is pointing out, and the judge is pointing out, is that these are separate issues legally. You cannot conduct an internal investigation and be a head of the prosecution at the same time. Take the OIG report that is coming out. Horowitz is at the head of that. However, another prosecutor will take over from there once he is through. It doesn't all go through Horowitz.
An example? The recent McCabe report from Horowitz's team. Horowitz didn't prosecute, but referred the matter for prosecution to the US Attorney. So, why doesn't Mueller do this instead of what he is doing with Flynn et. al? Because Rosenstein gave him too much authority.
Mueller doesn't have any evidence, it seems. It seems to me that he is forcing people into phony confessions so that it appears that he has something, then he will leverage that into a more substantive case.
A more proper way to do it would be to refer this to Congress for impeachment if the matter warrants. In the end, that is what he may do, but this other stuff ( Manafort, Flynn ) appears to be over the line. For example, Flynn may not have been lying, but may have agreed to a false charge for other reasons aside from guilt. Manafort's case is a clear matter of lack of evidence. Otherwise, why didn't they prosecute years ago? Neither case has anything to do with the election of 2016. A fair question is whether or not these cases are being used to prop up a rather weak case.
Why give all that authority to investigate and prosecute to just one man? There's too much opportunity for misconduct.
Link to Hill op-ed via Instapundit.
5.8.18: comment:
The argument only vaguely resembles this one below. After writing this, I would like to re-state what I meant. It is like this: a cop investigates, but he doesn't prosecute. An FBI agent investigates, but he doesn't prosecute. There should be a firewall between the investigative authority and the court.
Rosenstein's directive fuses them together into one office. Not only that, it does it in a way that bypasses the law with respect to establishing a crime first before locating the suspect. What this Mueller investigation has done is select the man and then find the crime. It must be disallowed and Mueller should be dismissed.
the original post follows:
Many times over the years that I have been writing this blog, I have noted that thoughts have a way of appearing and disappearing. These thoughts may have been worth a post, but having had the thoughts, and not having made notes of the thoughts, the ideas slip into the ether, so to speak.
I just had one of those thoughts, and now, I am in possession of the keyboard in front of me, and the motivation to write about it. Provided that I don't forget about it first.
It is about Rosenstein once again, so, I will pause here and review what I want to discuss...
...be back once I finish...
...okay back.
The point with Manafort is that the cases Mueller is prosecuting are over a decade old. No charges were brought from that case, but are being revived now. What this judge Ellis is looking for is the authority to bring back something essentially from the dead.
Actually, I reviewed Rosenstein's letter to nominate Mueller. Rosenstein did give Mueller authority to prosecute. This appears to be the bone of contention. You cannot conduct both an investigation of possible "collusion", and then prosecute based upon that. This is much too sweeping of an authorization. It is the investigation of a political act based upon something that may be criminal. But whatever is said to be criminal must be done on another authority, not Mueller's.
What Sundance at CTH is pointing out, and the judge is pointing out, is that these are separate issues legally. You cannot conduct an internal investigation and be a head of the prosecution at the same time. Take the OIG report that is coming out. Horowitz is at the head of that. However, another prosecutor will take over from there once he is through. It doesn't all go through Horowitz.
An example? The recent McCabe report from Horowitz's team. Horowitz didn't prosecute, but referred the matter for prosecution to the US Attorney. So, why doesn't Mueller do this instead of what he is doing with Flynn et. al? Because Rosenstein gave him too much authority.
Mueller doesn't have any evidence, it seems. It seems to me that he is forcing people into phony confessions so that it appears that he has something, then he will leverage that into a more substantive case.
A more proper way to do it would be to refer this to Congress for impeachment if the matter warrants. In the end, that is what he may do, but this other stuff ( Manafort, Flynn ) appears to be over the line. For example, Flynn may not have been lying, but may have agreed to a false charge for other reasons aside from guilt. Manafort's case is a clear matter of lack of evidence. Otherwise, why didn't they prosecute years ago? Neither case has anything to do with the election of 2016. A fair question is whether or not these cases are being used to prop up a rather weak case.
Why give all that authority to investigate and prosecute to just one man? There's too much opportunity for misconduct.
Monday, May 7, 2018
Compact to award electoral votes based upon national popular vote
Connecticut just passed a bill enabling this, but is it legal?
No, it should not be. Yet, who knows these days? The liberals will not respect the constitution unless there is an advantage to them.
This would be illegal because of prohibition upon states of entering into compacts with another state.
Article 1, Section 10
No, it should not be. Yet, who knows these days? The liberals will not respect the constitution unless there is an advantage to them.
This would be illegal because of prohibition upon states of entering into compacts with another state.
Article 1, Section 10
It's a controversy waiting to happen.No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay.
Trump's rise in the polls
Good for Trump? Maybe. But is it good for the country? He needs Congress to be able to pass legislation. Without the GOP helping him out, he cannot do much.
The "eyes on the prize" is the country, not Trump.
The "eyes on the prize" is the country, not Trump.
Dick Morris: Trump Poised for Another Big Poll Gain https://t.co/WiiFzKayvQ— Greg Meadows (@BootsandOilBlog) May 7, 2018
The country is lost, can it be redeemed?
One look at the news is enough to drive a man to drink, if I were so inclined.
Even so, it still makes me feel really downbeat.
If it isn't the false narratives on the left, it is the powerless cries of double standards on the right. For heavens sakes, you so-called conservatives. Do you really believe that the people of this country are going to respond to your continuing cries of left wing bias, when you won't get off your backsides, and do something about it? The Congress belongs to the GOP, the President is GOP, and would sign something into law, if you would just pass it. You cannot blame this on liberal bias in the news. The time to act has been for the last sixteen months, but you have little to show for it, you so-called conservatives.
Instead, we get the Keystone Cop to beat all Keystone Cops--- Robert Mueller. Why not fire his ass? But no. Can't do that. Question: Just exactly what is it that you can do, you so-called conservatives?
The left keeps saying that there will be a Blue wave in the fall. The right says not so fast, but then complains about double standards again. It is as if they aren't in power and are running against the Democrat majority as in the past. Did they not notice that the GOP runs both houses of Congress? If the Democrats win in the fall, it will be because the GOP lost by default. When that happens, and maybe it isn't an "if" after all, I'm sure we will all hear about the double standards, and how America is badly served by its low information voters. Rush Limbaugh will wail again about having lost the country.
It shouldn't take an Einstein to figure out that the GOP doesn't want to win, and doesn't want to govern. They just want to complain forever and ever. It's good business for guys like Limbaugh. Meanwhile, the country goes down the drain.
What could be done? Well, back during the time when Texas was a part of Mexico, the colonists held protest conventions. Why can't so-called conservatives start to take actions like that? Why not consider consider some real action instead of mere complaints? The Texans eventually declared their independence and made a new nation. Actually, I would hope that this sort of drastic action would not be necessary these days. But something had better be done and soon.
Bottom line: In spite of all of the overwhelming evidence that the GOP should win in a landslide, they haven't given anybody any reason to show up in the fall. They could definitely lose, but seem perversely determined not to do anything about it, except complain in the most powerless way imaginable. They do not move anybody to support them, and that just might happen.
"But the President is doing better in the polls". Give me a friggin' break!
Even so, it still makes me feel really downbeat.
If it isn't the false narratives on the left, it is the powerless cries of double standards on the right. For heavens sakes, you so-called conservatives. Do you really believe that the people of this country are going to respond to your continuing cries of left wing bias, when you won't get off your backsides, and do something about it? The Congress belongs to the GOP, the President is GOP, and would sign something into law, if you would just pass it. You cannot blame this on liberal bias in the news. The time to act has been for the last sixteen months, but you have little to show for it, you so-called conservatives.
Instead, we get the Keystone Cop to beat all Keystone Cops--- Robert Mueller. Why not fire his ass? But no. Can't do that. Question: Just exactly what is it that you can do, you so-called conservatives?
The left keeps saying that there will be a Blue wave in the fall. The right says not so fast, but then complains about double standards again. It is as if they aren't in power and are running against the Democrat majority as in the past. Did they not notice that the GOP runs both houses of Congress? If the Democrats win in the fall, it will be because the GOP lost by default. When that happens, and maybe it isn't an "if" after all, I'm sure we will all hear about the double standards, and how America is badly served by its low information voters. Rush Limbaugh will wail again about having lost the country.
It shouldn't take an Einstein to figure out that the GOP doesn't want to win, and doesn't want to govern. They just want to complain forever and ever. It's good business for guys like Limbaugh. Meanwhile, the country goes down the drain.
What could be done? Well, back during the time when Texas was a part of Mexico, the colonists held protest conventions. Why can't so-called conservatives start to take actions like that? Why not consider consider some real action instead of mere complaints? The Texans eventually declared their independence and made a new nation. Actually, I would hope that this sort of drastic action would not be necessary these days. But something had better be done and soon.
Bottom line: In spite of all of the overwhelming evidence that the GOP should win in a landslide, they haven't given anybody any reason to show up in the fall. They could definitely lose, but seem perversely determined not to do anything about it, except complain in the most powerless way imaginable. They do not move anybody to support them, and that just might happen.
"But the President is doing better in the polls". Give me a friggin' break!
Sunday, May 6, 2018
Mueller's team did not expect the Russians to be coming
To their own trial in the US.
comment:
OMG. We have these kinds of trials in the US. Star Chamber affairs.
Why would the Russians bother with this? Because it is an easy win for them!!!
These people who are running this investigation do not help our country---neither here, nor in the world outside our borders. They are giving the Russians propaganda to use against us.
You have to be a dolt to believe Mueller's gang and their supporters in DC. This amateurish display is proof positive of it. The Mueller gang is making a mockery of our justice system, and the reports of that are going throughout the world. It should embarrass the hell out of all of us Americans.
All of this because of Hillary's refusal to accept her own defeat.
Mueller would prefer not to [With Comment by John] https://t.co/OmZKTiLyqc via @powerlineUS— Greg Meadows (@BootsandOilBlog) May 6, 2018
comment:
OMG. We have these kinds of trials in the US. Star Chamber affairs.
Why would the Russians bother with this? Because it is an easy win for them!!!
These people who are running this investigation do not help our country---neither here, nor in the world outside our borders. They are giving the Russians propaganda to use against us.
You have to be a dolt to believe Mueller's gang and their supporters in DC. This amateurish display is proof positive of it. The Mueller gang is making a mockery of our justice system, and the reports of that are going throughout the world. It should embarrass the hell out of all of us Americans.
All of this because of Hillary's refusal to accept her own defeat.
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