Rumors

The news as reported by the Ministry of Truth can be, shall we say, so filtered that it becomes laughable.  It's a parody, really of what passes for journalism today. So maybe it's time for  political bloggers like me to roll up the sleeves, jump into the trusty combat boots, and arm ourselves for some real reporting - of rumors!  To be believable, rumors must be detailed enough to be plausible.  Here are some "rumors" that are probably accurate.

A Helmet, John?  Really?

It seems that America, now the neutered compliant global neighbor the Kenyan wants it to be, is doing nothing at all about the assassination attempt on John Kerry the other day. Oh well, yeah, they did circulate a story about Kerry breaking a leg in a bicycling accident in France.  But the actual story is that he was meeting secretly with a top ISIS commander. Secretary Kerry was in Geneva, Switzerland, this past weekend, where he was trying to wrap up the last details of a nuclear agreement with Iran.  But he and his entourage left for a secret meeting, supported by a French helicopter regiment, to a French air base where he would meet with Colonel Gulmurod Khalimov, commander of Tajikistan’s special forces,  But the American-trained colonel had defected to ISIS in April.  Ironically, Khalimov and his command were trained and funded by Kerry's own state department. As to the gun battle that ensued, Kerry was “gravely wounded.” Details from this point on are lacking, but Col. Khalimov was intimately familiar with US security proceeds and how to breach them.  If the lack of American follow up to the Benghazi attack is any indication, this administration will stick to the bike accident story.

Party On, Dude!

Hillary Clinton, loves to imbibe.  I mean our gal Hil really likes to imbibe. In fact she's a drunk.  A stumbling, falling, sloppy drunk.  Even the Kenyan says so.  Most in-the-know in Washington know she is a drunk, but her handlers feed the press a blood clot cover story.  Ok, a lot of politicians drink heavily.  No, really!  But Hill takes it to an art form.  First, she breaks her arm walking on a flat surface, then she falls and gets a concussion. No wonder she won't testify.  No wonder her campaign chugs along - without her.  And not only is she seen swilling everything from beer and wine to hard liquor all over the world, but she was filmed drunk - staggering carefully up the stairs on the State Department's plane in Yemen and falling flat on her face at the top of the stairs.  She has been at the bottle for a while now, and she's not above going on a nationally televised debate in New Hampshire totally smashed. We know she drinks heavily, and as president she'd be an absolute  disaster.  Hopefully we learned about candidates who lie about their past and who are of low character.  And Hillary is reminding us of that fact every day.

Jade Helm 15 Official Logo

Another rumor floating around is that the recent military exercises in public places is a precursor for martial law.  In  Flint, Michigan this week, loud explosions started the residents, and the city issued statements trying to prepare residents for the fact that the US Army would be training there for the next 10 days.  However, no specific locations were noted, and the army's spokeswoman was not available for comment.  Neat.  Many folks all over the nation are convinced that this - along with the infamous Jade Helm campaign - er, exercise - is merely a rehearsal for the imminent martial law that the Kenyan will declare.  We reported recently on Jade Helm here.  Many think that a military coup is well within the scope of this administration's ambitions, and conspiracy theories abound.  After all, lawless gun control schemes by this administration have been at the forefront for years.  Think Fast and Furious, and recently the DOJ imposing new backdoor  gun control regulations as just two examples.  Texas is having second thoughts about accepting Jade Helm maneuvers, and will have their National Guard monitor military activities.   But most activity will be covert.  Interesting.  Whatever the truth really is behind this unprecedented military muscle-flexing, people are duly concerned. 

News or rumors?  To quote Hillary, "What difference, at this point, does it make?"  We're still in a world of hurt.

Who Cares If You're Offended

Thinking in terms of sound business decisions, let's say I owned a men's upscale clothing store, and needed counter sales employees.  In my search I placed an ad, and interviewed several candidates who willingly came to me in response, seeking employment at my business. 

The first, a young black man, came into my office and wanted the job I was offering.  He had dreadlocks down to his mid back, a teardrop tattoo on his left upper cheek, spoke in the slang parlance of the street, and all his front teeth were solid gold.  I tell him I'd hire him if he cut his hair, dressed appropriately and spoke in proper English.   The tats and the grill I was willing to accept, yet he declines, as doing so would be a sellout for him.

The second candidate was a relatively attractive young woman, reasonably educated and well groomed.  She was a Muslim, and wore a headscarf.   I told her if she were to dress in a conventional manner to reflect the culture and expectations of my customer base, I'd hire her.  She refuses to remove the hajib, and declines.

Ah, Yes.  Our Dear Friends CAIR At It Again

As a business owner, taking the economic and market risks to provide a high demand service to the public at large, am I not the sole arbiter of whom I hire?  The answer is no. Abercrombie and Fitch faced this exact scenario some years ago, when they declined to hire a Muslim candidate for a modeling job who refused to remove her hajib.  Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of this woman who sued for discrimination after being denied a modelling job at age 17 at an Abercrombie & Fitch clothing store in Oklahoma because she wore a head scarf.  She initially won a $20,000 judgment against Abercrombie in federal district court. On appeal, the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver reversed, ruling in favor of Abercrombie.  Now SCOTUS reverses again in Monday's 8-1 decision, ruling in her favor after the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) took the case.  I disagree with that ruling.  A company has the right to set its own minimum standards for any given position.  The plaintiff in this case was not harmed, there was no dispute of facts, and she was certainly free to pursue other opportunities.  But when the oppressive EEOC (i. e. the US government) got involved, suddenly it became a religious issue, which it never was.

Terrorist Imam Suhaib Webb (left),

Why do we even care about this?  Because as evidenced by this case and thousands of others, the creeping governmental usurpation of individual liberties in favor of idiotic perceived individual "rights" continues unabated.  In EEOC v. Abercrombie & Fitch, Plaintiff has no "right" to flaunt her cultism.   "Offended" isn't a valid cause of action.  Yet as to religious freedoms, this administration bends over backward to accommodate Muslims in any capacity.  But not Christians; they're pursued and harassed.  Another "offended" Muslim incident blown out of proportion, and culminating in yet another American company begging for forgiveness, is the infamous Muslim Coke can matter.  But wait.  This Muslim woman who claimed in a social media post that United Airlines discriminated against her because of her faith, has a history rife with deep connections to the Muslim Brotherhood and radical Imams.  Ya think?   In Minnesota, already a Muslim nation, a majority of Muslims want sharia law to replace freedom of speech and other constitutional freedoms. There's an aggressive agenda here, folks, and woe be to those who won't recognize the enormity of  it.  But you won't find the Department of Justice or Homeland Security investigating these militant Muslim factions who are openly engaging in overt sedition.  Not one.  Anywhere.

What you will see is vigorous investigations of the conservative, Christian political right in this country.  What you will see is the DOJ investigating movie theaters for God only knows what.  Loretta Lynch can be counted on to do the Kenyan's bidding by appearing diligent, all the while making smoke screens as cover for this corrupt administration's Machiavellian machinations.  Case in point: you will find DOJ again illegally making law by circumventing congress and implementing a dozen or more new gun control regulations.

Molon Labe!

So while we have to contend with - make that defend against - covert Muslim sedition; a new crime wave and rioting by black thugs; illegal Hispanic and Asian gangs crossing the porous southern to rape and rob at will; ISIS declaring a terror war on us individually; and a heavy handed and oppressive government involved in micromanaging every aspect of our personal and business lives, we see DOJ intent on just one thing.

Disarming America.

The Ferguson Effect

I Want What You Got, Whitey

They even have a name for it.  The Ferguson Effect.  It's the reversal of over twenty years of falling crime rates across the country, and it's all part of the plan.  It's abetted, if not engineered behind the scenes, by the racist-in-chief, the Kenyan, propagated by CNN, and it's working like a charm: Gun violence is up more than 60% compared with this time last year, according to Baltimore police, with 32 shootings over Memorial Day weekend. May has been the most violent month the city has seen in 15 years.  In Milwaukee, homicides were up 180%.   Through April, shootings in St. Louis were up 39%, robberies 43%, and homicides 25%.  Murders in Atlanta were up 32%, lootings in Chicago had increased 24% and homicides 17%.  Shootings and other violent felonies in Los Angeles had spiked by 25%; in New York, murder was up nearly 13%, and gun violence 7%. Shooting incidents are up 500% in an East Harlem precinct compared with last year; in a South Central Los Angeles police division, shooting victims are up 100%.

Planet Of The Apes

Who are the victims?  Poor inner city black folks.   Who are the perps?  Poor inner city black folks.  What is the result?   Cops afraid to arrest, young black thugs ready and willing to go wilding, civilization as a whole breaking down in the face of chaos.  Cui Bono?  The radical left as they apply the Cloward-Priven strategy to overwhelm and disrupt the system.  Keep ‘em down. Keep ‘em angry. Pretend you are their savior, not their oppressor, and keep ‘em voting for the very thing destroying them: big government and the Democrats who control it.

Gun Control:  Using Both Hands

Isn't is curious that at this exact moment in time, the Kenyan goes to back door strategies for even more gun control. Gun control isn't working; we need more gun control.  These new regulations range from new restrictions on high-powered pistols to gun storage requirements and the issuance of new rules expanding criteria for people who do not quality for gun ownership, like mental illness or domestic abuse.  The definition of "criminal" is so fluid that anyone can be said to fit the description.

Muslim Brotherhood Government

The Kenyan has 18 months left in office, and his plan to destroy America is being implemented by his appointed Blacks and Muslims in his administration.  That's a fact.  And it's working.  He hates America, and appoints those who share that sentiment.  The number of enemies the Kenyan has put in Americans' face continues to grow:  black thugs with a government license to kill; radical Muslims intent on mass violence; illegal Hispanic alien cartel and gang members killing and raping.   Oh, and ever more gun control.  That's the true Ferguson Effect.

Doomed Planet?

One of my few pleasures is reading the editorials in the Sunday papers over a cup of coffee.  That's papers plural, as I subscribe to two local papers; one center-right and the other far left.  This Sunday I was intrigued by an editorial in the far left op-ed pages, Changed Climate, Doomed Planets, a reprint of an article in the New York Times from this January.  In it, one Adam Frank, an astrophysics professor at Rutgers and co-founder of NPR's 13.7 Cosmos and Culture blog, had some interesting takes on how climate destroys planets.  The title along with the writer's bonafides is a spoiler; you can guess where this one is going.  The substance of this piece is that climates can make or break a planet, and that we humans can't do anything about it.  That's a switch from the left's constant drumbeat about reversing the Earth's non-existent climate change. Nonetheless, Frank cites Fermi's Paradox, which is the apparent contradiction between high estimates of the probability of the existence of extraterrestrial civilizations and humanity's lack of contact with, or evidence for, such civilizations. No evidence of ET?  Says who?  But I'll refrain from a tangential departure just now.  Extraterrestrials haven't been here to visit with us, he says, because in their quest for technological advancement, they polluted themselves into either oblivion by destroying their planet, or simply devolved into a stone age status.  Lovely.

You Are Here

If, as he states, as the thirst for energy envelopes a given life form, then it also requires the waste created from the use of that energy to reside somewhere. In Earth's case, he says, all those 100 billion megawatts hours of energy we create produces 36 billion tons of carbon dioxide that gets pumped into the atmosphere.  And that rate of CO2 discharge will change the atmosphere's chemical composition, change the climate irreversibly, and destroy all life of Earth. Lost in his cause-and-effect structure is the notion that if true, then we humans should accept our fate, and just lay down and die.  Free will is an illusion, and God's will is manifest.  Uh oh.  I used the G word.  Liberal hand-wringers don't believe in God, so fate must be an illusion, as well.  This is their paradox.  As irrefutable proof that we're doomed, Frank cites that 2 billion years ago on Earth, the atmosphere was made up of mostly ammonia and hydrogen sulfide, mixed with methane gas. As microscopic bacterial life thrived, died and decayed in the oceans, it gave off tons and tons of a deadly poison, oxygen, which began to permeate the atmosphere.  And for the next 2 billion years, life forms adapted to oxygen as a requirement for life, and the predominate atmospheric gases were now considered poisonous to the new oxygen oriented life.  

NASA Image of Earth's Plant Life, Western Hemisphere

So life changed and adapted and subsequently thrived.  How does that doom the planet?  There's no evidence that Earth is doomed in any way.  Possibilities do arise, such as catastrophic asteroid strikes, or a massive volcanic eruption.  Even those possibilities may not eradicate life and destroy the planet:  those events have happened before, even in recent history, and yet here we still are. Even if there's a preponderance of CO2 being pumped into our atmosphere, it would take centuries, if not millennia, to result in a complete change like that of The Great Oxidation Event that took billions of years to complete.  Developing nations like China and India are not going to curtail their industrial and technical pursuits - and their use of vast amounts of energy - just to solve a non-existent problem.  And taxing citizens in the US to compensate won't slow the rate of CO2 being produced, either.  It just devolves the US into becoming a third world nation, as we are required to cut our energy use dramatically so others may have it.  This is just more zero-sum thinking  from the left: that there's a finite amount of energy available. But there's more.  In a strained attempt to connect the dots, Frank claims that a catastrophic atmospheric change on Earth could actually alter other planets, and possibly even the balance of the solar system and more.  He cites the ruin of Mars as an example, and tries vainly to attribute the cloud covered atmosphere of Venus to its own global warming.

Trees Absorb CO2 And Give Off Oxygen

It always amazes me how far the left will go to express their own self hate, and how willing they are to impose it upon others.  To them, humans are bad for pure and sentient Mother Earth, and everything we do should be for the protection of Gaia.  Even if that means self sacrifice.  Nonsense.  The Earth is a magnificent, viable planet, and we humans are a part of this thriving ecosystem.  Want to limit CO2 in the atmosphere?  It's really easy and painless. Start a program in which each person on Earth plants at least one hardwood tree.  That's 6.5 billion new trees.  Trees absorb CO2 and give off oxygen, so we'll have more trees, more food, less CO2, and more energy.  It's good for trees, good for humans, and good for Earth.  And stop this defeatist, doom-saying, hand-wringing negativity.  Go hate yourself somewhere else, and stop ruining my Sunday morning solitude.