Below are the words from my daily political diary. It is quite long so scroll on by if not interested. But do stay around and add your commentary and point of view to the thread.
Tues 11/12/19
POLITICAL MISCELLANY
….just some follow-up on prior stories, some smiles, some intrigue
DEATHS IN MEXICO
Like most Americans I was horrified at the deaths of nine American women and children in Mexico.
Evidently drug cartels own Mexico and run everything.
This story has many of us confused. First, why women and children who, evidently, had nothing to do with drugs. At least so we think.
Also, it’s strange that these people are American and, allegedly, move to Mexico to avoid issues with multiple wives as allowed in some versions of the Mormon religion.
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The deaths of nine women and children has thrust into focus a small religious community and their long history in a remote corner of northern Mexico.
Six children and three women – all US citizens – were massacred on a dirt road nearby, when gunmen ambushed their convoy of SUVs, killing children at point-blank range and shooting one mother as she begged for their lives.
[snip]The region is understood to be the site of a battle for dominance between an organized crime group known as La Línea, based in Ciudad Juárez in Chihuahua, and another group known as Los Salazar based in Sonora and affiliated with the Sinaloa cartel.
[snip]Relatives of the victims acknowledge that the security situation in the region had started to deteriorate as the rival crime groups battled to control the isolated road running north towards the frontier.
But the incident has also thrust the isolated Mormon communities into the spotlight, highlighting their long history in a harsh corner of the country, their origins as religious renegades fleeing US laws against polygamy – and their more recent brushes with Mexican drug cartels.
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According to the above article this whole episode was the result of a feud between rival cartels and these Mormons just happened to be in the way. And, yet, I scratch my head. There’s something very “off” about this story.
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VETERANS DAY
As I write this it is Veterans Day 2019. When it is read it will probably be well beyond. Still and so, let us never forget those that fought the battles that we may be free.
Thank all yon veterans for your service.
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IMPEACHMENT HEARINGS BEGIN WEDS. 11/13/19.
These hearings will be public although the Democrats, in their very fair and forthright manner, are deciding who to ask and what to ask them.
Below a pictorial prediction of the outcome of this nonsense.
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STUDENT SHOUTS EPSTEIN DIDN’T KILL HIS SELF ON MSNBC AIR WAVES
This link for this hilarious snippet below.
Out of nowhere, and on the air waves of MSNBC, a student being interviewed shouts that “Epstein did not kill himself”.
WELL OF COURSE HE DIDN’T!!!
Cameras not working in the jail cell. Not one, but TWO guards are napping. Epstein was supposed to be under ongoing scrutiny.
Everyone knows he didn’t commit suicide except the law people. Too many of our Ruling Class used Epstein for purposes they do not reveal.
And they have all the power.
As we are learning.
Really funny
Weds 11/12/19
DACA HEARING BEFORE SUPREME COURT TODAY
It stands for “Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals” and it protects children who were brought to this country by their illegal immigrant parents. The reasoning is that the children never knew any country but America and it would really be unfair to send them to a country where they likely do not know the language all that well and know little about the culture.
President Obama came up with this law all on his own, as he was wont and known to do.
As of this writing, the Supreme Court is going to take up this hot mess today.
If the Mighty Court does it right, they will rule that CONGRESS makes the laws, NOT the president all on his own. President Trump can thereby “repeal” this DACA law.
Below from BING.com:
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals is an American immigration policy that allows some individuals with unlawful presence in the United States after being brought to the country as children to receive a renewable two-year period of deferred action from deportation and become eligible for a work permit in the U.S. To be eligible for the program, recipients cannot have felonies or serious misdemeanors on their records. Unlike the proposed DREAM Act, DACA does not provide a path to citizenship for recipients, known as Dreamers. The policy, an executive branch memorandum, was announced by President Barack Obama on June 15, 2012. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services began accepting applications for the program on August 15, 2012.
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I suppose arguments could be made that the children are innocent. But it’s a mess and mostly keeps entire illegal families in America because, well who’s going to take care of these children when their parents are deported?
The Supreme Court, however, like the Deep State in D.C., doesn’t always use the constitution, as they are supposed to do. Sometimes they make laws on their own too.
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SUICIDE ATTACK IN AFGHANISTAN….AFTER 18 YEARS THERE STILL THEY KILL
This is why President Trump complains about America getting involved in endless wars. We’ve been in Afghanistan for 18 years now and still they go all about setting off suicide bombs.
I know it’s not considered nice to poke fun at another culture, but folks, the Muslims are just not people who want to live side by side in peace.
And that’s okay. Cultures should live as they want.
But America needs to stop trying to make the world a nicer place.
Send those mistreated in another culture money, ammunition, hell we even welcome them into America for safety.
But no more sending our soldiers all over the world to fight that which will never change.
US Convoy Reportedly Hit by Suicide Attack on Kabul-Paktia Highway in Afghanistan ASIA & PACIFIC 10:50 12.11.2019
The reported attack took place at around 11.00 a.m. local time (06:30 GMT). The US military has yet to comment on the claims. DETAILS TO FOLLOW
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NIKKI HAILY WRITES A BOOK
Seems like everybody has a book. Me? Man I got five of them coming out.
Nikki Haily is the former ambassador to the United Nations. My elder memory recalls there were flap ups between her and President Trump.
Still and so, her books tells of former Sec. State Rex Tillerson and that awful former military buy, John Kelly, trying to talk Haily into joining them in “saving the country”.
Saving the country my eyeball. That Deep State thinks THEY should decide things, not the nut us silly morons duly elected.
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Haley recounts a closed-door encounter with then-White House Chief of Staff John Kelly and then-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson: “Kelly and Tillerson confided in me that when they resisted the president, they weren’t being insubordinate, they were trying to save the country … Tillerson went on to tell me the reason he resisted the president’s decisions was because, if he didn’t, people would die. This was how high the stakes were, he and Kelly told me. We are doing the best we can do to save the country, they said. We need you to work with us and help us do it. This went on for over an hour.”
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FORMER PRESIDENT CARTER IN HOSPITAL FOR SURGERY FOR A BRAIN BLEED
He is 95 years old and he has fallen several times that caused him severe health problems.
God bless him and here’s hoping he recovers and has a wonderful time left on earh.
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Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter was admitted to a hospital on Monday evening for a surgery to relieve pressure on his brain, caused by bleeding due to his recent falls, his spokeswoman said.
The procedure is scheduled for Tuesday morning at Emory University Hospital, Deanna Congileo said in a statement. Carter has fallen at least three times this year, and the first incident in the spring required hip replacement surgery. He traveled to Nashville, Tennessee, and helped build a Habitat for Humanity home after getting 14 stiches following a fall on Oct. 6. And he was briefly hospitalized after fracturing his pelvis on Oct. 21. He received a dire cancer diagnosis in 2015 but survived and has since said he is cancer-free.
POLITICAL CARTOON OF WEEK
Thurs 11/14/19
THE JOKE OF PUBLIC IMPEACHMENT HEARINGS
Why yes I did chance to watch much of that fabulous and riveting display of congressional stupidity called the impeachment hearings.
Because folks, we have a former VP whose son got billions of dollars from the Ukraine and yet we have the President, who is looking into this factoid that seems so suspect, being judged before a group of Representatives in the House for daring to ask the Ukraine to look into it.
I don’t know about yon reader, but I was born at night, but NOT LAST NIGHT!
The Democrats are only putting on this show to protect not only the cheating Bidens, but also the Obamas, indeed the entire Obama administration.
Because while Hunter is a wonderful sailor who can cruise while on cocaine, he did not get to keep all this money for himself. I’m betting Hillary’s campaign got a bunch of cash. No doubt various Democrats got campaign cash and hey, I’m thinking Jeffrey Epstein probably got a few bucks thrown at him.
By the way, Epstein DID NOT kill himself.
The idea is to keep President Trump on the defense to avoid casting aspersions on Biden and the whole group of them.
Folks, I do not believe Americans are going to buy this for one minute.
For the record, the House Republicans did a great job of questioning, as of today, the acting ambassador to Ukraine, William Taylor, and some guy named Kent.
None of these two people actually talked to President Trump.
Heh.
They are testifying about some innocent phone call Trump made and they never even talked to the guy!
All they kept saying is my janitor’s mother-in-law told me…..my barber’s son’s girlfriend mentioned….three times my car mechanic, who heard the whole phone call he said, told me….
They really do think we were born at night….LAST NIGHT!
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NOT POLITICS BY PAT
So ole Sean Spicer got booted off of “Dancing With the Stars”. Heh. His last score, for the Argentine Tango, were sixes, one each, from four judges.
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Folks, there is a new trend out there in the retail world. I speak of the self-checkout.
Around me, WalMart just put in about eight aisles of conveyor belts with scanners for customers to check themselves out.
Up the road from me a new Royal Farms has been built. They have only one cashier on duty. There are two registers for self-checkout.
Nobody, save those with a few items in Walmart, are using them.
I am willing to give it a try but lookit, just the other day I purchased two gift cards. One HAS to go to a human cashier to have these things scanned and activated. There’s also those times we question a price and I can’t imagine trying to weigh produce and such.
I think it’s a horrible idea. And it does not seem to be working. People are just not using the things.
It’s not like it’s any easier. You still have to pile the items on the conveyor belt, bag them, handle the money. If you use cash you have to feed twenty dollar bills and such into an ATM sort of thing.
Nope.
I predict not going to work.
Still and so, soon we will order our stuff online and either pick it all up, already bagged ready to pay for, directly at the store. Or, soon again, drones will be delivering our orders directly to our doors.
Having the customer ring up his or her own goods is just not going to work.
Fri 11/15/19
TIME FOR SOME POLITICAL MISCELLANY
…nothing major….follow-ups, tidbits to major events, gossip if nothing else works.
So Deval Patrick is running for a nomination to be the presidential contender for the Democratic party.
Patrick was the Governor of Massachusetts following the wonderful Mitt Romney. He seems to have been respected for the job he did. Before that he was Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division under Bill Clinton.
Patrick has a wife and two daughters. One of his daughters, Katherine, came out as a lesbian.
All females in Massachusetts are lesbian it seems like.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
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DRAG QUEEN AT IMPEACHMENT HEARINGS
Why, WHY? On earth would a drag queen attend congressional hearings on the impeachment of the president?
Can’t make it up.
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JEFF SESSIONS SEEKS SENATOR POSITION BACK IN ALABAMA.
I have, nor HAD, any issues with Sessions as a Senator. Yes he followed Trump around like a puppy during his campaign. After the election, Sessions accepted a position as the country’s Attorney General.
In a surprise move, Sessions recused himself from the famous Mueller investigation. More odd, he did not tell President Trump, his boss.
This did not make Trump happy, but of course.
As for me, I think there was some secret Sessions was trying to hide. How many of us would do such a major thing without discussing with our boss?
I do not trust Sessions, whether because he was too weak to be a man and do the right thing, or because I have dark suspicions about the man.
At any rate, he was a terrific Senator and I wish him luck.
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Former Attorney General Jeff Sessions made the case Wednesday for President Trump to support his second run for to represent Alabama in the Senate, saying that if he elected he would support the president aggressively.
"He didn't have a better supporter in the United States Senate than when I was there. I was his first supporter in the United States Senate," Sessions said on "The Ingraham Angle." "And if I go back to the United States Senate, he won't have a more aggressive, determined supporter when I get back."
Sat 11/16/19
THE CALIFORNIA SHOOTING
Well this was odd. It was his birthday. He had six bullets. He went into school, pulled his gun out, shot four people in his surround then shot himself of the head.
He appears to be Asian, perhaps Philippine.
In California, where they have no guns!
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The suspected shooter has been identified as Nathaniel Berhow, the Los Angeles Times and CNN reported, citing unnamed law-enforcement sources. He turned 16 on the day of the attack.
His neighbors and friends have largely described Berhow as a quiet, unassuming student who was active in varsity cross-country and his local Boy Scout squad, the LA Times, CNN, and the Associated Press reported.
The suspect attempted suicide by shooting himself in the head after the attack, and is now in a critical condition in hospital.
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Click on the link above and you can view the comments of FreeRepublic members while they watch the marvelous and ridiculous impeachment inquiry with an Ambassador who got fired.
Folks, I cannot, simply cannot, stand the woman. She is not a boo-hoo maven to me. I think she was knee deep in allowing Ukrainian funds go to the Bidens, who no doubt spread enormous funds around the Democrat party.
But my biggest question, lest the Dems on the Intelligence committee think I was born at night….LAST NIGHT. This woman was fired, rightfully so as I see it, in April 2019. The famous phone call President Trump made to the Ukraine president happened in what? July 2019?
WHY THE HELL IS THIS WOMAN EVEN TAKING UP THIS NATION’S TIME AND MONEY?
She has nothing to do with Trump although he fired her.
And they want to impeach him for firing this nothing burger?
As for the famous tweet by Trump…..heh.
What a waste of time, what a pitiful waste of time with this woman.
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GIGGLE OF THE WEEK
