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Its Swingin' Monday and we have Western Swing Authority with Mississippi. The tune is on their 2018 CD Big Deal. THE WESTERNER https://thewesterner.blogspot.com/

The effort to sink Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation cries out for investigation. The Senate Judiciary Committee has already made a criminal referral to the Justice Department regarding alleged material misstatements by lawyer Michael Avenatti and his client Julie Swetnick. And a new book by two New York Times reporters contains a potentially explosive revelation. In “The Education of Brett Kavanaugh,” Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly report that Leland Keyser —who was unable to corroborate high-school friend Christine Blasey Ford’s allegation of youthful sexual misconduct—says she felt pressured by a group of common acquaintances to vouch for it anyway. The book...

Just because some people don’t know how to use a mirror properly…Rachel DolezalHillary ClintonBarack ObamaAdam Schiffdoesn’t mean the rest of us need to get rid of ours. Still, it would be nice if those who abuse their right to use mirrors would just step away from them voluntarily.But since that’s not going to happen we’ll settle for Mirrorless Mondays. Consider it “common sense mirror control.” Posted from: MOTUS A.D.

President Trump’s critics can’t deny that the economy is doing well, so instead they insist all the benefits have gone to the rich and large corporations. “America’s middle class is under attack,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren asserted in her presidential campaign announcement last December. The latest data from the Census Bureau monthly surveys tell a different story. Real median household income—the amount earned by those in the very middle—hit $65,084 (in 2019 dollars) for the 12 months ending in July. That’s the highest level ever and a gain of $4,144, or 6.8%, since Mr. Trump took office. By comparison, during 7½...

The Attorney General of New York, recently elected and rabidly anti-Second Amendment, Letitia James, is attempting to intimidate online sellers of the materials and tools used to make firearms into not selling them to New York residents.  She claims the companies are promoting law breaking. From the ag.ny.gov: NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James today announced that she has directed the operators of 16 websites that manufacture and/or sell firearms or firearms components to “cease and desist” selling nearly complete assault weapons into New York State. The possession, manufacture, and sale of assault weapons is illegal...

Hillaryland: The Woman With No Hope Will you join the Hillary Rodham Clinton Day of Service? Mon Sep 30, 2019 Daniel Greenfield 10 Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism. They say that Disneyland is the happiest place on earth, but Hillaryland must be the saddest. What is Hillaryland? It’s a social network “aiming to connect all the people who’ve worked for Hillary Rodham Clinton during her more than 40 years of public service.” It’s run by “volunteers” and offers a plain white...

The Kamala Harris campaign gamble on Iowa as the race for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination nears the opening caucuses may not pay off, according to campaign strategists. "I'm f--king moving to Iowa," Harris, 54, was overheard telling a Senate colleague this month. Though the former California attorney general was being at least partly facetious, she has promised to visit the first-in-the-nation state every week of October and will double the size of her Hawkeye State staff as she tries to overcome her summer slump before primary voters start caucusing on Feb. 3. The tactic represents a shift in emphasis...

There will be such an outpouring of sewage that no one stays clean. The 2020 election is going to be a real doozy. If you thought that the hacking, vicious memes, rumor-mongering, Russian interference and FBI blundering was bad last time, just wait. No matter who wins, the question of whether the outcome was fair or even accurate will arise, for partisans on the losing side and conspiracy theorists, but also for any reasonably objective person who’s watching. It’s likely, in other words, that the result of the 2020 election, particularly if it ends up close, will have little credibility....

A BAND of alien hunters led by an ex-punk rocker claim they've found evidence of UFOs. The US organisation, bankrolled by former Blink-182 singer Tom DeLonge, says it's acquired "exotic material" from what could be an alien spacecraft. DeLonge, from California, co-founded the group To the Stars Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2017 with the goal of researching extraterrestrials. The team most famously turfed up classified footage of UFOs recorded by American pilots that were confirmed as real by the US Navy earlier this month. Speaking to the New York Times, a spokesperson for the group gave a tantalising...

Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends) The goal posts just keep on moving. – Anytime a major controversy arises that implicates prominent Democrats in wrongdoing, the Democrats and their media toadies employ two favorite tactics. The first is “projection,” accusing the other side of doing exactly what they themselves have been caught doing. You know, like abusing your office by withholding foreign aid to, say, oh, Ukraine until that country’s president fires the prosecutor who is investigating the U.S. Vice President’s son. Something like that. The other favored tactic is the moving of the goal posts. You can...

Former Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson has called 16-year-old eco activist Greta Thunberg a ‘spoilt brat’ after she told the United Nations they had ruined her childhood with climate change. Speaking at the United nations on Monday Greta broke down in tears while furiously scolding international delegates for not taking responsibility for fixing the planet's warming climate. 'I shouldn't be up here. I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean. Yet you all come to us for hope. How dare you. You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words,' the Swedish...

A transgender woman from Florida went missing a week ago during a layover at DFW International Airport, and her family is asking for help finding her. Pauline del Mundo, 59, was passing through DFW Airport on Sept. 14 on her way from Tampa to Cozumel, Mexico, but never took her connecting flight on American Airlines. She instead called a family member saying she had changed her mind about traveling to Cozumel but needed help getting a plane...

Pain is the most common reason for a GP appointment — not surprisingly, given that up to a half of all Britons live with daily pain. Following the advice of pain specialist and sufferer Dr Helena Miranda on Saturday, today the Mail launches a series of essential expert guides to tackling common problems — back pain, migraine, headache and, here, arthritis — to help stop pain ruling your life. Osteoarthritis need not be the end of the world — or a stellar tennis career. In January, after years of pain, three-time Grand Slam tennis champion Andy Murray had surgery to...

A lawyer for the Ukraine whistleblower blasted CBS’s “60 Minutes” on Sunday for “literally making stuff up” in its reporting about a letter his legal group sent regarding their client’s safety. In its reporting on the letter, “60 Minutes” claimed the whistleblower was under federal protection, even though that was clearly not stated in the letter. In response, the whistleblower’s legal team published the letter and called out “60 Minutes" for their shoddy reporting. “NEWS ALERT: 60 Minutes completely misinterpreted contents of our letter, which is now published online at https://compassrosepllc.com/intelligence-community-whistleblower-matter/ …,” attorney Mark S. Zaid tweeted. “Nor have we,...

OVERDOSING ON IMPEACHMENT The Obama-engineered 2014 Ukraine coup d'état has been a silent stink bomb in USA politics ever since. At first it set up the phony "Putin invaded Crimea" howl that never really gained solid traction no matter how often the NY Times tried to make it true. Bigtime political money-grubbers rushed to Kiev to make deals with the new gang of neo-Nazi crooks in charge. John McCain and Obama Veep Joe Biden were only two of the most neon names. Hotshot lobbyists Paul Manafort and Tony Podesta were already there. The bad odor of the neo-Nazi Kiev regime...

Some of Joe Biden's supporters are voicing growing concern that his campaign is not prepared to weather the dual political rip currents suddenly reshaping the 2020 race - an onslaught of attacks on his family from President Donald Trump and a tightened contest for the Democratic nomination. Several allies, including top financial backers, are weighing whether to create a super PAC to independently defend Biden and go after the president, who has repeatedly accused the former vice president of corruption and whose campaign last week launched a $10 million ad blitz aimed largely at attacking Biden. Other supporters caution that...

Today’s Cryptogram WC ILV’JK WMYKJKXYKP WM ‘HFAFMUWMR’ ZLJB FMP DAKFXVJK, XYLD YJIWMR YL HFAFMUK YOKG. WMXYKFP GFBK ILVJ ZLJB GLJK DAKFXVJFHAK. —– PLMFAP YJVGD You can find this little fun word game, to combat early dementia and senility in us baby boomers, in several daily publications. The way it works is a letter stands for another letter. For example: AXYDLBAAXR is LONGFELLOW (does not apply to today's cryptogram). Beware, the game is very addictive. If this is your first time, don't be intimidated. PLEASE DO NOT post the answer in general comments, but DO post your time and any tips...

DOJ employee in February 2017 predicted resistance by whistle-blowing, leaking to the press, and lodging internal complaints What is happening now to President Trump was predictable. The plans were laid in plain sight, including the use of whistleblowers to disrupt the administration. There was plenty of advance warning of various attempts to set up grounds for the impeachment of President Trump. Consider this excerpt from an article published in Vanity Fair on February 1, 2017, twelve days after Trump’s inauguration : "Others, however, view resistance as a part of the job. 'Policy dissent is in our culture,' one diplomat in...

This is the modern day left in action — Hurling f-bombs at a senior woman with a walker on her way to a speech by a Jewish gay independent YouTuber. Far left antifa thugs harassed, blocked and screamed “Nazi scum!” at a senior woman with a walker outside of Dave Rubin’s event with Maxime Bernier in Hamilton, Ontario.This only surprises people who have not been paying attention the last three years.For the rest of us, it’s nothing new.And then the liberal media will call conservatives, populists, or gay-Jewish independents the violent ones.  Via The Post-Millennial:https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1178500448552210432 

It isn’t easy to figure out what Donald Trump is up to sometimes. Why would someone who spent half of his first term fighting allegations of colluding with Russia to win the White House try to collude with another foreign country to be reelected? The day after special counsel Robert Mueller appeared before Congress to answer questions about his two-year investigation into whether Trump’s presidential campaign conspired with Russia to defeat Hillary Clinton, Trump called Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to ask him to dig up dirt on a 2020 rival, Joe Biden. It doesn’t make sense. Unless, of course, it’s...