Tuesday, July 05, 2016
History for July 5
History for July 5 - On-This-Day.com:
David G. Farragut 1801 - Officer in U.S. Navy durin the U.S. Civil War, known for the paraphrased quote: "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!", P.T. Barnum (Phineas Taylor Barnum) 1810 - American showman, businessman, entertainer, Cecil John Rhodes 1853 - British business man, politician in South Africa
Henry Cabot Lodge 1902 - American statesman, historian, Georges Pompidou (Georges Jean Raymond Pompidou) 1911 - French politician, Huey Lewis 1951 - Musician (Huey Lewis and the News)
1865 - William Booth founded the Salvation Army in London.
1865 - The U.S. Secret Service Division was created to combat currency counterfeiting, forging and the altering of currency and securities..
1943 - The battle of Kursk began as German tanks attack the Soviet salient. It was the largest tank battle in history.
1946 - The bikini bathing suit, created by Louis Reard, made its debut during a fashion show at the Molitor Pool in Paris. Micheline Bernardini wore the two-piece outfit.
1948 - Britain's National Health Service Act went into effect, providing government-financed medical and dental care.
1951 - Dr. William Shockley announced that he had invented the junction transistor.
1962 - Algeria became independent after 132 years of French rule.
1975 - Arthur Ashe became the first black man to win a Wimbledon singles title when he defeated Jimmy Connors.
Monday, July 04, 2016
What Happened To The Signers Of The Declaration? | The Arts Mechanical
What Happened To The Signers Of The Declaration? | The Arts Mechanical:
"56 men – some more famous than others – whose names are now preserved for posterity on the bottom of that troublesome document that so enraged The Occupiers in The Red Coats.
Unlike most revolutions, ours didn’t start with an angry mob armed with pitchforks and guillotines and nothing to lose. That was France. Our revolution started because fifty-six wealthy men with everything to lose – put everything on the line – for a country that didn’t even exist yet."
Unlike most revolutions, ours didn’t start with an angry mob armed with pitchforks and guillotines and nothing to lose. That was France. Our revolution started because fifty-six wealthy men with everything to lose – put everything on the line – for a country that didn’t even exist yet."
Judge Jeanine Drops BOMBSHELL...This Is Why We Won't See A Hillary Indictment
Judge Jeanine Drops BOMBSHELL...This Is Why We Won't See A Hillary Indictment:
"Evidence seems to pile up regularly contradicting Hillary Clinton’s oft-repeated assertion that she did not put national security at risk when she used a home-brew email server exclusively for government business during her tenure as secretary of state.
But don’t expect an indictment for her actions anytime soon.
According to Fox News’ Judge Jeanine Pirro, the Justice Department will likely give Clinton a pass no matter what the evidence shows, and the president’s own guilt is at least part of the reason."
But don’t expect an indictment for her actions anytime soon.
According to Fox News’ Judge Jeanine Pirro, the Justice Department will likely give Clinton a pass no matter what the evidence shows, and the president’s own guilt is at least part of the reason."
Stop saying Islam is a religion of peace: Taslima Nasreen
Stop saying Islam is a religion of peace: Taslima Nasreen:
"After reports suggested that all terrorists involved in the recent attack at Dhaka restaurant, in which 20 people were killed, were highly educated and belonged to rich families, Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen rubbished the arguments that poverty makes somebody a terrorist.
In a series of tweets, Taslima quoted Saleem Samad that Bangladesh has been a major contributor to global terror and said it's time people should stop saying Islam is a religion of peace.
'Bangladesh has been a major contributor to global terror. Bangladeshi men have joined terror outfits in 36 countries.' -- Saleem Samad
— taslima nasreen (@taslimanasreen) July 3, 2016
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All Dhaka terrorists were from rich families, studied in elite schools. Pl do not say poverty & illiteracy make people Islamic terrorists
— taslima nasreen (@taslimanasreen) July 3, 2016
For humanity's sake please do not say Islam is a religion of peace. Not anymore.
— taslima nasreen (@taslimanasreen) July 3, 2016
You don't need poverty,illiteracy, frustration,America's foreign policy,Israel's conspiracy to become an Islamic terrorist. You need Islam.
— taslima nasreen (@taslimanasreen) July 3, 2016
Taslima holds strong feminist and human rights views and has not been able to return to Bangladesh, her native country that she left in 1994. The author has received death threats from extremist groups linked to al-Qaeda."
"After reports suggested that all terrorists involved in the recent attack at Dhaka restaurant, in which 20 people were killed, were highly educated and belonged to rich families, Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen rubbished the arguments that poverty makes somebody a terrorist.
In a series of tweets, Taslima quoted Saleem Samad that Bangladesh has been a major contributor to global terror and said it's time people should stop saying Islam is a religion of peace.
'Bangladesh has been a major contributor to global terror. Bangladeshi men have joined terror outfits in 36 countries.' -- Saleem Samad
— taslima nasreen (@taslimanasreen) July 3, 2016//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js
All Dhaka terrorists were from rich families, studied in elite schools. Pl do not say poverty & illiteracy make people Islamic terrorists
— taslima nasreen (@taslimanasreen) July 3, 2016
For humanity's sake please do not say Islam is a religion of peace. Not anymore.
— taslima nasreen (@taslimanasreen) July 3, 2016
You don't need poverty,illiteracy, frustration,America's foreign policy,Israel's conspiracy to become an Islamic terrorist. You need Islam.
— taslima nasreen (@taslimanasreen) July 3, 2016
Taslima holds strong feminist and human rights views and has not been able to return to Bangladesh, her native country that she left in 1994. The author has received death threats from extremist groups linked to al-Qaeda."
You Owe Them Nothing - Not Respect, Not Loyalty, Not Obedience
You Owe Them Nothing - Not Respect, Not Loyalty, Not Obedience - Kurt Schlichter:
"Sometimes in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another.
It is high time to declare our personal independence from any remnant of obligation to those who have spit upon the rule of law.
We owe them nothing - not respect, not loyalty, not obedience.
Think about it.
If you are out driving at 3 a.m., do you stop at a stop sign when there’s no one coming?
Of course you do.
You don’t need a cop to be there to make you stop.
You do it voluntarily because this is America and America is a country where obeying the law is the right thing to do because the law was justly made and is justly applied.
Or it used to be.
The law mattered.
It applied equally to everyone.
We demanded that it did, all of us – politicians, the media, and regular citizens.
Oh, there were mistakes and miscarriages of justice but they weren’t common and they weren’t celebrated – they were universally reviled.
And, more importantly, they weren’t part and parcel of the ideology of one particular party.
There was once a time where you could imagine a Democrat scandal where the media actually called for the head of the Democrat instead of deploying to cover it up.
People assumed that the law mattered, that the same rules applied to everyone.
That duly enacted laws would be enforced equally until repealed.
That the Constitution set the foundation and that its guarantees would be honored even if we disliked the result in a particular case.
But that’s not our country today.
The idea of the rule of law today is a lie.
There is no law.
There is no justice.
There are only lies.
Hillary Clinton is manifestly guilty of multiple felonies.
Her fans deny it half-heartedly, but mostly out of habit – in the end, it’s fine with them if she’s a felon.
They don’t care.
It’s just some law.
What’s the big deal?
It doesn’t matter that anyone else would be in jail right now for doing a fraction of what she did.
But the law is not important.
Justice is not important.
The attorney general secretly canoodles with the husband of the subject of criminal investigation by her own department and the president, the enforcer of our laws, shrugs.
The media, the challenger of the powerful, smirks.
They rub our noses in their contempt for the law.
And by doing so, demonstrate their contempt for us.
Only power matters, and Hillary stands ready to accumulate more power on their behalf so their oaths, their alleged principles, their duty to the country – all of it goes out the window..."
Read it ALL!
"Sometimes in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another.
It is high time to declare our personal independence from any remnant of obligation to those who have spit upon the rule of law.
We owe them nothing - not respect, not loyalty, not obedience.
Think about it.
If you are out driving at 3 a.m., do you stop at a stop sign when there’s no one coming?
Of course you do.
You don’t need a cop to be there to make you stop.
You do it voluntarily because this is America and America is a country where obeying the law is the right thing to do because the law was justly made and is justly applied.
Or it used to be.
The law mattered.
It applied equally to everyone.
We demanded that it did, all of us – politicians, the media, and regular citizens.
Oh, there were mistakes and miscarriages of justice but they weren’t common and they weren’t celebrated – they were universally reviled.
And, more importantly, they weren’t part and parcel of the ideology of one particular party.
There was once a time where you could imagine a Democrat scandal where the media actually called for the head of the Democrat instead of deploying to cover it up.
People assumed that the law mattered, that the same rules applied to everyone.
That duly enacted laws would be enforced equally until repealed.
That the Constitution set the foundation and that its guarantees would be honored even if we disliked the result in a particular case.
But that’s not our country today.The idea of the rule of law today is a lie.
There is no law.
There is no justice.
There are only lies.
Hillary Clinton is manifestly guilty of multiple felonies.
Her fans deny it half-heartedly, but mostly out of habit – in the end, it’s fine with them if she’s a felon.
They don’t care.
It’s just some law.
What’s the big deal?
It doesn’t matter that anyone else would be in jail right now for doing a fraction of what she did.
But the law is not important.
Justice is not important.
The attorney general secretly canoodles with the husband of the subject of criminal investigation by her own department and the president, the enforcer of our laws, shrugs.
The media, the challenger of the powerful, smirks.
They rub our noses in their contempt for the law.
And by doing so, demonstrate their contempt for us.
Only power matters, and Hillary stands ready to accumulate more power on their behalf so their oaths, their alleged principles, their duty to the country – all of it goes out the window..."
Read it ALL!
Biggest private coal producer warns of cutting 80 percent of workforce, head blames Obama policies | Fox News
"Robert Murray, the controlling owner of Murray, is a fierce opponent of President Obama and a supporter of Donald Trump. In a statement, the company said the potential layoffs were “due to the ongoing destruction of the United States coal industry by President Barack Obama, and his supporters, and the increased utilization of natural gas to generate electricity.”
Migrant who walked through the Channel Tunnel is entitled to Job Seekers Allowance and housing benefit AND is now renting room in £100,000 house
UK OPEN Political Debate
Migrant who walked through the Channel Tunnel is entitled to Job Seekers Allowance and housing benefit (thoughts on this please)
AND is now renting room in £100,000 house
Migrant who walked through the Channel Tunnel is entitled to Job Seekers Allowance and housing benefit (thoughts on this please)
AND is now renting room in £100,000 house
Islam thrives in communist Cuba
Islam thrives in communist Cuba:
"HAVANA — As Cuban salsa beats pulsate along Obispo Street in the oldest section of this Caribbean capital, bearded men raise their hands to their ears and face east toward Mecca.
They whisper in union "Allahu akbar" ("God is great" in Arabic).
They recite verses of the Koran. They bend down and place their head, knees and hands on Oriental rugs.
Together, they represent a thriving group of Islamic followers in the most unlikely of places: communist Cuba.
As Muslims across the globe celebrate the holy month of Ramadan, which kicked off in early June, they are joined by a small but vibrant community of Muslims — about 10,000, based on their own estimate — who are blending Islamic values and Latin American customs in Cuba.
They are now holding their daily prayers inside Cuba's first mosque on an island more associated with Catholicism and Santeria.
"HAVANA — As Cuban salsa beats pulsate along Obispo Street in the oldest section of this Caribbean capital, bearded men raise their hands to their ears and face east toward Mecca.
They whisper in union "Allahu akbar" ("God is great" in Arabic).
Together, they represent a thriving group of Islamic followers in the most unlikely of places: communist Cuba.
As Muslims across the globe celebrate the holy month of Ramadan, which kicked off in early June, they are joined by a small but vibrant community of Muslims — about 10,000, based on their own estimate — who are blending Islamic values and Latin American customs in Cuba.
They are now holding their daily prayers inside Cuba's first mosque on an island more associated with Catholicism and Santeria.
Las Vegas collector stumbles on historic copy of Declaration of Independence | Fox News
Las Vegas collector stumbles on historic copy of Declaration of Independence | Fox News:
"A Las Vegas collector is marking the Fourth of July with a rare find he stumbled upon--a copy of the Declaration of Independence produced in the 1830s.
An engraver made 201 facsimiles of the original Declaration of Independence in 1823 using a copper plate. Kevin Kostiner recently discovered that he has a reproduction of one of those facsimiles."
An engraver made 201 facsimiles of the original Declaration of Independence in 1823 using a copper plate. Kevin Kostiner recently discovered that he has a reproduction of one of those facsimiles."
Obamacare enrollment at 11.1M, as some drop off after premium bills come due
Obamacare enrollment at 11.1M, as some drop off after premium bills come due:
Federal health officials in a new report say that about 11.1 million people were enrolled in Obamacare insurance plans as of the end of March.
That's 1.6 million or so fewer people than had actually selected a plan on one of the government-run health marketplaces by the close of the third season of open enrollment in February.
The drift-down, which was expected, is largely a result some people who had selected a plan not making their first month's premium payments once they came due.
For enrollment to be considered official that payment has to be made.
..."The Obamacare exchange business has clearly hit a ceiling," said Robert Laszewski, an Obamacare critic who runs Health Policy and Strategy Associates.
...Another concern for Obamacare advocates come from premium prices proposed for 2017.
Many plans are calling for double-digit percentage hikes next year, higher than had been proposed in prior years.
...Nearly 85 percent, or 9.4 million of all Obamacare customers, received federal subsidies, or tax credits, to help lower the cost of their monthly premiums.
Those subsidies are available to people who have low or moderate household incomes earning between one and four times the federal poverty level, or $20,090 to $80,360 for a family of three.
Premium subsidies can significantly reduce the actual premiums paid by a customer, particularly if they have lower incomes.
The average subsidy nationally was $291 per month..."
Federal health officials in a new report say that about 11.1 million people were enrolled in Obamacare insurance plans as of the end of March.
That's 1.6 million or so fewer people than had actually selected a plan on one of the government-run health marketplaces by the close of the third season of open enrollment in February.
The drift-down, which was expected, is largely a result some people who had selected a plan not making their first month's premium payments once they came due.
For enrollment to be considered official that payment has to be made.
..."The Obamacare exchange business has clearly hit a ceiling," said Robert Laszewski, an Obamacare critic who runs Health Policy and Strategy Associates....Another concern for Obamacare advocates come from premium prices proposed for 2017.
Many plans are calling for double-digit percentage hikes next year, higher than had been proposed in prior years.
...Nearly 85 percent, or 9.4 million of all Obamacare customers, received federal subsidies, or tax credits, to help lower the cost of their monthly premiums.
Those subsidies are available to people who have low or moderate household incomes earning between one and four times the federal poverty level, or $20,090 to $80,360 for a family of three.
Premium subsidies can significantly reduce the actual premiums paid by a customer, particularly if they have lower incomes.
The average subsidy nationally was $291 per month..."
Sen. D'Amato Drops Bomb: Hillary Allowed Russia to Take Ownership of US Uranium to Sell to Iran
Sen. D'Amato Drops Bomb: Hillary Allowed Russia to Take Ownership of US Uranium to Sell to Iran (Video):
Former Senator Al D’Amato (R-NY) dropped a bomb on Sunday Morning Futures this AM.
Iran!
Now if people knew that and that the foundation as a result of that got $135 million.
I think people would start saying, “What?".
Former Senator Al D’Amato (R-NY) dropped a bomb on Sunday Morning Futures this AM.
D’Amato told Maria Bartiromo that Hillary allowed Russia to take ownership of US uranium so they could sell it to Iran.
"Hillary made it possible for the Russians to take control of one of our huge uranium producers and allow them to own the company, export the uranium and who do they sell the uranium to? Iran!
Now if people knew that and that the foundation as a result of that got $135 million.
I think people would start saying, “What?".
It’s true.
In January 2013, Pravda celebrated the Russian atomic energy agency’s purchase of the company “Uranium One” in Canada.
That same company, Uranium One, owned uranium concessions in the United States. Because uranium is a strategically important commodity, the Russians would need approval from the Obama administration, including Hillary’s State Department, before the purchase took place.
Nine shareholders in Uranium One just happened to provide more than $145 million in donations to the Clinton Foundation in the run-up to State Department approval.
The Clintons took the cash from Uranium One officials before the deal was approved by Hillary Clinton’s State Department.
The Clintons hid the donations which is a clear violation of the Memorandum of Understanding Hillary Clinton signed with the Obama administration wherein she promised and agreed to publicly disclose all donations during her tenure as Secreatary of State. (Via Breitbart)
The Clintons hid the donations which is a clear violation of the Memorandum of Understanding Hillary Clinton signed with the Obama administration wherein she promised and agreed to publicly disclose all donations during her tenure as Secreatary of State. (Via Breitbart)
The New York Times reported on the crooked deal in 2015.
As the Russians gradually assumed control of Uranium One in three separate transactions from 2009 to 2013, Canadian records show, a flow of cash made its way to the Clinton Foundation. Uranium One’s chairman used his family foundation to make four donations totaling $2.35 million. Those contributions were not publicly disclosed by the Clintons, despite an agreement Mrs. Clinton had struck with the Obama White House to publicly identify all donors. Other people with ties to the company made donations as well.
And then there’s this…
Senator John Barrasso (R-WY) told Greta Van Susteren the deal Hillary approved gave Putin ownership of 20 percent of US uranium and Russia sells uranium to unfriendly countries – including Iran.
Private Manhattan School Teaches White Kids They Are Born Racists | Video | TheBlaze.com
Private Manhattan School Teaches White Kids They Are Born Racists | Video | TheBlaze.com:
"Instructors at one private K-8 school in Manhattan are teaching their white students they are born racist, training them to feel guilty for benefitting from “white privilege,” while offering praise and benefits to their black counterparts.
Administrators at the Bank Street School for Children on the Upper West Side told the New York Post it is their way of addressing discrimination, adding that many other private New York institutions are implementing similar practices, but many are pushing back against the method — including liberal parents."
Administrators at the Bank Street School for Children on the Upper West Side told the New York Post it is their way of addressing discrimination, adding that many other private New York institutions are implementing similar practices, but many are pushing back against the method — including liberal parents."
3 reasons the American Revolution was a mistake
3 reasons the American Revolution was a mistake - Vox:
"This July 4, let's not mince words: American independence in 1776 was a monumental mistake.
We should be mourning the fact that we left the United Kingdom, not cheering it.
Of course, evaluating the wisdom of the American Revolution means dealing with counterfactuals.
As any historian would tell you, this is a messy business.
We obviously can't be entirely sure how America would have fared if it had stayed in the British Empire longer, perhaps gaining independence a century or so later, along with Canada.
But I'm reasonably confident a world in which the revolution never happened would be better than the one we live in now, for three main reasons:
Slavery would've been abolished earlier,
American Indians would've faced rampant persecution but not the outright ethnic cleansing Andrew Jackson and other American leaders perpetrated, and America would have a parliamentary system of government that makes policymaking easier and lessens the risk of democratic collapse..."
"This July 4, let's not mince words: American independence in 1776 was a monumental mistake.
We should be mourning the fact that we left the United Kingdom, not cheering it.
Of course, evaluating the wisdom of the American Revolution means dealing with counterfactuals.As any historian would tell you, this is a messy business.
We obviously can't be entirely sure how America would have fared if it had stayed in the British Empire longer, perhaps gaining independence a century or so later, along with Canada.
But I'm reasonably confident a world in which the revolution never happened would be better than the one we live in now, for three main reasons:
Slavery would've been abolished earlier,
American Indians would've faced rampant persecution but not the outright ethnic cleansing Andrew Jackson and other American leaders perpetrated, and America would have a parliamentary system of government that makes policymaking easier and lessens the risk of democratic collapse..."
History for July 4
History for July 4 - On-This-Day.com
Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804, Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807, Stephen Foster 1826
Calvin Coolidge (U.S.) 1872 - 30th President of the United States, Leona Helmsley 1920, George Steinbrenner 1930
1776 - The amended Declaration of Independence, prepared by Thomas Jefferson, was approved and signed by John Hancock, the President of the Continental Congress in America.
1802 - The U.S. Military Academy officially opened at West Point, NY.
1817 - Construction began on the Erie Canal, to connect Lake Erie and the Hudson River.
1894 - After seizing power, Judge Stanford B. Dole declared Hawaii a republic.
1959 - The 49-star U.S. flag became official.
1960 - The 50-star U.S. flag made its debut in Philadelphia, PA.
1976 - The U.S. celebrated its Bicentennial.
2009 - North Korea launched seven ballistic missiles into waters off its east coast that defied U.N. resolutions.
Sunday, July 03, 2016
Dem party platform calls for prosecuting global warming skeptics
Dem party platform calls for prosecuting global warming skeptics:
"Democratic operatives responsible for creating their party’s platform this year have unanimously adopted a provision calling for the Department of Justice to investigate companies who disagree with Democrats on global warming science.
A panel of Democrats voted Friday to approve a final draft of the party’s platform to promote “Progressive Democratic Values,” which apparently includes investigating energy companies who “misled” shareholders about global warming.
“Another joint proposal calling on the Department of Justice to investigate alleged corporate fraud on the part of fossil fuel companies who have reportedly misled shareholders and the public on the scientific reality of climate change was also adopted by unanimous consent,” according to the Democratic National Convention’s website.
The drafting committee, led by DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Maryland Rep. Elijah Cummings, has decided to back ongoing investigations by mostly Democratic state attorneys general into ExxonMobil’s stance on global warming..."
"Democratic operatives responsible for creating their party’s platform this year have unanimously adopted a provision calling for the Department of Justice to investigate companies who disagree with Democrats on global warming science.
A panel of Democrats voted Friday to approve a final draft of the party’s platform to promote “Progressive Democratic Values,” which apparently includes investigating energy companies who “misled” shareholders about global warming.
“Another joint proposal calling on the Department of Justice to investigate alleged corporate fraud on the part of fossil fuel companies who have reportedly misled shareholders and the public on the scientific reality of climate change was also adopted by unanimous consent,” according to the Democratic National Convention’s website.
The drafting committee, led by DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Maryland Rep. Elijah Cummings, has decided to back ongoing investigations by mostly Democratic state attorneys general into ExxonMobil’s stance on global warming..."
MUST READ of the Day!-----The Stupidity of the Left
Articles: The Stupidity of the Left:
"The lame excuse a sitting attorney general gave for meeting privately with the husband of a prime FBI suspect who was himself a possible target of investigation reveals, if we needed more revelation, the mental vacuity and profound ignorance of leftism.
Soon, however, the Bolsheviks descended into such grotesque mediocrity that even Molotov began to be seen as a clever Bolshevik, and Voroshilov was placed in command of the Red Army.
Academia, of course, collapsed first in the Soviet Empire.
Anyone familiar with the last fifty years of that evil empire writes about the utter stultifying stupidity not only of the Communist Party leadership and cadres, but also of university systems, which churned out thousands of scientists who never discovered anything.
What replaced thinking and discovery was mind-numbing conformity.
Over time, the only people who could rise in the Soviet hierarchy were men who did not really know anything and did not say or think anything except the comical nonsense of Marxist-Leninism.
College courses are often taught by these limited, blindered minds.
The legal profession, government, and academia are filled with these unintelligent people, living their own careers surrounded by others just as drearily average and utterly doctrinaire.
Black women like the attorney general get a double-whammy of affirmative action in lowered standards and then are surrounded by other people just as dumb and just as dependent upon parroting the party line as the answer to almost every conceivable issue or question.
There are no real tests, no real challenges, and no real evaluations of these leftists.
This explains the blank r̩sum̩ of Mrs. William Jefferson Clinton: she "was" the first lady; she "was" a senator from New York; she "was" secretary of state Рso what?
Her statements are all utterly scripted and given to a doting establishment media that never, ever challenges her inconsistencies or asks anything hard.
The pabulum of global warming is accepted as easily as Soviet scientists accepted the idiocy of Lysenko.
The same predictable "solutions" are offered for every single problem: more "investment" on education and infrastructure, stronger gun control laws, more draconian environmental regulations, more "diversity," and more of everything that has never worked in America anywhere and anytime it has been tried.
No one on the left ever needs to think at all, and those who do think risk losing tenure, getting fired from network news programs, and being demonized as racist or sexist or reactionary or something equally silly.
Because independent thinking itself is dangerous, no leftist cadre dares to risk trying to think – just read the script, regurgitate the familiar dogma, and keep a closed mind.
Moreover, these folks keep telling each other how smart they are, and no one ever tells them differently.
Their résumé of "accomplishment" replaces any need for intelligence, rather like the scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz, who is given by the Wizard a diploma as "proof" of his braininess.
Because their "work" is inevitably in such squishy, amorphous occupations as lawyers, politicians, professors, and bureaucrats, which have no real measurable and external standards, all these people ever hear is the praise of fellow robots.
Naturally, they believe it.
Indeed, seeing the real world would be a devastating personal blow.
This is an alternative explanation to many of the conspiracy theories of conservatives about leftists. When Loretta Lynch has ex parte communication with the spouse of a criminal investigation, it is because she is just not very smart at all.
When Hillary sets up a private email server in her basement through which flow state secrets, it is for the same reason that she flunked a bar exam in the District of Columbia that nearly everyone else passed.
Leftism is stupid, and its operatives over time become increasingly dumb and ignorant.
We see it, and it is horrifying to believe it – but that is the truth."
"The lame excuse a sitting attorney general gave for meeting privately with the husband of a prime FBI suspect who was himself a possible target of investigation reveals, if we needed more revelation, the mental vacuity and profound ignorance of leftism.
- Anyone familiar with the cognitive degradation of Marxism can see the pattern.
Soon, however, the Bolsheviks descended into such grotesque mediocrity that even Molotov began to be seen as a clever Bolshevik, and Voroshilov was placed in command of the Red Army.
Academia, of course, collapsed first in the Soviet Empire.
Anyone familiar with the last fifty years of that evil empire writes about the utter stultifying stupidity not only of the Communist Party leadership and cadres, but also of university systems, which churned out thousands of scientists who never discovered anything.
What replaced thinking and discovery was mind-numbing conformity.
Over time, the only people who could rise in the Soviet hierarchy were men who did not really know anything and did not say or think anything except the comical nonsense of Marxist-Leninism.
- Now consider leftism today.
College courses are often taught by these limited, blindered minds.
The legal profession, government, and academia are filled with these unintelligent people, living their own careers surrounded by others just as drearily average and utterly doctrinaire.
Black women like the attorney general get a double-whammy of affirmative action in lowered standards and then are surrounded by other people just as dumb and just as dependent upon parroting the party line as the answer to almost every conceivable issue or question.
There are no real tests, no real challenges, and no real evaluations of these leftists.
This explains the blank r̩sum̩ of Mrs. William Jefferson Clinton: she "was" the first lady; she "was" a senator from New York; she "was" secretary of state Рso what?
Her statements are all utterly scripted and given to a doting establishment media that never, ever challenges her inconsistencies or asks anything hard.
The pabulum of global warming is accepted as easily as Soviet scientists accepted the idiocy of Lysenko. The same predictable "solutions" are offered for every single problem: more "investment" on education and infrastructure, stronger gun control laws, more draconian environmental regulations, more "diversity," and more of everything that has never worked in America anywhere and anytime it has been tried.
No one on the left ever needs to think at all, and those who do think risk losing tenure, getting fired from network news programs, and being demonized as racist or sexist or reactionary or something equally silly.
Because independent thinking itself is dangerous, no leftist cadre dares to risk trying to think – just read the script, regurgitate the familiar dogma, and keep a closed mind.
Moreover, these folks keep telling each other how smart they are, and no one ever tells them differently.
Their résumé of "accomplishment" replaces any need for intelligence, rather like the scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz, who is given by the Wizard a diploma as "proof" of his braininess.
Because their "work" is inevitably in such squishy, amorphous occupations as lawyers, politicians, professors, and bureaucrats, which have no real measurable and external standards, all these people ever hear is the praise of fellow robots.
Naturally, they believe it.
Indeed, seeing the real world would be a devastating personal blow.
This is an alternative explanation to many of the conspiracy theories of conservatives about leftists. When Loretta Lynch has ex parte communication with the spouse of a criminal investigation, it is because she is just not very smart at all.
When Hillary sets up a private email server in her basement through which flow state secrets, it is for the same reason that she flunked a bar exam in the District of Columbia that nearly everyone else passed.
Leftism is stupid, and its operatives over time become increasingly dumb and ignorant.
We see it, and it is horrifying to believe it – but that is the truth."
Yes, it’s possible to balance the budget in one year if Congress listens to these recommendations
Yes, it’s possible to balance the budget in one year if Congress listens to these recommendations « Hot Air:
This week Citizens Against Government Waste released their annual Prime Cuts 2016 report, which is a detailed list of which pork can be cut from the orgy of spending that occurs in Washington.
...In all, there were 618 recommendations to get spending under control.
In crunching the numbers, CAGW found that there were $644.1 billion in immediate savings, with $2.6 trillion over the next five years if all of the recommendations were acted upon in the report.
That could lead to a balanced budget in a year:
This week Citizens Against Government Waste released their annual Prime Cuts 2016 report, which is a detailed list of which pork can be cut from the orgy of spending that occurs in Washington. ...In all, there were 618 recommendations to get spending under control.
In crunching the numbers, CAGW found that there were $644.1 billion in immediate savings, with $2.6 trillion over the next five years if all of the recommendations were acted upon in the report.
That could lead to a balanced budget in a year:
…[I]f all of the Prime Cuts recommendations were adopted, a balanced budget could be achieved in one year. Since CAGW’s inception in 1984, the implementation of its recommendations has helped save taxpayers $1.4 trillion.Prime Cuts 2016 addresses every area of government spending. For example, the report proposes eliminating the Market Access Program (MAP), which aims to help agricultural producers promote U.S. products overseas.
However, MAP is really a corporate welfare program that funnels millions of dollars to large, profitable corporations and trade associations that can well afford to pay for their own ads. Eliminating MAP would save taxpayers $1 billion over five years.[…]While some in Congress consider DOD spending to be sacrosanct, U.S. military brass is on board with cost savings at the Pentagon. In August 2013, Navy Vice Admiral David Dunaway stated, “In the face of decreasing budgets, rapidly evolving threats, and a shift in national defense strategy that demands more than ever from our naval forces, it’s imperative that every dollar spent increase warfighting capability.”...
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