It’s Wednesday, April 27th, 2016…but before we begin, we must recount a brief story forwarded by Jeff Foutch.  Seems young John Avery Foutch, age 12, was in school the other day when Teacher had Liberal Lass write a sentence on the board for the class to dissect.  The hopelessly misguided little lady wrote, “I am a smart Bernie Sanders supporter.”  Teacher (surprisingly somewhat of a Conservative) then asked the class to describe the sentence; John Avery raised his hand and said, “It’s an oxymoron!”

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Whereupon young Master Foutch, shown below in his kindergarten class photo…

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…was advised his presence was no longer required and could wait in the hall.

All we can say is, good for YOU, young John Avery; you’re truly your father’s son!

Now, here’s The Gouge!

First up, courtesy of NRO‘s Morning Jolt, Jim Geraghty asks…

Can I Get Two Hamiltons for a Tubman?

 

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Good heavens. This could be the most spectacular currency ever!

Yes, Harriet Tubman was a pro-gun Republican.

Biographer Kate Clifford Larson has noted Tubman was comfortable with guns:

Harriet Tubman carried a small pistol with her on her rescue missions, mostly for protection from slave catchers, but also to encourage weak-hearted runaways from turning back and risking the safety of the rest of the group. Tubman carried a sharp-shooters rifle during the Civil War.

Harriet Tubman’s pistol and saber are on display at the Florida A & M University (FAMU) Black Archives in Tallahassee, Florida. With an image like that, people would work harder just so they could have more Harriet Tubmans in their pockets.

At the risk of stating the obvious, neither Tubman’s politics nor her affinity for firearms will ever receive even passing mention by the MSM or their Progressive masters.

Next up, also courtesy of the Morning Jolt, Jim Geraghty analyzes the response of Arkansas’ village idiot to the Cruz-Kasich teaming announcement:

“…Mike Huckabee, always good for a statement that is dumb, declares, “Cruz, Kasich join forces to stop Trump. I wish they wanted to stop Hillary and much as they did the Republican who is beating both of them.”

First, do you think Ted Cruz doesn’t want to beat Hillary? Do you think John Kasich doesn’t want to beat Hillary? Do you think that either one of them is a secret Democrat, rooting for Hillary when no one is looking? Even Kasich, who is insufferable for citing the Bible as justification for his expansion of Medicaid under Obamacare, is pro-life, pushed to curb collective bargaining for public employees, is pro–Second Amendment, and trimmed the number of state-government employees. For whatever beefs we conservatives have with him, he’s a giant step to the right of Hillary Clinton.

Secondly, watch any Cruz or Kasich speech. Cruz, in particular, hits Hillary. Kasich may attempt to be as soft and cuddly as a Care Bear, but even he points to the numerous polls that show him beating Clinton handily.

Thirdly, this “I wish they wanted to beat general-election opponent as much as they want to beat primary opponent” argument is BS because you can’t win the general election until you win the primary. Lord knows Trump spent a good portion of this primary slamming everybody around him; he’s still hitting “Lyin’ Ted,” “Little Marco,” “Low Energy Jeb.” Did this mean Trump didn’t want to win the general election? Or did it simply mean that Trump wanted to ensure he won the primary, so he could then turn more of his attention and criticism to his likely Democratic opponent?

So, Mike Huckleberry…

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And your comment, to borrow a phrase from the immortal Harriet Van Johnson…

Okay,…

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…the third leading a*#hole!

Speaking of insufferable a-holes, the WSJ recently featured the following from the Mayo Clinic’s online entry on narcissistic personality disorder:

Narcissistic Personality Disorder

‘You may insist on having “the best” of everything.’

 

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If you have narcissistic personality disorder, you may come across as conceited, boastful or pretentious. You often monopolize conversations. You may belittle or look down on people you perceive as inferior. You may feel a sense of entitlement—and when you don’t receive special treatment, you may become impatient or angry. You may insist on having “the best” of everything—for instance, the best car, athletic club or medical care. (Or…vacations!!!)

At the same time, you have trouble handling anything that may be perceived as criticism. You may have secret feelings of insecurity, shame, vulnerability and humiliation. To feel better, you may react with rage or contempt and try to belittle the other person to make yourself appear superior. Or you may feel depressed and moody because you fall short of perfection… (Let alone any sense of accomplishment, never having done anything in your worthless life!)

[The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-5]…criteria for narcissistic personality disorder include these features:

Having an exaggerated sense of self-importance

Expecting to be recognized as superior even without achievements that warrant it

Exaggerating your achievements and talents

Being preoccupied with fantasies about success, power, brilliance, beauty or the perfect mate

Behaving in an arrogant or haughty manner

Wow!  Talk about a psychological profile fitting someone to a…

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B!

Since we’re on the subject of The Dear Misleader, writing at CapX, Andrew Roberts details how…

Barack Obama has turned his back on democracy

 

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As we welcome the Leader of the Free World – as American presidents used to be called – to London to lecture us about the supposed evils of Brexit, we ought to consider Barack Obama’s long and despicably ignoble history of denying support to the democratic aspirations of others.

Part of the mission and pride and duty of American presidents was to support the right of self-determination for other peoples. Until Barack Obama.

Almost alone amongst US presidents, Obama has turned his back on this fundamental duty, and instead showed peoples who are struggling for sovereignty the superior sneer of the cold, haughty (Islamofascist) academic that he really is. When the Iranian people protested against the theft of their June 2009 election by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and took to the streets at the cost of around 100 dead and 4,000 arrested—the exact figures will never be known due to government censorship—President Obama merely stated that the difference between Ahmadinejad and the opposition leader Mir-Hossein Mousavi ‘may not be as great as has been advertised’ and ordered American diplomats to do nothing to support Iranian pro-democracy campaigners.

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Similarly, during the Arab Spring, the Libyan Uprising, the annexation of the Crimea, the Syrian civil war, and the Ukrainian insurgency, Obama has in each case carefully identified the pro-democracy forces and then either denied them American support or actively undermined them…”

Costing thousands, if not tens or hundreds of thousands of lives in the process.  Deaths directly attributable to the hopelessly misguided policies of modern Liberalism over the last hundred years, from malaria in the Third World resulting from the totally unnecessary ban on DDT to support for Communist “liberation” movements around the world, total not in the millions, but the hundreds of millions!

Hey, at least Progressives can sleep at night; but only because ignorance is bliss!

Which brings us to another cautionary note from Jim Geraghty:

“…The redefinition of the presidency as a pop-culture celebrity would only accelerate under Trump. It was shabby and cheap, watching the President of the United States give his first comments about an Islamist terrorist attack in Brussels to ESPN while watching a baseball game in Cuba, wearing shades.

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Trump wouldn’t make that mistake, but he would probably continue as a ubiquitous presence on the non-political morning news shows, daytime chat shows like The View, evening cable shows, late-night shows like Jimmy Fallon . . . I don’t know about you, but I’m ready for a president who isn’t on my television, in non-news, non-political programming, seemingly all the time.

As are we…

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…as are we!

In a related item, brought to us today by Guy Benson and Townhall.com, it appears The Donald isn’t up for appearing more…”presidential“:

Report: Irritated Trump Rejects ‘Act More Presidential’ Counsel, Demotes Manafort

 

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“There’s trouble in paradise — if “paradise” is “Donald Trump’s historically-unpalatable and logistically-shambolic presidential campaign.” After quite a bit of media tongue-wagging about how Trump was finally getting serious by bringing on some seasoned professionals and transitioning to a “more presidential” tone, Trump has reportedly rejected the advice of his top new seasoned professional, Paul Manafort, effectively stripping him of power. Politico has details:

Donald Trump is bristling at efforts to implement a more conventional presidential campaign strategy, and has expressed misgivings about the political guru behind them, Paul Manafort, for overstepping his bounds, multiple sources close to the campaign tell POLITICO…Now Trump is taking steps to return some authority to Manafort’s chief internal rival, campaign manager Corey Lewandowski…campaign insiders say it has become increasingly clear that Trump, for all his boasts about his ability to become more “presidential,” is simply unwilling or perhaps unable to follow through, and resents efforts to transform him…”

Because this is one lying Liberal leopard wholly incapable of changing his spots.

Which brings us to the Environmental Moment, as we commemorate Earth Day 2016 by observing, yet again, the Environazi doomsayers have always been wrong:

Earth Day: The Green Prophets Were Wrong

 

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It was Earth Day yesterday and once again we were subjected to harangue after harangue about the perilous state of the environment and how unless EPA bureaucrats were granted unlimited power the Earth would become inhabitable in the next 15 minutes.

Perhaps it would be insightful to look at the record of these green doomsayers since they have had 45 years now of apocalyptic pronouncements to judgeMark J. Perry of the American Economic Institute helpfully collected 18 of the worst calls by notable tree-huggers over the years.

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1. Harvard biologist George Wald estimated that “civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.”

2. “We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation,” wrote Washington University biologist Barry Commoner in the Earth Day issue of the scholarly journal Environment.

3. The day after the first Earth Day, the New York Times editorial page warned, “Man must stop pollution and conserve his resources, not merely to enhance existence but to save the race from intolerable deterioration and possible extinction.”

4. “Population will inevitably and completely outstrip whatever small increases in food supplies we make,” Paul Ehrlich confidently declared in the April 1970 Mademoiselle. “The death rate will increase until at least 100-200 million people per year will be starving to death during the next ten years.”

5. “Most of the people who are going to die in the greatest cataclysm in the history of man have already been born,” wrote Paul Ehrlich in a 1969 essay titled “Eco-Catastrophe! “By…[1975] some experts feel that food shortages will have escalated the present level of world hunger and starvation into famines of unbelievable proportions. Other experts, more optimistic, think the ultimate food-population collision will not occur until the decade of the 1980s.”

6. Ehrlich sketched out his most alarmist scenario for the 1970 Earth Day issue of The Progressive, assuring readers that between 1980 and 1989, some 4 billion people, including 65 million Americans, would perish in the “Great Die-Off.”

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7. “It is already too late to avoid mass starvation,” declared Denis Hayes, the chief organizer for Earth Day, in the Spring 1970 issue of The Living Wilderness.

8. Peter Gunter, a North Texas State University professor, wrote in 1970, “Demographers agree almost unanimously on the following grim timetable: by 1975 widespread famines will begin in India; these will spread by 1990 to include all of India, Pakistan, China and the Near East, Africa. By the year 2000, or conceivably sooner, South and Central America will exist under famine conditions….By the year 2000, thirty years from now, the entire world, with the exception of Western Europe, North America, and Australia, will be in famine.”

9. In January 1970, Life reported, “Scientists have solid experimental and theoretical evidence to support…the following predictions: In a decade, urban dwellers will have to wear gas masks to survive air pollution…by 1985 air pollution will have reduced the amount of sunlight reaching earth by one half….”

10. Ecologist Kenneth Watt told Time that, “At the present rate of nitrogen buildup, it’s only a matter of time before light will be filtered out of the atmosphere and none of our land will be usable.”

11. Barry Commoner predicted that decaying organic pollutants would use up all of the oxygen in America’s rivers, causing freshwater fish to suffocate.

12. Paul Ehrlich chimed in, predicting in his 1970 that “air pollution…is certainly going to take hundreds of thousands of lives in the next few years alone.” Ehrlich sketched a scenario in which 200,000 Americans would die in 1973 during “smog disasters” in New York and Los Angeles.

 

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13. Paul Ehrlich warned in the May 1970 issue of Audubon that DDT and other chlorinated hydrocarbons “may have substantially reduced the life expectancy of people born since 1945.” Ehrlich warned that Americans born since 1946…now had a life expectancy of only 49 years, and he predicted that if current patterns continued this expectancy would reach 42 years by 1980, when it might level out.

14. Ecologist Kenneth Watt declared, “By the year 2000, if present trends continue, we will be using up crude oil at such a rate…that there won’t be any more crude oil. You’ll drive up to the pump and say, `Fill ‘er up, buddy,’ and he’ll say, `I am very sorry, there isn’t any.’”

15. Harrison Brown, a scientist at the National Academy of Sciences, published a chart in Scientific American that looked at metal reserves and estimated the humanity would totally run out of copper shortly after 2000. Lead, zinc, tin, gold, and silver would be gone before 1990.

16. Sen. Gaylord Nelson wrote in Look that, “Dr. S. Dillon Ripley, secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, believes that in 25 years, somewhere between 75 and 80 percent of all the species of living animals will be extinct.”

17. In 1975, Paul Ehrlich predicted that “since more than nine-tenths of the original tropical rainforests will be removed in most areas within the next 30 years or so, it is expected that half of the organisms in these areas will vanish with it.”

18. Kenneth Watt warned about a pending Ice Age in a speech. “The world has been chilling sharply for about twenty years,” he declared. “If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder in the year 2000. This is about twice what it would take to put us into an ice age.”

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If these environmental fear mongers had to put their own money where their mouths are, they’d all be dead broke.

And in the case of the co-founder of Earth Day’s ex-girlfriend, dead ; not “dead wrong”, just dead!

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Yes, that’s self-described Earth Day co-founder Ira Einhorn who murdered and composted his ex-girlfriend in 1977.  He spent 23 years on the lam in Europe, avoiding extradition in large part because of his environmental activism.  After all, have you ever met an Environazi interested in saving the humans?!?

On The Lighter Side

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Finally, we’ll call it a wrap with another sordid story straight from the pages of The Crime Blotter, courtesy of James Taranto’s Best of the Web:

Nobody’s Perfect

 

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Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled male adolescent masses yearning to be molested by a fat pig like me!”

Dennis Hastert, who served as speaker of the House from 1999 through 2007, is to be sentenced tomorrow after pleading guilty “to illegally structuring $900,000 used in payments to an individual he allegedly sexually abused while serving as a high school teacher and wrestling coach in a small Illinois town more than 30 years ago,” Politico reports. “Two other ex-students have made similar claims about Hastert, as has a woman who says her late brother reported sexual contact by Hastert.”

Hastert’s defense submitted a series of character references to the court, many from powerful, or at least formerly powerful, people. Here’s a quote from Tom DeLay, who served as majority whip and majority leader during Hastert’s speakership:

We all have our flaws, but Dennis Hastert has very few. He is a good man that loves the lord [sic in Politico story]. He gets his integrity and values from Him. He doesn’t deserve what he is going through. I ask that you consider the man that is before you and give him leniency where you can,” [DeLay’s letter] concludes.

You might even say Hastert has only one flaw. But is it ever a humdinger.

You might even go further and say, not only was the utterly uncontrolled spending of Lying Tom DeLay’s budgets largely responsible for The Obamao’s ascension to the White House…

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…but his brand of self-serving, pork-barrel Republican politics is one of the primary reasons The Donald’s where he is today.  Absent the intervening grace of Christ, Denny Hastert will burn in Hell; and given the substance of his aforementioned character reference, it’s likely Tom DeLay will be right beside him.

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