It’s Wednesday, March 22nd, 2017…but before we begin, we take a moment to honor FOX News with our latest Dan Rather Award for Hopelessly Hyped and Abysmally Inaccurate “Reporting“, in recognition of the following:
“North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un released a fiery propaganda video with scenes including troops blowing up a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier and bomber.
The video, released over the weekend by the country’s main propaganda outlet Uriminzokkiri TV, showed fictional footage of North Korean troops destroying the USS Carl Vinson. A B-51 bomber is shown meeting a similar fate moments later…”
“Disgusting”?!? “Shocking”?!?
Had FOX‘s talking head bothered to put any effort into her “report”, she’d have realized there’s no way NoKo “troops” could “blow up” an aircraft carrier, let alone attack it; after all, “troops” denote ground forces. So what does this sage scribe believe these “troops” are going to do: take the Vinson under fire with artillery? Or perhaps the plan is to board and scuttle her with demolition charges?
As for the B-51 reference, no such aircraft has ever existed in the U.S. inventory, as the Martin XB-51, developed in 1947, was never put into production. Sure, the video showed a B-1B, which somehow…someway…if you looked at it right…
…could have been mistakenly written “B-51”; but such an error begs the question whether anyone with even a minimal knowledge of the subject at hand ever proofreads this crap before it’s published…not to mention the errors and omissions the rest of MSM‘s “reporting” contains.
Now, here’s the Gouge!
First up, a particularly heinous headline courtesy of Townhall.com, but brought to us in reality by Barack Hussein Obama, Martin O’Malley, Montgomery County Executive Ike Leggett and School Superintendent Jack Smith, as well as every other defender of the sanctuary insanity which shields criminal illegal aliens (a term which is of course redundant) while risking the life and limb of every American citizen:
“The rape of a 14-year-old girl last week in a boys’ bathroom of a Maryland high school, for which two illegal immigrants have been charged, has fueled opposition to officials making the state a sanctuary for illegal immigrants. One suspect in last Thursday’s attack is 17; the other is 18. Both were enrolled as freshman because of their weak English language skills. The two suspects, who were enrolled in Rockville’s Montgomery High School, are from Central America.
Four days after the rape, Maryland’s House of Delegates passed legislation to join states like California in becoming a “sanctuary state,” affording illegal criminal aliens additional protections and making it more difficult to deport them or ask about immigration status. (Which should now prove about as popular as a turd in a punchbowl.)
…The legislation that passed Monday will make Maryland a sanctuary for illegal alien criminals, further endanger its citizens and interfere with state and local law enforcement’s ability to cooperate with federal law enforcement, the governor said.
Montgomery County, where the alleged rape took place, is on a list released this week by U.S. Immigration, Customs and Enforcement (ICE) of “Jurisdictions that have enacted policies which limit cooperation with ICE.” “When law enforcement agencies fail to honor immigration detainers and release serious criminal offenders, it undermines ICE’s ability to protect the public safety and carry out its mission,” said Acting ICE Director Thomas Homan. (A designation Montgomery County officials dubiously deny.)
One suspect, Henry E. Sanchez, 18, of Guatemala had been stopped by a Border Patrol agent in August 2016 in Rio Valley Grande, Texas, when he entered the country illegally from Mexico. Sanchez was ordered to appear before an immigration judge, but the hearing had not yet been scheduled. (Once again, the safety of American citizens are secondary to the “rights” Socialists seek to accord illegals.)
Sanchez and the other suspect, Jose O. Montano, 17, from El Salvador, charged with first-degree rape and two counts of first-degree sexual offense. Charging documents allege that the pair dragged their female classmate into a boy’s bathroom last Thursday at 9 a.m., where they allegedly raped and sodomized her and forced her to perform oral sex.
…Both Montano and Sanchez will be tried as adults and could receive a life sentence. The judge who oversaw their bond hearing refused to release them on bail, because the students are “dangerous and flight risks.”
…Officials in Montgomery County have been pushing to make the area a sanctuary for immigrants. Last month, Rockville City Council Member Julie Palakovich Carr, a Democrat, introduced an ordinance to make Rockville a sanctuary city. Montgomery County Executive Ike Leggett, a Democrat, in backing the proposal, said, “Understanding, tolerance, and respect are hallmarks of the Montgomery County way. Social justice for all is what we strive to achieve…”
How thoroughly stylish. Though we truly mean no one ill-will, we find ourselves wishing it had been Ike Leggett…or Julie Palakovich Carr…or perhaps more appropriately their daughters…in that Rockville High restroom with Señors Sanchez and Montano. Unfortunately, the price for their Progressive politics was paid by an innocent 14-year-old high school freshman. And as Harry Callahan so accurately observed…
As this forward from The Boss confirms, Ann Coulter nailed this one on the head back on March 8th when she highlighted how…
“…The media is the government’s co-conspirator in hiding immigrant crime. I have approximately 1,000 examples of media subterfuges on immigrant crime in Adios, America! The Left’s Plan to Turn Our Country Into a Third World Hellhole.
Here are a few recent examples from Sen. Tillis’ North Carolina:
Headline: “Burke County man convicted of raping 13-year-old girl,” Charlotte Observer, Feb. 1, 2017 (Ricardo Solis Garcia — an illegal whom Mexico refused to take back);
Headline: “Burlington man charged with child rape,” The Times News, Jan. 19, 2017 (Felipe Samuel Rivera Rodriguez);
Headline: “Angier man accused of having sex with 14-year-old girl,” The Fayetteville Observer, Aug. 29, 2016 (Estevan Roberto Silva).
NOTE TO READERS: The North Carolina Estevan Roberto Silva — sex with a 14-year-old girl — should not be confused with the Texas Esteban Villa Silva — sex with a 12-year-old girl about 60 times — or the Alabama Esteban Silva Jr. — 42-year-old man convicted of sex with a 12-year-old girl.All these child rapes were revealed in coded headlines like “Man pleads to sexual relationship with girl.”
Other informative North Carolina headlines:
Headline: “Man, 42, arrested for sexual offense with girl under 13” (Carlos Gumercindo Crus);
Headline: “Man charged with sexual assault of a minor” (Jose Freddy Ambrosio-Gorgonio);
Headline: Man Pleads Guilty in Child Rape Case (Luis Perez-Valencia).
It’s too relentless to be a coincidence.
There have been more stories in the American media about a rape by white lacrosse players that didn’t happen than about thousands of child rapes in North Carolina that did.
I’m pretty sure our media is opposed to rape. But evidently, not as opposed as they are to America.“
Sorry, but this is a classic case of res ipsa loquitur, baby! Anyway you look at it, the uncontrolled admission of illegal aliens into the United States in no way constitutes the forming of a more perfect Union, establishing Justice, insuring domestic Tranquility, providing for the common defence, promote the general Welfare or securing the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity. Any questions?!?
Next up, courtesy of the WSJ, in his opening statement during the Senate Judiciary Committee’s confirmation hearings for Neil Gorsuch, Nebraska’s Ben Sasse detailed…
“It’s a strange thing that judges wear robes…Why do the robes—often unfashionable and unflattering—persist? The reasons were summed up better than I could put it by one sitting judge. He said:
“Donning a robe doesn’t make me any smarter. But the robe does mean something—and not just that I can hide coffee stains on my shirt. It serves as a reminder of what’s expected of us—what Burke called the ‘cold neutrality of an impartial judge.’ It serves, too, as a reminder of the relatively modest station we’re meant to occupy in a democratic society. In other places, judges wear scarlet…Here, we’re told to buy our own plain black robes—and I can attest the standard choir outfit at the local uniform-supply store is a good deal.Ours is a judiciary of honest black polyester.”
The author of these insightful words was Judge Neil Gorsuch…
…When a Supreme Court justice puts on his or her black robe, we don’t want them confusing their job for those of the other branches. We want them policing the structure of our government to make sure each branch does its job, and only its job.“
Including the federal judiciary! And no, Senator Feinstein: as David French so eloquently and accurately observes, no matter how many skeins of specious yarn you care to weave, the concept of a “super-precedent” simply doesn’t exist in the law. A fact that, the concept having been conceived by a Dimocrat, should surprise no one.
Which brings us to the latest insanity from the ivied halls of higher education courtesy of Heatstreet.com…
“A Hampshire College student is facing charges after allegedly assaulting a visiting team’s basketball player over her “culturally appropriated” hair braids.The 20-year-old Hispanic student, Carmen Figueroa, claimed on Friday in District Court that she’s not guilty of charges of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and disorderly conduct, the Daily Hampshire Gazette reported.
The charges stem from an incident at Hampshire College’s Robert Crown Center on January 27. Figueroa, who was attending the game, allegedly came up to the Central Maine Community College women’s basketball team and insisted that they remove braids from their hair, saying it’s “cultural appropriation.”The ethnicity/race of the basketball players Figueroa allegedly confronted is unclear.
“The ethnicity/race of the basketball players Figueroa allegedly confronted is unclear; “unclear”…unless one takes the time to source a Central Maine team photo.
After the team members dismissed her demands, she allegedly started a fight with one of them. Another Hampshire College student, who also participated in the incident, pulled the hair of one of the players and caused her to fall down, local news reports said. According to court documents, Figueroa allegedly stepped on the fallen player and injured her. The documents also claim that one Central Maine Community College player tried to protect her teammate, but Figueroa “grabbed her by the head and threw her to the ground,” causing her to suffer scratches.
The two coaches helped break up the fight, while Figueroa “screamed swears and racial slurs” towards the Maine basketball team and tried to punch female players, the charges allege.
Hampshire, a small private liberal arts college in Massachusetts, didn’t comment on the incident, only confirming the accused student’s enrollment at the school…”
Had we anything to do with it, Figueroa would be expelled, as well as serving time in jail.
Anyone with any sense is forced to agree with Townhall.com‘s Christine Rouselle, as she notes…
“…no culture has a monopoly on braids. A quick Google search reveals that there’s hundreds of thousands of ways to braid and style hair. It’s not at all unique to one particular culture. Also, we live in the United States of America, where a person is free to do their hair however they please. It’s fairly racist in and of itself to insist that only certain people can arrange their hair in certain styles.
…is it really all that shocking that the same campus that flew the flag at half-staff following Trump’s election (and then temporarily banned it) breeds this kind of toxic violence?“
But as NRO’s Katherine Timpf recently reported, thanks to the endorsement of “educators”, law enforcement and government at every level, both active and tacit, such insanity is pretty much par for the course on America’s college campuses.
In a related item also from Townhall.com, the great Victor Davis Hanson details a primary reason this bloated Hispanic princess felt entitled to act with such disregard for the rights of others:
“Deterrence is the strategy of persuading someone in advance not to do something, often by raising the likelihood of punishment. But in the 21st century, we apparently think deterrence is Neanderthal and appeals to the worst aspects of our natures. The alternative view insists that innately nice people respond better to discussion and outreach.
History is largely the story of the tensions between, and the combination of, these two very different views of human nature — one tragic and one therapeutic.
The recent presidential election results favor a more pessimistic view of humans: that without enforceable rules, humans are likely to run amok — quite in contrast to the prior therapeutic mindset of the Obama administration.
At least Chamberlain wasn’t on Hitler’s side!
…There is no clear-cut divide between deterrence and therapy. Each at times has its place in warning or wooing people and nations. But in general, anytime a government errs on the side of therapy and communicates to individuals and foreign powers that laws are flexible, that punishment is iffy and that consequences are negotiable, it gets less of what it wants.
It is unfortunate but true that North Korea is deterred more by U.S. military strength than by United Nations resolutions. In much the same way, radical campus lawbreakers probably respect (and fear) the local district attorney a lot more than the college president.
In other words, the more we feel we have entered a 21st-century therapeutic utopia, the more tragic that human nature seems not to have changed all that much from the Stone Age.“
In other words…
That…and “Spare the rod, spoil the child”!
Then there’s the latest from Andrew McCarthy, also courtesy of NRO:
“It is not about the executive orders. When it comes to protecting the United States from the threats posed by radical Islam, it has never been about President Donald Trump’s executive orders: the first one that was torpedoed by the radical judiciary in January, and the new and improved version that was suspended this week — the Lawyer Left having conveniently managed to shop its challenge to Barack Obama’s fellow Hawaiian and Harvard Law School classmate Judge Derrick Watson.
The issue is vetting.Each executive order was conceived as a temporary step, a “hold in place” measure while the permanent solution, vetting, was carefully crafted and ultimately implemented.
Now, just as the Left hoped, the temporary step has not only overwhelmed the permanent solution. It has made the permanent solution much more difficult — perhaps impossible — to achieve.
The president’s first order was not invalidated because it was invalid. It was invalidated by an outrageous political maneuver disguised as a judicial decision by the Ninth Circuit federal appeals court. Yet government lawyers — especially the law-and-order, have-faith-in-the-system types — can’t help themselves. They see litigation as a high-minded chess game, winnable by reasoned strategy: Look at what the court said the infirmities were, address them, and then take another crack at persuading the tribunal.
But that’s not the game being played by the Ninth Circuit and the many progressive activists among the 300-odd lawyers President Obama placed on the federal bench (that’s life tenure, boys and girls). They are about winning the war, not the skirmish.
The Ninth Circuit struck down the first executive order not because it transgressed the theoretical constitutional rights of lawful permanent-resident aliens, immigrant visa holders, or state universities. The judges struck it down because they are the political Left. This had nothing to do with law.The Left has a policy objection to the notion of subjecting Muslims to heightened immigration scrutiny, because it has a policy objection to government recognition of the nexus between Islamic scripture and terrorism committed by Muslims.
For the Left, the law is not a corpus of constitutional and statutory principles to be applied. It is a pliable weapon for achieving policy goals, enabling will-to-power to masquerade as a “legal process.”
No tweaking of an executive order will overcome that.
Tweaking the executive order is not going to bring the Ninth Circuit around. Or judge Watson. Or federal-district judge Theodore Chuang of Maryland, another Obama-appointee who joined Watson in blocking Trump’s directive. Understand this: There is no way to craft an order restricting immigration from Muslim countries that will satisfy them — no matter how rife with jihadism the countries are, no matter how manifest it is that their dysfunctional or anti-American regimes make visa background checks impossible.
The Trump administration seems oddly stunned by this. It is as if they believed they were in a real, bona fide legal dispute; as if a few modifications in response to the judges’ express legal objections were going to make the Left’s implacable policy objection go away.
It was never going to work that way.
…Of course it is unfortunate that innocent, pro-American Muslims have to be put through more paces than other aliens.But it is not quite as unfortunate as the incontestable fact that inadequately vetted Muslims commit mass-murder attacks. While some of the innocent, pro-American Muslims will resent the heightened scrutiny (though many will see the need for it), those who are eventually admitted to our country will be safer because of it — a matter of no small consequence since peaceful Muslims, more than any other group, are killed and persecuted by jihadists and other sharia supremacists. In any event, though, the security burden has to be imposed on someone, and as between Americans and aspiring Muslim immigrants, it is less the responsibility of Americans than of alien Muslims that Islam endorses war and conquest.We didn’t create this problem.
This is the vetting that the Left and the courts are determined to prevent. They would have you believe that the Constitution is a suicide pact: that alien Muslims somehow have a First Amendment establishment-clause right against enhanced inspection; that an immigration system that has always vetted against totalitarian political ideologies cannot vet against this one, sharia supremacism, because it shrouds itself in religion. So forget the executive orders. This is the ground on which the Left has to be defeated.
We will never get there by denying that Islam is the heart of the matter.“
And never forget, no matter what you hear, see or read, Islam IS not only the heart of the matter, but THE PRIMARY SOURCE OF THE PROBLEM!!!
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