It’s Friday, January 26th, 2018…and just when we were going to lead off the day begging someone…anyone…to please educate The Donald about the importance of effective communication and the use of proper English…
…along came Lurch. And, if this forward from George Lawlor contains even a scintilla of truth, it tops anything Progressives could even imagine Trump doing:
“Former Secretary of State John Kerry reportedly tried to meddle in Middle East peace talks, allegedly telling a close associate of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas not to “yield to President Trump’s demands.” Israeli news outlet Maariv reported on the apparent meeting between Kerry and Hussein Agha in London, where the 2004 Democratic presidential nominee also reportedly floated a possible encore bid in 2020.
But in the conversation, Kerry reportedly told Agha to share a message with Abbas – urging him to “hold on and be strong” during talks with the Trump administration and “play for time … [and] not yield to President Trump’s demands.”Kerry, who served as former President Barack Obama’s secretary of state during his second term, also reportedly told Agha that Trump would not be in office for long, suggesting he could be out in a year.
According to the report, Kerry used derogatory terms when referring to Trump, and offered to help the Palestinians create an alternative peace initiative. He reportedly asked Abbas not to attack the U.S. or the Trump administration, but rather focus attacks on the president himself…”
When it comes to the conflict in the Middle East, Kerry is and always has been…
…on the wrong side. But then,…
…he’s always been. Though keep in mind, he learned from…
…the best.
Fortunately for us, so did Nikki Haley. And her learning allowed her to expose the hypocrisy and duplicity of both the “Palestinians”…
…and the U.N. Along with Barry and Lurch.
Now, here’s The Gouge!
Since we’re on the subject of of incompetent, treasonous boobs…
“A top Justice Department official is urging House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes not to release a much-buzzed-about memo circulating in Congress that purportedly reveals government surveillance abuses.
In the letter, which Fox News has obtained, Assistant Attorney General Stephen Boyd wrote, “We believe it would be extraordinarily reckless for the Committee to disclose such information publicly without giving the Department and the FBI the opportunity to review the memorandum and to advise the HPSCIof the risk of harm to national security and to ongoing investigationsthat could come from public release”…”
Not to mention what’s left of the reputations of the DOJand the FBI, as well as the inevitable indictments, prosecutions and incarcerations of dozens of Deep Staters.
Reports Boyd went on to request while Nunes was at it he’d pretty-please send over the original, along with all the copies, remain unconfirmed.
In a related item, as the New York Post‘s Michael Goodwin detailed on Wednesday…
“During the financial crisis, the federal government bailed out banks it declared “too big to fail.” Fearing their bankruptcy might trigger economic Armageddon, the feds propped them up with taxpayer cash.
Something similar is happening now at the FBI, with the Washington wagons circling the agency to protect it from charges of corruption.This time, the appropriate tag line is “too big to believe.”
Yet each day brings credible reports suggesting there is a massive scandal involving the top ranks of America’s premier law enforcement agency.The reports, which feature talk among agents of a “secret society” and suddenly missing text messages, point to the existence both of a cabal dedicated to defeating Donald Trump in 2016 and of a plan to let Hillary Clinton skate free in the classified email probe. (Which, by the way, at least in our eyes, constitutes an ongoing criminal conspiracy, which would render all previous grants of immunity null and void.)
If either one is true — and I believe both probably are — it would mean FBI leaders betrayed the nation by abusing their powers in a bid to pick the president.
More support for this view involvesthe FBI’s use of the Russian dossier on Trumpthat was paid for by the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee.It is almost certain that the FBI used the dossier to get FISA court warrants to spy on Trump associates, meaning it used the opposition research of the party in power to convince a court to let it spy on the candidate of the other party — likely without telling the court of the dossier’s political link.
Even worse, there is growing reason to believe someone in President Barack Obama’s administration…
…turned over classified information about Trump to the Clinton campaign.
As one former federal prosecutor put it, “It doesn’t get worse than that.”That prosecutor, Joseph diGenova, believes Trump was correct when he claimedObama aides wiretapped his phones at Trump Tower.
These and other elements combine to make a toxic brew that smells to high heaven(Chicago/Illinois politics on a national scale!), but most Americans don’t know much about it. Mainstream media coverage has been sparse and dismissive and there’s a blackout from the same Democrats obsessed with Russia, Russia, Russia.
Partisan motives aside, it’s as if a scandal of this magnitude is more than America can bear — so let’s pretend there’s nothing to see and move along…”
Which makes inquiring minds want to know how hard the FBI looked in the first place! We’re thinking about as hard as John Koskinen searched for evidence which would incriminate Lois Lerner.
There’s no doubt about it: America is at a fork in the road. One path leads us into Banana-Republic-style anarchy, where the rule of law no longer applies to anyone with political pull. The other leads to the restoration of the public’s faith in The Founder’s intended form of federal governance…along with a number of former high-ranking officials…
…spending some serious time in stir. Frankly, we’d be fine with a more than a few of them facing a firing squad.
Regardless, as we noted in the last edition, like Neo, our nation’s about to take the red pill…
…and see just how deep the rabbit hole AND the Deep State goes. As well as whether Republicans are a part of it.
Until then…
Meanwhile, as Kimberly Strassel records at the WSJ, and as highlighted at today’s Tales From the Darkside video accessible via Link #3 directly beneath our Quote of the Day at the top of the page, with their Russian collusion narrative deader than Teddy Kennedy, The Left deems it time for…
“Rep. Adam Schiff has many talents, though few compare to his ability to function as a human barometer of Democratic panic. The greater the level of Schiff hot, pressured air, the more trouble the party knows it’s in.
Mr. Schiff’s millibars have been popping ever since the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, on which he is ranking Democrat, last week voted to make a classified GOP memo about FBI election year abuses available to every House member. Mr. Schiff has spit and spun and apoplectically accused his Republican colleagues of everything short of treason. The memo, he insists, is “profoundly misleading,” not to mention “distorted” and “political,” and an attack on the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He initiallytried to block his colleagues from reading it. Having failed, he’s now arguing Americans can know the full story only if they see the underlying classified documents.
This is highly convenient, given the Justice Department retains those documents and is as eager to make them public as a fox is to abandon the henhouse. Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes had to threaten a contempt citation simply to get permission for his committee to gain access, and even then investigators had to leave Capitol Hill to view them, and were allowed only to take notes. Mr. Nunes has no authority to declassify them(Though we must point out Jeff Sessions and The Donald DO!; curiouser and curiouser!). The best he can do in his continuing transparency efforts is to summarize their contents. Only in Schiff land is sunshine suddenly a pollutant.
The Schiff pressure gauge is outmatched only by the Justice Department and the FBI, which are now mobilizing their big guns to squelch the truth. That included a Wednesday Justice Department letter to Mr. Nunes—written by Assistant Attorney General Stephen Boyd, designed as a memo to the media, copied to its allies in Washington, and immediately leaked to the public. And the department wonders why anyone doubts the integrity of all its hardworking professionals…”
While the rest of us wonder why, under President Donald Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Stephen Boyd still has a job!
And with all due respect to Kimberly Strassel, which, like the venom of the black mamba, is truly gargantuan, we’ve alway considered Schiff more of a human hemorrhoid.
Next up, also courtesy of FOX News, Marc Thiessen convincingly suggests…
“The government shutdown is over. Democrats finally realized that closing the government over illegal immigration was a losing political battle. They created a needless crisis and got rolled. So who is to blame for their current predicament? Along with Charles E. Schumer and Nancy Pelosi, Democrats can put the blame squarely on the man who could have legalized the “dreamers” when he had the chance: Barack Obama.
During his 2008 campaign, Obama promised in a conversation with Univision anchor Jorge Ramos to make passing immigration reform one of his first legislative priorities, and even set a timetable.“I cannot guarantee that it is going to be in the first 100 days,” hesaid. “But what I can guarantee is that we will have in the first year an immigration bill that I strongly support and that I’m promoting.And I want to move that forward as quickly as possible.”
If he had wanted to act, he could have. Obama’s party controlled the House, and Democrats had a 60-vote filibuster-proof Senate majority. If Obama really wanted to pass either the Dream Act or comprehensive immigration reform, Republicans were powerless to stop him. But he didn’t do it.
In a 2012 interview, Ramoscalled Obama on it. “At the beginning of your governing, you had control of both chambers of Congress, and yet you did not introduce immigration reform.And before I continue, I want for you to acknowledge that you did not keep your promise.”Obamaobjectedthat he had made his promise “before the economy was on the verge of collapse…And so my first priority was making sure that we prevented us from going into a Great Depression.” Ramos was having none of it.“It was a promise, Mr. President…And a promise is a promise.And with all due respect(Which is very little, if any!), you didn’t keep that promise.”
Obama’s excuse was weak. In the midst of dealing with the economic crisis, he championed ObamaCare and got other legislation passed. If passing immigration reform had been a real priority, he could have done it. And if he had, there would be no immigration impasse today…”
In other words, Barack Hussein Obama lies every time his lips move. Jorge Ramos was simply more than a little slow on the uptake. Nor did he apply the lesson to his continued support of The Obamao’s other initiatives.
Which brings us to The Lighter Side:
Finally, we’ll call it a week with what we can only describe as a cross between “MSM bias…WHAT bias?!?“, i.e. Fake News, and another sordid story straight from the pages of The Crime Blotter, as, courtesy of the WSJ, Daniel Lee relates the flights of fancy behind so-called “facts”:
“I spent five years as an emergency medical technician and saw the result of more than one shooting up close. Every case horrifies in its own way, and each has its own tangle of causes. But school shootings are the most painful. The shooting this week at Kentucky’s Marshall County High School—which left two innocent young people dead and another 17 injured—was no exception.
But what to make of the accompanying news coverage, which claimed this was the 11th school shooting of 2018? That number seems very high.
A New York Times story, cited as a source in several other press accounts, opens by stacking several incidents into an ominous edifice of schoolyard violence. The reporters write: “Gunfire ringing out in American schools used to be rare, and shocking.Now it seems to happen all the time.”
Yet a closer look at the statistics tells a different story.Here are several of the incidents, which were drawn from the database of the gun-control group Everytown for Gun Safety:
• A school-bus window was broken by a pellet gun in Forest City, Iowa.
• A gun was accidentally discharged in a weapons class at a Denison, Texas, community college.
• A vehicle that pulled into a parking lot at Wiley College in Texas at 2 a.m. struck a wall, and someone inside fired shots apparently at random before fleeing the scene.
• A shot from off campus struck a building at California State University, San Bernardino at around 6 p.m.
• A 14-year-old Arizonan committed suicide without threatening anyone else.
• A veteran with posttraumatic stress disorder shot himself in the parking lot of a closed Michigan school. No students were present.
Most of these are sad and frightening in their own way, but they were not all cut from the same bloody cloth as the Kentucky tragedy. Less than half of the 11 shootings happened at an elementary, middle or high school where students were present. But two were drive-bys that involved no intrusion into the school and a third was a suicide.
…This is not the place to re-litigate the gun-control arguments that most readers already know inside and out. But it is fair to say that distorting reality to advance a particular approach will be counterproductive.This obscures the real issues and antagonizes the well-meaning people who have come together to solve the problem.“
Yet another reason we wouldn’t believe The New York Times if they reported our pants were on fire and we could feel our a*s blistering.
Does anyone truly believe their narrative supporting the “settled science” of anthropogenic global warming is any more accurate?!?
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