Right As Usual

[UPDATE] From Rotten Chestnuts : By the way, did you know that the collective noun for a group of liberals is “shriek”?  A murder of crows, a shriek of liberals . I've only recently returned to town after a prolonged vacation. When I first woke up, I had all kinds of ambition to straighten out the house and bills, and re-boot my life. That was, until I went online - just to check ONE thing. Hours later, I've found: Some leads linking HRC to Russian spie s, who she VERY conveniently hustled out of town before they could be interrogated. An interesting "hobby" for Nellie Ohr, Fusion employee, wife of an Obama official - Ham Radio. Check out the license details here.  I am a radio operator, and know that ascertaining whether an applicant is an undercover operative for the CIA (Nellie formerly worked for them) is not something that the FCC checks out. They're strictly concerned whether the operator knows the technical specifications and rules necessary to...

What is "Dark Money"?  Here's how one group used it to conceal donors, defeat Roy Moore, and bypass the rules about political contributions. This story  was originally published by  The Center for Public Integrity , a nonprofit, nonpartisan investigative news organization in Washington, D.C. WASHINGTON — Democrats love decrying " dark money " — political contributions for which the source of funds is a mystery. But that isn't stopping them from accepting "dark money" themselves or making it difficult to determine the original underwriter of a political donation, as a recent Southern contest vividly illustrates. Alabama's  special U.S. Senate election  in December is a case study in the lengths national Democrats, who this year are racing to win back Congress from Republicans, are willing to go to hide their cash in the name of political expediency. Here's what happened: When it seemed as if Democrat Doug Jones could actually beat e...

Have you ever found that, when you try to use facts and logic to help someone understand a cultural/political situation, you are: Faced with resistance - they just question your facts, saying "WHERE did you hear that?" (the implication is that you had stumbled upon a quasi-Nazi/Alt-Right conspiracy site, and bought the nonsense, hook-line-and-sinker. When you take the time to find the source of your information, they don't even bother to look at it. Unable to persuade them, as they lack much of the essential background - or, rather, they have such a skewed understanding of history that they just can't make that leap from where they are to where you are. Hostile to any criticism of their "heroes" - Obama, the Clintons, Fauxcahontas, Bernie, Biden, Gore - NOTHING that is not completely complementary will be listened. My God, ELVIS fans aren't that fanatic! Repeating Occupy Democrats memes, saying the most UN-scientific things whilst smugly asserting ...

...most of America is in good shape. I'm at my daughter's house in Cleveland. She lives right in the city, on the West Side (a very nice area called West Park). It's a major change from my house, which is located on an acre of land, and heavily wooded. From her dining room (I'm supervising my granddaughter's homework), I can see the street traffic. The view from my front yard looks like this: Yes, that is lawn furniture - no, when this photo was taken a few years ago, the snow was not something I anticipated. In both places, Rock Hill, SC and Cleveland, OH, there is little violence or crime close to home. We pay a price for that. Housing is not cheap (on the other hand, not prohibitively expensive, as it is in CA or NY. Prices for quite nice homes are 1/4 to 1/3 as pricey. The tough 'gangsta' life is more of a local phenomenon. It's largely confined to those sections of town that tolerate the indiscriminate use of alcohol/drugs, have - sha...

I got up early, and dealt with paperwork and such for a short while. Then, off to the dentist - turns out I have periodontal disease, necessitating an expensive procedure called Planing & Scaling. I needed a local anesthetic for that - fortunately, only on one side this time. The process was not as painful as the bill. Sticker Shock!!! Take that as a warning - get your teeth in shape BEFORE you retire, and, hopefully, while you have dental insurance. Then home for a quick cup of soup. Then, dropped off the car to have some touch-up to the paint. The auto shop was nice enough to drop me off at home. I'll be doing more household maintenance for a while, then, off to pick up my car. It's been a busy day, but I don't feel as though I accomplished much. Share

No guns. No armed men surrounding the President, forcing him to sign a resignation letter. No declaration of intent in the open. But, this. Use of government agencies to put forth rumors, feed secret information - verified or not - to compliant media stooges. Refusal to comply with the boss's orders. Refusal to comply with the LAW. Collusion with non-governmental allies, to try to remove all associated with, and loyal to, the President. I just never thought I'd see it in the United States of America. Share

I remember her from the EPA, but not some of the rest of this. I'm disgusted that so many of the women in powerful positions used that access for such low purposes. Share

MLK's speech was referenced in the Super Bowl ads. It's a good one - see it here. But, in addition to civil rights, it talks about some of the forces keeping BOTH White and Black people from having the kind of life they would find fulfilling. And, those forces weren't all governmental or societal. Some of them were personal. I'm enclosing a screen shot of someone responding to the ad. Share