Bashing Trump sells fake news and everybody knows it

Hillary, Jr.

No---I am sad to report---apparently it never ends

LOST WORDS FROM OUR CHILDHOOD (skip if you were born after 1960)

I remember my Dad saying "Keep a stiff upper lip and don't take any
wooden nickels" ..

Mergatroyd! Do you remember that word? Would you believe the
spell-checker did not recognize the word Mergatroyd? "Heavens to
Mergatroyd!"

The other day a not so elderly (I say 75) lady said something to her
son about driving a Jalopy; and he looked at her quizzically and said,
"What the heck is a Jalopy?" He had never heard of the word jalopy!
She knew she was old ... But not that old.



Well, I hope you are Hunky Dory after you read this and chuckle.



About a month ago, I illuminated some old expressions that have become
obsolete because of the inexorable march of technology. These phrases
included: Don't touch that dial, Carbon copy, You sound like a broken
record, and Hung out to dry.



Back in the olden days we had a lot of moxie. We'd put on our best bib
and tucker, tostraighten up and fly right.



Heavens to Betsy! Gee whillikers! Jumping Jehoshaphat! Holy Moley!



We were in like Flynn and living the life of Riley; and even a regular
guy couldn't accuse us of being a knucklehead, a nincompoop or a pill.
Not for all the tea in China!



Back in the olden days, life used to be swell, but when's the last
time anything was swell? Swell has gone the way of beehives, pageboys
and the D.A.; of spats, knickers, fedoras, poodle skirts, saddle
shoes, and pedal pushers.



Oh, my aching back! Kilroy was here, but he isn't anymore.



We wake up from what surely has been just a short nap, and before we
can say, "Well, I'll be a monkey's uncle!" Or, "This is a fine kettle
of fish!" We discover that the words we grew up with, the words that
seemed omnipresent, as oxygen, have vanished with scarcely a notice
from our tongues and our pens and our keyboards.



Poof, go the words of our youth, the words we've left behind. We
blink, and they're gone. Lickitysplit. Where have all those great
phrases gone?



Long gone: Pshaw, The milkman did it. Hey! It's your nickel. Don't
forget to pull the chain. Knee high to a grasshopper. Well,
Fiddlesticks! Going like sixty. I'll see you in the funny papers.
Don't take any wooden nickels. Wake up and smell the roses.



It turns out there are more of these lost words and expressions than
Carter has liver pills. This can be disturbing stuff! (Carter's Little
Liver Pills are gone too!)



We of a certain age have been blessed to live in changeable times. For
a child each new word is like a shiny toy, a toy that has no age. We
at the other end of the chronological arc have the advantage of
remembering there are words that once did not exist and there were
words that once strutted their hour upon the earthly stage and now are
heard no more, except in our collective memory. It's one of the
greatest advantages of aging!



Leaves us to wonder where Superman will find a phone booth...



See ya later, alligator! Okidoki. After while crocodile.



You'll notice they left out "Monkey Business"!!!



WE ARE THE CHILDREN OF THE FABULOUS 30'S /40'S/50'S... NO ONE WILL
EVER HAVE THAT OPPORTUNITY AGAIN ... WE WERE GIVEN ONE OF OUR MOST
PRECIOUS GIFTS: LIVING IN THE PEACEFUL AND COMFORTABLE TIMES, CREATED
FOR US BY THE "GREATEST GENERATION!"



....OK if crawling under school desks for nuclear attack drills, the
Cold War is peaceful and comfortable.....but the cars and the music
were KEEN!


Olly Olly Oxen Free!

Australia for was once the home of Crocodile Dundee but I heard he moved

100 Christians snatched in overnight raids on underground Chinese church | South China Morning Post

Please never tell me "It can't happen here."

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/2177263/100-snatched-china-church-raids-overnight

Huge explosion in online romance scams in Hong Kong in 2018, with victims swindled out of US$57.6 million | South China Morning Post

"when the victims get suspicious, other fraudsters will show up claiming to be police officers and ask the victims to pay handling fees to get their money back."
https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/2177139/huge-explosion-online-romance-scams-hong-kong-2018

A note from Rex: Scammers are the mold of the internet. They grow in the dark. Sunshine is the only cure. Trust your friends to shine their light on ALL requests for money.

Summerville man charged with arson for burnt Christmas decor

"Baun was not charged with Grinchery."

https://www.thestate.com/news/local/crime/article222842940.html

How can there be any humor in a report like this? It is like making fun of the handicapped. 

My submission for our UDW: Exactly who is in charge of NFL public relations?

UDW is "Upside Down World"

School Principal Bans Candy Canes Because The J-Shape Might Mean Jesus - The Lid

Can it really be THIS bad?

https://lidblog.com/bans-candy-canes/

Is this a little too much?

And here is Chuck Schumer's daughter  (the Facebook do nothing jobber) who just got married in Brooklyn.

 

Elizabeth Weiland (left) and Alison Schumer

Facebook's Corrupt Bargain: Gave Democrat Schumer $50,0000 Then Gave His Daughter a Job

Warner Todd Huston November 19, 2018

https://godfatherpolitics.com/facebooks-corrupt-bargain-gave-democrat-schumer-500000-than-gave-his-daughter-a-job/

Is Facebook wholly sold out to the left? Well, after this story, you'll have to admit that Facebook is just another corrupt part of the Democrat Party now that we know that Facebook not only donated $50,000 to Democrat Senator Chuck Schumer's political campaign, but they also gave his daughter a job.

Seriously, this is the very definition of corruption, back-scratching, and favor-giving. What do you think Facebook expected for their $50K donation and giving a Democrat Senator's daughter a do-nothing job?

As the New York Post reported:

Trending: The 'Hamas Caucus': The Five Anti-Israel Women That Democrats elected to Congress

Facebook employees, including some at the top of its corporate pyramid, have helped fill Schumer's campaign coffers – and he's returned the favor by carrying water for the social media giant in Congress, according to a recent report.

And Alison Schumer, the senator's youngest of two daughters, works as a Facebook product marketing manager – which pays an average of $160,000, according to Glassdoor.com.

"It sure looks hinky," political strategist Susan Del Percio told The Post. "This is an industry that's been trying for years to fend off heavy government regulation by actively cultivating relationships with senators and House members."

So, what does $50K and a fake job to a family member get you?

Well, Schumer has suddenly become a great Facebook booster.

"Facebook is a very powerful force," Schumer said in March, the paper reported. "I think, overall, it's been a very positive force."

Sure, it has, buddy. Positive for your daughter and your own bank account.

The Post detailed some of those donations:

Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg gave the senator $5,200 in 2013.

Sheryl Sandberg, the company's high-profile chief operating officer, kicked in $5,400 – the maximum legal amount – to Schumer's 2016 re-election campaign.

Facebook general counsel Colin Stretch gave the same sum in 2015.

Newly appointed board member Kenneth Chenault has been a loyal Schumer supporter since 1995. Most recently, he gave $1,200 to the senator's 2016 primary election campaign and $2,700 in that year's general election. Chenault has contributed a total of $6,900.

Naturally, Schumer is reluctant to say anything about his daughter's cushy, do-nothing Facebook job.

Meanwhile, Facebook continues its daily attack on the First Amendment and the freedom of speech of any user the social media giant thinks might tend toward being a conservative.

If you are Republican, or lean right, Facebook bans you. If you are a Democrat, Facebook promotes your content and may even give your daughter a high-paying, fake job.

Follow Warner Todd Huston on Twitter @warnerthuston.

 

 

 

Pictures can lie when the photographer (or his bosses) wants them to lie

Learn how easy it is to manipulate people's perceptions of an event that's being covered for the sake of whatever agenda that the powers-that-be at a given news network might have.
An angle makes a world of difference. Fake photography goes with fake news!!!

This just goes to show how easily things can be staged on TV.

 

 

Creating the impression of strength in numbers for Hillary Clinton!

This soldier looks like he was threatening the boy in the first image. It turns out he wasn't.

 

 

 

Not many people turned out for the launch of UK PM Theresa May's campaign bus...

This photo was staged between photographers and a young Palestinian.

 

 

 

The kid in this infamous photo was participating in a pro-immigration demonstration. He wasn't a detained illegal immigrant.

The camera was used to create the illusion of more people.
 

 
Not quite as many people there as was made out...

 

 

 

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I doubt Ann will be spending a night in the Lincoln bedroom

Ann Coulter -- Jared: The Birdbrain of Alcatraz

Nov. 21st, 2018

Jared and the hip-hop artists currently advising him have decided that too many people are in prison. If you think you've heard this before, you have: Genius insights of this sort have preceded nearly every major crime wave this country has experienced, from Philadelphia to California to a bloody period known as "the Warren Court."

As anyone with an amoeba's understanding of recent history knows, beginning in the early '60s, assorted heads-up-their-asses liberals jettisoned logic, common sense and a basic understanding of human nature by releasing criminals from the prisons where they belonged.

Instead of punishing criminals, we would give them social services, education and job training — with the implied understanding that they wouldn't move next door to any of the reformers. The experts assured a disbelieving public that these policies would reduce crime.

As Thomas Sowell writes in The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy, the stage was set. Liberal criminologists' soft-on-crime policies were in place. We only needed empirical evidence.

"THE RESULTS: Crime rates skyrocketed. Murder rates suddenly shot up until the murder rate in 1974 was more than twice as high as in 1961. Between 1960 and 1976, a citizen's chances of becoming a victim of a major violent crime tripled."

Prior to this period, crime had been declining for three decades.

Thousands of Americans were murdered, raped, assaulted, disfigured and robbed as a direct result of the exact same policies that Jared and his assistant, Donald Trump, are trying to foist on the country right now.

Then-Princeton professor John DiIulio Jr. looked at the consequences of a single order by a Carter-appointed judge, Norma Shapiro, that put a population cap on Philadelphia prisons in the 1990s. In an 18-month period between 1993 and 1994, 9,732 prisoners released as a result of Judge Shapiro's order were re-arrested for committing 79 murders, 90 rapes, 701 burglaries, 959 robberies, 1,113 assaults, 2,215 drug offenses and 2,748 thefts.

It took more than a decade of Reagan and Bush judges, Republican mayors and governors, and the endless complaints of ordinary people to produce the low crime rates we have today. Their formula was: Do the precise opposite of whatever the ACLU, the Brennan Center for Justice and The New York Timesrecommend.

In New York City alone, at least 10,000 people — mostly minorities — are not dead because Rudy Giuliani revived the idea of punishment for criminals, in lieu of understanding them.

Progressive young hipsters living in Brooklyn today have no concept that their trendy neighborhoods would be uninhabitable war zones but for Mayor Giuliani. If you don't have order and safety in big cities, you can't have anything else.

In 1991 the U.S. murder rate was well over twice what it is today.

Normal person: Thank God we started putting criminals in prison again!

Jared: LET'S RELEASE THEM.

A 2014 study by the Bureau of Justice Statistics found that, within five years of release, 82 percent of property offenders, 77 percent of drug offenders, 74 percent of public order offenders and 71 percent of violent offenders were arrested for a new crime — after not getting caught committing God knows how many others.

This is not rocket science. Lock up criminals and they can't commit any more crimes. As a New York Times headline put it in 2004 with characteristic cluelessness: "Despite Drop in Crime, an Increase in Inmates."

But there are no permanent victories with liberals. Brennan Center acolytes have been patiently waiting for everyone who knows anything to leave the building, so they could go back to springing criminals again.

Hillary's losing the election was a major setback. But then — in a stroke of luck! — criminologists discovered the president's ridiculously naive son-in-law! Joy reigned throughout the land!

Not only does Jared have the advantage of knowing absolutely nothing about the history of the precise policies he's pushing, but he has a personal interest in lenient sentencing, inasmuch as his father is — as Obama calls criminals — "justice involved."

In 2005, Charles Kushner was thrown in federal prison for felony tax evasion, illegal campaign contributions and witness tampering, to wit, hiring a prostitute to sleep with his brother-in-law.

For a wispy little fellow like Jared, of all the things life has given him to be embarrassed about, having to visit his father in prison has to rank pretty high. Surely we can come up with a better way for him to deal with the shame and humiliation of his father being a convicted felon than sentencing thousands of Americans to a new and dangerous crime wave.

Jared is the kind of moron who believes that the crime listed on a convict's baseball trading card is the worst crime he committed.

Thus, we're incessantly told that sentences will be cut only for "nonviolent drug offenders."

If you are even passingly familiar with our justice system, you know that virtually everyone in prison is there as the result of a plea bargain — "97 percent of federal cases and 94 percent of state cases," according to The New York Times.

You don't strike a deal with the prosecutor to plea to the worst crime you've committed. You plea to the least serious offense.

Rape = indecent exposure

Armed robbery = illegal gun possession

Felony assault = disorderly conduct

You also plead guilty to the crime that can be proved unequivocally. Unlike witnesses, guns and drugs can't be intimidated out of testifying.

So what does Jared's bill do? It slashes the sentences for illegal possession of drugs and guns.

Trump 's attitude is, Yes, the sentencing reform bill is an idiotic idea that will do great harm to our country, but Jared's been down in the dumps, so it's the least I can do for the guy.

Americans will be murdered, raped and assaulted for the sole purpose of ensuring that Jared has something on his Wikipedia page other than: "BFF of Saudi bone carver Mohammed bin Salman" and "Got into Harvard because his felon father gave the college millions of dollars."

My old standard word "fruitcake" is probably not descriptive enough for this woman

https://www.star-telegram.com/news/nation-world/national/article221527670.html

And you thought we had entered a world without humor

One definition of maturity I like is when people can make good-natured  fun of themselves. The MSM is so focused on race-baiting that they missed it.

https://www.thecollegefix.com/perpetrators-of-marching-band-racial-slur-stunt-turn-out-to-be-minorities/

This means WAR!!! Aborting kids is one thing: stopping pet ownership is another

armstrongeconomics.com

They now want to Reduce Dog & Cat Ownership to Stop Global Warming

Well, it was only a matter of time that when you read between the lines concerning pet population of dogs and cats, the solution is to REDUCE their numbers – which is really what they argue for behind the curtain concerning humans. I have written previously how they really want to starve humans to reduce the population. I have previously told the story about attending a White House dinner in Washington back in 1996 and being seated with the entire Environmental group. It was a Washington elite political dinner and because I attended with my friend Dick Fox who was Chairman of Temple University and I was an adviser to the University, whoever it was that made the seating arrangements for these tables of 10  seated us with the environmental groups. This was in the mid-90s.

Dick was the one who kept trying to drag the truth out and there it came. These were the heads of the top three environmental organizations. They admitted that the real goal was to reduce the human population by making it difficult to expand and build houses. Labeling everything wetlands would reduce the ability to expand housing and thus shrink the population. When Dick got them to admit that he moved in for the bottom-line question and asked: "So who's grandchild are you trying to prevent from being born? Your's or mine?"

They now are targeting your pets. They already are taxing farmers per cow because they fart and are causing Global Warming. Now they are honing in on your dog or cat. The argument is that pets constitute about 25–30% of the environmental impacts of animal production in terms of the use of land, water, fossil fuel, phosphate, and biocides.  Their solution: Reducing the rate of dog and cat ownership, perhaps in favor of other pets that offer similar health and emotional benefits would considerably reduce these impacts.

What's next? Quotas on having children? That did not work so well in China.

 

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I hear there are lots of these lawyer jokes out there

Barbra Streisand Admits Trump Is 'Making Me Fat'

https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2018/10/31/nolte-barbra-streisand-admits-trump-is-making-me-fat/

Could The Donald be the key to solving the world hunger problem?

Remind me to not piss off Nancy's photographer

OK, you asked about the secret of life and here it is

"You've got to know when to hold 'em 
Know when to fold 'em 
Know when to walk away 
And know when to run"   

What you already knew

Thoughtful words from Tom Woods (1 minute read may save you a bundle on wasting tuition at a twit school))

OK, at this point my newsletter is getting too easy to write.

Now it's Texas Christian University that's gone insane.

The other day, comedian and podcaster Steven Crowder showed up on the TCU campus, put up a sign reading "'RAPE CULTURE' IS A MYTH: CHANGE MY MIND," and sat down to talk to passersby.

The TCU administration went berserk.

Now look: Crowder is obviously correct that "rape culture" is a myth.

"Rape culture," says Wikipedia, "is a sociological concept for a setting in which rape is pervasive and normalized due to societal attitudes about gender and sexuality."

To believe in "rape culture" is to believe that our society considers rape "normal."

I'm pretty sure most people would consider that claim insane.

As it turns out, it was people on the left -- the very people who would complain about "rape culture" today -- who abolished capital punishment for rapists of adult women in 1977, and for rapists of children in 2008.

So in other words, it was the toughest defenders of "the patriarchy" who wanted to keep rape a capital crime, and it was the left who wanted to soften the punishment.

Go make sense of that.

Here's how the university responded to Crowder's skepticism of the bizarre "rape culture" idea, which evidently is now to be believed by everyone:

"Today, Steven Crowder chose to challenge our students on a public sidewalk in front of the university. While the Constitution gives him the right to express his views, the sentiments he expressed do not align with TCU's values. His views adversely affected many members of our campus community. The health and safety of the Horned Frog Family is of utmost importance and we encourage individuals to contact campus resources for support."

Evidently one of TCU's values is: "All right-thinking people should agree that rape is considered normal in American society."

TCU Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Kathy Cavins-Tull added in a campus-wide email:

"For some of the members of our community, it was a day of pain and anguish. For others, a day of disappointment that the university failed to remove the source of their pain from the public sidewalk. I want to acknowledge the pain that I saw yesterday and the disappointment that I heard."

A "day of pain and anguish" because someone denied that we live in arape culture.

So now we're in a position where even contesting the preposterous idea of "rape culture" is enough to get you denounced at a university.

I've discussed rape culture with Wendy McElroy on the Tom Woods Show, and let's just say she doesn't hold the TCU position:

https://tomwoods.com/ep-669-rape-culture-hysteria/

This will make sense to you one day

When I phoned and called them all "hypocrites," their receptionists all said, "Thank you, senators always appreciate compliments."

Q&A to Mr. Armstrong: you may want to plan accordingly

I was watching the proceedings and to me the circus on Capitol Hill only made sense to those who are too deep into American politics to see the big picture.

I'm not from the USA, luckily.

From the outside, it looks like infighting. What it looks like is the seat of the Empire is filled with corrupt bureaucrats fighting for dominance. By the time one faction wins, the Empire's foundation is so undermined it only takes a breeze to bring the entire house of cards crashing down.

Isn't this what truly happened in the days of Rome? Was it the Barbarians, or was it the internal struggles between the established factions within Rome that undermined it to the point where the whole thing became vulnerable to an outside force?

In the end, the Empire was divided, and only the East carried on the legacy. The West sank into a thousand year long Dark Age.

Would you say we're at a similar time? Some of us are wondering if there is a fix to this… If things will ever go back to normal…

Thanks!

REPLY: Yes a lot of emails have been pouring in from overseas since the appointment of a judge has captured the attention of the entire world. A friend from Canada could not believe how it is dominating even their TV.

I fully respect if these women were really sexually assaulted. The problem is bringing something up 36 years later when memories are distorted. This has turned into a Circus and it reflects how anything goes today. It is really sad because it exposes how deep the hatred goes. You are correct, we have crossed the Rubicon. There is no putting this back together. The November elections will NEVER be accepted by either side. This is the Array on the Democrats. We are plagued by Directional Changes and Panic Cycles showing up in 2029 and 2021. This is all coming to a MAJOR head by 2020.

I sincerely fear that Trump will be the very last democratically elected president. They will from here on out alter the actual voting counts to support their desired outcome. This is game over! Turn out the lights! As they said of Rome: they were still laughing when the lights went out.

Time for an FBI investigation? Probably not...

"Fighting Keith" Ellison, the "Muslim Bomber" scores another knockout. Mainstream media ignores up and coming slugger.

Harsh, but on point