Tag: 2016 presidential campaign

The Bad Guys Win Again

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Think there might be a fire here?

Well, waddaya know? One little secret meeting between Loretta Lunch and Honest Bill, and the whole indictment looming over Hillary Clinton  vanishes as if by magic. Abracadabra!

It is said that where there’s smoke, there’s fire. Bill and Hillary have brewed up more smoke than an oil refinery fire. You could go on a game show and win lots of money, if you could name all the various Clinton scandals. They stretch back into the 1970s. Whitewater. The commodities futures. Web Hubbell. Gennifer Flowers. Vince Foster. Travelgate. Monica Lewinski. Benghazi. Underage Sex-Slave Island. And so on. I don’t have space to list them all.

And so, once again, our justice system fails and Hillary Clinton skates lightly across a chasm of crime that would’ve swallowed anybody else alive.

Worse, far worse–millions of Americans rejoice that she’s beaten the system again, and can’t wait to reward her with the presidency. “I’m with her!” the slogan goes. Watch out what you wish for.

God is angry with America–with our ingratitude, our sloth, and our rebellion against His word. That’s why He has raised up these vile immoral persons to be our leaders. That’s why He permits them to debase, humiliate, and destroy our country.

We are going to keep on getting such “leaders” until they finally either wipe us out or drive us straight into our Father’s outstretched arms.

But boy, do we take a lot of driving!

Clinton Meets with Lynch (They Think We’re Simpletons)

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Sorry, but my personal revulsion for these individuals is very hard to control.

Aboard a “government-owned private jet,” whatever that is, former White House sleazemaster Bill Clinton had a private pow-wow the other day with Attorney General Loretta “What First Amendment?” Lynch ( http://freebeacon.com/politics/loretta-lynch-met-privately-with-bill-clinton-amid-email-probe/ ).

With an indictment in the middle of an election year hanging over Mrs. Clinton’s head, just as she bids to become our–God help us–president, we are asked to believe that the two party hacks talked about… well, nothing. The mean ol’ indictment, it just never came up in the conversation.

They think we’re simpletons. We must be, to be ruled by such as them.

It is grossly, blatantly, boisterously improper for the attorney general to be having a private conversation with the man who is married–I use the word loosely–to the subject of a massive FBI investigation. But since when have any of these people cared a snap for propriety?

I grieve for my country, whose people apparently cannot feel shame and who have so little self-respect as to consent to be governed  by moral imbeciles.

A Democrat Ditty

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Here’s a little song to be sung by Betty Boop on the floor of this year’s Democrat National Convention, to celebrate the criminalization of Climate Change Denial, to the tune of “Put Another Nickel In.”

If your reasons don’t avail, throw that other guy in jail

You can’t say ‘There ain’t no Climate Change’ (Boop-boop-ee-boop)

If you can’t be right, be wrong–Doesn’t matter if you’re strong

You can’t say there ain’t no Climate Change (Boop-boop-ee-doop)

If your logic comes up short, Don’t debate–just go to court!

You can’t say ‘There ain’t no Climate Change’ (Boop-boop-ee-doop)

You can say there is no God, you can say that beef is scrod,

But you can’t say ‘There ain’t no Climate Change’ (Boop-boopee-doop)

Marriage, family, you and me, Nothing’s what it seems to be–

But you can’t say ‘There ain’t no Climate Change’ (boopity-boop!)

(Allow ten minutes for hysterical applause)

 

Dem Platform Committee: Prosecute ‘Climate Change Deniers’

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If you’re even thinking about allowing another Democrat, ever again, to be president, please stop it at once.

A few days ago the Democrat platform drafting committee voted unanimously to have the Dept. of “Justice” prosecute individuals and organizations for being skeptical of that ultimate lib faith statement, Man-Made Climate Change. Yup, they wish to outlaw an opinion. They’ll start with going after energy companies and “corporations,” but they also have their eyes on conservative think tanks and dissenting scientists ( http://beforeitsnews.com/opinion-conservative/2016/06/democratic-party-platform-to-call-for-prosecution-of-climate-change-deniers-3155271.html ).

And if you folks permit Hillary “Cash” Clinton to become president, this wildly flagrant violation of the First Amendment–its virtual repeal, for all practical purposes, will be upheld, 5-4, by a Supreme Court wherein the late Justice Scalia will have been replaced by some commie chosen by the Democrats.

It’s this simple, everybody. Either Trump defeats Clinton, or you lose your First Amendment rights.

Because you don’t think they’ll stop there, do you?

 

This Is Not How Honest People Behave

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E&E Legal (the Energy & Environmental Legal Institute) has sued the Vermont Attorney General “to release public records related to conspiracy of AGs [state attorneys general] seeking to use RICO [Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act] to punish and silence Climate Change ‘deniers’,” according to a press release ( http://eelegal.org/2016/06/13/press-release-ee-legal-sues-vermont-for-stonewalling-public-records-request/ ). It seems records are being shuffled back and forth between Vermont and New York “to keep secret public documents the public has a right to see,” E&E charges.

Well, hey, we’ve been warned about this ( http://www.newsmax.com/GeorgeWill/climate-change-deniers/2016/04/24/id/725453/ ). The Global Warming mob and its Democrat cohorts in our gangster government are actually trying to outlaw an opinion and silence any expression of it. They can’t convince the public that “Man-Made Climate Change” is real, so they fall back on brute force. Well, that’s one way to win an argument: “Shut up, or we’ll throw you in jail!”

I’ve never seen this in my lifetime–a genuine government effort to shut down debate over public policy by criminalizing dissent.

Honest people do not win arguments this way.

But Global Warming is too good to let go. It provides would-be tyrants with an excuse for anything they have a mind to do. “We gotta do it because it’s the only way to Save the Planet!” And anyone who dares voice a doubt is looking down the barrel of a prison sentence.

If George Washington were alive today, he’d be leading an army in a march on the city that so unworthily bears his name.

Think about that on Election Day.

Don’t let it be said that you failed to do everything in your power to prevent another Democrat from taking office.

Because they won’t stop this mischief unless we stop them.

Don’t Let Real-World Politics into Your Fantasy

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Today is primary election day in my home state. As usual, by the time our primary rolls around, the issue has already been decided.

I’m trying to spend most of the day outside, working on The Silver Trumpet, my new Bell Mountain book. Notice it is not called The Silver Trump. Because nothing knocks the stuffing out of a fantasy more than an incursion of our world’s news and politics.

Readers in some future generation will find it irrelevant, and will probably have no idea what you’re talking about, nor will they care. Readers in the present time will find it annoying, and feel imposed upon.

Don’t go to the trouble of creating a quasi-medieval setting for your story, only to torpedo the whole thing by having one of your knights or wizards gabbling about “diversity” or “climate change.” If you want to write it as a satire, in which some royal wannabe stirs up the peasants by telling them that the nobles “didn’t build that” castle, yatta-yatta, well, tally-ho and good luck. Your satire might even be funny. But fifty years from now, all it’s going to get out of a reader is a big fat “Huh?”

Not that fantasy ought to be irrelevant. It should focus on big issues like love, loyalty, sacrifice, etc., that will still be big issues a hundred years from now–not fleeting, ephemeral concerns like who’s gonna use what bathroom. Those matter in the here and now, and we have to deal with them. But I pray they will someday become as truly trivial as they deserve to be.

Let the stuff that deserves to pass away, pass away. I’ll do my level best to keep it out of the world of Bell Mountain.

 

The Worst Lady

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Michelle Obama–who lives in luxury that you and I will never see, let alone experience–recently told graduating seniors at City College of New York, “I wake up each day in a house built by slaves.” ( http://www.gopusa.com/michelle-obama-i-wake-up-each-day-in-house-built-by-slaves/ )

This is why Donald Trump is going to be our next president. Who is not tired of this kind of hypocritical bellyaching? Both Trump and the Obamas–and Hillary Clinton, too, come to think of it–are rich beyond anything we can imagine. Hey, remember when Mr. President spent a million dollars of our money to take Michelle to New York City on a “date”? But the difference between Trump and any rich Democrat is that the Dems are always trying to pretend they’re poor. Remember when Hillary told us she was broke? Oh, let’s pass the hat around!

Also, Trump spends his own money, but they spend ours.

In fairness, the Worst Lady, in her speech, was trying to make the point that some version of “the American Dream”–whatever that may be–is still around, and that makes America a pretty swell country. Only what she thinks makes America swell is not the same as what you think makes America swell. I think she has America confused with the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and her party with the Hapsburg dynasty. It’s all about “diversity”–as an end in itself–not unity. Cram as many different groups into the country as you can, with all of them going off in all different directions and only Democrat pandering to hold the whole blamed thing together. It also gives the Party the opportunity to keep on playing off this group against that group, but Michelle didn’t mention that.

Actually, she doesn’t spend all that much time in the White House. With all the tabs paid by the U.S. taxpayer, she vacations at Martha’s Vineyard and Hawaii, and jets all over the world accompanied by her wardrobe–she spends more of our money on a pair of sneakers than we spend on a week’s groceries for the whole family–and her hair dresser and her dog walker and her manicurist and the rest of her entourage.

What in the world does she have to complain about?

Encountering Sheer Loopiness

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Not being a mental health professional, I have never actually listened to a conversation with a genuine loon, much less tried to hold one. But going by what I’ve read, I heard the next closest thing this afternoon on my car radio.

It was a Bernie Sanders voter.

Now you can say things that are wrong, or misinformed, or intentionally deceptive, or even evil, and they will still make some kind of sense to your hearer. What you say may madden someone, maybe even provoke him to take a swing at you–but at least he will have some idea of what you’re driving at.

Not so this woman on the radio.

I have never heard an ostensibly sane person say such loopy things. I suspect a college education was at work: she took to heart the teaching that words mean whatever you want them to mean. So most of what came out of her mouth was pure indecipherable twaddle. Like, Question: What do you mean when you say you’re a progressive? Answer: “As a progressive, I reject all the labels, all those categories that keep people apart…” What’s that supposed to mean?

I listened for upwards of 20 minutes, and this is about the closest I can come to describing her position: “It’s the System that is bad, it’s corporations that keep people from loving each other–” please don’t ask me what she meant by that–“and when we get rid of all the barriers and categories and there are no more countries and there’s just one government for the whole world, it’s gonna be great, great, great!” I admit I have probably made her more coherent than she really was.

It’s distressing to think there are millions of such persons out there, all armed with votes.

But this is what I mean when I say college is destroying America.

Feds Ease Up on Order to Schools to Go Transgender

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Oops! They went a tiny bit too far, too fast, and now the Obama administration has to throttle back on its “order” to public schools in America to let boys into the girls’ bathrooms or else: so instead of an order, now it’s just a “letter of guidance” from the Justice Dept.–what???–and the Dept. of Education ( http://abcnews.go.com/US/obama-administration-public-schools-transgender-students-access-bathrooms/story?id=39081956 ).

Remember when the Justice Dept. used to go after guys like Al Capone? Now they go after people who are a bit slow to hop aboard the transgender express.

The “letter of guidance” admonishes schools to allow any kid to use any bathroom according to his, her, or its “gender identification,” which is to be whatever the student says it is on any given day. It comes with a veiled threat to cut off federal funds to any school district that won’t let the boys stand over the girls while they pee.

Excuse me? Did I just hear you say you weren’t going to vote for Donald Trump, or you just won’t vote at all, and you don’t care if Hillary Clinton is elected president?

Remember what not voting for Romney (warts and all) got you.

Is Trump an ‘Unmitigated Disaster’?

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I don’t like to disagree with Thomas Sowell. He’s a brilliant man whom I respect, and I’ve never had to disagree with him before. I do it now with some trepidation.

Today, in his townhall.com commentary, Dr. Sowell called the emergence of Donald Trump as the likely Republican presidential nominee “an unmitigated disaster” for the GOP, for the country, and probably even for the world ( http://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2016/05/06/an-unmitigated-disaster-n2158652 ). Gee, he’s that bad?

Sowell flayed Trump for his “unending reckless and irresponsible statements” and wound up hoping that some third party candidate would rise up strong enough to prevent either Trump or Hillary Clinton from winning, throwing the election into the House of Representatives and maybe winding up awarding the White House to someone, anyone, better than Trump or Clinton.

But for the time being, we face a very simple, however distasteful, proposition. We don’t really know what Trump would do as president; but I think we do know what Hillary Clinton would do, and God forbid she gets the chance to do it. In her case we are talking about a left-wing ideologue with a solid track record of criminality. So we are asked to choose between opening a door to a swarm of killer bees that will certainly fly out and sting us to death, or opening a door to the unknown. How hard a choice is that?

The American people are in this situation because we are governed by a political class, backed by academics and unions and movie stars, that has all but destroyed the country. That’s why Trump won all those primaries. That’s why millions of people are prepared to vote for him.

Dr. Sowell does not want Hillary Clinton to be president. That would indeed be an unmitigated disaster.

But until further notice, the only alternative is Donald Trump.