The media and the Clinton bubble

“Any voter outside the Clinton bubble who negotiated their way around the who-cares media in 2016 could clearly see that the Clintons over the decades filled a 50-car train of scandal baggage. But our ‘real news’ reporters live in perpetual denial.” Brent Bozell

"But in reality, the latest investigation into the Clinton Foundation was anything but fake news. According to reports, the investigation had been going on for months and was investigating whether the foundation was a part of a pay-to-play scheme in conjunction with Hillary Clinton’s State Department.

“The officials, who spoke only on condition of anonymity, said the probe is examining whether the Clintons promised or performed any policy favors in return for largesse to their charitable efforts or whether donors made commitments of donations in hopes of securing government outcomes,” a report from The Hill noted.

The Hill also reported that the FBI was looking into the foundation’s tax-exempt assets" to make sure any weren’t converted to personal use.
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2018/01/07/nbc-claims-new-fbi-probe-clinton-foundation-fake-news?

Former left-wing radical Clarence Thomas discusses his life and what he's learned

http://dailysignal.com/2018/01/07/justice-clarence-thomas-opens-life-faith-interracial-marriage/

"From a life that launched from economic deprivation, illiteracy, family dysfunction, and even time as a radical leftist, his accomplishments now reach to the U.S. Supreme Court—where he faces constant vilification and defamation. He says he learned the value of humility, patience, and persistence, but the bedrock of his rules for living came from simple aphorisms from his illiterate grandfather.""

He calls his life a miracle.

And he has quite a sense of humor.

The senator who leaks--is it Durbin?

I suspect Dick Durbin was the senator, the little weasel, who ran to the Washington Post--a notorious fish wrapper--with his story about what Trump said in a closed door meeting in the White House. He's a leaky bucket. He hates him. He also back stabbed President Bush, and our whole country and especially our military over a decade ago. Now he's even come up with the absurd reason that the word "chain migration" is a racist term referring to chains for slaves. Nice try, but we get more Africans as immigrants--about a million--in a few years than all who arrived as slaves (about 300,000). And the chains were fastened by Africans and Arabs who raided their villages, they were the Boko Haram of the 18th century. Chain migration is simply pulling family along to increase migration and create more "diversity."

So what does a man say who has spent years with President Trump under every condition and circumstance. He is not a racist.

Christopher Ruddy writing for Newsmax.

"I don't know what President Trump said at the White House meeting. He may have made some inappropriate comments. But I know one thing for sure: Donald Trump is not a racist.

Inside this great man with a brusque exterior, you will not find a racist bone.

Even in his most off-guarded moments, long before he was running for president, I have never heard him utter any racist remarks, anti-Semitic comments, or ethnic slurs of any type. Sure, he has occasionally used profanity through the years, but it was very rare.

Truthfully, Trump has prided himself on his good relations with minorities. He is someone with a proven track record of developing racial harmony.

But these facts don't matter because we are in fantasy land; everyone sees their own reality. Clearly, people around the world have been hurt — whether accidentally, deliberately, or otherwise."

https://www.newsmax.com/ruddy/ruddy-trump-racist-accusations/2018/01/12/id/836849/

Andrew Klavan on the Trump dustup

Our president could have found better words to express his frustration for the bill the senators brought back to him which didn’t include the conditions on which there will be relief for DACA.  He says he didn’t say what was leaked to the Washington Post, which publishes almost 100% negative, hateful and easily questioned stories about him.  In my opinion WaPo has become a fish wrapper and I don’t trust it at all.  

Please read the article in City Journal by Andrew Klavan. I’ve included an excerpt. 

https://www.city-journal.org/html/crudeness-and-truth-15668.html 

“Donald Trump. He is a rude and crude person. He speaks like a Queens real estate guy on a construction site. And because he does not have good manners, he thoughtlessly breaks the rules with which the Left has sought to muzzle those who disagree with them. In this regard, I frequently compare Trump to Randle Patrick McMurphy, the loudmouthed, ill-mannered roustabout from Ken Kesey’s brilliant novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. McMurphy comes into an insane asylum controlled by a pleasant, smiling nightmare of a head nurse named Ratched. Nurse Ratched, while pretending to be the soul of motherly care, is actually a castrating, silencing tyrant. . . .

I don’t know exactly what Trump said in a closed-door meeting with senators at the White House this week. Unnamed sources say that he referred to some African countries and Haiti as “sh*!itholes.” Maybe so; sounds like him. In any case, when it comes to a chance to attack Trump, our journalists don’t waste time with fact-gathering or source-identifying. Like Madonna, they just strike a pose. Various media knuckleheads have reacted to the alleged comment by calling Trump “racist,” “Nazi,” “Evil,” and a “terrorist sympathizer.”

[But they have been calling him that for at least 2 years for no reason. nb]

(Personally, my first thought on hearing about the remark was: “What squirrely little tattle-tale of a weasel went running to the press with that?” But never mind. That’s just me.) . . .

Let’s state the obvious. Some countries are sh*!tholes. To claim that this is racist is racist. They are not shitholes because of the color of the populace but because of bad ideas, corrupt governance, false religion, and broken culture. Further, most of the problems in these countries are generated at the top. Plenty of rank-and-file immigrants from such ruined venues ultimately make good Americans—witness those who came from 1840s potato-famine Ireland, a sh*!hole if ever there was one! It takes caution and skill to separate the good from the bad.” . . .

[My family beat the rush—came from Ireland before the Revolutionary War—some shipped out in a prison ship for crimes against landed aristocracy—stealing fruit from trees on their land.  njb]

Bill Cassidy (Rep) Louisiana on the Wall

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swxTgJ5blKA WASHINGTON— U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA) joined Harris Faulkner on Fox News today to discuss the need to secure the border and modernize our country’s immigration policy. He addressed President Trump’s efforts to bring Republicans and Democrats together on a solution that will secure the border, discourage future illegal immigration, and be fair to Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients, non-citizens who were illegally brought to the U.S. at a young age, usually by their parents. In 2013, 54 Senate Democrats voted to build the wall, end the diversity visa lottery, double the number of border agents, and move toward a merit-based immigration system. In 2006, U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) along with Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Joe Biden voted to increase the size of the border wall.

Pelosi calls your bonus, "crumbs." How condescending.

In the past, she used non-union and illegal workers on her Napa Valley vineyard, and got excused from the ACA by Obama. She's such a hypocrite. She's an abortion promoting Catholic in violation of what her church teaches who's had the opportunity to enjoy her own children and grandchildren while depriving others of life.   She inherited wealth and power, and is married to wealth.  I think that's fine if one benefits from her family's hard work, but then she shouldn't smack down others trying to "do as you do, and not as you say." She probably also takes all those perks from the USDA for "struggling farmers."

Can't see her struggling for words--she's losing it.

More virtue signaling—we’re too good for such language

I don't know what developers and real estate moguls talk like, but I suspect this latest drama over a word is common speech said during frustration (like the bill they came up with) and it wasn't a public meeting or a tweet, yet someone ran to Washington Post, the biggest hater of this president. Something they wouldn't have done if Obama slipped up with an expletive. What did shock me was stepping on the playground at Tremont, the elementary school my kids attended in our wealthy suburb, and hearing far worse. And that was in the early 1970s. Just get back to work Congress, and stop the hysteria. The Democrats with their lapdog media are stalling big time because they don’t want Trump’s conditions.

Guest blogger Mike on who is actually wealthy (New York Times opinion)

Commenting on https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/10/opinion/sunday/stop-pretending-youre-not-rich.html?

"I love being controversial when it leads to healthy dialogue, so here's an opinion to really stir the pot.

The overwhelming majority of wealthy and successful people obtained their assets through innovation, hard work, and strategic decisions, despite the claims to the contrary. Yes, there are a very small number of people who became powerful through unscrupulous methods, but this is not the majority that's often illustrated in an effort to mobilize mobs of people who think that something someone else has should be theirs, because after all, it's much easier to take something from someone else than to work for it yourself.

It is well known that once wealth is acquired, the excess obviously transcends future generations, so looking at an heir of their predecessor's wealth and begrudging them of what they have is nonsense because someone, at some point, worked for what they have.

The problem now is that there's this implied guilt and shaming with being successful, nefariously manufactured with its roots firmly originating in envy, and it's all nonsense. Envy is an emotion that destroys the holder, not the target. Getting over the "what's mine is mine and what's yours is mine" mentality is the first step towards a person's own success.

Intelligent people understand that by surrounding yourself with people more successful than yourself, it's a motivational catalyst to do more, and to do better. People who sit and stew in their own juices of jealousy condemn themselves to remain in place, rather than improve their situation, because they've diverted all of their energy into negative emotions and actions that intend to tear others down, rather than elevate their own situation.

Believing that equipoise is achieved by bringing those at the top into the gutter is equal distribution of misery, not success. I know a lot of people across the entire spectrum of income, intelligence, ambition, and overall success. I can say with confidence, that people create their own ceilings through the way they think, behave, and ultimately respond to situations.

Personal responsibility is the genesis of success and a happy life. As long as people continue to believe they can make poor life decisions and it's the responsibility of society to clean up the mess, we'll continue circling the drain as we have since this philosophy gained traction the late 1960's."

Let's get rid of the Department of Education

Canada is a federation of 10 provinces and three territories. Under the Canadian Constitution, provincial governments have exclusive responsibility for all levels of education. They do not have a Department of Education sopping up tax dollars to feed a massive bureaucracy, and yet Canada's students score much higher in math, science and reading than U.S. students.
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/02/15/u-s-students-internationally-math-science/

If the Department of Education were eliminated it would be a savings of $50 billion. It hasn't improved test scores and is the main reason for the high cost of college, with student loan debt now over $1 trillion, more than credit card debt of about $700 billion. (The Cato Institute)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXyJ9hpX0Vo

Guest blogger Joel comments on who is unfit, crazy or an idiot, Obama or Trump

It's  Obama's fault for feeding a Terrorist Regime who has murdered Americans. Now that is "idiotic." The fact you refuse to acknowledge Obama's own idiotic actions shows you're nothing but a hypocrite.

It's Obama's fault for doing nothing for eight years to stop the little tyrant rocket man from his lunacy and Iran for cooperating with North Korea. Obama was a weak-kneed Community Organizer who led from behind while the world went to hell because Obama did not give a damn about anyone else but his own reflection in the mirror.

Trump told a little tin pot dictator precisely what he needed to hear. That his threats are meaningless. He spoke his language right back at him. And you think it's important to rebuke Trump for that. But when did you ever rebuke Obama's idiotic actions?

Obama bends over to a Saudi Prince. Gives money to lunatic mullahs in Iran, the same scum that killed our Marines in Lebanon. Obama halts DEA actions going after Hezbollah in South America pushing drugs across our border. Hezbollah, who worked with Iran to murder our marines in Lebanon! And for what James? A failed nuke deal that insures Iran will get nukes!

This is the insanity of the left that got us North Korean Nukes! Obama's idiotic gesture to Iran's mullahs will create another crazy regime in Iraq with nukes.

That's truly insane as the left repeats the same idiotic mistakes as the past. And you want to focus on Trump factually having more power because he talked down to a truly crazed lunatic who starves his people to death. Oh the self-righteous indignation you spout. What a bunch of watered-down, Kathy Griffin whining you do.

But then, you don't care about Obama's idiotic actions that got our troops killed in Afghanistan under weak Rules of Engagement. Rules that Obama himself demanded and approved. So more Americans could die. Did you complain about those actions? No, you complain about a tweet, as if it's the end of the world.

Did you complain about Obama giving power to lunatic mullahs in Iran by putting down the people of Iran and lifting up insane nutjob leaders there. As Iranians died? No. Instead you defend Obama's past as if it does not matter.
Do you actually care about truth or peace or people in North Korea or South Korea?

Your rage and hatred only leads you to bash Trump. For a tweet. While looking the other way at real actions that led to death of Iranians, that led to death of Americans, and that will lead to a bunch of crazed, idiotic mullahs with nukes.
You're nothing but a hypocrite.

(This was addressed to an actual person on Facebook, one who claims not to be a Democrat or Republican, but who hates Trump and considers him unfit and mentally ill [the current meme after all the rest didn’t work])

Focus word for 2018

Although I didn't make any New Year's resolutions this year, I did choose a focus word--GRATITUDE.

 Yesterday at the pregnancy center I folded and put away baby clothes--the 0-3 months size. So tiny. And of course, I'm grateful for everyone who helps women in difficult pregnancies, but as I handled tiny little hand made items, I was grateful especially for all the ladies (or maybe some men?) who maybe sit alone or watch TV and knit or crochet these tiny welcome gifts. And all the church ladies who lovingly pack the layettes and leave little Bible verses and notes. May God bless their memories of their own babies or their nieces and nephews or grandchildren.

Speaking of the flu, as everyone is on the news

It takes more than a village to control animal influenza. Below is a list of agencies and participants in the Ohio State University College of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Preventive Medicine, Animal influenza ecology and epidemiology and research program.

• Arkansas Natural Resources Commission
• Bellrose Waterfowl Research Center
• Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control
• Emiquon Nature Conservatory
• Illinois Department of Natural Resources
• Indiana State Board of Animal Health
• Iowa Department of Natural Resources
• J. Craig Venter Institute
• Maryland DNR - Fish & Wildlife Health Program
• Maryland DNR - Wildlife and Heritage Service
• Michigan Department of Natural Resources
• Mississippi State University College of Veterinary Medicine
• Mississippi State University Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Aquaculture
• Missouri Department of Conservation
• Missouri Department of Agriculture
• NIAID Centers of Excellence for Influenza Research and Surveillance (CEIRS)
• NIH - NIAID Laboratory of Infectious Diseases
• Ohio Department of Agriculture
• Ohio Department of Health
• Ohio Department of Natural Resources
• Ohio Sea Grant
• OSU Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology
• OSU Extension
• OSU School of Environment and Natural Resources
• Purdue Extension
• University of Minnesota Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP)
• University of Minnesota College of Veterinary Medicine
• USDA ARS Southeast Poultry Research Laboratory
• USDA APHIS Wildlife Services
• USDA APHIS National Veterinary Services Laboratorie (NVSL)
• USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA)
• USFWS Division of Migratory Bird Management
• USFWS Waterfowl Survey
• USFWS National Wildlife Refuge System
• USGS National Wildlife Health Center
• Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources

Starting the New Year in Water Color class

http://www.uaoh.net/egov/documents/1513963531_33011.pdf

Here is the January 2018 calendar of Senior Center Activities. Yesterday I sorted through my dried up watercolor tubes, brushes, pieces of wc paper, and repacked the bag, and will take Mindy Stauch Newman's class at 1 p.m. today.

Mexico doesn’t want illegals from Central America

After reading about Salvadorans and others from Central America who come to the U.S. illegally, I can see why Mexico doesn't support the wall. They don't want those people escaping poverty and crime within the borders of Mexico (which has much harsher laws about illegals remaining there). So they want them to go north. Mexico is an extremely wealthy country--but further south is not the case. ThinkProgress recently sent a memo that Democrats need DACA in order to get the political votes. How perverse is that? I mean, we knew that the left is never about American values or security, and always about power, but to see that from a former big shot in Hillary's campaign, Jennifer Palmeri, well--I suspect she'll be asked to apologize or leave.

http://dailycaller.com/2018/01/08/leaked-memo-dreamers-are-critical-to-dems-future-electoral-success/

Many Democrats supported the wall both under Bush and under Obama.  It was bi-partisan.

http://freebeacon.com/issues/flashback-democrats-supported-mexico-border-fence/

And why do Democrats quibble over terms?  Is a fence better than a  wall?

“Where I don’t understand the pushback is, in 2013 if everybody was for the 700 miles of double fencing, but now they’re not for it because Trump calls it a wall — to me that does not make sense,” said Brandon Judd, president of the National Border Patrol Council, the labor union for the Border Patrol agents. “Whether we call it a fence or call it a wall, it acts as the exact same thing — a physical barrier that makes it more difficult to enter the United States illegally. I don’t understand the whole fight over this.” (quoted in WaPo)

Golden Globes 2018

Hollywood (film, TV, indies) told us that adultery was exciting and OK, that religious values were out of date and stuffy, that marriage was a waste of good sex, that divorce was the answer for a less than ideal relationship, that having children would interfere with a woman's career, that the pill was always available, that abortion was a cause for sympathy not reproach, that same sex marriage was just about loving someone, and that transgenderism was actually possible for anyone who felt like joining the sports team or using a different locker room at school.

So now the #metoo movement has brought the chickens home to roost. Women have been objectified, nullified, pacified and ridiculed for 80 years in this industry which has changed our culture at home and abroad. So the same industry that led the culture down this dark, murky road is saying No More? I think it's a little late to return to Mayberry (TV sitcom, Andy Griffith, 1960) or ring the Bells of St. Mary's (movie, Bing Crosby, 1945)

Jennifer Cho suggests healthy cost savings for seniors

Ms. Cho has suggestions for savings in your Medicare plan, plus some healthy eating and exercise tips, and where you can find some discounts.  Check it out.

https://dealspotr.com/article/health-care-health-insurance-savings-guide-for-seniors

Do you enjoy eating out?  Are you a ROMEO (retired old men [and women] eating out) Here's Jennifer's list.

It’s important to remember that these discounts may vary by location and won’t be honored everywhere. And it’s important to always ask if there's a discount; even if there isn’t an official discount, many restaurants will be happy to offer you one.

• Applebee’s: 10-15% off. May require a Golden Apple Card (Age 60+)
• Arby’s: 10% off and reports of a free drink (age 55+)
• Auntie Anne’s Soft Pretzels: 10% off (age 65+)
• A&W All American Food: 10% off
• Backyard Burger: Free drink with purchase
• Ben & Jerry’s: 10% off (age 60+)
• Bennigan’s: discount varies by location (age 60+)
• Blimpie Restaurants Sub Sandwiches: 10% off at most locations (age 55+)
• Bob’s Big Boy: discount varies by location (age 60+)
• Bonefish Grill: AARP members get 15% off
• Boston Market: discount varies by location (age 65+)
• Brother’s Family Restaurant: discounts up to 10% on Wednesdays
• Burger King: 10% off plus additional discounts on coffee and soft drinks (age 60+)
• Bubba Gump Shrimp Co: 10% off for AARP Members
• Captain D’s Seafood: special offers on Wednesdays and Sundays for select items (age 62+)
• Carl’s Jr.: 10% off (age 55+)
• Carrabba’s Italian Grill: 15% off entire meal for AARP Members
• Carrows Restaurants: discounted senior menu (age 55+)
• Chart House: 10% off for AARP members
• Church’s Chicken: 10% off (age 55+)
• Chick-Fil-A: Free small drink or coffee and 10% discount (age 55+)
• Chili’s: 10% off (age 55+)
• CiCi’s Pizza: 10% off pizza and/or buffet (age 60+)
• Claim Jumper: 10% off for AARP members
• Corky’s Homestyle Kitchen & Bakery: discounted senior menu and a Frequent Diner Card (buy 9 get 1 free) (age 55+)
• Country Kitchen: discounted senior menu (55+)
• Culver’s: 10% off (age 60+)
• Dairy Queen: 10% discount or free small drink w/ meal (age 55+)
• Del Taco: 10% discount or a free drink (age 55+)
• Denny’s: AARP members get 15-20% off between 4 and 10pm and $1 coffee
• Dunkin’ Donuts: AARP members receive a free donut with the purchase of a large or XL coffee
• Einstein Bro’s Bagels: 10% off (age 60+)
• El Pollo Loco: 10% off (age 60+)
• Farmer Boys: 10% off (age 55+)
• Fazoli’s: Their “Club 62” gives you access to a special seniors menu (age 62+)
• Friendly’s Restaurants: 10% off meal w/ free coffee at breakfast or free small dessert during non-breakfast hours (age 60+)
• Fuddrucker’s: 10% off any senior platter (age 55+)
• Gatti’s Pizza: 10% off (age 60+)
• Golden Corral: 10% off dinner or entree (age 55+)
• Hardee’s: 10% discount or discounted drink or coffee (age 60+)
• IHOP:  10% discount or senior menu (age 55+)
• Jack in the Box: up to 20% off (age 55+)
• Johnny Rockets: 10% off (age 55+)
• KFC: Free small drink with any meal (age 55+)
• Krispy Kreme: 10% off (age 50+)
• Long John Silver’s: 10% discount or discounted beverage (age 55+)
• LongHorn Steakhouse: discounted senior menu (or can order from kid's menu) (age 50+)
• McDonald’s: discounts on coffee everyday (age 50+)
• Mrs. Fields: 10% off (age 60+)
• Noah’s New York Bagels: 10% off (age 55+)
• Outback Steakhouse: 15% off for AARP members
• Old Country Buffet: daily discounts for seniors (age 55+)
• Papa John’s: 25% off (age 55+) for online orders. Enter the code “AARP25” when placing your order. AMAC members receive 25% off, enter code “25SAVE”
• Perkins Restaurants: special seniors menu (age 55+)
• Port of Subs: 10% off (age 55+)
• Popeye’s Louisiana Kitchen: 10% off (age 55+)
• Ponderosa Steakhouse: discounted senior menu (age 60+)
• Shoney’s: Join the Shoney’s “Golden Age Club” for 10% off (age 60+)
• Sizzler: discounted seniors menu (age 60+)
• Sonic: 10% off or free beverage (age 60+)
• Steak ‘n Shake: 10% off every Monday & Tuesday (age 50+)
• Subway: 10% off (age 60+)
• Sweet Tomatoes/Souplantation: Senior Meal deals Monday-Thursday from 2 to 5pm $7.99 All You Can Eat. All other times 10% off (age 60+)
• Taco Bell: 5% off and free or discounted beverages (age 65+)
• Taco Time: 10% off (age 55+)
• TCBY: 10% off (age 55+)
• Tea Room Cafe: 10% off (age 50+)
• The Old Spaghetti Factory: discounted senior menu
• Uno Pizzaria & Grill: 25% off on Wednesdays (age 55+)
• Village Inn: 10% off (age 60+)
• Waffle House: 10% off every Monday (age 60+)
• Wendy’s: 5-10% discount on regular meals or free/discounted drinks (age 55+)
• Whataburger: 10% discount or free drink w/ purchase of a meal (age 55+)
• White Castle: 10% off (age 62+)