They are all progressives and authoritarians

"If you value classical liberalism/conservatism, you have to be very uncomfortable with the choices you are faced with this year - there are no good ones. Here are my personal rankings in order of unacceptability:

1. None of the below/not voting: guarantees you have to live with some other idiot's choice - and idiots do vote...early and often.

 2. Jill Stein: full-on red diaper doper baby, Bernie Sanders with a vagina and a bad attitude (but a much better haircut).

 3. Hillary Clinton: crony socialist corruptocratic criminal machine politician - should be rocking a jail cell instead of a five star hotel room right now.

 4. Gary Johnson: Liberalitarian statist pothead - possibly high right now, dude.

 5. Donald Trump: crony capitalist influence peddler - has Tourettes and possible brain damage from his Studio 54 days

Folks, they are all progressives and authoritarians of some degree. There is not a single "smaller government" candidate among them. I know many will say "Trump will eliminate many departments!" but if you listen to his proposals and what he claims to want to do, there will be a need for just as many, if not more, government agencies to administer his "policies."

Mike Pence is Trump's conservative "beard" (the Urban Dictionary defines a "beard" as "Any opposite sex escort taken to an event in an effort to give a homosexual person the appearance of being out on a date with a person of the opposite sex"). Many have bought it but this Trump guy is just as progressive as Bill Clinton.

What a shame it is that the most acceptable candidate for classical liberals/conservatives must be chosen because he is the least unacceptable - but to do otherwise will make for a much bigger disaster for America."  Michael Smith

Yes, Mike, what a shame.

LBGTQ holding Democrats hostage or the other way around?

Besides destroying marriage, women's sports and integrating bathrooms, what does the LGBTQ movement want (besides the obvious--power and money through donations and corporate sponsorship)?  Well, the first amendment will be the target. Speech, religion, press and assembly. For 2% of the population Democrats will sell out the other 98%. But even that 2% isn't the problem--Marxism is, and it's any route that works, even sex.  http://dailysignal.com/2016/07/31/a-look-inside-4-important-goals-of-the-lgbt-movement/

On Obama's $400 million bounty for Iran

I was listening to ABC this morning--because it's antenna TV at our lake home, that's the "choice." After 3 seconds on Obama's payoff bounty ($400,000,000 cash) to Iran, it was on to a monologue about Trump saying something stupid.

"Democrats proudly own the channels and their journalists openly toast Hillary. If anyone imagines a Republican -- any Republican -- can possibly withstand the 24-7 anti- Republican blizzard both from the media and a sitting president, Hollywood types, and teachers & professors, he/she is tragically naive. Despite the facts of Obamacare imploding, Obama's bombing in Libya & Afghanistan, the invasion of our borders, the poor and minorities getting poorer, 1% GDP -- leftist media now and forevermore will cut the Republican nominee to ribbons with nonstop negative rants." (Sylvia Lustig Bennion)

Hillary at the crowning

Usually, I just ridicule Hillary for her beliefs, policies and failures but that virgin bride outfit for her coronation . . .

John McCain's anti-Trump article at Weekly Standard

These are selected comments for John McCain on his non-support of Trump at the Weekly Standard (voice in the Never Trump movement) that appeared on Facebook. I looked through for support--but needed to get out for my walk and didn't want to miss the sunrise. Even those like me who don't like Trump have been disgusted with the "party faithful," and McCain represents that hostility.

“Thank you for your service and sacrifice for this nation, Senator McCain. We are forever grateful. Now, it's time to retire. You, Romney, Ryan, Boehner, etc. only have yourselves to blame for the rise of Trump. Had you done what all of you were elected to do instead of falling in lock step with the President over the last 8 years we wouldn't even be having this discussion. Instead you chose to go along to get along and look where it's gotten us.”

“That's fine [McCain‘s remarks on Khan], but sad that it was politicized in the first place. Now, how about the DNC and comments about Ms Patti Smith and attacks on her regarding her son and Benghazi? Let's be consistent.”

“Radical Islam killed Capt Khan not Mr Trump! The 1st thing the constitution calls for is to provide for the common defense-----Mr Trump will do that. Your candidate Weekly Substandard, Hillary will not.”

“So the Khan family thinks Trump would never let them immigrate, so we are supposed to hate him for something he hasn't done. But we are supposed to vote for Hillary who called the families of slain victims in Benghazi liars for repeating what Hillary told them about their sons being killed because of a movie. She had the nerve to call these people who lost their loved ones, liars. That trumps Trump. Hillary is the lowest of low.”

Did Trump take the bait? Khizr M. Khan's story

The EB-5 investor visa program enables foreigners who make an investment in a U.S. business to obtain a green card and become lawful permanent residents, and eventual citizens, of the United States. I think this means they legally buy their green card instead of hiring a coyote to cross the southern border.

"The father of a Muslim-American soldier killed in Iraq who is caught up in a war of words with Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is an immigration lawyer who specializes in a highly controversial program accused of letting immigrants buy their way into the U.S.
Khizr M. Khan's website notes that he works to help clients with the E-2 and EB-5 programs that let overseas investors buy into U.S. companies and also provides green cards for family members." (Washington Examiner)

Khan's website is down or has been removed. I'm shocked. They baited Trump on this one, but perhaps he can turn the tables.

More photos of Melania

Who knew Democrats were so prudish? They blush at a naked Melania, but not a dismembered naked baby that could live outside the womb.

I would never hold a Democrat responsible for what their party did 150 years ago creating a terror group called the KKK. I do hold them responsible for killing and making it a righteous act more black babies in 4 days than the deaths of blacks in 80 years of lynching.

 Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner signed Senate Bill 1564 forcing Christian doctors and pregnancy centers to promote abortion. Abortion is now the official state-preferred choice for Illinois women in unexpected pregnancies, after Gov. Bruce Rauner signed Senate Bill 1564 into law Friday afternoon.  He held veto power but went against his own party. http://www.lifenews.com/2016/08/01/illinois-gov-signs-bill-bill-forcing-christian-doctors-and-pregnancy-centers-to-promote-abortion/

Dr. Peter Kreeft once quipped in his book Jesus Shock, “Abortion is the Antichrist’s demonic parody of the Eucharist. That is why it uses the same holy words, ‘This is my body,’ with the blasphemously opposite meaning.”

Does election fraud matter? ID is minor compared to hacking e-mails

The DNC hack revealed election fraud according so some sources, but Democrats have been telling us for decades that election fraud doesn't really exist so why do we need Voter ID? Now we find out that the DNC itself engaged in targeted voter suppression, registration tampering, illegal voter purges, and more. But look! Trump is a fraud!

You'll need to click a couple times to reach the report: "Democracy Lost: A Report on the Fatally Flawed 2016 Democratic Primaries."

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/7/29/1554022/-Election-Justice-USA-Study-Finds-that-Without-Election-Fraud-Sanders-Would-Have-Won-by-Landslide

"Recently unearthed documents reveal that the FBI knew the IRS was unfairly targeting groups because of their conservative politics two years before Congress even heard about the agency’s misconduct.  The revelation has already added fodder to the conservative case to impeach the current IRS Commissioner John Koskinen."  Judicial Watch

http://dailysignal.com/2016/07/28/obama-administration-knew-of-irs-scandal-2-years-before-congress-but-did-nothing/

Very disappointing.  I doubt that anyone really trusts the IRS, but we expect the FBI to do better.

$50 million vs. $19,000

According to Wall St. Journal, hedge fund managers (the Clinton’s son-in-law is one, I believe) have contributed almost $50 million to Clinton’s campaign, but only $19,000 to Trump. Could be perfectly innocent reasons for this—we always knew Clinton would be the candidate (coat tails, it’s her turn, etc.) And now we know the DNC rigged the primaries against Bernie. Oh, and did you see his new sports car after he endorsed Hillary? So they’ve had more time to flood her campaign with wish lists for regulations and special favors. They haven’t been that sure about who the Republicans would choose until the close of the primaries. Also, since Trump isn’t a politician, they don’t know if he’ll play footsy with the big money interests (he’s not big money, despite his wealth). But it could mean they know who can be bought because they’ve done it before.

The editors of National Review:  "She is an opportunist without anything resembling a conviction with the exception of her unwavering commitment to abortion, a “public servant” who along with her husband grew vastly wealthy exploiting her political connections and renting access to everybody from Goldman Sachs to Vladimir Putin, a petty, grasping, vindictive, meretricious time-server whose incompetence and dishonesty have been proved everywhere from Little Rock to Benghazi."

Hillary's Hate

"She promised to make government bigger and bigger and bigger. A communist at heart, she promised to suck up to the hardcore socialists in her party. She promised to empty the prisons. She promised to create worse-than-useless green jobs with big taxpayer subsidies. She promised to flood the country with aliens, illegal or otherwise, and hard-to-assimilate Muslims. With her grating voice, she attacked Republican nominee Donald Trump shrilly and relentlessly."

 http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/263681/hillarys-hate-matthew-vadum

Did you hear the one where she shouted she'd get money out of politics?  Yuck it up. That's a real knee slapper.   WSJ reported today she's taken almost $50 million from hedge fund managers, and Donald Trump $19,000.

Leftist film maker shocked by lack of enthusiasm for Hillary

Film director, Josh Fox, best known for his Oscar-nominated anti-fracking documentary Gasland, uploaded a video (below) to his Facebook page.  http://www.dailywire.com/news/7844/leftist-filmmaker-uploads-video-showing-his-shock-chase-stephens

"This is amazing, this place is empty (Wells Fargo arena in Philadelphia). There is nobody left in here. I mean this whole stadium, look at this," as he pans his cellphone to show the lack of cheering Dems. He continues in disbelief, adding, "This is not voter enthusiasm.... I can't believe my eyes. I've never seen anything like this. This is the primetime of the Democratic National Convention right after the nomination of Hillary Clinton and this place is emptied out like crazy. I'm stunned."

I noticed it had well over a million shares--obviously not by Democrats!  He also mentioned that Bernie supporters had the worst seats in the house, and apparently they didn't show up for Hillary's coronation.

The DNC e-mail scandal on top of Hillary's e-mail scandal

Diane commented:  The e-mail dump had top DNC officials making plans to smoke Bernie. They were going to use his reported religion of Judaism against him down south. They called women Bimbos, reportedly were fully disrespectful to Black and Brown citizens. 

So the question is, "When will the Party in general demand their resignations?" 

 http://truthfeed.com/breaking-complete-list-of-wikileaks-dnc-email-dump/13099/

Examples with links.

DNC discussing their relationship with NBC/MSNBC/CNN and how to get better treatment.

A mole working inside of the Sanders campaign.

Politico writer sending his stories to the DNC before he sends them to his editor.

Democrats using interns to organize fake “protests.”

Trump was obviously joking about Russia and Hillary's e-mails, but the leftist media, who should have been on the story about what happened but gave her a pass, now have their panties in a wad crying "treason." They are so fake. Fake editors, fake journalists, fake outrage. This week they've been accusing Trump of being a mole to expose the DNC's treatment of Bernie and minorities; now he's committing treason. Should be an interesting campaign, but very lop sided media coverage.

The Russian hacker meme

Hillary's campaign manager "Mook provided no proof that Russian agents committed the crime, he clearly painted Russia as an American adversary acting with malign intent. He then yoked Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump to Russia’s neo-Czar Vladimir Putin: “I think that what’s troubling is how he (Trump) praised Vladimir Putin,” Mook said." http://observer.com/2016/07/clinton-campaign-tries-to-deflect-damaging-content-with-trump-smear/

Whoa Nellie. Talk about Trump blabbing nonsense. He might as well have said Norma Bruce--I have ties with Russia that go back to the 1950s! I've even visited there! And I traveled there by train, not cruise ship. I am against Hillary Clinton, and I spend hours on an ancient computer. But it's just not as good a story. Sigh. 

Russia seems to figure prominently in Democrat lies. Remember when they smeared Palin, with a Russia joke when it was Tina Fey who said it? Since the lapdog press never checks it was really a popular story. When caught saying disparaging things about minorities and gays and Bernie in their leaked e-mails, they just deflected it to Russian hackers (they could see them from their kitchen?) instead of the content.

I still think someone needs to check into the murder of that DNC guy. There's a lot of that following the Clintons. But he was just a white, middle class man, not worthy of press coverage. Important only to his family, who would never be asked to speak on national TV about their lost son/brother. http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Man-Shot-Killed-in-Northwest-DC-386316391.html

What if Wasserman Schultz was Clinton's key to the nomination?

 
In case this clip doesn't show in your browser: Wasserman Schultz was Hillary's campaign co-chair in her failed 2008 bid for the nomination. What if, in order to lock down the 2016 nomination, she were made the party chair? (The Wikileaks e-mails indicate that Hillary had been chosen before the primaries.) That means some one would need to step down, and that capable, able person was none other than Tim Kaine, the current vice presidential pick, a cafeteria Catholic to scope up those few Democrats who still have scruples.  Quite a pay off for him for stepping aside.

I wonder who the bigger narcissist is, Trump or Obama?

Around here, 3-4 dozen was the high guess. Guess we weren't giving him enough credit for being the Narcissistic in Chief.

"Addressing the Democratic National Convention on its penultimate night to lay out the case for Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign, President Obama began by recalling his political debut at the 2004 Democratic National Convention. He then described how his family has become so well known to America in the intervening years. He spoke of his time i...n office, how the presidency has physically aged him, but how his daughters euphemistically note he now looks more "mature."

He spoke of everything he is proud to have achieved -- passing ObamaCare, expanding clean energy production, reducing consumption of foreign oil, passing the Iran deal, bringing troops home, killing bin Laden.

He spoke of how inspired he's become meeting Americans of all stripes. He spoke of his optimism. He spoke of the values he imparted from his family.

If it's starting to sound like Obama talked a lot about himself, that’s because he did.
In total, we counted 119 times Obama referred to himself during his speech ostensibly about Hillary Clinton." 
 Grabien.com

He also misquoted the Declaration of Independence AGAIN (4 times before this, at least, 2010, 2014, 2015, 2016?). He just cannot bring himself to acknowledge that rights come from God.

"The Obama version skips over a few words; the actual Declaration of Independence declares, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” But the point is that the Democrats — the Democrats! — are citing the Founding Fathers and the document of our national creation in their argument. This used to be the Republicans’ style. But since the GOP left it unused, the Democrats are picking it up and using it."

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/morning-jolt/438460/barack-obamas-dnc-speech-appeal-conservatives

It was almost worth listening to the speeches of the DNC to hear them plagiarize the Republicans--saying this is a great country. After 8 years of hearing we are gun clingers, Islamophobes, anti-marriage, neo-fascists, war mongers and racists, it was sort of refreshing. Even if they don't believe it.

Not sure where Trump was speaking, but he was obviously joking about Russia and Hillary's e-mails, but the leftist media, who should have been on the story about what happened but gave her a pass, now have their panties in a wad crying "treason." They are so fake. Fake editors, fake journalists, fake outrage. This week they've been accusing Trump of being a mole to expose the DNC's treatment of Bernie and minorities; now he's committing treason. Should be an interesting campaign, but very lop sided in press coverage.

Why are you voting for Hillary (as seen on Facebook)

If you are Gay, why are you voting for Hillary when she wants to bring in millions of refugees that believe gays should be executed?

If you are Black, why are you voting for Hillary when she defends Planned Parenthood and admires Margaret Sanger, who wanted to abort as many black babies as possible and exterminate the black race because they are like "weeds." Most of those clinics are in Black neighborhoods.

If you are a Woman, how can you vote for Hillary when she has buried all of Bill's rape victims under the rug. As an attorney, Hillary also defended the rapist of a 12-year old girl and laughed about it later. She plays the woman-card and acts entitled; implying that she deserves your vote merely because of her sex. How is that gender neutral?

If you are a Miner, Steelworker or have a Factory job, why are you voting for Hillary when she supported NAFTA and TPP, and workers are being laid off because jobs are going overseas? She also welcomes open borders and illegals to get benefits with your tax money and compete for our jobs. Hillary boasts that under her administration miners and steelworkers will lose their jobs.

If you are a Law abiding citizen, how can you vote for Hillary when she is clearly above the law? Hillary deleted thousands of secret e-mails after they had been subpoenaed by the courts (illegal). Hillary kept thousands of classified and top secret e-mails on her private server; servers that had less security that g-mail and Hotmail. You can be sure Russia, Iran, and China have those now. 

The DNC clearly broke the rules by heavy-handedly favoring Hillary over Sanders while they were still competing for the nomination.

If you are a Veteran, in the military, or closely related to a military member, why are you voting for Hillary when she left those men to die in Benghazi and had the nerve to lie about it over and over again? They called for help, but the help was told to stand down.

 Furthermore, Hillary wants to eliminate the NRA, take away your guns, and abolish the second amendment?

Who is left?
‪#‎TheTrumpTrain

Symbols of the United States and Democrats

  





Lots of symbolism in the meme if a proud Hillary in front of an American flag and the Wells Fargo arena surrounded by a fence.

Philadelphia, home of the first American government after our revolution, with a Liberty Bell holding the place of this century in the 2016 Democrat convention. Historic symbolism. The first major party to select a former president's wife to be its candidate.  Some fine day, a woman may actually do it on her own.  Do Bernie's supporters even know about our American Revolution, separating us from a monarchy across the ocean, or the issue of taxes without representation, or how brief and clear our Constitution is with religious freedom, free speech and gun ownership?

I see a photo (?) of a flag behind Hillary--still haven't seen any real American flags on the stage with the speakers--Elizabeth Warren's stage was practically nude for her speech. It was rumored that they rushed in with flags after it made the rounds of social media that there weren't any, but so far, I haven't seen them. The hosting arena is named for a huge bank, Wells Fargo, which had a $25 billion bail out in 2008 (repaid it). It usually hosts sporting events and celebrities, but even with segregated restrooms and fences and ID requirements for delegates, no one is threatening to boycott Pennsylvania--I guess that's just for southern, Republican states.

Looking into the mirror

It's not easy to look in the mirror and not recognize the person primping or combing.  But it's also difficult to see someone who used to be gorgeous, fit and bright 50 years ago when you first met. That image is imprinted in my memory.

We moved to Columbus almost 50 years ago.  It was an exciting time for us. New friends, new careers, new city. The possibilities seemed endless.  Everyone we met was so nice, so friendly, so moving ahead in their careers, and it was inspiring for us. The older people--in their mid-40s--were positive and helpful, willing to assist the youngsters and newbies. And so I met a young man, son of a colleague, who was about 20.  He was moving between his divorced parents' homes, dropping in and out of colleges, going between girlfriends and he seemed aimless.  He was drop dead gorgeous--had movie star looks and body. But something was a little odd, and I couldn't place my finger on it because  I was young and naive.  Finally, I realized by talking to others it was drugs, more specifically marijuana, and maybe some worse stuff used when his brain was befuddled.  He wasn't a criminal--that's pretty much a myth even 50 years ago.  People who are regular users of marijuana don't go to jail--unless they've been caught committing another crime or the police need them as informants, then it might happen, but with well off parents and a good lawyer, the most they'd get was a week in jail and maybe probation. The damage was being done inside his head--he had been a brilliant engineering student, and by 20 was just sort of stupid--in the sense of not caring about his class work. Even the party crowd he hung out with eventually moved on; he didn't. So when I see him today with bad teeth, big belly, saggy flesh, I know it isn't just age. He didn't finish college, did support himself all these years at fairly low level, low responsibility jobs. He's not a problem to society--just as you legalization folks promise. But it's still sad.

The pro-marijuana crowd, all with financial interests, will glowingly praise the benefits of the drug, and claim it's not as bad as cigarettes.  Although most users I know do both.  Do cigarettes make you stupid? Do they steal your future?  Do they destroy relationships? Do they make you happy to spend your free time on the couch rather than socializing or learning or progressing?  Do cigarettes lie to you the way weed does?  I know the manufacturers did for decades, and I suspect it's starting all over again.

And in the eighth year of the reign of Barack

"In the eighth year of the Obama presidency, members of his own party surveyed the American landscape and found an abundance of misery. The audience heard of children victimized by immigration law and mental patients not receiving needed care. New Jersey’s Sen. Cory Booker spoke of “stunningly wide disparities of wealth” and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders described a rigged economy benefiting only a privileged few. New York’s Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand spoke of unequal pay, lack of paid family leave, and a mom with two kids working full-time but still living in poverty. Perhaps it’s time for a change."  James Freeman, Wall Street Journal, 7-26-2016