Wednesday, March 20, 2019

Wild in the Streets is the script for 2020

https://youtu.be/vcUv4dAiCkA Wild in the Streets (1968)--what the 2020 candidates grew up with--"we're 52% and we control the economy". A low budget satire--the 2020 candidates are using the script. Of course, then the issue was 18 year olds can vote--Max wants more. "Give us the vote at 14." What better way to control the next generation than to let them vote you in?

Sally (Diane Varsi who died at 54)  is the AOC of 1968. Max says he doesn't want to live to be 30, but he (Christopher Jones) made it to 72. Gave up films to become an artist.

Tuesday, March 19, 2019

What do Democrats want?

Democrats want to destroy the Electoral College so deplorables, middle America and fly-over country will just go away and let California and New York run things. Kill babies, remove borders, let 16 year olds, illegals, and felons vote, pay reparations, take away your cars and cows, grab your guns, pack the Supreme Court, buy off the college coaches and presidents, and as all the 2020 candidates say, "return to our core values."

Michael Smith, guest blogger on the wokeness race for the White House.

This is an important read--the Democrats are about identity--and don't you believe you don't need an ID to be acceptable. They care only about the color of your skin and your sex. They only care about your wealth and religion if they need a third or fourth category to separate you from the herd.

Michael Smith, whom I know through Facebook and blogging, has handicapped the Democrats on their road to wokeness.  Interesting--some of these folks I've never heard of, especially his winner.

"I thought I would try to handicap the Democrat Presidential Olympics in their current state – if the Democrats lived up to their progressive Wokeness rulebook:

Beto, Booker and Sanders have all announced they would select a female running mate (well, Sanders actually said “other gendered”, so we don’t really know who or what he will pick) – but isn’t that a disqualifier coming from a cis-gendered white male? Shouldn’t these candidates step aside for a woman?

Anyway, Booker is the only one who might get a pass because Beto and old “Three Dachas” Bernie are cis-gendered, rich, white males and as King Arthur said about the number 5, they are “right out.”

What about the other honkies?

Bland Biden is about as pasty as they come – he checks none of the boxes for wokeness. Neither do Hickenlooper, Inslee, Delaney or Weld. All white, all cis-gendered and all rich. In the annals of wokism, none are as unworthy as Emo Beto, Three Dachas Bernie, Bland Biden, Loopy Hickenlooper, Comrade Inslee, John “Who” Delaney, and CBD Oil Bill (Gary “Weed” Johnson’s running mate the last time this circus came to town).

Three strikes for all – white, male, and rich.

Then there is Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana. Dude is gay – but also white and privileged (Harvard – BA in history and literature and as Oxford man, a Rhodes Scholar) – and that cancels out his honorable military service. I don’t know if he identifies as a top or a bottom and while his gayness gains him points over the other white candidates, he still is white. Unless he does a Rachel Dolezal or Talcum X, he’s toast as well based on the Rules of Wokeness.

The slogan for the Donks is Democrats2020 – No White Dudes (not even a gay white dude).

Then you have a few male, cis-gendered racial/ethnocentric candidates.

Andrew Yang is out because he is rich, Ivy League privileged (Brown, Harvard Law) but blacks are on a higher rung than Asians on the Ladder of Woke, he’s done.

Julian Castro is also out because while Hispanics outrank Asians, they still don’t rank as high as blacks – plus, he is also a cis-gendered (as far as we know) dude. He also has an identical twin, so there would always be a fear of he and his brother doing a “Dave” and taking turns in the Oval Office.
For black dudes, we have Booker and Wayne Messam, the mayor of Miramar, Florida. Booker might identify differently (his imaginary friend T-Bone might have been his boyfriend) but for now, he is cis-gendered according to his beard, Rosario Dawson, and unless that changes, he is still male and as mentioned before, the Rules state he must step aside for a woman.

Nobody has heard from Messam since he was a third string wide receiver for Florida State back in the early 90’s but playing a cis-gendered sport like football and attending college in Florida isn’t going to help.

Now for the Democrat Womenses:

Gillibrand is so painfully white she is transparent and flops around like a fish on a hot dock.

Kloubachar is white, bitchy and mean.

Warren is a real white communist and a fake Indian.

Marianne Williamson is a white, new age religionist who studied theater and philosophy for two years at Pomona College in California.

Sounds like the cast of Mean Girls. The cast is right out.
That leaves Kamala "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend" Harris and the K-Bar Surfer Chick Tulsi Gabbard.

Unlike Warren, Kamala Harris is a real Indian and a POC (Person of Color). Her parents are Jamaican and Tamil Indian – but Kamala is also Willie Brown’s crazy ex-girlfriend, sleeping her way to the top of the California government. She prosecuted people as AG for things she now supports, so even though she is a real POC, she comes off as a real POS. She’s out as well.

Gabbard is multi-ethnic, multicultural and multi-religious. So much multi for one woman. Her father is of Samoan and European ancestry and an active lector at his Catholic church. Her mother, who was born in Decatur, Indiana, is of German descent and a practicing Hindu. Gabbard herself chose Hinduism. She took her oath of office on the Bhagavad Gita in 2013 and describes herself as a karma yogi. She is also a Major in the Army National Guard and she also seems to have a little common sense, a wish to work across the aisle and supports some policies that are almost libertarian. Gabbard is half Haight-Ashbury and half Military Industrial Complex. For Democrats, that’s going to cancel out all the “multi” in her background.

Out of all the Dem candidates, I think Gabbard would give Trump the most trouble.

Conclusion:

By the current rules, Gabbard should be the pick for the Democrats – but she won’t be. They will pick Biden because the Democrats are just as fake as their candidates. They believe Biden has the best chance to win and while Gabbard might be his VP pick, they will go with the rich, white, establishment dude in the end.”

Monday, March 18, 2019

What stresses millennials?

If you look up “millennials + stress” you'll see some charts and graphs and a few ideas on how to handle stress, but not much on what is causing the stress. Limbaugh read a list today, which I found so vacuous and funny, I had to check and see if it was a real survey. Well, you still don't know about things published as "a study," or "research,' but here's the list--I looked it up--supposedly, someone asked them. I surely would have guessed losing a smart phone would be #1. They don't breathe without them. Notice how much is digital--perhaps they need to go off the grid now to prepared for the New Green Deal, which will necessarily also have to eliminate the phones. Don't know why choosing what to wear would even be on the list--how hard is it to pick out a pair of jeans? And shouldn't school loan payments be higher, like maybe #2 or #3? https://www.studyfinds.org/survey-millennials-life-more-stressful-than-ever-before/.

Here are the top 20 stressful scenarios reported by millennials:

1. Losing wallet/credit card

2. Arguing with partner

3. Commute/traffic delays

4. Losing phone

5. Arriving late to work

6. Slow WiFi

7. Phone battery dying

8. Forgetting passwords

9. Credit card fraud

10. Forgetting phone charger

11. Losing/misplacing keys

12. Paying bills

13. Job interviews

14. Phone screen breaking

15. Credit card bills

16. Check engine light coming on

17. School loan payments

18. Job security

19. Choosing what to wear

20. Washing dishes

Hens in the Fox house

Rep. Omar is a Muslim, a Somali immigrant refugee given a home here in the U.S. Her religion has declared that Israel needs to be wiped off the globe. Israel is a U.S. ally. She has said hateful things about Jews. Somehow, the Democrats have managed yet once again, with the help of the media to make her an innocent, and Fox in a panic that they are in top place in the ratings (fear of success?), thinks it needs to remove Judge Jeannine from her popular show for telling the truth about Omar. We live in strange times.

This has been a horrific month for Democrats so far by guest blogger Brian

    • Jussie Smollett indicted on 16 felony counts.
    • Ilhan Omar sanctioned for anti-Semitism.
    • Mueller team falling apart.
    • Dozens of Democrat donors indicted for college admissions bribery scheme.
    • AOC investigated for campaign finance fraud.
    • Manafort receives light sentence for crimes having nothing to do with Trump and NO collusion.
    • Wall being built and national emergency stands, in spite of obstruction from both parties.
    • The Governor of Virginia's old yearbook reveals him in blackface after he announces he's in favor of terminating live babies after birth.
    • CNN and Washington Post sued for $250 million for defamation by Covington Catholic kids.
    • Cohen falls apart on the stand.
    • Avenatti loses everything and Judge tosses Stormy's lawsuit.
    • New Mexico compound Islamic extremists charged with terrorism.
    • Kirsten Gillibrand outed for protecting a male aide who was abusing her female staff.
    • Texts show Michelle Obama tried to intervene in Jussie Smollett case.
    • Declassified transcripts of testimony from Lisa Page show Obama obstructed justice in Clinton probe.
    • Transcripts from Bruce Ohr show Fusion GPS committed perjury
    • FBI wrongly investigated the NRA based on a fake Russia story.
    • Transcripts from Peter Strzok show Mueller knew of Strzok's plan to take down the President & said nothing.
    • Counties all over the U.S. are defying Democrat attempts at gun control with their own "gun sanctuaries."
    • Polls show Trump is making HUGE strides with the black & Hispanic communities due to policies that are putting people back to WORK and giving them real hope.
    • Instagram (owned by Facebook) is caught removing & censoring Donald Trump Jr.'s posts.
    • Facebook is caught removing & censoring Zero Hedge posts.
    • A team comes to Minnesota to investigate Ilhan Omar's marriage to her brother for immigration fraud.
    • Feds begin criminal investigation into Facebook for data sharing practices with Apple, Microsoft and more
    • Two senior Facebook executives mysteriously leave while Facebook goes dark for a day.

So what happens? John Podesta, the Clinton/Obama long-time fixer, goes to New Zealand a week ago for a "Progressive Conference," leaves and, suddenly, a mass shooting happens at a New Zealand Mosque in a country with some of the strictest gun laws. The right wing "white supremacist" shooter live streams it on Facebook, blames black conservative Candace Owens and writes a manifesto that sounds like something Christopher Steele or Jussie Smollett would write. Immediately, Twitter is filled with left-wing pundits blaming Donald Trump for Islamophobia and calling for gun control.

49 people are murdered so that we look the other way. Sick. This is what they do. Every. Single. Time.

Catching up with CBS

Listening to CBS News this morning I hear they are still blaming Trump for New Zealand. Big worry about "white supremacists." Nothing about all the Christian churches, Jewish Temples and Islamic Mosques attacked or bombed by Islamists in the past year. Everything is about Trump since 2016--the media just bump, grind and strip on this false narrative, pushing up his poll numbers. There was a big bombing of a Catholic Cathedral in the Philippines on January 29—did you hear about it?  I just noticed it in a social media post yesterday.  Don’t recall prayers for them from our pulpit as we did for New Zealand.  And in early March, it was Christians in Nigeria.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/20-dead-111-hurt-in-jan-29-bombing-at-catholic-cathedral-in-philippines-1.4270952?

I rarely watch 60 Minutes (CBS)., but last night saw J.D. Vance (Hillbilly Elegy) of Columbus talking about the lack of venture capital in areas beyond the coast. At first (2016) the liberals loved Vance--talked about him sort like a cute pet--but a quick glance at newer reports I see they are back to hating common sense, believing someone who actually was poor and knows the system, and who used his grandparents' love (changed his name to theirs) and his own determination to pull himself out of poverty. The Left just doesn't like anyone who leaves the government run plantation.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/venture-capitalist-steve-case-spreading-funding-to-middle-america-with-rise-of-the-rest-60-minutes/?

Sunday, March 17, 2019

A tippy stool

The Democrat party has a 3 legged stool--media, entertainment, and academe--on which all its socialist, leftist, feminist, Marxist, destroy-western-civ theories are built . The #MeToo movement damaged the left-leaning entertainment industry, the news media embarrass themselves daily with their anti-Bush, anti-Trump, anti-Reagan fake news stories, and now the corruption is exposed in the elite schools who have been ridiculing the hoi polloi (masses, deplorables) on the one hand and taking bribes with the other. And we still have politicians in Congress and running for 2020 who claim it will all be fixed with more government!

Oh to be young (and ignorant) again

There's a guy on Twitter claiming that the generation born between 1985-1995 is the most unique [sic] ever because of what they've experienced. Ha! Unique? That's nothing. My grandmother (Bessie) was born in the late 19th century and lived to see all the changes in communication, transportation, entertainment and business through the late 20th century. From horse drawn to jet plane, from home deliveries of her babies to high tech hospitals for her old age problems, from church sings to radio, TV and computers. But that's OK, he's too young to know better. What better time to be ignorant about history than when you're young and have time to grow up.


Saturday, March 16, 2019

New Zealand killer a media hound, hungry for attention

His manifesto shows he certainly understood the gullible media.

Why did you choose to use firearms?

I could have chosen any weapons or means. A TATP filled rental van. Household flour, a method of dispersion and an ignition source. A ballpeen hammer and a wooden shield. Gas, fire, vehicular attacks, plane attacks, any means were available. I had the will and I had the resources.

I chose firearms for the affect it would have on social discourse, the extra media coverage they would provide and the affect it could have on the politics of United states and thereby the political situation of the world.

He also described him self as an eco-fascist.  People cause pollution, so why not kill people. Admired the Chinese communists.

Meanwhile, CNN blames Trump, and SJW blame Chelsea Clinton for defending Israel.

https://reason.com/blog/2019/03/15/49-dead-in-alleged-eco-fascist-attack-on

https://www.theepochtimes.com/new-zealand-mosque-shooters-manifesto-apparently-posted-online-admires-communist-china_2839838.html

Friday, March 15, 2019

Had you heard about the Christians murdered in their church?

This is not an equivalency statement, just a statement of fact. When churches and mosques and temples are attacked, usually the news media do not blame the President or use those tragedies for political gain--because many are done by Muslims. New Zealand was different. Now they repeat the lies of Charlottesville made up by CNN and seen around the world. The fact remains, when mosques or politicians are attacked, the assailants are usually Muslim, like the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, the London bombings, the hotel in Mumbia or Chechnya, so the media move on quickly. But if there's an opportunity to smear Trump, they are all over it--without prayers, of course.

https://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/cwn/2019/march/radical-muslims-murder-32-nigerian-christians-torch-church-in-brutal-attack?

Mr. Reagan’s blog

There’s a new blogger on the scene who calls himself, Mr. Reagan.  He’s catching the eye of a number of older, more established conservative writers and journalists>  He’s figured out who is behind Alexandria Ocasio Cortez. . . the so-called Justice Democrats, writes Paul Kengor at The American Spectator.

“What we need to do is take over the Democratic Party,” insists Cenk Uygur, a Justice Democrat and one of the left’s leading voices. He’s pushing for what he openly calls a “hostile takeover” of the Democratic Party. “We’re going to primary all of them — all vulnerable Democrats,” he vows. “We want hundreds — we want to replace Congress.”

“Mr. Reagan” calculates that of the 79 candidates endorsed by Cenk and the Justice Democrats in the last election, 26 won their races. That’s a very successful record that could prove explosive as they seek to increase their candidates into the hundreds. Give them two dozen political figures like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the delightful Rashida “we’re-going-to-impeach-the-mother-[blank]” Tlaib and they will launch a revolution. You think there’s chaos right now? Just wait. They’re not running through a third party. The Democrats have provided the vehicle, the Trojan Horse, for them to enact their ideological agenda.

A comment on Kengor’s article at the Spectator site, and I certainly agree.

“The Democrat party may be blowing up, but radical leftists are gaining ground. Like all authoritarians, they lie, intimidate, threaten, and exert violence against those who oppose them. They are ruthless and immoral thugs. Authoritarians do not need a political majority to gain control over government. The communists didn't have majorities. Hitler didn't have a majority. They seize power to exploit others for their own benefit. You cannot win a political struggle against them using customary debate and campaign tactics of a democracy because they are not "democrats." “

Thursday, March 14, 2019

The 737 Max is grounded

The U.S. has joined many other countries in grounding the 737 Max jet after two crashes killing a total of 346 people in 5 months. I often wonder why some lives are worth more than others. Half a million people, mostly brown and black, are killed each year by malaria, by mosquitoes, which could be controlled with DDT until a vaccine is found or appropriate sanitation developed to fight insect resistance. But no. Rachel Carson who was not a scientist writes a book 56 years ago, Americans get excited about "saving the environment" and in turn cause more Africans to die than all the Atlantic slave trade. Millions more are crippled for life. And counting the other vector borne diseases including Chikungunya, Zika, Dengue, West Nile Virus, and Yellow Fever, the annual death toll is 700,000.

Even this puff piece by pbs shows the dire predictions made at the time by scientists have come true. Claiming that resistance is the problem, is in part a problem. What if they hadn't killed off millions in the 80s and 90s? Environmentalists/climate cults will block any new pesticides that are effective using the same excuses, in my opinion.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/Rachel-carson-malaria-and-silent-spring/

Wednesday, March 13, 2019

What does college stand for?

Many of the colleges named in yesterday's scandal are bastions of hostility for free speech, of political correctness, of bloated diversity and inclusion departments so they can feel morally superior, whose administrations remove paintings and statues of flawed people long dead because they weren't up to 21st century standards and morality. I realize none of the colleges have been blamed, however, this net will widen. I can only assume those parents so desperate to shoe horn their teens into those schools at least agree with those sentiments. Did I see a post recounting the political donations of those charged? None of the wealthy and powerful had donated to Trump.

The Get into College for a ransom scandal

It is a scandal involving rich celebs yes, but it’s much bigger. . .those we know about in today’s stories  “conspired with others known and unknown”. Before it rolls into history (came out on March 13—there’s little being said today) there will be hundreds, and probably a few college presidents.  Someone will be squeezed to tell all.

“American higher education, from the ivy covered walls of Yale and Georgetown to the sun drenched campuses of USC and Stanford, was rocked Tuesday by a federal racketeering case that alleges celebrities and other wealthy parents funneled millions through an Orange County non-profit foundation in return for fraudulent entrance test scores and college admission facilitated by corrupt coaches and athletic department administrators.” https://www.pe.com/2019/03/12/newport-beach-is-at-the-center-of-nationwide-bribery-for-admissions-scandal/

I think the whole College Board/SAT/ACT is a scandal—so many kids get special tutoring, and it’s not illegal, those are valid, incorporated legal companies that do this, but many cannot afford it, and I’m sure some can be bought and stand-ins are used.  https://www.sfgate.com/education/article/sat-act-cheating-scandal-huffman-test-students-13682741.php

And how about the “volunteer” requirement that high schools have and colleges request—supposedly to even the playing field so less academically qualified have something to show.  Ha.  The “best” students also garner that area and need that to get into the Ivy League or the California system.  If it’s “volunteer” why is it required? And the lower or middle class kids who need to work can’t afford to take “free” internships.   What about those students who are shy or have poor social skills, but are good in academics—they can flunk “volunteering.”

And the whole athletic business.  That was one of the biggest outrages in this current scandal, but how many others have done this not connected to this particular named crook William Singer, owner of the Edge College & Career Network and CEO of the Key Worldwide Foundation.  Photoshopping faces onto someone else’s body!  Coaches heads are rolling.

In this scandal, millions of dollars changed hands, but what about the kids who can’t attend out of state colleges because it’s too expensive, but illegals can attend? What about those who claim they are 1/32 black or Indian and are bumped ahead of the poor white teen from Appalachia?  This scandal involves people who can afford  to drop $100,000 to get kiddo into Yale or Harvard or Dartmouth, but we have all sorts of “jump ahead in line” from illegal immigration, to “who do you know who can drop your name to  HR” to donating to your alma mater a few years before junior wants to enroll. 

And what about colleges/universities using rich Nigerian and Egyptian foreign students to claim on their “diversity” quota or recruiting black students who could do well at OSU-Marion campus but will flunk out with debt at Yale, just so the school doesn’t get in hot water with government regulations. 

The money game of the higher education system  is a whole lot bigger than this scandal.

Those named:

“The following were charged in a criminal complaint with conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud:

Gregory Abbott, 68, of New York, founder and chairman of International Dispensing Corp., a food and beverage packaging company.

Marcia Abbott, 59, of New York.

Gamal Abdelaziz, 62, of Las Vegas, the former senior executive of resort and casino operator of Wynn Macau resort in Macau, China.

Diane Blake, 55, of San Francisco, an executive at a retail merchandising firm.

Todd Blake, 53, of San Francisco, an entrepreneur and investor.

Jane Buckingham, 50, of Beverly Hills, California, founder and CEO of Trendera boutique marketing company.

Gordon Caplan, 52, of Greenwich, Connecticut, co-chairman of New York-based Willkie Farr & Gallagher, an international law firm.

I-Hin “Joey” Chen, 64, of Newport Beach, California, operates a provider of warehousing and related services for the shipping industry.

Amy Colburn, 59, of Palo Alto, California.

Gregory Colburn, 61, of Palo Alto, California.

Robert Flaxman, 62, of Laguna Beach, California, founder and CEO of real estate development firm Crown Realty & Development.

Mossimo Giannulli, 55, of Los Angeles, fashion designer and founder of Mossimo fashion company (also married to Lori Loughlin).

Elizabeth Henriquez, 56, of Atherton, California.

Manuel Henriquez, 55, of Atherton, California, founder, chairman and CEO of Hercules Technology Growth Capital, a publicly traded specialty finance company.

Douglas Hodge, 61, of Laguna Beach, California, former CEO of investment management company Pacific Investment Management Co.

Felicity Huffman, 56, of Los Angeles, actress.

Agustin Huneeus Jr., 53, of San Francisco, owner of wine vineyards in Napa Valley and listed as co-founder of the Quintessa vineyard estate.

Bruce Isackson, 61, of Hillsborough, California, president of a real estate development firm WP Investments.

Davina Isackson, 55, of Hillsborough, California.

Michelle Janavs, 48, of Newport Coast, California, former executive of a large food manufacturer.

Elisabeth Kimmel, 54, of Las Vegas, owner and president of First Busey, a media company.

Marjorie Klapper, 50, of Menlo Park, California, co-owner of jewelry business.

Lori Loughlin, 54, of Los Angeles, actress.

Toby MacFarlane, 56, of Del Mar, California, former senior executive at a title insurance company.

William McGlashan Jr., 55, of Mill Valley, California, senior executive at a global equity firm TPG Capital.

Marci Palatella, 63, of Healdsburg, California, CEO of a liquor distribution company.

Peter Jan Sartorio, 53, of Menlo Park, California, president and co-founder of Elena's Food Specialties.

Stephen Semprevivo, 53, of Los Angeles, executive at Cydcor, a privately held provider of outsourced sales teams.

Devin Sloane, 53, of Los Angeles, founder and CEO of aquaTECTURE LLC, a provider of drinking and wastewater systems.

John Wilson, 59, of Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, founder and CEO of private equity and real estate development firm.

Homayoun Zadeh, 57, of Calabasas, California, an associate professor of dentistry.

Robert Zangrillo, 52, of Miami, founder and CEO of private investment firm Dragon Global.”

Athletics

According to Sports Illustrated, “Among coaches indicted are Stanford's sailing coach John Vandemoer, former Yale women's soccer coach Rudy Meredith, former Georgetown tennis coach Gordie Ernst, current Texas men's tennis coach Michael Center and current UCLA men's soccer coach Jorge Salcedo. Ernst, who is accused of taking multiple six-figure cash bribes to admit fake recruits, resigned without explanation from Georgetown last summer. He is now coaching at Rhode Island. . . Wake Forest volleyball coach William "Bill" Ferguson was indicted in the scheme on the same charges as Vandemoer.”

“Four USC athletics staff members were also charged including the Trojans former women's soccer head coach Ali Khosroshahin, former women's soccer assistant coach Laura Janke and current USC Senior Associate Athletic Director Donna Heinel and water polo head coach Jovan Vavic. Heinel and Vavic were fired as a result.

Mark Riddell, the Director of College Entrance Exam Preparation at IMG Academy, a private college preparatory school and sports academy in Bradenton, Fla., has been charged with conspiracy to commit mail fraud and honest services mail fraud alongside charges of conspiracy to commit money laundering.” https://www.si.com/more-sports/2019/03/12/college-admissions-recruiting-bribery-scheme-indictments-felicity-huffman-lori-loughlin

The Mercury News reports: “In April 2016, Giannulli and Laughlin expressed concerns about their older daughter’s “academic qualifications” for USC after meeting with a college counselor, as detailed in a 204-page federal complaint

But Heinel presented their daughter as a prospective member of USC’s women’s crew team in a meeting with the university’s subcommittee for athletic admissions later that fall.

The daughter posed for a photo on an ergometer, a rowing machine, as part of an elaborate effort to demonstrate her participation in the sport despite no experience.

Giannulli sent Heinel $50,000 days later, and she was admitted.

The following year, Giannulli and Laughlin made a similar effort for their younger daughters. In this instance, they presented her as a crew coxswain for the L.A. Marina Club team and also had a photo taken of her on an ergometer.

In exchange for her admittance, Giannulli again sent Heinel $50,000.” https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/03/13/four-connected-to-usc-athletics-indicted-in-college-admissions-scandal/

Tuesday, March 12, 2019

Is AOC real? She’s an actress claims Mr. Reagan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1h5iv6sECGU&feature=youtu.be

A casting call? An Actress? A puppet? A scripted front for an organization? Sometimes brilliant, often bumbling? Who's the man behind the curtain? A political operative who's sort of awkward, but very smart and Cenk Uygar of the Young Turks. I've seen this floating around. Take a look and see what you think? And it probably isn't illegal to put up an actress for Congress and tell her what to say.

Trailer for Mr. Reagan. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCf1EWeQ7DefD6Ds3KdeQ-uQ

This is socialism. . .

appropriately made famous by The Police, popular rock band of the 70s and 80s

Every breath you take
Every move you make
Every bond you break
Every step you take
I'll be watching you.

Every single day
Every word you say
Every game you play
Every night you stay
I'll be watching you.

Oh can't you see
You belong to me?

The Reparations movement

I'm guessing very few Americans can trace their ancestry to slave owners, either black owners or white (higher percentage of free blacks owned slaves than poor whites), but Democrats will do it by color, after all, that's how they see everything. If they didn't, Barack Obama wouldn't be eligible, Kamala Harris wouldn't be eligible, Ilhan Omar wouldn't be eligible nor Tashida Tlaib (although she might be a descendant of a slaver); and all those Africans who immigrated legally in the 20th and 21st centuries, millions, wouldn't be eligible. More Africans come here in 10 years than the 330,000 who arrived as slaves in the 17th century. Plus all those descendants of Africans and Arabs who assisted in the capture and enslavement several hundred years ago would have to be found and punished.

https://www.intellectualtakeout.org/article/whats-problem-reparations?

Men need abortions, too—NARAL

"Women aren't the only people who get pregnant or the only people who need to access abortion." —NARAL.  Only in a Democrat world. The irony is in this article they are referring to transwomen as men who might need abortions. https://rewire.news/article/2019/03/01/women-are-not-the-only-ones-who-get-abortions/

Finland’s government resigns due to failures

I don't understand how governments that resign work. They should just use the adversarial system like ours where one party spends all their time, our tax dollars, and energy trying to undo the last election rather than have an election. It's been awhile (2006) since we've been in Finland, a fabulous country, but I did notice there were 2 health systems. One for the base, usually the low income and young adults (who are basically healthy) depended on that, and then a private pay system which the wealthier, older and well educated use to supplement that. Taxes to pay for this were unbelievable, but education was "free." I was very impressed that the African grocery clerk spoke to me in English and my friend in Finnish--somehow she knew. Their immigrants also need to learn Swedish since that is a 2nd language.

Finns are very thorough and systematic and no immigrant comes in uninvited (although a some Russians do just walk or bike over the border--and because of their history with Russia that's like a small invasion) and it takes about 10 months to be processed. We met (in stores) Vietnamese and Chileans, who were refugees from an earlier time, and we saw Somali youth congregating on the streets of Helsinki. But during the 2015 immigration crisis in Europe, many more were accepted. Even the president shown in this photo took refugees into his own home as an example for the citizens. What if every politician in our country did that? We had 70,000 at the southern border in February--Pelosi and Schumer could take a few. About 1/5 of Finnish refugees who came during the rush, have been sent home, and many who claimed to be children/teens turned out to be adults. Sounds more tidy than the way we do it, where the Democrats in Congress say hundreds of thousands need to be processed in 20 days or they have to be set loose in the general population with a "promise" to return for a hearing on their eligibility. Meanwhile large "family" groups, some with rented children to drop off to be used again and again, cross our borders, and drug cartels use them for cover. But unlike Finland, we don't have a system.

https://www.foxnews.com/world/finlands-entire-government-resigns-after-breakdown-of-agreement-on-welfare-state-reform