Monday, June 18, 2018
The IG report, simultaneously a devastating indictment of elite misconduct and a total whitewash, is a symptom of the moral leprosy infecting our elite. It is rotting away our institutions, and the foundations of the United States as we knew it. But the elite can’t, or won’t, even admit to itself what we all see.
Labels: culture of corruption, FBI, IG Report
Banning memes
Rex Murphy: Comey, Clinton are proof that it's egotism that corrupts completely
Justice watchdog's report on email investigation reveals Comey presided over a real 'basket of deplorables' — a biased, democracy-defying FBI.
As all now know, this discovery tripped the reopening of the investigation into Hillary’s hidden, secret-shielding server, and ultimately James Comey’s second intervention in the 2016 election, 11 days before the vote. The marital alliance of poor Huma with dim Anthony was thus the avenue to one of the great scandals of the 2016 race. If Weiner had the emails, who could not have them?The whole world knew of the Abedin-Weiner marriage. The bandits of the Afghanistan mountains knew Huma and Anthony were married. The chipmunks of Central Park knew Anthony Weiner and Huma Abedin were married. There are anchorites sitting on a tree spike somewhere in a desolate and empty landscape that knew this. Charlie Rose knew it.However, there was one man, one mind alone, not furnished with that factum. It was the top man at the FBI, the No. 1 sleuth of the greatest investigative institution in all of human history, James Comey.But Comey, a full six feet and seven inches of righteousness and zeal, says he didn’t know that Anthony Weiner and Huma Abedin were man and wife. The man conducting an investigation into the conduct of the world’s most famous woman, and presidential candidate, did not know of the infamous husband of Ms. Clinton’s principal counsellor.Ineluctably this leads to the conclusion that the only conceivable reason James Comey was selected as the head of the FBI, was that Inspector Clouseau was too busy sorting out whether there was ever any connection between one Brad Pitt and a woman called Angelina Jolie.
Labels: FBI, liberal fascism, rigging the election
Byron York: What do Republicans suspect really happened in the FBI Trump-Russia investigation?
The struggle to uncover the FBI's conduct in the Trump-Russia probe has made some congressional investigators deeply suspicious of the bureau. But what do those investigators think the FBI actually did in its investigation of the Trump campaign, Russia, and the 2016 election?First, they're convinced the FBI has something to hide. In the last 12 months, the bureau has, at various times, ignored, slow-walked, resisted, and downright stonewalled congressional requests, not to mention subpoenas, for information on the Trump-Russia investigation.Each time the bureau hunkered down, suspicion grew on Capitol Hill. The FBI seemed particularly reluctant to reveal to Congress not what Russians did, or what people in the Trump circle did, but what the bureau itself did.When did the investigation start? How did it start? What measures did the FBI, and its lawyers, and its informants employ? Getting facts out of the FBI has been a long and arduous task....The bottom line is that some Republicans are wondering whether in the above instances, and perhaps others, someone actively tried to frame, or entrap, or set up, Trump figures. And those Republicans wonder whether the FBI knew about it or played some sort of role in it.In short, there is suspicion that the FBI might have abused its tremendous powers in a highly politicized investigation undertaken in the middle of a presidential campaign.
Labels: crime, FBI, political bias, stealing an election
Sunday, June 17, 2018
Migrant boat turned away by Italy arrives in Spain
What the article doesn't tell you is that the Aquarius waits for Muslim refugee boats to sink, picks them up and deposits them, not at the nearest port or in their home territories, but in Europe, from whence they trek to Germany and Scandinavia where they live at taxpayer's expense.
The new Italian Government has put a stop to using their ports for this invasion. It's one of the reasons there is a new Italian government.
Labels: illegal immigration
Less than one in 20 street robberies and burglaries are being solved by police, new figures reveal
London is the new Wild West. It's not called Londonistan for nothing.
Elon Musk on Twitter
Those who proclaim themselves “socialists” are usually depressing, have no sense of humor & attended an expensive college. Fate loves irony.— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 15, 2018
Labels: socialism
The FBI Hates Trump — And His Voters, Too
“I honestly feel like there is going to be a lot more gun issues, too, the crazies won finally. This is the tea party on steroids. And the GOP is going to be lost, they have to deal with an incumbent in 4 years. We have to fight this again. Also Pence is stupid.”
Labels: FBI, Trump Derangement Syndrome
I can't wait for corporate media to tell Christians which Bible passages they're allowed to quote
Prof. Bret Weinstein: ‘What I Have Seen Functions…Like A Cult’
Liberalism is a mental; disease.
Labels: culture of intimidation, Liberalism
Saturday, June 16, 2018
Mark Steyn guts the mainstream EU
Signor Conte heads what would once have been regarded as a pantomime-horse coalition of two rear ends: the left-wing Five Star Movement (M5S) and the right-wing Northern League (Lega). The so-called GroKo - the Christian Democrat/Social Democrat "Große Koalition" that governed Germany for most of the last thirteen years - was regarded as an alliance of all the prudent, sensible, mainstream persons, the kind who think nothing of admitting one-and-a-half million poorly educated, largely unemployable, demographically transformative young Muslim men into a country and then wondering why the gang-rape statistics are through the roof. By contrast, the Italian government is a coalition of the non-prudent non-sensible non-mainstream - the "alt-left" and the "far-right". So how can that possibly work?
Well, we're about to find out. In the two weeks he's been in office, the new Interior Minister, Matteo Salvini (leader of the Lega) has talked non-stop about migrants and his plans to deport over half-a-million of them: "The good times for illegals are over," he declares confidently. "Get ready to pack your bags." On election day, his party won 17 per cent of the vote; after a fortnight of deportation talk, he's up to 27 per cent. Having talked the talk, he's now walking the walk: For the first time since the "humanitarian crisis" began five years ago, the Italian government has closed its ports to a migrant vessel: The MV Aquarius, operated by SOS Mediterranée and Médecins Sans Frontières, was refused permission to dock in Sicily, and told to push off and find somewhere else.
What could be more heartwarming than an NGO rescue ship named after a song from Hair? Since February 2016 it's been cruising the waters of the southern Med off the coast of Libya waiting for some ramshackle "refugee" craft to sink in front of it, and then scooping up the migrants and delivering them to Italy.
Labels: Europe, Italy, Muslim immigration, Steyn
11 Quick Things To Know About The Inspector General’s Report
By Molly Hemingway; a good read.
And then there's the issue that the FBI is still in denial:
FBI’s Insulting ResponseFBI Director Christopher Wray gave a press conference in front of a compliant press corps where he said, “nothing in this report impugns the integrity of our workforce as a whole or the FBI as an institution.” In fact, the report paints a picture of an FBI with a problematic culture.It’s not just Comey’s usurpation of authority and failure to comply with practices. Multiple people were involved in his condemned decisions. Others were cited for bad judgement in recusal decisions or failure to adhere to recusals. Political bias was rampant in the team of people who handled both the Clinton and Trump email probes. So were leaks, accepting gifts from reporters, incompetence, and other problems.Instead, Wray issued a strawman defense of employees, bragged about the high number of applicants to the agency, and talked about the low percentage of recruits who were accepted.
Labels: FBI, Inspector General Report
If America’s so evil, why does the left think immigrants keep coming?
Heather McDonald
American women live under a suffocating patriarchy. Rape culture flourishes in the US. Toxic masculinity stunts the emotional and professional growth of American females. Sexual harassment and predation are ubiquitous in American workplaces....In coming to the US, if you believe the dominant feminist narrative, the female aliens would simply be exchanging their local violent patriarchy for a new one. Indeed, it should be a mystery to these committed progressives why any Third World resident would seek to enter the US.Not only is rape culture pervasive in the US, but the very lifeblood of America is the destruction of “black bodies,” in the words of media star Ta-Nehesi Coates. Surely, a Third World person of color would be better off staying in his home country, where he is free from genocidal whiteness and the murderous legacy of Western civilization and Enlightenment values.
Labels: illegal immigration, liberal lies, patriarchy
Friday, June 15, 2018
Expand Mueller's Mandate
The Swamp set Trump up.
Having failed to derail his election, they tried to being about his resignation
or impeachment via the Mueller probe. I
suggest Trump apply a Jujitsu move to Mueller: don’t fire him … expand his
mandate!
Right now he’s charged with finding a crime - any crime - that Trump or
anyone associated with him has committed.
Trump should expand that mandate to investigate everyone involved
the last election including Team Clinton and Team Obama.
Force Mueller to investigate the Clinton
email fiasco. Force Mueller to look into
the Steele “Dossier,” who paid for it,
who was involved and who provided the lies in it. Investigate the Tarmac meeting between
Clinton and Lynch and have both testify under oath about what they discussed. Investigate whether criminal statutes were
broken when the FBI was investigating/covering put Hillary and her circle of enablers.
Find out who Strzok referred to when he said that “we will stop” Trump’s election. Indict Huma Abedin for lying to the FBI. Empanel a Grand Jury to determine if systemic
corruption in the Justice Department led to the decision to cut deals with Mrs.
Clinton and her staff designed to shelter them from criminal investigation,
including and an agreement to “limitations in searching for and in devices.”
Empanel another Grand Jury to determine if the texts between
agents of the FBI are evidence of political bias leading to obstruction of
justice.
Democrats who have sanctimoniously proclaimed the virtue and
unassailable integrity of Mueller … who have demanded he be given free rein to
prosecute anyone associated with Trump …
who have demanded he be allowed to finish his investigation … would suffer
whiplash. To those who have pointed out
that Mueller has assembled a team of Hillary supporters and have called his
investigation a witch-hunt, we now have an opportunity to add whole teams of “clean”
FBI agents who have been anxious to clean up the FBI’s tarnished reputation for
political bias.
It’s a win-win.
Labels: Mueller
Saturday, June 09, 2018
Voters beaten down by the politicizing of everything voted for the guy who makes a mockery of all of it.
The press says Mr. Trump is pushing the battle of the national anthem because it plays to his base. I suppose it does. But here’s what galls even non-Trumpians about this kneeling kerfuffle: We live in a world soaking in partisan politics. Then one day you wake up ready to relax with NFL Sunday, and you discover that “The Star-Spangled Banner” has become totally politicized. Any normal person, including liberals who won’t admit it, would have a three-word reaction to this spectacle, and the first two words begin with “w” and “t.”So what else is new? Today, if someone has a grievance or beef, first thing they do is look for something to attach it to—the anthem, the Pledge of Allegiance, 19th-century American fiction, Mom’s apple pie—anything that will draw the world’s attention, meaning the attention of the viral plague called social media.I got an email this week from San Francisco flogging “Artists Get Political Ahead of Midterms.” How? By embedding political messages in everyday objects, such as bus kiosks, hand towels, bedspreads and toilets.Then, even now, the people who voted for Hillary still claim to be shocked and stunned that an electorate beaten down by the politicization of everything in life voted for the guy who makes a mockery of all that....The sophisticates in the media thought they could beat Donald Trump at this game by burying him under waves of negative publicity. But he feeds off of it, just as he turned the Philadelphia Eagles’ White House no-show into a display of patriotic music, with the maestro at the center.
When wealthy men playing a kid's game and the billionaire owners of sports teams coerced the citizens of North Caroline or Texas should they be surprised that the folks start pushing back? Thanks to Donald Trump normal people have a national champion who speaks for them and doesn't give a damn for their whining when they don't get their way. The NFL caved because Trump represents normal Americans rather than the pampered poodles who thought they were in the majority because they hold the media megaphones. SURPRISE! YOU DON'T ANY LONGER.
Labels: politiziation of everything, Trump
Ann Coulter: I HAVE A DREAM ... ABOUT GAY WEDDING CAKES
Ann Coulter manages to distill how the Left manages to pervert every noble cause.
Midway through the last century, bedrock legal principles about property rights and freedom of association were abrogated to deal with a specific, intractable problem: We could not get Democrats to stop discriminating against blacks.So Republicans, with very little Democratic help, passed a slew of laws saying: No, even though you own that restaurant, you cannot discriminate against black customers. And no, even though we are a free people, you cannot refuse to associate with black people in your clubs, universities or sports teams.This should have been a one-time exception to the law for one specific group of people based on an emergency.But Democrats, never wild about freedom in the first place, saw "civil rights" as a great gig. Instead of civil rights being used to remedy historic injuries done to a specific group of people, they'd use "civil rights" as a false flag for all their pet projects.
So now, the list of civil rights is pretty near endless, Black people facing legal discrimination is equal to:
... being a woman, being a Muslim, wanting an abortion, having been born in Mexico, being a smelly homeless person stinking up the public library and -- according to Ruth Bader Ginsburg this week -- being a gay couple who wants to force a Christian to bake a cake for your wedding.
And being black and being an ape are pretty much the same according to a famous Liberal academic.
Princeton ethics professor Peter Singer compares black people to apes, citing the black liberation movement as a model for the liberation of apes. We must "extend to other species," Singer says, "the basic principle of equality" that we extend "to all members of our own species."
Labels: civil rights, Coulter
Wednesday, June 06, 2018
Elites Value Mellifluous Illegality over Crass Lawfulness
Victor Davis Hanson about the crimes of the Obama administration.
Despite Obama’s recent projection that his eight-year tenure was “scandal-free,” along with the reality that the media’s biased compliance sought to make such a startling fantasy true, the Obama administration was in many respects lawless. It will eventually rank as the most scandal-ridden administration since Warren G. Harding’s....
We are slowly appreciating over the last year that lying under oath was an Obama-administration requisite for a high position in the intelligence community....
We live in such strange times that the media ignored the most blatant examples of presidential campaign-cycle collusion in memory, while seeking to invent it where it never existed. Remember, Barack Obama on a hot mic not only got caught reiterating to a Russian leader the conditions of Putin-Obama election-cycle collusion, but he also spelled out the exact quid pro quo: promised Russian quietude abroad during Obama’s reelection campaign was in exchange for “flexibility” (i.e., cancellation) of U.S.-Eastern European missile-defense projects. Should Trump ever be caught making the same “deal” in 2020, he would probably be impeached.
Read the whole thing.
Labels: Obama crimes, Obama scandals
The end of the old order
In Epitaph, Richard Fernandez recalls how Obama was so wedded to managing the decline that he could not act to stop or reverse it.
The roots of today's new tensions have roots deep in Obama's and even George W. Bush's term. Yet so great was the establishment's commitment the post Cold War order it seemed irresponsible or unlucky to admit things were breaking down even when they manifestly were. Time and again when challenged by China's naval island building, Russia's expansion into the Ukraine, Beijing's theft of the classified OPM database, the shootdown of MH17 and the disintegration of Syria, Obama with remarkable sang froid maintained the air of business as usual.Ben Rhodes in his account of how Obama drew a Red Line in Syria then erased it, described how avoiding the perception of crisis was so important to his boss. "We in the Obama administration stepped up to the brink of military action against Assad. And then, suddenly, we stepped back." Rhodes wrote:I wanted to do something about the catastrophe in Syria, just as I had advocated intervention in Libya. ... It was as if Obama was finally forcing me to let go of a part of who I was—the person who looked at Syria and felt that we had to do something, who had spent two years searching for hope amid the chaos engulfing the Arab world and the political dysfunction at home. ...I saw what he had been doing—testing Congress, testing public opinion, to see what the real maneuvering room was for his office when it came to intervention in Syria. ... On the flight home, Obama mentioned that he’d had a private conversation with Putin on the margins of the summit. ... This time, Obama again suggested working together to remove and destroy Syria’s chemical weapons.He reposed his trust in Putin because ... what else could he do? Obama's observation that “maybe we never would have done Rwanda” caught the essential sense of helplessness of the 44th president. While he may have sensed that the post WW2 order was grinding to an end and the fruits of Ronald Reagan's victory over the Soviet Union were sliding from his grasp, though the era was dying Obama could not bring himself to bury it.
Labels: cold-war, Obama Fail
Obama hid efforts to aid Iran's windfall
Corruption in the Obama administration was deeper and larger than anyone realized. They lied to everybody: you, congress and the press.
The Obama administration — despite repeatedly assuring Congress that Iran would remain barred from the U.S. financial system — secretly mobilized to give Tehran access to American banks to convert the windfall of cash it received from sanctions relief under the 2015 nuclear deal into dollars, an investigative report by the Senate has revealed.
A copy of the report, obtained by The Washington Times, outlines how Obama-era State and Treasury Department officials discreetly issued a special license for the conversion to a major Omani bank and unsuccessfully pressured two U.S. banks to partake in the transaction, all while misleading lawmakers about the activities....
The Senate Homeland Security Committee’s permanent subcommittee on investigations probe contends that the Obama administration went out of its way to keep U.S. lawmakers in the dark about calculated and secretive efforts to give Tehran a back channel to the international financial system and to U.S. banks, facilitating a massive U.S. currency conversion worth billions of dollars.
“Senior U.S. government officials repeatedly testified to Congress that Iranian access to the U.S. financial system was not on the table or part of any deal,” according to a draft copy of the document obtained by The Times. “Despite these claims, the U.S. Department of the Treasury, at the direction of the U.S. State Department, granted a specific license that authorized a conversion of Iranian assets worth billions of U.S. dollars using the U.S. financial system.
“Even after the specific license was issued, U.S. government officials maintained in congressional testimony that Iran would not be granted access to the U.S. financial system,” the report said.
Labels: culture of corruption, Obama crimes
Monday, June 04, 2018
Law Prof: Trump can pre-pardon all in Russia probe, kill Mueller’s inquest
There seem to be disagreements about the President's pardon powers. We were told earlier that you had to be convicted of a crime to receive a pardon. But President Ford pardoned Richard Nixon ... who had never been tried or convicted of anything by any court.
Labels: Trump, Trump pardons
PANDORA’S BOX: Trump/Russia May Expose Extent of “Five Eyes” Allied Spying
Investigations conducted by Congressional and Senate committees are entering the second year and what has been pieced together by investigators – battling for documents every step of the way – challenges the information the FBI and former senior Obama administration have revealed about the investigation.Their evidence is at odds with the DOJ/FBI timeline leaked to various news outlets indicating the investigation began in late summer of 2016. These discrepancies make it all the more important that the DOJ and FBI turn over documents to the Congressional oversight committees who are investigating what looks like an abuse and weaponization of the tools used by U.S. federal law enforcement and the intelligence community.
Labels: Spygate
