Double standards....

So the Left, in an obviously planned campaign (gleefully pushed by the Media), has accused Trump of poor taste and bad rhetoric and simply not making twitter comments in good taste.

Perhaps true. He could take the High Road a bit more often.

But a bit of the "Pot calling the kettle" and all that innit?

The rhetoric from the Left, since well before November, has been rude, cheap shitty, disrespectful and just plain cheap shots.

But, as usual, the Left holds their opponents to a higher standard than they do themselves. Perhaps they could learn from the unsolicited advice they have given him. 

It is as we expected:

Made up, Democrat and DNC operative and Press (but I repeat myself) bullshit designed to harm Trump and boost ratings. 

Which I would just write off as "politics as usual" except for the fact that Robert Mueller is gonna spend MILLION if not Tens of MILLIONS of your tax dollars looking for something to satisfy his masters...some kind of charge they can level against Donald Trump of his appointees. I object, not to the dirt digging (I actually approve of that!) but to the character assassination and to the fact that it is PUBLIC FUNDS tat are paying for it.

And the sad part is that all the liberals, even the formerly (somewhat) rational ones are frothing at the mouth for someone to find something on Trump....no objection to a Special Counsel who has nothing to point to to start his investigation except some meme put forth a few days post-Hillary defeat by the DNC to explain their terrible loss....Which the Media jumped on and repeated enough that it took on a (artificial) life of it's own.....


Again: I don't object to an investigation of the accusations. I DO object to the fact that the accusations are made up from Whole Cloth and that the U.S. Taxpayers are paying for it. Let the Media do its job, and find some (real) dirt that can be proved.

They oughta impeach

Each and every single judge that stayed Trump's Travel Ban. Each and every one of them. The ban was legal, Constitutional, and well within the powers of the President to enact.

The Supremes said so.

Any and all of the Judges in the Circuit courts, by their actions, have shown that they are not able to be dispassionate nor apolitical, but rather are partisan hacks. Which disqualifies them from, you know, actually adjudicating according to law.

Damn. 10 minutes

That is a LONG time to be giving CPR. I'm in decent shape and I start sweating about the 3 minute mark. Tired after 5.

I bet that last 5 must have been hell.

But he saved the dude's life.

Chicago police officer saves life of man who collapsed on basketball court.

I'm not sure I could give CPR for 10 minutes.
Could you?

If it weren't

For Fake Hate Crimes, the likely wouldn't be any Hate Crimes in the US.

Another example:

A 22-year-old woman was arrested on suspicion of starting a small fire at a Des Moines mosque Thursday morning, police said.

At about 10 a.m., Des Moines firefighters and police were called to the Islamic Center of Des Moines, 6201 Franklin Ave., where there had been a small fire on the carpet, according to a Des Moines police report

There was, as always, "no link to terrorism". However, had it been a white man.....

A win for free speech

And notice that the Federal nor State Government cannot legislate tolerance.

On the one hand, I believe that a business should be allowed to discriminate/Refuse Service against anyone they choose to. Gays, blacks, whites, chinese,Muslims, Catholics  martians, single women, single men, Women with short hair, CisBiGenderQueersWhatever with(or without) purple hair, Fuzzies, dogs, unshaven men (or women), cats, sheep (especially sheep),  etc.....Camels too.

Now, if they go out of business because someone objects to that discrimination and tells everyone about it on Social Media, and people stop buying at their business or decides not to use those services....then tough shit for them.

But they get the choice to be stupid and Walk their Talk, be it religious, bigotry, stupidity,  or just plain muleishnes.

So, on the one hand, I find this Court of Appeals decision good.

On the other hand, the law has a bunch of language that essentially makes Christianity the State Religion, which I object to.

And the law allows public servants to choose to use a "Religious Objection" as a reason to not do their job....such as City and County clerks to choose to NOT issue marriage licenses. Which is wrong. If you are a Clerk, and you object to something your job requires, you can quit, but you can't just not do your job.

So this is a halfway win for freedom, but a fail for Constitutionality and for making certain Public Servants do their job...

I'd expected better from the 5th Court.....

So izzit "just a piece of paper?"

So we have, at least, a First Amendment issue, and at least a Fourth Amendment issue.


Yet, we get "Qualified Immunity" once again.

At what point are officers gonna be held personally liable for their actions? Until they are, then we will have cases like this.


I get it. A noise complaint. Then they want to use that as an excuse to search, because that is what cops do. Then they mock and verbally abuse a woman, because bullies...(Which a lot of cops are, and a lot more aren't, so don't tell me in comments how cops are pigs and all that shit, ok?) AND THE COURT SAYS IT IS WRONG BUT LETS 'EM GET AWAY WITH IT ANYWAY!
Until the courts begin punishing cops for this, our Constitution is, indeed, just a piece of paper. And our Constitutional rights are just words. And the cops oath is just so many words as well.

Good:

Businesses damaged in riots in Baltimore sue city, Ex mayor, Top Cop for damages. 
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Bout time this started happening. Failing to protect those who are forced to pay taxes for that "Protection" should be punishable. Those officials in positions of who give the orders to "Stand Down" and to "Give them the space to destroy" should be liable for damages....Not for their failure in their attempt to protect but for choosing not to even try.

Individual cops were not given the resources nor backup to be able to prevent the looting and rioting.

Their commanders failed both them and the city. The Mayor failed everyone.  
They should be PERSONALLY liable for the damage they allowed, by their inaction, to occur. 

How can I believe anything the FBI claims?

I mean, there have been some things that looked "fishy" in the past, and some stuff that was obviously just politically motivated....

But really?

The gunman who shot a top House Republican and four other people on a Virginia baseball field didn’t have any concrete plans to inflict violence on the Republicans he loathed, FBI officials said Wednesday...They said he acted alone and had no connections to terror groups. But they said they had not yet clarified who, if anyone, he planned to target, or why, beyond his animus toward President Donald Trump and the Republicans he felt were ruining the country...“At this point in the investigation, it appears more spontaneous,” Slater said.  Hodgkinson had a piece of paper with the names of six members of Congress written on it, Slater said, but the note lacked any further context and there was no evidence from his computer, phone or other belongings that indicated he planned to target those officials...He also took pictures of the baseball field where he would later fire more than 60 shots. “The FBI does not believe that these photographs represented surveillance of intended targets,” the FBI said 

I can no longer believe anything the FBI or it's agents tell me.

Move along, Nothing to see here, Citizen.

In other news:  "We have NEVER been at war with EastAsia".


ETA: (found via INSTY)  P much what I said, only written better:retty

There’s no reason to beat around the bush here: what the FBI is claiming is mind-boggling when they claim the shooter had no target in mind. Consider the number of accidents of circumstance you would have to believe were going on here to not have the shooter doing what seems obvious from every piece of evidence we have: researching and planning for an attack on Republicans of some kind, particularly looking for an opportunity when security will be low and vulnerability will be high. This was an attack, not an “anger management” problem.

Step back, though, and think on the institutional conclusions here. Considering how ludicrous the FBI’s conclusions are as it relates to an attack on the third ranking member of the House of Representatives, you might reconsider whether to trust the FBI’s conclusions in other areas, as well. And this is how our faith in institutions is degraded: steadily, gradually, with incident after incident where men in suits stand in front of microphones and make claims we know are not the whole truth.

No free speech

At least not in Europe:

German Police raid homes of 36 people:

German police have carried out a series of raids, targeting people suspected of posting hate content on social media.

and in Britain: 

Online troll jailed for suggesting Britain should introduce a ‘bomb a mosque day’

I don't think I'd move there if you paid me. I often dislike some of what I read here in the US, but I will stand fast to fight for the right to say it. 

Who defines "Hate Speech"? 

I just don't get it

While I never thought that GOP Congressmen and Senators were incredibly intelligent, one would think that they can tell the difference between ObamaCare Lite and REPEAL.

I know 4 year olds that have that much cognitive ability.

So either they really like the idea of Socialized Medicine, or they are Rilly, Rilly Stupid.

And this bill really doesn't fix any of the significant failures of BarryCare.

I stand with the GOP Senators that will vote against their Party and against this legislation. 

Border wall

Now with Solar Panels.

Which means he has now conflicted at least 25% of the opposition.

If he'd put windmills every 100 yards, he'd get even more support from the other side.....

Add in "Fair Trade" timbers and "Sustainable" netting and he'd have at least 5/8 of the opposition demanding the wall..... 

A perfect example

Of when Trump Derangement Syndrome and "Journalism" cross paths.

A total loss of rationality. And objectivity too.

It is amazing that anyone can find someone to publish this sort of shit drivel. 

Odd, this was OK 8 years ago.

When the Democrats were jamming ObamaCare up our ass:

Now they want a place at the table on Trump's revision of ObamaCare. One that removes some of the freebies and some of the waste.

One that (supposedly, we don't know) will make it a viable plan.

Guess they'll have to "Pass it to find out what's in it", just like 8 years ago.

(actually, I don't like it, and I want to see what is in it before the vote is taken. But innit interesting how, when their tactics are used against 'em, that the DNC types get a pissy? Sauce/Goose/Gander, and all that.

And the Democrats and the Media (but, again, I repeat myself) keep conflating "Health Care" with Health Care Insurance"....they are either stupid or deliberately lying to keep their socialist program alive.....

Yer gonna smile

Hell, yer gonna laugh.

'Tis interesting:

So some asshole white guy struck back against those acts of terrorism by muslims in the UK.

Sadly, he likely struck against the wrong folks. This is a tragedy. And bad, and wrong...And, as the authorities have stated, Terrorism.

However, one has to ask: Why was it IMMEDIATELY identified as terrorism? When a Muslim person does the attack, it takes hours or days for the "Authorities" to claim (or admit) Terrorism. This time, with what was appears to be a white man being the perpetrator, it was called Terrorism nearly immediately.

Why the rush this time?

Happy father's day

To all the Dads out there, especially mine. I was lucky, I had a good dad. Hope you did too...




For the more urban folks, if you know who yer daddy is, and if he isn't in prison, you should call him today. 

Droppin' like....

Flounder.

Steven Furst has passed.

Christ, I must be getting old. all these actors from my youth are dropping dead.  

Just in time for summer:

Yeah, one wonders about the timing.....


This oughta make for a "lively" weekend

Minneapolis cop acquitted in fatal shooting of Philando Castile.

I dunno. He seemed panicky in the video, like he knew he had overreacted. And Castile never took the gun out of his pocket. He DID inform the officer, which, according to the video from the squad car, is when he got shot.

I wasn't there, and neither were you. But having said that, I don't see how, were I on that jury, could have voted for acquittal.

YMMV.

Of course we can't.

Of course, we all knew he was either stupid, or lying.

Now there is this...and THIS

Good thing we didn't start drilling in 2012. Why, then our gas might be under a dollar.....