Kevin McCarthy and the English language

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John Ellis
"When Kevin McCarthy cited the creation of the Benghazi committee as an example of House Republican political aggressiveness, his colleagues were alarmed.  But the astonishing incoherence of his subsequent attempt to explain himself in an interview with Bret Baier should have alarmed them even more."

. . . "What he needed to say was very simple.  Try this: “I was speaking not about the fundamental purpose of the committee, but only about how one thing it happened to find (the home-brew server) had a devastating impact on the Clinton campaign.”

"There, that wasn’t so hard, was it?  McCarthy has a staff, he’s been in politics a long time, he’s majority leader, he wants to be speaker – and he can’t figure out how to say something as simple as this?"

Savannah Guthrie asks Hillary the right questions

Someone finally asked Hillary Clinton to Get Real About Her Email Server
. . . "She doesn’t answer the question, because any politician worth their donor dollars knows that a full “mea culpa” after months of claiming otherwise is chum in the water for their opponents and unfriendly media. If she were truly honest, and truly “sorry” for the time and expense now dedicated towards investigating her system of records, she would at least attempt to explain herself using an excuse other than, “it was allowed!”



"Guthrie also pressed Clinton on an apparent double standard—if it were Cheney, would you expect us to be so understanding about this? House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s Benghazi megagaffe on the House Benghazi committee reared its head, affording Clinton the opportunity to pivot away from uncomfortable honestly and toward her usual GOP-blaming and -bashing:" . . .

"Of course, McCarthy suggested no such thing, but alas—such is the nature of the gaffe.
Hillary Clinton spent this entire interview looking for an outlet to blame Republicans for problems she was directly responsible for during her time as Secretary of State. Even assuming, for the sake of argument, that there was no wrongdoing on her part with regards to what happened in Benghazi—why blame Republicans? If we make the same assumption about about her email server—why blame Republicans?

"You’d think such a strong, confident, glass ceiling-shatterer would have better ammunition backing up her arguments. "

Details emerge about Oregon college shooter

How does one give you information on this murderer without using his name? Avoid where possible, I guess.

UK Guardian
"Umpqua college shooter, who was born in England according to media reports, had a varied online presence that indicated support for the IRA"

We prefer seeing his victims to seeing his face again, TD

. . . "The final video uploaded by Lithium_Love to the torrent site, just three days ago, was a BBC documentary called Surviving Sandy Hook about the school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, in 2012.
Other uploads include PDFs of the occult magazine Phenomena, conspiracy-themed documentaries including Lost Secrets of the Illuminati, and assorted soft pornography.

School cancels "America Pride Day". Students stage a rebellion

High School Students Revolt After Principal Cancels ‘America Pride Day’

"Lord knows you wouldn’t want to offend someone by actually being proud to be an American.

"Via Daily Caller:

Students at a Wyoming high school took matters into their own hands last week by festooning themselves in the colors of the American flag after the principal and an assistant principal canceled “America Pride Day” over concerns that some immigrant students could feel sad and left out.

The scene of the red, white and blue brouhaha was Jackson Hole High School in Jackson, Wyo., reports the Jackson Hole News&Guide.

In response to a decision by school officials to replace a previously-held “America Pride Day” with “College Day” as part of this year’s homecoming festivities, a large group of senior students and some juniors protested by bedecking themselves with American flag capes, American flag headbands, American flag shorts and all manner of beautifully and garishly patriotic American flag ornamentation.

After school, one kid also drove a diesel truck around the parking lot with a bunch of American flags waving in the breeze.

Jackson Hole High principal Scott Crisp blamed the results of a student survey and his concerns that some students may feel excluded if they see an American flag for the administration’s decision to cancel “America Pride Day.”

Keep reading…   Lotsa comments to this as one might imagine.

How can a president's foreign policy be such an embarrassment before the world and him still seem so confident

"Russia bombed U.S.-backed rebels in Syria Wednesday and warned U.S. warplanes to stay away. Iran’s special Kudz forces sped across Iraq to join the Russians in Syria. The good news is, if President Obama loses one more country in the Middle East he ties the record set by the Ottoman Empire in 1917. "  Comedian Argus Hamilton

Obama Is Going to Get a U.S. Pilot Killed
. . . "In short, it appears that President Obama has deliberately degraded the prestige and power of the United States in the international arena, and specifically relative to Putin's Russia.

"President Putin isn't scared of President Obama.  He certainly doesn't respect him or the U.S.'s willingness to go to the mat for its own or its allies' interests.  His weakness on the world stage has emboldened Mr. Putin.  Putin has now become the prime actor in the fight against ISIS...at least as the world perceives him.  He also appears to represent the only world power deliberately protecting Christians from murder and mayhem.  President Obama, on the other hand, appears increasingly weak and ineffective."

The oldest known selfie - 1836

Guilty Fix  
"We spend so much time learning about the past – all of the great people, thinkers, and moments – that it’s only natural to romanticize it.
"But some recently discovered historical photos suggest that perhaps the past was stranger than you think."

The Demonization of Christianity

Townhall



"When a white supremacist murdered black parishioners in Charleston, SC, there was national outrage leading to the banning of the Confederate Flag and a fresh discussion of race relations in America. But when Christians are targeted and murdered on a campus in Oregon, much of the nation yawns.

"According to eyewitness reports, the Oregon shooter asked students what their religion was, and if they said “Christian” he shot them in the head. Yet the secular media, for the most part, is focusing more on gun laws than on the shooter’s alleged anti-Christian motivation. Why?

"Can you imagine what would have happened if the shooter went into a creative arts class, asked the students to declare their sexual orientation, and if they said “gay” shot them in the head?" . .  .  Full article here.

Images such as this do not help:

  

More examples of Obama's failures in foreign policy

Putin’s Air Strikes in Syria Are Merely the Latest Example of the Obama Doctrine’s Failure

"If the humiliation of the Obama administration continues at this rate, by this time next week you should expect to see Secretary of State John Kerry on all fours at the United Nations, getting paddled by the Russian foreign minister and shouting, “Thank you, comrade! May I have another?” 

"On Monday, President Obama and Vladimir Putin had a meeting at the United Nations. All Putin wanted from it was a photo of the two men huddling together. The Russian president needed to show his people that he’s still a major player on the world stage, a big man driving events. Obama, who spent much of the last year trying to isolate the butcher of Ukraine, gave Putin exactly what he wanted. In wall-to-wall coverage, Russian media celebrated the big man’s diplomatic triumph and his geo-strategic genius.

"What was Obama’s price for granting Putin this PR windfall? The leader of the free world made the Russian autocrat listen to another tedious lecture about how Putin doesn’t understand his country’s interests as well as Obama does. No doubt Putin would have preferred to avoid yet another seminar on how the world should work. But if Paris was worth a mass for Henry IV, no doubt Syria (and not just Syria) was worth yet another sonorous tutorial about the moral arc of the universe doing jobs our president won’t." . . .

 Joint Tsk-Tsk Issued to Russia as White House Official Argues Putin Is Bombing Out of Position of Weakness
. . . "The Senate Armed Services Committee chairman said “the only way you can interpret this” is as “testimony to the lack of concern that Russia has about America’s reaction to their actions.' ” . . .

Clackamas: when a massacre was stopped by a gun.

Clackamas -- the Oregon Massacre a Gun Stopped
. . . "Overlooked in the news coverage of the Umpqua shootings was the Oregon massacre that wasn’t at Clackamas Town Center Mall in December of 2012. As Investor’s Business Daily noted, fortune placed a good guy with a gun at the same place a bad guy with a gun planned a massacre:

Before the tragedy in Connecticut, a shooter at an Oregon shopping mall was stopped by an armed citizen with a concealed carry permit who refused to be a victim, preventing another mass tragedy.
In the target-rich environment of the Clackamas Town Center two weeks before Christmas, the shooter managed to kill only two people before killing himself. A far worse tragedy was prevented when he was confronted by a hero named Nick Meli.
As the shooter was having difficulty with his weapon, Meli pulled his and took aim, reluctant to fire lest an innocent bystander be hit. But he didn't have to pull the trigger: The shooter fled when confronted, ending his own life before it could be done for him.
We will never know how many lives were saved by an armed citizen that day.

. . . "So enough of the exploitive rhetoric, President Obama. Ever since Cain slew Abel, there has been evil in the world and a desire among some to kill others. Disarming the law-abiding to prevent such killings is like trying to fight drunk driving by making it harder for sober drivers to get driver’s licenses. We don’t need more gun-free zones populated with unarmed targets. We do need more people able to defend themselves.

"There was no such person in Roseburg, Oregon, but there was one at Clackamas, Oregon."

Read more here.

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Is Mayor DeBlasio a Socialist? Look what happens under his government

Shall We Call Bill de Blasio a Socialist?  (2013)

"Let us consider the reasons, pro and con. In favor:

1) He is one.

2) He called himself one.

3) There is no evidence of an ideological shift.

4) He supports the Sandinistas who are socialist and admit it.

5) He supports ACORN, Occupy, the New Party, and the Working Families Party, which are socialist and don’t admit it.

6) Honesty is the best policy.

7) American democracy works best when people know what they’re voting for.

Against:

1) Calling him socialist may cost him the election: bad for Democrats.

2) Calling him socialist may not cost him the election: even worse for Democrats." . . .

You elect a socialist, you get this:

Even Art Work Has Racial Quotas Now

. . . "This bigotry is even affecting what paintings are being hung on the walls. It would be insensitive to hang a white person’s painting if there wasn’t a minority’s also, they now say.
This is happening in all levels of the government nationally. Segregation is wrong, everyone knows it’s wrong, but even so, they are segregating whites. Future decisions won’t be made on the quality of work but on the race of the creator or employee."

. . .
. . . "Most people aren’t looking at race when they look for a doctor or an economist or a teacher, they’re looking for quality. They want the best, not the best Eritrean.

"We now make educational, housing, and other legal decisions based on “disparate impact” and call it fair. Disparate impact states that a policy is considered discriminatory if it has a disproportionate “adverse impact” against any group based on race, national origin, color, religion, sex, familial status, or disability when there is no legitimate, non-discriminatory reason.

"So, if the end result is not in favor of a protected class, even if there is no evidence of discrimination, it’s discrimination. Whites are not a protected class but everyone else is.

"In 2009, the White House established another monstrous big government agency, the Office of Urban Affairs, to do exactly this sort of thing." . . .

All mass shootings since the 1950s have one thing in common

Unfortunately, many liberals already know the facts but continue to rely on their fickle emotions to further endanger innocent civilians. It’s time for the gun-runner-in-chief chastise them for clinging to their beliefs and our guns.

Mad World News

. . . "By studying mass shootings in the U.S. over the last 60 years, Dietz found that all but two took place in gun-free zones, that is, designated areas where it is illegal for anyone to carry a firearm.
Not only did Dietz find that these zones were hotbeds for gun violence, but public schools in which all staff are unarmed, as was UCC, were prominent targets.

"Dietz concluded that arming a minimum of 10 percent of faculty in schools, along with a resource officer, would decrease school shootings by roughly 70 percent. If the U.S. would have adopted this policy, nearly three-quarters of students and staff murdered by shooters could still be alive today.

"Dietz’s extensive research takes into account four main scenarios involving an active shooter:

• Scenario 1: No access to control or security.
• Scenario 2: Resource officer
• Scenario 3: 5-10 percent of work force has concealed carry
• Scenario 4: 5-10 percent of work force has concealed carry and a resource officer

"However, the research didn’t just pertain to gun-free zones. Dietz disproved the liberal complaint that more firearms equals more violence, citing that the firearm ownership increased by 61 percent between 2004-2012, yet there was a reduction in violent crime by 12.9 percent since 2008." . .  .

All pictures added by TD

Pat Condell on the Religion of Peace

This should put Pat Condell on somebody's list

So who is Pat Condell?
Patrick "Pat" Condell (born 1949 or 1950)^[2] is a writer, comedian and YouTube personality. He performed alternative comedy shows during the 1980s and 1990s in the United Kingdom, and won a Time Out Comedy Award in 1991. He was also a regular panellist on BBC Radio 1's "Loose Talk"."

See also: Park51

"Condell has been resolute and outspoken in his opposition to the development of Park51, near the site of 11 September 2001 World Trade Center attack, in lower Manhattan. On 4 June 2010, he released a video titled "No Mosque at Ground Zero", in which he said that it was representative of Islamic triumphalism and that the United States would soon be on the verge of Islamization and have its freedoms trimmed, as Europe has.^[57] The video has attracted 6 million views since it was uploaded. Speaking on why he believes the Mosque is offensive, Pat Condell stated:

"To describe it as they have as a tribute to the victims is beyond bad taste, and shows a profound contempt for those who died. It would be hard to find a more provocative gesture short of standing on their graves and burning the American flag. Yet how typical of Islam, with its own hair trigger sensitivity to the slightest imagined insult, to

do something so arrogant and insensitive."

"Additionally, Condell cast some doubt over the funding of the community centre, and claimed that Islam would have been banned in the civilised world if it wasn't for the fact it was a religion. He compared the system of Sharia and the Muslims who endorse it to Nazi Germany." . . .

Condell also counsels us on the problems that have been known to come from hiring a Muslim