Feelin' the Bern

Bernie Sanders accepts Pope Francis' invitation to speak at Vatican conference   . . . "The Vermont senator was invited out of the blue Friday by Pope Francis to speak at an April 15 church conference on social, economic and environmental issues." . . .[!]

Obama Administration Sticking it to Whitey

One dear friend of ours - white friend, by the way - who came out of poverty told us that the culture never leaves them. That you can lift someone out of the slums and place them into a mansion, but they will continue to think as they did.

Robert Weissberg  "Is the Obama administration, or at least some officials in it, hostile toward whites? This is certainly an awkward, publicly unspeakable question -- and answering it is exceptionally difficult. Not easy to discern the motives of countless Washington bureaucrats. 

"Nevertheless, recent events outside of Baltimore, MD suggest that enmity toward whites does afflict some Obama administrators and our proof, though short of the smoking gun standard, is probably as good as it gets. 

"In a nutshell, thanks to Washington’s money and political pressure, thousands of poor blacks will now be re-located from Baltimore’s slums to upgraded housing in the surrounding, nearly all-white suburbs. " . . . 

. . . 

"One can only wonder why officials cannot foresee this racial-train-wreck-in-the-making. This is punitive policy-making that can only reflect the presence of deeply rooted racial animosities. Helping poor African Americans find decent housing is just the polite cover story. At least some government officials in the Obama administration want to punish suburban whites and given that Uncle Sam will foot the bills, inflicting this damage is irresistible."

Judge Tells Kids ‘Stop Acting Like Trash’ In Epic Speech

Weasel Zippers

Too bad people like this didn't get the lecture

"Tell that to the 882 shot or killed in Chicago this year so far…

"Via Daily Caller:

Aaron Goggans — the core organizer of Black Lives Matter, DC — told CNN’s Carol Costello Thursday that black-on-black crime is a myth.

Bill unloads on Obama: 'World coming apart'

Clinton takes shot at Black Lives Matter for 'defending' murderers

WND "Former President Bill Clinton unloaded on the Obama administration and Black Lives Matter protesters during a campaign event Thursday for his wife in Pennsylvania.

"Clinton took a veiled jab at Obama’s handling of world affairs, saying, “Unlike when I was president, a lot of things are coming apart around the world now. We like to just think about our economic issues, but you have to worry about a collapse in Europe dragging back the American economy. You have to worry about the largest number of refugees since World War II. And all this stuff comes home.”

"As WND reported, the Clinton family has been unleashing a barrage of attacks on Obama in recent weeks. On March 21, Bill Clinton publicly lamented the “awful legacy” of the past eight years.

"Clinton told listeners at Spokane Falls Community College that if they believed the U.S. had “finally come to the point where we could put the awful legacy of the last eight years behind us and the seven years before that where we were practicing trickle-down economics and no regulation in Washington, then you should vote for [Hillary].”

"Then WND reported when Chelsea Clinton took a cue from her father and bashed Obama’s record to benefit her mother in March. Chelsea attacked the president’s key accomplishment – Obamacare." . . .

NOT SATIRE: Trump’s INSANE Response To Ted Cruz’s Win In Wisconsin

Noisy Room

“ 'Ted Cruz is worse than a puppet — he is a Trojan horse, being used by the party bosses attempting to steal the nomination from Mr. Trump.” – Donald Trump campaign response, April 5, 2016

"After Ted Cruz won the Wisconsin primary, some pro-Trump Twitter accounts imploded. Oftentimes using blatantly fake “news” stories from questionable sources, these accounts often claimed that Ted Cruz engaged in voter fraud to steal the Wisconsin primary from the rightful winner, Donald Trump.

. . . "But even those silly tweets did not compare to the response from Donald Trump’s campaign itself, where Ted Cruz was accused of “coordinating with his own SuperPAC’s [sic] (which is illegal) who completely control him.”

George Will: Nikki Haley Would Be A "Promising" VP Choice For Ted Cruz

Real Clear Politics

"GEORGE WILL: He'd have to throw into that mix Kasich himself, as I'm sure your listeners know. No Republican has ever won the White House without carrying Ohio. You have to carry Ohio and Florida. Because there is a 'gender gap' as they used to call it in the Republican Party about approaching women. It is really narrower than that -- Mitt Romney carried married women.

"[South Carolina Republican Governor] Nikki Haley is a promising candidate for two reasons. One thing you don't want in a candidate for a vice presidential nomination is surprises. You want them to be surefooted and not make news and not disrupt the momentum of the campaign. She has demonstrated a tremendous surefootedness. Going through the traumatic reaction after the horrible shooting in Charleston, and also the difficulty of bringing down the Confederate flag from the state capitol grounds in Columbia. 

"Second, she does as a governor, she is presiding over a state transformed more and more for the better... It just continues to boom, with Boeing and all the rest down there." . . .

Clinton Email Scandal: Hillary’s Documents Flowed Openly Across Web

Investor's Business Daily

"Corruption: It’s been known for some time that Hillary Clinton’s personal email contained top-secret government material. We’re also learning just how vulnerable her system was. She might as well have posted documents on an open blog.

"While secretary of state, Clinton conducted State Department business through a personal email account handled by a private server that did not meet the government’s security standards. The homebrew system was probably the most susceptible to hackers during its first two months of existence when emails passed through it without encryption.

"The domain name clintonemail.com was registered on Jan. 13, 2009, eight days before Clinton became secretary of state, Computer World reported last month, “but it wasn’t until March 29 that the first (security) certificate was issued for the domain.” The certificate is necessary to encrypt connections from cell phones and computers accessing the server and email account, said the report.

“ 'Without that security, data would be flowing across the Internet in plain text,” the trade magazine reported." . . .

Hillary needs to reset with a lot more than the Russians

‘Panama Papers’ Implicate Client of Clinton-Linked Lobbying Firm

How the "reset" works

"A firm with ties to senior members of the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign registered to lobby on behalf of a major Russian bank just weeks before a massive leak exposed the bank’s role in a web of secret financial dealings that have enriched members of Russian president Vladimir Putin’s inner circle.

"The “Panama Papers” are being called “the Wikileaks of the mega-rich.” Corporate documents leaked from the law firm Mossack Fonseca show how world leaders have used offshore tax havens to hide their involvement in lucrative companies and business deals around the world."

Soros is suspected of being behind much of this  . . . "Don’t you wonder about who might be being protected by the Soros-funded group that is stage managing the leaks?  I certainly do.  When I think of difficult-to-trace massive offshore investments, the first name that comes to mind is George Soros, the very definition of lack of transparency."

Mrs. Clinton panders -- but the left hates her anyway   . . . "Also, Mrs. Clinton decided to pander to the left and has gotten nothing but contempt for it. She has adopted positions, from health care to illegal immigrants to saying that the unborn has no constitutional rights, that are nothing but cynical pandering.

"Unfortunately for Mrs Clinton, the left that now runs her party knows that she's pandering. They know that she's changed positions over and over again for purely political reasons. They don't trust her no matter how much she panders for their vote."

Hillary just boxed in AG Loretta Lynch  . . . "Hillary Clinton yesterday made it very difficult for Attorney General Loretta Lynch to decline to prosecute a possible criminal referral from the FBI. Using her trademark sandpaper tone of voice when she is being emphatic, speaking to a rally in Pennsylvania, Hillary flat out declared: “Everyone who violates the law anywhere should be held accountable.' ”

Interesting WW2 Irony

Daily Bananas  "Some baffling bits of irony: 1. The insignia of the U.S. Army’s 45th Infantry division was the swastika (the 45th was part of the Oklahoma Army National Guard and the swastika was a tribute to the large Native American population in the southwest) 2. Hitler’s private train at the start of the war was named “Amerika” 3. At the time Pearl Harbor was attacked, the top U.S. Navy command was called CINCUS (pronounced “sink us”)."

Adolf Hitler’s nephew, William Hitler, served in the U.S. Navy during World War II.

William Patrick Hitler fled Nazi Germany in 1939 and immediately tried to enlist in the Allied forces. His uncle Adolf referred to him as ‘my loathsome nephew.’

. . . "William Hitler joined the U.S. Navy in 1944 and was discharged three years later after being injured in service. After returning to the U.S., he changed his last name to Stuart-Houston. He married, had four children, and died in Patchogue, N.Y., in 1987." . . .

Hillary Clinton has had enough of Bernie Sanders

Politico via Drudge

"There’s an unmistakable Groundhog Day quality to this spring campaign swing by Hillary Clinton: the chain-chugged Diet Dr Peppers, the pained rasp and crisp pantsuits — and the once-commanding lead undercut by an underdog near enough to nip at her sensible heels.

"Seventeen years ago, the underdog was Rick Lazio, a forgettable Long Island Republican with a paperboy’s face and a war chest brimming with anti-Hillary millions who gave Clinton a brief scare in a triumphant Senate race that inaugurated her electoral career. This year, the foil is independent democratic socialist Bernie Sanders, a stubborn Brooklynite with a nearly nonexistent path to the nomination and a nearly unquenchable thirst for humiliating the Democratic front-runner in her home state’s April 19 primary.

"Clinton didn’t much care for Lazio and she’s clearly arrived at the enough-already stage with Bernie." . . .

The Shallowness of Bernie Sanders

"Bernie Sanders: Deep down he is shallow. And Marxist."

Thomas Lifson; Part one:  "Bernie Sanders is genuine left wing radical, and unless he has changed since the time he was mayor of Burlington, Vermont, believes that the shared misery of impoverished-by-communism Cuba is preferable to the unequally-distributed abundance of the United States. David Horowitz and others have made the point that unless a former communist explicitly rejects his former beliefs, [you] can assume that he or she still adheres to them.

In that [context], take a [look] at [the] excerpts from Sanders television interviews of yore dug up by Michael Moynihan of the Daily Best and John Stossel, and aired on Stossel’s Fox Business Network show, showing Sanders praising bread lines as a good thing:" . . .

Thomas Lifson; Part two  The thoughts of Chairman Bernie, as expressed in the transcript of a long interview he had with the editorial board of the New York Daily News, are remarkable. For their ignorance, banality and shallowness. Michael Cohen of theBoston Globe issued a hilarious series of tweets (hat tip: Instapundit) on the exchange, including this gem:

1. Michael Cohen ‏@speechboy71  Apr 4

   What comes across is a man who has a completely unsophisticated understanding of even the issues that are at the heart of his campaign

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Michael Cohen‏@speechboy71

It's also evident that he is not conversant on any issue outside of income inequality & even there he just regurgitates his talking points

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   Michael Cohen ‏@speechboy71  Apr 4
   For me reading this interview is shocking. I know Sanders talks in platitudes, but he seems to think in them too.

. . . "Huh? Thomas Edison had nothing to do with it? J.P. Morgan had nothing to do with it? This is Marxist magical thinking, that enterprises organize themselves, and that only workers, with no management necessary, create innovation, make efficient decisions on resource allocation, guide complex organizing efforts, designing, manufacturing, and marketing products.

"Only a Marxist believes anything like this. And adherence to this view creates poverty, bread lines, and mass misery. As communism has every time it is tried."

Huh? Thomas Edison had nothing to do with it? J.P. Morgan had nothing to do with it? This is Marxist magical thinking, that enterprises organize themselves, and that only workers, with no management necessary, create innovation, make efficient decisions on resource allocation, guide complex organizing efforts, designing, manufacturing, and marketing products.

Only a Marxist believes anything like this. And adherence to this view creates poverty, bread lines, and mass misery. As communism has every time it is tried.

Bernie Sanders: Deep down he is shallow. And Marxist.

And if Hillary is knocked out of the nomination process and Sanders supporters demand and get him as the Democrat nominee, with Trump continuing his walk to the GOP nod, Sanders would win the presidency, according to current polling.

No matter how hard I pinch myself, I can't seem to wake up from this nightmare.

"And if Hillary is knocked out of the nomination process and Sanders supporters demand and get him as the Democrat nominee, with Trump continuing his walk to the GOP nod, Sanders would win the presidency, according to current polling.

"No matter how hard I pinch myself, I can't seem to wake up from this nightmare."
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Windpower is blanketing the countryside; to what end?

Wind-power subsidies? No thanks.  From April 1, 2013  . . ."Government subsidies to new wind farms have only made the industry less focused on reducing costs. In turn, the industry produces a product that isn’t as efficient or cheap as it might be if we focused less on working the political system and more on research and development. After the 2009 subsidy became available, wind farms were increasingly built in less-windy locations, according to the Department of Energy’s “2011 Wind Technologies Market Report.” The average wind-power project built in 2011 was located in an area with wind conditions 16% worse than those of the average project in 1998-99.

"The Department of Energy admits that this trend is due at least in part to the 2009 federal subsidy: Because the grants that companies receive aren’t based on how much power they produce, “it is possible that developers have seized this limited opportunity to build out the less-energetic sites.” Meanwhile, wind-power prices have increased to an average $54 per megawatt-hour, compared with $37 in 2005.

"If our communities can’t reasonably afford to purchase and rely on the wind power we sell, it is difficult to make the moral case for our businesses, let alone an economic one." . . .

Big Wind's Bogus Subsidies   "Giving tax credits to the wind energy industry is a waste of time and money."

"If private companies like Berkshire Hathaway are not willing to jump in without government incentives, it is a sign that the energy technology is a bad investment. It simply does not make sense for the government to subsidize energy technologies that are economically unviable, while attempting to restrict other options that provide reliable and affordable energy for everyday Americans." . . .