Omarosa tripped White House alarms after being fired: report

The Hill   "Trump administration aide Omarosa Manigault Newman reportedly set off White House alarms in an attempt to gain access to the residence after learning that she had been fired from her job.

"According to a report from CBS News, Manigault Newman tried to enter the White House residence after chief of staff John Kelly told her that her employment in the administration would end in January.

"Manigault Newman, a former contestant on NBC's “The Apprentice,” has served as the director of communications for the White House Office of Public Liaison. 

"April Ryan, a journalist with American Urban Radio Networks, reported during an on-air appearance with CNN that "everything blew up" when Kelly attempted to discuss Manigault Newman's walk-in privileges and access to Trump.

"Ryan reported Manigault Newman saying that "all hell will break loose" if she lost walk-in privileges. Kelly, according to Ryan, said "OK, all hell is going to break loose."

"Kelly reportedly began restricting Manigault Newman's access in September.

The White House said Wednesday that Manigault Newman provided her 

"Resignation and that her last day of employment would be Jan. 20. The White House did not confirm that Manigault Newman was fired." . . .

Even the President's own family has been restricted in their access:   New reports surfaced Saturday claiming White House Chief of Staff General Kelly is trying to restrict Jared Kushner’s unfettered access to the President.  "The White House Chief of Staff isn’t just working to restrict Kushner’s access to President Trump.
"A new report by Axios is claiming General Kelly is shielding President Trump from any negative reports on his DACA stance. Staffers can no longer walk into the Oval Office and hand Trump a Breitbart article or a printout of tweets showing how angry his supporters are over amnesty.
"The only way staffers can meet with President Trump is through General Kelly which means they have to submit an official, documented, request to meet with him.

According to the POLITICO report, President Trump has been casually surveying people close to him about whether having his family members in the government is creating too much noise.

"Both Jared and Ivanka have reportedly taken kindly to the new rules set by John Kelly."   Emphasis added by TD

She claimed the WH "lack of diversity" made her lonely

IT’S AN INDUSTRY: Thanks to Lisa Bloom We Now Know Trump Accusers are Paid $750,000 by Dem Donors to Say Trump Abused Them

The Gateway Pundit

"Thanks to Lisa Bloom, spawn of Gloria Allred, we now know that Trump accusers are paid $750,000 by top Democrat donors to accuse the billionaire president of sexual abuse. With Democrats it’s all about power by any means necessary." . . .

"A well-known women’s rights lawyer sought to arrange compensation from donors and tabloid media outlets for women who made or considered making sexual misconduct allegations against Donald Trump during the final months of the 2016 election, according to documents and interviews.

California lawyer Lisa Bloom’s efforts included offering to sell alleged victims’ stories to TV outlets in return for a commission for herself, arranging a donor to pay off one Trump accuser’s mortgage and attempting to secure a six-figure payment for another woman who ultimately declined to come forward after being offered as much as $750,000, the clients told The Hill.

The women’s accounts were chronicled in contemporaneous contractual documents, emails and text messages reviewed by The Hill, including an exchange of texts between one woman and Bloom that suggested political action committees supporting Hillary Clinton were contacted during the effort.

'We're writing this to ram it down the public’s throat': OJ Simpson's former lawyer and investigator reveal plans for a bombshell book to 'explain why he was acquitted'

UK Daily Mail   "O.J. Simpson's former lawyer and an investigator who worked on his case have revealed plans for a book they say will finally put to rest the public's disbelief that he was acquitted of murder. 

"F.Lee Bailey was one of several lawyers who worked on Simpson's case in the 1990s. 

"He was brought on by the lead counsel Robert Shapiro after Simpson was charged with murdering his estranged wife Nicole Brown and her friend Ron Goldman. 

"Simpson was acquitted in 1995 but, since he was released from prison in Nevada earlier this year on separate charges, his old defense team say the public interest and scrutiny which they experienced during 'the trial of the century', has been revived.  

"Now 84, Bailey and Pat McKenna, the investigator who the defense hired, are shopping a book to publishers which they say will finally address what millions have been incredulous over for decades - how did OJ get off? " . . .

OJ and F. Lee Bailey at Simpson's murder trial

"'Never in my life have I been punished more for getting an acquittal. 

"'Lawyers and judges have remonstrated with me for prostituting my talents because, they say, I was the reason O.J. got acquitted,' he complained. 

"He said prosecutor Marcia Clarke was 'not the brightest lawyer I ever met' and that she and the LAPD put forward a 'BS' case. " . . . 

The Clinton Impeachment Is Finally Getting the Hollywood Treatment

It’s unclear whether three new creative treatments will be influenced by the sweeping cultural reckoning taking place over sexual misconduct. Editor’s Note: This piece originally appeared at Acculturated. It is reprinted here with permission.

National Review  "American Crime Story show runner Ryan Murphy recently announced that he is planning a series on President Bill Clinton’s impeachment. The History Channel just gave the green light to a show on the same subject. And Amazon Studios is slated to do a film related to what has proven to be the biggest crisis to hit the American presidency in the last 45 years.

" Murphy’s take is based on CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin’s 2000 book, The Vast Conspiracy. The book appears to pin the blame for Clinton’s troubles not on Clinton for deciding to perjure himself, but on a network of scheming political opponents on the right. Upon its release, the New York Times called the book “highly partisan” and “willfully subjective.” The Times added that the author “ignores Clinton’s failure in his constitutional duty to uphold the rule of law.”

"However, in a Vox interview, Murphy framed the narrative of the time and of the show as “the birth of a certain movement. The alt-right movement in some ways—a movement that was so riled up against the Clintons.” This characterization seems to clear Bill Clinton of culpability for his actions while straining to tie recent events, such as the rise of the alt-right, with Clinton’s impeachment proceedings, which is absurd." . . .  Read more

When you even lose the super-liberal cartoonists, you have reached the bottom of the pit, to wit:

Attorney Lisa Bloom Paid Trump Accusers for Their Stories

The Political Insider "Just two days ago Bill O’Reilly dropped a bombshell during an appearance on Glenn Beck’s radio program.

"He told Beck that he has proof some of the women who have accused President Donald Trump of sexual misconduct were paid to do so. O’Reilly told Beck that his team of investigators discovered a tape where a lawyer offers a woman $200,000 to “accuse Donald Trump of untoward behavior.”

“ 'It exists. We have urged the person who has the tape to hand it over to the U.S. attorney, because my investigative team believes there are three separate crimes on the audio tape,” O’Reilly said.

"The former Fox host then answered if he’ll release the tape himself. Here’s what he said: “I may have to go to the U.S. attorney myself. I don’t want to have to do that and inject myself into the story, but I had my lawyer listen to the tape. … There are at least three crimes on the tape. So as a citizen, I may have to do this.”

"O’Reilly then said that the President is aware of the tape’s existence.

"Sound crazy? Well, just days later we’re learning for a fact that some accusers may have been bribed.

"According to The Hill" . . .

A well-known women’s rights lawyer sought to arrange compensation from donors and tabloid media outlets for women who made or considered making sexual misconduct allegations against Donald Trump during the final months of the 2016 presidential race, according to documents and interviews.California lawyer Lisa Bloom’s efforts included offering to sell alleged victims’ stories to TV outlets in return for a commission for herself, arranging a donor to pay off one Trump accuser’s mortgage and attempting to secure a six-figure payment for another woman who ultimately declined to come forward after being offered as much as $750,000, the clients told The Hill. . . .

 "The going rate on slander?"   Lisa Bloom asked donors for cash to pay Trump accusers  . . . "So maybe you’ve wondered, when you see one of these high-profile press conferences in which Gloria Allred or Lisa Bloom sits there with a client who makes an accusation: How is this woman affording to pay the lawyer? And furthermore, for what? Unless they’re suing the person being accused, what’s the legal question at stake?

"Now you have your answer: Sleazebag attorneys like Allred and Bloom represent these women in the hope they can help them sell their stories to the media in exchange for cash, in which case the sleazebag lawyer gets 33 percent. So before the accuser retains the attorney, it’s with the understanding that this is a money-making operation.

"Accusing famous men of sexual misbehavior is apparently big business for these two." . . .

Seriously? Ellen DeGeneres Turns to Hillary Clinton to Ask: Can Trump Last Four Years?

Newsbusters  (Video at the link) "Hillary Clinton’s seemingly endless book tour stopped by the Ellen DeGeneres show on Friday. Even for the liberal entertainer, the questions were over the top. DeGeneres turned to the woman who lost the 2016 election to wonder if Donald Trump can “last” four years as president. She also wistfully highlighted their 2016 plan to do a show from the Clinton White House. 

"DeGeneres derided, “You're just thinking, if this was a movie, people would go, ‘There is no way.’  And it just continues to go on. Do you think that he is really going to last four years?” Maybe Clinton might not be the most objective person to answer such a question? " . . .

The Strzok/Page texts and investigator objectivity

Legal Insurrection  "Can partisans be neutral?"

. . . "And yet the public’s trust in the integrity of such investigators rests on the idea that they can, and will, put aside such feelings entirely because most investigators are going to have political opinions and biases.

"If the Strzok/Page emails had just been about their feelings towards Clinton and Trump, it would be difficult to say for sure whether those feelings influenced that pair’s actions and decisions during the course of their respective investigations. But the texts also contain statements that indicate the possibility that one or both of them may have done something (or at least planned and discussed doing something) to act on their biases to prevent Trump’s election.

"For example, there’s plenty of speculation (see this, for example) on the meaning of the following text message sent from Strzok to Page: “I want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in Andy’s office — that there’s no way [Trump] gets elected — but I’m afraid we can’t take that risk.”

(Emphasis added by TD)

"What was the “path”? What was the “risk” they couldn’t take? Was Strzok just saying that Page had said Trump’s election was impossible and that he disagreed and thought it possible? Or was he saying there was something they were going to try to do to prevent the possibility of his election? We may never know." . . .

How many of Robert Mueller's lawyers gave money to Democrats?

American Thinker  "Since June, Special Counsel Robert Mueller has been investigating whether the Russian government and the Trump campaign colluded in an effort to swing the 2016 presidential election in Trump's favor.  To help with the task, Mueller assembled a team of seventeen accomplished lawyers, although in September, two of the seventeen were terminated.

"The credibility of the Mueller team depends on the degree to which the public perceives it as being above politics.  No reasonable person would think Mueller and his team members lack a political position of some sort, but American society is justified in expecting that each of them will at least maintain the appearance of objectivity and that as a team, they will have a rough balance between left- and right-leaning political views.  Mueller's enterprise is "independent" only to the degree that it betrays no sign of favoring one political side over the other.

"What follows is a list of the all the team members in alphabetical order with any public information regarding their political orientation.  The likelihood that such a heavily pro-Clinton and anti-Trump team orientation happened by chance is infinitesimally small." . . .

. . . 

"Robert Mueller -- the man of great integrity.  Really?

As director of the FBI from 2001 until September of 2013, Mueller knew that Tenex (the American subsidiary of the Russian state-owned nuclear umbrella agency, Rosatom) was engaged in illegal activities with the objective of gaining Russian control over American uranium resources.  He knew this because . . . 

"At least as early as February of 2009, Robert Mueller also knew about a Russian spy ring that was trying to get close to the Clinton State Department for the purpose of influencing its decisions but also to be well positioned in the likely event that Hillary became president.  Mueller knew all this.  He knew that the Russians were trying to manipulate the Obama administration into approving the sale of Uranium One to Rosatom (and he knew that the Russians were angling to gain influence over Hillary as a potential president)." . . .

Ben Garrison cartoons

Recently at the Sutherland Springs, Texas Baptist Church

Sutherland Springs Texas Baptist church 

Regarding an erroneous post that the church is closed, They are NOT:   

"This was just brought [t]o my attention. Idk how to “fix google” but, WE ARE NOT CLOSED! Share this with the world. . . The shooter DID NOT CLOSE THE CHURCH !"

Here is their Facebook page

as of the latest date: Services on Sunday 

9:15 A.M. Fellowship Breakfast

9:45 A.M. Sunday School

10:45 A.M. Greet Visitors & Visitation

11:00 A.M. Morning Worship Service

6:00 P.M. Sunday Evening Worship **

** Please Note: Sunday services will resume as scheduled on November 19, 2017, with the exception of 6 p.m. worship**

Location:  First Baptist Church, 216 4th Street, Sutherland Springs, Texas 78161

"Be cautious of the existing GoFundMe campaigns. The GoFundMe campaigns below are campaigns we know that are sending funds to the victims and families. Other campaigns that are not listed here may not be legitimate."

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'I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.'   John 16:33

The fallacy of American recycling

Bloviating Zeppelin   "From NPR.org:

Recycling Chaos In U.S. As China Bans ‘Foreign Waste’

by Cassandra Profita:  Like many Portland residents, Satish and Arlene Palshikar are serious recyclers. Their house is coated with recycled bluish-white paint. They recycle their rainwater, compost their food waste and carefully separate the paper and plastic they toss out. But recently, after loading up their Prius and driving to a sorting facility, they got a shock.

"Stop. You know me. You know I can’t resist. How typical is it that Leftists recycling in Oregon Leftist Central, Portlandia, have recycled paint on their house, recycled rainwater, possess a compost pile and thirty different recycling bins. They’re damned near a parody of themselves.

"But when they all piled into their Toyota Prius — clearly one of the most damaging cars on the planet when it comes to toxic materials, danger posed to emergency respondersand overall ground rape — I knew they were more (of course) naive little GOWPs.

"A Prius damaging to the environment? From NCPA.org:

PRIUS OUTDOES HUMMER IN ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE

The Toyota Prius, the flagship car for the environmentally conscious, is the source of some of the worst pollution in North America, and takes more combined energy to produce than a Hummer, says the Recorder.

Consider:

• The nickel contained in the Prius’ battery is mined and smelted at a plant in Ontario that has caused so much environmental damage to the surrounding environment that NASA has used the ‘dead zone’ around the plant to test moon rovers.
• Dubbed the Superstack, the factory has spread sulfur dioxide across northern Ontario, becoming every environmentalist’s nightmare.
• Acid rain around the area was so bad it destroyed all the plants and the soil slid down off the hillside, according to Canadian Greenpeace energy-coordinator David Martin.
• After leaving the plant, the nickel travels to Europe, China, Japan and United States, a hardly environmentally sound round the world trip for a single battery.

• 

"But that isn’t even the worst part, says the Record. According to a study by CNW Marketing, the total combined energy to produce a Prius (consisting of electrical, fuel, transportation, materials and hundreds of other factors over the expected lifetime), is greater than what it takes to produce a Hummer:

• The Prius costs an average of $3.25 per mile driven over a lifetime of 100,000 miles — the expected lifespan of the Hybrid.The Hummer, on the other hand, costs a more fiscal $1.95 per mile to put on the road over an expected lifetime of 300,000 miles.That means the Hummer will last three times longer than a Prius and use almost 50 percent less combined energy doing it.

From Wired.com:

Go Green — Buy a Used Car. It’s Better Than a Hybrid

Chuck Squatriglia:  DITCHING YOUR GAS guzzler is a great way to reduce your carbon footprint, but if you really want to do something about global warming, get a used car. You’ll be putting less carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

As Matt Power notes in this month’s issue of WIRED, hybrids get great gas mileage but it takes 113 million BTUs of energy to make a Toyota Prius. Because there are about 113,000 BTUs of energy in a gallon of gasoline, the Prius has consumed the equivalent of 1,000 gallons of gasoline before it reaches the showroom. Think of it as a carbon debt — one you won’t pay off until the Prius has turned over 46,000 miles or so.

There’s an easy way to avoid that debt — buy a used car. The debt has already been paid.

Much more; keep reading . . .

Toons added by TD

Virtue signalling from Slate: "Hallmark Christmas Movies Are White Nationalist Trump Propaganda, Of Course!"

Rush Limbaugh update at the bottom.
RedState

Red State writer Brad Slager opines: . . . "These movies are completely froth-filled, harmless holiday treacle with overly-familiar plotting and shot-glass deep characters always arriving to comfortable resolutions.

Oh, wait a tic – No! These are hate-filled racist lessons of weaponized pro-Trump aggression against all that is decent in this nation!!! At least that is the lesson delivered in Slate by writer Zachary Jason. He endeavored to watch 21 of these titles (seriously, props dude) and based on his essay he came away feeling as if he had witnessed nearly two dozen variations of “The Birth Of A Nation.”

“They all depict a fantasy world in which America has been Made Great Again,” writes Jason. “They brim with white heterosexuals who exclusively, emphatically, and endlessly bellow “Merry Christmas” to every lumberjack and labradoodle they pass.” They “bellow” this, mind you. It’s rather precious they way he resorts to hyperbole to express contempt for exaggerated representation.

. . . "Obliviousness reigns throughout the Slate piece, as it describes those demographics omitted in these productions are “everyone on Trump’s naughty list—Muslims (uh, do they celebrate Christmas???) gay people (I thought we should treat them as everyone else??), and feminists (who despise Hallmark-type traditionalism and would NEVER watch).

cartoon added

"Then, to lurch to hilariously hysterical levels of sensationalism, the men in these films are described as “strong-jawed heroes with white-nationalist haircuts.” I’m sure Mr. Jason thought he was delivering a hilarious rebuke here, except funnier than that is the charge arrives from the quill of a nearly translucent weak-jawed scribe. The writer himself resembles the wispy sort we recently witnessed brandishing tiki torches in Caucasian solidarity.

"While Hollywood has been desperate to load political commentary into everything from film narratives to sitcom plot lines to late-night talk shows and even our sports diversions, audiences are seeking out a respite. Yes, Hallmark Christmas movies are formulaic, cliche-ridden, and trope-filled affairs. What social scolds like Zachary Jason miss is that this is by design. The general public seeks out the familiar and comfortable during the holidays, to bring a welcome break from the constant little-drum-beat of how awful Trump is for us all."

Yet Hallmark is so popular they have expanded their programming across two channels: the Hallmark Channel and Hallmark Movies and Mysteries. TD

See all of Salon's posts so you will know their leftist positions know no balance before you read what they say about the Hallmark Channel

A super white Christmas: The Hallmark Channel gives us TV’s most homogeneous view of the holiday  

"Hallmark’s white Christmas tales have hooked holiday viewers while leaving minority actors out in the cold"

Fear not, feminists, help is on the way:
Disney plans feminist Santa Claus movie - with this FEMALE star tipped for the lead role

"Feminist Fail: Mrs. Claus Defined Only By Husband’s Accomplishments"  
. . . "We are complicit in this failure of feminism, by standing idly by and letting Mrs. Claus disappear in the large shadow of her portly, charismatic partner. It’s time to stand up for her and all forgotten housewives throughout history! So instead of leaving Santa cookies and milk this year, maybe put out copies of A Vindication of The Rights of Women by Mary Wollstonecraft, with some key passages highlighted."

Update from Rush Limbaugh: Virtue-signalling Slate Assaults the Hallmark Channel    "RUSH: How many of you watch the Hallmark Channel? This time of year, Hallmark has the classic Christmas movies of all time. They are wholesome. They are family oriented. They’re just the best Christmas movies and holiday movies that Hollywood’s produced. Well, Slate.com has published a scathing review of the network, claiming that it is showing round the clock Christmas movies that spread “Caucasian cheer.”

"Headline: “Hallmark Christmas Movies Under Fire for Spreading ‘Caucasian Cheer’ — ‘They brim with white heterosexuals who exclusively, emphatically, and endlessly bellow “Merry Christmas” to every lumberjack and labradoodle they pass. They’re centered on beauty-pageant heroines and strong-jawed heroes…’ the Slate writer declared. There were complaints about the lack of gay people and feminists and Muslims in Hallmark Channel’s movies.” Muslims don’t do Christmas! What…? What…? Anyway, I knew it was gonna happen. I knew this channel was gonna eventually come under assault for what it is, and it has now happened."

MSNBC Anchor Loses Net Neutrality Debate With Former FCC Commissioner [VIDEO

Daily Caller Video at this link.  "MSNBC anchor Ali Velshi got absolutely destroyed during an interview Thursday with former FCC commissioner Robert McDowell about net neutrality.

"Velshi got increasingly frustrated throughout the interview, even getting angry at his guest at one point for citing the laws that govern internet regulation.

"McDowell kicked off the interview by explaining that net neutrality, which applies Title II of the Communications Act of 1934 to broadband internet networks, wasn’t created until February of 2015.
. . . 
"Velshi, watching his narrative slipping away right in front of his eyes, came up with a scenario where Facebook could subsidize faster internet speeds in exchange for preferential treatment, reducing competition in the overall marketplace.

“ 'Section I and Section II of Sherman Act and Section III of Clayton Act…you just triggered all three of those sections,” McDowell smoothly responded. “That would be an anti-trust violation…that was against the law before February 2015 and it will be against the laws of today.”

"Velshi chastised McDowell for “dropping a lot of legal names,” asserting that the scenario he described “does happen.' ”

Will Net-Neutrality Zealots Apologize When The Internet Fails To Crash And Burn?  . . . "Tellingly, the first goal under net neutrality was to impose costly — and since repealed — privacy rules that had nothing to do with net neutrality. The second was to target an unlimited-video data plan provided by T-Mobile.
"Shorn of all the histrionics, the FCC's net-neutrality regime was little more than a blatant power grab by the Obama administration, and one that was completely unnecessary. There had been no evidence of consumer harm under the rules in place before 2015, and most of the claims about what ISPs will do — like those listed by Clyburn — are little more than ghost stories.
"Indeed, the only blocking and other forms of discrimination practiced on the internet these days has been from net-neutrality advocates like Twitter, Google and Facebook.
"In any case, the idea that the internet can only survive and thrive with the heavy hand of government guiding it has no historical support whatsoever."

FCC Restores Market Freedom To the Internet  . . . "The economics of supply and demand should be permitted to play out under free market conditions. Internet service providers, just like the large content providers, are not monopoly utilities that require utility-style regulation. That said, there will need to be antitrust enforcement by the Federal Trade Commission to prevent anti-competitive abuses, such as an Internet service providers favoring their own affiliated content providers in terms of quality of service, ease of customer access, or discriminatory pricing. The FCC’s repeal of the overly burdensome “net neutrality” rules in no way undermines the ability of the FCC or the Federal Trade Commission to step in and address any abuses that may arise." . . .

Pros and cons of net neutrality discussed:

Net neutrality is dead. Good riddance.   . . . "Meanwhile, Ajit Pai, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, has received death threats against his children. A man in Syracuse is facing federal charges after leaving a voicemail at the office of Rep. John Katko (R-N.Y.). "Listen Mr. Katko, if you support net neutrality, I will support you. But if you don't support net neutrality, I will find you and your family and I will kill you all. Do you understand? I will literally find all of you and your progeny and just wipe you from the face of the Earth.' " . . .