The octogenarian busybody

Richard Jack Rail  "Former president Jimmy Carter says John Bolton will be a "disaster for America" as national security Adviser.  Carter knows about disasters, his presidency having been the worst of its generation, so bad that it wasn't topped until the Obama administration.  Carter meddled in foreign policy repeatedly after his one term in office, always with adverse consequences.  The Logan Act is aimed specifically at busybody former presidents, but Carter behaves stupidly with full forgiveness.  No one knows why.

"They gave Jimmy a Nobel Prize for Peace, too – just as they did Obama.  It cannot escape anyone's notice that the dumber a president or presidential policy, the greater the attention lavished by the left.  Actually, it's worse than that – the greater the adulation by the left.  These guys who wreck America's standing in the world get Nobels while those who do the real work – Nixon opening China, say, or Reagan or Trump beefing up the military to stand up to Russia – get vilification.

"This seems to be the way of the world.  Good guys get notoriety, bad guys fame, at least for a while.  Winston Churchill was pretty much in disgrace until called upon to save England in WWII.  Once that was done, they kicked him to the curb again.  Stalin was celebrated by the West until he went so far in the wrong direction that it could no longer be denied.

"Jimmy Carter's not really a bad guy.  He's more like Neville Chamberlain – just has a knack for coming down on the wrong side of every issue.  He doesn't lack brain power or information; he lacks common sense and wisdom.  That combination makes him unable to learn from his own or others' mistakes.  He just keeps coming back with more and worse ideas that deepen his hole.  He never gets it, and he wants to drag America down into his hole with him." . . .

California, here they come to vote

Rich Terrell

A frivolous lawsuit against Trump's census question  "A new lawsuit by liberal state attorneys general is trying to stop the Trump administration asking people whether they are citizens on the 2020 census.
"This was as inevitable as night following day. But can this case be taken seriously, and should it be?

"It may be that the citizenship question simply encourages people to lie. But it cannot be reasonably claimed to violate anyone's constitutional powers or rights. If you don't like it, pass a law. If you can't pass a law, too bad." . . .

Ending California's raid on congressional seats

. . . UPDATE: California is suing to stop Trump from doing what was done in past censuses. I overlooked the obvious: This gives California 55 Electoral College votes instead of 52. It's like adding another state to California's total. . . .

Walmart Kicks Cosmo Out of the Checkout Line, Restricts to Magazine Rack

Legal Insurrection

The culture war is made up of many small battles and this is a victory in this right direction.

"It’s about time Cosmo was treated like the trashy rag it is.

"Mega-retailer Walmart has agreed to restrict Cosmopolitan magazine to the periodical racks. Up until the agreement, which was made public Tuesday, Cosmo could be found in checkout lines.

"The National Center On Sexual Exploitation lobbied heavily to have the often erotically-centric magazine moved out of children’s line of sight. Because who doesn’t want their children seeing “9 Best Anal Sex Positions” in bright, bold letters, plastered across a scantily clad Disney star? (Cosmo frequently publishes articles containing graphic sex tips innocuously buried between “bubblegum pink” covers and Disney star photo shoots.)

"From the National Center on Sexual Exploitation:

After collaborative dialogue with NCOSE, Walmart will remove Cosmopolitan magazine from checkout lines at 5,000 stores across the country. Protecting minors from the sexually explicit material that Cosmopolitan embodies and perpetuates has been a long-time priority of NCOSE.

. . .  Full article

Jumping whole-hogg into the political spotlight (Updated)

It's so easy and fun to be a liberal and it gets you adoration from celebrities.

Parkland survivor David Hogg calls on advertisers to boycott Laura Ingraham’s Fox News show

"David Hogg, one of the most outspoken survivors of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, is pushing back against Laura Ingraham’s taunts.
Ingraham, a conservative radio host and author, teased Hogg about the 17-year-old’s rejections from college.
“David Hogg Rejected By Four Colleges To Which He Applied and whines about it,” she tweeted Wednesday with a link to a Daily Wire article. “(Dinged by UCLA with a 4.1 GPA...totally predictable given acceptance rates.)”
Hogg told TMZ that he had been rejected from UC Los Angeles, UC San Diego, UC Santa Barbara and UC Irvine, but accepted at Florida Atlantic University, Cal Poly and Cal State San Marcos.
"I am not surprised at all, in all honesty,” he told the gossip site.

. . . "Around 9:30 p.m., he published a list of advertisers, asking his 595,000 followers to call the companies, including Hulu, Liberty Mutual and Sleep Number. " . . .

Gonzo Overkill

UPDATE from Daily Caller: 

UPDATE: Advertisers pull ads from Fox’s Ingraham after her jab at Parkland student As of 1 pm, CST 3/29
. . . "Nutrish, celebrity cook Rachael Ray’s dog food company, announced on Thursday that it was “in the process of removing ads from Laura Ingraham’s program.” TripAdvisor, the American travel website, told POLITICO that it had “made a decision to stop advertising on that program.” . . .
Ingraham apologizes.

How Do You Really Feel about David Hogg and Emma Gonzalez?  "A proposed thought experiment for my liberal friends: What if the Parkland students – and the hundreds of thousands of other fired up adolescents who gathered around the nation last weekend – were not on your team?  What if, rather than advocating in favor of something you passionately agree with, they were advocating in favor of something you passionately disagree with?  Say, for example, their voices were raised not for the purpose of restricting access to guns, but for the purpose of restricting access to abortion?" . . .

. . . So, for example, instead of seeing a sixteen-year-old on a podium in front of an enthusiastic throng thundering that "any politician who receives a dollar from the NRA has blood on his hands," it would be "any politician who receives a dollar from Planned Parenthood has blood on his hands."

. . . "Someone should say to these young people: you are being used.  If that's OK with you, fine.  But know that's what it is.  And know that sometime down the road, it is going to end, and you are going to be discarded.  At that point, at least some of you will look back on your behavior during this period and be embarrassed, even horrified." . . .

The 15 minutes of fame are about up for Daniels and Hogg
. . . "The loathsome David Hogg and the pitiful Stormy Daniels are each sad commentaries on our 15-minutes-of fame culture.  The saddest aspect of their brushes with celebrity is their own apparent belief that these events are meaningful.  They are not – not one bit.  They are both this month's media instruments of rage and ratings.  Nothing Hogg has to say is based on truth or facts.  Whatever is true or not true re: Daniels's accusations is of no interest to anyone but voyeurs like Anderson Cooper." . . .

School leader who saved 600 Jewish children in Amsterdam from the Nazis,dies aged 107

UK Daily Mail
 . . . "including some he smuggled across the city in laundry baskets" . . . 

. . . "He was recognised as Righteous Among the Nations - a title for non-Jews who saved Jews from murder during the Nazi slaughter - in 1972.

"Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu honoured Van Hulst during a trip to the Netherlands in 2012, telling him: 'We say, those who save one life save a universe. 

"'You saved hundreds of universes. I want to thank you in the name of the Jewish people, but also in the name of humanity.'

"He saved the children while head of a Protestant school that was opposite a nursery used by the Nazis to detain young Jews before they were moved to death camps. 

"When there were too many children - under-12s were separated from their parents by the Nazis - they would be moved to Van Hulst's school. " . . .

I should add that there was a Muslim who aided Jews and is named among these Righteous. Had these people been devoutly religious, they could very well have killed Jews with their own hands. TD 

Dr. Mohamed Helmy and Frieda Szturmann

Dr. Mohamed Helmy and Frieda Szturmann

Anna Boros Gutman (second from left) during her visit to Berlin with her daughter Carla (extreme left), Dr. Helmy and his wife Emmi (right), 1969

American Silliness: March 28, 2018

Planned Parenthood: Disney needs a princess who has ‘had an abortion’

. . . “ 'We need a Disney princess who’s had an abortion,” Planned Parenthood Keystone said in a tweet on Tuesday morning.
"The abortion giant also said there should be “pro-choice,” “illegal immigrant,” “union worker” and “trans” Disney princesses.
"The tweet was deleted after a backlash on social media ensued."   One would hope.

More here:  Planned Parenthood Calls For Disney Princess Who’s An Illegal Alien, Had An Abortion…

 Michael Moore: ‘Voting Age Should be Lowered to 16’
"Countries that allow its citizens to vote at 16 include corruption-ridden Brazil and Cuba, which hasn’t head a free and open election in more than 50 years."

Heineken gets hammered for ‘sometimes, lighter is better’ ad where a beer slides by black patrons to ... white people

Elias 

Replying to @chancetherapper

You have to be joking. A commercial about LIGHT beer is racist for saying light is better. Sometimes I feel like people over analyze and want everything to be racist. You weird for this one man.

But Saturday's #MarchForOurLives rally, with its acid rhetoric and progressive overreach, may have been the Left's first setback of the year.

Reminder From CNN's Don Lemon: You’re A Bad Guy If You Criticize The Parkland Students  

Hogg isn’t stupid; he must realize how divisive his own rhetoric is. But he also knows his dual identity means he has an endless line of political credit from the likes of CNN to say this without serious challenge. His moral authority, to the political class, is absolute.

(That would be this Don Lemon:  CNN’s Don Lemon Asks Whether A ‘Black Hole’ Swallowed Malaysian Plane)

JOKES ABOUT DEMOCRAT ACTIVIST DAVID HOGG WILL NOT BE ALLOWED!

Also here: YouTube Censors ADOLPH HOGG Video – Snowflakes Offended

. . . "This punk, who is attacking regular Americans and our rights on behalf of the Soros globalists and their political machine deserves every bit of vitriol aimed in his direction." . . .

The satirical video is at the site, but I did not post it here. Hitler comparisons are so passe' , trivialized and overused. 

Like when Democrats claimed Laura Ingraham gave a Nazi salute?

Look at all those ‘Nazi salutes’ – what, the liberal media didn’t report it like that for the Dems?

Someone who fits the perfect definition of narcissist

7 Symptoms of Narcissistic Personality Disorder  Those with NPD tend to think and speak only of themselves, often about their physical appearance, talents or achievements. However, these comments tend to be exaggerated and are not necessarily accurate reflections of their lives.They also have little regard for those around them, rarely, if ever, asking others for their thoughts or feelings. This is because people who suffer from NPD lack empathy, and are therefore unable to recognize or understand the needs and feelings of others. . . .

Rich Terrell

Jack Hellner  "If anyone wants to see the definition of a narcissist, one need only look at the following quote from President Obama:

“If I could do that effectively, then — you know — I would create a hundred or a thousand or a million young Barack Obamas or Michelle Obamas,” Obama said. “Or, the next group of people who could take that baton in that relay race that is human progress.”

"Note that he did not say create one million Martin Luther Kings or Mother Teresas, nope, he believes he and Michelle are much better than them.

"It is no wonder that Obama thinks he is so special because most of the media told him how great and how smart he was throughout his term as president and continues to genuflect to him.

"I personally believe that one Obama or Michelle is way too many because I never wanted to remake the greatest country that ever existed, and I was very proud of the U.S before Obama came along, unlike Michelle.

. . . 

"If the U.S people want to see one of the best reasons not to want one million Obamas around, it would be by looking at the Benghazi scandal. As a terrorist attack was happening the night of 9/11/12, and no one knew how long it would last, Obama, his Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and others did nothing to save the Americans under attack. Instead they seemed solely focused on creating a narrative to save Obama’s job as he ran for re-election. They even lied to the families of those who died." . . .

Obama Showing His Vindictive Streak    . . . "Still, it cost the government more money to try to keep WWII vets out of an open-air memorial than it would have to just leave it be. In Virginia, the NPS [Obama would have said "my NPS"] ordered the Claude Moore Colonial Farm to shut down, even though it's privately funded." . . .

Obama’s ‘Vindictive Payback’ to Israel at UN  . . . "President Barack Obama was being vindictive in refusing to veto a UN Security Council resolution condemning Israel, Abe Foxman, former National Director of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), charged on Sunday." . . .
Shall we go on, and on, and.......?

The Ignorant Parkland Kids Don't Speak for Their Dead Classmates

PJ Media

"It’s incredibly annoying to be lectured to by high school kids because the fact of the matter is that very few of them know anything about anything. Why would they? They’re kids. Somebody else feeds them, puts a roof over their heads and pays their bills. This is nothing to be ashamed of for a teen. I was just like that; so were you and so was just about everyone else. In fact, it’s almost universal once you get past a very small subset of humanity like Alexander the Great and Annie Oakley. That lack of knowledge wouldn’t be a problem at all except when it’s combined with today’s “We’ve got to pump up their self-esteem at all costs” culture along with manipulative adults looking to use kids for their own purposes. This is how you end up with a kid like David Hogg saying something as ignorant and arrogant as this:

The Outline described Hogg as “mad as hell” and when they asked him about why he and his fellow students were the ones pushing gun control laws, he said it’s because their parents “don’t know how to use a f**king democracy.”

"It's like when your old-a** parents are like, ‘I don't know how to send an iMessage,' and you're just like, ‘Give me the f**king phone' and you take it and you're like, ‘OK, let me handle it,' and you get it done in one second," Hogg said. "Sadly, that's what we have to do with our government because our parents don't know how to use a f**king democracy, so we have to." . . .

22MOON.com

CNN’s media critic Brian Stelter ADMITS he let David Hogg LIE about GUNS…  . . . “ 'A disservice is a strong word, but when I was interviewing David Hogg only ten days after the massacre, there were a few times I wanted to jump in and say let’s correct that fact,” he said.

"Cupp immediately wanted to know if Stelter ever corrected the record. According to Stelter, he let most of the lies stand as truth and just tried to make excuses. “And at one of the times I did and other times I did not. There’s always that balance, how many times you’re going to interrupt,” he argued. A blatant double standard that would not fly if Hogg was from the right or someone on Fox News."

"And here’s his absurd excuse:" . . .

It's so much fun being an angry victim:

Even a teenager can be a liberal

Today's Democrat-- Party: So simple, even a teenager can run it!  . . . "Every word out of the mouths of these teens comes direct from the age-old Democrat anti-gun playbook that was around long before any of these teens were even born.  On one hand, you can excuse these teens being naïve about the longstanding Democrat gun control agenda.  On the other hand, they are mostly products of public schools, where they were taught from pre-school that guns are bad and must be controlled by the government.  In any case, the anti-gun portion of the Democrat playbook is not very complicated; it simply instructs Democrats to lay the blame of every shooting at the feet of the NRA and the Republican Party.  And if you haven't read the latest updated Democrat political playbook, just pick up a public school history or government textbook, and you'll be all caught up.

"It was both funny and scary watching the rallies and listening to the speeches of these teens this weekend.  Funny, because I kept picturing in my mind the teens morphing into either Nancy Pelosi or Chuck Schumer as they were ranting Democrat gun control talking points.  And scary, because they acted and sounded exactly like politically seasoned Democrat hacks." . . .

The March for Their Lies  "History, it is said, is a lie agreed upon, and the so-called March for Our Lives celebrated the lie that easy access to guns and the NRA is placing our schoolchildren's lives in jeopardy.  You did not hear from any speaker – the foul-mouthed activist David Hogg in particular – that neither the march nor the burial of 17 Parkland victims would have been necessary but for the failure of law enforcement agencies to do the jobs assigned to them."

Informant provided FBI evidence Russia aided Iran nuclear program during Obama years

Donald Trump and Political Cartoons 2017

Would this be called collusion between Obama and Russia?

The Hill  . . . "William Douglas Campbell told The Hill his evidence included that Russia was intercepting nonpublic copies of international inspection reports on Tehran’s nuclear program and sending equipment, advice and materials to a nuclear facility inside Iran.
"Campbell said Russian nuclear executives were extremely concerned that Moscow’s ongoing assistance to Iran might boomerang on them just as they were winning billions of dollars in new nuclear fuel contracts inside the United States.
“ 'The people I was working with had been briefed by Moscow to keep a very low profile regarding Moscow’s work with Tehran,” Campbell said in an interview. “Moscow was supplying equipment, nuclear equipment, nuclear services to Iran. And Moscow, specifically the leadership in Moscow, were concerned that it would offset the strategy they had here in the United States if the United States understood the close relationship between Moscow and Tehran.” 
"A spokesman for former President Obama did not return multiple requests for comment."
. . . 
"He said he became concerned the United States was providing favorable decisions to the Russian nuclear industry in 2010 and 2011 — clearing the way for Moscow to buy large U.S. uranium assets and to secure billions in nuclear fuel contracts — even as he reported evidence of Moscow’s help to Iran.
“ 'I got no feedback. They took the reports and the reports, I assume, went to specific people assigned to analyze the reports and that was the last I heard of it,” he said." . . .

And of course, this collusion:

CNN On 'Chappaquiddick': It Was Poor Ted Kennedy's 'Darkest Hour.' Twitter Explodes With Outrage.

Weasel Zippers photo

Daily Wire  "On Tuesday, CNN decided to tweet about its coverage of “Chappaquiddick,” the new film revolving around Senator Ted Kennedy and the drowning of Mary Jo Kopechne in the back seat of Kennedy’s car.
CNN

✔@CNN

"Chappaquiddick" explores one of Sen. Ted Kennedy's darkest hours https://cnn.it/2GdLeUa

"It wasn’t just the tweet that completely ignored the real tragedy of Kopechne’s death while moaning over Kennedy’s poor feelings; even the article it linked to started like this: “Director John Curran was at first hesitant to sign on for ‘Chappaquiddick,’ a film that explores a tragic chapter in the life of Sen. Ted Kennedy.”

"A little history:

"Kennedy and Kopechne had attended a party along with 10 other people July 18, 1969. Half the guests were married men, half were single women in their 20s. Kennedy and Kopechne left the party; Kennedy drove, allegedly with Kopechene in the back seat. He later said at the inquest that he made a wrong turn onto Dike Road, which was an unlit dirt road that led to Dike Bridge.

Cartoon added by TD

. . . "Kennedy’s car dove into the Poucha Pond and rested upside down. Kennedy swam out; Kopechen was trapped. Her body was not recovered until a Fire Department diver got it at 8:45 the next morning. The diver, Capt. John Farrar, said Kopechene had not died quickly; she had slowly suffocated to death. Kennedy did not report the accident to the Edgartown police until 9:45 a.m. the next morning.

"Kennedy later claimed he couldn’t rescue Kopechne because of the "strong and murky current" in which he kept getting "swept away." But at 12:45 a.m., roughly the time of the accident, there was no current." . . . 

 

. . . "Although Kennedy said he didn’t call for help because he was in shock, Jacoby noted:

Yet he was not too traumatized to return to the barbecue and fetch two close lawyer friends, Joey Gargan and Paul Markham. He was not too traumatized to make more than 16 long-distance phone calls that night to aides and advisers (none of whom tried to get help to Kopechne, either). Despite his "shock," he managed to: return to his motel, complain to the manager about a noisy party, go to sleep, chat with a friend the next morning about the boat race, order two newspapers, meet again with Gargan and Markham and return to Chappaquiddick to call another lawyer from a pay phone -- all before going to the police.

"After the secret inquest, District Judge James Boyle found "probable cause" that Kennedy had driven "negligently" and had engaged in "criminal conduct" that "contributed to the death of Mary Jo Kopechne." But Kennedy was never prosecuted and never tried." . . .

Redux tweeted: 

BREAKING: It was a little bit darker for Mary Jo Kopechne, morons pic.twitter.com/mW5jgbRjhy

Do not let the children lead

Michelle Malkin   "Where are all the grown-ups in times of crisis and grief? Don’t bother searching America’s prestigious law schools.
   "Two adult men, occupying lofty perches as law professors, argued this week that the voting age in the U.S. should be lowered to 16 because some high school survivors of the Parkland, Florida, shooting who want gun control “are proving how important it is to include young people’s voices in political debate.”
   "That was the assertion of University of Kentucky law professor Joshua Douglas on CNN.com. He praised some student leaders at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School who’ve been making the rounds on TV, shouting at President Trump, Republicans in Congress and the NRA “to demand change” — which Douglas defines obtusely as “meaningful gun control,” whatever that means.
   "Because these children are apparently doing a better job at broadcasting his own ineffectual political views, Douglas asserts, “we should include them more directly in our democratic process” by enfranchising them now.
    "Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe similarly tweeted, “Teens between 14 and 18 have far better BS detectors, on average, than ‘adults’ 18 and older.” On what basis does distinguished Professor Tribe make such a claim? On a foundation of pure, steaming BS.
   "Undaunted, gun control advocate Tribe urged: “Wouldn’t it be great if the voting age were lowered to 16? Just a pipe dream, I know, but . . . #Children’sCrusade?”
   "This is unadulterated silliness. It’s hashtag hokum from a pair of pandering left-wing profs exploiting a new round of Democratic youth props. I have called this rhetorical fallacy “argumentum ad filium:” If politicians appeal to the children, it’s unassailably good and true." . . .