Florida Dem Who Criticized Trump for Disrespecting Soldier's Widow Has Terrible Record of Helping Vets

Leah Barkoukis

The congresswoman also opposed numerous bills aimed at improving VA services provided the veterans and their families

"It turns out the Florida Democrat who criticized President Trump this week for making insensitive remarks toward the widow of a fallen U.S. soldier doesn’t exactly have a great track record herself when it comes to helping veterans.

"Congresswoman Frederica Wilson has repeatedly voted against bills that help veterans and their families, according to VoteSmart.org. 

The measures that Wilson opposed included a bill that could have ensured that families of four soldiers slain in Afghanistan in 2013 received death and burial benefits. […]

Despite Wilson's claim to be “committed to honoring our service members, not only with words but with deeds,” she has voted against most bills ensuring continued funding for veteran benefits, including payments to widows of fallen soldiers, the vote-tracking site shows.

She has also opposed measures designed to improve the Department of Veterans Affairs.

In March 2013, Wilson opposed the “Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act,” which prevented a government shutdown and provided funds for the U.S. military and the VA.The bill, which passed with bipartisan support and was signed into law by the Obama administration, provided funding to the military and the VA until the next government shutdown showdown. […]

 

Weinstein's Pimps: Revenge Of The Ugly Girls

Ann Coulter  "Liberalism is a sexual assault protection racket. Judging by the last week's news coverage, EVERYONE in the liberal universe -- Hollywood, the fashion industry, the media and Democratic politics -- knew about Harvey Weinstein's sexual predations and nearly all of them were covering it up. 

"Liberals circle the wagons to protect fellow liberals. All those sacrosanct laws about rape, sexual assault and sexual harassment are the fire ax behind a glass door: "Break in case of conservative." 

"Weinstein admitted as much by immediately responding to the accusations against him by offering to donate money to fight the National Rifle Association. (That's not the thing we're worried about being cocked and loaded, Harvey.) 

"According to Ronan Farrow's comprehensive article in The New Yorker, "(m)ultiple sources" told him how Weinstein bragged that he could use his allies in the press to crush anyone who crossed him. 

"Longtime editor Tina Brown -- ironically, one of Weinstein's erstwhile clean-up gals -- told Charlie Rose: "What I found really unsettling was how many journalists, frankly, were on his payroll. I mean, you know, Harvey would have everyone on his payroll. All the people at the (New York) Post and people in all the tabloids, people writing stuff, entertainment writers, gossip writers." 

"I knew the gossip pages were written by PR agents, but I didn't realize they were written by sexual predators, too. I was curious about exactly who was protecting Harvey and, luckily, I have a Nexis account. The full list would take me well over my word limit, so this column will focus on the tabloid most slavishly devoted to protecting Weinstein's good name: the New York Post. " . . .

"Farrow's sources cited as their proof of how Weinstein could dirty up an accuser the coordinated tabloid attacks on Italian model Ambra Battilana Gutierrez after she reported Weinstein's assault on her to the police in 2015." . . .

Tony Branco

Gold Star mother says Trump showed DISRESPECT as he spoke to her fallen Green Beret son's widow

– as president says congresswoman who claimed he said the hero 'knew what he signed up for' was FABRICATING his words. 
If at my death I were praised by the president saying that I knew what I was enlisting for, I hope my survivors would be proud and honored.* TD

UK Daily Mail  

President Trump phoned Myeshia Johnson on Tuesday afternoon to give his condolences over the death of her husband Sgt. La David Johnson; Rep. Frederica Wilson said Trump told her the slain solider 'knew what he signed up for'

. . . "The Gold Star mother of an Army Special Forces sergeant killed in Niger is backing up a Democratic congresswoman's version of a condolence phone call between family members and Donald Trump, saying the president 'disrespected' them.

"Rep. Frederica Wilson had told reporters Trump dismissively said to Sgt. La David Johnson's widow Myeshia that he 'knew what he signed up for' by enlisting, adding that 'when it happens it hurts anyway.'

" 'Yes the statement is true,' Johnson's mother, Cowanda Jones-Johnson, told the Associated Press on Wednesday.

" 'I was in the car and I heard the full conversation. Not only did he disrespect my son,' she said, but Trump also disrespected the dead soldier's father and his widow." . . .

The Most Ridiculous Scandal Of The Night Involves Trump And Rep. Frederica Wilson  . . . "Wilson admitted to ABC News that she “didn’t hear the entire conversation” and that she “just can’t remember everything that he [Trump] said. But that stood out in everyone’s, uh heart, on the call. You don’t say that.”

"Wilson proceeded to claim that the partial conversation that she heard was “an insult to the entire Miami Gardens community, to our entire District 24, to Miami-Dade County, and to this nation.”

"The White House officially declined to comment on Wilson’s tirade.

” 'The president’s conversations with the families of American heroes who have made the ultimate sacrifice are private” a Trump administration spokesman told ABC News." . . .

Bahamian-American Wilson on right

The congresswoman who accused Trump of upsetting a dead soldier's widow has a history of antagonizing Trump

"As a Congresswoman sworn to uphold the Constitution, Rep. Wilson should know better." Commenting on her wanting to lock Zimmerman up "for his own safety"
Sarah Huckabee Sanders says it's 'appalling and disgusting' that congresswoman 'politicized' Trump's call to a soldier's widow
Rep. Wilson misspelled The young widow's name.

Michelle Malkin on this:  ✔

I call bullshit. This is hearsay, uncorroborated, and out of context pot-stirring by Dem partisans riding the impeachment bandwagon--and recycled by lemmings masquerading as journalists.#fakenewshttps://twitter.com/ABCPolitics/status/920505428735352832 …12:11 AM - Oct 18, 2017

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. . . Wilson admitted she did not hear the whole call.

“Now I didn’t hear the entire conversation,” she told WPLG,  “but when I tried to find out what the entire conversation was, she said I just can’t remember everything that he said. But that stood out in everyone’s, uh heart, on the call.' ” . . .

Obama pictured saluting soldier's casket. I considered this a cheap trick by a president who loved to inject himself into every significant event, and, like Bill Clinton, wanted to play the role of loving his troops. This was early in his administration and I consider him to have been hoping for street cred with America's troops. 
I cannot believe his mentors Bill Ayers and Jeremiah Wright would have approved without knowing it was a necessary political posture. TD

* Please excuse my using four personal pronouns ("I"). After eight years of Obama his speech patterns have become mine. TD

Kaepernick’s Collusion Claim Is a Likely Loser

Andrew C. McCarthy

"He’s not good enough to require collusion against him."

"If you’re going to do Muhammad Ali–type activism, you’d better have Muhammad Ali–type talent. That is the ultimate lesson of the Colin Kaepernick saga. 

"The former San Francisco 49ers quarterback, who has been without a team this season, announced this week that he will file a grievance against the NFL. Collusion, he claims, can be the only explanation for his unemployment: The league and its owners, fueled by President Trump’s “partisan political provocation,” have schemed to blackball him in violation of the collective bargaining agreement (CBA) between the NFL and the players’ union. 

"Kaepernick appears to be within his CBA rights to file the grievance, and to do so personally — i.e., to challenge the league and its owners on his own, rather than through the NFL Players Association. But unless some of the owners and league officials have said or written idiotic things in meetings, emails, text messages, and the like, the collusion suit should be a loser. There is no need to collude against a player who is not an obvious net-plus (in terms of performance and popularity) for any particular team. 

". . . No player has been cut or suspended in the wake of the presidential outbursts, which markedly increased the number of players protesting. Trump has crystallized the public anger over the protest as only his bully pulpit can, but he has had no impact on the status of Kaepernick or any other player.

"So let’s talk Colin Kaepernick." . . .   Read more.

British Socialist healthcare provokes fury with indefinite surgery ban for smokers and obese

Infidel Bloggers video

UK Telegraph  . . ."The CCGs said: “This policy is designed to improve patient safety and outcomes, both during and immediately after non-urgent surgery.  No financial savings are expected as a result of these measures.  We do however hope to improve the long-term health of our residents through the targeted stop-smoking and weight-loss support on offer to patients.” 

"Joyce Robins, from Patient Concern, said: “This is absolutely disgraceful - we all pay our taxes, and the NHS should be there when we need it; we did not agree to a two-tier system.”

"The CCGs already delay surgery for up to nine months for those with a high BMI, telling them to lose at least 10 per cent of their weight.

"The new rules increase the amount of weight the heaviest patients must lose -  and crucially, they mean those who fail to lose weight or give up smoking could wait indefinitely.

"The restrictions mean those with a Body Mass Index of 30 or more will be set targets to reduce their weight by 10 per cent over nine months, with those with a BMI over 40 will be told to cut their weight by 15 per cent.

"At the end of the nine months, any patient who failed to lose enough weight will have their circumstances “considered by a clinical panel” a spokeswoman said." . . .

Healthcare “Death Panels” Alive and Well in Britain  "Government “death panels” may still be years if not decades away here in the United States. But in Great Britain, which has suffered under socialized medicine since 1948, such panels — unlike the patients whose treatment they have denied — are alive and well. Despite the government’s best efforts to get them to pay for lifesaving cancer treatments, they continue to withhold these drugs on the basis that they cost too much, according to a report in the London Sunday Telegraph."'

McCain's amnesia on Obama's foreign policy failures

Jack Hellner

McCain received his medal from Joe Biden.

. . . "Somehow, Senator McCain was able to stand and watch as:

• Obama, Hillary, and Kerry essentially bragged about leading from behind.
• Obama said he wanted to remake America.
• Obama went around the world apologizing for what America had previously done.
• Obama drew the fictitious red line in Syria.
• North Korea, Russia, Syria, and Iran were essentially able to do whatever they wanted with almost zero consequences.
• Obama tried to undermine Israeli elections.
• Obama sold uranium to Russia.
• We paid ransom – over a billion dollar in cash – to Iran.
• Obama considered ISIS the J.V. team.

"How could McCain have watched everything Obama did from his seat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and not given a speech about abdicating American leadership?  I would love to have McCain or anyone else list Obama's foreign policy successes and how they maintained our leadership position that McCain says is now under attack because of Trump." . . .

Jefferson Davis School In Mississippi To Be Renamed After Barack Obama
More worthy, I feel are Allen B. West or Doctor Ben Carson schools.

Pyongyang from above: Interactive 360-degree video shows colourful tower blocks, empty roads and infamous Hotel of Doom in North Korean capital

UK Daily Mail  "A photographer has pulled off a world-first by recording a 360-degree video of the North Korean capital city. Following the Taedong River, Aram Pan - flying in a microlight - captures colourful tower blocks and factories. 
"Also visible in the video are the infamous Hotel of Doom, huge Kim Il-sung Square and the iconic Juche Tower. But the appropriately named Pan said despite his unprecedented access, he was still forced to delete material."
. . . 
"A photographer has pulled off a world-first by recording a 360-degree video of the most secretive capital city in the world from a microlight.

"In the spectacular video - which can be moved in any direction by the viewer with a cursor while it plays - Pyongyang's colourful apartment blocks, smoking chimneys and amazingly traffic-free roads can be seen below." . . .

Dare we hope this photographer doesn't come back a lover of the Kim's the way our ping-pong team came back from China praising "Mao-thought"? TD

Is Trump obsessed with wrecking Obama's legacy or simply keeping his promises?

How can the disliked-by-the-press Trump succeed against a celebrity president with a personal hagiographic press following like Obama? TD

American Thinker  . . . "Charles Blow at nytimes.com expands on Axelrod's theme, contending that "Trump's consuming obsession with undoing everything Obama did" is because it is "cold and miserable standing in the shadow of someone greater and smarter, more loved and more admired."

"Blow adds: "There is a thing present in Obama and absent from Trump that no amount of money or power can alter: a sense of elegant intellectualism and taste."

While I regard this petulant, vindictive - I won't say "narcissist" because that word, though unarguably accurate - has been overworked as much as Obama's use of personal pronouns (I. me, my, mine). I still see Obama gloating at his State of the Union, saying, "I won both of them!" 

He loved to say, "my military" as we all watched Iranian vessels swooping in on US Navy ships with neither fear nor respect, adversary Russian planes roaring just feet away from "Obama's warships" and that humiliating video of Iranians forcing Obama's sailors to their knees with hands on their heads, one weeping. TD

. . . "Howard Fineman at huffingtonpost.com says the "conventional wisdom about President Donald Trump is clear enough: He's an infantile, ignorant moron," adding that "Democrats hope against hope that he will be impeached over Russia."

Hanson replies: "Thinking (or hoping) that President Trump will implode, quit, be jailed, sicken, die, or be impeached is not an agenda."

Fineman further observes that "if Trump is a moron, he is a moron on a mission – and with more method to his madness than his enemies understand or want to

consider."  "The tweets are a useful distraction – a kind of air cover for his carpet bombing of federal policy and programs." . . .

. . . 

"Buckley adds that the Iran deal "was a treaty that should never have been adopted without two-thirds approval in the Senate, as required by the Constitution":

From 2013 to 2017 we experienced a period of monarchical government under good King Obama and his executive diktats. Under Trump we're seeing a return to constitutional government. Sometimes that means that things don't happen, and don't get passed. But if so, it's as the Framers intended.

"Roger Kimball, writing at amgreatness.com, concludes that "on the ground, in the real world, Trump is methodically pushing ahead with the agenda he campaigned on."  "In all of these areas, Trump is proceeding not as a wrecking ball but as a deliberate, if often voluble and sometimes exasperating, agent of change."

" 'Either way," Hanson adds, "the Trump presidency is moving at a speed likely unmatched by his predecessors, and he is getting somewhere fast.' ".

The Free Speech Tax at UNC-Gomorrah

Mike Adams

"The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) has long been a cesspool of moral rot and corruption. My longtime readers will recall that the first speech I ever gave on a college campus was at UNCG in 2004. The university had just spent $3,000 the night before to fund a speech by a porn star that referred to herself as the “Queen of Anal Sex” (I promise I am not making this up). But they refused to fund my speech on the First Amendment because it was “too offensive.” To cap it off, UNCG told the College Republicans (CRs) that “political” groups were not eligible for funding. This classification violated a Supreme Court case decided back in 2000.

"It is now 2017, and UNCG is still violating the Constitution in an effort to deter organizations from bringing in conservative speakers. In fact, it has gotten worse as their administrators are now violating their own classification policies in order to implement viewpoint discrimination. This time, they are doing it by unlawfully assessing a fee for the venue where Dinesh D'Souza will speak on November 2 nd .

"The controversy began when conservative UNCG students invited Dinesh D'Souza to speak on their campus through Young America's Foundation's (YAF) nationwide campus lecture program. Students requested funding for the lecture. When they later booked a venue for the lecture, UNCG administrators requested a copy of the speaker contract. As soon as they saw YAF on the contract, administrators disregarded their own rules and reclassified the event, requiring a venue fee not charged to students or recognized student groups that host events on campus." . . .

Jane Fonda apologized for her anti-American visit to North Vietnam. Recently she turns on our troops again.

Jane Fonda apologized for her anti-American visit to North Vietnam. Recently she turns on our troops again.

Update: Video- Jane Fonda Apologizes Again for 1972 Vietnam Trip "Jane Fonda says she doesn't regret her trip to Vietnam in 1972, even though veterans are still angry over her actions."   

Update: What Did Jane Fonda Really Do Over in Hanoi?  . . . "Chris Appy, a historian who has written about Vietnam, told HNN he once asked POW Porter Halyburton about the claims made against Fonda. Halyburton told him that the POW's had tried to debunk them even though they regarded Fonda as an unsympathetic figure." . . .

Weasel Zippers

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/video/jane-fonda-apologizes-1972-vietnam-trip-28380629
Jane Fonda: ‘I Don’t Regret Going to Vietnam’ — ‘I’m Proud That I Went
. . . “ 'I don’t regret going to Vietnam,” she said. “The United States was bombing the dikes in North Vietnam — earthen dikes in the Red River Delta. If the dikes had given way, according to Henry Kissinger, somewhere around 2 million people could have died of famine and drowning. And we were bombing, and it wasn’t being talked about. And I thought, ‘I’m a celebrity. Maybe if I go, and I bring back evidence.’ And it did stop two months after I got back, so I’m proud that I went. It changed my life all for the good.”

"The part she said she had regretted was appearing with the anti-aircraft and looking that she was against American soldiers and “siding with the enemy,” which she said wasn’t the case.

“ 'The thing that I regret is that on my last day there, I made the mistake of going to a ceremony at an anti-aircraft gun,” she added. “It wasn’t being used. There were no airplanes or anything like that. There was a ceremony. I was asked to sing and people were laughing and so forth and I was led, and I sat down. And then I got up and as I walked away, I realized, ‘Oh my gosh. It’s going to look like I am against my own country’s soldiers and siding with the enemy, which is the last thing in the world that was true.' ” . . .

The First Lady & Hanoi Jane - Michelle Obama Praises Jane Fonda In Interview

Below: Her association with another member of the Obama administration.

You know; the administration which named navy ships after gay activists; the one whose President promised the Russians more flexibility after the next election; the one which turned on America's allies and made romantic gestures toward our enemies who called for the death of America.

Hillary Offers Up Absurd Story As to How She Wound Up in a Walking Boot

"As William Safire famously said over 20 years ago, she’s a congenital liar, and has never changed."

Truth Revolt

Jammie Wearing Fools   "Since the media never presses this ridiculous woman on her outlandish stories, we may as well do their work for them. So Grandma is over in Europe pimping her latest unreadable ghostwritten book, and then she mysteriously showed up on a program in a walking boot, claiming to have a broken toe.
"Let’s examine this tale:

Hillary Clinton canceled several media appearances Monday while on her book tour in London after she fell down the stairs and broke her toe.

“I was running down the stairs in heels with a cup of coffee in hand, I was talking over my shoulder and my heel caught and I fell backwards,” Clinton told “The Graham Nortion Show.”

“I tried to get up and it really hurt. I’ve broken my toe. I’ve received excellent care from your excellent health service.”

"First of all, this woman can barely climb stairs, let alone run down them. If you’re really wearing heels, would you not be extra precautious “running down” stairs? How many women have you seen, let alone a 70-year-old, who “run down” stairs in heels?

"Now, if you had a cup of coffee in your hand, would you run down stairs while wearing heels? It’s just not plausible. In fact, do a search and see if you can even find a single photo of her carrying a cup of coffee, ever.   . . . 

. . . "Now, if you’re running down stairs in heels carrying a cup of coffee, would you be talking over your shoulder or concentrating on the running down the stairs while not spilling your coffee?

"Again, this woman lies when there’s no need to, as always. She’s so gifted at it she can pack multiple lies into a single sentence." . . .

Fans boo kneeling New Orleans Saints players during tribute to fallen NOPD officer

The Times-Picayune

"Fans booed New Orleans Saints players who knelt before the presentation of the American flag and the singing of the national anthem Sunday at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome. 

"The boos rang down during a moment of silence for fallen NOPD officer Marcus McNeil, who was killed in the line of duty Friday.

"The fans cheered when the players stood before the anthem, which was performed by former Saintsation Deri Tucker.

"Sunday's game vs. the Lions was the Saints' first at the Dome since President Trump weighed in on protesting NFL players during a campaign rally in Alabama last month. 

"On Monday, Saints coach Sean Payton said the scene was a 'misunderstanding.' "

Pictured: Officer Marcus McNeil, 29, was slain while on duty Oct. 13, 2017.