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The Evening Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends) The news that the FBI was actually warned last September about the Florida school killer who won’t be named here has me seriously thinking that lopping the top brass off the nation’s supposed “premier law enforcement agency” just isn’t going to be enough to salvage the Bureau’s viability going forward. No, considering the Bureau’s long and growing record of consistently failing to stop tragedies from taking place, and it’s growing number of examples of bullying behavior and corruption, it may seriously be time to disband the entire thing and start over....

Another big one that got away: like many before him, yesterday’s killer was “known to the FBI.” Last fall, a Mississippi bail bondsman and frequent YouTube vlogger noticed an alarming comment left on one of his videos. "I'm going to be a professional school shooter," said a user named Nikolas Cruz. The YouTuber, 36-year-old Ben Bennight, alerted the FBI, emailing a screenshot of the comment to the bureau's tips account… Agents with the bureau's Mississippi field office got back to him "immediately," Bennight said, and conducted an in-person interview the following day, on Sept. 25. – BuzzFeed I can...

Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends) Tired of all this Winning yet? – The new Morning Consult Poll is out, and guess what? It now has the Republicans leading the Democrats in the generic congressional ballot for the first time in more than a year. The Ds led the Rs by 10 as recently as December 18. Meanwhile, President Trump’s job approval rating shot up in this poll, to 47% approve vs. 47% disapprove. Hey, remember all those breathless predictions in the fake news media of a Democrat tidal wave election coming in the November mid-terms? Yeah, we’re...

The Evening Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends) Let’s play a little timeline game here: 12.1.2017 – General Mike Flynn, after being hounded, having his family threatened and driven to near-bankruptcy for months by Special Counsel Robert Mueller and his gang of Clinton/Obama hacks, enters a guilty plea for having lied to the FBI in a surprise January 24 interview that was conducted by FBI Deep State agent Peter Strzok and two other agents. 12.7.2017 – The judge who received that plea, Judge Rudolph Contreras – who also happens to be a FISA Court judge – was removed from...

Is Valentine’s Day not the best made-up holiday ever? It’s a fake holiday for lovers: lovers of flowers, chocolates, puppies…no matter who or what you love there’s something for everyone.Flowers:Puppies:Flower Puppies:Chocolates:Puppies:Chocolate Puppies: And even lovers of sentimental thoughts: But if you still can’t think of a reason to celebrate St. Valentine’s Day, tell me this isn’t reason enough?Now get out there, wear your heart on your butt,and have yourself a merry little holiday…with chocolate. Regardless of it’s race, color, sex or national origin. Sure it’s messy, but what have you got to lose? It’s all good. And I know it’s...

Getting a new gun for Christmas is great, but sometimes you gotta know how not to shoot your new .50 cal. You need to take into account of where you take your first shot. This is a funny example of how not to shoot your new .50 Cal. With a .50 cal you have to be aware to stay clear of the area from all four directions, not just in front of the barrel. The shooting itself is actually pretty good, especially when you consider that the shooter is 70 years old. Even if you weren't lucky enough to get...

Happy Hump Day & Valentine Day to all. Lets start it off with this really dumb ass martial arts. If you want to learn how to disarm someone that has a gun pointed at you. Learn from a certified instructor, not from the internet like this video. The internet is a beautiful thing, full of knowledge and crap. If you watch this horrendous gun disarm against two guns and think this is the real McCoy, you’re on your way to the grave. Watch this video as a form of entertainment. Seriously folks don’t try this at home. Watch this hilarious...

Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends) Tired of all this Winning yet? Part I – The Democrats are starting to have second thoughts about their “all Trump hate, all the time” fake strategy for prevailing in this year’s mid-term elections. McClatchy News reports that, as the Rasmussen survey has the President’s approval rating hovering near 50%, the Democrats’ own internal polling has his standing now at 44%, up from 40% in November. Even worse for the Dems, their generic congressional polling has them now sitting with just a 46-42 advantage, less than half of their edge just a...

The Evening Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends) Former Obama Deputy Attorney General and very brief Acting Attorney General in the first days of the Trump Administration, Sally Yates, is suddenly becoming a major person of interest in the study of the actions of the Deep State Cabal, that group of corrupt FBI and DOJ officials who apparently attempted to tilt the 2016 election to Hillary Clinton and since have worked to undermine the Trump presidency at every turn. Ms. Yates had a brief moment in the spotlight back on January 30, 2017, when she was summarily fired by...

Secrets revealed about the official Obama Portraits: First: It was an unfortunate coincidence that the portraits were revealed the same week as the Westminster Dog Show.Second: They were not the first portraits done of the former First POTUS and FLOTUS. Initially Amy Sherald did a magical portrait of Barack. It was very groundbreaking. And modern.It was titled “It made sense…mostly in zer mind.” And Kahinde Wylie plied his talents on the portrait of Michelle, working title, “The Beard.” Also groundbreaking.However upon review it was determined that switching the artists out with each other would produce a better final product for the...

Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends) Note to self: Hi, Susan Rice, this is Susan Rice, writing to you, myself, me, on the last day of the Presidential Administration of Barack Hussein Obama, the legend, the hero, the immaculate ONE. Well, actually, he’s not President anymore, because it’s 12:15 on January 20, so that orange-faced bastard who we spent the last 8 months wiretap….er, opposing, is now technically the president. For now. We’ll see how long he lasts. Anywayyyyyys, I’ve never done this before, but I just thought today, my last day on the job, would be a...

The Evening Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends) Mark your calendars, folks: At 3:30 p.m. Central Standard Time, we reached peak progressive lunacy when the nitwits who run the Twitter feed for the far leftwing Podesta mob that calls itself “ThinkProgress” tweeted the following: Despite Mike Pence’s sabotage, North Korea’s ‘charm offensive’ appears to be working http://bit.ly/2nTUPEN Yes, fellow Americans, after a weekend of our fake news media engaging in one of the most shameful coordinated exercises in it history, glamorizing the monstrous sister of the Crazy Little Fat Guy in North Korea in its ongoing efforts to delegitimize...

The formerly bankrupt City of Stockton, California is planning to implement a basic universal income scheme that would pay out $6,000 per year to select low-income households. The scheme is the brainchild of Mayor Michael Tubbs who hopes “to demonstrate that providing people with money they may spend in anyway they choose will inspire imitation across the land. The first phase of the plan is to choose 100 families that will receive $500 per month for 18 months and see what happens.” Renowned economist Thomas Sowell criticized Tubbs’ idea contending that “if you give people something for nothing it will...

North Korea Judged Winner of Diplomatic Gold at Olympics! – ReutersI understand the American media’s fawning over North Korea’s cynical Olympic “unification” overtures. They really can’t help themselves – the media’s always been a sucker for a certain “type” and they fall for the same guy time and time again.  So naturally they are willing to overlook Rocketman’s past atrocities, assume that he’s changed his bad-boy ways and is well on his way to winning the Nobel Peace Price. The chemistry was just too much to resist.Still, Fangirling a guy who runs a repressive regime, starves his people to death...

Like the Challenger disaster or 9/11I will never forget where I was when I heard Katie Couric break the story that Dutch skaters were so proficient because of the proliferation of canals in their country, I was here in Louisiana, rowing my pirogue down the bayou on my way to work. Anybody else care to share where you were and what you were doing when you first heard the news? Where were you, and what will you tell your grandchildren?

Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends) Hillary Clinton voters in action: A Minnesota man named Edward LeRoy Wilson stole a car from a Wal Mart parking lot, but was arrested by police a few hours later after he called the owner from an auto repair shop to ask her why he couldn’t get the dang thing started again. After being arrested, he told police officers that he knew stealing the car “wasn’t a good idea,” but did it anyway. Holy cow. I swear I don’t make this stuff up. Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein helped their favored Democrats...

When the Nunes memo finally became public, the media immediately went to work to say it was “nothing.” Really? Replace the names “Comey,” “Strzok” and “McCabe” with “Haldeman,” “Ehrlichman” and “Mitchell” and reread it, please. It’s a lot like Watergate, if the original break was not the work of G. Gordon Liddy and his candle-impervious hand but rather FBI agents with an improperly obtained warrant. The Washington Post would be all over that story, lest democracy die in darkness. Here’s how it would look, in the movie at least: “All the President’s Men II: Dirty Tricks with a Vengeance.”

In Maryland, Salvador Gomez-Lopez, a native of El Salvador in the United States illegally will go on trial for stabbing a man waiting at a bus stop. The attack sprang from the victim’s objection to Gomez urinating in front of fellow bus passengers. Arresting police described Gomez as “drunk and belligerent.” In the US House of Representatives, Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif) gave an eight hour speech blaming Trump’s “anti-immigrant policies for this tragedy. The hostility of the President toward immigrants seeking a better life in America is the primary cause for this incident. If Mr. Gomez didn’t have to...

The proclamation of solar power’s dominance may have been a bit prematureMeanwhile, in the Oil-ympics, Team USA is currently looking strong: US sells oil to the Middle East as surging domestic production puts America on pace to rival Russia and Saudi as world's top energy producer. In 2013, the US shipped just over 100,000 barrels a day.This past November, American firms exported 1.53 million barrels a day.The US now exports up to 1.7 million barrels per day of crude, and this year will have the capacity to export 3.8 billion cubic feet per day of natural gas.Terminals conceived for importing...