Below are the words from my daily political diary. It is quite long so scroll on by if not interested. But do stay around and add your commentary and point of view to the thread.
Tuesday 9/24/19
THE UKRAINE SCANDAL FATED TO BRING DOWN BIDEN
It began in full force this past weekend. Somebody referred to as a “whistleblower” revealed to the IG that President Trump called up the powers that be in the Ukraine and demanded that they investigate Joe Biden and his son, Hunter.
Turns out that Joe’s son got a job with a Ukrainian company, Burisma, and makes over $50,000 a month.
Then there is the matter of the tape. Seems ole Joe is on video describing, with sneers and guffaws, how he told the Ukrainian folks that if they didn’t fire a certain prosecutor honing in on Biden son Hunter along with Burisma itself.
WE HEAR WITH OUR OWN LYING EARS PEOPLE!
Ole Joe ends it by a big snort of laughter and says that the Ukrainian officials didn’t want to be denied the billion bucks that Ole Joe was giving out, with the help of President Obama, we must assume.
“Damn if they didn’t fire the prosecutor,” ole Joe says and boom, American taxpayers are out a billion bucks and ole Joe’s son is guaranteed a huge income for life.
This past weekend this shocking story came together with a bang. Nobody knows who this whistleblower is or even, as political junkees such as myself get excited at this big piece of politics.
Biden is in trouble. Yesterday (Sunday as of this writing) Devon Nunes was on a political talk show and below is what he revealed.
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Devin Nunes predicted Joe Biden’s campaign is likely coming to an end — all because of newly resurfaced reports about his possible misconduct in Ukraine that “first originated back when Hillary Clinton was trying to make sure Biden didn’t get in the race.”
Nunes, speaking to anchor Maria Bartiromo, said a whistleblower’s allegation that President Trump had acted inappropriately during a July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will ultimately backfire, and shine a light on Biden’s own possible misconduct.
CNN later acknowledged that the whistleblower had no first-hand knowledge of the call, and a top Ukrainian official on Saturday defended Trump’s actions.
POLITICAL MISCELLANY
One of my favorite political web sites is FreeRepublic, a private web site that invites junkees such as myself to post political news and commentary.
There are two lists provided by a fine FreeRepublic member, as most of them are. They are kind of long but so much information revealed.
Below is a list of the many climate warnings over the years from back in the mid-60’s to current time. Very interesting. They never give up with this climate change.
If we can’t stop hurricanes, what makes these weather experts think we can change the climate across the whole planet earth?
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LIST OF DOOMSDAY PREDICTIONS THE CLIMATE ALARMIST GOT WRONG:
1967: Dire Famine Forecast By 1975
1969: Everyone Will Disappear In a Cloud Of Blue Steam By 1989 (1969)
1970: Ice Age By 2000
1970: America Subject to Water Rationing By 1974 and Food Rationing By 1980
1971: New Ice Age Coming By 2020 or 2030
1972: New Ice Age By 2070
1974: Space Satellites Show New Ice Age Coming Fast
1974: Another Ice Age?
1974: Ozone Depletion a ‘Great Peril to Life
1976: Scientific Consensus Planet Cooling, Famines imminent
1980: Acid Rain Kills Life In Lakes
1978: No End in Sight to 30-Year Cooling Trend
1988: Regional Droughts (that never happened) in 1990s
1988: Temperatures in DC Will Hit Record Highs
1988: Maldive Islands will Be Underwater by 2018 (they’re not)
1989: Rising Sea Levels will Obliterate Nations if Nothing Done by 2000
1989: New York City’s West Side Highway Underwater by 2019 (it’s not)
2000: Children Won’t Know what Snow Is
2002: Famine In 10 Years If We Don’t Give Up Eating Fish, Meat, and Dairy
2004: Britain will Be Siberia by 2024
2008: Arctic will Be Ice Free by 2018
2008: Climate Genius Al Gore Predicts Ice-Free Arctic by 2013
2009: Climate Genius Prince Charles Says we Have 96 Months to Save World
2009: UK Prime Minister Says 50 Days to ‘Save The Planet From Catastrophe’
2009: Climate Genius Al Gore Moves 2013 Prediction of Ice-Free Arctic to 2014
2013: Arctic Ice-Free by 2015
2014: Only 500 Days Before ‘Climate Chaos’
1968: Overpopulation Will Spread Worldwide
1970: World Will Use Up All its Natural Resources
1966: Oil Gone in Ten Years
1972: Oil Depleted in 20 Years
1977: Department of Energy Says Oil will Peak in 90s
1980: Peak Oil In 2000
1996: Peak Oil in 2020
2002: Peak Oil in 2010
2006: Super Hurricanes!
2005 : Manhattan Underwater by 2015
1970: Urban Citizens Will Require Gas Masks by 1985
1970: Nitrogen buildup Will Make All Land Unusable
1970: Decaying Pollution Will Kill all the Fish
1970s: Killer Bees!
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List of Democratic presidential candidates
Compiled by some dedicated political junkee no doubt.
1. Michael Bennet CO senator
2. Joe Biden fmr VP
3. Cory Booker NJ senator
4. Steve Bullock MT governor
5. Pete Buttigieg South Bend IN mayor
6. Julián Castro fmr HUD Secretary
7. Bill de Blasio New York City mayor 09/20/19
8. John Delaney fmr MD rep
9. Tulsi Gabbard HI rep
10. Kirsten Gillibrand NY senator 08/28/19
11. Mike Gravel fmr AK senator 08/06/19
12. Kamala Harris CA senator
13. John Hickenlooper fmr CO governor 08/05/19
14. Jay Inslee WA governor 08/21/19
15. Amy Klobuchar MN senator
16. Seth Moulton MA representative 08/23/19
17. Wayne Messam Miramar FL mayor
18. Robert O'Rourke fmr TX rep
19. Tim Ryan OH rep
20. Bernie Sanders VT senator
21. Joe Sestak fmr PA rep
22. Tom Steyer businessman
23. Eric Swalwell CA rep 07/08/19
24. Elizabeth Warren MA senator
25. Marianne Williamson author
26. Andrew Yang entrepreneur
Weds-9/25/19
Indeed giving great speeches before the United Nations is an impeachable offense and as of the day of this writing the Democrats are meeting to discuss such an impeachable.
After all, Trump giving thoughtful TRUE speeches before the U.N. makes him look good and by golly that is impeachable.
Yesterday Trump gave a speech about freedom of religion. I was very surprised. There seems to be some kind of rule on this planet not to chastise the Muslims for their terrorism, oppression and the mighty Allah who commands that they take over the world.
And then there’s the mighty Chinese Communists who cheat and steal and give forced abortions and discourage church attendance.
I do not recall any American president who gave such a truthful, at times brutal, speech.
The NEXT day President Trump then gives another wonderful speech about the sacredness of the nation, the value of freedom with rights from God, not Mullahs. Trump did not shout and repeat himself. He spoke the truth and again I smiled.
Never have I heard Dubya (one of our dumber presidents if not the dumbest), Obama, or Clinton speak such honesty to the body of people that has too many thugs who only want to control, not govern fairly.
But the Democrats want to impeach him.
Delightful people those Democrats.
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MORE ON THE WHISTLEBLOWER
And if they don’t impeach Trump for delivering great speeches before the U.N. surely they must throw Trump out for speaking to other world leaders. What right does an American president have to discuss issues with Joe Blow of Mexico or John Doe of Asis?
Throw the man overboard.
Don’t tell me the people duly elected the guy shout the very honest and fair Democrats. He’s too good at his job and it is WE, the ruling elite, who must be pleased, not the deplorables.
Are we to expect Hunter Biden to start shopping at Walmart?
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) told members of Congress over the weekend that President Donald Trump’s interest in Joe Biden’s Ukraine scandals could bring about a “new stage of investigation” and ultimately impeachment.
“This violation is about our national security. The Inspector General determined that the matter is ‘urgent’ and therefore we face an emergency that must be addressed immediately,” Pelosi wrote in a letter to lawmakers on Sunday.
“If the Administration persists in blocking this whistleblower from disclosing to Congress a serious possible breach of constitutional duties by the president, they will be entering a grave new chapter of lawlessness which will take us into a whole new stage of investigation,” she continued.
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POLITICAL CARTOON OF THE WEEK
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IMPEACHMENT BEGINS
Thurs-9/26/19
House would begin something called impeachment inquiry
Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, announced this past Tuesday night that America’s House would begin something called impeachment inquiry.
As I am to understand this is not a formal impeachment process complete with high crimes and misdemeanors named.
Well we all know this.
As I see it, this Democratic presidential primary nominating process is naught but a way for people who want to have a future of some fame and fortune and are using this country’s political process to achieve same.
First, does anyone really think this Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is any kind of political leader? Unless you were born last night you know she is not a leader. Now she has a pretty face and somehow managed to worm her way to national fame by winning some weird New York political process.
Corey Booker, I dunno, he’s just trying to keep his name in the news that he can run for senator that his son can make millions of dollars from China and the Ukraine.
There’s quite a few really bad candidates that have no leadership skills but getting your name on television, with facial recognition, might bring a future they strive for. That Yang guy, offering voters $1,000 a month, does anybody think this guy could win the presidency?
And let’s not even talk about Beto O’Rourke.
They know that Donald Trump will win the 2020 election. But meanwhile they use the process trying to obtain a valuable future.
There are some Democrats that don’t want the party to look so foolish and stupid. Giving Pelosi-my childhood friend- some credit, she’s probably broken-hearted having to do the things they make her do.
Still and so, there’s silly voters like ourselves that think our president should be allowed to serve his duly elected term without constant harassment.
And Joe Biden? He is discovered to be knee deep in Ukraine extortion.
All this impeachment talk is to keep the public’s attention far away from the prior administrations, the ruling elite, and how dangerous those people were.
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On Tuesday evening Nancy Pelosi made one of the most colossal blunders in the modern history of American electoral politics. Rejecting the accumulated wisdom of a long and successful career in the House of Representatives, she set aside her own instincts and announced the beginning of formal impeachment proceedings against President Trump on the basis of a third-hand rumor about a phone call with the president of a Eurasian republic.
Pelosi knows this will not be popular. She knows more than that. She knows that it will be a disaster for the Democratic Party, that it will inflame the president's base and inspire even his most lukewarm supporters with a sense of outrage.
She knows that in states like Michigan, upon which her party's chances in 2020 will depend, the question of impeachment does not poll well.
She knows, further, that Joe Biden will not be able to spend the next 14 or so months refusing to answer questions about the activities of his son, Hunter, in Ukraine, and that increased scrutiny of the vice president's record in office will not rebound to his credit. She and her fellow Democratic leaders had better hope that someone like Elizabeth Warren manages to steal the nomination away from him before this defines his candidacy the way that Hillary Clinton's emails and paid speechmaking did during and after the 2016 primaries.
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WHISTLE BLOWER TRANSCRIPT RELEASED
Below is the link for the entirety of the transcript of Trump’s phone call to the Ukraine president.
Seems Trump never mentioned anything about pending funds. He did suggest the Ukraine president work with AG Barr. The Ukraine president was the first to mention Rudy Giuliani.
Big day, sound bytes and shouts across the fruity plains.
But while many of us were born at night, few of us were born LAST NIGHT.
Biden is in knee deep with extortion and crime along with his most amazing son Hunter, thrown out of the military for cocaine use, having affair with his dead brother’s widow and making, goodness, over $50,000 a month from Ukraine firms. Cause the guy, he knows natural gas like no other.
Heh.
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NOT POLITICS BY PAT
Just a couple of quick stories been floating around my mind for weeks. Pass on by if time is scarce.
I once worked with a fellow from India. Where he is from is not important other than the fact that evidently they eat a lot of mangos in India.
So he went to visit his family in India and he brought back some mangos. He sliced one up and gave me a juicy wedge at lunch one day. He was enthusiastic and excited about eating the fruit he so obviously adores. Hell, I was excited too. At that time, now some 30 years ago, I had never tasted a mango.
With Ashok smiling and eating mango wedges he watched me take my first bite, great joy on his face.
It was the worst taste that ever entered my mouth in my life.
Folks there is no food product that is so abhorrent to me . Maybe cilantro but I’d even eat a mouth full of cilantro before another mango should cause me such tasting pain.
I am to understand, over the years, that mango is a fruit that is beloved by many, despised by just as many. Something about DNA and tastebuds.
I ate that mango wedge because I didn’t want to hurt Ashok’s feelings. I managed to get the small wedge down without vomiting and somehow got out of taking any more bites.
Never again will mango pass my lips.
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Let us discuss steamed crabs.
I am from Baltimore.
We eat lots of crabs.
The other day I chanced to see a commercial (which I now see quite frequently but don’t know what is being advertised such is my disgust) showing a table full of happy people, all of them with a pretty steamed crab sitting before them awaiting cracking and eating.
FOLKS, YOU DO NOT EVER CRACK OPEN A CRAB BY TAKING A CRAB MALLET AND SMACKING IT ON THE BACK, RIGHT SIDE UP!!
I can’t believe whoever prepared that commercial didn’t know that steamed crabs are turned over on their back, cracked in half, with thumbs prying open the back to totally remove the thing.
By whacking the crab on its back it just forces many sharp pieces of crab shell down into the luxurious crab meat.
Every time I see that character hitting that crab on the back I want to scream.
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Fri-9/27/19
WHISTLEBLOWER REPORT RELEASED, IDENTITY REVEALED
Turns out he’s a CIA agent once assigned to the White House.
Since there’s not much revealed as of this writing no link provided. The info is attributed to the NY Times. That right there should give notice not to believe right from the get-go.
Also, the full report by the Whistleblower was revealed.
Read and weep.
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ACTING DNI JOSEPH MAGUIRE SPEAKS BEFORE HOUSE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE
Why yes I did watch the hearing by the House Intelligence committee of the acting Director of National Intelligence.
It was a circus.
First, Democrat Chairman Adam Schiff launches an opening statement going into spiels about how President Trump phoned up the President of the Ukraine and demanded that he dig up dirt on his opponent (yes, he used the word “dirt”) and he would ask him seven more times if need be.
Trump never said any such thing.
At some point Schiff had the error of his words pointed out and he smiled his snaky smile. “It was a parody,” Schiff said.
It’s a joke to these people. I watched the proceedings for about two hours then moved on to Rush. There was nothing new in these proceedings save yet another attempt to impeach Trump who DARED to defeat the wonderful, beloved, sweet and kind Hillary Clinton.
Way I figure, the Dems. hurried up and put on this show to the American public to keep the talk too much about Trump’s two wonderful speeches before the U.N. It is the only explanation as to why the Demos. Didn’t wait until the Whistleblower’s report was released.
Can’t have Trump getting too much praise and attention.
Maguire did a good job so far as I could see but he did say something so dumb I will always hold doubts about the man. “I am sure the Whistleblower had the best of intentions,” Maguire said, turning me off right there.
If this alleged head of the National Intelligence Services really thinks this mystery Whistleblower had good intentions, well by me he’s just plain stupid.
Now if Donald Trump had conversed with the president of the Ukraine and plotted mass murder of all Europeans, well maybe his silly act of submitting a bunch of lies would have been well-intentioned, even noble.
But surely this head of the DNI knew the show before the House Intelligence committee was naught but political theater?
So Maguire…..it’s only because a)Americans are sick of constant attempts to impeach Trump and b)they always do such a horrible job with these nasty congressional hearings….this is why you aren’t the worst guy in gubmint I’ve ever met but me, impressed?
NOT.
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GIGGLE OF THE WEEK
Sat 9/28/19
WHY IS SCHIFF GETTING AWAY WITH WHAT HE DID WHEN READING THE WHISTLEBLOWER NARRATIVE?
President Trump put out a tweet yesterday that sums it all up.
First, what did the very honest and admirable Schiff do?
Well he read a paragraph of a narrative allegedly describing events as detailed by the very famous and intelligent Whistleblower.
The narrative as read by Schiff was allegedly the words as spoken by Trump telephonically to the president of the Ukraine. Essentially Trump told the Ukrainian president that he must investigate the Ukrainian monies given to Hunter Biden for serving on a Ukrainian business’ Board of Directors. “Funds will be cut off!” Trump allegedly said. “I will say this over and over, seven times if need be,” Trump continued on.
Of course I paraphrase. But if Schiff can paraphrase, and/or outright lie, before congress, well I can too in this little political column I write, read by two, maybe three people.
Trump did the right thing, fighting back, informing the world via his tweets which so many bad people despise. Notice no Republicans are taking a stand. Why do we not have a political party working for us and who we elect?
Oh never mind.
Trump’s tweet below.
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Rep Adam Schiff fraudulently read to Congress, with millions of people watching, a version of my conversation with the President of Ukraine that doesn't exist. He was supposedly reading the exact transcribed version of the call, but he completely changed the words to make it sound horrible, an me sound guilty. HE WAS DESPERATE AND HE GOT CAUGHT. Adam Schiff therefore lied to Congress and attempted to defraud the American Public. He has been doing this for two years, I am calling for him to immediately resign from Congress based on this fraud!
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EDITORIAL BY PAT
WHAT PRESIDENT TRUMP NEEDS TO DO
Since the Republicans have air between the legs, I have a suggestion for an action that Trump should take. It’s an idea that floated through my throttled mind in mid of night.
Trump should reserve a night, an early evening when most of America would be available to hear him speak. He should request network-wide broadcast although I know the media is the enemy and they might turn him down.
Say a Wednesday night between 7 and 8 pm. If the networks to refuse to broadcast what I propose would be a speech from the oval office, Trump should reserve a Youtube broadcast channel, reserve a web site, reserve radio stations. Plenty of presidents addressed the American people in such a setting and time frame from within the oval office.
He should quietly and very seriously address the American public about the difficulty of running a country against lies and illegal actions spoken or thrown at him.
He should not launch into any bragging about the economy; that sort of thing belongs better in rally settings.
He should be very serious and I can’t imagine that would be very hard. The Democratic party needs to be stopped. This is not decent and fair governance, to spend millions of dollars investigating some fake collusion. If that don’t work we create some fake phone call to the Ukraine. If that don’t work let’s make up lies about his supreme court nominees. Let’s have endless hearings, never vote on a single thing the man proposes and for sure scare the hell of air-filled legs of the Republicans and keep their mouths shut in any defense.
I will write his oval office speech if he wants me to.
The next day Rush Limbaugh, who sells some kind of T-shirt every day of the week but has yet to lead some sort of mass effort to shout out and shut up the evil of the opposition party. Same with Mark Levin, who wrote a book, did I tell you? How about Mark Levin urges his listeners to stampede the phones of the Republican congress critters, demand they call them and scream their disapproval. Callers can mention the Levin book while on the phone.
Sean Hannity, I’m pretty sure he’d get involved in some sort of conservative legion of leaders to launch the howling of the masses. Sean might cut all the howling masses off before they can say a word, I’m just saying.
Get Fox news to join the conservative community of voices.
By my plan, Trump begins the revolt. Some of these talk show guys who sell stuff endlessly could maybe join us who buy their books and Tshirts.
It’s time people.
Or should we wait until the Democrats find some way to assassinate Trump because with their rancor and anger, it’s not impossible?