Monday has hopefully seen the merciful conclusion of one of the Corporate Media's sickest programs: The Resistance with Keith Olbermann. Olbermann announced today that this would not only be his final show, but that he "was retiring from political commentary" altogether.
And just a few days ago, we were complaining that Liberals never contributed any positive things to the holiday season....
Olbermann has had these kinds of dramatic exits before. He was formerly a sportscaster with ESPN before jumping ship to join Al Gore's now-defunct media venture Current TV. He had a brief run at MSNBC. The Resistance was hosted by the ironically-named Gentleman's Quarterly: the same outfit which recently named Colin Kaepernick its 'Person of the Year', or something like that.
Probably with good reason, some pundits believe that Olbermann was doing for GQ's bottom-line about what Kaepernick has done for the NFL's. To be fair, Olbermann did have something of a cult-following among the Left---he did, after all, popularize the 'Resistance' meme. The problem was that his program was typically a Howard Beale-like rampage where everyone who hates Trump could listen to a madman vent their collective outrage. Olbermann rarely made any actual sense; for example he often accused Trump of engineering a pro-Russian coup while simultaneously calling on Liberal bureaucrats to stage a coup of their own. Last night, he confidently predicted the imminent downfall of the Administration while only a few months ago he was predicting that we would never have free elections in the US again. He viciously criticized Trump on every episode for a whole year while claiming at the same time that the Administration was suppressing dissent.
If anyone is interested, Olbermann based last night's prediction upon the 'scandal' wherein the President recently referred to Senator Warren as Pocahontas. Whether Olbermann believes this will lead to Indian uprisings and massacres in America again, we weren't told. At any rate, it didn't stop him from calling Education Secretary Betsy DeVos an even worse (and unprintable) name.
Bryan Anderson of the blog Downtrend said it best. Olbermann's retirement announcement, he stated, "is like Lena Dunham promising not to post nude photos of herself on Instagram anymore. Not only will nobody miss it, it comes as a great relief."
While Olbermann's ridiculous outbursts did provide some occasional comic relief, he won't be missed. There's no telling how many other loons he's triggered to commit violent acts, though. At any rate, it would be great if his 'retirement' signals a policy-shift at GQ. But that may be hoping for too much.
For those who haven't been following the Corporate Media: the Whacko Left has been encouraging vehicular attacks lately. Obviously inspired by ISIS attacks in Europe and the Alt-RINO rampage in Charlottesville; there have been a number of increasingly-violent politically-related traffic incidents over the last few months.
Today a motorist in a red van attempted to attack the Presidential Motorcade in Florida. The van was intercepted by the Secret Service and Palm Beach Police took the driver into custody. The driver hasn't been identified; but he was screaming anti-Trump expletives and making obscene gestures at the cameras as he was dragged away, according to Fox-TV 61.
Just a few weeks ago, a 50 year-old woman---employed by a government contractor---lost her marbles and rode a bicycle alongside the Motorcade screaming obscenities and making obscene gestures. She was fired the next day; but equally unbalanced Leftists started a fund-raiser for her---now up to over $100,000. Nothing like giving financial and media incentives to attack the President.
Basically what the Left is doing---through the media hyenas--- is offering fame and fortune for vulgar and violent actions directed at Trump and other Republicans. By holding these losers up as public heroes, the Left hopes to reach other losers eager to grab the public spotlight. Rob Mello, the kook who started the fundraising campaign for the cyclist, wrote on GoFundMe: "She is an inspiration to us all. This week we learned that she was fired from her employer for exercising her First Amendment rights."
Sure: like a government contracting company is going to tolerate sophomoric outbursts against the Head of State from its employees. And incidentally, the woman in question actually admitted what she did to her employers.
But applauding people for this leads inevitably to more and more of it---such as the unidentified van driver today. Liberal crackpots on Thursday unsuccessfully tried to disrupt the annual Macy's Thanksgiving Parade too.
While there's really no way to stop these incitements legally, we can combat it on a community-level. Expose the media for what they are doing; and pour as much public disapproval upon such actions as possible. This will push the Left back to the margins, where they belong.
Harrisburg, the capital city of Pennsylvania, is having a meltdown in their public schools. Just before the Thanksgiving (or whatever PC name they call it) holiday, school officials were stunned after teachers' union reps pointed out that 45 elementary teachers had resigned up to the end of October; and that 'several more' wouldn't return after the New Year.
According to Fox 43-TV, the resignations are mounting because of extreme violence in the schools. Teachers recounted stories of having to evacuate classrooms while kids beat each other with furniture. One teacher---who teaches first grade testified that her students held her arms down while others kicked and punched her.
The Harrisburg School District responded to all this by denouncing the teachers who spoke out about the problem in public. "We find it unfortunate that our teacher organization has chosen to engage in public discourse as opposed to factual and substantive discussions," snorted the local Academic Elite, "The District is committed to promoting a safe and healthy environment."
Superintendent Sybil Burney, who clears a $160,000 annual salary to keep up public pretenses that she runs a real school, suggested more meetings to ascertain "whether there are needs that need to be serviced."
This is not a new phenomenon: last year Harrisburg was considering putting armed police officers on patrol in the schools. The idea was turned down; according to some critics, the presence of police officers was 'triggering'; and one even stated that most of the students in Harrisburg Grade Schools already hated authority and that police presence would make it worse. No, really---a school official actually said that.
The real question though is not why so many teachers are leaving Harrisburg schools: the question is: 'Why are parents putting up with this?'
Who would send their small children into a hecatomb like this? The Harrisburg School District ought to be closed. It doesn't serve any purpose except to pad administrators' bank accounts while they turn an entire community's youth into barbarians. If that sounds radical, ask yourself whether or not the City of Harrisburg would lose anything if their schools were closed. It's obvious that the schools are doing nothing of any value for the city.
This is a hard fact about public education. If it fails to educate, then it's worse than useless. There is no point in having schools at all if they turn into jungles like Harrisburg.
What we are likely witnessing in Harrisburg is the culmination of several decades of the Cultural Marxist's stranglehold on Academia. They have encouraged rebellion against tradition and authority; and now they're reaping what they've sown. These violent brats are the feral offspring of a generation steeped in hatred for everything Western Civilization represents. It should be no surprise that their kids have no more respect for their elders or for the social order than the parents had for theirs. The difference is that now, the parents and teachers represent the Establishment.
Marxist and Anarchist schemes always end in disasters like this. We need school reform---and soon---before Harrisburg becomes 'a new normal'.
The President and Mrs. Trump held a Rose Garden Ceremony yesterday to announce the official Thanksgiving Proclamation. The President spoke to the crowd: "As we gather with our families on Thanksgiving and give thanks for our many blessings, we are reminded of the national family to which we along belong." said Trump, "This Thanksgiving let us also renew our national bonds of trust, affection, and loyalty between our fellow-citizens as part of the proud family of Americans."
The President ceremonially pardoned the Thanksgiving turkey. Although the media calls this a 'tradition' it actually began with George Bush Sr. who did it somewhat tongue-in-cheek to silence a gang of radical animal-rights types who were protesting at his Thanksgiving speech. The practice of sending an official turkey to the White House is recent too; it began during Franklin Roosevelt's Administration. Ironically, presidents previous to Roosevelt were receiving so many turkeys as Thanksgiving gifts that they officials had to limit it to a single gift.
The Radical Left was spending the holiday spouting their hatreds, as usual. In general, Liberals are a dour lot; and they dislike American holidays especially. They hate New Years because it expresses hope; they hate Independence Day because it's about freedom; they hate Labor Day because they hate work; they hate Columbus Day because it's the only remaining holiday named for a white male. They don't like Memorial Day or Armistice Day because they hate the Military; nor Easter or Christmas because the days stand for Christian values which Liberals oppose. Thanksgiving is about family and gratefulness for prosperity and Liberals envy people who have both.
But therein lies the value of national holidays, as President Grant recognized when he established them in 1870. (Prior to that time, they were proclaimed by Executive Order annually---President Washington proclaimed our first official Thanksgiving in 1789). The modern word holiday is derived from the term Holy Day. Ancient Christians, Jews, and Pagans all celebrated them as way of unifying their communities. National holidays serve the same purpose. Hence, it grates on the Left to see Americans coming together under a common cause when they are constantly seeking to divide us.
If we're going to divide anything on Thanksgiving, it's better to divide up meals at dinnertime to our families or guests. What could be more pleasing to God than to see a family together on a special day enjoying the bounties which He has provided and made possible? There is something Eden-like about such scenes.
Holidays should be times of joy and thankfulness. Don't let the cranks and pathological malcontents spoil it; nor fall for the scams and insanity of the Black Friday lunacy tomorrow. A day named after the beginning of the Great Depression can't possibly be productive of any good.
Some may recall an incident in 2011 in Afghanistan where a squad of USMC snipers were court-martialed for 'desecrating' Taliban casualties by urinating on them and posting a video on Youtube. Now what these Marines did was inexcusable and unprofessional and rated about 30 days of KP. But the controversy back then was that Obama sought to punish these men far out of proportion to what they actually did.
Just in time for the holidays, a military appellate court overturned the conviction of Squad Leader Joseph Chamblin, citing yet again "undue command influence." The Trump Administration is aggressively seeking to have the other convictions overturned---in spite of his do-nothing Defense Secretary, James Mattis.
The Appeals Court found that Obama's USMC Commandant James Amos pressured the officers investigating the case, demanding that the errant Marines "be crushed." General Amos even removed and transferred officers who opposed his heavy-handed policy. Fortunately this scumbag has since left the Military. He was under investigation for interfering with other courts-martial even during Obama's term. General Amos, however, did end USMC resistance to including women and homosexuals in the Corps. He was equally aggressive imposing the new PC policies as he was in breaking non-PC Marines.
But things have changed inside the Beltway. One of the original defense lawyers in the Court-Martial, John Dowd, is a member of President Trump's White House Legal Advisory Staff. Trump's Chief-of-Staff, General John Kelly, was a witness for the Defense during the Court-Martial.
I think that we can safely predict that all involved in the incident will be exonerated. We're not so confident that General Amos will be punished; though he certainly should be. The hypocrite now operates a veterans' charity.
The important thing though is that we've now seen several servicemen who have been exonerated from wrongful convictions under Obama. There have been at least three who were in prison on phony rape charges. And all of these cases have been overturned on the grounds of Unlawful Command Influence. It should be pointed out that, until Trump, military convictions were rarely overturned on such grounds. This fact is deeply suggestive of the level of corruption and political nepotism rife in the Pentagon under Deep State rule.
Overturning these convictions is good news and seeing justice done. But we also need a serious housecleaning in the Pentagon to rid our Military of the parasites who participated in these injustices as well.
The hyenas in the Corporate Media have been spending Thanksgiving Week doing what they do best: sex-shaming men while simultaneously peddling salacious soft-core stories to titillate all those who are 'above' such things. Sex sells; and the Media no doubt needs something to boost their ratings since its predicted that the traditional Thanksgiving Day NFL games will be the least-watched ever.
We can all be thankful, though, for America's farmers and ranchers. And they, in turn, can be thankful for the Trump Administration. The USDA announced on Monday that Fiscal Year 2017 will be the 3rd-highest year of American agricultural exports since President Lincoln established the cabinet post in 1862. Exports totaled over $140 billion: up 30% from Obama's last year in office.
Soybean exports were the commodity leader; hitting a record high and likely about to go higher. President Trump negotiated a lifting of China's import ban on soybeans in Beijing last week. Indeed, China has surged to become America's leading agricultural customer. This is largely again due to Trump negotiating Chinese purchases of rice and beef earlier this year. China had a ban on importing both for over a decade.
Cotton exports jumped 70% with wheat (21%) and corn (6%) rounding out the top gains.
It's interesting to note that the countries following China as top importers were also countries with whom Trump negotiated trade deals. In second place is Canada, with whom Trump negotiated a bilateral lifting of trade restrictions last Spring. Mexico is third, with whom Trump negotiated a deal on sugar and corn. The Japanese Empire is fourth; the Imperial Cabinet recently agreed to lift bans on US potatoes and poultry. South Korea, the fifth, repealed bans on American poultry last Summer and has also agreed to import eggs, though with some conditions.
As a holiday side note, cranberry and pumpkin production was also up slightly, although these crops are not widely exported. Turkey production was stable. Mexico is America's largest importer of turkeys, accounting for about 70% US turkey exports.
One would think that a story like this would be headline news. American Agriculture today is a Bull Market. For the first time in decades, we're starting to see significant entrepreneurial interest in farming, fisheries, and processing. Trump's recent meetings at the ASEAN Summit holds promise for expanding exports into Vietnam, Indonesia, and the Philippines---representing a consumer base of nearly 300 million people.
A lot more exciting than hearing about who pinched some newswoman's tush 30 years ago, don't you think? While the media dwells on that, though; others are busy feeding the world.
Despite his claims of immortality, arch-criminal and cult leader Charles Manson died today at the age of 83 after an unspecified illness. Manson was sentenced to the gas chamber in 1971, but California Liberals repealed the Death Penalty before justice could be carried out. He stayed in prison, though, where he became something of a celebrity. (Readers would actually have to have lived in California to make sense of that, but it's true.)
Manson and his cult murdered Hollywood starlet and model Sharon Tate.
Sharon had recently married and was 8 months pregnant at the time of the murder. In the days before murdering unborn babies was renamed A Woman's Right to Choose by the same Liberals who spared Manson's life; this atrocity counted as a double-murder. Four other people who were visiting Sharon at the time were stabbed to death as well.
The Cult then murdered Mr. and Mrs. Leno LaBianca, a socially prominent family of Beverley Hills. Manson's followers planted false evidence at both killings to implicate the Black Panthers. His purported goal was to start a race war and rule America in the aftermath as king. The supposedly racist LAPD, however, refused to take the bait and implicated Manson instead. Since then, the Manson Family rose to the apex of America's then-nascent Trash Culture: their exploits generating dozens of books and films.
David Wilson of Birmingham City University in England---one of the world's leading criminologists---believes that Manson's ongoing cult appeal relates to the fact that his career and crimes exposes vulnerabilities in American culture. We noted the same in relation to American obsession with Lee Harvey Oswald and other presidential assassins. The fact that a complete loser from the bottom of dregs can strike at any moment against our social elites is very unsettling to many of us. Like Oswald, Manson was the polar opposite of those he attacked (note the similarity, the traitor Oswald kills the war-hero Kennedy; Manson the social outcast targeted a glamorous and well-liked celebrity).
Wilson, along with Manson's prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi, also speak of Manson's personal charisma. The reality though is that men like Manson become a symbolic figure for disaffected and disillusioned people. Hitler was probably the most prominent historical personage of this type; and Manson was admirer of the Nazi Fuehrer. These types are people who rise from social obscurity to wreak incredible acts of destruction on the existing social order and thus gain notoriety. This really explains most of their so-called 'charisma'.
To such admirers of Manson one can best recall Bugliosi's parting words to him after the death sentence had been pronounced. Manson began boasting that he almost succeeded in his insane plan to rule America. Bugliosi replied: "No, Manson. You never even came close. You took a bunch of sad kids and played your prison-games with their minds. You're not even important anymore."
True enough: Manson has only been as important as people have made him ever since. In 1974, one of his disciples attempted to assassinate President Ford, but since then his cult has died out and become nothing but a Cult of Personality among society's bottom-feeders. With Manson's death, hopefully that will die out too.
