Stephen Colbert, one of the most vile (and consequently the most idolized by Liberals) characters in the Corporate Media is in the middle of controversy again. Colbert televised some Easter Special where he lampooned President Trump and Vice-President Pence laughing over Christians and the Easter Holiday while secretly being recorded.
There are two types of genuinely sick people out there. One is Colbert and the media scum who produce this trash; the other are the audiences who think it actually humorous or socially redeeming. Because the dialogue in this skit was really nothing more than a slough of gutter-level blasphemies and insults. We're not even going to bother repeating them here, though interested readers can read about it in more graphic detail at Breitbart News.
To give an example of what kind of person Colbert is, consider the story about his sister's unsuccessful campaign for public office. Despite being a widely-admired celebrity on the Left with a net worth of around $50 million, Colbert wouldn't even visit campaign rallies for his own sister until the DNC agreed to pay his speaking fees and travel costs including lodging and meals.
But Stephen Colbert is pretty much a lost cause anyway. The man should have had psychiatric help years ago. What's really interesting about this story is the way that Leftists typically react to holidays.
Holidays serve an important social purpose. The basic root of holidays is a time for all to come together and reflect on a common good. Some like Christmas and Easter are religiously themed. Others like Thanksgiving and New Years are to take stock of where we are and where we're going. Some like Independence Day and Columbus Day are commemorating historically significant events. Some informal ones like St. Valentine's Day and Mother's day are to appreciate special people in our lives.
But the Left seems to harbor an intense dislike for these kinds of days. The reason for this is that, despite their babble about 'inclusion', Leftist philosophies are in general very narcissistic and egocentric. And there's also a large dose of envy thrown into the mix. Leftists are chronically miserable malcontents, so naturally they resent seeing others celebrating. And thus they try to disrupt these events by every means possible: from trying to force St. Patrick's Day parades to accept perverts to tearing down public Nativity Scenes at Christmas. If one person (or interest group) is displeased or 'offended' then everyone else should be too, according to illogical Leftist reasoning.
As Conservatives, we need to take back our holidays. We can elect officials who won't cave in to interest groups. The President has already set the example at the federal level. The other thing that we can do is ignore the Media. A generation ago, 'comedians' like Colbert would have (at best) maybe become carnival barkers or masters of ceremonies at cheap strip clubs. We need to see the holiday-disrupters for what they are; and ignore them accordingly.
It's another refreshing change; that is to have a President who realizes that the first word in the term 'Defense Department' actually means defending the actual United States. Today, Trump ordered the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security to begin deploying National Guard units to the Southern Border. Hopefully, the Northern Border will be next.
The Whacko Left wing and their parrots in the Corporate Media have gone completely ballistic over this move. But it's long overdue. The US Border Patrol and ICE are riddled with corruption and inefficiency. The Military should have been doing this job all along. About a decade ago, the Bush Administration briefly experimented with such a program. In just one month, the Military stopped an estimated 175,000 people from illegally entering the country. They also rescued over 100 people who were victims of kidnapping and human trafficking; and seized more than 150 tons of narcotics. Pressure from the Democrats and RINOs caused Bush to abandon the program.
The Bush Administration accomplished that with only 6,000 troops: about the size of a combat brigade. The cost to taxpayers was far less than it costs to maintain the massive ICE bureaucracy.
But the Trump Administration isn't going to replace the bureaucracy; at least not yet. According to The Military Times, the troops are going in a support role. In the Bush deployment, soldiers conducted aerial surveillance and helped coordinate response times. In Texas, the National Guard has been deployed since 2014. Arizona and New Mexico also welcomed the decision. But California could be a problem.
California Governor Jerry Brown hasn't issued an official position, but is under tremendous pressure not to cooperate with the other states. Kevin DeLeon, author of the California Sanctuary Bill and candidate for US Senate, huffed to the Press: "Despite Mr. Trump's rantings there is no evidence of an imminent influx of asylum seekers here in California or elsewhere. In fact, border crossings have plummeted to the lowest level since 1971!" And Arizona Congressman Raoul Grijalva frothed that this is "the latest chapter in Trump's Reign of Terror meant to wreak havoc on immigrants and members of border communities!"
Generally, whenever we hear the Left using such language, that's an excellent bellwether to judge that Trump is doing something right. And despite their opposition to Trump's and Bush's deployments, they had nothing to say when Obama sent troops to the Border in 2010.
And Arizona Governor Ducey probably came closest to the truth. "Anything we can do to enhance security and to go after the cartels who are smuggling drugs into the country and putting people at risk---we absolutely want to see that happen."
That's something that the Democratic Party leadership seems never to want to see happen. They opposed Allied intervention against narcotic and human smuggling from ISIS. They opposed Chinese intervention against the same things in the South China Sea and in Southeast Asia. They oppose Trump crushing the MS-13 gang---which makes its living off smuggling. Now they oppose his efforts to stop it on the Southern Border.
I think that we can draw our own conclusions as to why they would oppose these things. Organized Crime and the Deep State aren't so radically different.
Now that we've reached the Spring of 2018, many public-school mandates funded by Obama and his RINO-led Congress are about to expire. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos needs to make some sharp cuts and serious reforms urgently.
A good example of why need reform desperately is the story of Charles McCormack of Muscle Shoals, Alabama. McCormack was sentenced to 10 years in prison today after being arrested by the FBI last Fall on multiple counts of Child Pornography violations. McCormack, incidentally was a Kindergarten teacher.
According to WAFF-48 TV, McCormack had been investigated at least three times since 2010 and it was proven by FBI agents that he'd engaged in such behavior at least since 1998. Most of his trafficking in pornography and paraphernalia involved girls around 4-7 years of age.
McCormack was employed by the Walker County (Georgia) Public Schools when the three complaints uncovered by WAFF occurred. In 2010, a parent complained that McCormack took pictures under their daughter's dress. In 2015, parents of another girl complained that McCormack had put his hands down their daughter's pants. In 2016, he was investigated again: it's unknown as to why but it involved the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. And according to Walker County Superintendent Damon Raines, McCormack retired (yes, as in with a pension) in 2016. He taught Kindergarten at Chattanooga Valley Elementary School.
People like McCormack are bad enough, but administrators like Raines who take no action---in fact hire them and protect them---are even worse.
Raines is no stranger to controversy himself. He and his District lost a Federal lawsuit when judges ruled that he had violated a teacher's Right to Free Speech when Raines tried to put a gag-order on him for publicly criticizing a new grading-policy. The new 'progressive' grading-policy, incidentally, prohibited teachers from giving grades on homework and day-to-day assignments and only allowed grades to be given on test scores.
Raines also came under fire more recently for pressuring teachers to lobby and speak against school-choice initiatives. Which sounds like something that parents in his school district desperately need. Raines draws down a fat salary of nearly $140,000 annually; compared to the $38,000 median annual salary in Walker County.
Walker County wasn't the only culpable school district here. WAFF reported that, in spite of McCormack's history and the fact that he was now under investigation by the FBI, the Muscle Shoals School District hired him as a substitute teacher for its elementary schools.
Their Superintendent, Brian Lindsey, said that his district doesn't keep records on substitutes and that he has no idea whether McCormack taught there or not. What Lindsey actually does do to justify his $136,000 salary is not known. But Lindsey must travel a lot, because his contract gives him an additional $6,000 'car allowance' annually. The median income in Muscle Shoals is a little less than $27,000 per year. Crime in Muscle Shoals is 34% higher than the rest of Alabama and almost double the national average.
Lindsey is notable for the kinds of lowlifes who work under him. In 2015, he temporarily suspended a football coach after the coach was jailed for beating up his wife and breaking her nose. In 2016, their athletic department was sanctioned for trying to bribe athletes from other schools to transfer. Also in 2016, the school district was forced to repay the State of Alabama $118,000 after a 'computer error' awarded them tax dollars to which they were not entitled.
Lindsey also lobbied for a local property tax increase 'for the schools'; which drew much criticism since he lives outside of town and wouldn't have to pay the increase himself.
Academic Mandarins like Damon Raines and Brian Lindsey are what feeds the corrupt environment which attracts perverts like McCormack (and other criminals). They are examples of why our public schools need to be reformed from top-to-bottom. Or failing that, simply abolished and begun again from scratch.
The Sessions Steamroller strikes again: this time in Houston. One of the biggest Opioid trafficking rings in the South-Central states went down in flames on Thursday. This case was remarkable for the effort the FBI put into smashing it because it was a highly secretive enterprise in its operation and a particularly ruthless one in its execution.
Dr. Gazelle Craig and Clinic Manager Shane Faithful of Houston were found guilty of running a criminal enterprise under the guise of a clinic. They operated the now-defunct Gulfton Community Health Center which was essentially nothing but a front for narcotics trafficking.
Craig wrote prescriptions for the Opioids Hydrocodone and Carisporodal; which in combination are said by experts to have no known medical benefit in combination. However, the second drug enhances the strength of the first when used for 'recreational' purposes. She prescribed to nearly 20,000 users over 5 million doses.
As if this wasn't bad enough: Faithful employed what's known in underworld parlance as 'bird-dogs'. These are people who actually went out looking for drug addicts and steering them to Gulfton Clinic. The addicts got a prescription for $300---which was always paid in cash---and the FBI stated that Craig and Faithful would split the profits. The FBI said further that these profits averaged about $1,500 per day.
The Clinic had no surveillance system and employed local thugs as 'security guards'. Cellphones, cameras, etc. were forbidden in the clinic and 'security' would remove anybody who wasn't 'invited.' Sessions didn't say how the operation was eventually infiltrated, but probably involved an agent posing as an addict.
"In this case, tens of thousands of pills flooded our streets because of the defendants' actions." Sessions told the Corporate Media (which of course ignored the story). "We will never know for certain the scale of the damage done."
Just as a side note, this is third multi-million dollar drug ring brought down that was obtaining narcotics through Obamacare. Obama denied that there was any fraud going on in the system. Sessions mentioned that since January 2017, over 3,500 arrests have been made and over $12.5 billion recovered from abuses in Obamacare.
There's another round of Catholic bashing making viral rounds on both the extreme Left and extreme Right. This is based on a fake news story from the leftist Italian journal La Repubblica claiming that Pope Francis denied the existence of Hell.
The back-story to this is that a 93 year-old atheist named Eugenio Scalfari---who is a leading Italian media figure---met with Pope Francis and that the Pope made this denial. Despite their obvious political and spiritual differences, Francis and Scalfari have known each other for years and have been in frequent communications. Here is what the Vatican said in response to Scalfari's claim:
"The Holy Father Francis recently received the founder of the newspaper 'La Repubblica in a private meeting for the Easter holiday, without however giving him any interviews. What is reported by the author in today's article is the result of his reconstruction, in which the literal words of the Pope were not quoted. No quotation of the aforementioned article must be considered attributable to the words of the Holy Father."
This isn't even the first time that Scalfari has faked quotes from Pope Francis. In 2013, he was obliged to issue a retraction of some of the Pope's statements and in 2015 was caught lying and corrected by the Vatican again. Fake news about Pope Francis is about as common in the Leftist media as their lies about President Trump and Vladimir Putin are. In 2014, it had reached such a point that the then-Vatican Press Secretary Father Lombardi issued the following decree:
"If there are no words published by the Holy See Press Office and there are no words officially confirmed, then these reporters and writers must take full responsibility for what they say and write."
We expect fake news and outright lying from the Left. But coming from the fake Right it must be denounced. We've pointed out on several occasions that the Alt-RINO/Red Pill crowd is deeply anti-Catholic. This fake news about Francis spread like wildfire on supposedly Conservative radio, blogs, and news agencies.
The story gained a lot of traction from the outlets of the so-called Media Research Center run by a phony Catholic named Brent Bozell. Bozell himself has been caught in multiple acts of journalistic dishonesty. The very fact that he would quote a Leftist writer who'd been exposed as a fraud before to attack Pope Francis shows that he---like many other Alt-RINOs---are motivated more by their hatred of the Vatican than promoting the Conservative agenda. And that agenda includes Freedom of Religion, by the way.
The bottom-line here is that Francis is not "Lenin's Pope" (a meme coined by Catholic-hater Michael Savage); nor is he an antipope or the Antichrist because of his position on global warming and immigration. The Alt-RINOs and the Red Pills oppose Catholicism for the same reason that the Cultural Marxists do: because Catholics recognize a power higher the State and an ideology higher than the spouting of paid pundits. As Harry Truman said, "Faith is the foundation of our democracy."
The recent decision of a handful of Western countries---including the US and Canada---to expel Russian diplomats has had only a minimal impact in geopolitics, despite the flurry of fake-news surrounding the story. The expulsion did cause considerable indignation in Russia---coinciding with a National Day of Mourning declared by President Putin following a deadly catastrophe in Kemerevo on Sunday.
The Trump Administration expelled 60 diplomats. The whole action, though, was based on the fake-news that Russia assassinated a former spy in Britain. This story has been debunked several times. It's about as credible a story as the allegations alleging Russian involvement in the 2016 Elections.
This has been a serious problem within the Trump Administration. The worst decision that Trump has made was ordering a cruise-missile strike on Syria last Spring---during an official visit with the President of China, no less. That was based on the fake-news that the Syrian Air Force used chemical weapons against civilians. The chemical weapons nonsense was always a fraud. Syria never signed the UN treaty banning chemical weapons; but we never hear that small detail mentioned by the Corporate Media.
We've also exposed several incidents of fake news---or at least news from very dubious sources---about North Korea. The Trump Administration came within a hairs-breadth of war with that country last year.
Here's the problem: fake-news served the interests, agendas and objectives of the Obama, Bush, and Clinton Administrations quite admirably. The fake stories about Serbian atrocities; the phony WMD-menace from Iraq; the Arab Spring; the Maidan Uprising in Ukraine: all of these were distractions calculated to distract Americans from problems at home and to advance the vested financial interests of the Deep State abroad.
The Trump Administration has to understand this---that the day and purposes of American military intervention abroad is over. We need to invest in our defense and security. Countries like Serbia, Bosnia, Iraq, and Libya were no threat to the US then; and countries like Yemen, Iran, and North Korea aren't today. The only countries really capable of fighting the US in a head-on war are Russia, China, and possibly India. And all three of these countries would prefer peaceful co-existence and free-trade to war.
In other words, Trump needs to start applying the same skills and out-of-the-box thinking in foreign policy that he's used so successfully in domestic policy. Forget the Pax Americana nonsense pushed by the Clintonistas and the RINOs. We have to look to our own affairs first: and an alliance with the other world powers would facilitate that tremendously.
The latest fashionable trend among the Whacko Left Wing seems to be organizing and participating in stupid 'protest marches'. This trend really started late in Obama's term, but has become an especially useful propaganda tactic for the political and media forces opposed to President Trump---and to freedom generally.
Most recently we saw flash-mobs knocking down statues and bitter harridans and cadres of male feminists walking around with artificial vaginas on their heads (illustrating of course where their brains are). Before that, we saw effete white trust-fund babies rallying for Black Lives Matter and on behalf of illegal immigrants.
The latest act of Leftist mass-insanity was an event ridiculously called March for Our Lives. Of course, the whole event was orchestrated by Left-Wing interest groups but posed as 'millions' of young adults protesting for stricter gun control laws. The catalyst for this event was the Parkland School mass-murder which was committed by a thug with an illegally-owned weapon. The police---whom the Liberals argue should alone have access to guns---in this instance ran away.
Thus we have typical Liberal logic. The Gun Laws that were supposed to stop nutcases like Nicholas Cruz from obtaining a firearm were not enforced: and those government agencies who are supposed to stop such attacks fled the scene. The Liberal solution therefore is that we need even more government oversight.
And the same Left who want to regulate guns also protest every police-involved shooting. They ought simply to confess that they are pro-crime.
Some might argue that, with modern weapons, the 2nd Amendment is obsolete. They argue that civilian militias couldn't impact a modern army. But we've seen this theory disproved in the Middle East in both Syria and Iraq.
Before the rise of ISIS, Syria had fairly lenient gun laws, but guns were taxed and too expensive for the average person to own. In Syria, ISIS took over and massacred entire villages like Zara and Al-Quaryatayn.
In Iraq, one of the positive things brought by American Occupation was a respect for the principles of the 2nd Amendment and the establishment of a 'gun culture.' Civilian militias not only fought ISIS side-by-side with the Iraqi Army, but ISIS took tremendous casualties from civilian snipers within ISIS-occupied cities. ISIS' second-in-command, Omar the Chechen was killed by a sniper as were the head of the secret police, their propaganda chief, their head of suicide-bombing units, as well as several other ISIS officials and military commanders. A few small villages were liberated before the Iraqi Army arrived, by the armed inhabitants.
So why does the Left really hate the 2nd Amendment? It is because they could never impose the kind of regime they desire on America as long as the people can resist them with force. This is not a radical idea at all; but one enshrined by our Founding Fathers. Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story stated in 1832 that:
"The right of the citizenry to keep and bear arms has justly been considered as the palladium of the liberties of a free republic; since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary powers of rulers."
And not only that, but our Founding Fathers revived and modified an earlier British Law, from the reign of King William III in the 1688 Bill of Rights:
"That our subjects which are Protestants may have arms for their defense suitable to their condition and as allowed by law." Which, as Story notes, had become a dead letter in England by his day. Our Founding Fathers understood that disarmament leads to oppression.
But the ignoramuses marching today never hear about the Founding Fathers, Judge Story, or the English Constitution from any of their even more ignorant teachers. The worst school massacre in US history was carried out with dynamite. Evil men are not going to be deterred by laws. Modern Academia thinks that we can stop evil by wishing it out of existence. But the force of evil is only stopped with a superior force. And that's why the media and academia really don't want it stopped at all.
