Not all Muslims are dangerous. Not all people are dangerous. Some, of course are, and when they are look out. Linda Sarsour is, perhaps, one of the most dangerous of all and you will be hearing more and more about her as she worms her way into our society, our political system and causes a great deal of trouble.
I posted this in a recent memo and am doing so again so you do not forget her name. (See 1 below.)
Let's do a back look and see what is happening to our Republic.
First, we have codified a double standard of law enforcement in this nation. One for the elite and the other for "deplorables."
Second, we have allowed the corruption of many government agencies and the highest officials who run them can lie with abandon and we are willing to tolerate this fact because the current ones are Democrats, friends of Hillary and our mass media dolts no longer seek the truth. So much for their role as unbiased ombudsmen.
Third, because the current president is loutish everything he does, has done and says is under scrutiny and attacked from all sides. Why? Because he is committed to draining the swamp, taking away power from elitists and has his own sordid history. He is opposed to Obama's agenda and is slowly trying to disassemble what Obama did; most of which was unconstitutional and beyond Obama's power/authority as president.
Fourth, while all of this is going on, American Muslims are boring their way into our government and ,in time, we will be living under split rules and regulations because of our increasingly liberal judiciary which has embraced the Democrat, radical progressive concept of "fairness and entitlement."
Fifth, to create further instability and chip away at the foundation upon which our fragile Republic rests, various emotional demands for radical change are running wild and being financed by those who benefit from chaos.
We no longer are sure who is male and female, we no longer believe you are innocent until proven guilty. We no longer seem willing to encourage/seek the best to engage in the calling of public service because we smear those whose views progressive radicals find unacceptable.
Six, the Democrat Party has embraced ideas that are the antithesis of what our Founding Fathers intended. The American Character is less independent,less capitalistic, less willing to embrace the market place for solutions, less caring about deficit spending etc.
Instead we are government dependent, less well educated, the percentage who vote is less than that of the Muslim Community. We no longer have a solid family structure and we have dispensed with virtually any vestige of Puritan values that served us well and made us the envy of the world.
Seven, we seem to be less patriotic, less willing to defend our nation and borders and we have allowed ourselves to be taken advantage of in trade, in protecting our intellectual property etc.
These pernicious trends, that infect our body politic, are not in keeping with who we once were as a nation and as a people. They are the consequences of exhaustion, letting our guard down, eliminating education standards that no longer remind who we are.
It is little wonder the markets are roiling even though our economy, by all outward appearances, appears positive.
Many of my liberal friends are giddy over the fact that Trump is going to jail while Hilary and Bill make tours touting their own questionable virtues.
The Clinton Foundation is no longer reaping in millions as the Clinton's are no longer in office and in a position to sell Russians Uranium and extend other play for pay favors.
Furthermore, I have no doubt, Democrats will do everything in their power to gut this president's agenda and seek his impeachment. They lust to regain power and since their party has basically been taken over by radicals they too have now been threatened by the weapon of choice which they honed and use on others, ie. INTIMIDATION.
Live by the sword, die by the sword. Democrats may not realize their own vulnerability as they salivate.
Deplorables are not to be dismissed but Republicans must do a better job of crafting and selling their message. Lamentably, I do not believe they are capable of doing this. They remain politically tongue tied.
As we know a light bulb often burns bright before it dims and dies.
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Why, as trustees, most Congresspersons should all be in jail and would be in civilian life.
The SS Law could have allowed you to invest half of your own money in an index stock and/or bond fund. It was always a Ponzi Scheme whereby Congress would have more money to spend and you would receive less retirement benefits. Thanks FDR.(See 2 below.)
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I was on The Board of St John's College (The Great Books School) for 8 years. When I left The Board my parting words were:
a) they needed to increase their endowment
b) they needed to connect better with their graduates ( The fellow who wrote the Star Bangle National Anthem, Francis Scott Keys, founded the alumni association and the school is the third oldest college in America)
c) They needed to do a better job of letting the nation know they existed and how unique they were.
This seems to be happening. The articles below have appeared in various magazines and journals and you can left click to get the full story.(See 3 below.)
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1) Article In Leading Saudi Media Outlet Al-Arabiya Criticizes Palestinian-American Activist Linda Sarsour, Claiming She Has 'Roots In Muslim Brotherhood'
In a December 9, 2018 article on Al-Arabiya titled "Details of calls to attack Trump by U.S. 'Muslim Sisters' allied to [Muslim] Brotherhood," by Hudah Al-Saleh, criticized Palestinian-American activist Linda Sarsour, "with roots in Muslim Brotherhood and a member of the Council on American-Islamic Relations known as CAIR," and reviewed her activity over the years
MEMRI has released two clips of Ms. Sarsour; in one, dated June 30, 2017, she says that ISIS is the product of a politicized foreign policy of war on our people, and in the other, dated September 8, 2018, she calls for voting against Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas in the upcoming midterm elections, questions the faith of Muslims who defend the police, and says she doesn't care "what [any] young black person did before he got shot."
Below is the article, in the original English. All subheadings and images were also in the original.
"For the first time in U.S. political history, two Muslim women joined the ranks of the U.S. Congress, with Western and Arab media widely reporting on their win during the first midterm elections under U.S. President Donald Trump. Ilhan Omar, a Democrat, is the first Somali American to serve in Congress and Michigan Democrat Rashida Tlaib is a Palestinian American.
"However, the Democrats' battle against the Republican control of the U.S. Congress led to an alliance with Political Islamist movements in order to restore their control on government, pushing Muslim candidates and women activists of immigrant minorities onto the electoral scene.
"The common ground between Congresswomen Omar and Tlaib is that both are anti-Trump and his political team and options, especially his foreign policy starting from the sanctions on Iran to the isolation of the Muslim Brotherhood and all movements of political Islam. Those sponsoring and supporting the two Muslim women to reach the U.S. Congress adopted a tactic to infiltrate through their immigrant and Black minority communities in general, and women's groups in particular.
"One example of that is the Palestinian American activist Linda Sarsour with roots in Muslim Brotherhood and a member of the Council on American-Islamic Relations known as CAIR.
"Who is Linda Sarsour?
"The name of the Palestinian Linda Sarsour (38) appeared in the public scene, when Barack Obama took office in 2008 as President of the United States. Since then, Sarsour became a familiar face in the White House. 'I have been invited at least to seven meetings in the White House since April 2010,' she has been quoted [as saying].
"This culminated in [her] receiving the 'Champion of Change' award from President Obama in 2012. A social media site still carries a previous U.S. Department of State promotional tweet, published in July 2014, saying: "Share with Mrs. Linda Sarsour about Islam in America."
"The paradox here is that the description of the 'Obama' award is similar to the title of 'Youth and Change,' the first book taught by Sheikh Ahmed Yassin – the spiritual leader of Hamas, the military arm of the Muslim Brotherhood in Palestine – to Muslim women, according to Rajaa Halbi, an officer in the women's movement in Hamas, and who personally learned from this book directly from Hamas founder and spiritual leader Sheikh Yassin.
"What we know about Linda Sarsour is that she was born in 1980 in Brooklyn, New York, from Palestinian parents from Al-Bireh in the West Bank in Occupied Palestine. In recent years, she took part in protests and anti-Trump demonstrations. She has been employed as the president of the Arab American Association of New York, which was created by Palestinian Ahmed Jaber, a member of the Qatar International Foundation responsible for funding the association.
"Linda Sarsour and her husband, Maher Jouda, who is also a Palestinian from Al-Bireh, were investigated and placed under observation by U.S. federal authorities in 2004 on their suspicious relations with extremist elements. Also, the New York Police Department opened an investigation into the Arab American Association of New York for its links to terrorism and extremism, especially its links with the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas.
"Sarsour Activities With Muslim Brotherhood
"One of the activities in which Linda Sarsour participated was an annual meeting of the International Network of Muslim Brotherhood in North America and Canada in 2016, which lasted for three days, from December 26-28, organized by the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA). Also participating in this conference was the Muslim Students Association (MSA), which was established in 1979 by a women's group called The Sisters of Success which is affiliated with the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and its Palestinian Executive Director and co-founder Nihad Awad.
At that event, appearing next to Linda Sarsour was Samah Safi Bayazid, a Jordanian film director, accompanied by her brother and cameraman, Mohammad Safi Bayazid, who were responsible for filming and producing a show called "Noor" for Saudi cleric Salman Odeh, who is detained in Saudi Arabia.
"Samah posted on her Ttwitter account the picture with Linda at the event. She had also posted a photo with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and her brother, in addition to another picture of her participating in ALSHARQ FORUM managed by Palestinian Waddah Khanfar in Turkey.
"Among the speakers at the conference were: Siraj Wahhaj, who is described by his supporters as a pioneering Islamic preacher in New York and a hero of social community work; Jasser Auda, who is a founding member of the International Union of Muslim Scholars, president of Maqasid Studies in London, and professor of Islamic studies at Carlton University in Canada, member in the European Council for Fatwa and Research and a former member of Qatar Foundation; and Jamal Badawi, a member of the International Union of Muslim Scholars and a founding member of CAIR.
"Wahhaj, whom Linda Sarsour has admired and who in turn influenced her, was back in the national spotlight when his son Siraj Ibn Wahhaj was arrested in Aug. 2018 and jailed on a Georgia warrant alleging child abduction. Law enforcement officers searching a rural northern New Mexico compound for a missing three-year-old boy found 11 children in filthy conditions and hardly any food, and weapons where Wahhaj was allegedly training them how to execute mass shootings in America's schools.
"As for Jasser Auda, he is a founding member of the International World Union of Muslim Scholars, sponsored and chaired by extremist cleric Yusuf Al-Qaradawi, and author of the book 'Disrupting the Domineering Systems: Jihad and the Folly of State Sovereignty,' published in 2017, in which he called on Islamic entities to think strategically to restore the concept of true jihad and its institutions to the life of the nation and that it should not be repelled by the current political and media situation, no matter how urgent.
"His book also emphasizes that "Islamic entities, and even honest humanity in general should begin to think about the coarse means the Islamic societies and humanity itself could use to eliminate those gangs and to disintegrate the tyrannical entities.'
"Jasser Auda's book also preaches that: 'The concept of state sovereignty is one of the greatest lies and myths. It is the disaster of the idea and politics that have afflicted humankind in our time, which are being invested by tyranny and gain huge gains on the ground, especially in the eradication or distortion of jihad in Islam or damaging its image to serve their interests.'
"What About Linda Sarsour's Declaration Of Jihad?
"From all that is mentioned, we can touch the influence of Muslim Brotherhood in shaping the thoughts of American activist Linda Sarsour and consequently her declaring her 'Jihad' against U.S. President Donald Trump, in addition to her call for the application of 'Sharia,' the rule of Islam in the United States of America, during a speech at the annual meeting of the San Francisco branch of CAIR. These are terms used by Muslim Brotherhood teachings and in the views of Sayyid Qutb, a scholar and co-founder of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, as well as from Abul A'la Maududi's books Islam and Ignorance and Fundamentals of Islam. These terms are used and preached also by Al-Qaeda terrorist organization and the ISIS extremist group.
"In her speech, Linda Sarsour said: 'God is waiting for us to stand up to those who are oppressing our societies, not only in the Middle East and abroad, but also here in the United States, and this is a kind of jihad, where you have fascists, white supremacists and Islamophobes. We have to remain angry. Those who are currently sitting in the White House are not normal. Normal citizens should not be among this administration. If something terrible happens, you will be responsible for that. You have no choice but to be politicized, engage and be part of the resistance to defend our right to be Muslims in the United States. Opposition is the highest form of national expression in a country like the United States,' she said.
"Despite the claims of Islamist activist Linda Sarsour that her speech – which was about human rights – was taken out of its context, but according to some observers, that her defense is just only one of the tactics of the Muslim Brotherhood and their dodgers in the use of the terms of jihad, as they are afraid to say the word openly, as the collective memory of the West in general, is still tense toward events blamed on extremists, so the Muslim Brotherhood resorts to political terms away from its militant tones when using the Jihad word.
"What Linda Sarsour has said is not far from those of Zainab Al-Ghazali, one the most prominent women of the Muslim Brotherhood who said in her book My daughter: the love of jihad: 'The nation is subjected to many hardships, but the most difficult is to abandon the breeding of jihad and love of death for the sake of God... And my daughter's role is to awaken the spirit of jihad and love of martyrdom in your husband and your daughter and this is your role, which I ask you and the whole nation awaits.'
"Linda Sarsour made headlines once against when she called for 'Jihad' against Trump and his administration in 2017. However, Political Islamists – the masterminds behind the so-called "Arab Spring" – have said time and again that the word 'Jihad' could not be re-interpreted in any other sense except in the meaning of 'physical fighting' against the rulers through a coup or revolution against them.
"As she said in one of her conversations with the Arab Muslim community in New York via Skype: 'What happened in the Middle East revolutions inspired the Arabs in the United States,' adding: "After the Arab Spring, we worked harder than the last four decades, because in this country there are rights and freedoms which do not exist in the Arab countries. We began to exercise our rights here. The Arab Spring encouraged us to be involved in the political life – you gave us courage.'
"Muslim Sisters To Topple Trump
"Through the interaction and support of the president of the Islamic Society of North America (USA), Dr. Ingrid Mattson, who is of Canadian origin, and is designated as the mother of Muslim Sisters in the United States, whom former President Obama chose to speak at his inauguration in January 2009 – and with the campaign Women's march against Trump led by Linda Sarsour and Somali Ilhan Omar, the spiritual daughter of Obama, who said in a tweet in November 2017: "Thank you Obama for being a source of inspiration, hope and change! I have always been proud to call you my president!"
"In addition, there is Dalia Mogahed, former Executive Director of the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies, and [who] was chosen to serve on Obama's Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships in 2009. She is known as a staunch critic of Egypt's President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and one of the vocal participants of the annual meeting of the International Network of Muslim Brotherhood in North America and Canada, in the presence of Turkish president's daughter Soumaya Erdogan and othe Muslim Sisters hosted by Obama at a dinner in the White House.
"It turns out that the common ground for these 'sisters,' who are supported by former U.S. President Obama, are the protest, sit-ins, and demonstrations on U.S. streets. On one hand, they are 'Mujahideen,' as Linda Sarsour describes, in the face of tyrants and opponents of Trump's foreign policies – from the siege of Iran, the fight against political Islam groups, and his choice of Saudi Arabia under the leadership of King Salman bin Abdulaziz and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman as a strategic ally.
"Muslim Brotherhood Document To Establish A "Caliphate" In America And Canada
In this context, it should be noted that the document, which was released by the U.S. authorities in 2017, was found among 5,000 pages of the International Network of Muslim Brotherhood, in the house of Ismail al-Barassi, a member of the group (Palestinian origin and American) who was arrested in Virginia in 2004 on charges of belonging to Hamas. The document was presented as evidence during his trial in 2008.
"The document, entitled 'Explanatory Note to the Strategic Objective of Muslim Brotherhood in North America,' was presented in 1991 by Mohammed Akram, the secretary of the group's Shura Council, in what he described as an attempt to explain the long-term plan adopted by the Muslim Brotherhood's North American Shura Council in 1987, in which he notes that the Empowerment Memorandum is based on the realization of the overall strategic objective of the Muslim Brotherhood in North America, namely, the establishment of an Islamic movement led by the Muslim Brotherhood that embraces Muslim issues locally and globally and proposes Islam as an alternative to civilization.
"The second objective is to achieve naturalization and empowerment in North America and to establish a mechanism for that.
"The document referred to the International Network of Muslim Brotherhood's important plan of implementing naturalization and empowerment of the Muslim Brotherhood in North America and Canada, 'that Islam and its movement be part of the country in which he lives,' by turning to stable institutions and stabilizing these institutions within the Muslim community.
"The document names a number of Islamic organizations that are affiliated to the Muslim Brotherhood, which according to Al Arabiya English, are all the organizations affiliated with CAIR – the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) and the Islamic Information Foundation founded by Egyptian Canadian Dr. Jamal Badawi, the center run by Hamed Ghazali, and many others.
"The document explains the need to absorb Muslims and win their loyalty from all classes and colors in America and Canada, for the interest of the naturalization plan, saying: 'At that time, If we ask for money, it will be abundant. Even if we asked men to come in, they will.'
"The document considers the work of Muslim Brotherhood in North America as a kind of great jihad in the removal and destruction of Western civilization.
The document also mentions the need to establish a section for 'Muslim Sisters,' which includes central and local women's associations, training and technical vocational institutes, schools and kindergartens."
1a) The week's news that wasn't
Killing off, cloning, meddling in, aborting and shutting down the most over-hyped, undead, Russiaphobic, murderous and socialist fakeries in the week's fake news.
Trump presidency pronounced dead… again
If you've stuck your head inside the echo chamber that is the mainstream media for as little as 10 seconds, you've no doubt learned that President Donald Trump's presidency is over now that his "fixer," lawyer Michael Cohen, has flipped.
Cohen was sentenced this week after he agreed to plead guilty to committing various crimes — none of which involve "Russian collusion" — including, he says,
orchestrating hush money payments to a woman or women who were
allegedly banged by the prez while he was merely a billionaire real estate
mogul and television celebrity. The hush money payments are being couched
as campaign finance violations.
The number of celebrities, MSM moguls, anchors and other hangers-on who
have porked multiple partners and paid them off — or not — is incalculable.
The media love them regardless, unless they're named Bill Cosby, Kevin
Spacey and Matt Lauer… and Donald Trump.
The MSM have pronounced Trump's presidency over too many times to count.
The only predictions with a worse track record than predictions of Trump's
political demise are predictions about catastrophes from the effects of "global warming."
We spent the better part of the 90s learning that what a president does in his personal life is no one's business. These lectures came from many of the same media and political hacks who are now trying to bring down Trump over a "sex scandal." Horndog Bill Clinton got a pass for everything from using a cigar on and getting blow jobs from a plump young intern in the oval office to cornering and groping Kathleen Willey to raping Juanita Broaddrick. He paid Paula Jones $850,000 in "hush money." (And yes, lefties, his impeachment trial was a pass. The fix was in in the Senate before the House even started its proceedings. It was all theater.)
But despite what the #NeverTrump blowhards are peddling on the airwaves and interwebz, Trump's payments to silence women — if they actually happened — are not crimes.
If you want the lowdown on how Cohen pled guilty to non-crimes, read the pieces by National Review and The Daily Signal. They took the time to do some actual reporting on the law and precedent and include quotes from former prosecutors, former Federal Election Commission members and the statute books that hold the actual "law." They also compare Trump's case to those of John Edwards — who was acquitted — Clinton and Barack Obama.
And Congress is not going to try to impeach Trump over hush money payments — not with the specter of dozens of their fellow congresscritters being outed for having used a taxpayer-funded slush fund to pay hush money for their sexual misdeeds.
People need to get used to the fact that — barring an actual physical death — Trump will finish his term in office. Anything else is unfounded speculation and fake news.
What else would he say?
Nigeria's president says rumors of his demise are fake news.
President Muhammadu Buhari told a group of Nigerians living abroad in Poland last week that the rumors that he had died and been replaced by a clone weren't true. He was forced to address the claims after a tweet stating that Sudanese imposter was acting as the country's president went viral.
As ZeroHedge.com reports it, according to the rumor, Buhari died while on "medical vacation" in Europe for an undisclosed illness and the government didn't want the country to descend into chaos over the news, so an imposter was put into place "to run the continent's largest economy."
Buhari — or his clone/stand-in — attended the UN climate conference last week. If it wasn't Buhari, no one seemed the wiser. Buhari, about to celebrate his 76th birthday, assured his citizens he's healthy and ready to run for re-election in 2019.
But what else would his clone/stand-in say?
My question is; if someone besides Buhari was running Nigeria's economy, what difference would it make?
Russia meddling
For two years we've heard ad nauseum how Russians meddled in the election using social media. How much meddling did they do?
Facebook CEO and Data-from-Star-Trek lookalike Mark Zuckerberg told Congress last year that Russians spent less than $300,000 on ads and promoting "fake news" on his social media site during the 2016 election. This week, responding to Rep. Jerrod "Jabba-the-Hut" Nadler's (Idiot-NY) question, "Does Google now know the full extent to which its online platforms were exploited by Russian actors in the election two years ago?," Google CEO Sundar Pichai gave an answer that made Nadler's saggy jowls quiver and almost knocked his stupid fat butt off his stool.
"$4,700," Pichai said.
"We have — we undertook a very thorough investigation, and, in 2016, we now know that there were two main ad accounts linked to Russia which advertised on Google for about $4,700 in advertising," Pichai responded.
And while the Russians were spending $4,700 on Google, Google execs and employees were spending $1.6 million to elect Hillary Clinton, according to data compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics. Google also "used its power to ensure that millions of people saw certain hashtags and social media impressions with the goal of influencing their behavior during the election," according to an email from Eliana Murillo, Google's former head of multicultural marketing.
If Cohen tried to "influence the election" by paying hush money, what is it that Google did, exactly?
Between the two candidates and the various political action committees operating on their behalf and on behalf of various special interests, more than $6.8 billion was spent on the 2016 election. But the Russians swayed it to Trump with $300,000 in ads?
If I were running for president, I'd hire those Russian ad writers/buyers in a heartbeat. They're good… and frugal!
Politico's abortion-funding lie
So-called "conservative" Supreme Court justices John Roberts and Brett Kavanaugh showed their true unconservative colors this week when they joined the leftist justices in declining to hear a case about federal funding for abortion at the state level.
Reporting on the SCOTUS decision, Politico put out this gem:
Trump presidency pronounced dead… again
If you've stuck your head inside the echo chamber that is the mainstream media for as little as 10 seconds, you've no doubt learned that President Donald Trump's presidency is over now that his "fixer," lawyer Michael Cohen, has flipped.
Cohen was sentenced this week after he agreed to plead guilty to committing various crimes — none of which involve "Russian collusion" — including, he says,
orchestrating hush money payments to a woman or women who were
allegedly banged by the prez while he was merely a billionaire real estate
mogul and television celebrity. The hush money payments are being couched
as campaign finance violations.
The number of celebrities, MSM moguls, anchors and other hangers-on who
have porked multiple partners and paid them off — or not — is incalculable.
The media love them regardless, unless they're named Bill Cosby, Kevin
Spacey and Matt Lauer… and Donald Trump.
The MSM have pronounced Trump's presidency over too many times to count.
The only predictions with a worse track record than predictions of Trump's
political demise are predictions about catastrophes from the effects of "global warming."
We spent the better part of the 90s learning that what a president does in his personal life is no one's business. These lectures came from many of the same media and political hacks who are now trying to bring down Trump over a "sex scandal." Horndog Bill Clinton got a pass for everything from using a cigar on and getting blow jobs from a plump young intern in the oval office to cornering and groping Kathleen Willey to raping Juanita Broaddrick. He paid Paula Jones $850,000 in "hush money." (And yes, lefties, his impeachment trial was a pass. The fix was in in the Senate before the House even started its proceedings. It was all theater.)
But despite what the #NeverTrump blowhards are peddling on the airwaves and interwebz, Trump's payments to silence women — if they actually happened — are not crimes.
If you want the lowdown on how Cohen pled guilty to non-crimes, read the pieces by National Review and The Daily Signal. They took the time to do some actual reporting on the law and precedent and include quotes from former prosecutors, former Federal Election Commission members and the statute books that hold the actual "law." They also compare Trump's case to those of John Edwards — who was acquitted — Clinton and Barack Obama.
And Congress is not going to try to impeach Trump over hush money payments — not with the specter of dozens of their fellow congresscritters being outed for having used a taxpayer-funded slush fund to pay hush money for their sexual misdeeds.
People need to get used to the fact that — barring an actual physical death — Trump will finish his term in office. Anything else is unfounded speculation and fake news.
What else would he say?
Nigeria's president says rumors of his demise are fake news.
President Muhammadu Buhari told a group of Nigerians living abroad in Poland last week that the rumors that he had died and been replaced by a clone weren't true. He was forced to address the claims after a tweet stating that Sudanese imposter was acting as the country's president went viral.
As ZeroHedge.com reports it, according to the rumor, Buhari died while on "medical vacation" in Europe for an undisclosed illness and the government didn't want the country to descend into chaos over the news, so an imposter was put into place "to run the continent's largest economy."
Buhari — or his clone/stand-in — attended the UN climate conference last week. If it wasn't Buhari, no one seemed the wiser. Buhari, about to celebrate his 76th birthday, assured his citizens he's healthy and ready to run for re-election in 2019.
But what else would his clone/stand-in say?
My question is; if someone besides Buhari was running Nigeria's economy, what difference would it make?
Russia meddling
For two years we've heard ad nauseum how Russians meddled in the election using social media. How much meddling did they do?
Facebook CEO and Data-from-Star-Trek lookalike Mark Zuckerberg told Congress last year that Russians spent less than $300,000 on ads and promoting "fake news" on his social media site during the 2016 election. This week, responding to Rep. Jerrod "Jabba-the-Hut" Nadler's (Idiot-NY) question, "Does Google now know the full extent to which its online platforms were exploited by Russian actors in the election two years ago?," Google CEO Sundar Pichai gave an answer that made Nadler's saggy jowls quiver and almost knocked his stupid fat butt off his stool.
"$4,700," Pichai said.
"We have — we undertook a very thorough investigation, and, in 2016, we now know that there were two main ad accounts linked to Russia which advertised on Google for about $4,700 in advertising," Pichai responded.
And while the Russians were spending $4,700 on Google, Google execs and employees were spending $1.6 million to elect Hillary Clinton, according to data compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics. Google also "used its power to ensure that millions of people saw certain hashtags and social media impressions with the goal of influencing their behavior during the election," according to an email from Eliana Murillo, Google's former head of multicultural marketing.
If Cohen tried to "influence the election" by paying hush money, what is it that Google did, exactly?
Between the two candidates and the various political action committees operating on their behalf and on behalf of various special interests, more than $6.8 billion was spent on the 2016 election. But the Russians swayed it to Trump with $300,000 in ads?
If I were running for president, I'd hire those Russian ad writers/buyers in a heartbeat. They're good… and frugal!
Politico's abortion-funding lie
So-called "conservative" Supreme Court justices John Roberts and Brett Kavanaugh showed their true unconservative colors this week when they joined the leftist justices in declining to hear a case about federal funding for abortion at the state level.
Reporting on the SCOTUS decision, Politico put out this gem:
| For decades, no federal dollars have gone to fund abortions, but there have been many legal battles over whether providers like Planned Parenthood that offer a wide range of health services in addition to abortion are entitled to some amount of public health care funding. |
That is fake news. Either Politico's Alice Miranda Ollstein is economically ignorant, or she's a bald-faced liar. I'm going with the latter.
As Planned Parenthood's own website claims, "Since 1976, the Hyde Amendment has blocked federal Medicaid funding for abortion services (since 1994, there have been three extremely narrow exceptions: when continuing the pregnancy will endanger the woman's life, or when the pregnancy results from rape or incest).
So Planned Parenthood clearly uses federal funds for abortion services, and admits it does. Beyond that, money is fungible. Regardless of how the money may be earmarked, the mass baby murdering organization receives $500 million annually from the federal government. Even if that $500 million is set aside for non-abortion services, that's $500 million of its non-government provided funds it can use to murder babies.
More fake news from CNN
One year ago today a CNN breaking news headline declared the "end of the Internet as we know it" after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted to repeal its net neutrality laws.
As The Hill reminds us:
| "End of the internet as we know it," the lead CNN.com headline read briefly after the FCC voted 3-2 along party lines to do away with its 2015 Open Internet Order that was implemented during the Obama administration. "Trump's FCC repeals Obama-era net neutrality regulations intended to keep the web open and fair," read the CNN sub-headline on its home page. |
Socialist Senator Bernie Sanders (Senile old communist-Vermont), had this to say about the FCC's decision:
| With this decision the internet and its free exchange of information as we have come to know it will cease to exist. |
CNN and Bernie are as good with their predictions on the internet's future as they and the climate change cult are with predictions of catastrophes from global warming.
— Jay Baker
2) A woman dies at age 65 before collecting one benefit check. She and her employer paid into the system for almost 50 years and she collected NOTHING. Keep in mind all the working people that die every year who were paying into the system and got nothing.+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
And these governmental morons mismanaged the money and stole from the system, so that it's now going broke.
BEAUTIFUL! And they have the audacity to call today's seniors "vultures" in an attempt to cover their ineptitude. DISGRACEFUL!
The real reason for renaming our Social Security payments is so the government can claim that all those social security recipients are receiving entitlements thus putting them in the same category as welfare, and food stamp recipients.
THIS IS WORTH THE FEW MINUTES IT TAKES TO READ AND DIGEST!
F.Y.I. By changing the name of SS contributions, it gives them a means to refute this program in the future. It's free money for the government to spend under this guise.
The Social Security check is now (or soon will be) referred to as a *Federal Benefit
Payment* ?
The government is now referring to our Social Security checks as a "Federal Benefit Payment."
This is NOT a benefit. It is OUR money, paid out of our earned income! Not only did we all contribute to Social Security but our employers did too! It totaled 15% of our income before taxes.(This should be enough for you to forward this message, If not read on.)
If you averaged $30K per year over your working life, that's close to $180,000 invested in Social Security.
If you calculate the future value of your monthly investment in social security ($375/month, including both you and your employers contributions) at a meager 1% interest rate compounded monthly, after 40 years of working you'd have more than $1.3+ million dollars saved.
This is your personal investment. Upon retirement, if you took out only 3% per year, you'd receive $39,318 per year, or $3,277 per month.
That's almost three times more than today's average Social Security benefit of $1,230 per month, according to the Social Security Administration. (Google it – it's a fact). And your retirement fund would last more than 33 years (until you're 98 if you retire at age 65)! I can only imagine how much better most average-income people could live in retirement if our government had just invested our money in low-risk interest-earning accounts.
Instead, the folks in Washington pulled off a bigger *Ponzi scheme* than Bernie Madoff ever did (or Lyndon Johnson).
They took our money and used it elsewhere. They "forgot"(oh yes, they knew) that it was OUR money they were taking. They didn't have a referendum to ask us if we wanted to lend the money to them ... and they didn't pay interest on the debt they assumed. And recently they've told us that the money won't support us for very much longer. (Isn't it funny that they NEVER say this about welfare payments?)
But is it our fault they misused our investments? And now, to add insult to injury, they're calling it a *benefit*, as if we never worked to earn every penny of it. This is stealing!
Just because they borrowed the money, doesn't mean that our investments were for charity!
Let's take a stand. We have earned our right to Social Security and Medicare. Demand that our legislators bring some sense into our government.
Find a way to keep Social Security and Medicare going for the sake of the 92% of our population who need it.
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St. John’s College in the News
St. John’s profile is rising. While we’ve always been known for our Great Books Program, we are increasingly known for even more: our status as one of the most rigorous colleges in America, an alternative to excessive trends in higher education, and a home for free minds, civil dialogue, and respectful disagreement. Our new philanthropy-centered financial model is also gaining attention. Spread the word.
The Most Contrarian College in America
“Something wonderful happens when you read this ambitiously and wallow in this many words.”
–THE NEW YORK TIMES
“Redefining the Financial Model.” A College Goes All-in On Philanthropy to Reduce Tuition
“The St. John’s College experiment is unique because ... most of its campaign is devoted to reducing tuition.”
–INSIDE PHILANTHROPY
Has Critical Thinking Vanished? A Conversation with the President of St. John’s College (+Podcast)
“One of the things that a good liberal arts education should do is shake zealotry.”
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Has Critical Thinking Vanished? A Conversation with the
President of St. John’s College (+Podcast)
“One of the things that a good liberal arts education should do is shake zealotry.”
The Public is Losing Confidence in Higher Ed—Here’s Why
St. John’s College Sees Spike in Donations Since Tuition Decrease
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