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After a tiring day, a commuter settled down in his seat and closed his eyes.
As the train rolled out of the station, a woman sitting next to him pulled out her mobile phone. She started talking in a loud voice: "Hi sweetheart. It's Sue. I'm on the train”. "Yes, I know it's the six thirty and not the four thirty, but I had a long meeting. No, honey, not with Kevin from the accounting office. It was with the boss. No sweetheart, you're the only one in my life. Yes, I'm sure, cross my heart!"
Fifteen minutes later, she was still talking loudly. When the man sitting next to her had enough, he leaned over and said into the phone, "Sue, hang up the phone and come back to bed."
Sue doesn't use her mobile phone in public any longer.
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Democrats are unable to accept anything that happens if it does not go their way. They have become creepy.Trump get's elected and they cannot abide the fact. Trump is exonerated from collusion and they cannot abide that either. Kavanaugh is nominated to The Supreme Court and that creates a burning sensation in their pancreas. Barr makes a decision because Mueller fails to do so and they want to impeach Barr and blah, blah, blah.
Their puerile petulance will end one day but the scars and distaste from their behaviour will remain as a cloudy reminder of their political banality. The Democrat Party has become a play pen inhabited by childish imbeciles and 20 of them, at last count, want to run for the presidency. God help America.
The word projection fits so aptly because increasingly their peevishness and attempts at character assassination are a mask for their own behaviour. The latest Democrat criminal is the mayor of Baltimore. (See 1, 1a and 1b below.)
And:
This from someone I know but is not a fellow memo reader. Forwarded to me by a friend and fellow memo reader:
"It’s astounding. When you think of the vile hatred dripping from this Senator and add to it the stupidity of Maxine Waters and Sheila Jackson Lee, the lying of Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell, the manipulation of Elijah Cummings, the bigotry of Ilhan Omar, the radicalism of Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders, and the calumny of Kamala Harris and Diane Feinstein in the Kavanaugh and other judicial hearings (“dogma lives loudly in you”, being a member of the Knights of Columbus, a radical organization”), the stupidity of Corey Booker, and on and on, the Democrat Party is full of vileness, bigotry, hatred and vacuity, it makes you wonder why people we know who we believe have otherwise intelligence and reasonableness could ever vote for any Democrat who will be consumed by the likes of these people.
But, what’s even more astounding, is that many of the presidential candidates, including Joe Biden, have called for Barr’s resignation. They are OK with Eric Holder stonewalling Congress over Fast and Furious, even being cited for contempt, and Loretta Lynch’s obvious corruption in meeting with Bill Clinton and James Comey’s corruption in his participation in a coup attempt. It isn’t that they are just partisan; it is that they were willing to subvert the Constitution and commit crimes in doing so. "
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Arab Media
This development has been reported by the official website of the political party that runs the Palestinian Authority, Fatah.
The US administration is demanding the Palestinian Authority give an accounting for $7 billion in aid. Never has the US administration, or EU, requested such an accounting. The world has given billions and billions of dollars in aid, yet no accounting whatsoever! This is a total irresponsible way of acting. In what other situation does the USA or EU give away billions of dollars without knowing where that money is going to? Yet, they have allowed this situation to continue for 25 years.
Finally President Trump is saying enough. This is wrong. It is totally fine to give aid if the aid actually helps. But if the aid is embezzled, used for the Palestinian Authority leaders to get rich, and to support terrorists and thier families, then why should the USA or EU continue giving aid?
In my opinion, this step is being done to prove that the Palestinian Authority is a corrupt regime that does not care about its people, and can’t be relied upon or considered a partner to be a functioning government to make peace under the two-state solution paradigm. The Trump administration might then push forward the deal of the century that sidelines the corrupt, terror-supporting Palestinian Authority.
The other hint of this possible direction was also revealed in that same article. It reported that the Trump administration has been having meetings with Israeli businessmen together with Arab Muslim businessmen who live in Judea & Samaria. It looks like the US administration is looking to support efforts at the ground level instead of continuing to rely on the Palestinian Authority by supporting joint Jewish/Muslim business initiatives and business centers in Judea and Samaria.
This might be a major sign of the direction of the Trump deal of the century and its aftermath, after the Palestinian Authority rejects Trump's proposal.
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Finally, our son was invited, as a guest on Matt Rodak’s podcast (CEO of Fund That Flip) last Thursday, to make a presentation from an organization engaged in financing Atlas Enterprise's rehabilitation effort in Beach View. (A community that sits above Pittsburgh.)
Here’s the episode: https://learn.fundthatflip.
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1) Baltimore Dem Corruption Exposed
Baltimore’s embattled Mayor Catherine Pugh resigned Thursday amid state and federal investigations into whether she used bulk sales of her self-published children’s book “Heathy Holly” to disguise kickbacks.The announcement, effective immediately, ends weeks of uncertainty surrounding the first-term Democratic mayor.“Sorry for the harm that I have caused to the image of the city of Baltimore and to the credibility of the office of the mayor,” Pugh’s attorney read in a statement from her. “Baltimore deserves a mayor who can move our great city forward.”Calls for Pugh to resign had intensified in the past few days. Instead of making a decision, though, Pugh stayed holed up inside her three-story home for nearly a month. Her lawyers said she was too fragile to make a decision but residents and members of her own party grew weary of her open-ended retreat and demanded she either step up or step aside.
Baltimore is a know cesspool of corruption, something that ultimately happens in a one-party jurisdiction. Hopefully, more political competition will break the political machine and restore honest government in the city.
1a) Suicidal Dems Continue to Foolishly Malign Barr
By Roger Simon
You wouldn't know it from the hysteria emanating from Wednesday's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing with William Barr--desperate presidential candidates competing for the most outlandish accusation; Sen. Hirono jumping more sharks than may exist in her native Hawaii--but the ship has already sailed on the Mueller/Russia probe. There's no collusion and with that any sensible argument for obstruction.
We are already--if you paid attention to Barr's testimony or even the story in general--well into Russia Probe II - The Predicate. And that investigation involves
real, documented collusion with Russia (on the part of the Clinton campaign and who knows who else) augmented by pervasive media dishonesty. The investigation will attempt to determine, among other things, how this whole Trump/Russia conspiracy idea began and why a special counsel was appointed in the first place, considering it is now clear there was never anything there. Indeed the real question may be whether that was obvious from the beginning. It will also try to ascertain when and where the surveillance of American citizens began and whether this spying (somehow couldn't come up with a better synonym for surveillance) was justifiable.In other words, how did the USA drift into this totalitarian behavior? Who instigated this and how do we stop it from happening again? Serious punishments are probably necessary.
The Democrats prefer to forget or ignore that this second investigation--one that is likely to go on in one way or another until the 2020 election-- is now under the supervision of the very William Barr, attorney general of the United States, i. e. the chief law enforcement official of our country. And he is not about to resign, despite the clamoring of an army of fatuous hypocrites. These apparently include the aforementioned Ms. Hirono and Joe Biden, the well-known plagiarist who stole his way through law school.
Nevertheless, irritating Mr. Barr, if you or your allies might be targets of this Russia Probe II, is, in the parlance, a dumb idea. In fact, you might even call it idiotic, in the realm of poking the tiger.
Yet the Democrats can't resist. Perhaps they think to smear Barr sufficiently to defang whatever findings might be coming. Good luck to them. One thing we saw at the hearing is that he is quicker than they are and better prepared.
But have no fear. James Comey is here. Writing in Wednesday's New York Times--a paper that still has a lot of explaining to do--the discredited (to put it mildly) former FBI director enlightens us on how fine public servants like Bill Barr go astray. Of course, it's Trump, who is to blame. "He eats your soul in small bites," Comey informs us.
Anything to deflect from the coming debacle. Mueller, Comey, and a host of others are afraid. They should be. America has a real attorney general.
What's interesting, and somewhat disturbing, in all this is how well these people know each other. It's quite incestuous. Mueller and Comey were buddies when Mueller was named special counsel after Comey was fired. Barr and Mueller have apparently known each other for thirty years.
So it was notable when Barr indicated in testimony Wednesday that when he phoned Mueller about the special counsel's letter of complaint, he did so on a speaker with others around, taking notes. Apparently, Bill didn't trust his old friend. Would you?
Roger L. Simon — co-founder and CEO emeritus — is a novelist and screenwriter. His new book — THE GOAT — will be published shortly.
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Senate Democrats face recruitment setback in bid to reclaim majority
By Paul Steinhauser
It’s been a rough week for Senate Democrats as they try to lay the groundwork to reclaim the chamber's majority in next year’s elections – with some of their most coveted recruits announcing they'll pass on 2020 runs.
Rising star Stacey Abrams, who came extremely close to winning last year’s gubernatorial election in Georgia, on Tuesday said no to launching a Senate bid against GOP Sen. David Perdue. Her decision was a setback to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, who personally met with Abrams multiple times as he tried to recruit her.
Hours later, Rep. Cindy Axne of Iowa announced she would run for re-election next year rather than launch a Democratic challenge against Republican Sen. Joni Ernst.
A day later, Democratic Rep. Joaquín Castro of Texas also announced he would run for re-election rather than take a stab at trying to unseat GOP Sen John Cornyn.
Also Wednesday, reports swirled that Montana Gov. Steve Bullock would likely launch a presidential campaign in the next week or two. A Bullock entry into the White House race obviously means the popular two-term governor is passing on a chance to knock off Republican Sen. Steve Daines next year.
Earlier this year, two other high-profile politicians whom the Senate Democrat’s campaign arm tried to recruit – former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado and former Rep. Beto O’Rourke of Texas (who nearly defeated Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas in last year’s midterms) – decided to launch White House runs rather than run for the Senate.
The early recruiting failures of Schumer and Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) chair Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada could be an early barometer of the likely steep climb ahead as their party tries to take back the majority in the chamber where the Republicans hold a 53-47 advantage.
Republicans were quick to spotlight the setbacks as a sign of Democratic weakness and target Schumer.
“These embarrassing recruitment failures are devastating to Chuck Schumer's dream of a Democratic Senate,” emphasized Jack Pandol, communications director for the Senate Leadership Fund, the top outside group backing Senate Republicans.
“Now that top-tier Democrats in nearly every competitive state have all said no to Chuck Schumer, the picture is becoming clear: Democrats simply do not believe in Schumer’s ability to lead them into the majority,” Pandol added.
National Republican Senatorial Committee communications director Jesse Hunt argued that the news points to the increasingly leftward shift among Democrats.
“It shouldn’t surprise anyone that Democrats, watching their party begin to trend closer to socialism, are ducking out of competitive races against well-funded, accomplished Republican incumbents,” Hunt told Fox News.
Democrats did land their top recruit in Arizona, where former astronaut Mark Kelly announced his candidacy. Kelly is the husband of former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who survived after being shot in the head during a mass shooting in Tuscan in 2011 that left six people dead.
Landing Kelly was a major get for the Democrats, as they try to oust GOP Sen. Martha McSally, who was appointed by Arizona’s Republican governor to fill the remainder of the term of the Senate seat held for years by the late Sen. John McCain.
DSCC spokesperson Stewart Boss highlighted that “Republicans are on defense this cycle, trying to rescue weak incumbents with toxic records raising health care costs and giving tax breaks to corporations and billionaires in states where the president lost or is increasingly unpopular.”
And he argued that his party’s “well-positioned to take advantage of this climate and will have impressive candidates in these battleground states.”
Democrats also emphasize it’s really early in the cycle.
“Senate candidates typically announce closer to 12-16 months out before Election Day,” noted a national Democratic official involved in Senate races, who asked to remain anonymous to speak more freely.
Democratic Sens. Jacky Rosen of Nevada and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, who last year flipped GOP held seats, didn’t announce their bids until July and September of 2017.
Pointing to an increasing number of stories spotlighting this week’s setbacks, the official added that “it’s a little premature to weigh in on how the map’s going to play in early May of the off year.”
The source also pointed out that Castro’s decision not to run prevents a likely bruising primary battle with Air Force veteran MJ Hegar, who’s already in the race.
The official also noted that the GOP could see ugly primary fights in Kansas and Alabama, where Democratic incumbents will have a hard time holding on to seats in red-leaning states -- and that Republicans have yet to land top-tier recruits in the battleground states of New Hampshire and Michigan, to take on incumbent Democratic Sens. Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire and Gary Peters of Michigan.
While enjoying a much more favorable map than in 2018, the Democrats' path to retaking the majority remains narrow. They have to flip three seats if the party retakes the White House, or four if President Trump’s re-elected. Only two GOP incumbents are running for re-election in states that Hillary Clinton captured in 2016.
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