Palestinians Consumed By Hate? Ocasio, The Political Parrot. Our Declining Democracy. Trump The Rapist! Smollett And Trump's Black Vote. Cars And Males!
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Proportionality is the rule not only in foreign policy but in domestic policy, if you choose to defend your home and person in New York. (See 1 below.)
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Palestinians tend to be consumed by hatred of Israelis and homosexuals. (See 2 below.)
Meanwhile:
The rise in anti-Semitism has caused this Boston rabbi to send out alarm signals. Religion has been under attack for decades by progressive liberals and in the 2016 campaign by Hillary because she maintained it serves no useful purpose in the eyes of those who mock deplorables.
Trump was tagged a hater because of his response to the Charlottesville matter yet, The Democrat Party is let off Scott-free by the mass media when they allow their radical members to spout anti-Semitic hatred.
Tell me there is no mass media double standard? (See 2a below.)
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In a previous memo, I commented about Ocasio being a big talker but I forgot to mention much of what she says is orchestrated for her and is not original in nature. She is a political parrot.
I also wrote, more than 6 months ago, it would not be long before Congress began investigating some of the major social media companies. The process has begun and where it takes us and them is anyone's guess. These companies have gotten too big for Congressional comfort and their ability to restrain free speech rights as well as citizen privacy rights has become threatening . Facebook and Google are particularity in line for increased Congressional scrutiny and potential legislative action
Finally, a declining democracy, such as I believe our own has become, is due to several key factors. First, the attack on religion followed by diminished church affiliation and attendance and second, the decline in our demographics because of our diminished birth rate. Specific to America, immigration, both legal and illegal, has resulted in more favorable American demographics than say China, and Russia's. Nevertheless, our society is changing because our population growth is based on cultural disparities as a result of this immigration.
You cannot even get a prescription, for instance, without listening to a message in Spanish and the list goes on as well as the fact many immigrants from the Middle East have little desire of becoming an integral cultural part of our nation.
The nature of today's immigration is not aligned as much as when the mass exodus occurred from Eastern Europe in the early 1900's.
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As we get closer to the 2020 election I suspect thousands of women will begin to reveal they have been sexually attacked by Trump. These women belong to the same sorority that claimed they are assaulted by Kavanaugh. No wonder Trump lost his shirt in Atlantic City. He was so busy rolling the dice and disrobing women he did not have time for his business affairs and I also assume his golf game tanked.
It would not surprise me if Smollett eventually accuses Trump of assaulting him in order to suppress Trump's black vote..(See 3 below.)
My ultimate goal has always been to be a CNN analyst so I am working overtime trying to come up with a dossier of bizarre connections which I can sell to Hillary so she can get Comey to leak them to The FBI who will leak them to The New York Times.
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I once owned a Sunbeam Talbot Alpine. The same car Grace Kelly drove in the movie with Cary Grant: "To Catch A Thief." Today The Indian's TATA Motor Company has destroyed the feminine cat-like look of The Jaguar. The design that made it It look like it was moving while standing still. Mow the Tata Jaguar looks like any other boxy contemporary car and their sales reflect the stupidity of their design. Lynn owns a 2004 Jaguar and would get rid of me before her "Racing Green." Liberals don't know how to tell a male from a female. Cars determine that for God's sake. If it is a classic why fix what ain't broke? Even Max understand this and he cannot see yet. (See above and 4 below)
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Tomorrow and Thursday evening the 20 plus Democrat radical candidates are going to debate each other and do their best to destroy Biden and the United States with their effort to outdo each other in giving away "free stuff,", as if they are so dumb they don't understand there is always a price to pay for "free stuff.". If Democrats were smart they would let "Old Joe" self destruct.
In the next two days these buffoons will prove POGO was right - the enemy is The Democrat Party.
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1)This New York Man Got Arrested After Defending His Own Home
All too often, advocates of strict gun control promise that more complex and convoluted laws will save lives without imposing a serious burden on the right of law-abiding citizens to exercise their constitutional rights.
Their argument simply doesn’t hold up. Their gun control laws fail not only to address how actual criminals get their firearms, but they also impose a real burden on ordinary citizens’ Second Amendment rights. They even risk making felons out of otherwise law-abiding citizens.
If that sounds like an exaggeration, just look to the case of Ronald Stolarczyk of Oneida County, New York. He’s now facing felony charges for lawfully protecting himself against criminals without first getting the county’s permission to possess a handgun in his home—something that would cost him hundreds of dollars and months of paperwork.
The 64-year-old Stolarczyk was “minding his own business in his kitchen” one day when he heard voices coming from his garage. Stolarczyk tried simply waiting for the intruders to leave, but the two assailants soon ascended the stairs and attempted to enter his central living space.
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Stolarczyk then yelled at the burglars to leave, hoping that knowledge of his presence would scare them away. The burglars were undeterred by his warning, and one even aggressively advanced toward him.
Stolarczyk now feared for his life, both because his home had previously been broken into and because he was aware of recent home invasions that resulted in the death of the homeowner.
Stolarczyk quickly retrieved his deceased father’s .38-caliber Rossi revolver and fired several rounds at the burglars, both of whom were killed.
After making sure he was safe from all threats, Stolarczyk immediately called the police and walked to the far end of his driveway to wait for their arrival.
Once they arrived, the responding officers investigated the incident and the Oneida County district attorney concluded that the shooting was likely justified, and that Stolarczyk would not face homicide charges.
The district attorney, however, charged Stolarczyk with felony criminal possession of a firearm.
The gun Stolarczyk used had been legally owned by his father, who had properly registered the revolver and lived with it in the same house where the shooting took place.
Stolarczyk came into possession of it after his father died and left him the gun, and nothing legally prohibited him from possessing firearms.
The problem was that he failed to obtain his own handgun permit and register the gun in his name.
Thus, under state law, this otherwise law-abiding citizen was “guilty” of a Class E felony punishable by up to four years in state prison and the permanent loss of his Second Amendment rights.
Additionally, the local government seized possession of Stolarczyk’s house, claiming it was in violation of local housing codes, purportedly because he could not afford running water or electricity and kept the house full of old electronics.
All of this happened because Stolarczyk—who couldn’t even afford a standard cellphone plan—failed to properly jump through all the hoops necessary to gain the government’s permission to possess a firearm in his home for self-defense.
Just How Bad Is the Local System?
On the one hand, this case is a clear example of prosecutorial discretion run amok. Most people would agree that Stolarczyk, an otherwise law-abiding citizen, should not be criminally punished after calling the police on himself to report the justified use of lethal force against burglars.
On the other hand, these charges expose a deeper problem stemming from the severe burden that Oneida County places on residents’ Second Amendment rights.
To fully appreciate how inappropriate these charges are, we decided to find out exactly what it takes to obtain a pistol permit in Oneida County—again, the only thing Stolarczyk allegedly failed to do properly here.
It turns out that, after a lengthy investigation, we’re still not certain we fully understand the process. Our best educated guess is something like the following:
First, anyone interested in owning a handgun must pick up the application in person, which can only be done at the Oneida County Office Building. But prepare to take time off work, because this building is only open Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 12 p.m., and 1 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Alternatively, if you live on the opposite side of the county and want to avoid a 50-minute drive to Utica, you can try the Griffiss Business and Technology Park office, open on Thursdays between 8 a.m. and 12 p.m.
Once at the Office of Pistol Licensing, you’ll need to present a New York state driver’s license proving that you’re at least 21 years old and have lived in Oneida County for at least one year.
You also must provide a certificate of completion for an NRA Basic Pistol Course, which lasts approximately eight hours and must be led by a county-approved instructor.
After calling many of the recommended instructors, we learned that the introductory course can cost anywhere between $40 and $165 and that classes aren’t necessarily offered on a regular basis.
Further, had we not called these instructors and the licensing office itself for clarification, it would have been nearly impossible to determine which courses Oneida County does and does not accept to meet the requirement.
Finally, after paying a $10 processing fee to the county, you can receive the application form and begin the process of seeking the county’s permission to own a gun in your own home.
The application itself consists of five parts, which must be completed in black ink, and all signatures on the form must be notarized. Two identical head shot photographs no larger than 2 x 2 inches must be attached to the application.
Each application also requires four notarized character references from individuals 21 years of age or older, who are not related to the applicant, and who reside in Oneida County.
After completing the application, you will be responsible for paying several additional fees for processing and fingerprinting. These include $150 to the Oneida County Sheriff’s Office, $100 to the Utica Police Department, or $50 to the Rome Police Department, depending on the jurisdiction in which you reside.
All payments must be made through a postal money order, which requires a trip to the post office—and possibly additional research if, like many people, you have no idea what a postal money order is or where to get one.
There will then be a six-month waiting period for processing, after which you’ll be informed whether your application was accepted or denied. Denials can occur for a myriad of reasons, including seemingly arbitrary determinations by the application processor that you are not “of good moral character.”
An Onerous Burden
This is the complex and costly system that Stolarczyk—who couldn’t afford to keep his lights on—needed to navigate in order to legally own the revolver that may have saved his life.
That’s not to say the government can never impose any requirements on gun owners, or regulate the manner in which firearms are purchased or carried outside the home. The Second Amendment right, like all other enumerated rights, is not unlimited.
But examples like this make clear that laborious and costly gun licensing requirements impose substantial and undue burdens on the exercise of the right to keep and bear arms—burdens we would never allow to be imposed on another fundamental constitutional right.
Worse still, these burdens fall heaviest on the shoulders of those who, unlike many of the wealthy politicians calling for gun control, can’t afford to live in gated communities and will never receive a police escort.
No level of government—be it federal, state, or local—should get away with imposing such great barriers to exercising a constitutional right.
It certainly shouldn’t punish individuals whose only crime was failing to properly navigate a nightmarishly complex and expensive web of bureaucracy prior to defending their life, liberty, and property with a handgun.
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2)Hatred of Israel, Homosexuality and Women’s Emancipation Are Dominant Beliefs in Arab World, New BBC Poll Reveals
Palestinians in Gaza City burning an Israeli flag during a protest. Photo: Reuters / Mohammed Salem.
A clear majority of the Arab world continues to believe that Israel is the main threat in the Middle East and North Africa, a comprehensive BBC poll of 11 Arab countries revealed on Monday.
The poll — which involved interviews with over 25,000 respondents in Egypt, Sudan, Lebanon, Jordan, the Palestinian territories, Yemen, Iraq, Morocco, Libya, Tunisia and Algeria — also demonstrated that a strict social conservatism prevailed throughout the region, exemplified by a violent hatred of homosexuality.
Opposition to women holding positions of power and influence, as well as sympathy for the practice of “honor killings” — the execution of female relatives for allegedly shaming their families — remains widespread as well.
The poll, conducted for the British broadcaster by the Arab Barometer research organization, showed that residents of the Palestinian territories were more resistant to liberal democratic values than are their neighbors in several respects.
Only five percent of Palestinian respondents — the lowest number in all the countries surveyed — regarded homosexuality as “acceptable.”
Notwithstanding a string of brutal internal wars in Arab nations over the last decade in which several million people have been killed and displaced, Israel was still held up as the greatest threat to the region in most countries.
In Lebanon, 79 percent of respondents identified Israel as the main threat, while in the Palestinian territories that figure was 63 percent. In all cases, the US came second.
Despite their geographical distance from Israel, a plurality of respondents in Morocco, Algeria and Libya all agreed that the Jewish state was a more significant threat than any other country.
Only in Iraq and Yemen did more respondents identify Iran — which has supported terrorist paramilitaries in the brutal internal conflicts in both countries — as a bigger threat than Israel.
At the same time, the overwhelming dissatisfaction with living standards in the region meant that at least one in five residents of the Arab world wished to emigrate elsewhere. Europe remained the most popular destination, although a sizable number wanted to move to North America, or to other countries in their own region. About 30 percent of Palestinians would emigrate if given the opportunity, with the number rising to nearly 60 percent in the case of Sudan.
In terms of international outlook, the poll will make comforting reading for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, whose popularity among Arabs remains high even as it declines dramatically in his own country, in the wake of the resounding defeat suffered by Erdogan’s AKP Party in the re-run election for the mayor of Istanbul on Sunday.
A full 75 percent of Palestinian, Jordanian and Sudanese respondents said they had a “positive” view of the Turkish Islamist leader. Overall, 51 percent of respondents across the region expressed a liking for Erdogan, compared with 28 percent for Russian President Vladimir Putin and just 12 percent for US President Donald Trump.
Although the poll showed that levels of religious observance were falling throughout the Arab world — especially in the North African countries — this has not translated into more tolerant attitudes to gay men, or to women in either public life or within the family.
Most disturbingly, in all the countries surveyed bar Sudan, more respondents responded favorably when asked about honor killings than homosexuality.
More residents of the Arab world believe that ‘honor killings’ are more acceptable than homosexuality. Image: BBC/Arab Barometer
“Acceptance of homosexuality varies but is low or extremely low across the region,” the BBC noted. “In Lebanon, despite having a reputation for being more socially liberal than its neighbors, the figure is 6 percent.”
A man prays at a makeshift memorial outside the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Oct. 31, 2018. Photo: Reuters / Cathal McNaughton.
A Boston-area rabbi is urging members of his congregation to bring guns to services to fend off potential antisemitic attackers.
According to WBUR, in the wake of the Tree of Life massacre in Pittsburgh and the Poway Chabad shooting, Rabbi Dan Rodkin of Shaloh House in Brighton decided that measures such as security cameras and panic buttons were inadequate.
“We can’t think, ‘I’m just praying, and God will save me,’” he said. “No, we need to take care of situations ourselves.”
Several of his congregants are veterans and retired policemen, and have agreed to come armed to services. Rodkin is giving recommendation letters to others so they can obtain gun licenses.
Rodkin is also planning to procure a personal weapon for himself.
“I know it sounds horrible, but I think it’s a very logical approach for the situation we’re in,” he said. “I don’t want people to have guns. But I think to protect our families, it’s a necessity now.”
“In Judaism, life is the most sacred thing,” Rodkin noted. “Political correctness is important, too, but not as important as a life.”
“So I think whatever it takes to save a life, it is the most important task,” he said.
Regarding how he would act during a potential attack, Rodkin was philosophical, saying, “This is all in God’s hands.”
“I think people who are trained will be better than I, I think. But you never know until you are placed in that situation,” he said.
President of the Massachusetts Board of Rabbis Neal Gold disagreed with Rodkin’s approach, but said, “I understand the impulse of this rabbi who says we want to bring more weapons into the community, because we can’t breathe right now.”
He noted that his own house of worship in the Boston suburb of Newton had security guards for Shabbat morning services.
“We were living on blessed time before, but conversations are happening now that we have to be aware of who is coming through our doors,” Gold explained. “Now, we find ourselves asking: ‘What does this mean for the Jewish community in America?’”
Jeremy Yamin, the director of security and operations at Combined Jewish Philanthropies, also sympathized with the rabbi’s concerns.
“We’re talking about the worst situation that anyone could imagine,” he said. “Federal agents and police officers spend an entire career training for something like this.”
Carroll, who claims in her new book that President Donald Trump attempted to sexually assault her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room more than two decades ago,changedher rationale for not pressing charges against Trump and stumbled over answers in a disaster interview with CNN's Alisyn Camerota Monday.
President Trump has vehemently denied the accusations, claims he doesn’t know Carroll, and has publicly thanked Bergdorf Goodman for "confirming they have no video footage of any such incident.”
In the first part of the interview, Carroll detailed the alleged rape, telling Camerota, “When we walked into the lingerie department there was nobody there, which is strange. It was in the evening, so — and on the counter were three really fancy boxes and a see-through bodysuit. He walked right to the bodysuit and snatched it up and said, ‘Go put this on.’ Now, that struck me as so funny because here I am, a 52 — I am not going to put — my idea was — I said, ‘No, you put it on.’ And he said, ‘No, it looks like it fits you.’ I said, ‘No, it goes with your eyes.’ So I am spinning a comedy scene in my head.”
“Of course, banter back and forth. I get it,” Camerota added.
“But you see how funny that would be to make him —,” the accuser said.
“Yes,” the CNN anchor answered. “Yes. And you, by the way, used to be a comedy writer on ‘Saturday Night Live.’ … You were engaging in this banter as I think many of us would, because you didn't know what violence was about to unfold, and you could never have known that.”
“No, I had —,” Carroll interjected, adding, "How would I know that.”
Camerota then suggested to Carroll that Trump raped her — beyond what Carroll herself has contended during the interview.
“And this is beyond sexual [assault]. I mean, legally, he raped you,” the CNN anchor said, before running a clip of the infamous leaked Access Hollywood tape wherein Trump brags to then-host Billy Bush that beautiful women allow him to “grab ‘em any the p****” because of his fame. It appeared as if Camerota were working to coach Carroll into making a more concrete accusation against the president.
Camerota then asked about Carroll's potential political motivations in accusing the president of sexual assault.
“Did you consider, in 2016 when Donald Trump was running for president and other women were coming forward with stories, accusations about sexual assault, did you consider speaking out then?” asked Camerota.
“No, because they were doing the job. They were coming forward. There were an army of women. It was — they were coming forward, so I sat back and let them,” Carroll oddly answered, adding that she thought the alleged rape was her fault: “I was going to come forward I'd have to say it was — I was stupid, I was — I was a nitwit. I allowed this. So my frame of mind was not the best.” In the past two years, Carroll has apparently changed her mind.
When asked if she would press charges against Trump, since she apparently still has the dress she wore during the alleged attack, Carroll claimed she would not because the statute of limitations has since run on the incident.
“This is the greatest police department in the world. The detectives are great in New York,” said Carroll. “The thing is, it's past the time. It's — experts — I've been talking to experts and they say that we've passed the legal —.”
“The statute of limitations,” chimed in Camerota.
“Yes, thank you,” answered the accuser.
“Yes. There was a statute of limitations in place at the time that this happened in late 1995 or '96 that has since changed. And, Mayor de Blasio, when he heard your story, said that he would pursue, on your behalf, an investigation,” Camerota said. “And so, you have the dress that you were wearing. You don't, I'm sure, still have the tights. But, would you consider doing that?”
Again, Carroll said she would “consider it” but noted the statute of limitations.
Two days ago, however, Carroll told MSNBC that she would not press charges because it would be “disrespectful” to immigrant women being "raped around the clock" at the United States-Mexico border.
It's in the last portion of the interview, though, that things got really wild.
Carroll stumbled over her thoughts, talked about putting Trump in her book, and theorized about other women who have come forward with sexual assault allegations. She also seemed to claim that she has received threats of harm — and even death — for coming forward.
At one point, the interview became so difficult to manage, Camerota began asking prying questions.
“Now, today, what do you want to say to Donald Trump?” asked Camerota.
“That terrifies me that you said that. That is — that is —,” stumbled Carroll.
“At the thought of confronting him?” asked the CNN anchor.
“No,” Carroll answered. “I — you know, you just stunned me by saying that. It terrifies me, although I think I could — I think — yes.”
“You think that you could confront him now? I mean, what part scares you?” Camerota followed-up.
“Well, will you go with me, Alisyn? Seriously,” said Carroll. “You know, listen, that is a — that is a terrible situation. Even a question just terrifies me. Look at me, I can hardly talk now that you said that.”
“What part?” Camerota asked. “What part terrifies you?”
“Well, it puts — it reveals to me what I'm in the middle of doing, is what it does. That's — you made it very clear what I'm in the midst of doing and —.”
"And you thought when you included those 11 pages in the book that it wouldn't get this amount of attention?” pressed Camerota. “Why?”
“He was only one of 21 hideous men, you know,” the Elle columnist said.
“But it is the President of the United States. You didn't know the onslaught that you would be in the middle of right now? I mean, you are talking about the President of the United States and you are accusing him of sexual assault,” Camerota said.
Carroll then said she would go back on her past advice to women about coming forward because it’s been so hard on her. “I put my reputation on the line, I put my livelihood on the line. … and I put my life on the line,” she claimed.
“You've gotten death threats?” asked Camerota.
"I am not looking at death threats. I — the reason why I appear to be a happy woman is because I'm not reading this stuff. I am staying out of it,” Carroll backtracked.
“But have you been told you've gotten death threats?” the CNN anchor asked. “People who read this for you have told you that you've gotten death threats and that makes you feel?
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4) Beautiful car photos! But they don't include the 1936 Cord 810 coupe
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