Even the WSJ Editorial Board has written about this deserved and judicially justified Trump victory verdict. Tiger was defanged. (See 1 below.)
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Many years ago I came upon a saying that I have embraced: " When all else fails lower your standards." This certainly applies to most anything government does and now we have the actions of the Democrats with respect to their candidates. What a pathetic crop of absolute zanies.
I am not ignoring the boorishness of Trump but his basic policies and accomplishments have been exceptional, particularly when set against all the opposition and apparently illegal efforts to destroy both him, his family, friends, staff members and his presidency.
Thursday night we learned they want to confiscate personal property, get rid of those engaged in fracking, penalize the rich for being successful, and spend trillions on forgiving debts and adding to more welfare programs. They also favor sanctuary cities and open borders among other destructive policies. Just amazing.
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Will Europe become China's turkey and be gobbled up? (See 2 below.)
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I happened to be on Bush'41's National Finance Committee the first time he ran for president and one of the perks was an invitation to the Vice President's home and the entertainer was Yakov Smirnoff.
He now has his own theater in Branson Missouri. This is a video of him honoring David Horowitz on his 80th birthday.
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This is from a preschool classmate and fellow memo reader who was a Military Demolition Expert
(now The Seals) and then became a criminal attorney. He is very cynical:
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++This is from a preschool classmate and fellow memo reader who was a Military Demolition Expert
(now The Seals) and then became a criminal attorney. He is very cynical:
"Islam allows believers to lie to non believers. Since Christians and Jews are non believers, we can not believe
them. Therefor why negotiate with them at all?
The Chinese have never lived up to the conditions of a treaty; why bother to negotiate one?
Why not just tell these countries what the rules are and if they object consider that there was a treaty which has
been broken and act accordingly? Would save time and effort and produce a similar outcome.
The Cynic, G-----"
And:
Sent to me by a dear friend and fellow memo reader. I am close to Elle . She came as a boat person around
1 year of age and she and her husband now own 8 restaurants in Savannah and are wonderful and productive
citizens.
Their restaurants are excellent and Current is the most beautiful restaurant I have ever been to in this country.
The dining room of The Meurice Hotel in Paris is probably the most beautiful I have ever been in in Europe. (See
3 below.)
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Dick
1)
The High Court’s Injunction Slapdown
A victory for the rule of law, no matter who is President.
By The Editorial Board
To review: On July 15, the Trump Administration moved to bar asylum claims from refugees who transited a third country, such as Mexico, without trying to stay there first.
On July 24, Judge Jon Tigar in Oakland, Calif., issued a sweeping injunction that blocked the asylum policy’s enforcement nationwide.
On Aug. 16, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals narrowed that order to apply in its jurisdiction alone, saying Judge Tigar had “failed to discuss whether a nationwide injunction is necessary to remedy Plaintiffs’ alleged harm.”
On Sept. 9, Judge Tigar reinstated his original order’s unlimited scope, saying the plaintiffs in the case could get “complete relief” only if the policy were blocked entirely.
On Sept. 10, the Ninth Circuit reversed that reversal, issuing a stay of Judge Tigar’s renewed injunction, pending further review.
This is no way to run a judiciary. In seven weeks, federal officials got five different directives: implement, stay, implement, stay, implement. The Ninth Circuit covers California and Arizona, but the other end of the Mexican border is 1,000 highway miles away, in Texas.
Nationwide injunctions are supposed to be extraordinary measures to prevent irreparable harm. Judge Tigar couldn’t make a convincing argument. The plaintiffs are aid groups that help migrants. If the asylum rules took effect in Texas and New Mexico, what permanent injury would befall them? Judge Tigar’s first example was that one of the nonprofits would have to “redesign its workshops and templates.”
He also cited “the need to maintain uniform immigration policy,” saying that bifurcated asylum rules would “create major administrability issues.” The executive branch didn’t agree.
The Supreme Court’s intercession isn’t about Mr. Trump’s policy choices. It’s about the proper operation of the lower courts. The Justices’ unsigned order puts Judge Tigar’s overdrawn injunctions on hold, awaiting Ninth Circuit and perhaps High Court consideration. Courts may eventually rule that Mr. Trump’s asylum rules contravene the law. But until then the Supreme Court is right to rein in a judge who blocks the policy nationwide, with little evidence of irreparable harm and no respect for the President’s authority or duty to protect the border.
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2) As China Surges, Europe Is on the Menu
Aided by Russian revisionism in Europe, Beijing is positioning itself to launch an all-out challenge to U.S. military preeminence. The de facto alignment of Chinese and Russian interests in Europe in opposition to the United States—though it falls short of an all-out alliance—presents the United States and its allies with a confluence of threats that exceed in their potential consequences the scope of the Soviet threat during the Cold War. The combination of Beijing’s efforts to aggregate economically and financially dependent states in Europe and Moscow’s pressure to disaggregate NATO and the European Union poses a clear and present danger to the security of the Transatlantic community.
2) As China Surges, Europe Is on the Menu
China’s naval expansion and commercial push into Europe are aimed
at redefining the global trade and security system to the detriment of the democratic West. Europe
and the U.S. need to wake up to the challenge.
Since the end of the Second World War, the United States has sought to ensure access to the lands surrounding Eurasia, including Europe, the Maghreb, the Middle East, and the territories of the Indo-Pacific, as part of its grand strategy. The forces forward-deployed in Europe and Asia served as an essential bridge between the need to counter the overwhelming land power of the Soviet Union and the stand-off capacity afforded to America by its powerful navy. America’s unfettered access to the so-called Rimland, buttressed by our robust network of alliances, fostered an unprecedented level of stability worldwide.
Today, ensuring access to and the defense of the Rimland, especially its European gateway, continues to be critical in preventing China from realizing its strategy of building an autonomous supply chain across the continental Heartland. For the United States and its allies to nullify the Chinese strategy, the Europeans must grasp fully the gravity of the situation and respond accordingly.
In a number of European capitals there seems to be some ambivalence about the scope of the Sino-American rivalry, and about how best to proceed; both the security risks and the economic opportunities that China has brought to the Continent are tugging at Europeans’ consciences. The outcome of this debate is anything but settled: There is no reason to assume that, as competition between China and the United States heats up, all of Europe will see the threat the way the United States does. Whether through Chinese loans for equity, structural investment such as the Belt and Road Initiative, Beijing’s “17+1” cooperation with Greece and Central and East European states, or the direct acquisition of European technology by Chinese companies, Europe is on the menu. To understand the nature of the challenge requires revisiting the rudiments of geostrategy outlined above. Our European allies urgently need to develop a coordinated response to Chinese economic penetration, and to work closely with the United States to properly resource their own defense by investing in real, usable military capabilities.
And yet a number of crosscurrents in Europe continue to raise questions about the Continent’s ability to rise to the challenge. Five years since the Russian seizure of Crimea and the war in Ukraine, and notwithstanding several NATO summits in which alliance members have committed to spending 2 percent of GDP on defense, a number of NATO allies continue to struggle to generate sufficient political will to rebuild their defenses. Equally important, internal political pressures continue to fracture the Continent. The fragmentation of the European Union raises serious questions about the EU’s ability to weather the storm: The idea of a “multi-speed” Europe is gaining currency in Brussels, and the Continent is splitting into an increasingly “postmodern” West and a more traditionally oriented “modern” East. Last but not least, over the past three years new fissures in Transatlantic relations, which both Russia and China have sought to widen, have made it difficult to achieve the consensus necessary to confront Chinese imperialism.
The United States needs to remain fully engaged in Europe, working through NATO and bilaterally to keep the larger strategic objective of countering China’s push into Europe firmly on the Transatlantic agenda. Gone are the heady days of liberal institutionalism and globalization as our preferred frameworks for thinking about national security strategy; the United States has been forced to grapple once again with enduring geopolitical verities, requiring a healthy dose of realism, alliance-building, and carefully considered power-balancing. Today China’s expanding economic, military, and political reach across the globe, assisted by Russia’s deepening geostrategic revisionism, should provide the foundation of a shared NATO threat assessment going forward. More than at any time since the end of the Cold War, how Europe responds in the next decade to Beijing’s imperial drive, and especially how it defines its commercial relations with China, will be critical to the outcome of the current round of great power competition.
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VIETNAMESE IMMIGRANT!
The difference between legal and illegal. This is something everyone in America should read. It looks like we did some good after all!
On Saturday, July 24th, 2010 the town of Prescott Valley, AZ, hosted a Freedom Rally. Quang Nguyen was asked to speak on his experience of coming to America and what it means. He spoke the following in dedication to all Vietnam Veterans. Thought you might enjoy hearing what he had to say:
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"35 years ago, if you were to tell me that I am going to stand up here speaking to a couple thousand patriots, in English, I'd laugh at you. Man, every morning I wake up thanking God for putting me and my family in the greatest country on earth. I just want you all to know that the American dream does exist and I am living the American dream. I was asked to speak to you about my experience as a first generation Vietnamese-American, but I'd rather speak to you as an American.
"If you hadn’t noticed, I am not white and I feel pretty comfortable with my people. I am a proud U.S citizen and here is my proof
It took me 8 years to get it, waiting in endless lines, but I got it, and I am very proud of it.
"I still remember the images of the Tet offensive in 1968, I was six years old. Now you might want to question how a 6-year-old boy could remember anything. Trust me, those images can never be erased. I can't even imagine what it was like for young American soldiers, 10,000 miles away from home, fighting on my behalf.
"35 years ago, I left South Vietnam for political asylum. The war had ended At the age of 13, I left with the understanding that I may or may not ever get to see my siblings or parents again. I was one of the first lucky 100,000 Vietnamese allowed to come to the U.S. Somehow, my family and I were reunited 5 months later, amazingly, in California. It was a miracle from God.
"If you haven't heard lately that this is the greatest country on earth, I am telling you that right now. It was the freedom and the opportunities presented to me that put me here with all of you tonight. I also remember the barriers that I had to overcome every step of the way.
My high school counselor told me that I cannot make it to college due to my poor communication skills. I proved him wrong. I finished college. You see, all you have to do is to give this little boy an opportunity and encourage him to take and run with it. Well, I took the opportunity and here I am.
"This person standing tonight in front of you could not exist under a socialist/communist environment. By the way, if you think socialism is the way to go, I am sure many people here will chip in to get you a one-way ticket out of here. And if you didn't know, the only difference between socialism and communism is an AK-47 aimed at your head. That was my experience.
"In 1982, I stood with a thousand new immigrants, reciting the Pledge of Allegiance and listening to the National Anthem for the first time as an American. To this day, I can't remember anything sweeter and more patriotic than that moment in my life.
"Fast forwarding, somehow I finished high school, finished college, and like any other goofball 21 year old kid, I was having a great time with my life I had a nice job and a nice apartment in Southern California. In some way and somehow, I had forgotten how I got here and why I was here.
"One day I was at a gas station, I saw a veteran pumping gas on the other side of the island. I don't know what made me do it, but I walked over and asked if he had served in Vietnam. He smiled and said yes. I shook and held his hand. This grown man's eyes began to well up. I walked away as fast as I could and at that very moment, I was emotionally rocked. This was a profound moment in my life. I knew something had to change in my life. It was time for me to learn how to be a good citizen. It was time for me to give back.
"You see, America is not just a place on the map, it isn't just a physical location. It is an ideal, a concept. And if you are an American, you must understand the concept, you must accept this concept, and most importantly, you have to fight and defend this concept This is about Freedom and not free stuff. And that is why I am standing up here
"Brothers and sisters, to be a real American, the very least you must do is to learn English and understand it well . In my humble opinion, you cannot be a faithful patriotic citizen if you can't speak the language of the country you live in. Take this document of 46 pages - last I looked on the Internet, there wasn't a Vietnamese translation of the U.S. Constitution. It took me a long time to get to the point of being able to converse and until this day, I still struggle to come up with the right words. It's not easy, but if it's too easy, it's not worth doing
Before I knew this 46-page document, I learned of the 500,000 Americans who fought for this little boy. I learned of the 58,000 names inscribed on the black wall at the Vietnam Memorial. You are my heroes. You are my founders.
"At this time, I would like to ask all the Vietnam veterans to please stand. I thank you for my life. I thank you for your sacrifices, and I thank you for giving me the freedom and liberty I have today. I now ask all veterans, firefighters, and police officers, to please stand.
On behalf of all first generation immigrants, I thank you for your services and may God bless you all.
Quang Nguyen
Creative Director/Founder
Caddis Advertising, LLC
"God Bless America"
“One Flag, One Language, One Nation Under God”
Creative Director/Founder
Caddis Advertising, LLC
"God Bless America"
“One Flag, One Language, One Nation Under God”
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