Kim Still Loves Me/Us. Pretty Damn Pathetic. Nothing Kosher About Epstein's Death.

Apparently the entire nation is going to have some bone chilling weather so we should suspend all talk of global warming until the freezing temperatures pass.
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Tomorrow Schiff faces' trial of Trump will break out in the open but no witnesses Republicans want to cross examine will be present so the witch hunt continues.

Even the whistle blower will not be allowed to testify. The American judicial system I studied in law school allowed the accused to face their accuser but due process is not something the radical Democrat Party believes in and so it goes.

I believe, as I have written, these hearings will blow up in Schiff' face's face.

He has proven he is an unmitigated liar.  He is the face of the Democrat/Gulag Party. Pretty damn pathetic. (See 1and 1a below.)
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Kim still loves me/us: "Hi dick, 

i do still love you! and the books are coming. i ended up having to do an additional trip, and it delayed me some. But the signing and packing is now on my list of things to do this week, back here in Alaska. 

As for the trip, i will be honest, if i do make it, it won't be soon. I'm absolutely whooped from all the travel, and all I want to do from now until Christmas is hang out with the loved ones. I am hoping once i get past New Years to have renewed energy for some events--and I will let you know! 

Hugs to you both. Kim"

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Nothing kosher about Epstein autopsy, as if I had any doubts. (See 2 below.)

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Tobin and the return of socialism. (See 3 below.)

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Dick

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1)

Lindsey Graham to Trump’s Rescue

The senator says impeachment is ‘dead on arrival’ unless the whistleblower testifies.

By William McGurn

Not long ago, anyone who predicted that Sen. Lindsey Graham would become Donald Trump’s biggest defender would have been thought certifiably cuckoo.

In the contest for the 2016 GOP presidential nomination, the two men were bitter rivals. Then, within months of Mr. Trump’s being sworn in as president, Mr. Graham co-sponsored a bill designed to stop the president from firing special counsel Robert Mueller, who’d been appointed to investigate whether the Trump campaign colluded with the Russians to steal the election.

But that was then. This week the House begins public hearings on impeachment, and it finds Mr. Graham loudly and publicly questioning the legitimacy of the effort. This follows his successful trolling of Speaker Nancy Pelosi in October—when he goaded her into holding an impeachment vote she insisted was unnecessary—by introducing a Senate resolution condemning the House for the “illegitimate,” “unprecedented” and “undemocratic” impeachment it had started.

On Sunday, Mr. Graham upped the ante. During an interview on Fox News with Maria Bartiromo, the South Carolina Republican zeroed in on the whistleblower who kicked off the impeachment probe with his complaint about a July 25 phone call between President Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart. Though House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff originally said the whistleblower would testify, he now says his testimony is “redundant and unnecessary.”

Which has Mr. Graham laying down a new marker: “It’s impossible to bring this case forward, in my view, fairly without us knowing who the whistleblower is and having a chance to cross-examine them about any advice they may have,” he said. “If they don’t call the whistleblower in the House, this thing is dead on arrival in the Senate.”Mr. Graham’s game is twofold. On the one hand, he is laying out a path for how the Senate might respond once the House impeaches. When Mr. Graham introduced his resolution condemning the House, some Republicans worried it would only reveal divisions within the party. Instead, Mr. Graham secured 50 co-sponsors—sending a message to the House that if this remains a completely partisan impeachment, the Senate may simply vote to dismiss it.

He’s also appealing to the American people. Unlike the president, who describes his call with Ukraine’s president as “perfect,” Mr. Graham’s pitch is that this impeachment is too unfair to be taken seriously: If a presidential election is to be overturned, it can’t be done via a nakedly partisan impeachment. He might add that some of the same folks who appeared so worried about what Attorney General William Barr might find when he announced the Justice Department was looking into the origins of the FBI’s counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign now likewise oppose looking more closely at the whistleblower and how this impeachment inquiry was launched.

Which brings us back to a Graham-Trump alliance that neither man could have imagined back in 2016. Primary candidates often say things about their rivals that they later regret, but the Trump-Graham exchanges stand out for their rancor. Mr. Trump called Mr. Graham a “stiff,” an “idiot” and a “lightweight,” read out the senator’s cellphone number during a rally, and declared that “he actually probably seems to me not as bright as Rick Perry. ”

Mr. Graham gave as good as he got. He called Mr. Trump “the world’s biggest jackass” and a “race-baiting xenophobic religious bigot” and said that if Republicans nominated him, the party would lose the “moral authority” to govern.

At a gala Thursday night honoring the American Spectator, Mr. Graham acknowledged in a humorous address that he and the president had gotten off to a “rocky start.” But he said that by looking past the drama he came to appreciate the results Mr. Trump delivered, not least on judges, and called Mr. Trump’s conservatism a combination of Ronald Reagan and P.T. Barnum.

“The Democrats have driven me into his camp as much as anybody else,” he said. “After a while you say ‘enough already,’ right?”

In the meantime, the public impeachment hearings start Wednesday. So far the whistleblower is conspicuous by his absence. But we do know that in January 2017 his lawyer tweeted that “#coup has started.” There is also a name, public but unconfirmed, of an official with alleged ties to Joe Biden, to former CIA Director John Brennan, to former national security adviser Susan Rice, and to a Ukrainian-American woman consulting for the Democratic National Committee who was digging up dirt on Mr. Trump during the election. These ties appear to be what Mr. Graham was alluding to when he told Ms. Bartiromo he is “confident” that when the whistleblower’s identity is finally revealed, it will be someone from the “deep state.”

If true, might it be that Mr. Schiff wants to keep all this hidden lest the American people, as they are making up their own minds about impeachment, learn that the whistleblower who set the impeachment fires burning was wired in to the same network of characters who spent more than two years pushing the bogus claim that Donald Trump is a Russian agent?

1a) Memorandum To Republican Members

A memo was circulated Tuesday from top Republicans to GOP members of the House Intelligence, Oversight, and Foreign Affairs committees outlining “key points of evidence” that are “fatal to the Democrats allegations.”

According to the memo, the four key pieces of evidence are:

• The July 25 call summary — the best evidence of the conversation — shows no conditionality or evidence of pressure;
• President Zelensky and President Trump have both said there was no pressure on the call;
• The Ukrainian government was not aware of a hold on U.S. security assistance at the time of the July 25 call; and
• President Trump met with President Zelensky and U.S. security assistance flowed to Ukraine in September 2019 — both of which occurred without Ukraine investigating President Trump's political rivals.

The memo goes on to accuse Chairman Adam Schiff of “publicly fabricating evidence” and misleading “Americans about his interactions with the anonymous whistleblower.” President Trump tweeted Monday morning that “Shifty Adam Schiff will only release doctored transcripts” and followed that up yesterday with a series of tweets that referred to the impeachment inquiry as a “no due process scam.”

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2) BREAKING: Interview Of Epstein’s Medical Examiner RELEASED

You won’t believe what he had to say…

The high-profile and decorated medical examiner who supervised the New York City autopsy of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein revealed in a shocking interview that no definitive DNA tests were performed on the disgraced sex trafficker during the autopsy — or anytime after the pedophile’s reported prison-cell suicide.

Dr. Michael Baden, the former New York City medical examiner hired by the Epstein family to oversee the autopsy, said in a new interview that no DNA test was performed on Epstein to confirm the identity of the Justice Department’s highest profile suspect who died mysteriously in federal custody.

Shockingly, Dr. Baden — who worked on hundreds of high-profile cases during a five-decade medical career — added:

“He (Epstein) was brought there (to the Coroner’s office) from the prison and had been previously identified in the prison,” Baden said during an exclusive interview. “Now, if somebody switched the body in the prison, you know that’s beyond our expertise.”

What did he say?

Federal officials maintain Epstein was found dead in his Manhattan federal prison cell in New York City in August, a reported victim of suicide. But Dr. Baden revealed in a separate interview on FOX News just last week that Epstein’s autopsy and body showed telltale signs of homicide, specifically homicidal strangulation.

Not suicide.

Now Dr. Baden reveals no DNA tests were performed on Epstein — a potential homicide victim — to confirm the identity of body examined during the autopsy after being transported from federal prison. Instead, Dr. Baden said Epstein’s brother made ‘visual identification’ of the body. Mark Epstein, the brother, is also who hired Dr. Baden to supervise the autopsy.

The latest bombshell revelations in the mysterious Epstein death baffled veteran Justice Department officials.

“How can (Attorney General) Barr claim the FBI is conducting a thorough investigation of Epstein’s death if there is no DNA test?,” one high-ranking FBI official said. “If Epstein was murdered, how can you bring charges against anyone? A defense attorney is going to ask: ‘Can you prove the victim was Jeffrey Epstein; what tests did you conduct to verify the identity?’ ”

Dr. Baden said the FEDs and city officials took Mark Epstein’s word that the body in the New York City Medical Examiner’s office was indeed his brother. Mark Epstein is Jeffrey’s only next of kin and named in Epstein’s will and presumably the primary beneficiary of Epstein’s $578 million in assets protected by a family trust. The body was released to his custody.

Meanwhile, Epstein’s supposed remains were reportedly entombed by his brother in an unmarked stone crypt next to his parents in Florida. The names of his parents were removed from their granite crypt to protect the tombs from vandals. Epstein’s autopsy results have not been released.

“This is absolutely outrageous,” another top Justice Department official said about the failure to perform a DNA test. “This is not a routine case where someone died in their sleep. He was in federal holding in MCC.”

First, Epstein reportedly dies in federal custody and now there is no medical proof that the autopsy was conducted on Epstein. And the body has been released.

The bombshell DNA revelations by Dr. Baden is certain to create more additional troubling questions about Epstein’s reported death in federal custody while he was awaiting trial on federal sex-trafficking charges involving underage girls, was reportedly discovered dead in his cell on Aug. 10.

Baden’s disturbing DNA-related revelations about the Epstein autopsy were divulged during an interview with CrowdSource the Truth’s Jason Goodman:

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3) Socialism becomes the anti-Semitism of the enlightened

It inspired intolerance and suffering, as well as false hopes now echoed by supporters of Bernie Sanders and Jeremy Corbyn. Why is it making a comeback?

JONATHAN S. TOBIN

What is old is sometimes new again. In recent years, socialism—the ideology that gave birth to some of the worst horrors of the 20th and bloodiest century of the Common Era—is back. Only 30 years after it was consigned to an unlamented grave with the fall of the Berlin Wall, it is making its political return.

Part of this surge in sympathy for socialism is due to Bernie Sanders’ presidential candidacy, as well as the notoriety gained by one of his greatest supporters: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), who like the Vermont senator is an avowed Socialist. Nor have their largely negative views of Israel prevented Jewish Democrats from cheering them.

A poll taken earlier this year by Gallup showed that some four in 10 Americans embraced some form of socialism. While a majority of those polled—51 percent—said that socialism would be a bad thing for the country, a staggering 43 percent said it would be a good thing. Indeed, as Gallup also noted, a majority of Democrats have been telling them that they viewed socialism positively since 2010.

It’s not clear that many of those who tell pollsters they like socialism understand what they are saying. Some may just like Bernie or AOC, hate President Donald Trump or view it as a catchall phrase expressing very liberal views about a variety of subjects or antagonism towards big business. But whatever it means, there’s no doubt that the stigma attached to socialism during the struggle against communism during the Cold War and the historical record of what happens when Socialists take over nations has faded.

The irony about this is that, as scholar Ruth Wisse noted in a brilliant lecture given at third annual conference on Jews and Conservatism—an event sponsored by the Jewish Leadership Conference and supported by the Tikvah Foundation—“Jewish socialism” is dead.

By that, Wisse, who is arguably the greatest living authority on Yiddish literature, as well as a formidable and insightful commentator on Jewish history and politics, was describing something that is largely extinct.

Prior to World War II and the Holocaust, supporters of the Socialist Bund Party were not merely ubiquitous in Jewish life, but more numerous than Zionists in many places. Jewish Socialists created an important body of literature as won the political allegiances of many Jews who saw in Marxism an escape from both economic misery and religious prejudice.

Yet those hopes—both in terms of the endemic economic failure of Socialist systems and the promise of equal rights for Jews—were ultimately dashed by the success of the revolution in Russia. The same is true elsewhere in places where the extreme left has subsequently gained power, as events in Cuba and Venezuela subsequently proved.

Jewish Socialists didn’t wish to abandon their Jewish identities. They dreamed of a world in which Yiddish-speaking Jews would exercise a degree of autonomy and nurture their unique culture in which capitalism would be routed and replaced with a more just system.

But what they discovered was that there was a profound contradiction between the promises of socialism for Jews and what it delivered. In a system built on compulsion and where governments could dictate behavior to their subjects, Jews inevitably found themselves being victimized and told to give up their separate identity. The Jews of the Soviet Union were crushed. The war on their culture was led by other Jews who were true believers in the new faith and determined to wipe out all elements of Jewish life other than those that could be controlled and manipulated by an all-powerful state that didn’t hesitate to eradicate any spark of freedom, faith or links to Jewish identity and Zionism.

The only place where Jewish socialism succeeded, at least for a time, was in Israel, where the power of the institutions it created helped build the state. It did not, however, have the same tyrannical impact of other Socialist systems. Even there, such ideas were ultimately no match for the genius of the market economy. The inherent inefficiencies of top-down, government-run economics could not prop up failing institutions like kibbutzim forever. Still, the contrast between the kibbutzim in their heyday and collective farming elsewhere was that Jews were free to leave and not compelled to become state serfs. Nowhere else was socialism tried so freely, and as a result, its terrible shortcomings were less in evidence.

Jewish socialism was a particular failure because language alone couldn’t sustain it. Yiddish is back as a popular field of study and is still the everyday language of Chassidic enclaves. But the Socialist Jewish schools, organizations and the Bund have long since faded into oblivion. Yiddish alone was not a transmissible value. Cultural Jewishness could not prevent assimilation or intermarriage in free Diaspora societies.

The point about socialism that today’s enthusiasts forget is how closely it is linked to the worst tragedies of the last century. It’s hard for people to admit that the evidence shows that it did far more harm than good. Governments are needed to help those who fall through the cracks of systems rooted in economic freedom, but giving the state so much power inevitably leads to tyranny. And that is something that’s always bad for the Jews.

But the point about Wisse’s autopsy on socialism is that its legacy is antithetical to Jewish interests. Today, the Socialist International, which once honored former Israeli President Shimon Peres as one of its leaders, is a bastion of the BDS movement and therefore opposes the Jewish state’s existence. Sanders embodies the irony that the man who stands a chance of becoming the nation’s first Jewish or Socialist president is someone who gave up the practice of Judaism and is not supportive of Israel. Nor is it irrelevant to point out that the greatest enemies of Israel and the most blatant purveyors of anti-Semitism in our political system, like AOC’s fellow “Squad” members Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.),have endorsed him.

Neither is the willingness of an avowed Socialist political faction like Britain’s Labour Party to embrace an open anti-Semite like Jeremy Corbyn as its leader and to become a haven for Jew-haters an accident of history. The same is true of the choice of left-wing academic elites in the West to support an anti-Semitic movement like BDS.

If in the past anti-Semitism was derided by some on the left as the “socialism of fools,” Wisse rightly notes that socialism has now become “the anti-Semitism of the enlightened.” The death of Jewish socialism and an honest look at how totalitarianism sprung from its bosom is a warning from history that Jewish communities everywhere can’t afford to ignore

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