Saturday, August 15, 2015

Middle Finger Symphony Theater

* No Tuxedos Required *

(With Sincere Apologies to Pat Benetar)


The Coronation Is Off and Democrats are Restless


Commentary Magazine
Up to now, the political media has devoted its focus to the human wrecking ball that is Donald Trump. The near myopic fixation of the press is understandable; they are in the eyeballs business, and Trump got them 24 million  pairs of them who tuned into the last Republican debate. But the race for the GOP nomination isn’t the only exciting presidential primary.
The Democratic primary race that was once a sleepy coronation with a predetermined outcome has suddenly become not only competitive but also interesting and substantive. It is curious that the many in media have declined to give the contentious contest due notice.
Just to establish a baseline level of wonderment, it seemed likely Hillary Clinton’s strongest challenger for the Democratic nomination would be former Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley as recently as March. The former secretary of state was a juggernaut who enjoyed astronomical levels of support from a committed base of Democratic voters. Those who challenged her were seen as engaged in an endeavor that could most charitably be described as quixotic. If you were inclined toward sympathy, you might have characterized a challenge to Clinton’s dominance as a kamikaze mission. And suicidal is exactly what socialist Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders’ frontal assault on the frontrunner initially looked like.
Flash forward six months, and that assessment of a leftwing populist candidate’s ability to exploit progressive frustration seems downright naïve. Sanders has achieved the impossible in that at least one survey of a critical early primary state, New Hampshire, now shows him leading Clinton by a considerable margin. While Sanders’ surge is certainly due in part to the candidate’s unique brand of far-left politics, his rise is almost certainly also attributable to Clinton’s self-inflicted wounds. Her candidacy has been hamstrung by the slow and constant drip of scandalous revelations regarding her mishandling of classified information on a secret and unauthorized email system while she served as secretary of state.
Clinton has also been hurt by the implication that her family foundation solicited high-dollar donations from foreign patrons and governments with the implication that America’s chief diplomat would happily provide quid pro quo. When asked about these matters in the press, Clinton routinely fudges the truth, and her trust ratings in the polls have correspondingly plummeted.
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Friday, August 14, 2015

Thursday, August 13, 2015

Shocking Photo Uncovered in Clinton Email


It's YOOOGH, Just YOOOGH I tell Ya...


Donald Trump’s online emporium for luxurious stuff that says you like TRUMP! on it is now open, and it’s got the YOOOGHEST selection of terrific stuff, just terrific, that any of the Donald's Lovers and haters can afford, even if you are not a TEN BILLIONAIRE. And unlike his special line of made-in-China Donald J. Trump apparel, this stuff is 100 percent made right here in the U.S. of A., though the site does not specify whether any of it has been made by undocumented immigrants.

First, the bad news. No official Megyn Kelly toilet paper as of yet. And you losers cannot buy a Trump piñata to beat to death with a stick, sorry.  

But, you can buy this adorable onesie for your little Trumpster fan, so long as you promise not to pull out your lady glands and feed it with your breastes, because as The Donald say's, that's “disgusting.”


And you want some hats? Trump’s got all the hats you might need, to protect your fabulous head of hair, in all kinds of colors, although of course you’ll want to get yours in Trumps favorite color gold, unless you are some kind of loser.



And what about an official Donald Trump  hoodie? Great for blending in and doing a little grassroots campaigning at the next political rally near you. 

You can get one in either men’s (perfect for the insecure guy to conceal your oversize large caliber cannons) or unisex sizes (for the ladies)! So many terrific options!


And don’t forget to pick up a couple sets of great license plate holders with Trump emblazoned at the top for your Rolls-Royce, Lamborghini, Mercedes, or whatever you drive when you’re not being limousined around.


And remember, if you’ve got words to say, say them the Trump way: LOUD. Real loud. With this luxurious megaphone, to make sure everyone can hear ya.



 h/t to Wonk

Wednesday, August 12, 2015

Love Ya Ma! ♥♥♥♥♥


As If You Need Another Reason to Believe Barack Obama Has No Interest in Defeating Terrorism

US Intervenes in Lawsuit Over Palestinian Terror Attacks

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration has intervened in a lawsuit over Palestinian terror attacks that have killed Americans, advising a judge that requiring a hefty bond payment in the case could financially destabilize the Palestinian government.
The filing comes in a case in New York City, where a jury this year awarded $218.5 million to Americans affected by the attacks in a lawsuit brought against the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority. That amount is automatically tripled under the Anti-Terrorism Act, lawyers have said.
By intervening, the government said it was trying to strike a balance between its support for the rights of terrorism victims to be compensated in court and concerns that a large bond imposed while the verdict is on appeal would weaken the legitimacy of the Palestinian Authority and undermine "several decades of U.S. foreign policy." 
Lawyers for the Palestinian Authority have argued that the group is effectively insolvent and have asked the judge, George Daniels, to waive the bond requirement. Gassan Baloul, a lawyer for the Palestinians, said Tuesday that the defendants were studying the government's filing and would respond at a hearing later this month.
And why is the Palestinian Authority insolvent?  Because they spent their massive amounts of foreign aid to feed and educate their people? To build and prosper for their people? To create an engine for an economy that could revival their neighbors, the Jews? No, because the  Palestinian Authority is nothing but terrorist thugs in silk suits, ragheads with $50 hair cuts and large Swiss Bank accounts full of money meant for the people. 

Palestine is still a platform to launch terror. Instead of making peace with Israel, emulating their system of prosperity and progress, they wallow in hate and poverty, spending millions on tunnels and weapons while starving the people to stir hate for those who there ancestors lived among peacefully for centuries. 

Decades of negotiations and handshakes have settled nothing. Every peace agreement has been violated by the PLO. The Palestinian people (who are really nothing but descendent's of Syrians and Jordanians) are pawns in a larger scheme to wipe out their neighbors, who given the peace and security the post WW2 nations promised but refuse to guarantee, would happily help bring the Palestinian into the world community for their sake and theirs.  

The Obama Administration's concerns over the amount of monetary penalties levied against the Palestinian Authority by American courts on behalf of American victims shows a level of integrity and understanding far below that of a man charged with leadership of a country threaten daily by the foreign puppet masters of the Palestinians. 

Tuesday, August 11, 2015

So Trump is Winning the Polls. It's All Meaningless at This Point

This weekend, I spent time with a fairly large group of Republican friends. Of course Donald Trump was discussed quite a bit. The one thing I walked away with was this: people strongly agree with what Trump is saying. But, it's Donald Trump saying it. 

Translation: Trump's support is a mile wide, and an inch deep. Not one person I talked to said they would likely vote for him if the election was today. 

(In the spirit of full discloser, I was an official in the Jindal Gubernatorial campaign in 2007, and later, in a lesser capacity, for his reelection in 2011. I have since parted ways  philosophically with the good Governor after his privatization of the states 80 year old state charity and teaching hospital system, which guaranteed every Louisiana citizen basic health-care. His refusal to expand Medicaid forced hundreds of thousand of unemployed and under-employed into Obamacare plans they cannot afford.)

While I have much respect for Bobby Jindal, I Do Not support his Presidential Campaign.

But back to Mr. Trump and the polls:

from FiveThirtyEight:
Twelve years ago, in August 2003, Joe Lieberman led in most polls of the Democratic primary. Eight years ago, in August 2007, Rudy Giuliani maintained a clear lead in polls of Republicans, while Hillary Clinton led in polls of the Democratic nomination contest. Four years ago, in August 2011, Mitt Romney began with the lead in polls of Republican voters, but he would be surpassed by the end of the month by Rick Perry, the first of four Republican rivals who would at some point overtake Romney in national polling averages.
Lieberman, Clinton, Giuliani and Perry, as you’ve probably gathered, are not the faces atop Mount Rushmore. Only Clinton came close to winning the nomination.
But the problem isn’t just that the national polls at this stage in the race lack empirical power to predict the nomination; it’s also that they describe a fiction. 
I don’t mean to suggest that Donald Trump’s support in the polls is “fake.” I have no doubt that some people really love him or that he’d be the favorite if you held a national, winner-take-all Republican primary tomorrow. However, the “election” these polls describe is hypothetical in at least five ways: 
* They contemplate a vote today, but we’re currently 174 days from the Iowa caucuses. 
* They contemplate a national primary, but states vote one at a time or in small groups. 
* They contemplate a race with 17 candidates, but several candidates will drop out before Iowa and several more will drop out before the other states vote. 
* They contemplate a winner-take-all vote, but most states are not winner-take-all. 
* They contemplate a vote among all Republican-leaning registered voters or adults, but in fact only a small fraction of them will turn out for primaries and caucuses.
This is why it’s exasperating that the media has become obsessed with how Trump is performing in these polls. 
So you should ignore those national polls entirely? In a literal sense, they do have some correlation with election outcomes: Even this far out, a candidate near the top of the polls is a somewhat better bet to win the nomination than one near the bottom. But that’s like projecting a major league pitcher’s numbers from high school stats: 
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You Can Take the Girl Outta the Ghetto, But......

Obama Staffer Arrested after Firing Gun at Her Booty Call. 

When Booty Calls:  Barvetta Singletary
CNN - A White House staffer was arrested Friday on charges of assault and reckless endangerment after allegedly threatening and shooting at a Capitol Hill police officer with whom she had been having sex, according to arrest records.
Barvetta Singletary, a special assistant to the President and House legislative affairs liaison, has been placed on unpaid leave and had her access to the White House revoked, a White House spokesperson told CNN on Monday.
Singletary was released Monday from jail in Prince George's County, Maryland, after posting a $75,000 bond, according to spokesman John Erzen of Maryland's state's attorney's office.
The incident began early Friday morning after Singletary texted the officer "asking him to come to her residence...for sexual intercourse," according to charging documents, which classified the incident as domestic violence.
After "a brief sexual encounter," Singletary began asking the officer about another woman he was dating and tried to access his cell phones.
Singletary then grabbed the officer's service weapon from a bag and pointed it at him, before firing one round toward him.