The World Through The Bottom Of A Champagne Glass

"Rules on immigration and refugees are made by safe people. These are the people who help run countries, who have nice homes in nice neighborhoods and are protected by their status. Those who live with the effects of immigration and asylum law are those who are less safe, who see a less beautiful face in it because they are daily confronted with a less beautiful reality—normal human roughness, human tensions. Decision-makers fear things like harsh words from the writers of editorials; normal human beings fear things like street crime. Decision-makers have the luxury of seeing life in the abstract. Normal people feel the implications of their decisions in the particular."

"The decision-makers feel disdain for the anxieties of normal people, and ascribe them to small-minded bigotries, often religious and racial, and ignorant antagonisms. But normal people prize order because they can’t buy their way out of disorder." - Peggy Noonan, WSJ

Ima Just Not Feelin' It.

Diogenes' Early Predictions for the 2016 Presidential Election

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DMF- Utilizing the massive power of DMF/MFNS new computer system, we undertook the scouring of the interwebs to collect as much information as possible from polling organizations, opinion pages, on-line polls, blog post (both left and right) advice columns and from newspaper pundit's drivel for the purpose of analyzing the present political landscape and boldly predicting the outcome of the 2016 presidential election. 

We gave the collected info to our crack team of semi-competent analyst made up of primarily the staff, the photoshop department, the MFNS foreign and domestic news bureau reporters, the window washers and the bearded guy who hangs out behind the building. They labored for many arduous hours, drinking and cussing while pouring over the mountains of info to come to a solid set conclusions and predictions. 

Although it's still very early, we are confident our findings gleaned from the available information will hold up in the future, especially in light of the present political trends. These finding are not scientific, cause we ain't scientist. Therefore, all disclaimers are hereby claimed.  

You can read our projections of who the eventual parties nominees will be, and the election prediction after the jump......

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Is Poetic Justice on the Horizon?

"There's a bigger story hidden inside the New York Times report that 'a special intelligence review of two emails that Hillary Rodham Clinton received as secretary of state on her personal account -- including one about North Korea's nuclear weapons program -- ... contained highly classified information when Mrs. Clinton received them, senior intelligence officials said.' The review was undertaken by the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, which presumably originated the material. They concluded that the material had originally been given the U.S. government's highest secrecy classification. Even if one of Clinton's aides stripped the markings (a felony), Secretary Clinton surely knew satellite intelligence and North Korean nuclear deployments are the U.S. government's most highly classified information.

"The media correctly saw the news as political trouble for Hillary, but they missed two other crucial elements of the story. Somebody high up in the intelligence community leaked that story. And Hillary faces far more than political trouble. She's being fitted for an orange jumpsuit. ...

"The intelligence services remember how seriously the Department of Justice dealt with former CIA directors John Deutsch and David Petraeus, who mishandled documents. They will demand equal treatment here. They will keep the heat on by leaking to the press. The Times story shows the faucet is already open. ...

"If Hillary's political troubles keep piling up, she won't make it to the general election. If her legal troubles keep piling up, she's going to wish the next president was Gerald Ford." - Professor Charles Lipson, University of Chicago 

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GOD BLESS AMERICA

Is Donald Trump the New Ronald Reagan.......With More Money and Less Class?

A lot has been said by die-hard Trump fans about the parallels to him and Ronald Reagan.  Let's see, Trump was a trust fund baby, never struggled in life. As far as I know, Reagan never screwed the stock holders of bank stocks out of millions to advance his personal fortune, and Reagan's political evolution was slow, carefully thought out and because of deep seeded beliefs. Reagan never made a point in public to criticize his party or insult his parties candidates, and spoke about opponents only in terms of policy. The list of differences goes on and on....

Donald Trump is no Ronald Reagan, and he's not a politician either. But as we all know, good leaders aren't always politicians, and as we have witnessed these last seven years, politicians aren't always good leaders.

As America looks for it's next leader, faced with a job losses and it's industrial base, a growing underclass, racial disharmony and the most uncivilized and barbaric outside threat to the civilized world since the middle ages, what do we see as choices?

On one side is a wing-nut socialist leftover from the sixties, spouting a combination of populism and failed Marxist socialism, and next to him a compulsive liar and criminal with name recognition, and soon maybe the present Court Jester will throw his hair plugs into the ring. On the other end of the spectrum we see a few capable patriotic men and women, who have tired of witnessing our country become something a large portion of the citizenry do not even recognize anymore. Standing tall at the head of this line is Donald Trump.

AND DONALD TRUMP SCARES THE BEJEESUS OUT OF THE LEFT. But Trump has a personal habit that may not endear him with some on the Right, and voters in general. Trump has a way of shooting his mouth off, then backing away from it saying that's not what he meant. Are we to believe he really means what he says? Case in point:

"Bleeding from you know what" ....and.... “Look at that face! Would anyone vote for that? Can you imagine that, the face of our next president?  I mean, she’s a woman, and I’m not suppose say bad things, but really, folks, come on. Are we serious?”

And in the new Rolling Stone interview published today, Trump makes this comment about his own daughter:

"Yeah, she’s really something, and what a beauty, that one. If I weren't happily married and, ya know, her father…"

The Donald has already weaseled out of the 'Bleeding from you know what ' comment, and is  Trumping back the comment, he made about Carly Fiorina , insisting that he was “talking about persona, I’m not talking about looks,” but admitting that yeah, he probably did “say something about Carly, in a jocular manner.” Besides, if anyone gets upset about this, it proves Donald Trump is the victim of a double standard:

"I say that about a lot of people – ‘look at that! That’s not going to be the president? When I get criticized constantly about my hair, nobody does a story about, ‘oh, isn’t that terrible, they criticized Donald Trump’s hair...."

I'll say this much, Ronald Reagan never made excuses for his words or leering jokes about women and how he’d have loved to do his daughter. But then, Trump is much meaner. A Reagan for a much meaner, dumbed-down America, (thank you teacher's union).

That said, wasn't the very idea of Ronald Reagan becoming president only slightly less laughable in 1979 than the idea of President Donald Trump seems today? After spending 10 days following Trump around and trying (and only occasionally succeeding) to get a straight answer from him about anything, Rolling Stone Author Solotaroff concludes:

"What I saw was enough to make me take him dead serious. If you’re waiting for Trump to blow himself up in a Hindenburg of gaffes or hate speech, you’re in for a long, cold fall and winter."