Well, He Did Swear to" Tell The Whole Truth and Nothing But the Truth"........

After three hours of listening to pontificating senators drone on, it was finally Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch’s turn to say a few words at his confirmation hearing on Monday.  Gorsuch was sworn “to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth,” and after thanking his colleagues, friends, and the president, he said a few words about his wife: 

“Mr. Chairman, I could not even attempt to do this without Louise, my wife of more than 20 years. The sacrifices she has made and her open and giving heart leave me in awe.” 

His voice caught a bit when he looked back at her and said: “I love you so much.”
That brought Louise Gorsuch out of her seat.   

This unexpected loving moment was brought to you by the next Associate Justice of the Supreme Court .......and me thinks someone may just get lucky tonight.

* Adrienne has posted the full video of Judge  Gorsuch's Opening statement HERE

Small Business Trump Supporters Bullied Out of Business

According to my friends in Chicago, this may not be an isolated incident, ignored by the media as they turn a blind eye to their sympathetic Trump Hating allies in the streets.  And as we quickly approach what I believe will come to be known as 'The Summer of Hate', the left will again take to the streets with increased demonstrations and violence leftist has shown they are capable of. 

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Suzzanne Monk of Chicago was one of the 2 million Illinois residents who voted for Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election, and she says that choice is costing her her neighborhood business. In a letter to the editor that appeared Friday in Crain's Chicago Business, Monk, who owns Worlds of Music in North Center with her husband Alexander Duvel, wrote that she has been subjected to steady bullying since the couple's personal politics became public knowledge. 

"Chicago, you have always been a Democrat-run town, but this year you have become a one-party city terrorizing anyone not in your party for their beliefs.... We will close at the end of April, because we are no longer willing to subject our staff, our customers, our neighbors and ourselves to the daily risk.... We have to leave. In the end, it wasn't the high taxes, constant road construction or high crime. It wasn't the unchecked gang violence or political cronyism. In the end, we have to leave because of the hate you are willing to tolerate.... You have a Trump-sized chip on that big shoulder, and it has turned you into a city of fear, hate and division. A city that encourages political bullying." 

The couple are in the process of shifting Worlds of Music, which sells instruments from around the globe, to an online enterprise because as Monk said, "they can't put a brick through a website". She and Duvel have always worked hard to keep politics separate from their business ( for the record, she voted for Al Gore in 2000 and Hillary Clinton in the 2008 primary ) but were "outed" as Trump supporters after a debate Duvel had in the comments section of a Facebook post last year. The couple began receiving threatening emails along the lines of: We hope nobody fire bombs your business, that would be too bad.

The worst of it has been they've had loyal customers told not to support them or they would be ostracized. What disturbs Monk the most is that the very people who profess to promote tolerance, progressive liberals, are the same people who have been intimidating her and her husband, or are tacitly approving of the bullying by not condemning it.

A Good Monday Morning

Is It Even Possible To Please The Left?

"It’s sad to see so many Americans turn into losers, pathetically demanding to be treated as victims, all so the emotional vampires on the Left can feel better about themselves for helping such pathetic sad sacks. Liberals LOVE for people to think of themselves as victims. They love for people to go through life furious, upset over things most people wouldn’t even notice. 

They need you alienated and angry so they can control you and turn you out at the polls, so they can get their sick little self-esteem boost for helping a poor little mediocrity like you.

If you’re black or Hispanic and think white people hate you, if you’re gay and think the Christians want to wipe you out, or if you’re a woman who believes the patriarchy is keeping you down, you’re going to have an unhappy life. It doesn’t matter if things are going well or you have success; you’re going to be angry. You’re going to feel mistreated. You’re going to walk around chalking up every normal event in the world to bias that primarily exists in your head. You’re going to nurse grievances. You’re going to be unhappy.

As consolation, you can half-ass your way through life and chalk up your failures to “white racism,” “those hypocritical Christians,” or “the patriarchy.” You can live with the illusion that, like Elizabeth Cady Stanton, you’re fighting for women’s rights, or, like Martin Luther King, you’re trying to reform a society teeming with racism -- but that only makes you sound like a joke. Stanton was fighting for women’s right to vote. Today, feminists whine about having to pay for their birth control. Martin Luther King was fighting for equal rights, and today liberal “black leaders” spend their time bitching about whether hoop earrings are cultural appropriation. There are legions of liberal Don Quixotes jousting with windmills and pretending that the trivia they obsess over gives meaning to their victimhood-centered lives.

There are women, gays, and minorities around the world dying to get into the United States. The ones that get the opportunity to do so legally spend thousands of dollars and put up with years of paperwork to come here. You think that’s because it’s such a racist, sexist, oppressive country?" - John Hawkins

[Townhall]

Here She Comes, Ready or Not.

"I'm Ready To Come Out of the Woods" 

 
Ma Clinton, formerly your repudiated democratic presidential candidate turned flaxen-haired Queen of upstate New York sasquatch, after a long hibernation in wilderness of Chappaqu has announced her intention to return to that which she loves most, 'Attention.'

Asked if she would run for Mayor of NYC, Clinton responded:

"I’m not running for mayor of NYC because I can’t afford losing to a double-parked car in queens."  

But after Donald Trump disappointed much of America by not prosecuting the Clinton Crime Organization, and given time to shut down the Clinton Globull Initiative and destroy all the incriminating evidence, Ma may be looking to lend credence to an at present batshit crazy, disorganized and headless resistance movement, and become a public thorn in Trump's paw for the next few years.  And nothing says 'Resistance' like a shrill, 70 year old Grandmother and her pet monkey, Huma.

Thank You MJA for the Linkage!

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Mary Poppins Deplores Trump's Budget Cutting of Funding for the Arts

Julie Andrews, known mostly for her roles as Maria in the 'Sound of Music' and as the beloved 'Merry Poppins', along with her daughter wrote an Op-ed column for the network posing as news, CNN, pleading for elected officials to reject Trump's budget cuts for funding the Arts. 

"Decades worth of research attests to the fact that the arts are among the most profoundly important and valuable ways to improve learning and promote success, from early childhood through adulthood . Now, with the shifting priorities of our new presidential administration, artists and arts organizations are at serious risk of losing the support they need to do their invaluable work."

"The arts are fundamental to our common humanity. Every time we attend the theater, a museum or a concert, we are literally feeding our souls, and investing in and preserving our collective future."

Ms. Andrews may be correct about the education. But what she fails to see are what the alternatives to Government funding are. And I think there are a few other things she overlooks.

One, for most of the History of Western Civilization, the arts were funded by the 'Patrons of the Arts'. Leo da Vinci, Mozart, Will Shakespeare, Picasso etc. were not funded by any Government. They were commissioned by Religious Orders and Wealthy Patrons. Yes, Kings and Queens did commission art, but it was not for the benefit of everyone. It was specific to them and a symbol of their status, and unseen by the commoners. Not until the 1960's did the US Federal Government set their hooks into the Arts, creating public broadcasting and issuing grant moneys which they gave over controls to a little watched over and now politicized NEA, run in the past by leftist actor Jane Alexander.

"The Arts" as it is used today is a broad term. The taxpayers help fund everything from Symphony and Opera companies, to goofy and senseless performance art.  From NPR to massive state tax credits for the movie industry. From Ballet to pouring chocolate on ones self and asking for it to be licked off  by those in attendance,  or sitting on a stage and wiping menstrual blood on cloth and handing it to the audience.  

The Arts have become highly politicized and just another propaganda arm of th left. NPR has become over the years just an unlistenable sewer of leftist claptrap. 

Another thing Ms. Andrews (who made only $125,000 for her Academy Award winning Performance in The Sound of Music) fails to see is, hack talent challenged actors now make 10-20 million for crappy Super Hero movies now-a days. Movies that are given large tax credits by taxpayers, and sometime subsidized by foreigner governments like China. If there is that much money floating around Hollywood, let the Hollywood moguls finance there own crap. 

The point is, teach the Arts in schools as part of the curriculum as it has for decades and let the cream rise to the top. And let the vocal wealthy leftist who believe the government nanny has to enrich their world foot the bill for their own propaganda. Then maybe they will be a little more careful where they spread their money around.  Then just maybe we will get more Audrey Hepburns and less Andrés Serranos.

Thank You MJA for the Linkage!

Happy Birthday You Ol' Buzzard

Associate Justice Ruth Buzzy Ginsburg - aka Notorious RBG - Makes 84

Reporter Who Gave Ricky Maddow Trump’s Tax Return Makes Disgusting Claim About First Lady

YC - Last night, on the broadcast that will be remembered as MSNBC’s Trump Tax Return Debacle, a panelist became another to suggest that there was another entry the First Lady could add to her resume.

Speaking on a panel with fellow moderator and amateur enrolled agent Rachel Maddow and David Cay Johnson, as they scoured over every entry of two pages of Donald Trump’s 2005 tax return, Lawrence O’Donnell noted that showed “wages and salary income, which is unusual for someone in his Trump’s case.” Johnson, the source of this “scoop”, then attempted to explain that that was because Melania Trump was also on the return, and that she did do very sleazy porn.

“It could be hers,” Johnston offered. “His wife was a model.”

“Right,” O’Donnell responded. “She’s on here, but she was never at that league.”

Johnson then continued to say that she did “very sleazy porn” before Maddow interrupted him. Unfortunately, Johnson did not have the opportunity to explain further. As one can see on the video of the exchange published by the Daily Caller, O’Donnell and Maddow did not share my curiosity.

Clearly, the two – who thought Trump paying $38 million in taxes on $150 million in income in 2005 was going to be earth-shattering news – did not find the “revelation” that the FLOTUS did sleazy porn the least bit interesting. In fact, Maddow can be heard giving a warning “hey hey hey” to Johnson to get him to drop the topic.

Why? Let’s not forget that the FLOTUS has lawyers, and she is not afraid to use them.