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THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INEPTITUED
by Burt Prelutsky
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Elected Democrats' Anti-Christian Bias Is Troubling
by Political Editors: Elected Democrats have a growing problem with bigotry — anti-Christian bigotry. The latest example comes from the long-serving senator from California, Dianne Feinstein, who recently did her own Bernie Sanders inquisition impression during a Senate hearing for Amy Coney Barrett, Donald Trump’s judicial nominee for the Seventh Circuit. Feinstein, referencing Barrett’s Catholic faith, said, “When you read your speeches, the conclusion one draws is that the dogma lives loudly within you. And that’s of concern when you come to a big issue that large numbers of people have fought for, for years in the country.”
Feinstein was referencing a 20-year-old law review article Barrett had co-written, in which Barrett, herself a devout Catholic, argued that a judge who conscientiously objects to capital punishment should recuse themselves rather than issuing an order of execution against a convict. Ridiculously, Feinstein claimed this opinion to be an example of religious extremism. Hardly. The opinion is entirely reasonable given the Constitution’s recognition and protection of religious freedom and conscientious.
Like Sanders, Feinstein needs to reread her pocket Constitution, which clearly states in Article VI that “no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust.” The myth that Feinstein is propagating is that religious beliefs and ideas are somehow not allowed to inform an individual who works in government opinions or decisions. The truth is that everyone is religious in that everyone has a set of beliefs and opinions based upon a variety of sources. After all, leftists still cling to their dogmatic belief in socialism, a system that has failed time and time again. It’s a mystery, but it doesn’t preclude them from holding office. Many of our nation’s Founders were Christians, and they clearly had no intent to disqualify other Christians from public office. ~The Patriot Post
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Levin – Trump Campaigned On Border Wall, Debt –
Tossed To Please clown-Chuck and Nancy
by rickwells.us
{rickwells.us} ~ Mark Levin recognizes that President Trump has pleasantly surprised him in many respects because he’s done a lot of conservative things.”... Levin says, “Well, ladies and gentlemen, now he’s doing a lot of liberal things. He just bought off on a deal with Chuck clown-Schumer and Nancy Pulosi. I haven’t seen Chuck clown-Schumer this happy since he stopped being constipated.” “And they are just thrilled,” says Levin. “They got the President to agree to a three month continuing resolution by tying the Harvey natural disaster aid to a debt ceiling increase and so forth. This has been their tactic all along.”... http://rickwells.us/levin-trump-campaigned-border-wall-debt-tossed-please-chuck-nancy/
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Yet Another Anonymously
Sourced Trump-Russia Story Falls Apart
by Peter Hasson
{dailycaller.com} ~ Once again, a huge Trump-Russia story that relied upon anonymous sources has fallen apart... NBC News dropped what the network hyped as a “potential bombshell” last week. “Manafort Notes From Russian Meet Contain Cryptic Reference to ‘Donations,'” the original headline read. The story claimed that Manafort’s notes from the 2016 Trump Tower meeting with White House aide Jared Kushner, Donald Trump Jr. and a Russian lawyer included the word “donations” near a reference to the Republican National Committee. NBC began walking back the “potential bombshell” almost immediately, issuing a correction the same day noting that the word “donation” didn’t actually appear in the notes, but quoting one source who said the word “donor” was in the notes... http://dailycaller.com/2017/09/07/yet-another-anonymously-sourced-trump-russia-story-falls-apart/?utm_medium=email.
Former liar-Clinton Fundraiser
Says liar-Hillary Should ‘Shut Up And Go Away’
by Jack Crowe
{dailycaller.com} ~ A fundraiser for former Secretary of State liar-Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign said the recent release of her tell-all campaign book hurts the Democratic party and admonished liar-Clinton to step away from the national spotlight... “The best thing she could do is disappear,” the liar-Clinton fundraiser and surrogate, who played an active role at the convention, told the Hill. “She’s doing harm to all of us because of her own selfishness. Honestly, I wish she’d just shut up and go away.” The unnamed fundraiser’s harsh appraisal of liar-Clinton’s book, “What Happened,” echoes the assessments of a number of democratic lawmakers and liar-Clinton allies, who have bemoaned the timing of the book’s release and the accompanying nationwide book tour...The dem party says, get lost liar-Hillary. http://dailycaller.com/2017/09/07/former-clinton-fundraiser-says-hillary-should-shut-the-f-up-and-go-away/?utm_medium=email.
FEMA Director: Irma ‘Is Going to
Devastate the United States,’ Starting With Florida
by Susan Jones
{cnsnews.com} ~ FEMA Director Brock Long, in a Friday morning update, told a news conference there’s no question that Hurricane Irma will devastate parts of the souheastern United States... “Obviously, Hurricane Irma continues to be a threat that is going to devastate the United States in either Florida or some of the southeastern states,” Long told a 7:30 a.m. news conference. “This is a complex forecast. Anybody from Alabama to North Carolina should be watching this storm very closely. The forecast and the direct impacts of this storm have yet to be determined because, one, it's a very powerful storm... https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/
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Justice Dept Stands Up For Christian Baker
by Daniel Greenfield
The Justice Department on Thursday filed a brief supporting the Colorado baker who refused to bake a wedding cake for a gay couple on faith-based grounds... in the latest religious freedom case to be considered before the nation's highest court. Jack Phillips, owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop, had refused to sell a customized cake for a gay couple's union, claiming a religious exemption to the state's anti-discrimination law. “When Phillips designs and creates a custom wedding cake for a specific couple and a specific wedding, he plays an active role in enabling that ritual, and he associates himself with the celebratory message conveyed,” Acting Solicitor General Jeffrey B. Wall wrote in the brief... http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/267822/justice-dept-stands-christian-baker-daniel-greenfield.
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For the longest time, the worst thing anybody could say about the FBI was that J. Edgar Hoover was a bit of a grand-stander who knew where the bodies were buried, which guaranteed him decades of job security and automatic approval by Congress of the Bureau's annual budget requests.
After a while, we began hearing rumors that he and the associate director of the FBI, Clyde Tolson, were more than just friends, and that Hoover had a penchant for negligees and feather boas. Not that it bothered me; but, then, I also didn’t object to Mrs. Trump wearing stiletto heels down to Texas. I leave fashion matters to my wife.
My point is that there was a time when most of us felt we could trust the FBI to do the right thing. Local police departments might not like the way the federal agents looked down their noses at them, but that didn’t affect the rest of us.
It was enough that we knew that to be an FBI agent, you had to have a college degree in law or accounting, had to possess forensic skills and still manage to get the best of bank robbers, kidnappers and Nazi spies, in a gun fight.
But that was then and this is now. The other day, we all learned that James Comey had already decided to clear liar-Hillary Clinton of all charges related to her illegal use of a private server, and using her position as Secretary of State to secure payments to the liar-Clinton Foundation from foreign nations, long before the FBI investigation had even interviewed 17 witnesses, including Mrs. liar-Clinton, Huma Abedin and Susan Rice. It was also months before Loretta Lynch had her mysterious tete-a-tete on the tarmac with liar-Bill Clinton.
Now I’m hearing that the FBI paid the guy who concocted the phony Russian dossier intended to bring down Donald Trump’s candidacy.
One might have expected a lot of bad stuff to take place while Barack liar-nObama was in the White House and either Eric Holder or Loretta Lynch was running the Justice Department. But it’s not enough that Attorney General Jeff Sessions has declared war on MS-13. An illegal gang is a bloody nuisance, but a corrupt FBI is a menace to the entire nation.
● As a rule, I don’t object to religious missionaries going off wherever they like in search of heathens in need of converting. Maybe it’s a calling, maybe it’s a hobby. It makes no difference to me. But when they head off to places like Iran or North Korea, I think they should forfeit their U.S. citizenship. It’s bad enough that the desire of some people to climb mountains forces strangers to risk their own lives to rescue them. But when people travel to places where Americans have no business being, basically offering themselves up as hostages to our enemies, I resent it.
Nobody needs to travel several thousand miles to save lost souls. They only need to contact me and I’ll direct them to our college campuses, our inner-cities and the halls of Congress.
Or I could just point them to the Southern Poverty Law Center, a collection of left-wing outlaws who have claimed the moral high ground in order to publish a list of Christian and conservative organizations and label them hate groups.
We live in a world that could have been a literary collaboration of Lewis Carroll and George Orwell, a place where fascists identify themselves as anti-fascists and where a hate group gets to suck up hundreds of millions of dollars in donations by labeling decent people "haters," "racists" and "bigots".
It seems that the SPLC also has something in common with the Mafia, South American dictators and Russian oligarchs. The group has secretly stashed several million dollars in the Cayman Islands, which suggests it has a lot of nerve including the word “Poverty” in its name.
● The other day, I found myself thinking about the large number of people who were movie stars not that long ago -- people like Kevin Costner, Gwyneth Paltrow, Michael Douglas, Steven Seagal, Demi Moore, Johnny Depp, Sharon Stone, Will Ferrell, Billy Crystal, Cuba Gooding, Winona Ryder, Harrison Ford and Jim Carrey -- and who woke up one day and realized they were has-beens.
It must be a terrible shock to the system when you go from being pursued by people who want to pay you $25 million to star in a movie and by strangers of both sexes -- or perhaps by all three or four that now seem to exist -- who want to have sex with you, to suddenly find yourself on the curb waiting to be hauled away by the garbage collectors. It must be the way that royalty feels when a country decides to give up its monarchy. Come to think of it, this is even worse because America hasn’t rid itself of its kings and queens, it merely decided to replace them with a younger herd of egomaniacs.
● Speaking of show business, I recently had an email exchange with a fellow scriptwriter. I had never met Joan Meyerson, but members of the Writers Guild are presently running for positions on the Guild Board of Directors. The candidates have access to the entire membership, as do those who want to go on record in support of various candidates.
So, it was that the other day, I received an email from Ms. Meyerson in which she let me along with every other Guild member know that she supported seven candidates, all of whom were women. As she wrote in her statement: “Okay, they happen to be females. But, personally, I’d vote for all of them if they were yellow Martians. They are that good.”
She concluded by stating: “For the first time in Writers Guild history, we have an opportunity to achieve parity between female and male board members, to finally mirror the reality of the world. If we ALL vote, we can do it!”
Because I object to group think every bit as much as Tucker Carlson, I wrote back: “Must identity politics infect even WGA elections? Shame on you, Ms. Meyerson. And I say that as a person who has already voted for many if not most of the people on your list. Sincerely, Burt Prelutsky.”
She replied: “I’m sorry if I offended you, but as I stated, I believe in the worthiness of all the candidates I support. I’d not be voting for or supporting them if I didn’t. But, yes, I also ardently believe that the Guild would be a better place if the Boardroom is composed of more diverse people and includes parity between the sexes, IF they are qualified. Burt, I served five terms on the Board -- 10 years in all, so I speak from my own experience.”
My turn: “Thanks for getting back to me. I have been a feminist probably longer than you’ve been alive, but I don’t believe in artificial parity. Just as I don’t believe in voting against people because of their race, religion, age or sex, I regard those as equally bad reasons to vote for them. I know you believe the seven women you support are all excellent candidates, but as George Orwell pointed out, some (in your mind at least) are more equal than others for no other reason than their sex. That makes you -- no doubt a very nice person in other regards -- by definition, a bigot. Best wishes, Burt”
Ms. Meyerson then replied, and I in turn replied statement by statement.
She wrote: “I believe it makes me a person who believes in affirmative action.”
“Of course, it does,” I replied. “But that’s not always such a good thing. As you have no doubt noticed, affirmative action, as it is currently applied at colleges and universities, rewards black and brown students to the disadvantage of Asians and poor whites. You, on the other hand, would advantage female writers over their male colleagues.”
She replied: “It’s not artificial parity. In my mind, it’s deserved parity. As I said, I’d vote for them if they were yellow Martians.”
“But not if those Martians were male. You are clearly suggesting that all seven women are superior to the various men on the ballot. That would be a weird coincidence if it were true. I would certainly never suggest it was true of the male candidates.”
“Anyway,” she replied, “enuff said. You certainly have the right to your own opinion. And I know you’ve been a feminist and are a good guy, and I wish you well.”
“Thank you. Frankly, my hat is off to you. I hadn’t realized you had served five terms on the Board. I served just two and barely survived those long, boring, brain-numbing, meetings. Regards, Burt”
I was extremely curious how she knew I was a feminist and a good guy, but occasionally even I know when to quit.
If you want to Comment directly to Burt Prelutsky, please mention my name Rudy. BurtPrelutsky@aol.com
THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INEPTITUDE
by Burt Prelutsky
For the longest time, the worst thing anybody could say about the FBI was that J. Edgar Hoover was a bit of a grand-stander who knew where the bodies were buried, which guaranteed him decades of job security and automatic approval by Congress of the Bureau's annual budget requests.
After a while, we began hearing rumors that he and the associate director of the FBI, Clyde Tolson, were more than just friends, and that Hoover had a penchant for negligees and feather boas. Not that it bothered me; but, then, I also didn’t object to Mrs. Trump wearing stiletto heels down to Texas. I leave fashion matters to my wife.
My point is that there was a time when most of us felt we could trust the FBI to do the right thing. Local police departments might not like the way the federal agents looked down their noses at them, but that didn’t affect the rest of us.
It was enough that we knew that to be an FBI agent, you had to have a college degree in law or accounting, had to possess forensic skills and still manage to get the best of bank robbers, kidnappers and Nazi spies, in a gun fight.
But that was then and this is now. The other day, we all learned that James Comey had already decided to clear liar-Hillary Clinton of all charges related to her illegal use of a private server, and using her position as Secretary of State to secure payments to the liar-Clinton Foundation from foreign nations, long before the FBI investigation had even interviewed 17 witnesses, including Mrs. liar-Clinton, Huma Abedin and Susan Rice. It was also months before Loretta Lynch had her mysterious tete-a-tete on the tarmac with liar-Bill Clinton.
Now I’m hearing that the FBI paid the guy who concocted the phony Russian dossier intended to bring down Donald Trump’s candidacy.
One might have expected a lot of bad stuff to take place while Barack liar-nObama was in the White House and either Eric Holder or Loretta Lynch was running the Justice Department. But it’s not enough that Attorney General Jeff Sessions has declared war on MS-13. An illegal gang is a bloody nuisance, but a corrupt FBI is a menace to the entire nation.
● As a rule, I don’t object to religious missionaries going off wherever they like in search of heathens in need of converting. Maybe it’s a calling, maybe it’s a hobby. It makes no difference to me. But when they head off to places like Iran or North Korea, I think they should forfeit their U.S. citizenship. It’s bad enough that the desire of some people to climb mountains forces strangers to risk their own lives to rescue them. But when people travel to places where Americans have no business being, basically offering themselves up as hostages to our enemies, I resent it.
Nobody needs to travel several thousand miles to save lost souls. They only need to contact me and I’ll direct them to our college campuses, our inner-cities and the halls of Congress.
Or I could just point them to the Southern Poverty Law Center, a collection of left-wing outlaws who have claimed the moral high ground in order to publish a list of Christian and conservative organizations and label them hate groups.
We live in a world that could have been a literary collaboration of Lewis Carroll and George Orwell, a place where fascists identify themselves as anti-fascists and where a hate group gets to suck up hundreds of millions of dollars in donations by labeling decent people "haters," "racists" and "bigots".
It seems that the SPLC also has something in common with the Mafia, South American dictators and Russian oligarchs. The group has secretly stashed several million dollars in the Cayman Islands, which suggests it has a lot of nerve including the word “Poverty” in its name.
● The other day, I found myself thinking about the large number of people who were movie stars not that long ago -- people like Kevin Costner, Gwyneth Paltrow, Michael Douglas, Steven Seagal, Demi Moore, Johnny Depp, Sharon Stone, Will Ferrell, Billy Crystal, Cuba Gooding, Winona Ryder, Harrison Ford and Jim Carrey -- and who woke up one day and realized they were has-beens.
It must be a terrible shock to the system when you go from being pursued by people who want to pay you $25 million to star in a movie and by strangers of both sexes -- or perhaps by all three or four that now seem to exist -- who want to have sex with you, to suddenly find yourself on the curb waiting to be hauled away by the garbage collectors. It must be the way that royalty feels when a country decides to give up its monarchy. Come to think of it, this is even worse because America hasn’t rid itself of its kings and queens, it merely decided to replace them with a younger herd of egomaniacs.
● Speaking of show business, I recently had an email exchange with a fellow scriptwriter. I had never met Joan Meyerson, but members of the Writers Guild are presently running for positions on the Guild Board of Directors. The candidates have access to the entire membership, as do those who want to go on record in support of various candidates.
So, it was that the other day, I received an email from Ms. Meyerson in which she let me along with every other Guild member know that she supported seven candidates, all of whom were women. As she wrote in her statement: “Okay, they happen to be females. But, personally, I’d vote for all of them if they were yellow Martians. They are that good.”
She concluded by stating: “For the first time in Writers Guild history, we have an opportunity to achieve parity between female and male board members, to finally mirror the reality of the world. If we ALL vote, we can do it!”
Because I object to group think every bit as much as Tucker Carlson, I wrote back: “Must identity politics infect even WGA elections? Shame on you, Ms. Meyerson. And I say that as a person who has already voted for many if not most of the people on your list. Sincerely, Burt Prelutsky.”
She replied: “I’m sorry if I offended you, but as I stated, I believe in the worthiness of all the candidates I support. I’d not be voting for or supporting them if I didn’t. But, yes, I also ardently believe that the Guild would be a better place if the Boardroom is composed of more diverse people and includes parity between the sexes, IF they are qualified. Burt, I served five terms on the Board -- 10 years in all, so I speak from my own experience.”
My turn: “Thanks for getting back to me. I have been a feminist probably longer than you’ve been alive, but I don’t believe in artificial parity. Just as I don’t believe in voting against people because of their race, religion, age or sex, I regard those as equally bad reasons to vote for them. I know you believe the seven women you support are all excellent candidates, but as George Orwell pointed out, some (in your mind at least) are more equal than others for no other reason than their sex. That makes you -- no doubt a very nice person in other regards -- by definition, a bigot. Best wishes, Burt”
Ms. Meyerson then replied, and I in turn replied statement by statement.
She wrote: “I believe it makes me a person who believes in affirmative action.”
“Of course, it does,” I replied. “But that’s not always such a good thing. As you have no doubt noticed, affirmative action, as it is currently applied at colleges and universities, rewards black and brown students to the disadvantage of Asians and poor whites. You, on the other hand, would advantage female writers over their male colleagues.”
She replied: “It’s not artificial parity. In my mind, it’s deserved parity. As I said, I’d vote for them if they were yellow Martians.”
“But not if those Martians were male. You are clearly suggesting that all seven women are superior to the various men on the ballot. That would be a weird coincidence if it were true. I would certainly never suggest it was true of the male candidates.”
“Anyway,” she replied, “enuff said. You certainly have the right to your own opinion. And I know you’ve been a feminist and are a good guy, and I wish you well.”
“Thank you. Frankly, my hat is off to you. I hadn’t realized you had served five terms on the Board. I served just two and barely survived those long, boring, brain-numbing, meetings. Regards, Burt”
I was extremely curious how she knew I was a feminist and a good guy, but occasionally even I know when to quit.
If you want to Comment directly to Burt Prelutsky, please mention my name Rudy. BurtPrelutsky@aol.com
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