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POST (OFFICE)-TRAUMATIC SHOCK
by Burt Prelutsky
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Fitton – Judicial Watch Suing State Dept
Over Manafort Podesta Double Standard
by rickwells.us
{rickwells.us} ~ Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton announced a new lawsuit on Monday against the State Department in their never-ending battle against corruption... and the anti-American parasites attempting to destroy this nation. Judicial Watch is seeking records about the Podesta group. He explains, “You may recall the Podesta Group has been tied to Paul Manafort, who was indicted by Robert Mueller’s special counsel investigation, yet Podesta’s been tied to the liar-Clintons and of course Paul Manafort is tied to the Trump team.” Fitton says, “We want to know if there was any disparate treatment of team Trump versus team liar-Clinton by Robert Mueller, whose investigation is suspicious, given its partisan nature. Judicial Watch is suing the State Department to find out the truth about what the Podesta group was up to with the liar-nObama State Department.”... https://rickwells.us/fitton-judicial-watch-state-dept/.
State Dept. Sued for Secret
Records on UN Paris Climate Accord
by William F. Jasper
{thenewamerican.com} ~ The Competitive Enterprise Institute has filed suit against the State Department for illegally withholding documents related to the 2015 Paris climate agreement... particularly e-mails of two State Department officers involved in the liar-nObama administration’s maneuvering to evade the Senate’s constitutional role in the treaty process. On November 11, the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) filed its second lawsuit against the State Department to obtain illegally withheld documents related to the 2015 Paris climate agreement. The lawsuit is the result of the State Department’s failure to respond to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request filed by the Washington, D.C.-based think tank in October of 2017. CEI is requesting e-mails of two State Department officials involved in the liar-nObama administration’s maneuvering to circumvent the Senate in order to join the Paris agreement. Those officials, Trigg Talley and Alexandra Costello, “were both members of the State Department when the decision was made to avoid characterizing the Paris agreement as a treaty,” according to a CEI press release... https://www.thenewamerican.com/tech/environment/item/27407-state-dept-sued-for-secret-records-on-un-paris-climate-accord.
VIDEOSliar-nObama State Dept. Spox: Trump Deserves Credit For Moving China In Right Direction On North Korea
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Dana Loesch: liar-Hillary Clinton Is Trying To Maintain ‘Dwindling’ Influence:.
Mika Brzezinski: “The Hold That The liar-Clintons Have On Democrats Is Over”.
Prager U: The Key to Unhappiness.
Jeff Sessions zings James Comey for talking
'more than he should' about Russian meddling
by Kelly Cohen
{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ Attorney General Jeff Sessions said former FBI Director James Comey talked "more than he should"... have when he spoke to lawmakers in March about an FBI investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. “I don’t recall how that exactly occurred,” Sessions told Rep. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., during a House Intelligence Committee hearing Tuesday. “Mr. Comey talked more than he should.” In a March hearing before the House Intelligence Committee, Comey confirmed an investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible collusion with the Trump campaign... http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/jeff-sessions-zings-james-comey-for-talking-more-than-he-should-about-russian-meddling/article/2640654.
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POST (OFFICE)-TRAUMATIC SHOCK
by Burt Prelutsky
When a reader in Texas, who had ordered a signed copy of “Angels on Tap,” still hadn’t received it after three days, I was naturally concerned that I might have mis-addressed it. But he assured me that the problem had more likely occurred at his end, in Houston.
Apparently, over the years, a fair number of Houston’s postal employees have decided that they have dibs on every package going through the system.
I was reminded of my own problems with the US mails. Several years ago, it was discovered that three local black people, a man and two women, had organized a gang of local Hispanics to first steal the mail and then go through it looking for the envelopes that contained checks.
Then, using the various bank and routing numbers as a model, the ringleaders would print their own checks and have them cashed at local banks.
I’m not sure how they were finally caught, but it may have been that some wide-awake bank clerk didn’t believe that the teenage Hispanic trying to cash a check wasn’t really named Burt Prelutsky. He probably gave himself away when he couldn’t spell “Prelutsky” or, possibly, "Burt."
In any case, I was contacted by a postal security agent who wanted to know if I’d agree to testify in court. I assured him I would.
After a few months, it dawned on me that I’d never been called to make a court appearance, so I called the guy back.
He told me that the case had already been adjudicated. He reported that the two women had been let off with a warning not to do it again. The man was given a six-month sentence, but only because he was already on parole.
I could hardly believe what I was hearing. The trio had been found guilty of a serious federal offense, and the only reason that one of them was even going to prison was because of a prior offense.
Perhaps because the fellow whose job it is to arrest these people was so blasé about it, I found myself shouting at him. And what I shouted was: “How dare you accept a salary! Doesn’t it even bother you that your life’s work amounts to a total waste of time?”
He didn’t say anything, so I hung up.
But that wasn’t the end of my tribulations with the Post Office. There are two mailboxes in my neighborhood. One is two blocks north of my house, the other is a couple of blocks south. I discovered that whenever I’d drop a letter into either mailbox, I’d notice a sticky substance on the inside of the lid.
I asked the local mailman if he knew about it. I thought that since he would use his key to open the bottom of the box to collect the mail, he might not know what was happening up above. But he did know. He even knew how it got there.
He explained that someone was dropping a line tied to a weight covered with goo into the box and fishing out whatever stuck. He told me he had reported it, but nothing had been done about it.
Next, I paid a call on the manager of the local post office. He said nobody had reported it to him. So, I already knew I was dealing with a big fat liar. Or, in other words, a typical bureaucrat pulling down a federal salary.
Ignoring the lie, I plunged ahead, assuring him that the mailman would confirm my facts. When he asked what I thought he should do, I suggested he set up a couple of surveillance cameras in the trees adjacent to the mailboxes and record the thief or thieves in the act.
He said he couldn’t do that. He didn’t tell me why. So, I asked if his solution was for every taxpayer in the vicinity to risk having his letters, along with his utility bills and mortgage checks, stolen? He replied with a shrug.
So, I next wrote to the Postmaster General of the United States. I never received a response, but, then, of course, I have no way of knowing if my letter ever reached him.
● I checked out a website that keeps track of the 50 states and ranks them in terms of how many green cards they extend to immigrants, along with their nations of origin.
West Virginia hands out the fewest green cards, just 42-per-100,000 (1.6% of the state’s population). Most of the cards go to those from Germany.
The next four are Montana,50.3-per-100,000 (2.1%), with the majority going to Canadians; Mississippi, 53.1-per-100,000 (2.4%), mainly to Mexicans; Alabama 80.9 (3.5%), mainly Mexicans; and South Carolina 90.2 (4.8%), mostly Mexicans.
At the opposite end of the scale, you have New York handing out 658.4-per-100,000 (22.9%), the majority going to Dominicans; followed by Florida, 587.2 (20.2%), Cubans; New Jersey, 557.4 (22.1%), mainly from India; California, 538 (10.9%, Mexicans; and Hawaii, 457 (8.2%), mostly from the Philippines.
In 33 of the states, Mexican immigrants constitute the largest number of green card holders, followed by those from India (4), Canadians (3), the Philippines (3), the Dominican Republic and El Salvador (2), and Germany, China and Cuba with one each.
Is it any wonder that America is quickly morphing into Los Estados Unidos?
I do wonder, though, how all those folks from the Philippines wound up in Alaska and North Dakota. I guess they just wanted a radical change in climate.
● Some of you are aware that two of my articles appear every week at the Patriot Post, where others get to read them about a week or 10 days after you do. But the Post, being a profit-making enterprise, does pay for the privilege.
I used to appear on other websites, but I eventually grew disenchanted with them or they with me. I used to appear on some Jewish conservative site that was based in Brooklyn. The problem was that the guy who managed it would leave an article up for a couple of months, although I kept sending him new material. Even though I repeatedly pointed that his readers might think I had retired or died, he refused to change his ways or even to explain his motive. So, I bid him shalom and left.
Another of my venues was Townhall. For nearly four years, they carried two of my pieces every week. Then, one day, they told me they had decided to stop posting my articles. Even though I wrote them more than once, asking for an explanation, they never bothered providing one.
Some of the Townhall readers suggested that an Arab or Muslim had invested in the operation and apparently disapproved of my pro-Israel stance, but I can’t verify that.
For a couple of years, Bernie Goldberg carried my stuff on his website, but at least when he severed the relationship, he let me know it was because he couldn't go along with some of the nasty things I wrote about urban blacks, Muslims and homosexuals. Inasmuch as I couldn't go along with some of the nasty things he wrote about President Trump, it was an amicable divorce.
Until about eight months ago, WorldNetDaily carried me on a weekly basis. Once I began a subscription service, they even agreed to pay for the privilege. But instead of paying for the entire year, as you all do, Joseph Farah insisted I submit an invoice every quarter. Against my better instincts, I agreed to do so.
He immediately paid for the first quarter. But when I submitted the next bill two weeks prior to the start of the second quarter, I wasn’t paid for three weeks.
Having learned my lesson, I submitted the next invoice a full month before the start of the third quarter. After a couple of weeks, I sent along a reminder, and again, a week after that.
When the deadline came and went, I let Farah know I was dropping WorldNetDaily from my subscription list.
In response, he let me know in no uncertain terms that he had bills to pay. I pointed out that mine was one of them and that he’d had an entire month in which to pay it.
A few days later, the overdue check arrived. I mailed it back.
● A reader let me know that he thought black Americans had hit rock bottom when the California branch of the NAACP recently called for the abolition of the National Anthem, insisting it is was anti-black and pro-slavery.
I let him know that I thought blacks had hit rock bottom back in 1999, when David Howard, who was an assistant to Washington D.C.’s mayor, Anthony Williams, in conversation with two fellow staffers correctly used the word “niggardly,” meaning miserly. Within days, he was hounded out of his job by the mayor’s ignorant black constituents.
● As old as I am, until reading about the sexual misconduct charges leveled at Harvey Weinstein and alleged comedian Louis C.K. (aka Louis Szekely), I had no idea that in certain extremely weird circles, masturbation is considered a spectator sport.
Please stop the world, I want to get off.
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Comments
Thanks Thomas