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THE SWAMP OVERFLOWS
by Burt Prelutsky
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Sometimes Trump Puts the 'Bully' in Bully Pulpit
by Nate Jackson: Puerto Rico took a direct hit from Hurricane Maria when the Category 4 storm blew through on Sept. 20. Nearly two weeks later, most of the island’s three million citizens are still without power, water or reliable communication.
by Nate Jackson: Puerto Rico took a direct hit from Hurricane Maria when the Category 4 storm blew through on Sept. 20. Nearly two weeks later, most of the island’s three million citizens are still without power, water or reliable communication. The small U.S. territory was underwater in debt and saddled with poor infrastructure after decades of Democrat mismanagement before the hurricane, and the storm only made matters worse. The logistical challenges of bringing aid are formidable, and Carmen Yulín Cruz, Democrat mayor of San Juan, reached her limit. On Friday, she lashed out at Donald Trump’s administration, saying, “We are dying, and you are killing us with the inefficiency, and the bureaucracy.” If logistics aren’t solved, she warned, “What we are going to see is something close to a genocide.” She had plenty of other strong words criticizing Trump’s response, particularly an administration official’s assertion that federal aid to the island has been “a good news story.”
Her dismay is certainly understandable, though we haven’t seen evidence to support her charges. The undertaking is massive, and the federal government is responding. In fact, Trump sent 5,000 National Guard troops to the island before the storm, and thousands more since, all working to help people and distribute necessary items. Restoring basic utilities to the entire island isn’t going to happen overnight, no matter how flawless the federal response. Nevertheless, Democrats politicized the storm from the beginning — whether it was climate change or “more people voting Democrat in Florida” as a result — and the Leftmedia is, of course, happy to portray this as “Trump’s Hurricane Katrina.”
Unfortunately, that constant fake news refrain probably goaded Trump to respond with a bit more weight than was appropriate. As is his unfortunate habit, Trump couldn’t resist taking to Twitter to hit back twice as hard. “The Mayor of San Juan, who was very complimentary only a few days ago, has now been told by the Democrats that you must be nasty to Trump,” he tweeted. “Such poor leadership ability by the Mayor of San Juan, and others in Puerto Rico, who are not able to get their workers to help. They … want everything to be done for them when it should be a community effort. 10,000 Federal workers now on Island doing a fantastic job. The military and first responders, despite no electric, roads, phones etc., have done an amazing job. Puerto Rico was totally destroyed.”
As political analyst Dan McLaughlin argues, “There’s a time and a place for partisan combat, and a tone that the president ought to set even when others are throwing brickbats. People want the man in charge to seem like he’s in charge and focused on helping them, not on his public image or personal feuds.” Or in our parlance, “Don’t swap spit with a jackass.”
Indeed, it certainly seems as though he’s more concerned with his public image and personal feuds when he punches down on Twitter. Furthermore, he mixes very serious tweets — like offering condolences to those in Las Vegas — with petulant and sophomoric spats, which undermines his serious statements and his overall communication. This is the core of the problem with his social media use. ~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/51612
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Carlson – liar-Clinton Tweets Show
She Hasn’t Got A Clue, Just Gun-Grabbing
by rickwells.us
{rickwells.us} ~ Tucker Carlson has two guests each of which shed light on liar-Hillary Clinton’s comments in their own way... One by her intelligent input, and a second by his own inane comments in defense of the idiocy of liar-Hillary Clinton’s ill-advised tweet. Carlson describes liar-Clinton as wasting “not a second leveraging the attacks in Las Vegas. This morning she tweeted, “The crowd fled at the sound of gunshots. Imagine the deaths if the shooter had a silencer, which the NRA wants to make easier to get.” He goes on to say, “liar-Clinton then added, without a trace of irony, ‘Our grief is not enough. We must put politics aside, stand up to the NRA, and work together to try to stop this from happening again.'”... https://rickwells.us/carlson-clinton-tweets-gun-grabbing/.
Austria: Integration Law Goes into Effect
Austria's new integration law is the brainchild of Foreign
Minister Sebastian Kurz
by Soeren Kern
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ A groundbreaking new law regulating the integration of immigrants has gone into effect in Austria. The so-called Integration Law — which bans full-face Muslim veils in public spaces... and prohibits Islamic radicals from distributing the Koran — establishes clear rules and responsibilities for recognized asylum seekers and refugees who are granted legal residence in the country. Austrian officials say the main goal of the law is to promote respect for Austrian values, customs and culture; Muslims claim that the measure unfairly targets them and will promote "Islamophobia." As of October 1, anyone covering his or her face in public with a burka, niqab or mask is subject to a fine of €150 ($175). The law, which follows similar bans in Belgium, France and the Netherlands, requires the face to be completely visible in all public spaces, including bus, rail, air and sea transport. Those who refuse to comply are subject to arrest... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/11104/austria-integration-law-burqa.
San Juan Teamsters Didn’t Show Up for Work
to Distribute Relief Supplies – US Aid Rotting at Ports
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US expels 15 diplomats as Cuba attack toll rises
by Joel Gehrke
{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ Fifteen Cuban diplomats must leave the United States within seven days over the ongoing and mysterious attacks against American personnel in Havana... the State Department announced Tuesday. "The decision was made due to Cuba's failure to take appropriate steps to protect our diplomats in accordance with its obligations under the Vienna Convention," Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said in a Tuesday morning statement... http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/us-expels-15-diplomats-as-cuba-attack-toll-rises/article/2636374?utm_campaign=Washington%20Examiner:%20News%20Alert&utm_source=Washington%20Examiner:%20News%20Alert%20-%2010/03/17&utm_medium=email.
Customs Agents Make “Largest Of Its
Kind” Discovery After Seizing North Korean Ship
by Tracy Mastaler
{westernjournalism.com} ~ In August, a cargo ship flying Cambodian colors sailed from North Korea with unknown cargo until it was intercepted in Egyptian waters... and its contents sparked an international investigation. Upon entering Egyptian waters, the “Jie Shun” was seized by customs agents who discovered a cache of nearly 24,000 rocket launchers and components for 6,000 more weapons hidden beneath bins of iron ore. A United Nations report later called the interception the “largest seizure of ammunition in the history of sanctions against the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.”... https://www.westernjournalism.com/customs-agents-make-terrifying-discovery-after-seizing-north-korean-ship-largest-of-its-kind/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=libertyalliance&utm_campaign=dailyam&utm_content=libertyalliance.
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THE SWAMP OVERFLOWS
by Burt Prelutsky
Donald Trump vowed to drain the swamp. That may have been his honest intention, but it was and remains an impossible promise to keep. A person might as well set about emptying the Pacific Ocean with a teaspoon.
The latest person to fall prey to swamp fever is Tom Price, Trump’s Secretary of Health and Human Services. In the few months he was a member of the Cabinet, he had chartered private jets to the tune of $1,000,000. You would think in order to run up a bill that large, the guy would have had to be using a plane to commute between his home and his office. As it happens, he nearly did.
Never having been employed by the federal government, I have no idea how I would deal with the temptations such jobs seem to confer. But I do know that if I were the President, I would announce on Day One to my Cabinet and to all my White House aides that if any of them were ever discovered to have taken personal advantage of their position, they would not get away with simply resigning; that I would make examples of them by prosecuting them to the full extent of the law, and that I would testify on behalf of the prosecution at their trials.
Moreover, with the exception of the President and the Vice-President, no government official, including Cabinet members, senators and members of the House, should be provided with a car and driver. They should, as public servants, deal with the same traffic nightmare as everyone else in Washington, D.C.
I would also deny politicians the use of bodyguards, unless they wished to pay for them out of their own pocket. They should share the same jeopardy as every other American who lives in a major city. The fact is they are very replaceable, as proven every time an election rolls around. They possess no particular skills or talents. All that is required of them is that they win an election, just like teenagers running for class president in the 10th or 11th grade, which explains the constant presence of people like Mad-Maxine Waters, Al Franken and Nancy Pulosi, in the halls of Congress.
When it comes to the people’s representatives, they confuse their fame with actual accomplishments. The truth is, we don’t honor their achievements because they simply don’t exist. Casting a vote is not an accomplishment, it’s merely an act, usually partisan and predictable. What we do acknowledge is their celebrity, as we have become accustomed to do with the likes of Paris Hilton, Kim Kardashian and sex freaks like Chelsea Manning and Caitlyn Jenner, people not known for what lies between their ears or even in their hearts, but what is or isn’t between their legs.
● Even I am getting tired of writing about the overgrown thugs of the NFL, but so long as the players and owners are going to keep pretending that they’re simply taking advantage of the 1st Amendment, it behooves all of us to set them straight, either with our words or by boycotting their shoddy product. Nobody is impinging on their right to speak freely, although they’re not really saying anything. We’re merely taking advantage of the same right.
They would have you believe that when they show their contempt for the flag and the National Anthem, it’s their way of expressing their solidarity with the so-called black community in its ongoing war with the police.
For openers, it’s a very odd, circumspect, way to go about it. For another, perhaps if so many of the players hadn’t had direct involvement with the cops, thanks to having been arrested on drug charges, DUI, illegal weapon possession, domestic violence, rape and assault, one might have an easier time accepting that their motives were even slightly altruistic.
I have long wondered how those who are always railing for employment quotas in the workplace would react if the NFL and NBA, which are 70-80% black, were forced to begin fielding teams that are more in line with the nation’s population, which is only 13% black.
I have now been forwarded something that purports to be an NFL rule at least half a dozen times. It spells out how players are expected to behave during the playing of the National Anthem. As I expected from the first time someone sent it to me, it is not in the rulebook. And why would it be? Who would ever have assumed it was necessary to teach grown-ups something most people knew by the age of five? And, now, of course it’s too late, because the 300-pound bozos would insist the rule of conduct infringed on their right to free expression.
Every time that a Democrat speaks out on race, you are certain to be reminded that more young blacks go to prison than to college. And while I grant that there’s more freedom of speech in our jails than on our campuses, I’d be the first to acknowledge that’s not good news. But whose fault is it?
Are we supposed to stop incarcerating those who commit felonies? Granted, that was liar-nObama’s solution, when he decided that dealing drugs was not a violent crime, although it is the motive behind most of the thousands of murders committed every year in Chicago, Detroit, Baltimore, Atlanta and Houston. But, then, liar-nObama was also far more concerned with disarming members of the NRA and all the other law-abiding Americans he dismissed so contemptuously as “those clinging to their guns and their religion.” He never made a single move to disarm the black gangbangers in the urban jungles of America. He preferred disarming America’s cops.
As a sidebar to the restraints that the Left have placed on law enforcement, cops have done far less policing than they did prior to the pushback from liar-nObama and his Justice Department, for fear that every legitimate traffic stop might lead to their own arrest or at least to losing their job. It is the reason that crime stats have soared over the past few years. It only makes sense that when there is less of a police presence, the criminals will take it as an open invitation to ply their trade.
Black racism has become so pernicious in 2017, and so seemingly acceptable to those on the Left, who continue, as a matter of political survival, to pander to race hustlers, I find myself fearing a future Civil War, one that could ironically lead to a restoration of slavery in America.
● Eerily, many of the same people who think laws shouldn’t apply to illegal aliens or drug dealers, have insisted that climate change denial should be a crime, perhaps even a capital offense.
What makes the climate change controversy so weird is that it has led those who call themselves scientists to take on the guise of religious fanatics, insisting that a hoax is actually “settled science,” lest they be denied federal grants and professorships. In point of fact, nothing has been settled, unless you’re going to accept Al Gore as a final authority, and, what’s more, nobody has yet made the case why a slight up-tick in the temperature would be a bad thing for the planet.
● My friend, actor-comedian Orson Bean, having just returned from a vacation, let me know that all over the airport in Boston, and again when he and his wife, actress Alley Mills, landed at LAX: “There were these big electronic posters asking people to donate money to help the victims of the various hurricanes. The posters were of every living president. There’s liar-nObama, Bush pere and fils, liar-Clinton and Carter....but no Trump! How dare they?!”
A very good question. On the other hand, I’m not sure that whoever made the decision wasn’t doing President Trump a favor by not including him in a group as questionable as that quintet, who, by my lights, run the gamut from mediocre to reprehensible.
● It occurs to me that along with just about everything else I can think of, martyrs have gone downhill over the years.
Their numbers used to include the likes of Jesus Christ, Joan of Arc, Paul Schneider and Martin Luther King. Today, at least in certain quarters, they have been replaced by Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin and Freddie Gray.
And you all thought it was just movies that have gone to hell.
● Finally, something that has been on my mind from the first time I noticed my dog’s instinctive response to felines: Do dogs tell each other Polish jokes, substituting cats for Poles?
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