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Home Front: Politix
The morning after the night before
[DavidWarrenOnline] Doesn’t smoke, doesn’t drink. Admits to a germ phobia. Works twenty hours a day. This might be a crazy man.

Or possibly an android. But androids aren’t vain. And besides, he admits that he is vain, unlike the previous android. Prides himself especially on his "common sense." He also seems to have a sense of humour, and to be capable of self-deprecation. But hasn’t made a habit of it.

Extreme self-confidence; comfortable among strong-willed people.

He is very smart, very sharp, with that kind of intelligence that was made for survival on a stage. Quick on his feet; knows when to duck. And unlike a politician, when not to. (As I mentioned in a recent post, the public are good at judging pretty faces on their TVs; not so good at estimating intelligence.)

Remarkably candid. Doesn’t mind if you don’t like it.

Likes people in uniform, from generals to hotel cleaning staff. Knows how to wear a tuxedo; or a babe on his arm. Decidedly heterosexual. Likes strong women, too. (Women are discovering that sometimes a man is okay, for a change.)

Can do business with anybody, both in his imagination and in fact.

Bit of a temper on him: retaliates for slights. Can recall, but does not nurse a grudge. People who have actually known him for a long time say he is a warm, loyal, generous friend, who remembers birthdays. (Certainly well organized, in that way.)

And I have seen interviews with him from years ago, in which his political views were solicited, before he became a professional politician. (Once a hack, always a hack: I can’t stop myself inquiring into "background.") Those views have not changed: a "populist" then as now.

Doesn’t like wars. Knows they cost a lot of money. Would rather that no one got hurt.

Given to overstatement and wild exaggeration, but with enjoyment. Needs coaching on the understatement side.

Basically honest, in a businesslike way. Unlikely to commit crimes, once he knows what they are.

I have no reason to believe he is a gangster, apart from the fact he’s been in real estate, and often talks like a gangster. Also looks like a gangster, and dresses like one, and has a wife who looks like a moll, but I don’t think it’s fair to dwell on appearances. (Too, she looks absolutely gorgeous in powder blue.)

For that matter, most gangsters are refreshingly honest, when the stakes are low. Gratuitous dishonesty is for the general population, who never take big risks.

As protection rackets go, one is probably better off with gangsters than with minor-league bureaucrats, looking for something to enforce, if only to assuage their minor-league bureaucratic egos. Gangsters are happy to overlook the small stuff. They get big by focusing on the "bigly." We get small by focusing on the small change. Fortunately for us, gangsters create employment, and don’t make a scene unless they have to. (However, little-league gangsters can be a pest.)

Moses gave ten commandments, by the way. Only three are currently enforceable, and those only in carefully specified cases.

But there are more than 10,000 felonies on the U.S. books today (I saw an estimate somewhere, of nearly 17,000) -- from dwarf tossing (in Florida) to slow dancing (in a national park). They are currently increasing faster than 1,000 a year: a few by statute, the rest through regulatory codes. Goodness knows how many misdemeanours. Nanny State can always nail you for something.

Nineteen in twenty convictions are by plea bargain; 97 percent of charges stick in some form (approximately the level in Stalin’s Russia). And this despite sometimes slovenly police. Tens of millions of convicted felons; about 7 million currently in gaol or on parole; well over a million busy lawyers. Just think if they had proper trials.

So yes, the people in the inaugural crowd who shouted that Hillary should go to gaol, had a point. And Donald should surely go there, too. So should everybody. Indeed, it is conventionally Christian to observe, that we all deserve to hang.

I listened carefully to the inaugural speech. You had to be a foreigner to appreciate it. To such an one, it sounded as if the new Chief Executive conceives of Natted States Merica as one yuge protection racket. As I said: better to be in than out.

And on reasons hinted, I think this is for the best. The previous Chief was a fusspot, a nickel-and-dime man, lacking the strategic vision. He was never sure whose side he was on. He set some sort of record for new laws. High time to simplify things.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 01/22/2017 10:59 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  yes good observations all. Better to have a tough guy who thinks big and is on YOUR side at the helm. He is not confused which side he is on, like Obama.
Posted by: anon1 || 01/22/2017 15:38 Comments || Top||

#2  Bambi was never confused, anon.

He might have hidden it occasionally for political expediency, the he always knew he hated America.
Posted by: Barbara || 01/22/2017 15:45 Comments || Top||

#3  Only because America refused to worship him the way he felt he deserved, Miss Barbara.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 01/22/2017 15:47 Comments || Top||

#4 
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/22/2017 15:55 Comments || Top||

#5  If you can't say anything nice about someone don't say anything atall, eh B?
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/22/2017 21:52 Comments || Top||


President's ‘dark' speech a ray of light for millions
[Boston Herald] WASHINGTON -- The inaugural speech was "dark" -- that’s the storyline among the Democrats and their allies in the Fake News industry. It was "radical," "Hitlerian," or maybe Mussolini-ian -- or both, according to Comrade Chris Matthews.

But mostly it was dark. What else could it have been? If it was all sweetness and light in America, how far would Donald J. Trump have gotten in his campaign?

He had half as much money as the kleptocracy’s handpicked candidate. The alt-left media’s coverage of him was 90 percent negative, when they weren’t just making up fake news pure and simple.

Because the country was in a dark, dark place. It’s always darkest before the dawn. Yesterday was the dawn.

Trump said "America first." Twice! Hillary Clinton was giving him the evil eye. I hadn’t seen her this angry since maybe 10 minutes earlier, when she caught her "husband" staring at Melania Trump, or maybe it was Ivanka Trump, or maybe it was both.

Brevity truly is the soul of wit, and even more so, great speeches. Barack Obama couldn’t even finish clearing his throat in 14 minutes. But Trump hit all the right notes. And he only said "I" three times.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/22/2017 07:43 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I thought the speech was blunt, clear, and gave no hope whatsoever to anyone who thought that Trump was just woofing during the campaign. We're just so used to hearing nuanced double-talk that the speech had a surprising quality to it.

And I thought Trump very clearly defined his role as he sees it: he is an American president, not a citizen of the world who's going to stop the seas from rising. After the last eight years the idea of the president of America actively promoting American interests is truly shocking.

To me the key thing is the growth rate. If a year from now the GDP is growing at a no-bullshit 4% clip -- which is a really tall order from where we are now-- the deficit starts to shrink, the country looks more economically stable, and foreign investors are lining up to take a number.
Posted by: Matt || 01/22/2017 9:22 Comments || Top||

#2  The state of the union address is going to be interesting.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 01/22/2017 9:43 Comments || Top||

#3  "Dark" is the new libtard mantra. Delete it from any comments or news articles for the next few weeks and they'll come up empty.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 01/22/2017 11:59 Comments || Top||

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Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 || 01/22/2017 13:23 Comments || Top||

#5  http://moonbattery.com/graphics/obama-discarded.jpg

Interesting, this image keep going to Google.com

Blossom Unains5562 URL appears to be fine.

I tried uploading the image, but apparently I have to wait before it will show up to be selected.

A possible bug in the software? I posted the URL (at top) so others can see for themselves.
Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance || 01/22/2017 14:21 Comments || Top||

#6  Trying again:



Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance || 01/22/2017 15:33 Comments || Top||

#7  Moonbattery.com does not allow deep linking to content on its site.
Posted by: Fliling Mussolini2815 || 01/22/2017 16:11 Comments || Top||

#8  Well...I take that back. The pictures miraculously appeared right after I posted.
Posted by: Fliling Mussolini2815 || 01/22/2017 16:12 Comments || Top||

#9  I suspect, as in many, a contributor to the confusion may be the new DNS stable HTTPS: protocol. Thank you ICANNt. Notice the browser URL banner changes to SECURE HTTPS: when you are rerouted to Google.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/22/2017 17:37 Comments || Top||


Rush on Trump inauguration: ‘There's a reclamation of the country taking place'
[Wash Times] Radio host Rush Limbaugh told listeners on Friday that President Donald Trump’s inauguration speech further solidified his belief that a "reclamation" of America’s founding principles is underway.

Inauguration Day analysis was on the docket for "The Rush Limbaugh Show" leading into the weekend, and the man behind the "golden EIB microphone" was "taken aback" by what he heard. The conservative host said he was pleased that God is "on full display" without anyone apologizing, along with Mr. Trump’s ongoing attacks on globalism.

"There’s a reclamation of the country taking place," Mr. Limbaugh said. "And by reclamation of the country, I mean that the people who honor the time-honored institutions and traditions of this country from its founding are reclaiming this country from efforts made by others to eliminate those institutions and traditions or to water them down, and to transform this country away from what it was intended to be from its founding forward. I think that’s what these last eight years have been."
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/22/2017 07:27 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Who'd thought that Andrew Jackson would be reborn in New York?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 01/22/2017 10:35 Comments || Top||

#2  Called a soft revolution..
Posted by: 49 Pan || 01/22/2017 11:46 Comments || Top||

#3  Hopefully not TOO soft 49 Pan.
Posted by: AlanC || 01/22/2017 13:00 Comments || Top||


Democrats: Left in the Lurch
[NBC] The curious decline and uncertain future of the Democratic Party.
Long, statistics-filled analysis of where they are, how they got there, and what the future likely holds. The first thing I've seen that doesn't blame it on Russian hacking or Republican cheating. Conclusion:
No matter what, Democrats will need to reinforce their decaying state and local party apparatuses to build power outside cities. Conservatives understood the importance of these down-ballot races years ago and have invested heavily in them, while Democrats tended to concentrate on the presidency and interest-group specific causes.

Party leaders seem to have recognized the error and have the new Obama-backed effort to win state legislatures ahead of the next round of redistricting in 2020. If successful, the party will lessen the headwind of Republican gerrymandering, though they will still have their own self-gerrymandering to worry about.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/22/2017 01:35 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  If you Chuck "Dick" Schumer's speech Friday, you know they haven't learned anything. Which is good
Posted by: Frank G || 01/22/2017 10:59 Comments || Top||

#2  That is why the Democrats pulled out the women card and got as many marching as possible (with pro-life women excluded). They need to keep their interest groups on the plantation.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 01/22/2017 11:48 Comments || Top||

#3  ..Let me add something here: I think we're going to find out in the next six to eight months or so just how bad the financial situation is in some of the great Democratic strongholds - we know it's bad, but I suspect it's far, far worse than we've been told and the leadership of those cities have been desperately keeping a lid on it in the expectation that Malificent was going to win the election and bail them out when it hit the fan.

Once that gets exposed, the people responsible will either be on trial or on the run from an enraged nation and President. 2020? Hah. Try more like 2052 before they'll be able to mount a credible Presidential campaign.

/just my .02; YMMV

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 01/22/2017 14:33 Comments || Top||

#4  Yup, under invested pension funds will run dry for one thing.
Posted by: Jeasing Creque5352 || 01/22/2017 16:09 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Gazans are fed up with Hamas
[Ynet] The Paleostinians on the Gazoo street no longer believe that their living conditions will ever improve. The fiery
...a single two-syllable word carrying connotations of both incoherence and viciousness. A fiery delivery implies an audience of rubes and yokels, preferably forming up into a mob...
protests of the past few days are an uprising in the making and have exposed, for the first time, the potential of toppling the Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", government from the inside.


When thousands of members of "The Young" movement marched last Thursday on the streets of Jabalia in the Gazoo Strip, chanting the battle cry of the Tahrir Square, "Al sha'ab yureed iskat al-nizam" (the people want the fall of the regime), they attracted the attention of quite a few people in the Israeli defense establishment. There was a feeling that we are witnessing a rerun of the Arab Spring, threatening the Hamas regime this time.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/22/2017 01:35 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  Join ISIS in droves?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 01/22/2017 5:32 Comments || Top||

#2  they likey likey their religion tho
Posted by: anon1 || 01/22/2017 5:36 Comments || Top||

#3  About thirty years behind the rest of the world, typical Palestinian Arabs.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 01/22/2017 11:47 Comments || Top||

#4  When one chooses to buy weapons instead of power...
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/22/2017 17:42 Comments || Top||



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  36 Afghan parliament staff killed in Kabul attack
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