[Real Clear Politics] On Sunday evening, ABC preempted its regularly scheduled programming to broadcast an exclusive interview conducted by "This Week" host George Stephanopoulos with former FBI Director James Comey. The star treatment is part of an all-out publicity campaign that Comey, fired by President Trump less than one year ago, has launched to promote his new book, "A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership." How Comey’s portrayal of himself as a virtuous man selflessly devoted to the public interest fits with his rush to cash in on public service by disclosing details of his relationship with a sitting president is one of the salient questions Stephanopoulos failed to pose Sunday night.
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Mr. Wife watched Mr. Comey being interviewed this morning by a blonde woman*, and afterward pronounced Mr. Comey sleazy. Since Mr. Wife is a NeverTrumper, I find that telling.
* I’m sure she is a well known television news person, but I have no idea which one.
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Stephanopoulos is not legitimate journalist. He is a former Clinton spokesman and a reliable Democrat Party apparatchik. His purpose in this interview was not to interview Comey, it was to bash Trump who is an archenemy of the Clintons. The fact that ABC presents this little twerp as a journalist goes to show how fake they really are.
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Here's a few more:
What do you collect that no one knows about?
What is your baby nickname?
What book are you embarrassed to have read?
Have you ever stolen anything?
What do you eat when you can choose anything and no one is around to see?
What kids' movie do you still secretly watch over and over?
[Daily Caller] Former FBI Director James Comey chose ABC as the first media outlet to interview him since being fired by President Trump last year.
It may have been a good move for Comey, because if he had chosen The Wall Street Journal’s Kimberly Strassel instead of George Stephanopoulos, the lines of questioning would have been of an entirely different nature.
Strassel shared her own questions on Twitter Monday that ABC’s Stephanopoulos should have asked, but didn’t. List follows at the link.
[Townhall] R. Lee "Gunny" Ermey, the Golden Globe-nominated actor best known for his unforgettable role as a drill sergeant in Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket, died this week at the age of 74.
To commemorate Ermey’s life‐especially, his legendary work ethic and commitment to duty‐here is the best advice from Ermey’s memoir, Gunny’s Rules: How to Get Squared Away Like A Marine.
Make it a Habit
"The Marines did not teach me to roll over and play dead in the tough spots. I have not always achieved my mission, but when I have come up short, it isn’t because I do not go the extra mile, do not carry my load. I’ll hump it as far as it takes to get what I want. I have done that every day of my life since I became a Marine, in large roles or meager ones, and I expect to continue doing it until I’m in a wheelchair or my trip is over."
Never Say "It’s Good Enough"
"Unfortunately, for many people the ’extra mile’ seems to be a distance they cannot make. You can spot them a mile away: the clock watchers, the early quitters, the ’wait till tomorrow’ addicts, the ’it’s good enough, let’s move on’ cop-out artists. They’re in every office, every organization, even units of the military, law enforcement, and elsewhere. They’re not going to lift their hands one inch beyond their job descriptions, and often not even that far. I have no respect for these misguided hangers-on."
Family Matters Need Attention
"Families require "extra mile" performance as much as, if not more than, the workplace. Family cohesiveness and function depend on squared away, unwavering involvement between every member. The care, the love that cranks up families and keeps them going isn’t just mama’s job. There’s usually something happening all the time that takes extra effort. We all care about our parents and our brothers and sisters. When it takes an extra mile to help the family get up the hill, we need to make completely sure we’re not on leave or AWOL."
Take Care of "Number One"
"All those chores and things you’ve been putting off doing for yourself aren’t going to stop bugging you until you call a halt and turn-to. You need to give your personal needs an extra mile at times to stay squared away. Your job and duties and the needs of others still rank high in your priorities, but you also have to look out for Number One. Sometimes that takes an extra effort, whether it’s getting in that hour-long run you need or taking care of a personal chore like shining your shoes or ironing your shirt. You’re responsible to your family and your employer, but also to yourself. "
Work the Problem!
"Whatever major malfunction is tormenting you, whether it’s in your head or it’s some piece of broken machinery or technology, you must face the situation with calm, deliberate action. You will find help if you need it. You will kick the malfunction in the ass and move on. If you do not grasp the fact that you are capable of doing this, you are going to be set back time and again by life’s booby traps and plain old bad breaks. The problems‐the malfunctions‐should not throw your train off the tracks or wreck your missions and objectives. You might be delayed while you work on the pain-in-the-butt problem, but you’ve got to get it done and get back on schedule."
[The Hill] Australian TV host Peta Credlin gave a short monologue yesterday against a proposal to let people at whim call themselves or their newborns male, female, intersex, unspecified, or indeterminate on their birth certificates. She notes this idea’s proponents say it’s the next step after government affirmation of same-sex relationships, although at the time that was not publicly sold as an entrance point for transsexual politics.
"’Trust us,’ they said, didn’t they? ’Love is love,'" she recalls.
"Children are born a boy or a girl, [for] the vast bulk of humanity," Credlin says, because stating the obvious is now not only necessary, it even requires courage. "That is a biological fact, and laws must reflect reality."
Credlin noted an exception is logical for the approximately 1.5 percent of humans who are discovered, usually at puberty, to have both male and female reproductive organs due to chromosomal abnormalities. But "then and only then is the time right to alter a birth certificate, armed with medical fact, but not in a birthing suite due to the whim of a parent who wants to record [her] child as nonbinary," Credlin continued.
"This is nothing more than a dangerous push by the Left into records we have kept as civilizations since almost as long as we have had the written word. Assuming change from the outset is designed to disrupt social norms and it must be resisted."
[Real Clear Politics] Appearing on FNC's 'Hannity' Thursday night, LevinTV host Mark Levin spoke about a letter his organization sent to FISA court judges on alleged abuses from the Nunes memo.
"If you’re a judge ... and you don’t do something about it? Congress needs to look into this!" Levin said. "I damn well expect federal judges serving as FISA court judges to make sure that [misconduct] wasn’t committed in front of them."
"I want to underscore something tonight, Sean," Levin told Hannity. "These federal judges sitting on this FISA court act like they have no role in this. They were abused. The court was abused. The court was misled. People should be held to account."
"We presented this judge with the evidence and filed it. Congress needs to find out now why these judges, even today, aren’t holding these people accountable!"
"It’s time to abolish the FISA court. It’s time to create a new, a counter-intelligence-related court. It should not consist of existing federal judges. They should be confirmed, not for life terms, for given terms. The FBI and the Justice Department, when they go into that court, should not be alone any more. There ought to be an office within the federal government that’s there to ensure that civil liberties are protected," Levin said.
"There are things we need to do with this court right now."
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Ah, when are any federal judges held accountable for their un-Constitutional works? As in, where in the hell did you find this in the text of the Constitution?
[Free Beacon] ranian-backed militants are operating across the United States mostly unfettered, raising concerns in Congress and among regional experts that these "sleeper cell" agents are poised to launch a large-scale attack on the American homeland, according to testimony before lawmakers.
Iranian agents tied to the terror group Hezbollah have already been discovered in the United States plotting attacks, giving rise to fears that Tehran could order a strike inside America should tensions between the Trump administration and Islamic Republic reach a boiling point.
Intelligence officials and former White House officials confirmed to Congress on Tuesday that such an attack is not only plausible, but relatively easy for Iran to carry out at a time when the Trump administration is considering abandoning the landmark nuclear deal and reapplying sanctions on Tehran.
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Oh, I remember the first student wave of displaced Persians during the Shah's crackdown in the early '70s before the collapse of his reign. The State department paid their tuition, housing and gave them a stipend for incidentals. They started out in the general pop, but to get them to graduate the University created a cultural acclimation program.
What the late Lionel Trilling used to call the liberal imagination was captured by the plight of two black men who went to a Philadelphia Starbucks and didn't order anything. 8,000 Starbucks stores closed yesterday for sensitivity training and the conscience of an anguished world pulsated with guilt and grief over the arrest of the two men, whose only offense was to stand there.
The two men were exactly right: The right thing to do in Starbucks is not to order anything, because the coffee is disgusting. Starbucks' response, to be sure, was incommensurate with the problem: Rather than subject their employees to the ritual farce of sensitivity training, the company should spend money on high-quality coffee beans, and roast them lightly rather than burn them into acidic volcanic ash. The best coffee (namely Italian espresso) is not bitter, but bittersweet, like dark chocolate. High-quality Italian coffee (for example Illy or Lavazza) is widely available in American supermarkets, and the persistence of Starbucks in the face of higher-quality competition is a testimony to the poverty of the American palate.
Famously, Starbuck's marketing idea is the "affordable luxury." So-called craft beers are another case. Although Americans can make excellent beer (Blue Moon is a perfectly good Hefeweizen, for example), most of the craft beers contain far too much hops and are too bitter for human consumption. The "hoppy" quality of craft beer has the same effect as the burning of Starbucks coffee beans: It adds a flavor which is mistaken for sophistication, when it is merely unpleasant. Not one of the great German beers has the hops content of the typical craft beer.
The real victims of Starbucks are not the two black men who were arrested for standing around without ordering anything, but the customers who actually ordered Starbucks coffee. Who will speak up for them? The best way to respond to this outrage is to stop into whatever Starbucks outlet you happen to pass, and when asked what you want, say in a loud voice, "I don't want anything! This coffee sucks!" See if they call the cops.
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the persistence of Starbucks in the face of higher-quality competition is a testimony to the poverty of the American palate.
It's more about class signalling than palate. Sort of like an iPhone. IIRC several year back Consumer Reports rated McDonald's new coffee offerings better in taste.
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Duncan Donuts. Coffee flavored coffee. Not that fancy stuff that tastes either burned like someone put out a cigarette in it, or else poured a whole milkshake into it.
[PJ] In a new book titled Queer disbelief: Why LGBTQ Equality is an Atheist Issue, writer Camille Beredjick proposes that atheists unite with LGBTQ communities as allies against Christianity.
A professed atheist and LGBTQ activist, Beredjick says that the two sides have much in common and are fighting a common enemy. Speaking to Religion News Service, Beredjick explains the genesis of the book.
This book came out of a long, professional relationship between myself and Hemant Mehta, who writes The Friendly Atheist blog. We started to see religious arguments against the movement for transgender rights and it seemed like a good time to talk about how these two groups ‐ atheists and the LGBTQ community ‐ receive outcry from organized religion in a very intense way and to talk about how they can best be allied and what’s at stake when we don’t work together to address our common goals.
Beredjick believes that Christian organizations shouldn't be allowed to fire either atheists or LGBTQ individuals. Predictably, she also takes aim at Christians like the bakers and florists who have been sued out of business for attempting to operate their place of business according to their consciences.
So many of the most significant issues facing LGBTQ people can affect atheists in some way, like violating the principles many atheists hold dear. When we see laws that seek to give business owners the right to discriminate against LGBTQ customers based on their religious beliefs, that’s state-sanctioned privileging of one belief system over another. ... The laws that target LGBTQ people could also be used against atheists.
If the book's thesis seems obvious to you, you're not the only one. But probably not for the reason that Ms. Beredjick believes.
In the interview, she correctly acknowledges that there is much overlap between the two groups. In fact, as she points out, "Close to half of LGBTQ persons say they are nonbelievers." That makes sense, and it makes sense because both groups are engaged in active rebellion against their Creator.
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We started to see religious arguments against the movement for transgender rights
Wrong, under the Constitution you were given a lot of slack until you got far enough out of the closet to start denying others their conscientious liberties.
Give some people an inch, they begin to think they are rulers.
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Why? It goes back to the old "we have no enemies on the Left". The support feminists will display for Islamic terror groups makes no sense when approached logically
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Why LGBTQ Equality is an Atheist Issue..Snicker. that is in my Holy Bible
Romans 21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
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The support feminists will display for Islamic terror groups makes no sense when approached logically
You confuse adjectives affixed to Leftest groups with any intent other than the acquisition, retention and exercise of power. Think of it was just names for athletic teams. Names differ but their programs and their goals are just the same. The fans get to wear nifty tribal shirts and hats, gather at common watering holes, but they're all there for the same game.
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"Close to half of LGBTQ persons say they are nonbelievers" so that means less than half went to war on the other half? That doesn't sound very well thought out to me.
[Daily Caller] Women’s March co-president Tamika Mallory on Tuesday called for a boycott of Starbucks over the coffee company’s partnership with the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), a mainstream Jewish civil rights group.
The ADL previously criticized Mallory’s support of Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, a notorious racist and anti-Semite. Mallory accused the ADL of "attacking black and brown people" on Tuesday and demanded Starbucks end its partnership with the group.
"So you are aware, Starbucks was on a decent track until they enlisted the Anti-Defamation League to build their anti-bias training. The ADL is CONSTANTLY attacking black and brown people," Mallory wrote in a statement Tuesday evening.
"This is a sign that they are tone deaf and not committed to addressing the concerns of black folks. Be clear what’s happening here!"
[SF Chronicle] As president of S.F. Travel, the city’s visitors bureau, Joe D’Alessandro’s job is to promote San Francisco. You’d think he’d be hyping the city’s gorgeous vistas, top-notch restaurants and glorious museums.
Instead, he’s getting honest.
Sure, San Francisco has great facets worthy of postcards and travel books, but it also has a worsening underbelly that D’Alessandro says he can no longer gloss over.
People injecting themselves with drugs in broad daylight, their dirty needles and other garbage strewn on the sidewalks. Tent camps. Human feces. The threatening behavior of some people who appear either mentally ill or high. Petty theft.
"The streets are filthy. There’s trash everywhere. It’s disgusting," D’Alessandro said, adding he’s traveled the world, and San Francisco stands out for the wrong reasons. "I’ve never seen any other city like this ‐ the homelessness, dirty streets, drug use on the streets, smash-and-grabs.
"How can it be?" he continued. "How can it have gotten to this point?"
Remember, this is the man whose job is to glorify San Francisco, which tells you something about how far the city has sunk.
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It's really too bad about San Francisco. The city is blessed in many, many ways. It has natural beauty, the bay, the beaches, the architecture, the many accomplishments of its citizens and, yes, even the fog. But the current political atmosphere and degradation make it so I never want to go there again. It's encouraging that someone in a position of influence at least recognizes the problem but I fear that won't be enough.
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When Mrs. Warthog and I were working there in the early 2000's, we routinely came across the homeless and other flotsam in the streets. Doing what we all know they do..it was bad then but seemingly confined to back streets. Now Union Square, the Rodeo Drive of SF, has them in spades.
Welcome to your Sanctuary City. Back then Banana Republic was just a store, not a way of life.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Real Clear Politics] On Sunday evening, ABC preempted its regularly scheduled programming to broadcast an exclusive interview conducted by "This Week" host George Stephanopoulos with former FBI Director James Comey. The star treatment is part of an all-out publicity campaign that Comey, fired by President Trump less than one year ago, has launched to promote his new book, "A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership." How Comey’s portrayal of himself as a virtuous man selflessly devoted to the public interest fits with his rush to cash in on public service by disclosing details of his relationship with a sitting president is one of the salient questions Stephanopoulos failed to pose Sunday night.
In a new book titled Queer disbelief: Why LGBTQ Equality is an Atheist Issue, writer Camille Beredjick proposes that atheists unite with LGBTQ communities as allies against Christianity.
