Herr Drumpf, Citizen and Budding Chess-player.
A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights~ Napoleon
That quote is very true if only when you consider that we must pick our battles (our interests) because there is only so much time to pursue relatively inconsequential battles, and with that, I hope it can apply to the gun control movement--i.e., will those who support the 2nd Amendment put their concerns on the back burner because their interests--the lives of their children--far exceed their wish to fire various guns?
I think there is resolute evidence for that; just note that there were indeed massive teenager protests but for every one there, there were parents giving their permission. For those adults without children to worry about, they can worry about they themselves being killed at a movie or a concert.
On a Margaret Brennen show (FTN), Emma Gonzalez said that the Parkland group preferred to focus on the issues rather than the candidates. I don't know what her thinking is but if the NRA can give a score to a candidate that helps get him/her elected, I don't see why the Parkland group can't do the same.
I can't wait for Mr. Trump's CDC mandate to study gun violence. I'd like to know how segments of the population feel about these "uses" for their guns:
Speaking of illegal use of guns, a Black man was killed by police in California. It turned out the man was only carrying a cell phone. Tom Fuentes, former FBI assistant director was asked on MSM why one of the policemen was recorded as saying to another to "put the bodycams on mute." Mr. Fuentes proffered that it may have been to protect privacy rights of all concerned. Nah, Mr. Fuentes, one of the primary reasons given for police crossing the line is the high alert, hormonally-driven circumstances. Now, Mr. Fuentes expects us to believe that the police had the presence of mind to take privacies into account? Mierda de toro, senor; the real reason was for the police to start to get their story straight--as was borne out during the Ferguson crime. Find and read the grand jury transcipt released by the prosecutor; you will see how even the FBI was complicit in covering for the police.
POTUS
I think, I hope, that Mr. Trump is starting to play chess when he picked Hawk2aFault John Bolton to be National Security Adviser. When you are called on to visit whom you proactively call a "shady" character, you may just feel better if you took a pit bull with you; long in the tooth but with the custom muzzle as yet uninvented, this man was once joined at the hip with Neo-Tricky-Dick Cheney and represents a canine calling card that is loyal and intimidating enough to perhaps make the North Korean leader a little more acquiescing to denuclearizing.
Mr. Trump came up with a very sensible idea to pay for the "wall." Right away, the MSM came out with their analysis that it would take an act of congress to re-allocate the funds now slated for military pensions, ships, and planes, and use them to help build the wall. Now, forgive me for sounding knowledgeable but isn't Mr. Trump Commander-in-chief or is that just a title like King of England? "Yo, Mr. General, SIR--wait, I'm Sir, you're not--we are being invaded by people who take away back-breaking jobs from my base. Do something about it. I suggest plenty of tanks and pill boxes just like my ancestors placed in France to keep out the non-Aryans."
All kidding aside, the MIC has plenty of loot to protect us from any threat, real or imagined. Give the project to Grumman, Boeing, and the rest; they'll have to retool but that's something they should be doing anyway or is someone saying that war and international loathing is all we can ever expect from them? I've said in this blog that we should become the first-responders for the world's calamities. Now, wouldn't that be a win-win for the MIC and the world?
Stormy and her attorney are birds of a feather sticking together for the sake of enrichment. They normally would have been ignored by now but politics do make for strange bedfellows. I don't like the way the lawyer goes on every show that will have him and then acts indignantly without a shred of evidence put forth in support of his client. At the very least, I would have wanted to know the meta data on that CD; i.e., how many files, what kind, how big. Poor Morning Joe tried to scoop Mika on another revelation but failed miserably.
I don't like the way Stormy gets accosted at a gym's parking lot and then proceeds to work out anyway. She's a toughy, so perhaps I should look the other way on this. But then there was that retelling of the "spanking" thing. If her stand is one of effrontery, why the cute thespian move? Mr. Trump should offer each a million, and Stormy can go buy herself a few racing stallions that she can name "Storms-a-brewing."
[No questions on 3/128/18 press conference--that I caught--asking S. Sanders to comment on the ruling just announced that the Maryland/DC emoluments case can proceed.]
Are you a Citizen? Talk about playing chess! The undocumented worker is damned if s/he lies or tells the truth. If s/he lies and says s/he is a citizen, ICE will look up the name and see that s/he lied. If s/he tells the truth that s/he is not a citizen, ICE keeps track and pays them a random visit to check the papers. But that's not the end of it, if the worker avoids answering, the blue areas will suffer from dimininished representation in Congress or fewer Federal funds to their district. Check; but what has been accomplished? Dear reader, will it not be Sisyphean and phyrrhic; not to mention autopesvulnus (just coined it) or the shooting of oneself in the foot when the landscaping or restaurant bill comes.
It is crazy; the U.S. has assimilated every wave of immigration. Hispanics have two things going against them, their wave is perceived to dwarf others and they speak Spanish preferentially. The latter just needs a little time and soon subsequent generations will anglicize just like any other immigrant unless we keep them segregated like we've done with the Chinese. The large influx should not be viewed as a problem being that we are such a large country. However, the Hispanic should take a lesson from the quiet German who today is the largest ethnic group in the U.S. and, even though well-ensconced it was only in 2010 that they had their own caucus consisting today of 100 members. To be fair, the Mexican and Central-American has always tried to keep their lives low key and things might have been different if, like the German, they had settled in the mid-west farmlands but now where do you homestead?
Ethnicities by the numbers tells us that it is no small wonder that Herr Drumpf got elected. Check it out, you'll see Germans at the top and Mexicans somewhere near the middle with the American Indian down at the bottom.
That quote is very true if only when you consider that we must pick our battles (our interests) because there is only so much time to pursue relatively inconsequential battles, and with that, I hope it can apply to the gun control movement--i.e., will those who support the 2nd Amendment put their concerns on the back burner because their interests--the lives of their children--far exceed their wish to fire various guns?
I think there is resolute evidence for that; just note that there were indeed massive teenager protests but for every one there, there were parents giving their permission. For those adults without children to worry about, they can worry about they themselves being killed at a movie or a concert.
On a Margaret Brennen show (FTN), Emma Gonzalez said that the Parkland group preferred to focus on the issues rather than the candidates. I don't know what her thinking is but if the NRA can give a score to a candidate that helps get him/her elected, I don't see why the Parkland group can't do the same.
I can't wait for Mr. Trump's CDC mandate to study gun violence. I'd like to know how segments of the population feel about these "uses" for their guns:
- Self-defence from criminals
- Self-defence from acts of class warfare
- Sport
- Critter control
- anti-government measure
Speaking of illegal use of guns, a Black man was killed by police in California. It turned out the man was only carrying a cell phone. Tom Fuentes, former FBI assistant director was asked on MSM why one of the policemen was recorded as saying to another to "put the bodycams on mute." Mr. Fuentes proffered that it may have been to protect privacy rights of all concerned. Nah, Mr. Fuentes, one of the primary reasons given for police crossing the line is the high alert, hormonally-driven circumstances. Now, Mr. Fuentes expects us to believe that the police had the presence of mind to take privacies into account? Mierda de toro, senor; the real reason was for the police to start to get their story straight--as was borne out during the Ferguson crime. Find and read the grand jury transcipt released by the prosecutor; you will see how even the FBI was complicit in covering for the police.
POTUS
I think, I hope, that Mr. Trump is starting to play chess when he picked Hawk2aFault John Bolton to be National Security Adviser. When you are called on to visit whom you proactively call a "shady" character, you may just feel better if you took a pit bull with you; long in the tooth but with the custom muzzle as yet uninvented, this man was once joined at the hip with Neo-Tricky-Dick Cheney and represents a canine calling card that is loyal and intimidating enough to perhaps make the North Korean leader a little more acquiescing to denuclearizing.
Mr. Trump came up with a very sensible idea to pay for the "wall." Right away, the MSM came out with their analysis that it would take an act of congress to re-allocate the funds now slated for military pensions, ships, and planes, and use them to help build the wall. Now, forgive me for sounding knowledgeable but isn't Mr. Trump Commander-in-chief or is that just a title like King of England? "Yo, Mr. General, SIR--wait, I'm Sir, you're not--we are being invaded by people who take away back-breaking jobs from my base. Do something about it. I suggest plenty of tanks and pill boxes just like my ancestors placed in France to keep out the non-Aryans."
All kidding aside, the MIC has plenty of loot to protect us from any threat, real or imagined. Give the project to Grumman, Boeing, and the rest; they'll have to retool but that's something they should be doing anyway or is someone saying that war and international loathing is all we can ever expect from them? I've said in this blog that we should become the first-responders for the world's calamities. Now, wouldn't that be a win-win for the MIC and the world?
Stormy and her attorney are birds of a feather sticking together for the sake of enrichment. They normally would have been ignored by now but politics do make for strange bedfellows. I don't like the way the lawyer goes on every show that will have him and then acts indignantly without a shred of evidence put forth in support of his client. At the very least, I would have wanted to know the meta data on that CD; i.e., how many files, what kind, how big. Poor Morning Joe tried to scoop Mika on another revelation but failed miserably.
I don't like the way Stormy gets accosted at a gym's parking lot and then proceeds to work out anyway. She's a toughy, so perhaps I should look the other way on this. But then there was that retelling of the "spanking" thing. If her stand is one of effrontery, why the cute thespian move? Mr. Trump should offer each a million, and Stormy can go buy herself a few racing stallions that she can name "Storms-a-brewing."
[No questions on 3/128/18 press conference--that I caught--asking S. Sanders to comment on the ruling just announced that the Maryland/DC emoluments case can proceed.]
Are you a Citizen? Talk about playing chess! The undocumented worker is damned if s/he lies or tells the truth. If s/he lies and says s/he is a citizen, ICE will look up the name and see that s/he lied. If s/he tells the truth that s/he is not a citizen, ICE keeps track and pays them a random visit to check the papers. But that's not the end of it, if the worker avoids answering, the blue areas will suffer from dimininished representation in Congress or fewer Federal funds to their district. Check; but what has been accomplished? Dear reader, will it not be Sisyphean and phyrrhic; not to mention autopesvulnus (just coined it) or the shooting of oneself in the foot when the landscaping or restaurant bill comes.
It is crazy; the U.S. has assimilated every wave of immigration. Hispanics have two things going against them, their wave is perceived to dwarf others and they speak Spanish preferentially. The latter just needs a little time and soon subsequent generations will anglicize just like any other immigrant unless we keep them segregated like we've done with the Chinese. The large influx should not be viewed as a problem being that we are such a large country. However, the Hispanic should take a lesson from the quiet German who today is the largest ethnic group in the U.S. and, even though well-ensconced it was only in 2010 that they had their own caucus consisting today of 100 members. To be fair, the Mexican and Central-American has always tried to keep their lives low key and things might have been different if, like the German, they had settled in the mid-west farmlands but now where do you homestead?
Ethnicities by the numbers tells us that it is no small wonder that Herr Drumpf got elected. Check it out, you'll see Germans at the top and Mexicans somewhere near the middle with the American Indian down at the bottom.
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