Lar of Galen...As a peace officer I was taught that the only reason we would shoot someone is to prevent them from committing an act that could potentially cause serious harm to another person. And the way you stop them is to disconnect their brain from their body. But since head shots are difficult under the best of circumstances, you always aim center of mass. This is literally what I was taught. Of course, as a soldier ....... But either way, aim center of mass. Preferable twice in the chest. Then one in the head to be sure. No hatred involved, just doing what needs to be done.
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Lar of Gale,,,Let me start by heading off some anticipated counter statements: YES, Trump will be 1000+ times better for America than BO; and YES, about 85% + of what he plans to do is the absolutely the right thing. BUT, I have warned you Trumpkins from the start that he is not a conservative. He is perfectly fine with several aspects of Big Government/socialism, such as health care and crony "capitalism". A huge case in point is his nominee for Secretary of Commerce, W. L. Ross.
Wilbur Ross is tens times richer than George W. Bush's entire cabinet. Much of that wealth is a result of his buying up bankrupt company's at bargain prices, then revitalizing them. His main area of success has been in the steel industry. So, nothing wrong with that, right? Saving American jobs, growing the economy!! It would be admirable if it weren't for the fact that success came because he lobbied the feds to place tariffs on foreign steel, forcing US auto makers and ship builders to buy steel at his price. Plus, he pushed for the creation of a federal agency akin to the FDIC that guarantees employees' retirement, so that WE pay for his employees' retirements instead of him. Profits are much greater when you get suckers to pay your expenses for you.
Furthermore, he has expressed great admiration for the Chicoms, whose government controls their economy through 5-Year Plans (Shades of 1930s Soviet Union!!). His main criticism of BO is that he was too laissez-faire, and failed to come up with a centralized plan whereby the feds vectored resources and funds (ie. taxpayer dollars) to certain, "vital" companies (at the expense of others). Oh, BO did do that for "green energy" companies (all of which failed), but -- according to Ross -- he should have done it for other areas of the economy. Like the steel industry.
In other words, Ross is all about "crony capitalism", aka "State Capitalism". And in case I haven't told you this 10 times before, "State" = nation and "Capitalism" = socialism. And NAtional SoZIalism has already been tried several times before in history, and it has never turned out good. This man would not have been allowed to come anywhere near our federal government under President Cruz. Not as a lobbyist, and certainly not as a member of the Cabinet.
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Lar of Galen...If the Russians hack the DNC and reveal them and Hillary for the elitist hypocrites they are it's a horrible crime. We must level sanctions and tell the world our election is illegitimate. If an American finds out our liberal-led intelligence agencies are spying on us, and leaks that info to the world, that person must be persecuted. But if a little POS purposely leaks military info that endangers American lives, is duly tried and given a 37-year sentence, then has the US taxpayers fund their re-plumbing because they are confused about their gender, why then you're supposed to feel sorry for them and, in effect, throw out their sentence. Makes total sense. If you're an evil, decadent tool of Satan.
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anuary 17, 2017
The Left Is Thoroughly Bamboozled
By Patricia McCarthy
As Inauguration Day approaches, the leftist media, the Democrats, and the moonbats that make up the nation's academic class are well and truly melting, as surely as the wicked witch of the Wizard of Oz melted when Dorothy tossed some water on her. So thoroughly, deeply convinced of their own superiority in all things political, legal, cultural, gender, and all branches of learning that they have created their own parallel universe in which Trump could not possibly have won, everyone loves Obama and Obamacare, the economy is booming, unemployment is low, humans are destroying the planet with global warming, global cooling, climate change, and/or bad weather, and Hillary was a shoe-in to win the 2016 election. They actually believed, without a shred of actual evidence, that Hillary Clinton was qualified to be President even though her record is one of incompetence, poor judgment, corruption and failure. They have been bamboozled for so long that they have lost the ability to see reality. They want no part of it because in their parallel universe these things cannot possibly be true.
As Carl Sagan wrote in 1995, in The Demon-haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark:
“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”
So completely captured by the bamboozle, once-reputable news outlets eagerly publish fake news if they think it will hurt Trump. The same news organizations have, for ten years, refused to publish anything, even the obvious truth, that might reflect poorly on Obama. That is how the bamboozle works.
Take the climate change devotees. There is no "97% scientific consensus" that humans are causing catastrophic climate change. That is a lie. Science is not decided by consensus. It is based on provable scientific method, not computer models. But confront a believer with some facts and they immediately launch into ad hominem attacks having nothing whatever to do with the topic. So committed to their false belief in this global hoax, they will attack the simplest valid scientific fact if it is contrary to their beloved faith in man-caused destruction of the planet. They will not cite science but will accuse the "denier" of some crude variation of stupidity. Anthropogenic Global Warming is the charlatan that has captured them. So felled by this belief is new Senator Kamala Harris that she cluelessly grilled CIA cabinet pick Mike Pompeo about his grasp and commitment to that particular bamboozle! He politely replied that he respected all laws passed to protect the environment but that his job was in a different realm. California Republicans hoped Harris would be a tad less dim than Barbara Boxer; she is not.
Elizabeth Warren, the not-native-American senator from MA, relentlessly badgered Dr. Ben Carson, HUD cabinet nominee and one of the finest men on the planet, about using HUD money that might benefit Trump even one dollar since his business is "housing development." She would not stop. She embarrassed herself. She has not a clue how a businessman like Trump makes money. And Obama appointed her to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau!
Most of these people in Congress have degrees from prestigious universities. We mortals have for too long been seduced by their supposed brilliance. Those degrees are meaningless for the most part. Among the younger Democrat members they are just proof of their wiling indoctrination by the Left. These folks are in shock at the election results because not only do they believe they are smarter than the rest of us, they had ultimate faith in their powers of persuasion, especially those lefty journalists. They are stunned that the public did not vote the way they instructed them to vote.
Some members of Congress, however, are very, very smart. When you hear Ted Cruz, Mike Pompeo, Mike Lee or Tom Cotton speak about the law and the Constitution, no one can deny that those other people, the Al Frankens and Elizabeth Warrens of Congress, have no business being there, deciding what the rest of us can and cannot do, drive, eat, drink, own, say or think, etc.
Trump's cabinet picks are smart indeed, much smarter, for the most part, than their Democrat interrogators. Sessions, Pompeo, Tillerson, Mattis, Carson! Class acts, each one of them. But the Democrats in the House and the Senate, the ones who sit on those committees and cast aspersions on the fine people Trump has chosen simply because Trump chose them, should be ashamed of themselves. The number of Democrats who have vowed not to work with Trump or acknowledge his legitimacy is growing: Maxine Waters, John Lewis, Schumer (unless Trump moves left), Barbara Lee, Luis Guiterrez, Katherine Clark, Earl Blumenauer, Raul Grijalva, Jared Huffman. Childish, intolerant, un-democratic sore losers all. Republicans, no matter how distressed by Obama's re-election, never came close to this form of gross rejectionism.
Progressivism took root in the early years of the last century and was thoroughly embraced by Woodrow Wilson, an actual racist. After the disaster that was WWI, wiser heads prevailed but the seed of Wilson's intolerance has never been eradicated. The current American Left has been similarly bamboozled for several generations now. The radicals of the 1960s became tenured professors and from that moment on dictated who could and would teach universitystudents for the next fifty years. Howard Zinn's book, A People's History of the United States, has done more to harm this nation and its young people than Putin could ever do. Zinn's and his acolyites' conviction that the United States was and is a force for evil is de rigueur on every high school and college campus in the country. Its tenets have become a matter of faith since it was published in 1980. The book was and is the ultimate bamboozle.
May the Trump administration bring about enough quick and drastic change for the better that the fury of the left will be mollified. Those of us on the right are simply relieved that the eight-year nightmare of the purposeful crippling of our country is over.
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The "science" is settled? Well, around 3200 "scientist" signed off on the Kyoto Accords (blaming man for "climate change" and recommending the entire world be taxed to death -- except, of course, China and India - since they are the real polluters but refuse to be f*cked with), but approximately 24,000 signed a letter that disputes their findings.
And speaking of science, their computer models reverse cause and effect: Carbon dioxide doesn't cause higher temperatures, higher temperatures causes the air to break down and release more carbon dioxide. That's why the EPA always takes readings from the Houston Ship Channel in the middle of summer. And SE Texas is already basically a swamp, so --- SURPRISE!!: High counts of ozone and carbon dioxide! Evil, evil polluting humans!! And BTW, all life is based on carbon. It's a fertilizer, not a pollutant. That's why the catalytic converter was built -- to turn your car exhaust into harmless elements, namely water vapor and ...... wait for it ....... carbon dioxide! But that was 70s science. Now it's evil.
From: "Val Hayden"
The leviathan that the Democrats created is now (for all intent and purposes) consuming them...I LOVE IT!
January 17, 2017
The Left Is Thoroughly Bamboozled
By Patricia McCarthy
As Inauguration Day approaches, the leftist media, the Democrats, and the moonbats that make up the nation's academic class are well and truly melting, as surely as the wicked witch of the Wizard of Oz melted when Dorothy tossed some water on her. So thoroughly, deeply convinced of their own superiority in all things political, legal, cultural, gender, and all branches of learning that they have created their own parallel universe in which Trump could not possibly have won, everyone loves Obama and Obamacare, the economy is booming, unemployment is low, humans are destroying the planet with global warming, global cooling, climate change, and/or bad weather, and Hillary was a shoe-in to win the 2016 election. They actually believed, without a shred of actual evidence, that Hillary Clinton was qualified to be President even though her record is one of incompetence, poor judgment, corruption and failure. They have been bamboozled for so long that they have lost the ability to see reality. They want no part of it because in their parallel universe these things cannot possibly be true.
As Carl Sagan wrote in 1995, in The Demon-haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark:
“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”
So completely captured by the bamboozle, once-reputable news outlets eagerly publish fake news if they think it will hurt Trump. The same news organizations have, for ten years, refused to publish anything, even the obvious truth, that might reflect poorly on Obama. That is how the bamboozle works.
Take the climate change devotees. There is no "97% scientific consensus" that humans are causing catastrophic climate change. That is a lie. Science is not decided by consensus. It is based on provable scientific method, not computer models. But confront a believer with some facts and they immediately launch into ad hominem attacks having nothing whatever to do with the topic. So committed to their false belief in this global hoax, they will attack the simplest valid scientific fact if it is contrary to their beloved faith in man-caused destruction of the planet. They will not cite science but will accuse the "denier" of some crude variation of stupidity. Anthropogenic Global Warming is the charlatan that has captured them. So felled by this belief is new Senator Kamala Harris that she cluelessly grilled CIA cabinet pick Mike Pompeo about his grasp and commitment to that particular bamboozle! He politely replied that he respected all laws passed to protect the environment but that his job was in a different realm. California Republicans hoped Harris would be a tad less dim than Barbara Boxer; she is not.
Elizabeth Warren, the not-native-American senator from MA, relentlessly badgered Dr. Ben Carson, HUD cabinet nominee and one of the finest men on the planet, about using HUD money that might benefit Trump even one dollar since his business is "housing development." She would not stop. She embarrassed herself. She has not a clue how a businessman like Trump makes money. And Obama appointed her to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau!
Most of these people in Congress have degrees from prestigious universities. We mortals have for too long been seduced by their supposed brilliance. Those degrees are meaningless for the most part. Among the younger Democrat members they are just proof of their wiling indoctrination by the Left. These folks are in shock at the election results because not only do they believe they are smarter than the rest of us, they had ultimate faith in their powers of persuasion, especially those lefty journalists. They are stunned that the public did not vote the way they instructed them to vote.
Some members of Congress, however, are very, very smart. When you hear Ted Cruz, Mike Pompeo, Mike Lee or Tom Cotton speak about the law and the Constitution, no one can deny that those other people, the Al Frankens and Elizabeth Warrens of Congress, have no business being there, deciding what the rest of us can and cannot do, drive, eat, drink, own, say or think, etc.
Trump's cabinet picks are smart indeed, much smarter, for the most part, than their Democrat interrogators. Sessions, Pompeo, Tillerson, Mattis, Carson! Class acts, each one of them. But the Democrats in the House and the Senate, the ones who sit on those committees and cast aspersions on the fine people Trump has chosen simply because Trump chose them, should be ashamed of themselves. The number of Democrats who have vowed not to work with Trump or acknowledge his legitimacy is growing: Maxine Waters, John Lewis, Schumer (unless Trump moves left), Barbara Lee, Luis Guiterrez, Katherine Clark, Earl Blumenauer, Raul Grijalva, Jared Huffman. Childish, intolerant, un-democratic sore losers all. Republicans, no matter how distressed by Obama's re-election, never came close to this form of gross rejectionism.
Progressivism took root in the early years of the last century and was thoroughly embraced by Woodrow Wilson, an actual racist. After the disaster that was WWI, wiser heads prevailed but the seed of Wilson's intolerance has never been eradicated. The current American Left has been similarly bamboozled for several generations now. The radicals of the 1960s became tenured professors and from that moment on dictated who could and would teach universitystudents for the next fifty years. Howard Zinn's book, A People's History of the United States, has done more to harm this nation and its young people than Putin could ever do. Zinn's and his acolyites' conviction that the United States was and is a force for evil is de rigueur on every high school and college campus in the country. Its tenets have become a matter of faith since it was published in 1980. The book was and is the ultimate bamboozle.
May the Trump administration bring about enough quick and drastic change for the better that the fury of the left will be mollified. Those of us on the right are simply relieved that the eight-year nightmare of the purposeful crippling of our country is over.
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