tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72810557916641704322024-03-08T19:18:41.217-05:00Usually RightWilliam R. Barkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03187458308703770056noreply@blogger.comBlogger2726125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7281055791664170432.post-31509399507589496082021-06-28T14:55:00.003-04:002021-06-28T14:55:27.401-04:00Find me on...<p> https://mewe.com/i/williambarker1</p><p> </p>William R. Barkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03187458308703770056noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7281055791664170432.post-80979694896774345622018-10-22T15:08:00.002-04:002018-10-22T15:08:26.567-04:00I'll be using this blog ONLY if Facebook freezes my account<br />
Remember, folks... from now till Election Day not only the MSM, but
Drudge, will be lying to you and attempting to confuse and manipulate
you.<br />
<br />
And not only the MSM and Drudge. The RINOs will be doing all
in their power to throw the Election. The Plan... the Ryan Plan...
hasn't changed. The GOAL is to LOSE the Election so as to put the Dems
in the driver's seat vis-a-vis halting the progress of the MAGA agenda
and if possible taking Donald Trump... OUT.<br />
<br />
And speaking of people <span class="text_exposed_show">being taken out... IF all of a sudden you don't see me posting... look for me at MeWe or on my own blog - <a data-ft="{"tn":"-U"}" data-lynx-mode="asynclazy" data-lynx-uri="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fusalyright.blogspot.com%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR3lYFyR1YDPOYCewAIkOKKVnlYfIZTi-JVe6xPOLlgVmapxUVgPHF52Xn4&h=AT31_e02a8m1YwYSQ-h64Jx-WJuGswUJ6UOl8P3Ww3kU_kO_NdS_J_nE4oSlj57Q5jzZN8FQFGydgCoglzPMSuU22YyiBNOytK15EyoB_FK_QbDK4Mi_YGf4zuLFM3BMQNowJTExDEkTCg0HH1-3bk8" href="https://usalyright.blogspot.com/?fbclid=IwAR3lYFyR1YDPOYCewAIkOKKVnlYfIZTi-JVe6xPOLlgVmapxUVgPHF52Xn4" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">https://usalyright.blogspot.com/</a></span><br />
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If Facebook "takes me out"... I'll let <a class="profileLink" data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show="1" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=100000488556468&extragetparams=%7B%22__tn__%22%3A%22%2CdK-R-R%22%2C%22eid%22%3A%22ARCXKQOjaZN8jf5IspPNhnBS488zbEDpaMtpNl1IetsHq6isMZt3R5jtVFDcucLIbCxrioA0fvmvMUUT%22%2C%22fref%22%3A%22mentions%22%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/michelle.zornes?__tn__=%2CdK-R-R&eid=ARCXKQOjaZN8jf5IspPNhnBS488zbEDpaMtpNl1IetsHq6isMZt3R5jtVFDcucLIbCxrioA0fvmvMUUT&fref=mentions">Michelle Zornes</a> and others know.<br />
<br />
Folks... we NEED to stick together. We may not win come Election Day, but if we don't, it can't be from lack of trying.<br />
<br />
Drudge and the MSM will... WILL... attempt to depress us... and depress the Republican vote.<br />
<br />
Remember WHO the Democrats are. The Left controls the Democrat Party.
The Left seeks not just "fundamental change," but the destruction of our
Republic.<br />
<br />
They'll do ANYTHING to win.<br />
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William R. Barkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03187458308703770056noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7281055791664170432.post-39236763028011976512018-08-03T11:51:00.003-04:002018-08-03T11:53:16.977-04:00Facebook Going Full Fascist<br />
Well, I'm blocked on FB. No idea why, of course. They don't tell you;
they just block you. It's beyond "guilty until proven innocent." They
don't even give you the option of defending yourself. And of course who
know who - if anyone - will see your "help" message if you sent them
one.<br />
<br />
Lots of weird stuff happening at FB - and I know I'm not the only one
experiencing glitches (???) because I've noted it on my page and others
have responded that they too are experiencing glitches.<br />
<br />
I suspect that FB is accelerating their efforts to push Trump supporters to "self-deport."<br />
<br />
I suspect these aren't simply... "glitches."<br />
<br />
The only other thing I can think of is that someone has tried - and
perhaps succeeded - in hacking my account. Over the last couple days
I've gotten a few account password "reset" codes from FB which I didn't
request. No messages from FB to my gmail account however and no
"messages" in my FB mailbox.<br />
<br />
I have TWO accounts on FB - linked. My original account is "William
Barker" and my "business" account (which FB "insisted" I set up - so I
did) which is "Deplorables R Us" which I NEVER use.<br />
All of a sudden... even though I can GO to it... my ORIGINAL "William
Barker" account no longer shows up on the FB pop-down menu for my
settings. The only page that shows is the "Deplorables R Us."<br />
<br />
William R. Barkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03187458308703770056noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7281055791664170432.post-43403083308806668662018-05-02T11:52:00.001-04:002018-05-02T11:53:00.746-04:00NOT JUST ME getting blocked by FB<br />
<a href="https://pjmedia.com/trending/facebook-asks-on-every-post-is-this-hate-speech/" target="_blank">WOW</a>…!!!<br />
<br />
Now it’s starting to make sense…<br />
<br />
I’m so disgusted. Not with FB. They’re simply going as far as they
feel they can get away with going. Nope. I’m disgusted with anyone and
everyone who isn’t SLAMMING Facebook ON Facebook.<br />
<br />
We’re apparently a country where more and more of us are refusing to even SPEAK out - let alone ACT.<br />
<br />
I see little hope for this country because there are so few people out there worthy of respect.<br />
<br />
And “moving” to MeWe is a COP OUT! I’m here now ONLY because I can’t
post on FB - because I was blocked for exercising free speech that while
deliberately provocative was in NO FRIGGIN’ WAY “hateful” or obscene.<br />
<br />
To every one who say my earlier post on this and HASN’T yet taken the
time to share it on your own FB page… well… shame on you. Shame on you
for either being lazy… or worth… not being willing to defend free
speech.<br />
<br />
Same goes for everyone who received my email requesting “support” who
didn’t give me - and thus didn’t give THEMSELVES - “support.”<br />
<br />
We’re losing our country, folks. Do you REALLY think that as we get closer to the November Election it won’t get even WORSE…???<br />
<br />
You’re - WE’RE - in a “war.” Either we fight… fight back… or we LOSE.<br />
<br />
DON’T LEAVE FACEBOOK…!!! As I’ve cautioned previously - pointed out - that’s what they WANT…!!! They WANT us to “self-deport.”<br />
<br />
They KNOW that the real danger to their political, social, and
economic agenda isn’t “us” talking “amongst ourselves.” No. They realize
that it’s the “non-political” folks… our “non-political” Facebook
friends… who occasionally pay attention to one or another of OUR
informative posts and therefore get exposed to “the Red Pill.” They want
this exposure curtailed! Nudging us to “self-deport” is a key tactic
for them! DON’T let them NUDGE you, folks!<br />
<br />
FIGHT! With your WORDS! On FACEBOOK!<br />
<br />
Don’t do it just for me; do it for YOURSELVES. Do it to make the world a better place for your kids and grandkids!<br />
William R. Barkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03187458308703770056noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7281055791664170432.post-33967932275825266412018-05-02T11:46:00.005-04:002018-05-02T11:47:45.925-04:00Facebook Waging War<br />
<a href="http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/05/zuckerbergs-announcement-means-final-remaining-conservative-voices-on-facebook-will-be-eliminated-by-election-day-2018/" target="_blank">EXCERPTING</a>:<br />
<br />
Since the 2016 election Facebook has been cracking down on conservative
and pro-Trump content. Top conservative websites have seen a stunning
drop in their Facebook traffic.
This was no accident. This was the plan.<br />
<br />
* Of course it was! And NOW it's filtering down to INDIVIDUALS! I've
been blocked from using my FB account for 24-hours!<br />
<br />
* FOLKS... it's MAY. The Election is in SIX (6) MONTHS! Either you start
fighting back... YOU - AS INDIVIDUALS - now... or... by the fall... it'll
be too late. It'll be game over.<br />
<br />
In January 2017, Facebook began making algorithm changes to make sure
conservative news was no longer so influential. The Gateway Pundit
Facebook traffic has consistently decreased with each algorithm change.
A March 2018 study by The Outline organization found conservative
publishers were hit the hardest by Facebook algorithm changes. The study
also showed that The Gateway Pundit was hit the hardest.<br />
<br />
In March [of this year] Western Journal also published a study that found
conservative publishers were hit the hardest by the recent Facebook
algorithm changes. The report found that liberal publishers actually saw
a 2 percent increase in traffic. Conservative publishers lost an
average of 14 percent in traffic.<br />
<br />
Facebook official Campbell Brown, a former anchor on NBC and CNN, told
attendees at a recent technology and publishing conference that Facebook
would be censoring news publishers based on its own internal biases.
And they did.<br />
<br />
* Folks. It's BLATANT. And YOU need to start FIGHTING!<br />
<br />
On Tuesday Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook will
ramp up its censorship of “controversial” political content.
The announcement was made to a group of liberal publishers and the
anti-Trump Wall Street Journal.
Buzzfeed reported:<br />
<br />
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Tuesday that the company has already
begun to implement a system that ranks news organizations based on
trustworthiness, and promotes or suppresses its content based on that
metric.
Zuckerberg said the company has gathered data on how consumers perceive
news brands by asking them to identify whether they have heard of
various publications and if they trust them.<br />
<br />
“We put [that data] into the system, and it is acting as a boost or a
suppression, and we’re going to dial up the intensity of that over
time,” he said. “We feel like we have a responsibility to further down
polarization and find common ground.”<br />
<br />
* Geezus, folks...<br />
<br />
(*JUST SHAKING MY HEAD*)<br />
<br />
*
Again. Facebook isn't just another private company. They're more like a
utility. They're CLEARLY abusing their status and power and if they get
away with this... well... I'm afraid that if they get away with this...
we're done. If this is what they can get away with when Republicans
control Congress and the White House... well... what do you suppose
they'll be able to get away with if the Democrats take back one or both
houses of Congress via the upcoming November election?<br />
<br />
Zuckerberg
met with a groups of news media executives at the Rosewood Sand Hill
hotel in Menlo Park after delivering his keynote speech at Facebook’s
annual F8 developer conference Tuesday.
The meeting at the Rosewood Sand Hill hotel in Menlo Park included
representatives from BuzzFeed News, the Information, Quartz, the New
York Times, CNN, the Wall Street Journal, NBC, Recode, Univision,
Barron’s, the Daily Beast, the Economist, HuffPost, Insider, the
Atlantic and others.
The event, called “OTR” (shorthand for “off the record”), is an annual
gathering meant for new media news executives to talk shop. It is in its
second year. Zuckerberg’s remarks were initially meant to be, like the
name of the conference, off the record, but he agreed to answer
questions on the record.
Zuckerberg said the company will invest “billions” of dollars in a
combination of artificial intelligence and tens of thousands of human
moderators to keep both fake news and deliberate propaganda at bay,
especially in elections.<br />
<br />
There should be no doubt left....<br />
<br />
Facebook is determined to shut
out conservative pro-Trump voices.<br />
<br />
<br />William R. Barkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03187458308703770056noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7281055791664170432.post-19559997678485869372018-05-02T08:22:00.001-04:002018-05-02T08:22:38.259-04:00Are Assassinations the Only Answer?<br />
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Well… it’s begun. Or rather… the fascism is accelerating.<br />
<br />
Facebook just blocked me for 24 hours.<br />
<br />
That’s ok. I’ll use MeWe for now. <br />
<br />
Here’s what got me blocked. Apparently it was the word “faggot.” Of course, FB doesn’t take context into account.<br />
<br />
EXCERPTING:<br />
<br />
The problem… too many people are faggots. (<em>SHRUG</em>) Men. Women. Homosexuals. Heterosexuals. I’m using “faggots” in a gender/sexual identity neutral way. (<em>LOL</em>) See how PC <em>I</em> can be! (<em>ROFLMAO</em>) But seriously, folks… isn’t it DISGUSTING how so many people just… fag out?<br />
<br />
<br />
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William R. Barkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03187458308703770056noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7281055791664170432.post-91373264478283377202018-04-25T12:52:00.000-04:002018-04-25T12:53:15.338-04:00New Orleans Hotels - "The List"<br />
Hey, kids! Good ol' Bill using the ol' blog - Usually Right - for a historical placeholder!<br />
<br />
So... our LATEST upcoming vacation is... NEW ORLEANS! (<span class="st">N'awlins</span>!)<br />
<br />
While it looks like we'll be staying at <a href="http://www.maisondupuy.com/" target="_blank">Maison Dupuy</a>... I figure I might as well <i><b>SHARE</b></i> my research and provide <b><i>"The List"</i></b> - the full list - so that others can benefit from my research.<br />
<br />
So here... in no particular order... are the other hotels I considered:<br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.acehotel.com/" target="_blank">Ace Hotel</a><br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.bourbonorleans.com/" target="_blank">Bourbon Orleans Hotel</a><br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.auduboncottages.com/" target="_blank">Audubon Cottages</a> <br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.sonesta.com/us/louisiana/new-orleans/royal-sonesta-new-orleans" target="_blank">Royal Sonesta New Orleans</a><br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.windsorcourthotel.com/" target="_blank">Windsor Court Hotel</a><br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.omnihotels.com/hotels/new-orleans-royal-orleans" target="_blank">Omni Royal Orleans</a><br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.wfrenchquarter.com/" target="_blank">W New Orleans French Quarter</a><br />
<br />
<a href="https://hotelmonteleone.com/" target="_blank">Hotel Monteleone</a><br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.dauphineorleans.com/" target="_blank">Dauphine Orleans Hotel</a><br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.junghotel.com/" target="_blank">The Jung Hotel & Residences</a><br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.druryhotels.com/locations/new-orleans-la/drury-inn-and-suites-new-orleans?utm_source=local&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=gmb" target="_blank">Drury Inn & Suites New Orleans</a><br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.nopsihotel.com/" target="_blank">NOPSI Hotel New Orleans</a><br />
<br />
Gang... it's what I do! I love the research... I love sharing my finds...<br />
<br />
(*SHRUG*)<br />
<br />
<br />William R. Barkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03187458308703770056noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7281055791664170432.post-49821460370816926512018-02-12T08:57:00.001-05:002018-02-12T08:57:06.139-05:00Never-ending All-incompassing Propaganda<br />
The link will take you to a story on "Homeland" and how they've gone full "Trump is a Fascist" with the current season's storyline.<br />
<br />
Towards the end you'll read how "Homeland" is following in the footsteps of "Madam Secretary."<br />
<br />
The author doesn't mention "NCIS New Orleans," but she should. The messaging there is just as anti-Trump, anti-"deplorable."<br />
<br />
Last year ABC cancelled the highly rated "Last Man Standing". Of course regardless of the ratings I can't imagine "Blackish" being cancelled anytime soon.<br />
<br />
Television "entertainment" is an endless propaganda reel. Anti-Trump. Anti-"deplorable." Nothing we can do about it. Late night "comedy" talk shows are all Left all the time. Daytime "entertainment" talk shows are all Left all the time.<br />
<br />
Oh, well... it is what it is.<br />
<br />
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/culture/lindsay-kornick/2018/02/12/homeland-season-premiere-takes-paranoid-fascist-president<br />
<br />
<br />William R. Barkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03187458308703770056noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7281055791664170432.post-62191907099052170962018-02-12T08:42:00.000-05:002018-02-12T08:42:07.197-05:00So Sad to Watch My Country Disappear<br />
No one is reading this, and I really don't give a $hit. In fact, it's better this way. No arguing. No debating. No endless research to prove my points.<br />
<br />
I hate people. I hate stupidity. I hate dishonesty. And so... we're back to "I hate people."<br />
<br />
History repeats itself over and over again. People never learn.<br />
<br />
Trump could have saved us. Instead... it looks like his detractors were right about him. He's a betrayer. No real guts. Won't lead. Has thrown his lot in with the Swamp he promised to drain.<br />
<br />
Remember "Lock Her Up!" Yeah. Then remember as soon as he was actually elected... before he was even sworn in... how he started to walk that backwards.<br />
<br />
How's that "Wall" doing? Is Mexico paying for it?<br />
<br />
I never expected fiscal conservatism from Trump. As always, I'm honest with you, and I'm honest with myself. Trump never ran as a fiscal deficit hawk per se. We always knew he had these dreams of gifting his daughter with expanded government and throwing debt at "infrastructure" projects. But we thought he'd also put brakes on the waste, the pork, the socialism. We were wrong.<br />
<br />
Trump ran on a Buchanan-like foreign policy. Trump presides over a neocon foreign policy.<br />
<br />
Trump picked Michael Flynn; he wound up with H.R. McMaster. Bannon is gone. Gorka is gone. As for what advice John Kelly gives Trump... no one really knows. Hell... I don't even trust Mattis.<br />
<br />
Trump talks down the dollar...<br />
<br />
(*SIGH*)<br />
<br />
Anyway... I can go on and on. No real point, though. It is what it is. Trump was America's last hope and he's a fraud.<br />
<br />
<br />William R. Barkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03187458308703770056noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7281055791664170432.post-86993414099445636272018-02-11T18:00:00.000-05:002018-02-11T18:00:37.128-05:00I Hate Trump<br />
EXCERPTING:<br />
<br />
If the White House drew a line in the sand and told Congress it would block any spending above the caps, lawmakers <a href="https://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/2017/05/26/a-simple-and-effective-strategy-for-trump-to-prevail-on-the-budget/">would have been forced to prioritize</a>. But since Trump doesn’t seem to have any interest in fiscal restraint, we’re getting a repeat of <a href="https://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/2017/10/24/ranking-presidents-on-economic-policy-the-dismal-record-of-george-w-bush/">the profligate Bush years</a> – with congressional Republicans figuring they may as well take part in the feeding frenzy.<br />
<br />
I’ll make a prediction right now (and I’ll even make a wager with any
interested parties) that inflation-adjusted domestic spending will climb
faster <a href="https://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/2016/08/01/setting-aside-crassness-and-bluster-trumps-a-typical-big-government-republican/">under Trump</a> than it did <a href="https://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/2014/12/02/two-very-depressing-charts-for-president-obama-two-very-encouraging-charts-for-americas-taxpayers/">under Obama</a>. <br />
<br />
https://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/daniel-mitchell/swamp-triumphs-over-taxpayers-bipartisan-budget-deal<br />
<br />
<br />William R. Barkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03187458308703770056noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7281055791664170432.post-80038818906442379812018-02-11T17:44:00.002-05:002018-02-11T17:44:26.556-05:00I Wish Trump Weren't a Backstabber... But He Is<br />
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Democrats are “winning the narrative” and “winning their
priorities” in Capitol Hill spending deals despite congressional GOP majorities
and a Republican president, said Tom Van Flein, current chief of staff for Rep.
Paul Gosar (R-AZ), on Friday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight
with host Rebecca Mansour.</div>
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* This is what I was talking about on Facebook the other
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Van Flein, who served as Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s
attorney before coming to Congress with Gosar in the 2010 Tea Party electoral
victory, offered a grassroots conservative’s behind-the-scenes look at the
dysfunctional congressional budget process.</div>
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Democrats’ political victories include the prioritization
of a broad bipartisan push for amnesty despite Republican majorities in both
the House and Senate, said Van Flein.</div>
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* Yep.</div>
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“Right now, for whatever reason, even though Republicans
control the House, the Senate, and the presidency, we’ve been dealing with
Democratic priorities,” said Van Flein. </div>
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* "We" control nothing. We KNEW "we"
didn't control Congress, so "we" elected Trump. Now "we"
find out that Trump can't be trusted. It really is that simple.</div>
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(*SHRUG*)</div>
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“So Democrats got a lot their spending priorities passed.
… We are losing even though we’re supposedly running the show. We’re talking
about immigration amnesty, not building a wall, not border security; that means
they’re winning the narrative and they’re winning their priorities.”</div>
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* And come November they'll win at least one - probably
both branches of - Congress. But that's the RINO plan. Take a dive. So poison
the well that enough Republican voters will simple opt out of voting in
November and then the Democrats will win control of the House and Senate from
which they can at the very least stop the Trump Train in its tracks and (from
their perspective) hopefully force Trump from office.</div>
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* Again... this is RYAN'S plan... MCCONNELL'S plan... and
from their perspective... a damn good one.</div>
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* WHY TRUMP IS LETTING THE PLAN PROCEED... why Trump is
basically boosting his RINO enemies... it's beyond my comprehension.</div>
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Van Flein explained how Congress’s repeated reliance on
continuing resolution-style spending bills has reinforced the political
priorities of Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) and the Democrat Party, despite
Republican majorities in both chambers of Congress and a Republican president.</div>
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* "Republican" majorities. From Ryan and
McConnell's perspective... with TRUMP in the White House... to be the majority
is to be boxed in! Again... they WANT to lose the House and Senate! And
again... what TRUMP is thinking... is beyond me.</div>
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“We’ve been really running, when you do these continuing
resolutions, Nancy Pelosi’s priorities since 2006,” said Van Flein. “They’ve
just increased the amounts, but the priorities pretty much remain the same;
that’s how a continuing resolution works.”</div>
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Representatives and senators could not have sufficiently
considered Friday’s 652-page spending bill prior its passage, said Van Flein,
pointing to the 18-hour window allotted for its review.</div>
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“The Senate passed this bill at 1:30 in the morning,”
said Van Flein. “It is 650 pages long. It passes it at 1:30 in the morning. The
House then gets it, has a couple of preliminary and procedural votes and the
rules committee has to take look at it and pass it through, and at 5:30 AM –
nobody is up to any good at 5:30 a.m. unless you’re getting up to work out —
and they pass this ‘budget,’ they call it a ‘budget,’ it really is not a
budget, it’s just a spending bill, a continuing resolution - and a budget 'agreement'
- and they pass it at 5:30 a.m. I’m going to challenge anyone who thinks that
the Congress is doing its best work in the wee hours of the morning when you
have septuagenarians and octogenarians up at that hour. Is anyone really
understanding what they’re voting on and what is going on? Has anybody really
had the time to study this? There we no hearings, there was no testimony. No
amendments were allowed. That’s what Rand Paul was mini-filibustering about was
the fact that he wanted the chance to talk about this and maybe get some
amendments in … but it takes time to do that, and they wanted to rush this
because they didn’t want another shutdown.”</div>
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Assorted Republicans disingenuously posture as fiscal
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“It is a monstrosity of a spending increase,” said Van
Flein. “It’s hard to believe that Congress is controlled by supposedly fiscal
conservatives when it just added approximately $300 billion in increased
spending. We now have a federal debt of $20.5 trillion dollars, and supposedly,
every time I see election season come around, the same Republicans that voted
for this are out saying, ‘We need to shrink the size of the federal government.
We need to reduce spending. Send me to Congress and I’ll fight for you.’ They
come back here, and look what’s going on.”</div>
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“Dependence on Democrat support for passage of the continuing
resolution in the House should worry conservatives, said Van Flein.</div>
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“There were a bunch of Republicans who voted ‘no,'” said
Van Flein. “This bill would not have passed without the Democrats. It took
Democrats to pass this. Whenever leadership is relying on Democrats to pass a
bill, you’re going to have many bad things in it, because they’re going to want
their priorities.”</div>
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The bill passed the House with a vote of 240 to 186, with
5 abstentions. Of the 240 ‘aye’ votes, 167 were Republicans and 73 were
Democrats. Of the 186 ‘no’ votes, 67 were Republicans and 119 were Democrats.
Gosar voted against the spending bill.</div>
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Politicians are misrepresenting funds as allocated for
“disaster relief,” said Van Flein, funding the Federal Emergency Management
Agency (FEMA) four times what the agency requested.</div>
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“They’re throwing money at all sorts of things, and
they’re calling it ‘disaster relief,’ even though FEMA said they only needed
$40 billion, they’re gonna throw $160 billion at it,” said Van Flein. “If FEMA
says it’s far more than what was necessary, then I don’t know what it’s really
going to go to. When it’s more than what the people in charge of the project
tell you they need, then you need to ask yourself, ‘What’s really going on?
Who’s really going to get that money? Why are we spending more than we need?’
That is almost the quintessential definition of wastefulness."</div>
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Van Flein echoed Rep. Dave Brat (R-VA) description of the
continuing resolution; the latter referring to it as “Christmas tree on steroids.”</div>
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“The question is, why don’t you listen to the agency
that’s responsible for assessing the damage and for getting the repairs going?”
asked Van Flein. “That’s how you know this is really just a Christmas tree at
this point where people are hanging on all sorts of goodies under the guise and
pretext of disaster relief. It’s obviously not disaster relief if it’s<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>more than FEMA says is necessary.”</div>
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Friday’s passed continuing resolution is “wasteful” and a
“black eye for Republicans,” said Van Flein: “As Republicans or conservatives,
we’re not supposed to be wasteful with tax money. Unfortunately, that is
exactly what happened, last night. This is a very wasteful spending program,
and it’s a black eye on the Republicans for having this pass on their watch.
This is not hat they were elected to do and this is not why the taxpayers sent
them back to Congress.”</div>
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William R. Barkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03187458308703770056noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7281055791664170432.post-36486911145852399732018-02-11T17:24:00.004-05:002018-02-11T17:28:58.065-05:00Any Wonder I Need a Break from Facebook?<br />
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EXCERPTING:<br />
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Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) joined Breitbart News Saturday SiriusXM hosts Matt Boyle and Amanda House to discuss DACA, amnesty, and the pending budget deal.<br />
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Brooks called the proposed budget bill “The worst bill that has been voted on on the House floor since I’ve been in the United States Congress.” He also said it would put the country on a certain path to “insolvency and bankruptcy,” saying it would do “great damage to Americans” across the board.<br />
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He also expressed serious concern that the White House is prepared to cave on the debt issue.<br />
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Brooks faulted so-called “debt junkies” in Congress all too happy to spend money to get re-elected while “spending away America’s future.”<br />
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He also said the same “debt junkies tend to be the same ones who think with their hearts and not with their heads and want to give amnesty to illegal aliens even though it means we are becoming the world’s orphanage and we don’t have money to be the world’s orphanage.”<br />
<br />
Brooks said he foresees both amnesty and a bad debt deal coming in the days ahead.<br />
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http://www.breitbart.com/radio/2018/02/10/mo-brooks-amnesty-coming-debt-junkies-turning-usa-into-worlds-orphanage/<br />
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<br />William R. Barkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03187458308703770056noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7281055791664170432.post-2355012424230323912018-02-11T17:11:00.001-05:002018-02-11T17:11:20.732-05:00Just Found Out Hawaii is a Shithole - Literally!<br />
Yep. America is doing JUST FRIGGIN' GREAT... <br />
<br />
https://www.wsj.com/articles/hawaiis-cesspools-threaten-drinking-water-tourism-1518357620<br />
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<br />William R. Barkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03187458308703770056noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7281055791664170432.post-49353040181131404322018-02-11T16:57:00.002-05:002018-02-11T16:58:16.544-05:00See No Evil... (*SIGH*)<br />
Yep. America 2018. It's getting worse, not better.<br />
<br />
Remember when FREEDOM was a value Americans respected?<br />
<br />
Remember when HONESTY was something to demand, not outlaw? <br />
<br />
http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article199440204.html<br />
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William R. Barkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03187458308703770056noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7281055791664170432.post-73644865504873645522018-02-11T16:54:00.002-05:002018-02-11T16:54:17.050-05:00America 2018<br />
We all know what this is, right?<br />
<br />
And we all know why there's no video.<br />
<br />
And we all know why there are no descriptions.<br />
<br />
America 2018. <br />
<br />
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Two-Stabbed-During-Brawl-at-Jersey-City-JCPenney-Police-473711203.html<br />
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<br />William R. Barkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03187458308703770056noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7281055791664170432.post-4886523229771884492018-02-11T10:01:00.001-05:002018-02-11T10:03:06.700-05:00I Hate the GOP So Much... And Trump Too!<br />
EXCERPTING:<br />
<br />
Tea party Republicans arrived in Washington seven years ago with a
clear, loud message from angry voters: Slash spending. But once again,
spending is going way up.<br />
<br />
“Part of our job right now (is)
that we keep pounding that Republicans still stand for fiscal
responsibility,” said Rep. Mark Walker, R-N.C., who chairs the House
Republican Study Committee, a coalition of conservatives.<br />
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* THAT'S A LIE. McClatchy is LYING to you. The Republican Study Committee hasn't been a coalition of conservatives for... ages. The "committee" was co-opted by the GOP Leadership years ago.<br />
<br />
* Folks... it's SO easy to manipulate the ignorant. Either you know that what I'm telling you is true... or you didn't know BUT DO BELIEVE ME now that I'm telling you... but for the average person just READING this crap without ME to correct the record... they're already basing their reactions on a false premise.<br />
<br />
* As to the spending... THAT is true. It's WAY up. Thanks to Trump. Trump sucks. He's NOT a leader. He's thrown his lot in with Ryan and McConnell and that's that.<br />
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The [REPUBLICAN] bill could add as much as $320 billion to the debt over the next 10 years, <a href="https://www.cbo.gov/publication/53556" target="_blank" title="">according to the Congressional Budget Office</a>, and push the fiscal 2019 deficit past $1.2 trillion, <a href="http://www.crfb.org/blogs/cbo-finds-budget-deal-will-cost-320-billion" target="_blank" title="">according to the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget</a>, a research group. The [REPUBLICAN] deal included about $100 billion in offsets, not enough to assuage many conservatives.<br />
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It was one of the biggest
deficit-busters since the 2009 economic stimulus plan that spent nearly
$800 billion as the nation reeled from the Great Recession of 2007-09.
Since then, other budget bills have been approved by familiar
Republican-Democrat coalitions, with tea party loyalists usually
opposed.<br />
What stings this time is that for
the first time since 2007, Republicans have controlled the House,
Senate and White House for the past year.<br />
<br />
* Trump betrayed us.<br />
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* America is done.<br />
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http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/congress/article199401849.html<br />
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William R. Barkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03187458308703770056noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7281055791664170432.post-27665255490750304482018-02-11T09:39:00.004-05:002018-02-11T09:39:51.617-05:00F--k Israel Too<br />
I'm actually glad that their F-16 was shot down... though of course WE paid for it and WE'LL pay to replace it.<br />
<br />
(*SIGH*)<br />
<br />
We're the bad guys in Syria - and by "we're" I'm talking us and Israel.<br />
<br />
The BEST thing we could do would be to SUPPORT Russia's efforts to stabilize the Assad regime and SUPPORT Russian efforts to restore secular government and destroy Islamist power... but we're too f--king stupid to do the right thing - I suppose doing the right thing wouldn't profit the military-industrial complex.<br />
<br />
(*PURSED LIPS*)<br />
<br />
You folks DO understand that under Obama we were SUPPORTING the terrorists... right? And sadly... under TRUMP... we've mainly continued to support the bad guys.<br />
<br />
By what RIGHT does Israel bomb Syria? By what RIGHT do WE bomb Syria?<br />
<br />
By and large the American People are stupid, lazy, ignorant scum willing to "allow" their government to kill and destroy around the world at will. If terrorism comes to America's shores in a big way... we'll "deserve" it in the sense that what goes around comes around.<br />
<br />
GOD HELP ME FOR HAVING TO WRITE THIS... but it's the truth.<br />
<br />
Our bombs and bullets... our missiles... whether we're using them ourselves or whether they're being used by proxy... we're responsible for deaths, maiming, and destruction on a vast scale.<br />
<br />
God forgive me for having supported that fool George W. Bush back in 2003. I knew not what I was doing.<br />
<br />
I'm SO often ASHAMED of my country and my countrymen...<br />
<br />
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-10/syria-downs-israeli-f16-jet-pilots-safe-israeli-army-says<br />
<br />William R. Barkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03187458308703770056noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7281055791664170432.post-40994816978292786892018-02-11T09:24:00.001-05:002018-02-11T09:25:56.522-05:00How'bout This? F--K Korea!<br />
I hate Korea.<br />
<br />
Yeah. I'm talking SOUTH Korea.<br />
<br />
Ungrateful bastards.<br />
<br />
JAPAN is our ally. JAPAN is our friend. The Koreans... let 'em kill each other.<br />
<br />
NORTH Korea is a threat to US. I don't really care about their threat to SOUTH Korea. That's South Korea's problem. I just care about US... and our true friends and allies - including Japan.<br />
<br />
I say end this sham "alliance" with South Korea and tell China that the two Koreas are now THEIR problem. (Hey... they're Russia's problem too; see... A MAP!)<br />
<br />
Of course that also makes them JAPAN'S problem... but... ya know what... I can live with that.<br />
<br />
Here's MY goal - and it's been the same goal for years and years: Disarm North Korea. Render North Korea harmless.<br />
<br />
(*SHRUG*)<br />
<br />
THAT'S my bottom line.<br />
<br />
If the North Korean zombies can be turned back into people... all the better... but ultimately the humanitarian goal is secondary to the national security goal.<br />
<br />
To recap: Let China topple the Kim regime and put a sane puppet regime in place. China can physically occupy the who damn country for all I care. NOT our problem! Let South Korea deal with "China's" North Korea. All I want to see is the threat of the Kim regime taken off the board. <br />
<br />
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/winter-olympics/nbc-apologizes-to-korean-people-after-correspondents-ignorant-insensitive-comment/ar-BBIXGghWilliam R. Barkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03187458308703770056noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7281055791664170432.post-50665839373123382722018-02-11T09:10:00.002-05:002018-02-11T09:10:39.127-05:00Back to My Roots<br />
Well, folks... I'm taking a break from Facebook.<br />
<br />
Frankly... I just don't want to deal with... people.<br />
<br />
Actually... make that "sheeple." Morons. Cultists. Idiots who refuse to acknowledge that Trump has betrayed us.<br />
<br />
What am I babbling about...??? Well... that's the Catch-22 which has led me back to Usually Right! In order to understand why I'm back HERE... you need to go to my Facebook page and review... um... the last week's (or so) worth of posts and commentary.<br />
<br />
Right now I'm SO pissed at Trump that I can't trust myself to "interact" with people on the matter. I found myself just... lashing out... so I'm "benching" myself for the time being so as to not alienate more people than absolutely necessary.<br />
<br />
(*WINK*)<br />
<br />
Anyway...<br />
<br />William R. Barkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03187458308703770056noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7281055791664170432.post-30763702512548424702017-12-02T11:19:00.002-05:002017-12-02T11:19:54.823-05:00Find Me On Facebook...<br />
Hey, Gang! (Well... anyone who stumbles upon this "relic" of postings past!)<br />
<br />
December 2, 2017 - National Day in my beloved UAE!<br />
<br />
I'm STILL as prolific as every, folks! Only... I'm prolific on <b><i>FACEBOOK</i></b>.<br />
<br />
Look me up!<br />
<br />
In the meantime... just to recap the year... it's been a <b><i>GOOD YEAR!</i></b><br />
<br />
Plenty of work... and plenty of play! (As you all know... I <i>excel</i> at <b><i>LEISURE!</i></b>)<br />
<br />
Mary and I were in Vermont a few weeks back...<br />
<br />
Our spring getaway was North Carolina - combining "Baby Ian's" first birthday with a few days at the Biltmore in "Beer City USA" - Ashville, NC. (Just lovely...)<br />
<br />
In exactly a week from today - next Saturday, Dec. 9 - Mary and I will be at JFK awaiting the 2 p.m. (hopefully!) departure of our <i>DIRECT</i> flight to Abu Dhabi!<br />
<br />
Yep... another WONDERFUL Christmas with Kim and Shaky in my beloved UAE!<br />
<br />
Anyway... that's it. Just "keeping the blog on life support."<br />
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<br />William R. Barkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03187458308703770056noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7281055791664170432.post-44719366767636822262017-01-17T09:41:00.004-05:002017-01-17T09:41:53.335-05:00Ho! Ho! Ho! Merry January 17, 2017!<br />
<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>Gang... I'm back!</b></span></i><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">It's a new year... and a <i>S-A-V-E-D</i> America!</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">In three more days... (*SIGHING IN CONTENTMENT*)... Donald J. Trump is going to be sworn in as America's 45th Chief Executive... Chief of State... and PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">So... where have I been? On Facebook! It's just... easier... and I reach more people there.</span></span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">(*SHRUG*)</span></span></div>
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I last posted here on October 21, 2016.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Since then Mary and I went on a KICK-ASS vacation... 13 days in Germany, Hungary, Austria, and the Czech Republic!</span></span><br />
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<i><b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">A FRIGGIN' BEER CRUISE...!!!</span></span></b></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Budapest Intercontinental... the Avalon Illumination... and the Prague Hilton Old Town!</span></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Woo-hoo...!!!</span></span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">(You can see the photos posted on my FB page!)</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">For posterity... we departed out of EWR on ELECTION DAY... November 8, 2016... (AFTER VOTING, OF COURSE!) And we arrived into Munich at 7:30 a.m. local time to find that... </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">(*DRUM ROLL*)</span></span></div>
<br />
<i><b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">DONALD J. TRUMP HAD WON THE PRESIDENCY...!!!</span></span></b></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Folks... every day from the moment on has been a GREAT day!</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Kim was home over Christmas...</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Mary and I spent New Years at Colleen and Kenny's...</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Hank (my Inferno <span style="color: red;">Red</span> Dodge Charger <i><b>RT</b></i>) got "his" scheduled transmission service and differential fluid change last week and is running like the champ "he" is...</span></span><br />
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<i><b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">LIFE... IS... GOOD...!!!</span></span></b></i><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Not sure how often I'll be blogging from... <i>er</i>... my blog here...</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">(*HUGE FRIGGIN' GRIN*)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">But posting <i>NOW</i> in order to let folks know that I'm alive... well... and hosting an open-door Inauguration Day "<i><b>GOD BLESS PRESIDENT TRUMP; GOD BLESS AMERICA!</b></i>" party on Friday!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Follow me on Facebook, folks... <i>follow me on Facebook</i>...</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span>William R. Barkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03187458308703770056noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7281055791664170432.post-36371226276399256692016-10-21T09:43:00.003-04:002016-10-21T09:43:41.086-04:00Americans Unite! Let's Destroy the Oligarchy!<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">By <a href="http://buchanan.org/blog/an-establishment-in-panic-3-125855" target="_blank">Patrick J. Buchanan</a></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">*<span> </span>*<span> </span>*</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Pressed by moderator Chris Wallace as to whether he would
"accept" defeat should Hillary Clinton win the election, Donald Trump
replied, “I will tell you at the time. I’ll keep you in suspense.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">“That’s horrifying,” said Clinton, setting off a chain
reaction on the post-debate panels with talking heads falling all over one
another in purple-faced anger, outrage and disbelief.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Disqualifying!” was the cry on Clinton cable.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Trump Won’t Say If He Will Accept Election Results,”
wailed The New York Times. “Trump Won’t Vow to Honor Results,” ran the banner
in The Washington Post.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">* YOU KNOW, FOLKS... HAD WALLACE ACTUALLY BEEN SINCERE IN
HIS QUESTIONING AND FAUX CONCERN, HE WOULD HAVE FOLLOWED UP HIS QUESTIONING OF
TRUMP WITH THE FOLLOWING QUERY OF MRS. CLINTON: </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">"<b><i>MRS. CLINTON. SHOULD
LEGITIMATE QUESTIONS ARISE CONCERNING THE FAIRNESS OF THE INITIAL ELECTION TALLY
WOULD YOU - IF YOU ARE INITIALLY DECLARED THE WINNER - AGREE NOT TO CLAIM
VICTORY UNTIL THE RESULTS COULD BE CERTIFIED AFTER A FULL EXAMINATION OF THE
CIRCUMSTANCES REGARDING ANY ALLEGATIONS OF VOTER FRAUD?</i></b>" </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">* HMM...??? <i>FAIR</i> QUESTION? </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">(*SPITTING ON THE GROUND*)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">* BUT OF COURSE ONE DOESN'T <i>GET</i> FAIR QUESTIONS FROM MEDIA
FIGURES REPRESENT EITHER THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY OR THE GOP ESTABLISHMENT.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">But what do these chattering classes and establishment
bulletin boards think the Donald is going to do if he falls short of 270
electoral votes - lead a Coxey’s Army on Washington and burn it down as British
General Robert Ross did in August 1814, while “Little Jemmy” Madison fled on
horseback out the Brookeville Road?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">What explains the hysteria of the Establishment?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">In a word... <i>FEAR</i>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Establishment is horrified at the Donald’s defiance
because, deep within its soul, it fears that the people for whom Trump speaks
no longer accept its political legitimacy or moral authority.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">* I DON'T. <i>DO YOU?</i> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">* BESIDES BEING CORRUPT SCUMBAGS, THESE POLITICIANS HAVE
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">* NO CONSTITUTIONAL RULE OF LAW... EQUALS NO LEGITIMACY.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">It may rule and run the country, and may rig the system
through mass immigration and a mammoth welfare state so that Middle America is
never again able to elect one of its own. But that Establishment, disconnected
from the people it rules, senses, rightly, that it is unloved and even
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">* YOU FOLKS KNOW WHAT MY PROPOSED SOLUTION IS... <b><i>RIGHT?</i></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">(*GRIN*)</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span><div class="MsoPlainText">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span><div class="MsoPlainText">
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Having [rigged] the future, the Establishment finds half
of the country looking upon it with the same sullen contempt that our Founding
Fathers came to look upon the overlords Parliament sent to rule them.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span><div class="MsoPlainText">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span><div class="MsoPlainText" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">(*NOD*)</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span><div class="MsoPlainText">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span><div class="MsoPlainText">
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Establishment panic is traceable to another fear: Its
ideology, its political religion, is seen by growing millions as a golden calf,
a 20th-century god that has failed.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span><div class="MsoPlainText">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span><div class="MsoPlainText">
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">After having expunged Christianity from our public life
and public square, our Establishment installed “democracy” as the new deity, at
whose altars we should all worship. And so our schools began to teach.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span><div class="MsoPlainText">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span><div class="MsoPlainText">
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Half a millennia ago, missionaries and explorers set sail
from Spain, England and France to bring Christianity to the New World. Today,
Clintons, Obamas and Bushes send soldiers and secularist tutors to “establish
democracy” among the “lesser breeds without the Law.”</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span><div class="MsoPlainText">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span><div class="MsoPlainText" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">(*PURSED LIPS*)</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span><div class="MsoPlainText">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span><div class="MsoPlainText">
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Unfortunately, the natives, once democratized, return to
their roots and vote for Hezbollah, Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood, using
democratic processes and procedures to re-establish their true God.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span><div class="MsoPlainText">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span><div class="MsoPlainText" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">(*SMIRK*)</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span><div class="MsoPlainText">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span><div class="MsoPlainText">
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Allah is no democrat.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span><div class="MsoPlainText">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span><div class="MsoPlainText" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">(*SILENCE*)</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span><div class="MsoPlainText">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span><div class="MsoPlainText">
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">By suggesting he might not accept the results of a
“rigged election” Trump is committing an unpardonable sin. </span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span><div class="MsoPlainText">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span><div class="MsoPlainText">
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">* AT LEAST IN THE EYES OF THE ESTABLISHMENT. BUT...
THANKFULLY... NOT IN THE EYES OF "WE THE PEOPLE."</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span><div class="MsoPlainText">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span><div class="MsoPlainText">
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">When Ben Franklin, emerging from the Philadelphia
convention, was asked by a woman what kind of government they had created, he
answered, “A Republic, if you can keep it.”</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span><div class="MsoPlainText">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span><div class="MsoPlainText">
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">This new cult, this devotion to a new holy trinity of
diversity, democracy and equality, is of recent vintage and has shallow roots. For
none of the three — diversity, equality, democracy — is to be found in the
Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Federalist Papers or the Pledge of
Allegiance. In the pledge, we are a Republic.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span><div class="MsoPlainText">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span><div class="MsoPlainText">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span><div class="MsoPlainText">
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Among many in the silent majority, Clintonian democracy
is not an improvement upon the old Republic; it is the corruption of it.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span><div class="MsoPlainText">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span><div class="MsoPlainText" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">(*NODDING*)</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
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<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span><div class="MsoPlainText">
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Consider: Six months ago, Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe,
the Clinton bundler, announced that by executive action he would convert
200,000 convicted felons into eligible voters by November.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span><div class="MsoPlainText">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span><div class="MsoPlainText">
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">If that is democracy, many will say "to hell with
it."</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span><div class="MsoPlainText">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span><div class="MsoPlainText" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">(*NOD*)</span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">In 1824, Gen. Andrew Jackson ran first in popular and
electoral votes. But, short of a majority, the matter went to the House. There,
Speaker Henry Clay and John Quincy Adams delivered the presidency to Adams —
and Adams made Clay Secretary of State, putting him on the path to the
presidency that had been taken by Jefferson, Madison, Monroe and Adams himself.</span></span></div>
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</span></span><div class="MsoPlainText">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span><div class="MsoPlainText">
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Were Jackson’s people wrong to regard as a “corrupt bargain”
the deal that robbed the general of the presidency?</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span><div class="MsoPlainText">
<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">* NOPE! THEY WERE RIGHT!</span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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</span></span><div class="MsoPlainText">
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Establishment recoiled in horror from Milwaukee
Sheriff Dave Clarke’s declaration that it is now “torches and pitchforks time.”
Yet some of us recall another time - a time when Supreme Court Justice William
O. Douglas wrote in “Points of Rebellion”: “We must realize that today’s
Establishment is the new George III. Whether it will continue to adhere to his
tactics, we do not know. If it does, the redress, honored in tradition, is also
revolution.”</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span><div class="MsoPlainText">
<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">(*NODDING*)</span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Baby-boomer radicals loved Douglas' proclamation, raising
their fists in defiance of Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew. But now that it is
the populist-nationalist right that is moving beyond the niceties of liberal
democracy to save the America that they love, elitist enthusiasm for
“revolution” seems more constrained.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span><div class="MsoPlainText">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
What goes around... <i>comes around</i>.</span></span><br />
<br />
William R. Barkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03187458308703770056noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7281055791664170432.post-70172309503250679482016-10-18T08:12:00.005-04:002016-10-18T08:12:53.007-04:00YES! The System IS Rigged!<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">By <a href="http://buchanan.org/blog/system-rigged-betcha-125844" target="_blank">Patrick J. Buchanan</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">“<i><b>Remember, it’s a rigged system. It’s a rigged election</b></i>,”
said Donald Trump in New Hampshire on Saturday.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The stunned recoil in [Washington D.C.] suggests this
bunker buster went right down the chimney. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">As the French put it, “<i>Il n’y a que la verite qui
blesse</i>.” <i><b>It is only the truth that hurts.</b></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">In what sense is the system rigged?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Consider Big Media — the elite columnists and
commentators, the dominant national press, and the national and cable networks,
save FOX. Not in this writer’s lifetime has there been such blanket hatred and
hostility of a presidential candidate of a major party.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">* AND, FOLKS... FOX IS SPLIT. MEGYN KELLY IS ANTI-TRUMP.
MANY OF THE "NEWSCASTERS" AT FOX ARE ANTI-TRUMP. <i><b>RUPERT MURDOCK IS A
CLINTON SUPPORTER</b></i> FINANCIALLY AS WELL AS PERSONALLY. O'REILLY TENDS TOWARDS A
"LET'S CUT THE BABY IN HALF" PRESENTATION REGARDING HIS ELECTION
COVERAGE. GRETA WAS FORCED OUT. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">(*SHRUG*)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">* IN TRUTH... ASIDE FROM ONE HOUR A NIGHT WITH HANNITY...
FOX IS DEFINITELY <b><i>NOT</i></b> "TEAM TRUMP" - CERTAINLY NOT IN THE WAY EVERY
OTHER BROADCAST AND CABLE NETWORK IS "TEAM CLINTON."</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">* FOX IS BASICALLY THE REPUBLICAN <i>ESTABLISHMENT</i> NETWORK.
THEY'RE NO MORE "PRO-TRUMP" THAN ARE NRO OR THE WSJ. (AGAIN... N’Y A QUE
LA VERITE QUI BLESSE, MY FRIENDS.)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">In this election, Big Media have burst out of the closet
as an adjunct of the regime and the attack arm of the Clinton campaign, aiming
to bring Trump down.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Half a century ago, Theodore White wrote of the power and
bias of the “adversary press” that sought to bring down Richard Nixon.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">“The power of the press in America,” wrote Teddy, “is a
primordial one. It sets the agenda of public discussion; and this sweeping
power is unrestrained by any law. It determines what people will talk about and
think about — an authority that in other nations is reserved for tyrants,
priests, parties and mandarins.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">On ABC’s “This Week,” Newt Gingrich volunteered on Sunday
that, “without the unending one-sided assault of the news media, Trump would be
beating Hillary by 15 points.” Newt is right.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">* <b><i>DAMN STRAIGHT HE'S RIGHT!</i></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">With all due respect, as adversaries, Harry Reid and
Nancy Pelosi are not terribly formidable. Big Media is the power that sustains
the forces of globalism against those of Americanism.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Is the system rigged? </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">For half a century, the U.S. Supreme Court has
systematically de-Christianized and paganized American society and declared
abortion and homosexual marriage constitutional rights.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Where did these unelected jurists get the right to impose
their views and values upon us, and remake America in their own secularist
image? Was that really the Court’s role in the Constitution?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">(*SIGH*)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">There are more than 11 million illegal immigrants here,
with millions more coming. Yet the government consistently refuses to enforce
the immigration laws of the United States.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">* ELEVEN MILLION? <i>BULL$HIT!</i> IT'S MORE LIKE <b><i>40 MILLION</i></b>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Why should those Americans whose ancestors created,
fought, bled and died to preserve America not believe they and their children
are being dispossessed of a country that was their patrimony — and without
their consent?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">* DO BLACK AMERICANS - DO THE DESCENDANTS OF SLAVES -
REALLY WANT TO HAVE TO LEARN SPANISH ANY MORE THAN I DO? </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">* IS IT FAIR THAT BLACK AMERICANS... AND BROWN
AMERICANS... AND WHITE AMERICANS... HAVE TO COMPETE FOR AMERICAN JOBS AGAINST
ILLEGAL ALIENS? I SAY IT'S NOT! NOR DO I BELIEVE THAT SUCH EXPLOITATIVE
WAGE-LOWERING COMPETITION IS IN THE NATIONAL INTEREST!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">When did the country vote to convert the America we grew
up in into the Third World country our descendants will inherit in 2042?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">* <b><i>WE DIDN'T!</i></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">In the Civil Rights Act of 1964, a Congressional majority
voted to end discrimination against black folks. When did we vote to institute
pervasive discrimination against white folks, especially white males, with
affirmative action, quotas and racial set-asides? (Even in blue states like
California, affirmative action is routinely rejected in statewide ballots.) Yet
it remains regime policy, embedded in the bureaucracy.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">In 2015, in the Democratic primaries, the big
enthusiastic crowds were all for 75-year-old Socialist senator Bernie Sanders. We
now know, thanks to leaked emails, that not only the super-delegates and the
Obama White House but a collaborationist press and the DNC were colluding to
deny Sanders any chance at the nomination.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">* <i>YEP...</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The fix was in. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">* <i>YEP...</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">If there is an issue upon which Americans agree, it is
that they want secure borders and an end to trade policies that have shipped
abroad the jobs, and arrested the wages, of working Americans. Yet in a private
speech that netted her $225,000 from Brazilian bankers, Hillary Clinton
confided that she dreams of a “common market, with open trade and open borders”
from Nome, Alaska, to Patagonia.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">* YEP! <b><i>SHE SAID THAT!</i></b> <b><i>THAT'S AN EXACT QUOTE!</i></b> BUT THE MSM
DOES ALL IN THEIR POWER TO SWEEP SUCH STATEMENTS FROM MRS. CLINTON UNDER THE
RUG.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">* <i>YOU</i> KNOW SHE SAID IT. <i>I</i> KNOW SHE SAID IT. TENS OF
MILLIONS OF OUR FELLOW AMERICANS <i>DON'T</i> KNOW SHE SAID IT THANKS TO A <b><i>RIGGED
SYSTEM</i></b> AND A <i><b>DISHONEST AND PARTISAN MEDIA!</b></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Mrs. Clinton's vision as espoused to Brazilian bankers
would mean the end of the USA as a unique, sovereign and independent nation. But
the American press, whose survival depends upon the big ad dollars of
transnational corporations, is more interested in old tapes of the Donald on
The Howard Stern Show.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">(*SILENCE*)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">If we get a government headed by Hillary Clinton, and an
opposition headed by Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell the question then becomes...
"Is that what the people were hoping for, working for, voting for in the
primaries of 2016?"</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Or... is this what they were voting <i>against?</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">(*SILENCE*)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Big money and the media power of the establishment elites
and the transnationals may well prevail.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">* UNLESS WE STOP THEM! UNLESS THE AMERICAN SHEEPLE BREAK
THE CHAINS OF IGNORANCE AND STUPIDITY AND REVERT TO BECOMING "WE THE
PEOPLE" ON NOVEMBER 8TH!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">In the final analysis... "Yes, Virginia, the system
is rigged." </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
* BUT THIS DOESN'T MEAN "WE THE
PEOPLE" CAN'T OVERCOME THE "RIGGING." WE CAN! WE MUST! FOR IF WE
DON'T... AMERICA IS DONE FOR.</span></span><br />
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William R. Barkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03187458308703770056noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7281055791664170432.post-84019097997957214252016-10-15T09:14:00.003-04:002016-10-15T09:14:20.930-04:00As Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton LITERALLY "Sold America Out"<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Peggy Noonan <a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/americas-decadent-leadership-class-1476400544" target="_blank">writing</a> in the WSJ</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Russia’s Vladimir Putin ... views the current American
political leadership class as utterly decadent and unworthy of traditional
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">* AND HE'S RIGHT!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">* THAT'S WHAT I THINK TOO!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">(*NODDING*)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Think of how he’s experienced them the past few years.
Readers of these pages know of the Uranium One deal in which a Canadian
businessman got Bill Clinton to help him get control of uranium mining fields
in Kazakhstan. The businessman soon gave $31 million to the Clinton Foundation,
with a pledge of $100 million more. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">A Russian company moved to buy it. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The deal needed U.S. approval, including from Secretary
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">While it was under consideration the Clinton Foundation
received more money from Uranium One. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Bill Clinton got a $500,000 speech fee. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Russian company is now one of the world’s largest
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Significant amounts of U.S. uranium are, in effect, owned
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">This summer a WikiLeaks dump showed the State Department
warning that Russia was moving to control the global supply of nuclear fuel.
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">...THE CLINTON FOUNDATION FLOURISHED.</span></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">* And by "Clinton Foundation" we all know she's
talking about... the Clintons themselves... the Clinton Family (including
Chelsea and her husband)... the FRIENDS of Bill and Hillary...</span></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Peter Schweizer, who broke the Uranium One story,
reported in these pages how Mrs. Clinton also pushed for a U.S.-Russian
technology initiative whose goals included “the development of ties between the
Russian and American people.” Mrs Clinton looked for U.S. investors and found
them. Of the 28 announced “key partners,” 60% had made financial commitments to
the Clinton Foundation. Even Russian investors ponied up.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">* ONE MORE TIME, FOLKS: "OF THE 28 KEY PARTNERS, 60%
HAD MADE FINANCIAL COMMITMENTS TO THE CLINTON FOUNDATION. EVEN THE RUSSIAN
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alarms: U.S. military experts warned of satellite, space and nuclear technology
transfers. The FBI thought the Russian partners’ motive was to “gain access to
classified, sensitive, and emerging technology.” </span></span></div>
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expressing concern about the project. Somehow, said Mr. Schweizer, the Clinton
State Department “missed or ignored obvious red flags.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">* AS FOR HILLARY CLINTON AND BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA... MY GOD... <i>WHAT HAVE WE COME TO?</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I'm talking about Ivanka Trump and her <span style="color: black;"><a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-trump-plan-will-help-working-mothers-1473803187" target="_blank">op-ed</a> in today's
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Though of course she'll never read this... here's my
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<b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">*<span> </span>*<span> </span>*</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">For me, motherhood is a gift and a tremendous source of
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">* THAT'S GREAT, IVANKA; GLAD TO HEAR IT! AND I APPLAUD
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">(*CHUCKLE*)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Yet it’s also the greatest predictor of wage inequality
in our country. In 2014, single women without children earned 94 cents on a
man’s dollar. Married mothers made only 81 cents.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">* YES. FOR A VARIETY OF REASONS... WHICH YOU AS AN
EDUCATED WOMAN SHOULD BE FAMILIAR WITH. IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">We all agree that women should have equal pay for equal
work, but that’s not enough. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">* <b><i>YES!</i></b> <i>ACTUALLY IT IS</i>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The lack of quality, affordable child care is one of the
biggest challenges facing American parents.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">* LET... <b><i>MARKETS</i></b>... WORK...!!!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">* WHAT IS SO FRIGGIN' HARD TO UNDERSTAND...?!?! YOU CAN'T
ARTIFICIALLY "FIX" THE REALITIES OF LIFE. INDEED, WHERE SHE USES THE
WORD "CHALLENGES" I'LL USE THE WORDS "REALITIES OF LIFE."</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The current federal policies created to benefit families
were written more than 65 years ago when dual-income families were not the
norm. Today, however, in about two-thirds of married couples, both spouses
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">* THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SHOULDN'T BE <i>INVOLVED</i> IN THIS AT
ALL. EMPLOYMENT REGULATIONS ARE AND SHOULD BE A <i>STATE</i> ISSUE AND FRANKLY WE
ALREADY HAVE TOO MANY STATE REGULATIONS! (ISN'T YOUR DAD CAMPAIGNING ON
REDUCING GOVERNMENT REGULATION...???)</span></span></div>
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outside the home; so do 64% of moms with kids under age 6. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The number of households led by single mothers has
doubled in the past three decades, and the majority of these women work in
low-paying jobs without flexibility or benefits.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">* STOP HAVING CHILDREN YOU CAN'T AFFORD TO RAISE! <i>THAT'S
THE ANSWER! </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">My father, in his campaign for president, has proposed a
plan to bring federal policies in line with the needs of today’s working
parents.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Part one is a rewrite of the tax code, allowing working
parents to deduct from their income taxes child care expenses for up to four
children, as well as for elderly dependents. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">* SO... WE'RE GONNA RUN A FEDERAL DEFICIT OF
APPROXIMATELY $600 BILLION THIS YEAR... PROBABLY A LARGER ONE NEXT YEAR... AND
YOU AND DAD WANT TO BRING IN <i>LESS</i> REVENUE. DO I HAVE THAT RIGHT?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">This will be capped at the average cost of child care in
each family’s state, and the wealthiest individuals will not be eligible for
the deduction. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">* THUS CONTINUING TO MOVE US IN THE <b><i>WRONG</i></b> DIRECTION...
MORE "PROGRESSIVE" TAXATION... MORE TREATING <i>SOME</i> AMERICANS ONE WAY
AND <i>OTHER</i> AMERICANS A DIFFERENT WAY.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The benefit is structured to ensure that working-class
and middle-class families see the largest reductions in their taxable incomes.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">* AGAIN... IF LESS PEOPLE ARE PULLING THEIR WEIGHT... IF
MORE PEOPLE ARE BEING "ABSOLVED" OF PAYING THEIR FAIR SHARE... HOW
ARE WE SUPPOSED TO BE FUNDING ALL THE GOVERNMENT <b><i>SPENDING...???</i></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">To bring meaningful assistance to lower-income Americans
who don’t pay income tax, the Trump plan will offer rebates on child-care
spending through the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">* TOTALLY THE <b><i>WRONG</i></b> DIRECTION! INCOME REDISTRIBUTION PURE
AND SIMPLE.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">In a nation where almost two-thirds of mothers with
children under age six are employed, child care is an undisputed work-related
expense. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">* NO. <i>IT'S NOT</i>. NOR IS YOUR CAR. NOR IS YOUR CLOTHING.
NOR IS THE FOOD YOU NEED TO STAY ALIVE SO YOU CAN GO TO WORK! GEEZUS... THIS
PROPOSAL AND THE REASONING BEHIND IT MOVE US TOTALLY IN THE <b><i>WRONG</i></b> DIRECTION!</span></span></div>
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US IN THE SAME EXACT WRONG DIRECT EVEN FASTER! IT'S NOT LIKE THE
"OPPOSITION PARTY" WILL OPPOSE THIS PLAN PHILOSOPHICALLY; NO, THEIR
MAIN COMPLAINT WILL NO DOUBT BE THAT "IT DOESN'T GO FAR ENOUGH!"</i></b>)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">* AND THEY <i>SHOULDN'T</i> BE. THAT THEY ARE IS PART OF THE
PROBLEM. THE SEVEN-MILLION-PLUS WORD FEDERAL TAX CODE IS THE PROBLEM! AND
GROWING IT SIMPLY ADDS TO THE PROBLEM! WE NEED A FLATTER TAX CODE - NOT ONE
WITH MORE "DEDUCTIONS."</span></span></div>
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increase the take-home pay for tens of millions of American parents.</span></span></div>
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YOUR POSSESSIONS AND REDISTRIBUTING THE PROCEEDS TO TENS OF MILLIONS OF
PARENTS! BUT I NOTE YOU'RE NOT DOING <i>THAT!</i></span></span></div>
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LET'S GET ON WITH IT. STOP TRYING TO PICK WINNERS AND LOSERS VIA THE FEDERAL TAX
CODE!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">And what if one parent staying home to raise the children
is the best option for a family? This is the praiseworthy choice of many, yet
there’s zero value or recognition by our government for this hard and
meaningful work. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Under my father’s proposal, stay-at-home parents will
receive the same tax deduction as their working peers.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">* SO... MORE "FREE MONEY" DISTRIBUTED. (UM...
HOW'BOUT OUR FELLOW AMERICAN CITIZENS WHO CHOOSE <b><i>NOT</i></b> TO BECOME PARENTS? JUST...
"<i>FUCK 'EM?</i>")</span></span></div>
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Care Savings Accounts, created to aid families in setting aside extra money to
foster their children’s development and offset elder care for adult dependents.</span></span></div>
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LETTING PEOPLE SAVE WHAT THEY CHOOSE TO SAVE AND LIVE THEIR LIVES AS THEY
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">These accounts will operate like Health Savings Accounts,
with tax-deductible contributions and tax-free appreciation year to year. When
established for a minor, funds from a Dependent Care Savings Account can be
applied to traditional child care, after-school enrichment programs and school
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half of the first $1,000 deposited each year. </span></span></div>
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GOVERNMENT</i>" CAN'T PAY IT'S OBLIGATIONS NOW! "<i>THE GOVERNMENT</i>" IS
ALMOST $20 TRILLION IN DEBT AND THAT DEBT IS RISING FAST! <b><i>WHAT IS SO HARD TO
UNDERSTAND ABOUT THIS REALITY...?!?!</i></b></span></span></div>
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over from year to year so that a substantial amount of money can be accrued
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Care Savings Account can cover services like in-home nursing and long-term
care. The ability to set aside funds will be particularly helpful to women,
low-income workers and minorities, who are statistically more likely to reduce
time working outside the home in order to provide unpaid care.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The third part of the plan will address the federal
regulations that currently discourage informal child-care — such as a mom
watching her own kids and a few others in her home. Arrangements such as these
are not now given fair consideration by our federal bureaucracy, which is
biased in favor of institutional care. We need to create a dynamic marketplace
to offer solutions and give parents greater freedom of choice.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">* TRUE. AND I APPLAUD THE <i>SENTIMENT</i>. BUT AGAIN... FEDERAL
REGULATION OF... <i>DAY CARE?</i> <b><i>REALLY...?!?!</i></b> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Consider parents who work part-time, on a night shift or
on call. The standard model of institutional care doesn’t serve these workers:
How many day-care centers are open at night? It takes even less account of
parents who live in low-income and rural communities.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The fourth part of my father’s plan will add incentives
for employers to provide child care at the workplace. Breakdowns in child-care
networks cause employee absences that cost U.S. businesses billions each year.
On-site child-care centers help resolve avoidable employee absenteeism, in
addition to saving time and helping companies retain valued staff.</span></span></div>
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WORKPLACE CHILD CARE ON THEIR OWN - <i>RIGHT?</i> NO NEED FOR GOVERNMENT TO BRIBE
BUSINESSES TO DO SO VIA TAXING OTHERS (<i>LIKE ME AND YOU</i>) TO PAY FOR THE BRIBE!</span></span></div>
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will guarantee, for the first time, six weeks of paid maternity leave. This
will be done by amending the existing unemployment insurance that companies are
required to carry. The enhancement will triple the average paid leave that new
mothers receive, and it will do so without raising taxes.</span></span></div>
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WAND TO MAKE THE PAYOUT MONEY APPEAR...?!?! <i>YOU DO KNOW HOW INSURANCE WORKS...
RIGHT?</i> IN ORDER TO PAY <b><i>OUT</i></b>... FIRST THE MONEY HAS TO COME <b><i>IN</i></b> AND BE THERE IN
THE FIRST PLACE! SO... WHAT HAPPENS TO PREMIUMS UNDER THIS PLAN?</span></span></div>
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parent should have the freedom to make the best decisions for his or her family.
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">* YES! AGREED! BUT I BELIEVE THAT WITH FREEDOM COMES
RESPONSIBILITY! THE PURPOSE OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS NOT TO GIVE PEOPLE MONEY
TOWARDS... ANYTHING... INCLUDING RAISING THEIR KIDS OR CARING FOR THEIR
PARENTS. DON'T YOU PEOPLE UNDERSTAND THAT IN ORDER TO GIVE AWAY GOVERNMENT
MONEY THE GOVERNMENT MUST "RAISE" THE MONEY IN THE FIRST PLACE?
GEEZUS... JUST MIND BOGGLING.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">My father is prepared to chart a new course that promotes
strong families and celebrates their individual needs; one that honors,
respects and empowers both working and stay-at-home mothers and caregivers.
Together, we will take a stand and enable the American family and the modern
workforce to thrive.</span></span></div>
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* WELL-INTENTIONED... STUPIDITY.</span></span><br />
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