BALTIMORE, Maryland Wednesday, June 29, 2016 - The pure unfiltered criminal evil of a person who now says she wants to be President of These United States - How did this nation ever get to a point this far down the scale, a point so low that you cannot even see Presidents like Washington, FDR, Kennedy or Reagan from here? - is there in black and white for all to see in the report of the Special House Benghazi Committee, released to the public yesterday. Even as the Mainstream Ultra Left Media Fabricates reports that downplay the evil set forth in that report, there is nothing anyone can do to hide the conniving and downright sinister actions of both Hillary and Barack Obama. There is the outline of the infamous phone call on the night of the attack between Hillary and Obama, the call that fleshed out their plan to blame a video by a California man rather than what they both knew was already obvious: that the attack on the Benghazi Annex was planned in advance by elements of the Al Qaeda Terror Group. As both concocted the evil "video" story they already knew that they had blown numerous chances to plan for the likelyhood of the attack and to have beefed up defenses ready for it. Such a noble move - getting the facility ready to repel an attack - would have endangered the re-election of Obama in 2012 and the election of Clinton this year. At least, that is what they worried about. What they didn't worry about was the lives and well-being of the Americans who would be left to repel the vicious attack with inferior weaponry and inferior numbers of defenders.
If you have the nerve and the patriotic backbone to read this report, you might want to remind yourself that what passes today for the Democratic Party but which is, in fact, little more than a collection of ultra left Anti-Americans, surrounded by bootlickers and others without the wits, the will or the courage to fight back against the gathering clouds of debauchery. This hint: avoid taking deep breaths, because the stench could kill you. Elect Hillary? How did it ever get to this awful point in American History? She lied, and Democrats on the Watergate Committee had to fire her. She lied and cheeted and collected tens of thousands on cattle futures in Arkansas, even though she knew nothing about any of it. Women whom her husband preyed on came forward describing his unfettered debauchery, and this poor excuse for a femminist did everything she could to shut them up and threaten their well-being. One woman was raped by her husband, and she did all she could to shut her up. On and on it went. Benghazi was one of the latest and most debauched. Four died and when their bodies, in coffins, were gathered on an airport tarmac, she went to grieving family members and lied about who was responsible and what she would do to right the wrong. How does a person who does this even declare for the Presidency? How does anyone who knows of this episode - wipe the rest away if you want, and just concentrate on that vignette: a woman going from one grieving family member to another and looking each in the eye and telling a disgusting bald-faced stinking lie about what killed their loved one. And she wants to be President and has such debauched morals that she thinks she has a right to do this? Really? In the Star Spangled Banner, Francis Scott Key asks whether the USA is still the land of the free and home of the brave?
We will find out in November.
I did not like the way Trey Gowdy presented his findings yesterday. Like so many other Republicans, he apparently is still of the belief that the mainstream media is capable of telling the truth and playing the role envisioned in the Constitution. But they are not. Time and again they have shown they are little more than shills for the Anti-American Ultra Left. This includes their reports on the Committee Report, which trumpets the lie that it basically exonerates Hillary. It does not, but Gowdy should have said this in no uncertain terms. It was the one chance he had of galvanizing the public about the substance of the report. Instead, Gowdy kept urging reporters and members of the public to read the report and draw their own conclusions. The media will not. They had their stories and headlines about exoneration written and ready to go. Gowdy had to know this.
The report itself is a helpful source of information if you really want to know details of the evil perpetrated by Hillary Clinton. It describes a far left shill far more concerned about the political fall out of doing the right thing. It points out that she quickly came to the conclusion that telling the public honestly about what happened to Ambassador Stevens would badly damage her chances of becoming President in this year's election. So she lied and lied, and with the media's help, still thinks she will get away with it.
Sadly, patherically, it could happen. There are a mind-boggling number of Americans who are willing to give this woman a pass on any evil act, including this one. They are willing to give her a pass and then, incredibly, still voting for her. It is the same thing as voting for Benedict Arnold. Actually, Arnold's evil pales in comparison to the evil of Hillary's actions.
The far left Democratic Members of the Gowdy Committee say Hillary had no direct knowledge that her ambassador wanted beefed up security at the Benghazi Annex, but even that is a direct lie, and Maryland Congressman Elijah Cummings should be ashamed of himself for telling it. Hillary was the recipient of an official memorandum one month before the attack by Islamic Terrorists, and the memorandum vividly described the dire situation in Benghazi. Hillary ignored the memo and saw to it that no security upgrades of any kind were made, a move or lack of movement that played a direct role in the death of four Americans at the hands of Islamic Radicals. Even if you believe the minority report's argument that all of the scores of emails and other messages from Stevens about the need to beef up security at the Benghazi Annex never reached Hillary, there is no argument that she did not receive this urgent memo. Hillary Clinton knew the situation in Benghazi and chose to do nothing at all. It was so bad that the folk on the ground in Benghazi, before the attack, were told that having soldiers with machine guns was not pleasing to the eyes. On the night of the prolonged, drawn-out attack, Clinton did everything she could to prevent a military response to the attack. As several elected officials said Tuesday, the world will never know whether USA military assets could have made it to Benghazi in time to make a difference on the night of the attack, because no effort was made to send any. There is the sordid tale of troops in Spain actually changing uniforms multiple times over a four-hour period, and then never leaving for Benghzi at all. The one military unit that did respond went on its own, and included ono of the four Americans killed that evening.
Hilary Clinton needs to be put in jail for a long time, not only for what she did not do before the night of the attack and what she did not do on the night of the attack, but also for her bald-faced lies told to the American Public on the night of the attack. Her conduct is reprehensible. This report, in and of itself, is all the evidence any real American would need to remove her from the Democratic ticket and replace her with somebody who had no part in this sordid and disgusting affair. She is corrupt and a bald-faced liar, but then again, we knew that before yesterday.
The question now is whether we are still decent enough people to do what must be done.
Wednesday, June 29, 2016
Tuesday, June 28, 2016
Poland, Wales, Iceland Battle Into Final 8 in Euro 2016; Wales Team Believes It Is One of Destiny; Chile Wins Copa Title After USA Falls in Semi-Final
BALTIMORE, Maryland, Tuesday, June 28, 2016 - No fewer than three decided underdogs have marched, battled, scratched and scrambled their way into the Final Eight of an increasingly wonderful Euro 2016 Tournament. Upset-minded Wales, Absolutely Determined Poland, and Stunning Iceland scored major victories in their first games of the final stage of this mythical European Championship, setting the stage for a breathtaking quarterfinal round. Meanwhile, Chile has beaten back Argentina on penalty kicks to win the "Copa América Centenario" Tournament, contested in These United States in recent weeks, with the title match played at the Meadowlands on Sunday in front of some 82,000 fans. Team USA performed admirably in the tournament, coming through the Group Stage and winning its Quarterfinal Match over a good Eduador team, 2-1. That put the USA in the tournament semi-final against Argentina on June 21 in Houston. The magic ended there, with the South American side beating the USA, 4-0.
In France, the Knockout Phase, or Finals, began over the weekend. In the first match at St. Etienne, the Swiss and Poland battled for 90 minutes and through extra time and overtime, only to end up tied, 1-1. The New York Times reported that Jakub Blaszczykowski scored his second goal of the tournament to give Poland the lead in the 39th minute with a low shot past Swiss goalkeeper Yann Sommer. But, according to the AP and the New York Times, a bicycle kick by Xherdan Shaqiri in the 82nd minute sent the match into extra time. In the penalty kick phase, the New York Times said that Grzegorz Krychowiak stepped up to score the shootout winner. But Krychowiak only got his moment in the limelight after Shaqiri missed his penalty kick for Switzerland. It was the only missed penalty kick of the ten taken in that final part of the match. Poland will now take on erratic Portugal in the quarter-finals. Portugal defeated Croatia, 1-0, to advance to Thursday's game. Other quarterfinal games pit Germany against Italy and France against Iceland. Germany routed Slovakia, 3-0, while Italy beat back Spain, 2-0. France, the host of the tournament, defeated Ireland, 2-1, while Iceland stunned England, 2-1, after falling behind the heavily favored English, 1-0, on a penalty shot by Wayne Rooney. Iceland struck back only minutes after Rooney's score. Defender Ragnar Sigurdsson tied the game in the fifth minute after Rooney had put England ahead in the fourth minute. And about twelve minutes after Sigurdsson scored, Iceland scored again. It was the last score of the game - a Sigurdsson tackle late in the second half helped prevent England was drawing even - as Iceland played the way England used to and put their hearts and minds into playing technically perfect soccer at the highest level. For England, it was errors everywhere. Joe Hart, the English keeper, could have saved both goals he allowed, and he will have nightmares about the second goal. Hart put a strong hand on the shot as he dove to the post to his right. But instead of defelecting the shot wide, he deflected it into the back of the net. There are over 539 million people living in England. Just 330,000 live on the Icelandic Isle. Amazing.
So, in summary, the final eight will be Poland v. Portugal, Wales v. Belgium, Italy v. Germany and France v. Iceland.
Wales, which has its own national soccer team even though it is part of the United Kingdom, claims an underdog role even though a player deemed one of the world's very best plays for the Welsh Side. Gareth Bale, who plays professionally for Real Madrid, in Spain, is a prolific scorer and spectacular all-around performer with one of the nastiest shots to be seen anywhere. When Wales lost to England in the Group Stage of this Euro 2016 - do you think that game was played with some passion? - Bale gave Wales a 1-0 lead at the half on a long free kick that seemed to change directions before eluding the English Keeper and settling into the net. The Welsh have made the Finals nonetheless, and in its first game it turned back another underdog side, the team from Northern Ireland. The final score was 1-0, with the match's only score coming when Northern Ireland's Gareth McAuley inadvertently poked a nasty Bale cross into the Irish net. A UEFA reporter at the match said that McAuley was forced to risk the result because Bale's cross was coming onto the foot of Wales'.Hal Ronson-Kanu, who was charging the net like his life depended on it. They take soccer very seriously here..
The Wales Squad believes in its heart that it is one of destiny. They have been playing soccer in this relatively obscure corner of the British Isles as long as the game itself has been played; the Welsh Football Association was organized in 1876, about the same time that baseball was getting organized on the other side of the Atlantic pond And Wales has played independent of the English National Team for almost as long. Yet, because they are so small, they have only had enough quality players at the same time to put together one other team that made a serious run at an important international tournament title. That was in 1958, when Wales made it to the quarter-finals of the World Cup, played that year in Sweden. In that legendary quarter-final match, against eventual World Cup Champion Brazil, the Welsh side fell, 1-0, on a goal by a young Pelé. For the uninformed, Pele is regarded as the greatest soccer player ever. The Wales side that year had a player, John Charles, who is mentioned in the same breath as Pelé, at least in the Welsh countryside. As it was, even Wikipedia says that Wales gave Brazil the best game it was to get in the 1958 World Cup. And John Charles couldn't play because of an injury. Even today, the "what if" moniker is applied to that match.
Now, Wales is back in the quarter-finals of a major tournament. The wait for such an opportunity to come to Wales has been 58 years. On Thursday night, Wales will take the pitch at Stade Pierre Mauroy in Lille Métropole against powerful Belgium. Ironically, it will be the third meeting between the two sides in the tournament. On November 18, 2014 the two sides battled to a scoreless draw in Brussels. Then, on June 12, 2015 in Cardiff, Wales, the Welsh got a goal from Bale to win, 1-0. It virtually assured that Wales would play in the finals in France, this summer.
Euro 2016: Just 8 Remain in Title Hunt; Poland Downs Switzerland on Penalty Kicks;
BALTIMORE, Maryland, Monday, June 27, 2016 - Upset-minded Wales and Poland have marched into the Final Eight of the Euro 2016 Championship Tournament, being contested over the last month throughout France. Meanwhile, Chile has beaten back Argentina on penalty kicks to win the "Copa América Centenario" Tournament, contested in These United States in recent weeks, with the title match played at the Meadowlands on Sunday in front of some 82,000 fans. Team USA performed admirably in the tournament, coming through the Group Stage and winning its Quarterfinal Match over a good Eduador team, 2-1. That put the USA in the tournament semi-final against Argentina on June 21 in Houston. The magic ended there, with the South American side beating the USA, 4-0.
In France, the Knockout Phase, or Finals, began over the weekend. In the first match at St. Etienne, the Swiss and Poland battled for 90 minutes and through extra time and overtime, only to end up tied, 1-1. The New York Times reported that Jakub Blaszczykowski scored his second goal of the tournament to give Poland the lead in the 39th minute with a low shot past Swiss goalkeeper Yann Sommer. But, according to the AP and the New York Times, a bicycle kick by Xherdan Shaqiri in the 82nd minute sent the match into extra time. In the penalty kick phase, the New York Times said that Grzegorz Krychowiak stepped up to score the shootout winner. But Krychowiak only got his moment in the limelight after Shaqiri missed his penalty kick for Switzerland. It was the only missed penalty kick of the ten taken in that final part of the match. Poland will now take on erratic Portugal in the quarter-finals.
Wales, which has its own national soccer team even though it is part of the United Kingdom, claims an underdog role even though a player deemed one of the world's very best plays for the Welsh Side. Gareth Bale, who plays professionally for Barcelona, in Spain, is a prolific scorer with one of the nastiest shots to be seen anywhere. When Wales lost to England in the Group Stage - do you think that game was played with some passion? - Bale gave Wales a 1-0 lead at the half on a long free kick that seemed to change directions before settling into the net. The Welsh made the Finals nonetheless, and in its first game it turned back another underdog side, the team from Northern Ireland. The final score was 1-0, with the match's only score coming when Northern Ireland's Gareth McAuley inadvertently poked a nasty Bale cross into the Irish net. A UEFA reporter at the match said that McAuley was forced to risk the result because Bale's cross was coming onto the foot of Wales'.
In France, the Knockout Phase, or Finals, began over the weekend. In the first match at St. Etienne, the Swiss and Poland battled for 90 minutes and through extra time and overtime, only to end up tied, 1-1. The New York Times reported that Jakub Blaszczykowski scored his second goal of the tournament to give Poland the lead in the 39th minute with a low shot past Swiss goalkeeper Yann Sommer. But, according to the AP and the New York Times, a bicycle kick by Xherdan Shaqiri in the 82nd minute sent the match into extra time. In the penalty kick phase, the New York Times said that Grzegorz Krychowiak stepped up to score the shootout winner. But Krychowiak only got his moment in the limelight after Shaqiri missed his penalty kick for Switzerland. It was the only missed penalty kick of the ten taken in that final part of the match. Poland will now take on erratic Portugal in the quarter-finals.
Wales, which has its own national soccer team even though it is part of the United Kingdom, claims an underdog role even though a player deemed one of the world's very best plays for the Welsh Side. Gareth Bale, who plays professionally for Barcelona, in Spain, is a prolific scorer with one of the nastiest shots to be seen anywhere. When Wales lost to England in the Group Stage - do you think that game was played with some passion? - Bale gave Wales a 1-0 lead at the half on a long free kick that seemed to change directions before settling into the net. The Welsh made the Finals nonetheless, and in its first game it turned back another underdog side, the team from Northern Ireland. The final score was 1-0, with the match's only score coming when Northern Ireland's Gareth McAuley inadvertently poked a nasty Bale cross into the Irish net. A UEFA reporter at the match said that McAuley was forced to risk the result because Bale's cross was coming onto the foot of Wales'.
Monday, June 27, 2016
Euro 2016: Poland and Wales Play Into Quarterfinals; Wales Defeats Northern Ireland as Bale Stars; Poland Beats Back Switzerland on Penalty Kicks; Germany Crushes Slovakia, to Play Winner of Italy and Spain; Chile Beats Argentina in Copa Final
BALTIMORE, Maryland, Monday, June 27, 2016 - Two upset-minded sides - Wales and Poland - have marched into the Final Eight of the Euro 2016 Championship Tournament, being contested over the last month throughout France. In the first match of the final part of the tournament, Poland beat back Switzerland by winning the Penalty Kick Stage, 5-4. The teams had battled ferociously throughout regulation and overtime, but "regular play" ended with the two teams tied, 1-1. Meanwhile, Chile has beaten back Argentina on penalty kicks to win the "Copa América Centenario" Tournament, contested in These United States in recent weeks, with the title match played at the Meadowlands on Sunday in front of some 82,000 fans. Team USA performed admirably in the tournament, coming through the Group Stage and winning its Quarterfinal Match over a good Ecuador team, 2-1. That put the USA in the tournament semi-final against Argentina on June 21 in Houston. The magic ended there, with the South American side beating the USA, 4-0.
In France, the Knockout Phase, or Finals, began over the weekend with the 16 qualifying teams taking part in the now-single elimination last stage. In the first match at St. Etienne, the Swiss and Poland battled for 90 minutes and through extra time and overtime, only to end up tied, 1-1. The New York Times reported that Jakub Blaszczykowski scored his second goal of the tournament to give Poland the lead in the 39th minute with a low shot past Swiss goalkeeper Yann Sommer. But, according to the AP and the New York Times, a bicycle kick by Xherdan Shaqiri in the 82nd minute sent the match into extra time. In the penalty kick phase, the New York Times said that Grzegorz Krychowiak stepped up to score the shootout winner. But Krychowiak only got his moment in the limelight after Shaqiri missed his penalty kick for Switzerland. It was the only missed penalty kick of the ten taken in that final part of the match. Poland will now take on erratic Portugal in the quarter-finals.
Wales, which has its own national soccer team even though it is part of the United Kingdom, claims an underdog role even though a player deemed one of the world's very best plays for the Welsh Side. Gareth Bale, who plays professionally for Real Madrid, in Spain, is a prolific scorer with one of the nastiest shots to be seen anywhere. When Wales lost to England in the Group Stage - do you think that game was played with some passion? - Bale gave Wales a 1-0 lead at the half on a long free kick that seemed to change directions before settling into the net. The Welsh made the Finals nonetheless, and in its first game it turned back another underdog side, the team from Northern Ireland. The final score was 1-0, with the match's only score coming when Northern Ireland's Gareth McAuley inadvertently poked a nasty Bale cross into the Irish net. A UEFA reporter at the match said that McAuley was forced to risk the result because Bale's cross was coming onto the foot of Wales' Hal Robson-Kanu, who was charging the net.
Also in France, Germany crushed Slovakia, 3-0; Portugal defeated Croatia, 1-0; Homestanding France defeated Ireland, 2-1; and Belgium rocked Hungary, 4-0. Today there are two matches to determine the final two qualifiers for the Round of Eight. As I post this, Italy and Spain are scoreless in the 27th minute. Later, England will collide with Iceland.
Some of the match-ups for the Round of Eight are already known. The first quarterfinal match will be played Thursday when Poland takes on Portugal in Marseilles. On Friday, Wales tangles with Belgium at Stade Pierre Mauroy in Lille Métropole. On Saturday, Germany will take on the winner of the match today between Italy and Spain. That game will be played in Bordeaux. And, naturally, on Sunday the home team, France, will take on the winner of today's game between England and Iceland. That spectacle will be played at St. Denis. The semi-finals are set for July 6 in Lyon and July 7 in Marseilles. The championship will take place on Sunday, July 10 in St. Denis.
As an aside, Burnley fans already know that Claret Striker Sam Vokes is one of two starting strikers for Wales. When Belgium edged Wales in the Group Stage of this tournament, Vokes was still recovering from the serious knee injury which kept him out of action for nearly one year. His return to health and the acquisition of Andre Gray has given Burnley high hopes that its season in the Premier League that is coming up will be far different than the last appearance two seasons back, when the Claret played terrific defense but just could not score. Now, Vokes is fully recovered and Green is coming off a stunning campaign in which he led the Championship in scoring.
In France, the Knockout Phase, or Finals, began over the weekend with the 16 qualifying teams taking part in the now-single elimination last stage. In the first match at St. Etienne, the Swiss and Poland battled for 90 minutes and through extra time and overtime, only to end up tied, 1-1. The New York Times reported that Jakub Blaszczykowski scored his second goal of the tournament to give Poland the lead in the 39th minute with a low shot past Swiss goalkeeper Yann Sommer. But, according to the AP and the New York Times, a bicycle kick by Xherdan Shaqiri in the 82nd minute sent the match into extra time. In the penalty kick phase, the New York Times said that Grzegorz Krychowiak stepped up to score the shootout winner. But Krychowiak only got his moment in the limelight after Shaqiri missed his penalty kick for Switzerland. It was the only missed penalty kick of the ten taken in that final part of the match. Poland will now take on erratic Portugal in the quarter-finals.
Wales, which has its own national soccer team even though it is part of the United Kingdom, claims an underdog role even though a player deemed one of the world's very best plays for the Welsh Side. Gareth Bale, who plays professionally for Real Madrid, in Spain, is a prolific scorer with one of the nastiest shots to be seen anywhere. When Wales lost to England in the Group Stage - do you think that game was played with some passion? - Bale gave Wales a 1-0 lead at the half on a long free kick that seemed to change directions before settling into the net. The Welsh made the Finals nonetheless, and in its first game it turned back another underdog side, the team from Northern Ireland. The final score was 1-0, with the match's only score coming when Northern Ireland's Gareth McAuley inadvertently poked a nasty Bale cross into the Irish net. A UEFA reporter at the match said that McAuley was forced to risk the result because Bale's cross was coming onto the foot of Wales' Hal Robson-Kanu, who was charging the net.
Also in France, Germany crushed Slovakia, 3-0; Portugal defeated Croatia, 1-0; Homestanding France defeated Ireland, 2-1; and Belgium rocked Hungary, 4-0. Today there are two matches to determine the final two qualifiers for the Round of Eight. As I post this, Italy and Spain are scoreless in the 27th minute. Later, England will collide with Iceland.
Some of the match-ups for the Round of Eight are already known. The first quarterfinal match will be played Thursday when Poland takes on Portugal in Marseilles. On Friday, Wales tangles with Belgium at Stade Pierre Mauroy in Lille Métropole. On Saturday, Germany will take on the winner of the match today between Italy and Spain. That game will be played in Bordeaux. And, naturally, on Sunday the home team, France, will take on the winner of today's game between England and Iceland. That spectacle will be played at St. Denis. The semi-finals are set for July 6 in Lyon and July 7 in Marseilles. The championship will take place on Sunday, July 10 in St. Denis.
As an aside, Burnley fans already know that Claret Striker Sam Vokes is one of two starting strikers for Wales. When Belgium edged Wales in the Group Stage of this tournament, Vokes was still recovering from the serious knee injury which kept him out of action for nearly one year. His return to health and the acquisition of Andre Gray has given Burnley high hopes that its season in the Premier League that is coming up will be far different than the last appearance two seasons back, when the Claret played terrific defense but just could not score. Now, Vokes is fully recovered and Green is coming off a stunning campaign in which he led the Championship in scoring.
Saturday, June 25, 2016
In United Kingdom Vote to Leave EU, English Reject Obama's Advice to Do Just the Opposite; Orioles Continue to Lead AL East
BALTIMORE, Maryland Saturday, June 25, 2016 - A political commentator suggested today that the decision by English voters to withdraw their their nation from the European Union was a watershed event in world history. It will be seen in years to come as the beginning of a trend by "the people" to take back their governments. By taking them back, he suggested, he meant taking decision making away from government bureaucrats and putting back with the people, where it should have been all along. He pointed out that Barack Obama had gone to the United Kingdom and pleaded with the people to avoid doing exactly what they ended up doing. Although some mainstream commentators want you to believe that this vote is grounded in arcane European issues having nothing to do with what is going on in America, exactly the opposite is actually true. In the United States right now a groundswell of the people want immigration slowed down or even stopped until the government finds a way of vetting refugees in some depth. Even as Barack Obama rushes Middle Eastern Refugees into the United States - apparently because he believes they will form a staple of democratic ultra left voters for years to come - most of the people are shocked that he would risk mayhem and terrorism just for political reasons. Others point out that everything is about ultra left politics in Obama's mindset. The more people learn about ultra far left political machinations, the more they tend to vote against ultra left politicians.
If any of this actually pans out, Hilary might lose even if she somehow avoids indictment.
Sports: Look at the MLB standings this Saturday morning and you will notice that only one American League team has a better record than the Orioles. It is stunning when you consider the very shaky nature of the Birds' starting rotation. Chris Tillman should pitch in the All Star Game, and I believe Kevin Gauman has a chance to emerge in the second half (As this is posted, he is pitching a shutout into the 7th inning against the Rays, and might actually get his first win.) Gausman gets very poor run support for whatever reason. Tillman gets great support. Almost everybody on the Orioles staff gets great support. That is why they have a 1.5 game lead in the American League East. They went 2-2 during Manny Machado's four game suspension. The Orioles lead Tampa, 3-0, in the daytime portion of their day-night doubleheader in Baltimore. Tillman will start the nightcap. In his first game back from the suspension, last night, Machado surprised no one when he homered. He has a huge lead in the voting for starting third baseman on the All Star team.
If any of this actually pans out, Hilary might lose even if she somehow avoids indictment.
Sports: Look at the MLB standings this Saturday morning and you will notice that only one American League team has a better record than the Orioles. It is stunning when you consider the very shaky nature of the Birds' starting rotation. Chris Tillman should pitch in the All Star Game, and I believe Kevin Gauman has a chance to emerge in the second half (As this is posted, he is pitching a shutout into the 7th inning against the Rays, and might actually get his first win.) Gausman gets very poor run support for whatever reason. Tillman gets great support. Almost everybody on the Orioles staff gets great support. That is why they have a 1.5 game lead in the American League East. They went 2-2 during Manny Machado's four game suspension. The Orioles lead Tampa, 3-0, in the daytime portion of their day-night doubleheader in Baltimore. Tillman will start the nightcap. In his first game back from the suspension, last night, Machado surprised no one when he homered. He has a huge lead in the voting for starting third baseman on the All Star team.
Friday, June 24, 2016
A 5-Year-Old is Sexually Assaulted and Brutalized by Three Children of Obama's Refugees; Mainstream Media Hides the News.
BALTIMORE, Maryland June 24, 2016 - In Twin Falls, Idaho, a 5-year-old girl with "special needs," was playing outside of her parents' apartment house. Playing. Just playing. A five-year-old child with profound medical needs. As this article is reported, I have no idea whether the child was white, black, Latin, Asian, Muslim or Christian.
Suddenly, and without any sort of provocation of any kind, the small child was grotesquely sexually assaulted by three other children: one was 13 but the other two, it appears, weren't much older than the victim. These three assailants were Muslim Immigrants. They forced the little girl into a laundry room, where they pinned her to a wall, urinated in her mouth, then sexually assaulted her and committed other unspeakable atrocities on her and against her. Remember, the victim is five, and with profound medical problems. The entire incident - or most of it - was videoed by one of the assailants and the video is in the possession of local police. The victim was eventually taken to a local hospital, which was able to confirm the sexual assault. At some point during the assault an 89-year-old woman happened upon it. In short order the parents of the victim arrived at the scene.
After the incident, scores of mainstream media outlets ran stories, not about the incident itself, but to the effect that the entire incident was contrived by conservatives. Instead of steady factual reporting about the horrific attack, the news media ran stories that everything was made up by conservative folk.
The story was not contrived by anyone. What happened in Twin Falls, Idaho is cold hard reality.
While true accounts of the event are absent from the mainstream media, there are factual accounts out there on the internet. These accounts are in blogs like the one you are reading, and on conservative media sites. The incident is being talked about by millions upon millions of American Citizens who listen to talk radio. Other minor media outlets have accounts that are in graphic detail. There is no way to report such a horrific attack except in such detail. Otherwise, people would not believe such an incident would be possible in These United States.
Three Muslim children commit an unspeakable crime against the most innocent of victims. Other assaults by Muslim immigrants are also being scrubbed, routinely, from mainstream media outlets by the people who operate them. It is hard for me to accept, in fact, it is impossible for me to accept, that Muslim folk would believe this type of event was acceptable. But most of them don't know about it. Were this or any other criminal act perpetrated by Christians of any number or age, it would be splashed all over everything. How sick has the media become to allow a situation such as this to exist. I was taught in journalism school that reporting the truth in all of its raw and awful 'splendor' is the highest calling of a journalist. If reporters everywhere commit to this principal, we were taught that the overall truth would inevitably emerge. In the years since I graduated, have we learned that this premise is no longer true? We have not. What nobleness, what glory, what satisfaction is there for mass reporting of untruth? What joy is there in keeping truth buried and promoting untruth? If society as a whole knew about Twin Falls and knew about Germany on New Year's Eve, the criminals perpetrating these evils would be confronted, certainly and with authority. The fight against evil like this would be joined. Now, these acts are done with relative impunity. How sick is that? What have we done to ourselves to allow such a situation? What is wrong with Obama that he allows such events without bringing the bully pulpit to bear against them? Were I in power (God Forbid) and certain Christians were going about doing evil acts to Muslims or Jews or whomever, I would act with certain quick authority and would make clear that neither society nor Christianity would tolerate such debauchery. For the sake of a very uncertain gain of political power, I would not permit such madness into my country. I would do what had to be done to ensure that the people who came in did not include terrorists or criminals or, for that matter, people who did not care to assimilate into the American culture. Or is American culture so backward that no one wants to live here anymore? Doesn't the number of people storming the borders convince Obama that this is not true?
I really really hate to write about stuff like this. I hate drawing the differences that exist between the citizens of this country out into the open, where I heap scorn on one group and praise on others. But what occurred in Twin Falls should not have happened. Obama knows that. He should demand action to prevent its happening again. Instead, he literally perpetrates a repeat.
When terrorism strikes again and again, stand up to it. Act against it. Do not try to hide it under the guise of some other perceived evil. Somethings demand action or, at least, enlightened discussion. Orlando and Berkeley and Tennessee and Fort Hood are linked together by one thing: Islamic Terrorism. To say otherwise is an attempt to change the subject and it is evil to do so at such a critical juncture in the life of our nation. A perceived benefit to the ultra left political party is never ever more important than protecting all of the people, especially when so many of them elected you to protect them.
So there are these questions: How evil are the parents of the three assailants that their three children think what they did to an innocent five-year-old girl is an acceptable thing to do? How did the three assailants even get the idea to attack a young girl, urinate in her mouth, sexually assault her, and commit other unspeakable acts against her?
A real government would demand such answers and would do everything imaginable to keep this evil from being repeated. A government that refuses to seek these answers is not worthy of its existence. Americans need to act swiftly to change it. Anyone unwilling to demand such answers should not come to power. But I bet Obama and Hillary won't even speak to the evil unless the public demands it, and the public today won't demand it because most of them will never know about it. Obama and Hillary know about it, of that you can be sure. Their only instructions to subordinates will be to keep the incident quiet and promote the idea that the whole thing was made up by the right. Just look what the two of them did after the Benghazi attack. I'm a liberal, and I know that is what ultra leftists of the kind we're stuck with will do when they know their ideas for ending the America most of us treasure with our very lives really isn't working. The enemy of America has slithered into the inner rooms of power. It is doing unspeakable things to those places that tens of thousands of the best and brightest gave their lives to build and protect. It is Obama and it is Hilary.
It used to be that America's enemies, knowing they had failed to bring America down, would boast aloud that America would be defeated some day soon by a conqueror who would bring us down without ever firing a shot. Now the conqueror who will perpetrate that defeat is here in our midst and is in the final stage of inflicting that defeat. By the end of January the destruction will be all but complete. And, thanks to the mainstream media, we can't even locate the shooter. God knows what kinds of things Obama will do in these final months. I hope somewhere there are leaders - either Democrat or Republican - who have the courage to prevent this evil. It might even be someone who, up to now, hasn't seemed the kind of person who possesses that kind of moral clarity.
If you live in these United States and it doesn't bother every core part of your being that your "president" is rushing, as fast as he possibly can, to get as many foreign people from the Middle East and North Africa into the United States as he possibly can during his last months in power, even though he knows that most of them will never assimilate into this nation, and he also knows, for sure, that an unknown number of them may very well do irreparable harm to this country.
Each day I wonder just how evil Obama really and truly is. It used to really really bother me that I perceived him to be more evil with each passing day. I thought there was something wrong with me because it was hard for me to accept that my president was this kind of person. Was my president really this kind of person? Does he really think that the American people are evil and have wrongly stolen things from other people and other nations? Does he not see in our founding documents that the people he governs have the most noble of aims and praiseworthy of intentions? Is he blind to the good the millions of Americans have done in these last 240 years?
Finally, I came to understand and, reluctantly, accept that Obama really is against the core beliefs and the actual foundation of the country he was elected to govern. Even though he stood before millions of American Citizens and vowed, with his hand of the Holy Bible, that he would "preserve and protect" this nation, "uphold" its laws and its precepts, Obama never intended to do any of it. Apparently, right from the git-go, Obama intended to tear into all things American and do everything he could, right from his first day in office, to tear down the American nation, emaciate its power, hamstring its ability to react to calamity, and destroy its ability to confront and defeat America's powerful enemies. He was, from his initial moments as head of These United States, the consummate wolf in sheep's clothing. He was, with every step he took, with every breath he drew, searching frantically for ways to cripple the people he governs. Obamacare was the first step. It ruined the best, most noble medical system that had ever existed on earth, one that provided essential medical treatment to every single person who sought it out, no matter their ability to pay. In its place was placed an old, clumsy, witless jumble of disastrous laws and useless, if not harmful regulations that sucked money and energy from everybody and everything it came in contact with. Obama's "signature" legislative proposal provided no semblance of quality medical care to any American, provided no semblance of long term policy success, no semblance of the kind of shining house on the hill that the medical system it replaced showed every single day that it existed in this American Nation. Obamacare was literally like replacing Mickey Mantle or Willie Mays with a crotchety old man who had sat on the bench of the Little League Team his parents forced him to try out for.
Americans caught on to Obama's real intentions in leaps and bounds over these past 7 and one-half years. Within two years the USA withdrew its blanket legislative authority from Obama when it gave the majority in the House of Representatives back to the GOP. But two years after that Obama won re-election, an event that continues to baffle many historians who watch this nation for hopeful signs and trends. Did Obama somehow steal that election four years ago? We know he tried, with his plans to repress tea party groups seeking to organize. We know he tried with his "Acorn" organizations. We know that he paved the way for outside money sources - the George Soros's of the world - to spend their millions on ultra-left causes. But the answer to the re-election question might lie in the deep-seated belief of many Americans that wrongs had been committed against black Americans, and the people who were wronged should not have their first go at real political power cut short before it/he gets a chance to really govern. That is a folly, but forgivable folly. Almost all Americans would be only too happy to vote for a Black American, a Latin American, an Asian American or any other American so long as he or she was the best candidate. It is the "best candidate" moniker that matters, not the ethnic nameplate that precedes it. Nevertheless, Obama did get four more years. They have been nightmarish. Two years after he was again elected, America took away Democratic control of all of the Congress. But the GOP has been abysmal also.
Today, in the final months of Obama's stay in power, he seems almost unafraid of being "found out" as someone who hates America. Its as if he is laughing at us and saying, "what took you so long to find me out?"
Obama really does want to destroy the United States; his idea of allowing as many folk who think like he does into the country is only the latest manifestation of that. Remember when he had his flunkies round up a bunch of women and children, then had media types video him with these people while he told viewers that this is what the refugees he is inviting in look like? They aren't evil, he said, straight-faced, they are innocent women and children. He knew he was playing bald-faced liar once again. He didn't care how obvious that it was. He was getting out in 2017 and history would know the secret of his long term intentions right from the first day he was just a citizen again. He "fooled" us for 8 years but the charade is over.
Tens of thousands of people are streaming into the United States in these final days of the Obama regime. Among them are unvetted terrorists, whether a dozen or a hundred or a thousand or several thousand. Among them, also, are the type that spread evil in Twin Falls, Idaho. And all the while, the media and the ultra left are laughing and saying, 'so what?' What difference does it make now that you know?
The only thing Obama says is to the tens of thousands who are now crossing the American borders. That message is, "hurry up."
Suddenly, and without any sort of provocation of any kind, the small child was grotesquely sexually assaulted by three other children: one was 13 but the other two, it appears, weren't much older than the victim. These three assailants were Muslim Immigrants. They forced the little girl into a laundry room, where they pinned her to a wall, urinated in her mouth, then sexually assaulted her and committed other unspeakable atrocities on her and against her. Remember, the victim is five, and with profound medical problems. The entire incident - or most of it - was videoed by one of the assailants and the video is in the possession of local police. The victim was eventually taken to a local hospital, which was able to confirm the sexual assault. At some point during the assault an 89-year-old woman happened upon it. In short order the parents of the victim arrived at the scene.
After the incident, scores of mainstream media outlets ran stories, not about the incident itself, but to the effect that the entire incident was contrived by conservatives. Instead of steady factual reporting about the horrific attack, the news media ran stories that everything was made up by conservative folk.
The story was not contrived by anyone. What happened in Twin Falls, Idaho is cold hard reality.
While true accounts of the event are absent from the mainstream media, there are factual accounts out there on the internet. These accounts are in blogs like the one you are reading, and on conservative media sites. The incident is being talked about by millions upon millions of American Citizens who listen to talk radio. Other minor media outlets have accounts that are in graphic detail. There is no way to report such a horrific attack except in such detail. Otherwise, people would not believe such an incident would be possible in These United States.
Three Muslim children commit an unspeakable crime against the most innocent of victims. Other assaults by Muslim immigrants are also being scrubbed, routinely, from mainstream media outlets by the people who operate them. It is hard for me to accept, in fact, it is impossible for me to accept, that Muslim folk would believe this type of event was acceptable. But most of them don't know about it. Were this or any other criminal act perpetrated by Christians of any number or age, it would be splashed all over everything. How sick has the media become to allow a situation such as this to exist. I was taught in journalism school that reporting the truth in all of its raw and awful 'splendor' is the highest calling of a journalist. If reporters everywhere commit to this principal, we were taught that the overall truth would inevitably emerge. In the years since I graduated, have we learned that this premise is no longer true? We have not. What nobleness, what glory, what satisfaction is there for mass reporting of untruth? What joy is there in keeping truth buried and promoting untruth? If society as a whole knew about Twin Falls and knew about Germany on New Year's Eve, the criminals perpetrating these evils would be confronted, certainly and with authority. The fight against evil like this would be joined. Now, these acts are done with relative impunity. How sick is that? What have we done to ourselves to allow such a situation? What is wrong with Obama that he allows such events without bringing the bully pulpit to bear against them? Were I in power (God Forbid) and certain Christians were going about doing evil acts to Muslims or Jews or whomever, I would act with certain quick authority and would make clear that neither society nor Christianity would tolerate such debauchery. For the sake of a very uncertain gain of political power, I would not permit such madness into my country. I would do what had to be done to ensure that the people who came in did not include terrorists or criminals or, for that matter, people who did not care to assimilate into the American culture. Or is American culture so backward that no one wants to live here anymore? Doesn't the number of people storming the borders convince Obama that this is not true?
I really really hate to write about stuff like this. I hate drawing the differences that exist between the citizens of this country out into the open, where I heap scorn on one group and praise on others. But what occurred in Twin Falls should not have happened. Obama knows that. He should demand action to prevent its happening again. Instead, he literally perpetrates a repeat.
When terrorism strikes again and again, stand up to it. Act against it. Do not try to hide it under the guise of some other perceived evil. Somethings demand action or, at least, enlightened discussion. Orlando and Berkeley and Tennessee and Fort Hood are linked together by one thing: Islamic Terrorism. To say otherwise is an attempt to change the subject and it is evil to do so at such a critical juncture in the life of our nation. A perceived benefit to the ultra left political party is never ever more important than protecting all of the people, especially when so many of them elected you to protect them.
So there are these questions: How evil are the parents of the three assailants that their three children think what they did to an innocent five-year-old girl is an acceptable thing to do? How did the three assailants even get the idea to attack a young girl, urinate in her mouth, sexually assault her, and commit other unspeakable acts against her?
A real government would demand such answers and would do everything imaginable to keep this evil from being repeated. A government that refuses to seek these answers is not worthy of its existence. Americans need to act swiftly to change it. Anyone unwilling to demand such answers should not come to power. But I bet Obama and Hillary won't even speak to the evil unless the public demands it, and the public today won't demand it because most of them will never know about it. Obama and Hillary know about it, of that you can be sure. Their only instructions to subordinates will be to keep the incident quiet and promote the idea that the whole thing was made up by the right. Just look what the two of them did after the Benghazi attack. I'm a liberal, and I know that is what ultra leftists of the kind we're stuck with will do when they know their ideas for ending the America most of us treasure with our very lives really isn't working. The enemy of America has slithered into the inner rooms of power. It is doing unspeakable things to those places that tens of thousands of the best and brightest gave their lives to build and protect. It is Obama and it is Hilary.
It used to be that America's enemies, knowing they had failed to bring America down, would boast aloud that America would be defeated some day soon by a conqueror who would bring us down without ever firing a shot. Now the conqueror who will perpetrate that defeat is here in our midst and is in the final stage of inflicting that defeat. By the end of January the destruction will be all but complete. And, thanks to the mainstream media, we can't even locate the shooter. God knows what kinds of things Obama will do in these final months. I hope somewhere there are leaders - either Democrat or Republican - who have the courage to prevent this evil. It might even be someone who, up to now, hasn't seemed the kind of person who possesses that kind of moral clarity.
If you live in these United States and it doesn't bother every core part of your being that your "president" is rushing, as fast as he possibly can, to get as many foreign people from the Middle East and North Africa into the United States as he possibly can during his last months in power, even though he knows that most of them will never assimilate into this nation, and he also knows, for sure, that an unknown number of them may very well do irreparable harm to this country.
Each day I wonder just how evil Obama really and truly is. It used to really really bother me that I perceived him to be more evil with each passing day. I thought there was something wrong with me because it was hard for me to accept that my president was this kind of person. Was my president really this kind of person? Does he really think that the American people are evil and have wrongly stolen things from other people and other nations? Does he not see in our founding documents that the people he governs have the most noble of aims and praiseworthy of intentions? Is he blind to the good the millions of Americans have done in these last 240 years?
Finally, I came to understand and, reluctantly, accept that Obama really is against the core beliefs and the actual foundation of the country he was elected to govern. Even though he stood before millions of American Citizens and vowed, with his hand of the Holy Bible, that he would "preserve and protect" this nation, "uphold" its laws and its precepts, Obama never intended to do any of it. Apparently, right from the git-go, Obama intended to tear into all things American and do everything he could, right from his first day in office, to tear down the American nation, emaciate its power, hamstring its ability to react to calamity, and destroy its ability to confront and defeat America's powerful enemies. He was, from his initial moments as head of These United States, the consummate wolf in sheep's clothing. He was, with every step he took, with every breath he drew, searching frantically for ways to cripple the people he governs. Obamacare was the first step. It ruined the best, most noble medical system that had ever existed on earth, one that provided essential medical treatment to every single person who sought it out, no matter their ability to pay. In its place was placed an old, clumsy, witless jumble of disastrous laws and useless, if not harmful regulations that sucked money and energy from everybody and everything it came in contact with. Obama's "signature" legislative proposal provided no semblance of quality medical care to any American, provided no semblance of long term policy success, no semblance of the kind of shining house on the hill that the medical system it replaced showed every single day that it existed in this American Nation. Obamacare was literally like replacing Mickey Mantle or Willie Mays with a crotchety old man who had sat on the bench of the Little League Team his parents forced him to try out for.
Americans caught on to Obama's real intentions in leaps and bounds over these past 7 and one-half years. Within two years the USA withdrew its blanket legislative authority from Obama when it gave the majority in the House of Representatives back to the GOP. But two years after that Obama won re-election, an event that continues to baffle many historians who watch this nation for hopeful signs and trends. Did Obama somehow steal that election four years ago? We know he tried, with his plans to repress tea party groups seeking to organize. We know he tried with his "Acorn" organizations. We know that he paved the way for outside money sources - the George Soros's of the world - to spend their millions on ultra-left causes. But the answer to the re-election question might lie in the deep-seated belief of many Americans that wrongs had been committed against black Americans, and the people who were wronged should not have their first go at real political power cut short before it/he gets a chance to really govern. That is a folly, but forgivable folly. Almost all Americans would be only too happy to vote for a Black American, a Latin American, an Asian American or any other American so long as he or she was the best candidate. It is the "best candidate" moniker that matters, not the ethnic nameplate that precedes it. Nevertheless, Obama did get four more years. They have been nightmarish. Two years after he was again elected, America took away Democratic control of all of the Congress. But the GOP has been abysmal also.
Today, in the final months of Obama's stay in power, he seems almost unafraid of being "found out" as someone who hates America. Its as if he is laughing at us and saying, "what took you so long to find me out?"
Obama really does want to destroy the United States; his idea of allowing as many folk who think like he does into the country is only the latest manifestation of that. Remember when he had his flunkies round up a bunch of women and children, then had media types video him with these people while he told viewers that this is what the refugees he is inviting in look like? They aren't evil, he said, straight-faced, they are innocent women and children. He knew he was playing bald-faced liar once again. He didn't care how obvious that it was. He was getting out in 2017 and history would know the secret of his long term intentions right from the first day he was just a citizen again. He "fooled" us for 8 years but the charade is over.
Tens of thousands of people are streaming into the United States in these final days of the Obama regime. Among them are unvetted terrorists, whether a dozen or a hundred or a thousand or several thousand. Among them, also, are the type that spread evil in Twin Falls, Idaho. And all the while, the media and the ultra left are laughing and saying, 'so what?' What difference does it make now that you know?
The only thing Obama says is to the tens of thousands who are now crossing the American borders. That message is, "hurry up."
Thursday, June 23, 2016
Update: Police Officer Acquitted On All Charges in Baltimore Death of Freddie Gray; City and State Were Prepared for Unrest, But Few Protests Were Without Violence
BALTIMORE, Maryland - Thursday, June 23, 2016 - A Baltimore City Police Officer considered the primary defendant among the six officers charged in the death of Freddie Gray, has been acquitted of all charges, including "depraved heart murder," by a Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge. Officer Cesar Goodson was acquitted by Judge Barry Williams, the same judge who also acquitted the only other police officer whose case has come to a final decision. A third officer, who chose a jury trial, saw his case end in a hung jury, and is scheduled to be retried. The jury in that case was said to be split, 11-1, in favor of acquittal.
Freddie Gray was a reputed drug dealer who was ensconced on an infamous street corner when a group of officers, some on bicycles, arrived on the scene. Upon making eye contact with one of the bicycle officers, Gray fled but was apprehended and, when a search turned up a large knife, was arrested. He claimed injury at various times in the immediate aftermath of his arrest, but other evidence produced in the trials indicated that Gray was not seriously injured until sometime after all but one of a series of stops that the police van transporting him was required to make. When the van arrived at its final stop, however, Gray was unresponsive and was found to have broken his neck. He died one week later in Maryland's Shock Trauma Unit in Baltimore. The cause of his injury remains unresolved, although there was some evidence that Gray intentionally sought to in- jure himself. Riots broke out after Gray's death and the Baltimore State's Attorney, Marian Mosbey, announced charges against all six police officers who responded to the scene of the arrest. The second degree murder charge against Officer Goodson was by far the most serious.
In making his announcement of acquittal Thursday morning, Judge Williams said that the State had never proved the premise of the charges against Officer Goodson: a so-called "rough ride" by the driver of the police van to punish the arrested person(s). No person testified that Goodson drove in such a way so as to injure Mr. Gray.
Every arrested officer except Goodson has brought suit against Mosbey and others in federal court, claiming that the State's Attorney defamed the officers without just cause. All of those civil suits are pending.
Testimony and closing arguments in the Goodson case ended on Tuesday, but Judge Williams announced that he would reveal his verdict Thursday morning. There was speculation immediately that the Judge had decided to acquit and wanted to give Government Officials time to get their police and other government response units ready in case violence erupted. By mid-afternoon on Thursday there had been protests but no violence. Many Baltimore citizens were outright relieved that no violence ensued.
This writer had voiced criticism of Judge Williams' decision to keep the venue of the trial in Baltimore instead of moving it to another Maryland jurisdiction. Defendants had argued for the change in venue because of the riots sparked by the death of Freddie Gray. Baltimore was in a state of siege for many days and the National Guard was deployed after widespread rioting and looting and property destruction. A string of arson fires also took place and many drug stores were looted and robbed of their supplies of narcotic drugs. The Defendants argued that potential jurors would be intimidated by the riots into believing that unless they found the defendants guilty, further violence would ensue. As it turned out, Judge Williams, and not this writer, was correct.
Freddie Gray was a reputed drug dealer who was ensconced on an infamous street corner when a group of officers, some on bicycles, arrived on the scene. Upon making eye contact with one of the bicycle officers, Gray fled but was apprehended and, when a search turned up a large knife, was arrested. He claimed injury at various times in the immediate aftermath of his arrest, but other evidence produced in the trials indicated that Gray was not seriously injured until sometime after all but one of a series of stops that the police van transporting him was required to make. When the van arrived at its final stop, however, Gray was unresponsive and was found to have broken his neck. He died one week later in Maryland's Shock Trauma Unit in Baltimore. The cause of his injury remains unresolved, although there was some evidence that Gray intentionally sought to in- jure himself. Riots broke out after Gray's death and the Baltimore State's Attorney, Marian Mosbey, announced charges against all six police officers who responded to the scene of the arrest. The second degree murder charge against Officer Goodson was by far the most serious.
In making his announcement of acquittal Thursday morning, Judge Williams said that the State had never proved the premise of the charges against Officer Goodson: a so-called "rough ride" by the driver of the police van to punish the arrested person(s). No person testified that Goodson drove in such a way so as to injure Mr. Gray.
Every arrested officer except Goodson has brought suit against Mosbey and others in federal court, claiming that the State's Attorney defamed the officers without just cause. All of those civil suits are pending.
Testimony and closing arguments in the Goodson case ended on Tuesday, but Judge Williams announced that he would reveal his verdict Thursday morning. There was speculation immediately that the Judge had decided to acquit and wanted to give Government Officials time to get their police and other government response units ready in case violence erupted. By mid-afternoon on Thursday there had been protests but no violence. Many Baltimore citizens were outright relieved that no violence ensued.
This writer had voiced criticism of Judge Williams' decision to keep the venue of the trial in Baltimore instead of moving it to another Maryland jurisdiction. Defendants had argued for the change in venue because of the riots sparked by the death of Freddie Gray. Baltimore was in a state of siege for many days and the National Guard was deployed after widespread rioting and looting and property destruction. A string of arson fires also took place and many drug stores were looted and robbed of their supplies of narcotic drugs. The Defendants argued that potential jurors would be intimidated by the riots into believing that unless they found the defendants guilty, further violence would ensue. As it turned out, Judge Williams, and not this writer, was correct.
Monday, June 20, 2016
Updated: Obama and the Cynics in His Administration: Polar Opposites Even Among the Ultra Left; Orioles Slow Toronto Charge, then blow game in Texas; Baltimore's AL East Lead at One Game Over Boston and Two and One-Half Over Jays
BALTIMORE, Maryland, June 20, 2016 - John Brennan, President Obama's National Security Adviser, went before a Congressional Committee and testified under oath last week that the threat posed by ISIS was still very real and very dynamic and, just as remarkable after a full year of what Obama and his Actual President - Assistant, Val Jarrett, call a "bombing" campaign, still actually growing in size and intensity. At approximately the very same time, Obama was giving a speech in which he said that the exact opposite thing was actually true. While all of this was transpiring, some 29 elevated State Department Officers really and actually signed a letter to Obama ridiculing his hair-brained foreign policy. (They didn't use the phrase "hair-brained," although they might as well have). To begin with, these Officers said, Obama must do what he can to get rid of Syrian President Assad. They said other things and all of them apparently are still employed. There is strong evidence that the 29 Officers and Brennan are actually paying attention to what goes on in the Middle East. Obama, on the other hand, says his plan of "kinder and gentler" bombing and 'droning' in the Middle East, is a very great success that is leaving ISIL (he calls ISIS "ISIL," and may have explained why, but I missed the explanation) in ruins. Where?
This campaign does kill an occasional terrorist, but most of the USA fighter jets return to base with some or all of their precision munitions still attached to the fuselage. This ruthless campaign is being precisely and minutely run from inside the White House. Officers in the field call in a target to the White House. When Val and company have a chance, they call back with either a thumbs up or down, and if it is up, the lads in the pilot's seat, take off looking for the target. Sounds effective to me.
Thanks to their witless planning, Obama and his functionaries have lots to celebrate, but ending the ISIS threat isn't among them, nor will it be in the foreseeable future with Obama and Jarrett running the campaign from their commander in chiefs seats.
Over in today's State Department - the one without Hillary's absurd meddling and death-embracing influences - one thing high on the collective mind of the 29 letter writers is Obama's absurd policy toward Syria. The letter writers want the United States to take military action against the Assad regime. The 29 Officers want Assad gone. But Vlad Putin, the Russian Strongman, doesn't. And Obama doesn't want to ruffle his feathers. You didn't know?
Obama is feckless if nothing else. How else do you explain him and Brennan coming to polar opposite conclusions about a central tenet of USA foreign policy? How else do you explain the letter writers and the letter they wrote and made public? ISIS commits and new atrocity almost daily, publicizes it, openly laughs at the carnage and terror it provides, and braces itself to fend off absolutely nothing from what was the most powerful nation on Earth.
The Attorney General was on network TV Sunday, telling the nation that transcripts of the Orlando Massacre will be released after they are scrubbed of the worst, most incendiary references to ISIS. She said that those kind hearted folk in the Obama administration - the very same people that brought you the Benghazi Massacre - don't want the Orlando victims and their families to have to relive the Florida Massacre. Loretta Lynch didn't say that Obama didn't want the American people to be reminded, for the umpteenth time, of the connection between Islam and Terror. She didn't have to. But Obama is so sensitive about his favorite religion that he is going to scrub those transcripts anyway.
Almost one year ago, Marc Thiessen, a former speech-writer for President George W. Bush, wrote in his regular column in the Washington Post about Obama's obvious knack for "playing down" Islamic Terror. Then, he was writing in the wake of the evil Islamic Terrorist Attack on the military recruiting station in Tennessee. Long before the FBI concluded that it was a lone wolf attack, Obama said it was the act of a lone gunman. He didn't know this when he said it - at least I hope he didn't - but I know he was praying that it was. Now, in the wake of the largest mass murder in USA history, Obama has clamped down on anyone in his administration connecting Orlando with Islamic Terror in favor of talking exclusively about how the massacre is a reason to take guns away from law-abiding Americans. Many many Americans want guns to protect themselves from Islamic Terror and what many see as the growing threat from an over-bearing government, one that doesn't hesitate in the least from attacking the Bill of Rights. This reactionary attack on the Second Amendment is just the tip of the Iceberg when Obama is involved.
As Mark Levin would say, "There, I said it!"
Anyway, and predictably, the Congress said no to Obama, as well it should have. Now Obama will throw a tantrum and pass an executive order that either wholly or partly abrogates the Second Amendment of the Bill of Rights. Congress has a duty, he will say, to pass reactionary legislation. And if it won't, he will be 100% reactionary, because that is how dyed in the wool hardcore Anti-American Leftists are. Yes they are.
In sports - and I know that this is a very course segue if ever there was one, the Orioles put at least a momentary halt to Toronto's current charge toward first place. Over the weekend the Birds of Baltimore took two out of three from the Toronto Birds, including a win on Saturday in Yovani Gallardo's long-awaited return from the DL, and a win yesterday for Chris Tillman, who ran his record to 10-1. Matt Wieters homered and drove in four runs, Jonathan Schoop homered and drove in a total of three runs, and Ryan Flaherty drove in two runs as the Orioles won, 11-6. Tillman, an early Cy Young favorite, didn't have his best start - pitchers starting against Toronto rarely do - but it was more than enough with the Oriole's dependable bullpen.
The Orioles are now 40-28 and have a one game lead over Boston (39-29) and a three game over the Jays (39-33). The Yanks are in fourth place, at 34-35, 6 and one-half behind Baltimore. Tampa is in fifth place, 8.5 back, and with a record of 31-36. The Orioles were home over the weekend and begin a home series with the Padres tomorrow, but in between, meaning tonight, they must fly out to Texas for a make-up with the Rangers. Manny Machado dropped his appeal and began serving his four game suspension yesterday for charging the mound after being intentionally hit with a 98 mph fast ball thrown by the Royals' Yordano Ventura. Ventura was suspended nine games.
In that game in Texas, the Orioles came from ahead to lose, and it was ugly. They broke on top, 3-0, and then, in the next inning, loaded the bases with nobody out. With game, set, match, looming, they went about failing to score a single run, then watched Texas get four runs to win, 4-3. Boston lost, also, and Toronto was idle. Hence, the Orioles lead the Red Sox, still, by one game. Their lead over Toronto shrunk to 2 and one-half games.
This campaign does kill an occasional terrorist, but most of the USA fighter jets return to base with some or all of their precision munitions still attached to the fuselage. This ruthless campaign is being precisely and minutely run from inside the White House. Officers in the field call in a target to the White House. When Val and company have a chance, they call back with either a thumbs up or down, and if it is up, the lads in the pilot's seat, take off looking for the target. Sounds effective to me.
Thanks to their witless planning, Obama and his functionaries have lots to celebrate, but ending the ISIS threat isn't among them, nor will it be in the foreseeable future with Obama and Jarrett running the campaign from their commander in chiefs seats.
Over in today's State Department - the one without Hillary's absurd meddling and death-embracing influences - one thing high on the collective mind of the 29 letter writers is Obama's absurd policy toward Syria. The letter writers want the United States to take military action against the Assad regime. The 29 Officers want Assad gone. But Vlad Putin, the Russian Strongman, doesn't. And Obama doesn't want to ruffle his feathers. You didn't know?
Obama is feckless if nothing else. How else do you explain him and Brennan coming to polar opposite conclusions about a central tenet of USA foreign policy? How else do you explain the letter writers and the letter they wrote and made public? ISIS commits and new atrocity almost daily, publicizes it, openly laughs at the carnage and terror it provides, and braces itself to fend off absolutely nothing from what was the most powerful nation on Earth.
The Attorney General was on network TV Sunday, telling the nation that transcripts of the Orlando Massacre will be released after they are scrubbed of the worst, most incendiary references to ISIS. She said that those kind hearted folk in the Obama administration - the very same people that brought you the Benghazi Massacre - don't want the Orlando victims and their families to have to relive the Florida Massacre. Loretta Lynch didn't say that Obama didn't want the American people to be reminded, for the umpteenth time, of the connection between Islam and Terror. She didn't have to. But Obama is so sensitive about his favorite religion that he is going to scrub those transcripts anyway.
Almost one year ago, Marc Thiessen, a former speech-writer for President George W. Bush, wrote in his regular column in the Washington Post about Obama's obvious knack for "playing down" Islamic Terror. Then, he was writing in the wake of the evil Islamic Terrorist Attack on the military recruiting station in Tennessee. Long before the FBI concluded that it was a lone wolf attack, Obama said it was the act of a lone gunman. He didn't know this when he said it - at least I hope he didn't - but I know he was praying that it was. Now, in the wake of the largest mass murder in USA history, Obama has clamped down on anyone in his administration connecting Orlando with Islamic Terror in favor of talking exclusively about how the massacre is a reason to take guns away from law-abiding Americans. Many many Americans want guns to protect themselves from Islamic Terror and what many see as the growing threat from an over-bearing government, one that doesn't hesitate in the least from attacking the Bill of Rights. This reactionary attack on the Second Amendment is just the tip of the Iceberg when Obama is involved.
As Mark Levin would say, "There, I said it!"
Anyway, and predictably, the Congress said no to Obama, as well it should have. Now Obama will throw a tantrum and pass an executive order that either wholly or partly abrogates the Second Amendment of the Bill of Rights. Congress has a duty, he will say, to pass reactionary legislation. And if it won't, he will be 100% reactionary, because that is how dyed in the wool hardcore Anti-American Leftists are. Yes they are.
In sports - and I know that this is a very course segue if ever there was one, the Orioles put at least a momentary halt to Toronto's current charge toward first place. Over the weekend the Birds of Baltimore took two out of three from the Toronto Birds, including a win on Saturday in Yovani Gallardo's long-awaited return from the DL, and a win yesterday for Chris Tillman, who ran his record to 10-1. Matt Wieters homered and drove in four runs, Jonathan Schoop homered and drove in a total of three runs, and Ryan Flaherty drove in two runs as the Orioles won, 11-6. Tillman, an early Cy Young favorite, didn't have his best start - pitchers starting against Toronto rarely do - but it was more than enough with the Oriole's dependable bullpen.
The Orioles are now 40-28 and have a one game lead over Boston (39-29) and a three game over the Jays (39-33). The Yanks are in fourth place, at 34-35, 6 and one-half behind Baltimore. Tampa is in fifth place, 8.5 back, and with a record of 31-36. The Orioles were home over the weekend and begin a home series with the Padres tomorrow, but in between, meaning tonight, they must fly out to Texas for a make-up with the Rangers. Manny Machado dropped his appeal and began serving his four game suspension yesterday for charging the mound after being intentionally hit with a 98 mph fast ball thrown by the Royals' Yordano Ventura. Ventura was suspended nine games.
In that game in Texas, the Orioles came from ahead to lose, and it was ugly. They broke on top, 3-0, and then, in the next inning, loaded the bases with nobody out. With game, set, match, looming, they went about failing to score a single run, then watched Texas get four runs to win, 4-3. Boston lost, also, and Toronto was idle. Hence, the Orioles lead the Red Sox, still, by one game. Their lead over Toronto shrunk to 2 and one-half games.
Friday, June 17, 2016
Euro 2016: Poland and Germany Battle to Draw in Critical Showdown; England Rallies Past Wales; USA Advances to Copa America Semi-Final By Defeating Ecuador, 2-1
BALTIMORE, Maryland June 17, 2016 - The first scoreless draw of the Euro 2016 Finals virtually clinched second round spots for Poland and Germany and apparently assured Polish fans that their dark horse side can be a factor in the European Championship Tournament, playing out now across France. Ukraine, sadly, was eliminated from second round chances by the outcome. Meanwhile, in Seattle, the United States built a 2-0 lead over Ecuador and held on to defeat the powerful South American Side, 2-1, to advance to the "Final Four" of the Copa America Tournament, being played in the United States for the first time. The USA will take on the winner of the Argentina v. Venezuela match for the Copa Title.
Clint Dempsey scored in the 22nd minute and Gyasi Zardes scored in the 65th minute, on a goal set up by a Dempsey feed, as the USA built its lead. But Ecuador came back, scoring in the 74th minute to trim the American lead to a single score. Playing in front of a boisterous and jam-packed home crowd, the USA defense gathered itself and courageously pushed back. In the end, the heated duel ended in the win for the USA, but not before each side took a red card.
Wales, always cast in the underdog role, must find a way to come back after a gut-wrenching defeat by England in their Group B match. Gareth Bale, one of the world's very best players, scored on an amazing free kick in the first half to put Wales ahead of the English. But halftime subs Jamie Vardy and Daniel Sturridge scored in the second half as England rallied. The Sturridge score came two minutes into added time, making the defeat all the more painful for Wales.
There are six divisions in the Euro 2016 field, and four teams in each division. In the first part of these finals, each team plays a match against every other team in their division, with the top two teams from the six divisions - a total of 12 teams - and the best four third-place teams, earning berths in the 16-team final round. Like the World Cup, the final round is then decided by a single-elimination tournament. If you do the math - and oh what a whiz you are if you do - the winner and runner-up will have played 7 matches in France to earn the Euro 2016 Title.
France, the home side, leads Group A with 6 points, with Switzerland and its 4 points standing strong in second place.
England is now in great shape with 4 points atop Group B, followed by Wales and Slovakia, both at 1-0-1(3 points) in second place. Russia is 0-1-1 (1 point) in last place.
Germany and Poland are atop Group C, each with 1-1-0 records and 4 points. Northern Ireland is third at 1-0-1 and Ukraine, at 0-0-2, is last and, now, eliminated from any hope of moving on.
Teams in Groups D, E and F have each played but one match thus far. In Group D, Spain and Croatia won and the Czech Republic and Turkey lost, with each game finishing 1-0. In Group E, Italy beat back Belgium, 2-0, while Ireland and Sweden played to a 1-1 draw. In Group F, Hungary defeated Austria, 2-0, while Iceland and Portugal played to a 1-1 draw.
Clint Dempsey scored in the 22nd minute and Gyasi Zardes scored in the 65th minute, on a goal set up by a Dempsey feed, as the USA built its lead. But Ecuador came back, scoring in the 74th minute to trim the American lead to a single score. Playing in front of a boisterous and jam-packed home crowd, the USA defense gathered itself and courageously pushed back. In the end, the heated duel ended in the win for the USA, but not before each side took a red card.
Wales, always cast in the underdog role, must find a way to come back after a gut-wrenching defeat by England in their Group B match. Gareth Bale, one of the world's very best players, scored on an amazing free kick in the first half to put Wales ahead of the English. But halftime subs Jamie Vardy and Daniel Sturridge scored in the second half as England rallied. The Sturridge score came two minutes into added time, making the defeat all the more painful for Wales.
There are six divisions in the Euro 2016 field, and four teams in each division. In the first part of these finals, each team plays a match against every other team in their division, with the top two teams from the six divisions - a total of 12 teams - and the best four third-place teams, earning berths in the 16-team final round. Like the World Cup, the final round is then decided by a single-elimination tournament. If you do the math - and oh what a whiz you are if you do - the winner and runner-up will have played 7 matches in France to earn the Euro 2016 Title.
France, the home side, leads Group A with 6 points, with Switzerland and its 4 points standing strong in second place.
England is now in great shape with 4 points atop Group B, followed by Wales and Slovakia, both at 1-0-1(3 points) in second place. Russia is 0-1-1 (1 point) in last place.
Germany and Poland are atop Group C, each with 1-1-0 records and 4 points. Northern Ireland is third at 1-0-1 and Ukraine, at 0-0-2, is last and, now, eliminated from any hope of moving on.
Teams in Groups D, E and F have each played but one match thus far. In Group D, Spain and Croatia won and the Czech Republic and Turkey lost, with each game finishing 1-0. In Group E, Italy beat back Belgium, 2-0, while Ireland and Sweden played to a 1-1 draw. In Group F, Hungary defeated Austria, 2-0, while Iceland and Portugal played to a 1-1 draw.
Orioles Move Back Into AL East Top Spot After 5-1 Drubbing of Boston Red Sox; Adam Jones Plates Three Oriole Runs With Home Run and Double; Tyler Wilson Blanks Beantown Bunch Over Eight Innings, Giving Up Just 3 Hits
BALTIMORE, Maryland June 17, 2016 - Adam Jones hit a majestic two-run home run and drove in a third run with a double as the Orioles won the rubber game of a three-game set in Fenway Park by defeating the Boston Red Sox, 5-1. Baltimore starter Tyler Wilson was superb, allowing just three hits and only one walk over eight strong innings. The only Boston run came in the ninth off of reliever Brad Brach.
Adam Jones continued his red hot hitting by clubbing a long and powerful two-run home run in the third inning off of Red Sox starter - and loser - Eduardo Rodriguez. Jones knocked in a third run in the next inning with a two-out double. Both the homer and the double scored third-baseman Paul Janish, who walked to lead-off the third and had a two-out single in the fourth. Baltimore erupted for two more runs in the fifth inning to move ahead, 5-0. They chased Rodriguez in the process. Manny Machado, who had three hits on the night, doubled to lead off the fifth. One out later, Machado scored on a Chris Davis RBI single. Davis then scored on a double by Oriole Second Baseman Jonathan Schoop.
Wilson, who improved his season record to 3-5 and dropped his ERA to 4.16, needed a modest 100 pitches to retire Boston through eight innings. The young hurler out of the University of Virginia's strong college program, had struggled of late.
Baltimore and Boston had entered the three game set tied for first in the AL East. By winning two of the three games this week in Boston, the Orioles sit alone in first place with a one game advantage over the Red Sox and 2 and one-half games over third place Toronto. The Blue Jays are in Baltimore to begin a three game weekend set tonight.
Adam Jones continued his red hot hitting by clubbing a long and powerful two-run home run in the third inning off of Red Sox starter - and loser - Eduardo Rodriguez. Jones knocked in a third run in the next inning with a two-out double. Both the homer and the double scored third-baseman Paul Janish, who walked to lead-off the third and had a two-out single in the fourth. Baltimore erupted for two more runs in the fifth inning to move ahead, 5-0. They chased Rodriguez in the process. Manny Machado, who had three hits on the night, doubled to lead off the fifth. One out later, Machado scored on a Chris Davis RBI single. Davis then scored on a double by Oriole Second Baseman Jonathan Schoop.
Wilson, who improved his season record to 3-5 and dropped his ERA to 4.16, needed a modest 100 pitches to retire Boston through eight innings. The young hurler out of the University of Virginia's strong college program, had struggled of late.
Baltimore and Boston had entered the three game set tied for first in the AL East. By winning two of the three games this week in Boston, the Orioles sit alone in first place with a one game advantage over the Red Sox and 2 and one-half games over third place Toronto. The Blue Jays are in Baltimore to begin a three game weekend set tonight.
Obama Says Country Must Move Against Cause of Mass Killing; President Vows Executive Action Next Week if Congress Doesn't Act
BALTIMORE, Maryland June 17, 2016 - President Obama said yesterday that it is time for the United States to move against the root cause of the mass killings that have taken place in the closing days of his troubled ultra far left regime. Incredibly - indeed, astoundingly, unless you follow the mind set of a Western Leader who has no known attachment to reality - Obama did not mean evil Islamic Terrorism. No indeed, Obama wasn't telling the Congress and the People of These United States to buck up against Islamic Terrorism. Instead, Obama and other members of his ruling junta want immediate action against gun ownership.
Later yesterday he said that if there isn't firm action against assault weapons in Congress by Monday, he will pursue other means of gun control. He actually said that, even though the Second Amendment guarantees Americans the right to keep and bear arms.
Now, I'm not here saying, like Obama, that people who disagree should be prosecuted. Instead, I'm shocked that Obama and his minions don't even mention Islamic Terrorism when they speak of Orlando and the California Massacre of this last Christmastime. The root cause of all but a few mass murders in recent times is Islamic Terror. But then, most Americans already know that. Maybe someone should tell Obama. The other day Credible and Incisive suggested an open investigation by Congress of the connections between Islamic Terror and the Obama Administration. This might be the only way to get the Islamic Sympathizer to admit the problem and begin to confront it.
Many now speculate that it was the Obama Administration practice of "scrubbing" its Terror Watch Lists of many Islamic names because, it believes, the only reason many of the people are on the list is the fact that they are Muslim. The Orlando Murderer was on the Terror Watch Lists as recently as 2014, but matriculated off of the list. Somehow. The removal was so complete that when the long-suspected Terrorist purchased a rifle, it didn't even raise a blip in the federal government.
The Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, where last week's mass murder of some 50 people took place, was a so-called gun free zone. Hence, even though at least two members of the United States military and an unknown number of persons from law enforcement were in the club when the carnage started, none of them had a firearm available to ward off the killer.
Just what Obama will do next week is hard to speculate, but whatever it ends up being, one thing is known for sure. His unconstitutional past actions have sparked a wave of gun purchases. It was reported yesterday that one gun club whose members are all self-proclaimed lesbians and trans-gendered persons actually more than tripled its membership since the massacre in Orlando. Other gun store owners reported massive sales increases.
Later yesterday he said that if there isn't firm action against assault weapons in Congress by Monday, he will pursue other means of gun control. He actually said that, even though the Second Amendment guarantees Americans the right to keep and bear arms.
Now, I'm not here saying, like Obama, that people who disagree should be prosecuted. Instead, I'm shocked that Obama and his minions don't even mention Islamic Terrorism when they speak of Orlando and the California Massacre of this last Christmastime. The root cause of all but a few mass murders in recent times is Islamic Terror. But then, most Americans already know that. Maybe someone should tell Obama. The other day Credible and Incisive suggested an open investigation by Congress of the connections between Islamic Terror and the Obama Administration. This might be the only way to get the Islamic Sympathizer to admit the problem and begin to confront it.
Many now speculate that it was the Obama Administration practice of "scrubbing" its Terror Watch Lists of many Islamic names because, it believes, the only reason many of the people are on the list is the fact that they are Muslim. The Orlando Murderer was on the Terror Watch Lists as recently as 2014, but matriculated off of the list. Somehow. The removal was so complete that when the long-suspected Terrorist purchased a rifle, it didn't even raise a blip in the federal government.
The Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, where last week's mass murder of some 50 people took place, was a so-called gun free zone. Hence, even though at least two members of the United States military and an unknown number of persons from law enforcement were in the club when the carnage started, none of them had a firearm available to ward off the killer.
Just what Obama will do next week is hard to speculate, but whatever it ends up being, one thing is known for sure. His unconstitutional past actions have sparked a wave of gun purchases. It was reported yesterday that one gun club whose members are all self-proclaimed lesbians and trans-gendered persons actually more than tripled its membership since the massacre in Orlando. Other gun store owners reported massive sales increases.
Thursday, June 16, 2016
Credible and Incisive Returns; Obama Regime Needs to Be Investigated for Ties to Islamic Terrorism; Regime Operative Says 9-11-2001 Made the World Better; The Insanity of the Media in Favoring Hillary; Burnley Earns Promotion to Premier; Orioles In Tie Atop AL East Despite Failure of Starting Staff
BALTIMORE, Maryland May 9, 2016 - The birth of a grandson, especially when that grandson arrives - along with his mom and dad - to live with you and most of the rest of your family, is guaranteed to be far more than a pleasant distraction. He happily takes up tons of time. Sadly, suffering is my time for writing. Now these many weeks later we hope to have arrived at a point where all important things have their time, including my long time predilection for writing. Anyway...
There have been thousands of seminal events that have taken place during my time away that deserve serious comment, and, obviously, I will not be able to touch upon them all. Some, however, jump out with fireworks, demanding attention.
First and foremost: It is time that the United States Congress use its inherent and very real and profound Constitutional power to launch a full-scale, and completely open investigation of the Obama Administration and its very obvious ties to Islamic Terrorism. It is actually hard to understand why something akin to this hasn't taken place already. Since the Obama Regime along with its obnoxious hard left policies came to power some 7 and one-half years ago, the problem of Islamic Terrorism in these United States went from the one successful surprise attack on 9/11/2001 to a fact of everyday life in America. There have been two horrific attacks in the last six months, including the biggest massacre in American history last Sunday morning in Florida. There is growing evidene that the regime had the Orlando Jihadist directly in their cross-hairs as recently as 2014, but for reasons that cannot be explained, Obama and his functionaries took the killer off of their Terrorist Watch List. You have read that correctly: the Orlando Mass Murderer was on the Terrorist Watch List. But Obama and friends took him off. That's right, Obama and his functionaries took the Orlando Jihadist OFF OF The TERRORIST WATCH LIST. Not even the Mass Murderer's purchase of guns caused Homeland Security to flinch. A suspect that was on the Terrorist list extremely recently purchased weapons that were used in his evil attack, and it didn't even cause a blip on Homeland Security's radar screen. Let that swirl around in your mind. On the terror list, buying guns, and nobody cared.
There have been growing reports that top members of the Obama regime have had people under active investigation by Homeland Security taken off of federal terror lists because, they said, too much of the evidence against them was that they were Muslim. Why do I think or fear that this policy is what got the Orlando Jihadist out from under the watch list's increased scrutiny? Even more troubling is the Regime's policy of allowing tens of thousands of unvetted Muslims into the United States despite dire warnings from their own people that the new Islamic immigrants almost certainly include ISIS Terrorist plants. This is rank and bald insanity, and it goes totally unchallenged on Capital Hill, so cowed are Republicans. The GOP legislators on Capital Hill today are missing backbones and a sense of duty to their constituents. They have completely forgotten the reason for the moniker "loyal opposition." Now, in the wake of the latest Jihadist attack on Sunday, the ultra left has been filibustering unrelated legisilation, demanding that new gun control measures be included in it. Worse still, if that is possible, is the evidence that the GOP might be about to get on board, rather than labeling the left's nonsensical attack for what it is, a bald attempt to control the discussion and get it away from the rank and, quite frankly, stinking commentary it portrays about the Obama Administration and its failed leadership. The Democrats which make up the Ultra Left should be ashamed, but they have no shame. Neither, apparently, does the GOP on Capital Hill. And it even appears that Donald Trump is joining the Ultra Left, as he announces a ridiculous plan to "speak" with the National Rifle Association about the plan to incorporate gun control measures in new legislation now pending. The discussion right now must be about Islamic Terrorism and the failure or complicity of the Obama Regime in preventing likely terrorists from gaining entry into these United States.
The ultra left has the idea that they can change and divert the national discussion away from Islamic Terror and back to the Constitutional Right to own Firearms and other weapons. What they do is attack old gun control legislation as an amendment to unrelated legislation, then filibuster the United States Senate to get a vote on the subject. Most Senators know their constituents are on to the ruse and accept the duty of their Senator to defeat any gun restrictions. But their are a precious few Senators which serve in districts that have narrow majorities of GOP voters who would prefer not to have to defend such a voting choice right now. Making legislators cast very public votes is an old idea. Harry "Dingy Harry" Reid spent years shielding Democratic Senators from casting such uncomfortable votes by refusing to allow hot topics to come up for votes. The idea circulating by the left to prevent anyone on the much-criticized Terrorist Watch list from buying firearms, in spite of the black-letter law of the Second Amendment to the Bill of Rights, is a sham. The Obama Regime controls the Terror Watch list and who goes on it. The Orlando Jihadist was TAKEN OFF THE LIST. YET OBAMA AND THE LEFT WANT TO MAKE THE LIST A WAY OF ROBBING FOLK OF THEIR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS. IF THEY ARE ALLOWED TO GET THEIR FOOT IN THE DOOR WITH THIS NONSENSE, IT WILL BE KATY, BAR THE DOOR. Soon, GOP citizens will be landing on the list for very flimsy reasons. Shame to all who have failed the American People.
A 25-year-old Syrian Woman and Member of the Administration of President Barack Obama has been publicly quoted as saying that the Islamic Attack on these United States of America on September 11, 2001 "changed the world for the better." Laila Alawa, selected by Obama to serve on an advisory council of the Homeland Security Administration, made those comments in 2014. More recently, she was one of the co-signatories on a report that urged Homeland Security to stop referring to Sharia Law and other words that somehow boosted discrimination against Muslims. Miss Alawa, a bigot, would be advised that what boosts prejudice against Muslims is the propensity for Muslims to be involved in mass murders of non-Muslims. Stop killing folk and torturing folk and all of the other distasteful things you do to people who don't share your religious beliefs and you will find that all of this so-called prejudice will go away so quick it will make your head swim.
So far, Obama has not moved to replace the bigoted hate-monger, Ms. Alawa, from the federal citizen's committee she serves on at his discretion. The person of whom we speak, incidentally, runs a "media company," called "The Tempest," which can be found at http://thetempest.co/about/.
The time has arrived, in the light of the sick and perverted attack on innocents at a nightclub in Orlando, for the country to re-evaluate the way that it looks upon the joke argument made by the ultra-left that the issue in the wake of those attacks is guns. Does ISIS kill on the count of guns. Or does ISIS intend to kill non-Muslims, no matter how they have to do it? Yesterday, just hours after another attack by evil Islamic Terrorists, President Obama's Homeland Security director said that the time has arrived for him to begin taking action against gun owners. That would be in direct contravention to the Second Amendment of the Federal Bill of Rights.
What unites the brutal and senseless attack in Orlando and the brutal and perverted attack on 14 innocent victims in California before Christmas, the brutal and senseless attacks in Paris and Amsterdam is the people who are responsible for these outrages. These people are evil Islamic Terrorists. Evil Islamic Terrorists are sick and dastardly, godless jerks who have taken it upon themselves to kill innocent people because they do not conform with their interpretation of the Islamic faith. Our president, however, has done all in his power to avoid blaming Islamics. This, even though tens of millions of Islamics want the credit. But forget that for a minute; I really don't care what Obama says anymore. Really, I don't. What I care about is what he does or doesn't do. He has been the absolute worst president in the history of his own Jihad.
Here in America, Obama fights desperately for the continued right to allow tens of thousands of unvetted Islamics into these United States. What is the matter with him? The matter is that he is an Islamic. He cares far more about Islamics than he cares about these United States. Within hours of the horror in Orlando, the corrupt Obama attacked USA citizens who treasure the Second Amendment of the Bill of Rights, and hinted that they are somehow responsible for the carnage. Huh? That is just plain sick. What is wrong with a brief respite to the immigration of those who cannot be vetted for connections to Terrorist groups. Are we just allowing anyone unwilling to pledge that they have no connection to Islamic Terrorists
It doesn't get any sicker or more grotesque than the Washington Post's announcement this week that it was assigning 20 reporters to fully vet every aspect of Donald Trump's life. If you are waiting for a similar announcement by the Post with regard to Hillary Clinton, you are waiting in vain. That is why it is grotesque. Well, in fact, hold the proverbial presses. At day's end the Post said it had 20 reporters on Hillary also. One of the blogs - The Daily Caller, I think - looked up the stories written by the 20 reporters covering Hillary. Virtually every story was a happy story about history's most corrupt and criminally oriented candidate. Meanwhile, all of the stories about Mr. Trump, a businessman with no criminal record, will be to the effect that he is the most evil and stupid candidate ever. Earlier, you'll recall, President Obama ordered some press outfit to do exactly what the Post is doing. This is 100% perverted. Nobody in the press did any vetting of Obama. None at all. It was clear that if they did, he would not be elected. So the man who pandered to bombers and kissed up to every dictator and tyrant on earth and paid no price for it, now wants what he was spared for Trump, but not for the felonious Clinton. Hillary would hardly notice the extra attention of the press because she is preoccupied with the ongoing FBI probe of all things Clinton. What has happened to the press? They are no better than the most common of criminals.
The lads at Burnley have done it. They have returned in impressive fashion to the Premier League, beginning in August. How impressive, you ask? The last time these blue collar heroes lost a soccer match was on Boxing Day. For you statesiders, that is the day after Christmas, in the year 2015. After that uninspiring loss to Hull City, the Claret apparently made a New Year's resolution: to stop losing. Even with that impressive run, they didn't have an easy task. The Championship has become a very tough league. Consider that Leicester City, which barged into the Premier in 2013 along with Burnley, just won the Premier, beating the likes of Arsenal, Manchester United and Chelsea in the process. Burnley played amazingly considering the decimation their offensive firepower underwent as they clinched the promotion in that 2013 season. They beat Arsenal in that 2013-2014 season. They tied Chelsea, at Chelsea. But they just couldn't score against a lot of teams - at one point playing three straight 0-0 draws - and got relegated, as it turns out, for just one season. No sooner were they in the Championship then they were out, and up, again. This time, they will take offense with them. They acquired a prolific scorer in Andre Green. And they are not benefitting by the return to health of Sam Vokes. Vokes combined with Daryl Inge to lead the Claret to the Premier League two seasons back. But at the end of the season, Vokes sustained a terrible knee injury that has taken all of two seasons to recover from. He played a few games at season's end last season, but was obviously still suffering from the injury. Even this season he was a bit off of his game. Here at season's end, however, the old Vokes has become an increasingly large factor in Burnley's charge. With both the awesome Green and the "old" Vokes on the pitch, Burnley will be a legitimate competitor in the Premier come August.
And I cannot end without saying a word about my beloved Orioles. Against all of the odds, a team with only one quality starting pitcher, Chris Tillman, and one other good starting pitcher who can't seem to win a game, Kevin Gausman, who is 0-3 despite a 3.45 ERA. Now, the biggest disappointment of the rotation, Ubaldo Jimenez, has been run out to the bullpen at the same time a real pen work horse, Vance Worley, has been put on the disabled list. Long-injured off-season acquisition Yovani Gallardo is said to be close to returning and Odrisamer Despaigne has been recalled from Norfolk.
Despite these failures, the Orioles remain tied atop the American League East with the Red Sox. The Rubber Game of their three game series in Fenway is tonight. Tyler Wilson, who hasn't pitched well of late, is the scheduled Oriole starter.
There have been thousands of seminal events that have taken place during my time away that deserve serious comment, and, obviously, I will not be able to touch upon them all. Some, however, jump out with fireworks, demanding attention.
First and foremost: It is time that the United States Congress use its inherent and very real and profound Constitutional power to launch a full-scale, and completely open investigation of the Obama Administration and its very obvious ties to Islamic Terrorism. It is actually hard to understand why something akin to this hasn't taken place already. Since the Obama Regime along with its obnoxious hard left policies came to power some 7 and one-half years ago, the problem of Islamic Terrorism in these United States went from the one successful surprise attack on 9/11/2001 to a fact of everyday life in America. There have been two horrific attacks in the last six months, including the biggest massacre in American history last Sunday morning in Florida. There is growing evidene that the regime had the Orlando Jihadist directly in their cross-hairs as recently as 2014, but for reasons that cannot be explained, Obama and his functionaries took the killer off of their Terrorist Watch List. You have read that correctly: the Orlando Mass Murderer was on the Terrorist Watch List. But Obama and friends took him off. That's right, Obama and his functionaries took the Orlando Jihadist OFF OF The TERRORIST WATCH LIST. Not even the Mass Murderer's purchase of guns caused Homeland Security to flinch. A suspect that was on the Terrorist list extremely recently purchased weapons that were used in his evil attack, and it didn't even cause a blip on Homeland Security's radar screen. Let that swirl around in your mind. On the terror list, buying guns, and nobody cared.
There have been growing reports that top members of the Obama regime have had people under active investigation by Homeland Security taken off of federal terror lists because, they said, too much of the evidence against them was that they were Muslim. Why do I think or fear that this policy is what got the Orlando Jihadist out from under the watch list's increased scrutiny? Even more troubling is the Regime's policy of allowing tens of thousands of unvetted Muslims into the United States despite dire warnings from their own people that the new Islamic immigrants almost certainly include ISIS Terrorist plants. This is rank and bald insanity, and it goes totally unchallenged on Capital Hill, so cowed are Republicans. The GOP legislators on Capital Hill today are missing backbones and a sense of duty to their constituents. They have completely forgotten the reason for the moniker "loyal opposition." Now, in the wake of the latest Jihadist attack on Sunday, the ultra left has been filibustering unrelated legisilation, demanding that new gun control measures be included in it. Worse still, if that is possible, is the evidence that the GOP might be about to get on board, rather than labeling the left's nonsensical attack for what it is, a bald attempt to control the discussion and get it away from the rank and, quite frankly, stinking commentary it portrays about the Obama Administration and its failed leadership. The Democrats which make up the Ultra Left should be ashamed, but they have no shame. Neither, apparently, does the GOP on Capital Hill. And it even appears that Donald Trump is joining the Ultra Left, as he announces a ridiculous plan to "speak" with the National Rifle Association about the plan to incorporate gun control measures in new legislation now pending. The discussion right now must be about Islamic Terrorism and the failure or complicity of the Obama Regime in preventing likely terrorists from gaining entry into these United States.
The ultra left has the idea that they can change and divert the national discussion away from Islamic Terror and back to the Constitutional Right to own Firearms and other weapons. What they do is attack old gun control legislation as an amendment to unrelated legislation, then filibuster the United States Senate to get a vote on the subject. Most Senators know their constituents are on to the ruse and accept the duty of their Senator to defeat any gun restrictions. But their are a precious few Senators which serve in districts that have narrow majorities of GOP voters who would prefer not to have to defend such a voting choice right now. Making legislators cast very public votes is an old idea. Harry "Dingy Harry" Reid spent years shielding Democratic Senators from casting such uncomfortable votes by refusing to allow hot topics to come up for votes. The idea circulating by the left to prevent anyone on the much-criticized Terrorist Watch list from buying firearms, in spite of the black-letter law of the Second Amendment to the Bill of Rights, is a sham. The Obama Regime controls the Terror Watch list and who goes on it. The Orlando Jihadist was TAKEN OFF THE LIST. YET OBAMA AND THE LEFT WANT TO MAKE THE LIST A WAY OF ROBBING FOLK OF THEIR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS. IF THEY ARE ALLOWED TO GET THEIR FOOT IN THE DOOR WITH THIS NONSENSE, IT WILL BE KATY, BAR THE DOOR. Soon, GOP citizens will be landing on the list for very flimsy reasons. Shame to all who have failed the American People.
A 25-year-old Syrian Woman and Member of the Administration of President Barack Obama has been publicly quoted as saying that the Islamic Attack on these United States of America on September 11, 2001 "changed the world for the better." Laila Alawa, selected by Obama to serve on an advisory council of the Homeland Security Administration, made those comments in 2014. More recently, she was one of the co-signatories on a report that urged Homeland Security to stop referring to Sharia Law and other words that somehow boosted discrimination against Muslims. Miss Alawa, a bigot, would be advised that what boosts prejudice against Muslims is the propensity for Muslims to be involved in mass murders of non-Muslims. Stop killing folk and torturing folk and all of the other distasteful things you do to people who don't share your religious beliefs and you will find that all of this so-called prejudice will go away so quick it will make your head swim.
So far, Obama has not moved to replace the bigoted hate-monger, Ms. Alawa, from the federal citizen's committee she serves on at his discretion. The person of whom we speak, incidentally, runs a "media company," called "The Tempest," which can be found at http://thetempest.co/about/.
The time has arrived, in the light of the sick and perverted attack on innocents at a nightclub in Orlando, for the country to re-evaluate the way that it looks upon the joke argument made by the ultra-left that the issue in the wake of those attacks is guns. Does ISIS kill on the count of guns. Or does ISIS intend to kill non-Muslims, no matter how they have to do it? Yesterday, just hours after another attack by evil Islamic Terrorists, President Obama's Homeland Security director said that the time has arrived for him to begin taking action against gun owners. That would be in direct contravention to the Second Amendment of the Federal Bill of Rights.
What unites the brutal and senseless attack in Orlando and the brutal and perverted attack on 14 innocent victims in California before Christmas, the brutal and senseless attacks in Paris and Amsterdam is the people who are responsible for these outrages. These people are evil Islamic Terrorists. Evil Islamic Terrorists are sick and dastardly, godless jerks who have taken it upon themselves to kill innocent people because they do not conform with their interpretation of the Islamic faith. Our president, however, has done all in his power to avoid blaming Islamics. This, even though tens of millions of Islamics want the credit. But forget that for a minute; I really don't care what Obama says anymore. Really, I don't. What I care about is what he does or doesn't do. He has been the absolute worst president in the history of his own Jihad.
Here in America, Obama fights desperately for the continued right to allow tens of thousands of unvetted Islamics into these United States. What is the matter with him? The matter is that he is an Islamic. He cares far more about Islamics than he cares about these United States. Within hours of the horror in Orlando, the corrupt Obama attacked USA citizens who treasure the Second Amendment of the Bill of Rights, and hinted that they are somehow responsible for the carnage. Huh? That is just plain sick. What is wrong with a brief respite to the immigration of those who cannot be vetted for connections to Terrorist groups. Are we just allowing anyone unwilling to pledge that they have no connection to Islamic Terrorists
It doesn't get any sicker or more grotesque than the Washington Post's announcement this week that it was assigning 20 reporters to fully vet every aspect of Donald Trump's life. If you are waiting for a similar announcement by the Post with regard to Hillary Clinton, you are waiting in vain. That is why it is grotesque. Well, in fact, hold the proverbial presses. At day's end the Post said it had 20 reporters on Hillary also. One of the blogs - The Daily Caller, I think - looked up the stories written by the 20 reporters covering Hillary. Virtually every story was a happy story about history's most corrupt and criminally oriented candidate. Meanwhile, all of the stories about Mr. Trump, a businessman with no criminal record, will be to the effect that he is the most evil and stupid candidate ever. Earlier, you'll recall, President Obama ordered some press outfit to do exactly what the Post is doing. This is 100% perverted. Nobody in the press did any vetting of Obama. None at all. It was clear that if they did, he would not be elected. So the man who pandered to bombers and kissed up to every dictator and tyrant on earth and paid no price for it, now wants what he was spared for Trump, but not for the felonious Clinton. Hillary would hardly notice the extra attention of the press because she is preoccupied with the ongoing FBI probe of all things Clinton. What has happened to the press? They are no better than the most common of criminals.
The lads at Burnley have done it. They have returned in impressive fashion to the Premier League, beginning in August. How impressive, you ask? The last time these blue collar heroes lost a soccer match was on Boxing Day. For you statesiders, that is the day after Christmas, in the year 2015. After that uninspiring loss to Hull City, the Claret apparently made a New Year's resolution: to stop losing. Even with that impressive run, they didn't have an easy task. The Championship has become a very tough league. Consider that Leicester City, which barged into the Premier in 2013 along with Burnley, just won the Premier, beating the likes of Arsenal, Manchester United and Chelsea in the process. Burnley played amazingly considering the decimation their offensive firepower underwent as they clinched the promotion in that 2013 season. They beat Arsenal in that 2013-2014 season. They tied Chelsea, at Chelsea. But they just couldn't score against a lot of teams - at one point playing three straight 0-0 draws - and got relegated, as it turns out, for just one season. No sooner were they in the Championship then they were out, and up, again. This time, they will take offense with them. They acquired a prolific scorer in Andre Green. And they are not benefitting by the return to health of Sam Vokes. Vokes combined with Daryl Inge to lead the Claret to the Premier League two seasons back. But at the end of the season, Vokes sustained a terrible knee injury that has taken all of two seasons to recover from. He played a few games at season's end last season, but was obviously still suffering from the injury. Even this season he was a bit off of his game. Here at season's end, however, the old Vokes has become an increasingly large factor in Burnley's charge. With both the awesome Green and the "old" Vokes on the pitch, Burnley will be a legitimate competitor in the Premier come August.
And I cannot end without saying a word about my beloved Orioles. Against all of the odds, a team with only one quality starting pitcher, Chris Tillman, and one other good starting pitcher who can't seem to win a game, Kevin Gausman, who is 0-3 despite a 3.45 ERA. Now, the biggest disappointment of the rotation, Ubaldo Jimenez, has been run out to the bullpen at the same time a real pen work horse, Vance Worley, has been put on the disabled list. Long-injured off-season acquisition Yovani Gallardo is said to be close to returning and Odrisamer Despaigne has been recalled from Norfolk.
Despite these failures, the Orioles remain tied atop the American League East with the Red Sox. The Rubber Game of their three game series in Fenway is tonight. Tyler Wilson, who hasn't pitched well of late, is the scheduled Oriole starter.
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