BALTIMORE, Maryland, Monday, January 30, 2017 and Friday, February 3, 2017- There are some 46 nations on this Earth with populations that are majority Muslim by actual count. Count them, each and every one. 46. These 46 are NOT AFFECTED by the Trump Executive Order.
Do all of you have that? Some 46 nations on this Earth that have populations that are mostly Muslim are completely unaffected by Trump's January 30, 2017 Executive Order.
One more time: completely unaffected.
But a Federal Judge out yonder in dear old Washington State has blocked the efforts of the Trump Administration to briefly (briefly!) stop the influx of immigrants from all of seven terror-soaked nations in the Middle East and Africa. The administration says it needs the temporary (temporary, as in four entire weeks!) halt so that it can devise some way to vet these immigrants in such a way as to permit the administration's immigration team to weed out any terrorists embedded amongst these immigrants.
Why does the administration fear that terrorists and would-be terrorists will be embedded amongst immigrants from the seven identified nations? There are two primary and, I would argue, compelling reasons to believe that terrorists and would-be terrorists will be embedded amongst the immigrants:
1. The Obama Administration identified the seven nations as being rife with terrorists; and
2. ISIS Leaders have sworn to embed terrorists amongst immigrants bound for the West, including These United States.
Such terrorists - all of the Islamic Variety - have preyed upon western nations in Europe and elsewhere. Thousands of westerners have been killed and many more have been maimed. Even though Trump's Executive Order was neutral as to religion, the judge apparently read a religious intent into the Trump Order. Trump promised to stop the influx of potential terrorists throughout his successful Presidential Campaign.
According to Fox News, "U.S. District Court Judge James L. Robart, a Seattle native who, although a nominal appointee of former President George W. Bush, is actually an Ultra Leftist of long standing. In his ruling, Judge Robart wrote, "the state of Washington proved that [the] local economy and citizens have suffered irreparable harm and an injunction should be applied."
The learned magistrate went right past express black letter law that expressly gives the President the power to stop dangerous immigrant groups of any reasonable description. Trump's Order did not mention any religion but the Judge was sure Trump was only interested in stopping Muslims. That would be like saying that any law or administrative order applied to These United States must be set aside because everyone knows that the United States is still majority Christian, and any law or rule that says USA is merely a thinly veiled effort to isolate Christians.
There are seven nations that are rife with terrorists, terror leaders, terror groups, indeed, all things terrorist. These seven are temporarily in Trump's Cross-hairs. People who are from these seven nations, no matter what their religion happens to be, would not have been coming to These United States for a brief time while These United States devised a safe way to vet these folk in order to insure that no more terrorists from these seven nations enter these United States and do grievous harm to the citizens of These United States.
Senator Schumer - the nominal leader of my Democratic Party - and former President Barack Hussein Obama, have joined with International Criminal Operative and Multi-Billionaire George Soros and other Ultra Leftists in a kind of howling chorus. Thet howl and they scream and they stoomp their feet because people in seven terror-infused nations have to wait an entire month before taking a scheduled jaunt to These United States. We ask then to suffer this inconvenience because we are having a very hard time keeping terrorists out of our country. How do we know we are having a hard time? Witness the carnage in California when an office worker did his duty to the Muslim Almighty by butchering some 14 coworkers at an office Christmas get together. His wife, who joined in doing the dirty butchering deeds, was a recent immigrant who radicalized the American Muslim. What a couple! Then there was the mass butchering in Orlando and the murders here and then there and on we go. And that is only here. And, oh, by the way, let us not forget the nine/eleven mass butchering.
But Chuck and Barack and Nancy all scream at the profound injustice of asking the citizens of seven nations originally identified by Obama while he was President. Oh, and late on Friday the Federal Judge in Washington passed an Order halting the execution of the Order and he also ordered that his missive be applied nationwide. Judge Robart is wrong, legally and morally, but an Ultra Leftist in robe, well, just perish the thought and the image. Talk about nightmares!
So, while the duly elected President and his advisers work late into the night devising how they can get around such a knuckleheaded ruling, the wonderful spigot is turned on, pouring forth all manner of immigrants, unvetted, for making new homes here in These United States.
I wish His Honor out yonder would live for a week in the vicinity of the folk there in Copenhagen or Paris, where Sharia Law now reigns supreme. Coming to a neighborhood near you.
Schumer didn't open his mouth when Obama stabbed Israel in the back at the UN right before he finally left office. Not one word. Israel was treated like a junk yard dog and Chuck stayed silent. Quite the humanitarian, isn't he.
But let an American President stand up to terror, call Terror what it is, and Chuck has tears flowing down his hypocritical cheeks. He cares. Sure he does. About what? Not this country and not these people. Obama denied entry to Christians who were the target of Islamic Jihad. Genocide was being inflicted on Christians throughout the Middle East. It was so bad that there are none left in places like Iran, Syria and Yemen. These were places that used to be all Christian. But when the few remaining Christians sought to survive by coming here, well, Obama said no and Schumer just smiled. These are your humanitarians. And those fine folk in the Screen Actors Guild? What did they say. Not one thing.
When the press lies and tells you that all Americans are against Trump, they are being the Ultra Leftists they are every day all day. The polls say only one-third of Americans oppose Trump on these orders. One-third.
Here in Maryland, the fine representative of the people, Dutch Ruppersberger, was in favor of Obamashame; i.e., Obamacare. Now, he is against keeping terrorists out of These United States. When Obama and Jimmy Carter took similar steps, he said nothing. Now, he speaks out. I think they call this hypocrisy.
In the Democratic Party controlled by the Ultra Left, hypocrisy is contagious. The leaders have it and they pass it to the boot lickers down the line.
Monday, January 30, 2017
Sunday, January 29, 2017
Dems Scream As Trump Slams Door on Immigration from 7 Terror-Torn Middle East Countries
BALTIMORE, Maryland, Sunday, January 29, 2017 - Senate Minority Leader Chucky Schumer took to the TV Cameras Sunday and alleged that the American President was "incompetent" because he slammed the door so quickly on immigrants from across the Middle East that many people, including some in federal agencies charged with enforcing the ban, were caught off guard. For his part, the President Tweeted that the ban was working exactly as planned.
On Saturday Night a lower court federal judge signed an order preventing authorities from shipping out some affected persons who were refused entry into the USA. The people included in the purview of the order were being held at airports pending a resolution of the issue. The judge exempted persons who had valid visas or similar papers, Fox reported. Homeland Security said a total of 170 persons had been denied entry into the USA.
Trump's Executive Order bans immigrants from seven nations from entering the USA until they can undergo "extreme vetting." The seven affected nations are Syria, Iraq, Iran, Yemen, Libya, Somalia and Sudan. A federal judge said.
President Obama had prevented many Christians from entering the USA, despite the steps toward genocide against Christians that had been taken by terrorist groups. President Trump said Christians would be the first persons exempted from his ban.
Ultra Leftistts staged protests at airports across the country. The same Ultra Leftists said President Trump was only picking on countries with majority Muslim populations. But some 46 nations with majority Muslim popoulations were unaffected by the President's ban.
On Saturday Night a lower court federal judge signed an order preventing authorities from shipping out some affected persons who were refused entry into the USA. The people included in the purview of the order were being held at airports pending a resolution of the issue. The judge exempted persons who had valid visas or similar papers, Fox reported. Homeland Security said a total of 170 persons had been denied entry into the USA.
Trump's Executive Order bans immigrants from seven nations from entering the USA until they can undergo "extreme vetting." The seven affected nations are Syria, Iraq, Iran, Yemen, Libya, Somalia and Sudan. A federal judge said.
President Obama had prevented many Christians from entering the USA, despite the steps toward genocide against Christians that had been taken by terrorist groups. President Trump said Christians would be the first persons exempted from his ban.
Ultra Leftistts staged protests at airports across the country. The same Ultra Leftists said President Trump was only picking on countries with majority Muslim populations. But some 46 nations with majority Muslim popoulations were unaffected by the President's ban.
Tuesday, January 24, 2017
Things Deserving of Mention: President Squares Off With Far Left Media; A Sugar and Saccharin Drenched Farewell (Please Tell Me They Were Kidding); Plus This and That
BALTIMORE, Maryland, Tuesday, January 24, 2017 - Donald John Trump became the President of These United States on Friday, just a pinch in time past noon, give or take a few minutes. I know that because I saw it and heard it. I saw the weak-kneed Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, and I saw the two Bibles that were used, and I saw Melania, i.e.; Mrs. Trump, standing beside the President.
I recite all of this because there are some folk who can't believe it, or won't. It would be extremely silly were it not for the histrionics that have accompanied their carrying on.
George Soros, a man who looked the other way when the Nazi's were committing genocide against the Jewish people during World War II (and I am casting his behavior back then in the very best light I know) flipped half the national debt so this march could take place. Remember there for a time, I forget whether it was during George W. Bush's eight years or Obama's eight years, that the Dems were spicing up some of their absurdities with insults of the Koch Brothers. Most Americans had no idea who the Dems were slashing. I knew they were wealthy conservatives who were making contributions to conservative causes along with the rest of their very generous charitable gifts. The thinking was that if everybody kept insulting the Koch brothers, they would stop giving to conservative causes. It didn't work as far as I know. But it was a mean-spirited and profoundly anti-American tact, and the Ultra Leftists atop the Democratic Party were very comfortable with it. Why? Well, you know the Koch Brothers have led exemplary lives, as far as I know, and have no skeletons in their closets, as far as i know, but they were regularly trashed, because they were not Ultra Leftists.
I bring that up because reports have now surfaced that David Brock and his Soros-bankrolled Media Matters Group of real low brows are meeting in secret with other Ultra Far Left operatives, trying to devise ways of impeaching Trump. They want to dig something up and make a big deal about it. They want to make him miserable and the USA miserable, instead of letting Trump and his administration see if their novel ideas work.
This is what my party does these days. They obviscate and lie in Congress to delay the Trump cabinet. It has been an American tradition to permit Presidents to select their cabinets and then get their administrations together and have at it. Sure, some Presidents elected without control of the Senate don't have the easiest path, but even in those cases the President gets his cabinet unless criminal difficulties or large-scale conflicts of interest show up. In those cases they make another choice and the process continues. In the meantime, the appointed cabinet member gets into the department and starts working while he waits.
Schumer is said to be griping about some nonsense back in Obama's first term. Remember that Obama controlled Congress completely during his first term, and on Obama's first day some eight cabinet officers were fully approved by the Congress. In the same period of time, Trump had two. He still doesn't have his Secretary of State or his Attorney General. I'm beginning to wonder what about Mr. Sessions really bothers the Dems. Could it be a Hillary indictment is still more than possible? Or is it somebody closer to Obama? Just saying.
Meanwhile, Trump is making things happen and it is, so far, quite impressive. Ted Crews, the chief opponent of Trump during the hotly contested primary season, is very excited about how Trump is doing things and appears to be fully on board.
There is nausea galore abounding all around These United States after the Saturday Night Live cast - known for political comedy and satire - sang what appeared to be a serious good bye to Obama to the sugar sweet tune of 'To Sir With Love'. They really did this, with close-ups of the cast getting all teary eyed. What is the matter with these people? Did they suffer from Post-Traumatic Stress when they learned about the "Real Santa Claus?" Obama was a fiction and nothing he did worked. I'm glad the country could put that stinking glass barrier about who could be president behind us. But To Sir With Love? Nothing could have been worse. It was awful at best and embarrassing at least.
In Sports, the University of Maryland has crept up the latest polls. The Terps, who whacked Rutgers in College Park tonight (Tuesday), are now No. 22 in the AP poll and No. 23 in the Coach's poll. They invade Minnesota this weekend.
Burnley is a gritty bunch. They went to Arsenal on Sunday, but lost, 2-1. The Claret trailed until injury time, when a penalty shot by Andre Gray knotted the score. Then, a hotly disputed award of a penalty kick to homestanding Arsenal just as the final whistle was about to sound allowed the Gunners to score the winning goal. It was robbery according to Sean Dyche, the Burnley Coach, who alleged, with strong evidence to back him up, that Arsenal was well off side when the penalty shot was awarded. The loss dropped Burnley to 13th on the Premier Table, but they remain ten points clear of relegation.
I recite all of this because there are some folk who can't believe it, or won't. It would be extremely silly were it not for the histrionics that have accompanied their carrying on.
George Soros, a man who looked the other way when the Nazi's were committing genocide against the Jewish people during World War II (and I am casting his behavior back then in the very best light I know) flipped half the national debt so this march could take place. Remember there for a time, I forget whether it was during George W. Bush's eight years or Obama's eight years, that the Dems were spicing up some of their absurdities with insults of the Koch Brothers. Most Americans had no idea who the Dems were slashing. I knew they were wealthy conservatives who were making contributions to conservative causes along with the rest of their very generous charitable gifts. The thinking was that if everybody kept insulting the Koch brothers, they would stop giving to conservative causes. It didn't work as far as I know. But it was a mean-spirited and profoundly anti-American tact, and the Ultra Leftists atop the Democratic Party were very comfortable with it. Why? Well, you know the Koch Brothers have led exemplary lives, as far as I know, and have no skeletons in their closets, as far as i know, but they were regularly trashed, because they were not Ultra Leftists.
I bring that up because reports have now surfaced that David Brock and his Soros-bankrolled Media Matters Group of real low brows are meeting in secret with other Ultra Far Left operatives, trying to devise ways of impeaching Trump. They want to dig something up and make a big deal about it. They want to make him miserable and the USA miserable, instead of letting Trump and his administration see if their novel ideas work.
This is what my party does these days. They obviscate and lie in Congress to delay the Trump cabinet. It has been an American tradition to permit Presidents to select their cabinets and then get their administrations together and have at it. Sure, some Presidents elected without control of the Senate don't have the easiest path, but even in those cases the President gets his cabinet unless criminal difficulties or large-scale conflicts of interest show up. In those cases they make another choice and the process continues. In the meantime, the appointed cabinet member gets into the department and starts working while he waits.
Schumer is said to be griping about some nonsense back in Obama's first term. Remember that Obama controlled Congress completely during his first term, and on Obama's first day some eight cabinet officers were fully approved by the Congress. In the same period of time, Trump had two. He still doesn't have his Secretary of State or his Attorney General. I'm beginning to wonder what about Mr. Sessions really bothers the Dems. Could it be a Hillary indictment is still more than possible? Or is it somebody closer to Obama? Just saying.
Meanwhile, Trump is making things happen and it is, so far, quite impressive. Ted Crews, the chief opponent of Trump during the hotly contested primary season, is very excited about how Trump is doing things and appears to be fully on board.
There is nausea galore abounding all around These United States after the Saturday Night Live cast - known for political comedy and satire - sang what appeared to be a serious good bye to Obama to the sugar sweet tune of 'To Sir With Love'. They really did this, with close-ups of the cast getting all teary eyed. What is the matter with these people? Did they suffer from Post-Traumatic Stress when they learned about the "Real Santa Claus?" Obama was a fiction and nothing he did worked. I'm glad the country could put that stinking glass barrier about who could be president behind us. But To Sir With Love? Nothing could have been worse. It was awful at best and embarrassing at least.
In Sports, the University of Maryland has crept up the latest polls. The Terps, who whacked Rutgers in College Park tonight (Tuesday), are now No. 22 in the AP poll and No. 23 in the Coach's poll. They invade Minnesota this weekend.
Burnley is a gritty bunch. They went to Arsenal on Sunday, but lost, 2-1. The Claret trailed until injury time, when a penalty shot by Andre Gray knotted the score. Then, a hotly disputed award of a penalty kick to homestanding Arsenal just as the final whistle was about to sound allowed the Gunners to score the winning goal. It was robbery according to Sean Dyche, the Burnley Coach, who alleged, with strong evidence to back him up, that Arsenal was well off side when the penalty shot was awarded. The loss dropped Burnley to 13th on the Premier Table, but they remain ten points clear of relegation.
Monday, January 23, 2017
Three Huge and Very Intense Days Begin Trump Presidency
BALTIMORE, Maryland, Sunday, January 22, 2017 and Monday, January 23, 2017 - Defenders of the Mainstream Far Left Media are aghast. Those who support and voted for Donald Trump are cheering. And that was only about the press briefing turned press excoriation that took place early Saturday evening. This was after hundreds of thousands of women braved foul weather to protest Trump's election as President of These United States, and that was only after some hundreds of thousands of Americans piled in to the nation's capital, Washington D.C., on Friday to cheer for Trump as he was inaugurated as the nation's 45th President.
How much have I left out? Well, there was the acceptance speech Trump gave on Friday after the Chief Justice of These United States, John Roberts, did the honor of swearing Donald J. Trump in as President. It was virile, tough, patriotic, pro-American, populist, stark, real, in your face, and, well, Trumpian.
And don't forget those hundred or so ultra far left wing hoodlums who warmed Washington up for the Saturday women's march by rioting, absolutely full scale, just blocks from the Inaugural Parade. The riot included burning vehicles, smashing the windows and property of small businesses, starting fires, and actions representative of pure anarchy. Or am I misunderstanding what we saw?
There were also any number of slightly less compelling events and squabbles just off the main event that spiced up those involved and those who watched. For instance, in his acceptance speech, Trump graciously thanked and praised former President Obama and the former First Lady for their help and understanding during the transition, then, about one paragraph later, laid into Obama and the other ex-Presidents on hand, for the way they conducted their administrations and at the expense, literally, of the American People. Trump expressly promised to change that, saying he would always put "America first," and "never let you (the American People) down." I happened to be listening to the speech during the moments that Trump light into the way Washington took advantage of America's people, and the station I was listening to, Rush Limbaugh's, featured even Rush aghast at the candor and no-holds-barred language Trump freely used.
What does all of this mean for These United States going forward? I cannot act like I am sure I know. I do have some ideas.
Chuck Schumer, the Senate Minority leader, was permitted to speak at the inaugural podium and, central to his remarks, he read from a letter written by a civil war soldier. The letter was wonderful. But Schumer edited it to make it politically correct. Left out was a phrase about the bravery of the men in the fight. Schumer has to know that the people who voted for Trump have had it with political correctness.
Speaker after speaker at the Women's March on Saturday took the new President apart. I am certain that Trump deeply regrets some of his ridiculous statements about women and other politically incorrect subjects. Don't get me wrong. He regrets some of his incendiary words, but he does not regret his messages, for the most part. Similarly, the throng of people on Saturday caused some of the speakers to lose their sense of personal pride, or whatever it is they themselves called it. The ever-incendiary, purely valueless Madonna, for instance, said that she thinks often of blowing up the White House. All present assumed that she meant the White House after Obama cleared out. In the aftermath of Saturday, the Secret Service let on that they need to interview the aging warbler. Perhaps sensing that she'd gone too far, Madonna put out a statement saying she is non-violent. Huh?
Another speaker who managed to carry the momentum over the edge was Ashley Judd. Her "nasty" speech had even pro-left speakers cringing.
A lot of speakers were far more reserved, and far more powerful. Some moderate reporters actually asked average attendees whether there was any chance Trump could win them over. A few winced but said yes, he could, but only if he changed his ways. What ways? Well, that's the thing. The man was just sworn in. He didn't exactly campaign on a theme of rolling back women's rights. Some Hillary folk dug up some very old recordings of Trump acting like one of the boys, and this got him in a whole lot of trouble with a whole lot of people that were never going to like him anyway. The ones who are willing to see if he can act like a leader without acting like a wimp probably had other things to do come Saturday.
If President Trump can pull off the things he wants to pull off, he will be more amazing than President Reagan. If Schumer allows the Trump Presidency to get up and running, America will find out if a populist with superb ideas and a completely unconventional management style can get things accomplished in a capital city far more interested in milking the status quo than in serving the citizens in a noble manner.
Lines are being drawn. Battle plans are percolating in a lively sort of way. The moribund Democrats are proudly showing off their full-to-the-top reserve of good ideas by dragging their feet approving Trump's cabinet. When I see real junk like that, I wonder if today's Democratic leaders were even paying attention when John Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey were speaking so eloquently about the country they too profoundly loved.
It sure as hell doesn't look like it.
How much have I left out? Well, there was the acceptance speech Trump gave on Friday after the Chief Justice of These United States, John Roberts, did the honor of swearing Donald J. Trump in as President. It was virile, tough, patriotic, pro-American, populist, stark, real, in your face, and, well, Trumpian.
And don't forget those hundred or so ultra far left wing hoodlums who warmed Washington up for the Saturday women's march by rioting, absolutely full scale, just blocks from the Inaugural Parade. The riot included burning vehicles, smashing the windows and property of small businesses, starting fires, and actions representative of pure anarchy. Or am I misunderstanding what we saw?
There were also any number of slightly less compelling events and squabbles just off the main event that spiced up those involved and those who watched. For instance, in his acceptance speech, Trump graciously thanked and praised former President Obama and the former First Lady for their help and understanding during the transition, then, about one paragraph later, laid into Obama and the other ex-Presidents on hand, for the way they conducted their administrations and at the expense, literally, of the American People. Trump expressly promised to change that, saying he would always put "America first," and "never let you (the American People) down." I happened to be listening to the speech during the moments that Trump light into the way Washington took advantage of America's people, and the station I was listening to, Rush Limbaugh's, featured even Rush aghast at the candor and no-holds-barred language Trump freely used.
What does all of this mean for These United States going forward? I cannot act like I am sure I know. I do have some ideas.
Chuck Schumer, the Senate Minority leader, was permitted to speak at the inaugural podium and, central to his remarks, he read from a letter written by a civil war soldier. The letter was wonderful. But Schumer edited it to make it politically correct. Left out was a phrase about the bravery of the men in the fight. Schumer has to know that the people who voted for Trump have had it with political correctness.
Speaker after speaker at the Women's March on Saturday took the new President apart. I am certain that Trump deeply regrets some of his ridiculous statements about women and other politically incorrect subjects. Don't get me wrong. He regrets some of his incendiary words, but he does not regret his messages, for the most part. Similarly, the throng of people on Saturday caused some of the speakers to lose their sense of personal pride, or whatever it is they themselves called it. The ever-incendiary, purely valueless Madonna, for instance, said that she thinks often of blowing up the White House. All present assumed that she meant the White House after Obama cleared out. In the aftermath of Saturday, the Secret Service let on that they need to interview the aging warbler. Perhaps sensing that she'd gone too far, Madonna put out a statement saying she is non-violent. Huh?
Another speaker who managed to carry the momentum over the edge was Ashley Judd. Her "nasty" speech had even pro-left speakers cringing.
A lot of speakers were far more reserved, and far more powerful. Some moderate reporters actually asked average attendees whether there was any chance Trump could win them over. A few winced but said yes, he could, but only if he changed his ways. What ways? Well, that's the thing. The man was just sworn in. He didn't exactly campaign on a theme of rolling back women's rights. Some Hillary folk dug up some very old recordings of Trump acting like one of the boys, and this got him in a whole lot of trouble with a whole lot of people that were never going to like him anyway. The ones who are willing to see if he can act like a leader without acting like a wimp probably had other things to do come Saturday.
If President Trump can pull off the things he wants to pull off, he will be more amazing than President Reagan. If Schumer allows the Trump Presidency to get up and running, America will find out if a populist with superb ideas and a completely unconventional management style can get things accomplished in a capital city far more interested in milking the status quo than in serving the citizens in a noble manner.
Lines are being drawn. Battle plans are percolating in a lively sort of way. The moribund Democrats are proudly showing off their full-to-the-top reserve of good ideas by dragging their feet approving Trump's cabinet. When I see real junk like that, I wonder if today's Democratic leaders were even paying attention when John Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey were speaking so eloquently about the country they too profoundly loved.
It sure as hell doesn't look like it.
Thursday, January 19, 2017
A Look at a Dutch Masterpiece: Dirk de Quade van Ravesteyn's Masterpiece, The Three Graces
BALTIMORE, Maryland, Sunday, January 22, 2017 - The painting hangs now in Baltimore in the wonderful Baltimore Museum of Art. It was created at the time of the Renaissance, but not in the location of it. Nonetheless, when the Dutchman Dirk de Quade van Ravesteyn composed it, it was very much a part of a great coming together of artists. This 'coming together' had a catalyst; the Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire called upon the finest Dutch artists of the time to come to Prague in what is now the Czech Republic. Called the Golden City, Prague was very much a center of artistic creation when the Emperor, Rudolf II, made the request. Van Ravesteyn and other artists heeded the Emperor's request; their collaboration is known as the Prague School of Dutch and Flemish Painting, and the years under Rudolph have come to be called the Dutch Golden Age. This photo isn't the kind that does justice to the painting. I took it and I'm to blame.
Dirk de Quade van Ravesteyn was born into a family of privileged artistry. His father, Claes, was an artist at the Dutch Capital at The Hague, and Dirk was born there in 1565. Dirk, or "Dirck" as it is sometimes spelled, arrived in Prague in about 1590, and there is every evidence that he was quite the success while he was there. When the Emperor died in 1612, van Ravesteyn was listed as one of his creditors. It is also understood that the artist was able to purchase his own home in Prague, where he stayed until the death of Rudolf, or, possibly, two or three years before.
The style and grace of The Three Graces is typical of the overall style he used in his many paintings. A prolific artist, even today prints of his dozens of works are available on line and in art stores around the world.
The same style, the same grace, the same pale feminine figures were recreated in one of van Ravesteyn's most famous paintings, "Penitent Mary Magdalene," which was also created in Prague. Mary Magdalene is shown looking off of the campus but toward the sky. Her face depicts profound sadness, but also a sense of being overwhelmed. Christ, hanging on the cross, is painted in what is a vignette in the upper left corner of the work. The artist was quite intent on depicting the main subject's female side. Even in a painting supposedly devoted to her sadness, she is shown with a wrap of sorts only barely covering her breasts, and then only because she is holding the wrap up with her forearm.
He also painted other subjects besides women. One work is a full canvas profile of a Lipizzan Horse. These large animals were fully white, with powerful legs. The work is part of the Baltimore Museum of Art's permanent collection, on display in the galleries devoted to European artists.
As for the photo, it doesn't do the painting justice. I took it and I'm the one to blame.
Wednesday, January 18, 2017
Burnley Defeats Sunderland Again to Advance to FA Cup 4th Round; Maryland Tied With Wisconsin Atop Big Ten Hoop Standings, Terps Back in Top 25 in Both Polls
BALTIMORE, Maryland, Wednesday, January 18, 2017 - Burnley advanced to the fourth round of the FA Cup Tournament in England on Tuesday, beating Sunderland again - it was the third time in less than three weeks that the Claret have confronted the relegation-threatened team - and the second time they have won. In the other match, at Sunderland, the two teams played to a scoreless draw. In fact, it was the draw that forced them to replay the match on Tuesday at Turf Moor. Sam Vokes and Andre Gray were the scorers today; Vokes scored in the first half and Gray scored late to seal the deal.
The win earns Burnley a 4th round match at Turf Moor against Bristol City, which beat back Fleetwood on Tuesday. For the remainder of January, the Burnley fixture list looks like this:
* Burnley at Arsenal, Sunday, January 22, 2:15 pm Lancashire time (Premier League);
* Bristol City at Burnley, Saturday, January 28, 3 pm Lancashire time (FA Cup, 4th Round); and
* Leicester City at Burnley, Tuesday, January 31, 7:45 pm Lancashire time (Premier League).
The Claret are currently in 10th place in the Premier League with 26 points. They trail league leading Chelsea by 26 points, 4th place Arsenal by 18 points, 9th place Stoke City by 1 point, and are currently 10 points clear of relegation.
Maryland and Wisconsin Tied for League Lead in Frantic Big Ten Race; Terps Invade Iowa on Thursday Night (7pm); Maryland Cracks Top 25 in Both Polls
Maryland and Wisconsin are tied atop the Big Ten Basketball Standings, each with 4-1 conference marks. Purdue, Michigan State and surprising Northwestern are next at 4-2. Nebraska is hosting Ohio State as I post this piece, and if the 'Huskers prevail, they, too, will be at 4-2.
The Terps returned to both the AP and Coach's Top 25 Rankings this week, where they are No. 25 in both polls. Weeks of frustration preceded the return for the 16-2 Terrapins, who have been kept out of both polls despite having a better record and stronger schedule than many of the ranked teams. For weeks, Kansas State was ranked and Maryland was not even though Maryland had defeated the Wildcats on a neutral floor.
Maryland is at Iowa (3-3,11-8) on Thursday evening at 7 pm, before returning home to host Rutgers on January 24.
The win earns Burnley a 4th round match at Turf Moor against Bristol City, which beat back Fleetwood on Tuesday. For the remainder of January, the Burnley fixture list looks like this:
* Burnley at Arsenal, Sunday, January 22, 2:15 pm Lancashire time (Premier League);
* Bristol City at Burnley, Saturday, January 28, 3 pm Lancashire time (FA Cup, 4th Round); and
* Leicester City at Burnley, Tuesday, January 31, 7:45 pm Lancashire time (Premier League).
The Claret are currently in 10th place in the Premier League with 26 points. They trail league leading Chelsea by 26 points, 4th place Arsenal by 18 points, 9th place Stoke City by 1 point, and are currently 10 points clear of relegation.
Maryland and Wisconsin Tied for League Lead in Frantic Big Ten Race; Terps Invade Iowa on Thursday Night (7pm); Maryland Cracks Top 25 in Both Polls
Maryland and Wisconsin are tied atop the Big Ten Basketball Standings, each with 4-1 conference marks. Purdue, Michigan State and surprising Northwestern are next at 4-2. Nebraska is hosting Ohio State as I post this piece, and if the 'Huskers prevail, they, too, will be at 4-2.
The Terps returned to both the AP and Coach's Top 25 Rankings this week, where they are No. 25 in both polls. Weeks of frustration preceded the return for the 16-2 Terrapins, who have been kept out of both polls despite having a better record and stronger schedule than many of the ranked teams. For weeks, Kansas State was ranked and Maryland was not even though Maryland had defeated the Wildcats on a neutral floor.
Maryland is at Iowa (3-3,11-8) on Thursday evening at 7 pm, before returning home to host Rutgers on January 24.
Tuesday, January 17, 2017
It Seems Only Congressmen and Women From Safe Districts are Willing to Risk Missing President Trump's Inaugural
BALTIMORE, Maryland, Tuesday, January 17, 2017 - News sources everywhere have reported tonight on a pattern among Democrats taking the "brave" move of staying away from the inauguration of President Trump on Friday.
This pattern is emerging even as outgoing President Obama took a surprising and, I believe, brave step in characterizing the incoming Trump Administration. Through his spokesman, Obama said today that Trump was duly elected and that his election was fair to both sides. Remember, this was from outgoing President Obama.
Meanwhile, the 'pattern' emerging is that the Congressmen and women who are staying away are only those in safe Democratic Districts. No Senator will stay away; at least that is the trend so far. And no House member in a contested District is staying away from the inaugural. So, apparently, the Democratic Conscience has real limits. And you are surprised, right?
The reactionary Ultra Left has set upon three celebrities who made the mistake of acting like folk should get along. On Monday on the anniversary of his Father's Birth, Martin Luther King, III went to see President Trump at Trump Tower in Manhattan. The two had a constructive and positive meeting, by all accounts, but when Rev. King emerged he was attacked by Ultra Left Mainstream Media Members who did not want to hear anything positive about President Trump. If you get a chance to listen to the question and answer session between Rev. King and the Media Hound Dogs, do it. The questions were so negative and hostile that one would think they were talking to some right wing reactionary instead of a well-known and highly accomplished civil rights leader. Rev. King wanted to report on the constructive and forward-looking meeting he had with President Trump, but that was the last thing the media wanted to hear. One of my favorite actresses, Nicole Kidman, made the 'mistake' of saying that it was time for the country to rally around President Trump. For that she has been excoriated in the press and on facebook and twitter. And then there is Steve Harvey, a funny and very hard-working man who hosts two daily TV programs and is anything but a conservative. Harvey went to see President Trump, and this, in and of itself, was deemed a crime by the Ultra Left.
I don't need to tell anybody what the morons responsible for this reactionary furor would have said if GOP types had set off on outgoing President Obama in anything even approaching the same way the Ultra Left has acted concerning President Trump. There are a whole lot of people with very very big problems when they have to act llike certified idiots over the results of a free and fair election. Like this writer has said over and over, the only "influence" anybody had on the just-held national election is shining a very bright light on the way the Ultra Leftists at the top of the Democratic Party go about trying to rule. America has been stronger and more vibrant through the years because power here can change hands every few years without the nation falling apart. Despite this, it is crystal clear that a bunch of anarchists on the Ultra Left do not want that to happen, even when the American People say it should by their decisions in the voting booth.
In the 2016 Election, both sides fielded flawed candidates. The news media, back when it existed in the form imagined by the Founding Fathers, would have laid bare the faults on both sides. In 2016, a media now totally controlled by the Ultra Left was only willing to examine Donald Trump. By the Grace of the Good Lord, others filled in where the media abdicated their duties. Somebody hacked the Ultra Left's emails and made them public. It is far from clear what, if any influence that expose had on the election. But often it seems that when the bright light of truth shines where bad actors don't want it, revealing things are exposed. Hillary Clinton should never have gotten that close to the White House.
America survives because she did not.
This pattern is emerging even as outgoing President Obama took a surprising and, I believe, brave step in characterizing the incoming Trump Administration. Through his spokesman, Obama said today that Trump was duly elected and that his election was fair to both sides. Remember, this was from outgoing President Obama.
Meanwhile, the 'pattern' emerging is that the Congressmen and women who are staying away are only those in safe Democratic Districts. No Senator will stay away; at least that is the trend so far. And no House member in a contested District is staying away from the inaugural. So, apparently, the Democratic Conscience has real limits. And you are surprised, right?
The reactionary Ultra Left has set upon three celebrities who made the mistake of acting like folk should get along. On Monday on the anniversary of his Father's Birth, Martin Luther King, III went to see President Trump at Trump Tower in Manhattan. The two had a constructive and positive meeting, by all accounts, but when Rev. King emerged he was attacked by Ultra Left Mainstream Media Members who did not want to hear anything positive about President Trump. If you get a chance to listen to the question and answer session between Rev. King and the Media Hound Dogs, do it. The questions were so negative and hostile that one would think they were talking to some right wing reactionary instead of a well-known and highly accomplished civil rights leader. Rev. King wanted to report on the constructive and forward-looking meeting he had with President Trump, but that was the last thing the media wanted to hear. One of my favorite actresses, Nicole Kidman, made the 'mistake' of saying that it was time for the country to rally around President Trump. For that she has been excoriated in the press and on facebook and twitter. And then there is Steve Harvey, a funny and very hard-working man who hosts two daily TV programs and is anything but a conservative. Harvey went to see President Trump, and this, in and of itself, was deemed a crime by the Ultra Left.
I don't need to tell anybody what the morons responsible for this reactionary furor would have said if GOP types had set off on outgoing President Obama in anything even approaching the same way the Ultra Left has acted concerning President Trump. There are a whole lot of people with very very big problems when they have to act llike certified idiots over the results of a free and fair election. Like this writer has said over and over, the only "influence" anybody had on the just-held national election is shining a very bright light on the way the Ultra Leftists at the top of the Democratic Party go about trying to rule. America has been stronger and more vibrant through the years because power here can change hands every few years without the nation falling apart. Despite this, it is crystal clear that a bunch of anarchists on the Ultra Left do not want that to happen, even when the American People say it should by their decisions in the voting booth.
In the 2016 Election, both sides fielded flawed candidates. The news media, back when it existed in the form imagined by the Founding Fathers, would have laid bare the faults on both sides. In 2016, a media now totally controlled by the Ultra Left was only willing to examine Donald Trump. By the Grace of the Good Lord, others filled in where the media abdicated their duties. Somebody hacked the Ultra Left's emails and made them public. It is far from clear what, if any influence that expose had on the election. But often it seems that when the bright light of truth shines where bad actors don't want it, revealing things are exposed. Hillary Clinton should never have gotten that close to the White House.
America survives because she did not.
Monday, January 16, 2017
Domestic Terror Group Planned to Shut Down Trump Inaugural; FBI Probe Started; Lewis Comment Challenged
BALTIMORE, Maryland, Monday, January 17, 2017 - While the mainstream ultra left media and its parent group, the Democratic Party, concentrate their supposed furor on President Trump's reaction to John Lewis' indefensible remarks about the legitimacy of Trump's Presidency, James O'Keefe and his incisive 'Project Veritas' has once again blown the cover off of what those embarrassing ultra leftists in the Democratic Party are really up to.
Breitbart reports tonight that O'Keefe and some of his cohorts infiltrated a far left domestic terror group calling itself the "D.C. Anti-Fascist Coalition," and came away with video and audio recordings depicting the group planning to have exploding acid bombs, called 'stink' bombs in the vernacular, explode during a pro-Trump dance and social gathering at the National Press Club. If the acid bombs failed to adequately disrupt the gathering, the Pro-Hillary Clinton group intended to set off the Press Club's sprinkler system, forcing guests to evacuate the building in a hurry. This, even though cold weather outside could cause additional problems for elderly attendees.
In an interview on the Sean Hannity Radio Show Monday afternoon, O'Keefe said that the Fascist Coalition's plans were very well thought out and, O'Keefe's group believed, posed a real threat to those attending the so-called "Deploraball" at the Press Club, that he and his Project Veritas members decided the safest bet was to expose the plans to the FBI. This they did.
The FBI has opened an investigation.
The Fascist Coalition also openly threatened the government of the District of Columbia. On the Project Veritas recording, a member of the Coalition is overheard saying:
"The message has to be, we do not recognize the city government either. If you try to close us down we will look for your house, we will burn it. We will physically fight the police if they try to steal one of our places. We will go to war and you will lose."
The overall goal of the Fascist Coalition, Breitbart reported, was the completely shut down the Trump inauguration.
Meanwhile:
What makes a President "legitimate?" This is but one of several questions arising out of the mild but over-emphasized tussle between Georgia Congressman John Robert Lewis and President Donald Trump. The bruhaha began when Lewis charged - during an interview - that Trump was not legitimate (his word) because of alleged Russian interference with the November election. Because Trump is not legitimate in his mind, he won't go to Trump's inauguration on Friday.
The Democrats gave a lot of thought to having Lewis make the absurd charge and statement. He is a national icon, having been one of the bravest and most vocal leaders of the legendary March on Selma in 1963. Lewis was at the head of 600 marchers, and when they collided head-on with armed Alabama State Troopers, Lewis had his skull broken by a stick-wielding Trooper. He bears those scars even today.
In recent years, however, he has lowered the bar as well as the meaning of his heroism by playing the race card every time a Republican is elected. His claim this year that Hillary would not have won if the Russians wouldn't have intervened in the election is the most ludicrous.
Despite all the vitriol of leading Ultra Leftists, including President Obama, the Russians, at the absolute most, did nothing more than cause an incredibly bright light to be shown on the low-brow filthy tactics of the Ultra Left. This bright light was turned on when the email servers of some leaders of the Democratic Party were hacked because they were using unprotected or ill-protected email servers.
There has never been even one defense announced by Democrats that the emails turned over to and then published by Wikileaks were not legitimate. All of them were real and honest DNC emails, and they exposed just how low-brow the Democrats were. The mainstream media died their best to bury the emails even though they said tons about the Democratic Party and their corrupted candidate, Hillary Clinton. The emails did get publicity from Breitbart and other moderate media outlets.
But the Dems began to claim after their surprising loss to Trump that the Russian interference is the only reason Trump won. The real truth is that not one false claim was ever circulated by anybody about Hillary. When the sun shown on her low brow nature, she lost.
Americans by the millions voted for Trump. While Hillary apparently got some more popular votes, the American Presidential Elections have always been decided by who wins the Electoral College Vote. That system allocates votes to each state based on population. The states have the option of allocating their electoral votes as they see fit, although many, but not all, give all the votes to the winner of the popular vote in their state. A few allocate the electoral votes based on the percentage each candidate got in the popular vote.
The best candidate won, fair and square, and the Ultra Left is just having a hard time getting over it.
Breitbart reports tonight that O'Keefe and some of his cohorts infiltrated a far left domestic terror group calling itself the "D.C. Anti-Fascist Coalition," and came away with video and audio recordings depicting the group planning to have exploding acid bombs, called 'stink' bombs in the vernacular, explode during a pro-Trump dance and social gathering at the National Press Club. If the acid bombs failed to adequately disrupt the gathering, the Pro-Hillary Clinton group intended to set off the Press Club's sprinkler system, forcing guests to evacuate the building in a hurry. This, even though cold weather outside could cause additional problems for elderly attendees.
In an interview on the Sean Hannity Radio Show Monday afternoon, O'Keefe said that the Fascist Coalition's plans were very well thought out and, O'Keefe's group believed, posed a real threat to those attending the so-called "Deploraball" at the Press Club, that he and his Project Veritas members decided the safest bet was to expose the plans to the FBI. This they did.
The FBI has opened an investigation.
The Fascist Coalition also openly threatened the government of the District of Columbia. On the Project Veritas recording, a member of the Coalition is overheard saying:
"The message has to be, we do not recognize the city government either. If you try to close us down we will look for your house, we will burn it. We will physically fight the police if they try to steal one of our places. We will go to war and you will lose."
The overall goal of the Fascist Coalition, Breitbart reported, was the completely shut down the Trump inauguration.
Meanwhile:
What makes a President "legitimate?" This is but one of several questions arising out of the mild but over-emphasized tussle between Georgia Congressman John Robert Lewis and President Donald Trump. The bruhaha began when Lewis charged - during an interview - that Trump was not legitimate (his word) because of alleged Russian interference with the November election. Because Trump is not legitimate in his mind, he won't go to Trump's inauguration on Friday.
The Democrats gave a lot of thought to having Lewis make the absurd charge and statement. He is a national icon, having been one of the bravest and most vocal leaders of the legendary March on Selma in 1963. Lewis was at the head of 600 marchers, and when they collided head-on with armed Alabama State Troopers, Lewis had his skull broken by a stick-wielding Trooper. He bears those scars even today.
In recent years, however, he has lowered the bar as well as the meaning of his heroism by playing the race card every time a Republican is elected. His claim this year that Hillary would not have won if the Russians wouldn't have intervened in the election is the most ludicrous.
Despite all the vitriol of leading Ultra Leftists, including President Obama, the Russians, at the absolute most, did nothing more than cause an incredibly bright light to be shown on the low-brow filthy tactics of the Ultra Left. This bright light was turned on when the email servers of some leaders of the Democratic Party were hacked because they were using unprotected or ill-protected email servers.
There has never been even one defense announced by Democrats that the emails turned over to and then published by Wikileaks were not legitimate. All of them were real and honest DNC emails, and they exposed just how low-brow the Democrats were. The mainstream media died their best to bury the emails even though they said tons about the Democratic Party and their corrupted candidate, Hillary Clinton. The emails did get publicity from Breitbart and other moderate media outlets.
But the Dems began to claim after their surprising loss to Trump that the Russian interference is the only reason Trump won. The real truth is that not one false claim was ever circulated by anybody about Hillary. When the sun shown on her low brow nature, she lost.
Americans by the millions voted for Trump. While Hillary apparently got some more popular votes, the American Presidential Elections have always been decided by who wins the Electoral College Vote. That system allocates votes to each state based on population. The states have the option of allocating their electoral votes as they see fit, although many, but not all, give all the votes to the winner of the popular vote in their state. A few allocate the electoral votes based on the percentage each candidate got in the popular vote.
The best candidate won, fair and square, and the Ultra Left is just having a hard time getting over it.
Friday, January 13, 2017
Looking Long and Hard at Nancy Pelosi and the Roll Call of Responsibility for Obamacare; Plus Some Closing Notes, Including a Word About the Great Clarence Thomas and the Death of William Peter Blatty
BALTIMORE, Maryland, Friday, January 13, 2017 - The Minority Leader of the United States House of Representatives is the reprehensible Nancy Pelosi. It is sad to note that Ms. Pelosi is the daughter of the late Mayor of Baltimore City, Thomas D'Alesandro, Jr. It is equally sad to note that her brother, Thomas D'Alesandro, III, was also a Mayor of my City. Despite these much-admired family members, Ms. Pelosi has to shoulder a healthy chunk of responsibility for the fact that the Democratic Party is in free fall throughout These United States. From town councils to state houses to the White House, Democrats have either moved out, are moving out, or, in the most optimistic assessment that can be made, in some few isolated places, the Dems are holding on for dear life. From one Democrat to another, thank you Nancy Pelosi.
In her political life, her private life and every other manifestation of her existence, Pelosi exhibits all of the characteristics of the despicable Ultra Left. First, she freely and without hesitation will lie with a completely bald face, to anybody at all, especially the American People. She lies on an ultra regular basis. You name it, she lies about it. Second, her overt devotion, her top devotion, is not to These United States, not to her family, not to her stated religion, but to her Ultra Left Political Cult.
While serving as the Speaker of the House of Representatives, she routinely commandeered United States Air Force planes to shuttle her and her inner staff of functionaries back and forth to California, where she lives in ultra luxury on one of her vineyards. When she started this disgusting practice, the Air Force reluctantly supplied her with a plane that did what she said she needed it to do. But, alas, it wasn't luxurious enough for her self-appointed status as a kind of federal royalty. Instead of the plane she was given, the self-announced princess wanted a brand new plane, a very plush and modern plane, and a plane that was fast in the sky. The Air Force didn't exactly jump for joy at the prospect of taking one of their precious vehicles that was in service defending USA citizens and giving it over to some person for non-defense-related purposes. But Nancy Pelosi was a big wheel and she got what she demanded. And you never read much about any of this in the mainstream media, even though no House Speaker had ever pulled such awful stuff. But Nancy did and she got away with it. We paid for her to be transported back and forth to California in, well, ultra luxury.
Let me say this about Ms. Pelosi. She was very good at being a 'Tough' and a Bully and at exercising these traits and characteristics in order to keep the Democrats in the House in line and doing exactly what she and President Obama wanted them to do.
One of her stunning successes is back in the news these days. Early on in President Obama's first term, when Obamacare; i.e., Obamashame or Obamamess, was being considered by the House and Senate, Pelosi kept her troops voting for the legislation even though more than a few of these people knew better and were gagging at the mere thought of what this nonsensical law would do to health care in These United States. Here in this neck of the woods, Democratic Congressman C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger was serving his first term representing Maryland's second district. He knew full well that his constituents hated the whole idea of Obamashame, and would hate Ruppersberger if he voted for it. Thanks to Nancy Pelosi, he voted for it, anyway. Amazing!
When Barack Hussein Obama looks back on his eight years as President, one set of facts that will trouble him to no end will be that he did so little with the two full years he was given with the Democrats in control of both houses of congress, while at the same time five pliable judges held sway over at the Supreme Court. He did ram the Obamashame Health Care Bill through, and he did ram the public funding bills known as the Stimulus Bills through. But, as evidenced by what Obama can do in far less time - see, for example, all of the God-Awful things Obama is doing in the last month of his eight year term - the President literally frittered away his golden opportunity to turn These United States into the Ultra Left Poster Nation he dreams about most nights. Nancy Pelosi had a vice grip on the 435 members of the House of Representatives. Dingy Harry Reid's control of the United States Senate wasn't nearly so total as Pelosi's in the House, but it lived up to his status in the Obama regime; Reid had a functioning control. Recall that Obama had to wheel and deal with some Senators, who feigned various obstacles standing in the way of their ability to vote for the shame bill. When Obama promised these hold outs enough Pork, they all capitulated. Never in American History has so notorious a piece of legislation slithered through the legislative branch without even one GOP vote. Not a one. But it did get through, and because of that fact, the Congress will spend considerable time during Donald Trump's first 100 days trying to clean up the swill and putrid residue of that Marxist-like thing.
From the time that thing passed the Congress and Obama Signed it, up until now as it is literally torn apart and voted into oblivion (where, God Willing, it will forever stay) by the Republican-controlled Congress, not one public opinion poll ever indicated that Americans had anything but utter disgust for the Obamashame mess. That is especially so, now, when the bills for this outrage are so high people are getting nose bleeds trying to comprehend how much it is costing them. And the ridiculous bills are matched by deductibles that are equally outrageous.
As Obama and his functionaries congratulate themselves for all of the things they did to America, I recall the shame of Obamashame, and all of the work and sweat that will have to be done to clean the slate that it still blemishes in its last days.
Some Closing Notes: Rush Limbaugh, the indispensable radio host, says about CNN in the wake of the smack down the outfit suffered at the hand of Donald Trump: "CNN exists now to destroy Donald Trump." Believe it, folks...The other indispensable radio host, Mark Levin, told America Thursday night that they had to be ready to suffer through a mainstream media concentrated on destroying Trump.
Limbaugh said today that the mainstream media is calling Trump a master manipulator, not because he actually manipulates anybody or anything, but because they - the media - cannot figure out how to bring him down. "It wouldn't actually occur to him to actually cover Trump ...to try honesty and objectivity...but those are the things they've thrown out...Mr. Limbaugh also said that he hasn't had this much fun watching the news in a long long time. He noted with glee the give and take between Donald Trump and a CNN news man. This particular dude kept screaming at the Trump press conference, "Can you give us a question? Can you give us a question. You've attacked our organization, can you give us a question?" To which Trump, in a loud voice, shouted back, "I'm not giving you a question. You're fake news!" Not to be outdone, or so he thought, the reporter shouted back, "that's not legitimate." Now, Trump had already moved on when that nonsense slipped out of the CNN mouth. But America heard it. They heard a reporter telling Trump that he was out of order. Huh? Did he ever tell Obama he was out of order? It's stuff like this that has Trump coming to power and the Ultra Left Mainstream Media melting down.
The third indispensable radio host in Sean Hannity. He has been ripping the media apart since the start of the campaign, and he's been in rare form since Trump was elected, something he was not surprised by. These three men speak so much truth and common sense in one show that it leaves a former reporter like me breathless. And all three admit up front that they are not objective. On the other hand, the mainstream media wants you to believe that they are objective, and 85% of all Americans don't believe it at all. The media is in free fall faster than their parent group, the Democratic Party.
William Peter Blatty, the author of The Exorcist and other books, has died. He was 89. Blatty also wrote screen plays and was involved in film making. Among his other works, he wrote and directed the Exorcist III sequel to the Exorcist. He was awarded an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Exorcist.
And finally, Limbaugh revealed today that Mike Pence, the Vice President, will be sworn in by Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Articulate, honest, and tremendously intelligent, Thomas is the bane of the Ultra Left. He is a Black Conservative. I can think of a few humans whom I admire as much as Justice Thomas, but there is virtually no one whom I admire more, save for my father, my late grandfathers and my late Uncle Joe. The man has overcome so bloody much and continues to be a picture of virtue and honor.
In her political life, her private life and every other manifestation of her existence, Pelosi exhibits all of the characteristics of the despicable Ultra Left. First, she freely and without hesitation will lie with a completely bald face, to anybody at all, especially the American People. She lies on an ultra regular basis. You name it, she lies about it. Second, her overt devotion, her top devotion, is not to These United States, not to her family, not to her stated religion, but to her Ultra Left Political Cult.
While serving as the Speaker of the House of Representatives, she routinely commandeered United States Air Force planes to shuttle her and her inner staff of functionaries back and forth to California, where she lives in ultra luxury on one of her vineyards. When she started this disgusting practice, the Air Force reluctantly supplied her with a plane that did what she said she needed it to do. But, alas, it wasn't luxurious enough for her self-appointed status as a kind of federal royalty. Instead of the plane she was given, the self-announced princess wanted a brand new plane, a very plush and modern plane, and a plane that was fast in the sky. The Air Force didn't exactly jump for joy at the prospect of taking one of their precious vehicles that was in service defending USA citizens and giving it over to some person for non-defense-related purposes. But Nancy Pelosi was a big wheel and she got what she demanded. And you never read much about any of this in the mainstream media, even though no House Speaker had ever pulled such awful stuff. But Nancy did and she got away with it. We paid for her to be transported back and forth to California in, well, ultra luxury.
Let me say this about Ms. Pelosi. She was very good at being a 'Tough' and a Bully and at exercising these traits and characteristics in order to keep the Democrats in the House in line and doing exactly what she and President Obama wanted them to do.
One of her stunning successes is back in the news these days. Early on in President Obama's first term, when Obamacare; i.e., Obamashame or Obamamess, was being considered by the House and Senate, Pelosi kept her troops voting for the legislation even though more than a few of these people knew better and were gagging at the mere thought of what this nonsensical law would do to health care in These United States. Here in this neck of the woods, Democratic Congressman C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger was serving his first term representing Maryland's second district. He knew full well that his constituents hated the whole idea of Obamashame, and would hate Ruppersberger if he voted for it. Thanks to Nancy Pelosi, he voted for it, anyway. Amazing!
When Barack Hussein Obama looks back on his eight years as President, one set of facts that will trouble him to no end will be that he did so little with the two full years he was given with the Democrats in control of both houses of congress, while at the same time five pliable judges held sway over at the Supreme Court. He did ram the Obamashame Health Care Bill through, and he did ram the public funding bills known as the Stimulus Bills through. But, as evidenced by what Obama can do in far less time - see, for example, all of the God-Awful things Obama is doing in the last month of his eight year term - the President literally frittered away his golden opportunity to turn These United States into the Ultra Left Poster Nation he dreams about most nights. Nancy Pelosi had a vice grip on the 435 members of the House of Representatives. Dingy Harry Reid's control of the United States Senate wasn't nearly so total as Pelosi's in the House, but it lived up to his status in the Obama regime; Reid had a functioning control. Recall that Obama had to wheel and deal with some Senators, who feigned various obstacles standing in the way of their ability to vote for the shame bill. When Obama promised these hold outs enough Pork, they all capitulated. Never in American History has so notorious a piece of legislation slithered through the legislative branch without even one GOP vote. Not a one. But it did get through, and because of that fact, the Congress will spend considerable time during Donald Trump's first 100 days trying to clean up the swill and putrid residue of that Marxist-like thing.
From the time that thing passed the Congress and Obama Signed it, up until now as it is literally torn apart and voted into oblivion (where, God Willing, it will forever stay) by the Republican-controlled Congress, not one public opinion poll ever indicated that Americans had anything but utter disgust for the Obamashame mess. That is especially so, now, when the bills for this outrage are so high people are getting nose bleeds trying to comprehend how much it is costing them. And the ridiculous bills are matched by deductibles that are equally outrageous.
As Obama and his functionaries congratulate themselves for all of the things they did to America, I recall the shame of Obamashame, and all of the work and sweat that will have to be done to clean the slate that it still blemishes in its last days.
Some Closing Notes: Rush Limbaugh, the indispensable radio host, says about CNN in the wake of the smack down the outfit suffered at the hand of Donald Trump: "CNN exists now to destroy Donald Trump." Believe it, folks...The other indispensable radio host, Mark Levin, told America Thursday night that they had to be ready to suffer through a mainstream media concentrated on destroying Trump.
Limbaugh said today that the mainstream media is calling Trump a master manipulator, not because he actually manipulates anybody or anything, but because they - the media - cannot figure out how to bring him down. "It wouldn't actually occur to him to actually cover Trump ...to try honesty and objectivity...but those are the things they've thrown out...Mr. Limbaugh also said that he hasn't had this much fun watching the news in a long long time. He noted with glee the give and take between Donald Trump and a CNN news man. This particular dude kept screaming at the Trump press conference, "Can you give us a question? Can you give us a question. You've attacked our organization, can you give us a question?" To which Trump, in a loud voice, shouted back, "I'm not giving you a question. You're fake news!" Not to be outdone, or so he thought, the reporter shouted back, "that's not legitimate." Now, Trump had already moved on when that nonsense slipped out of the CNN mouth. But America heard it. They heard a reporter telling Trump that he was out of order. Huh? Did he ever tell Obama he was out of order? It's stuff like this that has Trump coming to power and the Ultra Left Mainstream Media melting down.
The third indispensable radio host in Sean Hannity. He has been ripping the media apart since the start of the campaign, and he's been in rare form since Trump was elected, something he was not surprised by. These three men speak so much truth and common sense in one show that it leaves a former reporter like me breathless. And all three admit up front that they are not objective. On the other hand, the mainstream media wants you to believe that they are objective, and 85% of all Americans don't believe it at all. The media is in free fall faster than their parent group, the Democratic Party.
William Peter Blatty, the author of The Exorcist and other books, has died. He was 89. Blatty also wrote screen plays and was involved in film making. Among his other works, he wrote and directed the Exorcist III sequel to the Exorcist. He was awarded an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Exorcist.
And finally, Limbaugh revealed today that Mike Pence, the Vice President, will be sworn in by Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Articulate, honest, and tremendously intelligent, Thomas is the bane of the Ultra Left. He is a Black Conservative. I can think of a few humans whom I admire as much as Justice Thomas, but there is virtually no one whom I admire more, save for my father, my late grandfathers and my late Uncle Joe. The man has overcome so bloody much and continues to be a picture of virtue and honor.
Thursday, January 12, 2017
Scene of Fire Tragedy In Baltimore City (Story Follows)
This is the scene of a fire tragedy in northeastern Baltimore City, less than one mile from the location where I post this blog. (The Photo is taken by John William Trotz; in case you did not know, that is me, the author of this blog)
Fire in Northeast Baltimore City Critically Injures Three Children and Leaves Six More Unaccounted For
BALTIMORE, Maryland, Thursday, January 12, 2017 - Less than one mile from my home, in other words, less than one mile from where I am writing and posting this piece, is the remaining bits of a home that is now in the national and, indeed, international, news. That home went up in flames before dawn, which is just a few hours ago. Nine (9) children, ranging in age from 8 months to just 11 years, and the mother of one or more of those innocents, were in the home.
I have just returned from the scene of this tragedy. Even 100 yards away - which is where the police and fire departments have posted lines through which citizens may not pass - the mood was somber. The home that burned is a disaster. The third floor is collapsed into the second floor, which, in turn, has at least partially collapsed into the first. A fire official says that the remains of the home may be stable enough quite soon for the front of what is left can be removed by tractors and other heavy equipment, allowing fire investigators to enter the home and conduct a hand search.
As Baltimore City firefighters arrived early today, they found that the mother and three of the nine children said to live in the wood-framed house were out of that house but badly injured. Hospitals in the nearby say all are in either critical or serious condition, mostly the former. (In fact, one of the three children is in serious condition. The other two children and the mother are in critical condition, fire officials say.) The remaining six innocents are said to be "unaccounted" for. In the first reports, I listened carefully for some hint that the six might have been elsewhere last night, instead of in the house awaiting discovery,
As I update this piece at 10:15 am, Baltimore City Fire Chief Roman Clark said the six missing children can now be said to be "presumed dead."
The Washington Post has reported that the fire was first reported at 12:30 am.
If they are in the house, they will not be found alive, I am grief-stricken to tell you. The web page for ABC2 in Baltimore has some pictures of the home. Like others around here, it is an older home, having been built sometime early in the last century or late in the nineteenth century. If that many folk are living in the home, it is pretty plain that there isn't a whole heck of a lot of money available to fireproof the house. My own home isn't fireproof.
This is a tragedy of immense proportions.
I have just returned from the scene of this tragedy. Even 100 yards away - which is where the police and fire departments have posted lines through which citizens may not pass - the mood was somber. The home that burned is a disaster. The third floor is collapsed into the second floor, which, in turn, has at least partially collapsed into the first. A fire official says that the remains of the home may be stable enough quite soon for the front of what is left can be removed by tractors and other heavy equipment, allowing fire investigators to enter the home and conduct a hand search.
As Baltimore City firefighters arrived early today, they found that the mother and three of the nine children said to live in the wood-framed house were out of that house but badly injured. Hospitals in the nearby say all are in either critical or serious condition, mostly the former. (In fact, one of the three children is in serious condition. The other two children and the mother are in critical condition, fire officials say.) The remaining six innocents are said to be "unaccounted" for. In the first reports, I listened carefully for some hint that the six might have been elsewhere last night, instead of in the house awaiting discovery,
As I update this piece at 10:15 am, Baltimore City Fire Chief Roman Clark said the six missing children can now be said to be "presumed dead."
The Washington Post has reported that the fire was first reported at 12:30 am.
If they are in the house, they will not be found alive, I am grief-stricken to tell you. The web page for ABC2 in Baltimore has some pictures of the home. Like others around here, it is an older home, having been built sometime early in the last century or late in the nineteenth century. If that many folk are living in the home, it is pretty plain that there isn't a whole heck of a lot of money available to fireproof the house. My own home isn't fireproof.
This is a tragedy of immense proportions.
Wednesday, January 11, 2017
Trump Trashes Far Left Media After Salacious and False Report is Widely Printed and Broadcast; Obama Recites Things He Wishes He Did
BALTIMORE, Maryland, Wednesday, January 11, 2017 - Last night we had President Obama being cheered loud and long by his inner base - if there is such a thing (and maybe I should just call them his most ardent admirers) - especially when he recited as one of his primary accomplishments the entry of tens of thousands of Muslim refugees. That was loudest cheer of the night. Which isn't to say he didn't get a lot of applause from his admirers. Even so, it was a bit of a reach, even for Obama, to recite accomplishments that were either not true, or did not occur, and often times both things which didn't happen and were not true.
According to President Obama, race relations are better now than they have ever been. He added, however, that immediately after he was first elected in 2008 there was talk that he would turn the USA into a "post-racial" America.
One pundit said Obama, throughout the so-called farewell speech, was delusional. I will give you a hint, it wasn't just during the speech.
A caller to a popular radio show said that Obama was even worse than Jimmy Carter. I will give you another hint, he is much worse than Mr. Carter, who I think has been badly under-rated. Had the rescue of the hostages succeeded, instead of the failure and meltdown of the mission in the Iranian Desert, Carter may never have lost his re-election race against the great Ronald Reagan.
That's how history is. One unbelievable turn after another. Carter led Reagan until the final weeks of the campaign, but when Carter's momentum fell apart, it completely shattered. What was a close race became a landslide. But it was the landslide that gave so much impetus to Reagan's legislative package, which, in turn, led directly to America's economic resurgence. The economic resurgence led directly to the fall of the Iron Curtain, and the rest, as they say, is history. The best kind of history. All I am saying is that Carter deserves better, at least during his Presidential years. Of late he has said some crackpot stuff, but such are the ravages of age.
Today, Trump held a press conference and took the opportunity to tear apart the mainstream ultra left press. They had it coming. Oh boy did they have it coming. A trash report that was totally false as well as intentionally salacious was printed and broadcast by a number of ultra left media outlets. It started when the awful "Buzzfeed" printed the entire false document, supposedly to quell the controversy. They said that the report was not proven, as far as they knew. Once Buzzfeed opened the door, Katy could no longer bar it, if you take my meaning. CNN couldn't stop talking about it. The entire thing was known to be false, but the media went with it just to further embarrass our President.
For his part, Trump pulverized them to a largely adoring public. There are, of course, some whining leftists. I feel so sorry for the media, which is becoming ever more useless and embarrassing by the day. Their only choice if they want to remain viable is to admit up front that they favor an ultra left government, lifestyle, societal mores and etc. At least they would bring a touch of honesty where now it is totally absent. Right now, the mainstream media cannot be trusted. You would be a fool if you did.
According to President Obama, race relations are better now than they have ever been. He added, however, that immediately after he was first elected in 2008 there was talk that he would turn the USA into a "post-racial" America.
One pundit said Obama, throughout the so-called farewell speech, was delusional. I will give you a hint, it wasn't just during the speech.
A caller to a popular radio show said that Obama was even worse than Jimmy Carter. I will give you another hint, he is much worse than Mr. Carter, who I think has been badly under-rated. Had the rescue of the hostages succeeded, instead of the failure and meltdown of the mission in the Iranian Desert, Carter may never have lost his re-election race against the great Ronald Reagan.
That's how history is. One unbelievable turn after another. Carter led Reagan until the final weeks of the campaign, but when Carter's momentum fell apart, it completely shattered. What was a close race became a landslide. But it was the landslide that gave so much impetus to Reagan's legislative package, which, in turn, led directly to America's economic resurgence. The economic resurgence led directly to the fall of the Iron Curtain, and the rest, as they say, is history. The best kind of history. All I am saying is that Carter deserves better, at least during his Presidential years. Of late he has said some crackpot stuff, but such are the ravages of age.
Today, Trump held a press conference and took the opportunity to tear apart the mainstream ultra left press. They had it coming. Oh boy did they have it coming. A trash report that was totally false as well as intentionally salacious was printed and broadcast by a number of ultra left media outlets. It started when the awful "Buzzfeed" printed the entire false document, supposedly to quell the controversy. They said that the report was not proven, as far as they knew. Once Buzzfeed opened the door, Katy could no longer bar it, if you take my meaning. CNN couldn't stop talking about it. The entire thing was known to be false, but the media went with it just to further embarrass our President.
For his part, Trump pulverized them to a largely adoring public. There are, of course, some whining leftists. I feel so sorry for the media, which is becoming ever more useless and embarrassing by the day. Their only choice if they want to remain viable is to admit up front that they favor an ultra left government, lifestyle, societal mores and etc. At least they would bring a touch of honesty where now it is totally absent. Right now, the mainstream media cannot be trusted. You would be a fool if you did.
Monday, January 9, 2017
When it Comes to Sessions, Democrats Might Just Be All Bluster and Racial Big Mouthing; Will Schumer Actually Vote to Confirm? Plus: Fox News Radio Anchor Gets Far Left Goofy
BALTIMORE, Maryland, Monday, January 9, 2017 - When Donald Trump first made the announcement that Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions was his pick for United States Attorney General, several leading Ultra Left Democrats howled like they had rejoined some wild pack of wolves. "Jeff Sessions!" they screamed, "why, why, he is from the South!" He cannot be the Attorney General.
Jeff Sessions has been conservative in his politics, but absolutely up front and noble on civil rights issues. He cast key votes to extend the Civil Rights Act, he was one of 17 Republicans to vote to confirm Eric Holder for Attorney General when Holder was nominated by President Obama, and, as a prosecutor, he took on racist murderers in the South and won, in the South.
Nonetheless, some Ultra Leftists asserted that Sessions was a racist and not qualified to be the Attorney General. They are wrong. Tomorrow, the liberal Maine Republican, Susan Collins, will introduce her Senate colleague at the hearing in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Collins was one Republican the Democrats thought they just might be able to pick off. They are wrong.
In fact, even Politico, that far left bastion, has conceded that Sessions will be confirmed, first by the Judiciary Committee and then by the whole Senate.
And if the Dems can't get at Sessions, they won't get at anybody. An Ultra Leftist Blogger up in Maine was lamenting the point that Collins has already announced her intention to support Sessions. Then came the news that she would not only vote for him, she would introduce him at the hearing.
One of the things that really irks the Democrats about Sessions is his so-called "hardline" policy position on immigration. Sessions opposes amnesty and other similar liberal policies. And he just gags at Obama's ideas of opening the border and one-world government.
Is Obama a one-worlder?
Is the sky blue?
Schumer told Politico: "Given some of his past statements and his staunch opposition to immigration reform, I am very concerned about what he would do with the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice and want to hear what he has to say,"
Just for the record, I predict Schumer will say all manner of ominous things about Sessions, then vote for him. But I could be wrong.
Fox Radio News Anchor In Bout of Far Left Goofiness
I am about to post this at 8 pm, give or take, on Monday night. I just heard the Fox Radio News at 8 pm, anchored by Jane Metzler. She ended the broadcast by sinking into a stunning session of very far left idiocy.
She was chatting about Meryl Streep, whom she obviously adored. And Ms. Metzler really adores Ms. Streep after her bumbling nonsensical chat about President Trump on the Golden Globe Award Show. I missed that show, but was so fortunate to hear replays of Ms. Streep all day Monday. So Ms. Metzler, to add zing to her comments, says something akin to this: "Even the White House Press Secretary said Ms. Streep had the right to say what she said."
Ms. Metzler, a leftist, and former Albuquerque, New Mexico TV Personality (where she was known for her ever-changing hairdos, according to the Albuquerque Journal Newspaper) thinks her listeners will be shocked to hear that even the White House Press Secretary supported Ms. Streep's right to blast Trump. She is either stupid or thinks her listeners are stupid. Which one is it?
Jeff Sessions has been conservative in his politics, but absolutely up front and noble on civil rights issues. He cast key votes to extend the Civil Rights Act, he was one of 17 Republicans to vote to confirm Eric Holder for Attorney General when Holder was nominated by President Obama, and, as a prosecutor, he took on racist murderers in the South and won, in the South.
Nonetheless, some Ultra Leftists asserted that Sessions was a racist and not qualified to be the Attorney General. They are wrong. Tomorrow, the liberal Maine Republican, Susan Collins, will introduce her Senate colleague at the hearing in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Collins was one Republican the Democrats thought they just might be able to pick off. They are wrong.
In fact, even Politico, that far left bastion, has conceded that Sessions will be confirmed, first by the Judiciary Committee and then by the whole Senate.
And if the Dems can't get at Sessions, they won't get at anybody. An Ultra Leftist Blogger up in Maine was lamenting the point that Collins has already announced her intention to support Sessions. Then came the news that she would not only vote for him, she would introduce him at the hearing.
One of the things that really irks the Democrats about Sessions is his so-called "hardline" policy position on immigration. Sessions opposes amnesty and other similar liberal policies. And he just gags at Obama's ideas of opening the border and one-world government.
Is Obama a one-worlder?
Is the sky blue?
Schumer told Politico: "Given some of his past statements and his staunch opposition to immigration reform, I am very concerned about what he would do with the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice and want to hear what he has to say,"
Just for the record, I predict Schumer will say all manner of ominous things about Sessions, then vote for him. But I could be wrong.
Fox Radio News Anchor In Bout of Far Left Goofiness
I am about to post this at 8 pm, give or take, on Monday night. I just heard the Fox Radio News at 8 pm, anchored by Jane Metzler. She ended the broadcast by sinking into a stunning session of very far left idiocy.
She was chatting about Meryl Streep, whom she obviously adored. And Ms. Metzler really adores Ms. Streep after her bumbling nonsensical chat about President Trump on the Golden Globe Award Show. I missed that show, but was so fortunate to hear replays of Ms. Streep all day Monday. So Ms. Metzler, to add zing to her comments, says something akin to this: "Even the White House Press Secretary said Ms. Streep had the right to say what she said."
Ms. Metzler, a leftist, and former Albuquerque, New Mexico TV Personality (where she was known for her ever-changing hairdos, according to the Albuquerque Journal Newspaper) thinks her listeners will be shocked to hear that even the White House Press Secretary supported Ms. Streep's right to blast Trump. She is either stupid or thinks her listeners are stupid. Which one is it?
Sunday, January 8, 2017
Maryland in Huge Road Win at Michigan, Nickens Comes Alive; Burnley to Get Replay v. Sunderland in FA Cup After Scoreless Draw at Stadium of Light
BALTIMORE, Maryland, Sunday, January 8, 2017 - On the very same day that Jared Nickens re-emerged as Maryland's long-range shooting threat, the University of Maryland Men's Basketball Team scored a pivotal road win in the competitive Big Ten Conference, one of the toughest in the United States.
Nickens had seen his bench minutes grow and importance to the team chemistry shrink in a season of disappointment. And then, suddenly, and without warning, Michigan's Wolverines found out the Nickens story was quite probably a mirage. That wasn't Nickens on the bench, or, unlike prior games this season when he was, briefly, on the court, and missing everything he threw up, that wasn't Nickens missing those long and high-arcing three-point shots. No it was not.
Instead, Nickens was putting those games behind him and looking for the ball. That was Nickens catching in stride and jumping immediately into that gorgeous jumper of his. That was the Michigan crowd, that great big boisterous and sometimes obnoxious crowd, watching ever more silently as those long gorgeous shots caught nothing but net. Nickens took four of those long-range beauties, and each and every one of the four caught nothing but the bottom of the net.
That was Nickens, one of four Maryland players in double figures as the Terps ran past the Wolverines, 77-70, to become one of six conference teams with Big Ten Records of 2-1 or better. Instead of hearing talk of an off-year, similar to the junk on the chat rooms after Maryland lost that awful thing to upstart Nebraska in their own gym in College Park last Sunday, that was Maryland right back in the conference champion conversation.
As the weekend came to a close, not one Big Ten school was undefeated in conference play. Nebraska, Michigan State and Purdue were 3-1, while Maryland, Wisconsin and Minnesota were 2-1. Northwestern, Iowa and Penn State were just behind at 2-2, and each of those three had scored upset wins, if any win is an upset this season. Northwestern went into Nebraska on Sunday and dealt the Cornhuskers their first Big Ten loss, 74-66. On Saturday, Penn State did the same thing to Michigan State, beating the visiting Spartans, 72-63. Purdue's only conference loss was on its home floor a week ago in a game against Minnesota. Wisconsin's Big Ten setback was at Purdue, today, 66-56.
Maryland returns to action on its home floor Tuesday night when preseason conference favorite Indiana comes to call. The Hoosiers are so intimidating to teams in the Big Ten that they have been beat in two of their three outings, so far. And both of their losses were at home, to Wisconsin and Nebraska. Imagine.
Burnley and Sunderland to Replay FA Cup Third Round Duel After Battling to Draw Saturday at Stadium of Light
On January 17 Burnley and Sunderland will collide for the third time this month, and for the second time in about two weeks, this one will be at Turf Moor. This, after the Claret and Sunderland played to a scoreless draw in front of just 18,000 at the Stadium of Light, where Sunderland has been averaging some 40,000 fans for its Premier League matches.
Burnley Coach Sean Dyche started Nick Hope in the goal after Tom Heaton's spectacular effort in a losing cause at Manchester City last Tuesday. All Hope did was put up a shut out, including an outstanding save on Jack Rodwell's shot for Sunderland. Hope somehow tipped Rodwell's shot over the bar, keeping the match scoreless, according to BBC and media reports.
Meanwhile, Burnley will be back to the Premier League matches come Saturday, January 14 when they host tenth place Southampton. Match Time is 3 pm in Lancashire. Burnley is just behind the visitors in 12th place, and a win allows the Claret to leap over Southampton. Burnley has 23 points to Southampton's 24.
Nickens had seen his bench minutes grow and importance to the team chemistry shrink in a season of disappointment. And then, suddenly, and without warning, Michigan's Wolverines found out the Nickens story was quite probably a mirage. That wasn't Nickens on the bench, or, unlike prior games this season when he was, briefly, on the court, and missing everything he threw up, that wasn't Nickens missing those long and high-arcing three-point shots. No it was not.
Instead, Nickens was putting those games behind him and looking for the ball. That was Nickens catching in stride and jumping immediately into that gorgeous jumper of his. That was the Michigan crowd, that great big boisterous and sometimes obnoxious crowd, watching ever more silently as those long gorgeous shots caught nothing but net. Nickens took four of those long-range beauties, and each and every one of the four caught nothing but the bottom of the net.
That was Nickens, one of four Maryland players in double figures as the Terps ran past the Wolverines, 77-70, to become one of six conference teams with Big Ten Records of 2-1 or better. Instead of hearing talk of an off-year, similar to the junk on the chat rooms after Maryland lost that awful thing to upstart Nebraska in their own gym in College Park last Sunday, that was Maryland right back in the conference champion conversation.
As the weekend came to a close, not one Big Ten school was undefeated in conference play. Nebraska, Michigan State and Purdue were 3-1, while Maryland, Wisconsin and Minnesota were 2-1. Northwestern, Iowa and Penn State were just behind at 2-2, and each of those three had scored upset wins, if any win is an upset this season. Northwestern went into Nebraska on Sunday and dealt the Cornhuskers their first Big Ten loss, 74-66. On Saturday, Penn State did the same thing to Michigan State, beating the visiting Spartans, 72-63. Purdue's only conference loss was on its home floor a week ago in a game against Minnesota. Wisconsin's Big Ten setback was at Purdue, today, 66-56.
Maryland returns to action on its home floor Tuesday night when preseason conference favorite Indiana comes to call. The Hoosiers are so intimidating to teams in the Big Ten that they have been beat in two of their three outings, so far. And both of their losses were at home, to Wisconsin and Nebraska. Imagine.
Burnley and Sunderland to Replay FA Cup Third Round Duel After Battling to Draw Saturday at Stadium of Light
On January 17 Burnley and Sunderland will collide for the third time this month, and for the second time in about two weeks, this one will be at Turf Moor. This, after the Claret and Sunderland played to a scoreless draw in front of just 18,000 at the Stadium of Light, where Sunderland has been averaging some 40,000 fans for its Premier League matches.
Burnley Coach Sean Dyche started Nick Hope in the goal after Tom Heaton's spectacular effort in a losing cause at Manchester City last Tuesday. All Hope did was put up a shut out, including an outstanding save on Jack Rodwell's shot for Sunderland. Hope somehow tipped Rodwell's shot over the bar, keeping the match scoreless, according to BBC and media reports.
Meanwhile, Burnley will be back to the Premier League matches come Saturday, January 14 when they host tenth place Southampton. Match Time is 3 pm in Lancashire. Burnley is just behind the visitors in 12th place, and a win allows the Claret to leap over Southampton. Burnley has 23 points to Southampton's 24.
Friday, January 6, 2017
Updated Breaking News: Five Dead, Nine Others Injured in Fort Lauderdale Airport Attacks; 2 Perpetrators Said to Be Active
BALTIMORE, Maryland, Friday, January 6, 2017 - At least five people are dead - but late media reports said there may be "many" deaths - and some nine others are injured in one and possibly two active incidents at the Fort Lauderdale, Florida Airport.
Filling in at the Rush Limbaugh "Excellence in Broadcasting" Network, Mark Stein, quoting from combined media reports, said that reports have the perpetrator in custody. Fox News said at 2 pm that the Broward County, Florida Sheriff said the scene of the incident was now under control, and travelers, who had been evacuated, were now being allowed back into the part of the airport where the incident took place. However, less than an hour later a second incident and second perpetrator emerged. And now, the entire airport may be evacuated.
The incidents are said to have taken place in the baggage claim area and one other area at the airport, Stein and Sean Hannity subsequently announced. Fox News said the incidents took place at the Delta Airline portion of the baggage claim area and in one other area. Witnesses said a large number of people were seen running from the baggage claim area.
Filling in at the Rush Limbaugh "Excellence in Broadcasting" Network, Mark Stein, quoting from combined media reports, said that reports have the perpetrator in custody. Fox News said at 2 pm that the Broward County, Florida Sheriff said the scene of the incident was now under control, and travelers, who had been evacuated, were now being allowed back into the part of the airport where the incident took place. However, less than an hour later a second incident and second perpetrator emerged. And now, the entire airport may be evacuated.
The incidents are said to have taken place in the baggage claim area and one other area at the airport, Stein and Sean Hannity subsequently announced. Fox News said the incidents took place at the Delta Airline portion of the baggage claim area and in one other area. Witnesses said a large number of people were seen running from the baggage claim area.
Thursday, January 5, 2017
Swiftly Comes the Reaper
BALTIMORE, Maryland, Thursday, January 5, 2017 - Swiftly comes the reaper, swiftly and truly.
Spirit? Well, yes. But obviously not all spirit. There must be reality for the resulting damage to be real. And there was real damage. Lots of it.
Notify all of the creatures here on terra firma whose continued long term viability and well-being depends on their ability to avoid the one who tolls their time here. Call them, inform them, make them understand that their very existence is strictly and inexorably reliant on whether or not they are able to conceal their presence from the one who comes to end the ebb and flow of the lives they live, who comes to substitute death for, in its putrid mind, the arrogance of the continued existence of, well, let's be out with it, shall we? the "victims."
Swiftly he comes. Through the night. There is no sound, not a rustling of leaves, not a grinding of the broken earth beneath. No wind. No exhale.
Swiftly he comes. The imbeciles on guard do not hear, see, smell or feel him as he 'spirits' through their feckless, what? grip. If it be a grip, it has no sure handle. Even if its 'grip' closed on him, he would be through it before the grip closed. Through it and then gone before they are sure he is there.
Was he here? Or did we just imagine it?
There was a, well, they called it a 'public' hearing, a Congressional hearing, on the Russian espionage scandal. Maybe I'm the one calling it a scandal. I haven't heard them call it a scandal. But it is. The scandal is that the greatest of all the nations to ever exist on Earth sullied itself for eight years by choosing, of its own accord, to be run by an ultra far left regime.
Eight years. For a whole lot of those eight years, Obama has known EXACTLY what Putin and his Russians were up to. I'm not sure Putin was making any effort at all to keep it secret. This is what the great nations do. They spy. Really, they do. Did you not know this? Did Obama not know this? Please!
While Vlad was spying as he always has. Always! Here in the United States - run by the Ultra Left - one of the two political parties, the one run by Ultra Left, nominated one of their own to run for President, even though she has used an email system that was strictly illegal because it was so completely easy to hack. Did Hillary Clinton know this? Did she care? Did Obama know that Hillary's email 'thing' could be hacked by an elementary school student? Yes, he did. Did he care? No, but only because he assumed Hillary would win even though she had a criminal personality and regularly broke the law, even though she lied so often, well, it's hard to compare this to anything real and besides, Obama lies almost as much. Or did you not know this?
Vlad was just doing what he always did. Day in and day out. And, guess what, we do too. The difference is that in almost all cases the country being spied on does all it can to prevent the spying entity from getting what they are looking for. Hillary and he minions did not try at all to prevent this from happening. She capitulated to the spying by doing absolutely nothing to prevent it.
Despite her total capitulation, Obama saws the Russians tried to mess with out elections. But Obama waited until now, a few days before the eight years is over, to make a big deal about it, even though he knew all about it a very long time ago.
You see, if Hillary had won the election (God Forbid!), Obama would still not be talking about it. He wouldn't want anybody to think there was any reason for Hillary to have won other than her greatness and his greatness. It's enough to make you sick. But since Trump won, he wants the world to think that Trump won because of what the Russians did, even though Hillary capitulated to it. You see, Hillary was far more concerned with keeping her back room money grabbing away from, not the press, because the mainstream media wouldn't have done anything with it if it was dropped in their lap. But if, say, Limbaugh, or Levin or Judicial Watch got a hold of it then it would be Katy bar the door. And Hillary couldn't have that. No siree. She would much rather keep Limbaugh in the dark than the Russians.
Tell me I'm wrong.
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