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Leak Reveals Nancy Pelosi Teamed Up With Soros To Do THIS to America

 

 

Tell Nancy Pelosi HELL NO!

Support President Trump, Help Finish the Wall NOW!

 

Fellow Patriot,

Nancy Pelosi just confirmed she's out of her freaking mind! One week after shutting down Congress in protest over the wall, she just offered a completely idiotic deal to President Trump.

 

Nancy Pelosi  MUST BE STOPPED before she brings the whole house down!

Instead of offering to negotiate with President Trump on funding the wall in exchange for reopening the federal government, she offered this gem: increase security at immigration checkpoints on the border.

Yes, she ACTUALLY said that. It doesn't get any dumber than that. Un-freaking-believable!

Memo to Nancy: illegal aliens don't cross at legal border checkpoints. They cross over countless UNGUARDED, UNSECURE areas of the border.

 

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Nancy Pelosi and her liberal friends in Congress must think we're morons. Why else would she offer such a galactically stupid deal to President Trump. 

As completely asinine as her offer is, it only serves as further confirmation that she and Chuck Schumer have ABSOLUTELY ZERO intent to cave on funding to finish the wall.

 

They must be stopped NOW!

Pelosi and Schumer don't give a rip that our Swiss cheese border is being overrun by criminals, drug cartels, and terrorists. They're more concerned with importing new Democrat voters.

If you've never been to the border, I can tell you first hand:  IT'S A FREAKING DISASTER!

There are more places than I can count along the hundreds of miles of the border with Mexico where anyone can just walk right into the US…

 

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As if this isn't bad enough, Democrats want the  WHOLE BORDER TO BE COMPLETELY OPEN!

That's right! If Democrats get their way, they'll take down what little wall we've already built, dismantle the checkpoints, and open it up for anyone and everyone to come into the US.

This is Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer's dream: millions of illegal aliens get free benefits and Democrat Party voter registration.

 

IT'S TIME FOR An American  REVOLUTION! Revival RIGHT NOW!!!

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If we don't  stop Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumernow, we seriously might lose the 2020 election and any chance to finish the wall will go down the drain...

 

 

 

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'How To' Outline: 

1. demonize your political opponent
2. the press reports the the lies as if they were true
3. you use the press reports as validation as your lies are true

*THRUITHIFACATION

The art and science of making fiction seem like truth 

AND

Truth seem like fiction.

EXAMPLE:

1. Chris Steel fabricated a dossier that never has been verified and gave it to FBI

2. Steel leaks the fake news in the dossier  to the press  and the press reports        as if it was true

3. The FBI warrant claims the dossier was valid because the press confirmed it !

Pres Reagan Reacting to a Balloon Popping 2 Months after Being Shot

 

 

This is priceless

 

President Reagan Reacting to a Balloon Popping 2 Months after Being Shot

I was expecting a different reaction.  You probably as well.

  https://twistedsifter.com/videos/reagan-reacting-to-balloon-popping/

If You Don’t Know Abrogation You Don’t Know Sharia

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One of the facets of sharia (Islamic Law) that turns the light bulb on in people’s minds more than anything else seems to be the moment they grasp the Koranic concept of abrogation and progressive revelation.

 

Islam teaches that Allah (the god of Islam) revealed Islam to mankind throughout history progressively. Allah revealed the Law to Moses which predicted the coming of Mohammad.  Those who did not accept the Law of Moses were lost.  When Allah revealed the Evangel to Jesus, which also foretold of the coming of Mohammad, it abrogated the Law of Moses, and those who did not accept it were lost (hellbound).  When the final seal of the prophets – Mohammad – came and revealed the Koran to all of mankind, it abrogated all that came before it, and those who did not accept it were lost.

 

According to Islam, the original Law of Moses and revelations given to Jesus were corrupted by the Jews and Christian Priests and, therefore, do not exist on the planet today in their “original” form.  In other words, Islam teaches that all Bibles in the world today are corrupt because the fore-tellings of Mohammad were all intentionally removed.

 

According to Islam, the message of the Koran was revealed to Mohammad via an angel over a period of approximately 23 years – progressively over time.

 

The Koran is organized into 114 chapters called “Suras.”  These suras are not organize chronologically, but generally by size of the chapter from largest to smallest with the exception of Sura 1 which is only several lines long.

 

Three times in the Koran (2:106, 16:101, 17:106) Allah says that whatever he reveals chronologically later  abrogates (overrules or cancels) what he previously revealed.  Allah commands Mohammad to bring the community of people from their unbelief to full compliance with sharia progressively in stages.  This is exactly what we are seeing on the ground today across the world.  The Muslim community is slowly moving from living however they want to live to living in communities that are adhering to the sharia to a greater and greater degree.

According to Islam, Mohammad first received revelations in Mecca for a period of thirteen (13) years.  He was completely rejected as a “prophet” by the religious scholars (Jewish, Christian) of the time.  During those years only approximately 200 people converted to Islam – in 13 years.  This is the time of “tolerance” where Mohammad had to tolerate the non-Muslims and there were no revelations of jihad.

 

Then Mohammad made the hijra to Medina, and was called to become a political and military leader. There he raised an army and gained many converts to Islam as he began to get revelations of jihad.  First Mohammad received revelations of defensive jihad, then limited offensive jihad, and finally, the command to wage jihad as a permanent obligation until the entire world is under sharia.

 

Allah said it last (chronologically) in the Koran, then Mohammad said it, and then Mohammad did it.  This is why there is no gray area in sharia as to the permanent command for all Muslims to wage jihad until the entire world is under sharia when they have the strength and ability to do so.

 

The Law of Jihad provides for how jihad can be waged by Muslims depending on where they are and their abilities.

 

Bringing greater sharia adherence to the world via jihad is the Muslim Brotherhood’s entire focus of all they do, and the stated objective of all of the jihadi organizations on the planet.

Therefore, it is logical, when seen from the perspective of Islam, that if the Koran abrogated all that came before it Allah would say “Whoever accepts a religion other than Islam will never have it accepted of him and he will be of those who truly fail in the hereafter (go to hell).” (Koran 3:85)

 

This logically leads to the requirement of the Koran for Muslims to never take Jews and Christians as friends (Koran 5:51), for pagans to be given the option to convert or be killed (Koran 9:5), and for the “People of the Book” (Jews, Christians, and Zoroastrians) to be given the option – if they choose not to convert to Islam and do not want to be killed – to submit to Islam under sharia, pay the non-Muslim poll tax (jizya), and “feel themselves subdued.”

(Koran 9:29)

 

Islamic scholars have come to an agreement on the chronological order of the suras.  While there are slight differences in some of the listings, Sura 5 is always the last sura (chronologically) to discuss relations between Muslims and non-Muslims, and Sura 9 is the last to discuss jihad.  These are the last words from Allah on these issues, and Islam teaches they abrogate all that came before them.

 

Individuals who convert into Islam are also taught Islam progressively and not all at once.  The Muslim Brotherhood’s “How To” manual entitled Methodology of Dawah Ilallah in American Perspective has this to say about converting a non-Muslim to Islam:

 

“Some rituals of religion and traditions of the Muslim Community are explained.  A short account of the Prophet’s (PBUH) life is presented, without the revolutionary aspect.  When Islam is acceptable to the new entrants in this concocted or abbreviated form, the ceremony of Shahadah is performed with great reverence.  A non-Muslim thus becomes a Muslim, obedient to Allah (SWT) alone.  The revolutionary aspect of Islam is rarely brought before the new converts, as in most cases the Da’ee (the one bringing the non-Muslim to Islam) himself is not conversant with it.”

 

When individuals or communities come to Islam, it is done progressively and in stages.  Unlike when people join into other groups, Muslim do not tell new converts the whole story.  They bring it to them over time.  Mohammad had 23 years to bring people from where they were to full obedience to Allah.

 

Looking at today’s world events through this lense, we can see the move in the Ummah (global Muslim community)  towards greater sharia adherence.  We see it in their dress, how they behave, how they pray, and in many other ways.  We also know that the more we  visually see sharia adherence, the more violence is being taught within the Muslim community.

This progression over time from little sharia adherence to full sharia adherence is the mirror of Mohammad receiving the revelations of the Koran progressively and moving the Muslim community towards complete obedience to Allah and his law – sharia.

The focus is on the Muslim community first, as we see the military jihadi organizations like ISIS and Al Qaeda doing today.  They are forcing Islamic nations to adhere to sharia.

Soon we will see, and are seeing, the HIJRA into non-Muslim lands – also known as the “refugee” surge into Europe and the United States.  Finally, we will see the call for all non-Muslims to convert to Islam, submit to Islam or be killed.  While some of this is beginning to happen, when the Global Islamic Movement assesses Muslim lands are sharia compliant, they will focus their attention on the West.

 

All of this is the mirror image of the progressive revelation of Islam as revealed to the world over history, and specifically to Mohammad during the 23 years he received the Koran from Allah.

 

~Weare all watching it practically play out today in real time, and this is something the suit-wearing jihadis in America are not telling our leaders.

Thomas Sowell PhD

In this era when there has been more information available to more people than at any time in the past, it is also true that there has been more misinformation from more different sources than ever. We are not talking about differences of opinion or inadequate verification, but about statements and catchwords in utter defiance of facts.

Among the most popular current catchwords are "climate change deniers." Stop and think. Have you ever — even once in your entire life — seen, heard or read even one human being who denied that climates change?

It is hard even to imagine how any minimally knowledgeable person could deny that climates change, when there are fossils of marine creatures in the Sahara Desert. Obviously there has been quite a climate change there.

The next time someone talks about "climate change deniers," ask them to name one — and tell you just where specifically you can find their words, declaring that climates do not change. You can bet the rent money that they cannot tell you.

Why all this talk about these mythical creatures called "climate change deniers"? Because there are some meteorologists and other scientists who refuse to join the stampede toward drastic economic changes to prevent what others say will be catastrophic levels of "global warming."

There are scientists on both sides of that issue. Presumably the issue could be debated on the basis of evidence and analysis. But this has become a political crusade, and political issues tend to be settled by political means, of which demonizing the opposition with catchwords is one.

It is much the same story on economic issues. Any proposal to reduce income tax rates is sure to bring out claims that these are "tax cuts for the rich," based on the "trickle-down theory" that reducing the taxes collected from the rich will cause some of their wealth to "trickle down" to people with lower incomes.

Here, yet again, all you need to do is think back over your own life, and ask yourself if you have ever — even once in your entire life — seen, heard or read a single human being who advocated this "trickle-down theory."

Certainly none of the innumerable fellow economists I have encountered in my 88 years ever advocated any such theory. Nor am I aware of anyone else, in any other walk of life, who has done so.

Yet there are ringing denunciations of the "trickle-down theory" in books, articles, and in politics and the media. That theory has been denounced as far away as India.

The next time someone talks about the "trickle-down" theory, ask them to tell you where specifically you can find the writings, videos or any other evidence of someone advocating that theory. You may get some very clever and creative evasions of your question, but no actual answer.

One of the best-selling history textbooks did name Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon as having said in the 1920s that letting the rich pay less taxes would allow their wealth to "trickle down" to others. It was one of the very rare examples that actually named a name.

Unfortunately, what this widely used history textbook attributed to Andrew Mellon was the direct opposite of what he actually said. In Mellon's own book, "Taxation," he said that wealthy people were not paying enough tax revenue to the government, because they put their money into tax-exempt securities.

Mellon called it "incredible" that tax laws allowed someone making a million dollars a year to pay not a cent in taxes, and an "almost grotesque" consequence that people of more modest incomes had to make up the shortfall.

He understood, however, that higher tax rates did not automatically mean higher tax revenues. So when the tax law changes that he advocated cut tax rates, the income tax revenues actually hit a record high at that time. Moreover, the rich paid more tax revenue and a much higher percentage of all income tax revenues than before.

Issues in both economics and science can get complicated. But when one side of those issues has to resort to demonstrably false catchwords, that should give us a clue.

Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305. His website is www.tsowell.com. To find out more about Thomas Sowell and read features by other Creators Syndicate columnists and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate webpage at www.creators.com.

Denmark to American Politicians: We’re Not Socialist

Rev. Ben Johnson | January 18, 2019

     

Democratic Socialists have presented Denmark as the elusive nation where socialism has been successful, and thus a model for the policies they would implement in the United States. Bernie Sanders regularly invoked Denmark during the 2016 presidential campaign, and  Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez reassured  60 Minutes  viewers that her version of democratic socialism would veer more toward Denmark than Venezuela. Just weeks ago a free-market think tank in Denmark, the  Center for Political Studies (CEPOS), issued a 20-page report telling Americans that 1) Denmark is not a socialist nation; and 2) statist policies have still caused significant economic harm.

Denmark is not socialist

 

The  20-page report notes that, by some measures, Denmark and the Nordic “socialist” countries have more economic freedom than the United States:

 

The Fraser Institute’s Economic Freedom of the World index ranks Denmark 16th (out of 162 countries). According to the Heritage Foundation’s Index of Economic Freedom, Denmark (ranked 12th out of 180 countries) ranks higher than the US (18th). Denmark generally ranks high on regulation, protection of private property, fighting corruption, flexibility of the labor market and trade, but ranks low on taxes and public spending, which are very high in Denmark compared to other countries.

 

“The high level of economic freedom is an explanation for the relatively high level of income in Denmark, in spite of the high level of taxes and the big welfare state,” the report states.

 

The report’s authors – Mads Lundby Hansen, Carl-Christian Heiberg, and Thomas Due Bostrup – show Denmark following the familiar pattern of its fellow Nordic countries: It became a wealthy country before introducing an ever-expanding welfare state in the postwar era. But after reaching an economic breaking point in the 1970s, successive governments introduced a mixture of reforms – including reduced benefits, partial privatization of pensions, and lower regulation – that have restored its economic fortunes.

 

But if Sanders and AOC overstate the extent of Denmark’s economic interventionism, CEPOS adds, then the White House understates the economic pain.

 

Squeezing the poor and middle class

 

The White House’s Council of Economic Advisors explored “The Opportunity Costs of Socialism” last October. “Reading the report, one could easily get the impression that taxes in Denmark are only slightly higher than in the US,” CEPOS authors state.

 

In fact, taxes are much higher in Denmark – especially on the poor and middle class. The government confiscates more than half of virtually all incomes. Low-income Danes pay an effective marginal tax rate of 56 percent; the middle class pay 57 percent.

 

Extremely poor Danes have more money than poor Americans – but the difference cannot be financed exclusive by the rich. “The average American has 27 per cent higher income than the average Dane,” CEPOS reports, “reflecting both lower GDP per capita and higher taxes in Denmark.”

 

The biggest difference is Denmark’s high consumption taxes. Its VAT imposes a 25 percent tax on the sale of every item – and additional taxes apply on coffee, beer, and chocolate.

 

The section on the tax imposed on vehicle owners makes fascinating reading. How many Americans know that “in Denmark you pay 1,200 USD yearly in car-ownership tax for a pickup truck”? (Jim Gilmore, now the president of the  American Opportunity Foundation, got elected governor of Virginia by campaigning against the state’s car tax, which was roughly half that amount.)

 

These taxes disproportionately hurt the poor, who struggle to pay for their needs as it is. “High consumption taxes mean that you can buy fewer goods for one extra working hour. Therefore, consumption taxes distort the labor decision” – that is, they discourage work, investment, and progress.

 

Americans would be worse off by adopting the Danish mode?

 

The White House report concludes that adopting the Nordic welfare state at its height in the 1970s would have reduced U.S. GDP by 19 percent. CEPOS states, “This seems plausible although we think the income decline in the US would be more than 19 per cent.”

 

Denmark’s history is inextricably caught up with trade, commerce, and faith. The name Copenhagen means “merchant’s harbor,” and its history owes much to Bishop Absalon, who died in 1201. The report – which is  well worth reading in its entirety – notes how the country moved toward fiscal ruin as it moved away from economic freedom and reliance on intermediary institutions.

 

The message from Denmark is clear: Adopting even a soft version of democratic socialism, as proposed by Bernie Sanders and AOC, would make Americans poorer and inhibit their flourishing.

Facebook tracks everything from your politics to ethnicity — here’s how to stop it

 

Published: Jan 16, 2019 3:07 p.m. ET

 

MarketWatch photo illustration/Getty Images, iStockphoto

Roughly half of Facebook users in a new Pew Research Center survey said they’re given a political label.

 

By

KARIPAUL, REPORTER

 

Facebook has promised more transparency about ads on its platform, but the majority of users are still in the dark about the kind of information that’s been collected on them.

 

That’s according to a study released Wednesday by the Pew Research Center, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank. The vast majority of users surveyed (74%) said they were not aware that Facebook  FB, -0.27%  lists their interests for advertisers and that these interests can be found in the “ad preferences” page on user profiles. Those preferences run the gamut from pop culture, consumer purchases and “likes” to “multicultural affinity” and political labels.

 

More than half (51%) of users said they were not  comfortable with Facebook making such a list.

More than half of users said they were not comfortable with Facebook making such a list about their preferences, the Pew survey concluded.

 

One in five Facebook users (21%) report they are listed as having “multicultural affinity,” the Pew Research survey found. Of those, 43% were assigned an affinity to African American culture and 43% assigned Hispanic culture, and 10% were assigned an affinity with Asian American culture.

“Facebook’s detailed targeting tool for ads does not offer affinity classifications for any other cultures in the U.S., including Caucasian or white culture,” Pew researchers said in the report.

 

Roughly half (51%) of those in this survey are given a political label. Some 73% of those assigned a label on their political views say the listing “very accurately or somewhat accurately” describes their views, Pew said.

 

“These findings relate to some of the biggest issues about technology’s role in society,” said Lee Rainie, director of internet and technology research at Pew Research Center. “They are central to the major discussions about consumer privacy, the role of micro-targeting of advertisements in commerce and political activity, and the role of algorithms in shaping news and information systems.”

 

After a scandal surrounding how Facebook data was used by firm Cambridge Analytica to influence the 2016 elections,  Facebook has promised to better educate users about how their data is collected and shared. Facebook is under federal investigation for privacy violations resulting from the Cambridge Analytica involvement.

 

Despite these scandals, Facebook actually does provide “lots of options for users to control their ad preferences,” said Abhishek Iyer, technical marketing manager, at Cupertino, Calif. Security firm Demisto. But it apparently has not communicated these tools well enough to users, he added, if only 1 in 4 users is aware of the ad preferences page.

 

“If we accept the premise that no ad is really ‘good’ and businesses driven by ad revenue will always be incentivized in anti-user ways, Facebook at least tries to give users more preferences through these features,” he said. “But there seems to be a difference between intent and effect here.”

Facebook said it often receives complaints from users that ads are not relevant, so it tries to promote useful ads, while not violating user privacy.

Facebook spokesman Joe Osborne told MarketWatch the company encourages discussions about ad transparency and controls. The interests list is generated by user actions on Facebook, like clicking on certain posts on pages like your favorite sports teams or clicking on other ads, he added.

Osborne said Facebook often receives complaints from users that ads are not relevant, so the company tries to balance making ads useful while not violating user privacy.

 

“We want people to understand how our ad settings and controls work,” he said. “That means better ads for people. While we and the rest of the online ad industry need to do more to educate people on how interest-based advertising works and how we protect people’s information, we welcome conversations about transparency and control.”

 

How to change your preferences:

 

• The list of interests Facebook thinks you have can be found under Settings>Ads>Your ad preferences. Here, you can eliminate interests that are not relevant to you or delete all interests to preserve your privacy. Facebook allows users to modify these preferences by clicking the “x” button in the upper right-hand corner of the topic itself.

 

• Facebook has a special section for controlling advertisements about “sensitive topics,” including “parenting,” “alcohol,” and “pets.” To access and change these, you can edit them at Settings>Ads>Your Ad Preferences>Hide ad topics.

 

• Under “Ad Settings,” users can reject certain invasive practices from Facebook, refusing to allow it to show ads based on data from partners, ads based on your activity on other Facebook products (like Instagram, for example), and ads based on your “social actions,” such as liking a page.

Facebook still has a ‘multicultural affinities’ listing on its ad preference page — meant to designate people who likely have an interest in a racial or ethnic culture, but none for white users.—Pew Research Center report

 

In addition to the data sharing scandal sparked by the Cambridge Analytica revelations, Facebook has been accused of  violating the Fair Housing Act in a complaint filed by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).

 

The department accused Facebook of helping landlords sell housing to specific demographics based on data it collects. The issue is still under investigation. At the time, Facebook said in a statement there is “no place for discrimination” on Facebook.

 

“Over the past year we’ve strengthened our systems to further protect against misuse,” the company said. “We’re aware of the statement of interest filed and will respond in court; we’ll continue working directly with HUD to address their concerns.”

 

Facebook still has a “multicultural affinities” listing on its ad preference page — meant to designate people who likely have an interest in a racial or ethnic culture, according to Pew. You can check your own and see what race Facebook advertisers think you are by using the steps above.

These classifications were often accurate: of those assigned a multicultural affinity, 60% said they had a “very” or “somewhat” strong affinity for the group they were assigned, compared with 37% who said they did not have a strong affinity or interest, and 57% of those assigned a group said they considered themselves to be a member of that group.

 

While Facebook has been the target of many investigations for such practices as of late, it is far from the only company that engages in these practices, said David Ginsburg, vice president of marketing at security firm Cavirin.

 

“It really goes beyond Facebook and privacy,” he said. “This is no different from privacy agreements that average 2,500 words or more. The real threat is a society that becomes increasingly fragmented, as traditional networks and media fall by the wayside. Subscribers are fed only those ads — and news for that matter — that reinforce their previously-held beliefs.”

The U.S. Economy and ‘Neighbor Envy’

 

By 

James Freeman

Jan. 16, 2019 2:14 p.m. ET

 

Chinese dictator Xi Jinping welcomes President Donald Trump outside the east gate of the Great Hall of the People in Beijing in 2017. PHOTO: XINHUA/PANG XINGLEI VIA GETTY IMAGES

 

This could get awkward. Former Obama economic advisers who claimed tax reform wouldn’t work have been miserable enough watching U.S. growth defy their predictions. Now they may have to watch other countries repeat the U.S. success as governments overseas consider lowering their corporate income tax rates.

 

“We expect to see a wave of global fiscal policy in 2019,” writes Dan Clifton of Strategas Research in a note to clients. “There is a global race for capital taking place and with non-US growth slowing, voters are unhappy. Politicians will need to deliver growth in 2019.”

 

Foreign politicians are under particular pressure because the tax law enacted by a certain U.S. politician is making them look bad. “US growth accelerated in 2018 while other regions slowed. This creates neighbor envy and more countries are looking to cut taxes,” adds Mr. Clifton.

 

This column does not know if the American Psychological Association has rigorously analyzed the phenomenon of neighbor envy. It seems to be associated with a healthy desire to attain the same freedom and opportunity currently enjoyed by both masculine and feminine Americans.

 

Many journalists of both genders may find it shocking to imagine that a signature policy of the current U.S. administration could be embraced rather than shunned in foreign capitals. But even the old-fashioned communist now running the Chinese government seems driven to consider the need to compete. Michael Smith writes today in the Australian Financial Review:

 

China has put private sector tax cuts at the frontline of president Xi Jinping’s battle to combat a slowdown in the world’s second-largest economy with a package of rebates for millions of small companies economists say is worth 2 trillion yuan ($410 billion)... China also outlined tax rebates targeting the manufacturing sector and higher tax deductions for research and development spending by companies.

 

... Mr Xi flagged tax cuts and financial aid for struggling private companies in November after telling a group of the country’s top entrepreneurs worried that the ruling Communist Party was abandoning capitalism in favour of more government control over private companies and advantages for state-run enterprises.

 

Obviously broad-based tax reform with a big rate cut for everybody would be preferable to rebates for particular types of businesses, but Marxist central planners should perhaps be graded on a curve. And they might consider taking a whack at the country’s overall 25% corporate tax rate. Yang Zhiyong of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences writes in Beijing Review:

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Republicans: Today, the 116th Congress was sworn in, and all day long, the media was salivating and fawning over the “remarkable diversity” of the new Democrat members. It was a day of “firsts,” we were told incessantly. It was indeed a day of many firsts. While the new Democrat majority offers many members of note, we wanted to highlight a few “firsts” who are examples of the “diversity” that was sworn in today. Here are our Top Most “Diverse” (Ridiculous) House Freshmen.

 

#1. Ilhan Omar: the first person who married her brother to commit immigration fraud ever to be elected to Congress. Omar is also the first open supporter of female genital mutilation to ever be elected to Congress. Such amazing diversity!

 

#2. Rashida Tlaib: One of the first Muslim Brotherhood-linked and anti-Semitic candidates to be elected to Congress. She also claims to be a “Palestinian.” Wonders never cease.

 

#3. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Where do we even begin? Let’s just say she is the first person elected to Congress who lied about being from the Bronx, and thus, made up her life story. She’s also an overt Marxist, in case you forgot.

 

#4. Abigail Spanberger: The first substitute teacher from an Islamist school (nicknamed ‘terror high’) ever to be elected to Congress.

 

#5. Donna Shalala: Rep. Shalala was HHS Secretary from 1993 to 2001 under Bill Clinton and worked from 2015 to 2017 at the Clinton Foundation, and in 2016 she admitted in an interview that some significant Clinton Foundation donors received “courtesy appointments” in the Clinton State Department. To top it off, apparently she can’t let go of politics: at 78, she’s the oldest female House freshman in history.

 

These are just a few

examples of the “firsts” that the media has been celebrating today. If you are looking for corrupt politicians who show an open disdain and animosity for American principles and values, you can always count on the Democrat Party.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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NO MATTER WHAT OUR KIDS AND THE NEW GENERATION THINK ABOUT US

WE ARE AWESOME !!!   

Our Lives are LIVING PROOF !!! 

 

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To Those of Us Born  1925 - 1955:   

 

 

At the end of this email is a quote of the month by Jay Leno.   If you don't read anything else, Please read what he said.     

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TO ALL THE  KIDS WHO SURVIVED THE  1930’s, 40’s, and 50’s !! 

 

They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes. 

Then, after that trauma, we were  put to sleep on our tummies  in baby cribs covered   with bright colored Lead-based paints. 

  

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, locks on doors or cabinets,  And, when we rode our bikes,  We had baseball caps,  Not helmets, on our heads. 

As infants and children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, no booster seats, no seat belts, no air bags, bald tires and sometimes no brakes.. 

 

Riding in the back of a pick- up truck on a warm day was always a special treat.    We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle. 

 

We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle, 

and no one actually died from this. 

  

We ate cupcakes, white bread, real butter, and bacon. We drank Kool-Aid made with real white sugar.  And we weren't overweight. WHY? 

  Because we were always outside playing...that's why! 

 

    We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.    No one was able to reach us all day ...  And, we were OKAY. 

 

    We would spend hours building  Our go-carts out of  scraps  and then ride them down the hill, 

Only to find out We forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned  to Solve the problem. 

We did not Have Play Stations,  Nintendo  and X-boxes. There were  No video games, No 150 channels on cable,    no video movies or DVDs,  No surround-sound or CDs,   

No cell phones,    No personal computers,  No Internet and

No chat rooms.   

  

WE HAD FRIENDS  And we went Outside and found them! 

 

We fell out of trees, got cut,  Broke bones and Teeth, 

And there were No lawsuits  From those accidents.

    We would get Spankings with wooden spoons, switches, ping-pong paddles, or just a bare hand,  And no one would call child services to report abuse. 

 

        We ate worms,  And mud pies    Made from dirt, And 

The worms did Not live in us forever. 

    

We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, 

22 rifles for our 12th, rode horses, made up games with sticks and tennis balls, and    -although we were Told it would happen- we did not put out very many eyes. 

  

We rode bikes  Or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just Walked in and talked to them. 

Little League had tryouts  And not everyone Made the team.    Those who didn't Had to learn  To deal with

Disappointment.      Imagine that!!     

  

The idea of a parent Bailing us out If we broke the law 

was unheard of ... They actually sided with the law! 

  

These generations have Produced some of the best risk-takers,  Problem solvers, and Inventors ever.     

The past 60 to 85 years Have seen an explosion 

of innovation and new ideas.     

We had freedom, Failure, success and responsibility, 

and we learned   How to deal with it all. 

  

If YOU are One of those born    Between 1925-1955,                           CONGRATULATIONS! 

 

You might want to share this with others who have had the

luck to grow up as kids before the lawyers

and the government regulated so much of our lives for our own good.        While you are at it, forward it to your kids,

so they will know how brave and lucky their parents were. 

 

  

Kind of makes you want to run through the house 

with scissors, doesn't it ? 

~~~~~~~ 

The quote of the month by  Jay Leno: 

 

    "With hurricanes,  tornadoes,  fires out of control, mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the 

country from one end to another, and with the threat of bird flu and terrorist attacks, are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?" 

 

 

For the rest of us..... God is  watching over us... 

IS PARIS BURNING ??

 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/36-injured-in-paris-bakery-gas-explosion/ar-BBS8kkd

 

No, This Is Not JFK'sDemocratic Party By Patrick J. Buchanan

 

Speaker Nancy Pelosi's House has more women, persons of color and LGBT members than any House in history -- and fewer white males.   

 

And Thursday, the day Rashida Tlaib was sworn in, her hand on a Quran, our first Palestinian-American congresswoman showed us what we may expect. As a rally of leftists lustily cheered her on, Tlaib roared, "We're gonna impeach the (expletive deleted)!"   

 

 

Not only was no apology forthcoming, the host of the New American Leaders event where Tlaib spoke warmly endorsed her gutter language.   

 

 

Her remarks, said Sayu Bhojwani, "were raw and honest, and came straight from the heart. ... a refreshing break from the canned comments our elected leaders usually make. Tlaib spoke ... with the fire that so many at our event wanted to hear."   

 

Sunday, Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, 29, the youngest member of the new House, told CNN there is "no question" President Donald Trump is a "racist," for he regularly uses "historic dog whistles of white supremacy."   

 

While the Democratic Party is celebrating a diversity that insists that the more women, persons of color and gays in leadership ranks, and the fewer white males, the stronger and better the party, has all of America embraced this as an ideal?   

 

Is there no limit to the ideological, political, religious, racial and ethnic diversity a party and nation can tolerate before it comes apart?   

 

Are Democrats inviting an eventual Balkanization of their party and country? 

 

 

Consider. This week, Julian Castro, former mayor of San Antonio and HUD secretary, appeared about to enter the race for the Democratic nomination. Castro has seen fellow Texan Robert F. O'Rourke, who goes by the nickname "Beto," walk off with his Hispanic constituency in a 2018 Senate race. Castro intends to win it back it in the Democratic primaries.   

 

Former Congressman O'Rourke has been accused of trying to pass himself off as Hispanic, though he is of Irish descent. Elizabeth Warren suffered a near-fatal wound trying to pass herself off as part Cherokee Indian.   

 

In December, Maze Jackson, morning host of a radio station that reaches into Chicago's black community, said of the mayoral election to succeed Rahm Emanuel, where 21 candidates have filed and a black woman and a Hispanic woman are the front-runners, "This thing is going to get so tribal." 

 

The Democratic front-runners for the presidential nomination -- Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders and Beto -- are all white males. Ranked just below them are black Senators Cory Booker and Kamala Harris.   

 

South Carolina is a state where a large slice of the Democratic vote is African-American -- Jesse Jackson won the caucuses in 1988 -- and Harris and Booker should expect to do well if they do not split that vote.   

 

While racial and ethnic voting is not new, it appears much more intense.   

 

In the last Congress, the 33 U.S. congressional districts with the largest concentrations of black voters almost all elected African-Americans who became members of the racially exclusive Black Caucus. 

 

The first two battles of 2020, Iowa and New Hampshire, are in states predominantly white. Sen. Elizabeth Warren has made several stops in Iowa with impressive turnouts, putting pressure on Biden and Sanders to decide soon.   

 

But while Biden is the front-runner, consider how far away the ex-vice president is from the new realities in his party.   

 

Though millennials are one voting bloc Democrats are courting most, Biden would be the oldest president ever elected. He was in the Senate for a decade before Ocasio-Cortez and Tlaib were even born.   

 

Biden is an old white male in a party that wants the torch passed to women and minorities. He backed George W. Bush and Dick Cheney in voting for the war in Iraq. He backed an anti-crime bill in the early 1990s that incarcerated individuals now gaining release by the latest crime bill. As Judiciary Committee chair, he presided over the hearings that resulted in a vote to elevate Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court.   

 

The Republican Party, even with the never-Trumpers gone, still seems more united than a Democratic Party where the differences are not only ideological but also racial, religious and tribal.   

 

Ocasio-Cortez is backing a hike in the top federal income tax rate to 70 percent. Castro has suggested taking a look at a top rate of 90 percent. How will this sit with the big Democratic donors?   

 

Joe Biden, like Pelosi, was raised Catholic in a Church that taught that homosexuality was immoral and abortion was the killing of the innocent unborn for which the sanction was automatic excommunication. 

 

Today, the Democratic Party celebrates same-sex marriage as social progress and regards abortion as a cherished constitutional right. A floor battle erupted at its 2012 Charlotte, North Carolina, convention over whether God should even be mentioned in the party platform.   

 

Yet Nancy Pelosi did last week denounce as "immoral" the idea of building a security wall along America's border with Mexico.   

 

No, this is not JFK's party anymore. That party is long dead. 

 

Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of "Nixon's White House Wars: The Battles That Made and Broke a President and Divided America Forever." To find out more about Patrick Buchanan and read features by other Creators writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators website at www.creators.com.

Welcome to the new Islamic State of Sweden - national suicide!

 

Welcome to the new Islamic State of Sweden - national suicide

 

Sweden is the ultimate example of the cultural and national suicide of Western civilization by choice in a modern country. Not only does Sweden allow masses of Muslim migrants into their country.  In addition, Swedish authorities do everything in their power to protect the rape culture of the Muslim offenders. This, unfortunately, comes at the expense of protecting innocent Swedish women. This is only one way that Sweden is destroying its national identity via the onslaught of Muslim migrants.  There is more – a lot more.

Islamic Success

Islamic jihadis are probably the proudest of their success in the peace-loving country of Sweden.  A key concept in Islam is called  hijra. Hijra refers to the migration of Muslims around the world to spread the word of Allah and Islam, around the globe.  Sweden is what would be called by many a “success story” of Hijra.

 

One would expect the Swedish leadership to be concerned.  Quite the contrary. The Swedish authorities are NOT stopping the spread of Islam in their country.  They actually encourage the spread of Islam and foster it’s growth.  They even put a stop to all ways to potentially stop its growth.

What about Feminism?

The baffling thing about this situation is that Sweden is “the only country that has a feminist government.”  Yet this “feminist” government enables Sweden to become the rape capital of the European continent.  This is the elephant in the room in Swedish immigrant policy.

If you look at how the authorities who are “trying” to stop the rape problem, you will want to scream.  Could they really act in such a ridiculous manner?  Instead of stopping the migrant rapists, the Swedish authorities actually arrest the people who complain about the Muslim identity of the rape offenders!  This is Kafkaesque.

Complaints

Recently someone complained on Facebook about the rapes committed by Muslim migrants.  What happened to him?  The authorities  fined him for more than $1,000.  His crime? He expressed his opinion!

 

In another case, a Swedish police officer reported that foreign-born offenders are responsible for the gang rape problem.  What was the response to his complaint?  The police officer was suspended from his position.

This country has gone and is going absolutely crazy. Instead of prosecuting the rapists, they prosecute people for telling the truth!

Political Correctness is Incorrect

Swedish authorities are afraid of the label – racist. They do everything in their power to keep real data under the covers.  Why?  Because the authorities want to keep the public in the dark.  They are scared of the truth getting out. Ironically, the Swedish authorities are actually worse than “racist.”  They have chosen to enable the mass rape of women in Sweden.  This goes on day after day, without any punishment.

An independent survey revealed the data that men of “foreign descent” commit over 95% of the rapes.  That is astounding!

This final scary report sums up the suicidal cultural situation of the Swedish population.

Recently an Afghan refugee raped the daughter of a Swedish woman.  Yet the mother did not report the rape to the police. Why?  Because the mother was afraid to send the migrant rapist back to Afghanistan.

No words.  Sweden and Western Europe are in an extremely sad state.

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Just how many unnecessary employees does the federal government employ?

 

James Freeman

Jan. 8, 2019 5:50 p.m. ET

 

The U.S. Department of Commerce, which employs a workforce that is largely unnecessary. PHOTO: BILL CLARK/ZUMA PRESS

This column doesn’t wish to seem hard-hearted but feels obliged to ask the various parties negotiating an end to the partial government shutdown why the affected agencies have been employing nearly twice as many workers as they deem necessary to fulfill their missions. Whether President Donald Trump, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer decide to call structures at the border walls or fences, they ought to at least explain how they are managing the public payroll inside the United States.

Various media reports have noted that the temporary closure of 25% of the government has forced roughly 420,000 federal workers deemed essential to continue working while some 380,000 who are not deemed essential stay home. If it were a business, this non-essential portion of just a quarter of our government would be among the largest private employers in the country. Does this mean that non-essentials approach 1.5 million across the entire government? As American businesses scour their communities for talent during an historic worker shortage, taxpayers seem to be paying to maintain the world’s largest reserve force of bureaucrats.

An incurious press corps seems largely uninterested in the appropriate size of the federal workforce. Numerous recent reports have covered the shutdown story largely as a tale of a villainous President inflicting uncertainty on civil servants who wonder when they will be able to pay their mortgages.

 

“As thousands of furloughed federal employees worry about when their next paycheck will arrive, their bills are piling up,”  writes Renata Birkenbuel in a recent Newsweek story.

“Government Shutdown Leaves Workers Reeling,”  reads a  New York Times headline from January 3.

 

Government Executive magazine  reported the next day on legislative efforts to ensure that federal shutdowns never again threaten federal paychecks:

 

Maryland’s Senate delegation on Thursday reintroduced a bill to ensure that federal workers furloughed during the partial government shutdown, and any potential future shutdowns, will be promptly given back pay once federal agencies reopen.

 

Paid furloughs are nice. Depending on the individual employee, getting tagged non-essential can be either insulting and discouraging or a cause to celebrate an unexpected stay-cation. Still, there’s no upside for people who have to wait for paychecks. Such delays can create problems with creditors—though perhaps not as many as one would think. “Servicers treating government shutdown like a natural disaster,” reads the headline on  a Friday report  from American Banker. The trade publication notes:

As the government shutdown enters its third week, mortgage servicers are activating the response plans they normally use during hurricanes and wildfires to assist federal workers who may have trouble paying their mortgages.

...During the shutdown in 2013, the FHA,  Fannie Mae andFreddie Mac all called for temporary postponement on mortgage payments for furloughed workers. Lenders are offering paycheck loan assistance programs this time around.

Credit unions like Navy Federal and PenFed, are providing 0% APR loans for impacted members who have established direct deposit accounts with them.

...Mortgage servicers offer forbearance to bridge the gap.

This column doesn’t wish for anyone to miss an earned pay check. But the people who support the federal payroll deserve an explanation for why their political leaders seem to be buying almost twice as much bureaucracy as even official Washington deems necessary.