The Stone throwers….

2020/01/17

Throwing assorted verbal bric-a-brac at Donald J. Trump because he is Donald Trump needs comment. For one thing it’s mindless and for another they are coming from people who should not be throwing stones because they live in glass houses. They include the pejorative comments of the current Prime Minister, the former Prime Minister Kim Campbell, the Duchess of Sussex and the primary subject of this discourse, Michael McCain.

Comments by Michael McCain, CEO of Maple Leaf Foods, underscore a misguided anger driven by his obvious hatred of the U-S president.

I don’t recall this kind of vitriol directed at McCain or his company, responsible as it was for deaths of 23 consumers of meat products sold by Maple Leaf Foods. Listeria was the killer. Death lurked in his company’s unclean meat cutting apparatus. It was the killing machine.

The blood from that scandal still stains his hands. If it doesn’t, it should along with memories of vulnerability.

So exactly what is his justification for accusing “U-S government officials and their ‘narcissistic’ leader of concocting an ill-conceived plan to divert attention from political problems at home” to the killing fields of the Middle East where the Iranians have been missile firing and killing at will?

He noted that while Iran is a dangerous State, a plan had been in place to contain it. If he’s referring to the goofy Obama gambit he is among the ill-informed. In his rant McCain denounced the “taking out” of a terrorist leader because, “there are a hundred like him standing in line.”

Does he mean we should let them flourish with impunity?

McCain blames American adventurism for the shooting down of PS flight 752 that claimed 176 lives, including a colleague’s family. That is tragic. But contrast McCain’s simplistic offering to the thousands of Iranians who marched, held vigils and blamed the evasive, lying leaders of Iran for the airline disaster.

It’s entirely possible PS 752 was deliberately shot down. It’s entirely possible that the world has given the Iranians a quick pass into “unintentionally.” You think a cabal responsible for killing scores of its own people during the November protests would hesitate shooting down a planeload of unarmed civilians as unsuspecting of danger as those who purchased Mr. McCain’s meat products some ten years ago?

I would have thought after living the listeria nightmare, Mr. McCain would have spent more time reflecting and less time throwing verbal brickbats that expose his woeful bias.

His outrage is misdirected. May his company never again have to face death in the grocery aisle.

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“You can’t make this stuff up!”

2018/09/13

Today (September 12, 2018) the Washington Post stretched it’s credibility beyond the pale and shuttered whatever was left of its attempt to be taken seriously.

Today the Editorial Board of the Post made Donald R. Trump “complicit” for Hurricane Florence.  The reasoning, according to this group of unnamed journalistic simpletons is quite simple—Trump is responsible for Florence because of his views on climate change.

The rationalization used by the Post’s Editorial Board in blaming Trump fits nicely with the incomprehensible ramblings of a pathetic wino.

Quoting from the Post—“It is hard to attribute any single weather event to climate change.  But there is no reasonable doubt that humans are priming Earth’s systems to produce disasters.”

The Post Editorial wizards nailed the complicity factor squarely on the screws saying:

“When it comes to extreme weather, Mr. Trump is complicit.  He plays down humans’ role in increasing the risks, and he continues to dismantle efforts to address those risks.”

It’s as if these risks came into being exactly when Trump came into office.

I’m sure we can find a Democrat, someone like the wild-eyed Maxine Waters, who will want to add Trump’s “complicity” in the Hurricane Florence caper to the Mueller inquiry and make it a two-pronged attack of collusion and complicity.  Linking Trump’s complicity to causing extreme weather will be easier to prove than Trump’s collusion with the Russians, making Mueller’s job so much easier.  After all the “complicit” evidence is documented on film and on tape.  Mueller won’t have to use a phony Fiser warrant to prove “collusion”.

Look at the evidence against Trump –  A long, steady drumbeat of violent weather:

Hurricane Mathew 2016; Irene 2011; Isobel 2003; also Floyd, Bonnie and Fran. all targeting the Carolinas. ” Trump is complicit.”

There can be no other reason for Hurricane Florence and all the rain that it plans to dump on the Carolinas, Virginia and Georgia over the next few days except that Trump is “complicit.” Hurricanes never before came with buckets of rain and flooding and loss of life.  Trump will cause the resulting mayhem and more.  Just ask the POST!

The Editorial Board of the Washington Post has spoken and hopes  this “complicity”will add another piece of timber to the gangplank that will feel the two feet of Donald R. Trump as he is unceremoniously  dumped into the dark abyss in which he is “complicit”.

“Collusion” with Russia is small potatoes by comparison.  “Complicity” to bring about city-leveling hurricanes and typhoons is big stuff and we thank the Editorial Ishkibbles at the Post for giving us the heads up.

Reaction to this latest desperate attempt to blame Trump for everything is predictable. We all know the Democrats will applaud the Post and the Republicans will equivocate.

Some get it right.

Conservative strategist Chris Barron says daily the mainstream media finds new ways to embarrass themselves and further erode American confidence in them.

“The media won’t give Trump credit for the economy but they will blame  him for a hurricane.”

“You can’t make this stuff up.”
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CNN isn’t about REAL news!

2015/08/26 2 Comments

Watching the current battle between CNN and Fox news has helped me understand why so many Americans live in ignorance of political realities.

During the past several weeks I`ve been fascinated by CNN`s decision to totally ignore Hillary Clinton’s battle to remain relevant in the face of legal challenges involving her failure to protect the secrets with which she was entrusted during her tenure as Secretary of State.  That battle includes a statement by a Judge appointed by her husband(when he was President) that she appears to be in violation of required procedures involving thousands of e-mails, many of which have been classified as secret. Some Top Secret. The procedures are mandated by US law.

It also includes the Judge`s order that Department of State co-operate with the FBI in finding e-mails that Hillary determined needed to be scrubbed off the e-mail server that she, after a delay of five months, allowed her people to give to the FBI.  The server was blank!  Did it take five months to deep six any politically embarrassing e-mails in her possession?

Fox news has been following the Hillary story, daily.  CNN has been ignoring the Hillary story, daily.  That decision by CNN to relegate Hillary’s e-mail server problems to file 13 was fine until her problems started showing up among polls in Iowa and New Hampshire.  There, voters who apparently are following her story on Fox and in the papers are giving her failing grades for trustworthiness and truthfulness.

The erosion on those two points also prompted friends of Vice president Joe Biden to start a draft Biden movement and his decision to go or not is days away and the CNN viewer has no idea why Joe Biden would want to challenge Hillary who they believe is the answer to a nation’s dream.  In fact CNN has studiously tried to avoid the Biden story.  It’s been mentioned, with no context.  So their viewers don’t even know if Biden is serious about challenging Hillary!

That means the CNN viewer is two stories behind and in danger of making that three BIG ones because if Hillary is charged, either with a misdemeanor or a felony, she is toast!

Now wouldn’t that be a shocker to those who have been relying on CNN to bring them all the news.

Of course, given her track record on the scandals of her previous 30 years(Whitewater, Flowers, Travelgate, Foster, Brown the list runs on) if someone must pay for failing to guard the secrets of the United States while she was Secretary of State it won’t be Hillary Clinton.  Who pays?  Friends and staff–many have fallen on their swords for Hillary, some involuntarily.

And there’s more. Because CNN isn’t reporting the Clinton difficulties their viewers will have missed half the currently running political circus.

CNN, the Clinton-Obama network has been running everything they can about The Donald.  Gleefully reporting his incredibly undisciplined run towards the White House!  Even Wolf Blitzer has been recruited to grind out the Donald Trump saga.

So if you are a devotee to CNN and will not watch FOX you are enjoying the major dump on Trump and totally ignorant about Hillary Clinton’s major migrane.  The FBI is investigating Hillary and her staff and you a faithful CNN viewer don’t even know about it!   The fact is Hillary has been on FOX far more than on CNN.

She has been busy laughing off, mouthing off and blaming others for her latest embrolio.

Will she get by this one?  Will Joe Biden rise to challenge?  Will CNN bring it’s listeners up-to-date??

I hate to say it but I must say it–STAY TUNED.

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