Author Archive: Stephen Green
May 14, 2019
TRUMP: Rashida Tlaib’s Holocaust Comments Show ‘Tremendous Hatred of Israel and the Jewish People.’
Somewhat off topic, but my favorite joke of the last few months was, “What’s the difference between Donald Trump and a leftwing Jew? Trump has Jewish grandkids.”
THE SOFT BIGOTRY OF LOW EXPECTATIONS: Biden Gets New York Times Headline For Not Saying Anything Stupid.
Biden is praised in the story, which was featured on the paper’s app Sunday night, for making it a few weeks into his presidential bid without going off message. “‘There He Goes Again?’ Not Yet, as Biden Avoids Major Gaffes,” the headline reads.
“Just over two weeks into Mr. Biden’s candidacy, the most notable feature of his campaign may be what hasn’t happened: He has not blurted anything out that delights his rivals, horrifies his aides and reinforces his image as ‘Uncle Joe,’ America’s there-he-goes-again relative who makes you smile and wince in equal measure,” reported The New York Times.
To be fair, it is a man-bites-dog story.
LIZ SHELD’S MORNING BRIEF: Barr Appoints Prosecutor to Investigate Trump-RUSSIA Hoax. “Barr doesn’t need to provide details about the spying because some of it is out in the public realm already if you aren’t the industrial-advocacy-media-complex ignoring it. The FISA warrants, based on the salacious and unverified dossier are a good starting point. Then there are the SPIES put on Page and Papa-D. Then there are the text messages about an ‘insurance policy’ to protect against a possible win by Trump. So, yeah, the SPYING isn’t really a speculative matter at this point.”
DAVID HARSANYI: Rashida Tlaib’s Lies Remind Us Why Israel Must Exist.
As the Peel Commission Report, a British paper recommending partition in 1936, noted, “the Arabs have benefited by the development of the country owing to Jewish immigration, this has had no conciliatory effect. On the contrary… with almost mathematical precision the betterment of the economic situation in Palestine meant the deterioration of the political situation.”
Even Palestinian “moderates” like Musa Alami told Zionist leader David Ben-Gurion “he would prefer the land to remain poor and desolate even for another hundred years” if the alternative was collaboration with Jews. Neither Alami nor Amin al-Husseini, the grand mufti of Jerusalem and leader of the Palestinian cause, nor the father of modern terrorism, Yasser Arafat, nor his protégé, Mahmoud Abbas, ever shared in their deprivations of their people. It was the opposite, in fact. Palestinian leaders have always enriched themselves on this conflict.
“Why can’t we all be free and safe together?” It’s a good question. Long before the Holocaust, every single major Jewish Zionistic organization, even the right-wing ones, saw the Jewish state as giving equal rights to the Arab population. As they do today.
Read the whole thing.
BUT THE NARRATIVE! Women behind almost half of individual Trump contributions in first three months of year.
More than 45 percent of the itemized individual contributions to Trump’s campaign for the first three months of the year came from women, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonpartisan research group that tracks money in US contests.
Woman accounted for nearly $1.5 million in Trump contributions. The president collected almost $1.8 million from male donors, bringing the total to more than $3.2 million.
Individual donations were a small portion of the president’s total fundraising haul for the first quarter. He raised $30.3 million from January to March, FEC fillings show.
Among the Democratic candidates, only two raised a higher percentage of their donations from women: New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and California Sen. Kamala Harris.
Women handle much of a typical family’s day-to-day finances, even in a traditional “male-run” household. If the economy stays strong into 2020, that could be your silent majority right there.
YOU’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BLOG: Democratic Presidential Clown Car Update.
DISPATCHES FROM A REMARKABLY SCANDAL-FREE ADMINISTRATION: Obama White House Tracked FOIA Request For Hillary Emails That Was Improperly Denied.
The emails, which were provided to Judicial Watch, show for the first time that the Obama White House was aware of the Clinton-related FOIA request, which the liberal watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) submitted to the State Department in December 2012.
The State Department denied the request in May 2013, claiming that no responsive records existed. That despite officials at the State Department, the White House and even President Obama himself knowing that Clinton used a personal email account for government business.
The State Department’s inspector general determined in a report released on Jan. 7, 2016 that the State Department’s denial of the CREW request was “inaccurate and incomplete.”
It is not clear from the emails why the White House was interested in the request. But Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton has a theory.
“These documents suggest the Obama White House knew about the Clinton email lies being told to the public at least as early as December 2012,” he said in a statement.
Of course they did.
May 13, 2019
TEACH WOMEN NOT TO… DO… THAT: ‘Snarling’ Burger King customer allegedly hid 7 syringes in vagina.
SNITCHES GET STITCHES: DC May Soon Allow Residents To Issue Parking Tickets.
“It would start small. Just 10 people per ward. They would be trained and made sure they would be ready to go. When they see a vehicle that is blocking a bike lane, blocking the crosswalk, blocking a fire hydrant, they would have the ability using an app on their phone to be able to take a picture and actually have a ticket that will be issued,” DC Councilmember Charles Allen, who introduced the bill, told Fox 5.
The photo taken by the authorized resident using the app would indicate when and where the photo was taken, and once submitted through the app, would carry the authority of a traffic injunction issued by a city employee.
Residents who applied for the program would be trained in “bicycle and pedestrian safety; the laws, regulations, policies, and best practices related to issuing notices of infraction for parking violations; proper use of the app; and conflict resolution techniques,” according to the bill.
There could be some legal issues involved in providing citizens such power.
They could call it the Standardized Ticketing and Safety Inducement program, or “STASI.”
DESPERATE BUT NOT (TOO) SERIOUS: What Is Iran Up to Now?
THANKS, BUT I’M FEELING BETTER ALREADY, HONEST: Smoking Psychedelic Toad Milk May Help Depression.
I WAS EXPECTING AN EARTH-SHATTERING KABOOM: The Russian army is getting “silent” mortars.
NOTHING TO SEE HERE. MOVE ALONG. Anti-Israel Hamas-Linked CAIR Pressures Charities to Blacklist Conservative Nonprofits.
In an Opinium poll in the Observer, focused on this month’s European elections, Nigel Farage’s new party is predicted to hoover up 34 per cent of the vote. The same poll gave Labour 21 per cent and put the Tories in a miserable fourth place with 11 per cent
But an even more extraordinary poll, commissioned by a Brexit Party donor and published in the Sunday Telegraph, said for the first time the Brexit Party would beat the Tories in a General Election.
The ComRes survey of voting intentions put Brexit on 21 per cent to the Conservatives’ 20, which would see Farage’s team win 49 seats, becoming the UK’s second biggest party after Labour, with 137.
Don’t get cocky, of course, and this election is only for the European Parliament, not the actual British Parliament. Even so, Tories ought to weight this advice heavily: “If the Conservative leadership contenders are not careful, there will be no party for them to lead.”
GODSPEED: Virgin Galactic is moving its spaceship and crew to Spaceport America. “That apparently means the company is nearly ready to take passengers to the edge of space.”