Media Nothingburgers

Sometimes what comes from the media would be amusing if it weren’t such an obvious attempt at manipulation of the public through intentional disinformation.

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Sometimes what comes from the media would be amusing if it weren’t such an obvious attempt at manipulation of the public through intentional disinformation.

Take, for example, the, (identical), screaming headlines from the “New York Times” and “Washington Post”;

“Trump Ordered Mueller Fired, but Backed Off When White House Counsel Threatened to Quit”

The story is based upon four, (un-named, as usual), sources that when examined degrades into absolute silliness and blatant false reporting trying to paint Special Counsel Robert Mueller, (he of the “Russia Collusion” investigation), as the good guy in the white hat doing battle with the villain in the “White House”.

Unfortunately, there is historical precedent for this, there is even a term for it; “Agitprop”

Agitprop: a combination of the words “agitation” and “propaganda”. It is political propaganda, especially the communist propaganda used in Soviet Russia, that is spread to the general public through popular media such as literature, plays, pamphlets, films, and other art forms with an explicitly political message.

The term originated in Soviet Russia as a shortened name for the Department for Agitation and Propaganda, which was part of the central and regional committees of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. The department was later renamed Ideological Department. Typically Russian agitprop explained the policies of the Communist Party and persuaded the general public to share its values and goals.

Soviet Russia had two main newspapers, Pravda and Izvestia. Pravda, which means “Truth”, was the official voice of the Communist Party and Izvestia, which means “News”, was the Official voice of the Soviet Government.

There was also agitprop theater, a highly politicized left-wing theater that originated in 1920s Europe and spread to the United States.

Today we seem to have our own home-grown equivalents; “The New York Times”, (Pravda), and the “Washington Post”, (Izvestia) in print and CNN and MSNBC taking the place of agitprop theater.

Russian agitprop theater was noted for its cardboard characters of perfect virtue and complete evil, and its coarse ridicule. Pretty much the same for our own home-grown broadcast agitprop theater.

One of the running jokes throughout most of the Soviet dominion over Russia was this assessment of the two newspapers by the non-Communist citizenry: “There is no Pravda in Izvestia, and there is no Izvestia in Pravda” or in English “There is no truth in News, and there is no news in Truth.” But this was said carefully and to people who would not report you to the Central Committee.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

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(2018)

Ethics Mueller(ed)

Court documents recently filed by the government further rock the credibility of Russia Special Counsel Robert Mueller because they show that as FBI Director Mueller he worked to cover up the connection between a Florida Saudi family and the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

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There is an old saying; “never go in and gamble against the intelligence community“, yet that seems to be exactly what Rep. Nunes and other Republicans have done. With the contents of the classified Nunes memo from the Intelligence Committee still being withheld from public scrutiny and Democrats saying that the memo is a nothing burger yet blocking it’s declassification and release you have to wonder if there could be some flames in the DOJ and FBI underneath all of that smoke.

The organization Judicial Watch has been active in digging to have information released through FOI requests, going to court when necessary. They have won some important cases regarding stonewalling by the DOJ & FBI. Special Counsel Robert Mueller, (former head of the FBI who is currently “investigating” “collusion between Donald Trump and the Russians), has been the subject of Judicial Watch’s attentions. The following is the result of one of the Judicial Watch lawsuits:

By Judicial Watch —— Bio and Archives–January 23, 2018

The documents reveal that Mueller was likely involved in publicly releasing deceptive official agency statements about a secret investigation of the Saudis, who lived in Sarasota, with ties to the hijackers. A Florida journalism nonprofit uncovered the existence of the secret FBI investigation that was also kept from Congress.

Under Mueller’s leadership, the FBI tried to discredit the story, publicly countering that agents found no connection between the Sarasota Saudi family and the 2001 terrorist plot. The reality is that the FBI’s own files contained several reports that said the opposite, according to the Ft. Lauderdale-based news group’s ongoing investigation. Files obtained by reporters in the course of their lengthy probe reveal that federal agents found “many connections” between the family and “individuals associated with the terrorist attacks on 9/11/2001.” The FBI was forced to release the once-secret reports because the news group sued in federal court when the information wasn’t provided under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).

The disingenuous statements were issued by FBI officials in Miami and Tampa in a desperate effort to disparage a 2011 story exposing the agency’s covert investigation of the Sarasota Saudis as well as reporting that it had been concealed from Congress. Mueller is referenced in a document index that was ordered by a federal judge to be created in late November 2017. The south Florida judge, William J. Zloch, a Ronald Reagan appointee, asked the FBI to explain where it had discovered dozens of pages of documents in the public-records case filed six years ago. The index reference to then-FBI Director Mueller appears in an item involving an agency white paper written a week after the publication of a news story about the abrupt departure of Saudis Abdulaziz and Anoud al-Hijji from their Sarasota area home about two weeks before 9/11. The couple left behind their cars, clothes, furniture, jewelry and other personal items. “It was created to brief the FBI Director concerning the FBI’s investigation of 4224 Escondito Circle,” the al-Hijjis’ address.

As FBI director, Mueller bent over backwards to please radical Islamist groups and caved into their demands. The agency eliminated the valuable anti-terrorism training material and curricula after Mueller met with various Islamist organizations, including those with documented ties too terrorism. Among them were two organizations— Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) and Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR)—named by the U.S. government as unindicted co-conspirators in the 2007 Holy Land Foundation terrorist financing case. CAIR is a terrorist front group with extensive links to foreign and domestic Islamists. It was founded in 1994 by three Middle Eastern extremists (Omar Ahmad, Nihad Awad and Rafeeq Jaber) who ran the American propaganda wing of Hamas, known then as the Islamic Association for Palestine.

Is this one more indication that there were those in the Obama Department of justice and FBI who were dedicated to, if possible, derailing a Trump candidacy and then, when that failed, de-legitimatizing and toppling a Trump Presidency?

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Un-BEAR-able speech

According to Rep. Dave Joyce (R-Ohio) the House Intelligence committee will hold a vote on the release of the memo. He states that the memo reveals systematic corruption within the DOJ and FBI; including the unlawful use of FISA-702(16)(17) data searches which were part of an elaborate DOJ-FBI surveillance program on the political campaign of candidate Donald Trump.

In a letter to Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) called for Twitter and Facebook to conduct an investigation into whether Russian troll accounts had fueled the rise of the hashtag as part of a broader campaign.

An excerpt from the letter states: “If these reports are accurate, we are witnessing an ongoing attack by the Russian government through Kremlin-linked social media actors.”

The memo itself is classified and is under the control of the House Intelligence Committee which voted yesterday on whether the memo should be declassified and released to the public.

Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa), a member of the Intel Committee stated publicly: (the memo) contains allegations of government abuses so shocking that they may be “worse than Watergate”.

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Cal), ranking Democrat on the committee is reported as saying the the memo is misleading and complicated and that the public would not understand it.

Now there are news reports that the FBI has “lost” 5 months worth of text messages immediately prior to the naming of Mueller as Special Counsel.

The drum beat continues for release of the Nunes memo but care must be taken to assure that the correct process is followed that allows the larger story to come out without providing political cover for those intent on hiding the corruption. Immediate release might give instant gratification but would prove disastrous in the long-term.

IF we have top officials from various government agencies willing to depose an elected president, what else would they do?

Think of some of the shocking events that have happened. Would they dare?
And consider the progressives’ motto “by any means necessary”.

I believe that many citizens are either unconscious or unwilling to face what might be exposed by releasing the Nunes memo but, if done correctly to avoid shielding wrongdoers, we should remember these words from Patrick Henry at the Virginia Convention -March 23, 1775; ” For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it might cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and the provide for it.”

Deep State Roots

Census Question Dreamer Nightmare?

A request by the Justice Department to ask people about their citizenship status in the 2020 census is stirring a broad backlash.

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A request by the Justice Department to ask people about their citizenship status in the 2020 census is stirring a broad backlash. “Such a question would likely depress participation in the 2020 census from immigrants who fear the government could use the information to target them,” wrote Sen. Dianne Feinstein, ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, in a letter signed by her and four of her Democratic colleagues. “This chilling effect could lead to broad inaccuracies across the board, from how congressional districts are drawn to how government funds are distributed,” the senators said.

The census says some $675 billion, or nearly a fifth of all federal spending, relies on its numbers. The federal government also uses the numbers to dole out seats in the House among the states, which then use the numbers to draw their own lines.

Justice Department officials say they want citizenship information so they can enforce voting-rights laws and shore up confidence in election results.

Some analysts say that if citizenship is on the form, and immigrants refuse to answer, it could mean states such as California wouldn’t have their full population counted. That, in turn, could mean the state would lose out on a congressional seat it would otherwise get.

Apparently the Dems don’t want any questions of citizenship in a census as it would lead to uncovering the voter fraud in many liberal strongholds, like more votes than voters. That’s a real hard one to explain and they don’t like being caught.

The fact that we have elected officials more concerned about the realm of illegal groups and not the interest of the country requiring voter integrity is tragic.

If illegals shun the census then states like California might not get as much money as they have in the past to throw away on those who are not here legally. Good. Such states should not be given any money for illegals.

Some analysts say that if citizenship is on the form, and immigrants
refuse to answer, it could mean states such as California wouldn’t have
their full population counted. That, in turn, could mean the state would
lose out on a congressional seat it would otherwise get.

Where does it say in the Constitution, (or any other Federal law for that matter), that foreign nationals, illegal aliens, non-U.S. citizens are represented by a seat in the U.S. congress?

“This chilling effect could lead to broad inaccuracies across the board,
from how congressional districts are drawn to how government funds are
distributed,” the senators said.

Just exactly where in the Constitution, (or any other Federal law for that matter), does it state that illegal aliens or foreign nationals are entitled to government funds?

The census asked about citizenship during the great migrations of the 19th and 20th Centuries because the government had a legitimate reason to want to know where people came from. We now have a large immigrant population, some of whom are legal and some of whom are not. Certainly it is legitimate to want to determine who this population is.

The Democratic Party has wanted to blur differences between citizens and non-citizens with things like sanctuary cities and drivers licenses for illegal immigrants. But the citizenship question will, as it did in the past, shed light on just who is here legally and who is not. Count on a bitter fight from Democrats and liberals to keep this question off the 2020 census forms.

In ancient times the strongest words a person could utter was “Civis Romanus sum” or “I am a Roman citizen”. You could, according to legend, walk the length and breadth of the known world protected only by those words. People would refrain from harming you simply because they knew if the smallest harm came to you that the response of your government would be swift, sure, and in the case of those who did the harm, quite unpleasant.

In that spirit, we who qualify should proudly declare;

“Civis Americanus Sum”

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Strange Bedfellows

Let that sink in. Senator Durbin was so “moved” by his young NAKASEC friends, that he will be willing to shut down the Federal Government if they don’t get their way.

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Once again, the Deep State, in collusion with our dysfunctional “public servants” in the Senate, (from both parties) and with the willing cooperation of the (false) news media have fed a willing public a huge portion of chicken crap while telling citizens it was chicken soup. The average Joe & Jane Sixpack don’t understand why there are so many elected officials willing to risk our newly invigorated economy as well as our national security on behalf of illegal aliens.

As usual, there is more to this than meets the eye if you are willing to do a little digging.

On June 15, 2012, then-President Barack Obama delivered a speech in the Rose Garden announcing his intention to unilaterally grant “temporary relief from deportation proceedings” for young people who met certain criteria. The Executive Order, referred to as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, was “not amnesty,” according to Obama, “…this is not immunity. This is not a path to citizenship. It’s not a permanent fix.”

One month after the president’s speech, a young woman named Tereza Lee met with about 40 young illegal immigration organizers-in-training to tell them the story about how she was the inspiration for Dick Durbin’s original 2001 DREAM Act, which consistently failed to get the votes it needed to pass, even while Democrats had the majorities in the House and Senate.

Last July, Senator Durbin, the Democrats #3 in the Senate and lead man on DACA talks with President Trump, invited HANA Center representatives into a “closed strategy meeting…about [the] Dream Act.” The group boasted about it on their Facebook page on July 24 2017.

Just two months before Dick Durbin had his secret meeting with the HANA Center, the group hosted the literal terrorist murderer Rasmea Odeh of the Arab American Action Network as their “honoree” for a “gala event.” Odeh is infamous for her role in the murders of the young Jewish boys Edward Joffe and his best friend Leon Kanner in a Jerusalem supermarket on February 21st 1969.

May 11, 2011, Senator Durbin re-introduced the DREAM Act in the 112th Congress with the co-sponsorship of 32 members of the U.S. Senate, including California Senators Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein, as well as Senator Daniel Akaka (D-HI), member of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus .

The first week of December 2016, Senator Durbin shared the story of Luke Hwang, a “gifted student and community leader who is currently a PhD candidate in chemistry at the University of Chicago,” on the floor of the US Senate. Senator Durbin used Luke Hwang and several others like him for maximum propaganda advantage.

In Senator Durbin’s speech he explained that Luke Hwang “…is currently a PhD candidate in chemistry at the University of Chicago. He also works as a researcher at the university. In his spare time, he volunteers with the Chicago Korean American Resource and Cultural Center, an organization that provides services to disadvantaged members of the community.”

He failed to mention that the Korean American Resource and Cultural Center (now part of the HANA Center) is part of a radical network run by old pro-North Korean activists.

In December 2017, NAKASEC and affiliates visited the offices of Senators Dianne Feinstein, Chuck Schumer, Tim Kaine, Mark Warner and Senator Dick Durbin. According to the NAKASEC website, Senator Durbin was deeply affected by the visit.

Moved by the efforts of members of NAKASEC and HANA Center from Chicago, Senator Durbin confirmed publicly that he will vote “no” on the upcoming CR (Continuing Resolution) if the DREAM Act is not attached.

Let that sink in. Senator Durbin was so “moved” by his young NAKASEC friends, that he will be willing to shut down the Federal Government if they don’t get their way.

Apparently Senators Dianne Feinstein, Chuck Shumer, Tim Kaine, Mark Warner, Lindsay Graham and Flake were also moved to put illegals above our military and our own citizens. Senators, the enemies of America are forever in your debt.

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LAUS DEO

Do you know what it means ?
With all the uproar about removing the ten commandments, etc., this is worth a moment or two of your time. Most Americans are not aware of this amazing historical information.

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Do you know what it means ?

One detail that is never mentioned is that in Washington , D.C. There can never be a building of greater height than the Washington Monument.

With all the uproar about removing the ten commandments, etc., this is worth a moment or two of your time. Most Americans are not aware of this amazing historical information.

On the aluminum cap, atop the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., are displayed two words:
Laus Deo.

No one can see these words. In fact, most visitors to the monument are totally unaware they are even there and for that matter, probably couldn’t care less.

These words have been there for many years; they are 555 feet, 5.125 inches high, perched atop the monument, facing skyward to the Father of our nation, over looking the 69 square miles which comprise the District of Columbia, capital of the United States of America.

Laus Deo! Two seemingly insignificant, unnoticed words. Out of sight and, one might think, out of mind, but very meaningfully placed at the highest point over what is the most powerful city in the most successful nation in the world.

So, what do those two words, in Latin, composed of just four syllables and only seven letters, possibly mean? Very simply, they say ‘Praise be to God!’

Though construction of this giant obelisk began in 1848, when James Polk was President of the United States, it was not until 1888 that the monument was inaugurated and opened to the public. It took twenty-five years to finally cap the memorial with a tribute to the Father of our nation,

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‘Praise be to God!‘

From atop this magnificent granite and marble structure, visitors may take in the beautiful panoramic view of the city with its division into four major segments. From that vantage point, one can also easily see the original plan of the designer, Pierre Charles l’Enfant ….. a perfect cross imposed upon the landscape, with the White House to the north. The Jefferson Memorial is to the south, the Capitol to the east and the Lincoln Memorial to the west.

A cross you ask? Why a cross? What about separation of church and state?

Yes, a cross; separation of church and state was not, is not, in the Constitution.

So, read on. How interesting and, no doubt, intended to carry a profound meaning for those who bother to notice.

When the cornerstone of the Washington Monument was laid on July 4th, 1848 deposited within it were many items including the Holy Bible presented by the Bible Society.

Praise be to God!

Such was the discipline, the moral direction, and the spiritual mood given by the founder and first President of our unique republic ‘One Nation, Under God!

I am awed by George Washington’s prayer for America ….. Have you ever read it? Well, now is your unique opportunity, so read on!

‘ Almighty God; We make our earnest prayer that Thou wilt keep the United States in Thy holy protection; that Thou wilt incline the hearts of the citizens to cultivate a spirit of subordination and obedience to government; and entertain a brotherly affection and love for one another and for their fellow citizens of the United States at large. And finally that Thou wilt most graciously be pleased to dispose us all to do justice, to love mercy, and to demean ourselves with that charity, humility, and pacific temper of mind which were the characteristics of the Divine Author of our blessed religion, and without a humble imitation of whose example in these things we can never hope to be a happy nation. Grant our supplication, we beseech Thee, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.’

Laus Deo!

It hope you will share this with every child you know; to every sister, brother, father, mother or friend. They will not find offense, because you have given them a lesson in history that they probably never learned in school. With that, be not ashamed, or afraid, but have pity on those who will never see this.

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#ReleaseTheMemo

From the beginning it was a set up to find dirt on Trump campaign insiders and if possible to topple Donald Trump’s presidential aspirations.

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From the beginning it was a set up to find dirt on Trump campaign insiders and if possible to topple Donald Trump’s presidential aspirations.

Before and after the 2016 election. And while this operation had many moving parts and alternating players, the mission to unseat Trump never changed. And it remains ongoing.

Paul Manafort was wiretapped. Cater Page was wiretapped. Donald Trump Jr. was wiretapped. Jared Kushner was wiretapped. Gen. Michael Flynn was wiretapped. And likely there were others.

And none of it was very legal.

In fact, most of it was very illegal, according to federal law enforcement sources who are blowing the whistle on a sweeping scheme to undermine the Executive branch and the electorate’s choice for president of the United States.

And according to high ranking FBI sources, the Bureau played a definitive role in plotting this sweeping privacy breach. But the FBI had much help from the NSA, CIA, the Office of of the Director of National Intelligence, Treasury financial crimes division under DHS, and the Justice Department, federal law enforcement sources confirmed.

The Deep State caretakers involved are familiar names: James Comey (FBI), John Brennan (CIA), James Clapper (ODNI), Loretta Lynch (DOJ), Jeh Johnson (DHS), Admiral Michael Rogers (NSA). And then-director of GCHQ Robert Hannigan who has since resigned from the esteemed British spy agency.

Here is what we now know…

Six U.S. agencies created a stealth task force, spearhead by CIA’s Brennan, to run domestic surveillance on Trump associates and possibly Trump himself.
To feign ignorance and to seemingly operate within U.S. laws, the agencies freelanced the wiretapping of Trump associates to the British spy agency GCHQ.
The decision to insert GCHQ as a back door to eavesdrop was sparked by the denial of two FISA Court warrant applications filed by the FBI to seek wiretaps of Trump associates.
GCHQ did not work from London or the UK. In fact the spy agency worked from NSA’s headquarters in Fort Meade, MD with direct NSA supervision and guidance to conduct sweeping surveillance on Trump associates.
The illegal wiretaps were initiated months before the controversial Trump dossier compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele.
The Justice Department and FBI set up the meeting at Trump Tower between Trump Jr., Manafort and Kushner with controversial Russian officials to make Trump’s associates appear compromised.
Following the Trump Tower sit down, GCHQ began digitally wiretapping Manafort, Trump Jr., and Kushner.
After the concocted meeting by the Deep State, the British spy agency could officially justify wiretapping Trump associates as an intelligence front for NSA because the Russian lawyer at the meeting Natalia Veselnitskaya was considered an international security risk and prior to the June sit down was not even allowed entry into the United States or the UK, federal sources said.
By using GCHQ, the NSA and its intelligence partners had carved out a loophole to wiretap Trump without a warrant. While it is illegal for U.S. agencies to monitor phones and emails of U.S. citizens inside the United States absent a warrant, it is not illegal for British intelligence to do so. Even if the GCHQ was tapping Trump on U.S. soil at Fort Meade.
The wiretaps, secured through illicit scheming, have been used by U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe of alleged Russian collusion in the 2016 election, even though the evidence is considered “poisoned fruit.”

Veselnitskaya, the Russian lawyer who spearheaded the Trump Tower meeting with the Trump campaign trio, was previously barred from entering the United Sates due to her alleged connections to the Russian FSB (the modern replacement of the cold-war-era KGB).

Yet mere days before the June meeting, Veselnitskaya was granted a rare visa to enter the United States from Preet Bharara, the then U.S. Attorney for the southern district of New York.

Federal law enforcement sources said Bharara was simply following the orders of Attorney General Lynch, who lobbied the State Department to issue the disavowed Russian a B1/B2 non-immigrant visa. This permitted Veselnitskaya entry into the United States for the sole purpose of entrapping Trump associates to use as fuel to commission wiretaps, federal sources said.
Veselnitskaya may have been paid as well by the U.S. government, FBI sources said. It was reported last week that Steele, who compiled the Trump dossier was paid at least $100,000 from FBI funds as well. But that came later, after the wiretapping was well underway.

The illegal eavesdropping started long before Steele’s dossier. Federal sources said the wiretaps on Trump insiders began in late 2015, almost a year before the 2016 election. The targets then were Flynn and Page, sources confirmed. When no smoking gun was recovered from those initial taps, U.S. intelligence agencies moved to broaden the scope through their newly-formed alliance.

Intelligence garnered from the British eavesdropping, which again was merely a front for the NSA, was then used in August 2016 to secure a legitimate FISA warrant on Manafort, Trump Jr. and Kushner. That warrant was issued on or about September, 2016, federal sources confirm.

It was the third time the cabal of U.S. intelligence agencies sought a FISA warrant for the Trump associates and this time it was approved.

FBI sources said finally obtaining the FISA warrant was important because it provided the agencies cover for previous illegal wiretapping which they believed would never be discovered.

“This would make for an incredible string of Senate hearings,” one federal law enforcement source said. “I don’t think they ever thought he (Trump) would win and information would come out about how they manipulated evidence.”

If they release the memo, the American taxpaying public will demand justice, the Deep State won’t be able to weasel out of it. This is the tip of the iceberg, once it’s been breached, it will be like ants on a carcass until there is nothing left but bare, dry bones.

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Which doctor (or witch doctor)

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Not too long ago Ivy League psychiatrist Dr. Bandy X. Lee briefed members of Congress (read: pretty much entirely Democrats) on President Trump’s mental health. Despite having never even met the President, say nothing of examined him, she apparently had quite a lot to say. Since there is nothing new under the sun and history has a habit of repeating itself, it would be useful to go back to the presidential election of 1964.

During the 1964 election campaign, Fact magazine published a survey in which they queried some 12,356 psychiatrists on whether candidate Sen. Barry Goldwater, the GOP nominee, was psychologically fit to be president. A total of 2,417 of those queried responded, with 1,189 saying that Goldwater was unfit to assume the presidency.

Read the full article here.

While there was no formal policy in place at the time that survey was published, the ethical implications of the Goldwater survey, in which some responding doctors even issued specific diagnoses without ever having examined him personally, became immediately clear. This large, very public ethical misstep by a significant number of psychiatrists violated the spirit of the ethical code that they live by as physicians, and have eroded public confidence in psychiatry.

Simply put, breaking the Goldwater Rule is irresponsible, potentially stigmatizing, and definitely unethical.

Two Harvard shrinks pushed back on recent criticism in the pages of Politico, strangely claiming that diagnosing the President’s mental health from the other side of a television screen wasn’t violating the Goldwater Rule at all. In their opinion, since they aren’t diagnosing Trump “in a specific way” in their various publications and comments, everything is fair game. Also, it’s “not only acceptable but vitally necessary to have a public conversation about the mental state of our nation’s leader.”

On the same note, CNN chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta disputed the health report put forward by White House physician Dr. Ronny Jackson on last Tuesday stating the president was in excellent health. Gupta said President Donald Trump has “heart disease.” Although Dr. Gupta has no relationship with president Trump nor has he ever examined him, Dr. Gupta does have a White House connection. Gupta formerly served as an adviser to then-first lady Hillary Clinton during a White House fellowship.

Sorry, Docs, but I don’t think that’s going to fly. Take, for example, the idea of me writing a post on this site saying, “hey… did you hear what the Senator Shumer said last night? That guy is nuts.” That’s commentary, which you can agree with or dispute as you wish. It’s not even particularly useful commentary since the closest I ever came to medical school was last April when I was in Cox hospital for a few days. But when two Doctors of Psychiatry from Harvard say the same thing, or when a physician touted as an expert on a major media outlet say that the president has heart disease, it’s a diagnosis. You don’t need to tell us the specific name of the mental ailment you suspect is plaguing a public official. (I’d wager more than a few of us wouldn’t know what it meant without hitting up Google anyway.) It’s sufficient just to say that something isn’t right.

But, hey… don’t let us stop you. There’s finally all sorts of political and media figures paying attention to you. Enjoy your fifteen minutes while it lasts.

After all docs, since Miss Cleo is no longer around there’s a vacancy for a pay-per-view psychic hotline… or an online witch doctor service.

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The sky is falling (and other government shutdown myths)

The hysteria peddlers using this terminology, and the media that purposely play to it, must know these two words emit an extreme emotional response. The phrase essentially becomes a weapon to be used on political opponents.

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OH NO! A “government shutdown”!

The hysteria peddlers using this terminology, and the media that purposely play to it, must know these two words emit an extreme emotional response. The phrase essentially becomes a weapon to be used on political opponents.

This enables the media to have undue influence in spending and undermines the sole power of the House on this issue.

A budget always involves the House of Representatives, as it alone constitutionally must initiate all government spending. “All bills for raising revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives” (Article I, Sec. 7, Clause 1). This places the people in charge of taxation. The Senate cannot initiate a tax bill but can adjust any initiated by the House.

So what does a “government shutdown” look like?

Do the president and vice president resign now that the government ends? No, they stay on the job and receive full pay as before.

Does Congress fly out of Washington D. C. the following day and cease to draw their pay, and the Supreme Court cease to deliberate on constitutional questions? Does the army come home and cease to protect us?

No! No, NO!

Do states, counties, and cities no longer function? No again, they have their own tax base and policemen, prisons, and teachers remain in place.

Will we still get mail? Yes. The U.S. Postal Service functions as an independent business unit.

Will we still get Social Security benefits, food stamps, unemployment compensation and veterans’ benefits? Yes!

Why then the hysteria? Because these two words, “government shutdown,” and the possibility of missed food stamps send the largely uninformed into a frenzy—they finally awake from their stupor.

They largely know nothing of the wrangling of government to protect them from themselves and oppose any proposed government diet that might reduce their daily feed. They worshipfully listen to the party and political leaders that are least likely to disturb this base.

There will never be a government shut down because none of these things will ever happen, short of an overthrow of the government from within, the collapse of our financial structure , or a successful invasion from without. So stop the media frenzy and hysterical over-reaction.

The sky is NOT falling and a piece of it didn’t just hit you on the head Chuck Shumer, er, Nancy Pelosi, er, Chicken Little.

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Of plain talk and holes

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Deep State actors and the news media are in a race against reality.
When they are cornered, and they are out of options, Deep Staters have a nasty, but a really predictable habit of racializing everything.

They have been doing it to Donald Trump since the day he announced his candidacy.

Senators Durbin and Graham wanted to force their bipartisan DACA deal on the president, a program as divorced from reality as any episode of the Kardashians.

They thought that they could con Trump into agreeing to their solution that didn’t meet the president’s baseline and actually increased chain migration. The president, to their faces said it was dead on arrival.

Somebody went to the press, who has proven to be a reliable anti-Trump co-conspirator. They pedaled the story that Trump had referred to Haiti and unspecified African countries as s-holes and we should try to get Norwegian immigrants here instead.

SENATOR DICK DURBIN, D-ILL., MINORITY WHIP: “His comments said things which were hate filled, vile and racist. Calling the nations they come from (inaudible), exact word used by the president. Not just once but repeatedly.”

Now the president in a tweet denied that he used that language and Durbin clarified later that the president was referring to African countries whose citizens regularly use the visa lottery system, not Haiti itself. Two Senators who were in attendance at the meeting backed up the presidents’ version.

Now, setting aside the alleged remark for a moment, would you describe any of these countries as Club Med?

Let’s take a look at some of the real facts about a few of the countries that can’t keep their own people from leaving.

Now, let’s begin with El Salvador. Its capital has the highest murder rate in the world.

Somalia is one of the largest state sponsors of terrorism and is a safe haven for terrorists across the globe.

Sudan is one of the four countries on the U.S. state sponsors of terror list in addition to a lot of other bad facts.

Mexico is on the State Department’s “Do Not Travel” list because of safety concerns

They are rank with corruption, repression and,it’s obvious that they offer their citizens little hope of a better life.

In other words, they are hell holes. But, for the Democrats and their media allies who are forever feigning in affinity for the third world, facts don’t matter. After all, race baiting the president is so much more fun.

Trump is not the first profane president. Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon are just two in recent memory who were notorious for their salty language. It’s just that the elites and their media lap dogs are so far removed from the people they purport to “serve” that they just don’t get it.

Joe and Suzy Sixpack think it’s wonderful. They think Trump doesn’t go far enough.

They want him to really let loose. They don’t know why he’s pussy-footing around. They love it when he tells it like it is. Trump says what he, and they, believe.

People like their candidates or officeholders to stand up and say what they believe instead of worrying about offending some group. The last president we had who didn’t seem to govern by poll numbers and group think was Harry Truman who was known for “telling it it is”. He also threatened to punch a news person in the nose for insulting Truman’s daughter Margaret. It seems as though President Trump is, in some ways, channeling Harry Truman.

If so, I would like to rework a phrase from the Truman era; “Give ’em hell Donald!”

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