Oh my, Saturday Night Live isn’t just skewering President-elect Donald Trump. There’s so much poetic justice in con man Trump beating the Clintons, using their scorched earth, spin cycle messaging against them, even though I worry about how an egomaniacal, corrupt, con man like Trump will handle the immense power and responsibility of the Presidency. However, my trepidation about Donald Trump comes nowhere near my fears about Hillary Clinton possessing that much power:-)
Watching the liberal hack journalists going into paroxysms about “fake news” brings a smile to my face too. Listening to their hysterical warnings about the dangers of “fake news”, when they have spent their careers being shameless purveyors of first, the Clinton spin, the GWB derangement memes, the Obama narratives and then they gleefully went along with the Bill Clinton orchestrated “GOP Insurgency”, propelling Trump as the “winner”, all while sitting on piles of Trump dirt throughout the primary. The mainstream news media lost its credibility long ago and it’s entertaining watching their ominous warnings and shameless fearmongering about “fake news”.
Oh yes, Trump lying is so much more dangerous than the mountains of Clinton lies, the Obama administration writing totally fabricated “narratives” or Susan Rice going on national TV and proclaiming Bowe Bergdahl served with “honor and distinction” or the made-up “hands up, don’t shoot” lie… Guess, one of these media truth-tellers needs to pen a 50 shades of lying for the deplorables to become educated on the nuances of “how the media screws with the truth”
The Republican Party lost by allowing their party to be hijacked by a Clinton dupe. Hillary Clinton lost by being out-sleazed by a Clinton dupe. The news media lost even more by being exposed as nothing more than Democratic Party hacks. Of course, the American people lost, but frankly, if the best Americans aspire to was either one of these two very corrupt candidates, well, America deserves to live with the consequences. I feel confident, we’ll survive a Trump presidency. Perhaps, Americans will even wake-up to how dangerous it is to accept corrupt politicians and a lying, corrupt news media too.
The marvel is that the Clintons never envisioned that Trump could win and seemed so arrogantly confident, that many times during the campaign, it looked like Hillary was just going through the motions of campaigning. She acted liked the campaign was just an unpleasant chore to get to her coronation (you might ask, why aren’t I 50 points ahead…hahaha). While the media criticized Trump dialing in interviews to the cable network shows, Hillary was given a pass on hiding from the media most of her campaign.
Aside from losing the election, the Clintons just lost their position and power in the Democratic Party and their prestige globally. And THAT means, they won’t be able to rake in the millions of dollars from their foreign patrons effortlessly now. All those foreign power-brokers, who paid top dollar to the Clinton Foundation in the hopes of securing access in a Hillary Clinton White House, will be taking their money elsewhere.
Will the Clintons be scaling back their lavish lifestyle? Not likely, but their entourage may get much smaller, very quickly. However, it looks like Hillary’s loyal aide, Huma Abedin, will be scaling back her lifestyle. I wonder if her mother is scheming to find Huma a rich Arab to latch onto if she ditches Weiner, who is reported to be broke.
All in all, although a Trump presidency fills me with unease, the prospect of a Hillary presidency filled me with stark terror. And if they are still searching for Hil in the woods of Chappaqua, follow the trail of sour grapes at your own peril is my advice… a vindictive, raging witch can be a dangerous, oh to borrow a Samantha Power line, “monster”.
Hard Choices, rofl, rofl, rofl. Yes, I am enjoying her loss immensely:-)
“Last month, a French court upheld a 2014 ban on a television ad showing smiling Down syndrome children because it might disturb the consciences of women who chose to abort their children with Down syndrome. No, I’m not making this up.
In 2014, the Italian Down syndrome advocacy organization CoorDown produced the video “Dear Future Mom” for World Down Syndrome Day (March 21). The video addressed the fears of mothers pregnant with Down syndrome children, showing that despite the disease, children could still be happy and bring joy to those around them, especially their mothers. It is a moving award-winning video, and it has gone viral online.”
He continues:
“The Conseil d’État, France’s State Council, rejected an appeal to reverse a ban on the film by the Conseil Supérieur de l’Audiovisuel (CSA). The Conseil d’État called the video “inappropriate” because smiling kids with Down syndrome are “likely to disturb the conscience of women who had lawfully made different personal decisions.””
If you thought the reasoning behind their forced secularization with their burkini ban, where they don’t secure their borders, but have police patrolling beaches to harass Muslim women wearing burkinis, well, this one tops that insanity. In this case, the video is banned, because showing happy children, who have Down Syndrome, with their mothers might make women, who aborted their Down Syndrome baby, feel bad. The possibility that these women, who aborted their Down Syndrome babies, might feel guilt or bad about their decision outweighs presenting a different viewpoint on having a baby with Down Syndrome.
Once again, thank God that in America we have The Constitution and 1st Amendment to safeguard FREE SPEECH!
The above videos show America’s oldest teacher, Agnes “Granny” Zhelesnik, who turned 102 in January 2016. Zhelesnik didn’t start teaching until she was 80 years old, when she began teaching children cooking and sewing at a private pre-K – 5 school in New Jersey.
This video struck a chord with me on many levels. It’s wonderful to see young children learning useful life skills in a school these days. It’s wonderful to see an elderly person strike out on a new purposeful and meaningful course late in life. It’s wonderful to see somewhere in America’s vast morass of education failures, efforts to teach children important and useful practical life skills exist.
My oldest sister, in her 60s, teaches adult cooking classes at a community college, but she also teaches cooking classes for kids in the summertime. One of my long-term pet peeves, but also deep concerns is how many young adults I’ve encountered in the past 20-30 years or so, who have absolutely no practical life skills. This concern isn’t about politicized feminist ideology vs. traditional family values, but about a society where so much opportunity, information, resources and talent withers away, never developed or fully realized. Living in a world where information on just about any topic is accessible with just a click or touch on a screen, this lack of acquisition of knowledge, training and development of practical skills in America speaks to a crisis of the American spirit.
My oldest sister has the skills of a culinary arts school grad, although she never attended any formal cooking school. Our grandmother started buying my sister cookbooks, when my sister was in her teens and showed an interest in cooking. In high school, my sister was a super-star in her home-ec classes, impressing everyone with her creations. She impressed us at home too. She found a job as a teenager working in a local restaurant, where the owner was a very talented cook, baker and cake decorator. This lady also ran the food services in our school district by the time I was in high school. Our school district had very good home-cooked type lunches back then.
My oldest sister is also extremely talented at all sorts of crafts and way more talented at needlework than I am. What she has always done is read a lot about the hobbies she’s interested in and she also observes carefully how craft and sewing items are constructed. Every hobby she undertakes, she doesn’t settle for mediocrity, but works to master it. She has taken classes to learn many different things. In fact, she took several cake decorating classes and convinced my mother to go to cake decorating classes. My other two sisters decided to take cake decorating classes several years ago too. I am the only one who hasn’t learned cake decorating yet and I still think that’s something I want to learn how to do.
Growing up in a time-warped village in rural PA, most of the people I lived around still lived in traditional families and although many women there worked outside the home, most still knew how to cook and sew. There were two blouse factories in my village, so perhaps the number of women who knew how to sew clothes was higher than normal there and of course, with their being of PA German ancestry, where quilting and needlework were traditional pastimes for women, knowing how to sew was a common skill. My oldest sister worked in one of those blouse factories as a teenager too.
Likewise, knowing how to cook and bake were common skills when I grew up, right in the midst of that 60s & 70s feminist revolution, but perhaps the self-reliant gene really is a part of those bitter PA clingers’ cultural DNA and not just indicative that they’re backward, religious zealots and xenophobes, as President Obama implied.
One of the great ironies of progressive career mothers, and amusing to me, is their desire to find great nannies and caretakers for their children, where something like hiring “Mormon nannies”, whose strong moral values are a real draw for well-to-do parents seeking a caregiver for their children. However, this reality vs the progressive rhetoric always smacks of rank hypocrisy among America’s elitist Leftists.
Teaching home economics in American schools was a progressive idea, not about training traditional stay-at-home mothers or keeping women trapped in their homes. It was about advancing teaching science and scientific approaches to domestic topics, but along with that, training women to pursue careers outside the home, beginning in the late 1800s.
My mother was a “science and math” person – she liked chemistry, she thought trigonometry was “fun” and she embraced the metric system. Besides knowing a great deal about “domestic skills”, she was a registered nurse, who loved to continue learning about medical innovations, she could fix a lot of electric appliances and knew how to do electrical wiring in homes, she was an expert at refinishing furniture, gardening, very good at crewel embroidery. She was a fantastic cook and expert baker. I think she was like many (most) of the women where I grew-up, who were multi-taskers long before the word came into vogue.
Even the “traditional” farm women were businesswomen too. Knowing how to bake cookies is not something to scoff at or mock! Baking is a useful skill to acquire, just like my father made me and my sisters learn to check the oil in the car and change tires. Being “liberated” means learning to be FREE to learn as much and as many skills in life as you can, to lead a fuller life.
As I often do, I started searching about “home economics” after watching the first video of the oldest teacher in America. A 2014 Huffington Post article, by Brie Dyas, caught my attention:
“You don’t hear much about Home Ec courses in schools these days. Even though many voices, from Anthony Bourdain to Slate, have called for its return, there’s still the critique that teaching high-schoolers cooking, budgeting and basic household skills is like saying they should walk around in poodle skirts — a “regressive” idea that doesn’t have a place in the modern curriculum.”
Dyas continues with a history of “home economics”:
“The creation of home ec is often attributed to Ellen Swallow Richards, a chemist and instructor at MIT, who paved the way for MIT’s Women’s Laboratory, which existed from 1876 to 1883 with a goal of advancing the scientific education of women at the Institution.
At the Women’s Laboratory, Richards turned her scientific attention to the study of how to make home life more efficient. According to the Chemical Heritage Foundation, “Richards was very concerned to apply scientific principles to domestic topics — good nutrition, pure foods, proper clothing, physical fitness, sanitation, and efficient practices that would allow women more time for pursuits other than cooking and cleaning.”
Richards’ philosophy — that running one’s home as efficiently as possible in order to make more time for things like, say, education — might be surprising to those who still see home ec as being anti-intellectual. To Richards, home ec wasn’t contrary to feminist principles. After all, she gathered other progressive women in 1899 to come up with academic guidelines for a fuller home ec curriculum that would “liberate” women from house work. The meetings, which occurred yearly in Lake Placid, New York until 1909, led to the formation of the American Home Economics Association. The group lobbied for increased funding for home economics programs. Richards was the president of the group until her death in 1911. (The American Home Economics Association was later renamed the American Association of Family & Consumer Sciences and still exists today.)
But let’s back up a second. Another guiding force behind the formal teaching of home economics was The Morrill Act of 1862, which led to the establishment of land-grant colleges in each state. These colleges, which offered both classical academic and practical courses, were open to women. “Domestic Science” courses were often on the agenda, specifically geared towards the wives of farmers, who were expected to run the household in addition to assisting in farm work.”
Definitely click on the links in Dyas’ article, because they offer more historical information into the progressive idea of teaching women domestic skills in a school setting, using scientific methods and research. The woman who started the home economics movement, Ellen Swallow Richards, was a feminist, the first woman to attend MIT, the first woman in America to earn a chemistry degree, a scientist engaged in a life of scientific research and whirlwind of studies, experiments, advocating on behalf of science being applied to teaching women domestic skills:
Chemist, sanitation engineer, and home economist Ellen Richards opened scientific education and professions to women when she started teaching at MIT in 1884.
“Ellen Richards graduated from Vassar College in 1870 and went on to become one of the first women admitted to MIT, where she earned a bachelor of science degree in 1873. Her focus was on chemistry, sanitary engineering and home economics. Richards blazed a trail for women in the sciences by establishing a woman’s laboratory at MIT and eventually joining the school’s regular faculty. She died in 1911.”
Dyas explains how home economics progressed in the early part of the last century, where some universities used real babies from orphanages as “practice babies” in their training programs, but post WWII, she explains how home economics funding decreased, with the focus being on science programs and the advent of convenience foods quelled the interest in teaching home-cooking.
In typical liberal fashion, Dyas and the Huffington Post staff recommend:
So, what now? We have a few ideas.
– Language matters. “Consumer Science” on its own has broader appeal than throwing “Family” into the mix. “Family” sounds like we’re back in the “practice baby” days. – Timing matters, too. A high school kid can handle learning how to make grilled cheese. But the student likely won’t remember the in-depth lecture about interest rates, mainly because that’s probably not part of his or her world yet. But in college, with student loan debts averaging in the high $20,000s, it’s a great time to learn things like budgeting and basic business etiquette. Work in the “core” home ec classes from there: Managing laundry, meal planning and cooking. – Don’t make it part of the formal curriculum. Instead, treat it as informally as freshmen orientation. – Change your attitude. The sooner we can accept that Home Ec isn’t just for women, the sooner we can have students who have attain stronger life skills. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/29/home-ec-classes_n_5882830.html
As always, the first thing with liberals is always to change the words we use to describe something. They know words DO matter, that’s why they are forever insisting we use different words – words they choose – to describe things.
The women I grew up with as mentors must have had some 19th century progressive women in their family trees, because on both sides of my family, the women are doers and not dainty flowers. Even my great-grandmother with the 3rd grade education read the newspaper everyday, could follow crochet patterns and needlework patterns, measure out ingredients and follow instructions in cookbooks and recipes jotted down from other cooks and was supportive of women getting a college education. I never met a woman where I grew up who didn’t want her daughters to attend school and to learn as many things as possible.
Admittedly, I mock the Hillary Clinton/Gloria Steinem type feminists, who pride themselves on knowing nothing about domestic topics, but I mock them, not out of jealousy of their “feminist achievements”, but because they are terrible role models, not only for women, but for AMERICANS. Their “liberation” of women, keeps women chained in an imaginary, perpetual state of victimhood of evil male patriarchy. There is no “equality” that will ever assuage their sense of discrimination, because with them its internalized and constant. Pssst, I think they hate men…
Yes, I believe they are strident ideological harpies, who offer no meaningful lessons or model to follow on how to achieve real-life emancipation or on becoming a self-reliant, free-thinking, independent American citizen. Especially, Hillary Clinton repeats strident, boring, angry feminist boiler-plate political rhetoric, while she relies on a coterie of sycophantic fetchers and carriers, to keep her public image from shattering.
Tiny glimpses of the “real” Hillary aren’t a pretty sight, like when she goes off-script and spews her angry diatribes or wallows in her self-pitying victim-mode rants. Her “damned” emails, as Bernie referred to them, give you a glimpse too – to a woman who orders her staff to fetch and carry, even her tea. She relies on them to handle all the details of her paid job, while she publicly gets all the credit. She’s a woman who relies on her husband to be her political fixer. A woman who relied on her Filipino maid to print out her work emails for her. A woman who is completely helpless on her own. She’s a woman who needs her staff flunkies to stage public outings to make her look “normal” (not like THE QUEEN).
Sadly, too many young women embrace shunning all things “domestic” and by doing so turn themselves into helpless fools in the process. Everyone, both male and female, should learn basic domestic skills, like simple food preparation and storage, basic housekeeping skills, basic household budgeting, how to balance a checking account, and if they’re planning on having children, acquiring some basic child-care knowledge sure comes in handy. Most young people won’t be like Hillary Clinton, with her coterie of fetchers and carriers, but will instead have to rely on themselves (or their parents) to handle all the drudge work in their lives.
The video above is Alton Brown, who has dozens of videos online, and he’s my favorite food personality for many reasons, but mainly because I love his scientific approach to cooking. Of course, he constantly asks my favorite question: WHY? WHY is a question that will keep your life an endless adventure, as you begin each new search for the answer(s).
Watching so many young women whine and embrace frivolous, mindless feminist political causes, while eschewing putting effort into learning real life skills saddens me. Feminist icons, like Hillary Clinton, have devoted their lives to perpetuating myths about opportunity for women in America, by enslaving young women’s minds to feminist dogma, more rigid than many religious cults.
Practical information, how-to videos, reference material is only a click away – embrace the freedom to explore old and new hobbies, pick a favorite meal and learn how to prepare it yourself, ever wondered about a science issue, how something works, or how something was invented, well devote a few minutes a day to researching it. I’ve become a fan of how-to videos with crafting and needlework, because I can pause and rewind as often as I need to, while I do it myself.
I kept urging my oldest sister to start a Pinterest account, where she can set up boards and save ideas, patterns, recipes and inspirations to refer back to and she has now done that. She’s way more computer savvy than I am, so her hesitation was about Pinterest being part of “social media”, not that she wasn’t familiar with computers. I use Pinterest often and while it’s doubtful I’ll ever use most of the recipes or make most of the needlework and craft projects I’ve pinned, these boards are much easier to access than trying to remember which magazine or craft book I saw a pattern in and then hunting it down.
For me, knowing how to handle as many daily tasks, central to my daily life, myself, gives me not just a sense of calm and security, it gives me a sense of FREEDOM. It’s nice to be able to do many things myself, without needing to rely on someone else to do them for me. And for me that’s what being an American is all about – personal liberty.
According to news reports President-elect Trump is considering 4 candidates for Secretary of State, with no announcement being expected this week. From various reporting, Rudy Giuliani, a Trump loyalist supreme, has business interests around the world that are red flags to conflict of interest problems, if he were to become Secretary of State. On November 15, 2016, the New York Times reported:
“But Mr. Giuliani’s business ties are a major red flag. He built a lucrative consulting and speechmaking career after leaving City Hall. His firm, Giuliani Partners, has had contracts with the government of Qatar and the Canadian company that is building the Keystone XL oil pipeline, and Mr. Giuliani has given paid speeches to a shadowy Iranian opposition group that until 2012 was on the State Department’s list of foreign terrorist organizations.
In one year — 2006 — Mr. Giuliani reported in a financial disclosure report that he had made 124 speeches, for as much as $200,000 each, and had earned a total of $11.4 million. He often made extravagant demands in return for agreeing to make a speech, including that the private plane that flew him to the engagement be a certain size.”
Mitt Romney faces an avalanche of vitriol from Trump loyalists, who view Romney’s public comments during the campaign, about Trump being a fraud, as disqualifying. Senator Bob Corker has been mentioned as a contender and had more than one meeting with Trump.
Then there’s retired General David Petraeus, who has made public noises that he would like to be considered and Trump, being easily dazzled by military stars, can’t get enough of hobnobbing with these retired generals and feeding off of their aura of being “strong leaders”. How on earth David Petraeus is even being considered remains a mystery to me, but then again, he is part of this cult of personality among the Washington elite, where past transgressions disappear or get whitewashed from the public bio and voilá, the person emerges with a new PR blitz, replete with the transgressions scrubbed and a happy face bio repeated constantly. There were reports that retired General Jack Keane had been a Trump favorite for Secretary of Defense, but turned it down and that General Keane recommended General Petraeus to Trump… go figure.
So it is with the “great” General David Petraeus, a man who LIED to the FBI and tried to shut down the investigation into his mishandling highly classified information. The media often tiptoes around top brass military leaders, often unwilling to probe or challenge them or their conduct and too many Americans, to include Donald Trump, stand in awe of generals and confer an almost untouchable status to them. There are good generals and bad generals, but sadly the American people and too many reporters remain dazzled by those stars.
General David Petraeus has demonstrated he is unfit to ever hold a high position of trust in the United States government! Facts matter to me, but apparently many other people are willing to use flimsy legalistic arguments to ignore the “facts” about Petraeus’ behavior. So, once again, here’s a review of the “great” David Petraeus’ conduct during the FBI investigation into his mishandling classified information:
To me he grossly mishandled highly sensitive information, that could have jeopardized American lives in the field – end of conversation. He lied to try and cover up. For me, when people do this, I no longer trust them and I believe they are asecurity risk to the United States of America.
I don’t really care that he had Clinton lawyer, David Kendall, work out a plea agreement, so he got off on way lesser charges. The actual FACTS, which aren’t disputed, are he handed over his black books and other classified information to his mistress/biographer, to aid her in writing his biography. Petraeus supporters hype that his mistress, a US Army trained intelligence officer, had a security clearance, as a point to exonerate General Petraeus.
Here are the FACTS on her having a security clearance. A security clearance is a privilege given to people, entrusting them to handle our nation’s sensitive national security information. The clearance allows access to sensitive information to carry our your official duties. The clearance is not for personal, partisan-political, random curiosity or any other purposes. It is NOT for writing a book. She was a trained intelligence officer, who had classified information, that was not secured in her home, but she also had hundreds of classified documents on her home computer unsecured. So, her having a security clearance and being a trained intelligence officeractually makes her actions worse, in my opinion, for the same reason General Petraues’ actions make me have no interest in listening to anything he has to say, they should have known better. General Petraeus and his mistress put personal interest above the safety of soldiers in the field, by such “extremely careless” handling of highly sensitive information. Here are some of the FACTS reported from the FBI affidavit:
“FBI agents found hundreds of classified documents on Paula Broadwell’s home computers in Charlotte during their investigation into her relationship with then-CIA Director David Petraeus, according to newly unsealed FBI documents obtained by the Observer.
More than 300 of those documents were classified as secret,according to a 2013 FBI affidavit accompanying the agency’s request to search Petraeus’ Arlington, Va., home.”
And this: “The affidavit is signed by a Charlotte-based FBI agent. Its allegations include:
“The documents show that when confronted by the FBI, both Broadwell and Petraeus appeared to mislead investigators about their extensive exchange of classified material, most of it involving military and diplomatic operations during Petraeus’ years as commander of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan”
And this: “The FBI gathered recordings Petraeus made as military commander in the Middle East in which he discussed informationclassified as “Top Secret” with reporters.
In an audio file taken from Broadwell’s home in November 2012, Petraeus can be heard discussing “sensitive military campaigns and operations” with reporters from the Washington Post. His only demand was to be referred to in the subsequent stories “as a senior military officer,” the affidavit says.”
And this: “Petraeus tried to stop the FBI investigation as soon as he heard about it. According to the affidavit, the FBI began its probe in Tampa, Fla., after a person identified as “Witness 1,” who is clearly Tampa socialite and Petraeus confidante Jill Kelly, complained of receiving threatening emails from someone who had access to the CIA director’s schedule – a potential breach of security.”
And this: Broadwell, a married mother of two, and Petraeus, also married, took steps to hide their correspondences. The affidavit says the two used pre-paid cellphones and email accounts “using non-attributable names.”
An interesting thing about people who break rules for their own convenience is they usually have a pattern of this behavior, not just a single moment of bad judgment (they become CORRUPT). Oh my, how dare I use the word “corrupt” when referring to the sainted General David Petraeus, well, because that is the correct word to describe the behavior chronicled in the FBI affidavit.
Most Americans don’t pour over FBI notes, Hillary emails or Wikileaks leaked emails. Instead, they let “reporters” do the digging and accept the reporters’ reports on what they found. It’s easy to get buried in mountains of information, with tens of thousands of Hillary emails, or the 650,000 emails reported to be on the Weiner/Abedin laptop or a Wikileaks dump, like the other day:
“WikiLeaks releases more than half a million US diplomatic cables from the momentous year of 1979”
By Julian Assange
“Today, 28 November 2016, marking the six-year anniversary of “Cablegate”, WikiLeaks expands its Public Library of US Diplomacy (PLUSD) with more than half a million (531,525) diplomatic cables from 1979.”
So, Assange dumped a half million diplomatic cables, starting from 1979, a couple days ago, which assuredly will take months to review, even by professional researchers. Herein comes my issue with the Weiner/Abedin email search of 0ver 650,000 emails, done in days. Sure, all sorts of computer programs can sort, sift through and analyze a lot of data, but it takes a human analyst to tie loose threads of previous information in a case with new bits of information to weave together a fact pattern.
With General Petraeus, on October 22, 2016, FOX News’ Catherine Herridge reported:
“Roughly 1,000 emails between Hillary Clinton and Gen. David Petraeus were thought to be missing from the 30,000 emails provided by Clinton’s team to the State Department in December 2014, according to the newly released FBI investigative files.
In a heavily redacted FBI interview summary from Aug. 17, 2015, a State Department employee from the Office of Information and Programs and Services (IPS), which handles Freedom of Information Act requests, discussed how Petraeus’ records apparently were not among the work-related emails provided by the former secretary’s team.”CENTCOM records shows approximately 1,000 work-related emails between Clinton’s personal email and General David PETRAEUS, former Commander of CENTCOM and former Director of the CIA,” said the employee, whose name is redacted, according to the summary. “Most of those 1,000 emails were not believed to be included in the 30,000 emails that IPS was reviewing. Out of the 30,000 emails, IPS only had a few emails from or related to PETRAEUS as well as a few related to Leon PANETTA, former Secretary of Defense.””
The actual FBI Notes information, Herridge referred to can be found on page 44 – HERE.
General Petraeus did not turn over approximately 1,000 work-related emails between him and Hillary Clinton, yet he turned over his black books and hundreds of classified government records to his mistress, that he was hoarding, unsecured, in his home… Petraeus and Hillary retain the legal counsel of David Kendall, the Houdini of making Clinton scandals disappear. Heck, the FBI Notes suggest that Kendall’s office did not turn over 2 bank boxes of documents – page 40 of FBI Notes, so one can only wonder what more we will eventually find out, but I feel confident to say there’s way more incriminating information being hidden. David Petraeus should explain what happened to his approximately 1,000 missing emails between him and Hillary Clinton, that CENTCOM says existed.
Why would anyone trust David Petraeus with highly sensitive information??? He has already proven that he is untrustworthy – that’s a FACT. And beyond that, since there’s still a lot of unknowns in his missing emails with Hillary, that makes him a prime target for blackmail, by the hostile foreign intelligence services that have ALL of Hillary’s private server emails.
With writing about politics – well, I wanted to be “fair” to Trump, with him being elected and deserving a chance to demonstrate that he can not only “act” presidential, but become a President, in thought and deed. The American people voted and I respect that, but I haven’t changed my opinion, that Trump is a pathological liar, con man and total fraud.
The mainstream (liberal) media, assuredly, avidly searches for negative Trump stories to run with, but here again, Trump hands them ammunition constantly. For instance, Trump has been reported to have only sat down for two intelligence briefings since becoming president-elect. The Trump camp explained that away as Mike Pence is getting those intelligence briefings almost daily.
Then comes the Jill Stein/Hillary Clinton recount effort and Trump runs off into the weeds on a Twitter storm over the weekend about how he would have won, not only the electoral college, but also the popular vote, if over a million illegal immigrants hadn’t voted in the election. There is absolutely no proof that over a million illegal immigrants voted, so where did Trump come up with this??? He retweeted it from someone on Twitter… So, he has no interest in real intelligence briefings, but he wallows in tweet droppings…
This morning, the news is reporting Trump is interviewing retired General David Petraeus, who has made noises that he’d be interested in being Secretary of State. Trump mouthpieces have been waging a complete character assassination effort against Mitt Romney, who would make an excellent Secretary of State, but are championing Petraeus, whose grossly negligent mishandling of highly classified information and obstruction of justice should have landed him in jail. I remain confused by the Trump mouthpieces’ antics
Petraeus, just like retired General Mike Flynn, was a Democrat, NOT a Republican. Then again, Trump was a Democrat too, until his “GOP Insurgency”. I found a tweet and retweet by John Schindler this morning, that I agree with completely:
Petraeus belongs in jail, not the cabinet. Team Trump is deep into magical thinking if they’re considering him.
John Schindler added,
John Schindler@20committee
If Trump makes Petraeus SECSTATE (or anything), he needs to send Hillary a formal apology for his #EmailGate rants. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-petraeus-idUSKBN13N1IO…
Since I don’t want to write all diatribes about the media and their hysterics about “fake news” or about Hillary and her endless staged “out and about” unplanned social media photo efforts or farcical “recount” or about Trump’s bizarro social media forays and crazytown cabinet selection process, I’m just working on sewing and craft projects. Oh, and of course, pinning more “inspirations” on Pinterest too. I’ve also been working on trying to organize my large collection of needlework patterns.
I made 2 granddaughters little plastic canvas needlepoint trinket boxes a while ago, so the other 2 granddaughters wanted boxes too. Finished one with a carousel horse on the top and stitched the top of the other one with a horse head on it yesterday:
The box above, the pattern instructed to attach the lid to the box at the top and the lid lifts up, which I don’t really like.
Stitched this top yesterday (about 6″X 6″) and need to make the box now. Making this one a lift off lid, so I’ll have to stitch pieces to attach to this top.
Here are the two other boxes;
And I made a boutique size tissue box cover (pictured below), which my son assures me is something only old ladies like – well, I am an old lady… And I have dozens of patterns for plastic canvas needlepoint tissue box covers… I actually stitched 2 and a half sides waiting at the doctor’s office when I had that sinus infection. One of my small talents is I am a quick stitcher (from decades of sewing a lot).
Just need to buy a box of boutique size tissues for this one:-) I have floral blue and yellow curtains and a comforter on the bed in the spare bedroom, so this blue and yellow tissue box cover will fit right in there. I love that French country blue and yellow color combination:-)
So, after I finish the horse trinket box (my granddaughters like these little boxes for junk, btw), I am going to stitch these two quick long-stitch patterns for a 2 year-old boy:
Then, it’s back to working on some counted cross-stitch and quilting (English paper-piecing to be precise) and getting some Grandmother’s Flower Garden blocks sewn. My great-grandmother loved to sew this hexagon-pieced quilt pattern and I was her handy color-coordinator/quilt piece cutter as a kid. She had a large closet filled with boxes of fabric scraps, which I rummaged through sorting out prints into stacks of different colors for the various quilt blocks. And then she had a cardboard template, which I used to trace the pattern on the back of the fabric with a pencil and cut out stacks of hexagons for her. Luckily, I find tedious, repetitive sorting and cutting tasks relaxing, lol. My sisters did not enjoy tedious sorting and cutting. True story here, at Wal-mart when it came time to make sure that all the DMC embroidery floss skeins were sorted and counted for inventory, I enjoyed sitting there carefully sorting and counting each color…
My needlework is a welcome respite from the 2016 Election hell, that doesn’t seem to ever end…
Reporters actually roped off by Hillary Clinton’s campaign in July 2015, but alas now CNN’s Christiane Amanpour is all aflutter that Trump might put the media in cages:
“As all the international journalists we honor in this room tonight and every year know only too well: First the media is accused of inciting, then sympathizing, then associating — until they suddenly find themselves accused of being full-fledged terrorists and subversives. Then they end up in handcuffs, in cages, in kangaroo courts, in prison — and then who knows?”
Strange things still brewing with this 2016 election – left working to upend the Trump win, first with the rants about doing away with the Electoral College and now with murmurings of demanding a recount in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan, but for today I’m cooking, going to enjoy time with family and think about the many things I am thankful for.
I am thankful that God has blessed me with more things to be thankful for than my heart and mind can even grasp.
I am thankful for my family – beyond words.
I am thankful to be alive and count each day as a blessing.
I am thankful to be living in America, where we are free to dream, free to think, free to speak, free to live our lives as we choose.
I am thankful for being inspired and guided by so many wonderful people in my life.
Well, that didn’t take long for Donald J. Trump to expose his true, corrupt crony capitalist roots – he isn’t going to pursue a criminal investigation of the Clintons or appoint a special prosecutor, as he promised. All that “lock her up” jazz was just to dupe a bunch of voters into believing he isn’t a NY liberal, con man, friend of Bill and Hillary Clinton. You know, those people Trump referred to as “good people” last week. He’s now Mr. Dealmaker – the Crony-Capitalist-In-Chief…
Fair warning to Republicans, in case you didn’t learn this in the past year – the ONLY people who will get shafted by a President Trump are REPUBLICANS. He will screw you over every way he can – just like he did during his “GOP Insurgency” and he will cut deals with his corrupt Democrat friends, like the Clintons.
Here’s the latest from the NY Post:
“President-elect Donald Trump won’t subject Hillary Clinton to a criminal inquiry — instead, he’ll help her heal, his spokeswoman said Tuesday.
“I think when the president-elect who’s also the head of your party … tells you before he’s even inaugurated he doesn’t wish to pursue these charges, it sends a very strong message, tone and content, to the members,” Kellyanne Conway told the hosts of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” who first reported that the president-elect would not pursue his campaign pledge to “lock up” Clinton, his Democratic opponent.”
Yep, I guess we can expect to see Bill Clinton and Donald Trump hitting the links in the near future… Perhaps, they’ll invite President Obama along too…
President Obama loves to pontificate about his administration’s professional behavior. Here is a report that top level Pentagon officials sent a report to Congress that included plagiarized information pulled from Wikipedia.
This is the same sort of scam that the IRS pulled with the Lois Lerner email game the administration engaged in when Congress requested records and when Congress requested State Department records. It sure appears that the Obama administration does everything it can to subvert the law when fulfilling its reporting obligations to Congress. And for anyone who believes President Obama is honest, well, he declared there was nothing criminal in Hillary’s emails or email server set-up, despite never having reviewed all the emails or before the FBI investigation was completed.
When it comes to “fake news”, the Obama administration should worry more about how they carry out their official duties, than with how social media runs its business. What a joke for this administration to act all high and mighty about integrity or ethical conduct.
John Schindler
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