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.
Had to take a few days off from blogging due to a sinus infection, accompanied by a terrible sinus headache that wouldn’t quit. A trip to the doctor and meds have me back to feeling like I’ll survive:-)
The political situation continues the same gloomy trend. The Clinton/Obama/Democratic Party machines went full-throttle into Trump Derangement Syndrome, with endless liberal media collusion to hype Trump as evil incarnate. Most of this “news” coverage does more to expose the media’s corrupt collusion with liberal politicians and ideology than to does to expose actual Trump corruption. The media now moved past the “boy who cried wolf” one too many times and hardly anyone believes their histrionics and hysterical warnings anymore.
The above clip is liberal flamethrower, Bill Maher, admitting he went over the top demonizing GW Bush, Romney and McCain, but hey, trust him now on his demonizing Trump.
Facebook is on a new crusade to stamp out “fake” news, which should be interesting considering the “real” news media, through Wikileaks leaks, has been exposed actively colluding with the Clinton campaign repeatedly. CNN went so far as to doctor a photo of a Trump tweet on their broadcast media, removing the word “Crooked” from his tweet:
Now, the hand-wringers on the left, trying to make sense of Trump’s win, have focused on “fake news” that was “pro-Trump” and “anti-Hillary” on facebook as a big part of the “problem”. Jennifer Palmeiri was on Twitter warning people not to trust Wikileaks, when the reality is because of decades of liberal media becoming a political tool of the Clinton “SPIN cycle”, many Americans would trust a Russian front over American news organizations. The mainstream media lost most of its credibility, because there wasn’t just “liberal bias”, there was corrupt, deliberate media collusion.
Irony knows no bounds these days, with President Obama, King of made-up NARRATIVES, waxing on about the dangers of “fake news” and “propaganda”:
“If we are not serious about facts and what’s true and what’s not — and particularly in an age of social media where so many people are getting their information in soundbites and snippets off their phones — if we can’t discriminate between serious arguments and propaganda, then we have problems,” he said. “If everything seems to be the same and no distinctions are made, then we won’t know what to protect. We won’t know what to fight for. And we can lose so much of what we’ve gained in terms of the kind of democratic freedoms and market-based economies and prosperity that we’ve come to take for granted.”
Yes. Mr. President, I agree, “fake news” does threaten democracy! And you spent 8 years spreading your NARRATIVES!
The mainstream media bought into treating the Clinton”spin cycle” as legitimate political PR, in the 90s, rather than exposing it as:
Dangerous political propaganda that turned private news corporations into little more than party political tools to “saturate the media messaging with political talking points”.
Wikileaks, thus far, has over a decade record of reporting factual information (sure it’s stolen information, but so far they haven’t been caught doctoring the information).
The Clinton SPIN cycle advanced to the Obama NARRATIVES, where the Obama administration writes completely fabricated stories – like the obscure video causing the attack in Benghazi, like Bowe Bergdahl served with honor and distinction, like 50 military intelligence officials in Iraq complaining that higher-ups were doctoring their reports to fit the Obama narrative:
“Two senior analysts at CENTCOM signed a written complaint sent to the Defense Department inspector general in July alleging that the reports, some of which were briefed to President Obama, portrayed the terror groups as weaker than the analysts believe they are. The reports were changed by CENTCOM higher-ups to adhere to the administration’s public line that the U.S. is winning the battle against ISIS and al Nusra, al Qaeda’s branch in Syria, the analysts claim.
That complaint was supported by 50 other analysts, some of whom have complained about politicizing of intelligence reports for months. That’s according to 11 individuals who are knowledgeable about the details of the report and who spoke to The Daily Beast on condition of anonymity.
The accusations suggest that a large number of people tracking the inner workings of the terror groups think that their reports are being manipulated to fit a public narrative. The allegations echoed charges that political appointees and senior officials cherry-picked intelligence about Iraq’s supposed weapons program in 2002 and 2003.”
President Obama still maintains high approval ratings and the liberal media establishment still loves him and works feverishly to paint any criticisms of his very corrupt administration as being racist attacks or coming from “haters”. The thing that alarmed me about President Obama is the same thing that alarms me about President-elect Trump -they both managed to defeat the Clinton SPIN cycle, with their own even more corrupt scorched earth campaigns.
With President Obama, the SPIN morphed into NARRATIVES, with the complete fawning adoration of the mainstream media, becoming willing fabulists selling the Obama administration fabricated stories.
Trump won his “GOP Insurgency” primary with billions of dollars in free media from the liberal media, who intended to help Hillary in the general, by promoting what the Clinton camp deemed the “Pied Piper” primary candidates. He won the general with savvy social media usage, large rally rabble-rousing, massive leaking from a Russian front organization and Hillary Clinton’s terrible campaign messaging. Where Trump goes from here remains to be seen, but I for one am not optimistic.
Trump and Obama beat the Clinton SPIN machine by being more corrupt and willing to wage no holds barred scorched earth campaigns. Trump was willing to say anything and throw and repeat any dirt, regardless if there was any truth to it, in fact he is very comfortable to ad lib, on the spot, and make up “facts” or to repeat internet “stories”, without any “fact-checking”. This bodes poorly for a US presidency and even more poorly for honest government. You can’t drain the swamp when you are a monster of that swamp. Trump has been an avid participant in public corruption for decades.
Sure, it’s fine to be optimistic and believe Trump’s going to be a transformative president, who will make America great again, but I believe that character defines each and every one of us. While many reporters were busily trying to pin down Trump’s political ideology when he entered the 2016 race, I was busily trying to pin down Trump’s character.
Immediately it became apparent that he and Hillary Clinton have much in common, just like Trump has much in common with Bill Clinton and President Obama. Their main common character trait is all of them are pathological liars, who will say and do anything to promote themselves. Lots of people get hostile when terms like “sociopath” get tossed out and attacks of how that’s so wrong to use that “clinical term” without being a mental health professional are sure to follow. Well, since this is a personal blog, not a news site, I am going to say that in my opinion, I believe that Obama is an extreme political ideologue, who will say or do anything to promote his political agenda and legacy, but I believe that the Clintons and Trump are extreme sociopaths, who will say or do anything to promote themselves.
I believe the problem with extreme sociopaths is it’s hard to predict what events and catalysts will push them over the edge to becoming uncontrolled psychopaths. That’s my opinion. Unchecked power is poisonous to people who do not believe rules apply to them.
Back in August 2015, I wrote:
Last week I bought one of Trump’s books, as I mentioned before, and I read it. Assuredly, Trump offered many interesting insights into, as the book’s title stated, “TRUMP: How to Get Rich”. The pride he takes in his children comes across and he offers some worthwhile advice on investing and negotiating, but trying to get to the character of who exactly is Donald Trump, well, he’s a man who has chapters in his book like “Be Strategically Dramatic”, “Sometimes You Still Have To Screw Them”, and “Sometimes You Have To Hold a Grudge”, replete with examples from his life and his guiding principles. Here are some quotes (page 138):
“When somebody hurts you, just go after them as viciously and as violently as you can. Like it says in the Bible, an eye for an eye.”
Be paranoid. I know this observation doesn’t make any of us sound very good, but let’s face the fact that it’s possible that even your best friend wants to steal your spouse and your money.”
The chapter on holding a grudge is even more interesting, because Trump relates how for years he had donated huge amounts of money to NY governor, Mario Cuomo and when he called Cuomo to ask for a favor from Cuomo’s son, Andrew, who was running the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Mario Cuomo refused to do the favor (which Trump doesn’t explain in detail other than to say it was an appropriate favor involving attention to a detail). Trump blew up and for any who are confused with Trump’s vendetta against Megyn Kelly on Twitter, calling her a bimbo last night or his refusing to entertain a question by Jorge Ramos from Univision this evening, well, this chapter on holding a grudge (page 142) explains it. Trump called in a political favor believing it was owed to him, because he donated a lot of money to Mario Cuomo (crony capitalism is what most people call this greasing of palms). Here is how Trump describes the phone call:
“I did the only thing that felt right to me. I began screaming. “You son of a bitch! For years I’ve helped you and never asked for a thing, and when I finally need something, and a totally proper thing at that, you aren’t there for me. You’re no good. You’re one of the most disloyal people I’ve known and as far as I’m concerned, you can go to hell.”
My screaming was so loud that two or three people came in from adjoining offices and asked who I was screaming at. I told them it was Mario Cuomo., a total stiff, a lousy governor, and a disloyal former friend. Now whenever I see Mario at dinner, I refuse to acknowledge him, talk to him, or even look at him.”
When you hear Trump whining about being treated unfairly, here’s what I believe he means: If you agree with him, fawn over him and puff up his ego, that’s treating him fairly. If you disagree or criticize him, I believe, he will wage an all out campaign to destroy you. So, I keep wondering how his character will play in the long, arduous rough and tumble of presidential politics, where being ripped apart by opposition research, pundits and reporters only escalates as the campaign wears on. We’ve got plenty of rounds to go, so it’s certainly not going to be boring.
The American media and politicians can abandon important issues without any reflection or commitment to getting at the truth. A President Trump may be worse than I fear or he may turn out to be a lot better than I ever expected, but the fact remains – he was elected and that’s the reality. Due to the “GOP Insurgency” during the primary, which was orchestrated by the mainstream (liberal) media giving Trump billions in free media and I firmly believe a great deal of Clinton collusion with the media too, the process was corrupt as all get out, imo. Be that as it may – Trump was elected in the general.
Now, with Hillary Clinton’s email server and the subsequent news stories that have surfaced, then been quickly squashed, well , there remain some serious concerns about the national security implications. Yet, those stories disappeared.
Some remaining questions;
1.) Now, that the election is over, has extremely careless Hillary Clinton’s security clearance been revoked yet? What about the security clearances of her “extremely careless” aides? You’d think removing access to highly classified information to people with lengthy records of “extremely careless” handling of such information would be an urgent national security action.
2.) Does the FBI have the thumb drive of all the emails from Hillary’s server”
“I’ve noted facts from the FBI notes in previous posts, but there’s one thing about evidence they received from the Clinton lawyers or from other sources, I did not notice in the FBI notes. What is the disposition of the thumb drives of the server information, which none other than David E. Kendall, the infamous Clinton cover-up expert, was reported to have in his possession?
July , 30, 2015 – Politico reported:
“Hillary Clinton’s private lawyer has a thumb drive containing classified information from as many as five U.S. intelligence agencies — but the State Department told POLITICO the law firm is taking “appropriate measures” to secure the files.
The agency declined to detail steps made to protect the sensitive information in attorney David Kendall’s possession, but the issue is raising concern among Republicans on Capitol Hill who’ve criticized Clinton’s handling of the email controversy. The thumb drive has copies of emails Clinton kept on a private server while she served as secretary of state, a trove now known to contain classified documents.
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The agency told POLITICO that Clinton “does have counsel with clearance.” Kendall, a prominent Williams & Connolly attorney who defended former CIA director David Petraeus against charges of mishandling classified information, declined to comment.
Clinton’s campaign echoed the State Department.”
“WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI has taken possession of thumb drives containing Hillary Clinton’s emails, some of which have been deemed to contain highly sensitive classified information, according to a U.S. official briefed on the matter.
The official was not authorized to be quoted publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.”
Further in this story:
“The U.S. official said the FBI recovered at least two thumb drives containing the emails from Kendall. The drives contain around 30,000 emails that Clinton deemed work-related and turned over to the State Department. She destroyed thousands of others that she said were not work-related.”
Clinton’s lawyer, David Kendall, turned over the emails after the FBI determined that he could not remain in possession of the classified information, the official said. The State Department previously had said it was comfortable with Kendall keeping the emails at his Washington law office.”
“The e-mail server used by Hillary Rodham Clinton when she served as secretary of state was turned over to the FBI late Wednesday afternoon from a private data center in New Jersey, according to an attorney familiar with the transfer.
“It was picked up about 4 p.m.,” said Barbara J. Wells, a Denver lawyer who represents Platte River Networks Inc., a small computer services firm that has managed the Clintons’ private e-mail system since mid-2013.
Wells said her client was contacted by the FBI, which expressed interest in obtaining the old server. The FBI did not have a search warrant or subpoena and did not interview her clients, she said.”
Further in this story:
In addition to obtaining the old server, the FBI recently obtained a thumb drive in the possession of Clinton’s lawyer, David Kendall, that contained copies of work e-mails kept on the server.
Before it was taken to the data center in New Jersey, the server had been in the basement of the Clintons’ private home in Chappaqua, N.Y., during the time she was secretary of state, according to people familiar with the Clintons’ e-mail network.
August 25, 2015 – In a CBS News article, Kendall claimed to have a top secret clearance, but claimed it wasn’t for Hillary’s emails:
“Obtaining top secret clearance “was unrelated to the 30,490 e-mails provided to the State Department on December 5, 2014; none of those e-mails was classified,” Kendall wrote to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa. “As I am sure you are aware, it was not until nearly six months later that the first email in this group was retroactively classified as ‘Secret.’”
Kendall wrote that he received top secret clearance in November 2014; additionally, his law partner Katherine Turner obtained top secret clearance from the State Department in December 2014.
Kendall was in possession of a thumb drive that held copies of Clinton’s emails, but the attorney said the State Department gave him guidance for keeping the information secure, and “even provided physical equipment necessary to safeguard the thumb drive at issue.”
Grassley responded that even with his top secret clearance, Kendall did not have the level of authority necessary to possess the sensitive information in the emails in question.”
September 9, 2016 – I missed some of the House Oversight Committee hearing yesterday, so I was just listening to the beginning part. At minute 35:52, Committee Chairman, Jason Chaffetz asks Patrick Kennedy, the Undersecretary for Management at the State Department, states that the to the best of his knowledge, the FBI took possession of all the electronic information Mr. Kendall had.
I don’t recall reading about the thumb drive(s) the FBI received in these FBI notes. Did I miss the part about a thumb drive(s) David Kendall turned over to the FBI? And was it one thumb drive or “at least two thumb drives”, as reported by unnamed sources?”
3.) Is anyone investigating the details of Hillary Clinton allowing her Filipino maid, Marina, access to the SCIF in her DC home to print out emails? Paul Sperry reported in the NY Post on November 6, 2016:
“As secretary of state, Hillary Clinton routinely asked her maid to print out sensitive government emails and documents — including ones containing classified information — from her house in Washington, DC, emails and FBI memos show. But the housekeeper lacked the security clearance to handle such material.
In fact, Marina Santos was called on so frequently to receive emails that she may hold the secrets to emailgate — if only the FBI and Congress would subpoena her and the equipment she used.
Clinton entrusted far more than the care of her DC residence, known as Whitehaven, to Santos. She expected the Filipino immigrant to handle state secrets, further opening the Democratic presidential nominee to criticism that she played fast and loose with national security.
Clinton would first receive highly sensitive emails from top aides at the State Department and then request that they, in turn, forward the messages and any attached documents to Santos to print out for her at the home.
Among other things, Clinton requested that Santos print out drafts of her speeches, confidential memos and “call sheets” — background information and talking points prepared for the secretary of state in advance of a phone call with a foreign head of state.
“Pls ask Marina to print for me in am,” Clinton emailed top aide Huma Abedin regarding a redacted 2011 message marked sensitive but unclassified.”
Made a few more bookmarks this morning to calm my spirit, lol.
Well, for all those who believed Trump really meant “Crooked Hillary” and “Lock Her Up”, here’s the wake-up call that Trump just cut one of his “great” deals with the Clinton/Obama/Dem machines:
The Chicago Sun Timesreports that Donald Trump has once again suggested there will be no special prosecutor for Hillary Clinton, calling her and Bill Clinton “good people”:
Trump back-pedaled on his promise to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Hillary Clinton over her emails. “I’m going to think about it,” Trump said.
“. . . She did some bad things, I mean she did some bad things,” Trump said, prompting Stahl to ask, “I know, but a special prosecutor? You think you might . . .
To which Trump replied, making a reference to Bill and Hillary Clinton, “I don’t want to hurt them, I don’t want to hurt them. They’re, they’re good people. I don’t want to hurt them. And I will give you a very, very good and definitive answer the next time we do 60 Minutes together.”
The previous post shows the social media corruption, but here’s something else I noticed happening. The “popular” vote count for Hillary keeps growing massively. Hard to tell what the facts are, with Soros and the Dems colluding with the liberal media to SPIN(LIE) and sell “narratives”(FABRICATED STORIES), where there were reports swirling that Soros bought a company that owns voting machines in 16 states.
I suspect this inflating “popular vote”is another Clinton/Obama/Democratic Party corrupt gambit to try and overthrow the election, even though they aren’t openly saying that is their intent. Looks to me like more setting the stage for a challenge to the Electoral College, to stop Trump (and the FBI, which, I believe, is still investigating the Clinton corruption).
This “popular vote” hype is being bolstered by calls that the Electoral College MUST be eliminated. Many in the liberal media are spewing this nonsense too. Here’s Eric Holder:
“Former Attorney General Eric Holder called for an end to the electoral college voting system on Friday.
With Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton winning the popular vote but losing the election, he said it was now time to change the way the U.S. elects its presidents.
“I’m in the process now of writing an article that says there’s a simple solution to it and we have to just abolish the electoral college,” Holder told “Real Time” host Bill Maher.”
The Dems are trying to stage another attempt to get Hillary elected instead of abiding by The Constitution, is what I believe their SPIN is all about. By creating this illusion that most of the country is overwrought and does not want Trump as president, they are promoting alternative ways around The Constitution – trying to pressure electors to vote against Trump when the Electoral College votes. Another desperate gambit for the Democratic Party machine to retain control of the executive branch.
Here’s a clue to these corrupt thugs: The Electoral College can only be abolished by Congress and the process is laid out in The Constitution for making amendments.
Short of abolishing the Electoral College, the only option that I am aware of is for Congress to impeach Donald Trump and herein, I am not sure if he could even be impeached before being sworn into office and after he was sworn in, well, there’s a whole process for impeachment…. as the Clintons are well aware of. Donald Trump would have to do something to justify impeachment. For instance, in President Bill Clinton articles of impeachment, the House voted that President Clinton had lied under oath to a grand jury and obstructed justice. There were originally four articles passed by the Judiciary Committee. The Senate voted not to remove President Clinton from office on partisan lines, with a handful of liberal-leaning Republicans siding with the Democrats. Impeachment, being a political remedy, really didn’t speak to whether President Clinton was really guilty of these charges, imo.
And by watching another 17 years of the Clintons political corruption, I think it will be proven that they did that and much worse to silence witnesses and retain power. Guess, that makes me a “hater” and part of the omnipresent, vast, right-wing conspiracy out to get Hillary Clinton, America’s #1 VICTIM.
We abide by The Constitution for a reason – it is the rule of law here in America and it keeps us a FREE, constitutional republic, not a banana republic or ClintonWorld (where the whims of Bill and Hillary Clinton reign supreme).
Just saw this on Twitter and while it’s hard to determine factual information on any of the social media formats, because the formats themselves are run very corruptly, this is the sort of media collusion that CNN and other “news” networks in America ran to help Hillary. CNN doctored a photo removing the word “Crooked” from a screen shot of a Trump tweet, CBS edited Bill Clinton’s statement during an interview to change the context of his statement and Wikileaks has provided numerous email leaks of collusion between reporters and the Clinton campaign. Here’s this one this morning on Twitter:
This viral video claiming to show anti-Trump protests in Los Angeles is actually from Venezuela
Yes, like I said, it’s hard to get to the facts and real ground truth when social media sites also finagle with user content and censor, to promote Leftist political ideology, causes and candidates. Even search engine algorithms are reportedly altered to change results – all to promote political agendas.
If the above photo was posted and is of Venezuela, then the intent would seem to be to promote the perception that the protests against Trump winning the election are some huge groundswell and not a few discounted, rabid, angry Leftist loons. More of the SPIN mentality to create an illusion that this “massive” protest expresses the “will of many American people”.
Of course, in the world of the Left, it doesn’t matter if the photo really is from Venezuela, because many on the Left want anyone in the world to be able to vote in America…
Hillary Clinton is pinning the blame on James Comey:
“In her most extensive remarks since she conceded the race to Donald J. Trump early Wednesday, Mrs. Clinton told donors on a 30-minute conference call that Mr. Comey’s decision to send a letter to Congress about the inquiry 11 days before Election Day had thrust the controversy back into the news and had prevented her from ending the campaign with an optimistic closing argument.
“There are lots of reasons why an election like this is not successful,” Mrs. Clinton said, according to a donor who relayed the remarks. But, she added, “our analysis is that Comey’s letter raising doubts that were groundless, baseless, proven to be, stopped our momentum.””
Expect more demonizing those “renegade FBI” agents for the foreseeable future. The Clintons need to work hard to keep the liberal media spewing their spin. Poor, noble Hillary was done in by a “vast, right-wing conspiracy inside the FBI”… This woman will say and do anything to cover her tracks.
The renegade FBI agents in several field offices were doing their job, investigating CRIMES – building a RICO case against one of the largest organized crime organizations in the country. This was never a right-wing witch hunt, it was always investigating crimes. James Comey listed scores of CRIMES, of grossly negligent mishandling national security information (that’s what kind of information is “classified”, committed by, not only Hillary Clinton, but many other Obama administration people in those (((CHAINS))) – likely even President Obama, himself. THAT is why so much effort has gone into squashing this investigation and spinning (LYING) and writing narratives (FALSE STORIES). Alas, that private server also housed Bill Clinton emails on his Clinton Foundation work, then Hillary joined the server when she became Secretary of State – that server exposed the Clinton Foundation pay-to-play.
During the election Hillary’s campaign played Rachel Platten’s “Fight Song”. I came across this version of the song, “This is Your Fight Song (Rachel Platten Scottish Cover) by the Piano Guys, which I really like. The bagpipes and snare drums give the song a military march vibe, which naturally appeals to me, being a lover of military march music. The scenery in the video is absolutely stunning too.
Now, Hillary could commit a litany of crimes, which James Comey listed, but as he said and Hillary, the Democrats, and liberal media repeated ad nauseum, there was no “intent” to break the law, in she and her staff repeatedly mishandling highly classified information, so “not criminal”. I’m sure that same media would latch onto whatever nefarious “intent” was given to me posting this song, because I angered them with my “Tweet storm”, by mocking their “journalistic integrity” and “reporting” (mostly cut and paste of other reporters’ reports- no independent fact-checking). I am sure the Dems, whom I mocked would want me silenced and believe anything bad reported about me too.
Am I sending a dangerous, subversive message or just posting a music video, I love? Guess it all depends on who people believe I am – law-abiding citizen or deranged subversive, in need of her meds, “threat”.
I’ve played the video above a lot lately too. It’s a singer, Hayley Westenra, from New Zealand, whom I had never even heard of, until I came across this video . Her voice is very beautiful.
I’m a big Alan Jackson fan, he and I even have the same birthday, October 17th, so does liking a song that mentions God make me a dangerous right-wing zealot?
Just some more bookmarks from scraps of paper that I made today.
One of my sons brought Chinese food last night for supper and I eat those dry, horrible fortune cookies. Made a bookmark out of these three fortunes – very lucky ones, lol.
A cheerful letter or message is on its way to you.
You will be recognized and honored as a community leader.
You will always be surrounded by true friends.
Pretty amazing, so I’ll keep my fingers crossed too:-)
And to top it all off my son gave me a free 2017 baby Buddha calendar that says Peace & Happy… it doesn’t get any better than that:-) He told me that he thought I would like this one better than the Emperors one. He was right, I’m not much into ruling over other people…
Had to look up the hand gestures on my baby Buddha calendar, because just like words really do have meanings (no matter the Left’s penchant for muddying the waters on that), those hand gestures symbolize much bigger things.
The baby Buddha’s hand gestures are called Vitarka Mudra – Teaching:
VITARKA MUDRA – TEACHING
The Buddha’s hand, held close to his heart with thumb and forefinger tips touching symbolizes the transmission of the knowledge he has gained after attaining enlightenment. Another name for this gesture is Vyakhyana Mudra or the “mudra of instruction”. The circle formed by the fingers touching each other signifies perfection, with no beginning or end, like the law of Dharma itself.
There are many variations. The Buddha may be seated or standing while gesturing thus. In other poses, both his hands may display the Vitarka Mudra.
The baby Buddha is sitting inside a lotus flower, so might as well add what the lotus flower symbolizes:
“The lotus flower represents one symbol of fortune in Buddhism. It grows in muddy water, and it is this environment that gives forth the flower’s first and most literal meaning: rising and blooming above the murk to achieve enlightenment.
The second meaning, which is related to the first is purification. It resembles the purifying of the spirit which is born into murkiness. The third meaning refers to faithfulness. Those who are working to rise above the muddy waters will need to be faithful followers.”
Made a few more bookmarks this morning to calm my spirit, lol.
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