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More Home Truths

G. Murphy Donovan penned a very thoughtful and thought-provoking essay, “Whence Wisdom?”, at the New English Review, prodded by a young man’s question at a dinner with friends:

“I had dinner the other day with a family that was about to launch their son towards college. As the evening drew to a close, their first born asked me if I had any words of wisdom about school to share as he left home for the first time.

Wisdom, thought I?  Now there’s an asset in short supply today, if not words, then surely the quality of wisdom. I believe I coughed up a few clichés, something about maturity being a journey “from me to thee.”

The written word is often the corrected and amended version of the spoken. A few days later, I sent the aspiring scholar what follows below, a personal appraisal of schools, education, and the pursuit of wisdom.”

Whence Wisdom? by G. Murphy Donovan

He ventured way beyond a few clichés, offering up some cold slab home truths, while cracking quite a few eggheads’ flighty theories and pieities.

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Clinton hack, Jeff Zucker, has “regrets”

Quick post tonight.  The foreign situation, with Putin, Iran and China on the move and Obama mulling about, is starkly dangerous for the United States.  We are at a very perilous moment.

The media and the American people are fixated on “Trump the Sexual Predator”, which is soon to morph into “Trump the Racist”.  Here’s an example:“Report: Trump repeatedly called rapper Lil Jon ‘Uncle Tom’”.  This is all pre-planned, pre-packaged Clinton scorched earth hits.  The corrupt media that gave Trump BILLIONS of dollars in free media during the primary, to wage his “GOP Insurgency” are now colluding to wage the Clintons scorched earth, to completely burn Trump (and the GOP) to the ground.  It’s  wholesale public corruption on a massive scale.

The irony is friends of Bill Clinton, like Jeff Zucker at CNN, lamenting, that perhaps, they gave too much time to Trump’s full rallies last year, despite CNN making a fortune off of Trump’s GOP Insurgency Show:

 “CNN’s president says he regrets giving so much airtime to Donald Trump and his rallies on the network early in the campaign season.

“If we made any mistake last year, it’s that we probably did put too many of his campaign rallies in those early months and let them run,” Jeff Zucker said at Harvard Kennedy School, according to BuzzFeed. “Listen, because you never knew what he would say, there was an attraction to put those on the air.””

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/301147-cnn-president-airing-so-many-full-trump-rallies-was-a

Guess, Zucker’s  worried about the monster they created, because Trump has mastered the scorched earth media strategy too and he’s that lunatic that doesn’t back down and buy into “mutually-assured destruction”, as a deterrent to going nuclear.  Trump is going nuclear, even if he has to burn the entire electoral system down in the process.

Don’t have a clue where this ends up – Putin is trying to burn down the American electoral system too and he is playing for keeps.  Unlike Trump… Putin is NOT a loose cannon.

The lesson to learn from this though is:

CHARACTER IS THE MOST IMPORTANT TRAIT IN AN AMERICAN LEADER!

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Michael Isikoff: NBC Should Release Full Juanita Broaddrick Interview

The reporter that first learned about Bill Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky said on Thursday th

Source: Michael Isikoff: NBC Should Release Full Juanita Broaddrick Interview

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Gentlemen: America’s endangered species

America needs ladies, but America especially needs gentlemen.  Donald Trump and Bill Clinton speak to this glaring deficit in America, so beyond the liberal media hysteria to hype Trump’s deplorable conduct, all to help Hillary get elected, and beyond conservative mouthpieces and politicians sacrificing every shred of decency to prop up Donald Trump, out of political calculations over principles, here are some old LB posts on gentlemen:

Why America needs gentlemen…. and ladies too

Time For A Truce?

Military leadership 101: Set the standard

When a hero comes along

Where have all the gentlemen gone?

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Meow…

Almost forgot to post this video:

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Twitter Storm: Def Con 1 Alert

TRUMP is furious about the news stories tonight. “Going to war” is how multiple top sources describe the coming response…

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The GOP’s moral collapse

The Republican Party did nothing to fend off a hostile takeover by a loudmouth, New York liberal, celebrity con man.  By last December, a few Republicans started organizing a #NeverTrump group, to attempt to stop Trump from securing the Republican nomination for President.  They failed and to date, their motives and objectives vary from purely principled to blatantly political and self-interested.  They’re a mixed bag, some nutty, while others seem grounded in religious or moral principles.   I did sign the online #NeverTrump petition, even though I have no contact with any #NeverTrump group.

The reason, I stated early in the Trump campaign, for why I will never support or vote for him remains the same – he lacks character.  This has nothing to do with Hillary Clinton, because for the same reason, I will never vote for her either.  Both are thoroughly corrupt, extreme narcissists, who will stop at nothing to get what they want.  This scorched earth death match will expose them as two people who will say or do anything to win and it’s going to become even more of a national embarrassment as these vile liars, try to publicly expose each other’s corruption, both personal and professional.  Since both know no moral boundaries when it comes to their personal ambitions and desires, assuredly this past week is only a prelude.

For years, many Republicans felt alienated and used by the party’s elite, with years of broken promises and excuses.  That sentiment led to the rise of the Tea Party movement and it also provided an opportunity for a demagogue like Trump to gain traction.

Last week’s video of Trump talking about sexually-predatory behavior, a behavior that certainly falls into the category of sexual assault, gave Republican leaders a clear warning, that Trump likely engaged in predatory sexual conduct.  Now, if he actually did grab women by their private parts without their consent, well that is sexual assault – END OF CONVERSATION!  That Republican officials are quibbling over semantics or making all sorts of qualifiers out of political-posturing to prop up Trump, shows the complete collapse of their moral character.  The moral dissonance for Republican officials to denounce, un-endorse, re-endorse Trump speaks to a lack of sound moral principles – sorry that’s the truth.  If you need to couch everything, due to political calculations, you’ve lost you way on moral clarity.

The most absurd pronouncements are those who refuse to endorse Trump, but say they will still vote for him.  Saying you will vote for him is endorsing him.  So many Republicans are exposing their weak characters by this back and forth, endorsing, un-endorsing, re-endorsing sad spectacle.

Trump’s vetting should have occurred during the primary, but the Republican Party failed to vet him at all.  Each bombshell that these Trump leaks detonates should be destroying not just Trump, but the Republican leadership, who failed to properly vet their own candidate.

The real red line moral quandary, which should give these moral wafflers pause is it’s obvious from watching the Clinton sewer rats dump dirt, that they carefully stage their scorched earth attacks, in a progressive order, each one worse than the previous one.

So, it’s obvious, they have saved their worst attacks on Trump until days before the election, meaning there will be plenty more distrurbing revelations about Trump to come… way worse than the grabbing women tape last week.

These Republican finger-to-the-wind  politicians will be left blowing in the wind for failing to have the backbone to denounce Trump and walk away from him, when they knew he was a loose cannon, pathological liar, immoral, sociopath, which should have been obvious to just about anyone watching this man’s behavior in the past year.

Trump has done a service for the Republican Party though.  The weak, morally-bankrupt hypocrites are exposing themselves with Trump as the leader.  How far some of these so-called “conservatives” have gone sacrificing moral principles to prop up Trump illuminated the craven, weak, pathetic leaders in the party.  Only a few spoke out when Trump’s vile, corrupt character became obvious months ago and only a few remained steadfast in saying they will not support him.

If you support Trump, despite his reprehensible character, that speaks to your character too, not just Trump’s.

Standing up against the crowd takes moral courage.

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Scorched Earth: The Death Match Edition

This election now enters Scorched Earth: The Death Match Edition.

Putin again plays chess, while the US, as usual, plays checkers.  So, contrary to Newt, Huckabee, Giuliani and other pathetic Trump mouthpieces, this election isn’t a binary choice between Trump or Hillary.  It’s a scorched earth battle between two rabid, very corrupt American partisans, Trump and Hillary, then there is Putin, who is waging a scorched earth battle against American democracy.

While Hillary and Trump take the low road, entrenched in their vicious underhanded character assassination attacks in the media, and the liberal American news media colludes to facilitate Hillary’s attacks against Trump, Putin is waging his own scorched earth campaign against America.  Putin’s scorched earth extends way beyond just Trump and Hillary, in fact, most of his effort is directed at waging a propaganda war against the US Armed Forces, by setting up confrontations to make American forces look weak and cowardly.  He has China and Iran aiding in these efforts.  Putin’s war involved years of careful information warfare against America and he’s now trying to launch the decisive battle.  Putin’s aim isn’t just to promote Trump, it’s to destroy the credibility of the American electoral system.

The weakest point for any country is during a transition of  leadership change.  Putin , Iran, China are all on the move, while Obama continues to golf and the American public talks itself into exhaustion about Trump’s grabbing women’s private parts.

Trump presently is burning up Twitter today, with attacks against Republicans again, more burning the GOP to the ground, intent to take as many Republicans down with him, as his campaign goes up in flames.  What a “leader”.  His only concern is about his damaged ego and being a LOSER.  The “p*&&y” video is assuredly not the last video exposure of the real Donald J. Trump, in this flaming hot mess.   If the rumored video exists of Trump using the n-word emerges, his campaign will be not a Three-Mile Island leak, but the Chernobyl of American presidential politics – everyone will be rushing to escape …  He’s going down in flames, so any wishful thinking that he “won” the debate Sunday and is going to turn his campaign around rests as delusional.

Hillary’s minions in the media are trying to divert attention away from Wikileaks’ deluge of email leaks and draw attention to Trump.  Her only concern is about herself.  The email leaks are clearly showing the wholesale public corruption, with widespread liberal media collusion, between many news media outlets and the Clinton campaign… oh, what a surprise.

Since last Fall, I’ve rambled on about Bill Clinton’s triangulation strategy and how the Clinton spin really works – it works only with extensive media collusion, which in turn manufacture opinion cascades.  It’s a mass media brainwashing operation, where the relentlessly repeated messaging dominates, even blocks out, other messaging.  So, imagine my shock when finally, my youngest daughter told me last night that her husband was telling her about  the leaks show the Clintons pushed the media to promote Trump in the GOP primary.  As if she was informing me of some big news, she said, “Mama, your conspiracy theory was right.”

It took Wikileaks to prove the actual electronic trails, to expose the media collusion with the political operatives.  However, that collusion was obvious if you tracked the messaging and the strategy.  Information warfare involves identifying the messaging, who is conveying the messaging, who is the target of the messaging and the means employed to wage the information warfare.  All of this can done without high-tech analysis of the information battlefield – it can be done by carefully watching and listening to mass media messaging.  It takes human intelligence to analyze it – not high-tech.

Again, here are the basics:

The reason Trump broke out of the pack was because he used the borrowed Clinton-style mass media saturation/scorched earth strategy.

That strategy is a sophisticated INFORMATION WARFARE strategy introduced into American politics by the Clinton political operatives.

The mass media saturation strategy was developed by far-left Alinskyite Marxists.  The messaging wall required for mass media saturation to succeed requires the active collusion of the mass media NEWS outlets to facilitate it, by actively and relentlessly repeating the messages of the political candidate or activists using this “buzz word, catchphrase spin (talking points messaging). Mass media saturation INFORMATION WARFARE requires mass media collusion to succeed.  This strategy can NOT succeed without mass media messaging dominance to CONTROL (“win”) the 24/7 news cycle (or as the Clinton team dubbed it – the spin cycle).

It is a form of mass media brainwashing and antithetical to American free speech principles!  To succeed this strategy requires MEDIA COLLUSION.

It can NOT work without that media collusion.

Here are the components:

  • Talking points and buzz word messaging, which are relentlessly repeated by both political operatives and the media.
  • Mass media domination of the messaging, to control the 24/7 NEWS cycle, which requires mass media collusion.
  • Relentless repetition of polling data by both the political operatives and media, to facilitate the manufacture of opinion cascades (winning in all the polls)

Only Democrats had successfully used this strategy before Trump, because the liberal media never before gave BILLIONS of dollars in free media for one GOP candidate, to run a “GOP Insurgency” for 8 months straight on all three cable news networks nor did the mass media cable networks ever collude or facilitate in the mass media messaging for any Republican candidate or cause.

Just as the Wikileaks leak has exposed the MEDIA COLLUSION between the DNC and the media to rig the system against Sanders, that SAME media collusion exists between the Potemkin Trump campaign (or the Clinton operatives who were in the shadows masterminding this charade) and the media.

Those electronic trails exist!!!

This mass media saturation requires constant messaging coordination between political operatives and the media facilitators to keep the SPIN cycle moving. Trump’s “win, win, win” is exactly like Carville’s “sex, sex, sex” during impeachment. I feel sure Trump’s MEDIA COLLUSION will be exposed before November.

And the scorched earth part of the strategy is really just the mass media saturation strategy on steroids, replete with endless character assassinations (low-energy Jeb, lyin’ Ted, little Marco, etc.) and a take no prisoners attitude.

https://libertybellediaries.com/2016/07/30/the-pieces-of-the-media-messaging-puzzle/

Putin is calmly watching the American freak show and waging a masterful information warfare offensive against an America, unaware it’s under attack, and he is planning real strategic military moves.  America isn’t even aware Russia is launching a REAL offensive against the West.

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#5thAvenueLoyalists

My cable and internet came back on at 8:47 pm, just in time to watch the presidential debate.  Despite the nitpicking about unfair moderators, despite the pundits yammering about who scored points, despite the polling crapola to show Trump did “better”,  Trump’s constant sniffling again, coupled with his bizarre behavior, speaks to an issue that should have Republican leaders finally dumping him.  Instead, they’ll convince themselves he did better or he can somehow turn this around, when the truth is his campaign is imploding rapidly.

This latest video, with Trump’s vulgar comments about women, is not the last or worst Clinton machine hit.  They spent the past year digging up all this dirt and they have masterfully staged the hits, saving the worst for last.   The Machado hit backfired a little bit, but this tape didn’t.  Trump’s disingenuous apology, then counter punch with a video with Bill Clinton’s accusers looked pathetic really.  Everyone has heard their stories before and the real problem is they speak to Bill Clinton’s behavior, very much akin to Trump’s behavior, but not to Hillary’s behavior.  Yes, of course, Hillary’s attacks on Bill Clinton’s other women speak to her, but without proof, those allegation come across as just right-wing conspiracy theory fodder and do not help Trump one bit.

Trump followers keep making excuses for Trump’s disgusting behavior, each step of the way, as these Trump revelations expose the real Donald J. Trump.  He is not only corrupt, but he corrupts everyone around him, as he drags his followers further into the sewer of moral relativism and blind partisanship.  Every time clueless Republican mouthpieces make excuses for Trump, I cringe.  There is worse to come, so Republican leaders only have themselves to blame, for lacking the courage to dump this con man, Clinton dupe.

Bill Clinton set up the perfect triangulation strategy, which I have mentioned here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.  The Clintons are laughing their way to the White House.

Hillary lied a lot tonight.   She seemed phony and canned, but Trump looked and acted like a cocaine-user and that should worry Republican leaders. Hillary did nothing to shake her position holding the middle ground and that is the path to the White House.

The fact is all of these email dumps have begun to sound boring. while the Trump dirt, the Clinton operatives keep dumping, is salacious and grabs everyone’s attention.  There are rumors that tape exists with Trump using racial slurs, to include the n-word.  The Trump implosion will only gather speed in the next few weeks.

The most bizarre Trump comment came at the end – Trump who claims that Hillary lacks the stamina to be president, when asked to say something positive about Hillary, said:

“She doesn’t quit, she doesn’t give up,  I respect that.  I tell it like it is: She’s a fighter!”

He just endorsed her for President…  What the heck are Republicans thinking supporting this jackass???

He is playing every Republican and his millions of followers  in the country for fools!

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My poor willow tree

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July 24th, I posted a photo of my willow tree in the backyard. The current photo is my post-hurricane willow tree – part of it was blown over and most of the leaves were ripped off by the 8 hours of non-stop wind.

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