John Oliver trademarks #Make Donald Drumpf Again
John Oliver trademarks #Make Donald Drumpf Again
Filed under General Interest, Humor, Politics
A couple days ago I witnessed another small, hopeful sign that actual paper books will not die out. My 10 year-old granddaughter asked if I would buy a book for her from amazon.com. Now, I did give all four of my granddaughters Kindle Fires for Christmas, so I assumed she would want the kindle book. Happily, she told me that she really likes her Kindle Fire, but that when it comes to books, she prefers actual books. The paperback version cost a dollar less than the kindle book and since it was a Prime item, it should arrive today, with free shipping. My 13 year-old granddaughter also prefers to have actual books and she and her 10 year-old sister love keeping their bookcase in their room neatly arranged with their growing collection of books, stuffed animals and other knick knacks.
In other tech news from the homefront, where the technologically clueless, like yours truly, encounter and attempt to understand the brave new computer world, recently I’ve been watching my granddaughters use a program from school that they can access on any PC – Wixie, an online authoring platform. It amazed me how easily they could import photos, graphics, record narration, draw their own pictures and rearrange their page designs with blocks of text. Of course, one of my sons tried to burst my bubble and tell me that it’s just a kid version of Power Point, but regardless, thinking back to writing journals and trying to assemble my own scrapbooks and booklets as a kid, well, this Wixie program won me over completely. The girls have used their Kindle Fire tablets and their school Ipads, which they can bring home, to take their own photos and import them into these journals they’ve written and they’re creating professional looking journals that make my blog look paltry. My 10 year-old granddaughter just won the 5th grade essay contest for the school district with her story on the Holocaust, that she put together using this Wixie program.
Small things for small minds the techno-types will scoff, but it’s really nice that the technology designers keep creating new programs which even idiots like me can easily use. And when I get confused, I’ve got four granddaughters who can show me what to do, a habit developed in the 80s, when my own kids were mere toddlers and I handed them the remote to figure out first the VCR player and later the DVD player. Now, if I could only get my smartphone to connect correctly to the bluetooth in my car. My old phone connected with no problem, but even following the car manual instructions, this new phone isn’t connected properly – incoming calls come through on the car’s bluetooth and if I make a call from my smart phone from inside my car, the car’s bluetooth turns on, but I can’t use the bluetooth controls on the steering wheel to initiate a call. Perhaps, I need to hand my phone to my granddaughters and tell them to figure it out.
Well, last night’s GOP debate and finally some GOP candidates came armed with more than lame talking points. Trump, who can’t be bothered to prepare for debates by studying issues and policies, but comes loaded down with sleaze and scurrilous dirt to hurl, hoping some of it sticks, got a taste of his own medicine. Rubio finally called Trump a con man and all I can wonder is why on earth they waited so long to throw Trump’s corrupt and slippery business dealings and practices into the mix. Rubio delivered last night in a big way, with Cruz putting in a decent showing too, although Trump, at this point, has already established a strong lead and last night’s Trump take down may have started way too late to alter the course of the race. The GOP deserves to go down in flames if Donald Trump ends up as their candidate.
The interesting part was after the debate, CNN gave Trump plenty of free air time to ramble on, the same as FOX and MSNBC have given him way more free air time and they helped create this entire “insurgent campaign” narrative and allowed him to spew his nonsense unchallenged. All the sleaze from his past – they never mention. The press ran Cruz’s video from his teenage years and have dissected Rubio’s home loan and student loans, yet on Trump’s decades of sleeazy business deals, endless lawsuits and corruption – they have been silent! One might believe they want Trump as the GOP candidate, because most of them are liberals and want a Democrat in the White House.
Bill Clinton’s triangulation strategy advances.
Filed under General Interest, Politics
Here’s an update on the Jessica Lane Chambers case, the young woman in Mississippi, who was burned alive in 2014:
Somehow, I don’t believe he acted alone. In all fairness, let me refer readers to the Last Refuge blog, for extensive dissection of this case (http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2016/02/23/breaking-new-developments-in-jessica-lane-chambers-murder-case-press-conference-tomorrow/ ).
Filed under General Interest
This will just be a quick list of links to some important events taking place beyond the American presidential primary sideshow:
On Turkey, watch carefully, as Erdogan’s Turkey wobbles:
On China:
On Saudi Arabia:
Filed under Foreign Policy, General Interest, Military, Politics
“I really don’t even know what I mean” (minute 4:40)…. yep, that about sums it all up!
Filed under General Interest, Politics
Trump the “great” twit or tweet or perhaps it’s retweeter…. Hey someone said and pass it on – that’s so “presidential”, but here it is at minute 1:31, with his new sleaze attack on Marco Rubio’s citizenship:
And the “powederedwigsociety”, the original source of the tweet, has a copyright of 2015, although it’s hard to discern who put that website up or runs it, but that didn’t stop Donald Trump from retweeting their garbage.
Filed under General Interest, Politics
Donald Trump, the politician, operates just like the Clintons, which should prove very interesting if he actually does hijack the GOP nomination. He is a fraud! His supporters can cough up his carefully crafted book, his sounding tough, he’s a successful businessman and reality TV star and I am sticking to he is a fraud, a con-man, as much a liar as Hillary Clinton, but most of all at heart he’s a petty bully. Hillary is a very dangerous bully, because she is a woman and women like her (sociopaths) will stop at nothing to get what they want (refer back to The Woman’s Way of War).
Frankly, if Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are the best America can do for candidates, we deserve to be relegated to laughingstock status on the world stage. Trump is no match for Putin, that’s for sure, but even worse he is no match for Hillary Clinton and besides, I still believe in time my suspicions that Trump hired dem political operatives in the beginning, who are operating in the shadows will prove to be true. No political operatives who really want to win the general election would allow their candidate to intentionally drive his/her negative ratings sky-high and encourage the vile, outrageous outbursts that characterize Trump’s campaign style. He won Iowa and South Carolina in the GOP primary, in a crowded field, but with way less than 50% of the GOP primary voters supporting him. His negative polling consistently is higher than Hillary Clinton’s, often polling above 60% and once the parties have their candidates selected (or a coronation, as the case may be for Hillary), the Clintons will unleash their dirt on Trump and bury him.
Here’s some new oddities in Trump’s sideshow antic out of Iowa, where he held that veteran’s fundraiser to divert attention away from the FOX News debate he was boycotting, because FOX would not let Trump control their choice of moderators. He tried to strong-arm a cable network based on his “feelings” that he wasn’t “being treated fairly.”
So, what happened to the money raised for veterans? Well, some has been disbursed to some veterans groups according to this Weekly Standard report, but their report highlights some warning bells that his Trump Foundation operates much like the Clinton Foundation. When Michael Warren, the reporter emailed the Trump Foundation with questions about the fundraiser this is what happened:
“On Thursday, I contacted the Donald J. Trump Foundation by email with a few questions about how the $6 million had been or was being disbursed. Five minutes later, I received a phone call from Corey Lewandowski, Trump’s presidential campaign manager. Lewandowski said a list of the recipients had been made public and that more recipients were being added all the time. How much had those recipients received? Lewandowski couldn’t, or wouldn’t, say. As a non-profit organization, he said, the Trump Foundation would release all the required details of its disbursements at the end of the fiscal year. To find out before then, he said, I’d have to contact the recipients themselves.
“The list is publicly available,” he said. “You can do your homework and ask the veterans’ organizations.”
Why wouldn’t the Trump Foundation want to publicize how much it had donated? (Especially given the fact that in recent years, Trump’s charity organization had given more money to the Clinton Foundationthan to veterans.) And why, when asking about the Foundation’s disbursements, had a representative of the campaign called? With no other options, however, I took Lewandowki’s advice.”
Why indeed did Trump’s campaign manager respond to questions about the Trump Foundation? That melding of the “charity” with the “political operations” is vintage Clinton and as it turns out, the way Trump does business too. There’s also some big pharmaceutical executive who rents space in Trump Tower, whom some recipients believe is connected to the Trump Foundation:
“”We found out like everybody else did, when the Trump Foundation put the list up on the website,” said Kerri Childress of the Fisher House Foundation, one of the groups on the Trump Foundation’s list. “And frankly we haven’t heard anything since.”
Childress says the Fisher House Foundation has yet to receive a donation, though she was quick to add that it’s not uncommon for pledged donations to take weeks or months to actually be disbursed. Neither has the Task Force Dagger Foundation received a check, says managing director Keith David. “We did receive a check from the Stewart J. Rahr Foundation, and they share the same floor with the Trump Foundation,” David adds. Rahr, a pharmaceutical executive-turned-Manhattan-playboy, is friends with Trump and rents office space in the Trump Tower. It’s not clear whether or not there is a relationship between Trump’s and Rahr’s foundations.
Another vets group, Operation Homefront, posted on its Facebook page that it received a $50,000 donation Monday from the Rahr Foundation, which the group says they “understand is made in connection with Donald Trump.” Beyond that, says Operation Homefront spokesman Aaron Taylor, they don’t know much about it.”
The similarities between Donald Trump and his friends, the Clintons, just keep multiplying, so if it ends up that Trump too hired dem political operatives to help him “win,” don’t act surprised! Sure wish we could track the phone traffic between Trump, some key Clinton sewer rats, and then Bill Clinton… Oh, to be a fly on the wall….
Filed under General Interest, Politics, Public Corruption
The cathedral theme in my previous post brought to mind this video I saw circulating on facebook recently. Warning to men, agnostics, atheists and even those who hate schmaltzy stuff, this is a female-empowerment, feel-good message with a strong religious message tossed in too:
Filed under Food for Thought, General Interest