posted by Jack
The video below shows a paid team leader for the Sanders campaign talking about coming violence if Trump is re-elected. It would be one thing if he was the only person talking about spreading violence, but he’s not, there’s plenty on the left who think just like this guy.
Posted by Jack
MSN – “The Senate majority leader has insisted from the beginning that if the House were to impeach Trump, the Senate should treat him the same way it treated Bill Clinton in 1998. So, McConnell has steadfastly argued for the same rules package that passed the Senate 100-0 in the Clinton iteration. “What’s good for the goose is good for the gander” makes a pretty sensible argument.
The Democrats have raged against his position. This is different, they say. They are right — this is different. The articles of impeachment against Clinton were bipartisan, and the ones against Trump aren’t.
Given the hyper partisan nature of this impeachment against Trump, McConnell’s offer for the Clinton rules should have been greeted by Democrats with open arms. But instead they have demanded to treat a Republican president different from the way a Democratic president was treated not so long ago under the guise of producing a fair trial.
It’s the height of hypocrisy for Schumer to lead this charge. He used his impeachment vote in his 1998 Senate campaign as a political weapon, promising donors and voters that supporting him would lead to Clinton’s acquittal. In fact, some might even call what Schumer did a quid pro quo — you support me, and I’ll vote to acquit your president. Today, he tears into McConnell on a near daily basis for not being an impartial juror. What a joke. Schumer voted for the Clinton rules package back then and opposes it now because, well … I guess opposing Donald Trump is a helluva drug.
Democrats have repeatedly made their feelings on Trump known. Just Tuesday, Elizabeth Warren said: “I am willing to listen to the Trump administration put on a defense … (but) I don’t see how it’s possible not to vote for an impeachment.”
She’s not alone, of course, but her words are just the latest gut punch to Schumer’s claims that the Senate should turn into some episode of Perry Mason. Even Schumer himself said back in 1998 that the Senate is “not like a jury.”
The days of Pelosi being hailed as some next-level genius impeachment strategist I guess will have to come to an end for the liberal pundit industry. Her plan to withhold the articles of impeachment to create that “leverage” over McConnell failed spectacularly. No Republicans were harmed, pressured, or otherwise inconvenienced in the making of this sad, sad film.”
by Jack
This movie is a winner. The attention to detail and the special effects are incredibly realistic. The majority of the superb acting is done by relatively unknown people which also adds to the realism.
As a WWI history buff, I kept looking for the usual mistakes, such as inaccurate uniforms and equipment, but I didn’t really pickup on anything. There were several scenes where wrist watches were partially exposed and for a brief moment they appeared to me to be more in the 1940’s circa, but then I collect old watches. They could have been circa 1917 too.
Here’s a bit of trivia for you: WWI saw the start of the wristwatch… ironically in part because of artillery. That’s right, artillery. This was the era of the coordinated artillery barrage. Combatants on both sides needed good timing and for that both hands had to be free. So, a pocket watch wouldn’t work very well. In those early years the wrist watch was really more of a pocket watch with a leather band. They were clunky and broke easily because they were not made to be shock resistant.
The movie depicts the Germans using the Albatross biplane with a cowl mounted, twin Spandau, machine gun. This plane were very popular with Germany’s better pilots, including Baron Manfred von Richthofen, (the Red Baron in his triplane) he only flew Fokker DR.1 tri-plane towards the end of the war. The sleek bullet shaped Albatross was a handful to fly, but very nimble and quick for an expert pilot. The Albatross shown crashing was a D.V variant with a Mercedes engine. This is period correct and places the time of the scene as 1917, but no earlier.
Warning, some scenes depict really extreme gore, but this was the reality of WWI. Consider the Battle of the Somme where over 850,000 soldiers died. As artillery shells rained down and exploded they would often bury men alive or blast them into bits with body parts flying in all directions.
Imagine the stench of thousands of bodies, German and Allies, rotting and only just yards away from your trench? And this gore is all concentrated in a muddy, lifeless area called no-mans land. This Hellish place is laced with barbed wire and pocketed by shell craters. The fog of poison gas still lingering in the low areas. Well, you really can’t imagine this can you? But, the movie makes a brave effort to convey this ghastly reality.
The suspense that comes from the cinematography, capturing minute to minute action, was done to near perfection; if nothing else, this part really deserves an Academy Award. You will have to see it to fully appreciate it, words just fall short.
1917 is hands down the best War movie since Saving Private Ryan. Great story, great acting, great action, but not overdone like we’ve seen in so many other war movies. So, go see it and don’t bother buying popcorn, you likely won’t be able to eat it.
PS Did you know they are serving beer and wine drinks in the theater now? They are at Cinemark anyway. A 16 oz. Sierra Nevada costs $6. You might need a drink before you see 1917 and probably another when you get out.
Thanks go to Peggy for this gem….
Her comment to RHT was too powerful for page 2, so here it is again on page for everyone to read…. “My research identified Turi as a Little Rock, AK friend of the Clintons and Sidney Blumenthal. When congress didn’t approve the request for war and funding for Libya Blumenthal arranged for the military weapons be shipped to Qatar and backdoored into Libya. There was no senate approved embassy in Benghazi so Hillary set up the “Mission” and Annex.
Marines protect embassies not missions, which is why contractors were hired and why Hillary refused to approve Steven’s 400 request for more security. The Annex was one mile away from the Mission and where the weapons were being stored after buying them back and before being shipped to Syria through Turkey.
(Remember Steven’s met with the Turkey agent just before the attack that night?) Stand down orders given to rescue jets was necessary because of all the stored weapons at the Annex. Hillary and Obama couldn’t risk all of that ammo blowing up exposing their very profitable money making arms deal. They wouldn’t be able to lie their way out of a massive explosion and the death of about 40 people huddled at the Annex that night as they would with just four deaths at the Mission caused by a video.”
Did you hear Michael Bloomberg spent over $100,000,000 on his election? That’s a new record. Tom Steyer spent over $84,000,000 in his bid. That reminds me of an old quote, “A fool and his money are soon elected.” Will Rogers
by Jack
My daughter is a 1st Responder (ambulance) in the bay area and she see reports that our ER’s are starting to come under siege by the homeless.
She says there are some emergency waiting rooms that you really wouldn’t want to take your children. The people there hanging out are dirty, scary, weird and a bad mix of bums and junkies, drunks and crazies. She sees them often act very inappropriately in front of families and it’s really distressing.
It’s not uncommon for these “frequent fliers” at the ER to use the ambulance as their personal taxi, calling 9-1-1 then reporting fake chest pains, just so they can go to the head of the line for a room at the hospital. They know the tests demanded by their complaints will get them about a 2-3 day stay. Have any idea what that costs? Just an ambulance ride could cost between $1200 and $1500. Then there are tests…all totaled it’s about $12,000 for this little adventure.
And even if they don’t try to fake illness for a room, CA law says hospitals must give them a free room if they have a vacant room available. Then CA law says the hospital must feed them, provide them with weather appropriate clothing, give them a health plan and direct them to a place to live… before they can be discharged and then only by their consent. If bums and crazies don’t agree to be discharged, the hospital must keep them! She (my daughter) reported one homeless guy stayed at the hospital for almost 3 months before they could bribe him into leaving.
Because of this new “clientele” the ER has become a dangerous work place for the staff. Working with these so-called homeless can be risky. There’s been reports of ER staff being punched, suffering broken noses, black eyes, etc. My daughter has been assaulted and threatened many times as an EMT.
The bums and junkies know how to work the system in CA and the sad part is, nobody doing anything about it. This is foolish, wasteful and it’s slowing down medical services for the people who really need it.
Every day at the same time, the bums start lining up outside the local bay area hospitals, waiting for a free bed. Why the same time? Because that’s when the staff social worker goes off duty! The social worker will give them pamphlets and then send them where they can obtain their free services, away from the hospital. That’s too much trouble for them and they want a free room/meals and more in the hospital! CA law says it’s their right. So, the nurses have to deal with these dropouts of society. But, they don’t have the time to make all the phone calls to get them social services, so that means the bums get all kinds of free hospital stuff. You may wonder, who eventually pays for the so-called free stuff? You of course…as always.
CA is an example of civilization in steep decline. Our democrat legislators are suffering from a co-dependency problem with bums and junkies. They are leading us into decline and they do so without any consequences! They bear no responsibility for bad leadership at all. This is so wrong, our election system is broken here. Progressives have made this wealthy state into a joke, a paradise for bums and a nightmare for middle class working people.
Legislators continual force us to spend money on the bums and junkies and to be exposed to their high risk behaviors. You can bet if legislators got punched and abused things might change, but no, they are safely cloistered behind closed doors in the capitol building where they think up more creative BS legislation that punishes us in ways that is hard to even fathom. As noted above, part of that legislation has forced hospitals to care for people that don’t deserve it, and mix them in with those that do. It’s made waiting rooms more like a drunk tank. That’s bad enough, but it’s wasting literally millions of healthcare dollars on services intended ONLY for the truly sick and injured.
I hope every liberal democrat in CA will have at least one occasion to be rushed to the ER for help and then be told to wait behind a long line of bums and junkies gaming the system.
PS My friend Dave just got back from Texas, he said he was paying about $2.12 a gallon for gas near Fort Hood. Just thought you would like to know.
by Jack
Its too early to say with any degree of certainty that the tit for tat game is over, but there is reason to think it is. Iran had to do something or look weak and fearful, especially since they took their rhetoric campaign to a new level. So they choose Ain Al Asad and Erbil at their targets.
What does this attack tell us, if anything? For starters look at the time of attack, the early morning hours when the least number of people would be roaming around the two bases. So we have no American military deaths. Military bases have the best air raid warning systems and Iran knows that, but they still chose to hit these two military targets located in sparsely populated areas. The rhetoric in Iran has also dropped off significantly.
I would suspect the leadership in Iran was looking for a way to save face, yet not prompt a retaliatory strike that they could not handle. Given their faltering economy they dared not provoke the US to the point of a serious response. They oil fields are prime targets and we have the ability to inflict an economic catastrophe, they sure didn’t want to risk that. So, it appears Iran did the worst they could, which really wasn’t much. It’s looking like Trump might have won this round.
by Jack
Right now all eyes are focused on Iran, but Iran’s threat is nothing compared to that posed by Mexican-American street gangs, many of them located right here in liberal CA. , with all our gun control and gun free zones, imagine that?
No doubt you’ve heard of the Nortenos and the Surenos, but have you ever heard of the Culver 13? Probably not, yet they number about 500 and they are violently opposed to blacks living in their neighborhoods. This racist attitude is not uncommon among Hispanic gangs. They’ve caused no end of fear among the black residents of Culver City.
Culver 13 is a relatively small gang, but like the larger and better known gangs, they dominate through fear, extortion and murder. Azusa 13 is just one of 30 or more active Hispanic gangs in CA, some with ties to the Mexican Mafia and Mexican Cartels.
Oddly, this widespread Hispanic gang activity in CA goes under-reported by the media and you have wonder why? And consider this, Hispanic gangs are only part of the big picture, they are a minority of the total number gangs that exist in CA and across the USA that make up an organized crime conduit dealing in drugs and human trafficking’s.
Gangs don’t own this country, we do, but if Americans don’t wise up and toughen up, you won’t to have worry about Iran. These guys are ready to take over a neighborhood near you…and right now.
The liberal politics in CA has aided and abetted, directly and indirectly, in the rapid rise of the street gangs and there’s no way hide it anymore. Our prisons are overrun by gangbangers, the cops are often times out gunned by the gangs and the drug lords from Mexico to the street gangs in Northern CA are making billions off drugs and they are getting stronger every day. Meanwhile, your foolish Gov. Gavin Newsom and his cronies are looking for ways to confiscate your last means of self defense. And they have the audacity to tell us that the NRA is the problem?
