Peaks and Valleys

Some days our little garden draws a lot of visitors, other days not too many. There is no way to gauge what people are interested in or looking for, because they’re mostly lurkers. That’s fine, most people never comment on anything publicly. Except me, because I don’t much care what anybody thinks. That much should be obvious after more than 6 1/2 years here. Still we persevere, much like the loser of the last presidential election. Except we have morals…and a conscience….and we’re not liars and thieves.

Trump says he won’t fire Mueller, wants probe to wrap up
SOMEBODY, MAYBE THAT BALD-HEADED PRICK TO HIS RIGHT, IS GIVING HIM VERY, VERY BAD ADVICE. MUELLER HAS NO INTENTION OF WRAPPING UP ANYTHING. HE’S GOING FAR AFIELD TO KEEP THIS CHARADE GOING UNTIL THE MIDTERMS OR AFTER.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/aug/10/donald-trump-says-he-wont-fire-robert-mueller/

FBI raid on Paul Manafort’s home indicates aggressive nature of Russia probe
An FBI raid last month at one of the homes of Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, provides the clearest evidence so far that special counsel Robert S. Mueller III is aggressively pursuing the investigation into the campaign’s dealings with Russia and of possible wrongdoing by Manafort.

WHY WAS THE NEWS OF MUELLER’S RAID ON MANAFORT LEAKED SOONER??
WHY IS IT ONLY NEWS THAT WILL HURT TRUMP GET LEAKED?

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/fbi-raid-on-paul-manaforts-home-indicates-aggressive-nature-of-russia-probe/ar-AApMixk?ocid=UE12DHP

Michael Savage on Manafort Raid: “Mueller Trying to Flip Someone”

It was Mueller and Comey by the way, mainly Mueller, in his period, where he had the FBI do the biggest Mafia roundups in New York history. And they have a standard operating procedure, which is that they flip people on the bottom and turning them into cooperating witnesses. And once they have a cooperating witness, they bring the next one down and the next one down.

There’s no question in my mind that this raid on Manafort, which came out of the blue, is Mueller trying to flip someone, if he hasn’t already flipped someone. Maybe he got someone underneath Manafort who flipped, and they got Manafort. They get Manafort, and Manafort’s gonna flip. It’s gonna go right up the chain. And they’re gonna get … a couple of them as cooperating witnesses.

[CtH: And what if there’s no one to flip and no evidence of wrongdoing despite this massive witch hunt?  Wouldn’t that be sweet?!]

Michael Savage on Manafort Raid: “Mueller Trying to Flip Someone” (AUDIO)

Federal Judge Orders State Dept To Search Hillary Aides’ Accounts For Benghazi Records
NO NEED TO GET EXCITED. THE LAW HAS NEVER TOUCHED THE CLINTONS AND NEVER WILL. THEY OPERATE WITH IMMUNITY SINCE THEY ARE, FOR ALL INTENTS AND PURPOSES (NOT INTENSIVE PURPOSES), ABOVE THE LAW.

Washington D.C. District Court Judge Amit Mehta, an Obama appointee, ordered State to search the accounts of Huma Abedin, Cheryl Mills, and Jake Sullivan, Clinton’s top aides at the State Department, in response to a lawsuit filed by the conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch.
Mehta said that the State Department did not do enough to search for all emails it has on its computer systems regarding the Benghazi attacks, which left four Americans dead.
“It is remarkable that we had to battle both the Obama and Trump administrations to break through the State Department’s Benghazi stonewall. Why are Secretary Tillerson and Attorney General Sessions wasting taxpayer dollars protecting Hillary Clinton and the Obama administration?”

[CtH: Here is me praying Pete and I are both as wrong about this as we were about Trump.]

http://dailycaller.com/2017/08/10/federal-judge-orders-state-dept-to-search-hillary-aides-accounts-for-benghazi-records/

Hillary Clinton’s pastor compared her election loss to Jesus’ death and resurrectionSHILLLADY. WHAT AN APPROPRIATE NAME FOR A “SPIRITUAL ADVISER” TO MME. PANTSUIT.

[CtH: I’ll say!  How SICK is it to compare this vile woman with the Son of God!]

“You, our nation, our world, is experiencing a black Friday,” Rev. Bill Shillady wrote to Clinton on Nov. 9, 2016, CNN reported. “Our hope is that Sunday is coming. But it might well be hell for a while.”  One day after Clinton’s stunning defeat at the hands of Trump, Shillady wrote that “life is filled with a lot of Fridays” and Good Friday “represented the day that everything fell apart.”

“Today, you are experiencing a Friday. Your Friday is what happened in the last few weeks and last night in the tragic loss. But Sunday is coming!” Shillady wrote.

Clinton’s Pastor Compared Her Election Loss to Death of Jesus: ‘It Might Well Be Hell for a While’

NY Times editorial writer will proclaim ignorance in response to Palin’s defamation lawsuit
Judge Jed Rakoff is handling the defamation lawsuit filed by Sarah Palin against the NY Times in June. “The Complaint alleges that the allegedly false statements of fact that are the subject of the Complaint were contradicted by information already set forth in prior news stories published by the Times.” He continues, “However, these prior stories arguably would only evidence actual malice if the person(s) who wrote the editorial were aware of them.”

http://hotair.com/archives/2017/08/10/ny-times-editorial-writer-will-proclaim-profound-ignorance-response-palin-lawsuit/

NOW FOR WHAT SOME OF YOU REALLY LOOK FOR: THE FUNNIES!

[CtH:  LOL so true!]

[CtH: Wait, Pete … you said this was the funny section, not the Truth and Wisdom section! ::snork::]

[ROFLLLL]

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Creative Conservatism

As you may or may not be aware, some nitwits flew a chicken balloon over the White House that was supposed to resemble President Trump. He wasn’t even there, but that didn’t stop these retards. Given the superior intellect and imagination of conservatives, they jumped all over this idiotic stunt.

After liberal protesters set up a 30-foot inflatable chicken outside the White House, President Trump’s supporters joyfully appropriated the image for their memes.
On Reddit, Trump fans rendered the chicken into meme-worthy images, setting free a torrent of pro-Trump chicken memes.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/08/11/trump-fans-gleefully-appropriate-trump-chicken-meme-magic/

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Kim’s Deadly Gamble

No one would deliberately provoke a world power and risk total annihilation unless they were completely detached from reality. Such seems to be the case with Kim Jong Un, who must think that Donald Trump is the same kind of gutless blowhard that Obama, Clinton, and Carter were. He has stated he plans to launch missiles to land in the waters near Guam as early as mid-month. Maybe he considers China as his bodyguard from American might, or else his “advisers” tell him what he wants to hear, rather than the truth, at the very real risk of being shot.

North Korea details Guam strike plan and calls Trump warning ‘nonsense’

Pyongyang says it will launch four missiles into waters ‘30-40km’ off US territory in clear attempt to goad the US president
North Korea has defied threats of “fire and fury” from Donald Trump, deriding his warning as a “load of nonsense” and announcing a detailed plan to launch missiles aimed at the waters off the coast of the US Pacific territory of Guam.

General Kim Rak Gyom, the head of the country’s strategic forces, declared: “Sound dialogue is not possible with such a guy bereft of reason and only absolute force can work on him”.

APPARENTLY THEY’VE BEEN LISTENING TO CNN.

[CtH: Or maybe he’s trying to tell POTUS how to deal with the murderous dictator he’s forced to work under.]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/10/north-korea-details-guam-strike-trump-load-of-nonsense

NBC Slam: Trump and N.K. Sound Like ‘a School Yard Squabble’

If the stakes weren’t so potentially grave, it might otherwise sound like a school yard squabble,” quipped Anchor Lester Holt as he came on the air. “The war of words escalating tonight between the United States and North Korea over nothing less than nuclear weapons.”

Earlier in the day, Secretary of Defense James Mattis told North Korea to cease any actions that would endanger the U.S. or its allies or face “the end of its regime and the destruction of its people.”

https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2017/08/09/

Mattis Warns North Korea of ‘The End of Its Regime and the Destruction of Its People’
Wednesday, Defense Secretary James Mattis used dramatic language when warning North Korea, insisting that they face utter devastation if they do not end their pursuit of nuclear weaponry.

Mattis Warns North Korea of ‘The End of Its Regime and the Destruction of Its People’

NoKo BETTER REALIZE THEY’RE NOT DEALING WITH DEMOCRAT BULLSHIT FLINGERS NOW.  THESE PEOPLE KILL AS PART OF THEIR JOB.

Clinton deal in 1994 with North Korea was supposed to freeze Pyongyang’s nuclear program in return for fuel and efforts towards normalized political and economic relations. Here’s Clinton getting taken to the cleaners by Kim Jong-Il, who later violated the framework and started developing nuclear weapons at secret sites.

Before I take your questions, I’d like to say just a word about the framework with North Korea that Ambassador Gallucci signed this morning. This is a good deal for the United States,” Clinton said at the press conference.

“North Korea will freeze and then dismantle its nuclear program. South Korea and our other allies will be better protected. The entire world will be safer as we slow the spread of nuclear weapons”

Obama administration knew about North Korea’s miniaturized nukes

Obama officials tried to downplay the DIA assessment to prevent it from being used to force the president to employ a more assertive North Korea policy.

It was clear what Obama officials were doing in 2013. The DIA report represented inconvenient facts that threatened President Obama’s North Korea “strategic patience” policy — a policy to do nothing about North Korea and kick this problem down the road to the next president.

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/08/09/obama-administration-knew-about-north-koreas-miniaturized-nukes.html

Tillerson: Trump Spoke to North Korea ‘in a Language That Kim Jong Un Can Understand’

“North Korea’s rhetoric has just ratcheted up louder and louder and more threatening, so I think the president – what the president is doing is sending a strong message to North Korea in language that Kim Jong-Un can understand, because he doesn’t seem to understand diplomatic language,” he said.

“I think the president just wanted to be clear to the North Korean regime on the U.S. unquestionable ability to defend itself, will defend itself and its allies, and I think it was important that he deliver that message to avoid any miscalculation on their part,” Tillerson added.

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/melanie-arter/tillerson-trump-spoke-north-korea-language-kim-jong-un-can-understand

Architect of North Korea And Iran Deals Says NK Deal Worked… Seconds Later Admits It Failed…

Wendy Sherman helped craft the North Korean deal when she was in the Clinton administration, she then became the chief negotiator on the Iran deal for Obama.

Guam Governor: ‘I Want’ A President Who Will Retaliate

As far as I’m concerned, as an American citizen, I want a president that says that if any nation such as North Korea attacks Guam … that they will be met with hell and fury,” Calvo declared.  This is American sovereign soil. … There are over 200,000 American citizens,” Calvo said, noting his island’s geographic proximity to North Korea.

http://dailycaller.com/2017/08/09/guam-governor-i-want-a-president-who-will-retaliate-video/

CNN Broadcasts from Hawaiian Bunker, Prepares People for Nuclear War

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FAKE NEWS: Daily Beast

So what if she’s a mom?  We’re not responsible for her poor parenting decisions. She is.

2017_08 09 Daily Beast FAKE NEWS

PLUS, she had been deported before AND was driving without a license. If she were an American caught doing this in Mexico, she would not be on her way home, but to prison.  Under the Mexican law, illegal immigration is a felony. Illegals who have been deported and attempt to re-enter can be imprisoned for 10 years.

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See COMMENTS for more bits of news I saw in my Facebook feed.

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Trump’s Historic First 200 Days

If you only get your news from the MSM and Left-wing social media, you are no doubt TOTALLY SURE that President Trump is carrying our country to Hell in a basket.  Nothing could be farther from the truth.

Stock Market: Since the 2016 presidential election in November, the Dow, a benchmark index of stock performance, has set 48 record-setting closing highs. Millions of Americans are benefiting in their retirement savings accounts.

2017_08 Trump Bull Market

National Debt: Our national debt has decreased by $102 Billion since Trump’s inauguration. During Obama’s first 200 days, it increased by more than $1 Trillion. Trump also shaved $1.6 billion off the cost of his Air Force One and the military’s F-35 airplanes.

Generosity: President Trump donated his first quarter paycheck to fund Antietam battlefield restorations and his second quarter paycheck to fund a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) camp.

Inflation: US inflation rate decreased 1.6% in June, an eight month low. This is in part due to President Trump’s energy policies that are making gas and electricity cheaper which, in turn, means Americans have more to spend on other stuff..

Manufacturing: The US Manufacturing Index soared to a 33 year high, the best number since 1983 under President Reagan.

Trade: Trump also killed the TPP, opened up our exports of beef and LNG gas to China, and made Mexico drop the amount of refined sugar it exports to us, which will help our sugar mills sell more.

Regulations: Candidate Trump promised he’d remove 2 old regulations for each new one he implemented. As president, his administration has so far removed SIXTEEN old regulations for each new one it has implemented. He also pulled out of the Paris accord, which was burdening our economy unfairly.  Removing burdensome government regulations allows companies to spend less time and money on compliance and more on areas that create new jobs.

Jobs: During Trump’s first 200 days, U.S. employers added more than one million new jobs. During that same period in Obama’s administration, we lost more than four million.

Housing: There have been nearly twice as many US housing sales in the past couple of months as there were under President Obama in 2009 during the same time period. Also, houses are on the market for only an average of 45 days. (In 2011, it was 84 days.)

Government Assistance: During Obama’s eight years, the number of food stamp recipients rose by 10.7 million. After just 200 days under Trump, that number has dropped by more than 1.1 million.

Illegal Aliens: The numbers sneaking across our borders has dropped 67%. SCOTUS held up Trump’s travel ban and ICE has arrested 66,000 illegals, most of them violent criminals, including 6,000 members of the vicious MC-13 gang.

Women: With Canadian PM Justin Trudeau, Trump launched the United States-Canada Council for Advancement of Women Entrepreneurs and Business Leaders.

Unemployment: The Unemployment Rate decreased from 4.8% to 4.3%. During Obama’s first 200 days, it increased from 7.8% to 9.5%.

Keep in mind that, since President Clinton decreed that “Discouraged Workers” were not “Unemployed”, the “Unemployment Rate” has tended to increase when the economy improves, due to discouraged workers becoming hopeful enough to begin searching for jobs again. The opposite also occurs. As the economy worsens, the “Unemployment Rate” can actually go down as people who want to work become too discouraged to continue seeking employment. This is why I prefer the “Percent of Americans Employed” metric. Clinton didn’t screw with that one, so it’s still meaningful across multiple administrations and without tedious explanations about why it’s stupid.  This is also why both the decrease under Trump and the increase under Obama reflected less of the good and bad changes in their respective economic policies.

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Paganism Does Not Fulfill

Church hospital

Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg wants his social network to fill the role that churches and social clubs once did in communities.

Uhhhhhhhhhhh … only if you think churches are just social clubs. Sheesh.

For an interview with Pastor Robert Jeffress about Zuckerburg’s ideas, see embedded video @ http://insider.foxnews.com/2017/06/30/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-can-fill-churches-role-bring-people-together-communities

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Heads Up, Fellow Catholics!

On July 22, U.S. Cardinal Raymond Burke spoke important words to us at the “Church Teaches Forum” in Louisville.

Cardinal Raymond Burke

Burke, one of the Church’s leading canon law experts, preached on the fact that “the confusion and error which has led human culture in the way of death and destruction has also entered into the Church, so that she draws near to the culture without seeming to know her own identity and mission, without seeming to have the clarity and the courage to announce the Gospel of Life and Divine Love to the radically secularized culture.”

He particularly discussed the twin dangers of either idolizing every word that comes out of the pope’s mouth on the one hand vs. desiring to leave the church altogether on the other.

Burke, who has previously called the Pope’s controversial 2016 Amoris Laetitia “not an act of the magisterium” but a “personal reflection of the Pope” noted, “It is simply wrong and harmful to the Church to receive every declaration of the Holy Father as an expression of papal teaching or magisterium. “

“The faithful are not free to follow theological opinions which contradict the doctrine contained in the Holy Scriptures and Sacred Tradition, and confirmed by the ordinary Magisterium, even if these opinions are finding a wide hearing in the Church and are not being corrected by the Church’s pastors as the pastors are obliged to do,” he added.

He warned that Catholics in anguish over the current situation within the Church much not even think about schism and laid out a number of practical ways we can respond positively:

  • Pray for an increase of faith in Our Lord Jesus Christ “Who is alive for us in the Church and Who never fails to teach, sanctify, and guide us in the Church” and whose “teaching does not change.”
  • “Study more attentively the teachings of the faith contained in the Catechism of the Catholic Church and be prepared to defend those teachings against any falsehood which would erode the faith and thus the unity of the Church.”
  • Gather together to “deepen their faith and to encourage one another.”
  • Go to the Blessed Virgin Mary…in order to seek her maternal intercession.
  • Invoke frequently throughout the day the intercession of Saint Michael the Archangel.
  • Pray daily to St. Joseph, especially under the title of “Terror of Demons” for the “peace of the Church, for her protection against all forms of confusion and division which are always the work of Satan.”
  • Pray for the Pope, especially through the intercession of St. Peter.
  • Pray for the Cardinals of the Church that they be of “true assistance to the Holy Father in exercising his office.”
  • “Remain serene because of our faith in Christ who will not permit the ‘gates of hell’ to prevail against his Church.”
  • “Safeguard especially our faith in the Petrine Office and our love for the Successor of Saint Peter, Pope Francis.”

Read the full text here:

https://www.scribd.com/document/355803615/Cardinal-Raymond-Burke-Developing-Lives-of-Peace-after-the-Heart-of-Mary

 

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So Much Stuff, So Little Space

It was a difficult decision where to begin, since the world is spinning so quickly these days. So I decided to post a memorial for an incredible man and musician who made an indelible mark on America.

Glen Campbell, hit singer and guitarist, dead at 81


I REMEMBER MY GRANDMOTHER LOVED WATCHING THE VARIETY SHOW HE HAD AS A REPLACEMENT ONE SUMMER.

Glen Campbell, the upbeat guitarist from Delight, Arkansas, whose smooth vocals and down-home manner made him a mainstay of music and television for decades, has died, his family announced on Facebook on Tuesday. He was 81.

“It is with the heaviest of hearts that we announce the passing of our beloved husband, father, grandfather, and legendary singer and guitarist, Glen Travis Campbell … following his long and courageous battle with Alzheimer’s disease,” a Facebook statement said.

Campbell is best remembered for a string of country-inflected hits that ran from the mid-’60s to the late ’80s: “Gentle on My Mind,” “Rhinestone Cowboy,” “By the Time I Get to Phoenix,” “Wichita Lineman,” “Galveston,” “Southern Nights” and “The Hand That Rocks the Cradle” among them.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/08/entertainment/glen-campbell-dies/index.html

BY THE NUMBERS: President Trump’s Historic First 200 Days – Promises Kept and Records Broken

YOU’LL NEVER HEAR A WORD OF THIS ON CNN.

Government Assistance — Food Stamps

  • More than 1.1 million fewer Americans on food stamps under President Trump.

Jobs

  • According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics President Trump added a projected 1,290,000 jobs in his first 200 days (January through July 2017.) President Obama on the other hand lost more than (4,154,000) million jobs in his first 200 days.

Inflation

  • According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics the US inflation rate decreased to an eight month low in June to 1.6%. This is in part due to President Trump’s energy policies that are helping average Americans in their pocket books with cheaper gas and electricity. The rate has not yet been reported for July. (Under Obama the inflation rate sank to a scary -2.1% by July of 2009.)

Housing

  • Sales are red-hot in the US right now. In 2011, houses for sale were on the market an average 84 days. This year, it’s just 45 days.

Regulations

  • One of the first things that President Trump did in office was to reduce the number or burdensome regulations put in place during the Obama era. Regulations cost Americans and American companies money to implement and maintain. Reducing or halting regulations allows companies to spend their money on more prudent money making areas.

BY THE NUMBERS: President Trump’s Historic First 200 Days – Promises Kept and Records Broken

After the Coup, What Then?

EXCELLENT READ BY PAT BUCHANAN

If this city brings Trump down, will the rest of America rejoice?

What will be the reaction out there in fly-over country, that land where the “deplorables” dwell who produce the soldiers to fight our wars? Will they toast the “free press” that brought down the president they elected, and in whom they had placed so much hope?

My guess: The reaction will be one of bitterness, cynicism, despair, a sense that the fix is in, that no matter what we do, they will not let us win.

This is a collaborative enterprise, where everyone protects everyone else’s sources, because all have the same goal: the dumping of Trump. If that requires collusion with criminals, so be it.

http://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/patrick-j-buchanan/

Deep State Teams with Fake News: Email Evidence Proves New York Times Soliciting Anti-Trump Bureaucracy Leakers
Emails from a reporter for the New York Times to government employees obtained exclusively by Breitbart News demonstrate that the newspaper’s employees are not just on the receiving end of leaks, but are actually soliciting government employees to become leakers. What’s more, the emails demonstrate the Times colluded with the president of the government union to encourage and solicit these leaks—something that may become highly problematic for both institutions.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2017/08/08/exclusive-deep-state-teams-fake-news-email-evidence-proves-new-york-times-soliciting-anti-trump-bureaucracy-leakers/

Mueller, several team members gave up million-dollar jobs to work on special counsel investigation
LET’S ALL FEEL BAD FOR THESE SLIMY WEASELS.

Mueller’s public financial disclosure — along with those of seven members of his team — was released after a request from The Washington Post. The document offers a glimpse into who the special counsel and the lawyers he has hired have worked for, and where they have made and invested their money.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/mueller-several-team-members-gave-up-million-dollar-jobs-to-work-on-special-counsel-investigation/ar-AApJWSp?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=UE12DHP

THERE ARE SOME INTERESTING THINGS IN THE COMMENT SECTION IF ANYBODY BOTHERS TO READ IT.

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Please continue

The irony is strong with this one.

Clemson U

I’m glad the professor freely admits that transgenders are disabled. This allows me to skip the first obvious point, so I can move on to the other two obvious points.

I.e., the Nazi eugenics program involved MURDERING disabled people, while Trump merely says (correctly) that they do not belong in the military where it MATTERS that all the bodies be as close to perfect as possible.

But, please, dear professor, continue talking.  I’m sure other parents would benefit from learning what kind of “education” their kids would get at Clemson.

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Murkowski’s Planned Parenthood Pandering

Murkowski PP

Alaska’s Republican Senator Murkowski says she voted against the skinny repeal of Obamacare to protect Planned Parenthood’s federal funding. According to her, it was a vote “for the people of Alaska.”

I googled “Planned Parenthood clinics in Alaska” and learned there are only four in the whole of our largest state. Then, I googled “public women’s health clinics in Alaska” and got 20 hits that were not Planned Parenthood clinics. Nine of the second set serve communities that Planned Parenthood does not. Only one of the PP clinics serves an area that didn’t show up in the public health clinics list.

I was unable to find out if Planned Parenthood has donated to Murkowski.

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