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A document has been posted on the internet that contains personal information for a number of conservatives, mostly NeverTrumpers, who jumped the gun (an understatement for some) last Saturday on the Covington Catholic School boys incident. I have seen this document myself. Not too many people, relatively speaking, have viewed the document itself at this […]
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President Trump and Speaker Pelosi on State of the Union Address
Dear Madam Speaker:
Thank you for your letter of January 3, 2019, sent to me long after the Shutdown began, inviting me to address the Nation on January 29th as to the State of the Union. As you know, I had already accepted your kind invitation, however, I then received another letter from you dated January 16, 2019, wherein your expressed concerns regarding security during the State of the Union Address due to the Shutdown. Even prior to asking, I was contacted by the Department of Homeland Security and the United States Secret Service to explain that there would be absolutely no problem regarding security with respect to the event. They have since confirmed this publicly.Accordingly, there are no security concerns regarding the State of the Union Address. Therefore, I will be honoring your invitation, and fulfilling my Constitutional duty, to deliver important information to the people and Congress of the United States of America regarding the State of our Union.
Best Rock Song Ever
Fred Cole (@fredcole) thinks the best rock song is “White Room” by Cream for some reason. Jon Gabriel (@jon) said he’d only ever heard The KLF song titled “White Room.” I listened to both and now I want to go BASE jumping without a parachute.
I say “Unforgiven” by Metallica is much better, although it’s not even necessarily my favorite Metallica song (“Whiskey in the Jar” is high on my list). You see, Fred and I obviously have a difference in opinion when it comes to music. He seems like easy listening soft rock, while I prefer to listen to good music.
Trump, Don’t Listen to Pelosi: Give the State of the Union to the People
Newly-gaveled Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has sent a letter to President Donald Trump asking him to postpone the State of the Union address until after the partial government shutdown ends, or at least submit it in writing. I strongly disagree with Pelosi.
Pelosi’s stated reason is that the Secret Service can’t protect the president from his mortal enemies in the Congress due to the partial government shutdown. This is baloney. Pelosi’s real fear is that Trump will use the State of the Union to blast the intransigent Democrats for their refusal to protect American citizens and that Trump will do so effectively.
My colleague Jon Gabriel would like to do away with the “pretentious pageantry of the [State of the Union] address” and I wholeheartedly agree on that part. However, the president absolutely should deliver the State of the Union, just not in the Capitol to a joint session of Congress. Instead, Trump should do what Trump does best and deliver the address in a stadium somewhere in the heart of the country surrounded by tens of thousands of fellow Americans.
The Criminal Corruption at the Top Levels of the FBI Is Being Exposed
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http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/workingclasswoodsman.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/woodsmans-podcast-8.mp3 It’s the first podcast of 2019 and Ed’s focused on ice fishing, even though the ice on New Hampshire’s Lake Winnipesaukee isn’t quite thick enough yet to be out on, especially not with any equipment. Still, some of the smaller lakes are solid enough and plenty of fishermen are out there. Max has an […]
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Ted Cruz’s Beard Solves Border Wall Funding Crisis
Jim Acosta Proves Walls Work!
CNN’s Jim “Look at Me, I’m Jim Acosta” Acosta is in McAllen, TX, today to cover President Donald Trump’s visit to the southern border. Although Jim holds himself in high self-regard, Jim has little self-awareness. He is a committed Leftist, sworn to oppose all things Trump, so he posted a video to Twitter that he thinks proves there’s no crisis at the border:
I found some steel slats down on the border. But I don’t see anything resembling a national emergency situation.. at least not in the McAllen TX area of the border where Trump will be today. pic.twitter.com/KRoLdszLUu
Trump Oval Office Address (With Response from Chuck & Nancy)
Natalia Veselnitskaya, a Known Russian, Charged With Obstruction (Not Collusion™)
In a developing news story, Fox News reported that Natalia Veselnitskaya, who is (gasp!) Russian, has been charged in absentia this morning in federal court in the Southern District of New York with obstruction of justice “in connection to a civil money laundering and forfeiture case involving a Russian tax refund fraud scheme, first uncovered by the late Sergei Magnitsky.”
I have no idea what that means but it’s clear it has nothing to do with Donald Trump. This is despite the fact that the only reason this is a news item anyone will pay attention to is that Veselnitskaya was one of several people connected to the Democrat opposition research firm Fusion GPS that met with Donald Trump, Jr; Paul Manafort; and Jared Kushner in Trump Tower, June 2016. This was the meeting that, when it was first reported on by the very fake news, we were promised proved collusion™, except that it didn’t.
In fact, Veselnitskaya was in the country to lobby against the Magnitsky Act, named after the aforementioned Sergei Magnitsky. Who was she working with in her anti-Magnitsky Act endeavors? Fusion GPS, the same firm that produced the phony Steele Dossier, which was compiled by former British spook Christopher Steele using information fed to him by Russian intelligence officers.
Ruth Ginsburg’s Going to Die (or Resign) — Can the Left Handle It?
Ruth Bader Ginsberg was missing from the bench on Monday as the Supreme Court heard oral arguments for several cases. This absence raises speculation about her health. It’s the first time she’s missed oral arguments in 25 years. That seems impressive, but on the other hand it also seems like a basic requirement of the job. In any case, the 85-year-old far-left justice is recovering from surgery she underwent last month to remove two cancerous tumors from her lungs. Ginsburg’s tumors were found after she fell in her office in November and broke two ribs, an ironically fortunate event, as it turned out.
We all wish her well health-wise. At least I do. My mother died from cancer that was present in her lungs. But let’s not fool ourselves: Ginsburg’s 85. Even without the cancer she’s at the end of her time on the court. There’s a very high probability (not certainty) that she will either resign due to health reasons or go join her friend the great Antonin Scalia in the hereafter within the next six years. And that means that President Trump is going to nominate her replacement. And when that happens Democrats are going to lose their everlasting skeet balls.
Conservative Intellectuals Exit Stage Left
I cancelled my long-time subscription to The Weekly Standard earlier this year after one too many anti-Trump editorials. I probably would have canceled it sooner but I kept on forgetting, on account of my not reading the magazine regularly anymore, even though it showed up every week in my mailbox. The last issue that I received asserted that the June 2016 Trump Tower Meeting “wasn’t evidence of the campaign colluding with Russia, but it was evidence that some of Trump’s top advisers were willing to collude.” The same editorial reassured its readers that, “Mueller is everything we value in a public servant—honest, competent, utterly averse to partisan hackery.”
The recent dissolution of The Weekly Standard has brought much hand-wringing and back-patting from our intellectual betters. Reportedly, The Standard’s subscription base has dropped by 10 percent or more in each of the last five years. Their subscription base would already have been a tiny sliver of the Republican electorate.
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I’m thinking of taking the #CherokeeChallenge, despite saying in this video that I’m wary of having my DNA in some database. What do you think? Do I have more than 0.09% possible “native” DNA? Am I more Indian than Pocahontas? You’ll have to start calling me Crazy Horse. PS I’ve started humorously calling my YouTube […]
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Kavanaugh Clears Committee
Bangor. You’re Saying It Wrong
Even if you’re not from New England, you’ve probably heard of Bangor, Maine. You might even think you know how to pronounce it, but you probably don’t. When my wife was in grad school on the West Coast a theater professor corrected her pronunciation of Bangor. “It’s pronounced Bang-er,” this know-nothing academic said, probably with a fake Oxford accent, while drinking tea. And definitely while wearing some stupid reading glasses perched on the tip of her nose, you know the kind, with the chain around the back of her neck. She was probably wearing a cardigan, too, even though it was Southern California. I don’t know; I wasn’t there. I’m just guessing.
E.U. Agrees to Lower Tariffs on U.S. Goods
Students React to Donald Trump’s Supreme Court Nominee… Before He Names One
This video from Campus Reform is almost toocringe-worthy to watch all the way through as college students denounce President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee — who hadn’t been named yet — as “racist,” a “white supremacist,” and a “threat to people who look like me.” When asked what qualities a Supreme Court justice should have, one student replies: “Black. A black woman.”
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I’ve been trying to relocate some (fat, healthy & happy) squirrels from my backyard (in fact I did get one of them earlier this week), but yesterday I woke up to find a skunk in the trap. Here’s a video of the adventure, from my friend’s YouTube channel: Preview Open
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From the Comey Memos: Trump Didn’t Stay Overnight in Moscow; Assumed Hotel Room was “Wired”
Disgraced former FBI director, and egomaniacal blowhard James Comey told Clinton donor and apparatchik George Stephanopoulus last week that it’s “possible” the peeing prostitute claims are true. Well, The Comey Memos™ have been released in part, slightly redacted. The biggest revelation to me is that Trump, “always assumed hotels rooms he stayed in when he travels are wired in some way,” and that:
He said he had spoken to people who had been on the Miss Universe trip with him and they had reminded him that he didn’t stay over night in Russia for that. He said he arrived in the morning, did events, then showered and dressed for the pageant at the hotel (he didn’t say the hotel name) and left for the pageant. Afterwards, he returned only to get his things because they departed for New York by plane that same night.
Comey recorded Trump repeating this in a subsequent memo:
Trump Should Fire Rosenstein, then Sessions
President Trump should fire Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, get him replaced with someone trustworthy and competent, and then fire Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Rosenstein’s replacement would then be the acting attorney general.