Biden Can't Tell Iran From Iraq

                He’s back! Mr. Malaprop, also known as Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden, delivered yet another spate of incorrect assertions recently. Biden Bloopers are becoming as common as…leg hair. The former vice-president serves up more gaffes than Yogi Berra in his prime. Biden delivered a major foreign policy speech in New York on January 7th, in which he rebuked President Trump’s decision to send Iran’s Terrorist-in-Chief, Qassem Soleimani, to an early rendezvous in Paradise with his 72 virgins. The blunder-prone front-runner said, “Iran’s parliament, Iran’s parliament voted to eject all Americans and coalition forces from the country,” only two days, only two days after Irag’s parliament voted to expel U.S. troops. Iraq, Iran, they both start with an ‘I,’ so what’s the diff, anyway?

                Earlier that same day, Biden stated “I said not long ago that as the walls close in on this president, I worried that he was going to get us in a war with Iraq.” That would be Iran, Mr. Biden. Iran. Biden has, on multiple occasions while campaigning recently, also incorrectly identified the American state in which he was speaking. Moreover, he asserted that Robert Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. were assassinated in the late 1970s, whereas the two icons were actually killed in the 1960s. Biden, who frequently touts his foreign policy experience and acumen, has also claimed he was against the Iraq war from the very beginning, even though he voted for military intervention before it started. Etc., etc.

                In his New York speech, the former Veep blasted President Trump, calling him “dangerously incompetent and incapable of world leadership.” That’s ironic. If Biden were Commander-in-Chief, he might very well conflate North Korea and South Korea, and mistake Alberta for Albania. He would likely speak of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, “president of the Turks and Caicos,” and of the “horrible fires currently devasting the island nation of Austria, due to man-caused global warming.” Were he president in 1983 instead of Ronald Reagan, he might have invaded Canada, not Grenada.

                Biden, like his Democratic peers, should go lay by his dish and let the Big Dog handle Iran. Or Iraq. Whatever.

CNBC Airs Incorrect Pictures Of Democratic Presidential Candidates

                CNBC recently added to the rapidly growing list of stupefying errors so-called “mainstream” media outlets have been making of late. During the network’s “Squawk Box” program, a graphic showed fundraising numbers for every current presidential candidate. Unfortunately, the pictures above candidates Andrew Yang and Rep. Tulsi Gabbard’s (D-Hawaii) names were of completely different people. CNBC posted an image of Geoff Yang, a Redpoint Ventures founding partner, where one of Andrew Yang’s should have been, and showed a picture of Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) instead of one of Rep. Gabbard’s. The network says these were honest mistakes, but supporters of Yang and Gabbard note that both candidates have been serially snubbed by various media outlets in the past. Yang supporters on Twitter say that he has routinely been left off of graphics entirely in favor of worse-performing candidates.

                Since some in the media have accused Gabbard of being a Russian asset, perhaps CNBC was just trying to protect her identity, failing to realize she has taken part in previous Democratic debates. If not, well, Gillibrand, Gabbard, they both at least start with a ‘G,’ right? Easy mistake to make…even though Gillibrand quit the 2020 presidential race long ago. And Geoff and Andrew Yang share the very same last name, so who could blame MSDNC MSNBC for confusing the two?!

                It won’t be long until we see MSLSD MSNBC put up a graphic purporting to show Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.)…with a picture of former Chief Justice of the United States Earl Warren, who has been dead since 1974. Sorry, Liz! Love you! You can bet CNN will soon put up a graphic of Sen. Michael Bennett (D-CO) with an accompanying picture of Tony Bennett, the 93-year-old iconic American singer of pop standards, and post a picture of “Sen. Corey Booker (D-N.J.)” that bears a striking resemblance to Booker T. Washington. Similarly, I’m sure NBC will (accidentally) show a photo of a box of graham crackers in lieu of a picture of Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) during its coverage of the ongoing impeachment process. And will anyone be truly shocked if ABC or CBS exhibits a picture of Colonel Sanders in place of Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT)?

   Fake News. And real incompetence.

The Gun Control Canard

             Once again, firearms—and those who like to possess them—have been blamed for mass shootings. Yet murder rates are typically highest in cities with the strictest gun-control laws, such as Chicago and Baltimore, and in places where guns are prohibited, such as schools. Also, more innocent lives are saved by guns in the U.S. annually than are taken by them. Moreover, Switzerland has one of the highest rates of gun ownership of any nation on Earth, yet its murder rate is near zero. But, let’s not let facts stand in the way of surging emotions and ideological dogma.

            Once citizens are deprived of gun ownership, they are usually and quickly deprived of a host of other freedoms. Despite what progressives proclaim today, the Second Amendment was placed where it was specifically to guarantee the First Amendment…and all the others that came after it.

After firearms are taken from the people, does a society immediately become peaceful, safe and harmonious? Quite the opposite. It is nearly impossible for a private citizen in formerly Jolly Olde England to own a gun. Yet, knife crime has skyrocketed. London is to knives what Iraq is to IEDs (improvised explosive devices). Politicians there have seriously discussed banning knives. Only knives of a certain type and length, of course. Longer ones, stouter ones and sharper ones. Perhaps serrated cutlery, too. But, not to worry, you can keep your butter knives. (And your salad forks). For now.

When guns and knives are banned, what’s next? Will cars be outlawed? Baseball bats? Rope? Matches? Candle Sticks? At what point, if ever, do leftists admit that evil is the culprit and not inanimate objects? The answer, I’m afraid, is never. The Ten Commandments have been banned from the public square as the Church of Satan has seen rapid growth in membership. We are controlled by The Swamp and immersed in a cultural sewer. “Father Knows Best” and “Leave It to Beaver” have been supplanted by “Heather Has Two Mommies” and “Daddy Has A Beaver.” We have all but made cigarette smoking illegal as we have legalized—and encouraged—marijuana use. We have smeared the Founding Fathers while elevating rap “artists” and “drag queens.” We no longer even know what pronouns to use when addressing each other.

We no longer even know who we are.

It is no coincidence that this has occurred at the same time as rates of mental illness have risen dramatically.

As have the number of mass shootings.

Actress Apologizes To Iran For Trump's Airstrike On Soleimani

Actress Rose McGowan channeled her inner John Kerry and apologized to Iran for President Trump’s drone-strike that killed Iranian General and terrorist mastermind Qassem Soleimani. The Hollywood luminary took to that bastion of erudition, Twitter, to prostrate herself before the Iranian Mullahs—and tell the world of her hatred for the president and the country in which she resides. She tweeted: “Dear #Iran, The USA has disrespected your country, your flag, your people. 52% of us humbly apologize. We want peace with your nation. We are being held hostage by a terrorist regime. We do not know how to escape. Please do not kill us. #Soleimani.”

It is nearly impossible to picture a more inane, hypocritical, sickening utterance or a potentially more harmful attitude. Addressing the terrorist regime as “Dear Iran” is gag-inducing on its own, but pales in comparison to the rest of the tweet. She’s concerned we’ve “disrespected” the Iranian flag? Something tells me she’s probably okay with athletes failing to stand for our own flag and national anthem. Arbitrarily asserting that 52% of us not only don’t fully approve of the action but wish to “humbly apologize” to the Mullahs for it should make 100% of Americans want to vomit. If those in the Iranian regime truly thought a majority of Americans felt this way, it would embolden them to launch more-- and even worse-- terror attacks on Americans and American interests far and wide. To then say, “We are being held hostage by a terrorist regime” and “do not know how to escape” before adding, “Please do not kill us” marks her as certifiable. What an incredible slight to the 52 Americans who were actually held hostage for 444 days by Iranian revolutionaries from November 4^th, 1979 until January 21^st, 1981. You aren’t being held hostage, Ms. McGowan. You are free to come and go as you please…and call your duly elected president a terrorist. Oh, and vote this coming November.

Soleimani was responsible for the deaths of over 600 American troops and organized the murder of countless thousands of his own people, Kurds, and others. He had ties to various terror organizations and led the notorious Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds force. The Pentagon says he and the Quds Force were behind the recent attack on the U.S. embassy in Baghdad.

After taking some heat for her remarks, McGowan acknowledged that Soleimani was “an evil evil man who did evil evil things,” yet quickly added: “But that at this moment is not the f***ing point. The United States is morally corrupt and acts illegally. It is only logical to appeal to Iran’s pride by apologizing. I’m taking one for the team. #TeamStayAlive.” Logical? Really? Would McGowan have been consistent in saying that about another “evil evil man who did evil evil things” and controlled the most powerful military in the world at the time, #Hitler? Pathetic.

She also tweeted, “I do not side with Iran, but I most definitely do not side with the USA.” Meaning, she sides with Iran. And she noted: “I want the Democrats to win because we are less likely to die. I am a conscientious objector to the USA, it’s policies, lies, corruption, nationalism, racism, and deep misogyny.” Historically speaking, Ms. McGowan, we aren’t “less likely to die” with Democrats in power. As for corruption, nationalism, racism and deep misogyny, I suggest you emigrate to an Islamic state somewhere in the Middle East or North Africa. Go and be a wealthy, famous actress in Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Somalia, Sudan, et. al. I bet they love the films you’ve starred in, such as “Going All the Way” and “Devil in the Flesh.” Just remember to keep your eyes lowered and don’t draw attention to yourself. And I’m sure you won’t mind the entirely non-misogynistic female genital mutilation.

Rose, by any other name, would still be insane and hateful.

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(Since I wrote this piece, filmmaker Michael Moore has also apologized to Iran on behalf of the American people).

Democrats Race Left At Breathtaking Speed

   The speed at which the Democratic Party has moved left has been breathtaking. Just a few years ago, Hillary and Barack solemnly swore that the institution of marriage should, of course, be between one man and one woman. President Bill Clinton would not have signed legislation allowing men who “identify” as women into women’s bathrooms and locker rooms, no matter how badly he himself wanted to occupy those same spaces. Outright Socialism was not a viable political belief just a few short years ago. Now, surveys show, young people have a more favorable view of a (mythical) socialism they’ve never experienced than the capitalism that has allowed them to live a life of comfort such as no other generation in any land at any other time has ever known. This could only have occurred because the education establishment and the mainstream media are nothing more than arms of the Democratic (now Democratic-Socialist) Party. Period.

               It is a daunting task to attempt to predict/fathom what Democrats will espouse in the near future. The erstwhile Queer Liberation Party (QLP) of which Bernie Sanders recently spoke will surely be seen as a relic of conservative reactionaries rooted in white patriarchal supremacy. Bestiality Liberation might well be the next big civil rights movement. After all, “love is love.” No one can argue that point.

              “Gender fluidity” is already being joined by racial fluidity. No doubt, age and species fluidity are up next.

 Free health care, free college tuition, and free everything for illegal aliens are the talking points now. In the future, expect to hear Democrat’s pleas for mandatory, proactive cradle-to-grave care of everyone else in the world. Oh, wait. That’s kind of what we’ve been doing already.

             Republicans, had they any balls, could affect truly radical change, and for the better. All funding—every cent—to the U.N. should be immediately cut off, and the “world body” should be evicted from our shores. The National Endowment for the Arts and the National Education Association, both NEAs, should be defunded and disbanded. Every single person— of any age—that enters the U.S. illegally should be summarily deported. No ifs, ands, butts, or exceptions. Just as we should never deal with terrorists, we should never compromise our sovereignty for people who break the law coming across our borders. All federal/taxpayer funding of abortion should be halted. It cannot be a free, open, democratic republic’s policy to fund or subsidize genocide of any type. We should be pro-choice when it comes to educating our children, not when considering killing them. Students should be taught via honest, unbiased courses on America’s founding and on comparative governments, not brainwashed into supporting Marxism.

America should not be engaged in nation-building, but should always staunchly, unequivocally support freedom-loving peoples around the world, such as those in Hong Kong today.  

Yale University To Provide Bouncy Castles To Stressed Students

                Yale University is a prestigious institution. It was founded in 1701. It is supposedly a citadel of higher learning. It is the third oldest such institution in the country and one of only nine Colonial Colleges chartered before the American Revolution. Students (and/or their parents) pay more than $55,000 a year for the privilege of receiving an allegedly elite Ivy League education.

                And now, if studying and social justice warring get too stressful for the young Elis, they have two new outlets to help them “chill out,” courtesy of the school’s Chaplain’s Office. The “Cookies & Coloring Study Break” takes place weekly in a location called “Breathing Space.” The event’s description encourages students to “take an hour to put down your phone, color (don’t worry there’s no judging your artistic ability), have a freshly baked cookie, and great conversation.” Put down your phone? I thought the kiddies were seeking relief from the rigors of studying. I have previously reported on the trend of colleges providing coloring books to their young scholars, but it’s nice to know there will be “no judging.” (In point of fact, nothing and no one gets judged on college campuses anymore, except for conservatives, Christians and straight white males). It is also good to hear that it won’t be just garden-variety, day or two old cookies that the kids will be offered, but freshly baked ones. Warm, gooey cookies are much more soothing and affirming. Mass-produced cookies can actually be marginalizing and non-inclusive.

                What’s more, when temperatures warm this coming spring, students will have access to an inflatable “Bouncy Castle.” Yale says the Bouncy Castle will help address students’ “anxiety relief needs,” and urges them to “Bring a friend and bounce out your stress.”

                Universities around the country—and The West in general-- are becoming sad jokes, nothing more than indoctrination centers and infantilization zones. Many also offer therapy animals, Play-Doh, and “cry closets” replete with stuffed animals for their snowflakes’ solace, which shouldn’t be necessary given the fact that many schools now have waived book fines and let their students choose their own grades.

                Yale was founded by Puritan clergymen, who established the college as an institution to train and educate future ministers. They would be stunned to see what it has now become.

                Not so long ago, college age kids fought in the American Revolution, the Civil War, World War I, World War II, the Korean War and in Viet Nam. They dealt with the Great Depression and the Cold War without coming unglued. Some still enroll in the military today. None of them had or have the luxury of running to a “Safe Space” to color… and eat freshly baked cookies… or to relieve their stress in a gaily colored bouncy house. Yet they accomplished more than the current crop of college kids, coddled and catered to, will have a prayer of accomplishing, because colleges now choose to pander to their students’ feelings rather than minister to their education.

                                                                     

Massachusetts To Make Calling Someone "Bitch" A Crime?

             Daniel J. Hunt (D-Mass.) has introduced a bill that would make it a crime to call someone a “bitch” within the Commonwealth. The bill states: “A person who uses the word ‘bitch' directed at another person to accost, annoy, degrade or demean the other person shall be considered to be a disorderly person.” Yes, it’s vital that we make verbally annoying someone a crime. Those found guilty of uttering “the ‘B’ word” will be summarily executed. Just kidding. But first-time offenders would face a fine of up to $150 and repeat offenders would face up to six months imprisonment and a $200 fine.

             American citizens have recently been arrested for saying the ‘N’ word, too. Even when not specifically directed at anyone. Arrested for saying a word. In this way we honor—deliberately or inadvertently-- Chairman Mao, Pol Pot, Stalin, Hitler, Goebbels and many other totalitarian inhuman scum who have slaughtered, “disappeared,” or “re-educated” people for using words they deemed “inappropriate.” Meaning not sufficiently supportive of their agenda.

             If we are going to potentially imprison someone for saying “bitch,” then all dog breeders are going to end up in jail. As will Elton John. (A.K.A. “Rocketman,” not to be confused with “Little Rocket Man). In fact, if a person will face six months in prison for every use of the term “bitch” after his or her first offense, Elton might be locked up for over 15 years based on one song alone. In his song, “The Bitch Is Back,” the offensive word is repeated 31 times, not including the title, and ends thusly:

I'm a bitch, I'm a bitch
Oh, the bitch is back
Stone cold sober as a matter of fact
I can bitch, I can bitch
Cause I'm better than you
It's the way that I move
The things that I do

Bitch, bitch
The bitch is back

Bitch, bitch
The bitch is back

Bitch, bitch
The bitch is back

Bitch, bitch
The bitch is back

Alright, alright, oh bitch is back, oh yeah

               

            Do we really want to incarcerate Sir Elton, who is, by-the-way, gay?

            Perhaps it would be better if we freed ourselves…… from the tyranny of politically correct dogma, and told Hunt, that son-of-a-bitch, to go lay by his dish.

            After all, life’s a bitch. In large part because of leftist’s Nanny-State attempts to control every aspect of our lives and deny us the freedoms we were bequeathed by the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.  

British Lecturer Says Calling Someone A "Nerd" Should Be A Hate Crime

                We all know that we must be careful what words we use in this politically correct era. Or even what pronouns. Terms that used to be commonly used are now considered hurtful, non-inclusive and “marginalizing.” For example, we can’t use “wop” to indicate an Italian. (It’s okay in this case, I’m part Italian). Nor can we use the term “retarded” to refer to someone of less than stellar intelligence—or to someone with whom we disagree—unless it is a member of the Trump family. Similarly, calling someone short is insensitive. The preferred term is “vertically challenged.” Nor do we label someone bald. We say he is “too tall for his hair.”

                And now, Sonja Falck, a British psychology lecturer and psychotherapist says the use of “slurs” against those with high IQs is not only in poor form, but should be considered a hate crime, according to London’s Telegraph. Ms. Falck says terms such as “nerd,” “geek,” and “egghead” are divisive and humiliating and should be considered on par with homophobic, racial and religious smears. She terms these anti-intelligence brickbats the “last taboo” of hate crimes. She has spent years researching discrimination against very smart people and has found that being labeled an “egghead” or “brainiac,” among other terms, makes many of them feel apart from others, like misfits who don’t belong to society at large.

                It’s about time progressives realized that smart people have feelings, too. Calling particularly bright folks “bookworms,” “highbrow,” “know-it-alls,” “bluestockings” and “genius” may make progressives feel good, but how do they think it makes the intelligent feel? Maybe one day they’ll even recognize that the most successful and highly placed among us are human, as well, and don’t relish being treated as freaks. Perhaps we will soon stop calling wealthy athletes and CEOs “stars,” “blue-chippers,” “the Big Cheese,” “Big Kahuna,” “head-honcho,” “muckamucks” and “boss-man,” sparing them the pain of being singled out and mis-labeled.

                After all, it shouldn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that, deep down, we are all the same. Right?

Ruth Bader Ginsburg Says Women Who Abort Aren't Mothers

 Supreme Court Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Clarence Thomas recently sparred over Box v. Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky, a case involving the disposition of fetal remains by abortion providers. The case addresses two provisions of an Indiana law. The first provision prohibits abortion providers from treating the bodies of aborted children as “infectious waste” and incinerating them alongside used needles and other potentially dangerous items. The second provision made it illegal for an abortion provider to perform an abortion in Indiana when the provider knows that the mother is seeking the abortion “solely because of the child’s race, sex, diagnosis of Down syndrome, disability, or related characteristics.”

Ginsburg disagreed with Indiana’s law while Thomas supported it and said, “this law and other laws like it promote a State’s compelling interest in preventing abortion from becoming a tool of modern-day eugenics.” Thomas correctly noted that, “The use of abortion to achieve eugenic goals is not merely hypothetical. The foundations for legalizing abortion in America were laid during the early 20th-century birth-control movement. That movement developed alongside the American eugenics movement. And significantly, Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger recognized the eugenic potential of her cause. She emphasized and embraced the notion that birth control ‘opens the way to the eugenicist.’”

In a footnote to her opinion, Ginsburg chided Thomas for using the term “mother” to describe women who choose to have an abortion, saying, "A woman who exercises her constitutionally protected right to terminate a pregnancy is not a 'mother.’” Sorry, RBG, but a woman who has carried a child in her womb is a mother whether she wanted to be or not. Mothers who have chosen to put their unborn child to death for their own convenience are still mothers. And monsters.

A woman who has had a miscarriage is still a mother. You are not not a mother because you say so. You cannot simply identify as a non-mother for your own personal benefit.

To be fair, what’s good for the goose is good for the gander. A father is still a father even if he exercises his constitutionally protected right to bear arms……and then shoots his kid. Or should I say, “terminates a childhood?” Right?

“Do you have any children, sir?”

“No. I killed all three of them earlier this morning. So, you can see I’m not a dad.”

Nice reasoning for a SCOTUS justice.

If it is illegal to hire someone on the basis of race, sex, or disability, how can it possibly be okay to exterminate them based on the same criteria?

There are those among us who still believe people were—and are-- created in God’s image and have been endowed with inalienable rights to life and liberty. Treating the bodies of aborted children as if they were of no more worth than “infectious waste” is a dire and inexcusable capitulation to evil.  

Time For The New Year

                It is one thing to run out of cheese or wine. It is quite another to run out of time. Time, as they say, is of the essence. 2019 was a tumultuous year. We live in the most affluent time in history. (Though many, sadly, don’t know the reasons why). Yet people around the world sense that something profound is missing-- or wrong. Unfortunately, in most cases, they are right. Elites the world over, those ensconced in governments, academia, the media and massive international corporations—as well as dictators like the Iranian mullahs, Xi Jinping and Kim Jong un-- try ever harder to instruct and control the rubes, the peasants, the “deplorables” in fly-over country. And some of them are fighting back.

                What will happen? Where are we headed? Will 2020 be a good or a bad year? Will it be as tumultuous as 2019 or even more so? Only time will tell. We can tell time, kill time, waste time, or race time. Everything is a question of time, because, in some sense, time is everything. And it marches on… regardless of our wishes.

                There is no time like the present. Ask someone who has narrowly avoided death. Time is a gift. And there is no present like time.

                                                  Happy New Year!