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Monday, October 1, 2018
Another high-tech lynching
By Bob Livingston
Those of you older readers will remember when Clarence Thomas was nominated to the Supreme Court by Ronald Reagan in 1991. Obviously not much has changed.
At the 11th hour, after the confirmation hearing had closed and the Senate was preparing to vote to confirm Thomas, allegations of sexual harassment by Anita Hill, a former subordinate to Thomas at the Department of Education and then the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, were leaked to the media. The allegations threatened to derail Thomas' nomination at the last minute.
The hearing was reopened and Hill, a black woman, testified that Thomas had subjected her to comments of a sexual nature, which she felt constituted sexual harassment or at least — as she described it — "behavior that is unbefitting an individual who will be a member of the Court" (Wikipedia). Hill's testimony was riveting and salacious, making it must-watched television at the time.
Thomas denied the allegations. In opening remarks after Hill's testimony, Thomas said:
This is not an opportunity to talk about difficult matters privately or in a closed environment. This is a circus. It's a national disgrace. And from my standpoint, as a black American, it is a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks who in any way deign to think for themselves, to do for themselves, t…
Thomas was grilled by sanctimonious Democrats, led by the "Lion of the Senate," Ted Kennedy. Kennedy was a well-known philanderer/adulterer who also murdered Mary Jo Kopechne by driving his car into Poucha Pond and leaving her there to drown and neglecting to report the incident until the next day.
Despite openly continuing his adulterous lifestyle — once even being involved in creating a "waitress sandwich" along with other alcohol-fueled debauchery in a Capitol Hill restaurant in 1985 with fellow Democrat Senator Chris Dodd — Kennedy was considered by both the left and much of the establishment right as a venerated and respected lawmaker. He was allowed to hypocritically judge Thomas as unworthy of a Supreme Court nomination. Thomas was later confirmed by a vote of 52-48.
This week the Democrats dusted off their old playbook and leaked an 11th hour bombshell on Brett Kavanaugh's nomination. After sitting for weeks on an allegation that at age 17 a drunken Kavanaugh attempted to sexually assault a 15-year-old girl at a house party, Senator Dianne Feinstein let the story "leak" then turned it over to the Department of Just(Us), even though no federal crime had been alleged.
The woman was subsequently outed as Christine Blasey Ford, a California college psychology professor with a history of leftwing political activism (anti-Donald Trump), donations to Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, a likely grudge because Kavanaugh's mother adjudicated a foreclosure on Ford's parents' home, and a brother with ties through his investment business with Fusion GPS — the Democrat opposition research firm behind the phony Trump-Russia dossier on which the Robert Mueller Russia collusion investigation is based.
The political left and their talking sock puppets in the mainstream media would have you to believe this brouhaha is an important and necessary defense of women and a stand against unwelcome advances common in the American patriarchy in which women have few if any rights.
This, of course, is nonsense. The progressives and communists in government and the media don't care one whit for Ford and whether she was or was not groped by Kavanaugh — or anyone else — 30-some years ago. She will be cast aside like yesterday's dirty underwear once the Kavanaugh hearings are over.
If she suffers psychological trauma from the experience, she's just more collateral damage to the progressive left.
This fight is over the progressives' efforts to ensure their "right" to murder babies in the womb continues unfettered. They will stop at nothing to defend it because it has become a religion to them.
Infant murder began under the altruistic sounding words "planned parenthood." As always in such chicanery, these words are totally misleading. But they have worked their charm on lukewarm churchgoing Americans. Not 1 in 10,000, when they hear the words "planned parenthood," thinks of child murder.
The terms "women's health" and "planned parenthood" are conventional wisdom control phrases. Women's health provides cover for abortion, and abortion is simply a cover word for murder. Murder becomes acceptable to the masses if it can be made to appear benevolent and passed off as "healthcare" or "choice."
It wasn't so long ago that there was a terrible stigma placed on abortion, and it was done mostly in secret and only in extreme circumstances. Then it evolved into public policy, was sanctioned by a court of Satanists and became in most minds no more serious a procedure than dentistry.
Baby killing (abortion) is a ravenous and highly profitable industry backed by all kinds of monstrous justification. The abortionistas and their defenders and proponents lament that the baby may be "defective" or born to poor or abusive parents, or it won't be properly cared for or properly educated (feeble-minded) and would, therefore, be a "drain on society" or possibly produce more progeny that would likewise be feeble-minded, so it would be "better off" if were sucked out of the womb and chopped up and bartered for Lamborghinis.
Kavanaugh has stated that he sees Roe v. Wade as settled law; an indication that he would not vote to overturn that egregious bit of judicial activism. But that's not good enough for the party of baby murder and their funders.
The Democrats' aim in this latest high-tech lynching is to derail Kavanaugh's nomination with the hope that they can win a Senate majority in the midterm election and force Trump to place a pro-baby murder justice on the court to ensure they can continue the despicable practice for another generation.
Thursday, September 27, 2018
Female High School Friend of Kavanaugh Says Latest Allegation ‘False,’ ‘Absurd’
From the Daily Signal LAW NEWS
EXCLUSIVE: Female High School Friend of Kavanaugh Says Latest Allegation ‘False,’ ‘Absurd’
A woman and friend who knew Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh as a high school student says allegations of sexual misconduct from a third accuser are “false.”
“This claim is absolutely false and absurd,” Meghan McCaleb, a friend of Kavanaugh’s since high school, told The Daily Signal of allegations from Julie Swetnick, which were made public Wednesday.
Swetnick, who says she is a graduate of Gaithersburg High School in Gaithersburg, Maryland, claims she saw Kavanaugh “drink excessively at many of these parties and engage in abusive and physically aggressive behavior towards girls, including pressing girls against him without their consent, ‘grinding’ against girls, and attempting to remove or shift girls’ clothing to expose private body parts.”
Gaithersburg High is a public school in Montgomery County, Maryland, about 10 miles north of Georgetown Prep, the private school Kavanaugh attended.
“We never hung out with anyone from Gaithersburg High School, there was never any drug use at our parties, and the fact that she is coming out and saying that is such an insult to Brett and to all of us,” McCaleb said.
“It makes our community look bad and our reputation, and Brett was just not like that ever. No one was.”
Swetnick is represented by lawyer Michael Avenatti, who also represented porn star Stormy Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, in her lawsuit against President Donald Trump.
Swetnick, according to her declaration, has done work for the Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department, among other government institutions.
“The fact that Michael Avenatti is coming up with this the day before the hearing is outrageous,” McCaleb said.
“I can just tell you that Brett was always a responsible, decent, polite guy, and he would never, ever do anything like this, ever,” she said.
Kavanaugh denied Swetnick’s allegations in a statement Wednesday, saying, “This is ridiculous and from the Twilight Zone. I don’t know who this is and this never happened.”
Trump tweeted about the latest allegation Wednesday:
Kavanaugh faces two previous late-breaking allegations of sexual misconduct.
Deborah Ramirez, 53, who attended Yale University at the same time as Kavanaugh, accused him of exposing himself to her at a party.
“I was embarrassed and ashamed and humiliated,” Ramirez told The New Yorker, which first reported the allegation.
The first allegation of sexual assault came from a Northern California woman, Christine Blasey Ford, now a 51-year-old research psychologist, who told The Washington Post that Kavanaugh held her down, groped her, and tried to remove her clothes in a bedroom during a house party in the early 1980s in Montgomery County.
“I have never heard of her in my life and I do not know one person who went to Gaithersburg High School,” McCaleb said of Swetnick.
McCaleb attended and graduated in 1984 from Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School, an all-girls Catholic high school, and was friends with Kavanaugh throughout high school and after.
Kavanaugh graduated from the all-boys Georgetown Preparatory School in 1983.
Tuesday, September 25, 2018
Sheriff Makes Secret Deal with ACLU to Stop Detaining Illegal Immigrants
Sheriff Makes Secret Deal with ACLU to Stop Detaining Illegal Immigrants
A federal appellate court just heard oral arguments involving an outrageous backdoor deal in which a county sheriff promises a leftwing civil rights group to stop detaining illegal immigrants. The case comes out of Marion County Indiana where an illegal alien, Antonio Lopez-Aguilar, was arrested by local law enforcement after a traffic court hearing in Indianapolis.
At the time the Marion County Sheriff’s Office had an agreement with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to hold suspects in the U.S. illegally like Lopez-Aguilar until federal officers pick them up for processing.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) sued the Marion County Sheriff to end the local-federal detainer policy that is practiced by law enforcement agencies nationwide and has led to the removal of countless violent criminals living in the country illegally. The ACLU asserts that ICE uses the detainers to “bully local authorities into imprisoning immigrants, many of whom have done nothing wrong, and funneling them into deportation proceedings.”
Lopez-Aguilar was held in jail and funneled into deportation proceedings solely on the basis of a “detainer request” from ICE, according to the ACLU. “In addition to violating immigrants’ basic constitutional rights, this kind of cooperation between local law enforcement and federal immigration authorities also undermines public safety,” the group claims. “If immigrants are reluctant to show up in court or report a crime out of fear they may be deported, everyone will be less safe.”
The Marion County Sheriff’s Office caved into the ACLU’s demands by agreeing to stop detaining illegal immigrants for the federal government. Under the deal’s terms, the agency won’t seize or detain suspects based on requests from ICE or deportation orders from an immigration court.
The feds must provide a warrant signed by a judge or demonstrate probable cause the immigrant committed a crime. This sort of intimate arrangement between a local law enforcement agency and a private group to skirt federal law seems incredulous. To be fair, a local newspaper reported that the sheriff’s office made the deal to avoid the costly legal expenses of fighting it.
“Court documents filed by city attorneys cited the cost of litigation as motivation to end a lawsuit the ACLU filed in September after an Indianapolis man living in the country illegally was detained after a hearing in traffic court,” the article states.
Fortunately, the state got involved and filed an appeal to reverse the scandalous agreement which was approved by a federal judge in the southern district of Indiana last year. Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill says the decree runs counter to Indiana law and public safety. “Our nation’s immigration laws are put in place to protect the public,” Hill said in a statement last year when his office filed the appeal.
“Establishing a policy that requires law enforcement personnel to not cooperate with each other not only violates Indiana law but jeopardizes public safety.” Last week the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments from the state and the ACLU, which is trying to keep the state from intervening by arguing that it is barred from doing so on procedural grounds. A three-judge panel heard oral arguments in Chicago on Friday.
The attorney representing Indiana taxpayers, Solicitor General Thomas Fisher, told the court that “when there is a specific request from ICE to detain a person,” state law “requires that kind of cooperation.” In 2011 Indiana passed a measure prohibiting the implementation of any policies that restrict local law enforcement agencies from cooperating with federal immigration authorities. The ACLU-Marion County Sheriff agreement violates that state law, Fisher argued before the appellate court.
The ACLU also sued Indiana years ago over the immigration control law, claiming that it’s discriminatory, unconstitutional and unlawfully interferes with federal power and authority over immigration matters. The group claims that the law marginalizes entire communities and undermines our most cherished constitutional safeguards by putting Indiana residents at risk of unlawful warrantless arrests without any suspicion of wrongdoing.
Sunday, September 23, 2018
John Kass for Mayor
Column:
John Kass
for Mayor
Chicago City Hall is in for another mayoral
change, with Rahm Emanuel’s decision not to seek another term. Dozens of
ravenous political meat eaters are now scrambling out of the shadows. (Brian
Cassella/Chicago Tribune)
My
friends, I will be the next mayor of Chicago.
And this I vow: As mayor, I'll never lie to
you and I'll rule by respecting Chicago’s most ancient traditions, meaning my
family and friends will get rich, and the people of Chicago will pay for it. Or
else. Everyone will be happy and content, or else.
For I am a river to my people.
Future historians may notice that my first
successful campaign began with a tweet.
It was from Tom Bevan, publisher of
RealClearPolitics and host of the “Tom Bevan Show” on WLS-AM radio.
“At this point, just about everyone is
considering a run,” tweeted Bevan. “I’m even hearing whispers @John_Kass might
be jumping in. #kassforchicago.”
I didn’t have to be asked twice.
OK, I’m in.
Listen, my friends. You have to believe in
something. Even if it means sacrificing everything.
I might even put that on my campaign T-shirts.
But hey, I’m not going to sacrifice a thing. Sacrifice is the job of taxpayers.
Get real. This is politics, which is like selling shoes, but with people.
Also, I might put “I am Spartacus” on my
campaign buttons, because, well, it’s cool and no one else has thought of it.
Being a crafty national political observer,
Bevan noticed something rather medieval about Chicago after Mayor Rahm Emanuel withdrew
from his re-election campaign.
The scrambling hordes of ambitious politicians
who suddenly see an opportunity.
Emanuel would have lost to one of the
previously announced candidates for mayor, thoughtful and courageous people
like Paul Vallas and Lori Lightfoot, who dared challenge a ruthless incumbent
mayor and wanted the campaign to be a contest of ideas.
Yet rather than lose and allow the people to
decide (and allow ideas to get anywhere near things), Rahm just quit, pulled
the plug, and the zombies came running.
Now, dozens of ravenous political meat eaters
are scrambling out of the shadows to become mayor and get what they can out of
Chicago.
Thoughtful platforms? Get serious. The race
for mayor has been transformed:
It’s now all about personality cults, ethnic
tribes, public sector union muscle and slogans.
It’s all about who gets free media describing
them as the next messiah to “unify” this group or that one.
Sound familiar? I thought so.
There are so many Democrats wanting
to be mayor that you can’t name them all.
Toni Taxwinkle, who pretends to be progressive
while commanding her drone army of hungry public union workers and Democratic
Party hacks.
Bill Daley, with his vague appeals to
nostalgia.
Even U.S. Rep. Mike Quigley, who I
remember years ago at City Hall,
peeking out from Ald. Bernie Hansen’s back pocket like some quiet, tiny
kangaroo.
And just look at Luis Guttierrez. The poor
little guy is salivating.
There are dozens more. If they cared about
Chicago’s problems, they would have announced for mayor months ago. But they
didn’t.
They’re like a swarm of zombies with wild eyes
and a hunger for meat. Not those idiot slow zombies from “The Walking Dead,”
but the other kind of zombies, the fast, shrewd zombies that can outrun you.
And they’re eager to rip great chunks out of
Chicago once again.
I grew up in a South Side butcher shop. And
so, I have the skill set to portion things out, from each according to his
ability, to each according to his needs. Naturally I get all the T-bones and
rib-eyes.
I told you I won’t lie to you. So, I will keep
writing my Chicago Tribune column and doing “The Chicago Way” podcast. Why?
Because I love the work and need a job.
Besides, I know the media, and I don’t trust
them to help me get my message out in the Sun-Times.
“So, what do I get?” asked an editor around
here.
Name it, I said.
“Airport concessions would be nice,” he said.
“And a no-show job, for insurance purposes.”
And a case of fine single malt Scotch whisky.
You’ve got it. The Kasso abides.
Though the post-Rahm campaign will be all
personality cults, I probably should develop a few governing ideas, just for
the sake of appearances.
Hmm, let me think.
Dibs.
I’ll cut a deal with Boss Mike Madigan for
changes in state law. Anyone violating the Dibstitution — i.e., stealing
another’s shoveled-out parking space in the winter after it has been plainly
marked by household junk like a broken baby chair or a blue Virgin figurine or
a leg lamp — will be punished.
By encasement in ice, with a plastic straw to
breathe from.
Also, my transportation policy is this: A new
ride-sharing service, “Chi-Town Moutza Ride,” in which my brothers will be
secret investors.
And I’ll regulate their competitors out of
business, because, well, this is Chicago.
I suppose I must prove city residency since
it’s a “law” or something. Betty and I moved to the suburbs more than 20 years
ago, for the kids’ educations. As I told Bevan, I’ll prove city residency under
the existing Rahm Residency Rules.
But not with my wife’s wedding dress, like
Rahm.
“I left a 1983 White Sox cap and some boxer
shorts in my old apartment,” I tweeted to Bevan. “So yes, I claim residency.
And I’m in. #KassForMayor.”
The 1983 White Sox were known for “Winning
Ugly.” And that’s what I’m going to do.
I am Spartacus. And Spartacus approved this
message.
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