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Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2018
All Gave Some~Some Gave All
A Brief History of Potty-Mouthed Presidents
Donald Trump may have used a vulgarity in a meeting, but many of his predecessors also needed their tongues washed with soap
President Donald Trump may or may not have used a particularly unflattering vulgarity to describe impoverished nations in the Caribbean and Africa — but he’s got nothing on Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard M. Nixon, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, or Barack Obama.
The truth is that vulgar language and conduct have long been associated with presidents — and it has happened and been heard in the Oval Office, the adjoining hallway, and out on the campaign trail.
Lyndon Baines Johnson of Texas may have been America’s most vulgar chief executive, at least in the modern era. Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin was more than diplomatic in telling C-SPAN about “Landslide Lyndon’s” habit of conducting conversations with aides while sitting on the throne.
And who can forget those infamous tapes of Richard Nixon, including hundreds of hours of him rudely kibitzing in the Oval Office with inner-circle aides about his many enemies, The New York Times, foreigners, Watergate, bureaucrats, and a multitude of other pains in his backside?
Speaking of The New York Times, President George W. Bush famously was overheard — though certainly unintentionally — referring to reporter Adam Clymer of the “newspaper of record” as a “major league a**hole.” He later apologized, but it wasn’t a particularly convincing mea culpa.
Dick Cheney, who was Bush’s vice president, probably did know his angry suggestion to a Democratic colleague in a Senate hallway that he “go f***” himself” would be reported to the nation — but it didn’t prompt him to hold his tongue.
It is highly doubtful that the vulgarity displayed on multiple occasions by President Bill Clinton will ever be exceeded.
Former President Barack Obama, Trump’s immediate predecessor, used similarly blue language in describing the chaotic political situation in Libya and the mess made of the U.S. effort led by then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. That was in the aftermath of the assassination by Libyan dictator Muammar Qadaffi by rebels.
Time magazine’s Claire Suddath provides additional details on the Nixon, Bush, Cheney and Obama incidents, along with facts about other dirty talk by elected officials over the years.
But it is highly doubtful that the vulgarity displayed on multiple occasions by President Bill Clinton will ever be exceeded — unless LBJ is somehow reincarnated. Clinton’s encounter with White House intern Monica Lewinsky as he waited to meet with Palestinian terrorist Yassir Arafat was only one of many illustrations of how low “Slick Willie” delighted to go.
People just reminded Chelsea Clinton about what her parents did to Haiti
Image Source: ScreenshotStories continue to develop surrounding a closed-door meeting about immigration at the oval office on Thursday. This time Chelsea Clinton is involved.
Following Thursday’s bipartisan meeting at the oval office, Chelsea Clinton posted a tweet critical of Trump’s apparent position on immigration. But, several Twitter users were quick to point out something that she apparently forgot: the Clinton family helped to undermine Haiti, one of the countries specifically referred to in Thursday’s meeting, by directing donations for the Haiti earthquake relief away from the Haitian government.
Chelsea Clinton Tweets at Trump
Chelsea Clinton was one of many individuals who, in combination with the media, criticized President Trump after he reportedly said, “Why are we having all these people from s***hole countries come here?”
Mr. President, immigrants from El Salvador, Haiti and the 54 countries in Africa likely helped build your buildings. They’ve certainly helped build our country. cc @POTUS https://twitter.com/business/status/951598283218186242 …
But, evidently, Chelsea is not aware of the saying “People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.”
Hypocrisy
Twitter users were quick to remind Clinton of her own families past with regard to Haiti.
Stole money from Haitian children.
Mr. President, immigrants from El Salvador, Haiti and the 54 countries in Africa likely helped build your buildings. They’ve certainly helped build our country. cc @POTUS https://twitter.com/business/status/951598283218186242 …
@HillaryClinton @BillClinton if you are that concerned about Haiti give them the money you owe them! #CorruptToTheCore
Of course, these users are referring to the events surrounding the Clinton family’s role in the 2010 Haiti Earthquake relief effort.
Clintons’ Role in Haiti Earthquake Relief Efforts
In January 2010, a tragic earthquake struck Haiti killing hundreds of thousands of people. At the time, Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State and Bill Clinton was the United Nations Special Envoy to Haiti. Given his relationship with Haiti, Bill was appointed co-chairman of the Interim Haiti Recovery Commission.
Billions of dollars were donated to Haiti for recovery. But it was reported that only a fraction of the money donated went directly to the Haitian government and local organizations.
So where did the money go? The same report found that much of the money “… went to United Nations agencies, international aid groups, private contractors and donor countries’ own civilian and military agencies.”
Many Haitians, understandably, weren’t happy.
“A lot of Haitians are not big fans of the Clintons, that’s for sure,” said Kim Ives, editor of Haiti Liberte newspaper. He told the BBC, “The fact the Clintons kind of took over things after the earthquake and did a pretty poor job of it translates to why the Haitians have a pretty dim view of them.”
Divisive agenda
Trump denied making the controversial comment, clarifying on Twitter that while Haiti is “a poor and troubled” country, he has “a wonderful relationship” with Haitians.
Never said anything derogatory about Haitians other than Haiti is, obviously, a very poor and troubled country. Never said “take them out.” Made up by Dems. I have a wonderful relationship with Haitians. Probably should record future meetings - unfortunately, no trust!
Trump moved on to more positive topics, proclaiming Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a federal holiday and encouraging “all Americans to observe this day with appropriate civic, community, and service activities in honor of Dr. King’s life and legacy.”
Those on the left, like Chelsea and the rest of the Clinton family, continue to focus on their divisive agenda — undermining and attacking President Trump at every turn. It’s clear they don’t have the interests of the American people at heart — only their own.
Those on the left, like Chelsea and the rest of the Clinton family, continue to focus on their divisive agenda — undermining and attacking President Trump at every turn. It’s clear they don’t have the interests of the American people at heart — only their own.
Of Crudeness and Truth
Thoughts on President Trump’s latest verbal tempest
By Andrew Klavan
Nothing scandalizes a leftist like the truth. Point out that women and men are different, that black Americans commit a disproportionate amount of violent crime, that most terrorist acts are committed by Muslims, and the Left leaps to its collective feet in openmouthed shock, like Margaret Dumont after a Groucho Marx wisecrack. This is racism! This is sexism! This is some sort of phobia! I’m shocked, shocked to find facts being spoken in polite company!
No one is really shocked, of course. This is simply a form of bullying. The Left has co-opted our good manners and our good will in order to silence our opposition to their bad policies. The idea is to make it seem impolite and immoral to mention the obvious.
The bullying is highly effective and very dangerous. In England, in the city of Rotherham, at least 1,400 non-Muslim girls, some as young as 11, were brutally raped by Muslim immigrants over a period of years in the 2000s. Police and other officials worked to keep the facts hidden because, according to multiple reports, they were afraid of being called racist. Think about that: police officers did not want to seem racist, so they stood by and let their city’s children be raped. The same thing goes on in other cities in England and throughout Europe. And in fact, some who have spoken out have had their careers curtailed by manufactured scandal. The message is clear: it’s just not nice to tell the truth. It’s just not done. Don’t do it.
Here in the states, the First Amendment has so far allowed old-fashioned American loudmouths to fight the system whenever they could find ways around our monolithic corporate media. But the Empire of Lies is quick to strike back. Google/YouTube now stand charged by multiple accusers of singling out conservative voices for censorship, “fact-checking,” and demonetization. Hidden-camera videos released by Project Veritas this week show Twitter employees conspiring to “shadow ban” conservatives on their system. On campus, intelligent conservative speakers of good will like Ben Shapiro, Charles Murray, and Cristina Hoff-Somers have faced violent protests meant to shut them up.
No person of importance on the right seeks to silence anyone on the left. The Left, on the other hand, is broadly committed to ostracizing, blacklisting, and even criminalizing right-wing speech.
Enter President Donald Trump. He is a rude and crude person. He speaks like a Queens real estate guy on a construction site. And because he does not have good manners, he thoughtlessly breaks the rules with which the Left has sought to muzzle those who disagree with them. In this regard, I frequently compare Trump to Randle Patrick McMurphy, the loudmouthed, ill-mannered roustabout from Ken Kesey’s brilliant novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. McMurphy comes into an insane asylum controlled by a pleasant, smiling nightmare of a head nurse named Ratched. Nurse Ratched, while pretending to be the soul of motherly care, is actually a castrating, silencing tyrant. Her rules of good manners, supposedly fashioned for the benefit of all, are really a system of mental slavery. All of McMurphy’s salient character flaws suddenly become heroic in the context of her oppression. Only his belligerent ignorance of what constitutes good behavior can overturn the velvet strangulation of her rule.
For Nurse Ratched, read Hillary Clinton, CNN, the New York Times, Yale University, Twitter, and Google/YouTube—all the tender ministers of polite silence and enforced dishonesty. If Donald Trump’s boorishness crashes like a bull through the crystal madhouse of their leftism—well, good. It’s about time.
I don’t know exactly what Trump said in a closed-door meeting with senators at the White House this week. Unnamed sources say that he referred to some African countries and Haiti as “shitholes.” Maybe so; sounds like him. In any case, when it comes to a chance to attack Trump, our journalists don’t waste time with fact-gathering or source-identifying. Like Madonna, they just strike a pose. Various media knuckleheads have reacted to the alleged comment by calling Trump “racist,” “Nazi,” “Evil,” and a “terrorist sympathizer.”
(Personally, my first thought on hearing about the remark was: “What squirrely little tattle-tale of a weasel went running to the press with that?” But never mind. That’s just me.)
Let’s state the obvious. Some countries are shitholes. To claim that this is racist is racist. They are not shitholes because of the color of the populace but because of bad ideas, corrupt governance, false religion, and broken culture. Further, most of the problems in these countries are generated at the top. Plenty of rank-and-file immigrants from such ruined venues ultimately make good Americans—witness those who came from 1840s potato-famine Ireland, a shithole if ever there was one! It takes caution and skill to separate the good from the bad.
For these very reasons, absurd immigration procedures like chain migration, lotteries, and unvetted entries are deeply destructive. They can lead to the sort of poor choices that create a Rotherham. Trump’s suggestions—to vet immigrants for pro-American ideas and skills that will help our country—are smart and reasonable and would clearly make the system better if implemented.
So, when it comes to the Great Shithole Controversy of 2018, my feeling is: I do not care, not even a little. I’m sorry that it takes someone like Trump to break the spell of silence the Left is forever weaving around us. I wish a man like Ronald Reagan would come along and accomplish the same thing with more wit and grace. But that was another culture. History deals the cards it deals; we just play them. Trump is what we’ve got.
For all the bad language, for all the loose talk, I would rather hear a man speak as a man without fear of the Nurse Ratcheds in the press and the academy than have him neutered and gagged by a system of good manners that has been misused as a form of oppression. Better impoliteness than silence. Better crudeness than lies.
We have seen the effect of uncontrolled immigration on Europe. It is very, very bad. The fact is: some countries are shitholes. I don’t want this to become one of them.
BREAKING: Indictment Handed Out In Russian Bribery Case Involving Uranium One, Hillary Clinton
By RYAN SAAVEDRA
Alex Wong/Getty ImagesAn 11-count indictment was handed out on Friday connected to the alleged Russian bribery scheme involving former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the Obama administration, and Uranium One.
The charges are against Mark Lambert, who is the "former co-president of a Maryland-based transportation company that provides services for the transportation of nuclear materials to customers in the United States and abroad." Lambert, 54, of Maryland, was charged with "one count of conspiracy to violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and to commit wire fraud, seven counts of violating the FCPA, two counts of wire fraud and one count of international promotion money laundering," the DOJ said in a statement.
The charges are connected to the alleged bribery scheme that involves "Vadim Mikerin, a Russian official at JSC Techsnabexport (TENEX), a subsidiary of Russia’s State Atomic Energy Corporation and the sole supplier and exporter of Russian Federation uranium and uranium enrichment services to nuclear power companies worldwide, in order to secure contracts with TENEX."
TENEX is the commercial sales arm for Russia's Rosatom, which took full control of Uranium One in 2013.
A report from October revealed that federal agents started collecting evidence in 2009 about Russian officials that were engaged in bribery, kickbacks, extortion, and money laundering connected to the Uranium One deal:
Federal agents used a confidential U.S. witness working inside the Russian nuclear industry to gather extensive financial records, make secret recordings and intercept emails as early as 2009 that showed Moscow had compromised an American uranium trucking firm with bribes and kickbacks in violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, FBI and court documents show.
They also obtained an eyewitness account — backed by documents — indicating Russian nuclear officials had routed millions of dollars to the U.S. designed to benefit former President Bill Clinton’s charitable foundation during the time Secretary of State Hillary Clinton served on a government body that provided a favorable decision to Moscow, sources told The Hill.
Rather than bring immediate charges in 2010, however, the Department of Justice (DOJ) continued investigating the matter for nearly four more years, essentially leaving the American public and Congress in the dark about Russian nuclear corruption on U.S. soil during a period when the Obama administration made two major decisions benefiting Putin’s commercial nuclear ambitions.
In December, Attorney General Jeff Sessions ordered that prosecutors at the DOJ start "interviewing FBI agents about evidence they uncovered in a criminal investigation into a highly-controversial uranium deal that involves Bill and Hillary Clinton."
Here’s Why Even Single War Correspondents Wear Wedding Rings
BY JARED HARRIS
The world’s most dangerous jobs are often rough and rugged. Frontline infantrymen, minefield clearers, Arctic crab fishermen, and oil workers all deal with the reality of death on a daily basis.
One job that may not be as rugged as those but is just as dangerous is a wartime reporter. We’re not talking about Anderson Cooper in front of a camera reporting from a hotel balcony in Israel, but the actual people on the front lines.
Besides the danger of death from gunfire or explosions, correspondents in the field run the equally hazardous risk of capture by unfriendly forces. With that possibility in mind, many have figured out a trick that can keep them safe: Wearing wedding rings.
Even if reporters are not married, it’s not uncommon to see wedding rings on their fingers.
As style magazine Racked reports in a piece about female war correspondents, war reporters are often the targets of kidnappers. Western hostages command high ransoms, especially when working for a major network.
Local reporters will not command even a fraction of the price that an American journalist would bring.
Because of this huge danger, and the fact that many are carrying bulky recording equipment instead of weapons, they have to get creative to defend themselves.
The reporters have a trick up their sleeve, however. “Women at risk for kidnapping are advised to bring a fake wedding ring and baby pictures to create empathy with the kidnappers,” Racked reports.
Wearing fake rings and carrying pictures of fake sons and daughters, captured journalists might be able to convince their captors to be easy on them.
Wearing fake rings and carrying pictures of fake sons and daughters, captured journalists might be able to convince their captors to be easy on them.
However, married reporters — male and female — can also make a point of sporting their rings, not only to remind themselves of their wedding vows, but also to give themselves an extra element of humanity in the eyes of the enemy in the event they are captured.
The world is filled with conflict zones, and reporters flock to them for the latest stories.
Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Mexico all have their share of bad guys who want to do harm to innocents. For war reporters kidnapping in these areas is a very real reality.
The Islamic State group is an especially heinous organization that was not afraid to kidnap journalists to fund their failing caliphate. Not all of them survived the ordeal.
Reporters carrying firearms is often strictly prohibited in war zones unless under severe circumstances. A bright blue flak jacket with the word “PRESS” emblazoned on it is usually all journalists get to help them in a war zone, as neither side is usually interested in targeting a reporter during a firefight.
With all of these things considered, sometimes appealing to the humanity in an inhuman enemy is all these reporters can do.
Like and share on Facebook and Twitter and be on the lookout the next time you see a report from a battlefield.
G’ day…Ciao…
Helen and Moe Lauzier
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