Our girl, Tempe, 2+, about 40 pounds, photographed by our oldest daughter, Leigh. Temperance is a rescue, of many, many, many mixed breeds! She’s named after the main character in the t.v. series, “Bones.”
Our boy, Ollie, 3+, about 60 pounds, photographed by our oldest daughter, Leigh. Ollie is a rescue: 1/2 Lab, 1/4 Bassett Hound, 1/4 Mixed. We named him Ollie, which is short for Oliver, for his Olive green eyes.
This is a truth-boom if ever there was one! Especially for an Aspie!
I no longer feel the irresistible, pathological compulsion to correct every wrong I see on the interwebs, but I did when I first joined Twitter, and I know from other commentary I have seen/heard that this is the typical trajectory. There’s something about that just sucks you in and won’t let go and it seems to last about a month. After that, many settle into mere addiction, absent the compulsion to engage morons, as experienced Twitter users know that the place is littered with paid trolls. To be sure, there’s genuine stupid out there, and not an insignificant amount of it, but most of it is what Obama’s first OIRA chief helpfully described, in book length, as “infiltration” of “social media networks” to “nudge” public opinion.
In a different decade it was called “propaganda.”
“Even if you have only limply functioning neurons and no press-credentials, a human-organism of blob-shape can ascertain, without even jiggling your blob, that two presidents don’t accidentally “run into” each other anywhere. Ever.”
Look who @BarackObama ran into today at the golf course in Martha’s Vineyard (Spoiler: it’s @billclinton): pic.twitter.com/vwnHcqidwo
— Frank Thorp V (@frankthorpNBC) August 14, 2015
Remember how 99% of the political class at ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, CNN, PBS, NPR, The New York Times, The Washington Post, etc. sniffed at how “incurious” President Bush was? When, in fact, it turns out his G.P.A was a point higher (not much but it matters!) than John Kerry’s? And it has later emerged that President Bush is an avid, voracious reader (It’s been reported a book a week, typically, favoring non-fiction, and these are books well over 300 pages & without pictures, for any snot-nosed progressive who might be reading this.)
Well, we’ve reached peak “incurious.”
And, once again, sadly, it is as it relates to those who cover presidents, and not, predictably, as it relates to the intellectual capacity of a president himself – with or without a “D” after his name.
The most white-hot story in politics right now is Hillary Clinton’s rogue email server. There’s nothing more important or interesting in political circles right now – off-the-air, that is.
Oh, there’s been some coverage of this profoundly criminal and dangerous breach of national security on the alphabet networks, and even MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” has had some honest coverage of it (but that’s only because they want another Democrat to win, not Hillary, who is insufficiently radical, to them, which is kind of horrifying all by itself.)
And, to be sure, The New York Times has done extensive reporting on the issue, even “breaking” the story back in March (but that’s only because they were fed all the details by that no-necked-short-furry-Machiavellian-troll Valerie Jarrett, Obama’s handler-consigliare, who also hates Hillary, also because she is insufficiently radical – and other reasons.)
The New York Times has subsequently done some other reporting, from other reporters there, trying to white-wash the whole mess, and it’s a safe bet the white-wash reporters got expletive-laced, screaming, threatening phone-calls, just like the original March story reporter got, who dutifully changed the text without attribution (You’re supposed to tell your readers when you change the meaning of the text of an original story. The New York Times didn’t. That’s bad. It’s “Journalistic Ethics 101.”). The Washington Post appears to have had the same trajectory. So while hat-tips are owed to MSNBC, The New York Times, and The Washington Post, for covering at all, their motives are suspect; cleary, deeply, cynically, suspect.
So here we are. It’s the dog-days of summer, Obama’s on the Vineyard, and a Clinton is in legal trouble. All is normal.
Except it’s not.
It’s really, really not.
The two men who have treated Hillary to her two biggest public humiliations, Bill, who serially cheated on her, and Barack, who beat her from her “inevitable” crown in 2008, “ran into each other” on the golf course. “Accidentally” says the press.
WHAT?
Even if you have only limply functioning neurons and no press-credentials, a human-organism of blob-shape can ascertain, without even jiggling your blob, that two presidents don’t meet “accidentally” anywhere. Ever. Their Secret Service details know. Are we to believe nobody on the Obama detail called their buddy on the Clinton detail or vice-versa? Seriously? That’s silly, childish even. That’s unicorn territory. No. This was a purposeful meeting. And the fact that there are pictures is also no accident. Obama has proven capable of keeping the overwhelming majority of his time on all his golf outings private – if he wants to. There’s no way a picture of the two presidents would happens unless Obama wanted it to. No way.
So! What are we to believe about this? Here are some ideas, as curated by Twitchy, that seem right to me, and gave birth to this blog post of mine. How is it POSSIBLE we have such an incurious press? I can think of a dozen questions, (without jiggling my blob!) I would love to ask, if only to see the looks on their faces, which might be all the answer we need. Good grief!
@seanmdav @allahpundit executive privilege or pardon forthcoming, if it ever *ever* gets that far. — ن Mikey Ramone ن (@ThePantau) August 16, 2015
@allahpundit The deal is being made. Hillary will drop out of the race for “health reasons” in exchange she won’t be indicted. — Chris Elmlund (@ChrisElmlund) August 16, 2015
@allahpundit @hughhewitt Neither one of them wants her to be president. — Deb Ramey (@ramey_deb) August 16, 2015
BOOM! (That’s what I think.)
Huh? Megyn Kelly’s a NUN? Dang! They don’t make nuns like they used to, huh? Wowza!
No… That’s not what I’m saying. I’m saying that everyone is missing the argument about Megyn’s question at the Republican debate: it’s not that Megyn ‘had an agenda’ to ‘take out Trump’ (which, even if it’s true, and it may well be true, still doesn’t harm what I am about to say in any way. They can both be true, so if you’re a Trump supporter or a conservative just unhappy with Fox, don’t click away!) What everyone is missing is that by asking the question at all, she’s implicitly endorsed the ‘War on Women’ liberal meme as valid and worthy, in the same way Obamacare, by making Little Sisters of the Poor, sign a piece of paper pushing off the responsibility to pay for abortion to someone else, makes the nuns endorse abortion as valid and worthy of their notice and their facilitation of its continuance…
Even if you ascribe the most benign reason for the question, “Well, they’re going to be asked this stuff on every other network debate, so might as well get it out of the way early,” you assume 1.) It’s a valid meme now and it will still be a valid meme then, thus ascribing to us all a unique ability to see into the future, most especially, the ability to see into presididential-campaign-season future, which would be a pretty nifty trick, 2.) That the purpose of Republicans debating is to defend themselves morally and politically from Democrats at all, ever, thus conferring upon this defensive posture legitimacy and validity, 3.) That a Republican debate should be about politics not substance – ever, 4.) That a single solitary second of precious air-time should be devoted to this nonsense over _________ (Pick any one of dozens of colossal Obama administration failures, felonies, or fires burning in any corner of the the world.) And finally, 5.) Properly crafted, a “woman-question” might elicit such outrage, such horror – at the Democrats’ in general and Hillary’s in particular – actual “extremism” on women-related matters, that the “War on Women” meme, as implicitly offered by Megyn, could be rendered moot, utterly turned on its head, by merely articulating facts, that the Democrats would be on the defensive by morning! With 24 million viewers, it might have been the first articulation of these facts millions of them may have ever seen, and, thus, caused a catastrophic political earthquake.
That’s what everyone is missing in their pile on of one, Miss Megyn Kelly.
That’s the missed opportunity we all lament.