Lex art work 66% off

They say, a picture is worth 1,000 words.  Well, I can’t paint a picture so I’m going to try to describe what I’d paint if I could.  Some kid won a congressional “art” contest by depicting a cop as a pig.  The fight began soon after a Dope congressman hung the painting in the Capitol Building.  Republicans took it down.  Dopes put it back up.  Repeat.   

I would counsel against removing any piece of art from the walls of the Capitol.  If Dopes want to protect anti-police artwork let them.  Next, the painting is by some mino kid who won an “art” contest.  By taking it down, Reps look like rich, powerful, white guys peeing on some poor mino kid who lacks the means to fight back.  Next, it just calls attention to piece that Reps don’t want to .

Make you’re on art work to counter it.  Have some kid paint a picture of black dope smoking thug threatening a peaceful neighborhood with a white cop standing between the thug and the people in neighborhood. 

If could paint, I’d paint this

Large red, white and blue background in the shape of the USA.

On the southern border
A man with orangeish hair is constructing a wall.  Part of the wall is done.  In that part, the Islamo-Terror-Fascists, dope dealers and gang bangers pile up on the southern side, while people on the north side enjoy a peaceful park scene.  In the area where the wall isn’t complete, the ITF, dope dealers, and gang banger stream across into run down border town.  Fat politician types hand them bags of cash with “entitlements” written on them and a pamphlet that reads “Vote Dope”.  Fat Oliver Warbucks business type men direct them to ghettos and below minimum wage jobs.  Americans wait in an unemployment line.

On the left coast
At Sanctuary City, Hollywood swells party inside a gated community with armed guards oblivious to the chaos just outside the gate created the stream of bad actors flooding across the un-walled portion of the southern border. 

On the East coast
Caligula, D.C. is depicted as a swamp overrun by pigs wallowing in money.   There are D-pigs and R-pigs.  They are identical.  They wallow together.  Baltimore is a crap hole with a thin blue line between the anarchy and the civilized sections.  New York is a city collapsing in on itself as it is being sucked down a swirling vortex.  The UN building is an island where dictators and thug escape the vortex.  Rex Tillerson sits atop a bulldozer awaiting the go ahead to push the UN building into the East River.

Middle America
While the coasts and the southern border are awash with activity, the middle of the country moves on seemingly unaware.  Things are produced.  Police help people.  Life is relatively good.  People on the coasts and in Caligula, D.C. have their backs to the center of the country.

Chicago is mound of dead bodies

Well that what I’d paint.  My picture isn’t worth a 1,000 words.  It’s been discounted about 66% at about 300 words.  Mine isn’t a very good picture to begin with.  Maybe a stick figure rendition.

Dopes/MSM do what Russian hacking couldn’t
IMHO the real intent of the Russian hacking, to the extent that there was Russian hacking, was designed to sow mistrust among Americans with their electoral system rather than to aid a particular candidate.  By pushing the narrative that the Russians did “hack/influence” our election – the influence part of the equation I believe is very near zero – the Dopes and MSM are doing the Russian’s work for them by sowing doubt about the election with their endless whining.     

Conspiracy Theory 1-17
The Dopes and the MSM are pushing the Russian hacking story so the feds can get their hands on the election system.  Who runs federal government?  Dopes by and large.  Once they convince Mr.  & Mrs. America that the feds need to be in charge of all of the election apparatus to prevent foreign intervention, then the Dopes can commit the type of voter fraud they have always dreamed of.  They will be able to pour the necessary votes in from a centralized location instead of having to have operatives in 1,000s of precincts.    

Slow Joe Biden awarded Medal of Freedom with Distinction
Total BS.  Having your politically inspired crony boss hang an award on you is meaningless.  It might have actually meant something had Slow Joe waited for the next president to do the honors. 

Biden is an idiot.  He’s been wrong on every issue for 30 years.  He’s a mean spirited, lying, plagiarizing political hack.

The ultimate insult is that Slowest of all Joes Biden is only the 3^rd American in 30 years to receive the medal with distinction.  YGBS.  Slow Joe Biden?  That’s the best we can do?  In a rare moment of understated truth a weepy Biden uttered, “I don’t deserve this.”

If forced make a recommendation for who should have gotten Biden’s medal, I’d offer up KalaMueller posthumously.   What did Biden do to save Mueller?

Getting rid of The Empty Suit is only the tip of the iceberg

The Empty Suit and many in his administration have spent the last 8 years weaponizing the government to assault their political foes.  The IRS went after conservative groups.  The EPA went after business interests that did not comport with TES’s policy of EPA rules to save every blade of grass.  The FEC went after Internet sites (Breaitbart) that said mean things about TES.  The FCC investigated and made life miserable for conservative reporters and right leaning news organizations.

So Mr. & Mrs. America think we can breathe a sigh of relief because TES is out the door in a bit over a week.   Not so fast Mr. & Mrs. America.  TES may be gone in a week but the legion of TES water carrying azzbags populating various government agencies and departments are well entrenched.  It is likely that these TES zombies will lay in wait like a pile of dog $h!t in the tall grass waiting for some unsuspecting Trump appointee to  make a wrong step and then foul things up for the next 4 years.

The intel community has not even waited for the inauguration.  They are already at it leaking intel that does not put Donald J. Trump in the best light.  Who leaked the fact that DJT wasn’t taking daily briefings?  Who leaked the Russian hack story to the media before Trump was briefed?  Who leaked that the fake Russian hooker story was being seriously looked into by the FBI/CIA?    

So I guess we are expected to believe that the Russians are for the PEOTUS who wants to modernize our nuclear arsenal, rebuild our military, invest in American energy sources, defeat ISIS, scrap the Iran nuke deal etc.  That makes no sense to me and causes me to doubt the intel community’s assessment that the Russians preferred DJT to Shrillda the Hutt who promised a status quo - give the Russians whatever they want - policy.  The spooks want us to believe the Russians love DJT but have only succeeded in convincing me the spooks – at least the TES hires in that community - hate DJT. 

Trump needs to heed Clownboy Chuckles Scummer’s warning.  To wit:  “Let me tell you, you take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday to get back at you. So, even for a practical, supposedly hard-nosed businessman, he is being really dumb to do this.”  

Trump and his cabinet need to play nice until confirmed.  Then one of the top three priorities in every nook and cranny of government needs to be house cleaning.  The moles need to be fired or banished to the Siberia of left lib government postings - that would be anywhere in Middle America.

Trump Vs. CNN
Who cares?  Well I do.  I think it’s long overdue.  I asked during the primary season and the general election, why do Republicans allow these MSM azzbags – who hate Republicans and make no bones about it – to participate in the debates?

So, by clobbering CNN at yesterday’s presser, Trump did what I’d hoped some Republican would do for years.  Hallelujah!  Well done.

Besides can any honest person look at the tape of DJT shutting down CNN and claim that the CNN douche wasn’t being a…well a…douche?  Well many in the MSM are coming to the CNN douche’s defense.  Okay fine.  What would anyone expect?  The lemmings are sticking together.  It’s sort of like the Hollywood crowd nodding knowingly in approval and closing of ranks with one of their own - Merle Steep - after her pompous hectoring of football and MMA fans while the rest of America saw it for what it was: a very predictable, tiresome, rambling, sour grapes rant by an out of touch, pampered, rich, white, old bag.  

Cont. what we know about Russian hacking/influence campaign

Okay where were we?  Oh yeah, what we know about Russian hacking/medaling.

We know that The Empty Suit has been in charge of cyber security and the US response to hacks.

We know that there were no particularly abrasive words or reactions to any Russian hacking before Shrillda the Hutt lost the election – then all hell broke loose.

We know TES tried to influence the Israeli election and that was okay.

We know TES tried to influence the BREXIT vote and that was okay.

From all that I suppose we know that, according to TES, it’s perfectly okay for him to influence the elections of our friends but we’re supposed to be shocked to learn our enemies are trying to do the exact same thing to us that TES did to our friends.  Huh?

17 US intelligence agencies concur that the Russians tried to influence the elections.

I think we know that the intell community can screw just about anyone if they put their mind to it.  Head Dope Clownboy Chuckie Scumer let the cat out of the bag last night:  Scumer said, “Let me tell you, you take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday to get back at you. So, even for a practical, supposedly hard-nosed businessman, he is being really dumb to do this.”  I f this true then could the latest Trump frenzy about golden showers in a Russian hotel room be payback from the intell community?

So now we’re supposed to accept the word of a bunch of vindictive neurotic snoops about something TES should have taken care of 7 ½ years ago.

I think I know that the Russian hacking story is pure BS.  It’s been on-gong for…well forever, but the Dopes and the MSM only care about it when Shrillda the Hutt gets her XXX azz kicked.  

Things we don’t know about Russian hacking 

Why do we have 17 intelligence agencies?  The simple answer is: 16 is too few.  18 is too many.  I am told that the agencies all do different things, work different issues and areas of intell.  Okay fine.  How is it then that they all agree on this issue?  Shouldn’t at least one or two of the agencies abstain because the issue is outside their agency’s area of concern?

How do you get 17 government agencies to agree on anything?

We don’t know how so much protected “intell” is making its way into the MSM.  Either the intell agencies are leaking it (see Scumer comment) or Demo-Dopes who received the briefing are leaking it, or Trump is leaking it to stay in the fore.

I think think the latest story is total BS.  Here's why.  The trick isn't to get a couple of whores to pee in someone's hotel bed after they check out.  The trick is to get them to pee in the bed before they check in.

Now if that was the allegation - Trump got the whore to pee in TES's bed before he checked in so he'd be sleeping in it, it would be kudos to Trump.

Jeff Session’s response to Demo-Dopes
So the Demo-Dopes are in high dudgeon over Jeff Sessions’ alleged racist past.  I wonder if it would be bad form for Sessions to mention that he’s happy to see the Dope’s new found opposition to racism since the death of their former Senate Leader and Grand Kleegle of the KKK Robert Byrd.   Or the Democrat record on race since the Civil War.

Slaves were freed because of Abraham Lincoln and the Republican Party.

The Democratic Party is the party of secession,

The Democratic Party is the party of Confederate flag,

The Democratic Party is the party of apartheid (Jim Crow),

The Democratic Party is the party of abortion on-demand which has killed more black babies than were born in NYC in 2014,

The Democratic Party is the party of "high tech lynchings" of blacks who have the nerve to leave the left's plantation,

The Democratic Party is the party of ensuring poor black families are denied the opportunity to select the school they think best for their children,

The Democratic Party that has done such a marvelous job with the African American community that 73% of black babies are born out of wedlock, 60% of black 4th graders cannot read, and 54% of all violent crime is committed by black males between the ages of 15-24.

Best parody of celeb hectoring videos - ever

More stuff for Tuesday

I’m running late.  I stayed up to watch the end of the college National Championship game last night.  That was one for the ages.  I only tuned in about midway of the last quarter.  The emotional roller coaster in the last 5 minutes for fans who are invested in either of the teams must have been something.  I guess Clemson spent time with the basketball team last week learning the pick and roll.  But hey Nick, after you get burned once, you gotta learn to switch or zone it up.  No excuses.  Has anyone called Lane Kiffen for his take?

A new take on Demo-Dope whining in the local fish wrap
In the post under, Lex takes on a holier than thou letter writer in the local fish wrap.  That post initiated this take on Therese Boomershine’s preaching from Richie the Buck, who correctly picked the winning team in last night’s game.  I was going to lift it and pass it off as my own, but "the Buck" has enforcers who come after people who try to rip him off.

Teresa Boomershine states, “I usually read the letters and either laugh them off or wonder what that person was thinking”. I would suggest she laugh it off. Mr. Polk was crystal clear in what he said and Boomershine does not need to wonder what Polk was thinking. But Boomershine has invoked Christianity in the discussion for some reason so let’s go with it. The serpent in Genesis, or better known as The MSM, convinced Adam and Eve that Eden needed reform. This is when Adam and Eve went from being conservatives to progressives and invited Satan to the party. Eden’s property value then dropped below that of South Chicago’s. If Boomershine could reread Mr. Polk’s article and replace Trump for “Moses and the Promised Land”, and supplant The MSM for “The Serpent” she might well sleep better.      

The Empty Suit’s farewell, or as Lex calls it good riddance, speech is tonight
The I, me, my, mine speech is tonight when The Empty Suit takes to the airwaves to tell America one more time how awesome he is and how unworthy we were of his greatness because we failed to fully embrace it.  Richie the Buck’s over under bet on personal references for this narcissistic azzbag (oops kinder gentler foul up there) in his last official address is in the NBA all-star game range at 263.

NASCAR’s take on Meryl Streep
If Meryl Streep were a NASCAR driver and Darrell Waltrip were calling the race, she’d be known a Merle Streep.  I don’t know that that bit of insight adds anything, but it’s what just popped into my head.  So you’ve got Merle and the rest of the Hollywood swells out there claiming to be one of the most “vilified segments of society”.  Really?  Try being a white, Christian, male, heterosexual, conservative on campus *itch.  These are the most famous and some of the most over paid people in the world.  Please, can I be a vilified in that manner too?  The only things I lack to join this effete borg-like class of moralizing snobs are talent and left leaning politics.

Jeff Sessions’ hearing
Demo-Dopes are digging deep into their empty playbook and will be relying on the Lefty lib sole remaining trump card – calling him a racist.  If everyone’s a racist, no one is.  If everyone is Hitler no one is.  It is so very tiresome. 

   

Russian hack
I spent a good portion of my near death weekend trying to process the Russian hacking story.  Call me crazy, most people who know me do, but I’m suspicious of a report that so conveniently fits into the Demo-Dope narrative.  The fact that Lindsey Gramnesty and McCainiac are in full throat support of the Dopes only furthers my suspicions.

Here’s what I think I know

Russia - and the rest of the world for that matter – are expected to try to hack us.

Mrs. Lex and I – like 22 million other Americans - are beneficiaries of a government funded “Lifelock” type service for the next 5 years after our personal information was hacked by the ChiComs.

I do not recall The Empty Suit taking any punitive action against the ChiComs for their cyber war on OPM.

The government has already acknowledged foreign hacks of the State Dep, the White House, NOAA, US satellites and the Post Office.

So TES knew about the Russian hacking well before the first vote was ever cast in the 2016 election, even the ones cast in Chicago in Jun – of 2015.  What did he do about it? 

After telling his failed SecState to issue a mistranslated “reset” button to Vlad, and telling Medvedev to “tell Vlad he’d have more flexibility after the election”, and selling Vlad 20% of US uranium stocks, The Empty Suit decided to draw a bright broad redline and put an end to hacking by stomping his foot down and telling Vlad to “knock it off”.  Press liar Josh Earnest tells us TES had his hands on his hips and was tapping his toe for emphasis when he issued the dire warning and that Putin was tears but couldn’t tell if it was from laughing so hard or the fear TES had instilled the ex-KGB colonel’s heart.

Well after TES’s hair raising warning, ol’ Vlad must have been so scared he immediately went into hiding and forgot to tell his boys to “knock it off”, because apparently the Russian hacking and influence campaign continued through Election Day.    

Before Shrillda the Hutt’s surprise azz whippin’ on Nov 8, TES and other Dopes never issued a word about the threat of Russians’ influence on the election.  Russian meddling was A-Okay until their BS candidate lost.  Then the hacking became a story.

Oops I gotta run.  We’ll try to wrap this up tomorrow.

Lex uncovers Left's tactic of name calling on local fish wrap's editorial page

Looking over the back and forth on the Presidential Election results as captured on the editorial page of the local fish wrap, something has caught my eye.  When a conservative, like Lex, writes to point out Trump’s Electoral College landslide, MSM bias, two party establishment lock-step or just about anything else we are met with rebuttals calling us angry sexist homophobic racist unchristian haters.

Here’s a prime example.  Rich Polk wrote the letter under:

Get over it! Hillary Clinton lost not because of the Russians, FBI, or Martians; it was because she was outworked and outcampaigned by Donald Trump. This despite her having billions of bucks in her war chest and almost the total support of the so-called mainstream media – an oxymoron for sure. Excuses won’t hack it. The privileged, obscenely wealthy, radical, leftist, intolerant, revisionist “elite” are now going to be governed by, get this, a billionaire. Ironic! Take a pause from eating your livers and get around to being objective, unbiased news organizations/journalists. A tall order but you can do it – or maybe not.

Rich Polk

Then in the Friday edition, Mr. Polk’s letter elicited this response from one Therese Boomershine:

An unchristian outburst

I usually read the letters and either laugh them off or wonder what that person was thinking. But in response to Rich Polk’s letter (“A reckoning for media,” Dec. 28), I truly feel very sorry for him that he has such hatred for his fellow man that he would write such a disgusting letter. Anyone who has this much hatred for their fellow man, regardless of their party affiliation, needs to look within themselves and find the demons. No Christian I know says anything like what Polk wrote.

Therese Boomershine 

I have looked at Polk’s letter 8 ways to Sunday and can find not a word in it to conclude he professes to be a Christian.  Nor do I find anything in it “disgusting”.  Boomershine’s letter is proof positive that the snowflakes are going to melt when confronted with the truth.  Not that Polk needs my help, I sent a letter to the fish wrap indicating that I was on to their and their unhinged Lefty letter writing allies’ tactic – avoid the issue and sling accusations of hateful racism etc.  Here’s the note:

Boomershine ought to remove the beam from her own eye

Therese Boomershine (in a Jan 6^th letter) alludes that Rich Polk is unchristian for thoughts conveyed in his accurate letter taking on the sorry state of journalism in America exposed by Wikileaks and the recent election (published on Dec 28^th).

The defining belief of Christians is the resurrection of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.  I read Mr. Polk’s letter and cannot find one thing in it that defines Mr. Polk’s religious beliefs as Christian or otherwise.  I don’t know his faith nor would I consider questioning it without ironclad proof.

It’s ironic that by judging Mr. Polk to be unchristian without a scintilla of evidence, it is Ms. Boomershine who is on the wrong side of scripture.  “Stop judging, that you may not be judged.” MT 7:1

Deprived of any logical arguments to advance their agenda, Leftist are reduced to calling people “unchristian” when it is they who misuse scripture, or “childish” when, after losing an election, it is they who are acting like a 6 year old brat throwing a tantrum over a lost game of Hungry Hippos, or “ignorant” when it is they who cannot grasp the fundamentals of federalism and republican government, or “racist”, “sexist”, “homophobic” et al when it is they who insist on identity politics of grouping people by the color of their skin, sex or sexual orientation et al rather than the content of their character. 

Then there’s the Left’s catchall for any thought that veers one mil left or right of their own way of thinking – hate.  If you don’t agree with them, you must be an angry hater. 

None of the toxic verbiage spewed by leftist is designed to promote a logical argument.  It’s all a Trigglypuff-like heckler’s veto in the guise of free speech designed simply to shut the other side up.

A valiant effort today even if it isn't

This hodgepodge is the best I can do today.  I'm a bit under the weather and the sub didn't make it in this morning.

Russian hacking
One of the left’s main line of attacks on the Russian hacking scam is that the guy who outted the e-mails – Julian Assange – is an “alleged rapist”.  Okay fine.  Let’s burn him at the stake.  And while we’re at it, remember Billyboy Billbo Clinton is also an alleged rapist.  So let’s burn him at the stake as well.

Chief Clown now arbiter mainstream
Head clown Chuckles Scumer has vowed to oppose Donald Trump’s nomination to the Supreme Court if that nomination is not “mainstream”.  Who knew a boob from NY now acting as the cruise director on the clown cruise – Chuckles – is now America’s arbiter of mainstream?

Trump could clobber the chief clown with one tweet:  Have named 21 possible choices for SC. Which are NOT mainstream?  This would force clown boy to either reject all 21, which would make him look like the obstructionist that he is, or reveal the nominees that would sail through. 

Sans a celeb video protesting it, EC vote will be certified today
Shrillda the Hutt will lose the election again today.  Today is the day that a joint secession of Congress will certify the Electoral College count.  Since I have not seen any of those celebrity videos imploring Congress to give the Electoral College and the American people the finger at this stage of Donald Trump’s march to the Oval Office, I have to assume the count will be certified. 

Thank goodness we have another one of those thoughtful celebrity videos to tell us what to think

Riding the tide of their successful video imploring Electoral College electors to abandon Donald Trump, an effort that resulted in more electors abandoning Shrillda the Hutt (D’oh) than Trump, washed up and C list celebs have put together another one of those terribly effective political videos this time ranting to congress to stop DJT.  This is surefire.  After all what thinking person doesn’t form their opinions based on the emotions of pampered know-nothing celebs who earn a living by saying what other people to tell them to say – with feeling?

Where were these people in 1973?  All we needed was one of these guaranteed to succeed videos to avoid the embarrassment that is the designated hitter rule in American League Baseball.  Just one word from Sally Field in a video of stars would have given the powers that be in basketball pause about instituting the 3 point line.  Had Sean Penn just piped up in a video, the lights never would have come on at Wrigley Field.  Had Jordi Lafarge objected to closing the south end of Ohio Stadium, the Horseshoe would still be a Horseshoe.   

Simply put there is nothing know-nothing has-been celebs cannot accomplish by ranting to us surfs in a video where they each say the same word over and over.  Only an idiot can’t see that. 

I just wonder why they don’t move to Syria and produce a “It’s Time for World Peace Video”?  Wouldn’t that solve everything – including the need for more celeb videos? 

The Empty Suit awards himself Distinguished Public Service Medal
You gotta love this.  At TES’s farewell to the troops speech (the troops dubbed it the good riddance to TES speech), SecDef Carter awarded TES the Distinguished Public Service Medal.  I don’t know what to make of this.  There’s absolutely no benefit to Carter to do such a thing.  The time for sucking up to TES has long passed for Carter.

Here’s the thing.  In the military it is poor form and looked upon very skeptically when an underling submits an award for his boss.  The only thing that would be more suspicious is a two man patrol that results in each submitting the other for a Medal of Honor.  America’s sole surviving Cambodian War hero John Frenchie Kerry chimed in TES’s medal with these pertinent questions, “What?  Why only one DPSM?  I always submitted myself for three at a time.”

That, I guess, would be the ultimate farce if TES had taken the Kerry route and submitted the award for himself.  Aren’t there some things that just go without saying?  Ice is cold.  Fire is hot.  TES is an idiot.  The President of the United States is a distinguished public servant.  But hey it’s 2017.  All of the boys get trophies.  Besides, it will balance the unearned awards display at the TES presidential library.  The Nobel Peace Prize – speaking of a farce - on one side the DPSM on the other.

Aside:  For 8 years Glenn Reynolds over at Instapundit has run TES’s many unilateral military actions, inactions and droneings under the ironic headline:  Peace Prize Update

But wait there’s more
TES took the time to impart more of his wisdom on us.  The genius told the trop that women are “at least as strong as men.”  Well that explains the 50 -50 split of women - men linebackers in the NFL.  It also explains why Title IX is so important – because men and women are physically equal so we needed a law telling us.  It also explains why the WNBA is popular as the NBA.  No.  Wait.  When left to vote with their own money, Americans do not support women’s sports.  They have to have the money confiscated from them by the government and given to inferior women’s programs.  No offence to women’s programs.  Skating and gymnastics ae not my thing.

I suspect that TES conflating physical strength with mental strength.  If that’s the case, TES make the argument for a division labor among men and women based on their physiology.  Just say women “are at least as strong as men” does not make it so and is Undistinguished Public Service to say it is. 

Violent racist Trump supporters
Lex renewed his conversation with Peter Holly of “Professor” Cox victim of terrorism fame in the post below.  I sent him this link with this note:

Poor “Professor” Cox.  Violent racist Trump supporters strike again.  No.  Wait.

Leftist snowflakes are going to have a very bad year - I hope

There I was, minding my own *amn business, when I ran across this piece by Peter Holly of the Washington Compost.  The gist of the article is that after a college “professor” called Trump’s election “an act of terrorism”, the “professor” became the target of some harassment.  The only reason anyone outside the students trapped in her classroom knew anything abut this crybaby is because one of the students recorded the unhinged lefty’s comment on a cell phone.  The video went viral and then the “professor” had to retreat to a “safe place” because the backlash included mean phone calls and e-mails. 

Mr. Holly went so far as to claim the “professor” herself “became the victim of terror.”   What!!  E-mailing and calling a bonehead college “professor” names is now “terror?”  YGBSM.  So I e-mailed Pete this love note:

Dear Mr. Holley:

I read your 1,800 plus word puff piece on Professor Cox.  Is there a chance, like so many other “Trump hate” stories, Professor Cox has manufactured some of the “hate” herself?  We know the “vote Trump” church burning story was fake.  We know the “Trump hijab shaming” story was fake.  I suspect that some if not all of the hate directed at Professor Cox is coming from her fellow travelers on the Left. 

Just curious, did you report, or are you working on a similar story on the unhinged Left’s threats against Republican Electors?   

Cox is a “victim of terror”, really?  As unfortunate as the harassment Cox is enduring is, it isn’t exactly being blown up by a roadside IED, trying to escape a burning high rise after someone flew a plane into it, having her head cut off in an ISIS video, being gunned down at a Christmas party, a night club or a deployment briefing on a military installation. 

If you are truly into this kind of thing – harassment of free speech on campus, and you really want to see hate, narrow mindedness and violence on display (no, I won’t say “terror”, because that would be absurd) do a story on a Milo visit to just about any American campus. 

That's a silly notion.  How would a story on Milo being harassed by intolerant Leftist advance the Left's agenda?  That in a nutshell is why yours, thankfully, is a dying business. 

Cheers,

Well much to my surprise Pete took the time to e-mail back.  Here’s his response:

Doug,

I didn't say she was a victim of terror -- she did. I'll let readers decide whether she's delusional and strange or legitimately suffering.

I am curious why you're troubled by a story about furious internet trolls targeting someone? They're not reps of the trump campaign and I never implied as much. But you interpret the story as a "trump hate" story. That's interesting. 

My guess is -- like the rest of the Breitbart folks that emailed me -- you're unable to read a story without imprinting your binary view of American culture onto it. You no longer see a professor who, regardless of her political affiliation, doesn't deserve death threats for making controversial political statements. You see an agent of liberalism picked up by the left wing to advance the liberal agenda. It's nearly conspiratorial. 

That thought bubble also explains why you think journalism is dying when metrics outside of regional papers show just the opposite:

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/12/27/507140760/big-newspapers-are-booming-washington-post-to-add-sixty-newsroom-jobs

P 

There were several inaccuracies in Pete’s response so I responded to his response:   

Peter,

Thanks for taking the time to respond.  I did not expect that.

I cannot find anywhere in the article where Professor Cox claims to be a "victim of terror."   The only place I can find it appears in the headline (That’s supposed to tell me what the story is about – right?) without attribution or quotation marks. 

I’m not sure what to make of the rest of your e-mail.  To the extent that I am “troubled” by your piece, it’s by the double standard that exists in these things.  Again, have you written about or do you intend to write about Republican Electors threatened by Leftist?

Nor do I think your piece is “Trump hate.”  I simply asked if it is possible that much of the animosity directed at Professor Cox might be coming from the same type of people who spray paint “vote Trump” on their own church before setting it ablaze or file false police reports about “Trump supporters” demanding that she remove her hijab. 

As a guy who has traveled around the world in both directions, I think my “thought bubble” is at least as big as most.  That said, I have little use for “trolls” who threaten anyone for doing their job while hiding behind the anonymity of the Internet.  Again, are you going to tell the story of a Republican Elector?

If Professor Cox’s experience can be seen as chilling free speech on campus, what do you make of the Left’s treatment of Milo?  Double standard? 

With regard to the thriving print media business, I am sure you are correct.  It will all become crystal clear in the next 10 years.

Best of the New Year to you,

When I didn’t hear from Pete again, I sensed he was not going to respond to my response to his response so I responded to is non-response (That was supposed to be a kind of joke - overworking the word “response” - get it? - but actually I think it turned out pretty clear.):

Peter,

P.S.  Your knee jerk reaction to attribute my “troubles” with your piece to Breitbart is an indication that you may want to check your own “thought bubble.”  That said, it’s really good to know that, now nearly 5 after his death, Andrew Breitbart is still driving Leftist mad while living rent free inside their heads. 

Cheers,

I haven't heard another word from Pete.  It really is very satisfying to know how easy it is to chase these lefty libs under a rock.  Poor “Professor” Cox.  Like most lefty libs, she can dish it out, but when something does not fit in perfectly with her world view the snowflake melts.  

The first 100 days of 2017 will be interesting

Well Happy New Year!  Yes, I know.  I am two days late and promised to return on the 2^nd but didn’t.  What can I say?  Jan 2^nd was federal holiday so I took an extra day off.  At the end of the day, you are getting exactly what you are paying for - nothing.  So…

Lex’s New Year’s resolution is to take the high road this year dumping the heart stopping hyperbole, the jr. high name calling of azzbags that desperately deserve it and for the 5 millionth time, all of the over the top exaggerations.  Now Lex’s loyal 3 readers know we’ve been down this road many, many times.  Each time the resolution has lasted about as long as a Ronda Rousey come back bout (for the unwashed she was KO’d in the first 48 seconds in a NYE bout).  To be honest, when I go back and reread some these post I get as embarrassed as Mariah Cary after an epically failed lip sync concert on live TV, which is to say - not embarrassed at all. But in 2017, I’d like to do better

So, after nearly 200 words, I’m already well on my way down the “high road” of 2017.

So at the end of 2016 Lex predicted that The Empty Suit (that’s not name calling is it) would unleash hell on the American people in one last fit of petty pique.  While I was 100% certain that, as the last 8 years have proven, TES wouldn’t have any compunction what-so-ever to screw the American people 15-20 times a day in his last month and a half in office, I didn’t anticipate him wanting to screw the Israeli people and continue to blow up the Middle East on the way out the door.  TES’s behavior in last month or so is like the slob who, after a double bean burrito at lunch, passes gas on a crowded bus he makes his way to the door to get off. 

My hope is that Trump uses TES’s petty fit against Israel - our only real friend in the Middle East - to rally an already UN unfriendly American people to defund the corrupt and useless organization.   After the US backed UN resolution to screw Israel, Charles Krauthammer suggested that Trump put his name on the UN building and turn it into condos.  That is an unworkable solution.  There isn’t enough, bleach, Lysol, ammonia and air freshener in the world to get the stench out.  The UN building is like a new Cadillac that the mob used to stash three dead bodies in the hot August sun for three weeks.  You might be able to get it to look nice on the outside by running it through the car wash, but nothing is going to get the smell out.  The building needs to be imploded with DJT pushing the plunger to start the chain reaction of explosions that will reduce that monument to despotism, anti-Americanism and ineptitude to pile of rubble that can be sold for scrap and the land parceled off for a profit to the US Treasury. 

DJT should very publicly rescind every one of the avalanche of BS economically crippling regulations TES is unleashing on the American economy.  Within the first 30 minutes of entering office, DJT should return the 1.65 million acres of Utah TES seized in the name of the federal government and demand congress limit the percentage of any state that can be controlled by the Feds at about 5%.  More of the western half the US is controlled by the feds than by the states.  That arrangement should end day one of a Trump administration.

TES’s temper tantrum is going to last for another 16 ½ days during which he will do everything in his power to screw us.  Count on it.  How much of the damage TES inflicts on the nation as he strolls out the door can be reversed we’ll have to wait and see. 

End of year post

I’ve just decided that this will be the last post of the year.  Struggle through Fri and next week somehow.  I’ll see you back here on Jan 2^nd unless something big happens, like the release of another one of those terribly effective celebrity videos telling us rubes how we can deny DJT the presidency.  I’m thinking a human chain around Trump Tower to keep Trump from leaving the building until after the inauguration.  Or shutting down the inauguration through a court challenge to the environmental impact of so many meat eating people gathered in one place creating a meat eating flatulence threat to the planet.

So we have some end of the year housekeeping to take care of.  First, the unperson of the year.  Nominees are:

Shrillda the Hutt for being a total hack and loser.  There’s great satisfaction knowing she will live out her days with the certainty that the American people know what lying, thieving blisterbag of raw sewage dressed in XXXXXXXXXL $1,400 Nina McLemore pantsuit she is.  

The MSM: Could they have gotten 2016 more wrong?  No.  I don't think they could have.  They were totally exposed for what we already knew they were, Dope lackeys.  They have so tarnished their own brand they may never recover.  They are now relegated to being a echo chamber where they report to each other rather than the American people who see them for exactly what they are dishonest Dope water carriers.  DJT has called them out as dishonest and should continue to do so.   

Any celebrity who thinks anyone outside their ring of bought and paid for friends gives a flying crapola what they think about anything.  They have to be addressed as Borg like entity because that’s exactly how they act.  They have drank the Kool-Ade and been assimilated into the collective where individual thought and speech are punished by the collective.  99.9% of the Hollywood lemmings all lined up behind the Hutt’s triple X azz and then as the Hutt waddled toward the edge of the cliff the celebrity Borg followed her lead and walked off the cliff with her.

But the winner is the battered beaten to a pulp steaming POS Harry the roach Reid.  The roach, a well-known pederast, wrapped up his senate career of lies and theft this year.  Good riddance azzbag.  The roach will spend the early months of 2017 watching DJT’s nominations sail through the senate thanks to his rule changes in that body.  So when the MSM rails against every one of Trump’s picks they should cite the roach as the culprit who allowed it to happen.  Way to go Harry.  You’re doing a heck of a job. 

Lex’s man of the year is Conner Brewer.  Mr. Brewer swam against the PC stream when he was the only Millikin University football player to stand for the National Anthem.  Well done Conner.  When attention seeking azzbag athletes from pee wee to the NFL were taking a knee - first to call attention to themselves, then - to protest the greatest freest country in the history of the world, Conner quietly stood.  When one young person swims against the tide of PC like this, I think it takes more courage than all of the go along get along PC cowards who been assimilated into the Borg.  

It’s been a crazy year, but I think we’ve managed to buy some time to right the ship of state.  That said, I’m reminded of the Michael Ramirez cartoon of (appropriately  for this election I suppose) Russian roulette.  It’s foolish to think everything is okay now.  We may be too far down the rat hole for DJT to save us.  Dopes, Rats, MSM, Hollywood swells et al will continue to oppose him when they think it safe to do so.  The first 100 days are critical.  Trump needs to move quickly while paying zero attention to the hysterics of his critics.  Okay - nearly zero.  I suppose there is nothing that will keep Trump from a well-placed tweet or two.

There’s also the azzbag factor.  That would be The Empty Suit doing everything in his power to screw the country as he walks out the door.  TES is now like a renter 3 month behind on the rent and has been given a 30 day eviction notice.  Now the derelict is using the 30 days to rip out the copper wire and plumbing of the home to sell as scrap.  Do not misunderestimate the petulance this walking talking POS is capable of. 

But hey Christmas is upon us.  Take comfort in the most oft used phrase in the Bible – fear not;  Luke 2:10-11

¹⁰ And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.

¹¹ For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.

That’s what Christmas is all about Charlie Brown.  Merry Christmas to all.

Lex under attack in local fish wrap!

Two days ago the local fish wrap published two letters which viciously (that’s hyperbole) attacked our hero  - Lex.  Feeling threatened and needing a safe space, Lex retreated to the survival bunker here on the compound and fired off a response to the savage (hyperbole again) attacks.  The response follows.  The cruel missives egregiously and unwarrantedly taking Lex to task follow that. 

The letter:

As long as it’s not an obituary, I’ve always been of the mind that it’s nice to see your name in print.  Come to think about it, as long as it’s not some after death out of body experience, even the exception would be cool.  So imagine my excitement when I find I’m the subject of not one but two rebuttals in the letters section of the 19 Dec JG.

First Ms. Candioto.  Schadenfreude best describes my emotion with regard to the results of the Presidential Election and the reaction to it by an increasingly unhinged segment of the Democrat Party.  There are several translations of the German word “schadenfreude”.  None of them include “angry”.  Why would I be angry?  My guy won.  If you want to see real anger, look at Democrat filth and intimidation directed at Republican electors preceding the Electoral College vote.

My letter was directed at two elements of the Democrat Party: a) Polite well-meaning Democrats who “bleat” about the Clinton winning the popular vote as if they are ignorant of the role that the Electoral College plays in electing our president; and b) “reactionaries [who] insist on calling anyone who challenges their lame-brained opinions a racist, a sexist, a homophobe, an Islamophobe, or the catchall for those terms made famous by Clinton herself – ‘deplorables’”.   

If you are not a member of either of those accurately described groups, take a powder and lay down.  You are absolved.

For Mr. Bauer:  When the Constitutional Convention adjourned in 1787, Ben Franklin was reportedly asked what form of government the delegates had given us.  Franklin replied, “A Republic, if you can keep it.”  But what does that “ignorant” boob know?  So fill in the blank of this once well-known phrase; “I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the_______ for which it stands…” Class?  Anyone?  Mr. Bauer?  Anyone?  Hint:  It is NOT “representative democracy”.  But, you say potato and I say tuber.

As I am already over the word limit, let me just say the laundry list of rantings and unsubstantiated accusations that reads like a manifesto found in the backwoods cabin of a serial killer in the remainder of Mr. Bauer’s angry letter are as nonsensical and the logic is as flawed as his understanding of what constitutes a republican form of government.

The vicious attacks:

The best for America

As a lifelong Democrat who did vote for Hillary Clinton, I must respond to Doug Schumick’s Dec. 11 letter “Name-calling is all Democrats have.” 

While I can refute each of the writer’s inflammatory accusations (such as all Democrats must have slept through civics class), I choose to avoid the mean-spirited tone of the letter.

Upon his election win, Donald Trump promised that he would be a president for all Americans. His statement was full of hope, and I wait patiently for him to show that he will keep that promise.

Letters such as Schumick’s, filled with disdain for anyone who did not vote for Trump, are really hate speech aimed only to continue divisiveness in our country.

Schumick should open his heart, let his anger go and join his fellow citizens, Democrats included, who want only the best for America.

Kathy Candioto

Fort Wayne

Trump has already used up all his chances

This letter is in response to Doug Schumick (Dec. 11) and Ed Keller (Dec. 12). They need to get out of their overstuffed recliners, turn off Fox News, wake up and smell the coffee. They also need to start fact-checking before making ignorant statements. For the record, one thing Donald Trump will never receive is the popular vote.

1. The United State is not a republic but a representative democracy. 

2. The Electoral College was founded in 1787. Members were elected, not appointed. The reasoning was electors in each state capitol were given more information than the general public. Because of the slowness of transportation and news delivery, it was easier to reach this group than the state population. The Electoral College of that era was put in place with the hope that all popular votes would be taken into consideration. In the beginning several changes were made to the college as elections took place. The Founding Fathers were not gods, saints, prophets or geniuses. They were simply men striving to make sure that every individual had a say in the elected office of the president and vice president.

3. While it is true the college was supposed to be based on the states’ population, that is no longer the case. A simple test is to take the population of South Dakota and divide it into the population of California. You will see that California should have more than 150 votes, not the 55 they now have.

4. The Carrier deal that Donald Trump so pompously claimed saved more than 1,100 jobs is actually only around 800 jobs. Of course, nothing was done about the 600 jobs in Huntington or the corporate jobs in Indianapolis. But 1,100 jobs sounds better than 800 for post-election pep rallies. He must have these pep rallies that most of us gave up in high school to stroke his narcissistic ego. So Indiana was thrown under the Trump bus at the cost of $7 million.

5. Democrats are not whining, we are attempting to show that more than 2.5 million votes were not considered in this election. As for name-calling, anyone who has dealt with mental health issues would agree this man suffers from multiple mental illnesses and is not functioning like I hope you and I are.

6. My America is the greatest country in the world! It is a paradox to state that you are going to “make America great again.” I also believe it is a fool who would say he is so smart that he doesn’t need daily intelligence briefings. Seeing what he has already done in the last four weeks, he has had all the chances he gets from me as to whether he is a businessman or politician. 

7. The only promise he needs to keep is to “drain the swamp” in Washington, D.C. I think we should wait until February to do this and that way Trump, his lapdog Mike Pence and his outrageous Cabinet will be there. Then pull the plug and get rid of all the “swamp scum” with one swoosh.

Thom Bauer