Author Archives: Iowa Life

From the horse’s mouth

I wanted to make sure and preserve this clip for posterity. It is from October 2016. A few weeks before the election in which Donald John Trump won. At that time “everyone knew” Hillary was going to win in a landslide. I don’t even know the context in which O’Bama here was babbling about Russia. But for reasons unknown he was chiding Mr. Trump for the very idea that Russia could have any influence in our elections.

I suppose part of it was a CYA operation as he was the one nominally in charge at that moment. Less the a month later on November 9, the day after the election in which Hillary had her head handed to her, the tables turned! Then it was Trump was handed the election by the Kremlin! It was Russia! It was Putin! It was anything but Hillary!

[For real fun, go to YouTube sometime and look up “news coverage of election night 2016”. To watch their faces melt about 9 o’clock when it started to become clear Trump was going to win, is just priceless. To watch all those people over 40 throw a tantrum is a treat you won’t see too many times in one lifetime.]

“I’ve always been a big believer in ‘X’, but…”

“A politician will always tip off his true belief by stating the opposite at the beginning of the sentence. For maximum comprehension, do not start listening until the first clause is concluded. Begin instead at the word ‘BUT’ which begins the second, or active, clause. This is the way to tell a liberal from a conservative – before they tell you. Thus: ‘I have always believed in a strong national defense, second to none, but…(a liberal, about to propose a $20 billion defense cut).”

— Frank Mankiewicz
(1924-2014) American journalist
http://libertytree.ca/quotes/Frank.Mankiewicz.Quote.6851

This was an interesting quote in a number of ways. Liberty Tree (who sends out these quotes) doesn’t normally miss when someone dies, and unless there were two ‘Frank Mankiewicz’, this one died 6 years ago in 2014. I added the expiration date. As you can see from the picture above of Frank in front of the McGovern poster, he was a liberal. Yet in the quote he’s being bipartisan when he shows how a liberal politician obfuscates just as often as a conservative. That is a wonderful job of diagraming a sentence, something I never learned. In the bio I read on Frank it mentions he came from a long line of “Hollywood luminaries”. I have to assume he is related to the director Joseph and TCM’s Ben Mankiewicz. Liberal Jews are nothing new to Hollywood.

Going up?

Oh sure, Buttjudge pulls out, he gets an article. Klobuchar pulls out, she gets an article. Tom Steyer pulls out, what’s he get? Ignored! That guy can’t buy press! He’s running around, “Hey! There’s 2 billionaires in this race!” Mini Mike Bloomberg gets all the attention. Steyer could be walking thru the middle of Times Square at high noon, have a flying saucer swoop down and abduct him with their John Deere Tractor beam, and he still wouldn’t get any press!

I’ve never seen anybody so invisible! It couldn’t happen to a nicer guy. Mr. Trump was still campaigning and Steyer was running ads about impeaching him. Its been non-stop ever since. I think part of Steyer’s lack of success as a candidate was his juvenile behavior the past 4 years. People just dismissed him as a snarling Chihuahua. It really became evident with Klobuchar and Buttjudge pulling out on the same weekend as Steyer. The sound of silence.

AOC’s public image

Conservative media’s favorite villain is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Today’s article on FOXNews.com was about a “spat” between her and Republican Senator Ted Cruz. The subject isn’t really important, they carry her every utterance. Not bad for a freshman from New York who will hit her 14th month in office on Wednesday. If she doesn’t run for President in 2024 I will be greatly surprised. You have to figure the Democrats are going to get their head handed to them this fall.

Setting the stage for another Democratic free-for-all in ’24. She’s the one with the juice. Its like Tom Steyer, he’s juice-less. 2 billionaires and only one gets press. When Mike Bloomberg has more charisma than you do, its time to find another hobby. The Bronx Bomber becomes legal October 13, 2024. I think I’ll see if I can put up a string of comments about her from online:

“It was utterly irresponsible to put AOC in Congress.”

“She can claim all the accomplishments she wants to but let’s not forget one of the main reasons of her fame were completely stupid answers she gave during interviews.”

“AOC is literally ignorant.” (how would you be ‘figuratively’ ignorant?)

“Can Jello Shots even spell science? I thought she had a degree in economics.”

“It’s hard to take AOC seriously. Since she is an evolutionist, I wonder what rock she evolved from.”

“There’s a difference between smart and crazy.”

Wrapped in the cloak

Once of those smart guys who sat around thinking up smart things to say said something like, “When Fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.” This election cycle is bringing out all sorts of interesting ideas. Currently the pundits on TV are “Shocked, shocked!” that Bernie Sanders calls himself a Democratic Socialist. The implication is that, “This is ‘Merica, we don’t cotton to communism!” Well that’s great, but don’t let it obscure what’s going on.

For the life of me I will never understand how people are so blind. One of the topics in last nights Democrat debate was education in Cuba. While they were going over that what was ignored was the deplorable state of  education in America. When I first became aware of this in the early 1990s America’s world rank was roughly 28th in math and science. Then it became 35th in math and now sits around 39th! Why are you worried about Cuba?? Your kids don’t go to school there. You don’t pay for their education. Focus! The problem is here.

They sound the alarm (!) on what the tax rate would be under Sanders, meanwhile ignoring what the tax rate IS for hedge fund managers now! (Virtually nothing.) Good God! Many areas of Wall Street and other sectors of the business world get away with metaphorical murder! The conservative media is as bad as the liberal media. They are simply using the threat of Sanders to hide the real abuses going on now.

Get a clue

Capitalism or Socialism concept

In my drive to stay off Facebook I discovered the FOX News website. Its an interesting place. There are a TON of liberals there. They hate Trump, they hate conservatives, they hate FOX, yet there they are. It also reaffirms my theory on FOX and their fans: They’re Republicans, not conservatives. They regurgitate the party line, but they’re not real good on independent thought.

Right now the crisis of the day is Bernie Sanders and socialism! The sky will grow dark and the earth will tremble if Sanders were to be elected President. They’re just so blind. What do they think Social Security is? Medicare? Medicaid? Government schools? The Great Society programs? The New Deal programs? We’ve had “socialism” in this country for 100 years!

That’s how Congress gets itself reelected, they dole out your money back to you in the form of various programs to buy your vote. Its the game! Instead they run around acting like America is this bastion of the purest free market capitalism on earth! Its ridiculous. What do they think Obamacare is? Republicans called Obamacare SOCIALIZED medicine. Yet when they had Congress they CHOSE to keep it.

Its those various socialist programs (entitlements) that are bankrupting this nation! The programs the purists say don’t exist!

Frédéric Bastiat on socialism

“Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its being done at all. We disapprove of state education. Then the socialists say that we are opposed to any education. We object to a state religion. Then the socialists say that we want no religion at all. We object to a state-enforced equality. Then they say that we are against equality. And so on, and so on. It is as if the socialists were to accuse us of not wanting persons to eat because we do not want the state to raise grain.”

— Frédéric Bastiat
(1801-1850) [Claude Frederic Bastiat] He did most of his writing during the years just before — and immediately following — the French Revolution of February 1848
http://libertytree.ca/quotes/Frédéric.Bastiat.Quote.7A6C

[Ol’ Freddy had it going on, I tell you what. ” … every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its being done at all” – what a brilliant way to put it! Nothing is new under the sun. We really do ourselves a disservice by not knowing the thoughts of our forbearers (?). Those who came before us. We keep reinventing the wheel. – The Seer]

The Union soldiers in the battle actually fought against self-determination; it was the Confederates who fought for the right of their people to govern themselves

“The Gettysburg speech was at once the shortest and the most famous oration in American history…the highest emotion reduced to a few poetical phrases. Lincoln himself never even remotely approached it. It is genuinely stupendous. But let us not forget that it is poetry, not logic; beauty, not sense. Think of the argument in it. Put it into the cold words of everyday. The doctrine is simply this: that the Union soldiers who died at Gettysburg sacrificed their lives to the cause of self-determination — that government of the people, by the people, for the people, should not perish from the earth. It is difficult to imagine anything more untrue. The Union soldiers in the battle actually fought against self-determination; it was the Confederates who fought for the right of their people to govern themselves.”
— H. L. Mencken
(1880-1956) American Journalist
http://libertytree.ca/quotes/H..L..Mencken.Quote.F98B

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