The louder the wails, screams and caterwauling becomes; the more the lamestream media, the Dummycrats and the snowflakes denounce; the more outrageous the insults become, the more DJT is proven correct.
He did miss one thing early on, but corrected it shortly before the fan got slathered. At first he said there was no collusion whatsoever with the Russians in trying to sway the election. He corrected himself to say that there was collusion and that the HRC campaign did it. Oh, the travesty of such a claim! He is surely now completely deranged! The HORROR! The HORROR!
Except....he was correct again.
Dirty tricks are not unusual in politics. "Tricky" Dick Nixon had a crew of pranksters that did just that. However Nixon's crew - as all of the Republican attempts have been - were rank amateurs compared to the Dummycrats. From the local scene to the national, vote buying, voter fraud, ballot tampering have all been part and parcel of the Dummycrat modus operandi.
But the campaign, first the primary race but then the final race of the 2016 Dummycrat Party is absolutely the most blatant example of corruption, distraction and felonious obfuscation in the history of US politics. The most glorious culmination of it all is that Robert Mueller, FBI Director during the Obozo reign, was chosen as the investigator of the "collusion". The most delicious part of it is that he was up to his neck in so much of the shenanigans!
He was picked, not to discover where the bodies where buried, but because he KNEW where they were buried and knew where NOT to search. But Hillary didn't win. WHOOPS!
HRC had many reasons to be apoplectic the night of the election. But while she thinks she's the smartest one in the world, she is only half right. The smarter thing for her to do was to slink quietly away, back to Chappaqua, and STFU. But NOOOO! She and her comrades had to keep screaming about the election and how it was stolen - STOLEN - by DJT and those dirty RUSSIANS! The noise and obfuscation was a desperate attempt to do something - ANYTHING - to keep DJT off balance and perhaps create enough diversion that the people would reject him. Sorry, Hillary, it didn't work.
So now the cat is out of the bag, or at least the witness is allowed to talk. He should be veeery careful. Clintonitis is frequently fatal and he is very subject to being exposed. Mueller, Comey, Holder and even Obozo himself however are exposed in another way. Many (though not all) of their misdeeds are being brought to light.
Mueller now has a specific problem. He was part of the dirty deeds. He has been revealed as not being as pure as the driven snow. He has to work around a very bright spotlight while keeping so many things hidden. He has to at least make a pretense of fairness while shoveling as much crap out through the leak sources as he can. His quandary is that what he is supposed to looking for has turned out to be a unicorn. He has a pile of baloney and knows it. But baloney is a large sausage with many ingredients, many of them unknown, or at least unidentified. This baloney contains (among others) all the previously named conspirators. Granted, they didn't necessarily conspire together, though they could have. Regardless, all of them conspired towards the same goal - President Hillary. Mueller now has to slice this baloney to resemble prime rib. The problem is that he is in this sausage and has to slice it thin without slicing himself. Reveal the ingredients without revealing his own part in it. He likely will try to protect his buddy Comey. But regardless of whom he might try to pin it on - Paul Manafort, John Podesta - he can't predict what the newly revealed witness may present. That has to have his sphincter cranked up tighter than Dick's hatband. If he isn't careful he too, might contract Clintonitis.
Stranger things have happened.
ciao.
Keep hunting.
the Snark
Saturday, October 28, 2017
Tuesday, October 24, 2017
Report from Lost Wages
Greetings from the Mojave desert!
In that paean to ostentatiousness, greed and distaste - LAS VEGAS! There have been changes in the few years since I last visited Vegas, unsurprisingly. It is somewhat eerie making this trip, since I had driven through Orlando a few days after the Pulse Nightclub terrorist shooting. The reactions are similar in LV as in Orlando. Signage in Vegas is much more prominent than Orlando, especially the high resolution programmable variety. #VEGAS STRONG is prevalent in all the signs, more so in the daytime than at night. Can't let anything interfere with the whole purpose of the city. Got to draw the people to the shows and gambling. Sometimes the signs include skylines, some times a heart. Local news is as scarce as the national reportage. The LV Sheriff's department isn't saying much to anyone.
I drive past the Mandalay Bay and the festival site, still taped off and police attended at least once a day since I am staying close by. The windows were replaced quickly but the investigation continues.
The iconic "Welcome to Las Vegas" sign is in it's own little park in the widened median in S. Las Vegas blvd. Memorials in tribute to the victims, along with other items - teddy bears, etc., fill the park. At one passing (at night, looking from a tour coach) it looked like an anarchists' symbol was displayed. It wasn't there the next morning, so even LV couldn't stomach that insult to humanity.
Security is increased, one news report showed interviews with casino security people about adding magnetometers and sure enough, everyone was screened at the Elton John show. Sir Elton and I have both picked up a few pounds since I had seen him perform, but he still provides a terrific show.
One of the noticeable changes is in the signs themselves. Very high resolution video displays - like watching a 4K TV - except being 20, 30, 40 feet tall. Elton has a video screen at least 80X30 in uhd. Incredible.
S Las Vegas blvd has long ago supplanted Fremont St. as the center of attraction, Fremont not having near enough space to accommodate the likes of Bellagio, NYC, Venetian, Mirage, Wynn, Encore and the dozens of other opulent casino/hotel/theaters/restaurant/fashion stores, and The Strip is outside of Las Vegas' property taxing authority. So rather than simply demolishing Fremont St, they have turned it into the "Fremont Street Experience." Five blocks are now a covered pedestrian mall. Covered with - what else - a programmable video screen. It arches over the length of the mall, complete with a two level multi-zip line, one set of four running the whole length of the mall, the riders flying in a superman position.
The FSE is complete with buskers, mendicants, casinos, bars, kiosks and the assortment of locals and tourists that only Vegas seems able to produce. Performance(?) artists included Batman, Spidey, Deadpool, half of KISS, a guitar player who wore only a fuzzy jockstrap with suspenders, a variety of almost naked women (painted pasties and thongs) and one guy who simply held a sign stating "Need $$$ for penis enlargement. 'I'm a little short'". He didn't state whether he was short on funds or penile length; fortunately he didn't offer proof of either. It was a bit distracting to watch a nearly naked female conversing with two cops while people streamed around them. As well as watching one of the throng walk by smoking a joint.
Recreational pot is now legal in Nevada. Signs of the conventional billboard type advertising dispensaries are frequent and curiously among the most sedate of all. I doubt that that will last, those will go the way of the liquor advertising soon enough. Money, after all, is the fuel of Vegas, alcohol the lubricant. Pot will soon move along side the booze.
Construction is booming; houses, casinos, hotels, restaurants, all of the usual Vegas attractions still multiplying.
Back in the day - pre-Luxor - gambling was the star, carrying the freight for everything. Cheap hotel rooms, buffets, and other near freebies simply greased the way to bring in the suckers. Then they discovered that by adding shows and other family attractions that the suckers would bring their families along as well. Now the hotel rooms and meals anywhere near the strip are expensive and the prices off the strip have followed suit. The list of performers is simply everyone in show business other than actors. Even Mike Tyson is doing a stage act. WTF? There are a few bargains, but you have to look for them, or ask a knowledgeable local. The advertising of the sex business has moved away from the thousands of cards thrust at every passing pedestrian. The internet is cheaper and cleaner....okay, less litter to clean up.
But the biggest change is in the casinos themselves. Just a few years ago the casinos rang with the sound of coins hitting the trays, bells and whistles going off, buckets of coins and chips being rattled around. But no more. Now bills are still acceptable in the slots, but the preference is for a gambling card backed up either with cash or credit card presented at the cashier's window. The whole scene is more sedate, less frantic, less invigorating. I don't gamble, other than flying, but enjoy watching the people - feeding the coins while a cigarette burned down to the knuckles, scrambling to pick up coins from the floor before they rolled under the machines, eyes glazed by the whirling lights as they fed their entertainment habit. It just isn't the same. Oh, they still feed the machines, but they aren't nearly as interesting as they used to be. This is progress for the house with greater security and less labor moving hundreds of pounds of money. Just less fun to watch.
Las Vegas is a fun visit, plenty to do and see without gambling. Only now it costs everyone rather than just the gamblers. Everyone is a sheep for shearing. And everyone gets fleeced.
ciao from the desert,
the Snark
In that paean to ostentatiousness, greed and distaste - LAS VEGAS! There have been changes in the few years since I last visited Vegas, unsurprisingly. It is somewhat eerie making this trip, since I had driven through Orlando a few days after the Pulse Nightclub terrorist shooting. The reactions are similar in LV as in Orlando. Signage in Vegas is much more prominent than Orlando, especially the high resolution programmable variety. #VEGAS STRONG is prevalent in all the signs, more so in the daytime than at night. Can't let anything interfere with the whole purpose of the city. Got to draw the people to the shows and gambling. Sometimes the signs include skylines, some times a heart. Local news is as scarce as the national reportage. The LV Sheriff's department isn't saying much to anyone.
I drive past the Mandalay Bay and the festival site, still taped off and police attended at least once a day since I am staying close by. The windows were replaced quickly but the investigation continues.
The iconic "Welcome to Las Vegas" sign is in it's own little park in the widened median in S. Las Vegas blvd. Memorials in tribute to the victims, along with other items - teddy bears, etc., fill the park. At one passing (at night, looking from a tour coach) it looked like an anarchists' symbol was displayed. It wasn't there the next morning, so even LV couldn't stomach that insult to humanity.
Security is increased, one news report showed interviews with casino security people about adding magnetometers and sure enough, everyone was screened at the Elton John show. Sir Elton and I have both picked up a few pounds since I had seen him perform, but he still provides a terrific show.
One of the noticeable changes is in the signs themselves. Very high resolution video displays - like watching a 4K TV - except being 20, 30, 40 feet tall. Elton has a video screen at least 80X30 in uhd. Incredible.
S Las Vegas blvd has long ago supplanted Fremont St. as the center of attraction, Fremont not having near enough space to accommodate the likes of Bellagio, NYC, Venetian, Mirage, Wynn, Encore and the dozens of other opulent casino/hotel/theaters/restaurant/fashion stores, and The Strip is outside of Las Vegas' property taxing authority. So rather than simply demolishing Fremont St, they have turned it into the "Fremont Street Experience." Five blocks are now a covered pedestrian mall. Covered with - what else - a programmable video screen. It arches over the length of the mall, complete with a two level multi-zip line, one set of four running the whole length of the mall, the riders flying in a superman position.
The FSE is complete with buskers, mendicants, casinos, bars, kiosks and the assortment of locals and tourists that only Vegas seems able to produce. Performance(?) artists included Batman, Spidey, Deadpool, half of KISS, a guitar player who wore only a fuzzy jockstrap with suspenders, a variety of almost naked women (painted pasties and thongs) and one guy who simply held a sign stating "Need $$$ for penis enlargement. 'I'm a little short'". He didn't state whether he was short on funds or penile length; fortunately he didn't offer proof of either. It was a bit distracting to watch a nearly naked female conversing with two cops while people streamed around them. As well as watching one of the throng walk by smoking a joint.
Recreational pot is now legal in Nevada. Signs of the conventional billboard type advertising dispensaries are frequent and curiously among the most sedate of all. I doubt that that will last, those will go the way of the liquor advertising soon enough. Money, after all, is the fuel of Vegas, alcohol the lubricant. Pot will soon move along side the booze.
Construction is booming; houses, casinos, hotels, restaurants, all of the usual Vegas attractions still multiplying.
Back in the day - pre-Luxor - gambling was the star, carrying the freight for everything. Cheap hotel rooms, buffets, and other near freebies simply greased the way to bring in the suckers. Then they discovered that by adding shows and other family attractions that the suckers would bring their families along as well. Now the hotel rooms and meals anywhere near the strip are expensive and the prices off the strip have followed suit. The list of performers is simply everyone in show business other than actors. Even Mike Tyson is doing a stage act. WTF? There are a few bargains, but you have to look for them, or ask a knowledgeable local. The advertising of the sex business has moved away from the thousands of cards thrust at every passing pedestrian. The internet is cheaper and cleaner....okay, less litter to clean up.
But the biggest change is in the casinos themselves. Just a few years ago the casinos rang with the sound of coins hitting the trays, bells and whistles going off, buckets of coins and chips being rattled around. But no more. Now bills are still acceptable in the slots, but the preference is for a gambling card backed up either with cash or credit card presented at the cashier's window. The whole scene is more sedate, less frantic, less invigorating. I don't gamble, other than flying, but enjoy watching the people - feeding the coins while a cigarette burned down to the knuckles, scrambling to pick up coins from the floor before they rolled under the machines, eyes glazed by the whirling lights as they fed their entertainment habit. It just isn't the same. Oh, they still feed the machines, but they aren't nearly as interesting as they used to be. This is progress for the house with greater security and less labor moving hundreds of pounds of money. Just less fun to watch.
Las Vegas is a fun visit, plenty to do and see without gambling. Only now it costs everyone rather than just the gamblers. Everyone is a sheep for shearing. And everyone gets fleeced.
ciao from the desert,
the Snark
Monday, October 9, 2017
Fixing things
Ron White famously said "You can't fix stupid". And he is right. As I have mentioned previously, ignorance is correctable, stupid is forever. You can't fix psychosis, either. Sometimes - and only sometimes - psychosis can be sufficiently medicated to moderate it. Or perhaps it can be isolated in a facility. Unfortunately too often it is undetected until it manifests itself in tragic fashion.
Thus psychosis was revealed in Las Vegas. I don't use the word "crazy", that is too flippant, too undefined. Steve Martin is known as being a "wild and crazy guy" yet he hasn't yet shot into a crowd of festival goers. Paddock was psychotic. Period. The latest revelation is that he hired a hooker for $6K per night to indulge in violent, kinky sex. And his fantasies included murder and mayhem. But, hey, it was Las Vegas. What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas, right? Not exactly. The problem is that such behavior, might not seem so extreme for 6 grand a pop. Some hookers specialize in "unique" behaviors. B&D, S&M, water sports, dress fetishes are all part of some john's preferences, catered to by specialists. But what is the difference between "kinky" and "murder"? There is a fine line between "different" and "psychotic". But the line is still there.
Immediately the dimocrats came unglued. Hillary, trying to make herself relevant, chimed in that had he been using a suppressor then the people wouldn't have known they were being shot at. Please. As has been stated many times, "it is better to remain silent and thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." As if anyone had any doubt about that crone. Of course her similarly lobotomized parrot and former limping mate, Tim Kaine repeated this drivel before he took the time to read a few replies pointing out the simple facts of physics that belied such ignorance. Even the senate's western simpleton admitted that there was nothing within the law that could have prevented this tragedy. That doesn't mean that Feinstein won't run next year on a gun control platform. (Note - she is 84. One of the many youthful dimocrat leaders.) After all, promoting a failed concept over and over and expecting different results is what they do.
As I have mentioned previously, the study of history as well as the awareness of failed theories is but one of the liberals' fatal refuges. As the usual response, liberals are screaming for the confiscation of firearms. "DO SOMETHING"! Is their cry. The same ones who have branded DJT the next Hitler wants to take away the people's power of resistance. Perhaps they should research the "Prague Spring" or "Tianamen Square" for a comparison. They haven't stopped to realize that if you take away the people's guns, only the government will have any....
Except the government won't have the only firearms. Perhaps the only legal ones, but illegal ones work too. Go to Chicago and find out. Or Baltimore. Or Mexico.
It is almost impossible for a normal citizen to legally possess a firearm in Mexico, especially a handgun. In rural areas it is slightly easier to possess a .22 or shotgun. Look up "Zeta murders" and "Sinaloa Cartel killings" to see how peaceful Mexico is today. The books "The Power of The Dog" and "The Cartel" by Don Winslow provide an excellent review of the history of the Mexican/US drug condition. Guns are very strictly controlled in Mexico, just like Chicago, DC and Baltimore. So are drugs, just like in Chicago, DC and Baltimore. HEY! Here is a thought for the liberals - make guns, drugs and murder illegal. Problem solved! Uh....what? Oh.....never mind.
Scott Adams (Dilbert) has a relevant position on such laws - since laws don't actually prevent crime, they simply discourage it so they don't work for the truly determined. Sort of like taking away cars from those who don't drive drunk. Do you have any idea how many repeat offenders of drunk driving there are? How many of them drive without a license?
There is a reason for the Second Amendment. It was for the people to have as close to the same power of resistance that a rogue government might have to impose tyranny. The founders realize that even with all the restrictions they built into the Constitutions there might come a time when a charismatic leader might wrest control from the observing populace. And then it would be necessary to repeat 1776. Again, this is where a study of history is relevant. Madison referred to a "well regulated militia". Actually, he got that from George Washington. At that time a "well regulated militia" described a condition where every capable male was expected to own at least one firearm (usually a rifle,) to also posses powder and ball (bullets) and to be able to operate all proficiently. Thus they could respond to the call of the governor (NOT a federal government) to form a militia (the notion of a standing army at this time was abhorrent to them) in order to resist invasion or civil unrest. There were, after all, some Tory sympathizers yet wishing for the British to return. (See the War of 1812 for the rest of that story.)
The Second Amendment protects ALL of the other amendments. There has already been a call to eliminate the Second. Well, while you're at it, why not the Fourth? Or Fifth? Oblama tried to eliminate most of the First. Who needs the Constitution anyway? Let's become a real Democracy rather than a republic. You know, like Greece? Or like Venezuela used to be. Or any of the countless other failed democracies through history.
The United States has produced the greatest source of freedom, support, opportunity, protection and equality for the greatest number of people around the world than any other country in history. Before recommending that we screw that up, study some history.
The US Constitution isn't broken. It doesn't need to be fixed.
ciao
the Snark
Thus psychosis was revealed in Las Vegas. I don't use the word "crazy", that is too flippant, too undefined. Steve Martin is known as being a "wild and crazy guy" yet he hasn't yet shot into a crowd of festival goers. Paddock was psychotic. Period. The latest revelation is that he hired a hooker for $6K per night to indulge in violent, kinky sex. And his fantasies included murder and mayhem. But, hey, it was Las Vegas. What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas, right? Not exactly. The problem is that such behavior, might not seem so extreme for 6 grand a pop. Some hookers specialize in "unique" behaviors. B&D, S&M, water sports, dress fetishes are all part of some john's preferences, catered to by specialists. But what is the difference between "kinky" and "murder"? There is a fine line between "different" and "psychotic". But the line is still there.
Immediately the dimocrats came unglued. Hillary, trying to make herself relevant, chimed in that had he been using a suppressor then the people wouldn't have known they were being shot at. Please. As has been stated many times, "it is better to remain silent and thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." As if anyone had any doubt about that crone. Of course her similarly lobotomized parrot and former limping mate, Tim Kaine repeated this drivel before he took the time to read a few replies pointing out the simple facts of physics that belied such ignorance. Even the senate's western simpleton admitted that there was nothing within the law that could have prevented this tragedy. That doesn't mean that Feinstein won't run next year on a gun control platform. (Note - she is 84. One of the many youthful dimocrat leaders.) After all, promoting a failed concept over and over and expecting different results is what they do.
As I have mentioned previously, the study of history as well as the awareness of failed theories is but one of the liberals' fatal refuges. As the usual response, liberals are screaming for the confiscation of firearms. "DO SOMETHING"! Is their cry. The same ones who have branded DJT the next Hitler wants to take away the people's power of resistance. Perhaps they should research the "Prague Spring" or "Tianamen Square" for a comparison. They haven't stopped to realize that if you take away the people's guns, only the government will have any....
Except the government won't have the only firearms. Perhaps the only legal ones, but illegal ones work too. Go to Chicago and find out. Or Baltimore. Or Mexico.
It is almost impossible for a normal citizen to legally possess a firearm in Mexico, especially a handgun. In rural areas it is slightly easier to possess a .22 or shotgun. Look up "Zeta murders" and "Sinaloa Cartel killings" to see how peaceful Mexico is today. The books "The Power of The Dog" and "The Cartel" by Don Winslow provide an excellent review of the history of the Mexican/US drug condition. Guns are very strictly controlled in Mexico, just like Chicago, DC and Baltimore. So are drugs, just like in Chicago, DC and Baltimore. HEY! Here is a thought for the liberals - make guns, drugs and murder illegal. Problem solved! Uh....what? Oh.....never mind.
Scott Adams (Dilbert) has a relevant position on such laws - since laws don't actually prevent crime, they simply discourage it so they don't work for the truly determined. Sort of like taking away cars from those who don't drive drunk. Do you have any idea how many repeat offenders of drunk driving there are? How many of them drive without a license?
There is a reason for the Second Amendment. It was for the people to have as close to the same power of resistance that a rogue government might have to impose tyranny. The founders realize that even with all the restrictions they built into the Constitutions there might come a time when a charismatic leader might wrest control from the observing populace. And then it would be necessary to repeat 1776. Again, this is where a study of history is relevant. Madison referred to a "well regulated militia". Actually, he got that from George Washington. At that time a "well regulated militia" described a condition where every capable male was expected to own at least one firearm (usually a rifle,) to also posses powder and ball (bullets) and to be able to operate all proficiently. Thus they could respond to the call of the governor (NOT a federal government) to form a militia (the notion of a standing army at this time was abhorrent to them) in order to resist invasion or civil unrest. There were, after all, some Tory sympathizers yet wishing for the British to return. (See the War of 1812 for the rest of that story.)
The Second Amendment protects ALL of the other amendments. There has already been a call to eliminate the Second. Well, while you're at it, why not the Fourth? Or Fifth? Oblama tried to eliminate most of the First. Who needs the Constitution anyway? Let's become a real Democracy rather than a republic. You know, like Greece? Or like Venezuela used to be. Or any of the countless other failed democracies through history.
The United States has produced the greatest source of freedom, support, opportunity, protection and equality for the greatest number of people around the world than any other country in history. Before recommending that we screw that up, study some history.
The US Constitution isn't broken. It doesn't need to be fixed.
ciao
the Snark
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