Year: 2016

Video: Pat’s Thoughts: Hillary Clinton wins South Carolina primary

Here’s the video:

https://youtu.be/RBwmR2a1bkQ

It’s the lead story over at memeorandum.com.

New York Times has the full story.

Like I say in my amateur quality produced video of me trying to tell the story and fend off the urge to act like a goofball; I knew that Bernie Sanders would hit his firewall in South Carolina.

As I had mentioned in the video, Hillary Clinton has a huge African-American following in South Carolina.

Now, I’m not saying that they buy for the votes or  playing them or lie to them or anything like that. There are many South Carolinian’s white and black and many other races, who vote Democrat some of which are faithful Christians which kind of it makes me think that’s why they chose her over Bernie Sanders.

For one, Bernie Sanders is an outsider and not a Democrat, he’s not even in the party, but he’s a democratic socialist and to his minority status may play against him as well. but that’s just speculation on my part.

Either way, Super Tuesday is going to tell the tale, about what’s going to happen in the Democrat Party race.
Because if Bernie Sanders doesn’t regain any momentum, he may very well drop out after Super Tuesday.

Now as for the Republicans, I believe it’s going to continue to be bash trump all the way to the convention. I think you may see Ben Carson and John Kasich drop out before the convention and maybe after Super Tuesday, sometime or another.

But, I believe honestly that its going to be a Trump, Cruz and Rubio slug-fest all the way to the Republican convention.

Some are saying we may see a contested convention or a brokered convention and possibly be on the floor fight. However, I highly doubt that. I believe at some point there will be a compromise and you will see a Trump/Rubio ticket.

I’d lean more towards a Trump/Rubio ticket, because I think Rubio is a bit more reasonable than Ted Cruz. Trump has already said that he cannot stand Ted Cruz at all.

So,I think you’ll see Cruz probably get to the convention and bail. if anything he will appoint Ted Cruz over something. I’m thinking that Chris Christie may get an appointment to attorney general because he’s got a lawyer experience.

I think you may see I think you may see Cruz put over put over somewhere in an important place in the government or in the Trump White House or in the trump State Department and you may see other people, I think Ron Paul me get an appointment as well in his administration. So, it ought to be interesting to see that all play out.

One more thing I feel the need to point out and that’s the fact that the neoconservative right is really feeling the heat about the prospect of a Donald Trump presidency and they are doing everything in their power to try to destroy that man.

The Weekly Standard is starting to turn on him, the National Review came out with a full-throat anti trump stance and the Weekly Standard is starting to write negative stuff.

I predict here in the next couple weeks and especially into the lead-up to Super Tuesday and after that the closer we get to the convention the more the neoconservatives like Bill Kristol and John Podhartz are going to get more shrill in their opposition to Donald Trump because they stand too much to lose.

The neoconservative right stands too much to lose with getting a out of control person like Donald Trump in there, who’s not going to be the lock step with neocons when it comes to Wilsonian foreign policy.

Now, will they succeed in stopping him from getting him elected at the Republican Party convention? That is anybody’s guess, because Donald Trump has rewritten I should say the playbook for presidential election politics and they still kind of control the strings a bit with the Republican Party, not as much as they used to back before Bush got elected, but they do have some of it is sort of input and influence in the way the Republican Party works.

So, keep your eyes peeled and your ears open for anti trump sentiment to get to feverish picture in the next couple of weeks. Because the neocons are going to do everything they can to keep people from voting for him.

Because they have too much to lose, they have too much vested interests in America; in our military and our banking and in our government. So watch what happens here the next couple of weeks.

I think it goes without saying that it’s going to be very interesting to watch.

UPDATED WITH VIDEO: Violence breaks out at a KKK rally in Anaheim, California VIDEO CLEARLY SHOWS THAT BLACK PROTESTERS ATTACKED KLAN FIRST!

UPDATE: VIDEO SHOWS BLACK PROTESTERS ATTACKING KLAN:

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Original Story:

This is quite sad, that these knuckleheads would actually do something like this in that area and not expect to get attacked.

The Story Via LA Times LA Now Blog:

Three people were stabbed, including one who was critically wounded, and several others were arrested when a Ku Klux Klan rally in Anaheim erupted in violence Saturday, police said.

A small group of people representing the Klan had announced that it would hold a rally at Pearson Park at 1:30 p.m., police said. By 11 a.m., several dozen protesters showed up at the park to confront the Klan.

About an hour later, several men in black garb with Confederate flag patches arrived and were escorted by police around the edge of the park.

Violence erupted and some of the protesters could be seen kicking a man whose shirt read “Grand Dragon.” At some point, a protester collapsed on the ground bleeding, crying that he had been stabbed.

You see the protesters attacked first, not the Klansman. The thing I wonder is, who precisely were these protesters?  I would be willing to bet money that they were leftists that attacked these guys.

One funny thing that I saw in this article, is this right here:

Brian Levin, director of CSU San Bernardino’s Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism, said he was standing next to the man in the Grand Dragon shirt when a crowd of protesters carrying weapons swarmed the Klansmen.

A brawl broke out and one of the Klansmen was knocked to the ground and kicked. Levin said he later saw the man’s arm bleeding.

Levin said he pushed the Klan leader away as the violence continued and a protester was stabbed.

Levin said he asked the man, “How do you feel that a Jewish guy just saved your life?”

“Thank you,” the man replied, according to Levin

Honestly, I have to laugh about that quote there. I mean, what the heck did he expect him to say? “Go F**** yourself!”, or something worse? Media Bias is something humorous to behold at times. I still, however, would like to know who the protesters were. Anyone know? Maybe the skin color of those involved? …Or am I even allowed to ask such questions?

Other Blogs: KTLA, SEC Primary, Fusion and The Right Scoop

Good Local Michigan News: Ex-State Reps Todd Courser and Cindy Gamrat to face felony charges

This is such a good thing to hear. Finally, these two idiots are going to have to pay the piper for their stupidity.

Via The Detroit News, which is, by the way; A Conservative/Libertarian leaning newspaper here in Detroit. (For the out of state people that read here.)

Lansing — Attorney General Bill Schuette said Friday warrants have been issued for the arrest of former state Reps. Todd Courser and Cindy Gamrat for felony charges of misconduct in office related to their failed attempts to cover up an extramarital affair that rocked the Capitol last summer.

If convicted on all counts, Courer would face a maximum of 30 years in prison. If found guilty, Gamrat could be sentenced to up to 10 years in prison.

The charges for these two turkeys are as follows:

The accused: former state Reps. Todd Courser and Cindy Gamrat

Courser, a Lapeer-area Republican, will face four felony charges, Schuette said. They include:

■ A perjury charge for lying under oath while testifying before a special House committee about letting an aide forge his signature on a bill he wanted to file before other representatives could.

“Only legislators sign legislative proposals,” said Schuette, a former state senator.

■ Three counts of misconduct in office for allegedly lying to the House Business Office, which investigated the two lawmakers; instructing his staff to forge his signature on bills and asking House aide Ben Graham to send a fake email to Republicans across the state, which Graham refused to do.

Gamrat, R-Plainwell, will be charged with two counts of misconduct in office, punishable by up to five years in prison or a $10,000 fine for each charge, Schuette said.

Gamrat’s misconduct charges are for giving false information to the House Business Office and instructing a staff member to forge her signature to speed up the filing of draft legislation, Schuette said.

And that is not all:

Courser and Gamrat face other legal troubles.

Schuette said he will refer to Secretary of State Ruth Johnson “potential evidence of campaign finance violations involving doing political work on state time.”

The House’s expulsion charges included the use of House employees by Courser and Gamrat of House for political tasks.

Schuette also said he will notify the Michigan Attorney Grievance Commission of the charges against Courser, a Lapeer attorney.

“They will potentially review the status of his law license as this case proceeds through the judicial system,” the attorney general said.

Some might say that this is nothing more than a political set up. I call B.S.; the guy was having an affair with this woman and he tried to use his office to cover it up. Now, he is going have to face the music and that could not be a better thing to happen. The Republicans have always been painted by the liberal left, as dishonest, corrupt people. Well, now that little narrative is going to be challenged by this right here.

May these two get the maximum punishment allowed by law. They used the Tea Party Movement and rode the wave all the way to the statehouse here in Michigan and then, to beat all; they got there and became drunk with power and began an affair. Then, on top of that, they tried to cover it up. Sorry, that does not wash with me. Let them pay for their crimes.

Let them rot in jail. 😡

Special Comment: On Cheryl Tiegs insult towards plus model Ashley Graham

This is about as snobbish and tone-deaf as one person can be.

The Story with video Via E!-Online: (H/T to WeSmirch) (More Sources here)

Cheryl Tiegs isn’t happy with Sports Illustrated.

The magazine released three different covers for its annual Swimsuit Issue, featuring Ronda Rousey, Ashley Graham and Hailey Clauson. “It’s a nod to female empowerment,” a source told E! News of the publication’s decision to change up its routine.

But Tiegs, who has been featured on Sports Illustrated‘s covers multiple times, doesn’t agree with the magazine’s choice to feature Graham. Tiegs opened up to E! News Wednesday at the 13th Annual Global Green USA Pre-Oscar Party and said she felt the magazine was promoting an unhealthy lifestyle by featuring her.

“I don’t like that we’re talking about full-figured women because it’s glamorizing them because your waist should be smaller than 35 [inches]. That’s what Dr. Oz said, and I’m sticking to it,” she explained. “No, I don’t think it’s healthy. Her face is beautiful. Beautiful. But I don’t think it’s healthy in the long run.”

Graham, who has said in the past that she hates to be called “plus-size,” was one of Sports Illustrated‘s “rookies” this year and was thrilled to be part of it. On her cover she wears a skimpy purple and yellow-string bikini while posing in the ocean. “I’ve got plenty of friends [of all sizes] and different shapes and everything,” she recently told E! News. “And I don’t want any of them to feel like they aren’t ‘real women.'” 

Tell me again, who is the one that needs help with her looks?
Tell me again, who is the one that needs help with her looks?

This subject is a personal one with me; so much in fact, that I have taken the time to fire up Microsoft Word to write my response to it. Things are, as the young people of today like to say; about to get real.

My outrage at this most callous and tone-deaf of comments about those who struggle with weight issues, at this point is a mild boil and I feel the need to respond to this tone-deaf, snotty, self-important woman. I would call her a bitch; but that would be an insult to every female dog on the planet.

Cheryl Tiegs in one breathless moment in a press gaggle line has done something that most people would not even remotely think about doing. She insulted every person out there that struggles with weight gain. It is a subject that I know personally too well about. I was not always this way; my weight gain started when I was about 16. I remember the feeling of going out into public, feeling self-conscience, whether people were looking at me and thinking something horrible about my weight gain. It is, as most of those know, that struggle with such things, one of the worst things that one could have to endure.

Weight gain runs in my family. All of my people are heavy. Luckily, my Maternal Grandfather was not a heavy man. He, lucky for him, was a tall thin man. His wife, my grandmother, was not. She was a short heavy woman or full-figured as they call it now. She was not morbidly obese; but she was a full figured woman. In other words, she had some meat on her bones and was not some anorexic looking twig.

The point I am making is this; Mrs. Cheryl Tiegs ought to know better. However, because of her snobbish mentality against those who are not a perfect figured person, or, at least what she considers to be perfect; she felt the need to slam those who are not of the anorexia nervosa build.

Of course, this points to broader problem in Hollywood and in the media in general. Looks and more specifically a woman’s look are scrutinized to the point of total and utter ridiculousness. This is a reflection of society in general and gives much insight into the fickleness of the ever so coveted “popular crowd.”

As a parting shot, let me just this: Those who are in dire need of a Botox treatment session and those, of whom looks are fading faster than a 1970’s Kodiak picture moment, should not be going around being critical of someone’s looks.

So, to Mrs. Cheryl Tiegs I say this: You really should not be casting stones, as your glass house — it has cracks.

Other Blogs: Dlisted, Page Six, Us Weekly, The Wrap, Just Jared and What’s New

 

WND: ‘KKK’ Trump supporters were black

This is asinine:

Donald Trump’s critics tried to pass off fake Ku Klux Klan members as his supporters on social media Tuesday night. A closer look at the images reveal the so-called white supremacists were black.Almost 50 percent of Nevada caucus-goers gave the Republican hopeful an easy victory on Tuesday night, but not before a bizarre attempt at character assassination by black citizens in KKK garb. Not all of the photos shared on social media showed the color of their skin, which was taken advantage of by Trump’s detractors. – Source: Desperate hoax: ‘KKK’ Trump supporters were black – WND.COM

The proof:

I say that it is asinine for one reason: You know, it is bad enough we have idiots like this guy here, heaping praise on Trump and then have this — two asshole back guys masquerading as Klansman.

As for the idiot who brought this up to the media, who did not correct the story? He remains unapologetic:

Further to my post from yesterday about people observed donning KKK regalia at a caucus site, I offer these…

Posted by Aaron D. Ford on Wednesday, February 24, 2016

Translation? “Yeah, I lied about the Klan story and I also paid these people to do it. But, I am not going to apologize, because white people are evil racists.” What an a$$hole! 😡

Why David Duke’s praise could be bad for Donald Trump

This could be bad for Donald Trump. Donald Trump has somehow or another earned the praise by one of the most controversial figures in society. This guy here, the story via BuzzFeed: (H/T to Memeorandum)

The Audio:

The Story:

David Duke, a white nationalist and former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard, is urging the listeners of his radio program to volunteer and vote for Donald Trump.

“Voting for these people, voting against Donald Trump at this point is really treason to your heritage,” Duke said on the David Duke Radio Program Wednesday, referring to Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio. “I’m not saying I endorse everything about Trump, in fact I haven’t formally endorsed him. But I do support his candidacy, and I support voting for him as a strategic action. I hope he does everything we hope he will do.”

Duke then urged his followers to call Trump’s campaign headquarters to volunteer.

“And I am telling you that it is your job now to get active. Get off your duff. Get off your rear end that’s getting fatter and fatter for many of you everyday on your chairs. When this show’s over, go out, call the Republican Party, but call Donald Trump’s headquarters, volunteer. They’re screaming for volunteers. Go in there, you’re gonna meet people who are going to have the same kind of mindset that you have.”

Earlier in his broadcast, Duke called Trump’s victories in Nevada and South Carolina a “historic day.”

The American Spectator, who doesn’t seem to be a big fan of Trump says thus:

I would be shocked if Wolf Blitzer doesn’t bring this up in the debate and if he doesn’t then one of his opponents must.

If Trump disavows Duke unequivocally then he’s OK (unless he calls Duke a great guy a few days later). But if Trump dodges the question or hesitates then there’s an opening. The question is which Republican rival will take it.

But given that Trump has gotten away with accusing former President Bush of lying about WMDs and blaming him for 9/11, it’s not beyond the realm of possibility Trump could get away with having Duke’s support in the GOP primaries. So let’s assume Teflon Don survives the praise of David Duke and wins the Republican nomination. You can bet Hillary Clinton will be broadcasting David Duke’s voice to every African-American, Latino and other minority voter in the country from now until election day.

As much as I hate to admit it, that is painfully correct. If Trump does not say something that would disavow Duke’s praise; he could very well lose the general election. Because if there is one thing that the Democrats do well, and that is race issues. Where the Republicans and Conservatives, with the notable exception being the neoconservatives; are more tolerant of people like Duke — the Democrats are not at all. Which is quite ironic, considering the Democrats were the ones who tried to keep blacks from voting, many years ago.

However still, Donald Trump needs to take a firm stand on this and if he wants to be elected, publicly and forcefully reject any sort of endorsement, whether implied or direct, for any sort of group that is commonly associated with bigotry and hatred of any sort at all. If Mr. Trump wants to win the election, this is what he must do and I mean quickly.

Other Blogs: The Hill, Talking Points Memo, RedState, Political Wire, Nashville Scene, Business Insider, American Spectator, Mediaite and The Resurgent

 

Trump vies for the Evangelical Vote at Regent University

I think this *might* help him, Maybe.

The Video:

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va.– Fresh off his Nevada caucus victory, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump set his sights on Super Tuesday, campaigning in Virginia Beach.Trump spoke before a packed theater at Regent University as part of the university’s Executive Leadership Presidential Candidate Forums series.”We owe $19 trillion — most people don’t even know what a trillion dollars is, how many hundreds of millions is in a trillion,” Trump said. “It’s such a number that, it’s a name that 10 years ago you never even heard the word trillion, but we owe $19 trillion.” – Source: Trump Courts Evangelical Vote at Regent University | CBN.com (beta)

I say maybe, because Evangelicals are a finicky group of people. I see them swinging towards Ted Cruz. But, so far, Cruz has only won one primary/caucus. So, it is anyone’s guess.

Here’s the entire event:

 

BREAKING NEWS: TRUMP WINS SOUTH CAROLINA!

This stuff is breaking quicker than I can shot videos and publish on the blog! Needless to say, my previous prediction on Trump’s winning was a bit off.

First my video:

https://youtu.be/1kU578BysV4?rel=0

and Fox News video:

Here’s The Don’s victory speech:

The Story via Fox News:

Donald Trump swept to victory in the South Carolina Republican primary on Saturday, putting him in a commanding position as the race shifts to a slew of delegate-rich contests.

Jeb Bush, though, abruptly suspended his campaign after a distant finish, leaving unclear to whom his supporters will gravitate.

But Trump, at his victory rally, seemed to dismiss the notion that other candidates would benefit from Bush’s exit.

“[The pundits] don’t understand that as people drop out, I’m going to get a lot of those votes,” Trump said.

He said the primary race lately has been “mean” and “vicious” but: “When you win, it’s beautiful.”

He closed by saying, “Let’s put this thing away, and let’s make America great again.”

Trump’s victory is not by the big double-digit margin that pre-election polls had suggested. Still, this makes back-to-back victories for Trump, who more than doubled the vote of his closest competitor in New Hampshire last week.