A double whammy of tragic news

They say this stuff comes in groups. First this news here:

A note to readers

Opinion writer June 8 at 12:01 PM

I have been uncharacteristically silent these past ten months. I had thought that silence would soon be coming to an end, but I’m afraid I must tell you now that fate has decided on a different course for me.

In August of last year, I underwent surgery to remove a cancerous tumor in my abdomen. That operation was thought to have been a success, but it caused a cascade of secondary complications — which I have been fighting in hospital ever since. It was a long and hard fight with many setbacks, but I was steadily, if slowly, overcoming each obstacle along the way and gradually making my way back to health.

However, recent tests have revealed that the cancer has returned. There was no sign of it as recently as a month ago, which means it is aggressive and spreading rapidly. My doctors tell me their best estimate is that I have only a few weeks left to live. This is the final verdict. My fight is over.

I wish to thank my doctors and caregivers, whose efforts have been magnificent. My dear friends, who have given me a lifetime of memories and whose support has sustained me through these difficult months. And all of my partners at The Washington Post, Fox News, and Crown Publishing.

Lastly, I thank my colleagues, my readers, and my viewers, who have made my career possible and given consequence to my life’s work. I believe that the pursuit of truth and right ideas through honest debate and rigorous argument is a noble undertaking. I am grateful to have played a small role in the conversations that have helped guide this extraordinary nation’s destiny.

I leave this life with no regrets. It was a wonderful life — full and complete with the great loves and great endeavors that make it worth living. I am sad to leave, but I leave with the knowledge that I lived the life that I intended.

I’ve disagreed with the man at times. But, this? Damn.

Then, there is this:

New York (CNN) Anthony Bourdain, the gifted chef, storyteller and writer who took TV viewers around the world to explore culture, cuisine and the human condition for nearly two decades, has died. He was 61.

CNN confirmed Bourdain’s death on Friday and said the cause of death was suicide.
Bourdain was in France working on an upcoming episode of his award-winning CNN series, “Parts Unknown.” His close friend Eric Ripert, the French chef, found Bourdain unresponsive in his hotel room Friday morning.

I think that everyone, regardless of politics, should say a prayer for the families of both of these people.

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I’ve had it with President Donald Trump!

To give you some context to my decision. As you all know by now, Rosanna Barr made an ass of herself and lost her TV show.

Well, the President in his quest to make everything about him, tweeted this:

To which I responded:

 

This is when, I decided to drop the bomb on the President:

and with that folks, I declare, publicly, for the first time, that I am no longer in the pro-trump camp. This man has lost my support. Now, I am not switching sides. I am simply withdrawing support from this President. My political position, principles and convictions have not changed a bit. I just cannot support this President any longer. This has been a LONG time coming and it is finally gotten to the point with me, that I simply cannot continue to support this man.

Signed,

Patrick Adkins

Owner

Eye on the Republic

 

 

Local Story: Black Kid, in mostly white neighborhood, knocks on door, gets shot at and then cries RACISM!

Stories like this really set me off man. I really hate it, when stuff like this happens.

To set this up, Rochester Hills, Michigan is an upper middle class, predominately white neighborhood. In fact, Hip Hop star Eminem, owned a house there, at one time; before moving into a gated community in Clinton Township.

Here is  the story, dripping with liberal, race-baiting, bias and the story is at Fox 2 News here in Detroit, of all places!

Check out the video story on it and watch the nuanced accusation of racism; it’s never said, but it is strongly implied:

Oh, it gets better, check out the story:

– A 14-year-old missed his bus and it nearly cost him his life.

Things took a dangerous turn when Brennan Walker went looking for help at a Rochester Hills home Thursday morning and was confronted by a man with a gun.

“I got to the house, and I knocked on the lady’s door. Then she started yelling at me and she was like, ‘Why are you trying to break into my house?’ I was trying to explain to her that I was trying to get directions to Rochester High. And she kept yelling at me. Then the guy came downstairs, and he grabbed the gun, I saw it and started to run. And that’s when I heard the gunshot,” he says.

Thankfully, the man missed. Brennan kept running, hid, then cried.

“My mom says that, black boys get shot because sometimes they don’t look their age, and I don’t look my age. I’m 14; but I don’t look 14. I’m kind of happy that, like, I didn’t become a statistic,” he says in retrospect.

Oakland County Sheriff Deputies arrived soon after to the home on South Christian Hills Drive and took the woman’s husband into custody.

FOX 2: “Your son almost became a hashtag.”

“Exactly, and that’s exactly how I feel. Like, wow. Because you were trying to get to school,” says his mother, Lisa Wright. “I found out later the only reason [the man] missed is because he forgot to take the safety off.”

Lisa was at work when she got the call. She says her husband is deployed in Syria, so she was assuming she was getting a call about him until she realized they were calling about Brennan. She dropped everything and immediately went to the substation to be with her son.

That’s where investigators told her the family’s Ring doorbell recorded the encounter. Investigators watched the video with Brennan and his mom. She says the video confirmed their suspicions.

“One of the things that stands out, that probably angers me the most is, while I was watching the tape, you can hear the wife say, ‘Why did “these people” choose my house?'” she says, before taking a long pause. “Who are, “these people?” And that set me off. I didn’t want to believe it was what it appeared to look like. When I heard her say that, it was like, but it is [what it looks like].”

Authorities haven’t released that security video.

“We should not have to live in a society where we have to fend for ourselves. If I have a question, I should be able to turn to my village and knock on a door and ask a question. I shouldn’t be fearful of a child, let alone a skin tone,” she adds. “This is a decent neighborhood. If anything — why would I knock on your door to rob you?”

“It is just absurd that this happened,” says Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard. “I feel terrible for the young man; I feel terrible for the mom and the anxiety that they had to go through. We are going to ask for every charge permissible for this guy, who stepped up and fired a shotgun because someone knocked on his door.”

Right now that man is being held at the Oakland County Jail. He’s expected to be arraigned sometime on Friday.

Sources tell FOX 2’s Randy Wimbley the 53-year-old Rochester Hills man is a retired Detroit firefighter.

Earth to dumb ass black kid! You live in a rich, white, suburb and they saw you, and figured you where there to rob them. I cannot blame them for getting a gun. Now, I will be first to say, the wife and the man overreacted in a big way. However, I believe that the media, Fox News owned Channel 2 here is trying to play this as a racial matter…..and it is BULLSHIT! This kid should have known this could have happened. If he was so worried about getting to school, why didn’t he go to a gas station or somewhere else safe? Why go a strangers house?

This our America today folks, where black people can do stuff like that and if you’re white and you show aggression towards a black, you are going to end up in jail. Welcome to liberal Michigan. In Texas, this wouldn’t even be an issue. But, here, all White people are considered Racist, Gun-Grabbing, Trump lovers. Why I want to move out of here and badly.

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Uber Hawk Neocon John Bolton to join Trump Admin

This is unsettling to say the least. It appears that Uber-Hawk and extreme warmonger John Bolton is joining the Trump Administration.

I also need to correct another blogger. Charles Johnson said the following:

And now, the return of palo-conservative anti-Muslim mustache host John Bolton, as our so-called president’s National Security Adviser, possibly the worst person ever to hold this position. No, make that probably. Actually, definitely.

Um, John Bolton is not a paleoconservative, he is, in fact, a extremely hawkish neoconservative. I mean, this was one of the people that convinced Bush to go into Iraq. No Paleoconservative would have done that.

Needless to say, I believe that the Nationalists and the Paleocons, like myself, have been duped.

 

 

Update on my laptop

Last time I shared about my laptop; I told you about how it basically winked the dashboard.

Well, I finally heard back from the place where I sent the laptop off to and I found out that there is some sort of corrosion on the motherboard which caused it to fail.

As I mentioned last time, I have no accidental coverage on the laptop and I got news from the place it was going to service it or at least tell me how much it would cost to service it. I found out it was going to cost me $2,000 to actually have that laptop fixed 😲😨😳 and I of course told them please ship it back , I will get it fixed locally and so they have shipped it back, it’ll get here tomorrow, it was supposed to come today, but my mother had to go have a procedure done and as such, I didn’t know if I would be here or not; so it will be here tomorrow.

I actually had to pay them to deliver a bit more slowly, which did not make me feel too happy.

Anyhow, $2,000 to have that thing fixed!?!?!? They’re on drugs and I mean harsh ones. 😲😨😫

Anyway, I was doing some research online and the motherboard for my model of laptop used cost $547 and some change. So, I only can imagine what a new one would probably cost. Hopefully, I can get it fixed without it costing more than what the laptop is actually worth. It’s a great machine and it’s unfortunate that a stupid mistake of my own,caused that great of a laptop to become a doorstop.

Thank God!: Alex Jones’s Infowars is about to be banned from YouTube

Finally, Alex Jones is getting what he deserves.

The Hill has the story

Conspiracy theory outlet Infowars is one strike away from being banned from YouTube.

The channel said it received an alert from YouTube on Tuesday morning, saying Infowars received a second strike on a video about the Parkland, Fla., high school shooting and will temporarily be unable to upload new content.

“This is the second strike applied to your account within three months. As a result, you’re unable to post new content to YouTube for two weeks,” the alert said. “If there are no further issues, the ability to upload will be automatically restored after this two week period.”

Infowars’s second strike comes as social media giants like YouTube and Twitter grapple with how to handle extremist or conspiracy theory content.

I would like to officially go on the record as saying, that I believe this is a good thing. As someone who has conservative leanings, I find myself very embarrassed by the fact that Alex Jones is even regarded as a legitimate media outlet. Because some of the stuff that Alex Jones promotes on his site, borderlines on manacle hysteria and outright stupidity.

Not to mention, some of the things that he has said on his site are a direct insult to victims of mass shootings. I personally believe if Alex Jones wants to promote those wackadoodle conspiracy theories, then he should do it on his own server, where he can upload videos to his heart’s content. Instead of on a site such as YouTube where all Americans can access it. Now I’m sure Alex Jones is going to scream repression of freedom of speech. Sorry Alex, but that’s a bunch of BS. YouTube is not a government ran site; YouTube is a private business or entity and reserves the rights to prohibit someone of your caliber from using their service. Not to mention the fact that they accept advertising dollars and I’m sure some advertisers do not want to share the same platform as you.

Now if one of Alex Jones is mindless followers happens to stumble over this article and starts to comment that I’m some sort of government controlled person or that I’m some sort of die-hard liberal; nothing could be further from the truth. I voted for Trump and I too would like to see America great again. However, I do not like Alex Jones. I never have. I’ve always thought him to be a crank and opportunist and a charlatan. So, before you waste your breath or your bandwidth on calling me stuff that I’m not. Save it, because you would be dead wrong.

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Living proof that the Republican party is no longer neoconservative

I saw this on two different sites and needless to say I was kind of surprised.

Writing over at the New York Times, Mona Charen tells the story:

I’ve been a conservative my entire life. I fell hard for William F. Buckley as a
teenager and my first job was as editorial assistant at Buckley’ s National
Review, followed by stints writing speeches for first lady Nancy Reagan and
then working for the Gipper himself. Looking toward the 1988 race, Vice
President George H.W. Bush wasn’t conservative enough for me . I went to
work as a speechwriter for Representative Jack Kemp in 1986.

So you’d think that the Conservative Political A ction Conference , or
CPAC, would be a natur al fit. It once was. But on Saturday, after speaking to
this year ’s gathering, I had to be escorted from the premises by several
guards who seemed genuinely concerned for my safety .

What happened to me at CP AC is the perfect illustration of the collective
experience of a whole swath of conservatives since Donald Trump became
the Republican nominee. We built and organized this party — b ut now we’re
made to feel like interlopers.

I was surprised that I was even ask ed to speak at CPAC. My views on
Trump, Roy Moore and Steve Bannon are no secret. I knew the crowd would
be hostile, and so I was tempted to pass.

But too many of us have given up the fight. W e’ve let disgust and dismay
lead us to withdraw while bad actors tak e control of the direction of our
movement. I know how encouraged I feel whenever someone simply states
the truth, and so I decided to accept CPAC’s invitation.

Politico tells the rest:

Mona Charen, a well-known conservative author and a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, was among four women discussing issues of feminism and sexual abuse on the final day of the annual right-wing gathering. Asked by the moderator to name something that gets their “blood boiling” as it relates to those subjects, Charen replied, “I am disappointed in people on our side for being hypocrites about sexual harassers and abusers of women, who are in our party, who are sitting in the White House, who brag about their extramarital affairs, who brag about mistreating women—and because he happens to have an ‘R’ next to his name we look the other way.”

And she didn’t stop there. With the audience silent and seemingly paralyzed by her assault on Trump—whose Friday-morning speech highlighted three days of uninterrupted adulation—Charen added: “This is a party that endorsed Roy Moore for the Senate in the state of Alabama even though he was a credibly accused child molester. You cannot claim that you stand for women and put up with that.” Her final line was interrupted with jeers and boos from the audience, mixed with scattered applause, with one woman near the front repeatedly yelling: “Not true! Not true!”The moderator scrambled to move the panel forward, mentioning the “explosion” of incidents in which “accusation has been equal to conviction.” Many in the crowd continued shouting, several of them about the need to defend men from baseless allegations and separate good guys from bad guys.“Speaking of bad guys,” Charen interjected, her tone louder and more aggressive than before, “there was quite an interesting person who was on this stage the other day. Her name is Marion Le Pen. Now, why was she here? Why was she here? She’s a young, no-longer-in-office politician from France. I think the only reason she was here is because she’s named Le Pen.” A man screamed from the audience: “Why are you here?” Charen continued: “And the Le Pen name is a disgrace. Her grandfather is a racist and a Nazi. She claims that she stands for him. And the fact that CPAC invited her is a disgrace.”By the time Charen had finished, boos and taunts drowned out the applause. “You’re a disgrace!” another man shouted.

Waiting for Charen afterward in a hallway inside the Gaylord National Resort, I was surprised to see her surrounded by three security officers. She was surprised, too. Charen told me the detail had suddenly appeared backstage, “seemingly nervous,” having been assigned to protect her on the way out. As we talked, and the detail marched Charen briskly toward the front doors, a few people tried to approach her but nobody got close. “They were acting as if I were in real danger,” she texted me afterward, “which I didn’t feel at all.”

This incident right here is kind of what troubles me about the Republican Party nowadays. Although I will tell you this the only sign that this is, is that the Republican party, at least the Grassroots is not buying the BS of the neoconservative right anymore. You have to understand something the Republican Grassroots we’re the ones who were subjected to the lies of the George W Bush Administration; when they told us that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and true Mona Charen was one of the ones who preached that Doctrine. Well, nowadays, the Republican Grassroots simply is not open to neoconservative or any sort of progressive thought because the last time they were open to that sort of thought, this nation got dragged into the Iraq War which almost destroyed the Republican Party standing in National politics and put a humongous stain on this country. This lady ought not to be surprised, she ought to be a little more cautious where she appears; because quite frankly her Jewish-first conservatism is simply not wanted anymore in the Republican party or any political party for that matter anymore.

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