Trump flirts with having a military parade: pros and cons

Washington -- Say what you want, but Americans love a parade. Especially parades like the Macy's Day Thanksgiving Parade or a parade when the hometown wins the big one. But military parades are not the same thing.

Do we really need to flex our muscles in front of a global mirror?

Short answer: maybe . . . maybe not.

Traditionally, the United States has had to world's most 'kick-buttiest' military, but we don't tend to flaunt it on the public streets of our cities--we let Russia, China and North Korea show off and hype their weaponry.

But since when does President Trump follow tradition? He has given a directive for the Pentagon to come up with options for a yooge military march to do what our rival nations do. However lawmakers and military brass are mulling over the purpose, the risk and the cost of putting on a really big show.

Both Democrats and Republicans have voiced concern and for good reason.
"People will wonder, 'Well, what are they afraid of now? What are they trying to prove?'" asks Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, a woman with an impressive name who represents the District of Columbia in Congress. "We don't have to show off to make a point." 

You see, President Trump attended the Bastille Day celebration in Paris last July and it apparently gave him parade envy. The Washington Post wrote that he wants one too.

On one hand it's a "fantastic waste of money," as Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) said. Another senator who calls himself a Republican, Lindsey Graham, told the Certainly Not News network that the parade risks being "kind of cheesy and a sign of weakness" if it's just about showing them that ours is bigger than theirs.

But Trump doesn't seem to care, in spite of his aides performing verbal calisthenics to downplay the idea that it was anything more than an idea he had "in a brainstorming session" for Americans to express gratitude and military pride. White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said there has not been a final decision on the matter, and it's assumed the parade would cost millions.

"We've been putting together some options. We'll send them up to the White House for a decision," Defense Secretary James Mattis said. "The president's respect, his fondness for the military I think is reflected in his asking for these options."

On the "con side," there's the problem that heavy tanks and other armament would tear up the streets of D.C. under the tremendous weight. When Trump first suggested the idea to top aides aboard Air Force One after the Paris parade, staff discussed the best time to have it, but noted the tanks at the Bastille Day Parade tore up the city's pavement, throwing chunks of concrete as they moved along.

But President Trump dismissed the concern, according to one person who spoke on condition of anonymity because he or she may, or may not actually exist, but if he or she does, they don't want to get fired. The anonymous source said that Trump told them, "That's okay, we can fix the streets."

Holmes Norton told the Associated Press that she is taking steps to ensure that "if Trump wants a parade, he pays for it."

She probably didn't mean that Trump pay for it out of his own pocket, but out of federal tax money. Evidently Holmes Norton is a liberal who cannot differentiate between tax money and personal funds. In any case, she knows there's little hope of blocking a parade permit due to the problem she has with the existence of a U.S. Constitution and the First Amendment right to free assembly.

Another con: military strength is strongest when its power is inferred, not flaunted, like North Korea tends to do. "We have avoided doing this kind of display, in part to emphasize that contrast because this has been so commonplace in authoritarian countries," Julian Zelizer a presidential historian at Princeton University said. "For some presidents, it's sometimes a strategic act: Speak quietly while carrying a big stick," as President Theodore Roosevelt advised.

On the pro side: it's a way to venerate our troops. "I trust President Trump, Defense Department, Secretary Mattis to do it the right way, and do it in a way that makes sense and is cost effective," Jonny Havens, an Iraq war veteran said.

Which puts a new meaning on "bigger bang for your buck."

Maybe the country needs a parade, I suspect President Trump just likes the pomp and circumstance. The few million dollars it would cost is really comparable to pizza money in terms of the national budget.

The question is, do we really need it or will it just be another thing that further divides an already divided nation?

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New questions arise over Obama's role in Clinton email investigations

After Fox News reviewed thousands of yet unseen text messages between FBI lovers Peter Strzok (pronounced 'Pee-tuhr') and Lisa Page, there are new questions over their Strzok's role in the Clinton email investigation.

Previous texts depicted Strzok's and Page's clear disdain for half the nation (aka Republicans), and especially the then-presidential nominee and now President, Donald Trump. In their professional opinion, the President of the United States is a "f***ing idiot," among other professional insults.

Another new text shows Strzok calling Virginia's voters who did not vote for FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe's wife for a state senate seat, "ignorant hillbillys." (sic)

I believe, however, that Virginia hillbillies would actually know how to spell the word, whereas Strzok, (whose surname is properly spelled "Smith") is so intelligent that he put his partisan opinion in a text and thus, out in the ether for all the world to eventually view.

Brilliant.

The text regarding Jill McCabe's hotly contested loss came on November 4, 2015, in which Strzok called the election result:

"Disappointing, but look at the district map. Loudon is being gentrified, but it's still largely ignorant hillbillys (sic). Good for her for running, but curious if she's energized or never again."

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.) and the majority staff from the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, is going to release all the texts along with a reported title, "The Clinton Email Scandal and the FBI's Investigation of it."

Strzok's paramour, Lisa Page, wrote to her lover on Sept. 2, 2016 about preparing talking points for former FBI Director, the inimitable James "Lordy" Comey, because "potus wants to know everything we're doing."

Another genius move by the undercover lovers.

Senate investigators told Fox News that this text raises questions about Obama's personal involvement in the Clinton email investigation. You know, the one whereby Hillary Clinton, as then-secretary of state, used an illegal private server [not to mention Anthony Weiner's laptop containing emails from Clinton] which was found to contain highly classified information that would have put an ordinary citizen, especially a Virginia hillbilly, in prison.

Strzok wrote to Page on Sept. 28, 2016, "Got called up to Andy's [McCabe] earlier...hundreds of thousands of emails turned over by Weiner's atty to sdny [Southern District of New York], including a ton of material from spouse [Huma Abedin]. Sending team up tomorrow to review...this will never end."

Not only does this raise questions as to when FBI officials learned about the emails on Weiner's computer but it also shows us that Strzok apparently alerts Page even when he has a bowel movement. What a lovely symbiotic couple of paramours.

It was only on October 28, 2016, when Comey told Congress that, "Due to recent developments," the Clinton case was being reopened by the FBI.

"Im connection with an unrelated case [Weiner's perverted sexting case], the FBI has learned of the existence of emails that appear to be pertinent to the investigation. I am writing to inform you that the investigation team briefed me on this yesterday . . ." Comey claimed.

So if the emails on Weiner's slimy laptop were discovered Sept. 28 at the latest, why was Comey only informed by his team on October 27th? It makes no sense.

On Election Day, 2016, potty-mouth Page wrote: "OMG THIS IS F***ING TERRIFYING." To which Strzok answered, "Omg, I am so depressed."

On Nov. 14, 2016 Page wrote, "God, being here makes me angry. Lots of high fallutin' national security talk. Meanwhile we have OUR task ahead of us."

Senate investigators believe the so-called task Page was referring to, and based on Strzok's August 15 text about an "insurance policy" regarding the presidential election should Trump get elected, further investigation is needed.


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Palestinian 'peace negotiator' tell Nikki Haley to 'shut up'

Oxymoron: a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction (e.g., Palestinian peace negotiator).

A senior Palestinian official accused the Trump administration of attempting to spark a "coup" of Palestinian leadership and slammed the United States' UN Ambassador Nikki Haley. 

Saeb Erekat, a so-called "peace negotiator" for Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, told Ambassador Haley to "shut up." Apparently Erekat is no less typical of many Muslim men who see women as half as intelligent, and half as valued as men, as the prophet of Islam, Mohammad, said years before he was poisoned by a woman.

Erekat is the P.A.'s head peace negotiator, a laughable oxymoron of a position for a group of radical Muslims whose idea of peace will come when all the Jews are slaughtered and Palestine takes over Israel. He complained in an interview with the Palestinian fake news agency al-Watan that Haley had "called for overthrowing the democratically elected Palestinian president."

What actually happened was that Abbas gave a speech last month that denied the Jew's historical connection to Israel, which is denying the history of the Jewish religion as depicted in the Old Testament. Abbas blasted the Trump administration's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital and Haley responded in a speech at the U.N. saying:

"A speech that indulges in outrageous and discredited conspiracy theories is not the speech of a person with the courage and the will to seek peace."

Erekat then claimed Haley's remarks amounted to a "coup" against the "Palestinian political system" and that the U.S. and Israel wanted to "undermine the Palestinian national project." [The project's slogan is: "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free," meaning that all the Jews will be gone from Israel.]

"Nikki Haley needs to shut up and realize that the Palestinian leadership is not the problem," Erekat said. "Instead, the problem is the Israeli occupation and the policies it continues to pursue. I'm not saying that we don't make mistakes; every society and every government makes mistakes."

And a so-called 'peace negotiator' who tells a United States ambassador to the U.N. to 'shut up' has made the mistake of messing with the wrong country and the wrong woman using the wrong tactic.



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NFL player Edwin Jackson killed by illegal alien, police say

The suspected drunk driver who killed Indianapolis Colts linebacker Edwin Jackson, 226, in a car crash on Super Sunday is a Guatemalan citizen and is in the U.S. illegally. He has even been deported twice, according to police.

The driver of an F-150 truck in the incident was identified by Indiana State Police as Manuel Orrego-Savala, 37, and has been deported in 2007 and 2009.

Democrats think he's just misunderstood.

"State police investigators are working with U.S. Federal Immigration Officials and they have placed a hold on Orrego-Savala," police said in a statement.

Another passenger, Jeffrey Monroe, 54, was also killed in the vehicle at around 4 a.m. on Sunday on Interstate 70 in Indiana. Investigators believe Monroe was Jackson's Uber driver.

According to Fox59, at some point on the ride, Jackson became sick and the car pulled onto the emergency shoulder of the highway. A state trooper responding to the crash also struck on of the victims in the center lane when he slowed his cruiser down to investigate.

Orrego-Savala, the illegal alien, fled the scene but was arrested soon after by the responding trooper. He gave a false name, Alex Cabrera Gonsales. He was driving without a license and at a blood alcohol level of .15 at the time of the crash.

"The loss of life at the hands of illegal immigrant criminals should make all Hoosiers sad and ultimately angry," said Rep. Todd Rokita (R-Ind.) in a statement. "We must do more to get these dangerous illegal immigrant criminals off of our streets, and guarantee this never happens again by building a wall, ending sanctuary cities, and stopping illegal immigration once and for all."

Now I realize that Rokita has used this for his political advantage, but that doesn't make it any less true. It's really time to stop the influx of illegal aliens coming into the country, and do something more severe to the ones like Orrego-Savala who do.

Orrego-Savala is being held at the Marion County Jail and police are working to file criminal charges.

California is willing to take him and show him some love.



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Manchin hits Pelosi and Paul Ryan for Pelosi's 'Make America white again' comment

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WVa.) is a moderate Democrat and criticized House Minority Leader Nancy "Dancing Hands" Pelosi when she called President Trump's immigration plan a blue print to "make America white again."

But Joe did it artfully.

Manchin was able to obfuscate the statement by saying on CNN's 'State of the Union' that we "don't need that type of rhetoric on either side, from Nancy, (Speaker) Paul Ryan or anybody else."

Paul Ryan did not make such a statement, nor did anybody else in the Republican Party. But by throwing in Ryan's name and 'anybody else,' it sounds as if both parties are guilty of identity politics, when, in fact, that's the bread and butter of the left.

Manchin leads a bipartisan Senate group that is trying to solve the immigration problem.

But the problem is, Republicans see it as a legal and a national security problem, while the Democrats see it as a voting block problem they need to get their hands on.

Senate Minority Leader Charles "Nostrils" Schumer of New York, called Trump's plan a wish list" for hard-liners. He acknowledged the areas of common agreement on both sides for illegal immigrants shielded by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA). 

But Schumer flared his mighty nostrils and accused Trump of using DACA recipients as "a tool to tear apart our legal immigration system and adopt the wish list that anti-immigration hardliners have advocated for years."

Naturally, Schumer is full of it. Most conservatives have no issue with legal immigration. We tend to follow the law and want others coming here to do the same. And let's face it, if most immigrants were to vote Republican, the Democrats would be taking the same stance on illegal immigration that conservatives take.

If the left really cared about DACA recipients, they would have immediately passed Trump's plan to allow 1.8 million DACA recipients to stay here, almost three times as many as Obama did, but the Democrats need it as an issue for the midterms.


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DNC out of money, out of their minds

"I don't give a s**t"

The Democratic National Committee has entered this year of midterm elections "dead broke" but they found a way to twist logic and blame it on the Republicans. The committee only has a little more than $400,000 in party coffers, according to federal records.

Finishing 2017 with about $6.8 million in available cash, they found themselves is about $6.1 million in debt. The balance, therefore, is a measly $422,582.04 [kidding about the four cents] to start 2018 midterm elections with little more than pizza money.

The DNC's woes seemed to begin shortly after the 2016 elections, when a TV reality star defeated Hillary Clinton, the worst candidate ever to win the nomination without having one redeeming moral quality and who uses incompetence as her excuse for her actions. The DNC was rocked with turmoil and the chairwoman, Debbie Wasserman Schultz had to resign amid leaked emails implying the DNC leadership "rigged" the primaries so Clinton would defeat Sen. Bernie "The Socialist" Sanders.

In February 2017, former Obama administration official Tom "Potty Mouth" Perez was selected to replace Wasserman Schultz, over Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison. This sparked discord in the party as some Democrats of like mind anti-Semitic leanings wanted Ellison, who is a Muslim, to run the DNC.

Most recently, the DNC is being scrutinized as a key figure in the Russia collusion investigation, and information that it helped fund the "anti-Trump" dossier that apparently led to the start of the probe, or at least partially so.

Party officials claim the figures on the funding aren't all that poor. 

The Party will still have the mainstream media on their side and plans for the "Dress Like the Other Gender Dance and Mixer" will take place as scheduled, led by the inimitable Chelsea Manning, who still plans to run for the Senate as a female in spite of "her" chromosomes and male junk.

The RNC raised $132 million last year but they better not sit on their hands like the Democrats did at the State of the Union speech. The GOP faces a battle in the midterms and they need to not take anything for granted, in spite of their superior money management skills over the Democrats, who spend money like drunken sailors in a cat house.

The only difference is that it's never their own money.

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Radical imams spew anti-Semitism in US with impunity

It seems that whenever a radical Muslim gets the chance, they will spout anti-Semitic bile and nothing is done about it. Perhaps that's due to the religious aspect of Islamic anti-Semitism and the fear of being politically incorrect and Islamophobic.

This is apparently the case with Muslim clerics in the United States as they are threatening the lives of Jews from the pulpits of their mosques. And they are doing it with total impunity, according to former law enforcement officials who worry about future violent attacks.

In the last seven months, no less than five prominent US imams, in mosques across America, have been caught on tape preaching violence against Jews. And they are not being prosecuted or even removed by the leadership of their mosques, possibly because Jew-hatred is literally called for in their scripture, so anti-Semitism is seen as their sacred duty.

Former FBI Special Agent John Guandolo, who now runs a counterterrorism consulting firm, Understanding the Threat LLC said, "It's outrageous they aren't immediately removed and investigated for what may be solicitation [to commit a crime of violence]."

Jews are already disproportionately targeted for hate crimes in the US, and these Islamic sermons only fan the flames of hatred and violence toward this minority.

In November 2017 the FBI revealed new data indicating that there were more Jewish victims of anti-Semitic hate crimes in 2016 (the last reported year) than of all other religious groups combined!

And Muslims claim victimhood and sometimes create a false narrative of being victimized. 

Many lawmakers in the Democratic Party apparently do not care about anti-Semitism and don't consider the issue important enough to pursue. They'd rather deal with Islamophobia and "hate speech."

Terrorism analysts believe threats and assaults against Jews will increase as the US prepares to move its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem next year. President Trump announced this on December 6 of last year and while previous presidents spoke about it, only he has delivered on the promise. 

In fact, one could make the case that former President Obama did not like Israel and had much more empathy for the Muslim world, possibly due to the fact that his father was Muslim, his grandfather was Muslim, he attended madrassa in Indonesia and studied the Koran, and he apparently enjoyed the company of famous anti-Semite and scumwafer, Louis Farrakhan.

Here's what's happening in the world of American Islam:

In last December, Imam Raed Saleh Al-Rousan in Houston, Texas preached that Muslims should "fight the Jews" in the wake of Trump's declaration about Jerusalem. After his videotaped excerpt of his anti-Semitic rant was translated by Washington-based Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) and posted online, the imam apologized and in taqiyya-like fashion lied that he is opposed to "all forms of terrorism."

On the same day that Al-Rousan ranted, Imam Abdullah Khadra of Raleigh, NC, invoked the same Jew-killing hadith [the words of Mohammad, the 'prophet' of Islam] saying that Mohammad "gave us the glad tidings that we will fight those Jews until the rocks and the trees will speak: "Oh Muslim, there is a Jew hiding behind me. Kill him."

On December 8, Imam Aymen Elkasaby from Jersey City, NJ invoked "martyrdom" as a way to take revenge on the Jews, whom he referred to as "apes and pigs," taking those words from the "holy" Koran. Then Elkasaby prayed for the annihilation of the Jews which elicited cheers from the Muslims in the mosque. "Count them one by one, and kill them down to the very last one! Do not leave a single one on the face of the Earth," the imam asked of Allah as his feckless flock of trained seals shouted, "Amen!" One dude was so enthralled by the call to kill that he stood up and invited the rest of the congregation to march on Times Square, according to MEMRI.

But Elkasaby was outed and the Islamic Center of Jersey City claimed to have suspended him for a month without pay. Meanwhile, the mosque president, Ahmed Shaheed defended Elkasaby's actions by arguing "There are extremists in the Jewish, Christian and Buddhist religions, and everything can be taken the wrong way."

So how did we know that "Count them one by one, and kill them down to the very last one! Do not leave a singe one on the face of the Earth" was being taken the wrong way? It sounded sort of harsh, if you ask me.

It's only when these jerks get caught that they apologize. And if you notice, for the most part, they call for their congregation to be martyrs, never are they willing to do it themselves.

Obama and Farrakhan in a photo hidden
 from the public as per Obama

Terror experts say this hateful rhetoric is a lot more common in the US mosques than generally understood, and they blame the Obama administration's ending of mosque surveillance programs for the cancerous anti-Semitism and even anti-Western belligerence that is spewed in those radical mosques.

The NYPD ended its surveillance program in 2014 because Muslim groups complained. And if they want to kill some Jews, it's their damned business, they don't say.

Islam is a problem when practiced with orthodoxy, or in a literal Koranic way. Something must change for the good of Western civilization.


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House Intelligence panel looking at State Dept. over Russia probe

Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) said Friday that the Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee will be examining the State Department and other agencies after the GOP memo was released alleging surveillance abuses.

Nunes told Fox News soon after the release the panel was moving into "phase two" of its investigation over the alleged surveillance abuses by the FBI and the DOJ.

"We are in the middle of what I call phase two of our investigation, which involves other departments, specifically the State Department and some of the involvement that they had in this," Nunes said.

"That investigation is ongoing and we continue work towards finding answers and asking the right questions to try to get to the bottom of what exactly the State Department was up to in terms of this Russia investigation."

The congressman was asked if his panel would be releasing more memos regarding the probe after the White House declassified information allowing the release of a memo alleging that top FBI and DOJ officials abused their powers to spy on members of the Trump campaign.

It isn't known what role, if any, the State Department had in the law enforcement investigation into the Trump campaign's possible collaboration with Russia and its efforts to sway the 2016 presidential election.

Democrats and the FBI voiced concerns over the accuracy of the memo. Even Democrats who hadn't seen the memo said it was inaccurate because they had strong feelings about it misrepresenting their truth.

"If it doesn't ring true, it isn't true," said one Democrat who wished to remain anonymous because he didn't want to be cited for quoting Michael Wolff's logic.



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