Dolts and Dolts who vote for Dolts - A Ranking, un-named OROG Cries out against the ill-winds of the wilderness - El Gringo Viejo Tries to Respond

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     Why can this fool not say what lies Ted has espoused?  He has to stop this insipid outright lying about Ted Cruz.  It is infuriating to say the least.  The only lies are Trump's.

      “Lying Ted”… give us a break.  We need facts if that is true.  Saying it doesn’t make it so.  And why, for the life of us, does Ted not address this?

       Is it simply possible that Trump is trying to draw Ted in and Ted is not having any of it?  It is something of a corner that Trump has put him in.  That being because there are so many Dolts who don’t know any better.  Many of us see through it, but not enough I fear.  Close but no cigar.

       We will more than likely be saddled with this pathetic blowhard for President.  Sad, sad, sad.

Anonymous

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 Well stated:   The Lamentation of The Reasonable Man.   But, if You, my son, can keep your head when those about you are losing theirs.....a wise saying by a wise man from another, but pertinent, time......then we can move along to some form of victory  in this matter.

     The contorted, vicious-looking facial expressions that Trump makes while he is shrieking and growling, "Lying Ted!!!  Lying Ted!!!" look truly diabolical.  His is the speech and posture of all white-trash.  One can find it at labour-union rallies, at KKK Confabs, most Soros-funded women's, minorities, and permanently-offended groups such as Occupy Wall Street and other organisations of ACORN ancestry.     His posture and disposition to aggressive overstatement are signals that a somewhat deranged demagogue is at the lectern.

     As Trump stutters and stammers, almost always returning immediately to repeat repeatedly something that he has probably repeated seconds before, he seems to bask in the absurdity of Dolts roaring their approval for the most outlandish accusations, charges, and basal insults that are never really true.  We bring to mind Trump's decision to brand Dr. Ben Carson as a ''pathological".  Trump went about on that particular occasion to fold in the good probability that Dr. Carson also had something that might be like pedophelia since a lot of "those people" are pathological.

     Oddly, Dr. Carson who is necessarily lumped into the group known as "most intelligent" fell for the notion that Ted Cruz engineered  Carson's Iowa primary loss.   Trump trumpeted this erroneous message, asserting that Cruz lied!  Cruz lied!!!  Dr. Carson then decided, in apparent disregard for his own high-level intellectual ability, to endorse Trump as his choice for the Republican presidential nomination.   Strange.

      Trump has repeatedly stated that "Bush Lied!!! Bush Lied" about the WMD - Iraz issue.  A few short days ago, an Obsolete Media reporter called Trump out concerning the issue of "Bush's Lie" .....at which time Trump did one of his famous Trumpisms and declared flatly that he had never said such a thing.  When shown a video of himself stating flatly that "Bush Lied"  and "Bush and Chaney Lied" he stuttered and stammered his way to the "hard break" by saying things that could only be interpreted by a Trump supporter.
     Trump has also said repeatedly that he opposed the invasion and take-out of Saddam Hussein's Iraq, "from the beginning".   Of course, this overlooks his numerous and frequent endorsements of the invasion at the beginning of the operation.   When called down concerning this contradiction, he juts his jaw out like the wooden Pinocchio that he is and quadruple-doubles down by insisting that videos proving his support for the Iraq  War were simply "lies". It speaks of insanity, profound hubris, and a sense of disconnect from the "little people" that proves solidly that the individual is certainly not qualified to lead a nation full of people for whom he has no respect at all.   In that sense he is the yin and (Sir Edmiund) Hillary in the yan.

     Finally to answer the reasonable lamentation by the OROG crying forth to whomsoever will listen out in the Wilderness,   my thinking is that Ted and Co. are trying to not touch the tar-baby.   A severe thrashing in to-morrow's primaries might help.   A failure to obtain a majority of delegate votes in the primary episode leading up to the Cleveland confab would be humiliating.  An announcement by Marco Rubio that he is leaving his delegates at liberty and recommends their alignment with Ted Cruz would have a tectonic impact, in my opinion. 
     It would save Ted and Co. from having to soil their hands by trying to logic with people stupid enough to fall for slogans like "Hope and Change" and "Make American Great Again".

El Gringo Viejo

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An Old Man calling in the Wilderness - the hollow victory of secular humanism

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To: Senators Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell

Washington, DC , 20510 

Senators: 

I have tried to live by the rules my entire life. My father was a Command Sergeant Major, U.S. Army, who died of combat related stresses shortly after his retirement. It was he who instilled in me those virtues he felt important - honesty, duty, patriotism and obeying the laws of God and of our various governments. I have served my country, paid my taxes, worked hard, volunteered and donated my fair share of money, time and artifacts. 

Today, as I approach my 79th birthday, I am heart-broken when I look at my country and my government. I shall only point out a very few things abysmally wrong which you can multiply by a thousand fold. I have calculated that all the money I have paid in income taxes my entire life cannot even keep the Senate barbershop open for one year! Only Heaven and a few tight-lipped actuarial types know what the Senate dining room costs the taxpayers.

So please, enjoy your haircuts and meals on us. 

Last year, the president spent an estimated $1.4 billion on himself and his family. The vice president spends $ millions on hotels. They have had 8 vacations so far this year! And our House of Representatives and Senate have become America's answer to the Saudi royal family. You have become the "perfumed princes and princesses" of our country. 

In the middle of the night, you voted in the Affordable Health Care Act, a.k.a. "Obamacare," a bill which no more than a handful of senators or representatives read more than several paragraphs, crammed it down our throats, and then promptly exempted yourselves from it substituting your own taxpayer-subsidized golden health care insurance. 

You live exceedingly well, eat and drink as well as the "one percenters," consistently vote yourselves perks and pay raises while making 3.5 times the average U.S. individual income, and give up nothing while you (as well as the president and veep) ask us to sacrifice due to sequestration (for which, of course, you plan to blame the Republicans, anyway). 

You understand very well the only two rules you need to know - (1) How to get elected, and (2) How to get re-elected. And you do this with the aid of an eagerly willing and partisan press, speeches permeated with a certain economy of truth, and by buying the votes of the greedy, the ill-informed and under-educated citizens (and non-citizens, too, many of whom do vote ) who are looking for a handout rather than a job. Your so-called "safety net" has become a hammock for the lazy. And, what is it now, about 49 or 50 million on food stamps - pretty much all Democrat voters - and the program is absolutely rife with fraud and absolutely no congressional oversight? 

I would offer that you are not entirely to blame. What changed you is the seductive environment of power in which you have immersed yourselves. It is the nature of both houses of Congress which requires you to subordinate your virtue in order to get anything done until you have achieved a leadership role. To paraphrase President Reagan, it appears that the second oldest profession (politics), bears a remarkably strong resemblance to the oldest. 

As the hirsute first Baron John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton (1834 - 1902), English historian and moralist, so aptly and accurately stated, "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men." I'm only guessing that this applies to the female sex as well. Tell me, is there a more corrupt entity in this country than Congress? 

While we middle class people continue to struggle, our government becomes less and less transparent, more and more bureaucratic, and ever so much more dictatorial, using Czars and Secretaries to tell us (just to mention a very few) what kind of light bulbs we must purchase, how much soda or hamburgers we can eat, what cars we can drive, gasoline to use, and what health care we must buy. Countless thousands of pages of regulations strangle our businesses costing the consumer more and more every day. 

As I face my final year, or so, with cancer, my president and my government tell me "You'll just have to take a pill," while you, Senator, your colleagues, the president, and other exulted government officials and their families will get the best possible healthcare on our tax dollars until you are called home by your Creator while also enjoying a retirement beyond my wildest dreams, which of course, you voted for yourselves and we pay for. 

The chances of you reading this letter are practically zero as your staff will not pass it on, but with a little luck, a form letter response might be generated by them with an auto signature applied, hoping we will believe that you, our senator or representative, has heard us and actually cares.

This letter will, however, go on line where many others will have the chance to read one person's opinion, rightly or wrongly, about this government, its administration and its senators and representatives. 

I only hope that occasionally you might quietly thank the taxpayer for all the generous entitlements which you have voted yourselves, for which, by law, we must pay, unless, of course, it just goes on the $19 trillion national debt for which your children and ours, and your grandchildren and ours, ad infinitum, must eventually try to pick up the tab. 

My final thoughts are that it must take a person who has either lost his or her soul, or conscience, or both, to seek re-election and continue to destroy the country that I deeply love. You have put it so far in debt that we will never pay it off while your lot improves by the minute, because of your power. 

For you, Senator, will never stand up to the rascals in your House who constantly deceive the American people. And that, my dear Senator, is how power has corrupted you and the entire Congress. The only answer to clean up this cesspool is term limits. This, of course, will kill the goose that lays your golden eggs. 

And woe be to him (or her) who would dare to bring it up. 

Sincerely, 

Bill Schooner

3096 Angela Lane

Oak Harbor, WA

A Conundrum, two choices between the lesser of two evils, and The Virtuous walked into a bar one time....

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We have a conundrum in that we have a choice between the lesser of two evils vs. the virtuous.

It is not the “Art of the Deal” that will be our undoing but the art of the fox.  Trump is not unlike Guido da Montefeltro’s prowess in Dante’s Inferno where he professed the “art of the fox”.  As a Ghibelline general, his mastery of the “art of the fox” made him successful in his scams whereby he was never called to account.  Later in his life he disguised himself as a Franciscan Monk hoping to fool God to get to Paradise.  His Machiavellian persona did not fool God!  In Inferno Guido gets his just reward.  Cosmic justice prevails as it will with the “Art of the Deal” maker Donald Trump (hopefully it will not prevail too late).

And as for the Ohio Machiavellian, he is simply a selfish little man.  He holds himself above the fray insinuating he is altruistic and will save the country.  His disguise is also thin.  He couldn’t even admit to Hannity that his plan was to win the impossible, that he could not say he is looking to throw the GOP nomination into a contested convention when in reality that is all he can do.  That at the cost of all the people of America.  If he had the courage to do what is right and just he would get behind either of the other two remaining candidates.  I hold my nose it it is Trump but I detest Kasich.  Let us pray for cosmic justice once again.

The only true patriot and virtuous among them is Ted Cruz, who by all fairness should prevail but for the insidious art of the foxes.

                    El Zorro

Perturbing - Were this a Conservative / Republican / Normal Person ??

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El Zorro forwarded this sobering observation from a career military / security / sensitive data collection and interpretation specialist of note.

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WHAT ALL AMERICANS NEED TO KNOW ABOUT HILLARY CLINTON'S ALLEGED SAP COMPROMISE--MAJ ED COET, USA (RET)

[COURTESY: CAPT Les Horn, USN (Ret)]

My name is Ed Coet. I am a retired US Army Intelligence Officer. In my last job in the army I was the Chief of the Human Intelligence Branch for the US European Command in Stuttgart, Germany. In that capacity I was also the Designated Program Manager for a Special Access Program (SAP) like the SAP that Hillary Clinton is alleged to have compromised in the most recent State Department Inspector General report to congress and which has been widely reported in the news. Here is what I personally know about SAP's and what I can attest to in an unclassified forum:

1. The names of each SAP are themselves classified Top Secret because the information within the SAP are far and above Top Secret.

2. SAP's are so sensitive that even people who have security clearances giving them access to Top Secret Sensitive Compartment Information (TS SCI), an enormously high security clearance level, cannot have accesses to a SAP's unless they receive a special indoctrination into the SAP based on an operational "must know" that exceeds all other "need to know" standards.

3. Being "read in" for a SAP is far more than acknowledging in writing that you have been briefed on the SAP.  It is an in-depth "indoctrination" into the given SAP, and each SAP is itself compartmented separately from other SAPS. Having access to one SAP does not give you access to another SAP, and in fact rarely does. Only a tiny handful of people have knowledge of all SAP's. SAP's are the most stringently compartmented and protected information in the entire US government.

4. Unlike Top Secret SCI which is maintained in highly secure Sensitive Compartmented Information Facilitates (SCIF's) managed by specially trained Special Security Officers (SSO's) at various levels of command, every single SAP is managed by an individually designated Program Manager for each individual SAP covering an entire theater of operations. In other words, SAP Program Managers are far fewer in number than there are SSO's. SSO's are not cleared to even know about SAP's or to maintain information about them in their already enormously secure SCIF's. How SAP's are secured cannot be discussed because of the sensitive beyond Top Secret nature in which it is done.

5. Unlike individuals with the highest Top Secret SCI access security clearances, who must undergo a special background information with periodic "bring-up" background investigation, those tiny few who have access to SAP's must also endure periodic polygraph tests in addition to the most comprehensive of special background investigations. I used to have to schedule four-star generals and admirals to be polygraphed in order for them to maintain their access to my SAP. Many generals and admirals who obviously have the highest security clearances still did not rate being indoctrinated into my SAP. In fact, they didn't even know the SAP existed.

6. Compromise of a SAP is the single most dangerous security violation that can ever happen to the USA. Even the enormously damaging revelations of the Edward Snowden's TOP Secret SCI security compromise does not reach the level of a SAP compromise.

7. To put SAP information in to an unsecured server like Hillary Clinton's unsecured server is a class one felony that could, in some cases, result in life in prison. That is because such a compromise is so dangerous that it could and likely will result in the death of people protected by and within the scope of the SAP.

As a former SAP Program Manager I believe it is inconceivable that if it is verified that Hillary Clinton's server actually had SAP information on it that she could possibly escape indictment and criminal prosecution. As hard as it is to imagine, that would even be worse than electing to not prosecute a mass murdering serial killer because even they could not inflict as much damage on our country as the compromise of a SAP. Compromise of a SAP not only could -- but without doubt would -- cause serious damage to our national security.

If it is true that Hillary Clinton had SAP information on her unsecured server, whether it was marked or not, you can be sure that the FBI will strongly recommend that charges be brought against Hillary Clinton and continue in an exhaustive investigation to trace back to every single person that had even the tiniest role in this unbelievable security compromise.

If the Attorney General, through "proprietorial discretion," elected not to prosecute this crime, I believe congress would have no alternative but to impeach her, and the FBI would then have no choice but to conduct a criminal investigation of her for a deliberate cover up -- so grave is this security violation.

If President Obama were to pardon Hillary Clinton for a compromise of this magnitude he would render himself in the historical record as an "enemy of the state," and could himself face criminal prosecution -- so grave is such a security compromise. Nobody, not even the POTUS could get away with something like this in our system of government. If anyone could escape prosecution for compromising a SAP, we are deep trouble as a nation. No president who loves this country and is true to his oath would ever allow anyone, not even his or her closest and most loved relative, to get away with a SAP compromise. It is simply unimaginable that this could ever happen.

If the ongoing investigation finds that Hillary Clinton compromised a SAP, then we all should know with certainty, regardless of political persuasion, that she is entirely unfit to hold public office of any kind let alone President of the USA -- and ALL Americans should never tolerate it. Compromising a SAP is an absolute "disqualifier" for public office and access to our nation's most sensitive information - period.

ED COET

Major, US Army (Retired)

http://www.bewilderingstories.com/bios/coet_bio.html

P.S. It is my sincere hope that each of you will share this article, to help other Americans understand how grave Hillary Clinton's alleged SAP compromise is. We can't allow anyone so careless with this level of information to have access to any classified information ever again for as long as she lives. This would surely render her unqualified and unfit to hold any public office let alone POTUS if this allegation proves to be true.

Restoring: Great and Interesting Episode at the Quinta

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   We returned to Texas a couple of days ago and have spent a bit of time trying to recompose....a daunting task for a geezer in these times.   We should be able to begin pontifications and brayings sometime early to-morrow or perhaps even  late to-night.   It is good to be among you all again.

El Gringo Viejo

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PEDRO INFANTE - SON HUASTECO

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