• It is about liberals aesthetics and leftist control — it is not about saving mankind

There we were reading an always informative article at The Daily Signal, this one titled

Here Are 5 Hysterical Environmentalist Claims in Modern History 

It chronicles some of the hysteria emanating over the years from the new Nazi’s a.k.a. Environmental Movement. A commenter to that site linked to this Carlin routine that has a lot of insight about mans arrogance as regards “the planet.”  Now we realize comedian/social critic Carlin was not justifying real pollution just the ridiculousness of the gaia worshipers. Now Carlin produced some seriously bogus routines over the years, but combine it with the wit of P.J. O’Rourke (predating Carlin’s routine) in his priceless book Eat the Rich and you have a one-two punch against what is really a movement for one-world government central planning by (and for) elitists, toward a disaster for mankind.

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This can be sort of a semi-open moderated/edited reader submission feature to appear  once a week or every few days (so as to be somewhat timely).

Rather than e-mail send a comment on or off topic to any current feature with the lead “short take .” That is key along with your quip, comment or perhaps link or other referral.  Please appreciate that our use of discretion is not a condemnation.  Every few days we will take the appropriate accumulation and post it as a feature under that week’s or day’s “Short Takes” rather than run them as a less seen comment.

We will post it using your initials, anonymous, or your name as you indicate in the item sent. One to five or so lines would be in keeping with the Short Take format. Comments of any length are still welcome as are submissions for featured inclusion.

Here are a couple from DLH to demonstrate:

Reader’s Short Takes

President Trump Hits Back Hard At TV Pundit Ann Coulter: “Wacky Nut Job” . . .

After hearing her on Breitbart over the weekend, I agree. She is a “Nut Job”!

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“Empire” actor Jussie Smollett has been indicted by a grand jury in Chicago on 16 felony counts after allegedly lying to police about being the victim of a racist and homophobic hate crime, NBC News confirmed Friday.”

Guess this means one less Democrat president candidate.

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So, What Do you Think About This, Your Holiness?

-“California legislators want to force Catholic priests to break the sacramental seal of confession and reveal what penitents disclose in cases of suspected child abuse or neglect.”

– Lots of issues occupy the Pontiff…can’t deal with all of them

Pope Francis has been quite vocal throughout his Papacy. He has expressed his “deep concern” about the evils of capitalism, the dangers of “climate change”, global “income inequality’. He has suggested that many of the ills afflicting Latin American countries are the fault of US actions in the past. He has condemned President Trump’s demands for border security and the need for physical barriers to prevent the mass invasion of America by illegal immigrants.

On other matters which one might expect the Pontiff to speak out on, he has been ambivalent, or even apparently reluctant to address.

Beyond noting that the Church opposes abortion, he has ‘cautioned’ against Catholics “obsessing” about the issue. His position on gay marriage is sometimes vague.
The Pope seems to be distracted from issues of the Church’s widely exposed sexual exploitation of minors by clergy, religious discrimination and persecution in various countries around the world…and strangely silent about recent events in Venezuela. While being unsubtly critical of various policies of President Trump, he has had little to say about expressions and policy proposals inimical to religious freedom advanced by Democrats in the US.

The actions of oppressive dictators and despots in various countries such as Maduro in his Latin American homeland seem to fail to get the attention of the leader of 2 billion Catholics around the world.

Perhaps at 81, the Pontiff is just tired. Maybe well-deserved retirement should be considered. (After all, the papal precedent has been set and he is not a US Supreme Court Justice.)  DLH

Violating the Confessional Will Make Bad Catholics and Bad Americans

California legislators want to force Catholic priests to break the sacramental seal of confession and reveal what penitents disclose in cases of suspected child abuse or neglect. Senate Bill 360 by Jerry Hill of San Francisco would achieve this by designating priests—and all clergy, in fact, regardless of religious affiliation—as “mandatory reporters” of such crimes.

The brazenness of this proposed law is breathtaking. We all know that California lawmakers are basically allergic to reality, but it’s distressing to contemplate that, at best, they have never heard of the First Amendment’s free exercise clause, or, at worst, they hate and want to gut it.

Yet it is not at all surprising this would happen in a cultural moment when:

• CNN anchor John King felt comfortable musing that maybe Second Lady Karen Pence shouldn’t get Secret Service protection because she’s an evangelical Christian
• Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) attacked now-Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s impartiality because she’s an orthodox Catholic (remember “the dogma lives loudly within you”?)
• The Obama administration tried to force nuns to pay for contraceptives in violation of their Catholic faith
• Senator Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) implied that a judicial nominee who is part of a Catholic charitable organization, the Knights of Columbus, couldn’t be an impartial judge
• The Colorado Civil Rights Commission openly expressed its bigotry against Christian cakemaker Jack Phillips (but was slapped down by the Supreme Court last term)
• The mainstream media perpetrated a coordinated smear campaign against 16-year-old Nick Sandmann of Covington Catholic High School and his friends

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Caution:Parody Ahead!

Pelosi says Omar isn’t anti-Semitic: ‘I think she has a different experience in the use of words’ ( you know like what the meaning of ‘is’ is

By Ann W. Schmidt | Fox News

Rep Ilhan Omar’s tweet that US politicians’ support for Israel is ‘all about the Benjamins’ sparked a furious backlash on Twitter, with cries of anti-Semitism from some, while others detailed the Israeli lobby’s influence.

The controversy kicked off when Omar shared, and responded to, a tweet by journalist Glenn Greenwald about Republican Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) threatening punishment against her and Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) for their support for the Boycott Divestment & Sanctions (BDS) movement.)

“I don’t think our colleague is anti-Semitic, I think she has a different experience in the use of words, doesn’t understand that some of them are fraught with meaning that she didn’t realize,” Pelosi said.

Why, of course, She didn’t even know what a “Benjamin” was…much less what he was all about!

Ilhan Omar’s comment about “Benjamins” was not intended to be hurtful. As Nancy suggests, this young lady is from Somalia and she doesn’t understand all of our customs, and idioms, and satirical flourishes.

Her remarks were only her way of injecting some lighthearted commentary into the sometimes harsh, and often dull speeches, the Congress is known for.
Congressperson Omar’s “It’s all about the Benjamins, baby” is a sentimental musical favorite from her days in the Kenya refugee camp from which she came to America at age 12.

Seems Ilhan and the other devout Muslim youngsters there would sit around the campfire in the evening and sing favorite selections from their most admired American singing idol, rapper Puff Daddy.

One of their most cherished hits by ‘the Daddy’ was…”It’s All about The Benjamins, Baby” (What are the Odds?!!). LISTEN TO THE NOTED SOMALI CAMPFIRE CLASSIC

Ilhan, according to her press office, and her young friends all thought the song was intended to honor ‘Benjamin’ Netanyahu of Israel.

It was only when reaction flared to her comments that Ms. Omar learned from friends in Congress and the Democratic Party that the song is not intended as an honorific to Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, nor are the ‘Benjamins’ what it’s all about ‘; “it’s actually, the “Hokey Pokey” that it’s all about!”

Thus, no longer will Omar go around singing such beloved lyrics as:

“We see through, that’s why nobody never gon’ believe you
You should do what we do, stack chips like *Hebrews*

or..: Bzzzzt, throw a hex on a whole family (yeah… Yeah yeah)

Dressed in all black like the Oman (say what?), and the ever popular:

“It’s all about the Benjamins baby
Wanna be ballers, shot-callers
It’s all about the Benjamins baby
Brawlers — who be dippin in the Benz wit the spoilers
It’s all about the Benjamins baby
On the low from the Jake in the Taurus

“Uhh, uhh, what the blood clot?
Wanna bumble wit the Bee hahh?
Bzzzzt, throw a hex on a whole family (yeah… Yeah yeah)
Dressed in all black like the Oman (say what?)
Have your friends singin ‘This is for my homey’ (that’s right)
And you know me, from makin niggaz so sick
Floss in my 6 with the Lex on the wrist”

NOSSIR!, SAYS ILHAN OMAR. “FROM NOW ON THE HALLS OF CONGRESS ARE GONNA REVERBERATE WITH THE SOUND OF MY VOICE, (SANS HIJAB) SINGIN’:

“Now put your right foot in
Your right foot out
Right foot in
Then you shake it all about
And then you do the hokey pokey
Turn yourself around
That’s what it’s all about, hey”!!!!!!!!

DLH

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. . .  as long as it’s Democrat!

WHY SHOULD IT BE NECESSARY FOR THE INHABITANTS/CITIZENS OF OTHER COUNTRIES AND NON-STATES TO COME TO AMERICA TO VOTE IN OUR ELECTIONS? ITS EXPENSIVE AND OFTEN DANGEROUS. LETS HAVE VOTE BY MAIL FOR ALL!!!

Vote intended to defend localities that allow illegal immigrants to vote in their elections, turning back a GOP attempt to discourage the practice.

At the current rate the US is “importing illegal immigrants, 1 to 2 million/ year, non-citizens of this country will, in a generation or so control state and local governments! As the Democrats Party is already experiencing, it , too, will be under their control.        DLH

Via Washington Times:

House votes in favor of illegal immigrant voting

“We are prepared to open up the political process and let all of the people come in,” Rep. John Lewis, a Georgia Democrat and hero of the civil rights movement, told colleagues…”

House Democrats voted Friday to defend localities that allow illegal immigrants to vote in their elections, turning back a GOP attempt to discourage the practice.

The vote marks a stunning reversal from just six months ago, when the chamber — then under GOP control — voted to decry illegal immigrant voting.

“We are prepared to open up the political process and let all of the people come in,” Rep. John Lewis, a Georgia Democrat and hero of the civil rights movement, told colleagues as he led opposition to the GOP measure.

The 228-197 vote came as part of a broader debate on Democrats’ major legislative priority this year, HR 1, the “For the People Act,” which includes historic expansions of voter registration and access, as well as a major rewrite of campaign finance laws.

The measure would have had no practical effect even if it had passed. Illegal immigrants — and indeed noncitizens as a whole — are not legally able to participate in federal elections.

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PRE-DAWN RAID SNARES BARRON

– Young Trump Arrested for Ignoring Congressional Subpoena

– More than 100 FBI Agents Raid Trump Family’s New Jersey
“Getaway” Residence

– Schiff: “No one is above the Law”

– Senator Harris: “Both ironic and appropriate”

One hundred and five heavily armed, hardworking, dedicated, non-political FBI agents swooped down on the President Trump family’s spacious luxury retreat at Bedminster Golf Club Friday morning and arrested the president’s son, Barron Trump, age 13.

From our files: “What Democrats are capable of”

Little has been said about the reason for young Trump’s arrest, but in a press conference shortly after the raid, FBI Director Christopher Wray told reporters that Barron’s arrest was the result of his failure to answer a subpoena from the House Congressional Select Oversight Committee, headed by Adam Schiff (D,CA).

According to Schiff and Jerome Nadler, young Trump, is thought to have close ties with Russians who may have been implicated in alleged attempts to swing the 2016 election to his father, Donald Trump.

“We are very concerned”, said Nadler, who is chairman of the House Judiciary Committee investigating possible collusion between Russia’s Putin government and the Trump campaign.

“We know that Mr. (Barron) Trump was close friends with the son of a Russian diplomat and intelligence operative when both attended pre-school less than 8 years ago”, Nadler disclosed.

Although Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation found no evidence of collusion, several Democrat House Committees are continuing to investigate the allegation.

It was revealed just this week that the House Judiciary committee had been preparing to issue a request to young Trump to appear before it to answer questions concerning that relationship with, and the Russian youth’s ties to, the alleged attempt to tamper with the election. It was also revealed that Barron had continued to have a close friendship with the Russian youth since their days in pre-school.

The raid on Friday included forced entry into the First Lady’s quarters at about 3:15 AM. The Trumps maintain a a getaway residence at the New Jersey golf resort (Trump National  Golf Club (Bedminster, New Jersey).

According to CNN, which first reported on the raid, more than 100 FBI agents, two federal helicopter gunships and a military Bradley Fighting vehicle were involved.

Director Wray, when asked why the overwhelming force was necessary indicated the Bureau “…was not sure what they might be walking into…”. One agent who was involved spoke off the record, saying that they had information that on his 12th birthday, Barron Trump had received an Eddie Eagles instruction course and a lifetime membership in the NRA from his father.

Congressperson, Maxine Waters, who accompanied CNN in the helicopter that filmed the scene of the raid was more blunt in describing the FBI’s fears,“… the agents didn’t know if the little thug was armed or not…”, she said.

It has not been learned how CNN became aware of the raid in time to get a helicopter aloft to cover it but sources say that Waters has close friends at high levels in the Bureau and at CNN.

According to unnamed sources within the FBI, young Trump is being held in an undisclosed “detention” facility in the D.C. area. According to a spokesperson from the office of Senator Kamala Harris, who it is reported is following the case closely, Barron Trump is being held in a facility similar to the ‘cages’ in which ICE holds children of undocumented refugees.

“It is both ironic and appropriate that the president experiences first hand the terror and humiliation which he imposes on others”, Harris is quoted as saying.

Mrs. Trump was allowed to see Barron briefly, within an hour after his arrest. The Washington Post reports that Mrs. Trump was immediately rushed by private helicopter to the detention facility, still wearing, according to Post fashion critic, Robin Givhan, the $1,360 Carine Gibson kimono that she was wearing when agents broke down the door of the bedrooms where she and Barron were asleep.

According to the AP, the First Lady was attempting to arrange for her son’s release as soon as possible.

Sources tell the AP that bail for young Trump is being set at $1 million , but it is expected he will spend at least another night in detention before release.

A question that was raised is where the First Lady’s Secret Service detail was during the raid. That, and other questions have been referred to the White House but, as yet, no statement has been issued.

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DLH

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TN sends this Dan Flynn piece appearing at The American Spectator

Five Questions Never Overheard at the Democratic Debates

Howie Carr, on whose talk radio program I first appeared 25 years ago, writes a hilarious column on must-ask questions at the Democratic presidential debates. Here are my five favorites: 5. “One-word answer, please: How many genders are there?” 4. “Would you ever dine at a Chick Fil-A?” 3. “President Franklin D. Roosevelt supported internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II — should his portrait be removed from the dime?” 2 “How did Venezuela go from the richest country in South America to the poorest in 30 years?” 1. “If President Trump tomorrow identified as a woman, began hormone therapy and scheduled a sex-change operation, would you consider him the first female president of the United States?” Honorable mention: “Given the fact that the U.S. has greatly reduced its carbon emissions even as China, India and much of the rest of the Third World have been increasing their pollution, would you be willing to undertake military action against such nations in order to prevent climate apocalypse and the end of the world?”

They are actually quite powerful questions and Democrats should be put on the spot with them.

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DEMOCRATS NEVER SEEM TO BE WORRIED ABOUT ‘PRECEDENT’

– Who’da Thought? While GOP is Worried Sick That if They Take Any Action in Defense of America’s Security or Sovereignty, the Party’s Future is Doomed

– Meanwhile Democrats Prepare to Call Trump’s First Grade Teacher and His Mother’s OBGYN To Testify

– Democrats Vow To Investigate Every Aspect Of Trump’s Illegal Activity Dating Back To His Days At The “Kew Forest Elementary” School in New York

– Report: FBI turned over to Schiff Committee Evidence that Barron Trump had several Russian Schoolmates and attended play dates at their homes prior to the ’16 Election

– Elijah Cummings is also reportedly looking into the incident involving Melania Trump who reportedly “wore a $1,380 Balmain shirt to Michele Obama’s vegetable garden”… the most expensive shirt any First Lady had ever worn to the garden. “We need to know if the garment was purchased with taxpayer funds which could have been used for good works by Planned Parenthood”, Cummings said.

“We will also be investigating whether or not FLOTUS’s lingerie has been made in the USA, or in Russia. And, was it provided free of charge by the manufacturer?…a clear violation of the “Emoluments Clause”, Cummings added.

He also disclosed that investigators believe the Russian company which allegedly manufactured the lingerie was known as “Putin Intimate Wear”. “If true, and if it is the same “Putin” who engineered the election of Donald Trump, what could be clearer evidence of collusion?”.

Meanwhile, Adam Schiff, chairman of the the House Permanent Select Committee on “Intelligence” (now perhaps the biggest misnomer in congressional history), in an interview on MSNBC revealed that his Congressional committee has irrefutable proof that Melania Trump was once associated with a secret organization devoted to corrupting the morals of our society. Asked to name the organization, Schiff would only say that it seems to go by the name “Victoria’s”. It is known that she attended a Secret meeting on December 5, 2016 “You can be sure that we will investigate this organization to the fullest extent”*, the chairman said.

(*Note: MSNBC obtained details of the meeting from https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/a-glimpse-back-at-melania-trumps-elegant-victorias-secret-fashion-show-style-033007403.htmldetails: ;

More Illegal Caravans ‘Ready to Roll’; AKA “The Tillis-Collins Opportunity  Caravan” Set to Deliver 18,000 9-year old Guatamalans to Florida;

 Sinaloa Cartel’s “Rand Paul* Sanctuary Express Caravan” to Head to Kentucky on Saturday With 12,000 New Democrat Voters and “Landscape Workers”

MS13 ‘s ‘Athletic Club’ Honors Former GOP Speaker for his work on securing US borders; Opening the “Paul Ryan Tattoo Parlor” in Madison, WI

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*Fine Upstanding Libertarian, Rand Paul, Bravely Protecting the Constitution as He Votes to Block President’s Efforts to Protect Borders; Hasn’t Noticed The Numerous Failures By He and His Congressional Colleagues To Uphold Immigration Laws;

Drug Cartels Plan to Name The Next Caravan After the Courageous Senator: “The Rand Paul Sanctuary Express Caravan ”

DLH

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States dominated by political grip of Democrat enclaves, elect jack-booted nincompoops who don’t care what the people in 3/4 of the state believe

There is a big difference between illegal immigrant sanctuary jurisdictions and Second Amendment sanctuary jurisdictions although the supporters of the former decrying the later exposes the rankest hypocrisy.

There is no constitutional right or even serious argument allowing for illegal entry or other violations of immigration laws not to mention the other commonly associated fraudulent activity. Immigration holds involve “due process” as they are official requests regarding putative fugitives from justice and should be honored.

However there is solid Constitutional argument against enforcing or cooperating in searches and seizures that impact a Constitutional right of a citizen.  Police are obliged to use their discretion to avoid unwarranted violations as they are sworn to uphold the Constitution.  Longstanding policies exist in jurisdictions to protect citizens from unreasonable searches and the like or enforcing dubious contentions.

A jurisdiction that declines to cooperate in the most minimal of ways in the enforcement of immigration laws being duly prosecuted are playing politics and should have no claim to financial aid or other aid from other jurisdictions that provide aid in part assuming mutual cooperation. A contract is violated.

Admiringly we see that 23 or more of New Mexico’s 33 county sheriffs, duly elected as the chief law-enforcement officials for their jurisdictions, for practical reasons and in support of the Constitution have properly put on notice state officials who have undertaken to press them to violate Second Amendment and other Constitutional protections.

Those sheriffs for the most part we believe are also operating in furtherance of resolutions from their county government and will not enforce recent impingements on citizen rights emanating from the Democrat controlled legislature and the Governor. Good for them and a shout of BS to the Governor their for twitting  that the sheriffs were engaged in a “childish pity party“.

This is the same twit that referred to Trumps description of the border crises as a charade and denying such a crisis exists. She withdrew NM National Guard troops from supporting other federal authorities dealing with the crisis.  But it is a crisis — as the Hill refers to Vice President Pence’s warnings essentially sustained by reports in the NYT and Washington Post.

Regrettably the state of my birth and early formative years  has become like so many states (Illinois, California and others) — political hostage to overwhelming Democrat political machinery of one or two counties.  In New Mexico’s case, Bernallio County (Albuquerque) a university town and Santa Fe (Santa Fe). Most of the rest of the state is much more sensible.

The Governor Lujan-Grisham there is a leftist member of a well-connected political family.  She supports an “assault weapons” ban while being for weapons of mass destruction in the hands of abortionists at any time they choose until the moment of birth and beyond.  She believes political spending does not count as free speech so speech can be limited or even banned by her lights.  Her leftist fealty is without significant exception. New Mexico is rich in oil and natural gas yet its Governor issues edicts and allies with those desiring to inhibit use and development, handicapping industry and prosperity in the state. Reminds us of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her agitation against Amazon resulting in billions of lost income to her district and jobs to her constituents.  Well you get the picture . . . which is remarkably like Katie Couric, and about the same age, IQ and liberal quotient.

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