Month: March 2019

Conservative Tree House has an Article About Brennan’s Involvement in the Russia-gate Origin

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Sundance over at CTH has remarkable stamina for untangling the Gordian Knot of the Russia-Gate conspirators.  I confess it’s more than I can stomach.  But if you are interested in who did what and when, there is an enormous story to be read.  I just hope some of them end up in the slammer.  But time will tell.

Rand Paul: “it was Brennan who insisted the unverified and fake Steele dossier be included in the Intelligence Report”…

28MAR2019 – Quote of the Day

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Popular culture as a whole is popular, but in today’s fragmented market it’s a jostle of competing unpopular popular cultures. As the critic Stanley Crouch likes to say, if you make a movie and 10 million people go see it, you’ll gross $100 million – and 96 per cent of the population won’t have to be involved. That alone should caution anyone about reading too much into individual examples of popular culture.

Mark Steyn

The Twilight Zone – Complete Series Review – Season 3 Episode 7 – The Grave

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A western themed Twilight Zone with Lee Marvin, Lee Van Cleef and Strother Martin, what’s not to like?  Lee Marvin is a bounty hunter named Conny Miller who comes home to find that the man he’s been hunting for months, Pinto Sykes, arrived back in town ahead of him and was finished off by an armed deputation of eight townsmen who opened fire on him all together.

The men tell Conny that before he died Pinto told them that Conny wasn’t really trying to catch him because he was afraid of Pinto.  And Pinto left word that if Conny ever showed up near his grave he would reach up and grab Conny.  Conny declared that he was never afraid of Pinto in life and he certainly wasn’t afraid of him now that he was dead.

Two of the men, Johnny Rob and Steinhart (played by Lee van Cleef) each bet Conny a twenty-dollar gold piece that he won’t visit the grave that night.  Another man named Mothershed (played by Strother Martin) said he would have bet against Conny too but he was out of cash.  Conny covers the bets and is about to leave when the men ask him how they will know if he really went all the way onto the grave.  It’s decided that he will stick a bowie knife into the earth and leave it there for them to see in the morning.

When Conny gets to the graveyard he meets pinto’s sister Ione Sykes who seems slightly unhinged and who laughs and tells Conny that Pinto is waiting for him.  She leaves and he heads for the grave.  At this point Conny is extremely jumpy and he pulls his gun when he hears something clanking in the high wind.  But he reaches the grave and plunges the knife into the grave.  But when he turns to leave, he seems to be pulled down onto the grave.

The next day the men are worried that something has happened to Conny.  They meet Ione who is going to place a dinner plate on Pinto’s grave as a memento.  When they get to the grave, they find Conny dead on the ground and are horrified.  But Steinhart explains it all as completely natural.  He theorized that Conny was very scared but managed to plunge his knife into the ground but as they could see he plunged it through the hem of his long coat and when he tried to get up, he felt the tug of the coat held by the knife and imagined Pinto was pulling him down and had a heart attack.  This seemed logical but Ione, who was wearing a long cape noted that the wind last night was the same as it was then and showed them that the wind couldn’t have blown his coat across the grave.

A very amusing ghost story with some of the best western actors of the time.  A-.

27MAR2019 – Reflections in the Post Mueller Landscape

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The dust has begun to settle and maybe there are a few worthwhile observations to make.  So, let me ramble a bit here and let’s see if anything substantive emerges.

One small trend emerged.  Several very different kinds of people on our side of the divide independently expressed that people responsible for the Russia-gate farce need to be brought to justice and punished.  And they were shooting pretty high.  Several wanted Obama convicted.  I volunteered that I thought the latter possibility highly unlikely.  I also said that to my way of thinking if a vindictive bastard like Trump didn’t go looking for payback it meant only one of two things.  The first choice was that he had made a political calculation that retribution would hurt his chances of re-election.  The other possibility is that he can’t because Barr won’t let it happen.  My thought is that Barr is the firewall and Mueller only ended the investigation because it was understood that Barr would drop the curtain on the whole Russia-gate affair and all the players would be allowed to shuffle off to their next appointed posts.  When I told this to my friends one of them said well then Trump can fire Barr and put in his own man.  And I said that maybe Mitch McConnell won’t allow that to happen.  And that made him quiet.

The other thing that occurs to me about where we are is that Trump is in an excellent position to start some trouble.  My thought is he should tackle the Tech giants.  Declaring Google, Facebook and Amazon monopolies should be simple.  After all they are!  Smashing those companies would be good for American business, civil liberties and for the Right.  Even the Democrats are smart enough to know that these companies aren’t popular and if Trump crushes them, he can make sure we benefit from the slaughter.

And it’s time he started building some of that wall.  Even if it’s just a symbolic portion.  He needs to use that three billion and them come back and say he needs more.  That’s what he has to run on.  And he has to start moving on the rest of his agenda.  Even if it means using the pen and the phone.  And he needs to start calling out lunatics like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez when she starts talking about spending hundreds of trillions of dollars for rainbows and unicorns.  It’ll be popular and it will be hilarious.

So, let’s see what my ramblings come to.

If the DOJ doesn’t go after the Russia-gate swamp creatures then in my estimation Barr is the stopper that ends the war without our side getting a chance to punch back.  Or Trump doesn’t think it’s wise.  But that seems less likely to me.

Trump has a good window this year to do some substantive things like go after the Tech Giants and build the Wall.  If he takes no initiative then he would seem to be a spent force and that would be very bad for our side.

So, these are the two things to look at in the next few months.  I’ll check back from time to time to see how this looks in the light of later developments.  But these are my thoughts on where we are and how we’ll know where we are headed.

What do you think?