On Valentines Day, 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz shot more than 30 people at a Florida high school, killing 17 of them.
School officials had expelled Cruz for bringing ammo to the school some months earlier. Cruz’s adoptive mother, a woman in her late 60s, died a few months ago. The adoptive mother’s supposed friend had taken Nickolas and his kid brother Zachary, also troubled, into her home, but Nikolas didn’t stay. He moved to the home of a friend’s parents. The couple let him keep a rifle he owned when he moved into their home. Supposedly it was under lock and key.
Cruz shot the teachers and kids, then dropped the rifle (an AR-15), multiple magazines, and the bag he concealed them in, and mingled in with the fleeing kids. He hit two fast food places. About an hour later, police arrested him.
Local police knew Cruz well. They had been to his residence 39 times since 2010. Neighbors reported he shot guns in the neighborhood, decapitated small animals, and aimed at them and their house windows. The police logs showed numerous fights between Cruz and his adoptive mother.
Cruz bought not only the AR-15, but several other firearms. Evidently his adoptive mother was generous with her money. Cruz didn’t seem to have a job until she died a couple of months ago.
Child Protective Services people evaluated Cruz after he cut himself on purpose. They did not rule he needed committing to a mental institution.
Cruz was receiving mental treatment. The shrinks did not believe he should be locked up either.
Cruz had an on-line presence as a wanna-be school shooter. A bail bondsman in Mississippi named Ben Bennight tipped the FBI Cruz should be watched. The FBI got another tip about Cruz’s violent tendencies in January 2018 from a Florida resident. The feds did nothing with either tip.
There is plenty of blame to go around. None of it involves firearms; all of it involves negligent or evil people.
First there is Nikolas Cruz himself. He chose to shoot other kids and he mixed in with the fleeing students once he was through shooting. He got by the police. Only later did a cop arrest him. They knew he was trouble.
Next are the Barneys in the FBI.
FBI director Christopher Wray admitted his agency’s personnel had crapped the bed yet again. This is the latest in a string of FBI failures to protect the public when they knew about violent people who hated Americans before they acted on their desires to kill innocent people.
The FBI ignored the evidently bisexual Moslem who shot up a gay nightclub in Orlando in 2016, even though they had info on him.
The FBI ignored the Moslem couple who shot up a group of government employees at a Christmas party in San Bernardino, California in 2015. The male Moslem worked as a government employee. He and his female were involved in importing other Moslems and sham marrying them to US nationals. They had also planned bombings as early as 2011. The FBI sat on their hands with this case too.
The FBI ignored the Tsarnaev brothers, the Moslem Chechnyans who bombed the Boston Marathon in 2013. Russian officials told the feds how dangerous the two were. The Tsarnaevs and their imported relatives were sucking hundreds of thousands of dollars in social services benefits from the taxpayers.
The FBI butchered the investigation that could have prevented 9-11. Robert Mueller was in charge of the FBI when Arab Moslems struck on that day in 2001.
Mueller is now in charge of the snipe hunt against Donald Trump and his team. Mueller is a key member of the Deep State.
Many people have been saying the FBI was too busy persecuting President Trump and his people to be doing their job of protecting the public from violent criminals.
Ohio governor John Kasich attacked President Trump over the weekend for his accurate critique of the losers in the FBI. Kasich is a terminal never-Trumper. Kasich is also like the yappy small dog who gets jealous when its owners bring home a new baby and shower attention on the babe as parents should do. Yappy Kasich can’t decide whether to defecate and urinate on the rug, bite the baby, or rub itself inappropriately on visitors to the home. So Yappy Kasich does all of the above.
The FBI’s top people are close to being indicted for acting as Hillary’s willing tools against Donald Trump.
And the left knows it.
So they’ve been highlighting a story about a White House staffer named Rob Porter.
He has two ex-wives, both of whom said he beat them.
Porter is the son of a Bush 41 adviser. Porter, a Mormon, worked for Orrin Hatch and Mike Lee, Mormon senators from Utah. He also worked for Rob Portman, senator from Ohio. Portman is for gay “marriage” because one of his kids is a homosexual.
President Trump’s people got good references on Porter from three Republican senators. So they hired him.
When it came out Porter was allegedly a wife beater, he resigned.
Leading leftists, who break the law routinely and have been almost sexually subservient to the Clinton couple, are acting as if everyone in the Trump administration should resign because Porter is a wife-beater, allegedly.
Problem is, the feds and others don’t know how to do a background check.
All too often, they just check criminal records and driving records, and question some people in a person’s neighborhood.
But does that mean he is clean? No.
Was Porter ever charged criminally with spouse abuse? Probably not.
Did the feds ever check the details of Porter’s divorces? Did the divorce lawyers in essence cover up what happened?
FBI Director Christopher Wray admitted Friday his pukes ignored two tip calls about the evil little bastard who would shoot up the high school in Florida. They also crapped themselves failing to head off 9-11. And the FBI ignored info from the Russian government about the Tsarnaev brothers, Moslems from Chechnya who later bombed the Boston Marathon. Failures, Buttheads, Incompetents.
Did either ex-wife file a police report? There should have been a record for the senators to check.
Supposedly one wife got a restraining order against Porter. This is not a criminal conviction (in fact, some restraining orders are filed for by liars), but it is something that bears further checking, something the feds apparently didn’t do.
On our webpage, check the page “BACKGROUND CHECKS THE OLD-FASHIONED WAY.”
You’ll see what goes into a quality background check, one that hardly ever gets done anymore.
I used divorce records and police records to show a foster couple in Illinois have foster children despite the wife’s teen son being credibly accused of molesting two different little girls. Also, the couple has had money problems as evidenced by a bankruptcy filing.
The foster dude is on his third wife. Figuratively and literally.
Nine years ago this week, my brother Bryan died in his sleep. His Requiem Mass took place on Lincoln’s Birthday.
His story is one worth telling, for any of you who are depressed, or in despair, or in denial, or questioning Our Lord and His mercy. I tell it more or less in the eulogy I wrote nine years ago.
“Bryan didn’t live what we consider a long life.
We his brothers and sister didn’t get to say good-bye. Bryan died in his sleep in the wee hours of Thursday morning a week ago. Ironically, he had taken the day off to pay his respects to a family friend who had died days earlier. Bryan’s boss called me the next day wondering if I knew where Bryan was. I authorized Bryan’s landlord to check on him, and he found him. A sheriff’s deputy, the paramedics, and a woman from the medical examiner’s office had the sad duty to confirm his death. It was our brother Sean’s sad duty to have Bryan transported for burial.
Bryan only lived a half a century, but he wasn’t supposed to make it this far. For those of you who don’t know, here’s his medical history:
He was born at six months gestation instead of nine. He had only one eye that saw, severe motor nerve damage, and considerable brain damage as well.
He nearly died at birth, he nearly died any number of times his first year of life.
He had emergency experimental shunt valve surgery because he had excess fluid on the brain. The first four children who underwent this surgery died. The fifth child who underwent this surgery lived, but was institutionalized, like the Kennedy girl.
Bryan was the sixth. They cut a piece out of Bryan’s skull, and put a valve there. They ran a tube down to his heart for suction.
Every few years he had to have the valve replaced, and the tubing lengthened as he grew. Bryan told me he wasn’t afraid of death because he could have gone at any time.
He lived, and to the best of his abilities, lived as normal a life as he could.
Our Lord said the well don’t need a doctor, the sick do.
You don’t make medical advances on the well, you make them on the sick.
Many children are alive today and are living decent lives because of the pain Bryan underwent with those surgeries. Doctors learned they were going in the right direction because of Bryan’s willingness to endure pain and keep fighting for life.
Everyone sold Bryan short, and lost their shirts.
Bryan was never supposed to learn to read, but he did. He was a bookworm’s bookworm.
Bryan was never supposed to get thru grade school, but he did.
Then they said he wouldn’t make it thru high school, but he did.
Mom and Dad got Bryan ready for adult life instead of abandoning him in an institution. They gave him no breaks of any kind, but expected him to pull his weight.
I came out West for a year after Mom and Dad died to give Bryan the last bit of help he needed to fly like a responsible adult.
I had Bry undergo a battery of motor skill and mental tests to see what precisely his problems could be. The nurse psychologist who evaluated Bry said he read at the college level and did math at the 8th grade level … which meant Bryan retained his business math abilities from high school. We said Bryan’s reading and math skills made him smarter than most of the people in Congress. Bryan knew enough math to know you can’t spend what you don’t have.
Bryan had childhood dreams, and he lived to achieve many of them, or at least get a taste of them.
When I was a little boy, Santa brought me an HO train set. Bryan sat with me for hours as I ran the little engine. When Bry was old enough, Santa came thru and brought him a Lionel set. And he and Sean would run that train. Bryan said he would be an engineer. I can’t count how many times Bryan and I would hang out in switching yards, watching the switch engines and the locomotives, watching the engineers build up trains. Or the time we nearly got blown off a train bridge over the Columbia River by a highballing freight because we wanted to check out trains and ships coming into Portland. Or the time Bryan and I went up to the California railroad park in the High Sierras and saw a real cultural landmark … the water tank the girls of Petticoat Junction skinny-dipped in.
Although he never became an engineer, Bryan made cross country trips by train, and he was looking forward to getting instruction on how to run a diesel engine … we were going to take him up to a training yard to do it. King Bryan’s throne room was the observation car of a cross country train. No railroad baron enjoyed the view better or hit the buffet harder than Bryan on a fast moving passenger train across this great country.
President Trump’s many enemies have no need to lie any longer. Top officials in the FBI and elsewhere in the Justice Department have been trying illegally to throw him out of office. Their defenders are openly confirming the truth by threatening President Trump after he helped make the conspiracy against him public.
How? President Trump allowed the release of the memo from the House Intelligence Committee on February 2. For purposes of this post, we’ll call it the Nunes Memo.
The Nunes memo is a confirmation of an attempted putsch against President Trump by top officials in the Obama Justice Department and the intelligence community. It is the third such attempt in my lifetime, and I hope and pray it is the first one that will totally fail.
For those of you who don’t come here often enough, the first was the Deep State assassination of JFK and the promotion of LBJ. The second was the CIA/Bush 41/Clinton effort in the Iran/Contra Affair to try to get Ronald Reagan impeached, after he survived an assassination attempt carried out by John Hinckley, whose parents were close friends of Bush 41.
A number of top officials in the FBI and elsewhere in the Justice Department used false opposition research provided by Hillary Clinton’s campaign as an excuse to get a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant from a federal FISA court judge to spy on and wiretap a Trump aide and those he contacted (including Mr. Trump). They got the warrant in October 2016, before the election.
FISA courts exist to allow the feds to check on foreigners or on Americans spying for hostile countries. If the Trump aide was suspected of wrongdoing that wasn’t spying for a hostile nation, but making contacts with Russian officials, they should have gone to a regular federal judge, not the spy court judge.
The FBI used tax dollars to pay a foreigner, a Brit named Christopher Steele, to snoop on Trump overseas. Steele said he went to Russia and paid Russian government agents to tell him about a trip Donald Trump took to Russia some years earlier. Steele was also getting money from Hillary’s campaign thru Fusion GPS, an opposition research firm. In fact, the Fusion GPS people let the FBI know about their scam. (Fusion GPS is the firm whose people tried to help Planned Parenthood execs lie about their baby body parts sales crimes.) Steele provided false tales of Trump using Russian hookers and committing other misdeeds in the Socialist Motherland. Steele said the Russian agents told him this. These were people on Putin’s payroll.
The FBI’s people admitted Steele’s dossier was false, but they worked with Fusion GPS to push the false dossier on candidate Trump in the fall of 2016 to the media in hopes one or more of them would publish it. But the Steele dossier was so fake no mainstream media outlet would touch it with a 10-foot pole.
James Comey, then the head of the FBI, would later call the Steele dossier “salacious and unverified.”
However, scribe Michael Isikoff wrote an article based on the briefing the FBI , through Fusion GPS contract spy Christopher Steele gave him. The FBI then used Isikoff’s article as “independent evidence” not linked to their own probe to get a federal judge to issue a FISA warrant against Trump aide Carter Page, to spy on him and wiretap him and/or others who came in contact with him. “Others” would include Mr. Trump and other members of his team.
They could not have gotten the warrants without lying and presenting false evidence, including the Steele dossier (which spawned the Isikoff article), former FBI No. 2 man Andrew McCabe would later concede.
In short, the FBI and other intelligence community smurfs colluded with Hillary’s opposition research people and Russian officials and foreign spy to deny Mr. Trump and his supporters an election victory. In other words, a number of top people charged with enforcing the law broke it severely to help a candidate (Hillary) who would be keeping them in their jobs or helping them to better jobs. This is what criminals and political dictators do.
President Obama allowed the feds to do counterintelligence on Donald Trump starting earlier in 2016, when it appeared Trump would be the Republican nominee for president.
They didn’t use any intel from this fishing trip, which means they found nothing usable. Trump and his people are not angels, but they are not the sociopaths top Democrat politicians and their associates are, either.
So the spook plotters had to work with Hillary’s campaign, Fusion GPS, and Christopher Steele. They had to lie to the media, get a story printed, and use it to get a FISA warrant against Carter Page to spy on the Trump campaign. They had to lie and call him a spy working for a hostile foreign government to get the FISA warrant. And they had to conceal from the FISA judge their dirty dossier was the source of the info they used to apply for the FISA warrant.
They got the FISA warrant against Carter Page in October 2016, before the election. They couldn’t find anything of use in their illegal spying on the Trump campaign.
In the wee hours of November 9, 2016, vote counters in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin verified Donald Trump won the presidential election over Hillary Clinton. Ms. Clinton went into angry tantrum mode and would not appear to concede or thank her staffers. Her confidant John Podesta, an accused pedophile, had to send her crowd of supporters away.
But the Deep State didn’t stop their attacks on Donald Trump.
Hillary and her people almost immediately charged Mr. Trump won the 2016 election with the help of Russian leader Vladimir Putin. This is the same Putin whose agents fed salacious false stories to Christopher Steele that Hillary’s campaign paid for, and that FBI leaders used taxpayer money to pay for. Their plan worked well, as much of the rest of this post will show. The problem was, it was a lie, like so many of Hillary’s and her team’s utterances – and like so many Deep State utterances.
Then there was the Jill Stein joke. The Green Party candidate swallowed her pride and rented herself out like a hooker to be used by Hillary’s campaign to challenge the outcomes in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin. Jill didn’t challenge the outcome in New Hampshire, Nevada, Maine or Minnesota, all statees which Hillary won narrowly.
The recount in Michigan revealed massive cheating for Hillary in the Detroit area that made the final vote much closer than it should have been. Mr. Trump should have won by many more votes. Despite voter machine “programming malfunctions” where GOP votes got counted for Dems, and vote counting shenanigans in Pennsylvania (there was only a look at counties Hillary carried), Jillary’s lawyers couldn’t overturn Mr. Trump’s election in that state. Some state Democrat leaders opposed the recount, possibly because it could have exposed their rotten setup in the Keystone State. Wisconsin’s statewide recount changed the totals very slightly. Jillary’s lawyers reportedly spent more money on the recount effort than what the Greenies raised for her joke of a campaign.
Donald Trump at Al Smith Event, October 2016. He is under the approving eyes of journalist Maria Bartiromo, an excellent judge of male character.
This doesn’t count the electoral attacks on Donald Trump by establishment Republicans in the Bush family, or by failed presidential candidates John McCain or Mitt Romney, or by many of his rivals for the GOP nod, like John Kasich and Ted Cruz and Carly Fiorina. Romney, like Barack Obama, a product of polygamy, helped Mormon CIA agent Evan McMullin to try to deny Mr. Trump the electoral votes of Utah and a few other states in the election. Mr. Trump carried Utah, but McMullin won more votes in Minnesota (53,000) than the gap between Mr. Trump and Hillary in the North Star State (45,000). McMullin as a write-in candidate also helped lessen Mr. Trump’s margin in Wisconsin and Michigan enough to allow Democrat attempts to steal the election in those two states with recounts.
When Jill Stein’s fake challenges burned out, then Democrats and some never-Trumpers attacked members of the Electoral College. Many Republican electors got thousands of letters and e-mails, many of them threatening. Mobs of angry and delusional Democrats descended on several states’ Electoral College voting sites to intimidate electors. No one was charged for the campaign to threaten Electoral College electors. In December 2016, Mr. Trump got 304 electoral votes, more than the 270 he needed. He should have gotten 306, but two grandstanding electors in Texas voted for Kasich and Ron Paul. One bozo elector in Texas voted for Carly Fiorina for VP.)
The best that could be said about the election of 2016 is that New York, New England, Chicago, and California didn’t formally secede from the Union in a tantrum over the results. That’s a very low bar.
Parents know schools are places where kids pick up lots of germs. But many parents aren’t aware that many germs at school pick out kids.
But it’s true. The teachers and other staffers are loaded with two-legged germs — pervs and enablers. Why? Schools are loaded with children. And the pay and pensions are pretty good too. Not to mention the teacher union and the administration will protect their pervs.
The Larry Nassar Michigan State sexual abuse scandal has finally caught the nation’s attention.
Nassar, an osteopath and a long-time trainer and doctor for very young women athletes at Michigan State University and high school girls in Michigan, and the team doctor for the girls’ US Olympics gymnastics team, is going to prison for life. More than 150 of his victims came forward against him.
His method? He would tell girls and coeds seeking relief for hip and back pain he would realign their hips. He then would stick his fingers in their vaginas and keep them there for many minutes at a time while he massaged their muscles with his free hand. He did this to some girls scores of times, his victims reported. He took advantage of their trust in his ability to help them. Female coaches and at least one Olympic gymnastics coach covered for him. The female coaches told the girls and parents what Nassar did was an acceptable medical practice.
Michigan State higher-ups and local prosecutors kept Nassar’s crimes under wraps. Finally the campus police chief got the attorney general of Michigan to press sexual abuse charges against Nassar. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 40 to 175 years in prison a few days ago.
The president and athletic director of Michigan State have resigned. So have all the officers in the USA Gymnastics organization. These people chose the girls for the US Olympics teams and supposedly watched coaches. Nassar was one of many adults with the USA Gymnastics seal of approval who molested girls.
Now another athletic director, Jack Swarbrick at Notre Dame, is facing some pressure to come clean. In Notre Dame’s case, some of their own football fans are bringing heat and light to the situation.
Swarbrick hired Brian Kelly to coach Notre Dame’s Fighting Irish football team. Kelly has underachieved in his eight years as gridiron boss in South Bend. Kelly also appeared negligent in the death of Declan Sullivan, a student assistant. In 2010, Kelly’s first year at Notre Dame, Sullivan died after a hydraulic lift he was filming a team practice from fell. There were very high winds that day, and a gust blew the lift over, killing Declan.
Kelly seemed more self-serving than apologetic about the tragedy. Swarbrick, who was at the practice, struck people as being legalistic in sticking up for his coach. Notre Dame president, Father John Jenkins, was not pleased. He admitted quickly and publicly Notre Dame failed the Sullivans. Jenkins didn’t try to dicker with the grieving parents, but had the Sullivans paid millions of dollars for the loss of their son, who was trying to please Kelly by staying at his post despite the risk to his life. When Notre Dame played Alabama for the national title after the 2012 season (which would have been after Declan’s senior year), the Sullivan family attended.
Cecile Richards, the woman who ran Planned Parenthood for more than a decade, is leaving her job.
Why?
Could it be that she doesn’t want to deal with a federal probe into Planned Parenthood’s selling of baby body parts, Dr. Mengele style?
Could it be that her departure has something to do with a potential federal fraud case against Planned Parenthood?
Could it be that her departure has something to do with a potential federal case against Planned Parenthood for being the accessory to the rapes and incests and statutory rapes of many thousands of underage girls?
Bear in mind the Spartys at Michigan State are in trouble for not reporting Larry Nassar for claiming sticking his fingers up girls’ vaginas for extended periods was a hip realignment procedure.
Did Cecile sexually abuse a woman in the workplace?
Or is there some other intrigue going on?
Enquiring minds want to know.
It could be the high cost of medical malpractice insurance. Most abortion providers whose malpractice records I’ve checked get sued more often than the average OB-GYN.
In fact, some abortionists don’t even carry malpractice insurance. They rely on the threat of slut-shaming the women and girls they commit malpractice on. They also make patients sign waivers that are so threatening and wrong they are often unenforceable. But the women and girls don’t know any better, and assume they’ve signed away their rights.
The average medical school student doesn’t do all that work to become the Albert Schweitzer of abortionists.
The average abortionist is an abortionist due to being a poor practitioner in another field of medicine and having to sink to doing abortions. Or he got there because he was in debt and doing abortions is a quick way to make money. The patients are healthy young women and teenage girls, and the abortionists spend little time with them. The women and girls put up with the mistreatment because they can always be outed as running around, getting pregnant, and having an abortion.
Abortion is legal, but most women and girls who undergo them would rather not talk about them.
Do we understand each other? Good.
Now let’s talk about abortion and the public record.
Planned Parenthood and Emergency Run — courtesy of Operation Rescue
Malpractice cases are public records in the counties where victims file them.
Malpractice cases also come up occasionally in state insurance commissions’ records.
EMT runs to abortion mills are usually public records, except for the name of the victim.
Health department records in states where abortion mills have to undergo occasional inspections are public records. Most abortion facilities do not undergo such inspections because they are considered doctor offices.
Some “freestanding clinic” abortion mills also escape health department inspections. They lack staffers trained in lifesaving techniques, and they lack lifesaving medical equipment. The law doesn’t make such places have them.
(Joan Rivers died in a freestanding clinic. The staffers goofed around, reportedly, while she was dying. Although she was not there for an abortion, the level of care in freestanding clinics doesn’t have to be very high to escape health department inspections.)
The “shutdown” by those who want to put illegal gang-bangers ahead of Americans has been taking up most of the national news. It just ended, as President Trump smashed his opponents and gave up nothing in the process.
It diverted attention away from a soon-to-be horrible beatdown of the FBI and maybe certain top Democrats who top FBI people have been servicing.
The FBI’s latest stoogefest? Claiming they lost five months of e-mails between cheaters Lisa Page and Peter Strzok, two of the top anti-Trump illegal plotters.
Those who destroyed this evidence deserve prison terms, with prison uniforms marked “FBI” so the other inmates will know how to interact with them, if you catch my drift.
President Trump and his allies are about to take a number of people to school as they cycle them thru the criminal justice system. FBI is about to mean “frequently being imprisoned.”
Meanwhile, we need to take a look at another national story. It will help us protect our children.
Larry Nassar, a doctor of osteopathy and highly regarded trainer working at Michigan State University, is a child porn convict, and is now a serial sexual abuser convict. His victims? Aspiring young girls who wanted to be top gymnasts. And a few young female Michigan State softball, soccer, and volleyball players who trusted him as their trainer. In all, at least 150 girls and very young women were his victims.
Among his victims are many girls who put on a leotard for the U.S. gymnastics team in the Olympics since 1996. Nassar also served with USA Gymnastics as the girls’ team doctor and trainer for a number of years. In his plea deal, Nasser is owning up to sexually assaulting 10 girls.
Most of the girls kept quiet when the perv felt them up or penetrated them with his fingers. He was able to con some of them that putting a finger in their vaginas or anuses for prolonged periods would help him treat their back or hip pain. They were too young to know any better. They wanted to be top gymnasts so badly the vast majority of them didn’t tell their parents. In some cases he did the girls this way while a parent was in the training room but not paying much attention.
At least four girls, three of them younger than 18, did complain to female MSU staffers. Michigan State has a large community gymnastics program for young girls. In all cases, they said, the women officials blew them off.
A woman who seemed a real enabler was MSU’s women’s gym coach, one Kathie Klages. Two teenage girls in a youth gymnastics program the university was hosting in the late 1990s complained to her Larry Nasser had parked his fingers inside them for long periods. They said she asked them who else knew. Nothing happened to Nassar.
One mother of a victim said Ms. Klages told her the digital penetration Nassar did on her girl was a “legal medical procedure.” Supposedly there is a procedure for pain relief to the lower back or the hips that involves this, but if someone put a finger up your backside without your consent that person would need pain relief after you started beating him or her over the head or kicked him or her in the crotch. (We are gender inclusive here as there are a large number of lesbians in female athletics.)
One of the teens complained to a female training supervisor at MSU named Destiny Teachnor-Hauk. I’m not sure whether that is a better name for a pole dancer or a Germanic domme or a mythical heroine in feminist studies literature.
A MSU softballer named Tiffany Lopez complained about Nassar’s unique brand of penetrative therapy to Ms. Destiny, and the woman reportedly replied, “He does this to all the other athletes. You either suck it up or you don’t play.”
So much for taking it for the team.
The victims said Michigan State’s top people ignored them for about 20 years.
One mother took her daughter to the local police in 2004 to file a sexual assault charge against Nassar. The case was never prosecuted.
History is a great form of the public record. On this Martin Luther King Day, we don’t hear about how Big Democrat and welfare state engineer LBJ used the FBI to attack Dr. King. Dr. King wanted equal opportunity for blacks in the workplace, the classroom, and in public life, not handouts.
On this Martin Luther King Day, we don’t hear about how LBJ might have been in on the plot to murder Dr. King. Come April, Dr. King will have been dead 50 years.
But it all happened.
Police unjustly arrest Dr. King in Alabama. He put his life on the line constantly, and in the end died as a martyr, no thanks to highly-placed vermin who wanted him dead.
President Trump recently forced the release of the JFK murder records. In doing so, Mr. Trump wants people to remember the FBI and the CIA and LBJ were all in on the plot to murder President Kennedy because he dared cross the Deep State. This is a way for him to prepare the public to accept the FBI and CIA are full of evil people who could kill him, and who deserve punishment.
If there is a similar unreleased trove on Dr. King, President Trump should order these documents released also.
Today is Epiphany, the commemoration of the visit of the Three Wise Men. They saw the Star of Bethlehem, and came to give the child Jesus gold, frankincense, and myrrh.
Not too much is known about the Three Wise Men. Only Matthew mentioned them in the Bible. The evangelist Matthew referred to these men as “astrologers from the east.” They were called “magoi” in Greek versions of the Book of Matthew, so they got the nickname of “The Magi.” Maybe some people figured they were “kings” because they were bold enough to demand an audience with Herod, the Quisling whom the Romans used to rule the Jews. Biblical scholars figure they came from Babylon or from Persia, because the learned men of these countries knew how to chart the stars.
Wise men from the East gave gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh.
But like many things in the Bible, the precise trivia about the Wise Men isn’t as important as why they did what they did. As Matthew has it, the three saw the star, journeyed to Israel, demanded an audience with Herod, and said, “Where is the newborn King of the Jews? We observed his star at its rising and have come to pay him homage.”
Herod “became greatly disturbed, and with him all of Jerusalem.” (Actually, most of the people of Jerusalem could care less. Only those close to the government — much like the parasite class of lawyers, lobbyists, aides, and bureaucrats inside the Washington Beltway — had any cause to worry.) Herod had fathered many sons by many wives, but had many of them killed because he was paranoid. So a “newborn King of the Jews” in his mind meant his “rule” and his “line” was going to come to a bad end. And well he knew the end could come for him at any time … he owed his power to his willingness to do the bidding of the Romans, and the Roman emperor could put someone else on the throne of Israel with no trouble. Most Jews despised Herod because he was a bootlicking pagan who had essentially abandoned the faith of the people (he was an Idumean whose people were converts to Judaism), and a backstabber who had the last of the Maccabees put to death. Even though Herod had the Temple rebuilt, most Jews saw him for the corrupt little puppet he was.
Herod summoned the chief priests and scribes, and asked them where the Messiah was supposed to be born. Quoting the prophet Micah, they said the Messiah was to be born in Bethlehem of Judea, a little town within walking distance of Jerusalem. Herod told the Three Wise Men they would find the newborn king of the Jews in Bethlehem, and asked them to give directions on how to find the child so he too could pay him homage.
The Wise Men didn’t know it just then, but Herod, having an evilly shrewd mind, figured he would get them to find the child for them, tell him how to find the child, and make it easy for him to have his guards kill the little boy. However, they eventually did get the word on what a louse Herod was, and they would visit Jesus and leave Israel without checking back with the insecure scumbag.
At any rate, the Wise Men went to Bethlehem, and found the moving star had stopped over a little house. They went inside, and found the infant Jesus with Mary. They were overjoyed at finding Jesus, and they prostrated themselves before him, doing Him homage. They then opened their coffers and presented the Christ Child with gold, frankincense and myrrh.
As the old carol “We Three Kings” explained it so nicely, one wise man gave Jesus gold because it was used for the crown of a king, one wise man gave Jesus frankincense because it was used in the worship of God, and one wise man gave Jesus myrrh because it was used to embalm the dead. In giving these gifts, the Three Wise men recognized Jesus was God, that He would suffer death to redeem people for their sins, and that He would rule as King of the people after His resurrection.
Mom and Dad had a Christmas album that Perry Como had recorded. On the really great side of the record, Perry told the story of the first Christmas. Every so often, Como or the other singers would sing a verse or carol that would illustrate the part of the narrative he was speaking. When it came time for Como to talk about the Magi , he introduced them as three shadowy strangers cloaked in suitable mystery, and asked, “Who were these men traveling on camels from afar?” Then three older men sang a verse of “We Three Kings.”
Of course I loved that album when I was a little boy, and I still love it today. As a little boy, I was captivated by the way Perry and the other singers made the Christmas narrative come to life for me. As an adult, I can tell Como, by the way he talked and sang, recorded the holy carols and the Nativity narrative on that album as if they meant something to him. The secular carols on the other side of the album he kind of walked through with his casual style, but the holy carols and narrative he really put his heart and soul into.
Como’s album could have been the plastic garbage that merchants pass off as “holiday spirit.” Instead, he worked to make it a real tribute to the birth of Our Lord. Likewise, The Three Wise Men traveled a great distance and brought valuable gifts because “the newborn King of the Jews” was someone worthy of such homage and such effort. And isn’t Christmas — and the whole rich spiritual and emotional life of Christianity — all about giving of oneself, which is what the Wise Men did?
As a bonus, January 6 is the day Joan of Arc was born, in 1412, in the village of Domremy in Lorraine near Germany.
France was divided between the English and what was left was in the unsteady hands of the crown prince. Since his mother the Queen was promiscuous and the King was not in his right mind, there was talk he was a bastard and he believed it.
Joan persuaded the local warlord her call from God to lead the French was true when she predicted a defeat for the French. When word reached the warlord, he ordered some of his men to join the two knights who swore fealty to her. The party of 25 or so reached the place in central France where the crown prince and his frivolous court were. The courtiers tried to trick her by having the crown prince hide in the court crowd while an impostor sat on his throne. Joan picked the crown prince (the Dauphin) out, and quietly told him it was revealed to her his father was the old King, and he was of legitimate birth and by right the next king of France.
The ladies of the court checked her for virginity, verified she was intact, and reported this to the court. A priest from the Inquisition questioned her, determined she was pure, faithful, blessed, and send by God. The crown prince reluctantly put her in charge of his small army.
Joan worked relentlessly to win over her generals and clean up the behavior of her men. She was practical as well. When they assumed her presence would guarantee them victory, she said they would still have to fight bravely and well and earn it. She had the officers and NCOs train the men better and she exhorted them to live better lives to be worthy of God’s promise of liberty and unity for the French.
In 1429, Joan led the army to several victories and had the crown prince crowned King of France in the cathedral of Rheims. She then begged to be discharged, because she hoped to marry and raise a family. The king and his court kept her in limbo. His ministers sold out the French by negotiating treasonably with the English, and her army was disbanded.
Burgundians (French allies of the British) captured Joan in a skirmish in 1430, and sold her to the English. Her king made no attempt to ransom her. Joan escaped twice but was recaptured. A disgusting French bishop had her falsely accused and tried for sorcery and a number of other crimes. A Hell-bound English nobleman raped her in prison, and some of the guards tried to do likewise, the vermin. Then they burned her alive in the town square of Rouen in Normandy on May 30, 1431. Joan died with the name of Jesus on her lips. She was only 19 when her soul winged its way to Heaven.
Joan’s work led the way to the establishment of France as a nation state. A girl born in Spain 20 years later, Isabella of Castile, would make her homeland a nation-state by marrying prince Fernando of Aragon, merging their realms, and fighting together to throw the Moslem invaders out of the Iberian Peninsula. They received the surrender of the last Islamic stronghold, Granada, on January 3, 1492. Later that year, Isabella sent Christopher Columbus in search of a short-cut to China, and he instead would find the New World.
Joan as a devout Catholic would have welcomed seeing the triumph of the Cross in the nation south of her own, by a queen young enough to be her granddaughter. Isabella the warrior queen would have been honored to have the peasant girl from Lorraine be her mentor in combat.
Scribes wrote down the transcript of the trial which cost Joan her life. They noted the black-clad booted teenager with black hair worn in a pageboy cut was bold and insolent and wise even without being allowed a lawyer to represent her before the sham trial. Only a priest from the Inquisition tried to intercede on Joan’s behalf, and the corrupt bishop and the English blocked him.
After the French won the Hundred Years War in the 1450s, Joan’s elderly mother petitioned the Pope to have her daughter’s name cleared. The Pope authorized a trial and had the survivors of Joan’s officer corps, those still alive who knew her, to include her brothers who nearly died in combat trying to save her from capture, come to Paris and testify. The tribunal’s officers even made the survivors of the fraudulent court that condemned her come to Paris and testify.
These judges cleared Joan of wrongdoing and declared her a woman of faith and virtue who did the work of God. Scribes also wrote down the testimony of witnesses and the interrogations by the officers of the court.
The actual trial documents of both trials, made of parchment, exist today in the National Archives of France. The custodians of these records have made copies of them and translated the medieval Latin into French. They are public records.
Of course, the Epiphany text of the Gospel of Matthew is a much better known public record, which the custodians of the Catholic and Orthodox Churches kept since its writing, so it would be available to all.
The officers of Joan of Arc spoke of her goodness and purity, her kindness and even her crush on one of their brother officers. She backed off when she found out he was married, but still called him little pet names she didn’t call the other officers. The officer in question, the Duke D’Alencon, told the court Joan told his wife it was revealed to her (Joan) he would come home safe from the wars to her (the wife). He also testified she was pure and did nothing unseemly.
The officers also testified Joan had the bravest men of the nation under her command, but behaved herself even though she was a normal young woman who enjoyed men and wanted to be married. The transcript of the rehabilitation trial preserved this testimony. Who better to testify than the people who worked for Joan who could say what a wonderful person she was?
Likewise with Matthew. He was one of Christ’s 12 Apostles. Christ saved Matthew from the corruption of tax collecting. Matthew didn’t witness the visit of the Magi, but talked to those still alive who did witness it and who knew about Herod’s slaughter of the innocents. Matthew could read and write, figure, and assess. Who better to note the visit of the Magi and other acts of Christ’ life than him?
The Three Wise Men set good example for us all and gave us one of our most joyous customs — the custom of giving gifts to those we love. Epiphany is truly a holiday worthy of celebration!
Thank God for these people who recorded the glorious truth so it could light our lives!
Our current immigration mess did not happen overnight. Like many societal ailments this nation has today, its germs came from the 1960s. In the mid 1960s there was a dumb but harmless sitcom called “Gilligan’s Island.” It was about a group of people who survived a tourist boat wreck and landed on an uninhabited island. It had some nice eye candy in Dawn Wells and Tina Louise, but the focus of the show was on Bob Denver’s character Gilligan, the poor stooge who was the butt of everyone else’s jokes because of his dumb ideas which he expressed dumbly.
Gilligan’s bumbling would be an apt metaphor for the nation’s immigration policy from that time forward to today. What is considered the “modern era” of immigration began during the administration of Lyndon Johnson in the mid 1960s, while “Gilligan’s Island” was a popular show. Johnson and his Congress produced the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, which introduced daisy-chaining of families of aliens into this country as federal immigration policy. The law was so poorly or deviously written that aliens were able to exploit it to give birth on American soil and get residency status because of their “anchor babies.” In a way it is fitting, because Johnson owed his seat in the Senate (and his subsequent career which put him in the White House when Communist Party member and CIA asset Lee Harvey Oswald and/or others in the Deep State murdered John Kennedy) to illegal votes attributed to Mexican nationals in South Texas.
There are roughly 12 million to 25 million illegal immigrants in this country. There are another 20 million or so immigrants who came here legally or got amnesty in the last 20 years (1989-2008, the regimes of the Bushes and the Clintons). This doesn’t count the 1.01 million refugees and asylees from 1981 through 1990, the 1.11 million refugees and asylees from 1991 through 2000, or the 525,000 refugees and asylees from 2001 through 2008, according to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and records of the now-defunct Immigration and Naturalization Service. This also doesn’t count the millions the Obama Administration allowed into America, legally and illegally.
Most of these immigrants don’t have too much in the way of education or job skills. A very large proportion of them cost the rest of us more in government benefits than they contribute in taxes. Thanks to their presence, we taxpayers may be looking at coming up with a trillion or so dollars in the next decade just to put back into the social services sectors what these immigrants take out.
There are about four million people and dependents here legally on work visas. They are undermining the pay scale of American technical people and they are providing substandard work to the firms that hire them. Some of the sharper ones are spying for China or stealing for India. Legal and illegal immigrants are getting hired by cheapskate employers who refuse to pay Americans a living wage. The net job loss to American natives is in the millions; this has equaled the increase in hiring of aliens in America. (1)
Texas Rangers kill Mexican raiders, 1915. The actions of Pancho Villa and other murderous bandits like him led to the establishment of the Border Patrol.
