Sunday, January 12, 2020

Opuscula

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WITH APOLOGIES TO SCOTT ADAMS, Dilbert’s Pointy Headed Boss (PHB) has been surpassed for idiocy.

QUICK QUIZ

    Who said: "Sanctions are economic warfare"?

    Who supports BDS sanctions against Israel?

    What is the purpose of BDS?

The answer to the first two questions is the person dishonored with the title ‘Anti-Semite of the Year,” none other than Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN).

The answer to the third question is

    The purpose of BDS is not to pressure Israel's government to change its policies. As the founders of the movement and its leading advocates in the United States have repeatedly made clear, its goal is to eliminate Israel.

One woman’s opinion

Brit Melanie Phillips, in an opinion piece (https://tinyurl.com/wzo7k27) writes:

    Cue liberal horror and outrage. Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani was described in The New York Times after being annihilated by an American drone as “universally admired.”

    (Could anything else be expected from the NYT? All the news the NYT determines fit to print.)

    The actress Rose McGowan, native of Italy, tweeted imbecilically: “Dear #Iran, The USA has disrespected your country, your flag, your people. 52% of us humbly apologize. We want peace with your nation. We are being held hostage by a terrorist regime. We do not know how to escape. Please do not kill us.”

    Democrats who had hailed the extra-judicial killing of Osama bin Laden in 2011 as a personal triumph for President Barack Obama now claimed absurdly that killing Soleimani was unconstitutional.

    Joe Biden fully endorsed a president’s unilateral authority to conduct strikes on terrorists without any public notification in a 2007 interview, a position he has disavowed in the wake of President Donald Trump’s killing of Iranian terror leader Qassem Soleimani. (https://tinyurl.com/qk75dk)

    Biden told Charlie Rose on Aug. 9, 2007, that the United States would be justified in conducting a raid on Pakistani soil to kill 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden, adding that Pakistan would “forfeit their sovereignty” by harboring the terrorist. He said the president should act immediately if the military is able to strike.

    Ms. McGowan must be addled if, as she claims ”We do not know how to escape”, presumably from the United States.

    Certainly as a “successful” actress (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000535/) Ms. McGowan should have sufficient funds to (a) acquire a U.S. passport (assuming she is a naturalized citizen) and (b) a ticket to any country that will have her — Iran might welcome her. If she lacks the funds, surely some misguided Conservative who “disrespected your country, your flag, your people” could pony up the money. How about a Go Fund Me page for those ersatz “stars” so they can go elsewhere — ANY “elsewhere.”

    I am a “Born in the U.S.A.” American and I have a passport.

    My Spouse is a naturalized U.S. citizen and she, too, has a U.S. passport.

    I suppose — and this is just “supposition” — that all the Hollywood elite who promised to leave the U.S. if Donald Trump was elected president lack U.S. or other country’s passports thus explaining why they still are in the U.S.

    Blame it on Trump (whom else?)

    An interesting aside.

    Barbara Streisand (right) complained that “Donald Trump is making me gain weight.

    I start the day with liquids, but after the morning news, I eat pancakes smothered in maple syrup!

    — Barbra Streisand (@BarbraStreisand) March 5, 2017”

    I’ll wager that Elliott Gould is glad she no longer is jumping on his back as she did in “I Can Get It For You Wholesale” on Broadway c1962.

    Let them eat cake! Lena Dunham on her throne (right) (Publicity still)

    Meanwhile, Lena Dunham (who?), selected her “go to” place as Vancouver, said Trump has caused her to lose her appetite, and weight.

    “Everyone’s been asking like, ‘What have you been doing?’ And I’m like, ‘Try soul-crushing pain and devastation and hopelessness and you, too, will lose weight.’”

    Perhaps Streisand and Dunham can cry over their weighty problems at a Hollywood spa — or better yet, on a chartered plane or yacht headed away from the U.S. Reverse immigration TO Mexico?

      Streisand And Dunham quotes from https://tinyurl.com/uapxfhd

    The Hollywood Reporter (https://tinyurl.com/ut9lfzk) tried to follow up on 20 “stars” who promised to leave the country if Trump won. One who is a Canadian citizen still has a U.S. address. Canada’s PM is a liberal; why does the woman insist on staying in the U.S.?

The UK’s Guardian (https://tinyurl.com/ycxtd755), under a headline reading ”'I really will': the stars who didn't move to Canada when Trump won”, lists most self-important pseudo “stars” — an exception being Streisand and maybe one other — who promised, then reneged on relocation.

Was anyone preventing them for leaving for “parts unknown?”

Is California REALLY America

Perhaps the reason the Hollywood hypocrites are still in California is because of all the Several States, parts of California are totally “out of sync” with the rest of the country. (Having lived in true “Northern California,” that is north of Sacramento, I know there are parts of the state where people work hard, primarily ranching and farming.)

The question should not be “Is California part of America” but “Is (southern) California representative of America.”



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