Hanoi Jane is how the Left fights back?

This is what the Left comes up with?

Hanoi Jane Fonda, the aging Barbarella (btw, one of the most degrading and at the same time laughable female movie roles of my lifetime -- at least Meryl Streep is a great actress), rants on about penises and pussy power, accusing Donald Trump of being the Predator-in-Chief, conveniently forgetting that the original Predator-in-Chief was the Democrat Bill Clinton, whose wife, Mr Trump's opponent in the recent election, has denied his sexual assaults for decades, while an audience of like-minded left-wing La La Landers applauds her every word and Bill Maher drops the occasional f-bomb to demonstrate his liberal cred?

This is how the Democrats think they are going to recapture the American Middle? Don't they realize how completely they are alienating most of the American public? Oh well, let them keep it up. It is all so entertaining.

Trump's Obamacare executive order

Trump's Obamacare executive order states:

Sec. 2. To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Secretary of Health and Human Services (Secretary) and the heads of all other executive departments and agencies (agencies) with authorities and responsibilities under the Act shall exercise all authority and discretion available to them to waive, defer, grant exemptions from, or delay the implementation of any provision or requirement of the Act that would impose a fiscal burden on any State or a cost, fee, tax, penalty, or regulatory burden on individuals, families, healthcare providers, health insurers, patients, recipients of healthcare services, purchasers of health insurance, or makers of medical devices, products, or medications.

Does this mean I can get a waiver or exemption from paying the 3.8% passive investment income tax I now am being forced to pay in order to subsidize other people's health insurance?

Let me get this straight

So, if internal Democratic emails are divulged by the Russians, diplomats are expelled.

But, if classified information is divulged by a man who thinks he's a woman, he is pardoned.

New definition for verb: to garland

In 1987, Democrats smugly gave us a new verb. When I search for the terms "bork verb," google returns the following definition:

obstruct (someone, especially a candidate for public office) through systematic defamation or vilification.

I propose that we change our dictionaries once again, namely, by providing the following additional definition for the verb "to garland:"

obstruct (someone, especially a judge nominated to the Supreme Court) by refusing to grant hearings or a vote to him/her.

The hypocrisy of Obama's exit interview

In his "exit interview" with former Democratic operative and now so-called ABC News Correspondent, George Stephanopoulos, President Obama says:

I underestimated the degree to which, in this new information age, it is possible for misinformation for cyber hacking and so forth to have an impact on our open societies, our open systems, to insinuate themselves into our democratic practices in ways that I think are accelerating. And so part of the reason that I ordered this report was not simply to re-litigate what happened over the last several months, but rather to make sure that we understand this is something that Putin has been doing for quite some time in Europe. ... You know, I think there are a lot of factors going into an election. I think the bottom line is that Donald Trump is gonna be sworn in as the 45th President of the United States of America. And it's not necessarily profitable to sort of try to untangle all the different factors that went into it. The issue here is you have I think the-- the clear example of how, if we're not vigilant foreign countries can have an impact on the political debate in the United States in ways that might not have been true 10, 20, 30 years ago in-- in part because of the way news is transmitted and in part because so many people are skeptical of mainstream news organizations that-- everything's true and everything's false. You know nothing-- nothing is-- is settled. Everything is contested. In that kind of environment, where there's so much skepticism about information that's coming in, we're gonna have to spend a lot more time thinking about how do we protect our democratic process and as I've been saying for years, we're gonna have to spend a lot more time on cyber security. That's one of the reasons why I'd ordered a commission. ... One of the things that I am concerned about is the degree to which we've seen a lot of commentary lately where there were Republicans or pundits or cable commentators who seemed to have more confidence in Vladimir Putin than fellow Americans because those fellow Americans were Democrats.

Well, one thing is "settled" for sure. While it is certainly true that the Russians hacked the DNC, Mr Obama's insinuation that the emails they published were "misinformation" is a bold-faced lie. In my last blog post, I included a link to a post from the tech blog Errata Security that demonstrates beyond the shadow of a doubt that the emails leaked by the Russians were authentic and not tampered with. These emails reveal the intentional and pre-meditated attempts of two consecutive DNC chairwomen, Debbie Wasserman Schulz and Donna Brazile, to influence the outcome of the Democratic primary unfairly in favor of Hillary Clinton.

In other words, regardless of how they obtained the emails, the Russian hackers did not publish "misinformation," but rather genuine, unaltered documents that merely revealed the internal machinations of Democratic operatives as they attempted to rig the election. The American people were, therefore, not misinformed, Mr Obama, but rather simply persuaded by solid evidence about the nature of the activities of one of the parties involved in the election. The problem for the Democrats is not that the Russians disseminated misinformation, but rather that the Democrats in the DNC were so ham-handed that they didn't do an adequate job of covering up the tracks of their own nefarious attempts to place their thumbs on the scale for Hillary.

(As an aside, isn't it interesting how individuals who leak information that Democrats find useful are celebrated as saints -- think Daniel Ellsberg and Deep Throat -- while the leakers of information about Democratic malfeasance -- think the Russian hackers or, say, Linda Tripp -- are vilified unrelentingly?)

In sum, at the very moment when he is expressing concern that misinformation threatens to undermine our democratic processes, Mr Obama is himself engaging in a campaign of misinformation and misdirection to undermine democratically elected Donald Trump, wringing his hands over Russian hackers, while ignoring the hidden malfeasance within his own party that those hackers brought to light.

And, as Obama engages in this bold-faced campaign of misinformation, the lap-dog Stephanopoulos, sits there with nary a hard question coming to mind, nodding gravely in assent and pretending to be impartial. Is it any wonder that Americans have lost all faith in the major news outlets when they are populated by the likes of Stephanopoulos and Brazile?

Mr Obama, if you are truly interested in "protecting our democratic process," then the best place for you to start is by rooting out the corruption in your own party and condemning the incestuous relationship between your party and so many mainstream "news" organizations.

One can hope that this "exit interview" will truly be the last we hear from Obama for some time, but I doubt seriously his vanity will so allow.

Obama should expel Wasserman Schultz and Brazile from the United States

IMHO, the most interesting documents regarding the Russian hacking of the DNC are:

• Bears in the Midst: Intrusion into the Democratic National Committee, the original blog post by Dmitri Alperovitch, CEO of cyber security company CrowdStrike, describing in precise technical detail the Russian intrusion into the DNC network
• The Russian Expat Leading the Fight to Protect America, a more biographical article on Alperovitch, who is obviously another of the brilliant Russian software engineers that we in Silicon Valley have become so familiar with over the last several decades. I find it amusing that the leaders of the DNC were such boobs when it came to cyber security that they needed to be protected from the smart Russians by a smart Russian.
• The Long Fall of Debbie Wasserman Schultz, which reports: "the leaked emails ... clearly showed the committee’s posture of neutrality in the Democratic primary to have been a hollow pretense, just as Bernie Sanders and his supporters long contended. ... The litany of Wasserman Schultz’s offenses during the primary was familiar to supporters of Sanders and other Clinton rivals: scheduling debates at odd times, shutting Sanders out of the party’s data file, stacking convention committees with Clinton supporters."
• Donna Brazile Shared Additional Debate Questions With Clinton Campaign, Identified Her Tipster, which reports: "Donna Brazile, the interim chair of the Democratic National Committee, began providing town hall and debate questions to the Clinton campaign earlier than previously known, emails released by WikiLeaks on Monday show."
• The email sent by Donna Brazile providing Jennifer Palmieri, the Director of Communications for the Clinton campaign, with the debate question, is undoubtedly authentic, which reports: "I was just listening to ABC News about this story. It repeated Democrat talking points that the WikiLeaks emails weren't validated. That's a lie. This email in particular has been validated." The author of the blog post demonstrates how he verified the authenticity of Brazile's email with a DKIM verifier. DKIM is a completely reliable email verification method that relies on digital signatures. DKIM verifies the source of the email and guarantees that the email has not been tampered with or altered in any way. In other words, Donna Brazile not only intentionally and unfairly tried to influence the outcome of the Democratic primary, but then, when caught with her hand in the cookie jar, lied about it.

In sum:

• Yes, the Russians did hack the DNC and sought to influence the American elections (so shut the fuck up, Donald).
• On the other hand, two successive DNC chairwomen, Debbie Wasserman Schulz and Donna Brazile, actively worked to undermine Bernie Sanders and favor Hillary Clinton, thereby seeking to influence the American elections, and Brazile told brazen lies about and attempted to cover up her actions.

I am waiting for Barack Obama to expel Wasserman Schultz and Brazile from the United States for trying to influence American elections unfairly.

Where we really need to focus

Turkish security forces were searching for a gunman who opened fire in a popular Istanbul nightclub in the early hours of New Year’s Day, killing at least 39 people in the latest attack to rock a nation battling terrorist groups on multiple fronts.

But, it's those damn settlements on the West Bank that we really need to focus on.