The Left's Disgraceful Drive to Overturn the 2016 Election

From Pat Buchanan, at Town Hall, "The Impeach-Trump Conspiracy":

Pressed by Megyn Kelly on his ties to President Trump, an exasperated Vladimir Putin blurted out, "We had no relationship at all. ... I never met him. ... Have you all lost your senses over there?"

Yes, Vlad, we have.

Consider the questions that have convulsed this city since the Trump triumph, and raised talk of impeachment.

Did Trump collude with Russians to hack the DNC emails and move the goods to WikiLeaks, thus revealing the state secret that DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz was putting the screws to poor Bernie Sanders?

If not Trump himself, did campaign aides collude with the KGB?

Now, given that our NSA and CIA seemingly intercept everything Russians say to Americans, why is our fabled FBI, having investigated for a year, unable to give us a definitive yes or no?

The snail's pace of the FBI investigation explains Trump's frustration. What explains the FBI's torpor? If J. Edgar Hoover had moved at this pace, John Dillinger would have died of old age.

We hear daily on cable TV of the "Trump-Russia" scandal. Yet, no one has been charged with collusion, and every intelligence official, past or prevent, who has spoken out has echoed ex-acting CIA Director Mike Morrell:

"On the question of the Trump campaign conspiring with the Russians here, there is smoke, but there is no fire, at all. ... There's no little campfire, there's no little candle, there's no spark."

Where are the criminals? Where is the crime?

More.

And ICYMI, at Amazon, Patrick J. Buchanan, Nixon's White House Wars: The Battles That Made and Broke a President and Divided America Forever.

Mandy Harvey Earns Golden Buzzer from Simon Cowell (VIDEO)

My sister shared this with me on Facebook.

I don't blog about it a lot, but I'm partially deaf. I lost my hearing after a head injury while seeing Charged GBH in Pasadena in 1983. Some hearing returned to my left ear. I read lips, although I never learned how to sign. I was always self-conscious of deafness, about how this somehow made me less than I was. It was an enormous personal, emotional, physical, and psychological blow. I imagine I've overcompensated for it since the injury, which is my entire life now.

So you can imagine how this moment from "America's Got Talent" makes me cry. And you can understand why my baby sister wanted me to see it.

And this woman Ms. Mandy is astounding. She's a monument to human perseverance and goodness in the world. Everyone feels at some point that they want to give up. The hardiest among us resist, but not everyone's got the strength. God gave me strength. I didn't know it at the time, but I prayed. Now I now it. I know Ms. Mandy's got God as well. She beautiful.

At the Seattle Times, "Watch: Deaf singer wows Simon Cowell, earns Golden Buzzer on ‘America’s Got Talent’."

Evelyn Taft's Slightly Warmer Forecast

I finished up my semester grading today and watched some baseball late this afternoon. Had a few beers with my old grad school buddy as well.

I have 11 weeks off and I'm gonna make the most of it, heh.

The weather's just started to reach summer perfection. By July 4th it's going to be just right.

Here's the lovely Ms. Evelyn, for CBS News 2 Los Angeles:

'People Are Strange'

From this morning's drive time (for one more trip to the office, to pick up some exams from students served by DSPS), at the Sound L.A.

The Doors:

American Pie
Don McLean
8:30 AM

Back On the Chain Gang
Pretenders
8:26 AM

Here Comes the Sun
The Beatles
8:23 AM

Double Vision
Foreigner
8:20 AM

My Life
Billy Joel
8:16 AM

People Are Strange
The Doors
8:13 AM

Thunderstruck
AC/DC
8:08 AM

Landslide
Fleetwood Mac
8:05 AM

Baba O'Riley
The Who
8:00 AM

That Smell
Lynyrd Skynyrd
7:54 AM

If You're a Jew in Britain, It's Time for Your Own Brexit

From a "Soldier's Mother," Paula K. Stern, at Israelly Cool, "A Message for U.K. Jews."

And at Paula's blog, "Is today the day to leave England?":

The good news is that Jeremy Corbyn didn't win the election. Teresa May and the Conservative Party won by the numbers. But there are few today viewing the results of the election who fail to see that a clear message was sent. The only question is to whom the message was directed, and will they listen.

The Labour Party gained 28 seats, which is a victory in itself, but they are not in control. Not yet. Had the Labour Party been in the hands of a different main contender, we could think this was politics as normal. But it wasn't, and so it isn't.

This morning in the UK is very different than it was yesterday.

The Conservative party won in seats and votes, but lost 11 places in the Parliament. A stunning victory by Labour puts them at 259, a gain of 28 and puts Jeremy Corbyn within striking distance of the Prime Minister's office. Not this time, but maybe next time.

I will leave it to the UK to figure out the message that was sent yesterday. What it means for where England is headed - for its citizens and for the world is more than I can contemplate on a busy Friday with Shabbat just hours away.

For all intents and purposes, there is now a "hung Parliament" that is unlikely to accomplish much and may well send the country into new elections in the near future. That is the nature of the electoral system they have, as it is the one we inherited from them.

What is on my mind is something more personal, closer to my heart. If you are a Jew in Britain and you are not looking for your own "Brexit," you are making an appalling and perhaps even costly mistake. Read that sentence again. Does it scare you - it should. It frightens me. But what you'll find, if you search deep in your heart, is that it may annoy you, but you can't quite deny it, can you? It doesn't surprise you that there could be a time when you have to leave...as a few generations ago, too many didn't. You know that time may come...pretty much every Jew in the world knows that. This is the ultimate lesson of the Holocaust. You may love where you live, but there will always lurk the knowledge that no matter how comfortable it might be today, tomorrow it could change.

The only real question you have today in the UK if you are Jewish is whether today is the day to leave...

More.

And at FrontPage Magazine, "LABOUR POSTERS NOW INDISTINGUISHABLE FROM NAZI PROPAGANDA."

Labour Posters Now Indistinguishable from Nazi Propaganda https://t.co/y2jWjAD0IG pic.twitter.com/0voZDPeZRg

— = Linda🇺🇸Wray = (@_NCPatriot_) June 7, 2017

Japan Passes Law Allowing Emperor to Abdicate

This is interesting.

At the Japan Times, "Diet enacts one-time law to allow Emperor Akihito to abdicate."

Gal Gadot Asks Jimmy Kimmel: 'How'd You Like My Breasts?' (VIDEO)

Heh.

She's so beautiful and totally unassuming. She doesn't even come off like she's a movie star.

Such a great lady.



The movie's good, as noted earlier, here: "'Wonder Woman'."

Camille Paglia, Free Women, Free Men

*BUMPED.*

At Amazon, Camille Paglia, Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism.

Former Scottish National Party Leader Alex Salmond Loses Seat to Tories

Election results are still come in across the pond, and so far the Conservatives look to lose their majority, with a so-called "hung parliament" in the Commons.

More on that later.

Meanwhile, Alex Salmon's loss deals the SNP a huge blow, with party leader Nicola Sturgeon saying demands for a second Scottish independence referendum are "on hold."

At the Telegraph U.K.:

In an astonishing shock, Alex Salmond has lost the Gordon constituency to the Tories #ElectionDay2017 https://t.co/Wzk8UKbHjY pic.twitter.com/5YHrjQ0tLU

— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) June 9, 2017

Jackie Johnson's Partly Sunny Forecast

My semester's done. I was home all day totaling up grades. It's been party cloudy and mild. Quite nice and relaxing, actually.

A couple of more weeks and we'll be into sunny, beach weather.

Summer! Awesome!

Here's the lovely Ms. Jackie, for CBS News 2 Los Angeles:

Comey Delivered Drama

Yeah, he's a drama queen, lol.

An interesting piece, at the New York Times:

In a capital used to overcooked spectacle and insufferable congressional testimony, Comey delivered on the hype https://t.co/Ha32DJGvdL

— NYT National News (@NYTNational) June 8, 2017

PREVIOUSLY: "These Photos of Sad Brooklyn Hipsters in a Bar Watching the Comey Hearing Are Hilarious."

These Photos of Sad Brooklyn Hipsters in a Bar Watching the Comey Hearing Are Hilarious.

At Instapundit, "ANOTHER LETDOWN FOR TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME."

Jessica Gomes Goes Completely Bare in Madagascar (VIDEO)

WATCH, "Jessica Gomes Dares to Go Completely Bare in Madagascar - Profile - Sports Illustrated Swimsuit."

Stop Lying to Us

From Kurt Schlichter, at Town Hall (via Instapundit and Memeorandum):

My new Townhall is up! || https://t.co/R1YkKNGwxN

— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) June 8, 2017

The most significant revelation that came out of the most recent London massacre of disarmed British subjects was not the bloodshed itself, but the pathetic sissy whining, in the midst of throats being slashed, at the Brit who refused to adhere to the comforting lie that the Muslims doing the slashing in the name of Allah were not Muslims doing the slashing in the name of Allah.

The left would rather you lie and die than tell the truth and live.

It’s exhausting being lied to 24/7 about the big issues, and don’t start with the “but what about Trump?” nonsense because…well, what about Trump?

Does Trump pretend that the Islamic State has nothing to do with Islam because to admit the Islamic State has something to do with Islam is an admission that the unquestionable idea underlying multiculturalism – that every culture is wonderful except the Western culture that brought about 95 percet of the learning and science that is making the grinding poverty and disease that was heretofore man’s fate a thing of the past – is an utter fraud?

Does Trump pretend that we are morally or scientifically bound by a non-treaty that was non-submitted to our elected representatives to solve the non-problem of climate change at the price of our non-employment and non-prosperity?

Does Trump blame Russians for the utter repudiation of Felonia von Pantsuit’s poisonous ideology of greed and huggy fascism? Does he contend Hillary skipped those icky workin’ folks in Wisconsin and Michigan because Putin tricked her?

I keep trying to find the big Trump “lies” and they always seem to end up being disagreements with liberal orthodoxy.

But for the so-called elite that seeks to rule us, it’s all lies, all day, every day, about everything, since they can’t be honest because we normals reject what they want whenever we are exposed to the truth and are allowed a say. So their go-to move to impose their sick will is to obscure or hide the truth, and try to suppress our voices...

'The left wants the rest of us to believe that Trump is some sort of strange aberration from an otherwise genteel elite society, when in fact he was created by the increasingly profane media overculture, and his mere presence in the White House is driving leftists into even cruder levels of discourse and violence...'

Following-up from the other day, "Reza Aslan Apologizes."

This Aslan dude's been running a scrubbing marathon, no doubt.

The Todd Akin thing goes back five years ago. I'll bet there's a treasure trove of hatred pockmarked all through this guy's timeline.

But see Ed Driscoll, at Insapundit, "HATEFUL CNN HOST’S TWEET CALLING FOR RAPE MYSTERIOUSLY DISAPPEARS":

Some of CNN host Reza Aslan’s other disgusting and hateful tweets are mysteriously disappearing. The cable network star drew controversy when he called Donald Trump a “piece of shit” last weekend. He lamely “apologized” and declared, “That’s not like me.” Except, of course, it is...

Keep reading.

Stop Importing Islam (VIDEO)

From Mark Steyn, "At the Very Least, Stop Importing More of It."

Lawrence Paul Hebron, Islam Exposed

At Amazon, Lawrence Paul Hebron, Islam Exposed: What You Need to Know About the World's Most Dangerous Religion.

March Against Sharia — Nationwide Protests Set for June 10, 2017 (VIDEO)

Brigitte Gabriel's a freakin' patriot!

She's fired up at the video.

And see WND, "Anti-Shariah rallies planned for 28 U.S. cities June 10":

ACT! for America is planning a nationwide “March Against Sharia – March for Human Rights” on June 10 that so far has 28 cities signed up to participate.

Organizers say they will be taking a public stand against female genital mutilation, honor violence, the blasphemy and apostasy laws, among other elements of Shariah that are increasingly showing up in American society.

Brigitte Gabriel, the founder of ACT For America, said America is now starting to experience some of the same atrocities of Shariah that her family escaped in Lebanon decades ago.

“We want to increase awareness about certain practices that are starting to happen in our country with the rise of Islamic immigration, because we are now hearing about female genital mutilation, like the cases in Detroit recently announced by the Department of Justice,” she told WND. “Who would have thought in 21st century America, after what women did working so hard in defense of women’s rights that we’d be talking about little girls being horribly mutilated, and that 513,000 girls are at risk of this barbaric Third World procedure, according to the CDC [Centers for Disease Control].”

ACT! will also shine a light on honor killings and honor violence.

“It’s already here in America,” Gabriel said. “We’re seeing girls being killed simply for wanting to wear makeup. Under our Constitution they deserve the same rights and protections.”

She said U.S. feminists are “completely silent on this issue, and that is why we are trying to humanize this issue by putting names behind these atrocities. On our website we have faces of girls and woman who have been killed in the name of honor by their husbands in America. We want to personalize these faces so when people hear about honor killing and FGM they know it is happening here in America to American girls and women, not just in Pakistan or India or Saudi Arabia.”

Scott Presler, one of the organizers of the event, said the left will try to paint the rallies as “Islamophobic” and anti-Muslim, because that’s what the left always does in its defense of the Islamist agenda.

If radical leftists want to hold counter protests in favor of female genital mutilations, honor killings and the death penalty for former Muslims who have left the faith, they are more than welcome to do so, he said.

“You cannot be pro-Shariah and call yourself a feminist – that is called fake feminism, people like Linda Sarsour are fake feminists and hypocrites,” said Presler, referring to the leader of the Women’s March on Washington after Donald Trump was elected president...

Theresa May on Cover of the New Charlie Hebdo

Hmm...

What's up with all the beheading of heads of government?

At Althouse, "'Too much is too much!' says the severed head of Theresa May on the cover of the new Charlie Hebdo."

I think I can see this as true satire, whereas not so much with Kathy Griffin, but you be the judge.

And from the comments at Althouse, "This is quite different, though, from the Griffin bit. That it has to be explained is kind depressing, though..."

And at Pamela's, "Charlie Hebdo’s beheads U.K. P.M Theresa May."

WATCH: Kate Mara on Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon

I like her.

I'm going to see "Megan Leavey" this weekend.

Video here, "Kate Mara Turned Fiancé Jamie Bell Into a Bigger NY Giants Fan Than Herself."

And at London's Daily Mail, "'He's the bride!': Kate Mara says fiance Jamie Bell is doing the wedding planning as she puts on busty display in LBD on Tonight Show."