Ubiquitous
2018-02-05 17:22:54 UTC
1) The Memo is Released
The FISA memo bomb has been dropped. It pretty much confirmed
everything Republicans had been talking about in interviews for the
past two weeks. If you watched cable news last week you pretty much
know everything thats in the memo. Is that why the information was
a little I dont know underwhelming? For being billed as a memo
full of classified information, I struggled to find anything in it
that could be considered damaging to national security. That makes
the Democrats, FBI and DoJ look kind of ridiculous in trying to
block its release.
But it also makes Republicans look a little ridiculous in all the
build up and hype that led up to Fridays release. Now, dont get me
wrong, the information within the memo is interesting. The GOP is
accusing the FBI and DoJ of lying to the FISA court in order to get
a warrant for former Trump advisor Carter Page. They claim that the
Steele Dossier was listed in the initial FISA application, but the
roles of Fusion GPS, the DNC and the Clinton campaign were never
mentioned. If thats true then the FBI and DoJ were knowingly trying
to pass off partisan opposition research as actual intelligence, AND
they hid the truth from the court, not once, but four times.
This all looks really bad, but its also only half of the story.
Democrats have written their own rebuttal memo, and a vote for its
release is expected later today. We can also expect to hear from the
FBI AND DoJ at some point as well. Will The Great Memo Wars of 2018
reveal anything new, or will it descend into a giant liar liar
pants on fire slap fight? Either way, more transparency is still
the answer. So get ready for a flood of memos. This is either going
to be very enlightening, or brutally painful.
2) Powerful Super Bowl Ads
A beautiful newborn baby cries and fidgets in her hospital bed. She
is perfect. A nurse lifts her up to comfort her. Its revealed that
the child is missing both legs below the knee and one arm.
She is still perfect.
Toyota hit the ball out of the park with its compelling Super Bowl
commercial about Paralympic Gold Medalist Lauren Woolstencroft. In
60 seconds, we saw her birth, her struggles to use her mechanical
limbs, her failures, and her victories.
People who believe in eugenics see no quality of life for those born
with deformities. How can they possibly think that after watching
Lauren thrive and go on to win eight gold medals?
In that one minute, Toyota showed the world that all life matters.
Its important to note that no cars are mentioned in the ad, because
that wasnt the point. Toyota is transitioning into a mobility
company and they wanted to show that the technology they are
developing will help humanity.
Dodge also opted to showcase their new technology, but the carmaker
was heavily criticized for their commercial.
The commercial featured a new Dodge Ram truck helping bring supplies
and volunteers to communities hit by natural disasters. The
controversial part? Dodge used Martin Luther King, Jrs speech on
serving in the background.
People were outraged that Dodge would use MLKs words to sell cars.
I dont see it that way.
I think anytime Martin Luther King Jrs words are broadcast and
remembered is a good thing.
We need to hear his words, especially now.
Yes, Dodge is selling their new Ram, but they are also selling what
you can do with that vehicle: Serve others.
In 120 seconds, the Toyota and Dodge commercials conveyed the
message that advancements in technology can be used for goodits up
to us to use it that way.
3) The Gender-Neutralization of "O Canada"
If progressivism is a disease, Canada is terminally ill with it. The
U.S. prognosis is probably critical condition.
On Wednesday, Canadas Senate approved changing a line in the
English version of their national anthem, O Canada, to make it
gender neutral. The second line of the anthem will now be True
patriot love in all of us command rather than the oppressive,
insanely offensive old version, True patriot love in all thy sons
command.
Now that their anthem isnt sexist anymore, Canadians can finally
feel free to sing it again.
Somehow, I doubt the Canadian senators checked with the people
because thats not how progressives operate. I bet most Canadians
wouldve preferred leaving the anthem alone. Theyve had the song
that way for over a century and no one died of sexism because of it.
Canadian feminist author Margaret Atwood was one of the people
behind this effort. She wrote the novel The Handmaids Tale. You can
look that one up for insight into her feelings on tradition, faith,
and conservatism. Shes real subtle.
This is the dark side of progressivism everywhere it presumes to
know whats best for the people. But its always the agenda of a
few, forced on the majority. Or sometimes the agenda, or feelings of
just one individual. Progressivism thinks it is promoting more
freedom, when often it is tyranny. So, you get things like Michelle
Obama dictating to your local school what cafeteria food it can
serve. Or one mother in Webster Parish, Louisiana who recently got
student-led prayer banned at her daughters high school.
Respect for tradition as a stabilizing, enriching agent in society
is one of the key diverging points of the Left and Right in the U.S.
Decades of progressivism chipping away at things like religion, the
flag, the Constitution, and patriotism in general, all the way to
Obamas apologizing tour of a presidency, has created an enormous
backlash from heartland Americans. To the point that a whole section
of Trumps State of the Union speech was a lecture on respecting the
flag, anthem, and motto. Its just sad that weve sunk so low that
the State of the Union has turned into a pep rally about who has
more team spirit.
Its easy to laugh at those Canadians for wimping out on their
anthem. But progressivism is a persistent disease, so dont think it
cant happen here.
The FISA memo bomb has been dropped. It pretty much confirmed
everything Republicans had been talking about in interviews for the
past two weeks. If you watched cable news last week you pretty much
know everything thats in the memo. Is that why the information was
a little I dont know underwhelming? For being billed as a memo
full of classified information, I struggled to find anything in it
that could be considered damaging to national security. That makes
the Democrats, FBI and DoJ look kind of ridiculous in trying to
block its release.
But it also makes Republicans look a little ridiculous in all the
build up and hype that led up to Fridays release. Now, dont get me
wrong, the information within the memo is interesting. The GOP is
accusing the FBI and DoJ of lying to the FISA court in order to get
a warrant for former Trump advisor Carter Page. They claim that the
Steele Dossier was listed in the initial FISA application, but the
roles of Fusion GPS, the DNC and the Clinton campaign were never
mentioned. If thats true then the FBI and DoJ were knowingly trying
to pass off partisan opposition research as actual intelligence, AND
they hid the truth from the court, not once, but four times.
This all looks really bad, but its also only half of the story.
Democrats have written their own rebuttal memo, and a vote for its
release is expected later today. We can also expect to hear from the
FBI AND DoJ at some point as well. Will The Great Memo Wars of 2018
reveal anything new, or will it descend into a giant liar liar
pants on fire slap fight? Either way, more transparency is still
the answer. So get ready for a flood of memos. This is either going
to be very enlightening, or brutally painful.
2) Powerful Super Bowl Ads
A beautiful newborn baby cries and fidgets in her hospital bed. She
is perfect. A nurse lifts her up to comfort her. Its revealed that
the child is missing both legs below the knee and one arm.
She is still perfect.
Toyota hit the ball out of the park with its compelling Super Bowl
commercial about Paralympic Gold Medalist Lauren Woolstencroft. In
60 seconds, we saw her birth, her struggles to use her mechanical
limbs, her failures, and her victories.
People who believe in eugenics see no quality of life for those born
with deformities. How can they possibly think that after watching
Lauren thrive and go on to win eight gold medals?
In that one minute, Toyota showed the world that all life matters.
Its important to note that no cars are mentioned in the ad, because
that wasnt the point. Toyota is transitioning into a mobility
company and they wanted to show that the technology they are
developing will help humanity.
Dodge also opted to showcase their new technology, but the carmaker
was heavily criticized for their commercial.
The commercial featured a new Dodge Ram truck helping bring supplies
and volunteers to communities hit by natural disasters. The
controversial part? Dodge used Martin Luther King, Jrs speech on
serving in the background.
People were outraged that Dodge would use MLKs words to sell cars.
I dont see it that way.
I think anytime Martin Luther King Jrs words are broadcast and
remembered is a good thing.
We need to hear his words, especially now.
Yes, Dodge is selling their new Ram, but they are also selling what
you can do with that vehicle: Serve others.
In 120 seconds, the Toyota and Dodge commercials conveyed the
message that advancements in technology can be used for goodits up
to us to use it that way.
3) The Gender-Neutralization of "O Canada"
If progressivism is a disease, Canada is terminally ill with it. The
U.S. prognosis is probably critical condition.
On Wednesday, Canadas Senate approved changing a line in the
English version of their national anthem, O Canada, to make it
gender neutral. The second line of the anthem will now be True
patriot love in all of us command rather than the oppressive,
insanely offensive old version, True patriot love in all thy sons
command.
Now that their anthem isnt sexist anymore, Canadians can finally
feel free to sing it again.
Somehow, I doubt the Canadian senators checked with the people
because thats not how progressives operate. I bet most Canadians
wouldve preferred leaving the anthem alone. Theyve had the song
that way for over a century and no one died of sexism because of it.
Canadian feminist author Margaret Atwood was one of the people
behind this effort. She wrote the novel The Handmaids Tale. You can
look that one up for insight into her feelings on tradition, faith,
and conservatism. Shes real subtle.
This is the dark side of progressivism everywhere it presumes to
know whats best for the people. But its always the agenda of a
few, forced on the majority. Or sometimes the agenda, or feelings of
just one individual. Progressivism thinks it is promoting more
freedom, when often it is tyranny. So, you get things like Michelle
Obama dictating to your local school what cafeteria food it can
serve. Or one mother in Webster Parish, Louisiana who recently got
student-led prayer banned at her daughters high school.
Respect for tradition as a stabilizing, enriching agent in society
is one of the key diverging points of the Left and Right in the U.S.
Decades of progressivism chipping away at things like religion, the
flag, the Constitution, and patriotism in general, all the way to
Obamas apologizing tour of a presidency, has created an enormous
backlash from heartland Americans. To the point that a whole section
of Trumps State of the Union speech was a lecture on respecting the
flag, anthem, and motto. Its just sad that weve sunk so low that
the State of the Union has turned into a pep rally about who has
more team spirit.
Its easy to laugh at those Canadians for wimping out on their
anthem. But progressivism is a persistent disease, so dont think it
cant happen here.
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Dems & the media want Trump to be more like Obama, but then he'd
have to audit liberals & wire tap reporters' phones.
Dems & the media want Trump to be more like Obama, but then he'd
have to audit liberals & wire tap reporters' phones.