Friday, June 30, 2017

PHONY RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION

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I'm sure you've heard about the squabble: "Morning Joe" Scarborough and Mika Brezinski vs. Donald Trump.  For months now, the two classless and un-American MSNBC hosts have been lambasting Trump with rude, crude and baseless remarks that have literally cut him, his family and his White House executives to the bone.  

Finally, Trump has had enough and has taken to Twitter with: "I heard poorly rated @Morning_Joe speaks badly of me (don't watch anymore). Then how come low I.Q. Crazy Mika, along with Psycho Joe, came to Mar-a-Lago 3 nights in a row around New Year's Eve, and insisted on joining me. She was bleeding badly from a face-lift. I said no!"

The media and the whole country of Never Trumpers, left-wing media and Congressional detractors are now totally unglued and up on their high horses claiming that Trump has sunk to a new low by insulting Mika's face lift.  Well, as many times as I have read the tweet, I don't see anything insulting in it.  If she indeed was still bleeding from a facelift, any venture out into the public was in and of itself tasteless.  As for calling her "Low I.Q. Crazy" and Joe "Psycho," I don't know how you can criticize him for telling the truth when they have said far worse things about Trump that are not true.     

This is all about another phony left-wing plot to putrefy the airwaves with righteous, self-serving indignation from another epitome of unabashed hypocrisy. 

Frankly, I'm sick and tired of the continuing proliferation of pure bull shit.  So was Harry S. Truman:



"Mr Hume:
          I've just read your lousy review of Margaret's concert. I've come to the conclusion that you are an "eight ulcer man on four ulcer pay."
          It seems to me that you are a frustrated old man who wishes he could have been successful. When you write such poppy-cock as was in the back section of the paper you work for it shows conclusively that you're off the beam and at least four of your ulcers are at work.
          Some day I hope to meet you. When that happens you'll need a new nose, a lot of beefsteak for black eyes, and perhaps a supporter below!
          Pegler, a gutter snipe, is a gentleman alongside you. I hope you'll accept that statement as a worse insult than a reflection on your ancestry.
          H.S.T."


That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.  

Wednesday, June 28, 2017

WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: APOLOGY DUE

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I rely a lot on the Internet as a source of material for my blogs.  I use only reputable sites and multiple sources.  Evey now and then, I and my fellow writers get suckered into spreading misinformation.  Thank God t rarely happens, but when it does, I need to own up to it.  In the case of the WOUNDED WARRIORS PROJECT, it seems that is the case and I really need to give the matter some justifiable space.  

There were a number of inaccurate news reports last year alleging lavish spending and misuse of charitable money on the part of officials at the top of this organization.  Now, several charity rating services including the Better Business Bureau have investigated the charity and concluded that the Wounded Warriors Project is actually one of the best run charities around.  

I'm like you: I want my charitable giving to go where it's going to get the best bang for the intended buck.  I'm also a military veteran and have sincere empathy for any guy or gal who gets injured while serving our country, but I don't want to get taken for a ride in the process.  There are a number of illegitimate charity scams in existence out there targeting those of us who feel the same way, and I wanted to warn my friends and readers about Wounded Warrior Project.   

It turns out I was wrong, and I apologize.  They are a very worthwhile charity and back on the top of my list, as they should be on yours.  

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.  

Monday, June 26, 2017

DEMOCRATS WANT TRUMP, ALL REPUBLICANS DEAD

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First, it was the infamous Kathy Griffin appearing with Trump's head hanging from her hand.  Then it was the shooting of Steve Scalise and others on a baseball diamond in Virginia.  Then it was Johnny Depp with a joke about assassinating Trump.  Most recently, it was Phil Montag, a top Democratic Party official (from Nebraska) who said he was glad Scalise got shot and he wished Scalise was dead.  

There's no reason or justification for this sick rhetoric in America.  These people obviously mean what they say and they represent the Democrat Party.  

Now, you can say that the acts and statements of these people do not represent all Democrats, but you can't name a Democrat who has stood up against them.  

All Democrats therefore need to pack their shit and get out, because they all obviously think the same way.  

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted

Saturday, June 24, 2017

TO HELL WITH THE WHITE HOUSE PRESS CORPS

How would you like to walk into a pit full of venomous snakes every day? 

From the very outset, Sean Spicer made it clear: Conduct yourselves with civility, tell the truth, and we'll get along just fine.  That all lasted about ten minutes.  

From then on, the attacks against Spicer and his associates has been downright vicious and confrontational, and the stories hitting the evening newscasts and press runs have been filled with lies, distortions, spins and innuendoes.  

With today's vast social media networks and the sophisticated abilities of the White House to communicate without the press, one has to ask: Who needs them?  

I think the White House has been too accommodating.   They've been patient, they've cajoled, they've politely encouraged and they've warned.  Not only has that not alleviated the situation, most of us think it's gotten far worse and denigrated into depraved chaos.  

So, the White House has done what I would have done a very long time ago: They're not only cutting back on press briefings, but they're taking away the stage upon which the media and press have been displaying their rattled brains for the last five months; they're cutting out audio recordings and screen shots.  And how is the press and media responding to this?  With outrageous indignation, screaming to the high heavens that they are being grossly mistreated.  

Not one of them... not one... has come forth and apologized or offered to turn the briefings into a forum for civil discourse.  That silence is solid confirmation that they don't give a damned about the right of the American public to have unfettered and unfiltered access to the news.  

What needs to happen next is that the press corps has to be fully relegated to the prospect of submitting their questions via email.  The press briefing room can be remodeled into being a production studio and a representative of the White House can read the questions to a White House press staffer who can answer the questions and the entire package can then be released via C-Span.  

Like I said... who needs a press that insists on using its platform to influence American opinion as opposed to providing objective reporting on the important topics of the day?  

To hell with them.  

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.  


Friday, June 23, 2017

BOLTON HAS IT WRONG

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Former United Nations Ambassador John Bolton has said it over and over again: The only way to solve the North Korean crisis is to re-unify North Korea and South Korea. 
  • How do you resolve the issue of whose government is going to rule?
  • You still have to find some solution to the Kim Jong-Un midget.
  • How do you resolve the economic differences between the two existing nations?
  • How do you demilitarize the North Korean mind set?  
  • What makes you think the midget won't fire off a nuke at South Korea if he senses any organized attempt to take him out?  
So, these are formidable questions that lead me to think Bolton's idea is nothing more than a pipe dream. Nor is waiting for China to intervene such a good idea, either.  They've already made it clear that they're not really all that happy to be on the same side of any issue that we're on.  

No, the real and only logical answer here is that we're going to have to not only remove the little runt from power, but we're going to have to take out his entire top echelon as well.  

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted. 

Thursday, June 22, 2017

VOTING RECORDS HACKED AND EXPOSED!

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So you thought your voter registration information was protected... that it was confidential... that it wasn't available for your neighbor, banker, local judge or anyone else to see?  

Think again.  

The political parties do have access to such information so they can market and inform their voters.  Prior to the 2016 elections, the Republican Party hired Deep Root Analytics for this chore; they, in turn, left the data base open and not password protected.  To make matters worse, that database was publicly available on an unprotected server.   At this time it's unknown how many unauthorized people accessed the data and Deep Root has hired a cybersecurity team to investigate the breach.  

Further details can be obtained at: https://www.komando.com/happening-now/405040/200-million-voter-records-exposed-online?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=notd&utm_content=2017-06-21-article-f

I don't know about the legality of the political parties assigning our confidential voter data to outside third parties.  But, I do know that I'd be highly upset to find out I lost a job opportunity, a good interest rate on a car loan or a court case because someone involved didn't like my voter registration.  

Thanks to the Republican Party for not exercising due diligence.   Now, even thieves have access to your name, address and date of birth... and with that, they're well on their way to stealing your identity.  

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.  


Wednesday, June 21, 2017

WOULD YOU TRAVEL IN A PILOTLESS AIRPLANE?

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Boeing is ready to start testing an airliner than is fully computer-operated.  Mike Sinnett, Boeing’s vice president of product development, told Reuters, “When I look at the future I see a need for you know 41,000 commercial jet airplanes over the course of the next 20 years. And that means we’re going to need something like six hundred and seventeen thousand more pilots. That’s a lot of pilots.” He continued to say, “so one of the ways that may be solved is by having some type of autonomous behavior and that could be anything from taking instead of five pilots on a long haul flight down to three or two, taking two pilots down to one in a freight situation, or in some cases going from one to none.”  

Just think about that prospect the next time your computer crashes.

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted. 

Tuesday, June 20, 2017

NO, I'M NOT GOING TO TONE DOWN MY RHETORIC

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There's a lot of ruckus stirring about the nasty and vile political rhetoric being spread around by Democrats and the left-wing liberals.  And now that the conservatives in this country are dishing it right back, the Democrats have seized upon the baseball shooting as a reason to make us sit down and shut up.  

Don't get me wrong; that was a deplorable act by a mad man who was obviously egged on by... the nasty political rhetoric being spread by the media, the Democrats and the left-wing liberals.  And as soon as I and others in conservative camps pointed that out, they started hollering for us to "tone it down." 

They support the Kathy Griffins of this country and they expect us to back down?  

I think not.  

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.  
 

Monday, June 19, 2017

WHO REALLY NEEDS TO CHARGED WITH OBSTRUCTION?

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I'm not going to mince any words here.  

We are five months down the road since inauguration day and the Republican-controlled Congress has accomplished nothing... absolutely nothing... to show for it.  That's zero, nada, zilch.  

If the mid-term elections were held today, I don't think there is an incumbent Republican running for re-election who would survive.  That's because there has been no serious effort whatsoever to install any tidbit of Trump's agenda that he won the Presidency with and that Congressional Republicans won their seats on.  

I don't want to hear the same old excuses, spins, promises or rationalizations.  The rubber hit the road in January and they are not getting even the slightest grip on it.  And if they think they're going to come back out into their districts this summer and pat themselves on their backs for  all the good they've done and get away with it... they've got another thing coming.  

From what I have seen, the Republicans are not one iota better than  the Democrats and, when all put together, it amounts to yet another "do nothing" Congress.   

I for one and damned fed up.  

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted. 

Saturday, June 17, 2017

DEMOCRATS DEFEAT REPUBLICANS 11-2

I have to honestly think that if the game had been played the day before, the Republicans would have won.  I mean, it's totally unfair and James Comey was the cause of it.  We all know that there was no way the Dems could have won, if it hadn't been for the Russian collusion with Mike Doyle, the team's manager.  He should be impeached. 

This calls for Congressional hearings and a special prosecutor.  

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.  
 

Friday, June 16, 2017

UNITED AIRLINES NEEDS TO GO OUT OF BUSINESS

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United Airlines continues to show its arrogant disregard for the the traveling public.  

Tuesday night, a newlywed passenger on board a flight from Newark Liberty International Airport to Venice, Italy noticed fuel leaking out of the airplane's wing while taxiing on the tarmac.  She and her husband tried to get a flight attendant to do something about it, but were told nothing was wrong and to sit down and shut up.  They continued to raise concerns and an employee finally took a look out the window and went running for the cockpit; the engines were immediately shut down and fire trucks promptly appeared on the scene.  The flight was subsequently canceled.   

The newlyweds had saved the day, but were then treated like lepers from a prehistoric cave and told they had better not make a big ruckus about the event on social media.  The couple needed to be in Italy in order to board a cruise and eventually were booked on another flight on Delta.  While United booked a nearby hotel and meals for other passengers, the newlyweds got only a food voucher and no place to stay until the new flight left the next day, so they ended up sleeping on the floor of baggage claim.  As of post time, United has not commented on the couple's plight.  

United has been involved on a long string of scurrilous behavior toward its passengers.   The fact that no positive steps toward resolving these issues seems to have taken place speaks for itself and its attitudes.  

People need to quit flying United Airlines before they kill somebody, whether inadvertently or negligently.   

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.  

Thursday, June 15, 2017

MCAULIFFE: HERE WE GO WITH THE BLAME ON GUNS AGAIN

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Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe, ever the consummate anti-gunner,took to the microphone yesterday long before any of the details about the Virginia shooting had started to come out, and said: “I think we need to do more to protect all of our citizens,” adding, “This is not what today is about, but there are too many guns on the street.”  He then asserted with absolute authority: “We lose 93 million Americans a day to gun violence."  

Holy manure, Batman!  We lose the entire population of the country every 3-1/2 days!!!  Questioned about it, he nodded his head in solid affirmation, then he realized he should restate that to simply 93 individuals a day.  Even so, he failed to mention that most of those live in Chicago.  

He was so carried away with the ability to push gun control... literally foaming at the mouth... that he let his mouth overload his wheelbarrow.  

Nor did he understand that had there not been armed law enforcement at the baseball practice, able to respond within 2-3 minutes and take down the shooter, the carnage would have been much, much worse.  And the only reason there were armed personnel there at the time was that one of the participants was a senior lawmaker protected by Capitol cops 24/7.  

Those dimwitted liberals never miss an opportunity to turn tragedy to their benefit while making total fools of themselves in the process, do they?  

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.  

Wednesday, June 14, 2017

MUELLER: IS THE FIX IN?

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Follow this for a minute: (1) Sandy Berger, Loretta Lynch and Cheryl Mills all worked together for
the Washington law firm Hogan & Hartson, which prepared tax returns for the Clintons and did patent work for a software firm that played a role in the private email server Hillary Clinton used when she was Secretary of State. James Comey, then a Deputy Attorney General, limited the scope of an investigation into Berger's alleged removal and destruction of classified records from the National Archives relevant to accusations that the Clinton administration was negligent in the build-up to the 9/11 terrorist attack.

(2) Lynch and Comey both served as U.S. attorney in New York, Lynch for the Eastern District of New York, and Comey for the Southern District of New York. They crossed paths in the investigation of HSBC bank, which avoided criminal charges in a massive money-laundering scandal for which the bank paid a $1.9 billion fine.  The Clintons were involved with that bank. 
 
(3) Robert Mueller was Director at the FBI when James Comey worked for him.  They have long been allies. Comey regards his predecessor at the FBI as a mentor, while Mueller considers Comey his protégé. 
 
(4) Comey's brother Peter works for the Clinton Foundation.  

(5) Before Comey testified in Congress, he cleared his testimony with Mueller, who should be investigating Comey as part of the supposed Trump-Russian conspiracy.  In that testimony, Comey admitted that he had leaked information to the New York Times for the sole purpose of forcing the appointment of a special counsel, which of course happened when Robert Mueller was named to that job the very next day.  Given their relationship, is that proper?  
 
(6) One of the chief investigators hired by Mueller also worked for the Clinton Foundation, where Peter Comey works.  
 
Given all of this, what do you suppose the outcome of Mueller's investigation into the firing of Comey and the "Trump - Russian conspiracy" is really all about?      

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.  

Tuesday, June 13, 2017

THE LUNACY OF TODAY'S JOURNALISM

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Police in Jackson, Mississippi were called to a home where they found the severed head of a man on the front porch.  Cmdr. Tyree Jones, a spokesman for the Jackson Police Department, told the Clarion-Ledger that the “severance” appeared to be the cause of death.  

I swear, some of these liberals are going to drive me to drink.  

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted. 

Monday, June 12, 2017

IMPEACHMENT BY INNUENDO

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The Democrats and their progressive Republican friends have been in a huge stew ever since one Donald J. Trump won the presidency in November.  Trump, the "spoiler," had promised everyone in the country that he was going to drain the swamp and expose all of the evildoers in the nation's Capitol for what they really are: would-be potentates.  That meant that 85% of the residents of Washington, DC had just become an endangered species.  

Their fear and astonishment turned into anger, and by noon the next day the Washington saloons were filled with strategists and political hacks who were bound and determined to stop Trump at all costs.  It is out of one of these smoke-filled rooms, I presume, that the infusion of some sinister thinking arose... thinking associated with the possession of various intelligence gathered by the Obama Mafia over the months preceding the election.  And the fact that an arrogant Trump had trumpeted his idea of trying to "get along" with the Russians was not last on anyone's mind.  

You know, if you tell a lie often enough, pretty soon you yourself are going to start believing it, and so will your friends and, likewise, so will the public... especially if you have the press and the media behind you.  And so it is that the Trump-Russian conspiracy was hatched; what was originally a Clinton complaint that the Russians were hacking the DNC became the foundation for another vast "right-wing conspiracy," this time to steal the election from Hillary.  

Since that time, as you know, virtually every spin about this Trump-Russian "conspiracy" has been disproven, ending with the ultimate debacle of the Comey testimony last week.  And as that day approached, knowing that they were in trouble, the Washington elite started throwing out more firecrackers of crapola... Kushner had secret agreements with the Russians for a top secret off-the-record back channel line of communications; Sessions had an undisclosed third meeting with the Russians in the bathroom of some gas station in a deserted alleyway of Fairfax, Virginia...  One way or another, true or not,  the powers-that-be in Washington were bound and determined to get Trump impeached and removed from office.  

It's gotten so out of hand that even Bernie Sanders has called them all out for their conduct.  

Wait... just wait... any day now, the news is going to come bubbling out that Trump has a bottle of Russian vodka in his liquor cabinet.  The problem is, of course, that he doesn't drink.  But, why should that inconvenient fact stop them?  

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted. 


Saturday, June 10, 2017

LIBERAL AGENDA DROWNING IN SEAS OF SELF-PITY

Colin Kaepernick laments that no one in the NFL will let him play.  Kathy Griffin sobs that Trump is out to ruin her. Reality Winner's parents say their daughter is a patriotic, distinguished six-year Air Force vet who surely could not have done what everyone is saying she did, and that social media is to blame.  James Comey whines that he was unclear, confused, concerned, and not a stronger man... so therefore we need to understand... Hillary Clinton would have won the election if it hadn't been for Russia, the DNC, James Comey, misogyny and a long litany of other other excuses.  Bill Clinton insists that he and Loretta Lynch were talking about golf and grandkids on that Phoenix tarmac and that the press blew it out of proportion.   Obama snivels that his legacy is being trashed.  

They are all wallowing in self-pity.

Let them drown in it and let us get on with the business of mending the nation and turning our country back into the international role model it once was.  Let us build peace, and not division.  Let us not get hung up on the words and motives of dying snakes in deep and evil pits of darkness.  Let's get out of the cesspool of turpitude and get on with our lives. 

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted. 

Friday, June 09, 2017

CNN SHOWS WHY WE HATE NEWS OUTLETS

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Using an "unnamed source," CNN went on the air Wednesday night to proclaim that Comey was going to testify Thursday that he never told Trump that Trump was not under investigation.  CNN political analyst Gloria Borger said: “Comey is going to dispute the president on this point if he’s asked about it by senators, and we have to assume that he will be.  He will say he never assured Donald Trump that he was not under investigation, that that would have been improper for him to do so.”  

Comey subsequently released what would be his opening statement in Thursday's testimony, saying that he in fact did tell Trump he was not under investigation... three times.  

In other words, CNN, like 98% of the media and press out there these days, was so anxious to break a negative story about Trump that they seized on an unverified report from an "unnamed source" to run with a story that was totally false.  

Venomous, irresponsible snakes that they are, they all need to be defanged.  

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted. 

Thursday, June 08, 2017

OBAMA EXTORTION UNCOVERED

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Although the mainstream media is not reporting it this way, and although they should have reported on this years ago, but evidently covered it up... Obama and his goons were using the courts to feather their political nests.  The modus operandi was that when the Department of Justice forced a corporate defendant's back to the wall, the court would tell the defendant to fork over a certain amount of money to third party special interests unrelated or unharmed in federal cases; usually, they were left-wing operatives such as La Raza, Neighborworks, National Community Reinvestment Coalition, the National Urban League and extreme environmental groups.  Those payments would then settle the case as far as the federal government was concerned.  

It would be interesting to know how much money was involved and how much of that was forwarded on to Obama after he left office.   

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.  



Wednesday, June 07, 2017

A NICE, POLITE MESSAGE TO THE PRESS AND THE MEDIA

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You lie; you spin; you manufacture fake and poisonous news.  You are un-American and you are doing everything possible to undermine our democracy and our way of life.  

I cannot find the words to adequately describe the hatred you spew or the total disservice you are doing to your country.  You are beyond shame or castigation.  You are lower than snake bellies.  

If I want to know what is going on in this country, I will have to rely on the CBC or the BBC, because I'm surely not getting the correct information from you.  

To hell with you.  

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.  

Tuesday, June 06, 2017

CHICKEN LITTLE GORE SOUNDS OFF

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Former Vice President Al Gore has warned that President Donald Trump's decision to leave the Paris climate agreement would likely lead to the end of the world, The Washington Times reported Sunday.  

Quick!  Don't waste even a split second!  We must take to the streets!  It's Trump's fault!  Hang him in effigy!  Let the terrorists in!  Open the borders!  Push little old ladies in wheelchairs over the cliffs!  Call out the National Guard! It says right there in the Book of Revelations... the end of the world is coming!  

Thank God the liberals will save us!  

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted. 

Monday, June 05, 2017

WE'RE VULNERABLE

IT CAN HAPPEN AGAIN







That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted. 

Saturday, June 03, 2017

KATHY GRIFFIN BLAMES TRUMP

I am so angry right now, I'm going to pop off and lower my standards of decency as a result.  

Kathy Griffin held a press conference yesterday and whined about how her career is over, crying, "Trump broke me."  She asserted that she has been contacted by the Secret Service and grumbled that the Trumps are "trying to ruin my rights forever."  

During the press conference, her attorney, Lisa Bloom, sternly admonished that the comedian has a First Amendment right to make fun of the president. "Whether or not you get, or like, her artistic expression, in America, Kathy has the right to parody the president." 

I beg your pardon!  Parody?  A severed head?  

Griffin lamented that she has had five shows canceled just this week, plus losing her contract with Squatty Potty and CNN.

I guess, I mean... well, she apologized and that should make us all want to kiss her ass, right?  And just like the entire liberal left, from Hillary Clinton to Barack Obama...  she didn't do anything wrong and is trying to twist this into a feel-sorry-for-Kathy spectacle.  

Now, I'm going to exercise my First Amendment rights:  You're in total denial, Kathy.  You're a low-life, scummy, wretched bitch.  I'd tell you to go to hell, but I don't think even they want you around.

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.

Friday, June 02, 2017

CAUGHT RED-HANDED: WHO RUSSIA REALLY COLLIUDED WITH

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Judicial Watch is reporting Huma Abedin, Hillary Clinton's bosom buddy,  was doing Clinton Foundation favors for a Russian group while Clinton and Abedin were working at the State Department.  They have found a number of new emails belonging to Hillary Clinton containing classified information which reveal the favors.  

"In May 2010, Abedin tells Band that she has 'hooked up' people from the Russian American Foundation with 'the right people' at the State Department after Abedin received a request from Russian American Foundation Vice President Rina Kirshner, forwarded by Clinton Foundation donor Eddie Trump (no relation to President Trump)." 

This appears to be a very, very smoking gun connecting State Department favors by Clinton to her Clinton Foundation donors...  Russians... and it literally ties Clinton to illegal Russian involvement at the very highest levels of our government.  

Now, what do you suppose is going to happen?  Nothing?  

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted. 

Thursday, June 01, 2017

THIS IS WHAT OUR COUNTRY HAS COME TO

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AND WE CALL OURSELVES A NATION OF CHRISTIANS AND JEWS? 

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.