Some media are calling Adam Hoover a “gay rights activist,” which is really just a clever way of saying “Ohio Democrat”:
A suburban Cincinnati gay rights activist was charged with a misdemeanor early Tuesday after police say he falsely claimed online that he was kidnapped and thrown in the trunk of his car, NBC affiliate WLWT reported. In a post on Facebook and Twitter just before 12:30 a.m. ET, Adam Hoover alerted his friends and followers that he was in danger. He said he was using social media instead of dialing 911 because he didn’t want to be heard.
“Please help me I’m in the trunk of my ford escort red 2000 gbh 2812,” the 20-year-old wrote. “They said they are going to kill my family please call 911 I don’t want them to hear me.” He included his mother’s phone number and his family’s address. “Please please call. I don’t want to die,” he added.
The plea for help spread quickly on social media and sparked an immediate search in the Cincinnati area. But after investigating, Green Township police and the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office believe the kidnapping was a hoax. Authorities discovered Hoover’s car abandoned on a highway near the Ohio-Indiana border, WLWT reported. He was seen coming out of a nearby home with police and was unharmed, according to the station. Police didn’t immediately release a motive for why Hoover allegedly faked his own abduction
Hillary Clinton supporters don’t need a motive to lie. They’re Democrats. It’s who they are. it’s what they do.
Americans need to understand that, far from breaking any of our laws, Her Majesty is simply a law unto herself. How kowtow now, brown cow?
— IGotOverMachoGrande (@smitty_one_each) March 4, 2015
Emphasis mine:
Hillary Clinton’s exclusive use of a personal email account to conduct official business as secretary of State caused seems to have stayed within the law, experts say. “What she did was not technically illegal,” said Patrice McDermott, a former National Archives staffer and the head of the Open The Government coalition, a transparency group.
However, “it was highly inappropriate and it was inappropriate for the State Department to let this happen,” she said.
The New York Times on Monday reported that Clinton did not use an official government email account while serving in Obama’s Cabinet, nor did she back up the messages to a government server.
A man in Texas was arrested today for shooting and killing: his wife, son, two daughters, his mother and father, all four of his grandparents, his dog, his mailman, three neighbors, and a woman who works at the filling station. He claims he was just cleaning his gun when it suddenly went off.
I mean, the woman reduced the office of Secretary of State to a global fleecing operation. She gets an Ambassador killed on her watch, and has the cast iron gall to wonder in front of Congress, on the record,
Why would this creature condescend to conform to any sort of rules pertaining to carrying out her duties? And what can the GOP do in response? Not a godforsaken thing. In this case, “not technically illegal” means “don’t even bother seeking justice”. Omitted from The Hill article above is the fact that the only reason Her Majesty’s dirty laundry is under discussion is due to The Smoking Gun.
It seems relatively safe to assert that anything Her Majesty touches is criminal from the outset. But get used to it, because, after the recent DHS funding vote, it also seems kinda likely that the Vichy GOP may be among her supporters.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke to a joint session of the U.S. Congress today, over the objections of Democrats who said . . . Well, what, exactly? The basis of their objection was something like, “The Republicans didn’t ask nice and Bibi’s just two weeks away from re-election.” And I’m like, “So?” It is no secret the Obama administration is actively backing Netanyahu’s opposition in the Israeli elections, but this weird entanglement between our politicians (Left and Right) with their politicians is just a logical consequence of the Obama Age.
Welcome to kabuki democracy or, as Ace of Spades calls it, Failure Theater. We have elections, but the people we elect don’t seem to realize they are supposed to represent us. Instead, it seems that all the really important decisions have been made in advance. It’s as if there were a secret cabal of billionaires, gathered in an Aspen chalet, who reach a consensus on an issue — a nuclear deal with Iran or a mini-amnesty tucked into the DHS budget — and then send out orders to their minions in the media and other key institutions: “Make this happen.”
Everybody then pretends that the outcome (which is always exactly what the cabal ordered) was arrived at through the normal governing process. There’s a wink-and-a-nod among the insiders, but cynical observers suspect that what we’re watching on the TV news is a scripted charade. Nancy Pelosi issues a statement, and then emerges before the cameras for her performance:
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) hammered Benjamin Netanyahu Tuesday, saying the Israeli prime minister’s speech to Congress was an “insult” to the country.
“The unbreakable bonds between the United States and Israel are rooted in our shared values, our common ideals and mutual interests,” Pelosi said in a statement just after the speech.
“That is why, as one who values the U.S.-Israel relationship, and loves Israel, I was near tears throughout the Prime Minister’s speech — saddened by the insult to the intelligence of the United States as part of the P5 +1 nations, and saddened by the condescension toward our knowledge of the threat posed by Iran and our broader commitment to preventing nuclear proliferation.” . . .
Pelosi made a point of declining to join several of the standing ovations during Netanyahu’s speech and often took longer than other lawmakers to rise from her seat. She also kept commenting to her seat-mate, House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), using forceful gestures.
“Forceful gestures”! Yeah, I got your gesture right here, Nancy.
Here’s how seriously you should take her alleged outrage over Netanyahu’s “Bibi knows best” attitude. Back in 2007, while George W. Bush was warning people that Bashar Assad might not be the cuddly would-be “reformer” that Democrats like Hillary Clinton were convinced he was, one prominent liberal flew all the way to Damascus to sit down with Assad and pose for photos. Bush wanted to isolate him; the Democrat in question, convinced that she and her party knew best, had other ideas. Guess who.
. . .newspapers failed to see the big picture: At a conference [CPAC] that brings together conservative leaders from around the country, Mr. Bush was soundly booed and heckled. A packed room booed his stance on immigration — he called for “a path to legal status” for illegal aliens — and derided his support of Common Core as the soon-to-be candidate said the program does not amount to a federal takeover of education.
Even though Mr. Bush — as awkward as his brother when delivering speeches from teleprompters — had opted for a simple Q&A with a “friendly” moderator, Fox News’ Sean Hannity, there were plenty of disastrous moments, like when he was asked about his support, as governor, for offering drivers’ licenses to illegal aliens, which drew more boos.
It is blatantly obvious to even the most casual observer that, if you’re conservative and your name doesn’t rhyme with “trove” or “Hindu Kush”, your interest in Jeb hovers around that of contracting ebola.
But who else is keen? Why, Hillary, getting her grandma on there at her Georgetown estate. What better way to party like it’s 1992 than trick the GOP into nominating Jeb?
The narrative repositions Obama as “More of Same (Bush)” vice “Hope and Change”
Her Majesty, the victim of masculine oppression, barely held back the coming Russian night, and could have succeeded, if not for those meddling White House kids. Just look at how pear shaped things have gone since she left?
The American voters have a chance to un-soil themselves, after so disrespectfully rejecting HillaryCare in the ’90s. You got what you deserved in ObamaCare, ungrateful peasants, but now the wise and forgiving Hillary gonna wipe a boo-boo.
Fine print:
And if you godforsaken little Vast Right Wing Conspirators manage to thwart Her Majesty again, then the very Tribulation itself shall have been a trip to Disney World compared to her wrath. So you’d better tell that Cheese Head governor twerp to lay by his dish and let Jeb join Dole, McCain, and Romney in the Concession Speech Chorus, m’kay?
Now, somebody I know is going blind, and it’s not a pleasant thing. So stipulate that we’re not piling on somebody doing their job. Somebody has to do it. Stevens, Smith, Doherty & Woods are unavailable.
However, it strikes me that, if you had an interest in rebuilding an organization’s credibility, there are better means than this to do it.
Racism and slavery were commonplace in Rome, and we know where all roads lead, don’t we?
*Sigh*. No, Shaun. Uncertainty regarding the faith of another, particularly one with whom you’ve not actually spoken, prayed, and studied, is a straight play for one of Baptist ilk. Beside Walker, there are plenty of other public figures laying claim to being Baptist (Al Gore, Bill Clinton) that one hopes are saved. As with the case of BHO, the deeds kinda seem at variance with the words on occasion. But, hey, we all shank it, don’t we? (1 John) Which is why the repentance is key. Right. Well, moving on, the real point here is that, while the bulk of Baptists don’t believe one is any more capable of un-salvation than salvation in the first place, most Baptists with whom I’ve ever spoken aren’t 100% confident in anyone else’s salvation.
Two words: Judas Iscariot.
You can have words aplenty. You can have deeds. You can have credentials and offices. You can have your own assurance (and I do). You can even take my word concerning myself. But until we meet in Eternity, you’re best off not pushing the question past “really confident” or “I don’t know”.
And I don’t know Scott Walker personally, either. He’s certainly not one to wear his religiosity on his sleeve a la Mike Huckabee. (I’m confident Huckabee is saved, but I’d really, really, really like to hear why that chap, after having been called to the ministry, would take a demotion and get into politics. Makes you go “Hmmm”, as a Baptist.)
Notice, though, that you will never hear conservatives question the Christianity of Rudy Giuliani or Rush Limbaugh—in spite of the reality that both of them have been married seven times between them and refuse to really discuss any active aspects of their faith.
Why is it that Walker and others are so willing to doubt the Christianity of a good and faithful man who openly details and professes his faith, but never question the Christianity of men who struggle with morality and family values and don’t really speak at all on whether or not faith matters to them in the least bit?
It’s racism.
Couple of points: Walker did not, himself, question the President’s Christianity. As I’ve explained here, Walker was coloring within lines reasonable for a Baptist, though you’d have to ask Walker himself if he buys off on my analysis. Here’s the funny part, King: Walker is likely to answer in a similar way for both Giuliani (Roman Catholic) and Rush Limbaugh (no faith listed on Wikipedia).
Is it a bit much to ask King to spend some time actually researching the subject and the people involved? I don’t doubt that the President has said he is Christian. I rather hope to see the fellow in Eternity, where there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed, because this administration has been nothing if not a source of questions. And I don’t doubt that Walker is Christian, based on hearsay. If repetition counts as a score, I guess that Obama is more Christian than Walker. Has Obama been asked to judge Walker’s Christianity? Might Obama also offer an “above my paygrade” type answer?
Perhaps Mr. King can score an interview with the good President next month while the Israeli Prime Minister is all shootin’ the breeze with Congress and stuff.
That phrase appears in an op-ed column President Obama published in the Los Angeles Times. Perhaps our president hasn’t been paying close attention for the past 30 or 40 years, but it seems to me that the Muslims who want to kill or enslave us all might disagree about the “true peaceful nature” of their religion. More wisdom from our president:
Governments that deny human rights play into the hands of extremists who claim that violence is the only way to achieve change. Efforts to counter violent extremism will only succeed if citizens can address legitimate grievances through the democratic process and express themselves through strong civil societies.
What, exactly, does Obama mean when he says “legitimate grievances”? The grievances Al Qaeda and ISIS hold are against infidels and Muslims who don’t go far enough to wage jihad on the West.
By the time she was 30, Cylvia Hayes had already been married and divorced twice. She then reportedly was paid to be the “green card wife” of an Ethiopian immigrant. At some point, she became involved in Democrat Party politics in Oregon, running unsuccessfully for the state legislature in 2002. A year later, she began dating John Kitzhaber, a recently divorced Democrat state senator. When Kitzhaber was elected governor of Oregon in 2010, he said his girlfriend Cylvia would serve as the state’s first lady. The idea of the governor shacking up with his girlfriend apparently didn’t bother many Oregonians. It’s a liberal state where Obama got 54% of the vote there in 2012 and where 57% of voters in 2014 approved a measure to legalize recreational marijuana.
Senate President Peter Courtney and House Speaker Tina Kotek met with Gov. John Kitzhaber on Thursday morning and told him it was time to resign.
At a 1 p.m. press conference to discuss the meeting, Courtney said the discussion with Kitzhaber was difficult.
“He was upset,” Courtney said. “He was defiant. He was struggling.” . . .
Courtney said that he and Kotek have been trying to get security for Secretary of State Kate Brown, who would become governor if Kitzhaber were to step down.
Courtney said that he had received a note from the governor’s staff earlier in the day saying that Kitzhaber was attempting to reach the secretary of state to “set up the transition.”
“I don’t know what that means,” Courtney said.
Kotek said later that the governor has been consumed by all the legal investigations and media inquiries.
“The work of the state has to go on,” she said, “and he’s not able to focus on that right now.”
“It has become clear to both of us that the ongoing investigations surrounding the governor and Cylvia Hayes have resulted in the loss of the people’s trust,” Kotek said.
It takes an awful lot of corruption to become “too corrupt” to be an Oregon Democrat, but somehow Kitzhaber’s done it!
