Russian Botnet Helped Beat Roy Moore

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/19/us/alabama-senate-roy-jones-russia.html

A little comparison of "important" election meddling and "totally innocuous election meddling". This from the NY Times on admitted meddling in the Roy Moore election.

The project’s operators created a Facebook page on which they posed as conservative Alabamians, using it to try to divide Republicans and even to endorse a write-in candidate to draw votes from Mr. Moore. It involved a scheme to link the Moore campaign to thousands of Russian accounts that suddenly began following the Republican candidate on Twitter, a development that drew national media attention. “We orchestrated an elaborate ‘false flag’ operation that planted the idea that the Moore campaign was amplified on social media by a Russian botnet,” the report says.

For comparison, the Russians supposedly spent $46K in FB ads on the 2016 presidential election in which $81 MILLION was spent on FB ads by the campaigns. Naturally that doesn't include the billions of free time given to Hildebeast by NPR, CNN, WaPo, NY Times, NBC, CBS, etc, etc.

We can all be VERY certain at this point that the smear campaign against Roy Moore was completely false -- or else certainly the high minded people of the left (or the easily led of the right for that matter) would be hot on prosecuting this nefarious child molester to keep him from repeating -- which they generally do, thus all the sex offender registries. They aren't ... so "mission accomplished" for a KNOWN smear campaign that included influence spending FAR beyond the supposed "2016 election meddling" smear on social media.

Any with even a tiny bit of perspective know that Russia is an oil producer and they have fought hard against fracking in the US to the tune of tens of MILLIONS of dollars as opposed to "$46K" that they ALLEGEDLY spent on EITHER Trump or much more likely just sowing discord in the US.

It is often both funny and sad to read the left wing media doing "fact checking" -- the biggest thing you have to believe for this "fact check" to not just fully say "you would be better off listening to Trump tweets than us for FACTUAL news" is that THE ENDICTMENT says that the Russians were trying to influence the election! They did however admit that 56% of their "thousands of dollars" was spent AFTER the election! "thousands of dollars" on a presidential election where over a billion is spent! One is reminded of ...

If you believe indictments from the Administrative State are "facts", then you will believe anything -- ever hear of a country where INNOCENT until PROVEN guilty was the standard? Wake up and realize that the prosecution of non-Democrat politicans by the Deep/Administrative State is standard operating procedure for the dominant left in BOistan! MANY of those "prosecuted" turn out to be completely Innocent after the damage is done.

We live "down the rabbit hole" where if one works very hard to keep a diet of widely different media, it is remotely possible to occasionally see something approximating "the real world" vs dueling narratives that are more concerned with creating anti-tribes for profit than in providing information needed by CITIZENS vs consumers!

American Might Returns Under Trump

https://www.nysun.com/foreign/american-might-makes-its-return-in-trump-era/90534/

Do I take this article as gospel? Certainly NOT! However, the general BOistan media is generally the sound of one left hand clapping -- I certainly don't take their daily pronouncements of gloom as even remote truth either! This paragraph is interesting ...

In the eight years of President Obama, the United States lost 219,000 manufacturing jobs; in the two years of Trump, the country has added 477,000 manufacturing jobs. This was not supposed to be possible, and this time, unlike in the great Reagan boom, it cannot be dismissed by the left (and it was false in the eighties) as a profusion of “hamburger flippers, dry cleaners and people delivering pizza,” (all necessary occupations).

The right has been a champion of "free" trade since before Reagan, and "all things being equal", free trade is generally good. Much like a football game however where it is best to "let them play" free of penalties if possible, there MUST be some level of referee involvement or one side would be knifing the opposition before we knew it. This is just human nature.

So too with trade -- it isn't "free" to have China demanding that they can steal US technology in order to allow us to trade with them, it is COERCED! No matter the trading partner, the vase bureaucracies of the left in all countrys and trade groups found willing accomplises in the BOistan Administrative State, and the "conservatives" paid no attention since they were assured that what was happening was "free trade".

The winners on the global stage since the 1990s have been the Davos world bureaucratic elite class -- with everyone else, especially the BOistan average Joe being the losers -- bigtime. 

Well worth the read for a little sound from the right hand.

Alcohol and Coffee Key to Long Life

https://abc11.com/health/alcohol-coffee-could-be-key-to-living-longer-study-finds/4968622/

Perhaps just believing the studies that we like is really the key to not only happiness but a long life? It gets even better!

In addition, people who were overweight in their 70s lived longer than people who were normal or underweight in their 70s.

Do I believe it? No ... but I very much suspect that happiness, friends,  and a positive outlook are WAY more important to longevity than constant attention to the latest set of rules to increase your lifespan!

Clinton Fund Whistleblower Raided By FBI

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/12/is-it-something-he-said-6.php

There may be some questions remaining in even fairly non-partisan people's minds about potential Trump "collusion" with Russia in the 2016 campaign, but we KNOW that:

1). The Clinton campaign worked with the Russians to create the Steele Dossier to bring down Trump.
2). The Clinton Fund (Funds for Clintons) pulled in 100's of millions of dollars for the Clintons, and now it's donations have all but dried up, ( down 90%) showing that if the Clinton's can't provide "play" (payback), donors do not want to pay! The Clinton Fund was obvious Pay to Play, now it is PROVEN Pay to Play!

The linked article covers the case of a whistleblower who apparently has the legal goods on the Clinton Fund Urainium One deal and shows that Robert Mueller (the current "Special Council") failed to investigage covered in an excellent article here.

The delivered documents also show that then-FBI Director Robert Mueller failed to investigate allegations of criminal misconduct pertaining to Rosatom and to other Russian government entities attached to Uranium One, the document reviewed by TheDCNF alleges. Mueller is now the special counsel investigating whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russia during the 2016 election.

Powerline has been doing a great job of covering the FBI raid on the whistleblowers home and other intimidation tactics.

Any rumor or innuendo against a person with an "R" next to their name, even if the allegations are decades old is worthy of heavy duty investigation with the accuser treated as a saint (see Kavenaugh), while documents related to malfeasance in the case of a known questionable matter (Urainium One), are treated as an attack on the state, with state apparatus being used to attack the person presenting actual documentation of the crime.

This is what happens in a totalitarian one-party state people! Trump is fighting the entire US Deep State apparatus, and now he must fight the House of Representatives as well because too many supposed small government supporting people (Rs) deciced they would rather single their "virtue" in being anti-Trump than support the only person with any power in this country standing up to the single party rule of the Deep / Administrative State!

A Great Capitalism Pro-Con Haidt Video

Why BO Administration Was "Scandal Free"

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/12/federal-judge-rips-doj-and-state-orders-discovery-on-clinton-emails.php

A federal judge may actually bring some folks from the Deep/Administrative State to account -- note, a weak "may". As noted in the article ...

If you thought the Republicans are now running the Department of Justice–merely because Donald Trump was elected president!–you don’t understand how the federal bureaucracy, the unelected, non-constitutional fourth branch of government, operates.

"The Party" (TP-D) **IS** the government! It is the home team providing all the refs and having the home team coaches do all the "reviews" of the "close plays".

One might note that it has been festering for a very long time. The relevant events are now six years in the past. The Obama administration was astonishingly successful at stonewalling investigations, and its stonewalling continues under a Department of Justice nominally led by a Republican, but staffed overwhelmingly by Democratic Party loyalists.

 BO / Hillary had a KNOWN disaster in Libya (actually two -- they destabilized the country without Congressional approval, THEN they lost an embassy AND and the ambassador)  THEN, they claimed it was due to an internet video rather than being a terrorist attack!

TP and the Deep / Administrative State (but I repeat myself) paid to create the Steele Dossier that is the basis for the Mueller "investigation", and they have going for over two years filling the news with "allegations", but there is still no evidence of Trump collusion with Russia, and really only ridiculously tiny examples of their supposed "interference" -- Fake FB accounts and Ads! Wow, so what????

Do you REALLY think that Russia, a huge energy producing country wanted to have Trump as president fracking everything that can be fracked, building pipelines and taking gas under $2 ???

Unless they are so stupid it really doesn't matter what they do, they wanted Hillary who would have continued the BO putting the brakes on fracking, pipelines, or anything that had a chance to lower oil prices which would result in "more carbon".

BO, Oil and Snake Oil

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-21/opec-s-worst-nightmare-the-permian-is-about-to-pump-a-lot-more

When BO moves his lips, you always know he is lying. In this example, he takes credit for the rise in oil production when in fact he fought it tooth and nail.

“I was extraordinarily proud of the Paris accords because — you know, I know we’re in oil country and we need American energy, and by the way, American energy production,” Obama told the audience gathered at Rice University’s Baker Institute on Tuesday night. “You wouldn’t always know it but it went up every year I was president. That whole, suddenly America’s like the biggest oil producer and the biggest gas — that was me, people.”

Here he is in 2012 telling us that people who claimed that gas prices could get to $2.50 were "either" lying to you, or doesn't know anything. In BO's case, I'm confident it is BOTH! He doesn't know anything, AND he is lying to you!

Without naming Gingrich, Obama appeared to target that remark Thursday, saying to cheers that "anyone who tells you we can drill our way out of this problem doesn't know what they're talking about -- or just isn't telling you the truth."

Truth and BO ... the ultimate logical impossibility, making a "married bachelor" seem positively realistic!