School Shootings - Of Hearts and Guns
The View from the Middle
Did you know that a 30 second commercial for this year's Super Bowl cost five million dollars? That's over $166,000 per second. Now why do you think these companies are willing to pay that much money to send such a short message about their products to the Super Bowl audience, half of which are probably going to be making a sandwich while it's running? The answer is that they expect to persuade the viewers to spend even more than that amount on tortilla chips, beer, cars or laundry detergent as a result of that investment. You might think this is an odd way to start a conversation about school shootings, but hang in there with me.
Each time this country experiences another devastating, senseless act of violence in one of our schools, our politicians' express condolences and offer prayers for about 30 seconds until they start making the same old, tired political arguments about gun control. I'm convinced that these politicians are actually not as interested in having an impact on this issue as they are in scoring political points with their political bases. The argument rages. The bases are incensed, and nothing happens because we don't want to see two of the obvious causes to this epidemic
One of these two causes is the violence in our entertainment industry. If you haven't personally witnessed the realistic violence in the video game industry, I encourage you to get educated. Just check out Manhunt, Postal or Dead by Daylight. If these don't frighten you enough, check out School Shooter: North American Tour 2012.
Now, just intertwine these violent visuals with violent rap music that is becoming pervasive in our society and we get a deadly concoction for children whose brains are not fully developed or for those who are mentally disturbed. These songs glamorize violence and murder and degrade women to the point of disgust as they refer to them as "bitches" and "whores". If Hillary Clinton is looking for real misogyny anywhere in this country, she can look to the rap music industry, but somehow, I don't think she will.
What if companies could figure out how to get millions of young adults to sit in front of a computer for hours on end (not just 30 seconds) and listen to or watch messages about their products. Do you think these companies would expect to influence these young pliable minds? Any person who doesn't expect someone who is inundated with these violent images and music for hours on end to exhibit similar behavior is in complete denial. But there is a lot of money in these games and music, so no one brings this issue up.
Then, on top of pumping our young people's brains with violence and death, we have also decided to take God out of our schools. Why would you want a Christian God, whose laws forbid lying, stealing and murder, expelled from our schools? Why would you want a God, who encourages charity to the less fortunate, demands honesty and kindness and was one of the first and most courageous feminists, driven out of our schools. We pump our children's minds with filth and savagery and intentionally remove messages of mercy, selflessness and accountability, and we are surprised when we get things like school shootings.
I am a gun owner, but I'm OK with legislation that will keep weapons of war outs of the hands of those too young or mentally disturbed to comprehend the consequences of using such devices, but I don't believe that is near the most important aspect of this issue. Even if we eliminate all guns, which is never going to happen, people will always find a way to kill. They'll run over people with cars. They'll stab them with knives or blow them up with bombs. These tragedies will continue to happen until we change the hearts of our people.
In closing I want to add that I totally disagree with Joy Bahar's condescending smear of Vice President Mike Pence. We need more people talking to Jesus, and if he decides to answer, I'm way OK with that.
Friday, February 16, 2018
Wednesday, February 7, 2018
The Nunes Memo and Trump Hatred Disorder
Trump Hatred Disorder & The Nunes Memo
The View from the Middle
What are liberal politicians, the lame stream media and the establishment swamp in Washington DC willing to ignore because they suffer from Trump Hatred Disorder? One indication that they are willing to disregard much is that Trump receives only 5% positive coverage from the mainstream media compared to over 40% positive coverage for Barack Obama. Sure, the President brings much of the smearing on himself as he punches down on celebrities, the media and his political opponents, but this kind of distorted coverage seems malicious. Even George W. Bush received almost 30% positive news content, and the media really disliked him. If they honestly reported on the economy and Trump's contributions to it his positives would at least get into the 20's.
And now we have the dueling memos about the FBI's request to surveil Carter Page, an unpaid campaign advisor for Donald Trump until September of 2016. Don't fall for the strawman arguments that this is somehow connected to the Mueller investigation. That storyline is just a distraction to the real story which is about the weaponization of our government agencies to spy on an American Citizen and then, through the unmasking process, to perform backhanded surveillance on an American presidential candidate. We should all be insisting that the FBI act according to its reputation for fair and unbiased law enforcement.
None of us should be willing to overlook the questionable behavior by high ranking FBI officials like James Comey, or Peter Strzok and his lover Lisa Page or Bruce Ohr and his wife Nellie who actually worked for Fusion GPS, or Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe. If there are no issues with their behavior within the FBI, why are all of these people either demoted or gone?
Who can forget James Comey's schizophrenic televised performance where he indicted Hillary Clinton for her handling of her top-secret emails before he suggested no prosecutor would ever bring charges against her? That thought was quickly refuted by at least two former Attorneys General. Then he admitted to leaking government information to his buddy at Columbia University so that he could leak it to the press. Why anyone is shocked at his removal is mind boggling.
Then you have the bizarre anti-Trump texts between Peter Strzok and Lisa Page. If this was totally innocent or normal activity, why did Robert Mueller remove Strzok from his investigative team? And why was Bruce Ohr demoted. There are red flags flying all over the place here, but the lame stream media happily ignores all of these facts and suggests that anyone who questions their actions is simply trying to tear down the reputation of the FBI. I would argue that Comey, Strzok, Page, Ohr and McCabe are the culprits in ruining the honor of the FBI.
And now we have the Nunes memo that highlights inappropriate and likely illegal activity at the highest levels of the FBI in their request for a FISA warrant on Carter Page. The lame stream media and the Democrats are using misdirection to keep the public's eye off of the real issue. First, they claimed this memo would create a constitutional crisis if released. Next, they questioned the motive of the authors. They suggested the authors were just trying to destroy the reputation of the FBI. Finally, they suggested that the Dossier was just a small part of the FISA request vs. the essential role that Andrew McCabe is reported to have claimed. These are all hoaxes intended to keep you from even considering the real problem, but I'm going to reveal the real issue to you right now!!
The REAL ISSUE is that the Steele dossier was part of the FISA warrant request at all. James Comey testified in front of the Senate and told the President of the United States that portions of the dossier were "salacious and unverified". That description is actually generous, since much of the dossier has been proven to be totally inaccurate. Some people will argue that SOME of the dossier has been verified. Yah, Carter Page is a person and Russia is a country. Don't be distracted.
Fortunately for all of us, the FBI has guidelines called "The Woods Procedures" that layout what can and can't be included in a FISA warrant request. These procedures, named after the FBI official who produced them, requires that there cannot be even a single unverified fact presented to a judge in order to get a warrant to electronically surveil an American citizen. Including the Steele dossier in this FISA court warrant request violated the FBI's own guidelines and was most likely illegal. People should go to jail, and I'm not talking about Carter Page.
The View from the Middle
What are liberal politicians, the lame stream media and the establishment swamp in Washington DC willing to ignore because they suffer from Trump Hatred Disorder? One indication that they are willing to disregard much is that Trump receives only 5% positive coverage from the mainstream media compared to over 40% positive coverage for Barack Obama. Sure, the President brings much of the smearing on himself as he punches down on celebrities, the media and his political opponents, but this kind of distorted coverage seems malicious. Even George W. Bush received almost 30% positive news content, and the media really disliked him. If they honestly reported on the economy and Trump's contributions to it his positives would at least get into the 20's.
And now we have the dueling memos about the FBI's request to surveil Carter Page, an unpaid campaign advisor for Donald Trump until September of 2016. Don't fall for the strawman arguments that this is somehow connected to the Mueller investigation. That storyline is just a distraction to the real story which is about the weaponization of our government agencies to spy on an American Citizen and then, through the unmasking process, to perform backhanded surveillance on an American presidential candidate. We should all be insisting that the FBI act according to its reputation for fair and unbiased law enforcement.
None of us should be willing to overlook the questionable behavior by high ranking FBI officials like James Comey, or Peter Strzok and his lover Lisa Page or Bruce Ohr and his wife Nellie who actually worked for Fusion GPS, or Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe. If there are no issues with their behavior within the FBI, why are all of these people either demoted or gone?
Who can forget James Comey's schizophrenic televised performance where he indicted Hillary Clinton for her handling of her top-secret emails before he suggested no prosecutor would ever bring charges against her? That thought was quickly refuted by at least two former Attorneys General. Then he admitted to leaking government information to his buddy at Columbia University so that he could leak it to the press. Why anyone is shocked at his removal is mind boggling.
Then you have the bizarre anti-Trump texts between Peter Strzok and Lisa Page. If this was totally innocent or normal activity, why did Robert Mueller remove Strzok from his investigative team? And why was Bruce Ohr demoted. There are red flags flying all over the place here, but the lame stream media happily ignores all of these facts and suggests that anyone who questions their actions is simply trying to tear down the reputation of the FBI. I would argue that Comey, Strzok, Page, Ohr and McCabe are the culprits in ruining the honor of the FBI.
And now we have the Nunes memo that highlights inappropriate and likely illegal activity at the highest levels of the FBI in their request for a FISA warrant on Carter Page. The lame stream media and the Democrats are using misdirection to keep the public's eye off of the real issue. First, they claimed this memo would create a constitutional crisis if released. Next, they questioned the motive of the authors. They suggested the authors were just trying to destroy the reputation of the FBI. Finally, they suggested that the Dossier was just a small part of the FISA request vs. the essential role that Andrew McCabe is reported to have claimed. These are all hoaxes intended to keep you from even considering the real problem, but I'm going to reveal the real issue to you right now!!
The REAL ISSUE is that the Steele dossier was part of the FISA warrant request at all. James Comey testified in front of the Senate and told the President of the United States that portions of the dossier were "salacious and unverified". That description is actually generous, since much of the dossier has been proven to be totally inaccurate. Some people will argue that SOME of the dossier has been verified. Yah, Carter Page is a person and Russia is a country. Don't be distracted.
Fortunately for all of us, the FBI has guidelines called "The Woods Procedures" that layout what can and can't be included in a FISA warrant request. These procedures, named after the FBI official who produced them, requires that there cannot be even a single unverified fact presented to a judge in order to get a warrant to electronically surveil an American citizen. Including the Steele dossier in this FISA court warrant request violated the FBI's own guidelines and was most likely illegal. People should go to jail, and I'm not talking about Carter Page.
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