MUHAMMAD RESIGNS AS PROPHET AMID SEXUAL ASSAULT ALLEGATIONS
On the heels of this week's resignation of Karl Marx as leading figure in the communist movement due to allegations of sexual misconduct, the triggered social justice organizers of the #MeToo collective have claimed the scalp of another progressive icon.
At a press conference, supported by her family and lawyers, a woman named Aisha claimed that she was taken as a bride by Mr. Muhammad when she was nine years old. When asked why it took so long for her to come out, she stated that she feared nobody would believe her since the testimony of a woman is not worth a lot in her social circle. The crying woman also confessed that Mr. Muhammad used to beat her when she displeased him, and she feared physical retribution.
Mr. Beelzebub, the lawyer representing the accused prophet, denied the gravity of the accusations, saying that "everyone was doing it at the time," and that his client "did not remember the situation in quite the same way."
But later that day more stories emerged from other victims, encouraged by Aisha's testimony and resulting in the viral #MuhammadToo campaign on Twitter.
Here are those stories and the worldwide reaction…
HALF-FULL REPORT 12/08/17
As the POTUS is a well-known admirer of America’s 7th president (1829-1837) placing his portrait in the Oval Office, you’d think Kilmeade had written a bio of Old Hickory. Instead, it’s the story of Andrew Jackson winning the Battle of New Orleans at the end of 1814.
The question arises: is Trump’s tweet a presidential dog-whistle? For just about everyone old enough to remember Johnny Horton’s song in 1959 still does. It’s still ranked as one of the top country music songs of all time.
The Brits were the world’s superpower still smarting from us colonial yokels beating them at Yorktown and were determined to reconquer us. The invasion force they launched in New Orleans to seize control of the Mississippi River was enormous. All Jackson had was a rag-tag assemblage of coonskin-hat militiamen, freed black slaves, Choctaw Indians, Jean Lafitte’s pirates, and 58 US Marines – Deplorables all to the Brits.
Yet Jackson’s Deplorables cleaned the Brits’ clock. Trump was 13 when Horton’s song came out, and no doubt put to memory the most famous verse of the song like every other kid in America did (like me – I was 16), of what our ancestors did to the Redcoats:
Yeah they ran through the briers and they ran through the brambles And they ran through the bushes where a rabbit couldn't go They ran so fast that the hounds couldn't catch 'em On down the Mississippi to the Gulf of MexicoSo – why would Trump pick this week to hail out of the blue a book about a battle over 200 years ago? Is he dog-whistling a message to us Deplorables that he intends to do to the Empire of the Left what Andy Jackson did to the Brits in 1814?
If so, he picked this week because his Winning is starting to reach warp-speed. The week wags began calling it Strategic Omnidirectional MAGA-winning. Such a deluge of winning that the HFR today is going to have a hard time encompassing its scope. Might as well dive right in.
THE ADVENTURE OF 2018
Tawang Tibetan Monastery, Arunachal Pradesh, India
2018 is upon us.
You can bet the farm that it’s going to be an adventurous year politically. But what about you personally? None of us is getting younger – the arrow of time only flies in one direction. Often, as we keep saying to ourselves, “Someday, I’m going to…” that someday never comes.
So how about your someday coming next year – making 2018 an adventurous year doing what you’ve dreamed of?
Here are a half-dozen adventures I’m planning for next year. Why don’t you let me know if any of them get your juices flowing? Hopefully, you’ll be able to join me on at least one, or they’ll spark ideas of yours. Let’s all look forward to the Adventure of 2018.
Easter Island
TRUMP AND CONGRESS CHALLENGE THE PALESTINIANS TO GROW UP
The ball is now in their court
The president's decision to move the U.S. embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem announced yesterday (12/06) is already sending the usual suspects into a tizzy.
The famous Arab Street, we are told, will be erupting. The despicable fascist that runs Turkey has warned of imminent disaster. And the president of France is doing what the French usually do vis-a-vis the Jews -- well, not quite that bad.
But the real question is how the Palestinians themselves will react once the dust has settled.
Will they continue decades of self-destructive violent protests that have led many of us to believe they never had an interest in a two-state solution in the first place, that it was all posturing for handouts?
Or will they grow up and realize the time has come to negotiate to a conclusion and accept the responsibility of their own state and the adult compromises that would naturally entail?
By finally moving U.S. policy at least two degrees off years of unimaginative stagnation, Trump has forced the Palestinians to face some measure of reality. But he is not alone. They are also being challenged forcefully by Congress.
A SAUDI PEACE PLAN THAT COULD ACTUALLY WORK
Mahmoud Abbas and Crown Prince Salman in Riyadh
On Sunday (12/3), The New York Times published the Palestinian response to an alleged Saudi peace plan, headlined Talk of a Peace Plan That Snubs Palestinians Roils Middle East.
Saudi Crown Prince MBS bin Salman (known as MBS) reportedly presented it to PLO chief and Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas last month. According to the Times’ report, MBS told Abbas he has two months to either accept the Saudi proposal or leave office to make way for a new Palestinian leader who will accept it.
The Palestinians and their European supporters are up in arms about the content of MBS’s plan. MBS has become a hated figure in wide circles of the foreign policy establishment in the West due to his trenchant opposition to Iran’s rise as a hegemonic power in the region.
Yes, surprise, the voices leading the charge against MBS are the same ones that developed the media echo chamber in pursuit of then president Barack Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran. The truth is, they hate MBS’s plan because it actually could work.
NOTHING ABOUT COLLUSION
While working with Lt. General Michael Flynn on The Field of Fight, I interviewed many of his former colleagues in order to better understand my co-author.
Virtually all of them described a man who cared deeply about the truth and presented it in circumstances that were certainly not favorable to him. These people portrayed General Flynn as a compulsive truth-teller.
So why has he now confessed to making false statements to the FBI?
Not only would such behavior be totally out of character, but it contradicts the bureau’s own publicly announced findings last February, and would have us believe that Gen. Flynn lied about actions that were themselves perfectly legal.
Thus the “guilty” plea tells us more about the Mueller investigation, and about the politicization of “justice” more generally, than it does about presumed malefactions by the retired general.
WHY WOULD FLYNN LIE?
My esteemed TTP colleague Michael Ledeen offered his explanation to this puzzle today: Nothing About Collusion. I have a conjecture that might serve as an alternative.
For ‘tis a puzzle. Why would LTG Michael Flynn lie to the FBI about telephone conversations he had with Russian Ambassador Sergei Kislyak that were not illegal, improper, or unusual?
As a career intelligence officer, Flynn had to know we were listening in on Kislyak’s phone calls. He ought to have assumed the FBI would listen to the intercepts, or read transcripts of them.
As in fact the FBI did, the Washington Post reported the day before Flynn's interview.
Since the FBI already knew what Flynn said to Kislyak, determined he’d done nothing wrong, why was the FBI interviewing him?
We may get answers to those questions – and much more – very soon.
I DARE YOU
Shame that this is only satire. You know that PDJT would love to tweet this gag but he knows he dare not!
TRUMP ENDS THE SNIPE HUNT FOR MIDDLE EAST PEACE
“They run really fast so you’ve got to stay alert – we’ll chase them to you,” they said. Left alone in the dark, crouching down intensely waiting for the elusive snipe’s fast approach, it took my father a while to realize he’d been had “holding the bag” for something that would never come.
A “snipe hunt” is a time-honored practical joke pulled on generations of kids at summer camps, Boy Scout outings, and college fraternity hazings. It’s a harmless prank that everyone laughs about afterwards, like my Dad did when he got back to the Phi Delt house.
Yet the Snipe Hunt for Peace that American and Western diplomats have been engaging in for nigh-on two-thirds of a century has been far from harmless. All of them have been left stupidly “holding the bag” while Palestinian Arabs laugh and sneer at them – because the “peace” being sought after is as imaginary as a snipe.
Nothing could more exemplify Trump’s strategic genius than to put an end to this game.
He set the stage by obliterating ISIS in Iraq and Syria; by going to the capital of Saudi Arabia, Riyadh, and telling a conference of Moslem world leaders right to their faces they will now ally with America in putting an end to Islamic terrorism; by supporting Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) in an anti-Wahhabi revolution; and forging an alliance between Sisi’s Egypt, MBS’ Saudi Arabia, and Israel.
And now today (12/06), he puts an end to the Moslem Myth of Jerusalem.
HALF-FULL REPORT 12/01/17
Ever hear the term “prison justice”? It’s retribution – often lethal – meted out by prisoners in jail to those guilty of the most sickening crimes, such as child rapists and murderers of defenseless women.
Let’s hope that will be the fate of Jose Garcia Zarate.
As you know, he is the dirtbag illegal alien who murdered Kate Steinle in cold blood, and was found not guilty last night (11/30) by a dirtbag San Francisco jury. ICE says he will now be taken into custody for deportation back to Mexico – for the sixth time. He needs to never make it out of that custody jail cell.
Unfortunately, there’s no way to effect prison justice on the entire city government of San Francisco – as Hannity declared last night, “It Was San Francisco’s Sanctuary City Policies that Killed Kate Steinle.”
Nor, sadly, on the Zarate’s dirtbag defense lawyer Matt Gonzalez, who had the idiotic hubris to warn the President, Vice-President, and Attorney General of the United States not to criticize the verdict, as “they are under investigation themselves.”
So is there any silver lining? Jack Kelly’s answer is Yes. He just sent me his predictions of what will now happen.
We have to talk about Mike Flynn. Special Swamp Rat Robert Mueller announced this morning Flynn will plead guilty to lying to the FBI. Every Trump-Hater in the country is all a-flutter that Flynn will plea bargain in order to implicate Trump in crimes. But as Flynn is a confessed liar to both the FBI and the Vice President, how’s he going to prove he isn’t lying now?
That said, designating Flynn to head the National Security Council was an impossibly bad decision by Trump. He can’t say he wasn’t warned. The week after his election, this is what the HFR of November 18, 2016 had to say. We know it was circulated among his people in Trump Tower.
With all that over, we get to have fun with good news of the week. Let’s go…