Our Weasel Of The Week Nominees!!

It's time once again for the Watcher's Council's 'Weasel Of The Week' nominations, where we pick our choices to compete for the award of the famed Golden Weasel to a public figure who particularly deserves to be slimed and mocked for his or her dastardly deeds during the week. Every Tuesday morning, tune in for the Weasel of the Week nominations!

Here are this weeks' nominees....


Bolivian Presidente Evo Morales!!

Fausta's Blog : Evo Morales, aspiring to be president-for-life of Bolivia, and his girlfriend and her Chinese contracts involving civil engineering projects, sugar mills, oil, and a railroad, amounting over $500 million USD.


 
'Journalist' Christopher Ingraham of the Washington Post!!

The Daley Gator : Christopher Ingraham of the Washington Post is using a self-described anti-gun propaganda web site to lie about the number of mass shootings that have occurred in the United States this year:

On Saturday night, a 45-year-old man shot and killed six people and injured two others in and around Kalamazoo, Mich., authorities say. According to the crowd-sourced Mass Shooting Tracker, that act was the 24th mass shooting in the United States during the first 21 days of February and the 42nd mass shooting overall in 2016.

As we’ve documented in great detail previously, the founder of the Mass Shooting Tracker is a UC-Berkeley graduate who self-describes himself as an anti-gun propagandist:

Hey everyone, glad to be on board! If any of you know me its probably from/r/GunsAreCool, a sub that mocks the absurdity of American gun culture. I’ve helped mod there for a couple years now, I’m the one who owns our website www.shootingtracker.com a nice bit of work we’ve been able to get used on-air on MSNBC and CNN, in print at Mother Jones and Reuters, and cited in peer reviewed academic journals like the American Journal of Public Health among other places. I’m fairly heavily involved in politics, most recently being brought in to work with Everytown in the last election here in Oregon, helping Chuck Riley topple an incumbent in SD-15 for the express purpose of getting a stalled Universal Background Check bill on to the governor’s desk, a bill that was signed into law last week.

My fascination with propaganda began some years ago when I was studying journalism at Berkeley (fight on you Bears!) and continues unabated. The way it distills a message down to its basest form, and focuses its all on getting that message across and grabbing attention is what draws me in so much.

The long-accepted definition of a mass shooting is a single event in which four or more people are killed, excluding gang-related activity, familicide, or terrorist attacks. By that criteria, the Kalamazoo shootings may be the first mass shooting of 2016.

Mass Shooting Tracker arbitrarily redefined that definition in order to grossly and artificially inflate the number of mass shootings to an absurd degree, a blatantly dishonest strategy that angered gun control supporter Mark Folman of Mother Jones.

Christopher Ingraham is intentionally misleading the readers of the Washington Post.


 
Twitter CEO And Anti-Free Speech Gauleiter Jack Dorsey!!

 Nice Deb :I'm going to nominate Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey for saying in extreme weasel-like fashion, that “Twitter stands for freedom of expression, speaking truth to power, and empowering dialogue. That starts with safety.”

His emphasis was on "safety" (for special SSW snowflakes) over freedom of expression, truth to power, etc.

With the company’s decision to appoint an Orwellian “Trust and Safety Council,” freedom of expression and the ability to speak truth to power has already come under assault.

Dorsey appointed assorted lefties and Social Justice Warriors like Anita Sarkeesian to be on the council and it hasn't taken them long to use it as a platform to go after critics of feminism:

Sarkeesian’s critics accuse her of using claims of online harassment to discredit her critics and get them kicked off of services like—you guessed it—Twitter. So when Sarkeesian and the “dangerous speech” types got appointed as Twitter’s speech police, there was reason to think they’re going to turn Twitter into a university-style “safe space” where “safety” is assured by removing advocates of opposing ideas.

This comes as Twitter is already declining in value as a corporate enterprise. Allowing his troubled company to be overrun with Social Justice totalitarian freaks is not a very smart move on Dorsey's part, but what else would you expect from a pathetic little weasel?

   Well, there it is. What a despicable group of  Weasels...ANY OF THEM COULD WIN! Check back Thursday to see which Weasel walks off with the statuette of shame!

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Forum: What's Your Reaction To This Weeks' Primary Results?

Every week on Monday morning , the Council and our invited guests weigh in at the Watcher's Forum, short takes on a major issue of the day, the culture, or daily living. This week's question: What's Your Reaction To This Week's Primary Results?

 GrEaT sAtAn"S gIrLfRiEnD : First off, Americans are not hot for dynasty action. Jeb seems a nice enough guy, tons of gubernatorial accomplishments, yet by lecturing Americans that illegal immigration is an act of love Jeb essentially blew his own foot off and he never recovered.

Since SEN Cruz lost in South Cackalackey - can he win anywhere else? Seriously, yet the radio guy w/half his brain tied behind his back and the "Get off the phone ya big dope" cat all tell us what we already know - that the Senator is a conservative with a capital C, SC was the place where Cruz should have blitzed. If he can't win SC - where can he win?

SEN Rubio may benefit from Jeb's escape hatch maneuver - unlocking donors, cash, staff and expertise. Winning FLA, coaxing GOV Kasich to bail out and toss Rubio the support in Ohio and winning Ohio is doable - yet a long shot.

GOV Kasich and Dr Carson could still influence the race in some aspects, yet both cats are about done...

Laura Rambeau Lee,Right Reason : As had been predicted Trump handily won the South Carolina primary, with Rubio and Cruz nearly tied for second place. The Trump momentum continues to build although we still have not heard any substance to his platform. His attraction is his populist appeal, saying what many Americans want to hear. What is surprising is the number of people who profess to be constitutional conservatives that support him. No matter how vulgar or contradictory his statements Trump’s appeal seems to be increasing.

Early on he pledged to not run on a third party ticket even if he is not the GOP nominee, but now he is beginning to speak about the “unfairness” of his treatment by the GOP. It is highly likely he will run as a third party candidate if he does not win the nomination. With the SC primary signaling the end of Jeb Bush’s campaign it appears this is a three man race. Rubio will benefit the most by being the GOP establishment choice.

Cruz has strong support from true constitutional conservatives. The question is will he get enough support to force the RNC to nominate him over Rubio. That doesn’t seem likely. The competition will get uglier going forward and I believe we are witnessing the end of the Republican party as we have known it. The establishment within the party no longer stand for the principles upon which it was founded. True conservatism is being vilified not only by the left but also by the progressive right. Progressives are working in both parties to retain or win the presidency.

How this will all play out at this point is uncertain. We have to remember this is about power and control. The only candidate standing for a return to smaller government of, by, and for the people is Ted Cruz. And with the death of Justice Antonin Scalia the only one of the three we can be confident would nominate a conservative justice to replace him is Ted Cruz.

 JoshuaPundit : Nevada first. Bernie just found out that as I predicted, New Hampshire was the highlight and it's all down hill for him from there. The Clinton Machine will eat him alive and even more to the point,  many  blacks and the vast majority of Muslims won't vote for a Jew, even an irreligious anti-Israel commie like Bernie. South Carolina will be an  even bigger rout for him and I wouldn't be surprised to see him pack it in after the SEC primary.

South Carolina was supposed to be Ted Cruz's big win, the place where the Cruz Crusade  was going to march on the shoulders of the Evangelicals to shut down Marco Rubio and Donald Trump, move on to win the SEC primary and seal the deal for the nomination. He spent millions on ads, imported thousands of campaign workers and campaigned hard across the state.  There were even polls showing Cruz ahead of Donald Trump, which have now of course vanished into the memory hole. Even if the Cruz Crusade didn't quite pull off a win, at the very least he was supposed to finish a strong second and split delegates with Donald Trump.

Instead, he got decisively defeated and defeated badly, finishing third behind Marco Rubio by a hair. In his own way, so did Marco Rubio, who had likewise courted Evangelicals and was hoping for a stronger finish, but the big plus for Rubio was that Jeb Bush suspended his campaign and Senator Rubio has solidified his position as the GOP Establishment champion, the anti-Trump. He will likely get a chunk, but not all of Jeb's votes. Neither Cruz or Rubio got any of South Carolina's 50 delegates.

I found the exit polls interesting. Donald Trump carried every demographic handily except those whom self identified themselves as 'very conservative' in which he placed second by 5% or so. He won every county easily with the exception of Charleston (which Rubio won by less than a thousand votes) and Richland, where the state capitol Columbia is located. Both areas are a bit more 'cosmopolitan' and moderate than the state as a whole, although Donald Trump also won handily across the state in those whom characterized themselves as 'moderate.' Go figure.

My personal opinion for what little it's worth is that a lot of the Evangelicals deserted Ted Cruz for two reasons; first, the anger they they share at Washington is a greater force than someone pandering to them on a faith based basis and two, they perceived a huge gap between Ted Cruz's professed values and the way his campaign has been conducted thus far. I actually heard as much from two long time correspondents whom live in the Palmetto State. People might forget what you say, but they never forget how you make them feel.

I know this is going to upset some people, but from a sheer horse race perspective  it's difficult to see Ted Cruz getting the nomination at this point. The delegate math is against him. And he's not only competing with Marco Rubio for the title of 'anti-Trump' but for millions of dollars from the pro-amnesty, pro unlimited immigration, and pro continued  H1b abuse Club For Growth. They've been funding both Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio quite lavishly up to now, as well as spending millions on attack ads aimed at Donald Trump. That kind of funding only happens if you embrace the Club For Growth's agenda. And both Rubio and Cruz have not only accepted the money but have been avidly chasing it.  Ted Cruz's problem is that Rubio isn't going anywhere and he's likely going to be considered a better investment by the amnesty lobby now than Ted Cruz is. Another problem is that as this stuff becomes more commonly known ( few of Ted Cruz's supporters are probably aware of it), people may perceive Ted Cruz as untrue to the principals he espouses, a problem Marco Rubio isn't going to have. But both of them probably have enough momentum to keep the fight going on for quite some time.

I doubt John Kasich is going anywhere for awhile either. There's no percentage in his doing so. He likely has the ability to deliver Ohio and might very well trade that for a place on the ticket.



Well, there you have it!

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The Council Has Spoken!! Our Watcher's Council Results

The Council has spoken, the votes have been cast, and the results are in for this week's Watcher's Council match up.

"The more dominant the Islamic culture in The Netherlands will be, the more distant we will become from anything that has to do with freedom, tolerance and equality. Because the Islam – in contrast with other religions – will not accept anything else but the Islam. " - Geert Wilders, Dutch politician, filmmaker and author.

"Those who believe, and adopt exile, and fight for the Faith, in the cause of Allah as well as those who give (them) asylum and aid,- these are (all) in very truth the Believers: for them is the forgiveness of sins and a provision most generous." - Qu'ran, Surah Al-Anfal, 74

“Europe is no longer Europe, it is Eurabia, a colony of Islam, where the Islamic invasion does not proceed only in a physical sense, but also in a mental and cultural sense.”
- Orianna Falacci

"The universal Caliphate, for which Europe provided a stepping-stone at the UN, stands before us, bringing together political and religious power. It has set itself up as the protector of the Muslim immigrant masses in the world and requires that they remain firmly anchored in the Islamic traditions of the Koran and Sunna, following the Sharia laws while the Europeans are called upon to abandon their historic values and even their identity condemned as Islamophobia.” - Andrew Bostom




This week's winning essay,Bookworm Room's Europe's dystopia present and why, because I'm helpless to stop it, Schadenfreude overwhelms me is her very astute and scintillating treatment of a theme I've written on a few times myself in a far more limited and less erudite way...the Islamist conquest of Europe being carried out with hardly the need to fire a shot and the reasons behind it. Here's a slice:

Beginning on September 11, 2001, and with increasing speed since January 2009, I’ve had a very strong sense that the world — not just America, but the whole world — is unraveling. At home, venerable and often cherished institutions and ideas are falling into disrepair or being perverted beyond all recognition. Abroad, the Pax America that stabilized the world for so many years, with America acting not as a conqueror but as ballast, has broken down. I’m afraid of the world into which I’m launching my children. The dystopian future that become a stable of countless young adult novels seems to have become the dystopian present.

In many ways, the worst thing about watching the passing spectacle is that I’m helpless to do anything. Sure, I blog, but I recognize (and I don’t mean this with any disrespect, dear readers) that I’m mostly preaching to the choir. I’d be delighted if my words changed one mind, swaying one person from unthinking Progressivism to thoughtful conservatism, but I’m pretty sure that the best I can do is offer comfort and comradeship to people who share my values and my concerns. There’s nothing wrong with binding people together, but I don’t see what I’m doing as effecting any real change.

I’ve also tried to help my children understand that the Leftist political pieties forced upon them in their schools and through their media are false. Mostly, I’ve been successful — my children, when they’re willing to think at all about politics, seem to have absorbed my conservative world view, one that fears big government, believes in strong borders and self-defense, and is fanatic about a free market and the virtue for able-bodied people of self-reliance. I don’t know, though, if I’ve done them any favors. Their values clash with the world they’re entering and put them at odds with their generation. Maybe they could face their socialized, possibly Islamic, future with some equanimity if they didn’t believe in the alternative.

On my Facebook page, I politely tweak my Leftist friends by subtly inserting conservative ideas into their Feeds, but I’m not kidding myself. Even the most open-minded of them are open-minded only to the extent that they don’t “un-friend” me or get nasty. I can practically feel the pity radiating across the feed as they think “She was smart once. What the heck happened? Early dementia perhaps?” None think, “She has always been a really smart, well-informed person. Maybe she’s on to something.” Sigh.

Faced with a domestic scene that saddens me and an international scene that frightens me, I’ve come to a necessary conclusion if I’m to continue functioning — and I must continue functioning. After all, even as things come down around my ears, I still have meals to prepare, laundry to wash, bills to pay, and people (and dogs) dependent upon me for their care. I can’t allow existential anxiety to make me useless.

So here’s my philosophy: To the extent I can bring about change, I’ll fuss and try to come up with solutions that make a difference. However, when there’s nothing I do or say to make a damn bit of difference, I’m going to sit back and get whatever pleasure I can out of the show. I’ll only make myself crazy if I continuously bang my head against walls to no effect.

My lemonade-out-of-lemons philosophy applies strongly to Europe. If there were any way I could save it from its present existential collapse, I actually believe I would. However, because there is absolutely nothing I can do, I’m opting for the pleasures of Schadenfreude as I watch Europe’s passing parade.

I should say that I’m of European stock (both my parents were born and raised in the chaos of Europe’s Depression and WWII), and that I therefore have a lot of strong European values, including cynicism, a tendency to be nasty and condescending (which I periodically fight), and a palate that likes European food. I’ve lived and traveled abroad extensively, and have met good people and bad on those trips. Heck, I even met nice French people.

I have a solid knowledge of European history (especially British), art, and architecture, as well as a surprisingly good understanding of European-style Christianity in the pre-modern era. Europe was once a shining light in world history. I don’t think that anymore.

Twice in the 20th century, Europe did its best to commit suicide. Both times, America saved it. After the second saving, Europe changed dramatically in some ways and fossilized in others. It embraced an anodyne socialism, one leached of the twin scourges of nationalism and the urge to conquer. Its post-war structure echoed Mussolini’s ideal, which was “All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.” It didn’t go full-communist however. While it regulated private business so tightly that Europe essentially placed large parts of its economy under government control, it managed to refrain from nationalizing most of it. For a while, flush with America’s post-war cash transfers, this new model seemed to work economically, allowing people to work short weeks, take long vacations, and retire early, all without saving a penny.

At the same time that it socialized its economy, Europe also managed to fossilize itself. Both to recover from the damage wrought by war and to attract American tourist dollars, Europe began to invest as much in its past (and what a glorious past it was) as in its present and future. The end result is that Europe is a wonderful living museum. Of course, that gives it the same dynamism as a museum, which is to say not too much.

The net effect of a fundamentally stagnant economy (the stagnancy of which became apparent when the American flow of Cold War dollars ceased) and self-immolation on the altar of its own history is that Europe is a revenant, a kind of classy zombie. No wonder its citizens stopped reproducing. There’s no future in a country chained to its past, with a government firmly stifling initiative to ensure that everyone is treated fairly.

You’d think that I, a lifelong Europhile, would weep copious tears over Europe’s pathetic economy, frozen mien, and struggles with the same Muslim hoards that sought to destroy it in past centuries. In fact, though, I weep no tears. Because there’s one other piece of European history I want to discuss, and it’s why, given that I can’t save Europe, I’m able to sit back and watch Europe’s struggles as I would a TV show or a passing parade.

First, a little back story. I don’t think it’s a secret that Europe has always fervently supported the Palestinians, and has used the UN (and, most particularly the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, aka UNRWA) as the engine of that support. The following are some of the myriad reasons why it turned its back on Israel, the only liberal democracy in the Middle East, and instead threw its support behind adherents of a totalitarian, misogynistic, antisemitic, homophobic, anti-Christian theocracy.

Many (including me) believe that Europe never forgave the Jews for Auschwitz. It was in its maddened fury to rid itself of the Jewish outsider that Europe revealed the most loathsome side of itself. It doesn’t take a psychiatrist to figure out that Europe wants to erase that stain by saying that the Jews, through their proxy nation of Israel, are just as bad as the Europeans were, thereby relieving the Europeans of their unique genocidal burden. The reality that the facts don’t support the Europeans (fact number one being the soaring population growth amongst Palestinians) is meaningless to a group that’s found a lie that allows it to walk away from its sins.

Much more at the link, and a great read awaits you.

In our non-Council category, the winner was the great Michael Totten with a piece worthy of his usual high standard, Hezbollah devours Lebanon submitted by The Watcher. Yes, Lebanon is now officially, to all intents and purposes, Hezbollahstan. In fact it's been Hezbollahstan for some time. It's just more openly recognized.

Even worse is the fact that the Obama Administration is actually sending them millions in American military aid, arming, training and equipping an officially designated terrorist group that until 9/11 held the record for murdering the most Americans. You couldn't make this stuff up.


Here are this week’s full results. Puma by Design was unable to vote this week, and another member submitted a partial vote of first choices in each category:

Council Winners

• *First place with 2 2/3 votes!-Bookworm Room – Europe's dystopia present and why, because I'm helpless to stop it, Schadenfreude overwhelms me


• Second place *t* with 2 1/3 votes –The Right Planet – Rancor on the Right — Trump vs. Cruz


• Second place *t* with 2 1/3 votes –Stately McDaniel Manor – Antonin Scalia: What’s An Oath Worth?


• Second place *t* with 2 1/3 votes –The Noisy Room – A Constitutional Originalist Falls And Everything Is At Stake For Conservatives And The Republic


• Third place with 1 vote –VA Right! - When Did Ted Cruz Become an Anti-Republican Anti-Establishment ‘Outsider’? March 23, 2015!


• Fourth place *t* with 2/3 votes –Nice Deb – That Time An Atlantic Reporter Wrote Exactly What A Clinton Stooge Told Him To Write


• Fourth place *t* with 2/3 votes –The Razor – Ammo Tax? How About an Abortion Tax?
  


• Fifth place *t* with 2/3 votes –The Independent Sentinel – GITMO Grad Stars in Al Qaeda Terror Magazine


• Fifth place *t* with 2/3 votes –The Daley Gator – MSNBS,where Liberals go to panic monger

Non-Council Winners

• First place with 2 1/3 votes! –Michael Totten – Hezbollah devours Lebanon submitted by The Watcher


• Second place *t* with 2 votes –Forbes –What If Vladimir Putin Has Hillary Clinton’s Emails? submitted by Stately McDaniel Manor


• Second place *t* with 2 votes – Daniel Greenfield/FrontPage Mag –Forcing Senators Not to Approve An Obama Nominee Must Be The Top Conservative Priority submitted by The Noisy Room


• Third place *t* with 1 vote –Sultan Knish-Good Muslim and Bad Muslimsubmitted by Bookworm Room


• Third place *t* with 1 vote – The Free Beacon -Why Are Liberals So Racist When It Comes to Clarence Thomas? submitted by Nice Deb


• Fourth place with 1 vote -Mark Moyar/Defining Ideas – The White House’s Seven Deadly Errors submitted by The Glittering Eye


• Fifth place *t* with 2/3 votes-Gavin McCleod/Taki's Magazine –Future Letter From a Socialist to President Trump submitted by The Razor


• Fifth place *t* with 2/3 votes -Jane's IHS – China reveals DF-21 MRBM manoeuvrable warhead submitted by GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD


• Fifth place *t* with 2/3 votes -Ben Shapiro/Daily Wire – The Case For Trump: Trump Has Balls. Voters Like Balls.
  submitted by VA Right!


• Sixth place with 1/3 vote -Politically Short – America’s Ruling Class vs. All submitted by The Right Planet

See you next week!

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Is Trump Stoppable?

 
 
An interesting discussion over at Nate Silver's FiveThirtyEight...as always, some of the better reality based political thought out there.

Who's The Real Christian?

Pope Francis has made a crusade of his quest to weaken the Catholic Church and the West with demands that illegal migrants and Muslim 'refugees' be accepted into western countries. Today, he singled out presidential candidate Donald Trump for special criticism, saying that if Trump planned to build a wall to protect America's southern border, he is "not Christian" according to the Associated Press.

Trump's response? Classic:



So here we have a presidential candidate actually promising to defend Christians, something Pope Francis has never actively done during his tenure as Pope... and this pontiff attacks him??

It's also worth nothing that not only has Trump repeatedly made the point that he favors legal immigration, but that most of the Republican candidates - Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Ben Carson, even John Kasich - at least favor increased border security, thus proving Trump's claim that this pope is being manipulated specifically against him. Given the billions of US dollars that flow across the border in the form of cash from expatriate Mexicans legal and non-legal, the Mexican government obviously has an interest in the status quo.

And so does the Catholic Church. One thing that wasn't mentioned in the media was how much money the Church is getting from the Obama administration to' process' all these illegal aliens...a cool $9 million in addition to millions of dollars in existing grants and additional funds given by the Obama regime to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Catholic Charities, and the Catholic Legal Immigration Network.

And as far as Muslim 'refugees,' here's something else that didn't make the headlines...the U.S Conference of Catholic Bishops is meeting with the Muslim Brotherhood front group the Islamic Society Of North America
(ISNA)and other similar organizations in a whole series of 'interfaith dialogues' entitled 'A common word between us.'

Having read the Qu'ran, that title immediately caught my attention, but I'll let Islamic scholar Robert Spencer tell it:

What do you think is the goal of such groups in engaging in “dialogue” with Catholic bishops? The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ 2014 statement on “dialogue” quotes the 2007 document sent to the Pope and other Christian leaders, A Common Word Between Us and You. It is likely that not a single one of the bishops was ever curious about where the phrase “a common word between us and you comes from beyond the Qur’an citation provided in that document’s epigraph. If they had looked it up in the Qur’an, they would have found that the full passage is not a call for mutual understanding and mutual respect; rather, it is an exhortation to Christians to convert to Islam: “Say: ‘People of the Book! Come now to a word common between us and you, that we serve none but Allah, and that we associate no others with Him, and do not some of us take others as Lords, apart from Allah.’ And if they turn their backs, say: ‘Bear witness that we are Muslims’” (3:64). Since Muslims consider the Christian confession of the divinity of Christ to be an unacceptable association of a partner with God, this verse is saying that the “common word” that Muslims and the People of the Book should agree on is that Christians should discard one of the central tenets of their faith and essentially become Muslims.

For groups such as ICNA and ISNA, that is almost certainly what the “dialogue” is all about, along with compelling Catholic leaders to remain silent about Muslim persecution of Christians, as when Robert McManus, Roman Catholic Bishop of Worcester, Massachusetts, suppressed a planned talk at a Catholic conference on that persecution, explaining: “Talk about extreme, militant Islamists and the atrocities that they have perpetrated globally might undercut the positive achievements that we Catholics have attained in our inter-religious dialogue with devout Muslims.” Evil works under the cover of darkness, and McManus, drunk on “dialogue,” was happy to supply that cover.

But the typical modern Catholic bishop, coddled, cosseted, regal, arrogant, authoritarian, ignorant, self-infatuated, and utterly devoid of charity, will never deign to acknowledge any of this. They are blind guides.

Blind guides is being charitable. Although to be fair these bishops are simply following like sheep in the path of dhimmitude set for them by the last two popes, Benedict and Francis. Neither of these popes ever did or have done anything to protect the Middle East's Christians from what amounts to genocide, or urged the Western nations to take them in as refugees or protect them in any way. Instead, they're willing to turn a blind eye and participate in the process of bringing in Muslims to America for their own Thirty Pieces of Silver.

And this Pope has the nerve to say that Donald Trump is not a Christian? Tell me, who's the real Christian? Who's pledging to defending them and their faith and who's essentially ignoring their terrible plight and selling them out?

As a parting note, I should say that Pope Francis actually does approve of border walls and strict immigration policies...for himself and the Vatican:

The Vatican, for its part, welcomes millions of visitors a year — but allows only a very select few, who meet strict criteria, to be admitted as residents or citizens.

Only about 450 of its 800 or so residents actually hold citizenship, according to a 2012 study by the Library of Congress. That study said citizens are either church cardinals who reside in the Vatican, the Holy See’s diplomats around the world, and those who have to reside in the city because of their jobs, such as the Swiss Guard.

Spouses and children who live in the city because of their relationship with citizens — including the Swiss Guard and workers such as the gardener — have also been granted citizenship. But that means few of the Vatican’s citizens are women.

A Vatican spokesman did not return an email seeking comment on its policy.

Just like most Marxists, Pope Francis is a major hypocrite.

Our Weasel Of The Week!!

Yes, once again, It's time to present this week's statuette of shame, The Golden Weasel!!

Every Tuesday, the Council nominates some of the slimiest, most despicable characters in public life for some deed of evil, cowardice or corruption they’ve performed. Then we vote to single out one particular Weasel for special mention, to whom we award the statuette of shame, our special, 100% plastic Golden Weasel. This week's nominees were particularly slimy and despicable, but the votes are in and we have our winner...the envelope please..


BuzzFeed Editor Rachel Zarrow!!

The Noisy Room: My nomination for Weasel of the Week goes to BuzzFeed editor Rachel Zarrell this time around. She posted a couple of tweets rejoicing at the news of the death of Justice Antonin Scalia and then tried to cover it up. She then quickly deleted them. She also retweeted a GQ writer who wrote, “Boy is my Twitter feed not sad.” Her initial tweet consisted of a party popper emoji. Then she followed up with a tweet mocking the statement put out by Sen. Ted Cruz on the news of Scalia’s death.



Well, there it is.

Check back next Tuesday to see who next week's nominees for Weasel of the Week are!

Make sure to tune in every Monday for the Watcher’s Forum, and remember, every Wednesday, the Council has its weekly contest with the members nominating two posts each, one written by themselves and one written by someone from outside the group for consideration by the whole Council. The votes are cast by the Council, and the results are posted on Friday morning.

It’s a weekly magazine of some of the best stuff written in the blogosphere, and you won’t want to miss it...or any of the other fantabulous Watcher's Council content.

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Our Watcher's Council Nominations -RIP Scalia Edition

This week's page is dedicated to the memory of a great man, proof that not all heroes are found on the battlefield. Antonin Scalia was someone whom fought for the principles our Founders bequeathed us no matter what the odds. Sometimes he won, sometimes not, but he never quit.

Possumus orare sicut alius -"We can only pray there will be another like him."

And to send you on your journey, Giudice Onorato, Placido Domingo in his prime with 'Nessun Dorma' from 'Turandot' something Puccini wrote just before he too ascended to the Next World.




Welcome to the Watcher's Council, a blogging group consisting of some of the most incisive blogs in the 'sphere, and the longest running group of its kind in existence. Every week, the members nominate two posts each, one written by themselves and one written by someone from outside the group for consideration by the whole Council.Then we vote on the best two posts, with the results appearing on Friday morning.

Council News:

Terresa Monroe-Hamilton of The Noisy Room was cited and received a boatload of traffic via Mark Levin this week, not the first time The Great One has fingered one of the Council's efforts for special attention.

So, let's see what we have for you this week....

Council Submissions

• The Noisy Room – A Constitutional Originalist Falls And Everything Is At Stake For Conservatives And The Republic


• Stately McDaniel Manor – Antonin Scalia: What’s An Oath Worth?


• GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD – Reap The Whirlwind


• Puma By Design – Shaming Barack: Iran Releases Footage, Re-Enacts Capture of US Sailors at Parade


• VA Right! - When Did Ted Cruz Become an Anti-Republican Anti-Establishment ‘Outsider’? March 23, 2015!


• Fausta's Blog – Cuba: Francis and Kirill, lost in symbols


• Bookworm Room – Europe's dystopia present and why, because I'm helpless to stop it, Schadenfreude overwhelms me


• The Razor – Ammo Tax? How About an Abortion Tax?
  


• The Daley Gator – MSNBS,where Liberals go to panic monger


• The Right Planet – Rancor on the Right — Trump vs. Cruz


• The Glittering Eye -when Debt Makes Sense


• Nice Deb – That Time An Atlantic Reporter Wrote Exactly What A Clinton Stooge Told Him To Write


• The Independent Sentinel – GITMO Grad Stars in Al Qaeda Terror Magazine

Non-Council Submissions

• Daniel Greenfield/FrontPage Mag –Forcing Senators Not to Approve An Obama Nominee Must Be TheTop Conservative Priority submitted by The Noisy Room


• Forbes –What If Vladimir Putin Has Hillary Clinton’s Emails? submitted by Stately McDaniel Manor


• Jane's IHS – China reveals DF-21 MRBM manoeuvrable warhead submitted by GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD


• Daniel Greenfield –Obama is Betting the Senate Will Approve his Nominee submitted by Puma By Design


• Ben Shapiro/Daily Wire – The Case For Trump: Trump Has Balls. Voters Like Balls.
  submitted by VA Right!


• Jason Poblete – No End in Sight to the Lawless US-Cuba Regulatory Bender submitted by Fausta's Blog


• Sultan Knish-Good Muslim and Bad Muslimsubmitted by Bookworm Room


• Gavin McCleod/Taki's Magazine –Future Letter From a Socialist to President Trump submitted by The Razor


• Moonbattery -Trump Threatens to Run Third Partysubmitted by The Daley Gator


• Politically Short – America’s Ruling Class vs. All submitted by The Right Planet


• Mark Moyar/Defining Ideas – The White House’s Seven Deadly Errors submitted by The Glittering Eye


• The Free Beacon -Why Are Liberals So Racist When It Comes to Clarence Thomas? submitted by Nice Deb


• Mark Cunningham/NY Post – Donald Trump has invented a new way to win submitted by The Watcher


• Michael Totten – Hezbollah devours Lebanon submitted by The Watcher

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Our Weasel Of The Week Nominees!!

It's time once again for the Watcher's Council's 'Weasel Of The Week' nominations, where we pick our choices to compete for the award of the famed Golden Weasel to a public figure who particularly deserves to be slimed and mocked for his or her dastardly deeds during the week. Every Tuesday morning, tune in for the Weasel of the Week nominations!

Here are this weeks' nominees....


Denver Bronco's Quarterback Peyton Manning!!

The Razor : My nomination for this week’s weasel is Peyton Manning. The media has always presented Manning as an “awshucks good old boy,” a myth promoted by his successful father. Now it turns out that while a student at University of Tennessee Manning sexually assaulted the head of the sports training department of the university, then subsequently conspired with his father to ruin her career, eventually forcing her out of college athletics. Since being the quarterback of the super bowl victors, a game won completely by the defense and mistakes made by Cam Newton, the media’s anti-Peyton, Manning has been lauded while Newton has been pilloried for the poor performance at a post-game news conference. Yet Manning himself worse sportsmanship on the field when he lost Super Bowl XLIV against the New Orleans Saints, refusing to shake hands with winning QB Drew Brees. But getting a pass on poor sportsmanship for losing a game is one thing; sexually assaulting a woman then ruining her career afterwards is a whole new level of weasel-dom, and for that Peyton Manning gets my weasel of the week nomination. Oh, and for being such a Manning bootlick let’s throw in Papa John CEO John Schnatter while we’re at it.

 
BuzzFeed Editor Rachel Zarrow!!

The Noisy Room: My nomination for Weasel of the Week goes to BuzzFeed editor Rachel Zarrell this time around. She posted a couple of tweets rejoicing at the news of the death of Justice Antonin Scalia and then tried to cover it up. She then quickly deleted them. She also retweeted a GQ writer who wrote, “Boy is my Twitter feed not sad.” Her initial tweet consisted of a party popper emoji. Then she followed up with a tweet mocking the statement put out by Sen. Ted Cruz on the news of Scalia’s death.





Reince Priebus, Head of the Republican National Committee!!

 JoshuaPundit : Neutrality? You kidding me? Ted Cruz and Donald Trump are both livid at the RNC's stacking the audience at the last GOP debate with pro amnesty, representatives of the donor and consultant class whose job was to wildly cheer Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush's every word, especially on amnesty for illegal migrants. And to boo Cruz and Trump on virtually anything they had to say.

The idea, of course, was to influence voters that 'real Republicans' support this year's 'product' and that Trump and Cruz aren't supported by them.Based on the post debate polls, it failed miserably but it only goes to show how desperate the GOP establishment is to stamp out the insurgents, even if it means losing the election. Trump's veiled threat to go third party was a reminder to Priebus and his cronies that he has the means to retaliate if this sort of nonsense continues. As he said, the pledge he signed works two ways.

Supporters of either Ted Cruz or Donald Trump whom demonize either candidate should be reminded that to the GOP establishment, both of them need to be destroyed so they can foist on one their own on the electorate. The spectacle of a political party sliming both of its front runners in a presidential election year is unheard of, and a good indication that no matter who the nominee is or how the election turns out, the destiny of the Republican Party is either to go the way of the Whigs or to
kick serpents like Priebus out of the Garden.

  Well, there it is. What a despicable group of  Weasels...ANY OF THEM COULD WIN! Check back Thursday to see which Weasel walks off with the statuette of shame!

Make sure to tune in every Monday for the Watcher’s Forum.

And remember, every Wednesday, the Council has its weekly contest with the members nominating two posts each, one written by themselves and one written by someone from outside the group for consideration by the whole Council. The votes are cast by the Council, and the results are posted on Friday morning.

It’s a weekly magazine of some of the best stuff written in the blogosphere, and you won’t want to miss it...or any of the other fantabulous Watcher's Council content.

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Forum: Where Do You See The Economy Going?

Every week on Monday morning , the Council and our invited guests weigh in at the Watcher's Forum, short takes on a major issue of the day, the culture, or daily living. This week's question:Where Do You See The Economy Going?

The Noisy Room: Straight off a cliff if we keep heading the way we are going. And frankly, I don't see a way to stop it at this point.

Deutsche Bank in Germany is now calling for negative interest rates or they say they will implode. The Federal Reserve is also calling for negative interest rates here in the US. They want to charge us every time we make a deposit. The banks are broke. In point of fact, they have been charging us negative interest rates for a long time with bank charges and wire fees, but they are increasingly desperate since there is no money left. Deutsche Bank is a cornerstone bank. If it fails, it will start a domino effect in Europe of banks failing that cannot be stopped. First in Europe and then in the US. Many of our banks are intrinsically tied to Deutsche Bank. Consider that Deutsche Bank's derivative exposure is now $60.4 Trillion.

The countries with negative interest rates currently are:

Japan	-0.1 per cent on new bank reserves
Eurozone	-0.3 per cent on bank reserves
Sweden	lends cash to banks at -0.35 per cent
Denmark	-0.65 per cent on bank reserves
Switzerland	-0.75 per cent on bank reserves

The Bank of England said Friday that it is looking at ways to throw open its cash facilities to Islamic banks, a move that would make it the first of the world’s major central banks to offer such a service. They are looking to close their private accounts division and go expressly corporate with a heavy emphasis on dealing with Islamic banks.

Here in the US the unemployment rate is absolute fiction. Obama says it is at 4.9% when in reality, a third of working adults are unemployed. It's even worse in the black and teenage demographics. Jobs are fleeing the US at an alarming rate and it has to be stopped. We also don't manufacture much of anything anymore here in the US which is a recipe for disaster. Oil will fall further and cause more companies to fail and lay workers off. More retailers will lay more people off as well. As a nation, thanks to Obama we are $19 Trillion in the hole. When he leaves office, we will exceed $20 Trillion. That does not include entitlements. There is no way that I can see that we can ever pay off that debt now.

Unless we elect a Republican candidate willing to put our foot down and force business back into the US along with jobs, we are going to tip over.

Not to be a killjoy, but right now I see a global depression and war heading our way. Everything hinges on this next election for the US. We had better choose wisely this time. My choice in this dog fight is Ted Cruz, but Donald Trump will also help us economically.

 The Glittering Eye: I think that the odds are about 5:3 that we'll see a global recession from which the United State is, fortunately, somewhat insulated. The way in which the global recession will have the greatest effect on us is that the U. S. is going to start looking very, very good to a lot of people willing to move for work.

All of this is the long-overdue consequence of trying to integrate China into the global economy. China is just too big and too authoritarian to integrate gracefully. China has extended credit to the hilt and invested all of that borrowing in factories. There is presently enough steelmaking, cement-making, auto production, etc. etc. capacity to satisfy the whole world's prospective demand for decades. There's no really good way to dig ourselves out of this hole.

 JoshuaPundit: There are a few elements I see in play. First off, I see devaluation rather than inflation as the coming scenario. Many stocks and other assets are extremely overpriced and the correction we're seeing now reflects that. I also notice that gold and silver prices are rising some after being low for quite some time, another sign. Real Estate prices should also be affected, although rents may not because the demand in most urban and suburban centers in America remains high as people compete for affordable housing.

Obviously some countries will be more affected than others. As always, the Third World will be hit hardest.

I also see a great deal of unemployment unless things change markedly because of robot workers, automation and computerization of many jobs now held by humans. I'd advise anyone mulling over a career to consider that factor.


Laura Rambeau Lee,Right Reason : There are clear indications the U. S. economy is headed in a very bad direction. Regulations coming out of the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau, FDIC, and the Department of Justice such as Operation Choke Point severely restrict legal but deemed “high risk” businesses such as firearms dealers from operating by threatening and intimidating the banks into not accepting their deposits or processing payments. Moody’s reported in December that of the mortgages closed under the new regulations from the CFPB, ninety percent are non-compliant and according to an American Land Title Association report “there may be a larger problem growing with investors on the secondary market refusing to purchase loans because of potential compliance issues.” In addition, the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau fined automobile company Honda twenty four million dollars for purported discriminatory lending practices based on an algorithm, not fact, to determine the racial background of the consumer. We can expect more of the same from the CFPB going forward as they choose their next target to make an example of in the coming months and years.

The federal government is using bullying, intimidation, and pay to play tactics across the spectrum of businesses, banking, and financial industries which will force hundreds of small companies out of business and millions of people out of their jobs, leaving only those favored by the current administration to survive.









 Well, there you have it.

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Justice Antonin Scalia..RIP

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was found dead at an isolated Texas Ranch where he had gone for a conference, Cibolo Creek Creek Ranch in Marfa,Texas. He was 79 years old.

The cause of death is still unknown,although it is known that it wasn't a heart attack. Another odd factor is that he was found lying in bed with a pillow over his face. And for some reason, according to the AP, an autopsy was not deemed necessary.

Justice Scalia was a personal favorite of mine, someone for whom the Constitution meant what it said and whose opinions were not only scholarly but laced with a wicked, thoroughly entertaining wit. One of his best friends on the Court was none other that Ruth Bader Ginsberg, with whom he often attended the opera they both loved.

I'm sorry, and I hope events prove me wrong but this appears to have all the earmarks of a hit. While it remains to be seen if President Barack Hussein Obama will be able to shove another leftist ideologue on the Court, the more important aspect of this is how convenient it is for ginning up Democrat turnout and fundraising because 'the Supreme Court's at stake!'

Yes, it always was, but this puts a spotlight on it. The next president will likely be able to nominate 3-4 justices and the difference between whom Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders would pick versus Ted Cruz or Donald Trump is simply night and day.

There actually is a precedent for not nominating justices in a presidential election year. Even the Democrats agreed on that one when it was convenient for them. they should be held to it.

And GOP Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnel has made it plain that Scalia's replacement will be named by the next president. The senate actually has the means to do that, but we'll see how much spine McConnell has. Needless to say, anyone whom caves on this deserves harsh consequences.

Stay Tuned...

The Council Has Spoken!! Our Watcher's Council Results

The Council has spoken, the votes have been cast, and the results are in for this week's Watcher's Council match up.

"“The rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by evil men for evil purposes, but there are more good men than evil, and while the latter cannot be persuaded to the path of righteousness by propaganda, they can certainly be corrected by good men with rifles.” " - Jeff Cooper, Art Of The Rifle

"What country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance. Let them take arms." - Thomas Jefferson in a letter to James Madison

"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."- William Pitt the Younger, Speech in the House of Commons, November 18, 1783






This week's winning essay is Stately McDaniel Manor's Schools and Concealed Carry: Overregulation and Micromanagement . It is a characteristic of bureaucracy that even in pursuit of common sense, desirable goals they almost always manage to gum up the works! Mike McDaniel's excellent piece does a fine job of showing how that can work. Here's a slice:

Ironically, the Age of Obama has been a very positive thing for changing public attitudes toward one fundamental liberty for the better: the right to keep and bear arms. Not only that, more and more Americans fully support the right of individuals to carry concealed weapons, and the courts and legislatures are now tending to reflect the overwhelming public tide toward individual liberty and the right of self-defense. I have taken no small delight in the anguish, and I’m sure, screaming, raging tantrums, of anti-liberty activists such as Mr. Obama. I say this not out of spite, but because anyone that would take fundamental American liberties deserves to be uncomfortable and anguished.

Another positive effect of this sea change in public opinion, as well as an increasing number of terrorist attacks on American soil, is that one of the last bastions of progressive, anti-gun sentiment, the universities and public schools, have begun to accept, if not embrace, concealed carry to protect students and teachers from very real threats. Granted, on the state level, college students are trending to be the initial recipients of the freedom they should always have had, but more and more individual school districts–most in the red states–are adopting concealed carry on school property for staff.

This can’t happen soon enough. However, there are problems.

At the end of December, 2015, I wrote about the Keene, TX school district, which recently adopted a concealed carry policy, but with several restrictions that fail to take into account why anyone would need to carry a concealed weapon:

"Judging only by the Fox News article, Stephens [school superintendent] is apparently making two mistakes: he’s mandating and buying the weapons, and he’s denying them to teachers in ‘higher level grades,’ apparently out of fear that a student might somehow obtain a teacher’s gun."

Now, a school district in Okay, Oklahoma is making similar mistakes

New signs posted on the grounds of Okay Public Schools announce an ‘Armed School Employees’ policy in place.

The Okay Public Schools Board of Education passed an ‘Armed School Employees’ policy in August. On Monday, the district publicized that policy with signage in front of the school.

‘The signs are more or less a deterrent,’ Superintendent Charles McMahan said. ‘We don’t want to be a soft target.’

McMahan said his administration looks for ways to keep students safe and secure, particularly since the Okay Police Department was disbanded in December 2014. Although Wagoner County sheriff’s deputies are available, McMahan said it is ‘seconds, not minutes, that matter.

So far so good. The Okay district has obviously recognized reality and decided to acknowledge it, something that, in education circles, cannot be taken for granted. Now for the problems:

One Okay employee is approved to carry. For other employees to arm themselves, they must qualify with a Council on Law Enforcement Education Training certification or license; possess an Oklahoma Self Defense Act License; and be CLEET qualified with the firearm, according to the policy.

After an employee has completed the qualifications, they may submit themselves to the OPS Board of Education for approval before carrying, McMahan said. Okay is the only school in the Green Country area with an armed-employee policy, he said.

‘Our standards are higher,’ McMahan said. ‘We really wanted people to know this is serious to us; we don’t take this issue lightly.

(1) Rationale: Staff are armed because an armed attack is possible at any school and at any place in and around any school at any time.

(2) The police cannot deter attacks, nor can they arrive in time to save lives. Any school relying on the police is knowingly accepting some number of wounded and dead based entirely on traffic patterns, the number of officers available when the call goes out, the lack of marksmanship of killers, in effect, dumb luck.

(3) Fundamental Principle: to have as many armed staff members present in every school as possible, so that when and wherever an attack takes place, there will be multiple armed and capable adults ready, then and there, at that instant, to save lives.

(4) All handguns must, at all times, be concealed and carried on the person. A gun locked in a drawer, a safe, or a centrally located armory is of no use to anyone confronted with deadly force in a school hallway, at a bus stop, in a sports stadium, a cafeteria, or any other place.


Much more at the link.

In our non-Council category, the winner was a Pajamas Media piece, What No One Seems to Know About Ted Cruz's Past submitted by Fausta's Blog. It deals with Ted Cruz's positive record while the director of the Federal Trade Commission’s Office of Policy Planning.

Here are this week’s full results. Only The Independent Sentinel was unable to vote this week but was not subject to the usual 2/3 vote penalty for not voting:

Council Winners

• *First place with 3 2/3 votes!-Stately McDaniel Manor – Schools and Concealed Carry: Overregulation and Micromanagement


• Second place with 2 1/3 votes –The Noisy Room – Beyonce Goes All In On RACISM: Honors Black Panthers… Hates On Cops
  


• Third place *t* with 1 1/3 votes –GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD – The Authoritarian Counterinsurgency Toolkit


• Third place *t* with 1 1/3 votes –The Right Planet – President Obama Speaks at Baltimore Mosque with Known Ties to Terrorism


• Fourth place with 1 vote –VA Right! - What Trump’s ‘YUGE’ Victory in New Hampshire Means to the Rest of the Candidates


• Fifth place *t* with 2/3 votes –Fausta's Blog – Mexico: Del Castillo crying foul over Sean Penn


• Fifth place *t* with 2/3 votes –The Razor – Why I Could Live With President Sanders


• Fifth place *t* with 2/3 votes –The Daley Gator – Can you be crazy and still attend Yale?


• Sixth place *t* with 1/3 vote –Bookworm Room – VIDEO] The reason behind free education — to get more of these people


• Sixth place *t* with 1/3 vote –The Independent Sentinel – White House Orders Climate Change War Games Because He’s Delusional


• Sixth place *t* with 1/3 vote –Nice Deb – Hillary Taps Most Corrupt AG in American History To Appear in Campaign ads in S.C.


• Sixth place *t* with 1/3 vote –Joshuapundit-A Few Words About New Hampshire

Non-Council Winners

• First place with 2 2/3 votes! –PJ Media – What No One Seems to Know About Ted Cruz's Past submitted by Fausta's Blog


• Second place *t* with 2 votes –Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion -Freddie Gray Defense: Legally irrelevant whether Freddie’s knife was illegalsubmitted by Stately McDaniel Manor


• Second place *t* with 2 votes –Roger L.Simon/PJ Media – Obama's Islamophobia submitted by The Watcher


• Third place with 1 1/3 votes –JK Trotter/Gawker – This Is How Hillary Clinton Gets the Coverage She Wants submitted by The Glittering Eye


• Fourth place with 1 vote –Breitbart –Los Zetas Cartel Used Network of Ovens to Hide Mass Extermination in Mexico’s Coahuila submitted by Puma By Design


• Fifth place *t* with 2/3 votes - Dov S. Zakheim/the National Interest – The Great Reversal: Obama's Military Buildup submitted by GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD


• Fifth place *t* with 2/3 votes -Jason L. Riley/WSJ – An Alternative Black History Month submitted by Joshuapundit


• Fifth place *t* with 2/3 votes -The Gates Of Vienna – Desiderata For Our Time submitted by The Right Planet


• Fifth place *t* with 2/3 votes -Bearing Arms –NY Times Reporter Flummoxed By Polite, Knowledgeable Gun Owners submitted by The Daley Gator


• Fifth place *t* with 2/3 votes -Caroline Glick – Syria and the real demographic threat submitted by The Watcher


• Sixth place *t* with 1/3 vote -Paul Sperry/NY Post -Obama bullied bank to pay racial settlement without proof: report submitted by Nice Deb


• Sixth place *t* with 1/3 vote -Bill Gertz/Washington Free Beacon –China Continues Cyber Espionage submitted by The Noisy Room

See you next week!

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Our Weasel Of The Week!!

Yes,it's time to present this week's Statuette of Shame, The Golden Weasel!!

Every Tuesday, the Council nominates some of the slimiest, most despicable characters in public life for some deed of evil, cowardice or corruption they’ve performed. Then we vote to single out one particular Weasel for special mention, to whom we award the Statuette of Shame, our special, 100% plastic Golden Weasel. This week's nominees were particularly slimy and despicable, but only one of them could win..and the votes are in and we have our winner...the envelope please...

 
The Ultra-sensitive Baby Killing Warriors At NARAL!! 

 The Right Planet: My nominee for Weasel of the Week would have to be the far-left, militant pro-abortion group NARAL (National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League) for their epic intersectional meltdown on Twitter over a Doritos Super Bowl ad that featured a pregnant woman receiving an ultrasound. NARAL was severely "microaggressed" over the Dororitos commercial for deploying the ever-dreaded "antichoice" tactic of "humanizing fetuses." Apparently human fetuses are too humany, or something.

Oh, but it didn't end there, oh dear masses. The perpetually aggrieved social justice warriors at NARAL also took great umbrage over the blatant patriarchal oppression embedded in a Hyundai ad. Additionally, NARAL called out Snickers for their despicable "transphobic" objectification of women. Will the exploitation and oppression ever end?

*snickers*

 Personally, I think NARAL needs to chillax and eat a Snickers. They're delicious, and gender-neutral ... not to mention nutty. Just like NARAL.



Nice Deb: I nominate NARAL for going on an unhinged Twitter rampage during the Super Bowl over the commercials.

During the big game yesterday, NARAL's Twitter account "live-tweeted" reactions to the highly anticipated Super Bowl commercials, exposing themselves yet again to be the angry, humorless scolds we all know them to be. The pro-abortion outfit chastised advertisers over the most micro of "microaggressions" and their SJW followers on Twitter retweeted their complaints.

In their most absurd Tweet, they attacked Doritos for showing an Ultrasound image image of a baby.

The Doritos ad in question showed a father eating Doritos while his pregnant wife received an ultrasound. The baby reacts strongly to the Doritos whenever Dad gets close with a chip. At the end, the baby physically launches itself out of the womb to try to get Doritos.

NARAL denounced the Doritos ad for using the " #antichoice tactic of humanizing fetuses & sexist tropes of dads as clueless, moms as uptight."

That's right, they were upset because Doritos had the presumption to characterize a human baby as... human.

These abortion fanatics are particularly soulless and ghoulish weasels - but weasels nonetheless.

Ahh...not that it matters, but I neither watch the Superbowl or eat Doritos, nor do I particularly care about either one. But what I do very much care about is the innate perversity of those who somehow managed to find a right to gay marriage in the US Constitution but were unable to find a right to life for a baby. Perhaps that's because unlike NARAL or same sex activists, children still in the womb are unable to bribe politicians or vote.

Oddly, the same folks who vociferously insist that same sex marriage 'doesn't hurt anyone' and that it's simply a matter of free choice get quite purple in the face when anyone suggests the same about a child in the womb waiting to be born. Or that trafficking in the body parts of these infants is something the government ought to be funding, which is another reason groups like NARAL and Planned Parenthood become literally choking with rage when anyone has the temerity to suggest that a fetus, even one due to emerge from the womb in a matter of days is actually human.  After all, these people have a living to make, even if it involves living off off the sale of other people's bodies...also known in another context  as the pimp's rationale.

Our president, of course, takes this one step further and actually supports infanticide, a place too far for even NARAL to be willing to go.

Again, another confession. I am not someone who think abortion ought to be outlawed totally.  Non-consensual sex happens, health issues can intervene and sometimes people made mistakes whom simply haven't the means or maturity to have a child at a given time in life. That's why I've always liked the idea of the morning after pill, which prevents conception.

But that's very different from making an industry,let alone a government funded industry out of killing healthy babies, especially ones older than twenty weeks whom have a fully developed nervous system and can experience the pain of what's happening to them. If NARAL was actually composed of people who cared at all about human decency, they'd be complaining about that horrific situation instead of a stupid commercial.

Enjoy your Weasel, NARAL. It's richly deserved.


Well, there it is.

Check back next Tuesday to see who next week's nominees for Weasel of the Week are!

Make sure to tune in every Monday for the Watcher’s Forum, and remember, every Wednesday, the Council has its weekly contest with the members nominating two posts each, one written by themselves and one written by someone from outside the group for consideration by the whole Council. The votes are cast by the Council, and the results are posted on Friday morning.

It’s a weekly magazine of some of the best stuff written in the blogosphere, and you won’t want to miss it...or any of the other fantabulous Watcher's Council content.

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