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The Russians aren’t really coming.

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All of the folderol over the Russians and the election stuff ignores the obvious.

Ничего страшного! (means … “No Harm”)

Let’s just assume for a moment that everything that has been said was true, i.e. the Russians hacked the DNC email and sent it to Wikileaks, and the Trump people had discussions with Russians before the election, and that the Trump people knew that the Russians were helping him in the campaign by trashing the Democrats, and Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin are good buddies. Even were those things to be correct, so what? What was the damage, or could be the damage in the future, if all of that was true?

Nobody has denied that the released DNC emails were not authentic. Nobody has said that the Democrats were unfairly affected by the exposure of their dirty laundry. Nobody has said that the Russians created any fake news or disinformation to favor the Republicans. Nobody has said that anything that may have been exchanged between Russians and Trumpers was illegal, immoral, or otherwise improper. Nobody has said why it would be bad for Putin and Trump to get along on a personal basis.

So, where’s the beef? Assuming every one of the liberals’ talking points are valid (and they certainly are not) there were no lies, no cheats, no voting machines tampered with, no vote tallies were altered – there is no evidence whatsoever that anything having to do with Russians had an impact on the election of Donald Trump. The chief complaint seems to be that Hillary was not supposed to lose, but she did, and that somebody like Trump could not possibly have won without some mysterious subterfuge undermining the election process.  Sorry, folks, no participation trophy this time.

Donald Trump’s election was not magic, no more than a solar eclipse is magic.  Sometimes, the planets just all line up, and unexpected things happen.

If there is real evidence presented on the Russian connection, it will be time to listen. But don’t hold your breath.

Dem Zombies!!!

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DEMZOMBIE

Zombie movies are terrifying. Tens or hundreds or thousands of the rotting undead, staggering toward the last surviving members of the human race in a quest to feast on their brains. The advantage for the defending humans is that zombies move at walking speed most of the time, and you can kill a zombie with a bullet to the head. (I never understood how you could kill something that is already dead, but I digress….)

The scariest thing about zombies is that there is just so darn many of them. Shoot one, behead another, blow some up, incinerate an entire crowd of them, and they keep coming and coming and coming. They don’t stop, and they won’t stop until either the last one has been dispatched back into permanent deadness, or they manage to eat all the brains of every last living human survivor.

We are witnessing a real-life political zombie experience these days. The embattled survivors are the Trump administration and their supporters, (“Conservivors”), and the zombies are the unrelenting brainless Democrats (“Demzombies“) who have no goal other than to destroy those deplorable Trumpish humans. It isn’t safe for Conservivors to step into any public spotlight, because brain-deprived Demzombies mill around outside every doorway in mindless groups, hoping to separate occasional errant Conservivors from the herd, and to cull them one-by-one.

Embattled Conservivors have realized that it is not particularly difficult to eradicate attacking Demzombies, because they move slowly, are not very bright, and every one of them behaves in exactly the same way. But the Conservivors have to stick together and be vigilant, and because they only have so many bullets in their bag of political capital, make sure that every single shot they fire finds its mark.

The real problem for Conservivors isn’t that Demzombies can’t be defeated (again), but that there are many tens of thousands of them, wielding burning-hot microphones, attacking with cutting hashtags, stabbing accusations, and eviscerating tweets – and they are coming for the Conservivors from every direction, every day, all the time.  Demzombies are always on a quest to pick the brains of Conservivors.

This one is turning out to be a real neck-biter nail-biter.

Brains

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Dr. Ben Carson, HUD Secretary

Ben Carson, a retired neurosurgeon who challenged Donald Trump for the GOP presidential nomination, won Senate confirmation today to join Trump’s Cabinet as the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.

Carson and his older brother were raised in 1950’s Detroit by a single mother who had married at age 13, had a third grade education and could not read, and who suffered from severe depression and had attempted suicide.  Despite all of the reasons he should have failed, Ben Carson turned to the Christian faith, and endured repeated failures and near-failures, to complete college at Yale University, medical school at the University of Michigan, and to eventually become a world renowned pediatric neurosurgeon at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore.  He became a best-selling author and public speaker.  In 1994, Carson and his wife started the Carson Scholars Fund, which awards scholarships to students in grades 4–11 for “academic excellence and humanitarian qualities.”

Critics on the left have openly questioned whether Carson has the necessary qualifications for the job managing one of the federal government’s most complex departments.

Perhaps their doubts are sincere – after all, he is just a compassionate and generous black man inspired by a deep personal faith, raised in a broken family, who climbed out of inner city poverty, and against all of the odds achieved greatness and respect over a lifetime of service to humanity in the most challenging medical specialty within the noblest of professions.

What could he possibly have to offer to the struggling inner city families of America?

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