“In numerous prior posts we have followed the tortuous process of getting Trump federal judicial nominees confirmed. Democrats have thrown down every procedural delay possible, even for nominees they didn’t oppose.
What Democrats fear is that Trump will take advantage of the historic opportunity handed him to reshape the federal judiciary for a generation to come. We first covered this Democrat fear in December 2016, and how the Democrats’ 2013 decision to remove the filibuster for judicial nominees below the Supreme Court level cleared the way, Dems’ Nuclear Option will allow Trump to fill over 100 court vacancies quickly.
We expanded on the math just prior to the Inauguration, quoting a study released by Ballotpedia, Liberal nightmare: Trump could appoint half federal judiciary:
“When Trump takes office, 12.41 percent of all life-term judicial positions will be vacant, and by the end of his first term, Trump could see vacancies in up to 50.3 percent of these positions.”
Trump has moved relatively quickly in nominating judges, and of course filled the Scalia seat with Neil Gorsuch, but the pace of confirmations has been maddening because of Democrat stall tactics. In mid-October 2017 we noted Grassley and McConnell need to get moving on judicial confirmations:”
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“If you’d told me last year that complete Republican control of Congress and the White House would lead to nothing getting done, I would have laughed at you. Of course, last year I would have laughed at the idea of complete Republican control of government, so the idea of no legislative accomplishments would have been a joke not worth telling. Turns out all the jokes, at least so far, have been on us.
That Obamacare repeal fell apart – or, more correctly, never really got off the ground – was a surprise only because Republicans had promised it for years only to have it exposed that many of them didn’t really mean it. They were like the high-rolling poker player who’d just had his bluff called by a rank amateur – they’d painted themselves into a corner. Republicans always have been afraid of health policy as an issue, just as Democrats have little to say on national defense, because only a few actually know the details.
Republicans know how to complain about health policy – it’s not hard when the problems are so obvious. But few truly meant repeal because only a few truly believe the federal government shouldn’t be involved in controlling the health insurance industry. The rest think the government should “do something” to lower costs and don’t understand that this is not what happens when government gets involved.
In other words, they campaign a good game about the free market; they just have no idea what those words mean.
On immigration, it’s the same old thing – tough talk, then a slow dance where they try to feel us up.
Congress is scrambling to “protect” the so-called DREAMers from the consequences of their parents’ actions and, in the process, moving toward giving away the store.
I’m not opposed to letting many of them stay – those who graduated high school, went to college, have a job, or served in the military. But if they didn’t graduate by the age of 19 (since, apparently you can go to high school nearly forever now), or have committed any crime, they have to go. And chain migration for them should be non-existent, as it should be for everyone else, along with birthright citizenship.
But it’s looking like none of that is going to be on the table. Not enough Republicans have the courage of their campaign convictions. They’ll cave and grant full amnesty for all DREAMers in exchange for nothing. OK, not nothing – they’ll get Democrats running ads calling them heartless racists who want to deport everyone or run them over in pick-up trucks.
Which brings us to tax reform.
You’d think if there were one issue on which Republicans were not only solid, but able to message successfully against the left, it would be taxes. You’d be wrong.”
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They can still do well and hold the House and Senate. But they need to get their act together.
“In one short year, the Republican majority in the U. S. House of Representatives has shifted from seemingly safe to somewhat in jeopardy. The Democrats have an uphill battle in the Senate, defending 25 seats to the GOP’s nine, but a number of circumstances and Tuesday’s election results have improved Democrats’ chances of retaking the House in 2018.
It doesn’t appear that Democrats are gaining because of anything they’ve accomplished; instead, Republicans appear to be losing ground because they have failed to accomplish key goals on which they campaigned throughout the Obama presidency. From repealing ObamaCare to building the wall to tax and legal immigration reform, Congressional Republicans are disappointing the base who elected them to office on the strength of their promises, promises it has become increasingly clear too many had no intention of fulfilling.”
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“Impact of Congressional Republicans’ war on Trump
Keeping the House is important to President Trump and to his popular agenda. It’s worth noting that Trump’s agenda is far more popular than he. Remember his first 100 days contract with the American voter? His voters still want all of that fulfilled, and without a majority in the House, Trump becomes not only a candidate for impeachment by a Democrat House but a lame duck who will never be able to accomplish even his 100-day goals.
Trump will never win over die-hard lefties, but he is already losing Indies and many of his less-devoted voters are becoming impatient. Perhaps that impatience is related more to Congress than to the president himself, but impatient, disillusioned, and mad as hell Republican voters are not going to be as motivated to vote for House Republicans they see as part of the problem.
The Washington Post reports:
The Virginia gubernatorial campaign illustrated the Republican dilemma as it morphs into becoming the party of President Trump. For Ed Gillespie, the attempt at a balancing act proved awkward and ultimately unsuccessful. A candidate with deep roots in the establishment wing of the party, he tried, after receiving a scare in the primary from a pro-Trump opponent, to become more Trumpian.
. . . . Now the [Republican] party is at an inflection point, brought about by the president’s electoral success and the reactions of both [sic] Democrats, Republicans and independents to what has happened in the year since that victory. Can they prosper if they truly become the party of Trump? Or are they more likely to suffer losses in midterm elections because, whether they do or not, they are now seen as the party of Trump?
Congressional Republicans hope that passing a tax bill will ease public frustrations with their performance and boost their chances in 2018. . . .
The fact that Republican leadership believes or even hopes that passing a modest tax bill will improve their 2018 electoral chances is wrong on so many levels.
Congressional Republicans have made the past year an embarrassment, and they are a laughingstock on both sides of the aisle. Among other notable failures, Republican failure to produce an ObamaCare repeal bill or even an inchoate plan after seven years of empty promises was eye-opening for many Republican voters who had cast votes specifically in response to these promises.
That the GOP so clearly thinks of appeasing Republican voters with relatively small gestures shows that they have learned nothing at all from Trump’s victory (or even from the ousting of both Eric Cantor and John Boehner).
Evangelicals and Roy Moore
Giving candidates we like a moral pass debases our culture
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… Overall, evangelical discussions about Roy Moore will be fruitful if the Bible rather than an election becomes foremost in our thoughts. If we pretend that we or our favorite candidates have not sinned, we are self-righteously proclaiming that we don’t need Christ—because only His sacrifice on the cross makes it possible for God to be perfectly just and perfectly grace-giving.
Liberal discussions about Moore can also be fruitful if they include a review of worldviews on the left. Yesterday evening I watched a film that came out in 1979, when Moore was 32. That year Woody Allen’s Manhattan centered on the romantic and sexual relationship of a 42-year-old character played by Allen and a 17-year-old character played by Mariel Hemingway (who was 17).
Manhattan received “universal acclaim” from movie reviewers, according to the Metacritic website. None of the reviews I saw criticized the basic premise. …
… Overall, I hope we can all learn from this Moore discussion that it’s important to be concerned about the personal morality of those we elect to high positions—and ignoring character for political reasons has enormous cultural repercussions. In 1998 Bill Clinton normalized oral sex for many teens. This year Louis CK is normalizing a perverse exhibitionism. Should we also this year normalize predatory action among evangelicals?
Bottom line: We do a disservice to God’s holiness when we minimize sin. We do a disservice to God’s mercy when we maximize it. We do a disservice to evangelism when we say or believe winning an election is more important than telling the truth about God’s glory and our sinfulness. When our candidates are under pressure, we should convey this message: Nothing in my hand I bring / Simply to Thy cross I cling; / Naked, come to Thee for dress; / Helpless, look to Thee for grace; / Foul, I to the fountain fly; / Wash me, Savior, or I die.
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‘This result says both less and more than it appears to say, I think. “Less” in the sense that I doubt anyone is actually more likely to support Moore because they endorse a thirtysomething man dating teenaged girls. Obviously the people who answered “more likely” here are making a statement about the WaPo story itself. They think it’s a hit piece concocted by a hostile media to discredit a God-fearing populist Republican. The “more likely” contingent is really just extending a middle finger to the liberal press.
The “less likely” group among evangelicals may be a minority but it’s a big one, which is ominous for Moore. If a quarter of his own base is willing to admit to a pollster that they’re less inclined to support him after the WaPo story, is the actual number smaller — or larger? What will it be if another story about him dating teenaged girls breaks?
This data says more than it appears to in that, while I doubt any evangelicals are endorsing grown men dating 17-year-old girls, clearly the idea of it bothers them less than the media coming after Moore does. That’s an interesting ordering of priorities for a segment of the population that preaches the importance of following Christian morals. “
“Coffee rust is a disease with the power to cripple, or even wipe out, the country’s national product, the base of one of its biggest industries, and one of its most important sources of foreign currency. Last year alone, its coffee exports were worth $2.4bn (£1.8bn), and was 7.7% of all goods the country sold overseas. That makes Colombia the third largest producer of coffee in the world. In other words, if rust takes hold there and global supply dwindles, it will affect the price of the coffee we drink everywhere.”
If people don’t believe Moore is credible, they shouldn’t vote for him. I don’t have to make that decision since he’s not running in my state, but I would not blame anyone who chooses the Democratic alternative or who just skips the whole fiasco to watch Leave It To Beaver reruns or whatever. I would probably do the same at this point.
I do think the number of sex scandals floating around right now is notable. It’s dizzying to see Hollywood twirling around and snarling at its own tail as though its tail were some strange alien creature instead of the same appendage that’s been attached to the back of its buttocks for its entire existence. Is it because we have a new generation of voters who’ve never heard of the term ‘casting couch’? Is that why the nation suddenly seems so shocked?
Don’t get me wrong—it is surely evil. It’s just not surprising, let alone shocking.
I think the truly surprising scandals have involved the church, and some of those have been sex scandals and others have been policy oriented. Often the Catholic church is thought of in this regard, though they are not alone. That is where shocking behavior or positions are not expected. And they are not expected to be tolerated without consequence.
But Hollywood is not the church and neither is Washington DC. So when there are multiple spontaneous purges in these citadels of power and influence, my spiritual ears prick up. Why now, and why there in those places? What does it mean? Those questions could take years to answer, and smart people with some credibility in the arena could pay off their student loans writing books with even half-baked responses.
AJ @5:52 Let’s stay calm. That would be bad, but I have learned that in a pinch, a chicory/barley mix is an almost tolerable coffee substitute. And there is always herbal tea…… But if the rust spreads to the cocoa plants, I’ll be right there in full blown panic mode with you. :–)
I’m curious. Has anyone read a story or heard anything current regarding Moore and underage girls or teenagers, or affairs with anyone. I have not, but I also haven’t been keeping close tabs on the story, though I did read that it was well known that he dated teens when he was in his 30s, and I believe he acknowledges that, but denies he did anything inappropriate with the underaged. I did not think that real sexual predators just stop—unless they have a genuine come-to-Jesus moment and well, come to Jesus. So what’s his current history? Any recent inappropriate sexual conduct that would be consistent with what he’s accused of?
This is the story of the next few days. Wikileaks was giving “advice” to Don, Jr. during the campaign and within a matter of minutes their advice was showing up in Big Trump’s speeches and Tweets. The media is all over this.
Debra, Here is a half-baked response to your question that probably contains a grain of truth.
For decades, liberals ignored sexual improprieties of Clinton, Ted Kennedy and most of Hollywood. They would only focus on the sexual sins of religious conservatives, since that showed “hypocrisy”.
Then came Trump’s sexual assault confession. The liberals knew Trump was a toxic mix of evil and stupidity, so they began to consider whether being a sexual predator might really be a serious offense. The rest is recent history. Trump has made being a sexual predator something to be ashamed of in liberal enclaves even as he converted that offense to the equivalent of a parking ticket in “conservative” areas.
Debra @ 6:57, Her statement was even more convincing on the radio where I couldn’t see Gloria Allred sitting next to her.
I think Moore is toast, but then I thought Trump was toast after he attacked POWs, and then after he attacked Cruz’s wife and then after he bragged about his sexual assaults.
In the movie Idiocracy, the people’s morality had declined at least as much as their intelligence, just as it has played out in real life.
Within the past few days, someone mentioned reading someone or some group accusing the Star Spangled Banner of being racist. I remember reading about that a while back. It has to do with these lines, in the third verse:
“No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:”
IIRC, this is referring to slaves who chose to fight against America for their freedom. But there may be more to it than I recall.
Kizzie, There were slaves fighting for the British in hopes of gaining their freedom in the American Revolution and the War of 1812 even as slaves fought for the North against the Confederate States of America.
For Olasky to use Woody Allan as a moral standard is really lowering the bar. But he is right that in historical context Moore’s behaviour was not as repugnant in the 70s as it is now. The present era is downright puritanical in comparision to the 70s.
Moore is a predator who uses whatever power he has for himself not the community he serves. The exploitation of physically mature but not mentally mature girls is just a gross example of his mindset. Its for that reason he is unworthy even if he has moved past picking up high school girls. He may have moved on to other activities still immoral but probably more profitable (check out his nonprofit foundation).
The left is having a heyday watching the reaction of some Republicans and evangelicals to the accusation. When Hollywood is exhibiting better moral sense than the right, the reek of hypocrisy puts a shade on 40 years of political activism.
Wandering Views 
Rapidly reshaping the judiciary. But it could be faster if Grassley and McConnell would do their job.
And of course there is much dismay and hand wringing on the left.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2017/11/trump-judicial-confirmations-moving-along-but-not-fast-enough/
“In numerous prior posts we have followed the tortuous process of getting Trump federal judicial nominees confirmed. Democrats have thrown down every procedural delay possible, even for nominees they didn’t oppose.
What Democrats fear is that Trump will take advantage of the historic opportunity handed him to reshape the federal judiciary for a generation to come. We first covered this Democrat fear in December 2016, and how the Democrats’ 2013 decision to remove the filibuster for judicial nominees below the Supreme Court level cleared the way, Dems’ Nuclear Option will allow Trump to fill over 100 court vacancies quickly.
We expanded on the math just prior to the Inauguration, quoting a study released by Ballotpedia, Liberal nightmare: Trump could appoint half federal judiciary:
“When Trump takes office, 12.41 percent of all life-term judicial positions will be vacant, and by the end of his first term, Trump could see vacancies in up to 50.3 percent of these positions.”
Trump has moved relatively quickly in nominating judges, and of course filled the Scalia seat with Neil Gorsuch, but the pace of confirmations has been maddening because of Democrat stall tactics. In mid-October 2017 we noted Grassley and McConnell need to get moving on judicial confirmations:”
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No. No there’s not. Not anything.
https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2017/11/12/is-there-nothing-republicans-cant-screw-up-n2408233
“If you’d told me last year that complete Republican control of Congress and the White House would lead to nothing getting done, I would have laughed at you. Of course, last year I would have laughed at the idea of complete Republican control of government, so the idea of no legislative accomplishments would have been a joke not worth telling. Turns out all the jokes, at least so far, have been on us.
That Obamacare repeal fell apart – or, more correctly, never really got off the ground – was a surprise only because Republicans had promised it for years only to have it exposed that many of them didn’t really mean it. They were like the high-rolling poker player who’d just had his bluff called by a rank amateur – they’d painted themselves into a corner. Republicans always have been afraid of health policy as an issue, just as Democrats have little to say on national defense, because only a few actually know the details.
Republicans know how to complain about health policy – it’s not hard when the problems are so obvious. But few truly meant repeal because only a few truly believe the federal government shouldn’t be involved in controlling the health insurance industry. The rest think the government should “do something” to lower costs and don’t understand that this is not what happens when government gets involved.
In other words, they campaign a good game about the free market; they just have no idea what those words mean.
On immigration, it’s the same old thing – tough talk, then a slow dance where they try to feel us up.
Congress is scrambling to “protect” the so-called DREAMers from the consequences of their parents’ actions and, in the process, moving toward giving away the store.
I’m not opposed to letting many of them stay – those who graduated high school, went to college, have a job, or served in the military. But if they didn’t graduate by the age of 19 (since, apparently you can go to high school nearly forever now), or have committed any crime, they have to go. And chain migration for them should be non-existent, as it should be for everyone else, along with birthright citizenship.
But it’s looking like none of that is going to be on the table. Not enough Republicans have the courage of their campaign convictions. They’ll cave and grant full amnesty for all DREAMers in exchange for nothing. OK, not nothing – they’ll get Democrats running ads calling them heartless racists who want to deport everyone or run them over in pick-up trucks.
Which brings us to tax reform.
You’d think if there were one issue on which Republicans were not only solid, but able to message successfully against the left, it would be taxes. You’d be wrong.”
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They can still do well and hold the House and Senate. But they need to get their act together.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2017/11/with-prospects-fading-heres-how-republicans-hold-the-house-in-2018/
“In one short year, the Republican majority in the U. S. House of Representatives has shifted from seemingly safe to somewhat in jeopardy. The Democrats have an uphill battle in the Senate, defending 25 seats to the GOP’s nine, but a number of circumstances and Tuesday’s election results have improved Democrats’ chances of retaking the House in 2018.
It doesn’t appear that Democrats are gaining because of anything they’ve accomplished; instead, Republicans appear to be losing ground because they have failed to accomplish key goals on which they campaigned throughout the Obama presidency. From repealing ObamaCare to building the wall to tax and legal immigration reform, Congressional Republicans are disappointing the base who elected them to office on the strength of their promises, promises it has become increasingly clear too many had no intention of fulfilling.”
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“Impact of Congressional Republicans’ war on Trump
Keeping the House is important to President Trump and to his popular agenda. It’s worth noting that Trump’s agenda is far more popular than he. Remember his first 100 days contract with the American voter? His voters still want all of that fulfilled, and without a majority in the House, Trump becomes not only a candidate for impeachment by a Democrat House but a lame duck who will never be able to accomplish even his 100-day goals.
Trump will never win over die-hard lefties, but he is already losing Indies and many of his less-devoted voters are becoming impatient. Perhaps that impatience is related more to Congress than to the president himself, but impatient, disillusioned, and mad as hell Republican voters are not going to be as motivated to vote for House Republicans they see as part of the problem.
The Washington Post reports:
The Virginia gubernatorial campaign illustrated the Republican dilemma as it morphs into becoming the party of President Trump. For Ed Gillespie, the attempt at a balancing act proved awkward and ultimately unsuccessful. A candidate with deep roots in the establishment wing of the party, he tried, after receiving a scare in the primary from a pro-Trump opponent, to become more Trumpian.
. . . . Now the [Republican] party is at an inflection point, brought about by the president’s electoral success and the reactions of both [sic] Democrats, Republicans and independents to what has happened in the year since that victory. Can they prosper if they truly become the party of Trump? Or are they more likely to suffer losses in midterm elections because, whether they do or not, they are now seen as the party of Trump?
Congressional Republicans hope that passing a tax bill will ease public frustrations with their performance and boost their chances in 2018. . . .
The fact that Republican leadership believes or even hopes that passing a modest tax bill will improve their 2018 electoral chances is wrong on so many levels.
Congressional Republicans have made the past year an embarrassment, and they are a laughingstock on both sides of the aisle. Among other notable failures, Republican failure to produce an ObamaCare repeal bill or even an inchoate plan after seven years of empty promises was eye-opening for many Republican voters who had cast votes specifically in response to these promises.
That the GOP so clearly thinks of appeasing Republican voters with relatively small gestures shows that they have learned nothing at all from Trump’s victory (or even from the ousting of both Eric Cantor and John Boehner).
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Olasky:
https://world.wng.org/2017/11/evangelicals_and_roy_moore
Evangelicals and Roy Moore
Giving candidates we like a moral pass debases our culture
___________________________
… Overall, evangelical discussions about Roy Moore will be fruitful if the Bible rather than an election becomes foremost in our thoughts. If we pretend that we or our favorite candidates have not sinned, we are self-righteously proclaiming that we don’t need Christ—because only His sacrifice on the cross makes it possible for God to be perfectly just and perfectly grace-giving.
Liberal discussions about Moore can also be fruitful if they include a review of worldviews on the left. Yesterday evening I watched a film that came out in 1979, when Moore was 32. That year Woody Allen’s Manhattan centered on the romantic and sexual relationship of a 42-year-old character played by Allen and a 17-year-old character played by Mariel Hemingway (who was 17).
Manhattan received “universal acclaim” from movie reviewers, according to the Metacritic website. None of the reviews I saw criticized the basic premise. …
… Overall, I hope we can all learn from this Moore discussion that it’s important to be concerned about the personal morality of those we elect to high positions—and ignoring character for political reasons has enormous cultural repercussions. In 1998 Bill Clinton normalized oral sex for many teens. This year Louis CK is normalizing a perverse exhibitionism. Should we also this year normalize predatory action among evangelicals?
Bottom line: We do a disservice to God’s holiness when we minimize sin. We do a disservice to God’s mercy when we maximize it. We do a disservice to evangelism when we say or believe winning an election is more important than telling the truth about God’s glory and our sinfulness. When our candidates are under pressure, we should convey this message: Nothing in my hand I bring / Simply to Thy cross I cling; / Naked, come to Thee for dress; / Helpless, look to Thee for grace; / Foul, I to the fountain fly; / Wash me, Savior, or I die.
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A new Moore victim came forward today. She said he assaulted her when she was sixteen. She and her husband are Trump supporters.
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Donna,
Yeah……. about that….. 😦
https://hotair.com/archives/2017/11/13/poll-37-evangelicals-alabama-say-theyre-likely-vote-roy-moore-wapo-story/
‘This result says both less and more than it appears to say, I think. “Less” in the sense that I doubt anyone is actually more likely to support Moore because they endorse a thirtysomething man dating teenaged girls. Obviously the people who answered “more likely” here are making a statement about the WaPo story itself. They think it’s a hit piece concocted by a hostile media to discredit a God-fearing populist Republican. The “more likely” contingent is really just extending a middle finger to the liberal press.
The “less likely” group among evangelicals may be a minority but it’s a big one, which is ominous for Moore. If a quarter of his own base is willing to admit to a pollster that they’re less inclined to support him after the WaPo story, is the actual number smaller — or larger? What will it be if another story about him dating teenaged girls breaks?
This data says more than it appears to in that, while I doubt any evangelicals are endorsing grown men dating 17-year-old girls, clearly the idea of it bothers them less than the media coming after Moore does. That’s an interesting ordering of priorities for a segment of the population that preaches the importance of following Christian morals. “
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OK, now it’s time to panic!
https://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2017/11/disease-change-drink-coffee/
“Coffee rust is a disease with the power to cripple, or even wipe out, the country’s national product, the base of one of its biggest industries, and one of its most important sources of foreign currency. Last year alone, its coffee exports were worth $2.4bn (£1.8bn), and was 7.7% of all goods the country sold overseas. That makes Colombia the third largest producer of coffee in the world. In other words, if rust takes hold there and global supply dwindles, it will affect the price of the coffee we drink everywhere.”
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If people don’t believe Moore is credible, they shouldn’t vote for him. I don’t have to make that decision since he’s not running in my state, but I would not blame anyone who chooses the Democratic alternative or who just skips the whole fiasco to watch Leave It To Beaver reruns or whatever. I would probably do the same at this point.
I do think the number of sex scandals floating around right now is notable. It’s dizzying to see Hollywood twirling around and snarling at its own tail as though its tail were some strange alien creature instead of the same appendage that’s been attached to the back of its buttocks for its entire existence. Is it because we have a new generation of voters who’ve never heard of the term ‘casting couch’? Is that why the nation suddenly seems so shocked?
Don’t get me wrong—it is surely evil. It’s just not surprising, let alone shocking.
I think the truly surprising scandals have involved the church, and some of those have been sex scandals and others have been policy oriented. Often the Catholic church is thought of in this regard, though they are not alone. That is where shocking behavior or positions are not expected. And they are not expected to be tolerated without consequence.
But Hollywood is not the church and neither is Washington DC. So when there are multiple spontaneous purges in these citadels of power and influence, my spiritual ears prick up. Why now, and why there in those places? What does it mean? Those questions could take years to answer, and smart people with some credibility in the arena could pay off their student loans writing books with even half-baked responses.
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AJ @5:52 Let’s stay calm. That would be bad, but I have learned that in a pinch, a chicory/barley mix is an almost tolerable coffee substitute. And there is always herbal tea…… But if the rust spreads to the cocoa plants, I’ll be right there in full blown panic mode with you. :–)
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I’m curious. Has anyone read a story or heard anything current regarding Moore and underage girls or teenagers, or affairs with anyone. I have not, but I also haven’t been keeping close tabs on the story, though I did read that it was well known that he dated teens when he was in his 30s, and I believe he acknowledges that, but denies he did anything inappropriate with the underaged. I did not think that real sexual predators just stop—unless they have a genuine come-to-Jesus moment and well, come to Jesus. So what’s his current history? Any recent inappropriate sexual conduct that would be consistent with what he’s accused of?
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This is the story of the next few days. Wikileaks was giving “advice” to Don, Jr. during the campaign and within a matter of minutes their advice was showing up in Big Trump’s speeches and Tweets. The media is all over this.
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Ricky @3:55 I just saw that woman’s statement. She’s very convincing. :–(
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Debra, Here is a half-baked response to your question that probably contains a grain of truth.
For decades, liberals ignored sexual improprieties of Clinton, Ted Kennedy and most of Hollywood. They would only focus on the sexual sins of religious conservatives, since that showed “hypocrisy”.
Then came Trump’s sexual assault confession. The liberals knew Trump was a toxic mix of evil and stupidity, so they began to consider whether being a sexual predator might really be a serious offense. The rest is recent history. Trump has made being a sexual predator something to be ashamed of in liberal enclaves even as he converted that offense to the equivalent of a parking ticket in “conservative” areas.
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Debra @ 6:57, Her statement was even more convincing on the radio where I couldn’t see Gloria Allred sitting next to her.
I think Moore is toast, but then I thought Trump was toast after he attacked POWs, and then after he attacked Cruz’s wife and then after he bragged about his sexual assaults.
In the movie Idiocracy, the people’s morality had declined at least as much as their intelligence, just as it has played out in real life.
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Debra,
” but I have learned that in a pinch, a chicory/barley mix is an almost tolerable coffee substitute. And there is always herbal tea……”
That’s crazy talk, and borderline blasphemy. Repent of your hippie ways!
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Within the past few days, someone mentioned reading someone or some group accusing the Star Spangled Banner of being racist. I remember reading about that a while back. It has to do with these lines, in the third verse:
“No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:”
IIRC, this is referring to slaves who chose to fight against America for their freedom. But there may be more to it than I recall.
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Something that could stop a sexual predator in his tracks is impotence brought on by a health issue.
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Although I’ve heard that some molesters are impotent. Don’t remember where I heard that, though.
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Kizzie, There were slaves fighting for the British in hopes of gaining their freedom in the American Revolution and the War of 1812 even as slaves fought for the North against the Confederate States of America.
https://www.snopes.com/2016/08/29/star-spangled-banner-and-slavery/
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For Olasky to use Woody Allan as a moral standard is really lowering the bar. But he is right that in historical context Moore’s behaviour was not as repugnant in the 70s as it is now. The present era is downright puritanical in comparision to the 70s.
Moore is a predator who uses whatever power he has for himself not the community he serves. The exploitation of physically mature but not mentally mature girls is just a gross example of his mindset. Its for that reason he is unworthy even if he has moved past picking up high school girls. He may have moved on to other activities still immoral but probably more profitable (check out his nonprofit foundation).
The left is having a heyday watching the reaction of some Republicans and evangelicals to the accusation. When Hollywood is exhibiting better moral sense than the right, the reek of hypocrisy puts a shade on 40 years of political activism.
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