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HERE IS A NEW TREASURE: FRIEND AND CO-AUTHOR DAVE LUKAS NEW PODCAST

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-misfit-entrepreneur/id1145889006?mt=2

 

I hope you read it and like it. (Please rate if and give it 5 stars if you do…that’s how these things gain traction and readership!) It’s off to a great start. My interview is already recorded; it’s coming up in a few weeks.

 

THINK YOU KNOW AMERICA AND ITS HISTORY? TAKE THIS TEST:

America—1776-2016—How Well Do You Know It? (You’ll be surprised.)

1) Who were the Founding Fathers?

2) What was the Revolutionary War fought about? And when?

3) What documents led to the USA being formed?

4) What are the three branches of the US Federal Government?

5) What are the two Houses of Congress, and how many members are in each, from where?

6) Who fought in the Civil War, about what, and when? Who was president then & who won?

7) Who fought in WW-II about what, when, and who won?

8) What was the Cold War? Who was fighting it, over what and who won? 

9) Who are: Vladimir Lenin, Josef Stalin, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Saddam Hussein, Moammar Gadhafi, Bashar el-Assad & Hafez el-Assad?

10) Who were the last three presidents? Who is the current Vice President? Who is the Speaker of the House, and who preceded him?

11) Who are JFK, RFK and MLK? What do they have in common?

12) What is the Electoral College and what does it do?

Answers: 1) George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, James Madison, James Monroe & Benjamin Franklin.  2) America’s freedom from England, 1775-1783  3) The Declaration of Independence (1776) and the Constitution (1788)  4) Legislative (Congress: makes laws), Executive (President: executes laws), and Judicial (Supreme Court: decides if legal per the Constitution)  5) The House-435 members proportional to population of states, Senate-100 members 2/state  6) North (states) vs. South (Confederate), rights & slavery, 1861-1865, Abe Lincoln, North won, slavery was abolished  7) Great Britain/USA vs. Germany & then Japan (desperation, mostly-Russia flipped/both sides), Democracy vs. Nazism (Fascism) Dictatorship, GB, Euro/US, NA won. 1940’s (A-bomb Hiroshima, Japan)  8) USA vs. USSR, Democracy/Capitalism vs. Communism, USA.  9) All dictators: Communist, Fascist, or Muslim.  10) Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama; Joe Biden; Paul Ryan preceded by John Boehner (Speaker of the house is third in presidential succession.)  11) John F. Kennedy, his brother Robert F. Kennedy and Rev. Martin Luther King—all three highly regarded American leaders. All three were assassinated. King was most highly revered black leader.  12) It elects the president. 538 “electors” chosen on votes cast/wins by state. (The number of electors equals the number of members in a state’s Congressional delegation (House Reps., + 2 Senators/state). Electors cast votes that elect the president. Majority: 270 electoral votes, wins. Lack of a majority is decided by a vote of the House of Representatives)

 

TIME FOR A REVOLUTION—US FEDERAL GOVERNMENT NEEDS  MASSIVE CHANGE—WHICH CANDIDATE WILL BRING THAT? (DONALD J. TRUMP!)

There is a daunting list of changes needed. I finally quit after listing many of them. There’s more, but even a strong change effort by a new president will only be effective it he also has Congress on his side.  

 

WHAT IS ON THE LONG LIST FOR THE NEXT PRESIDENT? 

I prepared this list to share with my Representatives in Congress, so feel free to use it if you like it and agree with it. 

Download To Fix America--a list 

SHOCKING EXAMPLE: RIGHT DIAGNOSIS, WRONG PERSON (OBAMA, NOT TRUMP)

Quit believing all the crap pushed out about Donald Trump by the mainstream media and Horrible Hillary’s campaign buddies—it is so radically biased it’s unbelievable. Obama’s former campaign guy, David Plouffe was being interviewed on one of the liberal mainstream channels. Plouffe took a shot at defining a psychopath—and defended his diagnosis. “Well, you know, listen, the grandiose notion of self-worth, pathological lying, lack of empathy and remorse.” Since I joined the interview midway, I wondered why he would accurately (but harshly) describe his former boss—Barack Obama. Wrong; I should have known. He was accusing Donald Trump of being a psychopath. Even the left wing interviewer, Chuck Todd, called him out on it: “Wait a minute. Wait a minute," host Chuck Todd interrupted. "Do you really think diagnosing people on air — I assume you don't have a degree in psychology. Is that fair? I mean, we’re jumping to conclusions here, I think this is what gets voters a little frustrated with this campaign.”  Thank you, Chuck.

 

WANT FOUR MORE YEARS OF THE STATUS QUO? I THINK NOT! PLEASE READ THE ATTACHMENT …

Download Who wants more of the status quo?

 

HERE’S THE PROBLEM—ELECTORAL MAP AS OF NOW! HILLARY IS WINNING. 

Forget national polls. They mean little, except directionally. What matters is the state by state tally. You can see all the polls at http://www.realclearpolitics.com but this one is particularly troubling.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/2016_elections_electoral_college_map.html

 

 

HOW THE CLINTON’S MANAGE TO DO ILLEGAL THINGS—AND AVOID THE BLAME FOR IT?

Unable to confirm, but seems logical. Can anyone confirm or refute this? Does anyone doubt that they talked about Hillary’s case and avoiding an indictment?

Well, let's see. Our AG Loretta Lynch was headed to Aspen, Co from Washington DC for a speaking engagement, a distance of around 1500 miles in almost a direct line East to West. The Government plane she was flying in was more than likely a G5 with a range of 6500 miles. Question is why she would go to Phoenix first which is 600 miles South of Aspen then go North to Aspen from Phoenix. She did not need to stop in Phoenix for fuel because if she had flown direct, fuel would not be necessary. In fact, do the math, the G5 has the range to make that round trip without refueling?

Why was Bill waiting for Lynch's plane to land in Phoenix when she was going to Aspen? That meeting was planned to put the Clinton Fix on and some guy who worked at the FBO in Phoenix, called his friend who was an Anchor at the local ABC Station (that is a shocker) and then he verified the meeting with a second independent source at the airport. Ms Lynch said  "They talked for half an hour about grand kids and golf".     Loretta does not have any grand kids and doesn’t play golf.

 

A COMPENDIUM OF HILLARY’S LIES AND MISSTATEMENTS FROM FACTCHECK.COM—READ THE MASSIVE LIST! SHARE IT WITH OTHERS.

http://www.factcheck.org/2016/07/clintons-greatest-hits/

 

IS THIS THE TRUTH (?) ABOUT THE KHANS BEING HIRED TO “BAIT” TRUMP (WHICH LED TO HIS FOOLISH, ILL-ADVISED REPLY)—TRAGIC “USE” OF A BEREAVED FAMILY?

This would be typical of a Clinton “dirty tricks” campaign. Take a family who is bitter about a tragic loss of their son and “use them” for campaign fodder. (Really nasty if true. Even the liberal front organization SNOPES does not refute this.)  BUT I can’t confirm it’s accuracy. Once something is posted on the Internet, it spreads like wildfire, but tracking it to the source is tough.

 

The worst part is that Trump “fell for the bait," and responded the wrong way! Shame on him for not having someone (his family, for sure!) to “advise him” how to handle such things. He could have turned it around and lamented that he had NO sacrifice to match the Khans. But isn’t it sad that the Clinton campaign would stoop to use their misery as  parents as a convention/campaign ploy?

 

(NOTE: I have been unable to verify this information. Can someone else find it?) See TruthorFiction post below.

So, the Dems had to pay actors to fill up seats at their convention (did they?) and now we learn they paid Khan??

– Khan was paid $25,000 by the Clinton campaign to speak at the DNC

– The speech was not written by Mr. Khan, but by two campaign staffers.

– The copy of the US Constitution that Mr. Khan held up was bought only two HOURS before his speech by a female staffer, to be used solely as a prop and Khan returned the book after speaking.

– 5 Gold Star families turned down the opportunity to speak before Khan was contacted by the Clinton campaign.

– All five families were paid $5,000 and signed a non disclosure.

– Khan’s immigration law firm is in debt $1.7M and owes back taxes of upward $850,000 plus penalties.

– CNN paid Khan over $100,000 to tell his “story” and repeated interviews across networks. (unverified)

– Khan was given a bonus of $175k by the DNC for his effort in the media. (see report below)

– The IRS has since put Khan’s tax file on a “hold” status.

Is this guy going to claim this bribe money on his taxes?? And doesn't this disgrace the memory of his son?? Talk about soulless…

 

From TruthorFiction.com: Summary of eRumor:

Hackers have secured a document that the Clinton Foundation paid $375,000 to Khizr Khan’s law firm, presumably in exchange for the Khan family’s support of Hillary Clinton

The Truth:

There’s no way to verify the authenticity of the document that has been held up as proof that the Clinton Foundation deposited $375,000 into a Khizr Khan law firm account. The rumor can be traced back to Get Off the BS, a blog site that regularly publishes articles that are critical of the Clintons and of left-wing causes in general. The site reported that the Anonymous hacker group had obtained a private document from Khizr Khan’s law firm that proved he was paid $375,000 for supporting Hillary Clinton and for speaking at the Democratic National Convention

ENOUGH FOR ONE EDITION? NOT QUITE: THIS ONE WILL BLOW YOUR MIND…AND IT’S LONG, BUT WORTH THE TIME TO READ:

Download The Debt Bomb 

REMEMBER THE SOLUTION: VOTE FOR TRUMP (hold your nose if you must, but he’s so much better for America than HORRIBLE HILLARY CLINTON!) 

 

JOHN

 

I HAVE A PROPOSAL THAT WILL NEVER BE ADOPTED:

 

PASS A BI-PARTISAN LAW RESTRICTING PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES FROM USING HAIR COLORING AND MAKEUP. 

LET US SEE WHAT THEY REALLY LOOK LIKE. 

TRUMP IS 70, CLINTON IS 68. DO YOU REALLY THINK THEY ARE STILL BLONDE AND UNWRINKLED? NAH...

 

HOW MANY PEOPLE WANT HER FOR OUR NEXT PRESIDENT! REALLY?

 

 

OR HIM? (IT REALLY IS HIS HAIR!)

 

 

 

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THE ENTERPRISE—ON LEADERS VS. LOSERS: WHAT’S UP ABOUT THE ECONOMY, THE ELECTION, AND THE COUNTRY

 

 

THE US ECONOMY CONTINUES TO GROW AT 1-2% PER YEAR, WORST IN DECADES

Consumer spending is up, credit card debt is up. Employment is up, but the number of Americans leaving the work force is also up—government largesse (welfare, disability, Food Stamps, …and retirement) pay better than the jobs being created. Inflation is not up. The stock market is up, since the USA is doing better than most foreign economies, so money (investment) is coming here, including foreign investment—even from China! Large companies are not growing, but are cutting costs (and people) to sustain profits. Small companies are still reeling under the record siege of Obama and his minions’ regulations.  Productivity is weak, and that will hurt the future.

 

Taxes are up and if Hillary is elected, they will go way up—and not just on the “rich!”  There is no such thing as a “free lunch." How so many seemingly intelligent Americans fail to get this is a mystery. Then there are the “eligible to vote but ignorants,” consisting of youth sheltered from job competition and think somebody owes them protection—the government, of course. Minorities and the uneducated, who believe the insane promises of Bernie Sanders and now Hillary Clinton can actually work. All they need to do is look at big American cities controlled by Democrats: Detroit, Chicago, Baltimore and so many others—a broke and broken—and crime ridden.

 

FOREIGN POLICY UNDER OBAMA IS IN SHAMBLES

He says one thing and does something else. What he does, it lacks continuity and conviction, because he’s simply winging it…reacting to events on the world stage….Throwing US money and resources, (and lives), like “buckets of water on a forest fire." Allies don’t trust Obama and thus America. Opponents don’t respect America or Obama. They are just bemused, chuckling.… (Even more so when they consider the candidates to replace him.) 

 

Now we learn that our Intelligence community (CentCom) has been “managed” to make the” messes look like progress” and the enemy look less dangerous. How can any leader make decisions under those conditions—even if well-intentioned? It’s clear that American leaders from the top down have no clue about what is really the situation in the Middle East. How can they, when isolated in their ivory towers in DC?

 

LIES, LIES AND MORE LIES: HOW BILL CLINTON LIED REPEATEDLY ABOUT HILLARY IN HIS CONVENTION SPEECH

The speeches supporting Hillary Clinton were the highlight of the Democratic convention. One was by her husband, former president Bill Clinton, and contained not one, but a litany of lies about Hillary’s background, her accomplishments, and her failures.  WATCH THIS RIGHT NOW: https://www.facebook.com/dickmorriscom/videos/10154398092154438/

 

WHO IS DICK MORRIS? Dick Morris was an insider and highly regarded advisor to the Clinton Administration
“A friend and advisor to Bill Clinton during his time as Governor of Arkansas, …  political adviser to the White House after Clinton was elected president in 1992. …Morris worked as a Republican strategist before joining the Clinton administration, where he helped Clinton recover from the 1994 midterm elections by advising the President to adopt more moderate policies. President Clinton consulted Morris in secret, beginning in 1994.  He was Clinton’s communications director. Morris went on to become campaign manager of Bill Clinton’s successful 1996 bid for re-election…. (His tenure … was cut short just before the election, when it was revealed that he allowed a prostitute to listen in on conversations with the President.”  Dick Morris was there, on the inside with the Clintons.  He knows the truth; the facts. And he tells them in his Facebook video.

 

Encourage anyone who is still on the fence about Hillary, to hear the facts about her vaunted career!

 

WHO IS UNFIT TO BE PRESIDENT? WE KNOW THAT ANSWER, SO WHY BELIEVE HIS OPINION?

 

 

BARACK OBAMA—A ROOKIE SENATOR—WITH A DEEPLY A HIDDEN BACKGROUND—WHO NEVER HELD A JOB—HAD NO CREDIBLE LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE—WAS TRAINED BY COMMUNISTS? AND NOW THERE IS SOMEONE ELSE HE THINKS IS “THE BEST QUALIFIED IN RECENT HISTORY?” HILLARY? REALLY? 

 

FYI— Democrats (and liberal media) have said every Republican candidate in the past 50 years except Dwight Eisenhower was “unfit” to be president  (They didn’t dare malign a military hero).

 

BUT NOW TRUMP IS IN TROUBLE!  TROUBLE MOSTLY OF HIS OWN MAKING! AND IT IS BEING USED BY THE MEDIA TO OVERSHADOW HILLARY CLINTON’S LIES AND MISDEEDS. 

AND YES, AS MANY SAY, THIS IS A CHOICE OF WHICH OF THE “LESSER EVILS” TO VOTE FOR….I KNOW…BUT IT’S AN EASY CHOICE—VOTE FOR TRUMP!

 

I genuinely believe that the “weight of the office,” and the fact that as President Trump would have to rely on staff, will bring “moderation” to Donald Trump. 

The other thing, that I believe even more, is how bad Hillary Clinton is—and has been—and that Bill (the revered former president) “IS” not far behind her, in his conniving, corruption and misdeeds.  They are truly a matched “scheming couple”—made for each other—in an ugly sort of way.

 

TOO MUCH TIME TO THINK CAN BE DANGEROUS…OR PRODUCTIVE—“YOUR CHOICE” OF WHICH …

Over the past couple of weeks, the election news has exploded, often with Donald Trump as the detonator. Whether his motives/philosophy are right is yours to decide. HIs words and actions since the August 1first have put his presidential campaign into a tail spin, which may, or may not be reversible.  

 

The Donald speaks in a “stream of consciousness” style, and uses his beliefs (or perceptions), instead of carefully vetted facts, to make his statements.  That is a prescription for disaster, especially with a MainStreamMedia  (MSM) and Democratic campaign that blows even the smallest (but ill-advised) off-hand remark into a world-threatening statement. 

 

A SCRIPTED DONALD IS NOT AS “EXCITING” AS AN EBULLIENT, OFF-THE-CUFF DONALD—THAT EXPOSES HIS MISTAKES—BAD IN A CAMPAIGN

I’ll get to Hillary later, but first consider this progression of headlines and snippets of what others have to say.

 

SOME OF THE DONALD’S WORST MISTAKES OF THE CAMPAIGN, & HILLARY’S “BOUNCE” BECAME A “CLINTON SURGE AND A TRUMP DUMP”

 

“The Week They Decided He Was Crazy” By Peggy Noonan, former Reagan Speechwriter, August 6-7 Wall Street Journal

Noonan’s opening few sentences summed it up: “Politics is about trends and tendencies. The trends for Donald Trump are not good, and he tends not to change. All the damage done to him this week was self-inflicted.” Wow! Harsh but true. Another of her snippets says: "When you act  as if you are insane, people are liable to think you’re insane. That’s what happened this week. People started to become convinced he was a total flake.”…. She continued: “This is what became obvious, probably fatally so: Mr. Trump is not going to get serious about running for president.”  

 

Download The Week They Decided Donald Trump Was Crazy - WSJ

 

Then she turned to Trump’s opponent and added: “And while Mr. Trump was doing this, Mrs. Clinton was again lying about her emails, reminding us there’s crazy there too.”  Of course unless you watched Hillary lie repeatedly on Fox Sunday with Chris Wallace, you’d never know about this. 

 

While Trump’s problem is “over-exposure” to media, (with all the chances to say something stupid or at least ill-advised), Hillary holds NO Press Conferences, almost literally hides from unscripted media contact. She sticks to screeching out talking points, because deviating from that exposes her flaws. The MSM (of course) ignores her lies and “short circuits,” while it trumpets Trump’s mistakes.

 

 

NEXT COMES A GOOD COLUMN THAT PUTS THIS ALL IN PERSPECTIVE

“Trump chaos hides series of Democratic fails” By David Harsanyi, Harvard educated Sr. Editor at the Federalist, formerly with the Denver Post, August 8, Columbus Dispatch

David is an insightful, right-leaning columnist. In this piece opens this way: "The real political tragedy of Donald Trump isn’t only that he’s annihilating the Republican Party or that he says odious and dangerous things all the time. It’s that his presence allows most of the media to ignore the corruption, recklessness and policy failures of Democrats, who now function without any genuine ideological opposition.” 

 

He cites examples of how the MSM barely mentions that Barack Obama authorized a month of air strikes against ISIS in Libya, relying solely on a decade-old Libya military force authorization. If George W. Bush had done this, it would be all over the headlines. Now it’s lost in the media noise about Trump. Of course, as David points out, the media “ would much rather talk about Trump than Obama." 

 

Download David Harsanyi commentary: Trump chaos hides series of Democratic fails | The Columbus Dispatch

 

Worst of all, a lot of the traditional GOP reminds me of on-lookers who point at, and ridicule a comrade who has fallen, instead of trying to help him up. (You know them, the big names like Kasich, Cruz, Bush, Romney, et. al.) As long as this continues, the Democrats, with support of the MSM, in David’s words, “ .“ ...have the field to themselves. That’s a dangerous event in a free nation.”

 

 

EXCELLENT ANALYSIS—A COLUMN—ON “TRUMPISM”

Separating Donald Trump from Trumpism” By Gerald Seib, writing the Capital Journal, August 9, Wall Street Journal

Serb’s piece uses a bar chart to show the pluses and minuses of the two candidates based on a recent WSJ poll. Whether this poll was done in time to catch some of Trump’s more egregious recent faux pas, is not clear. Current data might look worse than this does. The major point Seib makes is that whatever you may think about Trump, and however he arrived at his conclusions, Trump has a powerful message (even if with flawed delivery) that proved to resonate with many Americans. There is no doubt among Americans,  love him or hate him, Trump would do a better job of changing Washington than Hillary—and Washington needs changing! 

 

One of the more important observations in Seib’s column says. “If Donald Trump were capable of running the campaign that sits here waiting for him in this data, there is a capacity to close this gap with Mrs. Clinton.” [but] He adds, It isn’t clear that’s possible.”  Serb names the movement “Trumpism” and explains that it will survive, whether Trump wins or loses in November.  He points out that three years ago, after mid term elections, (former Obama Chief to Staff and now Chicago Mayor) "… Rahm Emanuel, a Democrat, warned of the emergence of a radicalized center looking for a pragmatic problem-solver not associated with a dysfunctional Washington. Now Trump forces, having entered the arena, aren’t likely to simply exit quietly. If Mr. Trump wins, they will be empowered. If their standard-bearer fails, Republicans will have to learn to deal with an unhappy, establishment-hating army within. Eventually, Democrats may have to as well.”

 

Download Separating Donald Trump From Trumpism - WSJ

 

I KNOW I’VE GIVEN YOU A LOT TO CONSIDER, BUT FOR THOSE REALLY INTERESTED, HERE ARE SOME COLUMNS FOCUSING ON HILLARY’S SHORTCOMINGS

Most readers know I think voting for Trump is mandatory—whether you like him or not—because the alternative is Hillary: untrustworthy, corrupt, untruthfuL. Her plan is four more years of Obama’s slow growth, tax & spend, socialist/welfare state. For those who want more, here are three different “takes” her faults and the flaws in her stated plans. (Nobody knows what she’ll really do if she wins—remember—she lies! 

 

Download The Clinton Plan’s Growth Deficit - WSJ

Download The Clinton Default Mistake - WSJ

Download Michael Gerson commentary: Clinton unacquainted with value of apology | The Columbus Dispatch

 

AT LEAST CLICK ON THESE AND OPEN THEM, TO READ THE FIRST AND LAST PARAGRAPH OF EACH

 

Donald Trump is consistent—right or wrong—and only nuances of his positions change.

Hillary is on all sides of every issue depending on her audience. The truth is irrelevant compared to what she thinks people want to hear…

Remember that from Obama’s glowing (moderate) promises, followed by two terms of left-liberal socialism)?

 

FINALLY, WHAT SHOULD TRUMP DO? FIRST GET A SCRIPT, AND FOLLOW IT; CURTAIL AD LIBS & KNEE-JERK REACTIONS TO MYRIAD PERSONAL ATTACKS…

 

CAL THOMAS HIT THE NAIL ON THE HEAD: “Trump should call out Clinton on economy” (Columbus Dispatch, August 12.)

Thomas wrote:  “Reacting to Donald Trump’s speech Monday to the Detroit Economic Club, Hillary Clinton said her Republican opponent tried to “make his old, tired ideas sound new.” As opposed to her old, tired ideas of higher taxes on the wealthy with government as redistribution.”  Thomas goes on to quote extensively from an important speech made to the New York Economic Club: 

GUESS WHO SAID THIS: “… the most direct and significant kind of federal action aiding economic growth is to make possible an increase in private consumption and investment demand — to cut the fetters which hold back private spending.” Increasing federal spending, as Clinton has proposed, would, said the economic club speaker, soon demoralize both the government and our economy. If government is to retain the confidence of the people, it must not spend more than can be justified on grounds of national need … The federal government, he said, “siphons out of the private economy too large a share of personal and business purchasing power; (and) reduces the financial incentives for personal effort, investment and risk-taking. In short, to increase demand and lift the economy, the federal government’s most useful role is not to rush into a program of excessive increases in public expenditures, but to expand the incentives and opportunities for private expenditures.”There are more of these “old, tired ideas”: “Corporate tax rates must also be cut to increase incentives and the availability of investment capital. ... For all these reasons, next year’s tax bill should reduce personal as well as corporate income taxes for those in the lower brackets, who are certain to spend their additional take-home pay, and for those in the middle and upper brackets, who can thereby be encouraged to undertake additional efforts and enabled to invest more capital.”  “If you haven’t guessed, the quotes you have just read are from a speech President John F. Kennedy delivered to the New York Economic Club on Dec. 14, 1962.”

THOMAS CLOSES WITH THIS:

"If Trump sticks to policies and not his personality, he could close the gap in opinion polls. Liberal policies have failed. Economic growth is the answer, but you never hear Clinton talk about it. She promotes class envy instead of prosperity and opportunity for all. Clinton is the anti-JFK candidate. Hers are the failed policies not only of the past, but the present. If she is elected president, they will continue to fail into the future.

SET ASIDE YOUR MISGIVINGS, AND GET THE WORD OUT! TELL YOUR KIDS, TELL YOUR NEIGHBORS AND FRIENDS, NEAR AND FAR:

 

  

ANYONE WHO FAILS TO VOTE—FOR DONALD TRUMP—AND GOP SENATE & HOUSE CANDIDATES—RISKS MORE THAN THEY CAN EVER IMAGINE. 

The Mainstream Media and Democratic ads distort the news, or lie (like Hillary does), or “demonize Trump” for the smallest of remarks. You can see it happening.

 

IS DONALD TRUMP A CAPABLE LEADER? MAYBE?  (EVERYONE KNOWS HILLARY CLINTON IS NOT—EVEN HER SUPPORTERS! ) 

 

DONALD TRUMP IS MORE OF A LEADER THAN HILLARY CLINTON! IRONICALLY, HIS RELATIVE INEXPERIENCE WITH GOVERNMENT CAN BE AN ASSET—MORE OBJECTIVITY—BUT ONLY IF HE CAN LEARN TO/CHOOSE TO CONTROL HIS IMPULSES AND HIS MOUTH.  

 

THE SAD FACT IS THAT DONALD, BY SHOOTING OFF HIS MOUTH” IS “GIVING AWAY HIS NATURAL ADVANTAGE:” THE PARTY OUT OF POWER TYPICALLY HAS AN ADVANTAGE AFTER THE ONE IN POWER HAS HELD THE WHITE HOUSE FOR TWO TERMS.

 

IF HILLARY WINS IN NOVEMBER, ALL AMERICANS MUST PRAY FOR THE COUNTRY AND COMING GENERATIONS’, BECAUSE NOT EVEN CONTROL OF CONGRESS (which is also at risk) CAN SAVE THEM.  

 

CAN TRUMP TURN THINGS AROUND? IT’S DOUBTFUL, BUT A VOTE FOR HILLARY IS A VOTE FOR FOUR MORE YEARS OF OBAMA-MESS AND DEVASTATION FOR AMERICA.

 

WHAT TO DO?  “HOLD YOUR NOSE IF YOU MUST—AND VOTE FOR TRUMP”—AND HOPE HE BEATS HILLARY IN A SQUEAKER (ODDS: 80-20 “ AGAINST” AS OF NOW, BUT THINGS CAN CHANGE)… AND THEN HOPE DONALD J. TRUMP ACTUALLY BEHAVES LIKE A PRESIDENT.

 

MOST IMPORTANT OF ALL—VOTE IN AND SUPPORT THE “DOWN-BALLOT RACES"—HOLDING ONTO THE SENATE WILL BE VERY DIFFICULT—BUT NOT IMPOSSIBLE. 

SUPPORT YOUR INCUMBENTS & GOP SENATORS …PORTMAN, RUBIO, PAUL, ET. AL.

 

BEST,  

JOHN

 

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THE ENTERPRISE--OK, WHAT NOW? TRUMP OVER "CROOKED" HILLARY!

 

THE “WHAT NOW?” IS THE MOST COMMON REMARK OR QUESTION I HEAR NOW THAT CONVENTIONS ARE OVER

This edition is a little late, so I’ll try to catch up. I was waiting until the two conventions were over to see what the walkaways were. A couple of big ones come to mind:

The GOP convention stars were the Trump family. Don, Jr. was terrific; Eric and Ivanka were predictably good, mature and had solid messages. Even the youngest of the ones at the podium—Tiffany, at age 22—acquitted herself very well. The liberal media made a “ tempest in a teapot” about two minute lines in Melania’s excellent and personable speech. Biden and Obama have done far worse, but the Dems and Mainstream Liberal Media (MLM) simply ignore Democrat transgressions. Really MLM, is that all you could find to criticize? She speaks more languages, better than nearly all American citizens and made this speech in what was not her “native language.” Try that sometime.

 

Mike Pence was surprisingly strong, yet down to earth. Donald went on too long, but then he always does. The supporting cast was surprising because there were fewer “wow” celebrities than expected, and the GOP didn’t notice that everyone stopped watching listening and even left the convention hall. Shut things down after the lead speaker is done. Giving favors of a spot on the convention agenda is no favor is the audience is gone. One of the best visuals was Reince Preibus and Baron Trump hitting beach balls off the stage and back into the crowd. Rudy was strident but right on. Newt was his usual acerbic and intelligent self. Both will be assets if Trump will stop talking and listen to them. Trump has a history of hiring strong people—that will be tested in the next 4 months …and afterward should he win.

 

I CONFESS—I BARELY WATCHED THE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION

I knew what they were going to say, the distortions and self-serving statements in support of a failed president and a horribly flawed candidate. Tim Kaine is as good as any other career pol for her VP spot. There were dozens like him she might have chosen. He’s better than Hillary, although the faint odor of corruption wafts by when his background is considered. The Dems had the blue chip speakers: Michelle Obama is always good. (Don’t be surprised if she’s a candidate someday. She’s really young and has a lot of zeal.) Biden is a good campaign speaker who never lets the facts get in the way of what he wants to say or claim as true. He fits the party mold perfectly, since Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have only a distant involvement with the truth. (Both are serial liars.) 

 

It’s pretty easy to predict the Dem’s pitches: give freebies to the dependent classes (minorities, especially) to continue buying their votes. Protect the downtrodden and newly disadvantaged (LGBT…etc.). Shore up giveaways to the young who seem to be so naive that they don’t understand there is “ ever a free lunch”—someone has to pay for it—and sooner or later, it will be them. Here’s is an article citing the “Prevaricator-in-Chief” and his incredible statement:  There has never been a man or a woman more qualified than Hillary Clinton to serve as president of the United States of America.”  REALLY? REALLY?

 

MOVING TO THE DEMS POLICY AND PLATFORM CONTENT

A single phrase sums it up. More of the same as Obama’s socialist plans for as long as Americans will stand it and pay for it (taxes, debt, interest, slow or no growth in the economy, declining standard of living, etc., etc.) Now the Bernie Sanders (unruly, outspoken) forces have pushed Hillary and the party even further left, liberal and socialist. Don’t believe the “progressive” crap. That’s just a nice name for liberal socialism. You can read the details everywhere,  but nothing is really much different than the past 7-1/2 years of Obama

-malaise. Right after the Dems convention ended, the most recent Quarter of GDP growth was reported—an impressive 1.2%—wow.  DO YOU WANT MORE OF THAT?

HERE’S A LINE I WILL REPEAT AD INFINITUM: A vote for anyone other than Trump is a vote for Hillary and another 4-8 years of decline, divisiveness and misery.

 

IS THIS THE PERSON YOU WANT TO BE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA?  

IF YOUR ANSWER IS NO, THEN VOTE FOR TRUMP  BECAUSE THAT IS THE ONLY WAY TO STOP HER!

 

 

EITHER CLINTON CAMPAIGN, OR THE MAINSTREAM LIBERAL MEDIA (MLM,) INVENTS THEIR VERSION OF WHAT TRUMP SAID, INVENTS WHAT (THEY CLAIM) HE “MEANT”

And then crucifies him for their own inventions. A wise person once warned me: Do NOT assume people’s intentions. You simply cannot know with certainty what they intended or meant—even when using their own words. Lawyers do this all the time in depositions, when they ask questions prefaced by “would you say that….” and then fill in what they want you to say, so it will be in the record. The only wise answer to that question is “NO, I didn’t.” Then don’t elaborate. That’s exactly what they are trying to get you to do—say something they can use against you. If the next question is “what would you say?” “NOTHING." 

 

AFRAID OF WHAT TRUMP WILL DO? DON’T BELIEVE THE MLM—LISTEN CAREFULLY TO HIS ACTUAL WORDS AND THE CONTEXT (sarcasm).

An example of what the MLM has become in recent years was a throwaway comment Trump made when he said: “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing,” … “I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press.” 

 

If you want to read some of the MLM frenzy, here are a few links:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/28/us/politics/donald-trump-russia-clinton-emails.html?_r=0

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-trump-russia-clinton-emails-20160728-story.html

https://techcrunch.com/2016/07/27/donald-trump-irresponsibly-asks-russia-to-find-hillary-clintons-missing-emails/

http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-trump-russia-emails-20160727-snap-story.html

 

AMERICA IS IN TROUBLE—TRUMP’S SO-CALLED “NEGATIVE OR DARK” SPEECH WAS MOSTLY RIGHT

When Donald Trump goes on for over an hour, a lot of the valuable content is lost amidst a blizzard of words. That’s why I disassembled the text of Trump’s speech and made a list of what he said needed to be done/he intended to do. (Yes, I know, he never says how he will do them exactly. That’s what every presidential candidate does! Obama got elected in 2008 in a blizzard of moderate promises that were never what he intended or did.)

Points in Trump’s Acceptance Speech—What he wants to accomplish:

(NOTE: Phrases are as close to verbatim as possible, and still read correctly.)

1. Best intelligence gathering operation in the world
2. Abandon failed policy of nation-state building/regime change
3. Work with allies who share goal of destroying ISIS & stamping out Islamic terror
4. Suspend immigration from any nation compromised by terrorism until proven vetting
5. Build a great border wall to stop illegal immigration, gangs, violence and drugs
6. End “catch and release" on the border
7. Enforce the rules for millions who overstay visas
8. New, fair trade policy
9. Stand up to countries who cheat
10. Turn bad trade agreements into great ones
11. No longer enter massive [trade] deals that no one reads or understands
12. Enforce trade violations
13. Stop China’s… 
14. Outrageous [cyber] theft of intellectual property
15. Illegal dumping
16. Devastating currency manipulation
17. Reform our tax laws, regulations and energy rules
18. Relief for middle-income Americans and simplified taxes
19. Deal with the issue of excessive regulation, to end it
20. Lift restrictions on production of American energy
21. Use energy proceeds to build new roads, highways, bridges, tunnels, airports and railways of tomorrow
22. Rescue kids from failing schools, improve [expand] school choice
23. Repeal and replace Obamacare
24. Fix TSA at airports
25. Rebuild depleted military
26. Take care of veterans’ [medical care] like never before
27. Ask Dept. heads to provide list of wasteful spending to eliminate in first 100 days
28. Appoint Justices to SCOTUS who will uphold, laws and our Constitution

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DO YOU AGREE WITH THOSE GOALS? MOST OF THEM AT LEAST? I DO!  AMERICA NEEDS A REVOLUTION!

Government has grown too big, too powerful, too expensive, too oppressive and too self-centered. It no longer serves the people it was intended to serve—Americans.

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THE UNBELIEVABLE OHIO SENATORIAL RACE

The race between Rob Portman, the incumbent and challenger Ted Strickland, the failed one-term governor is essentially a dead heat. Why? One can only guess the Strickland’s gubernatorial flaws and losing campaign against John Kasich was so well publicized that he has an edge in name recognition. Portman is the prototype for a good senator: Experience in the House as a Rep. as the U. S. Trade Representative (top ranking international trade position), The US Budget Director, and now an experienced and widely respected Senator. in Portman’s 5+ years as a Senator, half of which was with the Harry Reid gridlock on the Senate, Rob has still originated or co-sponsored dozens of bills which were actually passed and signed into law. Who knew that? Certainly not very many Ohioans, if they prefer the inept and incompetent Strickland.  (Strickland’s backing is almost all from outside OH, left-leaning Democratic money—no surprise.)

 

The equation is simple: ROB PORTMAN=GOOD, TED STRICKLAND=BAD….end of story.

 

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FROM CONGRESSMAN STEVE STIVERS

Earlier this year, we reached a dubious milestone in American history -- our national debt topped $19 trillion dollars. That means to pay it off today, each and every taxpayer would be on the hook for more than $161,000.  We need a balanced budget amendment to the U.S. Constitution to restrict the federal government from spending more than it takes in. It will rein in out-of-control spending in Washington and force government to live within its means, just like Ohio families do.

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IS THIS WHO YOU WANT IN THE WHITE HOUSE? —PART I

CLINTON: CARELESS AND CORRUPT—CANDIDATE STILL FAVORED BY MANY OF AMERICA’S MISGUIDED OR MISINFORMED (OR TOTALLY UNIFORMED/IGNORANT)

This came from a friend who is a former FBI agent. His explanation is the most plausible I’ve heard for my Director Comey did what he did.

 

“… you and I both know that Lynch would have declined to prosecute HRC based upon the exact same reasons that Comey stated on Tuesday.  The difference would have been, she would not have outlined everything that HRC did in a 15 minute gut spilling statement like Comey did on Tuesday.

 

Not only was the announcement of the FBI's recommendation unprecedented, so was the detailed presentation of everything HRC did.  I believe that he did that so that the American public would be able to compare what she did to what she told the American public she did -- prior to pulling the lever in November.  Trump was provided with a great deal of campaign fodder and I am sure he will make good use of it.

 

If Comey had recommended prosecution, he could not have laid the case open like he did because it would have poisoned any jury prior to trial.  He would have simply said in a very short statement, "We have submitted the case to the DOJ for prosecution."  Lynch would never have given us all the information that he did.  She would have simply said "We are not going to prosecute because the facts do not warrant prosecution," and it would have taken years for the public to get all the facts of the case through FOIA requests, etc.  In fact, the information would have been redacted so much that we probably would never have known.

 

I suspect HRC is furious that Comey let all the cats out of the bag.  I also believe that if the Bureau had been able to determine that her account was hacked - especially by our enemies - that there would have been a different outcome.  Basically, it was no discovered harm, no criminal foul.  If she were still employed, the State Department would have been forced to take disciplinary action.”  

 

Comey also tipped off the House members in his followup questioning that the FBI had never questioned Hillary about whether she lied (about her emails, etc.I during the Benghazi investigation testimony to Congress. That was under to and that would be perjury. When asked why they hadn’t questioner her on that, Comey calmly told them that Congress had not referred that testimony to the FBI for investigation. You better believe they did ASAP—the very next day. 

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IS THIS WHO YOU WANT IN THE WHITE HOUSE? —PART II

 

FROM THE WEEK.COM 6/24/2016

Clinton’s long trail of corruption

BY Peter Wehner CommentaryMagazine.com

I could never vote for the dangerous demagogue Donald Trump, said Peter Wehner, but let’s face it: Hillary Clinton is “an ethical disaster.” It’s not just the email scandal, though we now know that “virtually everything Clinton has said about her private email server was a lie.” Liberal law professor Jonathan Turley has dug up a new damning story: Laureate International Universities, a for-profit school, paid Bill Clinton an obscene $16.5 million from 2010 to 2014 to be its “honorary chancellor”—a time when Hillary’s State Department funneled $55 million in grants to groups linked to Laureate’s CEO, who also is a donor to the Clinton Foundation. That’s what you call a circle of corruption. 

 

In another embarrassing report, ABC News revealed last week that then–Secretary Clinton’s top aide appointed Rajiv Fernando, a Chicago high-speed securities trader, to a top-secret intelligence advisory board on nuclear security in 2011, even though he had no background in the field. Why? He was a major donor to the Clinton Foundation and Clinton campaigns. Dating back to Arkansas, “the Clintons have habitually used their political power to inappropriately enrich themselves,” and “to get around the rules that others are expected to live by.”

 

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THINK YOU KNOW ABOUT AMERICA? I DID—BUT I HAD TO CHECK MYSELF ON A FEW OF THESE—ESPECIALLY DATES

This simple test is one that most American youth should know, but couldn’t pass. Neither could most American voters. 

I wonder how many High School teachers could pass it—including those who teach American History?

 

America—1776-2016—How Well Do You Know It? 

(NO GOOGLE USAGE!)

1) Who were the Founding Fathers? 

2) What was the Revolutionary War fought about? And when? 

3) What two documents were essential in the USA creation?

4) What are the three branches of the US Federal Government?

5) What are the two Houses of Congress, and how many members are in each, from where?

6) Who fought in the Civil War, about what, and when? Who was president then & who “won" that war?

7) Who fought in WW-II about what, when, and who “won?"

8) What was the Cold War? Who was fighting it, over what? Who “won?” When was that?

9) Who are: Vladimir Lenin, Josef Stalin, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Saddam Hussein, Moammar Gadhafi, Bashar el-Assad & Hafez el-Assad?

10) Who were the last three Presidents? Who is the current Vice President? Who is the Speaker of the House now, and who preceded him?

11) Who are JFK, RFK and MLK? What do they have in common?

12) What is the Electoral College and what does it do?

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Answers:

1) George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, James Madison, James Monroe & Benjamin Franklin.

2) America’s freedom from England, 1775-1783

3) The Declaration of Independence (1776) and the Constitution (1788)

4) Legislative (Congress: makes laws), Executive (President: executes laws), and Judicial (Supreme Court: decides if legal per the Constitution)

5) The House-435 members proportional to population of states, Senate-100 members 2/state

6) North (states) vs. South (Confederate), rights & slavery, 1861-1865, Abe Lincoln, North won, slavery was abolished

7) Great Britain/USA vs. Germany & then Japan (desperation, mostly-Russia flipped/both sides), Democracy vs. Nazism (Fascism) Dictatorship, GB, Euro/US, NA won. 1940’s (A-bomb Hiroshima, Japan) 

8) Mostly USA vs. USSR, Democracy/Capitalism vs. Communism, USA, 1970 & 1980’s

9) All dictators of varying kinds: Communist, Fascist, or Radical Islamic.

10) Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama; Joe Biden; Paul Ryan preceded by John Boehner, preceded by Nancy Pelosi (Speaker of the house is third in line of presidential succession.)

11) John Kennedy, his brother Robert Kennedy and Rev. Martin Luther King—all three were highly regarded American leaders. All three were assassinated. King was most highly revered black leader.

12) It elects the president. 538 “electors” chosen on votes cast and who wins by state. The number of electors equals the number of members in a state’s Congressional delegation (House Reps., + 2 Senators). Electors cast their votes to elect the president. 270 electoral votes wins.

A FEW FINAL TIDBITS ON HOW YOUR WORLD IS CHANGING

$1.2 billion was loaded onto Starbucks cards and its mobile app during the 1Q of 2016. That’s more than a lot of mid-size financial institutions’ deposits.

Instagram now reaches 500 million people each month and users share 95 million photos EACH DAY! 80% of Instagram users live outside the USA. 

Facebook is now the favorite of the over 40 crowd. The younger folks have moved on to Instagram and Snapchat. Twitter is still broadly popular.

 

GETTING OUT THE VOTE IS CRITICAL TO KEEPING HILLARY CLINTON OUT OF THE WHITE HOUSE

Democrats have perfected the ability to get out the vote of the uninformed, often (nearly) illiterate, and easily-influenced welfare minorities. They have also managed to sell many of the naive American youth on the fact that Socialism (presented under the guise of “progressive-ism”) is a viable system of government (Bernie Sanders pitch). Because they have been raised without the real world influences of “competing,” “winning/losing” and being responsible for themselves and their actions—they think government should “take care of them.” That’s a perfect lead-in to Obama’s “Nanny-state” form of welfare state. Government knows best, and it will take care of those who are unable or unwilling to take care of themselves. Hillary’s plan is to keep it going and growing.

 

LAST: THE SORE LOSERS HURTING AMERICA

I’m disappointed in OH Governor John Kasich. I expected better of him than to stand on “his principles” even if it means handing the White House to Hillary Clinton. I thought he was more of a pragmatic realist than that. (I’m disgusted with the Bush family too…but not surprised…after Jeb’s failure.)

 

It’s very simple. Whether you are a fan or Trump’s or not, any vote that is not for Donald Trump is in essence a vote FOR “Crooked” Hillary Clinton. 

DO NOT LET THE MAINSTREAM LIBERAL MEDIA’S DISTORTION OF TRUMP MISLEAD YOU. 

In virtually every imaginable situation, I’m willing to trust what a President Trump will do over what a President Hillary Clinton would do.  Think about it. He may be unpredictable. She is predictable—she’s an untrustworthy liar! She will continue Barack Obama’s destruction of the United States of America—by loading the Supreme Court with activist liberal justices.

 

IN CASE YOU WONDERED HOW I FEEL ABOUT IT ALL…

JOHN

 

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