It's Just Perception, That's All

                Bias as a noun: prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person or group compared with another in a way considered to be unfair.

                Thursday  the infamous Peter Strzock gave some testimony to a joint session of the House Oversight and Judiciary committees. I wasn’t able to catch much of it live but there’s plenty of it on You Tube and video out there if you think your brain won’t go numb watching it. It’s grueling but I recommend viewing some of the live action for yourself rather than rely on the mainstream media’s predictably pro left interpretation of what they wish happened.

                Among other clips, I watched all 28 minutes of Trey Gowdy’s interview of Strzock. The only reason it took 28 minutes was democrats spent nine minutes trying to derail the interrogation by questioning a “point of order.” Like Strzock, I had to be reminded what the question was by the time they shut up and quit interrupting.

                The rest of the time what I saw was Gowdy making Strzock look like a fool and a liar. But I’m conservative. I’ve already heard from some liberal friends (the ones who are capable of a civil conversation) that what they saw was Gowdy badgering Strzock about his personal opinions which had nothing to do with his professional performance.

                With all due respect to my civil liberal friends (both of you), I seriously have to wonder how badly you want to believe in unicorns to believe that.

                In a separate interview Darrel Issa, R-CA (almost as rare as a unicorn), made Strzok read some of his own text messages to his now well-known mistress and FBI attorney, Lisa Page. I will grant you it was humiliating. I was even uncomfortable watching it and I think Strzok is a traitor who should be hanged or at least sent to prison for 40 to 700 years. But if you’re going to commit stupid acts sometimes you have to admit in public you were stupid.

                Issa made him read his response to a question from Page on Aug. 16, 2016, “He’s not ever going to become president right? Right?”

                Strzok read, “No, no he’s not. We’ll stop him.” Strzock later told Gowdy that “we’ll” referred to the American people.

                Sure it did.

                Issa also made him read the following text to Page from August 15, 2016, “I want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in Andy’s office that there’s no way he could be elected, but I’m afraid we can’t take that risk. It’s like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before you’re 40.”

                Gee, I wonder what he meant by insurance policy. He couldn’t have been talking about the completely bogus piece of fiction known as the Steele Dossier, could he? No, of course not.

                You can find the transcript for yourself but honorable agent Peter Strzock referred to Trump in other texts as an idiot, a douche and a disaster, and those are just the words that I’m willing to spell because I fear a couple of my younger nieces may occasionally read what I have to say.

                Yet Strzock insisted in his testimony to Issa and to Gowdy that in no way did his personal opinions cloud or influence his professional judgement. Umm-hmm.  Insurance policy?

                I’m not the originator of this thought but you have to wonder how his line of reasoning went over with Mrs. Strzok when Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater tried to explain away Lisa Page? “Sure I was having an affair with her but at no time did it influence my commitment to our marriage or affect the integrity of my wedding vows.”

                What?

                Gowdy read one of Strzock’s texts to Page from 11/7/16 on the eve of the election when some on the left were cognizant enough to realize the wheels were coming off, “OMG, this is effing terrifying.”

                On 5/17/17, Mueller’s gang of villagers with pitchforks was officially formed and by 5/18, Strzock was already talking about impeachment of the President as the desired outcome. He did it again on 5/22. In neither case had a single interview that has been logged by the Mueller investigation and fish fry been conducted.

                Strzock again claimed to Gowdy that that was only his personal desire but it had no effect on his professional conduct. No bias there.

                People who are comfortable with that explanation make me nervous.

                Toward the end of his little chat with Strzok after he was done exposing him as a traitor and a fraud, Gowdy did say, “No wonder Mueller kicked you off the committee,” which actually seemed to take the smirk off of Stzock’s face for a moment.

                It was not Peter Strzock’s understanding that Mueller kicked him off the committee because of any bias on Strzock’s part. Nope. Strzock understood that he was only kicked off the committee because of the appearance of bias.

                Well, there certainly is that.

                Strzock began to tell Gowdy that he didn’t appreciate Gowdy daring to question his integrity (Strzock has to have to have some kind of narcissistic delusion going on to think he has anything resembling integrity going for him). Gowdy cut him off and gave what I thought was the highlight quote of the day’s testimony:

                “I don’t give a damn what you appreciate, Agent Strzock. I don’t appreciate an FBI agent with an unprecedented level of animus working on two major political investigations.” (The fairy tale alleging collusion between Trump and Russia as well as Strzock's work exonerating HRC of any of her many wrongdoings in her email scandal which is a whole other blog topic.)

                I completely agree with Gowdy and think Strzock—and others—are flagrant traitors and guilty of more charges than I’m capable of writing. But as I said before, I am conservative (no, really).

                Some democratic congressperson (I’m almost done and don’t feel like looking it up. You can if you want.) said that Strzock deserved a purple heart for enduring the unfair, super mean questioning by the republicans. A cry The Washington Post took up on Friday. And that’s how some liberals feel about the exact same events I just watched.

                I have a friend with a purple heart. Strzock doesn’t deserve a purple heart. He deserves the brand of a traitor.

                Food for thought:

                Last week, Joe Munchin, D-WV, told Chuck Schumer to “kiss my you-know-what” in response to Schumer trying to pressure democrats to block President Trump’s latest Supreme Court nominee.

                Nielsen released ratings last week that had The Food Network and HGTV both with more viewers for the first time than CNN or MSNBC.

                Not that we can ever afford to get cocky and stay home from the polls or let our guard down for a moment but one has to wonder what the Alt Left base has dwindled down to and how hard they have to want to believe they are relevant.

They sure are noisy though, I’ll give them that.

Migration Season, Part 2

                “Those who enter the country illegally and those who employ them disrespect the rule of law. They are showing disregard for those who are following the law. We cannot allow people to pour into the U.S. undetected, undocumented, unchecked and circumventing the line of people who are lawfully waiting to become immigrants.”  --Barack Hussein Obama, Holy See of The Alt Left

                On June 23, Stephanie Leutert of the Lawfare Strauss Center For International Security (in The Republic of Austin--but wait til you see what her stats actually show) released a study aimed squarely at discrediting the Trump Administration’s fear of open borders and cited that the President’s claim of MS-13 gang members pouring across the border was a mere .075% of captured illegals according to her research.

                But buried in her data was the admission that in 2000, there were 1,643,677 illegals who crossed into the U.S. along our southern border and in 2017 that number had been cut to 303,916. A reduction of over 80%! Moreover, Leutert neglected to let CNN edit her data and blamed the reduction on an increase in border patrol agents from 9,147 to 16,605 and an increase of 750 miles of new fencing.

                Sounds like someone keeping an election promise to me.

                A June 18 Gallup News Poll shows that 62% of Americans (regardless of party) feel that Donald Trump keeps his promises. Fifty nine percent rate him a strong and decisive leader, and 53% believe he can bring about the change the country needs. Additionally, the poll showed a 12-year high satisfaction with the country’s direction. Didn’t see that on MSN did ya’?

                Sorry, big blue wave fans.

                A June 27 poll by Axios, a millennial website, revealed that 90% of republicans disbelieve anything the media says and prefer to do their own research for the truth. Seventy two percent of Americans, regardless of party, disbelieve the media. Sorry blue tricklers, you’re losing the kids too.

                Are there millennial republicans? You bet your hindquarters. I know a bunch of ‘em. My kids and most (certainly not all) of their friends are nearly as conservative as I am. (Well, ok, that’s just my opinion—no quantifiable measuring stick on degree of conservatism.) Fox News just won’t show them to you for some reason. It seems Sean and the crew (those lying bastards) would prefer to portray an entire generation of the more stereotypical millennial snowflakes, barely able to tie their shoes and use toilet paper.

                Not so. They’re out there and they are great kids. They are probably going to do a better job with this country than our generation has. Even most of the liberal kids I know aren’t idiots. They’re hard-working and sharp as can be, just idealistic as many youngsters probably ought to be.

                So last week I heard a radio report that at one border patrol station in Arizona in one week agents arrested 22 illegals, mostly in two vans of eight and nine each. In those two vans were three MS-13 gang members and two Barrio 18 gang members (presumably not in the same van). A considerably higher percentage than Leutert’s research would indicate but it is one isolated report.

                Additionally there was one backpack full of assorted but unspecified illegal drugs which the young men in the boy’s clubs apparently just found along the way because no one wanted to claim it. There were also two underage female human trafficking victims.

                Separately a young girl and her “uncle” were picked up. She must’ve been related to her auntie because there was no dna match between the minor girl and her uncle. Someone did call anonymously to claim her as a family member but declined an opportunity to come to the station and provide evidence of relation or to pick her up.

                The girl reported to authorities that her parents had told her she had been sold to a woman in Michigan (specific whereabouts unknown to the child) to work off the payment by performing domestic duties. There was no time frame specified for payment of said debt.

The Washington Post recently “analyzed” data from a study done by the Government Accountability Office and took exception to President Trump’s assertion that illegals are more criminal than their legal counterparts. WAPO concluded that there was no solid data to support a correlation between illegal immigration and crime.

According to Florida State University criminologist David Mears in a separate on-line article, this could be due to a focus on intake (arrest) records where information on illegals is scarce because citizenship isn’t always noted in records and in some states (California) is never noted.

So when The American Thinker did a fact check of WAPO’s “fact check” of President Trump’s claims they found that while illegals are estimated at 3.5% of the U.S. population they were  incarcerated at rates of 25%-39% during the 2005-2013 period of the study WAPO allegedly scrutinized.

Additionally, the GAO found 3,000,000 crimes attributable to illegals from ’05 to ’09, including 25,064 homicides, a ratio 4 times higher for murders by illegals per 100,000 illegals v. murders per 100,000 by legal residents. A rate of 22% to 37% of all U.S. murders were committed during that time period by illegals.

Perhaps this will make things a little more relevant--for incarcerated criminals between 2005 and 2009 the following rates of crime were directly attributable to illegals:

*15 murders per day

             *9 kidnappings per day

*43 sex offenses per day

*71 burglaries per day

*131 assaults per day

I take severe exception to Leutert’s and WAPO’s conclusions that we have little to fear from “undetected, undocumented, and unchecked” illegals pouring across our border.

The Kate Stienle murder in San Francisco is only “anecdotal” as CNN reported it if you want to accept that 25,064 homicides were anecdotal.

I would like to think that only in California is it possible for a seven-time deported illegal alien with multiple felony arrests to shoot an innocent young woman in the face at point blank range and be found guilty of only an “unfortunate accident.”

Oh, and throw this in, Business Insider, Politifact, USA Today, the DEA, Kiss-My-Ass-News and several other sources all agree that 90% of this country’s heroin is smuggled in across the Mexican border. Much of it comes in creative vehicle compartments straight through customs lines but literally tons of it is smuggled across the Sonoran Desert National Monument by drug mules (no, not actual mules, kids) with backpacks. They are picked up by prearranged contact along Interstate 8 and driven to “stock houses” in Arizona and California primarily.

Pinal County (AZ) Sheriff Paul Babese estimates cartel operatives have 75-100 lookout posts in his county alone watching for incoming drugs and law enforcement and making sure the two rarely intersect. Babese and his deputies routinely find storage depots and abandoned campsites that show cartel support personnel ferry water, food, batteries and supplies to illegal mules.

The wailing liberal hearts on CNN and Facebook (there should be a difference but there isn’t) are absolutely right that many poor Central Americans only want a better life for their families and are seeking political asylum. Many of them are. And in spite of the fact that the left wants to claim compassion, love and human decency as exclusively liberal qualities I don’t know a single conservative who wouldn’t welcome those people into this country as friends and neighbors if they would check in at the front desk.

But you have got to be braindead, idiot-level stupid to not recognize that there is a flip side to that coin and that woven into the ranks of the decent people seeking a better life are a whole bunch of people who don’t care if they rape your wife and murder your children or dump eight kilos of heroin at your local grade school.

Not to mention the flood of human trafficking which no one has a handle on because it is so well hidden and insidious. How can anyone turn a blind eye to the need to examine each family attempting to cross to make sure they are a family and not a child-prostitution smuggling ring?

I swear to God, if I see one more “Being Human is Not Illegal” sign, all words properly spelled or not, I am going to turn someone’s rectum inside out. Of course being human isn’t illegal you dipsticks and the hell with you for thinking such sentiment is your province. Listen to a few Angel Moms for 30 minutes and decide if you have a right to sentence someone’s child to death because you own a rainbow tie-died T-shirt.

And Congress still hasn’t given us immigration reform. All they’ve done is continue to blame the President for not doing their job and make enough noise to cover up the release of the Inspector General’s Report documenting the highest levels of treason and government corruption in the history of the country. Coincidence?

Ask yourself this, do you want to live in a country where immigration policy is up to whomever happens to be President at the moment or would you rather have a legal process for immigration locked into place to be debated and decided, if necessary, by our legal system? I can’t believe any thinking person would find in favor of dictatorial tactics.

The law states that illegals with children caught sneaking in will be turned around and sent home the first time and since 1996 second-timers will be considered felons and be separated from their children because that actually seems more humane than incarcerating the kids in general pop.

That’s the law. Can you change stuff with executive orders? Apparently, for a few weeks or until there's a new president. Should you be able to? Again, do you want it left up to the whim of whoever is sleeping in the White House?

This is Congress’ responsibility and/or fault, not President Trump’s. Shame on those cowards of both parties for blaming the President for laws they don’t have the guts to tackle. I’m not sure what the most humane thing to do with the kids is but I know that border security is an absolute, non-negotiable must have.

Yet in return for the Wall; in return for a more sane system than chain migration and a visa lottery system, the President has basically offered immunity to another 1.8 million non-citizens, about half of whom are popularly known as DACA kids.  And the democrats continue to turn their back on it.

If the left also wants higher or eliminated quotas of people from Central and South American countries you might be surprised how much conservative support you could get. I would support a form of that and liberals hate my guts, at least I hope they do.

Call your congressperson and ask them to craft some sort of legislation raising quotas until good, hard-working, asylum-seeking persons no longer feel the need to sneak in. Craft it in a manner that determines such people are in a position to contribute to our country and are interested in pursuing citizenship and I’ll make noise on your behalf all day long.

But stop giving Congress a free pass to sit on their hands and whine like spoiled children and hold them accountable to do their freaking jobs.

Also, many of us would appreciate it if you would stop asking Americans to continue to allow crime and criminals to come across the border without so much as a “Hey, how ya’ doin’?” Even if you are that stupid, we are not and we won the election and the way things look now, we’ll likely win the next one. 

There aren’t as many of you as CNN keeps telling you there are.