[Townhall] Welcome back to the "Stream of Kurtiousness"! It's hot as hell in Houston today, so please excuse my sweaty mess today! After some great BBQ last night, I'm going to be shooting some guns with friends this afternoon. That's what Texans do. I saw two more Talarico signs yesterday, but the reality is there still isn't any excitement around him. Meanwhile, the economy is starting to look better, and my 401K is looking pretty nice! Inflation is down, jobs are up, and the stock market is performing. The vibes seem to be changing. I'm seeing more normal, happy, healthy people walking around town. Fewer mutants on the streets is a sign that America may be healing. It took Reagan two years to turn the economy around, and he actually took heavy losses in the '82 election. The outlook Americans have on their country can change quickly. It feels like things are moving in the right direction as the midterms approach.
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I'm seeing more normal, happy, healthy people walking around town.
Well, yeah. That's Houston. Try Los Angeles.
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The more that people say stuff like this, the more I am reminded I am a income tax serf, and the more I am reminded I am a income tax serf, the more I hope it all burns to the ground. We can always rebuild, better, start fresh, renew.
Author, Kurt Schlichter is part of the 1%, works as a trial lawyer and named partner in a Los Angeles law firm, is a retired U.S. Army infantry colonel, and writes as a conservative political commentator and author.
[Townhall] No, everything isn’t perfect, and we patriots should keep demanding more and more from the Trump 47 administration. Keep the pressure on. Keep the heat on. Don’t let anyone in Washington think that we’re just ready to settle. But on the other hand, don’t spaz out like a teenage girl whose parents just read her diary about what President Donald Trump has accomplished so far. Yeah, there have been disappointments. Here’s a flash: there are disappointments in life. You can’t always get what you want, but this administration tried really hard, and we might just get what we need.
Let’s review some of the typical complaints from Team All-Is-Lost. The war in Iran hasn’t yet been conclusively won. Millions upon millions of illegal aliens are still in the United States. We’re paying fat slobs to sit on their butts and gobble down Doritos that our welfare dollars pay for. Republicans are weak and soft, and haven’t passed the SAVE Act. Trust-fund communists are taking over the Democrat Party. The economy under Trump 47 hasn’t yet matched the economy under Trump 45. The budget is still out of control. Bureaucrats keep interfering in our agenda. Judges keep getting in the way of progress. Democrats keep getting in the way of progress. Progressives keep getting in the way of progress.
So, we should whine and cry, right? After all, what has Trump accomplished?
[IsraelNationalNews] The accusations against Israel may be lies, but the fantasy world created by the anti-Zionists has devastating consequences in the real world.
Recently, UNICEF published the results of a survey showing that child malnutrition rates in the Gaza Strip are low, between 0.2% and 0.8%. Despite three years of war, despite Hamas stealing and hoarding aid, despite constant shouts of "famine," the children of Gaza are better fed than in many other countries in the Middle East. This is because Israel allowed a historic amount of food and aid to enter throughout the war, even knowing this helped Hamas and allowed the terrorist organization to both continue to fight and to hold Israel's hostages captive.
Recently, UNICEF published the results of a survey showing that child malnutrition rates in the Gaza Strip are low, between 0.2% and 0.8%. Despite three years of war, despite Hamas stealing and hoarding aid, despite constant shouts of "famine," the children of Gaza are better fed than in many other countries in the Middle East.
The most shocking aspect is not that the malnutrition rate is so low, but that a UN agency actually told the truth for once. The UN has a standing policy of never, ever telling the truth when it comes to Israel and of firing officials who commit the crime of putting some value on the truth, so this is a rarer occurrence than a blue moon.
The charge of famine was a lie, as was obvious to anyone paying the slightest bit of attention. The thousands of tons of food that constantly entered Gaza throughout the war, the complete lack of any photographs of a single starving person despite the millions of people desperate for any evidence of Israeli wrongdoing. The media, in an effort to serve their anti-Jewish clientele, were forced to resort to using pictures of children with other preexisting medical conditions in a failed effort to "prove" a starvation that they knew didn’t exist.
Indeed, the only people who we know for certain were starving in Gaza during the war were some of the Israeli hostages, who were the only people to have been shown to have lost significant weight over the last three years.
While the Gaza famine was a fantasy, another report from the British government shows just how serious the real-world consequences of this fantasy are. According to this report, the principals of Jewish schools have been forced to spend more time on security arrangements for their students than on education. One educator said that he spends as much as 90% of his time dealing with security instead of teaching.
The most shocking aspect is not that the malnutrition rate is so low, but that a UN agency actually told the truth for once. The UN has a standing policy of never, ever telling the truth when it comes to Israel and of firing officials who commit the crime of putting some value on the truth, so this is a rarer occurrence than a blue moon.
This is the reality that has been created by the fantasy. By spreading lies about the Jewish State, antisemites create the permission-structure to threaten and harm Jewish children around the world. This was always the primary purpose of the starvation and genocide lies, to make those who want to harm Jewish children feel justified in fulfilling their sick fantasies. The biggest lie of all is "Palestinian People/Palestinian land. All 19th century travelers to Holy Land agree on virtual absence of people outside the 4 cities. The so called Palestinians are either outright liars, or descendants of Arabs who immigrated to Palestine under British mandate to parasitize the Jewish settlers.
As I have mentioned from time to time, to be defined as Palestinian, one’s ancestors must have arrived in the land no later than 1945, ie. been residents for at least three years before the UN declared Israel independent.
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