Don’t be alarmed; it’s politics as usual – In the wake of the Mueller report clearing President Trump of any collusion with the Russians surrounding the 2016 election, a plethora of U.S. mass-media personalities has been beating the drum for impeachment louder than ever.
Contrast today’s clamor with that of 1999, when articles of impeachment reached the trial stage in the U.S. Senate against President Bill Clinton. He faced two charges – perjury, and obstruction of justice – both stemming from a sexual-harassment lawsuit filed by Paula Jones.
What’s the difference between now and then? Not much.
Clinton was a Democrat wrestling with a Republican-majority Senate. According to a report from the Media Research Center, the media then were dominated by liberals who fiercely opposed impeachment.
The shoe is on the other foot now. With the Democrats at the helm in the U.S. House, the U.S electorate would have to be deaf not to hear the clamor calling for impeaching President Trump. The liberal-laden mass media now are fiercely in lockstep with the proponents of impeachment.
Get the picture? Clinton was a Democrat. Trump is a Republican. If only there were some way to take the blatant politics out of lawmaking.
Sometimes silence is golden — It’s time more people followed pro golfer Lexi Thompson’s response to some toxic comments on social media.
A recent photo posted online by the White House showed Thompson, 24, at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Fla. In the photo, she is standing between President Trump and talk-radio political conservative Rush Limbaugh. The photo prompted a spate of derogatory twitters, tweets, Facebook barbs, GABs, Mastodons, e-mails, etc.
Thompson’s reaction? She told her “followers” that she is taking a break from social media. Hopefully, her recess will allow time for the hate-filled crazies to calm down and find something better to do than find fault with everybody and everything they happen to dislike.
In other words: Put the device down. If you don’t have anything good, beneficial or constructive to say, then please don’t say anything at all.
Disrespect gone too far – Some days, taking a walk just isn’t worth it. That’s all a 60-year-old unidentified armed-forces veteran was doing in Indianapolis — taking a walk — when he was shot with a paintball gun from as little as 3 feet away, some of the projectiles hitting the man in the face and the neck.
The perpetrator was identified by police as Avery Bullock, 27, who has a rap sheet, according to the Indianapolis Star. Bullock was arrested and charged with battery by using a deadly weapon.
“Yo, old school,” Bullock allegedly hollered when he approached the victim, “you ever been shot with a paint gun?”
Hopefully, Bullock will face additional charges of taunting – and possibly committing a hate crime — for the unprovoked assault. His kind of socializing is simply unacceptable.
Driver story No. 1 – Hats off to Acie Burleson, 34, who is lugging his homemade wooden cross along rural routes from his home in Andrews, S.C., to the Grand Canyon, a distance of more than 2,200 miles.
Burleson, who said he only recently discovered the Bible, told the Christian Broadcasting Network that he is willing to do “anything to help get God’s word out.” To date, it’s pretty evident that he’s doing the right thing.
He backpacks a small tent. But so far, Burleson has seldom used it because people and churches along the way have opened their doors to him. Moreover, he has inspired many drivers along the way, like a deeply distraught woman who stopped her car to meet Burleson and, through tears, told him: “I was one block away from killing myself, and you stopped me.”
Driver story No. 2 – And then, there’s the road-rage report by Channel 11 News out of Cypress, Texas, about the unidentified biker who twice flipped off a woman driving a Chevy Suburban. What happened next was pure, poetic justice. The guy on the motorcycle lost control, crashed, landed on his head and was life-flighted in critical condition to the nearest hospital. The lesson? Remember the four D’s: Don’t drive distracted or disgusted. ’Nuff said.