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Two Funerals and a Missing Cardinal
[AmericanThinker] The Mueller investigation continues without hitting paydirt and further diminishing the reputation of the special counsel and Clintonite team. I expect the president to shortly (maybe even this week) declassify the FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) warrant on Carter Page. This warrant provided the means to spy on the president and his campaign. We learned this week that the warrant, which triggered this partisan witch hunt, was signed by the FISC (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court) without any hearing whatsoever....As the Mueller juggernaut keeps dropping bolts and rumbling to a final crash, we were temporarily distracted by the funerals of the Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin and "Maverick" senator from Arizona. In both cases, the pageantry was over the top. Aretha's open gilded casket was on display for four days, with the remains clothed in new flashy garb. Pink Cadillacs in tribute to her lined the streets of Detroit. Celebrities attended, and some managed to throw in a tribute to the deceased in speeches largely praising themselves and attacking the president. Former president Bill Clinton spoke, claiming he and "no ways tired" Hillary had been her groupies forever. He also quite obviously ogled the young singer Ariana Grande. On the stage in the front row were Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and Louis Farrakhan, though MSNBC and CNN edited the latter out of the photos they ran. The Maverick's five-day funeral rites were reportedly planned in every detail by the departed and reflected his bitter, vindictive streak. In particular, he disinvited Sarah Palin, his running mate in his unsuccessful run for the presidency, and the family made this gesture public. To my mind, without her, his campaign would have been an even bigger failure. ...And then there's the missing cardinal to make the crazy week even weirder. Pope Francis was under attack for failing to act on countless documented cases of sex abuse within the Catholic Church. The Vatican's ex-ambassador to Washington, Archbishop Carlo Viganò, fired the first salvo, detailing the misconduct of Archbishop Theodore McCarrick and Cardinal Donald Wuerl and calling on the pope to resign. ...There are calls for Cardinal Wuerl to resign and he appears to have gone missing, with rumors that he was spirited out of the country to avoid prosecution. ...In the meantime, the president goes about his business. This week, he seems to have brought Canada to heel on trade policies, and choked Hamas by cutting off funds to the corrupt UNRWA, which sustains those murderers. He is squeezing China on tariffs ‐ I think as much to ensure fairer trade policies as to make Xi stop pressuring North Korea to avoid denuclearizing. He certainly has set a pattern of using all the economic tools at his disposal to settle issues instead of the warm bodies of our men and women in the military. Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2018-09-02 |
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