Under the fedora--The man

 N.A.C.B.U. would like to tip it's hat to Mr Peter Ingemi, whose radio show has been picked up for syndication by Cameo Productions!!!  Read the whole post for all the info. Congratulations, Peter! We're rooting for you, pal!

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Stan Musial died Saturday. 

Youngsters might not recognize the name although their spell checkers will.  Musial never dated movie stars, he wasn’t known for fights with the press, brawls in bars, or bad behavior of any time.  He was married for 72 years to the same woman who died last May and was never known to mistreat anyone expect opposing pitchers whose offering he deposited all over the field or over the fence from 1940 till 1962.

Musial won 3 MVP and was runner up 4 times.  Think of that a second, for one third of his career it was the consensus that he was the best or second best at what he did in the league.

That’s simply incredible.

There have been many tributes to Stan Musial over the last few days, but I think the greatest tribute to him was paid last year by Albert Pujois.

When he was signed by the Angels they put up promotional signs referring to him as El Hombre.  Given his numbers in 11 years he averaged 40 HR & 121 RBI a season while hitting .328. certainly number that would justify being called “El Hombre”, “The Man” but he would have none of it.

"I still have the same respect for him as I had, not just for what he's done in baseball but for what he did for his country. That's something you have to appreciate."

That really says it all doesn’t it?  BTW the Angels took down the billboards.

Best description of Stan Musial I ever read came from Bill James when declaring him the best left fielder of all time over Ted Williams :

...if I had to choose between the two of them, I’d take Musial in left field, Musial on the basepaths, Musial in the clubhouse and Williams only with the wood in his hand.  And Stan Musial could hit a little, too.

Someone not thinking of death these days is Andrew Cuomo.  His latest abortion proposals bid to secure the Democrat left for 2016 are so extreme it produced this exchange between Elizabeth (The Anchoress) and her husband:

“he wants to be president. He is pandering to Planned Parenthood and Emily’s List because there is gold in them thar purses.”
My husband was appalled to ponder it: “a lot more than 30 pieces of silver,” he said, and it’s not going to get him to heaven.”
“Yeah, well, he’s not seeking heaven, just now,” I shrugged. “He’s seeking the White House, and power.”

Nobody is promised tomorrow, Andrew Cuomo might consider that, if he actually believed.  But I don’t’ think he does.

 I have given no pixels at all to Steubenville OH Rape case that has the left and the occupods in an uproar.  Lee Stranahan has and can tell you Everything you know about the case is wrong:

Among the widely reported and false claims:

• Steubenville is so corrupt that no justice is possible.
• There has been a massive cover-up in the case.
• The victim was drugged, put in a car trunk to bring her to a series of parties, urinated on, and left for dead in a field.
• That there a number of witnesses to the assaults who have not come forward.
• The school’s football coaches were involved in the night’s activities.
• That football players were given easy or preferential treatment in this case.
• No media was covering the case except for one blogger until Anonymous got involved.
• That no justice would happen in this case were it not for the intervention of Anonymous.
• The infamous video of Michael Nodianos joking has nothing to do with the legal case.

To reiterate, those claims are rumors that are unsupported by evidence and yet if you click on any link to a story about the case, you’ll find any number of in whichever story you read.

Lee positively owns this story and that ownership is making a lot of people angry, must mess with the approved narrative don’t you know .

The Atlanta Falcons Tony Gonzalez moved one step closer to being  the Ernie Banks of Football.  A well-loved Hall of Fame player who never made it to the big game.It’s quite possible Goonzalez is the best Tight End to ever play the game but he has some interesting opinions concerning marriage, (via Wikipedia)

Gonzalez had a commitment ceremony in July 2007 with his girlfriend, October, and considers himself married.

Considers himself married?  Really?  Well why not?  If we can redefine marriage one way why shouldn’t we redefine it any way anybody wants it to be?  After all it’s not like marriage is anything important.

And if you object you are a racist, bigot sexist homophobe.

People are laughing at this story about a guy at Verizon who outsourced his own job for a 1/5 of the price and pocketed the difference that he was being paid.

Two thoughts:  If Verizon was satisfied with the work and the price they were paying for it, what do they have to complain about?

And frankly how is this any different than a contractor hiring a subcontractor to do a job?

Chip Jones at Conservative Report Online has a hell of a question concerning Benghazi:

You see, the Kalashnikov rifle chambers a 7.62 mm round. The US M-4 rifle chambers a 5.56 mm round. What is widely reported and accepted is that at least two of the TDY Green Berets who were assigned by the CIA as ARSO’s (assistant regional safety officers) were badly wounded and were treated for multiple gunshot wounds after they rescued over 20 civilian CIA workers from the compound.

The single question that needs to be asked is: “Were the rounds taken out of the wounded ARSO’s 7.62 mm or 5.56 mm?” And when the answer comes back “5.56 mm”, it opens the door to the proof that the cover up was meant to hide the fact that the Obama administration had been caught once again arming offshore groups that did not have the interests of our country at heart. It would open the door to proof that Benghazi was “Fast and Furious on Steroids.”

Considering the MSM’s lack of interest in Fast and Furious it’s going to take an awful lot of steroids to get the MSM’s attention

Covered a GOP forum on Monday with two of the candidates for GOP Chair

 Kirsten Hughes

and Rick Green.

I think these two candidates perfectly encapsulate the question the GOP faces nationally.

If you are a bit sleepy this from NiceDeb will wake you up:

Dr. Jim Garrow, a renowned author and humanitarian, made the shocking claim on his Facebook page, yesterday.

I have just been informed by a former senior military leader that Obama is using a new “litmus test” in determining who will stay and who must go in his military leaders. Get ready to explode folks. “The new litmus test of leadership in the military is if they will fire on US citizens or not.” Those who will not are being removed.

Garrow noted in the comments that  “the man who told me this is one of America’s foremost military heroes,” prompting this relpy from one of his followers, “if this man is truly a military hero, he had better not be keeping this a secret. Military hero’s (sic) do what’s right, not what’s comfortable for themselves.”

Garrow responded, “have folks forgotten that the word is now out. I believe that the gentleman has done what he should and allowed all of us to sound the alarm.

If this is the slightest bit true it will be very interesting to see the reaction in the ranks.

Jack Mitchel’s book Fireside Chat is becoming more and more relevant

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A bit of a cultural thing, when I wanted that Bill James quote from the start of this piece I didn’t search the net.  I remembered reading it and ran upstairs grabbed the book I saw it in, leafed through it until I found it.  I tend to do that an awful lot when writing.  In this internet age/kindle age it must seem a quaint and amusing thing to do.  I’m sure some of the younger set must laugh at it.  Let them.  I’ll take the printed word over the pixel every time.  With the printed word I can say with 100% certainty that what it says on the page today will be the same thing it says on it tomorrow.

You know you are old when you find yourself using the words “the younger set” in a sentence.

Finally there is huge news concerning DaTechGuy on DaRadio.  Last week was my final week on WCRN AM 830.  Starting Saturday at 1 PM my radio show will be Syndicated by Cameo Productions.  The first stations carrying me will be in Massachusetts from the Money Matters Radio Network, a fourth online station will be added Feb 2^nd and from there, who knows?

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Inside Liberals: The Media, Hollywood, and The White House: Move to the Left

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The American Maverick: OBAMA INAUGURATION NOT LIKE THE FIRST TIME

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The American Maverick: ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU TO SPEAK AT CPAC

The American Maverick: ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU TO SPEAK AT CPAC: The American Conservative Union (ACU) announced another great list of speakers for the 2013 Conservative Political Action Conference.  Of...

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Obama White House is Missing in Action in Mali

Obama White House is Missing in Action in Mali

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Under the Fedora: Saints and sinners

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On Morning Joe Monday I was treated to yet another day of people praising members of the GOP who are willing to attack the party and being told how far to the right Republicans have gone.

Somehow they never note how far left democrats now are.  Katrina vandenHeuvel would never have been considered a mainline guest on a show just a decade ago, now she is on regularly.  You never saw people citing the Nation or Mother Jones, now they are treated as mainstream left.

And what ever happened to the DLC that Joe cited when he brought up Bill Clinton?  Gone with the wind.

You would think by now I’d be used to this, I hope to God I never am.

Speaking of our 42^nd president Bill Clinton has been picked as Father of the Year.  Less than 15 years ago that would have been a one liner in a SNL sketch, now it’s reality.  I wonder, has there ever been a father of the year whose reputation is such that no mother would trust her daughter with him?

As the 10^th doctor once said:“The World is very strange.”

If, like me, you are a Doctor Who fan you will want to keep an eye on BBC America.  For the 50^th anniversary of the show they will broadcast a special on each of the 11 doctors followed by an episode of Doctor Who from that era.  They will be starting with William Hartnell, the 1^st Doctor (or as he was called then: The Doctor).  I think today he is often forgotten but if he doesn’t pull it off, the Doctor with no background, no real history and the total lack of special effects there is no show today.

Last week’s DaTechGuy on DaRadioreally caught a lot of people off guard.

Our first guest was Dr. Paul Byrne, he talked about the difference between so called “brain death” and “true death” stating that we are literally cutting brain injured people open alive for their organs for profit.

The reaction from people to his show has been shock.  They have never been told the other side of this story and that it’s coming from somebody who is one of the pioneers of neonatal care and a former head of the Catholic Medical association makes it even harder to take.

In our second hour we had Mike Hummell a member of the Hostess Bakers union who rejected the contract offer that led to the closing of Hostess.  He presented a case for rejecting the union contract that seemed pretty reasonable to me.

What really surprised him though was his treatment, he wrote to me afterwards that he expected to be “ambush” interview and had his defenses up for a sneak attack that never came.

I think it’s pretty sad that we’ve reach a point where people expect to be insulted or mistreated in a discussion. 

Our treatment of him won some praise at the Daily Kos site.  I’ve got to say I certainly never thought I’d be typing that, then again I suspect Mike didn’t expect to be saying it either.

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A group of British Bishops talking about Gay Marriage said bluntly that it is going to lead to a new era of Catholic persecution on the island as the Catholic Church.   If anyone in England doubts this, see how many children the Catholic Church places for adoption in Massachusetts these days.

People forget that England has a long history of anti-Catholicism dating back to the church’s unwillingness to allow Henry VIII to discard wives at will.  In some ways Catholics are still 2^nd class citizens in the UK.  It is no coincidence that Tony Blair didn’t convert until he was out of office.  The Catholic Church’s ,

The age of easy Christianity for the west is about to end.  We are going to be pushed by the secular left, the anti-Catholic right and radical Islam.  Keeping the faith is going to come with costs.  Outside of the western world it the costs can be fatal.  It’s going to be really bad for my sons.

People say it’s not fair, but then I remember this biblical passage:

“If the world hates you, realize that it hated me first. If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own; but because you do not belong to the world, and I have chosen you out of the world, the world hates you. Remember the word I spoke to you, ‘No slave is greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours. And they will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they do not know the one who sent me. If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have no sin; but as it is they have no excuse for their sin. Whoever hates me also hates my Father. John 15:18-23

And I remember that no matter how unfair it might be, if you are a Christian in general or a Catholic in particular, you would know it’s part of the job description.

It’s still on Guns all the time on MSNBC and Morning Joe.   It’s a great distraction from the economy.  On Wednesday they were really upset at this NRA ad

I understand why they are so pissed:

The Democrats won an election by pushing the class warfare line, the 1% line, the idea that Mitt Romney was an elite that didn't care about you and your families.  It was a sell that worked with low information voters.

Now you have the same message being played by the NRA to the same voters.  It's the class warfare argument, the 1%, the argument that the President and the rich Washington elites don't care about your families as long as their own kids are safe.

The left hates this argument; they just used it and know it works.

The most interesting argument I’ve heard on the subject comes from Ann Althouse:

It occurred to me, after the Sandy Hook murders, that blaming guns is a secular substitute for blaming the devil. People find it too challenging to figure out why a human being would do this terrible thing and they latch on to the idea that the gun made it happen.

The post starts with the question:  Don’t I have the right to die?  I think that’s one of the most stupid question ever, you have a destiny to die, it’s just a question of when.

A big fuss was made about Jodie Foster’s “coming out speech” for myself the thing that struck me was that she is my age and has been working in the business since she was 43.  I have a vivid memory of her in the last season of Daniel Boone as the a ragamuffin girl taken in by Jimmy Dean’s Josh Character.  If the series had lasted another year she might have become a regular on the show.  She was pretty good even back then.

Hollywood is a nasty environment and a lot of people particularly as the standards of “acceptable” behavior moved closer to the behavior that many in the entertainment industry indulged with relish outside of the eyes of the public paid the price for living in it.

That Jodie Foster has managed to be anything resembling sane with a lifetime of such an environment is an achievement greater than any accolade that the film industry can give her for her work.

That people decide to give additional credence to people from this environment never ceases to amaze me

Finally Football.  I’m a baseball guy but the footballs playoffs have been very exciting.  The Seattle Atlanta game was incredible, although the pats make it look easy it was still a great game and Baltimore vs Denver was classic, (Baltimore scares me more than any other team) but the greatest Irony is in Denver. 

Last year Tim Tebow led Denver to their division title and a playoff win before losing in the 2^nd round.  One year and 11 million dollars later Payton Manning got Denver a 1^st round bye, but didn’t get the Broncos any farther than Tebow did.  Meanwhile the Jets who absolutely refused to start Tebow even as Sanchez tanked and the 3^rd string QB when down managed to go 6-10.

I’m a pats fan so Payton Manning and the Jets are both rivals so I naturally don’t mind them going down but I’d be a liar if I said that the treatment of Tebow by the Jets and Denver didn’t make both of those results sweeter.

I’ll put it on my confession list for this month…

 



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Despicable: Arab Gang Attacks Two Hareidi Jews in Jerusalem

Despicable: Arab Gang Attacks Two Hareidi Jews in Jerusalem

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Dead Citizen's rights Society: An Open Letter From the Dead to the Living

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 My fellow Americans, I write this letter to you today to dispel delusional ideas that run rampant among you. Chief among these is the idea that you possess actual Liberty in any form. You do not. The United States government is more like that of George III of England than anything the founders of this nation envisioned.

George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, George Mason and Thomas Paine spend their days in a small room playing Whist, disgusted with the burgeoning behemoth that the federal government has become with it’s Byzantine structure and octopus-like tentacles everywhere. Hell, even Abe Lincoln and Jeff Davis spend their days fishing (while James Buchanan and his wife Bill King bait the hooks and spread the picnic lunch) out of utter disgust for the direction America has taken. FDR just laughs and says “You thought I was bad with my social programs!”.

Secondly, the idea you will ever get rid of the current occupant of 1600. He has completely suborned the government to rule by executive fiat instead of governance by legislation. You are no longer citizens, you are subjects. The nation is not governed by Congress as intended but is ruled by the President, as much a monarch as was Henry VIII or George III. Even that half-progressive shrub George W. Bush went to war in Afghanistan and Iraq with the approval of Congress, unlike His Majesty Obama who is engaged in covert wars all throughout the Middle East and North Africa without so much as a by-your-leave to Congress.

We dead cannot see the future but we CAN see the entirety of the past and the mistakes there.

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Under the Fedora: Ethics and elastics

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Back when I was in New York before the election there was a question during a debate between Ann Marie Buerkle and Hilary Rosen concerning fracking in NY

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What wasn’t known at the time the question was asked was that NY State already had a report on Fracking and the environment commissioned by the state which said this:

The state’s Health Department found in an analysis it prepared early last year that the much-debated drilling technology known as hydrofracking could be conducted safely in New York.

Well this is great news, it’s strange that we are only hearing about this report now, but then again, if it was up to the Cuomo administration we still wouldn’t have heard of it:

“Thanks to a leak from an anonymous insider, we learned Thursday that a report commissioned by the State of New York has given fracking a clean bill of health. The insider ‘did not think it should be kept secret’ and released the document, which is now nearly one year old, to the New York Times.”

I’m sure the fact that Ann Marie Buerkle winning in 2010 by a razor thin margin had nothing to do with it.  After all no governor would withhold a report that could mean jobs statewide just for political reasons.

And surely that kind of thing would not happen on the federal level

The Food and Drug Administration released long-awaited documents Dec. 21 on genetically modified salmon: an assessment of the fish’s potential environmental effects and a preliminary “finding of no significant impact” of the fish on the environment. This brings AquAdvantage salmon — Atlantic salmon that has been modified with a growth hormone gene from chinook salmon so that it reaches maturity faster — a significant step closer to FDA approval.
Astute readers will notice that the recently released documents are dated May 4. So why were they just released Dec. 21 — seven months later?

Well it’s not like they were talking to the political people on the White House side:

The seven month delay, sources within the government say, came after discussions late last spring between Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sibelius’ office and officials linked to Valerie Jarrett at the Executive Office, who were debating the political implications of approving the GM salmon. Genetically modified plants and animals are controversial among the president’s political base, which was thought critical to his reelection efforts during a low point in the president’s popularity.

I wrote for a long time the left was acting like they were in deep trouble pre-election.  Apparently they knew it too and made sure they held back anything that might depress vote from the president’s base.

Jazz Shaw asks a good question:

Obama originally swept into office claiming that the Republicans were the “anti-science party” and he was going to take the politics out science. Entine describes the White House block of the study’s release as, “a direct violation of numerous ethics regulations and possibly of federal laws.” But even if that weren’t the case, it would still be a stunning black eye for the administration which originally claimed it would change “the posture of our federal government from being one of the most anti-science administrations in American history to one that embraces science and technology.”

As time has gone by the left has become more and more dishonorable.

Speaking of things said before an election remember when Barack Obama said he would have more flexibility after the election?  Well he proved it by a nominating Chuck “let the jews pay for it” Hagel for sec of Defense. 

JenniferRubin in the Washington Post opined a week before the pick that it seemed like an odd choice:

President Obama believes in tough sanctions against Iran; Hagel does not. The president insists that he wants good relations with Israel (and thereby can influence its decision-making with regard to Iran); Hagel has displayed a poisonous animosity toward the Jewish state. Hagel has advocated direct negotiations with Hamas; Obama has never gone this far. The difficulty in articulating to foes and friends our positions on an array of issues is greatly magnified when a critical cabinet officials has a long track record of disagreement with the president, or at least what the president says is his current policy.

Well it would be odd if President Obama actually believed these things

Of course some Obama supporters in the media see the Hagel nomination for what it is:

·  As a Republican who criticized President Bush’s policy in Iraq and supported the Afghanistan war, Hagel gives Obama cover to pull troops out of Afghanistan.

·  As a Republican who in 2011 called the Pentagon budget “bloated,” Hagel gives Obama cover to slash military spending, and to redirect money to deficit reduction and investments in Democratic policies.

·  As a Republican who questioned the validity of unilateral sanctions against adversaries like Iran, and who spoke against knee-jerk acquiescence to Israel, Hagel gives Obama room to maneuver against Tehran.

Hagel gives Obama the cover to do the things he really wants to do but didn’t dare say it aloud.

I don’t want to hear a single complaint from any Jewish person who voted for the president.  20 years ago there might have been an excuse for not knowing but in this internet age the only reason to be ignorant of what was coming was to choose to be so.

I won’t laugh at them as lives are at stake, but I will laugh at Obama voters shocked SHOCKED to see the tax increase in the first paychecks of 2013 down 2% due to taxes.  As Twitchy puts it

The harsh reality of crushed unicorn dreams and the bitter smell of regret. As Twitchy reported, Americans started noticing that Obama’s “fair share” claims weren’t so fair and many were shocked … shocked … that their first paychecks of the year were smaller.
The indebted young Twitter user above now says she was just being sarcastic, but plenty of Obama supporters facing smaller paychecks continue to show genuine disenchantment.

Those tweets are solid gold

There are some people who are doing better in these times, people like Bill Richardson:
The U.S. Export-Import Bank recently steered hundreds of millions of dollars in federal loans to Spanish green energy conglomerate Abengoa, which happens to share an advisory board member with the bank.
There was a time when the MSM would have had an interest in this story, but in the age of Obama what happens with Democrats stays in places like the Washington Free Beacon.
I don’t follow college football, but I really have to laugh when I saw my fellow Catholics going nuts over Notre Dame vs Alabama.  A lot of folks were upset when they were crushed by the tide.
I wonder how many of these Catholics were outraged by Obama as the Commencement speaker or by big contributors to Emily’s (Abortion) list on the board?
Where your treasure is that’s where your heart will be.

The NHL players have FINALLY agreed to a deal with the owners ending the lockout

The National Hockey League and the NHL Players' Association struck a tentative agreement early Sunday that may end a three-month lockout of unionized players, league and union officials announced.

 Pat Garofalo at US news is not happy with the deal:

But while fans are surely excited that their favorite teams are returning to the ice (go Devils!), it's a shame that another professional sports lockout was resolved by taking a chunk of hide from the players. And make no mistake: the lockout was about owners trying to extract huge concessions from their employees, and they largely succeeded.

These guys get paid a fortune to play a game, there are literally hundreds of people vying for each of their jobs that they have and they are upset at having to split the money.  You’ll forgive me for not crying for them.

Time Magazine has suddenly discovered that there might be a downside to sex selective abortion

Growing evidence suggests that in countries like India and China, where the ratio of men to women is unnaturally high due to the selective abortion of female fetuses and neglect of girl children, the rates of violence towards women increase. “The sex ratio imbalance directly leads to more sex trafficking and bride buying,”

I don’t see why we should care, haven’t we been told for years these aren’t actually children being aborted?  Mark Steyn who pointed this out years ago says this about the Time article:

The dearth of chicks will be one of the most important and consequential features of the global scene a couple of decades on, and, as I write in After America, “a world full of male frustrations will always find a market for sex slavery.” If American feminists wished to raise awareness of the issues Time is now addressing, they might give it an arresting name like, oh, “the war on women.” But I gather that title’s taken.

Hey it’s not a “war on women” unless the problem can be traced to white republican men or Christians, but maybe if Time blames it on colonialism they can pull it off?

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Finally for Christmas I got an excellent book for Christmas Ships of Oak Guns of Iron by Ronald D. Utt and noticed an interesting question from Charles Francis Adams as to when the US became a world class power:

Adams not only says “yes” but dares to specify an exact date and time when the country reached this point:
…To be specific , it was at thirty minutes after six o’clock on the afternoon of Wednesday, August 19th 1812.
It wasn’t Adams quote, but the next two sentences of the author Ronald D. Utt that caught my eye:
Adams did not have to remind his audience what had happened at that specified moment. They all knew, as did every schoolboy in the nation (emphasis mine)

I will wager not one boy in a thousand today knows the significance of that day,  It was the day Issac Hull in USS Constitution destroyed the  HMS Guerriere.

In other words it’s a story of heroes and such stories are not allowed to be celebrated in Modern America as I wrote last week:

A society emulates and it’s children aspire to what it celebrates. A country celebrates greatness, can remain great. A society that celebrates nothing, can’t.
That simple sentence in that book says more about the decline of America than any budget battle or reality show ever can.
Truer words never spoken

was in New York before the election there was a question during a debate between Ann Marie Buerkle and Hilary Rosen

 


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Alex Jones, my new patriot hero!

 Piers Morgan, the Brit who wants to come to America to change the way we live, to question the 2nd amendment, met his match a couple of days ago when he interviewed the man responsible for starting a petition with over 100 000 signatures requesting the USA to deport him, Alex Jones.

Morgan is just another bleeding heart liberal Brit who thinks his farts smell of tea and Guinness. He thinks he can come here and argue OUR RIGHTS with his little twisted facts.

May we remind you that in November 2012 Morgan was criticized in the official findings of the Leveson Inquiry, when Lord Leveson stated that comments made in Morgan's testimony about phone hacking "clearly prove is that he was aware that it was taking place in the press as a whole and that he was sufficiently unembarrassed by what was criminal behavior that he was prepared to joke about it"


 As editor of the Mirror, in 1996 Morgan was widely criticized and forced to apologize for the headline "Achtung! Surrender" a day before England met Germany in a semi-final of the Euro '96 football championships.


 In 2000, Morgan was the subject of an investigation after Suzy Jagger wrote a story in The Daily Telegraph revealing that he had bought £20,000 worth of shares in the computer company Viglen soon before the Mirror 's 'City Slickers' column tipped Viglen as a good buy. Morgan was found by the Press Complaints Commission to have breached the Code of Conduct on financial journalism, but kept his job. The 'City Slickers' columnists, Anil Bhoyrul and James Hipwell, were both found to have committed further breaches of the Code, and were sacked before the inquiry. In 2004, further enquiry by the Department of Trade and Industry cleared Morgan from any charges. On 7 December 2005 Bhoyrul and Hipwell were convicted of conspiracy to breach the Financial Services Act. During the trial it emerged that Morgan had bought £67,000 worth of Viglen shares, emptying his bank account and investing under his wife's name too.

 Morgan was fired as Editor of the Daily Mirror on 14 May 2004 after authorizing the newspaper's publication of photographs allegedly showing Iraqi prisoners being abused by British Army soldiers from the Queen's Lancashire Regiment. Within days the photographs were shown to be crude fakes. Under the headline "SORRY.. WE WERE HOAXED", the Mirror responded that it had fallen victim to a "calculated and malicious hoax" and apologized for the publication of the photographs.[

 In 2007, Morgan was filmed falling off a Segway, breaking three ribs. Simon Cowell and others made much of Morgan's previous comment in 2003, in the Daily Mail, after former U.S. President George W. Bush fell off a Segway, that "You'd have to be an idiot to fall off, wouldn't you, Mr. President?


 Morgan is the prime example of a yellow journalist. Committing crimes (hacking) or supporting them.

Alex Jones KICKED HIS ASS on national TV. Watch here:

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We are sad to announce that one of our co-authors, Amy Lidster, lost her mother yesterday. Please keep her and her family in your thoughts and prayers.

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