Brenda Snipes, the elections supervisor for Broward County, Fla., who resigned after coming under scrutiny for the way her office handled vote counting during the Nov. 6 election, will receive nearly $130,000 in annual pensions once she leaves office in January, according to reports.
Snipes, 75, already receives a pension of more than $58,000 from her time as an educator and is poised to collect another $71,000 for 15 years as an elected official, the Sun-Sentinel reported.

Departing Broward election official Brenda Snipes stands to receive $130G in pensions: reports

So yes, same as anywhere else, the Teachers’ unions are powerful in Florida, specially when they have one of them rigging elections.

Broward Elections and Broward’s School Board need some serious clean up.  Will the Republican Governors have the stones to do it?

Aides Force Ocasio-Cortez To Watch Entire Run Of ‘Schoolhouse Rock!’

As Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez continued to prepare to take office as an actual congresswoman that people in the United States apparently voted for of their own volition, her aides forced her to sit down and watch the entire run of Schoolhouse Rock!, a popular education program that teaches youngsters rudimentary ideas on topics ranging from economics to politics.

After Ocasio-Cortez entered her office Tuesday, aides gently guided her to a special room they’d prepared with every season of Schoolhouse Rock! prepped and ready to go.

The woman furrowed her brow and nodded slowly as the cartoon characters talked about basic concepts like the three chambers of government, the process of a bill becoming law, and how money works. “I thought Bill was the president a while ago?” she said confusedly, causing an assistant to pause the show and slowly explain what a congressional bill is.

“See how the singing piece of paper is trying to become a law?” the aide said amicably. “That’s kind of how it works, in a broad sense.”

“Ohhh!” she said as realization dawned on her. “But how do they teach the papers to sing? Wait—don’t tell me—socialism?” The aide then sighed and rewound the tape to the beginning a third time.

At publishing time, Ocasio-Cortez had asked to take a break during the episode on basic economics.

It’s not real, it’s The Babylon Bee, but damn do I believe that to be true.

Most people don’t know this, but the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard has a program called the Bipartisan Program for Newly Elected Members of Congress that is mandatory for all newly elected members of Congress.

It runs them through the basics of the rules of order.  How Congress works.  What their jobs are.  Etc.

It happens every December after a national election.

Everything that happens there is private, but I would so love to be a fly on that wall when AOC goes through the program.

I’ve love to get the scuttlebutt from inside that to know which new Members of the House acted like they knew it all already and which ones tried to learn something.  I have a feeling AOC would be in the former.

It is not a long article explaining why this whole killing and mistreating of non-Muslims is really a recent thing. The author pretty much blames the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini for starting the whole thing in 1989. Basically the extreme Islamic thing is not even thirty years old for this senior fellow of the Cato Institute.

Except history is a quirky thing. You see, the Prophet Muhammad dies in Media in Anno Domini 632 and by AD 711, just 79 years later, the Muslims were invading what is now Spain and subjecting is habitants to death if they did not swear allegiance to Islam or they could pay a recurrent “fee” to remain “free” or simply become slaves.

So, unless they want to revise the article and say that in 79 years the Islamic Jurisprudence went for Kumbaya My Allah to Just another bunch of assholes exercising power via religious fiat and military power, I have to say that Cato Institute is looking for a place in the Liberal Democratic Party table.

The Libertarian Movement has died. It is now a Zombie for Hillary 2020.

Not quite the offering I was expecting for a South Florida clientele.

Should I be worried?

You have to admire the ignorance of the poor young (and very probable) Liberal) Mr. Richardson. I don’t think I am mistaken when I say Germany is the second most important diplomatic post in Europe (London being first) and for many years when we still had two Germanies, the embassy was in Bonn and it was the diplomatic trenches of the Cold War.

This is the Embassy in Berlin, located one door down from the Brandergurg Gate. I might be old-fashioned and with lack of sophistication,  but somehow it does not look like a ballroom to celebrate weddings, Quinceañeras and Bar Mitzvas .

So, if you suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome, you can be both dismissive of an important diplomatic post and denigrate Gay People that did not come out of the proper Left Wing Closet.

H.L. Mencken wrote “Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.”

So I ask myself, at what point will I start slitting throats?

What has to happen such that I say to myself “by the end of today, there are going to be a lot of dead people because of me?”

I’m not 100% sure, but I think I found the making of it down in Texas.

This story from The Federalist.

Mom Dresses Six-Year-Old Son As Girl, Threatens Dad With Losing His Son For Disagreeing

Six-year-old James is caught in a gender identity nightmare. Under his mom’s care in Dallas, Texas, James obediently lives as a trans girl named “Luna.” But given the choice when he’s with dad, he’s all boy — his sex at birth.

In their divorce proceedings, the mother has charged the father with child abuse for not affirming James as transgender, has sought restraining orders against him, and is seeking to terminate his parental rights. She is also seeking to require him to pay for the child’s visits to a transgender-affirming therapist and transgender medical alterations, which may include hormonal sterilization starting at age eight.

One of the operative words in that excerpt is “Dallas.”  Texas may be seen as a Red State, but Dallas is strong Blue.  Below is a map of the 2016 Texas election results.

You can see Dallas went almost 2:1 for Hillary.  In 2018, Dallas voted 66% for Beto.

So when you read this, don’t think G.W. Bush bit hat wearing Texas, think San Francisco or Seattle.

The website SaveJames.com which was set up by a family friend of James’ father contains a PDF of all the court documents. so you can read them yourself.  The About page gives a succinct synopsis of James’ plight.

Our friend Jeff has twin 6 year old boys, James and Jude. Jeff is currently in a very tenuous custody battle as he and his ex-wife each fight for full custody. When the boys were 3 years old, Jeff’s ex-wife decided that James should not be a boy. She began dressing him as a girl, calling him by the name “Luna” and enrolled him in “social transitioning” therapy to prepare him for chemical castration. This process can begin at age 8. She has enrolled him in Coppell Schools as a girl. He is currently in 1st grade. The teachers and administrators know that he is a boy, but the other parents and students are unaware.

Courts have enjoined Jeff from dressing James as a boy at school, from teaching him that he is a boy, and from sharing religious teachings on sexuality and gender. He has been accused of abuse for saying that his son is a boy.

James can choose how he wants to dress when he is at home – and when he is with his father, he chooses to be a boy.

The Federalist article sheds some more light on the situation.

When his mother, a pediatrician, took James for counseling, she chose a gender transition therapist who diagnosed him with gender dysphoria, a mental conflict between physical sex and perceived gender. James’ precious young life hinges purely on the diagnosis of gender dysphoria by a therapist who wraps herself in rainbow colors, affirms the diagnosis of gender dysphoria, and dismisses evidence to the contrary.

So the counselor is a radial activist.

The transition therapist has observed that James is not consistent, insistent, or persistent in the desire to become “Luna.” For example, a dossier filed with the Dallas court says that, under the skilled eyes of the therapist, the child was presented two pieces of paper, one with the word “James” and one with the word “Luna,” and asked to pick the name he preferred. When the appointment only included his mother, James selected Luna, the name and gender he uses at his mother’s home and in his first-grade classroom. When the appointment was only with his father, however, James pointed to the boy name James, not the girl name.

This is just my amateur armchair therapist analysis, but I suspect mom has some sort of political Munchhausen By Proxy going on.  Whether is it an actual mental illness or just fame seeking, I’m not sure.  But it seems to me that mom is probably using and abusing her son so that she can be seen as the ultimate LGBT ally, affirming her trans child’s transition.

I remember reading about another trans-child case, under similar conditions.  The boy was expressing desire to be a girl.  When concerned people dug deeper, it turns out that the boy’s parents has just divorced and mom was saying a lot of the bitter divorcee “all men are bastards” type things around her son, and he as an impressionable young child, thought that if he became a girl, mommy would love him again.

Back to James, or more specifically James’ dad.

When James is away from his mother, he consistently rejects the idea that he is “Luna girl” or that he wants to be a girl. Because the court prohibits dad from dressing James as a boy or from teaching him that he is a boy by sharing religious or science-based teachings on sexuality, dad presents James with male and female clothing options and James always chooses, even insists on, his boy clothes. Dad told me, “James violently refuses to wear girl’s clothes at my home.” This is not a sign of gender dysphoria.

The courts have enjoined James’ dad from talking to his son about his sexuality or gender, giving him boy clothes, or even cutting James’ hair.

They have stopped the dad from being a dad.

Where this turns into a true horror story is that mom is pushing for James to be subject to puberty blockers at age 8.  He’s six now.

That right there is the breaking point.

I, for the most part, don’t care what an adult man wants to do to his body, as long as I am not forced to pay for it.  If an adult wants to transition, fine.  It’s not my business unless he starts scaring my wife in the ladies room.

A child is something very different.  Applying puberty blockers to an 8 year old is some Josef Mengele level medical evil.

It is putting radical Progressive ideology over the heath and mental safety of a child.

The day a judge tells me I cannot stop a doctor and a radical activist “gender counselor” from putting a needle in my son’s arm to fill his body with organ destroying poison is the day I fill people with bullets, take my son across the border, buy plane tickets to Ben Gurion airport, can claim asylum in Israel.

Now I know my wife, and she would never do that to our children.

What I fear is the activists who will.  The Twilight Zone future that I hope we are not headed to, but I think we might be, is when a story like James’ isn’t that of a poor boy caught between parents in a divorce, but an activist teacher or school counselor versus parents.

If there is a hill I am going to die on, it is stopping unhinged Lefties from performing Auschwitz level medical grotesqueries on my child.

I just saw this video in Twitter. It is weeks old when the Honduran migrants were breaking through the border with Mexico.
What caught my attention was the guy in the bullhorn telling the photo journalist what pictures to take.
Fake News much?

Such a lovely bunch, this group sent five special forces to the hospital one with a severe head wound, how could you not open your borders to these outstanding members of society.. #BuildThatWall pic.twitter.com/ohELu8GbNJ

— Rosie Memos (@almostjingo) November 27, 2018

I have been told of videos where you can hear the “migrants” cussing the US because they are not allowed in. Normally I would have ignored the accusations, but with all the crap going on and the decades of socialist indoctrination in Latin America, I do believe it is possible. Back in my youth I got tired of seeing the mental disconnect of people wearing Levi’s and Nikes while protesting Capitalism and denouncing US consumerism.