Tuesday, December 31, 2019

Why America Needs Armed Citizens

Why America Needs Armed Citizens
Excerpt: Let’s get one thing straight: An armed citizen responding to an attempted mass shooter in a place of worship, like yesterday at the West Freeway Church of Christ, is no one’s first choice or ideal scenario. We would all prefer a world where no gunmen ever charged into a church, and no man with a knife ever charged into a rabbi’s house, as in Monsey, N.Y. Saturday night. We would all prefer to live in a world where the cops were already on-scene in those situations, and the police would always know where they need to be before the worst even gets started. But we don’t live in either of those worlds. In light of those cold hard facts, we need to choose the next best option. There are a lot of gun-control advocates who believe the next best option is for worshippers to remain unarmed in houses of worship and to just hope for the best. On any given day, the vast majority houses of worship and religious gatherings will not be attacked, even if the weekend’s attacks spur copycats. In the minds of gun-control advocates, the idea of an armed citizen doing something wrong — firing at the shooter and hitting an innocent bystander, or accidentally firing his weapon — that it is better to just remain unarmed and hope for the best. If an attacker does burst in during services, I guess their advice would be to duck, hide, and pray . . . which is ironic, because every other time this crowd insists that your thoughts and prayers are meaningless.

Biden: Hero Who Stopped Texas Church Shooter Was Wrong To Have A Gun "The kind of gun being carried he shouldn't be carrying."

https://thefederalist.com/2017/11/15/biden-hero-stopped-texas-church-shooter-wrong-gun/

Some of the $1.5 billion cash that Obama gave to Iran traced to Iran-backed terror groups. By Thomas Lifson

Some of the $1.5 billion cash that Obama gave to Iran traced to Iran-backed terror groups. By Thomas Lifson

Hero ex-FBI agent who stopped Texas church shooing says he 'had to take out' gunman because 'evil exists'

Hero ex-FBI agent who stopped Texas church shooing says he 'had to take out' gunman because 'evil exists'

Grooming ‘epidemic’ as almost 19,000 children identified as sexual exploitation victims in England

Grooming ‘epidemic’ as almost 19,000 children identified as sexual exploitation victims in England

Trump’s ‘Failures’

The Left, far better than the NeverTrump Right, grasped that Trump is succeeding, and that it has little traction in demanding economic, energy, immigration, trade, and regulatory alternatives.
Ah, mere facts and logic again. At this point the question is really whether the Democrats will continue to say and do stuff that is so stupid, time wasting, obviously based on hate, and ridiculously extreme that they will push most Independents and even some Democrats to vote for Trump in November, and leave their own Party shattered for years to come. We can hope. --Del

How Obama Impacted the Military

How Obama Impacted the Military

The full story on how badly our military has been damaged. The details in here will drive you crazy, as they did me. Accommodating transgenders and non-binary people and the PC feminist nonsense and creating a situation where some of the best people leave the military because of the social justice crap are things that our worst enemies would only wish they could have arranged. They have to be laughing in Tehran and Moscow about this. 8 years of increasing damage has taken a big toll, and trying to reverse much of this is a huge and difficult job that will take a very long time. That and having him put in the next Supreme Court justice are reasons alone we need Trump to be re-elected. --Del

The Case for Professors of Stupidity. Why aren’t there more people studying the science behind stupidity?

The Case for Professors of Stupidity. Why aren’t there more people studying the science behind stupidity?
Nice article, but I think it neglects a really critical point. A huge part of modern stupidity is not that people lack intelligence or problem solving skills, it's that they have chosen to believe in a very colored reality that doesn't match up at all well with the real world. Usually this is based on going to running one's life and perceptions from an emotional basis, rather than a rational one. Decisions that are perfectly intelligent within the framework of the colored reality and emotional viewpoint are abysmally stupid in actual effect. Simplest example, Chamberlain coming back from Munich waving a piece of paper saying it would guarantee "peace in our time" not because he had a low IQ, lacked education or experience, but because emotionally he could not face the awful reality of who Hitler really was and what was to come. He believed completely in what he wanted/needed to believe. It was stupid, to say the least. Del

China Is Kicking America’s Ass in Space

China Is Kicking America’s Ass in Space
Excerpt: China has overcome its last significant hurdle to spaceflight. The Chinese have successfully launched their much-anticipated Long March V heavy-lift rocket. China can now place the modules to construct the Tianhe-1 space station (meant to rival the International Space Station) in orbit and, more importantly, Beijing can attempt its first interplanetary mission to Mars in late 2020. Beijing can also conduct the Chang’e-5 lunar sample return mission next year. This mission is meant to determine whether there are enough mineable resources on the lunar surface. China plans to strip-mine the moon eventually. [At the risk of being obvious, “American know how” is dependent upon Americans actually knowing how and then doing it. It also depends on our being able to protect that knowledge from discovery by others. We pretty much gave up on space after the final Apollo mission. We may have given up, but the world didn’t. Now we can play catch-up or be passed by. Ron P.]

Communist China: ‘Private Ownership Of Guns’ In U.S. ‘Serious Problem,’ Must ‘Change’

Communist China: ‘Private Ownership Of Guns’ In U.S. ‘Serious Problem,’ Must ‘Change’
Excerpt: Communist China, which currently has millions of people locked away in concentration camps, said in state-controlled media this week that the Second Amendment is a “serious problem” and that there needs to be “change” in how the American public views “private ownership of guns.” The Global Times, which is Chinese state-run media, published the op-ed after a good guy with a gun in Texas stopped a shooting in a church. China mocked the United States, saying that “shootings are shocking in a US allegedly governed by law”: "Private gun ownership is a tradition from the early days at the founding of the US. In a modern society, the problems created by this tradition have already exceeded the benefits. …

The Takeover: China Is Building Enormous Self-Sustaining Chinese Cities All Over The African Continent.

The Takeover: China Is Building Enormous Self-Sustaining Chinese Cities All Over The African Continent.
ChiCom's "One Belt and One Road" program for world domination by economic strategy of controlling third world countries, especially to strip their resources through Chinese constructed cities, air and seaports enabling their military access and a footprint..... ChiCom's other strategy is control over ocean sea lane chokes points for restrictive commercial and military freedom of transit...😡Tailhooker

Can America ‘Afford’ Another Recession?

Can America ‘Afford’ Another Recession? By Jon N. Hall
Excerpt: It’s now history: the federal deficit for fiscal 2019 was -$984 billion. That’s an increase from the previous year of $205B, or 26 percent. And this increase in the deficit happened, mind you, despite an increase in revenue of 4 percent. Here’s more history: On the last day of the last economic expansion (Nov. 30, 2007), the Debt Held by the Public was $5.146T, and twelve years later the Debt Held by the Public was $17.105T. That’s 3.32 times higher, kids. (This deficit and debt situation is totally unacceptable and the Republicans are equally to blame with the Democrats. I pity all of us if we don't make this a top priority. --SM)

Offutt Air Force Base Announces Gun Ban, Immediate Backlash Ensues

Offutt Air Force Base Announces Gun Ban, Immediate Backlash Ensues
Another brasshat bureaucrat makes a PC stupid policy. The policy was that people with carry licenses could bring their guns on base, in their cars or at their homes if they lived there. You had to go through training to get the carry license, which makes perfect sense. So now he or she is barring exactly the right qualified people from having the guns with them that they just underwent background checks and training for. Again, this is taking the driving licenses from people who've never had an accident or a DUI because you're worried about what others might do with cars. Stupid, stupid, stupid. --Del

Sunday, December 29, 2019

Boris Johnson Speaks, and It Isn’t All Greek to Me

Boris Johnson Speaks, and It Isn’t All Greek to Me
Excerpt: On Christmas Eve, Powerline Blog pointed to Boris Johnson reciting a long passage from the Iliad, in ancient Greek, not as a schoolboy might, but as the great storyteller. This should not have been much of a surprise, given other appearances over the past few years by the man who is now Prime Minister. What follows is a Boris Johnson starter sampler. Prime Minister Boris Johnson turned to reciting the Iliad in the course of a conversation with the Australian Broadcasting Company’s Annabel Crabb at the Melbourne Writers Festival this past July.

My Socialist Hell: My Invitation to Hollywood Chavistas: Come to Caracas and Switch with Me

My Socialist Hell: My Invitation to Hollywood Chavistas: Come to Caracas and Switch with Me

Suspect in Hanukkah stabbing at NY rabbi's home pleads not guilty to attempted murder charges

Suspect in Hanukkah stabbing at NY rabbi's home pleads not guilty to attempted murder charges
Excerpt: Police said Thomas allegedly entered the home of Rabbi Chaim Rottenberg in Monsey, a suburb north of New York City, during a Hanukkah celebration -- the latest in a string of anti-Semitic incidents in recent weeks that included beatings of Jewish people in the streets of New York City and a massacre at a kosher grocery store in Jersey City, N.J.

Friday, December 27, 2019

Virginia Weighs Deploying National Guard to Enforce New Anti-Gun Laws. Things Could Get Ugly.

Virginia Weighs Deploying National Guard to Enforce New Anti-Gun Laws. Things Could Get Ugly.
Excerpt: When Michael Bloomberg flooded Virginia state legislative contests with his anti-gun groups' cash he got a quid pro quo from victorious Democrats: a near ban of AR-15s and a promise of more anti-gun laws. Now, to make room for all the felons who are predicted to be arrested by cops and the Virginia National Guard, whom the governor has been urged to deploy, Democrats are demanding more money for prison space and law enforcement.

Virginia Republican Running To Become First Female Marine Elected To Congress

Virginia Republican Running To Become First Female Marine Elected To Congress
Excerpt: Aliscia Andrews, a veteran of the United States Marine Corps (USMC), is running for U.S. Congress in Virginia’s 10th Congressional District as a Republican, seeking to unseat freshman Democrat Rep. Jennifer Wexton, and if elected, would become the first female Marine elected to the U.S. Congress. In an interview with The Daily Wire, Andrews, who has an MBA and Certificate in Cybersecurity Strategy Management from Georgetown, explains what inspired her to run for Congress and what goals she hopes to accomplish if elected. Andrews, who was motivated to join the USMC after a high school friend of hers was killed while serving in the Army, served in the USMC across multiple continents including Europe, Africa, and Asia.

Thursday, December 26, 2019

Brunei has made celebrating Christmas a criminal offence

Brunei has made celebrating Christmas a criminal offence

Democrats Seek To Outlaw Suburban, Single-Family House Zoning, Calling It Racist And Bad For The Environment

Democrats Seek To Outlaw Suburban, Single-Family House Zoning, Calling It Racist And Bad For The Environment
The state is all. You will be made to care. ~Bob

Eric Holder and Wapo threaten U.S. Attorney John Durham for looking into spygate

Eric Holder and Wapo threaten U.S. Attorney John Durham for looking into spygate
How you know you're on the right track....yep, when you start to get veiled threats from people like Holder, you know you are sniffing around where they really don't want anyone looking close. --Del

Wednesday, December 25, 2019

channeling Patrick Henry

And here is someone channeling Patrick Henry. I truly, deeply LOVE this woman's speech in front of a Virginia board of some sort, in which she is really responding to the new VA laws on firearms. If I have ever seen anything that should go viral, this is it. Please pass in on far&wide. Finally the real Resistance is waking up! Del

Tuesday, December 24, 2019

The New American Stasi

The New American Stasi
Well, the simplest mechanisms are either simplest short term one of all, that is, do it our way or we come and kill you and your whole family, or the simplest long term one, we control all food distribution and you and your family can't have any. (Works especially well in countries with long, tough winters, Stalin used in very effectively in the Ukraine.) But if you're "nonviolent" (more or less), then what works just as well is in effect oppression by very public shaming, encouragement of others to harass at every opportunity, and whatever economics you can bring to bear, making people lose their jobs or have their businesses go bankrupt or go bankrupt through lots of court costs. Plus of course, terming anything the people say whom you don't like as "hate speech" and then joyously denying them Free Speech. And we're certainly seeing that going on a lot these past three years. Funny, I don't recall any of this going on against Liberals when Obama was in office and lots of Conservatives were pretty upset about it. But I do think the ground swell has started, more and more people have reached total saturation with the lies, the circuses, the viciousness. We'll see how this plays out in November. --Del

Del's Christmas Story

From my Marine Buddy, Del: Today while running errands I stopped by an Aldi store to get a bunch of flowers for my wife, since she's stuck in the spare bedroom on the special bed while recovering, adding a bit of pleasant color for her there is just one of those things that seems like a good idea. Of course there was a long line to get to the cashier. The person ahead of me turned and saw the flowers, said hi, and asked how I was doing. A nice conversation ensued, talking about Christmas, its real meaning, the\ blessings of getting up every day in a free country. And I explained why I was buying flowers for my wife who is healing from serious surgery, at which point the nice person immediately recited a prayer for healing. As we got closer to the cashier my Marine emblem was noticed, and I was asked if I had served, and was immediately thanked very sincerely for my service. As the checkout total was recited for all that was on the belt in front of my flowers, my nice person instructed the cashier to add the flowers into that total, and would not take no for an answer from me. It was very touching, made me feel humble, brought a tear to my eye. And details, details... did I mention this person was a young Black woman? Who did not seem to see me as an old White man, but only as another person celebrating what is good about Christmas and our nation. That's my America, the one I believe in and love. I am so sick of all the people screaming about how we are immersed in racism almost every moment, how we have so much polarization, how we all only pretend to get along, at best, etc, etc. Yes, we have negatives in our society, who doesn't? But we have an abundance of just good, decent, caring people who do their best to rise above the negatives, and live up to the ideals on which we were founded. I say Thank God for them, I rejoice in knowing they are there, and I find renewed hope for us all. And I wanted to pass that on, as part of the message of Christmas. Peace....Del

Armed civilian kills gunman, stops shooting spree at Walmart in Washington state

Armed civilian kills gunman, stops shooting spree at Walmart in Washington state
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/06/18/armed-civilian-kills-gunman-stops-shooting-spree-at-tumwater-wash-walmart/?fbclid=IwAR3px9kaYyNdgJG4Do0Lduen-UDTXebPhzuB2pyRbqi6695iRUDhb-igFvo

Remember when Democrats opposed immigration?

Remember when the Democrats opposed immigration? But the Vietnamese were pro-education, pro-family, and hard working. Not Democrat types at all. ~Bob

Best Christmass Video, bar none.

"IT'S THE HAPPIEST TIME OF THE YEAR"
Well, it made me weep. ~Bob

It Seemed Like a Popular Chat App. It's Secretly a Spy Tool.

It Seemed Like a Popular Chat App. It's Secretly a Spy Tool.
Excerpt: ...(T)he service, ToTok, is actually a spying tool, according to U.S. officials familiar with a classified intelligence assessment and a New York Times investigation into the app and its developers. It is used by the government of the United Arab Emirates to try to track every conversation, movement, relationship, appointment, sound and image of those who install it on their phones. ToTok, introduced only months ago, was downloaded millions of times from the Apple and Google app stores by users throughout the Middle East, Europe, Asia, Africa and North America. While the majority of its users are in the Emirates, ToTok surged to become one of the most downloaded social apps in the U.S. last week, according to app rankings and App Annie, a research firm. [I saw a brief mention of this yesterday, but it slipped my mind with the bunch of emails I was digging through. This is a very serious situation for anyone who has put this on their phone or computer. NOTHING you say, do, view, or access is secure. It may be able to utilize your camera to view or photograph whatever it sees, and can certainly record any sounds it hears. If you’ve put this on your equipment, go get technical help RIGHT NOW. Ron P.]

Monday, December 23, 2019

Hunter Biden allegedly linked to multiple criminal probes

Hunter Biden allegedly linked to multiple criminal probes

The Era of ‘Good’ Fascism?

The Era of ‘Good’ Fascism? If and when fascism comes to America, it will not arrive with jackboots, stiff arms, and military uniforms. To modern progressives, laws are fluid, to be enforced when they champion the “good,” to be ignored or subverted when they empower the “bad.” By Victor Davis Hanson

Tax Reform Has Delivered for Workers

Tax Reform Has Delivered for Workers

Sunday, December 22, 2019

Two by Andy

Andrew McCarthy: The costs of trivializing impeachment
Excerpt: Think about the Sunday political talk shows. It has become standard for pundit panels to divide into two segments. In the first, journos ponder the tactical maneuvering toward impeachment and such concerns as the potential effect on Democrats holding seats in Trump-friendly districts. Then, after a commercial break, that panel returns to analyze the state of the 2020 race — which Democrat will emerge to challenge President Trump? That is, everyone takes for granted that the impeachment machinations they just discussed are irrelevant. Trump is not going to be removed, he is going to be the GOP nominee. No one thinks impeachment will render him less formidable; in fact, the main attribute most Democrats look for in a candidate is electability against Trump, not issue consistency or ideological purity.

Ball of Collusion and FISA Reform
Excerpt: A little background on surveillance. Non-Americans situated outside our country do not have Fourth Amendment privacy protections. Consequently, the overseas collection of intelligence about them, including their communications, occurs with no judicial supervision. It is carried out under Executive Order 12333, which has been amended several times since being issued by President Ronald Reagan in 1981. Other foreign intelligence collection implicates the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. At its inception over forty years ago, FISA was chiefly designed to shield Americans inside the United States from such surveillance unless a court could be shown probable cause to believe they were complicit in clandestine activities on behalf of a foreign power. With congressional expansion of FISA over the last decade, the law is now also geared to mitigate the invasive consequences of sweeping global surveillance, made possible by the revolution in telecommunications technology. This latter protection is not very effective. [McCarthy gives a brief history of “what happened and why” that made the FISA process what it has become now. It is unsettling reading. Ron P.]

Santa Claus Accused Of Quid Pro Quo For Giving Children Gifts In Exchange For Good Behavior

Santa Claus Accused Of Quid Pro Quo For Giving Children Gifts In Exchange For Good Behavior

A National Poll Shows Trump Beating Every Potential Democrat in 2020

A National Poll Shows Trump Beating Every Potential Democrat in 2020
Excerpt: President Donald Trump, the first modern president to face impeachment during his first term in the White House, now leads his top Democratic rivals in his bid for a second, a new USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll finds. The national survey, taken as the House of Representatives planned an impeachment vote and the Senate a trial, showed Trump defeating former Vice President Joe Biden by 3 percentage points, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders by 5 points, and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren by 8 points.

The Threat of Tribalism

The Threat of Tribalism

Dow gains 10,000th point since Trump's election

Dow gains 10,000th point since Trump's election
since we are on a fixed income, invested in the market....

My Christmas Poems and Short Storu

Each year for Christmas, I re-post my Christmas Poems and Short Story about Vietnam. Permission to forward. re-post or re-print, with credit to me, is granted. Enjoy. ~Bob

 

A Veteran’s Christmas Wish


Each year when Christmas comes around again,
I pause on Christmas Eve to take a dram
Of whisky, and I think of absent friends,
And Christmas in a place called Vietnam.

I think of boys who never had the chance
To see their kids on Christmas Eve at play,
Their lives were spent that freedom might advance,
From Valley Forge right up through yesterday.

They fell at Belleau Wood and Normandy,
At Gettysburg, at Iwo and at Hue,
They gave their lives to keep our people free,
And never saw another Christmas Day.

So take a moment from your festive joys,
To think of soldiers who were young and true,
And say a prayer on Christmas Eve for boys
Who gave up all their Christmases for you.

            Copyright © 2000
Robert A. Hall
Former SSgt, USMC
Published in Leatherneck Magazine
           
Spell check notes: Scotch whisky has no “e.”
Hue (Vietnam) is pronounced “way.”

The Christmas Gift

There is a gift that comes
From those out on the lines,
It is not wrapped in bows,
But, oh, how bright it shines.

There is a Christmas gift,
A pearl beyond all price,
From those who ask for naught,
But make the sacrifice.

They risk their blood and bone
On endless weary tours,
For that is all that keeps
The evil from our shores.

You worship as you will,
You freely have your say,
And all that is a gift
From sentries far away.

There is a gift that comes
From troops who guard the line,
That lets us live in peace
And joy at Christmastime.

We say “Support the troops,”
But hardly pause to think
What honor really means,
Or how near looms the brink.

There is a Christmas gift
From those who hold the line,
And you and I, my friend,
Get nothing more sublime.

(c)Robert A. Hall 2007
Former SSgt, USMC
Published in Leatherneck Magazine

Merry Christmas, Snake
By Robert A. Hall

Vietnam Christmas

            Eddie wrapped a length of C-ration baling wire around the trunk of Aunt Thel's tree, and wedged the end between the bunker's crumbling sandbags. That corrected the starboard list caused by a bent stand. Considering that their mail had been air-dropped from a C-130 cargo plane, the two-foot artificial tree had come through remarkably well, with only the bent leg and one broken limb. At Snake's suggestion, they had turned the "bare spot" to the wall and trimmed the tree with the surviving decorations and local crafts: a tin star cut from a C-ration can, a pair of lance corporal chevrons with the black coating worn off so they glittered, some brass M-16 shell casings.
            Eddie would have preferred canned peaches from Aunt Thel, but he thought the tree looked right cheerful in their bunker. He twisted the tin star to catch light from the radios and began softly singing:
            "Jingle bells, mortar shells, V. C. in the grass--
            You can take, your Merry Christmas, and shove it up..."
            He sensed "incoming" and ducked as Snake's boot banged into the wall, safely away from the precious tree, sending a trickle of sand dribbling through the slats of the wooden pallets that served as the bunker's floor. Eddie turned and saw Snake smiling at him over a can of C-ration ham and limas. You couldn't get pissed at a guy who would trade you beanies and weenies for ham and "slimies," which every reasonable person hated the way Santa's point-deer Rudolph hated clear weather.
            Eddie wiped his eyes to get rid of the stinging caused by grit from the sandbags. It didn't help. "Since when did you get the Christmas spirit?" he asked, "I thought you were a Black Muslim?"
            Snake had announced his new religion several weeks ago, the fourth in seven months. Though he maintained a devout facade, his "conversions" were a standing joke in the platoon. Eddie had reasonably pointed out that while he, himself, was black, Snake was a white dude—an awkward start for a Black Muslim.
            Snake's response was that Eddie was an Uncle Tom; and, that since there was no other black dude to be the radical on their radio relay team, he would have to do it himself, "Just like every goddamned thing else around here."
            "Can't be a Muslim on Christmas Eve," Snake smiled, and continued dropping pieces of John Wayne crackers through the floor planks for the rat. He's been trying to kill the rat just last week, but, following the lead of the Viet Cong, had declared a Christmas truce with it yesterday.
            Eddie picked up the jungle boot, and turned it over, observing that it was nearly new. He looked down to his left boot, where the electrical tape holding it together was coming loose. The sides had rotted and he hadn't been able to scrounge replacements from supply's limited stock.
            "Hey, Snake, how about giving me your extra boots? We're the same size, almost."
            "Certainly, my man," Snake promised, "As soon as the Sear's catalog comes and I can order something more stylish. We might, however, barter--I do admire that K-bar knife on your belt." Snake rose and headed to the bunker door, which hung precariously from the hinges of shell boxes. "I'll go switch generators."
            He went into the night, taking only a small flashlight, to carry out the regular task of alternating the 400 cycle generators that powered their AN/TRC-27 radio relay unit.
            Eddie was re-taping his boot when the first mortar round exploded in the small perimeter. "Christmas truce!" he spat, lunging for the door, "Little rice-propelled bastards!"
****
            By the time the corpsman had checked the flow of blood from Snake's mangled leg, and closed the flap of open flesh on his right cheek, the painkiller had taken hold and he was babbling happily.
            "Lucky break, Eddie," he said, laughing, "I tripped over the goddamn antenna guy wire and couldn't make the hole. Now I'm going home for Christmas, buddy. I'll be dancing in Time's Square on New Year's Eve while you're still stuck in this shit hole, man."
            Eddie glanced at Snake's leg and winced as they loaded him onto the stretcher. "Nail one of them hippy broads for me," he said.
            Snake laughed again, almost a giggle. "Hey, Eddie," he said, "You can have those boots." He gave a weak, cheery wave. "Merry Christmas, man."
            "Merry Christmas, Snake," Eddie said, then he impulsively pulled the K-Bar from his belt and laid it on the stretcher, knowing that some rear-echelon pogue would probably steal it from Snake. "Take that home as a souvenir of this slice of paradise."
            Snake waved again as the corpsmen hefted the stretcher and struggled carefully up the muddy slope toward the med-evac LZ. "Merry Fucking Christmas," Eddie whispered to himself.
            He turned to go check the radios. The grit was bothering him again. Now, he thought, who the hell can I trade ham and limas to?

Copyright (c) Robert A. Hall

Previously published in Callopie, the Mensa Writer's Group Newsletter

Pa. Rep. Movita Johnson-Harrell, charged with stealing more than $500,000 from her own charity, will resign

Pa. Rep. Movita Johnson-Harrell, charged with stealing more than $500,000 from her own charity, will resign
Another proud Democrat politician sets a great example. Apparently, corruption in Philadelphia is a real way of life, she is just one of 60 government officials charged of corruption in the past few years. But I read some of the other stories, and most of them were pikers compared to her. She deserves recognition for supreme arrogance and hypocrisy, and even as she resigns, is playing the "martyr card". Hopefully they will seize every bit of her property they can to try to recover just a bit of the theft, and she'll go to jail for years, not months. Her "intersectionality" as Black, woman, and Muslim meant nothing when it came to a truly stupid level of greed and high living. I wish good luck to the people of Philly, trying to live under a system so rotten and chock full of corruption. Del