{"id":63345,"date":"2017-06-02T08:28:23","date_gmt":"2017-06-02T13:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=63345"},"modified":"2017-06-02T08:28:23","modified_gmt":"2017-06-02T13:28:23","slug":"the-shallow-end-of-the-pool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=63345","title":{"rendered":"The Shallow End Of The Pool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes emails about something I&#8217;m noticing in regard to the Paris &#8220;treaty&#8221;, political violence, economics, race, crime, human and civil rithts&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;well, just read it:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Liberals say Trump people are doing just what Clinton people did, but we\u2019re not calling to lock him up, therefore, Republicans are shameful hypocrites.<\/p>\n<p>William F. Buckley, Jr. once explained that the problem with Liberal analysis is shallowness.\u00a0 One man pushes a little old lady into the path of a bus, a second man leaps in front of the bus to push her back to safety, but a Liberal says the men are identical: they\u2019re both pushing around little old ladies. \u00a0Well, yes, at the most superficial level of analysis, that\u2019s true; but a thinking person ought to be capable of looking deeper to see the moral difference in their actions.<\/p>\n<p>Hillary ignored security warnings to set up a private email server which she used for official government business including classified information that ended up on Anthony Weiner\u2019s laptop.\u00a0 Members of the Trump administration have a private email system which they use solely for non-government communications such as Republican party fundraising.\u00a0 Liberals now claim the situations are identical but the first system violated the law whereas the second system upholds the law which prohibits using government property for private political purposes.<\/p>\n<p>Hillary set up the Clinton Foundation to provide aid to hurricane ravaged Haiti, and received $2 billion in donations from corporations and other nations seeking access to her.\u00a0 She used 90% of the money for personal expenses.\u00a0 Ivanka urged the World Bank to set up a Women\u2019s Entrepreneur fund to help women achieve economic independence.\u00a0 Saudi Arabia just donated $200 million, no doubt hoping it will get them access to her as a key figure in her father\u2019s administration.\u00a0 Liberals claim the two situations are identical but the first situation was merely Hillary\u2019s personal slush fund whereas the second situation is managed and administered by the World Bank, not under Ivanka\u2019s control and from which she receives no money (why would she, she\u2019s already rich, she doesn\u2019t need to steal from the poor).<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s going to be a long four years.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Some days, it feels like it already has been.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes emails about something I&#8217;m noticing in regard to the Paris &#8220;treaty&#8221;, political violence, economics, race, crime, human and civil rithts&#8230; &#8230;well, just read it: Liberals say Trump people are doing just what Clinton people did, but we\u2019re not calling to lock him up, therefore, Republicans are shameful hypocrites. 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