Sunday, October 23, 2016

2016: I will vote to protect the unborn




In the interest of full disclosure, I did not support Mr. Trump.
I was hoping that we’d nominate one of our extremely successful governors, from Bush to Kasich to Walker to Perry.  In Texas, I eventually voted for Rubio because all of those others were out and he was the most electable.
Let me say this.   My first vote was in 1976 when I proudly voted for President Ford.   Since that first vote, I have proudly supported each one of our nominees even when they were not my first choice such as Mr. Dole in 1996.
Since early summer, I have been struggling with a real dilemma.  However, we must think of the larger picture and voting for Donald Trump makes a lot more sense than electing Hillary Clinton by supporting another option.
In other words, someone will nominate Justices to the Supreme Court and I’d rather have Mr. Trump do that.
No one has dissected Mrs. Clinton better than Dr. Charles Krauthammer this week:
The soullessness of this campaign — all ambition and entitlement — emerges almost poignantly in the emails, especially when aides keep asking what the campaign is about.
In one largely overlooked passage, Clinton complains that her speechwriters have not given her any overall theme or rationale. Isn’t that the candidate’s job?
Asked one of her aides, Joel Benenson: “Do we have any sense from her what she believes or wants her core message to be?”
It’s that emptiness at the core that makes every policy and position negotiable and politically calculable.
Hence the embarrassing about-face on the Trans-Pacific Partnership after the popular winds swung decisively against free trade.
A Trump presidency, with VP Pence, a GOP Senate and House, could actually produce some important domestic results.
They could repeal Obama Care and actually replace it with something that puts the patient and doctor in control.
They could finally tackle tax reform, something that most of us have been calling for.
Last, but not least, a President Trump could be persuaded by Speaker Ryan to take a serious look at entitlements.
On free trade, I am not expecting much because tearing up trade agreements is a lot more complicated than everyone realizes.  I just hope that Trump’s supporters understand that.
On immigration, I do not really believe that a President Trump will get Mexico to pay for the wall or deport millions.  However, they may do something about sanctuary cities and respecting our immigration laws.
On foreign policy, it will be hell no matter who walks into the Oval Office.  President Obama is leaving such a mess in the Middle East that it won’t be pretty, from Syria to Iran.
My point is that there is hope with a Trump presidency to get some things done.
On the other side, there is no hope for governing if Mrs. Clinton wins.  There are also going to be some huge battles in the Democrat aisle because the left and Mrs. Clinton are not going to enjoy each other at all. The left is not a happy bunch these days as Politico wrote.
Yes I am voting for Mr. Trump, the lesser of the two evils this time around.
In the end, I will sleep comfortably knowing that I voted to protect the unborn this time around.
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Saturday, October 22, 2016

Lesser of two evils, 2016 episode


In the interest of full disclosure, I did not support Mr. Trump.  I was hoping that we’d nominate one of our extremely successful governors, from Bush to Kasich to Walker to Perry.  I eventually voted for Rubio in Texas because all of those others were out and had not much of a chance.
Since early summer, I have been struggling with a real dilemma. However, we must think of the larger picture and voting for Donald Trump makes a lot more sense than electing Hillary Clinton by supporting another option. In other words, someone will nominate Justices to the Supreme Court and I’d rather have Mr. Trump do that.
No one has dissected Mrs. Clinton better than Dr. Charles Krauthammer this week:
The soullessness of this campaign — all ambition and entitlement — emerges almost poignantly in the emails, especially when aides keep asking what the campaign is about.
In one largely overlooked passage, Clinton complains that her speechwriters have not given her any overall theme or rationale. Isn’t that the candidate’s job?
Asked one of her aides, Joel Benenson: “Do we have any sense from her what she believes or wants her core message to be?”
It’s that emptiness at the core that makes every policy and position negotiable and politically calculable. 
Hence the embarrassing about-face on the Trans-Pacific Partnership after the popular winds swung decisively against free trade.
A Trump presidency, with VP Pence, a GOP Senate and House, could actually produce some important domestic results. They could repeal Obama Care and actually replace it with something that puts the patient and doctor in control. They could finally tackle tax reform, something that most of us have been calling for.  Last, but not least, a President Trump could be persuaded by Speaker Ryan to take a serious look at entitlements.
On free trade, I am not expecting much because tearing up trade agreements is a lot more complicated than everyone realizes.  I just hope that Trump’s supporters understand that.
On immigration, I do not really believe that a President Trump will get Mexico to pay for the wall or deport millions.  However, they may do something about sanctuary cities and respecting our immigration laws.
On foreign policy, it will be hell no matter who walks into the Oval Office.  President Obama is leaving such a mess in the Middle East that it won’t be pretty, from Syria to Iran.
My point is that there is hope with a Trump presidency to get some things done.
On the other side, there is no hope for governing if Mrs. Clinton wins.  There are also going to be some huge battles in the Democrat aisle because the left and Mrs. Clinton are not going to enjoy each other at all. The left is not a happy bunch these days as Politico wrote.
Yes I am voting for Mr. Trump, the lesser of the two evils this time around.
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Friday, October 21, 2016

Friday's thoughts about 2016 and young people who don't know about communism


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Friday's thoughts about 2016 and young people who don't know about communism 10/21 by Silvio Canto Jr | News Podcasts:

We will look at the state of the 2016 presidential race........Debate # 3 on Wednesday night........Mr Trump's remarks about the election consumed news coverage........there is more to digest from Wikileaks.........and young people and their knowledge of history........plus other stories....
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My mother needs to teach in our colleges


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This is so crazy that I am speechless. It appears that our young people, known as millennials these days, are completely ignorant of communism.   Let me show you this from Market Watch:
The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, citing survey results released on Monday, blames widespread ignorance for the relatively positive views millennials have toward socialism and communism.
Of the 2,300 Americans polled by YouGov, 80% of baby boomers and 91% of the elderly agree with the statement that “communism was and still is a problem” in the world today. Millennials?  Only 55%.
The insanity continues with many millennials believing that President George W. Bush killed more people than Stalin. Incredibly, Stalin was known as “The butcher of Ukraine” to many Russians who actually know the history of the 20th century.
What an indictment of our educational system. What are we teaching our young people about an ideology that killed millions of people in the 20th century?  
It is also further proof that our schools are too caught up in political correctness, or even moral equivalency. It is one thing to teach history, such as the Soviet revolution or Mao’s Long March or the Cuban Missile Crisis, but it’s quite another to compare Lenin to George Washington.     
In other words, there are good and bad guys in history. And there is nothing wrong with millennials hearing that we are the good guys and the communists are not. It is our absence to say these things that has a bunch of millennials confused about the real history.
My mother, who came here from Cuba with my late father, is furious to hear that millennials are so ignorant. She has offered to tutor them for free with real human stories about communism.
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Thursday, October 20, 2016

2016 election: The day after Clinton-Trump Debate # 3


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2016 election: The day after Clinton-Trump Debate # 3 10/20 by Silvio Canto Jr | News Podcasts:

We will look at Debate # 3 of the 2016 presidential election............who won and what was the headline out of the debate....what lines from the debate will we remember?.........the role of Chris Wallace of Fox News, the moderator..........the impact of this debate over the next 3 weeks of the campaign................and other stories of the week.....


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Rigged election? What about the many Hispanics who voted for Sanders


Back in the primaries, I took an interest in the different sites about Latinos supporting Senator Sanders. I recall stories about a generational divide in many Hispanic Democrat homes between Sanders and Clinton.    
In the end, Clinton got more votes but the Sanders effort exceeded expectations. It was interesting to see that they had the same views of Mrs. Clinton than we did.
In the most recent Wikileaks, we’ve learned a few things about how the inner Clinton team thinks. We’ve also learned that Senator Sanders never had much of a chance.    
This is a sample of what they thought of the Sanders supporters and others:
Long before Hillary Clinton called millions of Americans a “basket of deplorables,” her top campaign advisers and liberal allies openly mocked Catholics, Southerners, and a host of other groups, according to newly released emails that offer a stunning window into the vitriol inside the Clinton world less than a month before Election Day.
The emails, published by WikiLeaks after a hack of Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta’s private account, also show Clinton campaign officials and Democratic leaders disparaging supporters of Sen. Bernard Sanders as “self-righteous” whiners, calling Hispanic party leaders such as Bill Richardson “needy Latinos,” labeling CNN anchor Jake Tapper “a d—k” and even lambasting longtime Clinton ally Sidney Blumenthal.
The sheer number of insults in the email trove has left the Clinton campaign, along with outside organizations such as the Center for American Progress that were routinely involved in the brutal bad-mouthing, unable or unwilling to respond. Instead, they have blamed the hack on Russia and have refused to even confirm that the emails are genuine, though they also haven’t denied their authenticity.
Wonder what all of those “self-righteous whiners” or “needy Latinos” who voted for Sanders feel about that?  
Many of them are young Latinos who turned out in the primary. Wonder how they will react when they learn that the primary was a sham? In other words, Senator Sanders never had a chance and all of those young Latinos were used by a party with a predetermined nominee.
It would be nice if Univision or Telemundo devoted a segment to these Latino victims of Democrat corruption. I agree that Trump said some stupid things about Mexicans but the Democrats cheated Latino voters in the primaries.
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Wednesday, October 19, 2016

Debate # 3, FBI & Wikileaks story with Richard Baehr of American Thinker


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Tonight's debate plus the Wikileaks story with Richard Baehr of American Thinker 10/19 by Silvio Canto Jr | News Podcasts:

Guest: Richard Baehr, Chief Political Correspondent at American Thinker...........we will look at the state of the 2016 presidential race........Debate # 3 on Wednesday night........Clinton and Wikileaks is a daily mess.........Trump and women is more obscene by the day..........can we finally talk about the issues of the day: a growing crisis with Russia in Syria, more troops are going to Iraq, Iran is more provocative everyday, Obama Care is a problem..........plus other stories.......


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Can Trump deliver the knockout punch?


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Let me be honest up front. Every one of my predictions about Mr. Trump have turned out to be wrong. In other words, I did not think that he’d be the nominee and he is. He has also come back several times in this campaign after self-inflicted wounds, like the flight with the Khan family or the arguments over Miss Universe.   
Nevertheless, Trump comes into debate #3 as the underdog with some amazing opportunities to knock out Mrs. Clinton:
1) Our old friend “quid pro quo” has made his appearance in the campaign. We don’t know for sure but it smells like it. My good guess is that Chris Wallace will bring this up and  Trump should be ready to talk about it. He can say something like “quid pro quo” is just a fancy Latin term for “something for something” or I give you this and you give me that.
2) There is more and more evidence that the FBI overlooked wrongdoing by Mrs. Clinton, specially in light of the previous point as The Federalist reported:
Did Kennedy — a man who owes his high position to the Clintons — engage in this conversation on his own? Was he asked to do it? For months, law enforcement had attempted to contact him, and he ignored their inquiries. Why, according to FBI documents, did Kennedy only reach out to make this request?
What’s even more curious is that FBI Director James Comey didn’t consider this event — or, for that matter, the litany of other actions Clinton’s lackeys took to protect her — as a sign that there was, at the very least, an intent to influence the investigation.
This is, of course, just the latest revelation in the Hillary email scandal. It’s worth remembering that the illegal email setup was only inadvertently discovered through a congressional investigation into Benghazi. The server itself existed to evade transparency.
3) Media bias is real. My friend Barry Casselman called it a “A Media Coup D’Etat?“, the post that Newt Gingrich has mentioned a couple of times on Fox and ABC News. There is another story of journalists “showering” Clinton with cash. This is what Trump should be talking about. Voters are fair and this kind of one-sided coverage smells bad, specially at a time when the public has such a low opinion of the media.
Add ObamaCare, more troops to Iraq, the U.S. economy, lousy job creation and other tangible issues that the voters want to hear about.
So it’s up to Trump. He can win this thing but only if he talks about issues and stops talking about vote fraud in Philadelphia. Of course, that there is vote fraud in the inner cities, but it will matter little if Mr Trump wins the votes between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.
Memo to Mr Trump: You can win this thing if you can tell us about your plans for voters and expose the corruption that Mrs. Clinton represents.   
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Tuesday, October 18, 2016

A few thoughts about debate # 3 , Wikileaks disclosures & the media




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A nice birthday gift if you can get it


And the hits just keep on coming, as those Top 40 jingles used to tell us.   
We learned that President Clinton was given a wonderful birthday gift years ago:
According to the newly released WikiLeaks emails, Bill Clinton, the husband of then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, received a birthday present from the Islamic country of Qatar in 2011 of $1 million.  
“[Qatar] Would like to see WJC ‘for five minutes’ in NYC, to present $1 million check that Qatar promised for WJC’s birthday in 2011,” Ami Desai, director of foreign policy for the Clinton Foundation, wrote in 2012.
Let’s assume that Qatar was just giving the former president a birthday gift. In other words, let’s assume further that the wonderful people of Qatar just wanted to show their support for the former president and all of the wonderful things that he did for the world.
Or maybe his assistance in bringing the World Cup?
My question is this: do we want former presidents getting birthday gifts of this size? More importantly, do we want an ex-president, married to the current Secretary of State and future candidate for president, to be getting a gift like this? And shouldn’t gifts like these be made public? Did President Obama know that such a gift was made? Did that check go into a joint account or some account that benefits Mrs. Clinton as well?
As with everything Clinton, it raises ethical questions and transparency issues. It reminds us again that the Clintons love to navigate in secret until they are caught.    
It also raises the question of what Qatar was expecting from Mr. and Mrs. Clinton. Maybe nothing, but the secrecy of this gift makes me wonder.
For the record, I am not opposed to countries honoring our ex presidents by naming schools or airports after them. I don’t even mind if they make a contribution to a charity of the president’s choice, such as to recognize the wonderful work that President and Mrs. Carter have done with Habitat for Humanity.
Again, this gift was made in secret and that’s wrong because we are talking about a former president married to the Secretary of State.   
It stinks, like everything Clinton!
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