Bits and Pieces of This and That

By Robin Itzler 

Editor's Note:  This is one of the commentaries selected from Robin's weekly newsletter Patriot Neighbors.  Any cartoons will have been added by me.  If you wish to get the full edition, E-mail her at PatriotNeighbors@yahoo.com to get on her list, it's free.

 

Sen. John Fetterman is not a moderate!

On occasion, Pennsylvania Democrat Senator John Fetterman stands up against his communist Democrat Party, but those rare occasions do not make him a moderate. Consider that Fetterman:

¨ Went on social media where he called on the White House to have El Salvador release MS-13 Kilmar Abrego Garcia back to the United States of America.

¨ Voted AGAINST the Women and Girls in Sports Act, which means he supports biological males playing in female sports.

Rep. Jamie Raskin Makes Threats

What would have happened if during Joe Biden’s  Presidency, a Republican representative threatened foreign nations that were working with the Biden administration? Of course, the MSM media would have had conniptions.

Yet, that’s exactly what (communist) Democrat Rep. Jamie Raskin recently did. During an interview, Raskin said:

“Implicit in it should be the idea that if and when we come back to power — and we will — we are not going to look kindly upon people who … facilitated authoritarianism in our country.”

The acorn doesn’t fall far from the tree. Did you know that Jamie’s father, Marcus Raskin, was a well-known communist? According to KeyWiki: The late Marcus G. Raskin was a founder and on the Board of Trustees of the Institute for Policy Studies, which was "dutifully in sync with Soviet geopolitical goals.

Marcus Raskin was also a professor of public policy at The George Washington University’s School of Public Policy and Public Administration. (Yikes!)

Rep. Jamie Raskin is Professor of Law Emeritus at American University Washington College of Law, where for more than 25 years he taught (yikes!) courses such as Constitutional Law, The First Amendment, and Legislative Process.

Communist professors teaching law in American schools!

To share your thoughts with Rep. Raskin (email only for constituents): Phone: 202-225-5341, Write: 2242 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington DC 20515

Tell AG Bondi To Prosecute NY AG James

KARMA best describes the multiple charges that have been made against New York Attorney General “Never Trumper” Letitia James. After how James twisted the law to get Trump, it’s time for James to sit at the defense table and twist a little, and her claim of racism isn't going to resonate.

1. Federal Agency Refers New York AG Letitia James to DOJ for Prosecution for Alleged Mortgage Fraud  
2. Letitia James’s Fishy Virginia Foreclosure Purchase in Martinsville Warrants Separate Investigation 
3. Here are The Gateway Pundit Reports and Legal Documents on Letitia James That Led Up to Her Criminal Referral to the Trump DOJ on Tuesday – Including Documents She Signed Alleging She Was Married to Her Father
4.  Letitia James Panics: Throwing $18,000/person Fundraiser Letitia James is visibly unraveling
5. No One Is Above the Law—Including Letitia James

James hypocritically, with the support of a corrupt judge, abused her public office to prosecute Donald Trump, who was innocent of the crimes shes been committing.  She overthrew the rule of law with the intention of overthrowing the nation's democratic processes and procedures.  LOCK HER UP! 

 If you want the Department of Justice to investigate James, call them at: 916-574-7720 or toll-free 866-503-3221

Radio at Stalag 17

Radio was built by Sgt. James L. Cast In the 1953 film Stalag 17, a radio is smuggled into the camp. In reality, Sgt. James L. Cast built the radio. Cast was a POW from April 24, 1944 to May 3, 1945. When the hand built radio and other personal items were put up for sale at an auction, his wife Ruth Cast wrote in her letter of provenance:

 "Enclosed is the crystal radio I told you about. The crystal and the German aviator's earpiece were traded for cigarettes by American prisoners who spoke German. The soap box was standard issue. The components are just wood & wire. We have not put the earpiece on for years as the prongs are rusty. The crystal is embedded in a thimble! 

 I was told they would move the key to reach Berlin, then by moving a few wires further over they would get BBC. This was made between 6 May 1944 and 6 June 1944, as they heard about D. Day before the guards knew about it. When they finished listening or had to close up, the crystal went into a pocket, the lid on the soapbox, and it just sat there. The Earpiece went into an enlarged knot hole on the inside part of a berth." 

No more hiding behind masks

Like so many thugs throughout history, violent pro-Hamas demonstrators hide behind masks to conceal their identities. That might not work any longer as an Israeli engineer has developed new facial recognition that can see through masks and keffiyehs.

The goal is to supplement law enforcement efforts to arrest (and in the case of foreign students in the United States on school visas, assist with deportation) those who commit violent acts or call for violence. It is NOT to stop freedom of speech.

The facial-recognition tool is called NesherAI and was created by Eliyahu Hawila’s company, Stellar Technologies. The software takes its name from the Hebrew word for “eagle.”

Daniel Greenfield Unleashed

By Rich Kozlovich 

You will find reading this first article is truly disturbing.   How people could be so vile is beyond explanation.  This kind of viciousness has always been with us, but its becoming so common place everyone should be disturbed and realize when society gets this out of control, getting society back in control will take strong and unpleasant measures.  America's cities have become a mess, and the Democrats own it.  

The last two articles deal with voter fraud, in a round about way.  I recently read an article from the Washington Post claiming the reason the Republicans lost a winnable race in 2022 for the Senate is because of choosing bad candidates, and the author claims they haven't learned their lesson.  And of course you know the Washington Post wants the help the Republicans all they can.  Right? You do believe that don't you?  You do believe they want to help the Republican?  

Well, I agree they picked some less than desirable candidates, but the Democrats ran even less desirable candidates, like Fetterman.  And no candidate has been less desirable for any public office than Joe Biden in 2020, and the Democrats are stuck with him for 2024 and he will run the same "I'm gonna hide in the basement campaign" he did in 2020.   So....let me say this once again.  It wasn't the candidates, it wasn't their policies, it wasn't their presentation.  It was VOTER FRAUD!  Again.  VOTER FRAUD!

Did everyone hear me? No? Let me say it again.  VOTER FRAUD!

Gov. Josh Shapiro Vows to Protect Monster Who Tortured and Killed Disabled Woman- “She was friendly, sweet and trusting” - Gov. Josh Shapiro, who was being painted by some as a “moderate” and “sensible” on crime didn’t take long to show his true colors and his real priorities. Shapiro issued a statement vowing that he will refuse to allow the execution of any killer, no matter how evil. After announcing that he would not want the Tree of Life synagogue shooter put to death, Shapiro stated that, 

“I’m respectfully calling on the General Assembly to work with me to abolish the death penalty in Pennsylvania – once and for all.” “This is a fundamental statement of morality. Of what’s right and wrong. And I believe Pennsylvania must be on the right side of this issue.” 

 

Let’s talk about Shapiro’s deeply warped notions of morality and Jennifer Daugherty................

 

Canada Proposes Just Euthanizing Everyone - Lewis was a candidate for euthanasia and that if her mother chose not to pursue it, that would be “selfish.”   Depressed? Lonely? Having trouble getting out of the house? Just kill yourself or have the government do it for you. Underage? Mentally unstable? The Canadian government will kill you too. No extra charge. “Canada should expand assisted dying to include mature minors and patients with mental illnesses”................. 

 

Sen. Fetterman Was Not Qualified to Serve. His Doctor and Staff Lied About It - After hospitalizing him for what staff suspected might have been another stroke, Senator John Fetterman has now been hospitalized with “clinical depression”. This comes after the New York Times reported that the newly elected senator had trouble understanding what people were saying and was trying to avoid interactions. And it’s a safe bet that we’re being told less than half the story.  Fetterman is not qualified to serve. He can’t do his job or any job. He needs extensive medical care and he’s not able to carry out his responsibilities. Whether or not he was aware of that depends on his mental capacity.............

 

Biden Planning a Second Presidential Basement Campaign - When your campaign plan is hoping your candidate won't have to debate, that means you know he's not competent.  The kindest advice I gave the Democrats was that they should have taken a loss in 2022. Hand the House and the Senate to Republicans and clear the deck for a new generation of leadership. Biden would have been forced to follow Pelosi into retirement after a long grueling struggle with congressional Republicans.............Instead, Biden was locked in for a second term. Most of the critics fell silent and endorsed his reelection campaign. The potential competitors, primarily Newsom, have gotten out of the way. They’ve won the battle and lost the war. And having caught the car, they have no idea what to do now..............

 

 

 

How the Media Trains Journalists to Lie

By ‘ratioing’ NBC’s Dasha Burns for questioning John Fetterman’s health, her fellow journalists hid the truth from the public but exposed how they manufacture consent

by Leighton Woodhouse October 31, 2022

n the debate stage last week, Pennsylvania Democratic Senate candidate John Fetterman performed like one might expect from someone who survived a stroke only five months ago. In the aftermath of the debate, Democratic strategists have been asking—anonymously, of course—how anybody thought it was a good idea to foist Fetterman onto such a public stage. The simplest answer is that they thought they could get away with it because they believed their own hype.

A swarm of liberal political pundits and journalists had spent the previous weeks denouncing any questions about Fetterman’s health as illegitimate, while attacking the few reporters who dared raise such questions as heartless bigots and right-wing shills. In the process, they unintentionally revealed something essential about how the elite media distorts the public’s understanding of key issues by bullying journalists into repeating obvious lies...........After the interview aired, Burns told NBC’s Lester Holt on air that Fetterman didn’t appear to understand her pre-interview banter. Burns was just doing her job by reporting on the fitness of a public official............the media felt a great disturbance in the Force. On Twitter, blue-check journalists jumped in to defend Fetterman and throw shade at Burns.........

That’s how it remained for two weeks: with Burns scolded and swarmed, and other journalists left to internalize the message about what would happen to them if they too stepped out of line.  Then, Fetterman’s abysmal debate performance vindicated her..........

Starved of ad revenues, print media outlets changed their business models. They had already been drifting toward partisanship, but now they saw there was money in it. Instead of seeing their readers as consumers of the ads they sold, they started looking at them as potential donors. They began appealing to their political consciences, asking readers to subsidize their noble journalistic missions, NPR pledge-drive style. “Support our brave truth-telling work,” went the pitch, “for Democracy Dies In Darkness!”...........To Read More....

Fetterman's Painful Debate

By Josh Kraushaar and Alayna Treene

Capitol Hill's reaction to the Pennsylvania Senate debate was brutal for Democratic nominee John Fetterman, from Democrats and Republicans alike.  Why it matters: Multiple sources wondered why Fetterman agreed to debate when he clearly wasn’t ready. Fetterman struggled at times to respond to the moderators' questions, even with the assistance of a closed captioning device.  "Why the hell did Fetterman agree to this?" one Democratic lawmaker and Fetterman backer told Axios. "This will obviously raise more questions than answers about John's health.".........It's hard to see how Fetterman's debate performance alleviated the concerns of the skeptics..........To Read More....

My Take - Why would he agree to this? Wrong question. Why did the Democrats pick this guy in the first place is the right question?  Is their bench so weak they picked this really strange man, who even before his stroke, was a loser.  He mooched off his parents for decades, he failed as a mayor, he has no history of any success of any kind and his policies are insane.  While the MSM pretty much ignored what a mess he is, here are three comments from my e-mail group.  

• "Fetterman is a mess.  
• "He can't get a single sentence out without mangling it." 
• "What I do not understand are the WIVES. Both Biden and Fetterman have wives who should have stopped this insanity."
• "Birds of a feather... power hungry, arrogant, selfish and corrupt."

 (Editor's Note: I've been updating this with links all day.  RK)

• If You Thought Michael Scott from ‘The Office’ Was Cringeworthy, You’ve Got to See These Clips From Democrat John Fetterman’s Nightmare Debate Performance
• Joe Scarborough, Chris Cuomo and other blue checks do NOT have rave reviews of Fetterman’s debate performance 
• Fetterman declines to pledge to release stroke-related medical records 
• 'Hi. Good night, everybody': Fetterman debate a train wreck from start
• Covering for Fetterman May Cost Media a Senate Seat
• Fetterman flubs his sole debate in Pennsylvania’s Senate race
• Well, that was weird - Fetterman looked like he had wandered in off the set of Night of the Living Dead. Shot by George Romero on location in western Pennsylvania, the film would have been a fitting preview of Fetterman’s performance............  Fetterman struggled to articulate his thoughts. The debate revealed Dr. Clifford Chen to be a fraud.

More on the Fetterman/Oz Senate Race

By Rich Kozlovich

 

 

I have a number of people I correspond with regularly from around the country, who are also in my list to receive P&D.  This is a comment from a correspondent in Pennsylvania who is somewhat politically active in Pennsylvania, and is thoroughly aware of what's going on, and I especially appreciate his noting the "possible" McCormick connection, who is a Republican.

 

 Here are his thoughts.

 

Just a note on your commentary about the Fetterman/Oz race. Because of the relentless TV ad attacks from the McCormick campaign and his supporting PAC(s) during the Republican primary, Oz’s “negative perception by voters” was around 38% - higher than the 31.1% or so who actually voted for him. No other PA Senate primary candidate on either side of the political aisle had such high negatives after the primary.

 

The ads in particular were quite vicious with themes of carpetbagging and the arrogance of being a media star. The ads were especially effective because:

 

(1) Oz had in fact spent very little time in the state getting to know party personnel on the local level; and 

(2) the attacks came from a member of his own party and therefore had added credibility with Republican voters.

 

The Fetterman campaign simply repackaged the McCormick ads, and kept hammering away with continued success.

 

To his credit, Oz has since spent a great deal of time touring the state and getting to know PA Republicans and what they want. But it has been difficult to overcome the devastating effects of the McCormick campaign.

 

I often wondered in the primary whether the McCormick PACs were getting money from Democrats, and whether McCormick the hedge fund manager was a Democrat stalking horse who didn’t mind carrying a hunting rifle and pretending he was a regular Joe. I had seldom seen such relentless personal attacks between Republicans in a primary campaign.

 

It has been fortunate for Oz that he now has the Fetterman stroke issue to help him. Oz’s own ads mostly attack Fetterman as soft on crime, and fleetingly mention Oz’s accomplishments as a physician and son of immigrants at the end of the ads.

 

So yes, PA has not been good about producing good Republican candidates in recent elections. But Oz’s wounds have mainly been inflicted by a member of his own party. 

 

It should be clear to the most casual observer John Fetterman has an abysmal record regarding crime and criminals.   What in the world would possess the Democrats to choose  a person as their pick for the United States Senate who brags about freeing murderers?  Fetterman is a disaster, and yet it's my contention he'll get "elected".  Why? Two words.  Voter Fraud!

In the Pennsylvania Senate Race What Motivates Voters Is Complicated

Oz's challenge isn't Oz himself, and it isn't even Trump. It is the mystique surrounding Fetterman that the press has created that has turned him into a folk hero.

 

By Salena Zito August 22, 2022

Every election cycle in America, plenty of people will decide, for one reason or another, not to show up to vote. Their reasons often vary. They may not like either candidate’s personality or may not feel either candidate represents their views — or they just don’t think the government will change, no matter who is in power.................. 

Fetterman, whose York County family is wealthy, had lived off his parents’ money from 2006 to 2019, indicating that his blue-collar image is largely manufactured........ has spent his time on Twitter, largely because of the impact his stroke has had on a number of his sensory abilities....Fetterman has also run ads that discuss his decision to move to the tiny town of Braddock and run for mayor so he could improve the town. It’s a constant claim that should motivate the national and local press to dig in to see if he did indeed improve Braddock.   A drive along Braddock Avenue from one end to the other may lead some to doubt the notion. ,...............

 It is a county that Oz has visited relentlessly, at business round tables, diners, festivals and drop-ins walking through the towns — visits that never make the national or local news but, like the 130-plus stops he made across the state last month, count in earning voters’ support.  Oz’s challenge isn’t Oz himself, and it isn’t even Trump. It is the mystique surrounding Fetterman that the press has created that has turned him into a folk hero...........To Read More....

My Take - Interesting piece and two things appear to be true.  Fetterman's cloak of invisibility has worn out and he's not looking all that good, either physically or philosophically, and it appears Oz has been a lot busier than realized and reminded me of Teddy Roosevelt's 1912 whistle stop campaign which worked when he ran as Vice President, but failed to get him elected as President that time.  The difference was he was running as the Bull Moose Party candidate, a third party he created that split the Republican vote sweeping Woodrow Wilson into power, creating "America's first fascist President". 

Oz is a loon, but this is a sort of "whistle stop" campaign, and the Republican party isn't spit here, and if he blasts the airways with advertising starting in September, but at the very latest the beginning of October, I'm now convinced he will win.   

As a side bar, here's what Mark Twain had to say about Teddy Roosevelt. 

“We are insane, each in our own way, and with insanity goes irresponsibility. Theodore the man is sane, but in fairness we ought to keep in mind that Theodore, as statesman and politician, is insane and irresponsible.”....... “Roosevelt is the most formidable disaster that has befallen the country since the Civil War, but the vast mass of the nation loves him, is frantically fond of him, even idolizes him. This is the simple truth. It sounds like a libel upon the intelligence of the human race, but it isn’t; there isn’t any way to libel the intelligence of the human race.”

 

Ya gotta admit, Ole Sam had a way with words.

 

Also this article outlines ten things Biden, the Democrats, and Fetterman stand for:

• 1) Illegal immigration is rampant under Biden,
  
• 2) Lawlessness has become the norm in American cities,
  
• 3) COVID mandates
  
• 4) Blowout spending
  
• 5) Biden’s war on fossil fuels
• 6) The Left’s bizarre denial that there are two sexes
• 7) Biden’s foreign-policy ineptitude and weakness
• 8) Democrats’ divisive color-consciousness
• 9) Democrats’ rejection of our founding documents
• 10) Democrats’ abortion extremism

The author ends by saying: 

Biden has governed with an unprecedented blend of radicalism and incompetency, and a party that can’t capitalize on that had better rethink its approach.

I imagine that's true of Oz also. 

 Here's Kurt Schlichter's view of Oz, Stop the Dr. Oz Hate and Get With the Program, saying: 

I did not support Dr. Oz in the Pennsylvania Senate primary, but I am sure supporting him now against Heart Attack Shrek, the communist mutant who spent the first half-century of his life sponging off his parents and now wants to spend the second half sponging off the feds with a DC sinecure. John Fetterman makes Bernie Sanders look like Milton Friedman, yet there are still Republicans who are not all in on Oz.............Is it hard to swallow your pride and get on-board? Yeah. So what? Life’s not fair. Sometimes you just have to suck it up and drive on.

 

I'm thinking this may be what Pennsylvania may be embracing.

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Fetterman Vs Oz: A Race With Candidates No One Wants

By Rich Kozlovich 

My e-mail group has someone from Pennsylvania who contributes a lot to the discussion and as a result there's been a lot of discussion on this Fetterman Vs. Oz race, and actually a lot about the failure of the Pennsylvania Republican Party Leadership, filled with RINO's, just like California. We also have another member who's from California who is very politically active in Republican politics in California who keeps us updated. 

At any rate, one thing has become clear in this Pa. Senate race, no one really likes either of these candidates.  Here's the latest on Fetterman:

Blue Collar Tough Guy’ John Fetterman Lived off Parents’ Money Until His Mid-40s

Jordan Dixon-Hamilton 4 Aug 2022 - Pennsylvania Democrat U.S. Senate nominee John Fetterman’s “blue collar” image is being called into question after reports revealed he lived off of his parents’ money well into his mid-40s. Although Fetterman runs ads that purport him to be a “blue collar tough guy,” his parents reportedly financially supported him while he served as mayor of Braddock, Pennsylvania, for 13 years. Fetterman, who has acknowledged his “cushy” suburban childhood, has openly admitted to the financial contributions his parents gave him as an adult.

For example, in 2015, his parents gave him $54,000, which he disclosed during his failed 2016 Senate candidacy, according to the Pennsylvania Inquirer. Both of his parents provided he and his wife four $13,500 gifts, totaling $54,000, which was just below the $14,000 threshold for taxable gifts at the time...........

Senate Candidate John Fetterman — Sanctuary Cities Make ‘Everybody Safer’ - Spencer Lindquist

3 Aug 2022 -  Pennsylvania Senate candidate John Fetterman has defended illegal immigration and claimed that sanctuary city policies make “everybody safer.”...........Fetterman claimed it was un-American to prevent immigrants from entering the country. He stated, “Sanctuary cities is another policy that I very much support,” before going on to say that they “make everybody safer.” Fetterman went on to allege that those who want to limit immigration are racist or otherwise bigoted...........  

 

As the kid in the Little Rascals said:  Remarkable!

Senate Candidate John Fetterman — Sanctuary Cities Make ‘Everybody Safer’

Spencer Lindquist 3 Aug 2022

Pennsylvania Senate candidate John Fetterman has defended illegal immigration and claimed that sanctuary city policies make “everybody safer.” The democratic candidate and Lieutenant Governor defended illegal immigration at a speaking event at West Chester University in 2016.  At the event, Fetterman claimed it was un-American to prevent immigrants from entering the country. He stated, “Sanctuary cities is another policy that I very much support,” before going on to say that they “make everybody safer.” Fetterman went on to allege that those who want to limit immigration are racist or otherwise bigoted. ..........To Read More....