Now on Arkancide She Likely Could Teach a Master Class
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
She isn’t resilient. Just thick as bricks. And stubborn.
Some women age well. They just do. Their inner glow, their core, radiates a sense of peace. A beauty that isn’t a facade with artificial fillers and toners. The beauty is who they are.
Then there’s Hillary Rodham Clinton.
In the Batman series one of Gotham’s villains was the Penguin.
If he had married, his wife would look just Hillary and be just as devious, if not more, the the Penguin.
A Masterclass in resilience?
That’s funny.
There isn’t anything worse than keeping rotten fruit in the kitchen.
Regardless of the intent, the fruit is only going to get worse as it spoils.
Offensive to the senses, the only logical thing to do is throw it out.
Resilience or repulsive.
She’s got my vote as knowing better than anyone else just how to master the act of being repulsive. In her case it’s who she is.
It’s at her core.
“Religions should change their view on abortion.” That quote is from a rotting fruit. Pitch it.
“Religions should change their view on abortion.”
I wonder what other religious teachings and positions she disagrees with.
I look at that face in the photo and see evil incarnate. She is trying to smile but she can’t. I wonder if she can even utter the phrase “Jesus Christ is Lord” without choking?
Bob Dole was resilient, if a man with misplaced priorities. Hellary may be resilient, but that’s not the salient thing about her. What she is is pathologically driven. None of the Rodham siblings turned out well, and neither of Virginia Dell Cassidy’s son’s did either.
Hillary would wholeheartedly approve expanding the availability of executioners for those who want to take a life.
Hillary claims to be a Christian.
There’s no running out of Christians who put Christ to death on a regular basis.
Here’s the face of another “good” Catholic without conscience;
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/249929/new-jersey-allows-non-doctors-to-perform-abortion
Philip that is horrific. Abortions cause internal long-lasting injuries to women even by qualified doctors. Rupture of bladder, cervical injury, long-term sterility, cancer….and now they don’t even have to report these- long or short-term. The Medical Board of Examiners will live to pay for this decision, hopefully, because they have just opened a whole new world to medical negligence. And as one commentor said on that article- the Mayor may be a long-life Catholic but he’ll have a place far more fitting to him for all of eternity.
Ezabelle.
They, soulless Catholic politicians, can’t use ignorance to defend themselves when they stand before Love incarnate.
They have all but sealed their fate unless the smothering wick has just enough heat to ask God for forgiveness and do penance. Otherwise these are the walking dead. These are the zombies who profess truth yet are completely unaware, due to pride and selfishness, of the author of Truth.
Yes. We pray for them now. Our obedience to Truth requires that we pray for them.
Peace.
Arkancide? Small potatoes:
2,000 dead Mexicans (and a few dead Americans) thanks to Fast and Furious gun smuggling
4,000 dead Canadian hemophiliacs thanks to HIV tainted blood collected in the Arkansas prison system by Clinton campaign donors
103,000 dead Iraqis…
25,000 dead Libyans, and…
606,000 dead Syrians thanks to Madame Secretary trying to pad her resume in anticipation of her presidential run by incompetently ‘advancing democracy’ in the Mideast via armed insurrections
1,000,000 dead Rwandan Tutsis due in part to the new Eleanor Roosevelt failing to act like Eleanor Roosevelt
OK so that’s 1,740,000 post-born people who could have learned resilience but obviously failed to do so. And then we have the pre-born…
Libyans and Syrians and the Hutu and Tutsi have their internecine conflicts. HRC isn’t at fault there. No clue how she gets the bill for 100,000 Iraqis either. The business about the Canadian haemophiliacs reads like it was lifted off a Jack Cashill style crank site. Fast and Furious was Eric Holder’s caper.
Have to agree with Art. Libya is a different matter.
Philip – Someone (maybe Kevin Williamson) once said that eventually every woman’s face expresses their personality, even if like Madonna it takes a long time.
Trying to be completely nonjudgmental:
Look at the Dem herd – it’s all numbskulls and psychopaths. She is about as good as it gets. “In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.” said the blind man as he picked up his tools and walked away.
Libyans and Syrians and the Hutu and Tutsi have their internecine conflicts. HRC isn’t at fault there.
1) Western powers are obligated by treaty to take steps to stop genocide, therefore intervention in Rwanda in 1994 was obligated (and it did eventually happen BTW, but too late). Eleanor Roosevelt publicly dissented from FDR’s policies on accepting European Jews, but HRC uttered not a peep. The only point I’ll concede is that intervention might have only delayed it, but so what?
2) Recall that the Syrian and Libyan civil wars were both fueled by arm shipments from Western countries to so-called pro-democracy forces. These forces were a delusion and a fraud. The CIA would train group after group, hand them AK-47s, and watch them drive off and join the Islamic State (ISIS). Over and over, insanely expecting a different result. Washington poured gasoline on a tinderbox. Why? The only answer is that there were needs being addressed that were not on the ground in Syria but rather in Washington.
No clue how she gets the bill for 100,000 Iraqis either.
You have no recollection of the ISIS invasion of Iraq from Syria? That’s the bill Iraq incurred for that.
The business about the Canadian haemophiliacs reads like it was lifted off a Jack Cashill style crank site.
I lifted it from the National Post website circa 1997-98. The National Post is Canada’s newspaper of record. BTW, fellow parishioners of mine with Canadian relatives told me their relatives were shocked there was zero coverage of the story in the U.S. Wonder why [ah, not really].
Fast and Furious was Eric Holder’s caper.
C’mon Art, you know better, things like this are decided interdepartmentally. And just with who would Mexico file protests over it? The U.S. State Department. Who ran that? Of course she was forewarned. I have no evidence, but it would not surprise me if it turns out she approached Holder with the idea.
Western powers are obligated by treaty to take steps to stop genocide,
The whole business took place over a period of about 90 days in a landlocked country. We have only a few thousand troops in Africa, all of them at coastal naval and air stations.
Recall that the Syrian and Libyan civil wars were both fueled by arm shipments from Western countries to so-called pro-democracy forces.
I’m not recalling that, because it isn’t true. The actual tinder is their own intramural rivalries, which have continued to generate armed conflict without regard to what American officialdom are doing.
You have no recollection of the ISIS invasion of Iraq from Syria? That’s the bill Iraq incurred for that.
Which was not Mrs. Clinton’s doing.
I lifted it from the National Post website circa 1997-98.
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C’mon Art, you know better,
I know the difference between actual events and your imagination. You’re not there yet.
Just for comparison, the death toll of the adventurism of that monster Vladimir Putin is around 25,000.
So far. At least HRC’s total is unlikely to grow.
Art, your responses are BS.
Regarding a ninety-day genocide, our two airborne divisions could have been there in three days at the latest, and the rest of NATO’s mobile brigades soon after. The whole reason they weren’t is because of our politics. You know that full well.
Regarding the U.S. empowerment of ISIS, it is true Art. We made a monster and then we had to destroy it. “Oh, no Tom, it wasn’t Dr. Frankenstein’s fault, it was the fault of the criminal who made bad decisions and so corrupted the brain the good Dr. dug up”.
Regarding your demand for citations, the National Post pages were purged about 5 years ago. I’m now going to pursue other sources, so I might have to be back in a few days. But here is one piece of the story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factor_8:_The_Arkansas_Prison_Blood_Scandal
“Wastage at Connaught resulted in the loss of at least 50,000 litres of Canadian source plasma during the three-year contract with the Red Cross, the equivalent of pouring more than 200,000 blood dona- tions down the drain. To make up the shortfall, Connaught bought plasma from the U.S., the first time it had been imported since the Second World War. Some of the sources, were, at best, dubious, such as an Arkansas prison. The U.S. blood was often mixed with Canadian donor plasma, contaminating even the safe supplies.”
– The Gift of Death by Andre Picard, 1995, page 98
https://archive.org/details/giftofdeathconfr0000pica/mode/2up?q=Arkansas
Mr Clinton’s visit provoked protests from some groups.
Andy Gunn, who contracted HIV and hepatitis from infected blood products, said that while Mr Clinton was governor of Arkansas, contaminated blood from prisons was exported to other countries.
He said: “They were making a lot of money. In fact, blood was worth more in weight than gold at the time.
“They knew the blood was infected with HIV and hepatitis and the prisoners were themselves dying of these conditions.
“It was actually illegal to use the blood in America and they secretly sent it up to Canada where it was turned into Factor VIII and punted around the globe.”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/4755297.stm
And I hate to make this citation, since thy are a bunch of Communists, but I have no reason to doubt them:
Arkansas Bloodsuckers: the Clintons, Prisoners and the Blood Trade
https://www.counterpunch.org/2015/09/04/arkansas-bloodsuckers-the-clintons-prisoners-and-the-blood-trade/
our two airborne divisions could have been there in three days at the latest,
Give me an example of a foreign country subject to an invasion on three days notice absent a common land boundary. (Grenada was an island with 2,000 armed men and about 80.000 people who hated the armed men).
We made a monster and then we had to destroy it.
Let’s see you outline it step by step how we ‘made’ ISIS.
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Tom, the Red Cross and commercial blood banks have had ready access to tests for HIV antibodies since 1985. You’re maintaining the wife of the governor is personally responsible for some decision made how many layers deep in the bureaucracy at a prison in Arkansas some time between the fall of 1982 and the spring of 1985, do I have that right? (Presuming the author is correct that ‘an Arkansas prison’ supplied blood plasma to a Canadian company). Keep in mind that over 10 years (1980-89) there were 386 cases of AIDS identified in the entire state. So, you’re telling me in that in this particular prison, they had a significant population of convicts with AIDS in 1982-85 who were also donating blood plasma. Is that right?
Mr Clinton’s visit provoked protests from some groups.
So what? Unreasonable people are everywhere.
Give me an example of a foreign country subject to an invasion on three days notice absent a common land boundary.
Easy answer: Rwanda, April 1994. The hard part was I had to re-read my copy of Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda by Canadian Lieutenant-General Roméo Dallaire to dig out the citations that you would want:
…At about quarter to three [on Saturday April 9, 1994 – two days after the genocide began] I was awakened by a phone call from Maurice [at UN HQ] to tell me that in forty-five minutes – around 0330 – the French, followed by the Belgians, would begin landing a military force at the Kigali airport to conduct an evacuation of expatriates. I was livid, and not only because of the short notice. What if the RGF [government military](or as they had threatened, the RPF [rebel forces]) shot down the aircraft? Why was I only being informed when the planes were already in the air and possibly even entering Rwandan airspace? Maurice insisted that he had only just been told himself and directed me to help…at last I heard the distinctive roar of aircraft landing at the airport, and to my relief there was no answering sound of gunfire or explosions…By dawn…the duty officer confirmed that three French aircraft had arrived, that there was already about three hundred French paratroopers on the ground at the airport, and that more aircraft were landing…
…That evening I called [UN HQ in] New York and described the situation. They had my reports in hand: along with political assassinations and indiscriminate killings, we now had an example of systematic ethnic killing in the Polish Mission massacre…By now there were five hundred French para-commandos working out of the airport, and a thousand Belgian paras staging in Nairobi. To that I could add the 250 U.S. Marines in Bujumbura [this force was being flown in right at the beginning of the genocide but was diverted to Burundi after the Kigali airport was closed, just as the Belgians has been diverted to Nairobi]. A force of that size, well-trained and well-equipped, could possibly bring an end to the killings. But such an option wasn’t even being considered.
BTW, the French paras collected the French expats and when they ran into roadblocks they would turn the expats’ Rwandan spouses over to be killed.
Oh, here’s another gem from Shaking Hands With the Devil:
The next morning [Wednesday April 13, 1994] I informed my staff of the Belgian about-face [namely, the Belgian government’s announcement that they would remove their peacekeeping contingent]. The United States, France, and Belgium had proven with their evacuation exercise that this mission could be reinforced. It was certainly not a lack of means that prevented them from reinforcing my mission or even taking my mission under their command to stop the killings.
Easy answer: Rwanda, April 1994.
The example you’re offering isn’t. That they could send an evacuation force does not mean they could occupy and control the country.
That they could send an evacuation force does not mean they could occupy and control the country.
Let’s see: Romeo Dallaire says otherwise, as I just quoted. He was educated at the Royal Military College Saint-Jean, the Royal Military College of Canada, the Canadian Land Force Command and Staff College, the U.S. Marine Corp Command and Staff College, and the UK Higher Command and Staff School.
The RPF occupied and pacified Rwanda in July 1994 with 20,000 soldiers. The 101st Airborne had 18,000 and the 82nd Airborne (which claims it can get anywhere in the world within 18 hours) had 10,000, and unlike the RPF the U.S. would have been able to recruit the moderates in the Rwandan military. There are, of course, other Army divisions which could have been flown in (the 10th Mountain division claims a worldwide 96 hour / 4 day mobilization response time) once the capital was secured, and there are also seven Marine Expeditionary Units of over 2,000 Marines each which could have been tapped if they had not been at sea.
Just give it up, Art.
Just give it up, Art.
Nope. Kagame’s forces are located right there and they know the terrain.
A force of that size, well-trained and well-equipped, could possibly bring an end to the killings. But such an option wasn’t even being considered.
He says a force of 750 men could work. You buy that. I’m selling bridges.
Nope. Kagame’s forces were not located right there, they had a significant advance to make. They were able to do so because the government forces were much less professional, a defect that also would have played into the hands of any intervention force.
Rwanda is a small country, everyone knew the terrain. The French certainly did, after all they had units stationed there until December 1993. Dallaire’s people had no trouble with the terrain as they investigated pre-genocide massacres – read the book.
He says a force of 750 men could work. You buy that.
You are misquoting Dallaire, that one proposal was 1,750 (1,000 Belgians, remember?), and he didn’t say it was a certainty, as he did say with larger force proposals (again, do I have to quote the whole damn book?). Moreover, you don’t know the context: when the killing began 1) it was only in a few small areas that a small number could have contained, 2) the government moderates who wanted to get their forces back to the barracks (as had been required by he peace agreement signed by the President before he was killed) would have been strengthened by any intervention, and 3) UN inaction meant that Dallaire was forced to use any resource he could get. By mid-April that opportunity was gone, the moderates had been demoted or sidelined and the radio-fueled hate had spread across the country. So yes, given those tactical realities as explained by Dallaire I buy his argument that a successful small force intervention in the first week of the genocide was possible, but only then. The fact that he more frequently called for much larger forces shows his judgement is not in question.
If you read Dallaire ‘s book you would no longer be in a position where your ignorance of the facts would allow you to cherry-pick his quotes, since you would see the whole tree.
You are misquoting Dallaire, that one proposal was 1,750
I’m sure that’ll make all the difference in a mountainous country with 5 million people resident therein, a critical mass of whom are in a state of frenzy.
As I wrote, when he made that comment the critical mass had not yet happened, the frenzy was not yet widespread. And his main concern was Kigali. Adding 1,750 to the 2,548 UN troops already in the capital would have defused the situation there and likely saved at least one out of every eight Rwandans who would die (that’s the ratio of the capital’s population to the entire country’s). He was also of the belief that stabilizing the capital would affect the rest of the country for the better. But you go ahead and twist it anyway.
BTW, fairly early Dallaire documented how the RTLM radio was driving the frenzy, and approached the U.S. to bomb or jam it. The Pentagon replied that jamming (the best approach) would cost $8,400 per hour and so would not be ‘cost effective’, at a time when about 8,000 to 10,000 Rwandans were being killed each day. Do the math: in Washington each Rwandan life was therefore worth less than $25.
Another point: in late June 1994 French paratroopers occupied a fifth of Rwanda under a UN mandate. How many troops did they use? Only 2,500. This shows that the claim that shall interventions would not have worked are bogus.
Can I just say that, after crawling through this elaborate maze of rabbit holes, I still can’t see how the murder of a million Tutsis was “due in part” to H.C. … Don’t get me wrong, TOMD, I’d love to be able to justifiably connect blame to her, but I just haven’t seen the connection here.