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Fact-Check: "Kamala Harris Now Supports Donald Trump's Border Wall!"

I've recently heard several MAGAs claiming Vice President Harris now supports their orange messiah's border wall. It may derive from the following Axios article, which I will now dissect. The article starts with, "If she's elected president, Kamala Harris pledges to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on the wall along the southern border — a project she once opposed and called 'un-American'  during the Trump administration." Something tells me this isn't the whole story, but I'll bite. Please continue... "Why it matters: It's the latest example of Harris flip-flopping on her past liberal positions such as supporting Medicare for All and banning fracking — proposals that aides say she now is against. - Harris is embracing a more hawkish immigration policy as Donald Trump's campaign spends tens of millions of dollars attacking her about the border. - But she still has significant differences with Trump on immigration, opposing his app...

The Fifty Shades of Marilyn Manson

On January 31st of last year, I published a blog which shared the story of my battles with sexual abuse and epilepsy growing up; the depression and suicidal thoughts which sprung from them; and how artist Marilyn Manson's interviews and music essentially saved me. Within hours of releasing that extremely personal story, actress Evan Rachel Wood published an Instagram post, which alleged Manson of multiple forms of abuse, including sexual. While it was an incredibly surreal moment for me, I refused to comment on it until both parties made their case and evidence was gathered one way or the other. Yes, call me crazy, but even as an abuse-survivor myself, while I feel every abuse allegation should be taken seriously, I'm also a staunch believer in due-process. For the most part, Manson (real name Brian Warner) stayed mum following the allegations. Not long after Ms. Wood posted her Instagram message, he shared one of his own, where he vehemently denied all allegations. After that,...

New comment on my blog, "How Music Saved My Life"

I just received this comment on a blog I released a little over a year ago, entitled, "How Music Saved My Life": - "Your story is heartbreaking, honest and will be healing to others who have a similar story. Thank you for sharing your healing through music. What an incredible journey to where you are today. 💗" The piece can be found and read at this link: https://thekind-heartedsmartaleck.blogspot.com/2021/01/how-music-saved-my-life.html

A partial, but not complete defense of Liam Neeson

I was struck when I saw a headline for an article at the Independent  which read, "Liam Neeson: 'I walked the streets with a cosh hoping I'd be approached by a 'black bastard' so that I could kill him'." Yes, the headline grabbed my attention so I decided to read the article in its entirety. Unfortunately, it seems not everyone did that. In an interview with Clémence Michallon, Neeson told the story of a friend confessing to him that she had been raped by a black man. Upon hearing the news, the action star claims he thought this: "I went up and down areas with a cosh, hoping I'd be approached by somebody. I'm ashamed to say that, and I did it for maybe a week - hoping some 'black bastard' would come out of a pub and have a go at me about something, you know? So that I could kill him." That was the attention-grabbing headline in a nutshell. What those who didn't read the full article missed were the two following bits of ...

The Anti-Woman Woman Columnist: Adriana Cohen

I recently stumbled upon an article, entitled, "There Is a War on One Gender," and it soon led me to realize there is such a thing as an anti-woman woman columnist. Her name is Adriana Cohen. In this article, Cohen makes the following comments: - "Forget the mythical war on women." - "What we're really seeing in American culture is a growing war on men. There's a bias against men that seeks to demean, devalue and ultimately emasculate normal, healthy men and boys in virtually all aspects of life - the U.S. educational and legal systems, the workplace, pop culture, and even modern-day families." - "It's no secret that the American public K-12 school system - in an effort to empower its female students - is now predominantly 'teaching to girls,' versus providing curricula and atmospheres that educate, support and empower all students equally." - "Turn on any sitcom or Hollywood movie and you'll easily find mal...

Worst Article of the Year: "Mueller's findings don't matter" by Sharyl Attkisson

On December 10th, 2018 at 9 am EST, we were presented with the worst article of the year. Via The Hill , right-wing shill Sharyl Attkisson released an op-ed entitled, "Mueller's findings don't matter." It only got worse from there. Let's dissect it now, shall we? Attkisson started her piece (of garbage) with this: "In part, it's the length of time that it's taken that has rendered special counsel Robert Mueller's probe functionally irrelevant." Tell that to the 33 individuals who have been charged thus far... "I submit that the die was largely cast prior to Mueller's appointment on May 17, 2017. Perhaps if there had been a quick investigation with prompt findings inside of a couple of months, things might be different. But nearly 19 months of speculation, breathless leaks and innuendo - true and false - have taken on lives of their own, providing time for each side to dig in." Apparently Ms. Attkisson believes federal ...

Quoted in Portugal's largest-selling newspaper, Expresso!

Late last night/Early this morning, I was contacted by a journalist in Portugal, who wanted to hear my take on Rudy Giuliani's recent "Truth isn't truth" quote. His article was then published. You can either click on the link and then click on the logo to the left of the star (bookmark) to translate the article from Portuguese to English or read the translated version here ( https://leitor.expresso.pt/diario/20-08-2018/html/caderno-1/temas-principais/sarcasmo-pasmo-e-preocupacao-uma-discussao-sobre-a-verdade-que-nao-e-verdade ): RUDY GIULIANI Sarcasm, amazement and worry: a discussion about the truth that is not true by Hélder Gomes "Truthfully, it's not true' goes into the Trump Hall of Fame, overcoming even 'alternative facts' and 'remember: what you are seeing and hearing is not what is happening'", sentence to Professor Laurence H. Tribe, who teaches Constitutional Law at Harvard Law School. Reactions to the statement by R...

The Bonehead Article of the Week: "...Here's why conservative Christians are sticking with the president" by Marc Thiessen

Former George W. Bush speechwriter and current Fox News contributor, Marc Thiessen, wrote an article yesterday which I felt needed mentioning. The article is entitled, "...Here's why conservative Christians are sticking with the president," and here's how it begins: "As '60 Minutes' prepares to air its interview with adult-film actress Stormy Daniels, conservative Christians are being accused of hypocrisy. How can so-called 'values voters' continue to stand with President Trump despite revelations that he allegedly had affairs with a porn star and a Playboy model, and paid them for their silence? No doubt some Christian leaders have gone too far in rationalizing Trump's past personal behavior and excusing his offensive comments while in office. He is a deeply flawed man. But Trump does have one moral quality that deserves admiration: He keeps his promises." That's right, ladies and gentlemen - Donald Trump's most moral quali...

"Kissing Donald Trump's a$$" brought to you by Celeste Katz

So Celeste Katz of Newsweek  decided to write a piece the other day, entitled, "Trump Had Many Genuine Successes This Year, Despite Low Approval Rating," and I felt the need to comment on it. First off, let's look at the definition of the term accomplishment . According to the dictionary, accomplishment is defined as "something that has been achieved successfully." Based off that, let's now look at Ms. Katz's list of President Trump's supposed accomplishments: 1) "He got a new justice on the Supreme Court" "Trump promised on the campaign trail to appoint a conservative jurist to the highest court in the land as a replacement for the late Justice Antonin Scalia. He selected Neil Gorsuch, a Colorado federal appeals court judge who, at 49, was the youngest Supreme Court nominee since then-President George H. W. Bush nominated 43-year-old Clarence Thomas in 1991." So, in other words, Donald Trump's accomplishment here wa...