Bondo’s News of the Week- In Links 3-30-19

Relevant news, appropriate headlines from the real deal

200 Million People At Risk: National Weather Service Warns Apocalyptic Midwest Floods Are “A Preview Of What We Expect Throughout The Rest Of The Spring”

“As Many As A Million Calves Lost In Nebraska” – Beef Prices In The U.S. To Escalate Dramatically In The Coming Months

Mexico raises alert level as Popocatepetl volcano spews ash, lava

Pompeo: US will not ‘stand idly’ as Russia dispatches troops in Venezuela

Colorado Senate passes red flag gun bill

NASA Photographed Huge Meteor Blast Above Bering Sea Equivalent To Ten Atomic Bombs

meteor blast

Mom Ignores Doctor When Her Sick 2-Year-Old Starts Feeling Better, Child Services Send a SWAT Team

Cancer Cluster At California Elementary School Results In Removal Of Sprint Cell Phone Tower

Trump Plans Executive Order To Study Risks Of EMP Attack

“At First We Didn’t Believe It”: Fast-Melting Greenland Glacier Starts Growing Again In Massive U-Turn

Border Patrol begins releasing migrant families on the streets of Yuma

Mexico braces for new caravan of Central American migrants

US projected to add 1.5 million illegal aliens this year

92 percent of illegal immigrant families ignore deportations: Graham 

Peso Tumbles As Trump Threatens To Close Southern Border Next Week

suspect cell phone tower

San Antonio, Buffalo airports illegally ban Chick-Fil-A for “funding anti-LGBT organizations”

Consequences: From transgenderism to trans-whateverism

Dem Lawmakers Fly Transgender Pride Flags Outside Offices

WATCH: Islamic-Terrorist Agenda Removed From San Diego Schools

LGBTQ groups: Student vets ‘jeopardize’ well-being of students

BANNED! on Youtube: A video by Infowars reporter Greg Reese highlighting anomalies found in the footage of the Christchurch shooting

Mosque leader blames the Jews

‘Dark day for internet freedom’: EU lawmakers approve controversial copyright reform

The EU bows to ‘systemic rival’ China: Slowly but surely, the EU is shifting its priorities to the East

ain’t nothing good happening with this bunch

Facebook fights for the right to follow users–and nonusers–around the web

Youtube deletes Joe Rogan podcast with Alex Jones on ‘Free Speech Channel’ 3 hours after Media Matters hit-piece

Scientists Begin Teaching AI Robots To Evolve & Reproduce

Trampoline parks exploding in popularity, but expert warns of “catastrophic injuries”

Walmart is quietly closing stores — here’s the full list

downsizing for first time

Chinese city offers US$1,500 reward to help snare foreign religious leaders

Capitalism Saved Sweden | AIER

Chicago PD Quickly Dump Smollett Hate-Hoax Docs Before Case Sealed By Judge

Rahm Emanuel, Chicago’s Top Cop Slam Dropped Smollett Charges As “Whitewash Of Justice”

Prosecutor Kim Foxx lied about recusing herself: continued to work case, dismissal- dropped 16 felonies, sealed case

Cardi B Responds to Backlash Over Video of Her Saying She Drugged and Robbed Men

Barbara Bush blames Trump for heart attack, GOP exit in The Matriarch

Drug Addiction Expert: Beto’s A ‘Tweaker’

Former Nevada lawmaker accuses ‘Creepy Joe’ Biden of inappropriate kiss

The Self-appointed labeler of ‘hate-groups’- Southern Poverty Law Center faces allegations of ‘systemic racism and sexism’ including claims qualified African-American employees were ‘passed over for promotions’

Thug-life, Eric Holder, goes on MSNBC and says America was never great, gets owned by Pence on Twitter, does the thug crawfish

Trump “Totally Exonerated”, Calls For Investigation Into “Illegal Takedown That Failed

“The Media’s Russia ‘Bombshells’ Look Even Worse Now That Mueller Found No Collusion

Glenn Greenwald: Russia Collusion ‘Conspiracy’ Was “Saddest Media Spectacle I Have Ever Seen”

 

The Media Will Soon Wish They Could Erase History (And Perhaps They Will)

VIDEO: Russia Fail! Media compilation of two years of delusion

NYT tries to shift blame to “All of us” for Russia-gate hoax

With Mueller Done, WSJ Urges “Probe The Real Scandal”

Andrew McCarthy: How long has Mueller known there was no Trump-Russia collusion?

“It’s Coming”: Graham Vows To Investigate FBI’s “Unprofessional Conduct” And ‘Troubling’ Behavior By Lynch, Comey

CIA-Linked Nellie Ohr Gave Extensive Anti-Trump Research To High-Ranking DOJ Husband: Transcripts

Hogwashed: A Sullen John Brennan Suggests He May Have Received “Bad Information” On Collusion

Why is he still here? Former CIA Director John Brennan Met with House Democrats This Week — On Same Day Rand Paul Accused Him of Major Role in Russia Conspiracy

Rand Paul Rages “Officials Must Be Asked Under Oath What Obama Knew, And When?”

Brilliant! Rand Paul Blocks Resolution for the Release of Mueller Report Until Communications Also Released of Crooked Obama Officials

The Only 2016 Campaign That Deliberately Colluded With Russians Was Hillary Clinton’s

Researcher says Google flipped seats, shifted millions of votes to Dems in 2018 midterms

Brazil’s Top Election Court Catches Google Manipulating Search Results to Point to Negative Entries on Bolsonaro …Just Like They Do with Conservatives in America

and this week from the youtubes:

This Is What Winning Looks Like

Documentary from 2013 when the War in Afghanistan was declared “won”.

WARNING: Graphic content

Bring the boys home

window of overtunity

The “Overton Window” is a conceptualization of public or social discourse and it’s correlation with the public and official policy that is viewed through that “window”.

In other words, the Overton Window contains all the ideas, beliefs, and public discourse that is “socially acceptable”. Supposedly, our policies and laws are based upon what is in the window:

As ideas outside the window, concepts viewed as “unacceptable” or “radical”- to the ‘left’ or ‘right’- become more accepted, the window shifts. The public discourse and societal standards are changed.

The media, educational system, entertainment industry, and government or public agencies introduce new ideas into the societal discussion- eventually bringing formerly “unthinkable” concepts into the realm of “normal”, “acceptable” or “popular”.

In my lifetime, the window has shifted to where formerly unthinkable things have become mainstream- abortion on demand, gay marriage, and a complete degradation of morality, especially sexual morality.

Sometimes, the view presented in the window is rejected. The election of President Trump was a rejection of a window that was filled with globalism, open borders, and socialism. You don’t have to look through the window.

What is filling the window now? Infanticide, lawlessness, transgenderism, and socialism. Will we use the new window or pull down the shades?

I say get out the hammer and board it up.

Can you smell it??

 from mangledman:

It is in the AIR!!  That’s the smell of trouble brewing.  Well MULEYRs investigation is over.  The left is either still holding out hope BARR is holding something back, and they want FULL disclosure, because 27 million later he has to be guilty of something.  The others are in a hissy fit, because muley just wasted two years leading them on with full MSM cooperation.  Cognitive Dissonance is killing them.  Faux news did many 100s of words about Hollywood types doing a meltdown, showing their tweets, and this thoroughly ticked me off.  Fox is supposed to represent somebody, but what do Conservatives care about the minority of liberal Hollywood types opinions on politics??  Let alone gloating over the very far left opinion over getting a big fat nothing burger over Trump colluding with Russia.  Little o and Hitlery have obvious ties with them colluding with Russia, even in (o)s very own words because he thought the mike was off, ON NATIONAL TELEVISION!  Why is no one still tying that story together, instead of reveling over the latest distractions??  I just read a headline over at USA life about Google Steering 78 million votes toward democrats, I haven’t read it yet, but it kinda confirms my TRUMP RED LANDSLIDE election theory.  Please pay attention, dissention is running deep and being fueled daily.  The Senators on the left are hollering the AMERICAN PEOPLE have a right to see it all and not take Trump’s pick for AG get to decide whether full disclosure is necessary.  See how fast they forgot about Loretta Lynch.  Does anyone else want to call Bullsh on the whole mess and put together an army and investigate every last one of them, and how they received every dang dime in their bank account.  If that is a decent start, then we can drag out all those wonderful laws they been passing without representation, just to see what comes after the title, and charge each and everyone that put their signatures on Treason, hoping to never answer to the people they claim to serve.  There is a BIGGER picture here.  The left has been banking on Muleys investigation hanging Trump, and had he found anything after X amount of time he would have RAN to the presses for crucifixion by public opinion, and WE KNOW IT!  Two years later, and we  actually drag this out, how much longer??  Actually this INSANITY is making my gizzard grind today.  I am watching Conservatives converse about trying all the dissenters for TREASON, after this Crazy has been postponing JUSTICE for Two more years.  What have we seen so far??  We see the STATES rounding up pedophiles, while PIZZAGATE,PEDOGATE, HAITIGATE, BENGHAZIGATE, FAST AND FURIOUS ETC. Etc. CLOCKS KEEP TICKING.  There are what, 535 legislators, and I can think of NONE that are NOT GUILTY!!  TREASON  covers that place like peanutbutter on bread.  Everytime I think I find one thats Admirable poof they fall from Grace on the next big issue, or slither back and  forth across the aisle taking turns, while the left flaunts their corruption. This is what this all about.  CORRUPTION!!  People are flooding across the border in record numbers.  Muslims are indoctrinating their children for Jihad right here on our soil.  The clock is ticking on our debt, China will expect to get paid their interest, The Clintons Bushes, Obama, and Yes DT made his motives perfectly clear the day he signed away our first Rights, long before RED FLAG came out his mouth.  All Donald Trump has to do is act like he is going forward for Truth, and if He is not the one sitting in the hot seat when this powderkeg blows he is sure as heck playing his part.  This Revolution should have exploded the day he mentioned RED FLAG, if not the day he signed NDAA!!  While Q keeps saying good things are in the mix, GOOD MEN DO NOTHING!!  A lot of the answers to the questions are already there.  The writing is already on the wall.  We are being turned into Sweden, Britain and France, right before your eyes, and while New Zealanders refuse to disarm, the TRAITORS are already plotting our demise.  If you haven’t thought about Bullets and Beans yet, are you considering it yet.  Buy a pig, plant a fruit tree, and learn to grow something to eat.  I am only ranting about the political today, but a lot of beef will not make the market this year, and crop shortages are coming after we just imported how many millions of people getting better benefits than AMERICANS??  We have a zillion gun owners that have barely been to the woods that think we’ll just have to hunt for food.  Yes, that old AMERICAN SPIRIT is alive and well, but unrealistic when depression hits.  To me it looks like the Civil war only needs the short fuse lit, and it will be here before you know it.  The left thinks DT wont get anywhere in 2020, while they think Americans wont come out in droves to vote for Socialism.  Venezuela has Socialism with a Constitution, while the left wants to destroy ours and adopt Socialism.  Venezuela’s assets belong to the people.  Who do our assets belong to.

donald trump is finished!

Ha ha ha ha. Which one gets the Pulitzer?

disco sucks

Once upon a time, in the 1970’s, a vile and powerful darkness began to completely engulf mankind. It was everywhere you turned, manipulating people’s movements, maddeningly making the young want more and more.

Finally, a man who had watched the madness day by day, one day decided he could bear it no longer. Steve Dahl was that man.

And on July 12, 1979, he emphatically stated “DISCO SUCKS!!”

 

Disco was a genre of dance music that became popular in the mid-1970’s.

kc and the sunshine band

Some of the big groups in the disco age were KC and the Sunshine Band (Shake Your Booty) and the Village People (YMCA)

the village people

But none approached the lofty heights of the undisputed champions of disco: those brothers Gibb from Britain: the Bee-Gee’s

bee-gee’s

The Bee-Gee’s were the headliners and most prominent contributors to the iconic event of the disco era: 1977’s Saturday Night Fever starring John Travolta

Even Goofy got in on the action:

Steve Dahl worked for a rock station in Chicago. He watched as disco took over music. It got crooner Neil Diamond (Forever in Blue Jeans), Rod Stewart (Do ya Think I’m Sexy). When he saw Mick Jagger “preening” in the Rolling Stone’s Miss You he had just about had it. Then, when his station announced they were going to a disco format, he knew he could wait no longer.

It was time for Disco Demolition Day.

disco demolition night

Steve arranged a promotion with the Chicago White Sox and Comiskey Park for a Disco Demolition Night. The White Sox were having a terrible season and weren’t selling tickets and agreed to the presentation in between double header games, hoping to boost ticket sales.

Steve promoted the stunt on his radio show, asking fans to come and bring disco records that he would “blow up”. He was afraid that no one would show up.

50,000 haters of disco arrived and quickly filled the 124 cubic foot crate. After the crate was filled, the fans took their disco albums with them to their seats. Security had to shut the gates as an estimated 20,000 more wanted to get in.

During the break between games, Steve Dahl gave a short speech in which he got the crowd chanting “Disco Sucks!” and then he blew up the crate, leaving a large hole in the field, and a roaring fire. Fans began throwing the albums and records they still had onto the field and then many poured out onto the field.

The field was un-playable after that and the White Sox had to forfeit the second game to the Tigers. Many music experts agree that it was the dramatic beginning of the end for disco.

Bondo’s News of the Week- In Links 3-23-19

Relevant news, appropriate headlines from the real deal

Houston Story Time Drag Queen Garza was charged with child sexual assault involving a victim who was eight-years-old in 2008

alberto garza aka tatiana mala nina

The group that turns back the library pedophiles: Mass Resistance Pro Family Activism- put them in your bookmarks

Omega Shock: Pornography Destroyed Us Part 1

It’s Happening – The Most Dangerous Volcano In North America Just Erupted And Shot Ash Nearly A Mile Into The Sky

Joint Chiefs chairman says he’ll meet with Google to explain, ‘We’re the good guys- you are helping an authoritarian regime’

Catastrophic Flooding In The Midwest Could Last “For Months”, And That Is Going To Mean A Dramatic Drop In U.S. Food Production

netflix documentary on the tragedy of maddie

Madeleine McCann Netflix documentary – Kate McCann’s refusal to answer 48 questions from police about Maddie’s disappearance

Cop and State Attorney Jailed After Fellow Cops Caught them Raping a Baby and Filming It

The Finders: Tallahassee Police Documents Reveal 30 Year Cover-Up of Child Sex Abuse

After Blocking Zero Hedge And Others, NZ Telcos Demand Big-Tech Censorship Surge To “Protect Consumers”

Jordan B. Peterson’s bestseller pulled from New Zealand bookstore in response to massacre

Why are mainstream media outlets trying to censor video footage of New Zealand massacre?

All the religious massacres you didn’t hear about over the past year have one thing in common… Christians were killed instead of Muslims- 1,956 so far in 2019

kiwi submission

Evidence Indicates Link Between North Korean Embassy Break-In And Christchurch Attacks

NZ Police “Happened to Be in a Training Session” When Mosque Shooting Began- &Parkland Shooting Victims visited city last year

New Zealand Police Interviewed Mosque Shooter Before Granting Gun License

Obama-Appointed Judge Rules Illegal Alien Who Used Fake Federal Document to Obtain Driver’s License Committed No Crime

Supreme Court Sides With Trump over Sanctuary Cities in Deportation Case

ICE releasing 1,000 illegal immigrant family members a day

U.S. immigration arrests fall under Trump as resources shift to the border

Human embryo smuggling: Malaysian arrested at India airport

protesting the culture- india

India: Two brothers arrested for ‘gang-raping their own sister, 12, then beheading her’ in case so shocking no lawyers are willing to defend them

Senegalese-Born Bus Driver Charged With Kidnapping 51 Italian Students; Threatened To “Carry Out A Massacre”

UK: What happened when an innocent Christian preacher was accused of Islamophobia

UK: Home Office refuses  Iranian Christian convert asylum by quoting Bible passages that ‘prove Christianity is not peaceful’

Judge Jeanine Pirro ‘suspended from Fox, future uncertain after comments about Ilhan Omar

taiwanese trouble

France To Deploy Military Against Next Round Of Yellow Vest Protests

Taiwan Seeks To Buy 100 US Main Battle Tanks Amid Chinese Invasion Threats

‘Damn socialism, why are you chasing me?’ Chinese-Americans see ghost of communism in Democrats’ leftward turn

Sam Smith comes out as non-binary: ‘I’m not male or female’

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez mocks God: “What good are your thoughts & prayers when they don’t even keep the pews safe”

born to run

Robert Francis O’Rourke literally ate dirt with fabled ‘regenerative powers’ after loss to Cruz

Video shows Beto waving his hands in the air, declaring that the border crisis is actually a manufactured plot to steal land from ranchers

Bloomberg mocks Biden, O’Rourke- “Joe apologized for being white, O’Rourke apologized for being born”

Obama’s half-brother Malik asks if Michelle is really a man

Colorado joins effort to elect presidents by popular vote, go around Electoral College

Washington State’s plan to ban Trump from 2020 ballot

President Trump signs Executive Order protecting Free Speech on college campuses

hitting the hives

Twitter Admits it Shadowbanned an Accurate Tweet About Hillary Clinton Working With Russians

Instagram to block anti-vaccine hashtags amid misinformation crackdown

Trump vows to investigate FB for bias- has spent nearly twice as much on Facebook ads as the entire 2020 Democratic field combined

Conservatives face a tough fight as Big Tech’s censorship expands

Goodbye to the Internet: Interference by Governments Is Already Here

One week after co-founder ousted for racist and sexual harassment, SPLC president stepping down amid misconduct allegations

message of peace

NJ Governor Signs “Rain Tax” Bill; Residents Can Now BE TAXED When It Rains On Their Property

Second Amendment Sanctuary Cities, Counties, and STATES Spring Up Across the Country

“Sitting Ambassadors” Participated In Plot To ‘Take Trump Down’: Meadows

Matthews fumes: “… How can they let Trump off the hook?”

Schiff vows to keep investigating until he finds something

“Deadly Serious” – Jim Kunstler Warns The Left Is Playing With Fire

and this week from the youtubes:

kiwi submission

Sameole Sameole!!

 from mangledman:

Bondo gave us a refresher on the 45 goals of Communism, the 26 rules for Marxism fit right in there too.  The big summit that just took place, had China bragging about something that put the screws to the USA, while dictators, and human rights violators determine the world’s future.  They also want to determine our place in it.  Nothing to see here, move along.  We have seen States wanting illegal votes, do away with the Electoral College, so that big liberal states can determine the outcome of elections.  Never mind the facts that voter fraud goes unpunished or investigated in such places.  They want us to believe that we live in a democracy, where Two wolves and a sheep vote on what’s for dinner.  Does anyone wonder why our children do not realize we are supposed to be living under a CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC!!  The State of Missouri is in the process of making federal law that goes against the 2nd amendment NULL AND VOID in their great state.  There will probably be more of this common sense showing up.  The statistics far outweigh the  hysteria that is coming our way.  Law abiding people, don’t need to be on government lists.  We don’t even need to be extorted, fingerprinted, photographed, and put in a database just to possess rights we should already have.  USA.life has tons of people fleeing Facebook and Twitter in droves.  I am coming across some people that are paying attention to a multitude of things, while others are still in the dark in a couple of areas.  Blaming Democrats for ALL the ills in our country is absurd IMO, because when Republicans had control these things should have been a done deal.  Look at the wall situation.  We had control of House and Senate, but now we don’t and the common sense of controlling illegal immigration is a big fight with Republicans betraying their people.  Does anyone else recognize the madness in a lot of this swamp called politics.  CrazyO Cortex thinks we should sit down and shut up, when we recognize insanity.  Every Democrat now on the platform thinks we need to embrace Socialism, because now it is new and improved.  In Politics today they hand out 1,200 pages the night before, and want to vote on hundreds of Laws thrown into one with a fancy name and spring on the American people what it cost somewhere down the road.  We had a CONSTITUTION.  This document is still alive, and the promises there in still make perfect sense.  We need as a country to get back to a lot of things.  Morality, decency and common sense would be terrific, but resentment of the TRUTH is making an uphill battle.  I have spent the last couple weeks moving.  I have basically learned the new game of pain management is ALL ABOUT THE MONEY!!  I  could rant incessantly about how we could go to a doctor that knows us and our family, to going to someone that doesn’t care who we are, what we’ve overcome, and what we would like our future to look like.  When our lovely doctors only want to work on the parts that pay the big $$, what good are they if living day to day is irrelevant to them, let alone what I can afford.  (rant over).  We have a rough ride ahead folks, I truly hope y’all are preparing for a very different future than the one we now experience.  Trying to keep up with the political game is insanity.  Thinking anyone that gets a vote gives a flip about us is madness extreme.  When will we wake to the idea that “voting is the suggestion box of slaves!

pedophile story time

So now we see the gig- pedophiles dress up as women and liberal parents take their kids right to them and plop them down on their laps.

Welcome to “Drag Queen Story Hour”. In this episode, a sex offender convicted of sexually assaulting an eight-year old boy, is reading to the kids, and more, in Houston Heights.

from KHOU 11 News, Houston:  Houston Public Library admits registered child sex offender read to kids in Drag Queen Storytime

A media spokesperson for the library confirmed one of those drag queens, Tatiana Mala Nina, is Alberto Garza, a 32-year-old child sex offender

Author: Lauren Talarico

Published: 6:21 PM CDT March 15, 2019

Updated: 6:31 AM CDT March 19, 2019

HOUSTON — A registered child sex offender has been reading to children at Houston Public Library as part of its Drag Queen Storytime.

A group called Mass Resistance, which has been trying to put an end to the program, contacted KHOU about the child sex offender.

Mass Resistance claims it had been asking the City of Houston for months to disclose information about the drag queens, and when requests went unanswered, they did their own digging and made the shocking link.

A media spokesperson for the library confirmed one of the program’s drag queens, Tatiana Mala Nina, is Alberto Garza, a 32-year-old child sex offender. In 2008, he was convicted of assaulting an 8-year-old boy.

“Most parents would not allow that individual to sit in this library and be held up as a role model to our children. Shame on you, Mayor (Sylvester) Turner!” said Tracy Shannon with Mass Resistance.

In a statement, the Houston Public Library admits they didn’t do a background check on Garza and said Garza will not be involved in any future library programs.

“In our review of our process and of this participant, we discovered that we failed to complete a background check as required by our own guidelines,” the library said in a statement. “We deeply regret this oversight and the concern this may cause our customers. We realize this is a serious matter.”

Protesters say they want more than apologies; they want heads to roll.

“If they had done their job and due diligence, if they had said wait…maybe it’s not a good idea to have a sex offender who at 200 pounds and 5-foot-11 assaulted an 8-year-old boy!” Shannon said.

Drag Queen Storytime’s creators say it’s part of a national program that aims to promote love and acceptance.

In October, opponents sued the library system and Mayor Turner, trying to stop the program. They claim they’re not against the LGBTQ community, but instead, the library’s actions. The lawsuit was dismissed by a judge in January.

Plaintiffs argued the program favors “secular humanism,” violating the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause on religion.

“We may not all agree that having adult entertainers is the right way to entertain young children or promote literacy and adversity and acceptance and inclusion,” Shannon said, “but we can all agree that it’s inappropriate to have a sex offender. And for someone to not do their due diligence, to have a sex offender entertaining children at the library.”

Houston Public Library released the following statement:

“We were made aware today that one participant for Drag Queen storytime who read at the September 29, 2018, Drag Queen Storytime has a criminal background that should have prevented him from participating in the program.

“We assure you that this participant will not be involved in any future HPL programs.

“In our review of our process and of this participant, we discovered that we failed to complete a background check as required by our own guidelines. We deeply regret this oversight and the concern this may cause our customers. We realize this is a serious matter.

“Every program sponsored by HPL is supervised by HPL staff, and all children are accompanied by a parent and/or guardian. No participant is ever alone with children, and we have not received any complaints about any inappropriate behavior by participants at storytimes.

“We are taking the appropriate action to ensure that the status of every participant in every program throughout our system is verified.  We will continue to review our process to ensure that this cannot happen again.

“Once again, we apologize for our failure to adhere to our own process in this matter and to the hundreds of parents and caregivers who have enjoyed this program with their children.”

alberto garza aka tatiana mala nina

Other links to this Houston Proud! moment that has received global attention:

Houston Public Library Allowed Convicted Sex Offender to Read at ‘Drag Queen Story Hour’

Houston Public Library admits they let a convicted SEX OFFENDER read to children as young as two in drag after failing to perform a basic background check

Did you watch the video? They are coming for your kids!

Here is the group that is trying to expose this nonsense, Mass Resistance:

https://www.massresistance.org/

“if I were the devil”- Paul Harvey, 1965

if I were the devil-

If I were the prince of darkness, I would want to engulf the whole world in darkness.

I’d have a third of its real estate and four-fifths of its population, but I would not be happy until I had seized the ripest apple on the tree — thee.

So, I would set about however necessary to take over the United States.

I’d subvert the churches first, and I would begin with a campaign of whispers.

With the wisdom of a serpent, I would whisper to you as I whispered to Eve: “Do as you please.”

To the young, I would whisper that the Bible is a myth. I would convince the children that man created God instead of the other way around. I’d confide that what’s bad is good and what’s good is square.

And the old, I would teach to pray after me, “Our Father, which are in Washington …”

Then, I’d get organized, I’d educate authors in how to make lurid literature exciting so that anything else would appear dull and uninteresting.

I’d peddle narcotics to whom I could. I’d sell alcohol to ladies and gentlemen of distinction. I’d tranquilize the rest with pills.

If I were the devil, I’d soon have families at war with themselves, churches at war with themselves and nations at war with themselves until each, in its turn, was consumed.

And with promises of higher ratings, I’d have mesmerizing media fanning the flames.

If I were the devil, I would encourage schools to refine young intellect but neglect to discipline emotions. I’d tell teachers to let those students run wild. And before you knew it, you’d have drug-sniffing dogs and metal detectors at every schoolhouse door.

Within a decade, I’d have prisons overflowing and judges promoting pornography. Soon, I would evict God from the courthouse and the schoolhouse and then from the houses of Congress.

In his own churches, I would substitute psychology for religion and deify science. I’d lure priests and pastors into misusing boys and girls and church money.

If I were the devil, I’d take from those who have and give to those who wanted until I had killed the incentive of the ambitious.

What’ll you bet I couldn’t get whole states to promote gambling as the way to get rich?

I’d convince the young that marriage is old-fashioned, that swinging is more fun and that what you see on television is the way to be.

And thus, I could undress you in public and lure you into bed with diseases for which there are no cures.

In other words, if I were the devil, I’d just keep right on doing what he’s doing.