Sunday, August 30, 2015
Meanwhile speaking of perverts, The Donald calls Anthony Weiner "one of the great sleazebags of our time"
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| Weiner is very popular with some people. |
Here:
"Who is Huma married to? One of the great sleazebags of our time: Anthony Weiner."
Michigan has two top 10 universities . . . in the Ashley Madison hack
Story here, which twice calls the hack a "data leak".
Syriza goes from "hope is coming" to "only ahead" just as Obama went from "hope" to "forward"
Is this a shameless rip-off of a 2011 hit by Greek pop star Demy or what?
The vote of the young and the dumb, as always, is key to the advance of socialism.
Saturday, August 29, 2015
Jeb Bush has a big expensive campaign, and you know what that means
He'll have a big, expensive government.
Seen here:
But Bush’s fundraising pace has slowed in the late summer months. Still, he’s likely to remain the GOP campaign’s top fundraiser, but Bush is also spending more than other candidates because he has a mammoth operation.
“Jeb has a big army, and that army needs to be fed,” said one campaign consultant familiar with the campaign’s internal numbers. “Jeb might not have a fundraiser problem. He might have a spending problem.”
Peter Morici says Trump's ideas really do make sense
Peter Morici of the University of Maryland, quoted here:
"One of the reasons he is winning votes is he's talking about the macro issues that so frustrate many Americans and seem so blatantly unfair," says Peter Morici, a professor of economics at University of Maryland's Robert Smith school of business. ...
"The big issues he talks about do make some sense," says Morici. "The question is...is there really much substance there or is this just a few phrases?"
Friday, August 28, 2015
Flashback January 28, 2013: Obama called Hillary "one of the finest secretary of states"
To its credit, CBS preserved in "print" the supposedly smartest president ever flubbing the English language yet one more time. But then again how could they not preserve it? It's on tape.
Occidental? Columbia? Harvard? Still hard to make a purse out of a sow's ear, as my mother used to say.
Here:
President Obama: "Well, the main thing is I just wanted to have a chance to publicly say thank you, because I think Hillary will go down as one of the finest secretary of states we've had. It has been a great collaboration over the last four years. I'm going to miss her. Wish she was sticking around. But she has logged in so many miles, I can't begrudge her wanting to take it easy for a little bit. But I want the country to appreciate just what an extraordinary role she's played during the course of my administration and a lot of the successes we've had internationally have been because of her hard work."
Maybe if Obama had had more attorneys general Hillary would have been indicted by now just by luck.
h/t Chris Plante
Flashback to January 2011: Hillary said extremists shot Gabrielle Giffords, you know, extremists like terrorists and Republicans
Reuters had the quotations here, uttered by Hillary Clinton while in the United Arab Emirates :
"We have extremists in my country. A wonderful, incredibly brave young woman Congress member, Congresswoman Giffords, was just shot by an extremist in our country," she added.
"We have the same kinds of problems. So rather than standing off from each other, we should work to try to prevent the extremists anywhere from being able to commit violence." ...
"The extremists and their voices, the crazy voices that sometimes get on the TV, that's not who we are, that's not who you are, and what we have to do is get through that and make it clear that that doesn't represent either American or Arab ideas or opinions," she said. ...
Thirty-five years ago the economy mattered more than actual power
"[Economists] never offer anything but the same command approach to the obvious exception of everything else that used to be easily and conventionally embraced. The willingness of political figures across the spectrum to allow it and even strengthen it defies democracy. Thus Donald Trump".
Jeffrey Snider here.
The biggest bloc of voters is undecided in the upcoming September Greek election according to a new poll
Reuters reports here:
Syriza was supported by 23 percent of those polled, with the conservative New Democracy party second on 19.5 percent, according to the survey, carried out by pollsters ProRata and published in Friday's Efimerida Ton Syntakton newspaper. ... Popular Unity, the party formed last week by Syriza rebels who oppose the bailout, was backed by 3.5 percent in Friday's poll - just above the 3 percent threshold needed to enter parliament. But the Independent Greeks, the ally in Tsipras' former coalition government, scored just 2 percent, meaning Syriza would be forced to seek another coalition partner. ... It also showed 25.5 percent of voters were still undecided, making them the biggest bloc.
What nobody talks about in these reports, of course, is that the party polling third is Golden Dawn, well ahead of Syriza breakaway party Popular Unity as well as the communist KKE. Golden Dawn has increased its support from earlier in the year no doubt because Greece is being overrun by refugees from around the Mediterranean and the incompetent left running the show is failing to solve the problem. Golden Dawn is said to draw its support at elections from members of the police and the military.
Thursday, August 27, 2015
Yanis Varoufakis calls far left party Popular Unity's plan for Grexit and a return to the drachma "isolationist"
In Greece the left calls the left isolationist.
In America the right calls the right isolationist.
Maybe the isolationism is where the real meaning is, the other monikers "left" and "right" being obfuscatory and Orwellian, and useless.
The two candidates for president in America with any energy in their campaigns are against free-trade because it is one-sided trade which slowly impoverishes the American middle class. A more insidious form of Fabianism is hard to imagine. One of the candidates is a patriotic socialist throwback to the FDR 1930s, the other a businessman whose hero was another Democrat in recovery, Ronald Reagan.
In our time it has been only some people from the left who have seemed capable of understanding that our capitalism-in-name-only actually requires the destruction of the economic ladder along which historically Americans have more or less freely traveled both up and down. This is because only people of the left are acquainted with the truth of the observation by Marx how free-trade was to be welcomed because it hastened the revolution. We get absolutely no insight from the American right about this and they run headlong unaware toward their fate. Accordingly we get no sympathy from them either for the plight of formerly prosperous millions of Americans who have crashed onto the rocks of the libertarian free for all. Their few children will become the next proletariat, the wealth of their parents and grandparents only a faint memory.
The irony of the world situation is that it is creatures of the left who want to stop this, both here in America and in Greece.
Yanis Varoufakis on the other hand is not one of them. Chalk it up to being an "erratic" Marxist, as he likes to say. What he is is a pan-Europeanist, a world citizen and globalist who is more at home in European capitals than he is on Aegina. He is not for what Greeks need most, which is the ability to feed themselves and export at a profit, for which they must have control over, and responsibility for, their own affairs.
Seen here:
'The 54-year-old Varoufakis has already dismissed speculation that he would join the far-left Popular Unity party that broke away from Syriza last week, telling ABC that he had "great sympathy" but fundamental differences with them and considered their stance "isolationist".'
Wednesday, August 26, 2015
Chris Plante: Hunter Biden exposed in Ashley Madison hack
Reports Plante on the air just now:
The son of Joe Biden denies it, says Putin or somebody fabricated it, says he's dropped the email address. Hunter Biden has an unusual business interest in Ukraine.
Update:
ABC News helpfully reminded everyone in the story about the hack that Hunter had left the Navy in 2014 under a cloud for testing positive for cocaine in 2013.
Breitbart reported here that his Ashley Madison profile was set up on June 17, 2014, four months after his discharge.
CNN reported here last October (!) that Biden was discharged in February (!) 2014.
Update:
ABC News helpfully reminded everyone in the story about the hack that Hunter had left the Navy in 2014 under a cloud for testing positive for cocaine in 2013.
Breitbart reported here that his Ashley Madison profile was set up on June 17, 2014, four months after his discharge.
CNN reported here last October (!) that Biden was discharged in February (!) 2014.
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