When you try to say something profound and end up proving only that you are a nitwit:
Showing posts with label The Hill. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Hill. Show all posts
Saturday, August 6, 2022
Yeah, that Big Bang thingy was pretty modest when you really look back at it
Thursday, July 28, 2022
Wednesday, July 27, 2022
Wednesday, June 8, 2022
Tuesday, May 17, 2022
The next war's cannon fodder: Students at Wyoming commencement boo Senator Lummis for saying there are only two sexes
They will be blown to smithereens in the next war by America's future conqueror, or publicly tortured to death by the victors in a gruesome spectacle of mockery.
During the commencement address on Sunday, Lummis said constitutional rights were under attack in the U.S. and “even fundamental scientific truths such as the existence of two sexes, male and female, are subject to challenge these days.”
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The ruin of a state is generally preceded by an universal degeneracy of manners, and contempt of religion, which is entirely our case at present.
-- Jonathan Swift
Sunday, May 8, 2022
Remember when Biden said that that stuff happens when protesters followed Senator Sinema into the bathroom while she did her business in the stall?
At least he said that was inappropriate.
But now his administration has taken a worse stance, in regard to protesters who are demonstrating in front of the doxxed addresses of the members of the US Supreme Court.
He hasn't called it inappropriate, and officially the administration won't take a position on where protests should and should not occur.
This is the sort of ugliness which leads people to forgo public service, and the worse public officials who replace them to assemble their own security forces.
Private armies can develop that way, which become a threat to the civilized order.
If you think I'm exaggerating the slippery slope here, imagine the guffaws heard all around when I was a kid when occasional firebrands then predicted there would be widespread public vulgarity, pornography, open homosexuality, gay marriage, anti-white racism, trillions of dollars in public debt, hostility to the police, refusal by the authorities to prosecute crimes, complete politicization of the FBI, CIA, DOJ, yada, yada, yada.
The reason they don't teach history much anymore is they don't want you to know how really far we have fallen.
Otherwise you might do something about it.
And we can't have that, now can we?
Protesters march to homes of Kavanaugh, Roberts...
Activists follow Sinema into bathroom...
Wednesday, April 6, 2022
Remember last fall when a bunch of Nobel economists assured us that gobs more spending by Joe Biden wouldn't have serious inflationary impacts?
Here's what the ring leader of Tom Nichols' vaunted expert class of economists had to say at the time:
Some, however, have invoked fears of inflation as a reason to not undertake these investments. This view is short-sighted. ... We need safe school buildings and bridges, and affordable child and elder care, whether inflation is 2% or 5%. With the investments being financed by tax increases, the inflationary impacts will be at most negligible ...
The Build Back Better package ... would transform the U.S. economy to be more efficient, equitable, sustainable, and prosperous for the long run, without presenting an inflationary threat.
From Joe Stiglitz' letter last September, here. Robert Shiller of all people signed on to this load of hooey. Carl Schramm unloaded on all this yesterday, here.
Stiglitz wrote that with a straight face when inflation had already soared to 5.3% in July. The orgy of coronavirus spending in 2020-2021 was already stoking the inflation engine, but the experts then simply ignored it, and called for more! more! more!
Now look where we are, even without more.
Government spending in the United States hasn't been financed by tax increases in decades. We wouldn't be $30 trillion in the hole if it were. It's financed by borrowing, and the interest payments on that borrowing progressively accumulate to crowd-out other spending. One day soon interest payments on the debt will become the biggest part of the budget, severely limiting our ability to allocate resources responsibly.
Thursday, March 10, 2022
Build Back Better is well and truly dead: House passes $1.5 trillion omnibus to fund federal government through September
$780 billion is for the Department of Defense.
The bill(s) go to the Senate next.
The usual sausage making, with a little spice added in.
Thursday, January 6, 2022
LOL, Democrats run both houses of Congress and own The White House but Carter and Obama both say democracy at risk
https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/588451-jimmy-carter-says-he-fears-for-democracy-our-great-nation-now
https://news.yahoo.com/obama-democracy-is-at-a-greater-risk-today-181810269.html
Democrats are hostile to democracy. It keeps them from imposing their will.
Wednesday, December 15, 2021
The US House passed the $2.5 trillion increase to the debt ceiling in the dead of night with just one, unneeded, Republican vote
The bill, which lawmakers passed 221-209, with one Republican voting yes, raises the federal debt ceiling by $2.5 trillion to increase the limit to close to $31 trillion.
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Adam Kinzinger was the lone Republican vote in the House:
Representative Adam Kinzinger was the only Republican lawmaker who voted with Democrats in the House to raise the debt ceiling, staving off a potentially disastrous federal default.
Last week, Kinzinger was also the only Republican to back the Democrats over the plan struck by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) allowing Senate Democrats to lift the ceiling through a simple majority vote.
The Illinois congressman, one of 10 Republicans to vote for the second impeachment of ex-President Donald Trump after the Capitol insurrection and one of only two GOP lawmakers on the January 6 committee investigating the riots that day, will not be standing for re-election in the 2022 midterms.
Sunday, November 21, 2021
Facts vs. hysteria: Pandemic year 1 vs. pandemic year 2 to date
If you date the start of the pandemic from the first announced US death on Feb 29, 2020, the first year of the pandemic looks like this:
1402 deaths per day, 78208 cases per day.
(There were already 70 cases by 2/29/20, but they have been included in the total anyway.)
For the 265 days since Feb 28, 2021, the second year of the pandemic to date looks like this:
969 deaths per day, 71838 cases per day.
Deaths are down a whopping 31%, cases a much more modest 8%.
The Hill is showcasing the 2021 death toll to date exceeding the 2020 death toll, which is true, and is politically convenient to Joe Biden's opponents, but this completely misses how things are moving in the right direction.
Joe Biden famously promised to shut down the virus and not the country. He has not done the former and may in fact do the latter, for which he ought to be held responsible by booting his sorry ass.
But that's an entirely different matter.
Meanwhile the terrible outcomes predicted by experts from the still dominant India variant, for whatever reasons, are not panning out. At least not yet.
Friday, October 29, 2021
F is for Fauci: Lancet publishes study finding that vaccination does not prevent transmission of the India variant after elites blamed the August surge on the unvaccinated for months
... our findings suggest that vaccination is not sufficient to prevent transmission of the delta variant in household settings with prolonged exposures.
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Friday, October 15, 2021
Monday, August 2, 2021
The immigration courts have been understaffed for years, and the problem is only getting worse under Biden
The immigration court currently has 535 judges to deal with its backlog of 1,357,820 cases. The plan calls for hiring an additional 100 judges to deal with this crisis.
The immigration court’s most productive year since fiscal 2008, was fiscal 2019, when it completed 276,970 cases. But it received 546,248 new cases that year, which meant that the backlog increased by 269,278 cases. In the second quarter of fiscal 2021, it received 66,158 new cases and completed 43,652, which increased the backlog by 22,506 cases.
In fact, the immigration court has not reduced the backlog a single time during that 13-year period.
How is a 20 percent increase in the size of the court going to turn this around?
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There is no mention in this story that Biden is releasing tens of thousands of illegals into the United States who have been given NO court date, an unprecedented failure to enforce the law. So the magnitude of the problem is much worse than the article lets on.
The Biden administration is deliberately flooding the zone with dependents who will be politically beholden to Democrats for their continued future welfare.
Tuesday, June 8, 2021
Today's Tuesday conservatism over at Real Clear Politics is so ho-hum
In the line-up today at Real Clear Politics is one Buck Sexton, who tells us in "Following Rush Limbaugh" . . . not very much.
Is there any there there? is the question I have after reading this introduction to the man who is supposed to be the conservative in the duo taking over for Rush Limbaugh.
Since radio is a word business and this piece reads more like an apologia for his elevation to his new role than a taste of what to expect, it's not a good sign that this Buckaroo calls Rush's opening monologues "severely entertaining".
Is Buck Sexton a Mormon? I mean, this sounds like Mitt Romney, who trotted out his wife to assure Republicans that he was a conservative, and not long after addressed CPAC and called himself "a severely conservative Republican governor".
I know, I know. It's just a coincidence that this Jesuit-trained fellow sounds like the Mormon. But if you have to tell people you thought Rush was severely entertaining, maybe to you he really wasn't. At any rate, severe is not a word which ever came to mind when listening to Rush Limbaugh.
Then there's Stephen L. Miller, whose Twitter feed is enormously entertaining @redsteeze , but whose prose offerings are, shall we say, stilted? The guy writes like he's got a brick up his ass.
Taking yet another much-deserved whack at CNN's Brian Stelter, Miller not entertainingly resorts to wooden stock phrases like "petty star-gazing", "it should raise eyebrows", "not becoming of anyone", "all fine and good", "all well and good", and "for anyone wondering . . . look no further". With all this lumber neatly stacked in a pile, the final paragraph ends with mistakes like "gleamed off" for "gleaned off" and "who claim to be just as a rigorous and dedicated journalist as Brian".
Yes, Stelter falls far short as a journalist. It's good that a mediocre writer points it out to all the people who obviously ignore Brian Stelter by the millions. It's an easy beat for Miller to cover, but maybe he should move on.
Miller claims to be good at hockey. I hear Clay Travis has left an opening somewhere.
Then there's a Democrat over at The Hill wondering "whatever happened to conservatism?"
When you get to paragraph seven you'll learn that Jan 6 was an "armed insurrection" and, if you're living in reality, you'll stop reading there.
But if you are a glutton for punishment and read to the end, you'll learn that the answer is The John Birch Society finally won the battle for the soul of the Republican Party.
I'm sure the five people still alive who ever knew an actual John Bircher will find that extremely amusing, if for no other reason than "that's what they WANT you to think".
Have a day.
Wednesday, June 10, 2020
Saturday, February 15, 2020
Get your affairs in order: If Harvard professor is correct about global coronavirus pandemic, expect 68-136 million deaths worldwide in 2020, dwarfing deaths from ordinary influenza
Harvard epidemiologist Marc Lipsitch told The Wall Street Journal that
"it's likely we'll see a global pandemic" of coronavirus, with 40 to 70
percent of the world's population likely to be infected this year.
"What proportion of those will be
symptomatic, I can't give a good number," added Lipsitch, who is
the Director of the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics at the
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Others have recently estimated that the virus could hit 60 to 80 percent of the world's population.
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Current deaths from coronavirus officially are 1,523 out of 66,492 cases, a death rate of 2.29%.
Global population currently stands at 7.44 billion.
A 40% pandemic would infect 2.976 billion people, with 68.15 million deaths at a 2.29% death rate.
An 80% pandemic would infect 5.952 billion people, with 136.3 million deaths at a 2.29% death rate.
100 years ago this year the Spanish flu infected 500 million people, 27% of the world, killing at least 17 million, a minimum death rate of 3.4%.
Thursday, February 6, 2020
Jonathan Turley is rightly upset by Nancy Pelosi's demolishing of decades of tradition
But she's a radical, a revolutionary, an enemy of America. Should we expect less?
The country hangs by a thread.
[S]he should resign as the speaker of the House of Representatives.
Tuesday, February 4, 2020
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