Saturday, November 21, 2015
Friday, November 20, 2015
Obama should pop off to the golf course and clear the way for someone else to actually do the job he won't
So says Robert Tracinski here:
"And this, I suspect, is how he is going to end up being remembered as commander-in-chief: as the guy who, in a crisis, gave us petulant speeches about why he was doing nothing.
"This is one of those moments when you almost appreciate the parliamentary system, which can hold a vote of no confidence in the chief executive. You want to talk about popping off? If Obama is traumatized and overwhelmed by the job of being commander-in-chief, he can pop off to the golf course and clear the way for someone else to do it."
Thursday, November 19, 2015
Wednesday, November 18, 2015
Liberal Kevin Drum fears mocking Republicans over Syrian refugee stance will lead to electoral disaster
Here:
"In general, we should act like this is a legitimate thing to be concerned about and then work from there. Mocking it is the worst thing we could do. It validates all the worst stereotypes about liberals that we put political correctness ahead of national security. It doesn't matter if that's right or wrong. Ordinary people see the refugees as a common sense thing to be concerned about. We shouldn't respond by essentially calling them idiots. That way lies electoral disaster."
In other words, liberals should LIE by feigning concern.
Remind you of anyone?
If you guessed Muslims, you get a cookie!
Liberals are so bend over backwards friendly towards Muslims because in them they rightly see kindred spirits, people who routinely lie to the unbeliever as a matter of principle.
Tuesday, November 17, 2015
"Moderate" Muslim soccer fans from Turkey boo moment of silence for Paris victims, chant "Allahu akbar" instead
Story and video here.
Enough said. Turkey should never have been allowed into NATO. They are not our friends and never have been.
So how does Charlie Sheen withdraw up to $10 million to pay blackmail and not get prosecuted and Speaker Hastert does?
I'm callin' phony on this story:
"Sheen said he's trusted the diagnosis with people he thought he could confide in, but has paid out upwards of $10 million to keep the illness a secret."
Monday, November 16, 2015
World's best newspaper according to Rush Limbaugh
Here:
"The Daily Mail, the UK Daily Mail, one of the best newspapers in the world, has a story today reminding their readers of their reporter who was able to buy a fake Syrian passport that looks totally legit."
Even Muslim war uses the lie, conducting it with deceit: One suicide attack inside the Paris soccer stadium to create panic, two outside to meet the fleeing fans
Phil Jenkins, here:
"Matters would have been even worse if the attackers had achieved what was apparently the main component of the attack, namely the planned multiple-suicide bombings at the international football game. One bomb inside the stadium to create a panic, then two more bombers to meet fleeing fans at the exits."
The multiple lies Muslims will tell the infidel
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| The last words from Flight 93 also are lies |
The Flight 93 hijacker:
"Ladies and gentlemen: here the captain. Please sit down, keep remaining seating. We have a bomb on board. So sit." 09:31:57
"Here's the captain: I would like to tell you all to remain seated. We have a bomb aboard, and we are going back to the airport, and we have our demands. So please remain quiet." 09:39:11
Sunday, November 15, 2015
Out they trot Reza Aslan to lie about his religion
And it is his religion, make no mistake about it, so he's not an objective source, especially since he's a switch hitter, a former Christian, and a lousy historian of Christianity whose popular book on Jesus doesn't pass the smell test because it stole the long ago propounded thesis of the scholar S.G.F. Brandon but never credited him or responded to it.
Here at Vox:
"Islam doesn't promote violence or peace. Islam is just a religion and like every religion in the world it depends on what you bring to it."
Islam promotes submission, means submission, requires submission. It's inherently confrontational in a way which Christianity or Judaism or any other religion has never been and he knows it. And the lying about it is not a bug, either, but a feature. Lying to the infidel is sanctioned as part of the process of dominating the infidel.
And that's the problem for the West. Islam uses the West's value of freedom of expression and freedom of religion against it, as an opening to dominate it. And like fools, we allow it.
Saturday, November 14, 2015
Hey Guardian.co.uk! The Eiffel Tower goes dark every morning at 1:00AM
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| They don't call it "The Grauniad" for nothing |
Foolish French soccer star imagines that the horror they've just experienced "has no religion"
Seen here:
'The France midfielder Lassana Diarra has revealed that his cousin, Asta Diakité, was killed during Friday night’s attack. Diarra played 80 minutes of the match against Germany. In a statement posted on twitter, he said his cousin was like “a big sister to me … In this climate of terror, it is important for all of us who are representatives of our country and its diversity to speak and remain united against a horror that has no colour, no religion.”'
Yeah, that religion that just attacked you atheists once again wasn't real. It was just in your imagination.
It's not just religious people who are ideologues.
Two Syrians involved in Paris attacks, not just one
One at the theatre attack, another at the stadium attack.
The Guardian is live-blogging the investigation, here, but won't definitely say they were Syrians until the fingerprints are linked to the passports.
Gee, suicide bombers blow themselves up and they just happen to find Syrian passports on the bodies/nearby, but the bombers could have stolen/forged them.
Wouldn't want to accuse Syrians falsely now would we?
Muslim terrorists are smuggling weapons into Europe hidden deep inside cars
Reported here by Ian Traynor:
"The man was stopped in a Volkswagen Golf with Montenegrin plates near Germany’s border with Austria on 5 November. Officials found a pistol under the bonnet, prompting them to take the car apart. In doing so, they uncovered a sophisticated smuggling operation, with automatic weapons, 200 grammes of dynamite, hand grenades and ammunition concealed in the car’s bodywork, according to Bavarian public radio.
"Examination of the suspect’s mobile phone and the car’s GPS system indicated the detainee was en route to Paris."
Rob Lowe is right: The French should have closed their borders in January after the Charlie Hebdo massacre
Our brain dead liberals are actually criticizing Rob Lowe for this opinion. Some memory they've got. Light up another one, you morons.
Friday, November 13, 2015
Bernie Sanders doesn't give a damn about Hillary's e-mails, but the FBI does, expanding its probe
Story here at The Hill, noting that the FBI is looking into whether Hillary has given it materially false information.
You know, like former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert did, who was charged with lying to federal investigators but pleaded guilty to a separate charge.
Does the FBI have a separate charge ready for Hillary after it charges her with lying to them?
Hillary has made such a career of lying about anything and everything that she may have forgotten you can't do that to the Feds with impunity and count on getting away with it, especially when you're in the habit of calling them "pigs" all the time.
Thursday, November 12, 2015
The legacy of the left's long march through the institutions since the 1960s is . . .
. . . the repudiation of the Bill of Rights, which is why so many Americans fled the Democrat Party and joined the Republican Party, starting with Ronald Reagan ("the Democrat Party left me"). They are just like the Puritans, who preferred to switch rather than to fight.
Unfortunately, there's nowhere left to which to switch, indeed, to retreat.
It's either us, or them.
Hillary retells the lie about trying to join the Marines in 1975, Glenn Kessler doesn't do the math
From WaPo, here:
“He looks at me and goes, ‘Um, how old are you. And I said, ‘Well I am 26, I will be 27.’ And he goes, ‘Well, that is kind of old for us.’ And then he says to me, and this is what gets me, ‘Maybe the dogs will take you,’ meaning the Army.” –Former secretary of state Hillary Rodham Clinton, speaking at a breakfast, Manchester, N.H., Nov. 10, 2015
One Clinton story that has often been greeted with skepticism is her claim, first made in 1994, that she once tried to join the Marines in 1975. On the campaign trail, she brought up the story again [... above].
Can this story be confirmed?
For the reasons given Kessler gives the claim two Pinocchios out of four for truthfulness, "subject to change if more information becomes available."
More information?
When Hillary got married to Bill Clinton October 11, 1975 ("Let's see, what should I do, quit both my jobs at the University of Arkansas and my private law practice and join the Marines, or get married to Bill Clinton?"), she was two weeks from her 28th birthday, not her 27th.
She wasn't 26, going on 27, as she claimed this week.
Not only that, a recruiter from the era went on the record years ago stating the military was desperate for bodies at the time, taking people up to age 35, and that the Marines never made quota until the Iranian hostage crisis of 1979.
Add two Pinocchios, and the whole damn woodshop.
h/t Chris Plante
Wednesday, November 11, 2015
Sorry Marco, they can fact check your stupidity: philosophers make more than welders
And arguably, we're already producing plenty of welders relative to philosophers, at least 16 times more, but it would be nice if the welders, and the politicians, could at least speak English correctly, as in "more welders, fewer philosophers", instead of "more welders, less philosophers".
From the BLS, here:
Tuesday, November 10, 2015
Kasich thinks values and ethics education will fix greed on Wall Street
Well, sign me up for that! Education = salvation!
Senator Marco Rubio: We need more welders and less philosophers
Oh boy, they ate that up in Milwaukee.
Go less miles . . . use fewer gasoline.
Judith Curry: The hottest topic in climate research is little or no warming in the 21st century
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| US average surface temperature has shown a slight cooling trend in the 21st century |
Judith Curry, Georgia Institute of Technology, quoted here:
"The hottest topic in climate research is the observation that global average surface temperature, as well as satellite observations of temperatures in the atmosphere, has shown little or no warming during the 21st century."
Trump denounces Chinese state capitalism, throws down gauntlet committing the USA to a policy of containment
In The Wall Street Journal, today:
"China’s economy is controlled by the government. Any notion that their economy is based on a free-market system is simply not true. ... On day one of a Trump administration, the U.S. Treasury Department will designate China a currency manipulator. ... To ensure the security of the nation and our investments, we will build the military we need to contain China’s overreach in the Pacific Rim and the South China Sea."
Read the whole thing here.
Monday, November 9, 2015
Libertarian Paul Ryan, disgusting traitor, advances immigration bill to bypass cap on guest workers in order to employ Obama's illegal hordes
From the story here:
'The cap exemption on the H-2B expired in 2007. At the time, it doubled the number but it could as much as quadruple, legislative sources told WND. This is the same way the total number of existing H-1B visa workers got so much higher than the annual inflow. The H-2B visa program, though referred to as a “seasonal” guest worker program it is not an agricultural guest worker program. “These are explicitly non-farm jobs, often for lower-skilled work but also middle class jobs,” the source told WND. “Of course, because we don’t have a visa-tracking system and the president is not enforcing over-stay rules, it increases another avenue to add to the illegal population.”'
Sunday, November 8, 2015
Saturday, November 7, 2015
WaPo Gen Xer drinks climate Kool-Aid, attacks Baby Boomers for causing global warming and running up the $18 trillion debt
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| spotted headed to Mt. Rushmore |
Here:
"Boomers soaked up a lot of economic opportunity without bothering to preserve much for the generations to come. They burned a lot of cheap fossil fuels, filled the atmosphere with heat-trapping gases, and will probably never pay the costs of averting catastrophic climate change or helping their grandchildren adapt to a warmer world. They took control of Washington at the turn of the millennium, and they used it to rack up a lot of federal debt, even before the Great Recession hit."
Substitute "liberals" everytime you see "boomers" in the essay and it makes a lot more sense than attacking your parents per se. Instead the author prefers to commit Maoism in "Baby boomers are what’s wrong with America’s economy".
Meanwhile, exporting good jobs and importing cheap labor were artifacts of the 1960s revolution, advanced by people who were fellow travelers under FDR. The height of the baby boom generation was what, aged 10 in 1967?
In the end, Jim Tankersley can't add and subtract, but what his father gave him for Christmas in 2012 for his patricidal thesis says it all:
"After I first outlined this argument to my father in 2012, he gifted me an actual lump of coal for Christmas."
Well done, Dad! The earth remains full of coal, especially American earth, ensuring energy independence as far as the eye can see, as well as oil and natural gas and . . . thorium! If only we'll use it.
It makes more sense to rely on these going forward because they remain so plentiful, employing technologies to make them harmless to human health, invented by smart people from every generation.
But if a Maunder Minimum ensues in 2030, we might not care as much about the health as the warmth.
Friday, November 6, 2015
Rush Limbaugh: 94 million not in labor force are ALL on welfare, ALL have an EBT card, ALL getting food stamps, ALL getting disability
Today, here, with the right's version of The Big Lie:
"We don't have 5% unemployment. We've got 20% unemployment. Bob, we have 94 million Americans not working, not in the labor force. They're all on welfare, Bob, one way or another. You are talking about vandals basically coming in and ripping you off at the laundromat. Half of this country is on welfare, Bob. That's another reason why people aren't talking about it. Half the country that votes is on welfare, and they vote for Santa Claus, Bob. And to them, you're Santa Claus. And you're...
"I can understand exactly why you want to sell the business and get out of there. It's probably being stolen from you. Customers in there get harassed by people that want to commit vandalism or crime in there. I have total understanding, relatability, sympathy for what you're going through. But we've succeeded in letting so many people... Bob, 94 million Americans not working, and they all have an EBT card. They're all getting food stamps. They're all getting some form -- many of them -- of disability."
Carson calls Politico story a lie, but MSM repeats it as a fact
http://www.cnbc.com/2015/11/06/carson-got-caught-who-stands-to-benefit.html
http://www.woodradio.com/onair/the-insider-48410/developing-ben-carson-admits-to-fabricating-14102408
That second one is a real howler. A Rush Limbaugh affiliate, Wood Radio in Grand Rapids could actually monitor the broadcast to learn Carson's campaign says the story is a lie but would rather just go with the lie.
Politico attempts to discredit Carson's claims to being offered the full ride to West Point
Here.
The story tries to make hay with his claim to being offered a full scholarship at West Point when there isn't any such thing "per se", but admits that with an appointment "all costs are covered". Carson was evidently encouraged to apply by General Westmoreland at some point based on his qualifications and interest, but declined to do so in favor of a medical education.
Carson's story may stretch the facts and err in details but overall remains a plausible if understandably biased retelling of his ROTC experience in high school.
Who would fault a poor black kid from Detroit for emphasizing that a full ride through West Point had been within his reach?
Answer: the liberal hacks at Politico.
Commentary Magazine's Jonathan Tobin doesn't even read what he cites, making a hash of Obamacare story
Jonathan Tobin here:
"This is something of a misnomer because, as the Heritage Institute pointed out in a paper published last month, almost all of these people were simply added to the rolls of those receiving Medicare. If you only count those who are actually receiving insurance outside of Medicare, the net increase of those with coverage (the number of those buying these policies is offset by an almost equal reduction in the number of customers who have employer-based plans) is only 260,000 people."
Ah, no.
First of all the paper was from the "Heritage Foundation", not the "Heritage Institute". Perhaps he's heard of it? It's only been a Washington fixture since like the Reagan Administration. He does remember Reagan, right? Well, he is a neoconservative.
And it was the rolls of Medicaid which were expanded, not Medicare. What kind of a dummy gets that wrong? Medicare is for older Americans. Medicare is supposed to be paid for through payroll taxes, and it's blowing up as we speak, but that's another story. Medicaid used to be health coverage for the poor and the indigent, provided by the States. Leave it to Obama to expand it from DC and call it insurance.
The middle class of this country will end up poor and indigent and on Medicaid, too, if someone doesn't put a stop to this train wreck called Obamacare and soon.
Middle class people have just had their taxes raised dramatically to provide coverage and subsidies to pay for that coverage to about 9 million people who didn't have it before or didn't have what they're getting now. Middle class taxes went up in the form of health insurance premium increases, raised deductibles and skyrocketing pharmaceutical price increases. Middle class people buying the cheapest of plans now can expect to shell out over $13,000 in premiums and deductibles before their plans pay out one red cent of a big healthcare bill. The incentive for them is to avoid care even when they need it in order to save money.
All Tobin had to do to get the article moving in the right direction was to actually read the title of the Heritage paper and the accompanying abstract, but apparently he didn't do even that. One wonders if he even wrote the story himself. He is Commentary's "editor" after all.
What a putz.
Backgrounder #3062 on Health Care
October 15, 2015
2014 Health Insurance Enrollment: Increase Due Almost Entirely to Medicaid Expansion
By Edmund F. Haislmaier and Drew Gonshorowski
Abstract
Health insurance enrollment data for 2014 shows that the number of Americans with health insurance increased by 9.25 million during the year. However, the vast majority of the increase was the result of 8.99 million individuals being added to the Medicaid rolls. While enrollment in private individual-market plans increased by almost 4.79 million, most of that gain was offset by a reduction of 4.53 million in the number of people with employment-based group coverage. Thus, the net increase in private health insurance in 2014 was just 260,000 people.
Thursday, November 5, 2015
To pay for highway bill, US House relies on selling strategic oil reserve and privatizing IRS employment instead of raising gasoline taxes
From the story here:
"The bill is in fact financed with a collection of offsets that many lawmakers find objectionable, such as raising $9 billion by selling oil from the country’s emergency oil reserves. Roughly $2.5 billion comes from requiring the Internal Revenue Service to use private debt collectors, reviving a controversial program opposed by many Democrats, consumer groups and the union that represents agency employees."
Wednesday, November 4, 2015
At new book launch, Trump accuses Janet Yellen of keeping interest rates low to protect Obama's reputation
Donald Trump, quoted here by AP/Obama:
'"In my opinion Janet Yellen is highly political and she's not raising the rates for a very specific reason: because Obama told her not to," Trump said. "Because he wants to be out playing golf in a year from now, and he wants to be doing other things and he doesn't want to see a big bubble burst during his administration." ...
'The central bank decided in October to keep its key short-term interest rate at a record low in light of a weak global economy and slower U.S. hiring.'
Michigan Republicans increase gasoline excises by 7.3 cents, taking the state from 12th to 5th for highest gas taxes paid in America
Here's the current list of highest combined federal and state gasoline taxes per gallon paid in the top paying states, from highest to lowest:
PA: 73.70 cents per gallon
WA: 62.90
NY: 62.67
HI: 61.55
CA: 59.32
CT: 55.91
FL: 54.82
NC: 54.65
WV: 53.00
RI: 52.40
NV: 52.25
MI: 52.24
IL: 51.87
IN: 51.70
WI: 51.30
GA: 51.02
MD: 50.50
IA: 50.40
ID: 50.40
The tax increase in Michigan will bring the current level to 59.54 cents, ahead of California!
Lest you tree-hugging electric and hybrid drivers think you'll escape, you get slapped with $100 and $30 surcharges (hahahahaha!), according to the story here, on licenses, the rest of us 20% increases:
"Registration fees for passenger vehicles and trucks would rise by 20 percent in 2017, meaning an average $100 bill would rise to $120. The state would also assess a new $100 annual surcharge on most electric vehicles and $30 on hybrids."
And you thought Republicans were against raising taxes.
Raw temperature data have all been changed, 20% of it 16 times in the last 2.5 years
So says Marcia Glaze Wyatt here:
"Raw data is adjusted, sometimes justifiably (yet still injecting uncertainty), yet sometimes, arguably not justifiably, adding more uncertainty!!! Raw data have all been changed – 20% of it changed 16 times in the last 2 and a half years. This plot shows NOT the average surface T trend between 1880 and 2010, but rather the trend of changes made in the temperature anomalies (1880 to 2010) between May 2008 and May 2015. Take the month of January for comparison b/n 1915 and 2000. In May of 2008, the difference b/n January temperature anomalies for those years was 0.39oC. As of May 2015 note, the difference is 0.52oC (almost a degree F). ... And while one assumes that good intentions motivate the adjustments, one thing is obvious: temperatures adjustments prior to 1950 have resulted in a substantial cooling of the early century (20th) and adjustments made after 1950 have substantially warmed the record; consequently, the trend of temperature increase has significantly steepened over the years – a product of data changes. Is this an accurate reflection of reality? Uncertainty..."
Tuesday, November 3, 2015
As usual Paul Krugman is full of crap about Republicans and jobs
Here:
"[P]rivate-sector employment is eight million higher than it was when Barack Obama took office, twice the job gains achieved under his predecessor before the recession struck."
When Barack Obama took office, W-2 employment stood at 155.4 million, and promptly fell 4.5 million. At the end of 2014 it stands at 158.2 million, 2.8 million higher than at the end of 2008, not 8 million higher.
At the same point in his presidency, George W. Bush had added 5.8 million W-2 jobs, and 7.3 million by the end of it.
Give 'em hell, Harry: The South China Sea is no more China's than the Gulf of Mexico is Mexico's
Admiral Harry Binkley Harris, Jr., Commander, USPACOM, quoted here:
Harris has been a forceful advocate within the military for challenging China’s claims to vast areas of the South China Sea. He told a Senate hearing in September that “the South China Sea is no more China’s than the Gulf of Mexico is Mexico’s.”
Monday, November 2, 2015
Sunday, November 1, 2015
An El Nino forecast for winter in Grand Rapids Michigan July 2015 - June 2016
Mean snowfall 66.7, predicting 47.85 inches
Mean heating degree days 6719, predicting 6148
Grand Rapids Michigan was warmer on average in October 2015 by 1.1 degrees F
The cumulative anomaly for 2015 thus declines from -18.2 to -17.1 degrees F.
That's now two months in a row with above average temperatures, helping to erase the big negative anomaly built up in the winter, and in February in particular.
Summer temperatures in GR in 2015 were below normal, so the warmer September and now October have offset that. A late or extended summer, you might say.
The cumulative anomaly in 2014 was -30.3 degrees F, and would have been even worse if not for a warm and snowless December. November set snow records here with 31 inches and the negative temperature anomaly reached -33 degrees F.
The peak negative anomaly in 2015 so far has been -22.6 degrees F through August.
Saturday, October 31, 2015
China's nine-dash-line claim in the South China Sea will finally get its day in court
But China won't be there to defend it.
From the story here in The Diplomat:
On Thursday, October 29, the Permanent Court of Arbitration awarded its first decision in the The Republic of Philippines v. The People’s Republic of China. The court ruled that the case was “properly constituted” under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, that China’s “non-appearance” (i.e., refusal to participate) did not preclude the Court’s jurisdiction, and that the Philippines was within its rights in filing the case. In short, Thursday’s decision means that the Permanent Court of Arbitration rules in the Philippines’ favor on the question of jurisdiction. With the jurisdictional issue resolved, the case can move forward to evaluating the merits of the Philippines’ legal assertions in the South China Sea. ...
First, and most vexing for China, is the status of Beijing’s nine-dash line claim in the South China Sea. Manila argues that the nine-dash line is an excessive maritime claim and not in line with the entitlements for coastal states under UNCLOS. With jurisdiction question resolved, we can look forward to China’s nine-dash line getting its day in international court (although, notably, without China taking part to defend it). China has kept the scope of its nine-dash line ambiguous under formal and customary international law, but once the Court decides on the matter, its ability to maintain ambiguity will be limited.
Second, based on the first point, that the nine-dash line is an excessive claim, the Philippines is arguing that China’s occupation of various features in the Spratly Islands is illegal.
The New York Times criticizes Republican tax plans, pretending revenues are needed to cover spending
Here:
"All of these candidates deny fiscal reality. In the next 10 years, revenues will need to increase by 40 percent simply to keep federal spending even, per capita, with inflation and population growth. Additional revenues will be needed to pay for health care for the elderly, transportation systems and other obligations, as well as for newer challenges, including climate change. And interest on the national debt will surely rise because interest rates have nowhere to go but up."
Who is the Times trying to kid?
Revenues have never been needed to cover expenditures and they know it, and rarely have covered expenditures. Expenditures will continue to grow whether the Times or the Republicans like it or not. They are baked into the cake of the legislation that drives them. The only way to fix that is to rescind the legislation or modify it, with its built-in cost of living increases and added population coverage assumptions.
This country has run minor annual surpluses in just twelve years since 1939, doing nothing but slowing down our present arrival at $18.2 trillion in debt.
Spare us the histrionics.
The heavy hitters when it comes to spending are:
- HHS ($1 trillion, 91% of which is Medicare and Medicaid)
- Social Security ($.96 trillion)
- Defense ($.59 trillion, protecting the world without reimbursement)
- Treasury Dept. ($.57 trillion, $.4 trillion of which is interest on the
debtoverspending) - Veterans ($.16 trillion, which does such a good job veterans die waiting for appointments)
- Agriculture ($.14 trillion, over half of which is the food stamp program).
Together those six account for 88% of federal spending, and the Times dares the Republicans even to think about reforming Social Security and Medicare, calling instead for higher taxes.
Meanwhile there's plenty else to cut just by axing all the other departments which account for the remaining $.48 trillion making up the 2015 fiscal outlay total of $3.9 trillion.
Let's start with the Education Dept., $76 billion, then International Assistance Programs, $22 billion.
Ka-ching! Ka-ching! You're 20% of the way there, just like that.
See how easy that was?
Friday, October 30, 2015
US Senate passes House sequester buster, budget and debt ceiling package this morning at 3:00 AM
They do nothing most "weeks", which run from Tuesday to Thursday, and then ram utter crap through in hours. Bunch of goose poopers.
From the story here:
"The bill cleared on a 64-35 vote, with just 18 Republicans joining all Democrats in backing the bill. ... The debt deal had already cleared the House on Wednesday, as part of a rush by Republican leaders to get it done as quickly as possible, leaving little time for scrutiny. The 144-page deal was written late Monday, and the final Senate vote came at 3 a.m. Friday, meaning it was sped through in less than 100 hours."
Thursday, October 29, 2015
Just 79 Republicans voted for new budget, blowing sequestration caps, lifting the debt ceiling to March 2017, and attempting to decide all spending for two years, a complete rout of the conservatives
The Roll Call vote is here, taken at 5:21 PM yesterday, before today's activities electing Ryan.
Boehner voted for it after engineering it. So did Kevin McCarthy, Paul Ryan, Fred Upton, Steve Scalise, Peter King, and Kevin Brady among others.
I note Peter Roskam voted No.
The story is discussed here.
A complete travesty abdicating spending responsibility just like Cromnibus, but worse.
Ryan did not vote for Speaker this morning, nor did Webster, but Nancy Pelosi voted . . . for herself!
Outgoing Speaker Boehner voted for Ryan.
The Roll Call is here.
The only Democrat not voting was Meeks.
The Blue Dog Democrat Cooper who got one vote to be the new Speaker was the guy who voted for Colin Powell! Being a good guy, unlike Pelosi, Cooper had to vote for someone other than himself, so Colin Powell it was. And it sure as hell wasn't going to be Pelosi now was it?
Freedom Caucus caves, Paul Ryan elected Speaker of the House
Ryan received 236 votes for the Speakership on the floor of the House this morning, Nancy Pelosi 184. 432 votes out of 435 were cast. I'm assuming Boehner, Pelosi and Ryan didn't vote.
The Republican Caucus in the House numbers 247 in the 114th Congress. The Democrats 188.
Story here.
45 Republicans voted against Ryan yesterday in caucus, but today Florida Republican Dan Webster received just 9 votes of the 12 cast for candidates other than Ryan and Pelosi (Webster voted for himself?).
Blue Dog Democrat Jim Cooper (TN), Democrat John Lewis (GA) and Colin Powell (!) each received one vote.
Wednesday, October 28, 2015
Rand Paul's warped view of unfunded liabilities
"Your grandparents had too many kids."
No Rand, we didn't have enough.
Libertarian moron.
Huge flip-flop tonight by Ben Carson on oil subsidies and ethanol
Said he was wrong to propose taking away oil subsidies to support others, never mentioning he originally meant Iowans and their ethanol back in April. Now he's supposedly against helping any industry.
So Carson finally gets ahead in the polls in Iowa pledging to boost ethanol at big oil's expense and then throws Iowa under the bus.
Breathtaking. The guy's a liberal at heart.
Paul Ryan, who voted for CROMNIBUS, is just fine with the budget deal and the cowardly Freedom Caucus will still support him for Speaker
Paul Ryan, quoted in Politico, here:
"[U]nder new management we are not going to do the people's business this way. We are up against a deadline — that's unfortunate. But going forward we can't do the people's business (this way). As a conference we should've been meeting months ago to discuss these things to have a unified strategy going forward."
Sure, sure Paul. It'll be business as usual under you, too.
To Paul Ryan, conservatism means preserving Medicare for future generations, no going back on gays in the military, et cetera et cetera et cetera.
Under Paul Ryan's "conservatism", if you lose, nothing will EVER be rolled back. And that includes the spending.
His expressions of outrage are simply red meat thrown to his Neanderthals.
JUST WORDS!
JUST WORDS!
Ben Carson used tissue from aborted fetuses in medical research
Politico had all the gory details of Ben Carson's very complicated anti-abortion position here in August.
Tuesday, October 27, 2015
Monday, October 26, 2015
The unending fascination of Sarah Palin for little Democrat minds
Here he is in full flutter in WaPo, like a moth drawn to a lightbulb, typing "The GOP’s dysfunction all started with Sarah Palin". It proves nothing but that it takes a dunderhead to know a dunderhead. The GOP has failed, he says, to distance itself from this simpleton who flunked Newspapers 101, and her ilk. Reading it one wonders when Democrats will distance themselves from ignoramuses like Bill Daley, but then you realize they're all ignoramuses. Where would they go?
Certainly not Chicago.
Bill Daley, it must remembered, comes from the same Democrat family which presided over the decades long ruination of the finances of that once great city, and with it of the state. The place is now so bankrupt it can't even pay lottery winners. Those who can flee the state, do. Illinois ranks first in America for out-migration in 2014. These nincompoop Daleys are the same people who seriously thought they could afford to host the Summer Olympics next year, forgetting how all those $100,000+ pensions for unionized teachers can really add up. As it is Chicago's bonds have this year achieved junk status, despite the highest sales taxes in the nation and the highest property taxes of any state, save New Jersey. The place is teetering on the edge of bankruptcy because of perennially spendthrift Democrats.
In charge of the Department of Commerce under Bill Clinton, Bill Daley long ago proved his own incompetence. The man couldn't even manage to find a staffer at the Bureau of Economic Analysis to give him the correct figure for year 1900 gross domestic product in a 1999 speech commemorating the invention of the metric under FDR. Daley was only off by an order of magnitude and fifty years at the time, saying the year 1900 $20 billion economy was actually $300 billion in size, a level which it did not reach . . . until 1950! Bill Daley only ran the place. You'd think he could at least get its monthly claim to headline fame right.
But Democrats have good reason to forget the size of things, especially GDP. After all under them it took eleven long years to restore the 1929 $100 billion economy back to its size, in 1940. And presently the chief Democrat holding a veto pen in one hand and a copy of Rules for Radicals in the other is on schedule to produce the very worst GDP record since that Great Depression.
At least Sarah Palin has learned a few things along the way since her quixotic candidacy, for example rejecting the appropriateness of bailouts and crony capitalism. Democrats on the other hand have learned nothing, and only keep repeating the mistakes of the past.
But Democrats have good reason to forget the size of things, especially GDP. After all under them it took eleven long years to restore the 1929 $100 billion economy back to its size, in 1940. And presently the chief Democrat holding a veto pen in one hand and a copy of Rules for Radicals in the other is on schedule to produce the very worst GDP record since that Great Depression.
At least Sarah Palin has learned a few things along the way since her quixotic candidacy, for example rejecting the appropriateness of bailouts and crony capitalism. Democrats on the other hand have learned nothing, and only keep repeating the mistakes of the past.
Sunday, October 25, 2015
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