Saturday, July 9, 2016
Blacks commit homicides at a rate 8x higher than whites, but Hillary says it's whites who need to change
Hillary quoted here:
“I’m going to be talking to white people, we’re the ones who have to start listening to the legitimate cries coming from our African-American fellow citizens,” she said.
US Department of Justice here, reporting on the period 1980-2008:
The offending rate for blacks (34.4 per 100,000) was almost 8 times higher than the rate for whites (4.5 per 100,000).
Loretta Lynch would never say to the Tea Party what she said to her precious protesters: "Don't be discouraged"
Here:
[S]he urged peaceful protesters not to give up.
“I want you to know that your voice is important,” Lynch said Friday during a news conference at the Justice Department. “Do not be discouraged by those who would use your lawful actions as cover for their heinous violence. We will continue to safeguard your constitutional rights and to work with you in the difficult mission of building a better nation and a brighter future.”
Why term limits for political offices in Michigan is wrong-headed
In short because it's harder to hit a moving target. By the time the voters catch on, they're gone.
Hillary Clinton's seven perjuries before Congress: Clinton v Comey July 2016
Clinton: "I did not email any classified material to anyone on my email”.
Comey: “There was classified material emailed".
Clinton: “There was nothing marked classified on my emails, either sent or received”.
Comey: “There were a small number of portion markings on, I think, three of the documents. I don't think that our investigation established she was actually particularly sophisticated with respect to classified information and the levels and treatment. Even if information is not marked ‘classified’ in an email, participants who know or should know that the subject matter is classified are still obligated to protect it".
Clinton: “It [her private e-mail set up] was allowed, but it was not a good choice”.
Comey: “You could be walked out [for that at the FBI] or, depending on the nature of the facts, you could be reprimanded".
Clinton: “I provided the department … with all of my work-related emails, all that I had”.
Clinton: “I thought it would be easier to carry just one device for my work and for my personal emails instead of two”.
Clinton: "“The FBI has the server that was used during the tenure of my State Department service”.
Clinton: “There were no security breaches”.
Comey: "[W]e assess it is possible that hostile actors gained access to Secretary Clinton’s personal email account".
Read the whole thing here at The Hill.
The communist "Party for Socialism and Liberation" infiltrated the protests this week against police brutality
The PSL advocates a revolutionary overthrow of capitalism and introduction of socialism where profit from labor is prohibited.
Has anyone asked whether its violent rhetoric had anything to do with the sniper attacks on the police in Dallas?
Probably not Loretta Lynch.
John Kass declares himself a Clinton loather because being a Clinton hater is just irrational
Here:
Instead, I'm probably something of a Clinton-Loather. Hate is about the loss of control, like the barking of a dog or someone who shrieks into the wind or at a crowd. Loathing takes time and consideration. And I've had years of watching the Clintons lie and dissemble and tell partial truths and get away with it, and take advantage of the principles of honorable men such as James Comey.
Friday, July 8, 2016
Rush Limbaugh brought up Ann Coulter the other day, now appears to be reading her
Here:
RUSH: Say, folks, this one candidate, by the way, who practically every appearance praises the police -- there's one candidate in this presidential campaign, goes out of his way every appearance to acknowledge the police, to thank the police, to ask everybody to express their gratitude to the police. You know who that candidate is? That would be the Trumpster.
Milwaukee County Sheriff Clarke can't wait until Obama's out of office and Trump is president
Dittos, bro.
Here:
“I cannot wait until January 20, 2017 when President Obama leaves the White House for the last time,” Clarke said. “And I hope, I pray that Donald J. Trump becomes the next commander-in-chief because we need a president who is going to stand beside us and support us all across the country unambiguously by the way and we know we’re not going to get that out of Mrs. Bill Clinton. I think the saddest day for law enforcement will be if she were to become the president of the United States.”
Obama inflamed tensions before massacre of police in Dallas by proclaiming there's a conspiracy of racism among cops
Here, yesterday, commenting on the police shootings in Louisiana and Minnesota:
President Barack Obama said Thursday that all Americans should be troubled by recent police shootings, calling on the U.S. to "do better" amid rekindled nationwide debate about the use of force by police.
"These are not isolated incidents. They're symptomatic of a broader set of racial disparities that exist in our criminal justice system," Obama said.
Meanwhile in Chicago to date in 2016 police have shot and killed 4 of 309 total killed in shootings there.
Where's the presidential outrage over the broader set of disparities, huh?
Thursday, July 7, 2016
Ann Coulter: Trump's VP needs to give him impeachment insurance, that's all
Here:
Among the possibilities Trump ought to be considering are people like Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, former Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown, North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory and Idaho Sen. Mike Crapo (the latter two are up for re-election this year, but perhaps they can run for both offices simultaneously).
Yeah, I can't imagine a President Kobach, a President Brown, a President McCrory or a President Crapo, either.
Although the current president is pretty crappy.
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Wednesday, July 6, 2016
Tuesday, July 5, 2016
James Comey has never cared about the law, just the outcome
He actively worked to overturn the will of 7 million Californians who lawfully passed Proposition 8, and now he's added intent to a statute that doesn't contain it in order to exonerate Hillary Clinton's many violations of the law.
"I'm sorry, officer, I didn't mean to speed, jump the curb, hit that mailbox and kill the postman."
"Oh, well, then no problem, you're free to go!"
In other words, same sex marriage and a Hillary presidency must be the outcome.
FBI director James Commie announces there will be NO CHARGES against Hillary Clinton, David Petraeus is just chopped liver
Politico reported here just minutes ago.
Foreign Policy pinhead Fredrik deBoer erupts with reverse racism against whites, feigns concern over increase in white suicides to slam gun ownership
Evidently the same self-loathing white guy featured here for whom more neoliberalism isn't an option and FDR was just another affluent bastard who short-circuited socialism. It's always about the guns, isn't it, because the guns in the hands of the people stop commies like this from taking power. And hey, thanks to Foreign Policy and Business Insider for giving this creep a forum. deBoer must laugh to himself at how easy it is to subvert the country.
Here:
Here:
[W]hite Americans overall continue to enjoy significant advantages over black and Hispanic Americans in metrics like unemployment, college completion rate, and incarceration rate, which is not surprising in a country that still suffers from immense and structural white supremacy.
But this does not change the fact that white workers without college degrees have seen their overall quality of life eroded in a variety of ways that almost certainly contribute to the suicide rate. For example, as a New York Times story on the report points out, unmarried men have dramatically higher suicide rates, and divorce rates are strongly tied to income and education, with those in lower income brackets and educational levels suffering from far higher rates.
Why white Americans are so much more likely to commit suicide than black, Hispanic, and Asian Americans, whose rates are less than half that of white Americans, is something of a mystery.
This might paradoxically be part of the legacy of white privilege: Because white Americans have traditionally enjoyed greater affluence and cultural prestige than people of color, they might take unemployment, poverty, and their attendant indignities as harder to stomach. ... Owning a gun is one of the most powerful predictors of suicide risk overall.
Monday, July 4, 2016
Sunday, July 3, 2016
Grand Rapids, Michigan, has just logged its third warmest winter ever in terms of heating degree days in 2015-16
June 2016 is over and the data are in.
From 1892 Grand Rapids, Michigan, has just experienced its third warmest winter ever in terms of heating degree days for the winter measuring season ending in June. When we have fewer heating degree days here up north that means lower demand for heat during the typical eight month long period when heating is needed.
Mean heating degree days for the season from the beginning of the record to date now average 6713, but in 2015-16 Grand Rapids logged just 5617, a whopping 1096 below the long term mean, about 16.3% fewer heating degree days than normal. In my case that translated into a natural gas consumption reduction of about 10% compared with most winters I have experienced.
The warmest winter on record was actually quite recent and unrelated to an El Nino as now. In 2011-12 just 5253 heating degree days were logged in Grand Rapids. Second place belongs to the long ago winter of 1920-21, with 5520 heating degree days.
At the same time that we experienced these warmer conditions snowfall for the season came in only 5.6 inches lower than the long term mean of 66.7, at 61.1 inches.
Last November I predicted much less snow at 47.85 inches and many more heating degree days at 6148, both representing averages of previous observations in Grand Rapids during Very Strong El Nino periods in 1982-83 and 1997-98. But we were this season much snowier and warmer than those averages predicted.
Turning to the year to date categories, rainfall is actually running 1.41 inches above the mean to date of 16.54 inches, at 17.95. This is despite the extremely dry conditions in June which have left our lawns brown.
The cumulative average temperature year to date is running a total of 18.6 degrees F above the long term mean for the six months to date. That's about one tenth of a degree above normal per day to date.
The current Very Strong El Nino after fourteen months is averaging 1.5 monthly on the index. June data is not yet available. The most recent previous Very Strong El Nino averaged 1.56 monthly over thirteen months, in 1997-98.
Saturday, July 2, 2016
Friday, July 1, 2016
Matt Taibbi laments the first successful revolt in ages against one of the two major parties
Here:
But choosing a dangerous race-baiting lunatic as the vehicle for the first successful revolt in ages against one of the two major parties will have many profound negative consequences for voters. The most serious will surely be this burgeoning movement to describe voting and democracy as inherently dangerous.
Yeah, don't anger the jailers too much or you won't get any bread with your soup.
Thursday, June 30, 2016
Why do Bush Republicans support Hillary Clinton when even the Manchester Union Leader calls her a lying liar?
Birds of a feather flock together maybe?
From the editorial today, here:
Hillary Clinton lied. ... Hillary Clinton lying is not breaking news. ... For weeks, the administration framed the [Benghazi] attack as a response to a YouTube video, lying to the American people. Hillary Clinton personally peddled that lie to the victims’ relatives. ... She’s counting on the tribalism rife in modern American politics to shield her from responsibility for her blunders and lies. The Obama administration lied about what happened in Benghazi to win the 2012 presidential election. The Clinton campaign is hoping that history repeats itself.
Lois Lerner committed a crime, sending 1.25 million pages of taxpayer returns to Obama's Justice Department
The crime occurred in October 2010, but Obama's Justice Department, which participated in the crime, decided in 2015 not to prosecute Lerner.
It is the most corrupt regime in the history of the republic.
The whole damn lot of them should be in jail, not in office.
Details here.
Rasmussen has Trump +4 over Clinton: 43-39
Here:
The tables have turned in this week’s White House Watch. After trailing Hillary Clinton by five points for the prior two weeks, Donald Trump has now taken a four-point lead.
Wednesday, June 29, 2016
George Will leaves Republican Party over Trump: You know, the guy who predicted Mitt Romney to win in a landslide
Look up "tin ear for politics" and you will find George Will's picture: 321 Romney to 217 Obama, reported here November 4, 2012.
He's also a Cubs fan and an atheist, which somehow makes perfect sense: George Will believes in lost causes.
Tuesday, June 28, 2016
No surprise: National Health Interview Survey finds just 2.4% of respondents, WHO WERE MUCH SICKER ON AVERAGE, were lesbian, gay and bi
Except the story never does the math to show how small a minority is LGBT, and never once mentions rampant sexually transmitted diseases among perverts because of their promiscuity, just "distress" from "discrimination" leading to increased alcohol and tobacco abuse.
Here:
Overall, 67,150 survey respondents were heterosexual, 525 lesbian, 624 gay and 515 bisexual. The average age was about 47.
Monday, June 27, 2016
Smartest president ever says "forebearers" when he meant "forebears"
Once again, the smartest president ever hatchets the English language, but he'll continue to be portrayed as an intellectual giant in comparison to boobs like Sarah Palin. But "corpseman" lives, along with "intercontinental railroad" and other such gems. The press office transcript spells the word correctly, but of course Obama didn't pronounce it correctly.
As far as I can tell, only The Hill here accurately quoted Obama's mistake (which is on video here at about the 10:50 mark):
"We're going to have to make a decision about whether we are a people who tolerate the hypocrisy of a system where the workers who pick our fruit or make our beds never have the chance to get right with the law, or whether we're going to give them a chance, just like our forbearers had a chance, to take responsibility and give their kids a better future," he said.
Meanwhile The Hill leaves out the "e" and without a proper [sic] demonstrates it probably doesn't know it's a mistake.
Meanwhile The Hill leaves out the "e" and without a proper [sic] demonstrates it probably doesn't know it's a mistake.
Sunday, June 26, 2016
Like her husband, Hillary Clinton did not tell the truth under oath
From the story here:
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Former Secretary Hillary Clinton failed to turn over a copy of a key message involving problems caused by her use of a private homebrew email server, the State Department confirmed Thursday. The disclosure makes it unclear what other work-related emails may have been deleted by the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee. ...
Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton said the November 2010 email cited in the inspector general audit was one of several work-related emails that his group identified that Clinton sent or received but later failed to turn over the State Department.
"Contrary to her statement under oath suggesting otherwise, Mrs. Clinton did not return all her government emails to the State Department," Fitton said. "Our goal is to find out what other emails Mrs. Clinton and the State Department are hiding."
Friday, June 24, 2016
Wednesday, June 22, 2016
Tuesday, June 21, 2016
Today was the first day Trump ever asked me for a campaign contribution
That's a year without a request, until now.
Monday, June 20, 2016
Dilbert knows liberals have to have the presidency because without the Court they've got bupkiss
Hm. Maybe they did knock off Antonin Scalia.
Here:
When you encounter a rabid anti-Trumper, ask her what are the biggest concerns of a potential Trump presidency.
If “Supreme Court nominee” is one of the top objections, discontinue your persuasion for ethical reasons. This person has put some thought into the decision and has a legitimate opinion that is at least partly based on reason. I don’t recommend changing that person’s mind.
Sunday, June 19, 2016
Janet Daley finds the Cameron-Osborne leadership rather oddly out of touch about Brexit and gay marriage
Here:
This disconnect with the people has confirmed the widely accepted view of the Cameron-Osborne Tory leadership as – how to put this? – rather odd. On the one hand, they are so self-consciously modern and anti-traditional that they made gay marriage one of their flagship policies. But on the other, they seem so loftily contemptuous of the real‑life concerns of ordinary people that they make comic misjudgments about the effects of their public pronouncements.
Friday, June 17, 2016
Thursday, June 16, 2016
Trump throws social conservatives overboard, marginalizes opposition to homosexuality as anti-American, anti-Western
Which would come as quite a shock to the founding generation, whose colonies made homosexuals "universally subject to the death penalty."
From the story here:
Trump also called on Muslim-Americans to turn in members of their community that they suspect of terror links, saying radical Islam isn’t compatible with “Western values and institutions” because it is “anti-woman, anti-gay and anti-American.”
Unfortunately, Trump is wrong on banning weapons purchases and Ryan is correct: It'll become a backdoor to disarm conservatives
If you want to know what could stop me from voting for Trump, this is it.
From the story here:
“A mid-level bureaucrat can put anybody on a no-fly list with no due process rights,” Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) told a local Wisconsin newspaper in December, as Democrats tried unsuccessfully to move the bill following a mass shooting in San Bernardino, Calif.
Wednesday, June 15, 2016
Visa overstays: ICE official concedes there were 480,000 last year, 5 million total living here illegally, mostly from Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Germany and Italy
Craig Healy, Assistant Director for National Security Investigations at US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, featured here.
When trying to explain election outcomes, when trying to explain the polling data . . .
. . . don't forget that 30% of the adults in this country are taking psychiatric medications: 72 million adults over the age of 17 in 2013, approximately 30.1% of the 239 million adults over the age of 17 at the time.
Uh oh, there are more white voters than the exit polls show, and they'll be votin' for Trump
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Gee, do ya think anyone has an interest in suppressing the white vote?
From Michael Barone, here:
The CPS [Current Population Survey by the US Census] and Catalist report that the 2012 electorate was 74 and 76 percent white -- higher than the exit poll's 72 percent. They say that only 15 percent of voters were under 30, not 19 percent as in the exit poll, and that 61 and 62 percent were 45 or older, not 54 percent as in the exit poll.
Most significantly, they peg the proportion of non-college-graduate whites over age 45 -- Donald Trump's core group -- as 30 and 29 percent of voters, significantly higher than the exit poll's 23 percent.
Tuesday, June 14, 2016
WaPo disagrees with Obama, lists 10 Islamic countries where punishing homosexuals with death is normal
Nothing radical or extreme about it, only to Obama and other liberals.
Here:
Yemen, Iran, Iraq, Mauritania, Nigeria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, United Arab Emirates.
Monday, June 13, 2016
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard is voting for Brexit because EMU is the greatest economic crime of modern times
From his remarks, here, where it's everywhere else a wonder that he was able to work up the nerve to side with the Leavers:
There has been no truth and reconciliation commission for the greatest economic crime of modern times. We do not know who exactly was responsible for anything because power was exercised through a shadowy interplay of elites in Berlin, Frankfurt, Brussels, and Paris, and still is.
Why Trump will win: Idiot typist at Fortune, Daniel Gross, blames poor May 2016 jobs report on . . . Donald Trump!
And Trump's not even president yet.
Did Obama ever get blamed for anything in eight years?
Not by Daniel Gross, here, a striver of the Democrat sort who's getting a head start on the return of making the future Republican president responsible for everything:
Donald Trump seems to revel in fomenting uncertainty. Trump has consciously set out to violate or alter the norms surrounding political campaigning, and has succeeding [sic] (beyond everyone’s wildest expectations) in doing so.
As a result, all of that uncertainty is likely to give pause to a large number of companies and employees in a range of industries. In fact, it’s possible that May’s poor jobs numbers – only 38,000 payroll jobs were added in the month despite the fact that there were a record 5.8 million job openings at the beginning of the month – have something to do with this trepidation.
Sunday, June 12, 2016
The Obama trifecta in Orlando
His beloved queers, slaughtered.
His beloved Muslims, the perpetrators.
His beloved anti-gun zealotry, now unexcelled in history for impotence.
Hillary the Lawless, Schoolgirls & Co. at the State Dept. acted as a law unto themselves: Expect worse as president
From the New York Post here:
But the coverup goes beyond Team Hillary. Marie Harf, State’s top spokeswoman under John Kerry, started lying the day the scandal broke: “There’s no prohibition on using this kind of e-mail account,” she said.
That backs Clinton’s repeated claims that “It was allowed.” Yeah — by her. As the IG report notes, Hillary never sought an OK for her e-mail setup from State’s legal professionals — who never would’ve given one.
“Harf is implying that State approved this practice,” John Bellinger wrote his successors at State’s legal department. He urged them “to defend the credibility” of the legal staff and not let Harf give them “a bad name.” State ignored him.
Saturday, June 11, 2016
Trump isn't off-message: Right now Trump IS the message
No one gives a damn about the off-message until things get serious, like two months before the election . . . you know, like October.
Meanwhile, Trump is makin' 'em JUMP!
It's the Trump Jump.
NYT: Tens of thousands of American workers lose their jobs to H-1B temporary visa abuse by American employers, some start to speak up
Does anyone read The Times on Saturday?
Here:
According to federal rules, temporary visas known as H-1Bs are for foreigners with “a body of specialized knowledge” not readily available in the labor market. The visas should be granted only when they will not undercut the wages or “adversely affect the working conditions” of Americans. But in the past five years, through loopholes in the rules, tens of thousands of American workers have been replaced by foreigners on H-1B and other temporary visas, according to Prof. Hal Salzman, a labor force expert at Rutgers University.
Thursday, June 9, 2016
Wow, first time ever surveyed by Rasmussen by telephone
It took almost nine minutes.
Lots of questions about gender and sexuality, nothing about Trump or Clinton.
Ickkkkkkkkkkky.
Obama's Justice Sotomayor is the total and complete racist Americans should be worried about
New York Times transcript of 2001 Sotomayor speech, here, where she says physiological differences may and will make a difference in the administration of justice and make decisions better:
Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences, a possibility I abhor less or discount less than my colleague Judge Cedarbaum, our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging. Justice O'Connor has often been cited as saying that a wise old man and wise old woman will reach the same conclusion in deciding cases. I am not so sure Justice O'Connor is the author of that line since Professor Resnik attributes that line to Supreme Court Justice Coyle. I am also not so sure that I agree with the statement. First, as Professor Martha Minnow has noted, there can never be a universal definition of wise. Second, I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life.
Senate Republicans Alexander, Bond, Collins, Grahamnesty, GreggTARP, Lugar, Martinez, Snowe and Voinovich voted to confirm her, 68-31.
Wednesday, June 8, 2016
The only way Hillary hasn't clinched it is if ordinary delegates were awarded strictly proportionally by popular vote
Clinton has won 56.7% of the total primary popular vote, and Sanders 43.3%.
So if you award ordinary delegates according to that ratio, Clinton gets 2297 and Sanders 1754, both of which fall short of the 2382 needed to win.
But then there's those darn 712 superdelegates . . ..
Divide those up the same way and Hillary clinches it with 2701, and Sanders still falls short with 2062.
As things stand Clinton actually gets 2184 plus 571, Sanders 1804 plus 48.
Sanders remains the plausible alternative if the FBI recommends charges against Hillary, but that's about it.
Global cooling in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in my lifetime
Mean average temperature 1892-1956: 48.2 degrees F
Mean average temperature 1956-2015: 48.0 degrees F
Tuesday, June 7, 2016
Monday, June 6, 2016
Dilbert creator Scott Adams uncovers the bloodthirst causing Hillary Clinton's chronic cough
Here:
This past week we saw Clinton pair the idea of President Trump with nuclear disaster, racism, Hitler, the Holocaust, and whatever else makes you tremble in fear. ... [O]nce you define Trump as Hitler, you also give citizens moral permission to kill him. And obviously it would be okay to kill anyone who actively supports a genocidal dictator, including anyone who wrote about his persuasion skills in positive terms. (I’m called an “apologist” on Twitter, or sometimes just Joseph Goebbels).
Sunday, June 5, 2016
The current very strong El Nino now extends to 14 months, averaging 1.5 on the index
We now have three back to back periods of 1.9, 1.6 and 1.1 on the index, indicating the El Nino is winding down rapidly from its high point in November-December-January at 2.3.
Year over year, abnormally dry conditions and worse have been reduced by El Nino rains from 50.73% of the country at the end of May 2015 to 31.82% of the country now, an improvement of just over 37%. Central and southern California remains hard hit.
Grand Rapids, MI, reported temperature anomaly for May 2016 was +1.7 degrees F
Temperature averaged 60.4 degrees F, according to the preliminary monthly climate data for May 2016 in Grand Rapids, MI. The cumulative reported total anomaly year to date rises 1.7 from +7.3 last month to +9.0 degrees F in May. Using the full NOW data set going back to 1892, however, the cumulative temperature anomaly for the first five months of 2016 is +15.9 degrees F.
Snowfall was only a trace in May, still totaling 61.1 inches to date, but now 4.9 inches below the long term mean average of 66 inches, with one month left in the measuring period.
Heating degree days (HDD) in May at 206 were 18.25% below the long term normal for the month. The long term mean expected HDD to date would be 6663. Actual HDD to date were 5596, 16% below normal, thanks to the El Nino, with one month left in the measuring period.
It is notable that neither this El Nino nor any other since 1950 has come close to producing the warm winter Grand Rapids experienced in 2011-2012 when the heating degree day measurement hit an all time record low of 5253. Placeholders two and three for warmest winters by HDD after 2011-12 were 1920-21 at 5520 and 1931-32 at 5619. 2015-2016 looks set to join the list, however, of the top five warmest winters by HDD.
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