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Wednesday, September 21, 2016
Hillary has nothing on the schedule until the debate on the 26th
Surrogates handle the schedule until she appears five days hence with Trump.
I predict she'll hold her own at the debate, as long as they give her what they gave her on 9/11 to recover so quickly from the health incident at Ground Zero.
And I'll betcha she was on the same cocktail during her Benghazi hearing before the Congress.
Hillary gets the best she can from Janet Yellen: Economy still too weak for the Fed to further normalize interest rates
Actually, the Fed is too weak morally to normalize interest rates, and won't move until after the election. A December hike if Trump is elected may well send the markets tumbling down, which you know will be blamed on his election, not on the Fed.
Meanwhile banks continue to get rich while impoverishing savers $100 billion quarterly since the end of 2008. That's $3.2 trillion they'll have robbed from the American people by the end of 2016.
Government of the banks, by the banks, and for the banks.
Politico reports here:
The Fed’s target rate is now just 0.25 percent to 0.50 percent, a remarkably low figure this late in an economic recovery that gives the central bank little room to maneuver should a new crisis or recession arise. So the Fed’s move avoids a market meltdown but offers fresh rhetorical evidence for Trump and other Republicans who argue that the economy is extraordinarily weak. ... Trump has also said that as president he would replace Yellen, whose term runs until February 2018. And he has ripped the Fed for creating what he has called a “false economy” with high stock prices but only modest wage gains and a very low labor-force participation rate.
Polling schmolling: In September to date it's been from Clinton +8 to Trump +5
Like I'm supposed to believe these polls are doing anything but suppressing the vote, not measuring it.
NBC News and The Wall Street Journal hate Donald Trump, so when they come out tonight with Clinton +7 through 9/19 am I going to believe that when the LA Times/USC poll which cants slightly Republican has Trump +5 through the same date?
Of course not.
The Real Clear Politics average has Clinton +1.9, from polls generally hostile to the threat posed by Donald J. Trump. We're doing OK.
The tyranny of modernity: Obama says it has tolerance for all (except for fundamentalists, racists and ethnic supremacists)
“We must reject any form of fundamentalism, or racism or a belief in ethnic superiority that makes our traditional identities irreconcilable with modernity,” Obama said before the U.N. “It’s a truism that globalism has led to a collision of cultures.”
"Instead we need to embrace the tolerance that results from respect of all human beings," he said.
I'll go along with this analysis when the Amish mafia takes over the country and makes it so violent and undesirable that the foreign hoards suddenly stop trying to come here.
Tuesday, September 20, 2016
The recently ended El Nino shifted the declining 21st Century temperature trend UP by over 75%, but it's still declining!
Before the El Nino:
After the El Nino (which was already over by the May-June-July measuring period):
Today's Electoral College snapshot from Real Clear Politics has Clinton winning 293-245
Real Clear Politics shows Trump with 164 in the Electoral College, Clinton with 200, and 174 too close to call.
Based only on polling in the toss-up states with 174 as of this morning, Trump wins AZ, IA, OH, ME-2, GA and FL, bringing him to 245, 25 shy of the 270 he needs to win.
Clinton wins NV, CO, WI, MI, PA, NH, VA and NC, bringing her to 293, 23 more than she needs to win.
If Clinton lost NC and NV where the polls are razor thin, she would still prevail with 272. Lose in addition either CO or VA where her lead is under +4 and she's a goner.
Trump is currently under +2 in AZ, OH and FL.
49 days to election day 2016.
Monday, September 19, 2016
Pal of WaPo's Jennifer Rubin blames defeat of Romney on the mistaken idea of the decline of White Christian America
This is pure voter suppression on Jennifer Rubin's part.
White America isn't in decline. It's just that no one appeals to their interests anymore because it has been politically incorrect to do so.
The fact is that Romney received less than 59% of the white vote in 21 states and lost the white vote outright in 8, losing all 21 states to Obama in the process. But even as bad as that was, with just an 8% better performance among whites in only four states in the east Romney would still have defeated Obama.
White America isn't in decline. It's just that no one appeals to their interests anymore because it has been politically incorrect to do so.
The fact is that Romney received less than 59% of the white vote in 21 states and lost the white vote outright in 8, losing all 21 states to Obama in the process. But even as bad as that was, with just an 8% better performance among whites in only four states in the east Romney would still have defeated Obama.
Robert P. Jones, here, whose numbers are not granular, which is what is required for sound political analysis but not at WaPo (because it's a Democrat typing pool):
In the last presidential election, for example, about eight in ten of Mitt Romney’s supporters were white Christians, compared to only about one third of Barack Obama’s supporters.
Sunday, September 18, 2016
Hillary's polling has pneumonia
This afternoon Hillary is polling +0.9 in the Real Clear Politics average of seven polls. On 9/11 she was +3.1.
The LA Times/USC poll has Trump +7. On 9/11 it was Hillary +1.4. That's a swing of over eight points toward Trump.
The Rasmussen poll on Thursday had Trump +2. A week prior to that it was Clinton +4. That's a six point swing toward Trump.
Les Deplorables: Under Obama full-time employment for Asians, Hispanics and blacks has recovered, but not for whites
Hm. How did that happen?
Maybe because race hiring quotas became de facto mandatory for private employers in late 2013 because of 2010's Dodd-Frank legislation.
Maybe because race hiring quotas became de facto mandatory for private employers in late 2013 because of 2010's Dodd-Frank legislation.
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| Full-time for Asians in the core 25 to 54 years age group has recovered by 1,232,000 jobs after eight years |
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| Full-time for Hispanics in the core 25 to 54 years age group has recovered by 1,426,000 jobs after nine years |
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| Full-time for blacks in the core 25 to 54 years age group has recovered by 166,000 jobs after nine years |
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| Full-time for whites in the core 25 to 54 years age group has not recovered and is still 4,368,000 jobs behind from 2007 |
Saturday, September 17, 2016
The five warmest years in Grand Rapids, Michigan by average annual temperature weren't the last five
The five warmest years to date in Grand Rapids, Michigan:
2012: 52.8 degrees F
1931: 52.2
1921: 52.2
1998: 51.5
2010: 51.1.
The mean is 48.2.
2016 through August has been running about 6% above the mean. If that continues through the final four months of the year, 2016 will finish the year near 51.1, tied with 2010.
Note that 2015-2016 and 1997-1998 were two of the three Very Strong El Nino episodes since 1950. 1930-1931 was also an El Nino.
2016 through August has been running about 6% above the mean. If that continues through the final four months of the year, 2016 will finish the year near 51.1, tied with 2010.
Note that 2015-2016 and 1997-1998 were two of the three Very Strong El Nino episodes since 1950. 1930-1931 was also an El Nino.
Clinton Foundation scam hauls in $178 million in 2014, gives just $5.2 million to "charities"
The Federalist summarizes the scam here.
The biggest single donation to a non-Clinton entity was $700,000 which helped pay for $126,000 in first-class airfare for the actor communist asshole Sean Penn.
Hillary pal Sid Vicious Blumenthal pushed birther story to McClatchy Washington Bureau Chief James Asher
McClatchy reported last night here also that there was a birther email sent by a quickly fired Iowa campaign volunteer:
Meanwhile, former McClatchy Washington Bureau Chief James Asher tweeted Friday that Blumenthal had “told me in person” that Obama was born in Kenya.
“During the 2008 Democratic primary, Sid Blumenthal visited the Washington Bureau of McClatchy Co.,” Asher said in an email Friday to McClatchy, noting that he was at the time the investigative editor and in charge of Africa coverage.
“During that meeting, Mr. Blumenthal and I met together in my office and he strongly urged me to investigate the exact place of President Obama’s birth, which he suggested was in Kenya. We assigned a reporter to go to Kenya, and that reporter determined that the allegation was false.
“At the time of Mr. Blumenthal’s conversation with me, there had been a few news articles published in various outlets reporting on rumors about Obama’s birthplace. While Mr. Blumenthal offered no concrete proof of Obama’s Kenyan birth, I felt that, as journalists, we had a responsibility to determine whether or not those rumors were true. They were not.”
Blumenthal, who worked in the White House with President Bill Clinton and later was employed by the Clinton Foundation, could not be reached Friday but said in an email to The Boston Globe, “This is false. Period.”
Politico story in 2011 blamed birtherism on the 2008 Hillary campaign after Muslim smear failed, so Trump can't say as much?
Read the Politico story for yourself, here.
To this day Hillary must laugh herself silly how this thing has backfired on Republicans, not on her.
George Mason University economist Bryan Caplan, who doesn't vote and won't vote, epitomizes everything loathsome about libertarians
It's hard to choose just one thing he says here which is objectionable, since it's all objectionable, but I'll pick this one:
"When I look at voters, I see human beings at their hysterical, innumerate worst. ... [C]onsorting with bad people hurts you deep inside. Politics isn't utterly hopeless, but it's mostly hopeless. The only way I know to escape this darkness is to focus on the tiny corner of the world in my control and make it beautiful and pure. Call me anti-social if you must. Unlike your candidates, at least I'm honest."
Professor Caplan does not know himself, which these days seems to be a requirement of elites and a major cause of modernity's manifold discontents. Clearly he thinks himself above us as if he were a god when he is actually nothing but a wild dog. I pity his students, and his children.
[M]an is by nature a political animal, and a man that is by nature and not merely by fortune citiless is either low in the scale of humanity or above it (like the “clanless, lawless, hearthless" man reviled by Homer, for one by nature unsocial is also ‘a lover of war') inasmuch as he is solitary, like an isolated piece at draughts. ... [A] man who is incapable of entering into partnership, or who is so self-sufficing that he has no need to do so, is no part of a state, so that he must be either a lower animal or a god. ... For as man is the best of the animals when perfected, so he is the worst of all when sundered from law and justice. For unrighteousness is most pernicious when possessed of weapons, and man is born possessing weapons for the use of wisdom and virtue, which it is possible to employ entirely for the opposite ends. Hence when devoid of virtue man is the most unholy and savage of animals, and the worst in regard to sexual indulgence and gluttony.
-- Aristotle, Politics 1.1253a
Friday, September 16, 2016
And once again, it's not that Obama wasn't born in the USA, it's that he lied that he was foreign born in order to get preferred treatment in college admissions and financial aide
Which is why his college records remain sealed.
Industry screams "shortage" of illegal construction workers while hundreds of thousands of Americans remain unemployed in the industry
SFGate reports here:
BOSTON — Donald Trump’s pledge to deport immigrants in the country illegaly is stirring angst in many corners of corporate America these days, and nowhere are the jitters more acute than in the home-building business. Not only is it heavily dependent on foreign-born workers, it’s already four years into a shortage of framers, roofers, drywallers and painters. ...
Nationwide, the [construction] sector is third in unauthorized labor, behind the combined farming, fishing and forestry sector, which is No. 1, and a group that includes landscapers, housekeepers, janitors and pesticide handlers, according to a 2015 Pew study. But in all sectors, the occupation with the highest share of undocumented workers is a category Pew classifies as including drywallers, ceiling tile installers and tapers — at 34 percent of the total. ...
There were 454,000 unemployed U.S. construction workers in August, the lowest number for the month in 16 years, Bureau of Labor Statistics data show.
Thursday, September 15, 2016
The biggest news of the day is that former SECSTATE Colin Powell thinks Hillary Clinton is dumb
What?! The former Secretary of State thinks the smartest woman in the room is DUMB?!
Too bad for Hillary that we haven't yet made the kind of social progress that would allow us to call out a black man for being a misogynist without having someone play the race card on us.
Colin Powell, magic negro.
Wednesday, September 14, 2016
Mark Levin is right to be upset about Trump's proposal to grant paid maternity leave and childcare, eldercare subsidies
This is the same sort of objectionable thing rammed through by George W. Bush in the Drugs for Seniors legislation. Totally unaffordable, but helpful for reelection purposes.
The difference this time is that it ain't gonna pass, unless of course you idiots out there give the House to the Democrats.
I think it's all politics and will get drastically pared down. Some token thing may pass, but not the full monty.
If Trump wins, which is what this is really all about.
It is noteworthy, however, that other radio hosts like Rush Limbaugh and Laura Ingraham are nearly rolling over for this thing. The program is objectionable out of the box, except to people like James Pethokoukis, but those two today were almost paragons of equanimity. I think Laura even took a call praising the pro-family aspects of the plan. The worst argument for the idea being repeated is that it will encourage single mothers to work. So we'll subsidize single motherhood? Yeah, that's a Republican value.
I don't expect the Limbaughs and Ingrahams to diss Trump at this stage of the game, but it is this stage of the game. They could have at least hinted at the politics.
Tuesday, September 13, 2016
Publius Decius Mus responds effectively to some of his critics, but his own words still condemn him
Namely, these (here):
[Trump] is not playing his assigned role of gentlemanly loser the way McCain and Romney did, and may well have tapped into some previously untapped sentiment that he can ride to victory. This is a problem for both the Right and the Left. The professional Right (correctly) fears that a Trump victory will finally make their irrelevance undeniable. The Left knows that so long as Republicans kept playing by the same rules and appealing to the same dwindling base of voters, there was no danger. Even if one of the old breed had won, nothing much would have changed, since their positions on the most decisive issues were effectively the same as the Democrats and because they posed no serious challenge to the administrative state.
Well, so long as you accept the income tax, Decius, as you clearly do in your Flight 93 Election essay, YOU pose no serious challenge to the administrative state, either.
And secondly, you don't even recognize the fact that, or the reasons why, our "representative institutions" stopped being representative a long time ago. Conservatism today, including yours, does not recognize that the income tax is essential to funding the administrative state, and it does not recognize that our representatives are remote from the people by design from the 1920s.
Trump is adequate for the moment, and necessary if there is to yet be a chance to fix these problems, but there is no one, no one, who is really working politically to restore the Republic either by cutting it down to size or by expanding the input of the sovereign people to a level imagined by the constitution. The people may yet have their day on immigration and trade because of Trump, but after Trump, what?
What an Obama has done by fiat can be undone by a Trump. But that buys you four, maybe eight, years. And then? The next president can undo it, and probably will.
That means we already live under a tyranny.
Conservatism Inc. doesn't have a clue, and neither do you.
Speaker Ryan is still disgraceful, small and weak, still tiptoes up to "regular order" instead of demanding it
And the opposition can smell the weakness.
The job of Speaker is much too big for little Paul Ryan, who appears to have not one single fight in him.
From the story here in Roll Call:
Minibuses would break up the 12 individual spending bills into a few small packages rather than lump them into a single omnibus bill. Ryan has argued that passing minibuses is closer to regular order and would make the appropriations process more digestible. But he's privately acknowledged that such a strategy would likely result in some bills not getting done, leaving the agencies covered by the unfinished measures in need of a continuing resolution to extend funding through the remainder of the fiscal year.
Mark Levin won't tell you Ronald Reagan expanded the Earned Income Tax Credit in the 1986 tax reform
Hey Mark, does that make Reagan someone who "sold out his principles" for liberalism?
Well does it?
Monday, September 12, 2016
Mark Levin tonight said something about populism being the province of Congress, not the Executive
Well yes, that's the idea from an originalist point of view, isn't it? Yes it is.
But what did the Congress do in the 1920s?
It tried to limit its own natural growth as required by the Constitution by fixing its number at 435 in the House, thinking that it could thereby enhance its own power. But by doing so it became less and less populist and more and more elitist, so that today no one in a given congressional district is confident his or her congressman knows their own name, let alone represents what they think on Capitol Hill.
So ever since we've been stuck with 435 representatives, and the Census has simply functioned to decide which state gets more and which fewer representatives based on population shifts.
Well that's not how it's supposed to be, dammit! (cue the shouting)
Now we have supremely powerful individuals in the House, like the Speaker and the committee chairmen, who function like co-presidents or consuls on the Roman model. The Romans had two consuls by the way, elected every year to one year terms. At least if we had that we'd have more influence over affairs, but as it is the people have no representative, which is why . . .
Donald Trump.
Fix representation, folks.
To have a ratio of one congressman per 50,000 of population, a House of Representatives numbering 6,460 is called for, instead of the current, elitist, unresponsive House of 435 apportioned in a ratio of one representative to 743,000 people per district on average.
That's the crisis of the Republic. Not the quixotic Donald Trump actually figuring out how to be the voice of so many millions of forgotten Americans.
To be a reactionary is to answer action with action . . . it is the virile part to react
The only salvation is in the recognition of some superior guiding and dividing law of just rule and right subordination, in the perception, that is, of something permanent within the flux. ...
The saying has gone abroad that strength means joy in change and that he who would question change is reactionary and effeminate; and so in the name of progress and virility we drift supinely with the current. If by reactionary is understood only the man who shudders at all innovation and who cries out for some impossible restoration of the past, the charge is well made. Such a man in the social realm corresponds to the metaphysician who would deny the existence of change and the many for an exclusive and sterile idealism of the one. But reaction may be, and in the true sense is, something utterly different from this futile dreaming; it is essentially to answer action with action, to oppose to the welter of circumstance the force of discrimination and selection, to direct the aimless tide of change by reference to the co-existing law of the immutable fact, to carry the experience of the past into the diverse impulses of the present, and so to move forward in an orderly progression. If any young man, feeling now within himself the power of accomplishment, hesitates to be called a reactionary, in this better use of the term, because of the charge of effeminacy, let him take courage. The world is not contradicted with impunity, and he who sets himself against the world's belief will have need of all a man's endurance and all a man's strength. The adventurous soul who to-day against the reigning scientific and pragmatic dogma would maintain no vague and equally one-sided idealism, but the true duality of the one and the many, the absolute and the relative, the permanent and the mutable, will find himself subjected to an intellectual isolation and contempt almost as terrible as the penalties of the inquisition, and quite as effective in producing a silent conformity. If a man doubts this, let him try, and learn. Submission to the philosophy of change is the real effeminacy; it is the virile part to react.
-- Paul Elmer More, SHELBURNE ESSAYS, Seventh Series: Victorian Literature (The Philosophy of Change), 1910, pp. 267ff.
Sunday, September 11, 2016
Clinton at gay fundraiser: Half of Trump's supporters are deplorable
Yeah, but ALL of Hillary's are.
Bloomberg reproduces the remarks here:
Clinton told an audience of gay-rights supporters at a fundraiser Friday night in New York City: “You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right? The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic -- you name it.”
Video of Hillary this morning nearly collapsing after leaving 911 event early due to illness
There's something seriously wrong with this woman's health. They propped her up against the pillar to keep her from falling while waiting for the transport to arrive, and basically had to manhandle her into the van.
Video here.
On 9/11/16 Rasmussen has Clinton +4, LA Times/USC has Clinton +1.4
Rasmussen: Clinton 43%, Trump 39%.
LATimes/USC: Clinton 45%, Trump 43.6%.
The Real Clear Politics average shows Clinton +3.1 from eight recent polls, with an average margin of error of 3.5.
The traitor in the Oval Office has weakened us, hobbled us and aided our enemies
Dick and Liz Cheney in The Wall Street Journal, here:
Defeating our enemies has been made significantly more difficult by the policies of Barack Obama. No American president has done more to weaken the U.S., hobble our defenses or aid our adversaries. ...
Fifteen years after 3,000 Americans were killed by Islamic terrorists, America’s commander in chief has become the money launderer in chief for the world’s leading state sponsor of terror.
Saturday, September 10, 2016
Clinton insults millions: You know it's a new world when Real Clear Politics has a sidebar story which is a Donald Trump tweet
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| "Clinton insults millions" lights up Trump's Twitter feed |
Age discrimination update: Unemployment rate for those 55+ estimated to be 12%, 2.5 million want to work but can't get hired
Reported by Reuters, here:
Further, if you add jobless workers who gave up looking after more than four weeks, the 55-plus unemployment rate is a whopping 12 percent, SCEPA [Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis at the New School] analysis shows. Looked at another way, 2.5 million older Americans want a job but do not have one.
The last time banks failed and the economy tanked while a Republican was president, "Dunkirk" meant this
Hoover, 1932: 59 electoral votes
Landon, 1936: 8 electoral votes
Willkie, 1940: 82 electoral votes
Dewey, 1944: 99 electoral votes
Dewey, 1948: 189 electoral votes
McCain, 2008: 173 electoral votes
Romney, 2012: 206 electoral votes
NeverTrump, 2016:
Ben Shapiro, of Michelle Fields infamy, says it may be Dunkirk for conservatives, but not Shanksville
Here at The Daily Wire, where he is much too sanguine about conservative "victories":
"Publius’ oddest argument is that conservatives have been losing, and only losing, for decades. This is historically ignorant."
Actually that's what an earnest young man of 32 would be expected to say, and you have to give him credit for that, even if he is wrong.
Publius Decius Mus is getting bashed here and there for writing anonymously . . .
. . . but it's a fine old American, patriotic and anti-federalist tradition, as explained here.
Friday, September 9, 2016
Lefty Damon Linker thinks "The Flight 93 Election" is radical when it's hardly radical enough
The "conservative" world conceived of by the author of "The Flight 93 Election" isn't radical, it's unimaginative.
Being the good leftist that he his, however, Damon Linker senses the inherent weakness and flogs the man as a "reactionary" just for thinking about getting his feet wet, almost daring the author to defend what he knows he probably would not.
Struggling swimmer in the water. Shark arrives.
The weakness of the anonymous author, Publius Decius Mus, is illustrated by the closing which imagines what actually lassoing the moon would look like in his mind: a return to constitutionalism, limited government and a top marginal income tax rate of 28%. Really?
You won't get either of the first two while keeping the third. And the income tax wasn't "constitutional".
It doesn't occur to our anonymous author that through the income tax is how big government in this country made a big splash in the first place, and that it was necessary for progressives to eradicate the constitution's self-limitation expressed in its direct taxation handcuffs in order to achieve that big government.
In effect repudiating "constitutionalism" was necessary. And that's what the progressive era achieved, sweeping away the defenses of the constitution through the amendment process, bringing us woman's suffrage, the direct election of senators and the income tax. It made the country sick enough, but only enough to cut off the fourth leg of the progressive stool by repealing Prohibition.
So it works both ways. We can change our minds. The task of conservatism in our time ought to be to wake up the country to the possibilities of more repeal, to the conviction that we can correct our mistakes, whether it's the income tax, direct election of senators, or the vote of 18-year olds. And to the possibilities of ratification, say of Article the First.
Being "reactionary" isn't a bug, it's a feature, and thoroughly American.
Unless you're a communist. Or Damon Linker. But I repeat myself.
Thursday, September 8, 2016
Dear Rush Limbaugh: Publius Decius Mus doesn't get it at all, and neither do you
From the conclusion of the anonymous conservative intellectual, here:
"The possibilities would seem to be: Caesarism, secession/crack-up, collapse, or managerial Davoisie liberalism as far as the eye can see … which, since nothing human lasts forever, at some point will give way to one of the other three. Oh, and, I suppose, for those who like to pour a tall one and dream big, a second American Revolution that restores Constitutionalism, limited government, and a 28% top marginal rate."
A 28% top marginal rate?
He must be kidding.
The income tax is the cornerstone of the contemporary part of the anti-American revolution which made big government and rabid anti-constitutionalism not just possible but plausible. The 16th Amendment shredded the intent of the Founders, so why not shred the rest? They have, and they will.
Dreaming big means shedding the shredding, and along with that the imperial presidency and the Leviathan State implied by that, which was bequeathed to us by Abraham Lincoln.
But the followers of Harry Jaffa will never be able to imagine that, which makes them nothing more than the hollow men of Conservatism Inc.
Roger L. Simon calls on John McLaughlin's Person of the Year for 2015 to resign, for the good of the country
James Comey.
Here.
"I am hugely angry at Comey, as you can see, but he still could perform a great service. He actually could resign and shine a light of truth on this horrific situation before it is too late. The Democratic Party, unlike the Republicans under Nixon, apparently doesn't have the courage to face what they have wrought. Perhaps, just perhaps, Comey does. It would be a great act of patriotism."
"I am hugely angry at Comey, as you can see, but he still could perform a great service. He actually could resign and shine a light of truth on this horrific situation before it is too late. The Democratic Party, unlike the Republicans under Nixon, apparently doesn't have the courage to face what they have wrought. Perhaps, just perhaps, Comey does. It would be a great act of patriotism."
That lying bitch Hillary on headers last night: None of my emails had a 'classified material' header
That's because she made sure they were removed, disproving her claim to the FBI that she was ignorant of what the markings meant.
(See here for Hillary's bald-faced lying to a US Navy veteran at last night's Commander in Chief forum.)
When Jake Sullivan complained in 2011 that he couldn't send something to Hillary because of a classified material header, she told him to remove it and send it non-secure, as recounted by HotAir already in early January here, where the email is reproduced. It took her all of four minutes to commit a crime.
Why are we still rehashing this? Hillary should be under indictment, not running for office.
Hot Air:
In a thread from June 2011, Hillary exchanges e-mails with Jake Sullivan, then her deputy chief of staff and now her campaign foreign-policy adviser, in which she impatiently waits for a set of talking points. When Sullivan tells her that the source is having trouble with the secure fax, Hillary then orders Sullivan to have the data stripped of its markings and sent through a non-secure channel. ... “If they can’t, turn into nonpaper w no identifying heading and send nonsecure.” That’s an order to violate the laws handling classified material. There is no other way to read that demand. Regardless of whether or not Sullivan complied, this demolishes Hillary’s claim to be ignorant of marking issues, as well as strongly suggests that the other thousand-plus instances where this did occur likely came under her direction.
Wednesday, September 7, 2016
Mark Levin becomes the new poster boy for "flip-flop": April 7th rips NeverTrump, April 8th joins NeverTrump, Sept. 6th pledges to vote for Trump
Well, five months is an eternity in the 24-hour news cycle isn't it?
The truth is few of us are immune from flip-flopping. Only about 30% of us can never tell a lie. The rest of us need THE TORAH to keep us on the straight and narrow.
We noted the intemperate Levin here in early April, who no sooner had ripped NeverTrump than joined it the next day. Newsmax also had a little fun at his expense here.
Yesterday Levin pledged to vote for Trump, as noted here at Real Clear Politics. I was listening last night for a change, and heard it live for myself, at about 7:23 pm Eastern, and I chuckled. I felt the same way about Mitt Romney and ended up voting for him anyway.
Yom Kippur is coming up October 11-12, so all of us who have failed to unify around Trump as we should have before, now have a wonderful opportunity to forgive each other and move on to the election of the Republican.
"For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God". -- Romans 3:23
Tuesday, September 6, 2016
Phyllis Schlafly passed away yesterday: The 1992 Illinois Mother of the year who almost single-handedly defeated the ERA
Ann Coulter remembers the woman without whom Goldwater and Reagan conservatism might never have been born, here:
Though conservative women in later generations are often compared to Schlafly, all of us combined could never match the titanic accomplishments of this remarkable woman. Schlafly is unquestionably one of the most important people of ... the twentieth century – and a good part of the twenty-first. Among her sex, she is rivaled only by Margaret Thatcher.
Bill McGurn thinks the State Department, the IRS, and the FBI are rigged against us
In The Wall Street Journal story "Even Worse Than Hillary Clinton’s Emails".
Monday, September 5, 2016
New York Times opinion piece against age discrimination never once mentions the main reason for it: The young can be paid much less
The number one cost of doing business is employees, and employers will do anything they can to reduce it: fire the old and hire the young, ship the jobs overseas to cheaper labor markets, and the coming zinger, automate them out of existence.
From the story here:
The problem is ageism — discrimination on the basis of age. A dumb and destructive obsession with youth so extreme that experience has become a liability. In Silicon Valley, engineers are getting Botox and hair transplants before interviews — and these are skilled, educated, white guys in their 20s, so imagine the effect further down the food chain.
Age discrimination in employment is illegal, but two-thirds of older job seekers report encountering it. At 64, I’m fortunate not to have been one of them, as I work at the American Museum of Natural History, a truly all-age-friendly employer.
I write about ageism, though, so I hear stories all the time. The 51-year-old Uber driver taking me to Los Angeles International Airport at dawn a few weeks ago told me about a marketing position he thought he was eminently qualified for. He did his homework and nailed the interview. On his way out of the building he overheard, “Yeah, he’s perfect, but he’s too old.”
Sunday, September 4, 2016
We're old right, not alt-right, in case you were wondering, because we have faith in God and fear him and they don't
And they will end badly, if they can even manage to end at all.
Alt-righter John Derbyshire, formerly welcome at National Review where he was a better and even somewhat beloved writer, explains the difference here:
"As has often been noted, state ideologies, like the Cultural Marxism that currently holds sway in the West, key to the same social and psychological receptors as religions. Recall the late Larry Auster’s observation that blacks are sacred objects, criticism of which is received just as blasphemy used to be in the Age of Faith, and still is in places like Pakistan.
"Alt-Right types — all of them, though in many different ways — are reacting against this state ideology.
"What characterizes the Alt-Right is the rejection of Cultural Marxism; but while it characterizes us, it doesn’t unify us. That’s because we haven’t fled from the CultMarx pseudo-religion to some other, unifying faith. We don’t do faith."
Substituting the truth with a lie doesn't make the truth a lie.
Byron York: Staff on the Clinton team destroyed material that was under subpoena (it's a crime called obstruction of justice)
Byron York unpacks the twists and turns in the Hillary e-mail scandal and coverup, here, from which he reaches this conclusion:
But even with the fragments now public — the Clinton 302, the overview report, but none of the many other witness interviews — it seems fair to conclude that staff on the Clinton team destroyed material that was under subpoena. Whether that was unwitting, or whether it was something else, is not known, at least publicly.
There's no doubt that Clinton intended to destroy her email archives after choosing which ones to send to the State Department. That's what Mills' December 2014 directive was apparently intended to do. Given that the Benghazi investigation was well under way and there had been multiple document requests and production agreements, the effect of Mills' directive, had it been carried out at the time she sent it, would have been to destroy the evidence that had not been handed over to the State Department before anyone knew to ask for it. But apparently the Platte River Networks staffer's carelessness led to the emails not being destroyed in December 2014, remaining in existence until March 2015, when their existence was publicly disclosed and another subpoena issued for them. Then they were destroyed.
Grand Rapids, Michigan August 2016 climate summary: 11th warmest since 1892 by average temperature
Average temperature was 73.5 degrees F. Normal is 70.2. The month ranked 11th warmest since 1892. The hottest August by average temperature was in 1947 at 77.7. August 2016 was 5.4% cooler than that.
The normal 8-month average temperature is 49.6. Year to date the average temperature is 52.6, about 6% warmer than normal due to the El Nino, which ended with the April-May-June measuring period. The warmest full year on record by average temperature was 2012, at 52.8. The 8-month year to date average temperature in 2012 was 55.6, 5.7% warmer than the 2016 year to date. The May-June-July Oceanic Nino Index value has fallen to 0.2.
August 2016 was the second wettest on record with 7.97 inches of rain. Normal is 3.05. Year to date 31.54 inches of rain have fallen. Normal is 22.74. We're cutting grass.
Cooling degree days totaled 274 in August, 45% above the normal 189. By CDD August 2016 was tied for 13th warmest August on record. The warmest August by CDD occurred in 1947 with 404 CDD. August 2016 was 32% lower than that.
Year to date CDD totals 831, 36% higher than the normal 612 for the year to date. The record for highest annual CDD was set in 1921 at 1200, for lowest annual CDD in 1992 at 316. Normal annual CDD is 694. Year to date CDD is already almost 20% above the normal annual, with fewer than 100 CDD normally added in the remaining four months of the year. Air conditioning has been more than welcome this summer.
Saturday, September 3, 2016
The Real Clear Politics average of nine polls shows Clinton at +3.9 today
The average margin of error is 3.2.
Trump is +3 in the USC Dornsife/LA Times Presidential Election Daybreak Poll this morning
The poll is here.
Trump's biggest lead in the poll so far was +7.3 at the end of July.
Clinton's biggest lead so far was +4.7 in mid-August.
For reasons discussed here, the pollsters concede the poll may be skewed Republican by as much as two points, which could mean Trump is currently +1 not +3.
Rasmussen currently has Trump +1.
Friday, September 2, 2016
In August 2007 there were 122.9 million working full-time, and in August 2016 there were 125.9 million
Gee, that Obama guy has made so much progress . . . imagine, 3 million more full-time jobs after nine years.
What an amazing man!
After The New York Times revealed Hillary's private server on March 2, 2015, one of her people wiped the server with BleachBit before the month was out
The New York Times story from March 2, 2015 is here, "Hillary Clinton Used Personal Email Account at State Dept., Possibly Breaking Rules".
The Hill reports today here that based on the FBI notes released today, conveniently on the Friday afternoon which begins the Labor Day holiday when no one is paying attention, the person who used BleachBit to wipe the server claimed it was a mistake.
Sure it was.
“In a follow-up FBI interview on May 3, 2016, ------ Indicated he believed he had an 'oh s--t' moment and sometime between March 25-31, 2015 deleted the Clinton archive mailbox from PRN server and used BleachBit to delete the exported .PST files he had created on the server system containing Clinton;s e-mails,” the FBI notes released on Friday stated.
The person's identity is not known, but people who have been paying attention to this saga can't help but think of Bryan Pagliano, who was given immunity in exchange for his cooperation after invoking his 5th Amendment right not to incriminate himself.
"Yeah, I just happened to have this BleachBit thingy lying around one day, and the next thing you know . . . Oops. Yeah, that's what it was."
Thursday, September 1, 2016
Did Trump orchestrate the whole "softening" on deportation to get a meeting with Nieto?
A week after new campaign leadership was installed on August 17, Donald Trump infamously softened his deportation plans in a town hall in Austin, Texas with Sean Hannity on August 24. On the 22nd Trump had already postponed his speech on immigration planned for that week in Colorado. Panic struck some of his core supporters.
Suddenly Trump was the center of a hubbub, as he had been so many times before, over whether his followers would finally abandon him because of the immigration waffling.
Within two days he received an invitation from the president of Mexico Pena Nieto to come for a visit. That was the 26th. The same day he also said it might be two weeks instead of one before he would give his immigration speech.
Was the invitation offered because of the "softening"? Or maybe Trump just lucked out on the timing.
In either event, by the 30th Trump accepted the invitation of Nieto, and visited him yesterday the 31st, after which he delivered the immigration speech ahead of schedule, in Arizona, in which an expanded deportation force is tasked with focusing on the criminal illegal presence in the United States, not on the 11 million illegals as a whole. The meeting with Nieto elevated Trump's profile as a serious leader on the foreign stage, and the granularity of the immigration speech impresses just about everyone on the right who is familiar with the issues.
The country, and especially the media, were riveted by these events, and Trump was able to get his message out on the subject of illegal immigration, by-passing the media filter, in a way he hasn't been able to since the debates ended in March.
Combined with improving poll numbers at the same time, Trump is successfully building woefully needed momentum to kick off September.
There appears to be method to the madness.
Hillary cucks the House: FBI finds 30 Benghazi emails long after Hillary said she gave Congress everything
Real Clear Politics reported here:
"Government lawyers told U.S. District Court Judge Amit P. Mehta Tuesday that an undetermined number of the emails among the 30 were not included in the 55,000 pages previously provided by Clinton. ... Clinton previously had said she withheld and deleted only personal emails not related to her duties as secretary of state."
Two nights ago Mark Levin told us Wisconsin was out of reach for Trump but in three weeks her support there has collapsed by 80%
It's Clinton by just +3 in Wisconsin among likely voters in the Marquette poll, according to the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, here:
"Three weeks ago, Clinton held . . . a 15-point lead among likely voters."
Trump tricks media into letting the public actually hear his immigration message by traveling to Mexico
Jake Novak for CNBC here:
"Trump just tricked the media into letting it allow the public to actually hear his immigration message. And they heard it loud and clear."
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