Tuesday, January 24, 2017
Obama's illegal order DACA was done on Friday, June 15, 2012, so maybe Trump will wait until this Friday
This Friday is as long as I give him for him to act "immediately".
MSM says Russians hacked the election, but illegal aliens didn't
It's the reverse of whatever they say, as usual.
Trump promised to overturn DACA amnesty "immediately": Well, we're waiting . . .
Immediately was yesterday. Thanks for ending TPP yesterday, but . . ..
From the story here:
His campaign website still includes a pledge to "immediately terminate President Obama's two illegal executive amnesties," a reference to DACA and a later executive action — Deferred Action for the Parents of Americans (DAPA) — applying to illegal immigrants with American children.
"That's crazy and confusing," said William Gheen, founder of the Americans for Legal Immigration PAC. "Donald Trump promised to end Obama's unconstitutional executive orders, and that's DAPA and DACA."
Monday, January 23, 2017
Feminist actress Pat Arquette obviously never read an Employment Situation Summary from the BLS
Here:
"We have 60% of our families now with female breadwinners".
In December 2016 women who maintained families numbered 9.998 million out of 71.43 million women aged 16 and over employed (not seasonally adjusted), or about 8% of all US households, 14% of the women employed, and 6.5% of the total employed.
Sunday, January 22, 2017
Five days before the inaugural it was known DisruptJ20 would try to block Americans from entering
So why didn't police act to prevent them?
WTOP reported here on January 15:
DisruptJ20 said it planned to have protests at each entry point to the Inaugural Day parade. The organization said it was planning blockades, including blocking traffic.
USA Today lies about checkpoints being shut down at inaugural
Here:
Small groups of protesters popped up at various security checkpoints across the spectator zones, attempting to block entry. One group, affiliated with Black Lives Matter, chained themselves to metal barricades. But police said no entrances were completely shutdown.
Protesters blocked entry to the inaugural at C Street, depressing attendance: Police just let it happen
Reported here:
Police, Secret Service officials, and other law enforcement personnel were all seen turning away from the protesters rather than attempting to pass through the human barrier protesters assembled on C Street. Law enforcement officials present at the protests mainly attempted to break up skirmishes that broke out between the protesters and those looking to get to the inauguration and parade.
Protesters shut down 50% of the access to the inaugural two hours before the swearing in, depressing attendance
Reported here:
Hundreds of protesters on Friday shut down multiple entry points to President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration. Masses of protesters in support of causes that included climate change, Black Lives Matter, NoDAPL, women's rights, immigrant rights, LGBT rights, and anti-fascism descended upon the nation's capital and formed blockades in front of security checkpoints. ...
Protesters successfully shut down 6 six of the 12 inauguration access points as of 10am ET on Friday morning.
Of course the inaugural attendance estimates were lower: Protestors blocked and delayed entry
Reported here:
After almost two hours of delays, the security gates at 7th and Independence Avenue opened to cheers from the restless crowd. ...
At John Marshall Park’s checkpoint, Black Lives Matter protesters - chanting “Shut it down” - did just that. Five men chained themselves together, preventing anyone from passing and forcing police officers to redirect attendees to other entrances. “It feels great that we closed the checkpoint,” said 28-year-old Aaron Goggans, one of the organisers. “But we know this is just the beginning.”
At the 10th and E streets in downtown Washington, protesters blocked the entrance to another checkpoint. A group of women tied themselves together with purple yarn and sat on the ground to prevent people from passing through.
White Privileged Women's March in DC can't face it that Hillary underperformed with women
White privileged women have only themselves to blame for Hillary's loss to Donald Trump. Their candidate didn't appeal to women unlike themselves.
Hillary underperformed Obama 2012 with all women by one point, black women by 2 points, Latino women by 8 points, and unmarried women by 5 points. The only groups of women with which Hillary outperformed Obama 2012 were WHITE WOMEN and MARRIED WOMEN, in other words with the PRIVILEGED class of women which has the luxury of time to knit pink hats and the surplus cash to travel to one of America's most expensive cities to bathe in each other's estrogen.
The good little communists of DisruptJ20 justify their violence against private property
Here:
[Lacy] MacAuley is the spokeswoman for DisruptJ20, a collection of anti-capitalist, antifascist and progressive groups rooted in the District and elsewhere that organized the protest. ...
The violence “helps demonize and delegitimize us,” said Payton McDonald, 23, of Ann Arbor, Mich. But, McDonald added, “The violence of the state needs to be met with a level of protest that complements it.” ...
Henry Hughes, 61, dressed in jeans, a flannel shirt and a North Cascades National Park hat, held a jug to collect money for those arrested. A copy editor for a transcription company who lives in Marblemount, Wash., he said that although he was blocking entrances Friday and was nowhere near the torched limousine, he didn’t object to the destruction.
Saturday, January 21, 2017
Nasty sore loser Democrats march in Washington DC to protest Trump
From the story here:
Instead of red “Make America Great Again” popular at the inauguration the day before, many marchers wore pink knitted caps with ears evoking a cat and dubbed “pussy hats,” as a symbol of defiance to the new president.
NATO member Turkey on the brink of an elected dictatorship under Erdogan
Crazy. Ataturk set the country on a course of secularization. Erdogan is doing the reverse, in the style and guise of Ataturk.
From the story here:
Bulent Turan, a whip from the Islamist-rooted AK Party, which Erdogan co-founded, rejected opposition claims that the amendments would create an elected dictatorship, saying they sought to allow for greater government oversight and to speed up decision making. ... Turkey’s parliament was founded by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk in 1920 as part of a secular and Western-oriented revolution that replaced the theocratic Ottoman Empire. Should Erdogan succeed, Turkey is set to a have a president who will basically concentrate as much power as Ataturk.
Friday, January 20, 2017
The NY Times couldn't help itself and cut away to one last Obama speech before he got on the plane
For eight years "He talked, talked, talked too much, he talked too much" to paraphrase the song.
And did nothing.
Revolutionary Communist Party protests outside pro-Trump DeploraBall, gets pepper-sprayed
Refuse Fascism dot org is a project of the Revolutionary Communist Party, initiated by people like Bill Ayers, Carl Dix, Niles Eldridge and Cornel West.
Thursday, January 19, 2017
Middle class brick wall: Obama ends his presidency with new housing starts down 34% overall compared with 1959-2008
Not seasonally adjusted, new housing starts averaged 1.28 million per year from 1959-2008, but under Obama they averaged just 0.84 million per year, according to the December data out today, completing his eight year record down 34% from the post-war average.
The monthly average for 2016 annualized is 1.17 million starts, which will end up being Obama's best year but only just above the post-war average cyclical low of 1.13 million per year.
So under Obama all we have done is climb back to the average cyclical low point for new housing starts.
Housing booms have been marked by an average cyclical high of 1.97 million new starts per year in the post-war, but Obama's best performance in 2016 is over 40% off that average high.
2009 marked the low point since 1959, with just 0.55 million new starts, sliding all the way down from the 2005 cyclical high of 2.07 million, a collapse of over 73% for the new housing industry.
Since September 2008 through November 2016 there have been approximately 6.5 million completed foreclosures according to Corelogic here. That means that over 16 million people have been displaced from their homes during the Obama era based on the average household size of 2.5 people.
The homeownership rate in the second quarter of 2016 fell to its lowest point in five decades at 62.9%, the same rate which prevailed in 1965.
Pew reported in December 2015 that after more than four decades as the economic majority in the United States, the middle class had become out-numbered by the combined number of the rich and the poor. Pew reports that in 1971 middle class adults were 61% of their fellows vs. only 50% in 2015. The underclass has grown by 25% while the richest tranche has grown by 125%.
At least some of the decline in the relative size of the middle class has to do with the enormous number of illegal aliens flooding the country since Bill Clinton was elected in 1992, and with a large number of Baby Boomers moving on up in an era of credentialism while eschewing larger families for themselves than they came from.
Births per 1,000 women fell to their lowest point since 1909 in the first quarter of 2016 at 59.8. The rate was 122.9 in 1957.
You can't have a decent country unless you give birth to it.
Laugh of the Day: Jake Novak at CNBC says Obama helped us emotionally recover from the Great Recession
Sure he did, Jake, sure he did.
Here:
"President Obama's cheerleading for the economy did help people recover emotionally from the Great Recession."
Wednesday, January 18, 2017
In case you didn't get it the first time, Vladimir Putin thinks the CIA behind the Trump smear . . .
. . . is the same CIA which overthrew the democratically elected but pro-Russian Viktor Yanukovych, president of Ukraine, in 2014.
Not coincidentally, John McCain was the US point man in the overthrow effort: "John McCain backs opposition leaders telling Ukraine protesters: 'America stands with you - Ukraine will make Europe better'".
Democracy is only OK if it's pro-Western, you see.
When Chelsea Bradley Manning gets out in May . . .
. . . who knows, maybe the third time will be a charm?
Obviously, if Snowden had really wanted a pass from President Obama . . .
. . . he should have changed genders.
Too late now bro!
Joe Biden wants to plunge Europe into war if dictator Erdogan's TURKEY is attacked
The dangerous illogic of NATO overreach is completely lost on Joe Biden, here:
At a time when Trump and his advisors are talking about shaking up NATO, Biden said, we must "support our NATO allies. An attack on one is an attack on all, that can never be placed in question." ... "We need to tap into the big heartedness [and raise taxes on the 1%]," Biden said. "This is a moment to lead boldly."
Then why didn't you run, Joe?
Some leader.
Liberal progressives. All talk. No action.
Liberal progressives. All talk. No action.
Tuesday, January 17, 2017
Vladimir Putin likens Trump opponents to the revolutionaries who deposed Viktor Yanukovych of Ukraine in 2014
Quoted here:
'People who order such fakes against the U.S. president-elect, fabricate them and use them in political struggle are worse than prostitutes,' Putin said. 'They have no moral restrictions whatsoever, and it highlights a significant degree of degradation of political elites in the West, including in the United States.' 'He wasn't a politician, we didn't even know about his political ambitions,' Putin said. 'Do they think that our special services are hunting for every U.S. billionaire?' Trump is a 'grown man, and secondly he's someone who has been involved with beauty contests for many years and has met the most beautiful women in the world,' he said. 'I find it hard to believe that he rushed to some hotel to meet girls of loose morals, although ours are undoubtedly the best in the world.' He said Trump's foes are ready to go as far as to 'stage a Maidan in Washington to prevent Trump from entering office,' in reference to the alleged U.S. role in organizing protests in the main square of the Ukrainian capital, the Maidan, which forced the nation's Russia-friendly president from power in 2014. 'People who are doing that are inflicting a colossal damage to the interests of the United States,' Putin said.
Trump to whack DC with 10% cut to discretionary spending, 20% cut to personnel
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| Obama's most recent discretionary budget estimates |
The hive is buzzing.
A 10% cut to 2018 projected discretionary would come to about $115 billion.
There are 2.824 million federal employees, but the discretionary departments do not by any means exhaust them all. But just a 5% cut to this total would mean 141,200 would be going bye-bye.
Lots of homes would be going up for sale!
Story here.
There's your magic negro, your mediocre negro, and then there's your bottom of the barrel negro like elitist negro Marc Lamont Hill
Mark Lamont Hill, quoted here:
LAMONT HILL: Yeah, it's a bunch of mediocre negroes being dragged in front of TV as a photo-op for Donald Trump's exploitive campaign against black people. And you [Bruce LeVell] are the prime example of that.
Monday, January 16, 2017
John Lewis' boycott of the inaugural isn't unprecedented, nor the reason for it: He also boycotted G. W. Bush
WaPo reported this Sunday, Jan. 21, 2001, here:
Some members of the Black Caucus decided to boycott Inauguration Day; John Lewis, for instance, spent the day in his Atlanta district. He thought it would be hypocritical to attend Bush's swearing-in because he doesn't believe Bush is the true elected president.
MLK Jr. is an illegitimate American who opposed our economics, our middle class and our religion
"I am much more socialistic in my economic theory than capitalistic. ... So today capitalism has outlived its usefulness. ... [R]eligion [can?] so easily become a tool of the middle class to keep the proletariant oppressed. ... It is probably true that capitalism is on its death bed, but social systems have a way of developing a long and powerful death bed breathing capacity. Remember it took feudalism more than 500 years to pass out from its death bed. Capitalism will be in America quite a few more years my dear. Yet with his basic thesis I would concur. Our economic system is going through a radical change, and certainly this change is needed. I would certainly welcome the day to come when there will be a nationalization of industry." -- July 1952
Rand Paul: John Lewis isn't immune from criticism just because he's a civil rights icon
No, he's immune because he's BLACK, but Rand Paul won't say that.
Rand Paul, quoted here:
[B]eing a civil rights icon ... I would also say that that doesn't make us immune from criticism or debate. So, John Lewis isn't in a position where there can't be a healthy debate back and forth. Because he's a civil rights icon shouldn't make him immune. ... I should be able to honestly disagree with him, and not have it all come back to, I have no appreciation for a civil rights icon because of this. And I think that's the part that I think is sometimes unfair in this.
Laugh of the Day: WaPo calls MLK Jr. a conservative
Here:
“My friends,” Dr. King said in his Detroit sermon, “all I’m trying to say is that if we are to go forward today, we’ve got to go back and rediscover some mighty precious values that we’ve left behind. That’s the only way that we would be able to make of our world a better world, and to make of this world what God wants it to be. . . .”
Spoken like a true conservative, and a truly great one.
Conservatives think people who think it's possible to make this world what God wants it to be are seriously mistaken.
Complete and utter rubbish from Real Clear Markets on "free market" Martin Luther King Jr. who said "capitalism has outlived its usefulness"
Here in "Martin Luther King's Free-Market Legacy":
Martin Luther King proclaimed that he had a dream that “…my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” His dream was far more powerful than it is given credit for. It is a general call for freedom and free-market prosperity.
The real Martin Luther King Jr. was a self-confessed socialist as early as July 1952:
By the way (to turn to something more intellectual) I have just completed Bellamy’s Looking Backward. It was both stimulating and fascinating. There can be no doubt about it. Bellamy had the insight of a social prophet as well as the fact finding mind of the social scientist. I welcomed the book because much of its content is in line with my basic ideas. I imagine you already know that I am much more socialistic in my economic theory than capitalistic. And yet I am not so opposed to capitalism that I have failed to see its relative merits. It started out with a noble and high motive, viz, to block the trade monopolies of nobles, but like most human system it fail victim to the very thing it was revolting against. So today capitalism has outlived its usefulness. It has brought about a system that takes necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes. So I think Bellamy is right in seeing the gradual decline of capitalism.
Sunday, January 15, 2017
Nebraska's Republican Senator Ben Sasse crawls out from underneath his rock to support John Lewis over Trump
First!
Liberal preening.
Here:
Sasse appears to be the only Republican publicly critical of the president-elect's attack so far.
Saturday, January 14, 2017
Open borders Republicans join hands with Democrats to extend Obama's Orwellian DACA overreach
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| Coffman |
Remember, they're not "illegal immigrants", they're "childhood arrivals".
The Republicans named in the story here, where it is claimed there are up to 60 supporters in the US House Republican Caucus, are:
Senator Lindsey Grahamnesty Graham of South Carolina
Rep. Mike Coffman of Colorado
Rep. Ileana Ros Lehtinen of Florida
Rep. Carlos Curbelo of Florida.
The House would need 290 votes to override a Trump veto of a bill exempting "Dreamers" from deportation for three years. In the Senate 67 votes would be required. A coalition of 194 House Democrats and 60 Republicans yields just 254 votes, not enough. In the Senate 19 Republicans would have to join 48 Democrats to override a Trump veto.
So Coffman wants to ram the bill through now, before Obama no longer has his pen and telephone.
Friday, January 13, 2017
Nine Republicans in the US House voted against the Obamacare repeal framework today, the usual malcontents
The roll call vote is here, the framework passing 227-198, 10 not voting (five from each party).
Republicans Amash, Dent, Fitzpatrick, Jones, Katko, Labrador, MacArthur, Massie, and McClintock voted against the measure from the Senate.
Upset by Jeh Johnson election overreach, Mark Levin proposes yet another constitutional amendment
"There outta be a law", we used to say.
As if the other eleven he's already proposed stand a chance of being passed, or followed any more than are the current twenty-seven or the constitution itself.
President Obama, unfortunately, is correct. The constitution is a mere parchment barrier. That's why he keeps burning it right up to the last minute.
In a decent country, Obama would never have been elected in the first place.
Rand Paul prefers histrionics to repeal of Obamacare, Diane Feinstein absent from vote for pacemaker surgery
The roll call vote, narrowly successful 51-48, is here.
Sen. Paul, making the good the enemy of the perfect as usual for the libertarians, views the repeal framework as a debt disaster:
Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul was the sole Republican to vote against the measure, citing the budget measure’s failure to meet the requirements set forth in the balanced budget amendment.
“As a physician, I cannot wait to repeal Obamacare and replace it with a health care system that relies on freedom to provide quality, comprehensive, and affordable care,” he said in a statement. “But putting nearly $10 trillion more in debt on the American people’s backs through a budget that never balances is not the way to get there. It is the exact opposite of the change Republicans promised, and I cannot support it, even as a placeholder.”
Laugh of the Day: Elizabeth Talking Bull Warren isn't qualified to grill Ben Carson's chicken
Seen here in the comments section.
Thursday, January 12, 2017
Secretary of State nominee Rex Tillerson throws down the gauntlet in South China Sea
Hooah Rex!
From the story here:
In comments expected to enrage Beijing, Rex Tillerson told his confirmation hearing before the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee that China's building of islands and putting military assets on those islands was "akin to Russia's taking Crimea" from Ukraine.
Asked whether he supported a more aggressive posture toward China, he said: "We're going to have to send China a clear signal that, first, the island-building stops and, second, your access to those islands also is not going to be allowed." ...
Tillerson called China's South China Sea island-building and declaration of an air defense zone in waters of the East China Sea it contests with Japan "illegal actions."
"They're taking territory or control, or declaring control of territories that are not rightfully China's," he said.
Wednesday, January 11, 2017
Glenn Greenwald writes that the CIA was trying to defeat Trump and elect Hillary Clinton
Here:
FOR MONTHS, the CIA, with unprecedented clarity, overtly threw its weight behind Hillary Clinton’s candidacy and sought to defeat Donald Trump. In August, former acting CIA Director Michael Morell announced his endorsement of Clinton in the New York Times and claimed that “Mr. Putin had recruited Mr. Trump as an unwitting agent of the Russian Federation.” The CIA and NSA director under George W. Bush, Gen. Michael Hayden, also endorsed Clinton, and went to the Washington Post to warn, in the week before the election, that “Donald Trump really does sound a lot like Vladimir Putin,” adding that Trump is “the useful fool, some naif, manipulated by Moscow, secretly held in contempt, but whose blind support is happily accepted and exploited.”
It is not hard to understand why the CIA preferred Clinton over Trump. Clinton was critical of Obama for restraining the CIA’s proxy war in Syria and was eager to expand that war, while Trump denounced it. Clinton clearly wanted a harder line than Obama took against the CIA’s long-standing foes in Moscow, while Trump wanted improved relations and greater cooperation. In general, Clinton defended and intended to extend the decadeslong international military order on which the CIA and Pentagon’s preeminence depends, while Trump — through a still-uncertain mix of instability and extremist conviction — posed a threat to it.
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