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| Average report under Obama: 1.475%, the worst in the post-war |
Friday, January 27, 2017
Pretty costly affirmative action: Obama delivers his final GDP dud with 2016 growth coming in at just 1.6%
Thursday, January 26, 2017
Mickey Kaus is right: Stop adding new Dreamers
Here:
'Trump could focus on stopping any new work permits to undocumented “Dreamers,” while giving existing Dreamers whose work permits are expiring an extension of two or three months — or 6 months — while he tries to cut the “deal” he says he wants'
Trump doesn't need to end DACA for those already approved under Obama's unconstitutional amnesty . . .
. . . but he does need to stop approving new cases immediately.
He can show discretion to illegals under the program already, as he calls them and which they are, by continuing to grant temporary extensions pending his policy finalization.
But he must stop approving new cases, immediately. Otherwise this is a magnet for continuing illegal immigration.
Turn it off.
DACA cases still being approved despite Trump promise to stop program immediately
From the story at Bloomberg two days ago here:
The program, created by former President Barack Obama in 2012, has allowed more than 700,000 people brought to the country as children to obtain renewable two-year work permits. It can be reversed at any time by the president. On his campaign website and at rallies, Trump said he’d cancel it, decrying it as “unconstitutional.”
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said Tuesday in an unsigned e-mail from its media office that it has continued to issue new work permits since Trump’s inauguration. The agency said it is still processing applications, as the Obama policy remains unchanged.
“We can confirm that DACA cases have been approved, and some denied, since 1/20/17,” the agency said, using an acronym for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
Wednesday, January 25, 2017
The sexism and vulgarity of the Women's March on Washington is more equal than everyone's
CNBC and AP report here with a straight face in "Sexist, vulgar posts on women's marches rebound on officials":
A school board member in Hillary Clinton's hometown resigned after making a derogatory reference on Twitter to the female anatomy in describing women marching against President Donald Trump. An Illinois teacher was pulled from the classroom for a tweet deemed sexist. And a freshman Indiana lawmaker was inundated with criticism over a Facebook post mocking "fat women."
Tuesday, January 24, 2017
Female Secret Service agent in Denver defies the Hatch Act, says the Hatch Act be damned
And you thought the swamp was in a low area in DC.
Obama lawlessness has bred lawlessness everywhere, not just in Ferguson, Missouri, Dallas, Texas, . . ..
Story here.
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.
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