Friday, October 5, 2018
The American Dream remains more expensive in 2018 than it was at the peak of the housing bubble in 2005
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| 1H2018 uses Sentier Research July 2018 nominal median household income of $62,450/$320,800 |
Thursday, October 4, 2018
Michigan's own Steve Gruber has an important story about contaminated water in the US
[T]he catastrophe brewing across the state and in waterways throughout the country will make the tragedy that took place in Flint seem minor.
Our so-called friends the Chicoms installed spychips on thousands of servers used by Apple, Amazon and a host of others
The chips had been inserted during the manufacturing process, two officials say, by operatives from a unit of the People’s Liberation Army. In Supermicro, China’s spies appear to have found a perfect conduit for what U.S. officials now describe as the most significant supply chain attack known to have been carried out against American companies.
Five year old girl in Georgia public school allegedly sexually assaulted by gender fluid boy under Obama bathroom policy
The school kept the Obama policy even though the Trump administration reversed it.
The school doesn't believe the woman.
The school doesn't believe the woman.
FBI lawyer James Baker met with law firm paid by DNC to compile dossier, in 2016 before securing FISA warrant against Trump
It means the FBI had good reason to suspect the dossier was connected to the DNC’s main law firm and was the product of a Democratic opposition-research effort to defeat Trump — yet failed to disclose that information to the FISA court in October 2016, when the bureau applied for a FISA warrant to surveil Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.
“This is a bombshell that unequivocally shows the real collusion was between the FBI and Donald Trump’s opposition — the DNC, Hillary and a Trump-hating British intel officer — to hijack the election, rather than some conspiracy between Putin and Trump,” a knowledgeable source told me.
Wednesday, October 3, 2018
Monica McLean denies Ford prepped her on polygraph exams
Reported here:
“I have NEVER had Christine Blasey Ford, or anybody else, prepare me, or provide any other type of assistance whatsoever in connection with any polygraph exam I have taken at anytime,” Monica McLean said in a statement Wednesday.
Grand Rapids, Michigan, Climate Update for September 2018
Grand Rapids, Michigan, Climate Update for September 2018
Max temp 90, Mean Max temp 89
Min temp 40, Mean Min temp 37
Av temp 66.1, Mean Av temp 62.7
Precip 5.93, Mean precip 3.57 (quack quack, another gullywasher)
Cooling Degree Days 135, Mean CDD 76, Season to date 983, Mean Season to date 690
The cooling season to date as measured by CDD is now 42% warmer than the mean to date. Season to date 2018 is now 7th warmest on record for total CDD. The warmest year on record was 1921 with 1200 CDD. The 2nd warmest year on record was 1931 with 1061 CDD. It is highly unlikely that 2018 will finish warm enough to crack the number two spot but will be firmly in the top ten warmest years by CDD. There have been five months in a row in 2018 with max temps in the 90s, the first time that has happened since 1991.
Ford's ex-boyfriend isn't simply a case of he said, she said: He names Monica L. McLean, whom Ford prepared for a polygraph test
I'm sure the Senate Judiciary Committee, or the FBI, is following up on her to corroborate the boyfriend's sworn testimony.
Tuesday, October 2, 2018
The New York Times makes us relive high school with Brett Kavanaugh
Here, where nothing in particular jumps out except the thought that the biggest problem for many Americans is that they remain teenagers.
Beto O'Rourke is also pre-qualified for opprobrium from the #MeToo movement
Politico quotes him from 1991, here:
“Basically, the show documents the life of Will Rogers, the ‘lassoing fool,’ who rose from being an insignificant side show attraction to one of the more prominent political pundits and cultural statesmen in our history. Yet it is produced and directed in such a showy, glitzy, and ultimately, tacky manner, that one cannot help feeling disgusted throughout the show. Keith Carradine in the lead role is surrounded by perma-smile actresses whose only qualifications seem to be their phenomenally large breasts and tight buttocks.”
The Democrat answer to Ted Cruz is having a tough week.
Employers have loved all the extra, cheap female labor since the 1960s: Median weekly real earnings for all are up just 0.12% per year since 1979 . . .
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| . . . but were still flat as recently as 2014 (35 years) |
Monday, October 1, 2018
Cool, Brett Kavanaugh got in a bar fight in 1985
This guy's a fighter yesterday, today and forever!
Meanwhile, the pantywaists say it shows he doesn't have the temperament to be a judge, ignoring his decade plus on the DC Circuit Court of Appeals, where he's done just fine thank you very much.
Confirm Kavanaugh.
Kavanaugh was involved in bar brawl at Yale
Yet another lying story from NBC omitting how Ramirez first called Kavanaugh's friends for weeks trying to get dirt on him
Hey Mark Levin, it doesn't help that fools like Donald Trump called Ford credible
Trump set the narrative, sorry to say . . . again.
Rachel Mitchell's verdict is simply drowned out by that.
We need a better leader.
The new puritans at CBS News flatly lie about Kavanaugh's testimony
"Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh has repeatedly said that he was legally allowed to consume beer as a prep school senior in Maryland."
That's a flat out lie. Kavanaugh never testified that he was "legally allowed".
He copped to drinking beer while under age, that's all, and that seniors were legal . . . at the time about which he testified.
That's how every under age drinker gets it to this day.
"Key allies" persuade Trump to rescind declassification order for FISA materials involving Carter Page
"The guards of a tyrant are foreigners" cuts both ways.
The English aren't worth it, Mr. President, and neither are your "key allies". End the disease of secret courts.
The English aren't worth it, Mr. President, and neither are your "key allies". End the disease of secret courts.
The Orange County Register comments here:
Trump has now asked the DOJ’s inspector general to review the unreleased classified material quickly. The president said he still may declassify the documents, and there’s good reason to do so. If government power was misused to spy on an American citizen and a political campaign, Congress should look at reforming the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, at a minimum.
It has a certain ring to it: Liberal principles change by the hour in pursuit of political power
But they already possess the cultural power, no?
Sunday, September 30, 2018
Ruth Buzzi Ginsburg's angry political attack taints the impartiality of the Supreme Court: She should resign
"He is a faker," she said of the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, going point by point, as if presenting a legal brief. "He has no consistency about him. He says whatever comes into his head at the moment. He really has an ego. ... How has he gotten away with not turning over his tax returns? The press seems to be very gentle with him on that."
Christine Ford may have changed the date of alleged assault from mid-1980s to 1982 after reading Mark Judge's book
Margot Cleveland here thinks Ford changed this to 1982 when she was fifteen involving two boys after reading Mark Judge's book, which may be the reason why Ford has refused to turn over the therapist's records.
Julie Swetnick allegedly has a history of filing slip-and-fall lawsuits as well as serious problems with state and federal tax authorities
A girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do.
Detail of Ford testimony about seeing Mark Judge at Safeway comes straight out of Judge's own book
Evidence builds that Ford's story is fabricated to ruin Kavanaugh. The possible motives include politics, ideology, and perhaps an actual perceived slight when a teenager now blown up out of all proportion into this sad affair.
Christine Ford misrepresented herself as a psychologist under oath, Stanford hastily scrubs her faculty page
Testifying under oath before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Christine Blasey Ford identified herself as a ‘psychologist,’ but records indict this is a false statement under California law. Someone at Stanford University also appears to have caught the blunder and edited Ford’s faculty page.
Just one sentence into her sworn testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee regarding allegations of sexual assault against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, Dr. Christine Blasey Ford may have told a lie.
After thanking members of the committee on Thursday, and while under oath, Ford opened her testimony saying, “My name is Christine Blasey Ford, I am a professor of psychology at Palo Alto University and a research psychologist at the Stanford University School of Medicine.”
The issue lies with the word “psychologist,” and Ford potentially misrepresenting herself and her credentials, an infraction that is taken very seriously in the psychology field as well as under California law.
Portland company Webtrends claimed Kavanaugh accuser Swetnick made false sex allegations against employees
In the suit, Webtrends alleged Swetnick claimed to have graduated from Johns Hopkins University but the company said it subsequently learned the school had no record of her attendance. Webtrends said she also "falsely described her work experience" at a prior employer.
The suit also alleges Swetnick "engaged in unwelcome, sexually offensive conduct" while at Webtrends and "made false and retaliatory allegations that other co-workers had engaged in inappropriate conduct toward her."
The suit alleges Swetnick "engaged in unwelcome sexual innuendo and inappropriate conduct" directed at two male employees during a business lunch, with Webtrends customers present. Swetnick claimed two other employees had sexually harassed her, according to the suit.
Webtrends' suit said it determined Swetnick had engaged in misconduct but could not find evidence to support her allegations against her colleagues. Later, the company alleged, Swetnick took medical leave and simultaneously claimed unemployment benefits in the District of Columbia.
Ford became "popular figure on the Dewey Beach bar scene" in the summers after alleged assault
DEWEY BEACH, Delaware — Christine Blasey Ford grew up in Washington’s affluent Maryland suburbs, graduated from an expensive all-girls private high school and spent summers immersed in the wild nightlife of this Eastern Shore resort town. ... Longtime residents of Dewey Beach, a Delaware resort known in the late 1980s as a place where the college students who worked the other resorts lived and partied, remember her nights waitressing at the Waterfront, a raucous bayside bar. ... Ms. Blasey Ford was a popular figure on the Dewey Beach bar scene.
Saturday, September 29, 2018
Uganda prepares to vaccinate as Ebola threatens from Congo
From the story here:
Uganda, which has had five Ebola outbreaks since 2000, says it is preparing to begin vaccinations as needed. The health ministry in Congo, which is facing its 10th outbreak, says more than 12,000 people have been vaccinated so far.
His Holiness The 14th Dalai Lama has Europe for Europeans moment: Refugees have to go back
Well naturally. Tibet for Tibetans. Germany for Germans. Hungary for Hungarians.
Justice Anthony Kennedy is to blame for much of the polarization now evident everywhere in America
From Paul Kengor's Anthony Kennedy: Reagan’s Worst Mistake:
The Kennedy pick was supposed to calm the waters after the storm generated by the Robert Bork and Douglas Ginsburg nominations. ... His subsequent 30 years of judicial decisions literally redefined things as basic as life and marriage. His calamitous three decades on the court will be followed by an endless maze of legal-cultural wars and church-state battles dealing with the disastrous dust-up of what he unleashed. ... Kennedy led the majority with one of the most breathtakingly outrageous statements in the history of jurisprudence: “At the heart of liberty,” averred Kennedy, “is the right to define one’s own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life.”
In short, Anthony Kennedy spearheaded America's turn into the Libertarian Party in convention, but where no one can agree about anything.
Justice Anthony Kennedy's extreme libertarianism made him the enemy of anything "civic"
From Bruce Frohnen's Anthony Kennedy’s Jurisprudence of Extreme Individualism:
Justice Kennedy’s view [is] that each of us must be “left alone” in a radical sense to define all that is important for ourselves. ... The paradigm motivating Justice Kennedy’s jurisprudence is of an individual who must be protected by the courts from all outside pressures. ... For many decades, Justice Kennedy has stood for the proposition that courts should protect individuals from interference from the outside—whether by the government or by the associations (religious or otherwise) they choose to join—in their “mystical” notions of personal identity. The price of this fanciful theory of human liberty and the ability of individuals to define reality for themselves, is the breakdown of social order, the deaths of millions of innocent children, and the further marginalization of God and religion from public life. ... This accidental jurist has caused very real damage to our nation’s institutions and its very soul.
Hey Justice Kennedy: A generation of vipers can't be magically taught to use enlightened civic discourse
Anthony Kennedy, miserable cretin, quoted here:
"Perhaps we didn't do too good a job teaching the importance of preserving democracy by an enlightened civic discourse," he said. "In the first part of this century we're seeing the death and decline of democracy."
O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
-- Matthew 12:34
Friday, September 28, 2018
Trump says Christine Ford's a credible witness
About as credible as he is promising never to sign another spending bill without funding in it for the wall.
One lameduck Flake holds entire confirmation process hostage to one more week of redundant investigation by incompetent FBI
And a fine way to be remembered in opprobrium forever it is, too.
Bill Kristol alienates another one, this time over Kavanaugh
Pretty soon NeverTrump will simply be spelled Bill Kristol.
Thursday, September 27, 2018
Ford was a cheerleader and party girl at Holton-Arms, apparently had the nickname "Easy Blasey"
Republicans got her yearbooks, which had been scrubbed from the web, but never used them today.
From the story here at Real Clear Investigations:
Other evidence indicates Ford, a popular cheerleader at the time, was immersed in an alcohol-fueled party culture and no stranger to “keg parties” in the D.C. area — or the "bar scene" along the Maryland and Delaware coast. In fact, Ford was known as a "party girl” on the Delaware shore during summer breaks, another source with direct knowledge of the congressional investigation said.
One report, moreover, recounts how Ford once got caught in "a romantic triangle" at Dewey Beach that ended with the two men getting into a fistfight over her.
At Holton-Arms, the source added, she was known by classmates, and even some parents, by a sexually derogatory nickname playing off her maiden name Blasey, suggesting she was promiscuous.
“She was not the wholesome Catholic girl they’re trying to portray her as,” the source said, making her claims of victimization at the hands of Kavanaugh "harder to believe."
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