Sunday, October 7, 2018
Saturday, October 6, 2018
Erick Erickson: Trump is positively angelic compared to his political opponents and the press
But he repeats himself.
Here:
Trump is neither an ambassador for my values nor the articulate champion of my principles I would prefer. But he is a safe harbor in a progressive storm that seeks to both destroy my values and upend our constitutional republic. ...
The political press has behaved as co-conspirators with the Democrats in the Kavanaugh matter. They have clearly been fully co-opted. Reporters are planting their flags with the so-called Resistance and donning pink hats instead of defending truth and reporting facts.
There is much in the present political age about which I am uncertain. But there is one thing about which I am absolutely certain: President Trump is not my enemy, and too many progressives view me as theirs.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
Friday, October 5, 2018
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.
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.
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.
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
Ford's original claim in her therapist's records was that she was in her late teens in the mid-1980s when an assault occurred involving four boys, as reported by WaPo.
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.
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.
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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.
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