Thursday, October 11, 2018

W-2 payroll data for 2017 just out shows huge slowdown to monthly additions from 2016

Monthly additions dropped from 227,000 (revised up 4,000) in 2016 to 160,000 in 2017 (figures rounded to the nearest thousand).

There were a number of other revisions to the data in this series of more minor significance (incorporated).

Total nonfarm December 2017 on December 2016 was up 182,000 monthly. The civilian employment level was up 149,000 monthly.





You know, Obama didn't follow the so-called Biden Rule in 2016, but Mitch McConnell sure did

You can listen to Biden in 1992, here, when he said Bush should refrain from nominating anyone if a vacancy occurred on the Supreme Court in that election year.

Biden also said the Senate should refrain from holding hearings on any nominee if Bush happened to nominate anyone anyway against this advice.

Well, fellow Democrat Obama ignored the Biden Rule in 2016, an election year, by nominating Garland, which goes little remarked.

But even more little remarked is that the Republican McConnell acted in agreement with the rule in 2016, and refused to conduct hearings on Obama's nominee.

The Executive and the Legislative act as they please in these matters, as is their right. They make their own rules, no matter how much the partisans of this world may try to constrain them.

Elections have consequences.

Wednesday, October 10, 2018

Real Clear Politics has Toss-Up seats down to 32 from 43 in the last month

Seats leaning Dem vs. Rep were 205 vs. 198 as of 10-9-18.

Of the 32 Toss-Ups, 11 are Open seats undefended by an incumbent (2 formerly Dem, 9 formerly Rep).

The remaining 21 are defended by Republicans but are too close to call as of 10-9-18. Retaining all those and losing all the Open seats would give Republicans a slim 1-seat majority of 219 to 216. 

Republican surge from Kavanaugh crucifixion in generic Congressional poll: Rasmussen goes from Dems +5 to Tie in a week


The Body Snatchers' president: Real Donald Trump spotted in convenience store

The leader of Antifa calls her mobs to arms

If only this is what Robert Redford meant


Also, Stephen L. Miller channels Max Boot: If you wear a MAGA hat you're a loon


Like I said, "conservatarians" think you're ridiculous WrestleManiacs for wanting Senatrix Feinstein locked up


The damage done to conservatism by Conservatism Inc. is Orwellian

The very essence of conservatism used to be all these things, American culture, history, nation, heritage, family and faith, spokes on the wheel of its organic whole. But the libertarians have co-opted all that away and replaced it with an ideology of materialism which has erased the memory of it to the extent that the two, conservatism and libertarianism, are now indistinguishable in the popular imagination.



Tuesday, October 9, 2018

The "Conservatarians" are as condescending toward Trump voters today as Hillary's voters were yesterday

To Hillary, Trump voters were deplorables.

To conservatarians, Trump voters are the WrestleMania vote, the ignorant gulls who fill Trump's rallies around the country to this day.

Jon Gabriel of Ricochet and Stephen L. Miller count themselves conservatarians, here.

Like Frank Meyer's fusionism which tried to combine libertarianism and traditionalism, conservatarianism also conceives of itself as a libertarian mixture, but with social liberalism not traditionalism.

As such, however, this simply represents the failed status quo, which has been only too happy to use the traditional right at election time since Reagan but otherwise has paid but lip service to it once in power. Its main interest on the one side claims to be fiscal probity, but vainly imagines that its reprobate self even wants smaller deficits. Under Bush 43, debt to the penny soared from $5.7 trillion to $10.7 trillion. In truth, conservatarianism only affects conservatism. Its real interest is in Bacchus. 

Does a spring pour forth from the same opening fresh water and brackish? -- James 3:11

Nay, nay.

Since the Great Recession, Hispanics took over 4 jobs for every job going to whites, Blacks took 2, and Asians nearly 2


Monday, October 8, 2018

Alyssa Milano's just fine with a sex predator as the face of our nation


One rule for CNN's Collins, another for Brett Kavanaugh


The Party of Violence contemplates taking it up a notch, so expect more than only one shooter at the next baseball practice


Good News: Actor James Woods, in Twitter jail Sep 20 - Oct 5, 2018, has been released


Used Ford for sale, if interested call Dianne 202-555-1212


Camille Paglia's Nazi Barbie endorses Tennessee Democrats . . . as her newest performance props

Hey, when your momentum is flagging, hoist a flag!

Story here.

Paglia in 2015:

Swift herself should retire that obnoxious Nazi Barbie routine of wheeling out friends and celebrities as performance props, an exhibitionistic overkill that Lara Marie Schoenhals brilliantly parodied . . ..

Happy Columbus Day to all the Kavanaugh protesters still in jail today because it's a holiday and you ain't gettin' out 'til tomorrow


The jobs recovery from the Great Recession has by-passed white people even two years after Trump election


Sunday, October 7, 2018

Hispanics and Blacks got all the jobs since 2007, whites got bupkis

Hispanic jobs are up 6.5 million, or 31%.

Black jobs are up 3.1 million, or 19%.

White jobs are up 1.2 million, or 1%.

That means over 60% of all these jobs went to Hispanics, 29% to Blacks, and 11% to whites. And they say the whites are the racists.

WHITE
BLACK
HISPANIC

Saturday, October 6, 2018

Trump has created more jobs in his first 22 months than any Republican in the post-war and comes in 4th overall


If this were an economic boom earnings for most people would be increasing 3-4% instead of 2-3%


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.

Susan Collins wins one for The Sniffer


Susan Collins' speech was good but definitely contained too much information


This time the lying white woman's accusation didn't get the guy killed


Friday, October 5, 2018

Salena Zito: Brett Kavanaugh's fighting-to-win spirit reminded the voters why they voted for Trump

Hooah.

Democrats easily had stopped Kavanaugh had Senator Reid not deep sixed the filibuster rule

We'll see if Kavanaugh is truly the strong borders judge some have touted him to be.

Given the enthusiasm for him from the Bush camp, I'm not optimistic.

I would consider it a victory if at the very least Kavanaugh abandoned Justice Kennedy's radical libertarianism, but only time will tell.


Sarah Palin shoots one across Lisa Murkowski's bow

That would be an entertaining primary.

Wacko Bird Bruce Bartlett thinks Kavanaugh wasn't angry enough


Erick Erickson: Fraudulent claims against Kavanaugh were pretext for political opposition


Christine Ford thick as thieves with Democrat opposition to Trump: Her lawyer represents fired FBI McCabe, friend Monica McLean's lawyer oversaw Hillary e-mail investigation and Trump probe


Christine Ford's gal pal Monica McLean could be in deep kimchi for attempting to suborn perjury



Hey Rush: A new record 96,364,000 eating but not working you dummkopf!


The American Dream remains more expensive in 2018 than it was at the peak of the housing bubble in 2005

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.

Shape-shifting Democrats, but I repeat myself, could adopt the Biden view of FBI investigations right now but obviously haven't been paying attention


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.

People are noticing how current FBI director Wray didn't pull a Comey in this investigation


Erick Erickson: Withholding evidence made Ford incredible, probably a liar


Woke woman in Texas realizes Ford was insincere from the beginning because she withheld evidence


The almost Vice President of the United States comes out against the FBI, calls its investigation complete sham


The economy of the last ten years has had much more in common with the Great Depression than the post-war


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.

In April 2004 Senator Dick Turban Durbin said no one should question Brett Kavanaugh's honesty


Monica McLean, named in the ex-boyfriend letter, was present at the Ford hearing


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

Smells like teen perjury


Ex-boyfriend of Christine Ford contradicts much of her sworn testimony in new letter in evidence


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.

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Buzzi Ginsburg passed out at State of the Union after drinking too much

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.