Tuesday, January 22, 2019
Co-producer of Disney's 2017 Beauty and the Beast, Jack Morrissey, wants to be the gruesome killer we only dreamt Saddam Hussein to be
Like WMD, Saddam's shredder was a myth.
Trump has been captured by the GOP immigration establishment, and boy are they happy about it
Republican support has shifted in his favor because Trump on Saturday changed not just his tone on immigration but the substance of his policies, GOP insiders say.
Even as Trump continues to alienate Speaker Nancy Pelosi with his taunts and slights, his latest proposal demonstrates a new willingness to give ground on major areas of immigration policy.
In three areas – the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, the Temporary Protected Status program, and asylum for children in Central America – Trump had previously reversed Obama programs. On Saturday, he tamped down his negative rhetoric on immigrants while offering to reprise those programs – at least temporarily—and sign them into law, something Obama tried and failed to get from Congress during his tenure. ...
For taking on serious political risk when past Congresses and presidents have taken a pass on immigration, the president has earned the respect of influential Republicans.
Monday, January 21, 2019
Michael Savage is comparing Trump today to MLK Jr
Imperfect but great leaders, he calls them.
I'll say. The one betrayed his nonviolent followers ("a riot is the language of the unheard"), the other his strong borders voters (DACA was an unacceptable amnesty in 2016 before it became a bargaining chip in 2019).
The Third Monday of January is the most depressing day of the year
What a cohencidence.
Martin Luther King Jr Day is observed on the third Monday of January each year, which is around King's birthday, January 15
That's robocall No. 2 today from Trump asking me for a $35 donation so he can send Nancy Pelosi a brick to show I'm serious about The Wall
Funny, I pressed "9" on this morning's call to be removed from the list.
Works as good as Trump's 2016 immigration promises.
What was Trump's 10-point immigration plan during the 2016 campaign?
What is Donald Trump’s 10-Point immigration plan?:
5. Cancel President Obama’s executive actions
The GOP nominee would end the Obama administration’s Deferred Action
for Childhood Arrivals immigration policy, better known as DACA, under
which roughly half a million young people brought to the U.S. as
children have received temporary legal status. Trump would also cancel
President Obama’s DAPA program, or Deferred Action for Parents of
Americans, which would give similar status to undocumented parents of
American citizens. That program has been frozen as it faces court
challenges.
Rush Limbaugh from the opener: "They’re all snakes, and you can’t trust anything that they do"
Here.
You mean like this guy? You know, the guy who read a story about a snake at every campaign rally in 2016? Takes one to know one, right Rush?
Trump just robo-called me, asking for a donation, wants me to send a brick to Nancy Pelosi so she knows we are serious
Serious? Are you kidding? The politics of immigration ended when we elected you. You are the president, idiot. You already have the power. We already showed that we are serious. Put it up or shut it up, pal.
Sunday, January 20, 2019
Now that Trump has foolishly telegraphed a future amnesty, expect new hordes at the borders and points of entry
And Homeland Security is shut down, not getting paid.
Way to go, Brownie.
Washington DC Injuns to Catholic kids: "White people go back to Europe, this is not your land"
Here.
Fellow tribalists Rashida Tlaib, Helen Thomas, Barack Obama, and friends: "Jews get the hell out of Palestine, go back to Poland, Germany and America."
Native American Nathan Phillips has a history of seeking out confrontation over race
He's been around a long time and has a Wikipedia page, which is up to date with the latest incident in Washington, DC where he gets in the face of some easy marks, a bunch of unsuspecting Catholic kids.
Just one previous example, at Eastern Michigan University in 2015 when he went looking for trouble:
Native American claims racial harassment by EMU students dressed as indians.
Saturday, January 19, 2019
There were just 7 votes in the House against making the deep state permanent
The 7 Republicans who voted against back pay for furloughed workers:
But seven lawmakers — all House Republicans — opposed the measure. Those "no" votes came from Reps. Justin Amash (Mich.), Andy Biggs (Ariz.), Paul Gosar (Ariz.), Glen Grothman (Wis.), Thomas Massie (Ky.), Chip Roy (Texas) and Ted Yoho (Fla.). ... Gosar issued a statement after the vote saying the bill removes an incentive to resolve the shutdown swiftly. "This ill-conceived legislation takes away a useful tool in holding government accountable," he said. "Shutdowns have historically served to push both parties to compromise and resolution. This bill eliminates the impact and urgency a shutdown creates and rewards bureaucrats and swamp dwellers." Massie made similar remarks in a statement saying the bill "guarantees retroactive pay for every possible future shutdown, which will only make it easier for politicians to cause future shutdowns." "This is irresponsible and I want to prevent future shutdowns from happening," he said.
Despite the shutdown, divided Congress and Trump agree to guarantee 2.8 million federal paychecks, but not The Wall
The Deep State takes care of its own.
Congress approves back pay for workers affected by current shutdown, future ones :
The House on Friday [1-11-19] cleared a bill that would ensure back pay for
federal workers missing paychecks as a result of the partial government
shutdown, as well as guarantee payment for employees affected by any
future closures. The measure passed with broad bipartisan support, 411-7 [in the US House]. ... President Trump has indicated he would sign the bill, which the Senate passed unanimously on Thursday.
Friday, January 18, 2019
Laugh of the Day: Trump really blew it canceling Pelosi's government flights
He should have waited until she was IN Afghanistan.
As president Trump can convene both houses of Congress whenever the hell he wants
The caller to Mark Steyn is correct.
Article II, Section 3, Constitution of the United States:
"He shall from time to time give to the Congress information of the state of the union, and recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient; he may, on extraordinary occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them, and in case of disagreement between them, with respect to the time of adjournment, he may adjourn them to such time as he shall think proper;"
Nanny Nanny Boo Boo.
Thursday, January 17, 2019
Our so-called friends the Israelis sold management of Haifa to China for 25 years for $2 billion
Israel-China port deal triggers U.S. Navy pushback:
While the Israeli Transportation Ministry struck the agreement with SIPG
— a company in which the Chinese government has a majority stake — back
in 2015, the Jerusalem Post reported Saturday that the deal is now
coming under interagency review.
Citing Chinese state-run media reports, the Post noted the deal granted SIPG control over Haifa for 25 years in exchange for a commitment by the company to invest $2 billion in a project to transform Haifa’s bay terminal into the largest harbor in Israel.
The catch is that Haifa, Israel’s
largest port city, regularly hosts joint U.S.-Israeli naval drills and
visits from American vessels — a situation the Post claimed has
triggered concern among U.S. officials.
Mark Levin goes nuclear . . .
. . . calls AIPAC a bunch of quislings.
Pat Buchanan call your office.
Trump gave away 75% of federal spending as a shutdown bargaining chip over immigration in Sept. 2018, so before Sept. 2019 his only other chip is the debt ceiling
Flashback to September 28, 2018:
President Trump on Friday signed an $854 billion spending package that will avert a shutdown by keeping the federal government open into the new fiscal year, which begins Monday.
The measure fully funds most parts of the federal government through fiscal 2019, pushing off a deadline for a partial shutdown — and showdown over funding for Trump's proposed border wall — until early December.
“The signing of this legislation marks a drastic turnaround in the way we have funded the government in recent years," said Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) in a statement announcing the signing. "As of today, 75 percent of the government is funded — on time and through an open, bipartisan process.” ...
[A]fter March 1, the government will need to take "extraordinary measures" to avoid defaulting, and those measures will last for a few months. Ordinary investors should be aware that in 2013, the last time it looked as though Congress might not raise the limit, the market avoided Treasury securities that matured around the dates when the government projected it would exhaust the extraordinary measures.
So, looking ahead, ordinary investors shouldn't be surprised if we see an increase in rates and a decline in liquidity if it looks like the debt ceiling fight is going to be dramatic again. The current state of the shutdown may presage such drama.
Hm, just after the nick of time 1.5 million ineligible voters removed from LA County rolls
Let's see. Hillary won California with 8.75 million votes, minus 1.5 million = 7.25 million. Rinse and repeat for every other California county and see how many it takes to erase the other 2.75 million votes Hillary stole the election by in that state.
Muslim Ilhan Omar gets elected to MN-5 and homophobia runs rampant on Capitol Hill
We need a General Sherman to march on Minneapolis/St. Paul and burn the place down.
Laugh of the Day: German industrial production tanks 4.7% in November, Reuters calls it a tentative sign of slowing growth momentum
The signs were tentative in H1 and worrisome since then. November was a disaster.
[T]here were tentative signs of slackening momentum in the United States and Germany in November.
FBI arrest of White House terrorist is just public relations, another case of standard M/O of entrapment and inducement
They never catch the real threats. The FBI has to help these marks become terrorists by using an agent to pose as another terrorist. The FBI suborns terrorism. Otherwise neither the terrorist mark nor the FBI would "succeed". They had been working on this guy for nine months. Meanwhile the real threats have no resources committed to them because that rarely results in anything, including no press conference where the FBI can pat itself on the back.
Total PR for the low IQ crowd, which is lapping it up like milk.
“All potential threats have been neutralized and were under control from the inception of this case,” said U.S. Attorney Byung J. “BJay” Pak, who added that authorities would take no questions on the investigation, which is ongoing.
Wednesday, January 16, 2019
Contra Richard Spencer, it's not a question of the efficacy of the constitution but of the efficacy of its heirs
The constitution's heirs clearly aren't worthy of it. To slaves it is meaningless, a trifle to be dispensed with. Only already free people could write it, and only still free people can love it.
Like all liberals, Beto O'Rourke is mistaken about human nature
"I trust the wisdom of people. And I'm confident - especially after having traveled Texas for two years - people are good, fundamentally, and if given the choice to do the right thing, they will. To do the good thing, they will," he said, referring to his unsuccessful U.S. Senate campaign while giving a walking tour of El Paso and its Mexican sister city, Juarez.
People are not fundamentally good. Nor are they basically evil. Human nature is irreducibly mixed. If people were fundamentally good we wouldn't need laws or government at all, or lawyers, judges, courts and prisons. If they were basically evil the possibility that is America never would have presented itself to history, and monarchy would still be called for. America is the gift of English dissenting Protestantism.
All our political problems remain spiritual ones. There is no freedom without self-control.
Tuesday, January 15, 2019
Oswald Spengler to NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio: "Left" is, finally and above all, lack of respect for property
De Blasio pitches plan to seize private property of problem landlords, opponents cry ‘communism’:
[W]e will seize their buildings and we will put them in the hands of a community nonprofit that will treat tenants with the respect they deserve.
British Prime Minister Theresa May's soft Brexit, agreed to by EU, defeated in Parliament 432-202
UK leader Theresa May suffers resounding defeat on her Brexit divorce deal:
May’s proposed “Withdrawal Agreement” was agreed with EU leaders in November last year. ... It’s reportedly the largest defeat for a sitting government in U.K. political history. Despite the result, and expressing a defiant tone, May told lawmakers that she wanted to show those who voted leave the EU that it was her “duty to deliver” on Brexit. ... On June 23, 2016, voters in the U.K. favored leaving the EU by 51.9 percent. The U.K. is legally set to leave the political and trading bloc on March 29.
In 1930 each Congressman decided the fates of 283,000 Americans . . .
. . . and now in 2019 754,000.
Don't talk to me about growing executive power, Justin Amash. If you really cared about the original constitution, you'd give the president more cats to herd.
Says Justin Amash, whose party stopped the growth of Congressional representation in the 1920s, consolidating legislative power in ever fewer hands (his)
The president is term-limited, you are not.
Nicholas Bakalar for The New York Times can't figure out that 69.4 inches is 5' 9.4"
The Times is also absolutely certain that Steve King is a white supremacist.
You’re Not Getting Much Taller, America. But You Are Getting Bigger.:
Among all men, age-adjusted mean height increased to 69.4 inches (about 5 feet 8 inches) in 2005 from 69.2 inches in 1999, and then decreased to 69.1 inches by 2016.
Glenn Greenwald thinks the FBI is overreaching and abusing its power
If Trump’s foreign policy is misguided or “threatening,” that’s a matter for the Congress and/or the American public, not the FBI. However “threatening” one regards Trump’s foreign policy relating to Russia, the FBI’s abuse of its powers to investigate an elected official due to disagreement with his ideology or foreign policy views is at least as dangerous, it not more so, and the fact that those policy disagreements are characterized as “national security threats” does not make those actions any less threatening or abusive – whether for Trump, Henry Wallace or George McGovern.
It’s certainly possible, as the always-smart Harvard Law Professor and former Bush DOJ official Jack Goldsmith wrote at Lawfare, that the FBI had far more grounds that is currently known for opening this investigation. But based on what we do know, Goldsmith adeptly argues, there is a potentially disturbing incident of serious overreach of the FBI’s role and grave abuse of its vast investigative powers. While Goldsmith is clear that he is not yet adopting this view – in part because some facts are unknown and in part because the Constitutional issues are murky – he lays out what the potential dangers are . . ..
Teen use of marijuana just once or twice interferes with normal sculpting of the brain
But our foolish politics is making marijuana use more likely, not less.
“At the age at which we studied these kids (age 14), cortical regions are going through a process of thinning," he said, suggesting that this is a “sculpting” process that makes the brain and its connections more efficient. "So, one possibility is that the cannabis use has disrupted this pruning process, resulting in larger volumes (i.e., a disruption of typical maturation) in the cannabis users. Another possibility is that the cannabis use has led to a growth in neurons and in the connections between them."
It's not the first research to find that cannabis use may cause changes to the teen brain.
A recent study found that teen brains are more vulnerable to the effects of marijuana than alcohol. And in June, University of Pennsylvania scientists discovered that young people who used marijuana frequently were more likely than nonusers to have slightly lower scores on tests of memory, learning new information, and higher-level problem solving and information processing.
Monday, January 14, 2019
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