Good to be a Democrat.
Monday, February 11, 2019
Ilhan Omar is the Somali-American version of Hank Johnson, except she's armed with a dagger
The Weathermen blew themselves up, too. I'll take stupid over stupid and vicious anyday.
LOL, George Soros says European Union may go away just like Soviet Union did, blames existence of political parties and freedom!
The disappearance of the Soviet Union was a good thing, but obviously not to George Soros.
The existence of political parties is a manifestation of freedom, but Georgie Boy obviously would prefer a one-party state, complete with police-state powers to impose its will.
This guy really is as awful as people say. The socialist mushrooms popping up in the Democrat-controlled US House must mean to him it's now an opportune time to say these things openly.
In his own words:
"Europe is sleepwalking into oblivion, and the people of Europe need to wake up before it is too late. If they don’t, the European Union will go the way of the Soviet Union in 1991. ... anti-European forces will enjoy a competitive advantage in the balloting. There are several reasons for this, including the outdated party system that prevails in most European countries, the practical impossibility of treaty change, and the lack of legal tools for disciplining member states that violate the principles on which the European Union was founded."
Lol, Limbaugh keeps trying to point everyone away from the Dec 20th transcript
He just claimed the instant message story was Dec 19th when it was Dec 20th.
Check your own archives, Rush!
Rush Limbaugh 12/20/2018: "Trump had better not sign that", 10 minutes later gets instant message
Lol, Rush is pretending again today that it's just a coincidence he got the instant message right after warning Trump on 12/20:
The President Tells Me It’s Money or Nothing
... If it’s that, then Trump had better not sign that. There has to be
some serious appropriation. So, I mean, it’s time for applause.
(clapping) Yes. This is a great, great first step. But it’s not a
full-fledged veto. Not that we want a veto; don’t misunderstand. This is
simply the president telling the Republicans, “I’m not signing this.
There’s no border security in it.” So now the Republicans are gonna go
back and put some border security in their version of the continuing
resolution. We’ll know what that is soon enough.
Then when they finish doing that and they vote on it — and it will
pass — they’ll send it over to The Turtle, Mitch McConnell in the
Senate, and then they will deal with it. The Senate was very happy to
have not a penny in this CR for border security. So it looks like the
onus now is… It looks like it’s on the House, but it’s actually gonna be
on the Senate, because we have to assume the House is gonna put
something in this. Meadows was dead serious about this. Ryan? I don’t
know. But it’s still his House. He’s still speaker for a while. So
that’s where we are. But it’s great news that the president refused to
sign this.
Now we have to keep our eyes on what they come up with as border security.
BREAK TRANSCRIPT
RUSH: Okay, folks, this is good. This is interesting. I just got a
phone call. Well, I got an instant message. It’s the equivalent of you
getting a phone call. That’s how people communicate with me,
particularly during the program. It’s impossible to use the phone during
the program. Anyway, I just said less than 10 minutes ago in my
translation of what’s happened here, “The president told Republicans
he’s not going to sign this. It’s not a veto yet, but he’s not gonna
sign it until there’s border security in it.” ...
So I get this direct message: “You tell Rush that if there’s no money
in this, it’s getting vetoed. If there’s no money — if there’s no money
for a wall — I’m vetoing this, plain and simple.” This was the message
that I just got, and I trust it and I believe it to be the case. By the
way, it’s a legitimate question. I mean, the way the media reports this —
and it was not just the media. It was Paul Ryan saying, “The president
cares deeply about border security. So we’re gonna go back and we’re
gonna get some border security in this thing.
Richard Spencer's cuckery is on display when he attacks Boomer morality when what he really means is Christian morality
Spencer is servile to the hegemony of the status quo just as much as anybody, where publicly attacking religion is still verboten, so he veils it by attaching it to an easier target, a demographic cohort, the new elderly. It's not a coincidence that the godless right and left view the most vulnerable in society as the prime enemies of the good life.
Pace Spencer, the chief impediment to the success of race identity in America isn't ideology. It's capital, stored by the 78 million who own and occupy their homes (73% of whites, 58% of Asians, 47% of Hispanics, 42% of blacks). They don't want violence in the streets in front of their homes no matter what color it takes, whether it comes from Black Lives Matter, Antifa, MS-13, the KKK or Unite the Right. They want law and order. Republicans win when they run on that.
Sunday, February 10, 2019
By the way, electricity from renewables is up 268% in 2017 from 2007, but . . .
renewables still provide less than 10% of total generation.
Unfortunately, America produced less total electricity in 2017 than it did in 2007, too, by 3.1%.
And the price of a kilowatthour is up 14.8%.
Reducing energy production and making it more expensive is no way to grow an economy, son.
Condescending racism, NYT's style: People in black face can go back to being white, but not black people!
OMG! Black people have to be black ALL THE TIME. The horror, the horror.
AOC can't hide her laughably grandiose, pie in the sky, Green New Deal FAQ Launch from the cloud, either
AOC probably got an "A" on this paper in college, lol.
Move America to 100% clean and renewable energy
Repair and upgrade U.S. infrastructure. ASCE estimates this is $4.6 trillion at minimum.
Meet 100% of power demand through clean and renewable energy sources
Upgrade or replace every building in US for state-of-the-art energy efficiency
Build charging stations everywhere
Build out high-speed rail at a scale where air travel stops becoming necessary
Replace every combustion-engine vehicle
Retrofit every building in America
It’s unclear if we will be able to decommission every nuclear plant within 10 years, but the plan is to transition off of nuclear and all fossil fuels as soon as possible
Protect right of all workers to unionize and organize
Economic security for all who are unable or unwilling to work
Yes, we are calling for a full transition off fossil fuels
Simply put, we don’t need to just stop doing some things we are doing (like using fossil fuels for energy needs); we also need to start doing new things (like overhauling whole industries or retrofitting all buildings to be energy efficient).
Ensure that all GND jobs are union jobs that pay prevailing wages and hire local
Create economic prosperity for all
Create millions of high-wage jobs and ensure prosperity and economic security for all
Clean air and water, climate and community resiliency, healthy food, access to nature, and a sustainable environment for all
Create affordable public transit available to all
Provide job training and education to all
Provide high-quality health care, housing, economic security, and clean air, clean water, healthy food, and nature to all
[Free coffee and toilets 24/7 at Starbucks]
The communist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez can run but can't hide her utopian schoolgirl fantasies from Al Gore's amazing wayback machine
Green New Deal FAQ
A 10-year plan
A World War 2 scale mobilization
Upgrading all our buildings
Economic security to all who are unable or unwilling to work
We also need to start doing new things (like overhauling whole industries or retrofitting all buildings to be energy efficient)
Upgrading virtually every home and building for energy efficiency
We will finance the investments for the Green New Deal . . . with public money appropriated by Congress
The Green New Deal will prioritize creating high-quality, family wage-supporting union jobs
A federal jobs guarantee ensures that no worker is left behind
We aren’t sure that we will be able to fully get rid of, for example, emissions from cows or air travel before then
Retrofit every building in America
Make new fossil fuel infrastructure or industries untenable
Saturday, February 9, 2019
Friday, February 8, 2019
Joe Biden 1975: Thanks to me anti-busing is no longer a racist position
“The pro-busers and the civil rights lobby were dumbstruck … although
I had put them on notice months earlier,” said Biden in the interview.
“I think I’ve made it possible for liberals to come out of the closet …
If [anti-busing] isn’t yet a respectable liberal position, it is no
longer a racist one.”
Read my lips: No second term
Trump Reverses Wage-Boosting Campaign Commitment, Demands More Legal Immigration: ‘We Need People’
The statements are a break from the president’s commitment in 2015, 2016, 2017, when he continuously advocated for reducing overall legal immigration to raise the wages of American workers.
Thursday, February 7, 2019
The Green New Deal aims to expand high speed rail "to a scale where air travel stops becoming necessary"
Air travel stopped being necessary for me in 1996.
Haven't flown since.
Just Say No To Air Travel.
It's OK when Joy Behar does it because, you know, two lesbians goin' at it is . . . wow!
Joy Behar in Rachel Dolezal-face, age 29.
Guilty Ann Coulter goes full normie, says we still owe blacks, esp. an immigration moratorium
PURE CANT.
Trump is a liar.
Coulter is a loser.
Whites must fight or die.
Last week we nearly had no natural gas in Grands Rapids, Michigan, this week an ice storm took out the power
Another one-two punch for us here in western lower Michigan from Mother Nature, where it's now 45F and the ice storm has melted away. Going down to 17F by midnight, though. Been there. Doin' it again.
Wednesday, February 6, 2019
More "peak capitalism" from the Democrat Party's Marxists
The Marxists have been waiting for peak capitalism since Marx himself, just as the Christians have been waiting for the end of the world since Christ himself.
So they're good, then.
Virginia turns into political Chernobyl, now attorney general admits, sort of, to blackface
The governor's med-school yearbook shows somebody in blackface on his page, for which Democrats everywhere have said he must resign.
Next in line is the Lt. Gov., a black man accused of sexual assault by a woman about whom the Lt. Gov. is reported to have recently said, "F*ck that bitch".
Next in line is the Attorney General, who has come out admitting to appearing in "brown make-up" when he was 19, reporting which the NYT is taking flak for underreporting the facts of blackface, nevermind the Attorney General is.
Not sure who is next in line, but from the look of things, this might take a while.
And to think a chink started it all.
Kellyanne Conway baldly lies on The Rush Limbaugh Show, claims over 7 million jobs created
You don't lose control of the US House after creating over 7 million jobs in just over two years.
These people are blind, but the voters are not.
There is NO measure which comes even close to over 7 million new jobs.
Total nonfarm payrolls (Establishment Survey) between Nov 2016 and Jan 2019 are up 5.3 million, seasonally adjusted, 1.7 million not seasonally adjusted.
Civilian employment (Household Survey) is up 4.5 million seasonally adjusted, 2.6 million not seasonally adjusted.
The sum of usually full time and usually part time (Household Survey) is up net 4.5 million seasonally adjusted, 2.6 million not seasonally adjusted (mirrors civilian employment level).
The employment-population ratio is up from 59.8% to 60.7%, an increase of 4.6 million jobs from 152.2 million to 156.8 million.
And 78% of these new jobs have gone to minorities, not to the white majority.
CONWAY: . . . He’s going to talk about the booming economy, and it is the Trump economy. Over seven million jobs created, wages are up, unemployment is down, small business formation is going well. People are just… They’re back to work. We’re a country that works.
Tuesday, February 5, 2019
Did Texas give preferential treatment to American Indian takers of the bar exam in 1986?
Looks like Elizabeth 1/1024 Warren, born white in 1949, thought of herself quite seriously as American Indian at the age of 37 or so.
Rush Limbaugh's Whopper of the Day: Trump more popular than Bill Clinton was at same time in presidency
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| There isn't a single poll at Real Clear Politics at this hour showing Trump at 48% as Limbaugh claims |
When news reports boast that Michigan's Consumers Energy has 300-350 billion cubic feet of natural gas in storage, that's not really true either
Working gas available is hardly 49% of the current 308.8 billion cubic feet total storage reported by Consumers Energy, or only 150.9 billion cubic feet.
From all companies in Michigan available working gas in storage is only 671 billion cubic feet, not the much-vaunted 1.1 trillion cubic feet. Still, Michigan has more capacity than any other state. Its stored working gas would supply the needs of 4.3 million average households for one year before needing to be restocked, or about 11 million people for one year. Michigan's population is 10 million. Business users are not included in this math.
But when a mere compressor fire nearly incapacitates one utility's ability to service all of its 2 million customers when they need heat the most, think what an Electro Magnetic Pulse event might do.
That's what keeps me up at night.
The Michigan Public Service Commission clearly states in footnote one to "Michigan Natural Gas Storage Field Summary":
Working gas means the maximum gas that can be cycled in and out of straoge [sic, read "storage"]. Base Gas means gas that is not cycled in and provides pressure support.
Michigan's natural gas debacle last week went misreported because of an opaque, indifferent utility and stupid reporters
Over and over again we heard that the facility where there was a fire last week accounted for 64% of the utility's supply of natural gas to its customers in Michigan. And we're still hearing that today in some reports. Unfortunately, this isn't really true. It's unnecessarily alarming.
The Ray field at Macomb has 41 billion cubic feet of stored natural gas, as only The Detroit News noted at the time, but during a normal winter when Consumers Energy pumps 2.5 billion cubic feet a day, the utility is supplying 150 billion cubic feet in two months' time. It can't all come from Macomb's storage, obviously. It's piped in from all over to be compressed at Macomb and at other stations. The problem isn't the supply, just as the utility indeed kept emphasizing, stating in various reports that Consumers has 300-350 billion cubic feet of stored gas. The problem was too much of the utility's compressor capability (64%) is centralized at Macomb, which they didn't want to emphasize when it suddenly went off-line automatically in the wake of the fire. Examine the news accounts and you will see that the reporters simplistically characterized these details and misled the public.
Critics of Consumers Energy's paltry $3 million in infrastructure spending over the last five years have a point. This utility in Michigan is notorious for spending more dark money than any other to influence politics. Now that they've had this fire, they'll have to spend more on infrastructure, but it remains for Consumers Energy to install more redundancy in its system to prevent against what happened last week. But don't hold your breath. The utility is as unlikely to do what is best for Michigan as reporters are likely suddenly to become more intelligent.
God forbid we have an EMP. I doubt any of this infrastructure would function properly after such an event, redundancy or no.
That's what alarms me.
God forbid we have an EMP. I doubt any of this infrastructure would function properly after such an event, redundancy or no.
That's what alarms me.
On Wednesday night, as temperatures dropped to -43 degrees with the wind chill, Consumers Energy sent an emergency message to Michiganders' cell phones asking them to turn down their thermostats to 65 degrees.
That followed a similar plea from Consumers Energy CEO Patti Poppe, who reported a Wednesday explosion that damaged a Consumers Energy facility that accounts for 64 percent of its supply. In a Facebook message, Poppe urged Michiganders to "protect the system" by turning down the heat.
But many Michiganders responded to Poppe's plea with defiance on social media during the emergency, frustrated with being asked to pay ever-increasing rates to a private company that essentially runs a monopoly.
The facility where there was a fire is a compressor facility tasked with the job of pressurizing natural gas for its pipeline network. The facility accounts for 64% of pressurized supply, not 64% of supply, a key detail still not reported clearly in the media, which at the time unnecessarily alarmed the public during a period of dangerous, bitter cold weather.
The Ray plant contributes a maximum of 64 percent of the company's daily average of 2.5 billion cubic feet of natural gas to customers. Before gas can be put into the pipeline system, however, it needs to be compressed. The Ray station sits above Consumers' largest underground natural gas storage area with a capacity of 41.2 billion cubic feet of storage. Overall, Ray can compress 117 million cubic feet of gas per day, reaching pressures of 1,800 pounds per square inch. ...
"Most of the damage was on plant two. We have plant one flowing and three mostly has heat-related damage. We are working on that now," [VP Garrick Rochow] said. "Plant three will take maybe three weeks to get back online. Plant two is more significant. It was closer to the fire and flames and heat. It looks like it originated there. It is out for the season, but not going to impact ability to deliver to customers."
The layout of the Ray facility, which was built out over time, is three separate buildings and three separate plants on the site at 69338 Omo Road, in Armada Township. Station No. 3, which was built in 2011, is the largest of the three.
"We don't know what activated the fire gate system," Rochow said. "We are looking at that. We do know that in the process of venting the gas that the natural gas caught fire. There was a fireball like in the pictures. As a precautionary measure, plant 1 and 2 were in operation and fire-gated. Personnel fire-gated the entire facility. When that occurred, probably 50 yards separated the buildings .... gas from plants one and two caught fire."
Rochow said it is unclear why automatic controls vented the system and how the gas caught fire. "We can see the sequence of events but still looking at the reasons," he said. ...
But Rochow said one lesson Consumers might have learned is that the plants might still be too close to one another, given the fact that venting of gas of all stations at the same time led to the fireball igniting everything at once.
"We have systems there and the proximity of the systems has eliminated (favorable) redundancy," he said. "We will learn from it and think about how investments can create more redundancy on that particular site."
Monday, February 4, 2019
Not hiring whitey: 82% of new jobs since Republican tax cuts went to minorities
2.159 million new jobs added, but 1.765 million of them went to minorities, not whites. Hispanics received over 52% of the new jobs.
Thanks Donald Judas Trump! Thanks a lot! Thanks corporate bigots! Thanks a lot!
Sunday, February 3, 2019
Grand Rapids, Michigan, Climate Update for January 2019
Grand Rapids, Michigan, Climate Update for January 2019
Max Temp 51, Mean Max Temp 48
Min Temp -10, Mean Min Temp -3
Av Temp 21.8, Mean Av Temp 23.7
Precip 2.9, Mean Precip 2.06
Snow 30.5, Mean Snow 18.6
Snow Season To Date 48.1, Snow Mean Season To Date 41.4
Heating Degree Days 1333, Mean Heating Degree Days 1272
HDD Season To Date 3805, Mean HDD Season To Date 3758
So after all the drama of the last week, using HDD we are just 1.25% colder than the mean, season to date.
Max Temp 51, Mean Max Temp 48
Min Temp -10, Mean Min Temp -3
Av Temp 21.8, Mean Av Temp 23.7
Precip 2.9, Mean Precip 2.06
Snow 30.5, Mean Snow 18.6
Snow Season To Date 48.1, Snow Mean Season To Date 41.4
Heating Degree Days 1333, Mean Heating Degree Days 1272
HDD Season To Date 3805, Mean HDD Season To Date 3758
So after all the drama of the last week, using HDD we are just 1.25% colder than the mean, season to date.
Real Clear Politics at this hour has the guy who was for segregation in 1975 as the Democrat front-runner in Iowa
White guy by a mile. Maybe the black candidates need to adjust their policy positions.
Hillary was just fine with Northam and raised money for him less than two years ago
Hoo wee, that's some vetting process they've got there, now ain't it?
The alt-right isn't too hot for "victim heirarchy", which is merely the flipside of proportional justice
Without proportional justice, an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, you're back to Draco where every crime is punishable by death because you couldn't think of a more appropriate punishment. Of course, when your entire political party is responsible for the deaths of tens of millions of infants in the womb, the entire party must pay.
Persistent injustice inflames the passions, suspending the thinking function.
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