Monday, April 15, 2019
National Review's Kevin Williamson goes all-in for thorough-going materialism
By any meaningful standard of measurement, these are, materially speaking, the best years the human race has ever experienced—and the best years the American people have ever experienced, too. Health, wealth, safety, freedom, opportunity—never better.
Unless you were one of the approximately 1.5 billion aborted in the world since 1990.
Sunday, April 14, 2019
Anthony Bialy forgets "supporting Arab spring", which destabilized the Middle East and North Africa and flooded the west with refugees
. . . and unconstitutional executive orders, record number of Supreme Court slapdowns, Attorney General held in contempt of Congress, bailouts of big businesses and banks while millions lost their careers, savings and homes, rock-bottom interest rates for eight years depriving savers, insurance companies, pension funds and states of needed income . . ..
Update: And! And! Benghazi!
How could I have forgotten Benghazi?
Update: And! And! Benghazi!
How could I have forgotten Benghazi?
Reza Aslan's worthless PhD never screened for "cite" vs. "site", you know, as in scholarly citation
Fortunately the examination committee of Twitter is pointing out the underlying intellectual shortcomings, of which misuse of "site" is only a signal.
Saturday, April 13, 2019
It's an outrage that Bernie Sanders himself has been sucked up in this evil proliferation of millionaires, just like Biden
Who will save us from this invisible hand making people rich all over the place?
John Dryden sums up Ilhan Omar
Poor refugees, at first they purchase here;
And soon as denizen'd, they domineer.
-- John Dryden
Got a text message at 5:49 AM telling me Michigan has accepted my tax return
I got up and made coffee.
Friday, April 12, 2019
Reuters headline, and I quote: "S.African township squalid despite 25 years of black rule"
S.African township squalid and neglected despite 25 years of black rule:
The shocking conditions in which people like Ditsela live are a big
problem for the governing African National Congress (ANC), which faces
mounting public anger over its failure to improve the lives of millions
of the poorest citizens, 25 years after the end of white minority rule.
Thursday, April 11, 2019
Bernie makes millionaires safe for the world just as ancient citizen of Tarsus made Pharisaism safe for the world
It all depends on eliminating the cut with these people.
One side clearly has the upper hand in the Semite wars, and good for them, but take it outside please, we have enough division without either of them
Amerika für Amerikaner Ausländer heraus!
LOL: NYT's Maggie Haberman keeps covering for Obama by NOT mentioning indicted Greg Craig was his White House Counsel in year one
Never trust a guy with two first names. Or the NYT.
The Maoist Bob Bauer succeeded Craig. Greg. C'mon, you know who I mean.
Hillary in 1993 was today's mean girl Amy Klobuchar, humiliated Vince Foster as hick lawyer in front of staff one week before suicide
Ken Starr left the information out of his FBI report so as not to further hurt Hillary.
Never trust a liberal to do the right thing.
EXCLUSIVE: Ken Starr says Hillary Clinton DID trigger Vince Foster's suicide when she humiliated him in front of White House staff and admits he omitted the finding in FBI report because he didn't want to 'inflict further pain' on her:
'Hillary put him down really, really bad
in a pretty good-size meeting,' Copeland said. 'She told him he didn't
get the picture, and he would always be a little hick town lawyer who
was obviously not ready for the big time.'
Indeed, Hillary went so far as to blame
Foster for all the Clintons' problems and to accuse him of failing them,
according to Clemente, who was also assigned by the FBI to the Starr
investigation and who probed the circumstances surrounding Foster's
suicide.
'Foster was profoundly depressed, but
Hillary lambasting him was the final straw because she publicly
embarrassed him in front of others,' said Clemente, who, like Copeland,
was speaking about the investigation for the first time.
'Hillary blamed him for failed
nominations, claimed he had not vetted them properly, and said in front
of his White House colleagues, ''You're not protecting us'' and ''You
have failed us,'' Clemente said. 'That was the final blow.'
After the meeting, Foster's behavior
changed dramatically, the FBI agents found. Those who knew Foster said
his voice sounded strained, he became withdrawn and preoccupied, and his
sense of humor vanished. At times, Foster teared up. He talked of
feeling trapped.
LOL: Senate Democrats suddenly upset about unfounded spying allegations three years into Russian collusion hoax
The DOJ looks set to investigate the investigators.
Chicago's Kim Foxx let Jussie Smollett off the hook, turns out she let a convicted murderer go free
Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx lets Derrion Albert killer off the hook:
CHICAGO (WLS) -- The family of 16-year-old Derrion Albert wants to know why one of the men convicted in his murder is now free. The 16-year-old Fenger High School honors student was on the way home from school when he was caught in the middle of a gang fight and killed in 2009. The I-Team has been looking into the Cook County State's Attorney decisions in the wake of the Jussie Smollett case and uncovered that the Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx decided not to pursue a stiff prison sentence for one of the attackers shortly after she took office. Cook County prosecutors charged four teens involved in the gang melee that led to Albert's death as adults. Three were convicted of murder at trial. One pleaded guilty. All are serving prison sentences.
Wednesday, April 10, 2019
Minnesota's Somali Representative to the US Congress Ilhan Omar describes 9/11 as "some people did something"
Ilhan Omar Trivializes 9/11 Terrorist Attacks: 'Some People Did Something':
"CAIR was founded after 9/11 because they recognized that some people
did something, and that all of us were starting to lose access to our
civil liberties," Omar said.
I stand corrected: "Buttigieg" does NOT rhyme with "Buttkrieg"
It's worse than that.
It's pronounced something like "booty judge".
Uh huh.
Bernie renews his immigration restrictionist views from 2015: The world's full of poor people, we can't let them all in here
Bernie Sanders Says U.S. Can't Have 'Open Borders' Because Poor People Will Come 'From All Over the World':
“Oh my god, there’s a lot of poverty in this world, and you’re going
to have people from all over the world. And I don’t think that’s
something that we can do at this point. Can’t do it,” the senator added.
Tuesday, April 9, 2019
Rush Limbaugh wonders how people can call a Jewish person a white nationalist
Good point, El Rushbo!
They are innoculated against everything.
Monday, April 8, 2019
Loser in Georgia gubernatorial contest Stacey Abrams says her vote was suppressed while taking credit for turnout surge
Ding dong.
Abrams Complains Race Was Stolen Through Voter Suppression, Boasts of Huge Turnout Increases in Same Interview:
"I ran a race where … we tripled Latino turnout, Asian-Pacific
Islander turnout, increased youth participation rates by 138 percent,
increased black turnout by 40 percent, and I got the highest share of
white voters in a generation," she said. "It is not a zero-sum game, and
we have to remember that winning elections is about building the
largest coalition possible." ...
"I'm not saying I absolutely know I would have won, but we know that
thousands of Georgians had their voices stolen because they were not
able to cast ballots and they cannot be guaranteed that their votes will
be counted in 2020 if we don't do this right," she said.
Georgia voter turnout surged from 43 percent in 2014, the last governor's race year in the state, to 57 percent in 2018. ... Abrams lost by less than 55,000 votes but failed to force a runoff as Kemp continued a Republican state-wide winning streak.
However, Abrams has refused to officially concede
she lost, saying "we won," accusing Kemp of systemic voter suppression
tactics, and saying the race was "stolen" from the voters of Georgia.
Trump was going to overturn Obama's illegal DACA executive order on day one, instead he's renewed 373,610 under it since January 2018
A whopping 373,610 illegal aliens have received DACA renewal just since January 2018:
During the presidential campaign, Trump promised
to “immediately terminate President Obama’s two illegal executive
amnesties in which he defied federal law and the Constitution.”
Fast-forward almost three years later, and we see that this very amnesty
created a global incentive to come here with children and obtain
immediate amnesty. The campaign promise is long overdue, and the
consequences of keeping the amnesty culture are intensifying by the day.
Sunday, April 7, 2019
I don't care if post-Boomers don't want to hear it, we are living in a country whose real rate of economic growth has shrunk by 47% since the Great Recession
We are in deep kimchi.
And please note that Trump hasn't fixed it. The year 2015 was better than 2018.
Saturday, April 6, 2019
CNN's Amanpour thinks it's the duty of journalists to keep certain things secret, like Hillary's health
CNN’s Christiane Amanpour Formally Comes Out as Pro-Hillary, Anti-Journalism:
Where it was their job to be adversarial, journalists instead [occasionally] chose collusion and the democratic process suffered.
Now Amanpour would have us do the same, but with
“sexism” as the excuse instead of privacy concerns. It’s not sexist or
wrong or intrusive for journalists to inquire about a presidential
candidate’s health after they’ve obviously fallen ill in a public
setting, or to demand transparency from public officials. It’s just
called journalism.
Suddenly Trump is channeling Bart Simpson on immigrants: Our country is full so turn around
Trump to Illegal Immigrants: The Country Is Full, So Turn Around:
I say, and this is our new statement, the system is full. We can't take you anymore. Whether it is asylum or anything you want, illegal immigration, we can't take you anymore. Our country is full. Our area is full. The sector is full. We can't take you anymore. Sorry, can't happen. So turn around, that's the way it is.
The context of the full remarks appears to be making the case that Border Patrol can and should stop following procedures under these new, extraordinary circumstances, but without real presidential backup apart from these words I think it highly unlikely that anyone will take the risk of acting independently. The president needs to intervene in an unconventional, convincing manner, and so far this looks like just more talk with no action of that kind likely to follow.
Friday, April 5, 2019
Thursday, April 4, 2019
Ann Coulter shows her hubris here, opining about unemployment which she understands little better than Rush Limbaugh
Yes, there was an effort in 2010 and 2011 to track Americans unemployed "260 weeks or longer", but that is irrelevant to the unemployment rate, which has declined so much because so many are no longer counted in the labor force, that's all. That would include the long term "unemployed", who aren't really unemployed because those people get kicked out of the labor force according to the definitions used by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
You may not like that. You may not agree with that. But that's what happens. If you haven't looked for work in 4 weeks but have in the last year, you'll still be in the labor force, but after a year you are out if you've given up looking. And presto, when millions can't find work in this shrunken economy, they drop out by not looking any longer, so the labor force shrinks, and thus fewer people get counted as unemployed. It's as simple as that.
A better way to look at it is, How many people have full time jobs?
Since 1968 the average percent of the civilian noninstitutional population employed full time at peaks has been 51.2%. At troughs it has been 48.6%. In February 2019 49.9% had full time jobs.
At 51.2% in February 2019 instead of at 49.9%, however, we'd have about 3.46 million more working full time than we actually have.
That's what is wrong with the Trump economy inherited from Obama.
There remains no economic driver for a jobs boom.
Ann is still right, however. Why on earth would you import more people to America in a situation of labor slack like this?
It's insane, and perverse. It does active harm to people already here who can't find full time work.
Unfortunately, Donald Trump hasn't got a clue about this.
Like I said, we are well and truly screwed.
Trump withdraws threat to close the border, which will only create a bigger surge at the border
The quintessential boomer parent who doesn't know how to say No, doesn't really want to say No, and actually means Yes when he does say No.
What a disaster this guy is. The kids are already running wild, and it will only get worse.
Trump capitulates on border closure (ONE YEAR!), Ann Coulter was right when she called him a wimp
Ann Coulter takes victory lap after Trump backs down from border closure:
Trump recently scaled back his threat to close the border, saying that Mexico now has a year to get illegal crossings under control before Trump takes drastic action.
Incompetent Trump: Republicans will always support pre-existing conditions!
He means coverage for pre-existing conditions, not the conditions.
I think.
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