Friday, April 26, 2019
CNBC's lede in GDP story this morning got it wrong by two years
Here's the lede out of the box this morning, still up at Yahoo:
The U.S. economy grew at a faster pace than expected in the first quarter and posted its best growth to start a year in six years. . . . It was the first time since 2013 that first-quarter GDP topped 3%.
That wasn't at all true, of course. CNBC has since revised the story to this:
The U.S. economy grew at a faster pace than expected in the first quarter and posted its best growth to start a year in four years. . . . It was the first time since 2015 that first-quarter GDP topped 3%.
Must be a hangover at work from the awful Obama years when Q1GDP kept digging holes in the basement.
David French and Ben Shapiro join up in NeverTrump redux, just in time for 2020
Responding to Joe Biden's announcement of his candidacy for president, Ben Shapiro oddly saw it as an opportunity to bash President Trump yesterday, laughably resurrecting the long debunked "fine people hoax" of Charlottesville to riff on Trump's weakness for reelection in 2020.
Trump's still a racist, you see.
Shapiro might as well have been speaking as a paid member of the Biden campaign. That he wasn't speaks to an uglier animus which is willing to lie in order to smear. The goal doesn't care about the facts.
David French, meanwhile, has been in Shapiro's corner of late, defending him on Twitter against recent WaPo stories ludicrously painting Shapiro as alt-right.
Now French is out in TIME, tag-teaming with Shapiro in criticism of Trump as, you guessed it, weak:
What a cohencidence!
In French's reading, Trump is weak because the Mueller report shows him not to be the alpha male he makes himself out to be. If the voters ever find out, he's finished, you see.
Leave it to the impotence of NeverTrump to fixate on fantasies and miss the real source of Trump's 2020 vulnerability.
If the public which elected Trump realizes that the border is even more wide open than it was before he was elected, that's when Trump will be finished.
But, of course, NeverTrump is just fine with wide open borders.
The public won't be hearing that from them.
Thursday, April 25, 2019
Ben Shapiro's been under attack as alt-right, which is why he's attacking Trump today as soft on Richard Spencer
And Joe Biden's announcement today gave Ben the cover he needed to make it look like a perfectly innocent response to that, instead of to these recent attacks on himself.
A twofer, but he won't get away with it.
Biden is using Heather Heyer's 2017 death in Virginia like Bush 41 used Willie Horton in 1988 . . .
. . . only it's just to win the Democrat primary, not the general against Trump.
Desperate times for Democrats call for desperate measures.
Saturday night's forecast overnight into Sunday in Grand Rapids, Michigan is for two inches of snow!
Rain showers before midnight, then
rain and snow showers. Low around 32. Northeast wind 8 to 11 mph.
Chance of precipitation is 90%. New snow accumulation of around 2
inches.
Tax cuts were real despite average refund in 2019 coming in $56 lower than last year, $50K earners saved $48 a week with lower withholding under tax reform
The IRS stats are in: Here’s how tax refunds look compared to last year
Your Paycheck Could Increase Very Soon -- Here’s How Much You Can Expect
Joe Biden Jan 2018: Give me a break, millennials don't have it tough
Biden on young people complaining they have it tough: 'Give me a break':
"The younger generation now tells me how tough things are. Give me a
break. No, no, I have no empathy for it. Give me a break," Biden, 75,
told The Los Angeles Times earlier this week.
Wednesday, April 24, 2019
Glenn Greenwald is still gnawing on important Jan 2017 POLITICO story detailing DNC-Ukraine collusion against Trump
And there's Joe Biden today, bragging that world leaders are begging him to run.
"It's OK when WE collude."
Joe Biden 2014: 11 million illegal aliens are already Americans
Biden: Illegal immigrants are 'already Americans':
"You know, 11 million people live in the shadows. I believe they're
already American citizens," Biden said Thursday at a Washington
gathering of the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. "These people are
just waiting, waiting for a chance to contribute fully. And by that
standard, 11 million undocumented aliens are already Americans, in my
view."
CCTV footage shows Muslim bomber who murdered approximately 100 Christians in one Sri Lankan church on Easter
Analysts believe the coordinated attacks at multiple locations were in the planning before the New Zealand mosque shooting took place.
Tuesday, April 23, 2019
Rush Limbaugh can't remember shit about shit, says impeaching Clinton reelected him when Clinton was impeached on 12/19/98, two years after his 1996 reelection
Impeachment Will Be Different for Trump Than It Was for Clinton:
A
lot of people on our side — I just quoted Lindsey Grahamnesty 2.0 — are
saying, “Go ahead. Go ahead, House Democrats, impeach Trump. You’ll
just end up reelecting him, just like impeaching Bill Clinton reelected
him.”
Forgiving student loans makes chumps of all borrowers who dutifully paid theirs off, screws lenders and does nothing to stop the unholy alliance between The Academy and The State
This fake Indian theocrat should be sent packing. Forgiveness has become the American disease.
Death wish: Bernie Sanders and Kamala Harris both stake out voting rights position which makes them unelectable
Unless of course you flood the country with illegal alien criminals who will be more than happy to vote for these lunatics.
WaPo's far-right obsession beyond New Zealand inflames Notre Dame and Sri Lanka coverage, might as well be making everything about the Jews
My toilet's clogged. Wait until the far-right hears about THIS. My plumber's name is Scharfman.
Sunday, April 21, 2019
LOL @ fascism stops exploitation of the poor when its handmaid libertarianism atomizes the opposition into millions of isolated, helpless, and at length subservient individuals
We are living under GLOBAL fascism and there's hardly a commentator who notices it.
Well, well, well, Barack "my Muslim faith" Obama grieves with New Zealand Muslims, not with Sri Lankan Christians
The Christians of Sri Lanka represent 7% of the population.
Islam represents just 1.2% of the population of New Zealand.
Islam represents just 1.2% of the population of New Zealand.
Saturday, April 20, 2019
Dear New York Times: Beyond the 500 million or so living in Canada, US and Mexico, where are these "billions of people"?
Probably the same people Obama said got Obamacare.
Latest NY Times religion gaffe said chaplain rescued statue of Christ from Notre Dame when he actually rescued the host
Excellent article outlining the Times' chronic ignorance of the Christian faith:
New York Times hits new low with mortifying Notre Dame correction
The modus operandi of progressivism is to take everything beautiful and shit all over it
Because only the future can be good, therefore everything from the past is evil, including Obamacare which no Democrat running for president in 2020 is defending, and even "Edelweiss" by Rogers and Hammerstein. Yes, a song from a beloved old musical.
“Edelweiss” is original to the Rogers and Hammerstein musical, “The Sound of Music,” and dates back to 1959. More recently, a version of “Edelweiss” was used by the Amazon series, “The Man in the High Castle.”
The series, based on a novel by Phillip K. Dick, takes place in an alternate version of the United States in the 1960s. In the show’s version, the Axis powers won World War II and have split up the United States as German states and Japanese states.
So the version of “Edelweiss” used by the series is meant to sound creepy and uncomfortable. Those unfamiliar with the origins of the song might even think it was supposed to sound like a German folk song now being sung in a zombie-like chorus in the fictionally occupied United States. ...
While the Amazon series created its own version of the song that guts its emotional sentiment and original purpose, “Edelweiss” was written for “The Sound of Music” as a tear-jerking tribute to Captain von Trapp’s homeland of Austria.
In the musical, based on a true story, the von Trapps are forced to flee their homeland following the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany. The captain was no fascist, and while he loved Austria and its beautiful, pillowy, alpine flowers greeting him every morning, he knew he must escape to preserve his integrity and protect his family.
In “The Sound of Music,” Captain von Trapp singing “Edelweiss” is one of the most emotional musical numbers of the entire film. He attempts to softly strum a guitar and deliver the lyrics to a small crowd but becomes overwhelmed with emotion when he reaches the line “bless my homeland forever.” His family joins him on stage to help him finish. That night, they flee Nazi persecutors who are trying to recruit the captain into the Nazi war effort.
The namesake flower of the song is also associated with anti-Nazi Austrian Resistance groups, like the “Edelweiss Pirates,” which was comprised mainly of children and teens. Richard Rogers and Oscar Hammerstein, both Jewish and fiercely anti-Nazi, wrote the song at a later point in the musical production because they felt Captain von Trapp’s patriotism needed to be underscored.
Friday, April 19, 2019
One shot for every . . .
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