Monday, May 6, 2019
Hillary has decided it's OK to threaten democracy by not accepting the results of an election, AND the results of an investigation into an election
Hillary Clinton on Saturday [5/4/2019] ... cautioned that other factors should go into selecting a president. ... "You can run the best campaign, you can
even become the nominee, and you can have the election stolen from you,"
Clinton said, alluding to Russia's election interference efforts.
Sunday, May 5, 2019
Climate Update for Grand Rapids, Michigan, April 2019
Climate Update for Grand Rapids, Michigan, April 2019
Max temp 77, Mean max 79
Min temp 19, Mean min 22
Av temp 47.7, Mean av 46.5
Precip 4.05, Mean 3.31
Precip to date 12.61, Mean to date 9.62 (8th wettest Feb on record, 35th wettest April)
Snow 4.9, Mean 2.4
Snow to date 81.3, Mean to date 66.1 (26th snowiest)
Heating Degree Days 515, Mean 553
HDD to date 6425, Mean to date 6402
The winter season is ending much snowier and wetter than the mean levels, but has been only just slightly colder than the long-term mean, less than 0.4% colder, using heating degree days as a yardstick.
At Muslim Community Day in Philly the kids were singing and talking about chopping off heads, torture, and liberating Jerusalem
"Jesus loves the lit-tle child-ren, all the little children of the world!" this was not.
Saturday, May 4, 2019
Same with education: America was greater when knowledge was pursued as good in and of itself, not for the job it could get you
Beauty for beauty's sake, knowledge for knowledge's sake.
Joe Biden is the Democrats' low-IQ version of the Republicans' low-IQ John McCain
McCain graduated from the Naval Academy in June 1958; he was fifth from the bottom in class rank, 894th out of 899.
Erick Erickson's conservatism adopts the categories of cultural Marxism, is impotent before today's revolutionary speech enemies
Put another way, "there is no contradiction between economic liberalism and socialism".
Counter-revolt, or die.
Average hourly earnings for most people increased at a 2.9% annual rate in April 2019, a downturn from recent average quarterly experience
If this were an economic recovery like past ones, you'd think we could put together a string of year over year increases on a quarterly average basis above 3.5% lasting a couple of years, but that is still far from the case. The best quarter we've had is 4Q2018 at 3.46%.
Employers still have the whip hand.
Friday, May 3, 2019
The Hill's John Solomon drops a bomb on Alexandra Chalupa's head, reports she may be source of Trump-Russian collusion narrative even as she spearheaded DNC/Clinton-Ukraine collusion
Ukrainian Embassy confirms DNC contractor solicited Trump dirt in 2016:
In its most detailed account yet, the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington
says a Democratic National Committee (DNC) insider during the 2016
election solicited dirt on Donald Trump’s campaign chairman and even
tried to enlist the country's president to help.
In written answers to questions, Ambassador Valeriy Chaly's office
says DNC contractor Alexandra Chalupa sought information from the
Ukrainian government on Paul Manafort’s dealings inside the country, in hopes of forcing the issue before Congress.
Chalupa
later tried to arrange for Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to
comment on Manafort’s Russian ties on a U.S. visit during the 2016
campaign, the ambassador said.
Chaly says that, at the time of the contacts in 2016, the embassy
knew Chalupa primarily as a Ukrainian-American activist and learned only
later of her ties to the DNC. He says the embassy considered her
requests an inappropriate solicitation of interference in the U.S.
election. ...
Reached by phone last week, Chalupa said she was too busy to talk.
She did not respond to email and phone messages seeking subsequent
comment. ...
Andrii Telizhenko, a former political officer who worked under Chaly
from December 2015 through June 2016, told me he was instructed by the
ambassador and his top deputy to meet with Chalupa in March 2016 and to
gather whatever dirt Ukraine had in its government files about Trump and
Manafort. ...
“She said the DNC wanted to collect evidence that Trump, his
organization and Manafort were Russian assets, working to hurt the U.S.
and working with Putin against the U.S. interests. She indicated if we
could find the evidence they would introduce it in Congress in September
and try to build a case that Trump should be removed from the ballot,
from the election,” he recalled. ...
Though Chaly and Telizhenko disagree on what Ukraine did after it got
Chalupa’s request, they confirm that a paid contractor of the DNC
solicited their government’s help to find dirt on Trump that could sway
the 2016 election.
April 2019: 882K dropped out of labor force, labor force contracted 726K, employment level contracted 103K, participation rate fell to 62.8% (the 2016 average), average weekly hours so far in 2019 down 0.4 from 2018 average
Data.
Data.
Data.
Data.
Data.
But other than that it's an economic boom because total nonfarm is up 263K.
Thursday, May 2, 2019
Wednesday, May 1, 2019
Big Bang was a bigger one
And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
-- Genesis 6:6
Once seen in the 1980s in the letters section to THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR: "Women of the world unite! And go home!"
In reply to American Women Make Lousy Lovers by Taki.
And no more sex unless he marries you and lets you stay home.
Tuesday, April 30, 2019
Monday, April 29, 2019
David Bentley Hart's real offense was implying he prefers to be trapped in airports where he has to listen to CNN
But calling AOC clever and desirable and European socialism wonderful has everyone's attention.
Come on, people, focus.
Sunday, April 28, 2019
Saturday, April 27, 2019
God help us: Biden doesn't know when to use "is" vs. "are" and leftwing authority Jacobin acquiesces to an undercount of US billionaires by 26%
It's always the same old story. Reading, writing and arithmetic.
Apparently it's news to some alien peoples that Great Britain provided 68.7% of the US population's ancestry in 1790
Ancestry for 19.3% was black, the 12% balance other European (German, Dutch, French, Swedish).
John Solomon: Joe Biden in March 2016 pressured Ukraine to fire prosecutor investigating company paying Hunter Biden, bragged about it to CFR audience in 2018
Joe Biden's 2020 Ukrainian nightmare: A closed probe is revived:
But Ukrainian officials tell me there was one crucial piece of
information that Biden must have known but didn’t mention to his
audience: The prosecutor he got fired was leading a wide-ranging
corruption probe into the natural gas firm Burisma Holdings that employed Biden’s younger son, Hunter, as a board member.
U.S. banking records show Hunter Biden’s American-based firm,
Rosemont Seneca Partners LLC, received regular transfers into one of its
accounts — usually more than $166,000 a month — from Burisma from
spring 2014 through fall 2015, during a period when Vice President Biden
was the main U.S. official dealing with Ukraine and its tense relations
with Russia.
The general prosecutor’s official file for the Burisma probe — shared
with me by senior Ukrainian officials — shows prosecutors identified
Hunter Biden, business partner Devon Archer and their firm, Rosemont
Seneca, as potential recipients of money.
Shokin told me in written answers to questions that, before he was
fired as general prosecutor, he had made “specific plans” for the
investigation that “included interrogations and other
crime-investigation procedures into all members of the executive board,
including Hunter Biden.” ...
The timing of Hunter Biden’s and Archer’s appointment to Burisma’s board has been highlighted in the past, by The New York Times in December 2015 and in a 2016 book by conservative author Peter Schweizer. ...
According to Schweizer’s book, Vice President Biden met with Archer
in April 2014 right as Archer was named to the board at Burisma. A month
later, Hunter Biden was named to the board, to oversee Burisma’s legal team.
But the Ukrainian investigation and Joe Biden’s effort to fire the
prosecutor overseeing it has escaped without much public debate. ...
Between April 2014 and October 2015, more than $3 million was paid
out of Burisma accounts to an account linked to Biden’s and Archer’s
Rosemont Seneca firm, according to the financial records placed in a federal court file in Manhattan in an unrelated case against Archer.
Foreign Affairs Issue Launch with Former Vice President Joe Biden
Tuesday, January 23, 2018:
I was—not I, but it just happened to be that was the assignment I got. I
got all the good ones. And so I got Ukraine. And I remember going over,
convincing our team, our leaders to—convincing that we should be
providing for loan guarantees. And I went over, I guess, the 12th, 13th
time to Kiev. And I was supposed to announce that there was another
billion-dollar loan guarantee. And I had gotten a commitment from
Poroshenko and from Yatsenyuk that they would take action against the
state prosecutor. And they didn’t. So they said they had—they were walking out to a press conference. I
said, nah, I’m not going to—or, we’re not going to give you the billion
dollars. They said, you have no authority. You’re not the president. The
president said—I said, call him. (Laughter.) I said, I’m telling you,
you’re not getting the billion dollars. I said, you’re not getting the
billion. I’m going to be leaving here in, I think it was about six
hours. I looked at them and said: I’m leaving in six hours. If the
prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money. Well, son of a
bitch. (Laughter.) He got fired. And they put in place someone who was
solid at the time.
Friday, April 26, 2019
John Solomon is also interviewed by Michael Savage today on Joe Biden's Ukraine problem
The podcast is free and can be accessed at michaelsavage.com.
Biden's son Hunter was on a Ukraine company's payroll due to Joe Biden's influence when Joe was Vice President. Solomon reports that Joe Biden is caught on tape boasting about getting a Ukrainian prosecutor fired who was looking into possibly improper payments to Hunter Biden's company.
The Hill's John Solomon: Obama administration had January 2016 meeting in DC with Ukrainian officials to pursue Manafort
How the Obama White House engaged Ukraine to give Russia collusion narrative an early boost:
U.S. officials “kept talking about how important it was that all of
our anti-corruption efforts be united,” said Andrii Telizhenko, then a
political officer in the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington tasked with
organizing the meeting.
Telizhenko, who no longer works for the Ukrainian Embassy, said U.S.
officials volunteered during the meetings — one of which was held in the
White House’s Old Executive Office Building — that they had an interest
in reviving a closed investigation into payments to U.S. figures from
Ukraine’s Russia-backed Party of Regions. ...
Kostiantyn Kulyk, deputy head of the Ukraine prosecutor general’s
international affairs office, said that, shortly after Ukrainian
authorities returned from the Washington meeting, there was a clear
message about helping the Americans with the Party of the Regions case.
“Yes, there was a lot of talking about needing help and then the [Manafort] ledger just appeared in public,” he recalled.
Kulyk said Ukrainian authorities had evidence that other Western figures,
such as former Obama White House counsel Gregory Craig, also received
money from Yanukovych’s party. But the Americans weren’t interested:
“They just discussed Manafort. This was all and only what they wanted.
Nobody else.”
Egads, now we're expecting 5 inches of snow in Grand Rapids
Saturday Night: Rain and snow, becoming all snow after 7pm. The snow could be heavy at times. Low around 29. North northeast wind 8 to 13 mph, with gusts as high as 21 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New snow accumulation of around 5 inches.
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