Ramones "I'm Against It": I don't like playing ping pong I don't like the Viet Cong I don't like Burger King I don't like anything
Sunday, May 19, 2019
What's happened to Justin Amash is simple: He'll be off the political stage in 2021 so he has nothing left to lose
Democrats are about to redistrict him out of a job, he's isolated himself in his own party over five terms, Trump's tariffs threaten the family's Chinese tool business fortune, and his best friends are the likes of WaPo's Jennifer Rubin and union president Randi Weingarten. Might as well go all in against Trump and help deprive him of a win in Michigan while losing re-election to MI-03 or as the inglorious Libertarian Party candidate for president in 2020. It's what libertarians are best at and live to do: spoil elections. Or, just switch to the Democrat Party and go on living like Arlen Specter. Republicans could hasten things along by kicking him out of the party.
Saturday, May 18, 2019
People keep repeating the myth of "no immigration from the 1920s-1960s" because Rush Limbaugh spread it in 2014
Every time I tell people that there was no immigration in this country for over 40 years, from the 1920s to the 1960s, seventies, they’re shocked. You’d be amazed at the number of people that do not know we totally closed the borders after the wave of European immigration in the 1920s. And we did it for one reason. That mass arrival of immigrants needed to be assimilated.
The truth is between 1920 and 1965 inclusive we let in 10.1 million, 4.5 million of which came in between 1920 and 1930. It was the Great Depression and World War II which brought immigration down to a trickle. There were no jobs for the people already here in the 1930s for cying out loud, and we didn't want any Nazty Spies comin' in in 1940 either.
You can examine the data for yourself here:
Egads, the new Human Events has chosen the wrong side (the side of the Redcoats, not of colonial Bostonians)
A block away from the former Capitol Hill headquarters of Breitbart News — known in Washington as the “Breitbart embassy” — sits a second-floor apartment its occupant calls “the Consulate.”
Here, surrounded by memorabilia of the British empire, two right-wing entrepreneurs — a protege of Steve Bannon’s and a social media activist — are rebooting a dilapidated conservative publication from around a dining room table. ...
[T]he duo are positioning it as an alternative to what they derisively call “Conservative Inc.” ...
Human Events aims up-market and has been imbued with Kassam’s vaguely royalist sense of Anglo-American identity. ...
The ‘Consulate’ also features a map showing the British empire at its largest extent and a red hat that says “Make America Great Britain Again.”
Over the dining room table where the duo works looms a framed print of the Boston Massacre, prominently featuring the shooting of Crispus Attucks, considered the first black man to die in the American Revolution. But Kassam has not stuck it there as a celebration of American liberty. Instead, he said, he forces his American dinner guests to sit facing the print to shame them with the memory of the massacre, which he blames on the mobbish antics of colonial Bostonians, while praising the discipline of the Red Coats who fired upon them. ...
[T]his pronounced Anglophilia was not a feature of the original Human Events . . ..
Friday, May 17, 2019
Yang Gang hates on math as Boomer math because math shows Universal Basic Income is a BFD, not "nothing"
Total cost of federal regulations in 2012 was $2.028 trillion (in 2014 dollars), according to the National Association of Manufacturers.
Federal departmental spending in 2014 was about $1.654 trillion ($3.777 trillion in total outlays minus outlays for Social Security, Medicare and Interest on the debt).
Total = $3.682 trillion for "hundreds of agencies, departments and laws".
Eliminate all that (a GARGANTUAN and variously highly INADVISABLE proposition, you know, like NO defense spending, NO environmental regulation spending, NO food and drug inspection spending, etc.), and you could easily give every man and woman 18 and over in 2014 $2.868 trillion, with money left over: Universal Basic Income of $12,000 a year to 2014's 239.049 million people 18 and over (on average) = $2.868 trillion under Andrew Yang's plan.
Ray Dallio's estimate of $3.8 trillion must include all the kids, too (319 million US population in 2014 x $12,000).
Or are we just going to add the $2.868 trillion to the outlays of $3.777 trillion?
Either way, ain't gonna happen, because this ain't "nothing".
Pie in the sky, bye . . . and bye, commie.
Aristotle thought man was uniquely a political animal, Richard Spencer thinks man is merely an animal
And, of course, Richard Spencer is a very intelligent imbecile.
No man is an Iland, intire of itselfe; every man
is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine;
if a Clod bee washed away by the Sea, Europe
is the lesse, as well as if a Promontorie were, as
well as if a Manor of thy friends or of thine
owne were; any mans death diminishes me,
because I am involved in Mankinde;
And therefore never send to know for whom
the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.
is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine;
if a Clod bee washed away by the Sea, Europe
is the lesse, as well as if a Promontorie were, as
well as if a Manor of thy friends or of thine
owne were; any mans death diminishes me,
because I am involved in Mankinde;
And therefore never send to know for whom
the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.
-- John Donne
Thursday, May 16, 2019
It's a State for Jews, hence a Jewish State, and always has been: Only cowardly anti-Semitic liberals (the BBC) try to hide behind "I was criticizing only Israel, not Jews"
Every tongue, tribe and people should have its own nation, including Americans.
All you dual passport holders should make up your minds, too.
We shouldn't really worry too much about China dumping $200 billion worth of US Treasury securities since 2012
The total has fallen by some $200 billion since the peak in 2012 . . .. Foreign government ownership of U.S. debt hit a record of $6.47 trillion, up 4% from a year ago, as the government’s total debt continues to swell and now has topped $22 trillion. Foreign residents increased their holdings by $23.9 billion.
Yeah, well, in May 2012 grand total foreign holdings came to about $5.27 trillion. In March 2019 the figure is north of that by $1.2 trillion across the globe.
US Treasury securities remain very popular, secure investments which pay better than most anything out there. Your only major alternatives paying better than for the US 10-year are Brazil, Mexico, India, Greece and Italy. Like the world is going to go shopping in those places instead of the US.
Gimme a break!
Jobless claims return to pattern, coming in under levels a year ago at the same time
Except in the seasonally-adjusted 4-week moving average, obviously, where the recent upticks above levels a year ago at the same time are working their way through the average.
Wednesday, May 15, 2019
Tuesday, May 14, 2019
I'll bet only 1 in 15 can locate Nebraska on a map, or correctly spell "Episcopal"
Survey: Only 2-in-15 Americans Aware of Soaring Illegal Immigration to U.S.
I'm just doing headlines tonight because the news has been so damn boring.
Take my advice, never insert a probe there
The Navy’s probe into sky penis
Doesn't the Navy have anything better to do?
Monday, May 13, 2019
Labor's share of income nosedived in the '90s after NAFTA, briefly recovered and then tanked as globalization/China took over
Do you feel richer? Well do ya?
Employers call all the shots, and you get the crumbs from your masters' tables, if you are lucky.
Stop voting for the free-traders and libertarian lunatics of the two major parties.
Neel Kashkari and other Fed members seem aware at least of the nosedive in labor's share of business income, but are oblivious to its roots in globalization
Fooling around with interest rates isn't going to bring back the core manufacturing businesses which once formed the hubs of American middle class prosperity. That will be just as ineffectual as it has been throughout the Obama administration. Why should it work now all of a sudden when it hasn't worked for ten years?
Well, what else would you expect from the man tasked with implementing the useless TARP sideshow?
Neel Kashkari still hasn't got a clue, but he sure does sound like the workers' friend.
Minneapolis Fed chief links rates to labor share in interview
Kashkari’s break from Fed tradition on inequality adds to the case
for keeping interest rates low. He suggested faster wage growth and low
unemployment may not be putting much upward pressure on inflation
because workers have lost a lot of their bargaining power in recent
decades, echoing a point Fed Vice Chairman Richard Clarida has made. ...
Sunday, May 12, 2019
Saturday, May 11, 2019
Friday, May 10, 2019
Joe Biden November 2006 Columbia South Carolina: I voted for 700 miles of fence, but we need to punish employers of illegals
"Folks, I voted for a fence, I voted,
unlike most Democrats -- and some of you won't like it -- I voted for
700 miles of fence," Biden told the group.
"But, let me tell you, we can build a fence 40 stories high -- unless
you change the dynamic in Mexico and -- and you will not like this, and
-- punish American employers who knowingly violate the law when, in
fact, they hire illegals. Unless you do those two things, all the rest
is window dressing."
Joe Biden 2008: Increase funding for border patrol
Joe Biden supports increasing border security – finding out exactly who is coming in
and out of our country – and expanding resources for border patrol.
Joe Biden 2008 "opposes issuing driver's licenses to [illegal] immigrants"
Joe Biden Was Opposed To Driver's Licenses For Undocumented Immigrants In 2008:
"Senator Biden opposes issuing driver's licenses to undocumented
immigrants," read Biden's 2008 immigrant plan, a position he reiterated
with a firm "no" when asked if he supported granting drivers licenses in
a 2007 debate.
Thursday, May 9, 2019
Wednesday, May 8, 2019
Joe Biden 2007: DC schools do poorly compared to Iowa schools because DC has a high minority population
Biden 'stumbles' over education question:
"There's less than one percent of the population of Iowa that is African American. There is probably less than four of five percent that are minorities. What is in Washington? So look, it goes back to what you start off with, what you're dealing with."
It's Creepy Uncle Joe by +23.5 over Sanders, and women are starting to throw themselves at him
Woman tells Biden at rally: 'You can hug and kiss me anytime, Joe' :
Biden laughed nervously as the crowd roared in approval, before making the sign of the cross to suggest a prayer of forgiveness.
Tuesday, May 7, 2019
ROFL: Stephen L. Miller likes this lesbo action because it's so bipartisan
Senator Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona has been acting naughty ever since she was elected in 2018. She may be a Democrat bi-sexual, but she's clearly a pitcher, not a catcher.
Trump is president, but we are being invaded: 1% of Guatemala and Honduras population has entered US since Sep 2018
WE LIVE IN A COUNTRY WITH NO ONE WILLING TO ENFORCE THE BORDER, SO IT'S NOT A REAL COUNTRY.
Shock: Over 1% of Guatemala, Honduras entered US since September:
[O]ver 1% of the populations of Guatemala and Honduras have entered the United States since September, according to the Homeland Security Department chief.
Bernie imploded within a week of his CNN town hall over his voting rights plan for criminals
The vast majority of Americans — roughly 75% — do not support Sen. Bernie Sanders' proposal to enfranchise all prisoners, but many are open to giving voting rights to non-violent inmates, according to a new INSIDER poll. ...
During a CNN town hall last Monday, the Vermont senator was asked to clarify if he supports voting rights for people like the Boston Marathon bomber or people convicted of rape. Sanders replied that even "terrible people" should be allowed to vote, contending that disenfranchising any group of people is a "slippery slope."
The Ilhan Omar "occupied" Gaza tweets are identical, but @Ilhan deleted hers while @IlhanMN did not
So, officially Gaza isn't occupied, but personally it is. Or something.
Managing schizophrenia is very difficult. Or something.
Trump's popularity position suggests he's re-electable, but don't forget how Bush 41 utterly blew it
Ahead of Obama, Reagan and Carter at this point in their presidencies, only Carter wasn't re-elected.
If liberals had any brains, or principles, they'd crucify Trump over illegal immigration just as conservatives crucified Bush 41 over taxes, but they have neither brains nor principles. Bush 41 proves you can go from stellar to defeated in little over a year, but Trump, as old Republicans keep reminding us, is no Bush 41.
Monday, May 6, 2019
Cook County Illinois Inspector General's investigation may have new Democrat Governor Pritzker taking classes from former Governor Rod Blagojevich in prison
Source: Feds Probe Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, First Lady For Property Tax Appeals On Gold Coast Mansion:
The county watchdog said all of that amounted to a “scheme to defraud” taxpayers out of more than $331,000. ...
The property tax scandal picked up steam just a month before the
November 2018 gubernatorial election, when the Chicago Sun-Times
published news of a confidential memo from Cook County Inspector General
Patrick Blanchard. ...
The confidential Sept. 28, 2018 report by the inspector general
characterized the Pritzkers’ tax appeal as a “scheme to defraud”
taxpayers. Blanchard also connected the scheme to possible violations of
state and federal law, including perjury and mail fraud.
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