Sunday, October 6, 2019
Saturday, October 5, 2019
Friday, October 4, 2019
Thursday, October 3, 2019
Average miles traveled on US roads in 2019 through July looks flat compared with 2018
To put the complicated calculation in a nutshell, travel per person 16 years old and over averaged about 12,497 miles for the first seven months of 2019. The full year average for 2018 was 12,483.
So despite there being more cars on the road and population growing and a so-called economic boom, road travel has plateaued.
For another look at it, see Jill Mislinski here, whose population-adjusted road travel chart also shows that the flatlining began with 2017 and that 2005 was the peak year.
You are free to move about the country, but you are not, at least not like you were in a car.
Average age of US vehicle on the road climbs from 11.7 years in 2018 to 11.8 years in 2019
The number of registered light vehicles in operation in the U.S. hit a record of more than 278 million this year, an increase of more than 5.9 million, or 2.2 percent.
IHS Markit began tracking the age of vehicles in 2002, when the average age was 9.6 years.
More.
Lying Democrat sack of Schiff practised with the whistle before he blew it
The only thing missing is a payment to the whistleblower to make it full-blown astroturfing, but in this case the payment will doubtlessly come ex post facto.
Wednesday, October 2, 2019
Tuesday, October 1, 2019
Rush Limbaugh on Michael Bloomberg on China: "Nobody is this stupid to think communism is the equivalent of democratic or representative republican freedom"
Rush, winning this year's tin ear of politics award today of all days with Trump making communism acceptable and not threatening:
Now, all of this is designed to make communism acceptable. It’s all
designed to make communism not be threatening. It’s all designed to
advance the idea of really smart people controlling government — who are
really autocrats — under the illusion that they have constituents that
they have to listen to and keep happy and pleased. I think Bloomberg
sounds a lot like Biden. Remember Biden said a couple of times, “Come
on, man! China’s not a threat to the U.S.! Come on, man! China’s no
threat!”
Did Ryan James Girdusky of One America News actually READ the latest Monmouth poll, on which he's 0-4?
Trump approve/disapprove is 41/53
Congress approve/disapprove is 21/68
Impeach Trump yes/no is 44/52
Biden pressured Ukraine to lay off Hunter yes/no is 42/37
https://www.monmouth.edu/polling-institute/documents/monmouthpoll_us_100119.pdf/
Support for impeachment of Trump highest ever in Monmouth poll at 44%, up from 35% in August
At this time, 44% of Americans feel that Trump should be impeached and compelled to leave the presidency, while 52% disagree with this course of action. These numbers mark a shift from Monmouth’s prior poll in August (35% supported impeachment and 59% did not), but it is not the first time these results have been found in the two years Monmouth has been asking this question. This includes similar findings in March 2019 (42% for impeachment and 54% against) and July 2017 (41% for impeachment and 53% against). Current support for removing Trump from office comes from 77% of Democrats (up from 69% in August but similar to 75% in March), 41% of independents (up from 30% in August but similar to 40% in March), and 9% of Republicans (up from 2% in August but similar to 8% in March).
Read it all here.
This bad Greer take is like George W. Bush saying you're either with us or against us in his war on terror
Tariffs are especially called for against communists qua communists, but Trump would be just fine with free trade with the Chicoms as long as it were truly free. Trump has no there there.
Monday, September 30, 2019
Your next president, Elizabeth Warren, will give a blanket amnesty to every illegal alien in the country, and make them union members!
We need a pathway to citizenship for the people who are here and here to stay. They are our neighbors; they are our brothers and sisters. They are here. We need a path — not just for DREAMers — but also a path for grandmas, and for little kids, and for people who came here to work on farms, and for students who overstayed their visas. We need a path that is fair and achievable. Bring people out of the shadows. It is good for all workers, and we need to get them into our unions.
More here.
Sunday, September 29, 2019
The Intel community secretly changed the whistleblower rules to allow hearsay just days before the current Ukraine filing
Intel Community Secretly Gutted Requirement Of First-Hand Whistleblower Knowledge
Federal records show that the intelligence
community secretly revised the formal whistleblower complaint form in
August 2019 to eliminate the requirement of direct, first-hand knowledge
of wrongdoing.
A sea of white faces shows up for Elizabeth Warren at historically black Clinton College in SC
Where all the black people at?
LOL: Pulitzer Prize winning columnist for WaPo calls whistleblower's collection of hearsay facts
Heresay is not a word. Hearsay is a word, but hearsay is not a fact.
Quinnipiac poll: Unfavorable ratings for Warren and Biden are up bigly among non-Democrat voters since May
Both Warren and Biden have increased their unfavorable ratings among non-Democrat voters to 70% in September since May.
Warren's unfavorables are up 4 points from 66% to 70%.
Biden's unfavorables are up more bigly, 7 points, from 63% in May to 70% now.
Warren is up big with Democrats only over the period, replacing Bernie as the dog nipping at Biden's heels.
Saturday, September 28, 2019
Friday, September 27, 2019
When George Washington warned America in his Farewell about entangling foreign alliances, he meant Ukraine
The political divide in this country is in part characterized by those fanatics in both parties who have wanted to bring Ukraine into NATO, like Hillary Clinton and John McCain, and the cooler heads who realize NATO on the doorstep of Russia is a provocation.
That's what this is really all about.
Trump once represented the latter group, but of course he's a nincompoop who can barely string two coherent sentences together about anything. Don't expect that to change anytime soon.
The political divide is also characterized in part by those who insist America is a nation of immigrants and by those who insist on assimilation. The immigrant side unfortunately brings all the quarrels and divisions of the home countries onto American soil, which disturbs domestic tranquility.
Time for ya'll to follow our first president on this.
Reminder: Story from May claims DNC was actively working to gather dirt on Trump from Ukraine using Alexandra Chalupa
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. ...
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 [Russian President Vladimir] 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.
After the meeting, Telizhenko said he became concerned about the
legality of using his country’s assets to help an American political
party win a U.S. election. But he proceeded with his assignment.
Telizhenko said that as he began his research, he discovered that
Fusion GPS was nosing around Ukraine, seeking similar information, and
he believed they, too, worked for the Democrats.
Read the whole thing from John Solomon, here.
Thursday, September 26, 2019
Mark Levin points out one way to know the so-called whistleblower is just a political hack
There's only one whistleblower, someone who admits he or she did not hear the call or read the transcript.
Lots of people actually heard the call with Ukraine, but none of them has blown a whistle.
Most people see nothing wrong with Trump's phone call with Ukraine.
The favor Trump asked of the new Ukrainian president was help ascertaining exactly what role Ukraine played in Election 2016
Alexandra Chalupa knows all about it. She should be deposed.
Wednesday, September 25, 2019
Pattern development: CNN then MSNBC both delete what the favor was which Trump asked for
Democrats and media fear Ukraine has information about the 2016 Trump-Russia election collusion hoax because there is some. They are trying to refocus this to be about Biden, out of which they get a two-fer: Hurt Trump and shuffle Biden off stage.
Remember, there was co-ordination with Ukraine by DC Democrats like Chalupa and Kaptur as early as January 2016.
There was zero quid pro quo in the Trump-Ukraine call, but plenty of it in the Biden video at CFR
Biden 2020 is irreparably damaged goods. People are asking if that wasn't Nancy Pelosi's goal all along, in order to get Biden out of the way for Elizabeth Warren.
Remember, Pelosi threw the US House public option plan under the bus in 2009 in order to get a win for Obama with the Senate's Obamacare in 2010. She's throwing the House's reputation under again for the higher good: A better candidate than creepy Uncle Joe.
Republican traitors in US Senate AGAIN help Democrats pass bill ending border emergency
Senate again votes to end Trump emergency declaration on border wall:
Senators voted 54-41 on a resolution to end the
declaration, which Trump used to shift billions of dollars from the
military toward wall construction. ...
GOP Sens. Lamar Alexander (Tenn.), Roy Blunt (Mo.), Susan Collins (Maine), Mike Lee (Utah), Jerry Moran (Kansas), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), Rand Paul (Ky.), Rob Portman (Ohio), Mitt Romney (Utah), Pat Toomey (Pa.) and Roger Wicker (Miss.) voted to end the president's declaration. ...
The Senate previously voted to end it in February, with 12
Republicans voting with Democrats, but the House was unable to override a
veto.
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