Monday, October 28, 2019
Sunday, October 27, 2019
Aw, he was only 48: What did he die of, heart disease?
WaPo. The Enemy of the People.
Note their idea of a correction.
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California's fire problems are its own fault, not the climate's
For decades, environmental protection schemes have usurped common sense. For example, most fire ecologists say that the surest way of preventing massive forest fires is to use prescribed burns. ... Prescribed burns keep forests healthy by burning up the underbrush that accumulates on the forest floor and by thinning trees. ... Despite scientific evidence, the federal government continues spending more money on fire suppression than prescribed burns. The Forest Service has performed prescribed burns on an average of 2,187,64 2 acres a year for the past ten years, according to the National Interagency Fire Center. This means the Forest Service has only performed prescribed burns on 11.3 percent of the land they manage. ...
President Bill Clinton introduced a rule that restricted the construction of new roads on 49 million acres of national forest. This limited the ability of the Forest Service from thinning trees. In 1993, 1,797,574 acres of wildlands burned, but in 2017 this number jumped to 10,026,086 acres. From 1960 to 1990, 10.3 billion board feet of timber were removed from federal forest land each year. From 1991 to 2000 that numbered dropped to 2.1 billion board feet of timber per year. ...
When trees are too close together, they fight for resources. Many of the trees are weakened and become more susceptible to disease and insect infestation. These conditions turn entire forests into tinder boxes.
More at the link.
Saturday, October 26, 2019
Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe suddenly dropped his lawsuit against DOJ yesterday
Hm, imagine that.
https://www.usatoday.com/documents/6523676-Stipulation-of-Dismissal/
Friday, October 25, 2019
Thursday, October 24, 2019
AG Barr's inquiry into Russia collusion story origin officially becomes a criminal inquiry
Because witnesses won't cooperate and answer questions from Barr and Durham.
Now testimony will be compelled.
CNN, fixated on Trump-Russian collusion hoax for three years, says AG Barr is fixated on Joseph Mifsud
Can't make this shit up.
Where is Joseph Mifsud anyway?
Journalists and Democrats, but I repeat myself, sure seem uninterested in the mystery man.
Democrat House member Katie Hill of California may have bigger problem than multiple sexual partners both male and female while married to man: She might be a Nazi
Shocking photographs of Democrat Katie
Hill posing naked with a tattoo of what appears to be a Nazi-era Iron
Cross on her bikini line while smoking a bong and making out with her
young female aide have been obtained exclusively by DailyMail.com ...
In a letter to her constituents on
Wednesday, Hill admitted the relationship with her 24-year-old female
aide but she did not name Desjardins. ...
'Allegations that I have been involved in a
relationship with Mr. Kelly are absolutely false,' Hill said in a
statement to website Politico. Hill continued: 'I am saddened that the
deeply personal matter of my divorce has been brought into public view
and the vindictive claims of my ex have now involved the lives and
reputations of unrelated parties.'
In 2018 68% of Americans couldn't afford a vacation, a concert, a ball game or even dinner out and a movie
Here at home, we see the ever-widening gap in our wealthiest cities — New York, San Francisco, LA — which are suffering from homeless crises of epic proportions. Forty percent of Americans don’t have $400 saved in case of emergency. Last year, 68 percent couldn’t afford a recreational activity — from a vacation to concerts to a professional sporting event to even dinner or a movie — for lack of funds.
This year, the Census Bureau reported that the gap between the rich and poor has hit its highest level in the 50-plus years since they began marking it. Adjusting for inflation, the average household income is the same as it was 20 years ago. The average American can’t afford to buy a house in 70 percent of the country.
More here.
Wednesday, October 23, 2019
Trump puts Limbaugh Theorem into action: It's a scandal he's not in charge of personnel in his own administration, but somehow NeverTrumpers keep getting hired to serve in it and Trump has nothing to do with it
This incompetence is the most embarrassing thing about Trump, and the most disappointing.
He still hasn't fixed this, and he never will, even if reelected.
You can't fix stupid.
The rising share of workers not making the average wage
Note that under Bill Clinton, many important things happened which were detrimental to the middle class:
Bill Clinton raised taxes shortly after taking office in 1993 even though he had run promising not to.
Part-time employment soared as a result.
Borrowing from home equity lines also soared as the middle class struggled to maintain its lifestyle in the wake of the recent recession, reducing "owners' equity in real estate" dramatically.
And, of course, the percentage of Americans not making the raw average wage ballooned by 2.6 points under Clinton, and by 4.1 points total by 2018.
The difference between a payroll population not making the raw average wage in 2018 at 63.3% vs. 67.4% is 6.87 million.
That's roughly equivalent to the number of homes lost to foreclosure in the housing debacle, which bottomed in the spring of 2012. The share not making the average wage first hit 67% that same year.
This history since 1990 is a picture of the middle class under pressure and actually shrinking.
The only good thing that can be said about it is that the trend is flat since 2015, not worsening.
This history since 1990 is a picture of the middle class under pressure and actually shrinking.
The only good thing that can be said about it is that the trend is flat since 2015, not worsening.
Excuse me Damon Linker, Democrats actually colluded with Ukraine to dig up dirt on their political rival Donald Trump in 2016, so spare me the handwringing about Trump trying to expose it
But over the past several months, the wheels have come off the Trump
administration. Whether that's because responsible grown-ups resigned
and were replaced by partisan hacks or because staffers have been ground
down by struggling to contain an ignorant and angry president for
months and years at a time is something that presidential historians
will try to answer once all of this is behind us. What's clear in the
present is that by this past summer, Trump and his personal lawyer Rudy
Giuliani set out to warp and subvert American foreign policy, turning it
into an arm of the president's conspiracy-addled re-election campaign.
The plan was to force a vastly weaker foreign government into colluding
with the campaign for the purpose of digging up dirt on the president's
political rival.
The rest of his bilge is here.
Tuesday, October 22, 2019
Matt Taibbi: Hillary is nuts and Election 2016 was almost entirely a domestic story
Well, not quite: Ukraine did help the Democrats get rid of Manafort.
That's not nothing.
But yeah, she's nuts all right, along with a lot of other people.
Monday, October 21, 2019
Joe Biden has been lying for a decade that a drunk driver killed his first wife and child
Police determined that Biden’s first wife drove into the path of
Dunn’s tractor-trailer, possibly because her head was turned and
she didn’t see the oncoming truck. Dunn, who overturned his rig while swerving to avoid a
collision, ran to the wrecked car and was the first to render
assistance. Police filed no charges against Dunn, who at that time lived in
North East, Md. with his wife, Ruby, and their seven children. Biden has been alluding to alcohol being involved in the crash
for nearly a decade. During a speech in 2001, Biden told an
audience at University of Delaware that a drunken driver crashed
into his family. He told a similar story during a public appearance in 2007. More recently, the vice presidential candidate’s
misrepresentation of Dunn has found its way into major newspapers,
including the New York Times. It also has been repeated on radio and on television by major
news journalists, including CBS anchorwoman Katie Couric.
At least he didn't say she was killed because she was pregnant.
More here.
At least he didn't say she was killed because she was pregnant.
More here.
Ukraine's Leshchenko, who outed Manafort's alleged ledger, subsequently stated matter of factly in late August 2016 that a majority of Ukrainian politicians at the time supported Hillary
Ukraine’s leaders campaign against ‘pro-Putin’ Trump
Click through here for an active link to the article in The Financial Times.
Sunday, October 20, 2019
When the drug cartel defeats the Mexican army, you know it's well past the time for another American war with Mexico
Take the whole central plateau down to San Luis Potosi and push the enemy into the sea.
Saturday, October 19, 2019
California member of the US House Katie Hill alleged to be having TWO concurrent extramarital affairs WITH STAFFERS
"[O]ur role on Oversight is to get to the truth and to follow the truth
wherever it leads us and to expose that for the American people.”
Story.
Story.
Friday, October 18, 2019
So-called conservative Rod Dreher says he supports Adrian Vermeule but obviously doesn't know what he stands for
Here’s the problem, though: how are we on the Right going to form the
kind of warriors capable of resistance? The Left is already doing this
through institutional capture. Harvard’s integralist law professor
Adrian Vermeule talks about marching through the institutions from the
Right, which I certainly hope will happen, but where are these troops
going to come from? The churches? At this point, alas, that’s a sad joke. The ranks of homeschoolers, and other Benedict Optionistas? There aren’t enough of us, and as one Catholic homeschooling mom testified here, it is no guarantee at all. The universities? Come on.
Vermeule wants to flood the USA with third world Catholics, but as Pew has recently shown, they are increasingly less Catholic, so the genius at the law school will simply end up turning America into just another shit-hole.
More here.
Tyler Professor of Law at Harvard calls for swamping America with third world Catholics to obliterate Anglo-Protestant liberalism
Somebody call Orkin quick and send them to 1585 Massachusetts Avenue. Also 1651 and 125 Mount Auburn Street, just to be sure.
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