That's how important, serious and grave impeachment is to Democrats.
Friday, November 1, 2019
Whistleblower was sent packing from the White House in 2017 because he was believed to be the leaker plaguing the administration at the time
Once again it's all about personnel, which continues to bite Trump in the ass.
Fire the sons of bitches already!
NSC official Tim Morrison: Trump-Ukraine phone call transcript accurately and completely reflects the substance of the call
“I want to be clear, I was not concerned that anything illegal was discussed,” former NSC Senior Director for European Affairs Tim Morrison testified today, according to a record of his remarks obtained by The Federalist.
More here.
Paul Sperry identifies so-called whistleblower, links him to DNC Ukraine colluder Alexandra Chalupa, puts her at Obama's White House in November 2015, much earlier than previously admitted
And Ciaramella worked with a Democratic National Committee operative who dug up dirt on the Trump campaign during the 2016 election, inviting her into the White House for meetings, former White House colleagues said. The operative, Alexandra Chalupa, a Ukrainian-American who supported Hillary Clinton, led an effort to link the Republican campaign to the Russian government. “He knows her. He had her in the White House,” said one former co-worker, who requested anonymity to discuss the sensitive matter.
Documents confirm the DNC opposition researcher attended at least one White House meeting with Ciaramella in November 2015. She visited the White House with a number of Ukrainian officials lobbying the Obama administration for aid for Ukraine. ...
In his complaint, the whistleblower charged that the president used “the power of his office to solicit interference from a foreign country in the 2020 U.S. election.” Specifically, he cited a controversial July 25 phone call from the White House residence in which Trump asked Ukraine’s new president to help investigate the origins of the Russia “collusion” investigation the Obama administration initiated against his campaign, citing reports that “a lot of it started with Ukraine," where the former pro-Hillary Clinton regime in Kiev worked with Obama diplomats and Chalupa to try to “sabotage” Trump’s run for president.
More here.
Full time employment is still abnormally low in the eighth year of painfully slow recovery
On an average basis through October 2019, just 50.37% of civilian noninstitutional population works full time.
A simple return to the rate of 51.3% which still prevailed throughout 2008, before the black communist got elected and scared employers half to death, would mean almost 3 million more working full time at current population level than do.
It took Reagan only three years to dig out of similar depths to which we sank in 2009, 2010 and 2011, but here we are in the eighth year of recovery and can't crack 50.5%.
Pathetic.
Climate update for Grand Rapids, Michigan, October 2019: Really wet and not so hot
2019 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, is already the 11th wettest year on record through October, displacing 2018 from that rank.
Precipitation to date is already 44.71 inches when long term mean to date is just 29.48 inches.
On the summer heat front 2019 was nothing like 2018, which was the 7th warmest summer on record.
Cooling Degree Days to date come in at 742 compared with the long term mean to date of 699, about 6.2% above the mean. The record hot summer was in 1921 with 1200 CDD, with the record cool summer in 1992 with just 316 CDD. 2018 CDD came in at 1003.
On the winter cold side of things, while 2018-19 was utterly normal (6722 vs. mean 6705), the 2019-20 season is starting off with Heating Degree Days over 12% below the mean. Most of that was due to September average temperature exceeding the mean average by 3.6 degrees F. Long term mean HDD in September is 134 but came in at just 45.
Grand Rapids, MI, Climate Update October 2019
Max temp 77, mean max 79
Min temp 31, mean min 28
Av temp 50.2, mean av 51.3
Precip 7.13, mean 3.03
CDD 8, mean 9
CDD to date 742, mean to date 699
HDD 459, mean 424
HDD to date (July-Oct) 512, mean to date 585
Snow 0.3, mean 0.4
Grand Rapids, MI, Climate Update September 2019
Max temp 88, mean max 88
Min temp 48, mean min 37
Av temp 66.4, mean av 62.8
Precip 7.32, mean 3.6
CDD 92, mean 76
HDD 45, mean 134
The House impeachment inquiry, which is already being conducted in secret and restricts Republican involvement, was finally authorized but on entirely partisan grounds, by Democrats
232 YEAS (all Democrats plus Justin Amash, the libertarian nutjob from my district in Michigan), 196 NAYS (194 Republicans plus 2 Democrats), and 4 NOT VOTING (3 Republicans plus 1 Democrat: A personal family emergency, the death of a father, and the call of military duty kept the three Republicans away from the vote; the lone Democrat not voting is recovering from surgery).
YEAS included sexual predator Katie Hill of California, who formally resigns her seat in the US House as of today, and candidate for president Army Major Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii.
Thursday, October 31, 2019
This Ann Coulter mistake usefully focuses attention on the fact that Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii could have been Democrat no. 3 to vote against impeachment proceedings, but wasn't
Let the enthusiasm for Tulsi on the right end there.
Tulsi may carry herself like a senator, but really there's no there there if she cannot see that the Democrat alternatives for president are more insane than Trump.
Maybe Tulsi could learn something over a leisurely dinner with Mattress Girl.
Wednesday, October 30, 2019
Tuesday, October 29, 2019
Alexander Vindman is a Ukrainian-American who thinks Ukraine should be NATO's spearhead poking Putin's ass
Go ahead and impeach Trump over a foreign policy difference. That's what this whole thing has been about from the beginning anyway. Hillary Clinton, DNC, John McCain, Neo-con NeverTrump, the whole lot of them hate Trump for this. The American people decided otherwise in 2016. It's their foreign policy Vindman and the rest want to impeach. GFY!
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.
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