Friday, October 20, 2023
Thursday, October 19, 2023
Judge Ann M. Donnelly, appointed by Obama in 2015, sentences "Ricky Vaughn" to 7 months in jail for trying to dupe stupid people on Twitter to vote for Hillary by text message
In the immortal words of Harry Reid, Hillary didn't win, did she.
Thank you, Ricky.
Wednesday, October 18, 2023
Here's a nice picture of Obama and the Nation of Islam's Calypso Louie, just because it's a lousy Wednesday
Calypso Lou, the anti-Jew.
Disgusting New York Times fans the flames against Israel: Simply repeated Palestinian claim of Israeli strike on hospital, changed it to strike on hospital, changed it again to hospital blast
It was an errant malfunctioning Palestinian rocket, one of the thousands Hamas and Islamic Jihad have launched against targets in Israel but which the media do not report.
The number 500 dead is also phony. The claim was made almost immediately after the blast and just keeps getting repeated. There was no count. The place is in chaos. The missile exploded in the parking lot, not on the hospital.
Tuesday, October 17, 2023
Barack Obama, 2015 author of today's moral equivalence on Hamas in the Democrat Party
"Lest we get on our high horse [about ISIS] . . . remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible
deeds in the name of Christ. In our home country, slavery and Jim Crow
all too often was justified in the name of Christ.”
It's still December 2015 when Donald Trump mocked Rand Paul about ISIS: “So they can kill us, but we can’t kill them?”
Paul again condemned Trump’s call to shut down parts of the Internet by arguing that to do so would violate the First Amendment, and he blasted Trump’s call to kill the families of terrorists as a violation of the Geneva Conventions.
“So when you ask yourself, whoever you are that think you’re going to support Donald Trump, think: Do you believe in the Constitution?” Paul said. “Are you going to change the Constitution?”
While Paul spoke, Trump dismissed the senator with a wave of his hand. When it was his turn to respond, Trump said: “So they can kill us, but we can’t kill them? That’s what you’re saying.”
Here.
LOL, there is no Democratic Party unity to crack in the first place when their own president's mind is divided on Gaza
Dem unity cracking on Israel-Gaza conflict...
Biden warns Israel against occupying Gaza as ground invasion appears near
Biden is throwing a bone to his Hamas wing, that's all. Pure politics, not principle.
Breaking from The Hamas/BLM News division at The Hill: Israeli babies die in hand-to-hand combat
Harvard BA, JD
Briahna Joy Gray, co-host of The Hill’s online morning show Rising, has drawn fire from staffers at the Beltway political outlet for what some describe as her “pro-Hamas” and “fringe” commentary. ...
“We also have to hold space for 140 Palestinian children who have been killed in this last weekend of conflict,” Gray said on Wednesday. “And it is awful, even if we don’t have the same images of them and even if they were killed from bombs from the sky instead of in hand-to-hand combat.”
More.
Economic model lol: Argentina has defaulted, what, nine times since 1816?
Frontrunner threatening to upend economic model...
Oh yeah. That would be horrible.
Monday, October 16, 2023
Sunday, October 15, 2023
Alfredo Ortiz for The Messenger discovers that permanently higher food prices are sticking it to consumers
He points to food prices having gone up about 20% since Biden took office, here, because this index is up that much since Biden took office. He wonders why food prices are actually up much more than that.
He obviously doesn't understand how this works.
On a quarterly measure, and year over year, the increases for this index are as follows after Biden taking office in 1Q2021:
2Q2021 0.9%
3Q 3.3%
4Q 6.1%
1Q2022 8.7%
2Q 11.6%
3Q 13.2%
4Q 12.1%
1Q2023 9.9%
2Q 5.9%
3Q 3.0%.
Assume the worst example from the shopper's list:
"A pound of turkey breast went from $3.14 to $6.72, a 114% increase" from late 2020 until now.
$3.14 goes to $3.17 in 2Q2021, and so on down the list until you come up with $6.41 by 3Q2023, pretty close to the $6.72 from the example. Remember this index is for all food at home, not turkey specifically nor any other individual food item. Some food prices go up more than others.
There's actually a turkey index. It's up a whopping 214%, not 20%. The shopper could be paying a lot more than $6.72 right now. Year over year prices were up 20% in 2021, and 72% in 2022 in the wake of an avian flu epidemic which wiped out the supply. In the first half of 2023 prices were up another 47% year over year.
Unless there's actual deflation in overall food prices, that is, sustained negative year over year reports instead of quarterly increase yoy after quarterly increase, higher prices are here to stay.
Joe Biden advisor Annie Tomasini inventoried Joe Biden's classified documents 20 months before Joe Biden said he discovered them, oops
Jonathan Turley here.
Rep. James Comer, here, as of August 8th has a letter from a Penn Biden Center employee indicating:
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March 18, 2021 – Annie Tomasini (Assistant to the President and Senior Advisor to the President and Director of Oval Office Operations) went to Penn Biden Center to take inventory of President Biden’s documents and materials.
Dingbat Mary Trump for all you physics fans lol
The next panelist I had only ever seen in heavily photoshopped headshots. Mary Trump, the anti-Trump author and psychologist, looks so much like her uncle Donald under the stage lights it is hard to concentrate on what she's saying. That's just as well, because it's getting late and the self-avowed expert on Trump's "physic energy" has just repeated her baseless accusation that the former president enabled the Hamas atrocities in Israel.
Here.
Saturday, October 14, 2023
New Zealanders and Americans were vaccinated at about 84% and 81% of population respectively, but Americans died of COVID-19 at a rate 6 times higher
And no one seems to be the slightest bit interested in how or why.
It's a scandal.
Meanwhile a so-called conservative coalition has now taken over in New Zealand after Jacinda Ardern resigned earlier this year.
Average ACT college admission test scores drop to lowest level in more than 30 years, 19.5 out of 36, just 21% of test-takers are college material
You can throw all the billions you want at educating the masses, but you still can't make a purse out of a sow's ear.
A sane country would train the other 79% for careers which don't require college, but ours is not a sane country, otherwise we wouldn't have 1:1 ratios of administrators to students all over the place. College is producing some mighty fine jobs for the education industry and for the 20% who belong there, but God help you if you borrowed money to learn that one day you will die.
When I was a kid the unemployed PhD was the joke. Now it's the unemployed BA. You can see where this is going.
But maybe not.
The Morning Call had the story here.
How Kevin McCarthy was like Obamacare
Republicans repealed him but didn't have a replacement.
Scalise drops speaker bid as House devolves into further turmoil...
Rep. Jim Jordan nominated for House speaker, but falls short of votes needed...
Friday, October 13, 2023
Thursday, October 12, 2023
The Hamas Squad in Congress takes incoming for justifying atrocities against Israel, especially AOC
. . . after mounting pressure, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.)
condemned the “bigotry and callousness” at a pro-Palestinian rally
aligned with the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) in New York
City. ...
In a sign of the growing pressure on progressives, Ocasio-Cortez earlier this week criticized the DSA-aligned rally in New York City’s Times Square, a stance that came after she was chided for supporting a ceasefire.
The rally, which was held in support of Palestinians, drew swift rebukes from leaders across the political spectrum. Ocasio-Cortez, whose district is not far from where the protests were held, eventually released a statement condemning it.
Here.
The US Senate's stupidest man pretends that the federal government isn't open only from 9-4 and isn't closed every weekend
You know, before the government almost shut down, it came down to a couple hours. I was in my office and they finally came over from the House and they were like okay, well, this has to be unanimous in the Senate. Out of 99 of us, if one single one of us would've said no, the whole government would have shut down.
Wednesday, October 11, 2023
Tuesday, October 10, 2023
Never forget that the Baptist Jimmy Carter called for accepting the legitimacy of Hamas in 2014, but Hamas' solution has always been one state, not two
As if there were any doubt any longer.
Here:
And the US and EU should recognise that Hamas is not just a military force but also a political one.
It cannot be wished away, nor will it cooperate in its own demise. Only by recognising its legitimacy as a political actor – one that represents a substantial portion of the Palestinian people – can the west begin to provide the right incentives for Hamas to lay down its weapons. Ever since the internationally monitored 2006 elections that brought Hamas to power in Palestine, the west’s approach has manifestly contributed to the opposite result. Ultimately, however, lasting peace depends on the creation of a Palestinian state next to Israel.
The president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Albert Mohler, condemned Carter at the time.
The Lutheran World Federation engages in reprehensible moral equivalence between Hamas and Israel
The Lutherans are "deeply concerned":
(LWI] – The Lutheran World Federation is deeply concerned about the attacks of Hamas on towns and the civilian population in Israel, and the subsequent actions of the Israeli army, which have claimed lives on both sides, and led to injury and mayhem in an already volatile region.
They condemn nothing.
The international justice committee of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops can't bring itself to mention Hamas, let alone condemn it
What a worthless lot they are.
"Launched from Gaza". By whom?
"On all sides" = moral equivalence for the animals of Hamas.
What's important is "the status quo of the holy places", not that defenceless Jews were literally butchered by the hundreds.
They want no war in response to war. All the Jews would die, then. Is that what Catholics really want?
“On October 7, the Feast of the Most Holy Rosary, the world watched the operation launched from Gaza and the rapid call to arms from Israel that ensued. Almost 50 years to the day of the launch of the 1973 Arab–Israeli War, once again war is spilling out in the Holy Land. With it brings the mounting casualties and hostilities unfolding on all sides, and increased threats to the Status Quo of the Holy Places among Jews, Muslims, and Christians further dimming any hope for peace.
“The world is once again shocked and horrified by the outbreak of ferocious violence in the Holy Land. Reports have surfaced indicating large numbers of wounded and dead, including many civilians.
“I join with Pope Francis in his call for peace and his condemnation of this widespread outbreak of violence. As he stated in his Sunday audience, ‘May the attacks and weaponry cease. Please! And let it be understood that terrorism and war do not lead to any resolutions, but only to the death and suffering of so many innocent people.’
“May all who love the Holy Land seek to bring about among all the parties engaged in the fighting a cessation of violence, respect for civilian populations and the release of hostages.
“As we pray urgently for peace, we recall especially all the families and individuals suffering from these events. We call on the faithful, and all people of good will to not grow weary and to continue to pray for peace in the land Our Lord, the Prince of Peace, called home.”
Here.
ADL complains Jews are just chopped liver to the American left compared to blacks
But where are the university presidents who gave clear statements about
all these other causes that mattered, Black Lives Matter . . .?
Why are they silent on dead Jews? Why is my inbox empty with messages from CEOs from major religious movements?
Why are they silent on dead Jews? Why is my inbox empty with messages from CEOs from major religious movements?
The gas and electric utility Consumers Energy here in Michigan is price gouging under Green Energy Joe, yours probably is too
Compared to November 2020, my new budget plan payment for combined natural gas and electric for the coming winter will be 42% higher than it was three years ago, despite the fact that natural gas prices have normalized almost to the penny.
Electricity is up 25% since Green Energy Joe got elected and isn't coming down, but that can't account for it since I consume far less electricity than natural gas on an average basis. More than 65% of my energy consumption in kWh is from natural gas in the last year, as it is every year, less than 35% is from electricity.
A 25% increase to 35% of my old bill would result in a total payment today less than 9% higher. Instead it's 42% higher.
Remember that the utility uses natural gas to generate the electricity, too, and it's paying normal prices today for the gas, not the inflated prices of the recent past.
There's no excuse for the extra cost I'm paying.
The utility is price gouging.
31 Harvard University organizations sign letter holding Israel entirely responsible for Hamas' attack
“We, the undersigned student organizations, hold the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all the unfolding violence.” ...
[Larry] Summers tweeted: “In nearly 50 years of @Harvard affiliation, I have never been as disillusioned and alienated as I am today.”
Recent Harvard graduate, gun control activist, and president of Leaders We Deserve David Hogg has absolutely nothing to say about hundreds of slaughtered, gunless Israelis on his feed.
He is indeed the Leader We Deserve from America's premier university.
Monday, October 9, 2023
Americans have been killed by Hamas in Israel, Israel's ambassador says Americans have been taken hostage, but Joe Biden has nothing to say today
"We have reports that several Americans may be among the dead. We are very actively working to verify those reports," the U.S. secretary of state said on "Meet the Press." ...
Meanwhile, in an interview on CBS' "Face the Nation," the Israeli ambassador to the U.S., Michael Herzog, indicated that Americans are among Hamas’ hostages.
Sunday, October 8, 2023
Saturday, October 7, 2023
John Judis finds 49% of adults now identify as independent, 25% Democrat and 25% Republican
From 31%, 35%, and 33% respectively two decades ago.
Growing percentages of the electorate are alienated from both parties.
OMG, the primus refers to the singular bloody dictator Augustus Caesar, the pares to the supine aristocrats of the Roman Senate whom he had subdued by murder
Joe Lonsdale, here:
The founders set up a country in which aristoi would rule alongside and with the people, first among equals, primus inter pares, but not over them in the monarchical or oligarchic sense. Nobody would have a permanent or divine right to rule in the United States. The founders had had a sense of duty to rule honorably, and a sense of humility that their governance wasn’t an end in itself — but a means of preserving the rights of the people to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
This man is a small sea of confusion, who writes that aristocracy is "rule by the few".
The oligarchs laugh at Fugazius.
Um, excuse me, America was founded by people who had given up . . .
. . . on England, and on Ireland, Germany, Italy, and the rest.
The libertarian impulse to go Galt, to run away, is a feature of America, not a bug, a built-in self-destruct mechanism which went off most spectacularly and destroyed the root in 1861.
The rest of the plant has been withering and dying on the vine ever since, overtaken by tenacious weeds.
Freedom for Christian religion combined with plenty of Lebensraum, home country memory, and time made it seem otherwise in the face of the steady decline, but here we are with Scylla and Charybdis for choices come November 2024.
The Declaration of Independence was a repudiation of politics. Two thirds of the country was not down for the struggle. Secession was a repudiation of politics. There was resistance to military conscription everywhere, but especially in the Confederacy. We were content to let the world burn for more than two years before the Japs forced our hand on December 7, 1941. We have right now the unthinkable European land war in its 20th month and sports is what trends on Twitter day in and day out. Mao killed by the tens of millions during The American Century. Americans quietly go to church every Sunday while tens of millions are aborted. It all began with migration, the most basic form of repudiating politics.
We do not need, in short, to relearn to think politically. Most of us have never thought politically in the first place. Apolitics is our politics, but this horror vacui is why the left seems to have won and why we hate them. We hate politics. As polarized as we think we are, as rigged as our politics is, 100 million eligible Americans still did not vote in 2020.
You do not get political blood from this turnip.
Ultimately, nothing could be more un-American than to give up on America.
The American idea, alas, is precisely to stay out of it.
Here.
Friday, October 6, 2023
Nature is self-correcting
A study published in the European Journal of Endocrinology showed that all trans people were at a “significantly higher risk” of a host of serious and potentially deadly medical conditions, including heart attacks and strokes.
More.
LOL: Biden promised in 2020 that there would not be another foot of wall built under his administration
The campaign ads for Trump write themselves.
What Henry Cuellar doesn't appreciate is that the illegal aliens have a 4 million year old solution called walking
In the Grauniad, here:
“A border wall is a 14th-century solution to a 21st-century problem,” the Democratic Texas congressman Henry Cuellar said. “It will not bolster border security in Starr county.
Full time employment remained strong in September 2023 at 50.3% of population
Full time also still averages 50.3% for the first nine months of 2023.
Recession delayed, again.
Compare previous full year averages:
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