Trump first with 50%.
Cruz second with nearly 13%.
Carson narrowly third with 8% followed closely by Rubio.
Friday, August 7, 2015
Thursday, August 6, 2015
Governors Christie, Jindal, Perry and Walker allowed establishment of sanctuary cities in their states
So says The Washington Times here:
"[A]t least four Republican governors running for president next year ... have had cities and counties declare “sanctuary” during their tenure, without suffering the dire consequences the candidates now say the federal government should bring to bear on recalcitrant jurisdictions."
Wednesday, August 5, 2015
Tuesday, August 4, 2015
Defunding Planned Parenthood fails in the Senate thanks to Democrats, but Republicans Mitch McConnell and Mark Kirk are also to blame with Lindsey Graham a no show
The roll call vote is here. Three Republicans broke ranks in the 53-46-1 outcome:
Lindsey Graham was a worthless no show, running for president. Ha ha.
Mitch McConnell the Senate Majority Leader should lose his job for voting No.
And Mark Kirk is going to lose to Tammy Duckworth in Illinois next year anyway so he had nothing to lose by voting No.
60 votes were needed to end government funding of the baby butchers, to whom most Democrats pledged allegiance except for Donnelly in Indiana and Manchin in West Virginia, stand up guys who voted No.
Monday, August 3, 2015
Ben Carson: Because of Trump's candidacy fewer people are talking about my lack of political experience
Yeah, well, because Barack Obama is such a terrible president fewer people are talking about how bad Jimmy Carter was.
Ben Carson, quoted here:
"It’s a tremendous aid because fewer people are talking about my lack of political experience now."
Trump: What Hillary Clinton did was absolutely illegal
Quoted here:
"[W]hat she did was absolutely, in my opinion, illegal and I don't think she's going to be allowed to run if they have a prosecutor who's going to be honorable because if you look at Gen. Petraeus, what he did is nothing compared to what she's done. And his life is in ruins."
Newt Gingrich agrees Hillary Clinton should be in jail already
Here:
"She's a disaster because of arrogance and what Trump said was right... If you look at how they treated General Petraeus and you look at what she did with her emails, in any other circumstance she'd be going to jail, not the White House."
EuroGroup president Jeroen Dijsselbloem gets a new name: Lightweight Weaselbloom
Yanis Varoufakis, quoted here:
'In the full transcript published on his blog, Varoufakis also laid into the Eurogroup president, Dutch Finance Minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem, saying he was key to the Greek deal “not just because he is so intellectually lightweight but, primarily, because he is untrustworthy. For example, he chose to lie to me in my first Eurogroup about procedure. It is one thing to disagree with the Eurogroup president. It is quite another thing to have him lie to you about gravely important procedures.”'
Sunday, August 2, 2015
Drudge excludes No. 2 Walker and No. 9 Kasich from headline photo, includes Pataki whose poll numbers don't even register
And Fiorina and Graham don't even poll 1% on average. Where's the love, man?
CO2 is irrelevant to temperature change: Temperature has been in decline since the late Bronze Age 3200 years ago
Atmospheric CO2 remained stable for most of human history before the last 200 years, "hovering between about 275 and 285 ppm". Nevertheless temperatures were much higher in the past than now and have steadily declined over time even as CO2 has just lately risen.
James Galbraith defends Yanis Varoufakis
“I've never seen anyone work so hard or so selflessly on behalf of his country”.
James K. Galbraith, University of Texas, quoted here on Yanis Varoufakis.
Saturday, August 1, 2015
Maureen Dowd: Hillary's private server a metaphor for the paranoid style
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| The liberal Pot calling the Conservative kettle black. |
"Her strategists worry about surveys showing that voters do not trust her. But her private server is a metaphor for her own lack of trust and a guarded, suspicious mind-set that lands her in needless messes."
July 2015 average temperature anomaly for Grand Rapids, MI is 1.7 degrees F below normal
The July 2015 temperature anomaly for Grand Rapids, MI at 1.7 degrees F below normal means the cumulative anomaly for 2015 increases to 21.4 degrees F below normal from 19.7 degrees F below normal through June and 18.0 degrees F below normal through May.
For a warming planet, we're doing nothing in Grand Rapids this summer to erase the negative average temperature anomaly . . . but there's always August if you are a grower, or hope if you're a warmist.
The total temperature anomaly for 2014 in GR was 30.3 degrees F below normal, a little over 2.5 degrees on average per month.
The significance of that may be lost on you, but here in Michigan a couple of degrees makes all the difference between being Michigan and being Wisconsin. On the other side of Lake Michigan at this latitude, average temperature is historically two degrees colder than here on average. There they are exposed to the cold drying winds which come off the plains in winter. Here we have the warming effect of Lake Michigan in winter as it gives off its heat and the attendant snows, unless it's frozen solid like a brick. And that makes all the difference to berry, grape, apple and other growers who proliferate on the warmer side of the lake and depend on the warmth and the snow cover to protect their plants.
Friday, July 31, 2015
It takes a lunatic to know a lunatic: Rand Paul says Trump supporters have lost their minds
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| Look who's crazy now. |
Seen here:
"I think this is a temporary sort of loss of sanity. But we're going to come back our senses and look for somebody serious to lead the country at some point," he said.
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This from the guy who imagined the Republican Party was ready to become a more self-consciously libertarian big tent party. Rand Paul is currently running a distant seventh for the Republican nomination with 5.5% support.
Greek PM Alexis Tsipras proves once again he's a stand up guy, says he directed Yanis Varoufakis to develop Plan B
The Telegraph reports here:
'This morning, Alexis Tsipras has come out in defence of Yanis Varoufakis. The PM has spoken about the plans the former finance minster was in charge of, to look into developing a parallel payments system, in public for the first time. He has confirmed he had full knowledge of the blueprint, and ordered Mr Varoufakis to take charge. But he denies that they amounted to a full blown "Grexit" plan.'
Yanis Varoufakis, the former Finance Minister, previously in parliament had stood up for Tsipras by reluctantly and surprisingly voting Yes to proceed with the EuroGroup Summit plan Tsipras had agreed to in Brussels.
Perhaps now parliament will abandon, as it should, any effort to prosecute Varoufakis who like every other member enjoys immunity.
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