According to the story here, perhaps as many as 100,000 barrels a day of light sweet US crude oil will head south to Mexican refineries in exchange for heavier grades for which US Gulf refineries are a better match.
Saturday, August 15, 2015
Rand Paul and Chris Christie, Nos. 8 & 9 in the polls, attack No. 1 Donald Trump
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| He's a lumberjack . . . he's OK |
Rand Paul mocked Trump here in the middle of the week while affecting the country style, promptly fleeing the country to do a medical mission in Haiti this weekend. Not quite the same stuff as suspending the campaign to go to Washington to vote for bailouts like McCain did in 2008, but combined with his record of disdain for fundraising and his reaction to the legal trouble hitting his campaign team just before the Ohio debate, running away is what it looks like. Bad optics, so to speak.
And speaking of bad optics, an unsuited Chris Christie here called The Donald unsuited to be the president while wearing a pastel sport shirt, saying a President Trump simply can't tell Speaker Boehner he's fired. Well, not dressed like that.
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| Easter's over governor |
Friday, August 14, 2015
Greeks pass third draconian austerity/bailout package 222 to 64 with 11 abstentions
Looks like Alexis Tsipras' Syriza MPs defected in a big way: 32 No votes this time with 11 abstentions and 1 absent. This could prove fatal to Tsipras' continuance as Prime Minister. The Syriza coalition of the Left with 149 members partners with Independents with 12 in the 300 seat parliament. Tsipras' core support in parliament appears to have fallen to 39%.
The "erratic Marxist" Yanis Varoufakis voted No, after voting Yes and No previously, and reportedly offered to resign his seat so that Tsipras may appoint a reliable vote to replace him.
The Guardian has full coverage here.
Thursday, August 13, 2015
Trump's Real Clear Politics poll average drops because Real Clear dropped the CBS poll
I took a screen shot of the poll average this morning at 9:32 thinking Real Clear Politics would replace the CBS poll it dropped, which reduced Trump's lead, but so far today RCP has not done so. Trump goes from 22.8 to 22.5 in the average as a result, and in the spread from 10.8 to 10.7. Did Real Clear Politics change the order also to deceive?
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| Here's the last average including the CBS News poll |
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| Here's the average today with CBS News poll removed |
Tuesday, August 11, 2015
Monday, August 10, 2015
Japan will finally restart one nuclear power reactor tomorrow after 4-year shutdown since Fukushima accident
Reported here:
Japan's 48 functioning reactors have largely been shut since the catastrophe at Tokyo Electric Power Company's Fukushima Daiichi plant in 2011, one of the world's worst nuclear disasters.
Kyushu's Sendai reactor is one of at least 25 expected to restart over the course of the next decade as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe aims for nuclear power to generate 20-22 percent of the country's electricity by 2030, compared to 30 percent before the nuclear closures. Another 20 reactors are in various stages of the restart process, according to the Nuclear Energy Institute.
Megyn Kelly the vampire: blood coming out of her eyes and her wherever
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| Beauty is a witch against whose charms faith melted into blood. |
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| He tells her something that makes her blood look out. |
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| Many will swoon when they do look on blood. |
John Kasich supports amnesty for illegals just like Jeb Bush, and Rubio and Walker formerly did but triangulated after being chastened
Reported here in The Wall Street Journal in
"Kasich Backs Path to Legal Status for Undocumented Immigrants: Republican presidential candidate also calls for a guest worker program".
Notice the redefinition of terms we've seen before from countless others. Illegal immigrants are now just undocumented. The idea that we should let "law abiding" people cut in line ignores the fact that they cut in line, that they are already not law abiding people.
Meanwhile a guest worker program supplants millions of already unemployed American citizens and drives down wages for Americans.
Kasich. Going. Nowhere. Fast.
The whopper of the day is from Jennifer Rubin: "The last thing Roger Ailes and company want is to see Trump disappear"
Jennifer Rubin in a piece of agitprop in WaPo here, the same person who told us last December that traditional conservatives, not libertarians, would have the upper hand in the GOP primary.
They do, so far, and boy is she unhappy about it.
Borders, law and order, respect for American power abroad and jobs for American citizens at home are the front-runner's winning themes.
Which is why libertarians, "a small percent of the electorate", are trying to destroy Donald Trump.
Sunday, August 9, 2015
Erick Erickson's cheap grace on display: Red State endorsed Alaska Democrats in 2008 and then changed the headline saying so
Here.
And here's the original url showing that's the case:
http://www.redstate.com/diary/The_Directors/2008/10/27/redstate-endorses-mark-begich-democrat-for-s/
It's an old story but just reinforces how Erickson and Red State think that issuing an apology for calling Judge Souter a goat-fucking child molester or changing a headline offensive to pro-lifers is sufficient to show "repentance" or in turn makes one "acceptable" again. More to the point, we could have used the tarnished Stevens' vote against Obamacare in the US Senate in 2010, but Red State would rather punish the country with horrible Democrat legislation than rely on a pro-abortion Republican to stop it.
Straight out of the cheap grace library of evangelicalism, and the loony bin of fanatical politics.
Maybe Erick Erickson can spend some time studying up on the former now that he's in seminary, but for the latter there is no cure.
New York Times and CNBC twist Donald Trump 3rd party statement into threat
Trump said, quoted here:
"If I'm treated fairly by the Republicans, and I don't win, I'm not going to go into doing the third party," Mr. Trump said in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press."
The CNBC headline twists this to
"Trump: Treat me 'fairly' or I'll run 3rd party"
based on The New York Times twisting Trump's statement in the lede:
'A defiant Donald J. Trump suggested on Sunday that he had been singled out for attacks by the hosts of Thursday's Republican presidential debate and again threatened a third-party White House bid if he was not treated "reasonably fairly" by party leaders.'
Trump said if he's treated fairly and loses he WON'T run third party.
The real story here is that Megyn Kelly and Bret Baier had their marching orders from Rupert Murdoch to destroy the anti-free-trader and anti-amnesty Trump in order to make sure a pliant candidate wins the Republican nomination who will do the bidding of the libertarians who have overseen the export of American jobs and the dilution of middle class earning power by importing cheap foreign labor.
Ireland experienced its coldest July since 1988
Reported here:
"Met Eireann's review of July showed it to be cold, wet and windy everywhere with Claremorris, Co Mayo, the coldest since 1965 while Cork Airport, Johnstown Castle, Co Wexford, Mullingar, Co Westmeath and Shannon Airport all reporting their coldest July since 1988.
"Average temperatures were one degree lower than normal right across the country with spots like Markree Castle in Sligo as much as 2.1C below the usual. ...
"Dublin Airport's lowest of 3.9C was recorded on July 15 and turned out to be the lowest temperature on record since the station opened in 1942."
Immigration squish Scott Walker calls Hillary Clinton foreign policy mush
Allahpundit, here, last February:
"So Walker does support comprehensive immigration reform — although we already knew that, given that he was willing to endorse a path to citizenship for illegals on camera as recently as two years ago, when he was already surely thinking of running in 2016. Curiously for a guy who’s running as a conservative hero, he really makes no bones about being an immigration squish."
Scott Walker here yesterday:
“Under Obama and Clinton Putin has found far too many years of mush."
"Everywhere in the world that she has touched is more messed up today than it was when she and the president took office."
Saturday, August 8, 2015
Erick Erickson disinvites Donald Trump, replaces with Bloody Megyn Kelly
Story here:
"I’m not going to have a guy on stage with my wife and daughter in the crowd who thinks a tough question from a woman is because of hormones."
How to make Mexicans pay for the fence, and illegal aliens generally self-deport
Charles C. Johnson has a great idea, here:
"[T]here’s a simple way to get them all to go home: Tax the money they
send back to the home country. One in nine Guatemalans are in the U.S.,
and they sent $4 billion back in 2010. Remittances are big money for
most of Central America. ... The illegals borrowing $5,000 in high-interest debt to
finance their smuggling on a $1,500 income
would think twice if we taxed their ill-gotten gains. Some might even
self-deport or, better yet, refuse to come in the first place. Indeed,
without the $20 billion a year Mexicans in America send home, Mexico would be even more messed up.
"Other countries already tax their foreigners. Why can’t we? We could
even use that taxed remittance money to pay off some of the costs we
incur from illegal aliens—and build that danged fence."
Friday, August 7, 2015
Fox News didn't want Repubicans to discuss the economy and jobs last night because that didn't fit Fox News' agenda
Jim Tankersley noticed the glaring omission from last night's Republican debate, here:
Polls continue to show that Americans care more about the economy than any other election issue. Fox News moderators noted that they had received more than 3,000 economy-themed questions on Facebook before the debate. Which is why it's so baffling that neither the questioners nor most candidates seemed eager to talk about growth, jobs and - as Republicans have been promising to do all election cycle - America's beleaguered working class. ...
"Way too little discussion" of economic growth, the conservative commentator Larry Kudlow tweeted after the prime-time debate ended. "If you're one of the 65 percent of Americans who think the U.S. is on the wrong track," said James Pethokoukis, a conservative writer for the American Enterprise Institute who has pushed Republican candidates to address worker angst, "what have these debates offered?"
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Obviously the economy and jobs didn't fit Fox News' agenda last night, which was to destroy the candidacy of Donald Trump, who has pledged to end the flood of illegal immigration stealing Americans' jobs, end the farce of free-trade and become the greatest jobs president the country has ever seen.
Fox News, like The Wall Street Journal, is owned by the open borders, free-trade libertarian Rupert Murdoch. It has its marching orders. And every candidate who takes money from the libertarian Koch brothers has his and is similarly beholden to the same ideology which demands the cheapest labor possible in service of the almighty bottom line, not in service of the country's citizens. The involvement of Facebook and Debbie Washerwoman Schultz of the DNC were just the bow around the illegal alien amnesty package.
And that's why Donald Trump scares the crap out of them and must be destroyed:
He doesn't need their money to run for president, and won't do their bidding when he wins.
Obama's horrible, awful full-time jobs record
The numbers are out this morning and they are not pretty.
Full-time jobs for July 2015 registered at 123.142 million in the report today, not seasonally adjusted. The previous high for the measure was set, wait for it, way back in July 2007 at 123.219 million.
That means full-time jobs still have not recovered to the peak level set eight years ago. Examine the record of recessions since 1969 and you will see that full-time jobs always have bounced back to pre-recession levels after two to three years ... until now.
In fact there are today still 77,000 FEWER full-time jobs than there were eight summers ago. That means it will likely take until next summer to surmount the 2007 peak. That'll make it nine years, versus two to three normally.
Yes, there are 2.4 million more jobs today than there were eight years ago, but they are all part-time: 26.6 million part-time now vs. 24.1 million then, for an increase of 2.5 million part-time. Subtract the decline in full-time and you arrive at just 2.4 million more net jobs in eight years while the population has grown by 19 million.
Obama crows about the all the jobs he's created, but only out of the depths of their decline which he oversaw and did nothing to stop. Full-time jobs fell in a panic by 6 million in the three months from his election in 2008 to his inauguration in 2009, and by another 5 million in the next year.
Arguably all those jobs went away out of fear over what Obama would do to the economy, which after six full years of his maladministration has grown at its slowest pace in the post-war and 26% worse than for the same period under George W. Bush, a surprising outcome considering that there was nowhere to go but up once the economy had crashed.
If the Obama rate of GDP growth from the first six years of his tenure is sustained through the end of it, Obama GDP will underperform the previously worst record of George W. Bush by over 20%. And more than likely, full-time jobs will continue to suffer as a result.
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