Sunday, August 16, 2015
Donald Trump threatens with a big stick, invokes Generals MacArthur and Patton this morning on NBC's Meet the Press
Here:
"General MacArthur, General Patton, they didn't talk, they got the job done. ... They're spinning in their graves when they see everybody talking."
Saturday, August 15, 2015
Donald Trump said Chris Wallace had "blood pouring out of his eyes too" in the same interview about Megyn Kelly
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| Inquiring minds want to know: How much of Washington D.C. can he fire? |
But you didn't know about that because the subsequent coverage made it all about Megyn Kelly.
Here's the full interview with Don Lemon on CNN and Trump says that at about 4:55 in.
So clearly what's on Donald Trump's mind in characterizing the debate is the mercenary character of the debate moderators, and he was completely within reason to suggest that different interpretations emanated from deviant thinking.
h/t Jim Goad here: "Why place things in context when there’s an agenda to pursue?"
New US oil swap with Mexico gives them light sweet crude, us heavier grades bypassing refinery mismatch
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.
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."
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