Tuesday, July 12, 2016
Monday, July 11, 2016
Andrea Leadsom withdraws in Britain, Theresa May to become Conservative Leader and PM by Wednesday
Cynical Brits torpedoed Leadsom by portraying her as someone who thought her traditional role as a mother gave her a leg up over her childless opponent.
Can't have that in queer-friendly England now can we?
Story here.
And yet, 71% think the economy is "rigged"
Discussed here:
No wonder the "rigged economy" has become one of the biggest talking points on the 2016 campaign trail. Bernie Sanders may have started it, but Donald Trump now uses that exact term and Hillary Clinton talks often about how she'll help those "left behind."
Americans have good reason to think this way. The typical middle class family is earning about the same amount of money -- just under $54,000 -- as they did in 1996, once you adjust for inflation.
Gallup: When fooling half the people all the time is good enough
Gallup, here.
Sunday, July 10, 2016
It's hundreds, not thousands, of fringe bad actors organized by Black Lives Matter in major cities committing violence and calling for violent revolution
From the NBC story here:
Around 100 protesters were taken into custody in Saint Paul, while more than 100 people were arrested in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, police in both cities said. ... In Saint Paul, protesters blocked Interstate 94 ... Authorities used smoke bombs when 200 protesters refused to leave the roadway just after midnight. ...
In Baton Rouge, Louisiana, hundreds of protesters gathered ...
Several hundred protesters took to the streets of San Francisco, blocking several roads and ramps to get on and off the Bay Bridge. ...
In central California, several hundred protesters blocked several intersections as they marched against police brutality in central Fresno. ...
In Chicago, hundreds of protesters held demonstrations downtown Saturday, and a group attempted to disrupt the a city-sponsored food and music festival. ...
Hundreds of people also marched in West Palm Beach and Fort Lauderdale Saturday as part of the Black Lives Matter movement ....
A protest march was also held in Philadelphia. "Clearly this is REVOLUTION time. We know this," an organizer wrote on Facebook. Elsewhere in Pennsylvania, several hundred people broke off from Pittsburgh's 200th anniversary parade and marched to a courthouse to denounce the shootings of black men. ...
More than 150 people also gathered in downtown Newport, Rhode Island, in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.
The current very strong El Nino is now 15 months long, averaging 1.45 on the index, and looks about done
This El Nino looks about done, with the last running 3-month mean value coming to just 0.7 on the index. Anything below 0.5 next time will mean we are truly finished with it.
Five months after peak, the fall-off has come to almost 70% of peak value, a little less impressive than the fall-off of over 78% similarly measured for the 1997-98 episode.
The 1997-98 very strong El Nino was 13 months long and averaged 1.56 on the index.
The 1982-83 VSE was 15 months long and averaged 1.33.
The weather will be a changin'.
Saturday, July 9, 2016
Blacks commit homicides at a rate 8x higher than whites, but Hillary says it's whites who need to change
Hillary quoted here:
“I’m going to be talking to white people, we’re the ones who have to start listening to the legitimate cries coming from our African-American fellow citizens,” she said.
US Department of Justice here, reporting on the period 1980-2008:
The offending rate for blacks (34.4 per 100,000) was almost 8 times higher than the rate for whites (4.5 per 100,000).
Loretta Lynch would never say to the Tea Party what she said to her precious protesters: "Don't be discouraged"
Here:
[S]he urged peaceful protesters not to give up.
“I want you to know that your voice is important,” Lynch said Friday during a news conference at the Justice Department. “Do not be discouraged by those who would use your lawful actions as cover for their heinous violence. We will continue to safeguard your constitutional rights and to work with you in the difficult mission of building a better nation and a brighter future.”
Why term limits for political offices in Michigan is wrong-headed
In short because it's harder to hit a moving target. By the time the voters catch on, they're gone.
Hillary Clinton's seven perjuries before Congress: Clinton v Comey July 2016
Clinton: "I did not email any classified material to anyone on my email”.
Comey: “There was classified material emailed".
Clinton: “There was nothing marked classified on my emails, either sent or received”.
Comey: “There were a small number of portion markings on, I think, three of the documents. I don't think that our investigation established she was actually particularly sophisticated with respect to classified information and the levels and treatment. Even if information is not marked ‘classified’ in an email, participants who know or should know that the subject matter is classified are still obligated to protect it".
Clinton: “It [her private e-mail set up] was allowed, but it was not a good choice”.
Comey: “You could be walked out [for that at the FBI] or, depending on the nature of the facts, you could be reprimanded".
Clinton: “I provided the department … with all of my work-related emails, all that I had”.
Clinton: “I thought it would be easier to carry just one device for my work and for my personal emails instead of two”.
Clinton: "“The FBI has the server that was used during the tenure of my State Department service”.
Clinton: “There were no security breaches”.
Comey: "[W]e assess it is possible that hostile actors gained access to Secretary Clinton’s personal email account".
Read the whole thing here at The Hill.
The communist "Party for Socialism and Liberation" infiltrated the protests this week against police brutality
The PSL advocates a revolutionary overthrow of capitalism and introduction of socialism where profit from labor is prohibited.
Has anyone asked whether its violent rhetoric had anything to do with the sniper attacks on the police in Dallas?
Probably not Loretta Lynch.
John Kass declares himself a Clinton loather because being a Clinton hater is just irrational
Here:
Instead, I'm probably something of a Clinton-Loather. Hate is about the loss of control, like the barking of a dog or someone who shrieks into the wind or at a crowd. Loathing takes time and consideration. And I've had years of watching the Clintons lie and dissemble and tell partial truths and get away with it, and take advantage of the principles of honorable men such as James Comey.
Friday, July 8, 2016
Rush Limbaugh brought up Ann Coulter the other day, now appears to be reading her
Here:
RUSH: Say, folks, this one candidate, by the way, who practically every appearance praises the police -- there's one candidate in this presidential campaign, goes out of his way every appearance to acknowledge the police, to thank the police, to ask everybody to express their gratitude to the police. You know who that candidate is? That would be the Trumpster.
Milwaukee County Sheriff Clarke can't wait until Obama's out of office and Trump is president
Dittos, bro.
Here:
“I cannot wait until January 20, 2017 when President Obama leaves the White House for the last time,” Clarke said. “And I hope, I pray that Donald J. Trump becomes the next commander-in-chief because we need a president who is going to stand beside us and support us all across the country unambiguously by the way and we know we’re not going to get that out of Mrs. Bill Clinton. I think the saddest day for law enforcement will be if she were to become the president of the United States.”
Obama inflamed tensions before massacre of police in Dallas by proclaiming there's a conspiracy of racism among cops
Here, yesterday, commenting on the police shootings in Louisiana and Minnesota:
President Barack Obama said Thursday that all Americans should be troubled by recent police shootings, calling on the U.S. to "do better" amid rekindled nationwide debate about the use of force by police.
"These are not isolated incidents. They're symptomatic of a broader set of racial disparities that exist in our criminal justice system," Obama said.
Meanwhile in Chicago to date in 2016 police have shot and killed 4 of 309 total killed in shootings there.
Where's the presidential outrage over the broader set of disparities, huh?
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