Wednesday, May 16, 2018
Tuesday, May 15, 2018
Tom Wolfe, the Black Panthers' (and Leonard Bernstein's) great deflator, is dead
From the obituary, here:
“Do Panthers like little Roquefort cheese morsels rolled on crushed nuts this way, and asparagus tips in mayonnaise dabs, and meatballs petites au Coq Hardi, all of which are at the very moment being offered to them on gadrooned silver platters by maids in black uniforms with hand-ironed white aprons?,” Mr. Wolfe wrote, outraging liberals and Panthers alike.
When a Time reporter asked a minister for the Black Panthers to comment on the accuracy of Mr. Wolfe’s account, he said, “You mean that dirty, blatant, lying, racist dog who wrote that fascist disgusting thing in New York magazine?”
I'm sure that's included in the obit for a reason.
Democrats: Happy to outsource average Americans' jobs while finger-wagging them for failure to evolve on social codes
An MBA student from MIT writes for The New Republic, here, that B-schools are full-up with such Democrat voters:
Electorally, MBA students have become something of a voting bloc. In the 2016 presidential election, Harvard Business School polled students on their choice of candidate. A full 85 percent supported Hillary Clinton while 3 percent backed Donald Trump (for reference: 32 percent of voters went for Trump across deep-deep-blue Massachusetts). Up the street at the M.I.T. Sloan School of Management, I’d wager that the Clinton-Trump gap was just as wide, if the funereal atmosphere at our election night watch party was any indication.
Arizona's Martha McSally could be a man from the look of her
After all, she's supposed to be the first female U.S. fighter pilot to fly a combat mission.
Cut her hair, give her some testosterone, and you've got Top Gun Mark McSally right there, folks!
In AZ "Martha" McSally flips against DACA to try to beat Arpaio and Ward for US Senate
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Just another liar like McCain and Flake!
McSally's strategy is to divide the right and win.
From the story here:
Arpaio's presence in the contest might divide far right support and thus provide a path for McSally to win the nomination. ... In fending off a primary challenge in 2010, Sen. John McCain released a now infamous ad in which he promised to "compete the danged fence." [sic] But McCain and Flake both co-sponsored the so-called Gang of Eight immigration bill that passed the Senate but was anathema among conservatives, particularly those in the House.
Trump is a FOOL to be worried about jobs in China: China still has 11 million of OUR good American jobs since 1Q2000!
The employment-population ratio peaked in 1Q2000 at 64.6%. There were 136.6 million employed to population of 211.6 million.
In 1Q2018 the ratio is still only 60.3% (154.9 million working to 256.9 million population), and there's President Donald Trump saying "Too many jobs in China lost".
We easily could be working at the level of 64.6%, but we aren't, mostly because greedy American businesses don't want to pay Americans higher wages when they can get cheaper labor abroad. THEY'RE NOT VERY PATRIOTIC. And the politicians keep arranging things that way in exchange for campaign contributions. There's your SWAMP, right there. It's a lot bigger than just Washington DC. The whole damn country is organized against us.
At 64.6%, we could have 11 million more jobs in 1Q2018 than we actually do.
At 64.6%, we could have 11 million more jobs in 1Q2018 than we actually do.
Trump led us to believe he was our champion and was going to fix this, but now he's worried about Chinese jobs! What a fool! And you're a fool if you still think he's on your side.
Our fearless leader has become the tool of Chinese state capitalism: "Too many jobs in China lost"
Obviously the real Donald Trump who in the past might have said "Not enough jobs in China lost!" has disappeared. Sad!
More proof that his body has been snatched.
Monday, May 14, 2018
Why is Trump helping China's ZTE? The answer is obvious.
China instructed Kim Jong Fat Boy to denuclearize. Trump reciprocates. That's all.
Saturday, May 12, 2018
George Will, ineffectual against Trump, engages in ugly attack on Mike Pence, grouping him in with the lynch mob of old
The hatred. The hatred.
Here in WaPo, thrusting:
Be that as it may, on Jan. 27, 1838, Lincoln, then 28, delivered his first great speech, to the Young Men’s Lyceum in Springfield. Less than three months earlier, Elijah Lovejoy, an abolitionist newspaper editor in Alton, Ill., 67 miles from Springfield, was murdered by a pro-slavery mob. Without mentioning Lovejoy — it would have been unnecessary — Lincoln lamented that throughout America, “so lately famed for love of law and order,” there was a “mobocratic spirit” among “the vicious portion of [the] population.” So, “let reverence for the laws . . . become the political religion of the nation.” Pence, one of evangelical Christians’ favorite pin-ups, genuflects at various altars, as the mobocratic spirit and the vicious portion require.
William J. Bennett parries smartly but wholly inadequately, here, avoiding this egregious, baseless affront.
George Will. Dead to me.
John McCain dumped his first wife for a newer model, so dumping Palin as he's dying is completely in keeping with his dirty rotten character
The story of Carol McCain was recounted here.
The HuffPo story about Palin is here.
John McCain uses women, no different than Trump, or Weinstein or the rest of them.
Being a faithful man ought not be a ticket guaranteeing one the presidency, but it ought to be a prerequisite for the office, just like being born here (used to be).
Friday, May 11, 2018
Baylor University lecturer imagines materialism isn't an ideology
And, by cracky, what we need is ideology, here:
Abraham Lincoln watched [democracy] dissolve in the early years of his presidency, but he understood that the real foundation of the U.S. was an ideological enterprise, not a material nuts-and-bolts one. For him, the Declaration of Independence was a more important founding document than the Constitution, even though that's what the inconclusive political fights leading up to the Civil War had all been about.
To these people just as to Lincoln, the Constitution is the problem.
Reminds me of no one so much as Obama. Definitely a Yankee that guy is.
Mommas don't let your babies grow up to go to Baylor.
Arbeit macht GDP: At root America's basic economic problems lie at every level in not working enough
There is no age tranche working up to its potential, especially not teenagers, but also not the college-aged, not the core 25 to 54 years, and now not even the over 55 crowd. The latter in fact has only been held up more or less by those over 65 ramping up their participation in the wake of The Great Recession.
It all starts with the phenomenon of "failure to launch" in the teenage years. Baby Boomers didn't simply have fewer children and work less. They had fewer children who also lacked a vigorous work ethic. And that now appears institutionalized in the children of the children as well. This has now rippled through the system, as can be seen in the increasingly later dates for peak average annual participation in the age tranche charts below (1979, 1987, 1997, 2012, and 2016-2017?). GDP will not improve without a cultural reestimation of work. And a return to work will not occur without a need to return, which can only mean one thing:
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| 20 to 24 |
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| 25 to 54 |
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| 55 and over |
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