After all, Bill Kristol knows whereof he speaks.
Monday, July 9, 2018
Sunday, July 8, 2018
Theresa May's Brexit Secretary resigns, a vote of no confidence in the Prime Minister's no-Brexit Brexit
Donald Trump take note. You promised a wall, an immediate end to DACA, an end to Obamacare, an end to our senseless wars, jobs jobs jobs.
We're still waiting.
Laugh of the Day 3.0: The thing is, this Google employee PROVIDED the picture
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| This little piggy stayed home |
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| This little piggy went to Google |
Laugh of the Day 2.0: Liberal blogger breaks the rules, reveals source to FBI because it advanced her politics
Liberals always view rules as impediments to their political ends, and break them at will.
Wheeler, who has written blog posts about national security for almost 15 years, is clear that she wasn't motivated to talk to the FBI because she is out to get Trump. She certainly doesn't like him, but she is also not at all a Hillary Clinton fan. But what motivated her recent revelation that she went to the FBI has plenty to do with politics: She is disgusted by the way House Republicans are, in her view, weaponizing their oversight responsibilities and making it all too likely that FBI informants will have their names revealed - and their safety threatened. "It infuriates me," she wrote, to observe the "months-long charade by the House GOP to demand more and more details about those who have shared information with the government . . . all in an attempt to discredit the Mueller investigation."
Marcy Wheeler (a.k.a. "emptywheel") is an American independent journalist specializing in national security and civil liberties. Wheeler publishes on her own site, Emptywheel, established in July 2011. She makes occasional contributions to the commentary and analysis section of The Guardian, progressive news site Daily Kos, The Huffington Post, and Michigan Liberal. Between early December 2007 and July 2011 Wheeler published primarily on Jane Hamsher's FireDogLake (FDL) and prior to that on The Next Hurrah. ... She campaigned for Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean in 2004, and is a former vice chairwoman of the Washtenaw County Democratic Party.
Just great, Thomas Hardiman worked for Ayuda, funded by George Soros' Open Society Foundation, and Trump's got him on his Supreme Court list
An administration is all about personnel, and 19 months in Trump still doesn't know what the hell he's doing.
For some reason Thomas Hardiman can't bring himself to call them illegal aliens but he's a leading contender for Supreme Court
On a Bush list, maybe, but why on a Trump list?
This is insane.
The Detroit News is pushing Kethledge for Supreme Court, the guy who reversed a deportation order of a criminal alien
The Detroit News, here, suffering as it does from a mental disorder known as libertarianism.
Kethledge is being pushed by the Republican Establishment as easier to confirm, in other words by the open borders crowd. For a reason.
The nitwits out there are getting into the weeds of "aggravated" in order to explain this away, some ignorantly equating "aggravated" in the law with "violent", which is hardly controlling. All sorts of things which aren't inherently violent are defined as aggravated by the law, including things which are obviously violent. For example, illicit trafficking in controlled substances and firearms are aggravated, as are money laundering, receipt of stolen property, disclosing classified information (Hillary), fraud (Obama), forgery, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
Kethledge ignored the meaning of aggravated in the law in the case described, which suggests he might well dismiss the law in other circumstances when it is attractive to do so, for whatever reason.
There are better candidates than Kethledge who would enforce immigration law instead of try to find an excuse to get around it, which is also what Obama tried to do with the DACA executive order.
Friday, July 6, 2018
Grand Rapids, Michigan, Climate Update for June 2018
Grand Rapids, Michigan, Climate Update for June 2018
Max temp 94, Mean Max temp 94
Min temp 48, Mean Min temp 43
Av temp 69.9, Mean Av temp 67.7
Precip 2.50, Mean precip 3.54
Snowfall 0, Mean snowfall T, Season final 77.7, Mean Season 66.7
Heating Degree Days 12, Mean HDD 54, Season final 6456, Mean Season 6705
Cooling Degree Days 168, Mean CDD 139, Season to date 276, Mean Season to date 184
The heating season has finished 3.7% warmer than the mean using HDD as a measure. It ranked 32nd warmest since 1904.
The cooling season to date as measured by CDD has moderated to 50% warmer than the mean after a hot early start to the summer season.
Gasoline on the Fourth of July 2018 averaged $2.87/gallon nationally
But a year ago gasoline averaged $2.25/gallon nationally.
What happened to $2.50/gal gas, Mr. President?
Thursday, July 5, 2018
In 2011 a judge told us to forgo something is acting, in 2018 a judge insists refusing to help is not the same as impeding
Judge Kessler in 2011, here, a liberal Clinton appointee, in re Obamacare.
Judge Mendez in 2018, here, a liberal Bush 43 appointee, in re immigration enforcement.
Liberals always rule to advance liberal objectives, even if it means that not acting is acting once upon a time but later on in a different situation it is not.
The manifest politicization of the judiciary ought to mean that they all must resign when the guy who appointed them finishes his term. It would be a more honest acknowledgement of the truth that the law is an ass, and that elections have consequences.
Why it feels like a jobs boom when it isn't
Initial claims for unemployment in the first half of 2018, as of today, are running at an annual rate of 11.8 million.
In the first half of 2017 the annual rate had been 12.7 million.
The difference is an extra 17,307 people NOT losing their jobs every week compared with a year ago.
The employment to population ratio is still way down at 60.4%, last exampled in late 1985. We did a lot better than that for a long time, before the freakout in the second half of 2008.
Tuesday, July 3, 2018
America is for ourselves and for our posterity, not for the whole world
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Monday, July 2, 2018
WaPo: Obama's Timmy TurboTax Geithner has a new life as a predatory lender
From the story here:
Mass-mailing checks to strangers might seem like risky business, but Mariner Finance occupies a fertile niche in the U.S. economy. The company enables some of the nation’s wealthiest investors and investment funds to make money offering high-interest loans to cash-strapped Americans.
Mariner Finance is owned and managed by a $11.2 billion private equity fund controlled by Warburg Pincus, a storied New York firm. The president of Warburg Pincus is Timothy F. Geithner, who, as treasury secretary in the Obama administration, condemned predatory lenders. The firm’s co-chief executives, Charles R. Kaye and Joseph P. Landy, are established figures in New York’s financial world. The minimum investment in the fund is $20 million.
Dozens of other investment firms bought Mariner bonds last year, allowing the company to raise an additional $550 million. That allowed the lender to make more loans to people like Huggins [at 33 percent].
Whoops, looks like the story of 412 healthcare fraudsters is yesterday's news: The newest action is even bigger!
From the DOJ here:
Last July the Department of Justice announced a record-breaking enforcement action against health care fraud. We coordinated the efforts of more than 1,000 state and federal law enforcement agents to charge more than 400 defendants—including 56 doctors—with more than $1.3 billion in fraud.
Today I am announcing that we are breaking records again.
The Department of Justice, in conjunction with the Department of Health and Human Services, is announcing the largest health care fraud takedown operation in American history.
This year we are charging 601 people, including 76 doctors, 23 pharmacists, 19 nurses, and other medical personnel with more than $2 billion in medical fraud.
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