FDA Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb plans to announce this week that the agency will move forward with a ban on menthol cigarettes in conjunction with a crackdown on e-cigarettes to curb "epidemic" levels of teen use, senior FDA officials told CNBC last week.
Monday, November 12, 2018
One false move on the bullet train in China and your credit score goes down
Video here.
Dear passengers,
People who travel without a ticket or behave disorderly, or smoke in public areas will be punished according to regulations and the behavior will be recorded in individual credit information system. To avoid a negative record of personal credit please follow the relevant regulations and help with the orders on the train and at the station.
The only person I've heard honestly assess Election 2018 has been Bill Cunningham
Last night on his 10pm broadcast Bill Cunningham accurately expressed how Republicans ought to feel about Election 2018, but don't: with astonishment that Republicans so severely underperformed in normally deep red places like Texas, Arizona, Georgia and Florida.
Do that again in 2020 and Donald Trump will not win reelection.
Build The Wall, or it's Adios America.
Sunday, November 11, 2018
Did any national Republican leader warn their voters Eric Holder was targeting governorships to control redistricting?
Not Trump, not Mitch McConnell, not Paul Ryan. We heard zip, zero, nada.
The stupid party strikes again.
The Detroit News reports here:
Voters Not Politicians, the group that spearheaded the [ballot] proposal in Michigan, may have started out as a grassroots campaign, but millions in outside money poured into the state — much of it coming from far-left advocacy groups and Democratic donors. Between July and October, Voters Not Politicians raised more than $13.8 million.
Eric Holder, former attorney general under President Barack Obama, led a national effort this year in Republican-controlled states to back similar measures that would strip redistricting from lawmakers — or at least ensure Democrats took control of legislatures and governorships ahead of the 2020 census. Michigan was one of 12 target states.
Coattails: In Michigan the ballot proposals in 2018 won by more votes than any statewide Democrat winner
Automatic Voter Registration .... 2.762 million votes
Redistricting By Committee ...... 2.507 million
Marijuana Legalization .............. 2.344 million
Donald Trump President 2016 ... 2.279 million
Hillary Clinton President 2016 .. 2.268 million
Gretchen Whitmer MI Gov. ....... 2.261 million
Debbie Stabenow US Senate ..... 2.200 million
Jocelyn Benson MI Sec. of State 2.199 million
Dana Nessel MI Atty. General ... 2.018 million
Saturday, November 10, 2018
'Camp Fire' incinerates Paradise, the "most destructive wildfire since record-keeping began" in California
Reported here:
Not a single resident of Paradise, California, can be seen anywhere in town after most of them fled the Northern California community that may be lost forever. Most of the town's buildings are in ruin. Entire neighborhoods are leveled. The business district is destroyed.
In a single day, the Sierra Nevada foothill town of 27,000 was largely incinerated by flames that moved so fast there was nothing firefighters could do. Only a day after the "Camp Fire" began, the blaze had grown on Friday to nearly 140 square miles and destroyed more than 6,700 structures, almost all of them homes -- making it California's most destructive wildfire since record-keeping began.
Authorities said at least nine people were killed by the "Camp Fire," which as of early Saturday morning was 5 percent contained.
It is one of three major blazes that firefighters are battling across the state.
In Southern California, the 35,000 acre "Woolsey Fire" was 0 percent contained early Saturday. It has forced over 200,000 evacuations. The "Hill Fire" was holding at 6,000 acres.
Friday, November 9, 2018
Grand Rapids, Michigan, Climate Update for October 2018
Grand Rapids, Michigan, Climate Update for October 2018:
Max temp 84, Mean Max temp 79
Min temp 27, Mean Min temp 28
Av temp 50.4, Mean Av temp 51.3
Precip 5.69, Mean precip 3.00 (year to date 39.73, 5.21 above the mean annual 34.52)
Cooling Degree Days 20, Mean CDD 9, Season to date 1003, Mean Season to date 690.
The cooling season to date as measured by CDD has been 45% warmer than the mean to date.
Season to date 2018 is 7th warmest on record for total CDD:
1921: 1200
1931: 1061
2012: 1039
1936: 1022
1934: 1007
1933: 1004
2018: 1003
1939: 972.
There have been five months in a row in 2018 with max temps in the 90s, the first time that has happened since 1991.
Money in politics: Democrats spent $14.2 million per seat on average in the ten costliest US House races
And your average US Senate win just recently cost only $10 million (every six years, not every two).
For jobs which pay only $174,000 a year.
There's something funny going on here, Lucy.
Democrats and their allies in the 10 costliest House races spent $142 million to Republicans' $96 million, Reuters' analysis found.
Thursday, November 8, 2018
Marijuana legalization is the spearhead of America's anti-conservative libertarian tide and ultimately of America's decline
Eventually there will be no place left to hide from marijuana users in America. And they are going to be the end of America as we once knew it. Marijuana legalization is coming to every state in the country, for the reason that a shared version of libertarianism is now America's dominant ideology, irrespective of political party. The consequences of extreme individualism are about to assert themselves like never before. Formerly, self-control and self-denial as practised by countless millions of America's original inhabitants and their descendants had been key to making America the great country which it became. Those values made possible the hard work and savings which were the necessary predicates of that greatness. But all that is in the rear view mirror now. As Baby Boomers squandered the achievements of their parents, their children have learned from them only too well and have drunk deep from their well of narcissism. People like this will never make the country great like it was. A country full of laid back mellow folks will never work hard and save, nor even acknowledge its need to do so. It is not a coincidence that the most hated men in America in 2012 and 2016 didn't even drink.
Marijuana Won The Midterm Elections :
Michigan voters approved a ballot measure making their state the first in the midwest to legalize cannabis. Missouri approved an initiative to allow medical marijuana, as did Utah. Voters in several Ohio cities approved local marijuana decriminalization measures, and a number of Wisconsin counties and cities strongly approved nonbinding ballot questions calling for cannabis reform. While North Dakota's long-shot marijuana legalization measure failed, cannabis also scored a number of big victories when it came to the results of candidate races. ... In Illinois, Democrat J.B. Pritzker won the governor's race after making marijuana legalization a centerpiece of his campaign. ... Minnesota Gov.-elect Tim Walz (D) wants to "replace the current
failed policy with one that creates tax revenue, grows jobs, builds
opportunities for Minnesotans, protects Minnesota kids, and trusts
adults to make personal decisions based on their personal freedoms." ... In New Mexico, Michelle Lujan Grisham (D), who won the governor's
race, said legalizing marijuana will bring “hundreds of millions of
dollars to New Mexico’s economy." In New York, while easily reelected Gov Andrew Cuomo (D) had
previously expressed opposition to legalization, he more recently
empaneled a working group to draft legislation to end cannabis
prohibition that the legislature can consider in 2019, a prospect whose
chances just got a lot better in light of the fact that Democrats took
control of the state's Senate. In Wisconsin, Democrat Tony Evers supports decriminalizing marijuana
and allowing medical cannabis, and says he wants to put a full marijuana
legalization question before voters to decide. He ousted incumbent Gov.
Scott Walker (R) on Tuesday. ... Last month, a national Gallup survey found that 66 percent of Americans support legalizing marijuana, including a clear majority of Republicans.
Antifa gunman massacres at least 11 in California country bar late last night
Man dressed in all-black let off at least 30 shots from a pistol with extended mags and threw smoke grenades
Gunman was dressed in all-black, wearing a trenchcoat, glasses, baseball cap and a mask covering his face
The shooter stormed the Borderline Bar and Grill, wearing a black trenchcoat and armed with a pistol equipped with an extended magazine and smoke grenades, and began targeting people as young as 18.
The perpetrator, dressed in all-black, wearing a baseball cap, sunglasses and a mask covering the bottom part of his face, walked up to the entrance at 11.20pm and shot the doorman before making his way into the venue.
Trump fires another one: CNN's Jim Acosta loses White House press pass
The Ted Turner founded outlet added that Acosta’s pass was pulled “in retaliation for his challenging questions at today’s press conference” . . ..
Wednesday, November 7, 2018
Despite Democrat sweep of state offices in Michigan, Republicans still control the Senate and Legislature
Senate: 22-16
Legislature: 58-52
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