Tuesday, December 18, 2018
Amy Siskind remains blind to Hillary underperforming Barack Obama 2008 by 3.65 million votes
The sign of a growing movement is building on past achievements, at which Hillary miserably failed.
She didn't even beat Obama 2012, but hey, go for alienating the voters again with her.
And there's your slogan for 2020, too: "I'm (alienating the voters again) with her".
AP confirms sportswear sold on US college campuses is made by the forced labor of Muslim prisoners in Western China
In locked compound, minorities in China make clothes for US:
The Associated Press has tracked recent, ongoing shipments from one such factory inside an internment camp to Badger Sportswear, a leading supplier in Statesville, North Carolina. ... At least 10 times this year shipping containers filled with thousands of men’s, women’s and youth polyester knitted T-shirts and pants were sent to Badger Sportswear, a 47-year-old athletic gear seller. ... Dozens of college bookstores advertise their gear printed on Badger Sportswear, including Texas A&M, University of Pennsylvania, Appalachian State University, University of Northern Iowa, University of Evansville and Bates College. ... [I]n April this year, it began importing 100 percent polyester T-shirts and pants from Hetian Taida Apparel, according to U.S. customs data provided by ImportGenius, which analyzes consumer shipments. The address on the shipping records is the same as for the detention camp.
Monday, December 17, 2018
FBI and Mueller framed Flynn, 302 evidence against Flynn is seven months old, isn't contemporaneous with the January 2017 informal interview
Missing Flynn document in Mueller file could rile judge at sentencing hearing :
U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan had ordered
the special counsel to turn over all government documents and
“memoranda” related to the questioning of Flynn, after his attorneys
claimed the FBI had discouraged him from bringing a lawyer to his
fateful Jan. 24, 2017 interview with agents at the White House. ...
Mueller met Sullivan’s Friday afternoon deadline and provided documents, some of which were heavily redacted.
Apart
from a new memo from Mueller's team defending the FBI's handling of the
interview -- and saying nothing about the way it was conducted “caused
the defendant to make false statements to the FBI” -- the filing
included a January 2017 memo on Flynn from then-FBI Deputy Director
Andrew McCabe and a "302" (a document memorializing
interviews) detailing a July 19, 2017 interview with then-FBI agent
Peter Strzok. Strzok, one of two agents who interviewed Flynn, described
that meeting in the document, filed Aug. 22 of that year.
But not included in the filing was an original 302 from the period of the January 2017 Flynn interview.
It's
unclear whether the document exists. However, the Strzok interview file
appeared to repeatedly refer to a 302 drafted after the Flynn
interview. "Strzok conducted the interview and [REDACTED] was primarily
responsible for taking notes and writing the FD-302," one section said.
Another said that throughout the interview, Flynn did not give any
indication of deception and only hedged once, "which they documented in
the 302."
James Trusty, a former senior Justice Department
official who now works as a criminal defense attorney at Ifrah Law,
predicted Sullivan would notice that the 302 submitted Friday is dated
seven months after the Flynn interview took place.
“Judge Sullivan
has a well-established history of taking on discovery issues head-on,”
Trusty said. “So providing a seven-month-old FBI 302 is absolutely going
to be a red flag for the judge, and I can’t imagine there are not going
to be questions tomorrow about whether there are contemporaneous notes,
or a contemporaneous report, that is in the FBI’s possession.” ...
Strzok was removed from the Russia probe in late July 2017 -- just
days after he apparently gave the interview that formed the basis for
the 302 in Mueller's filing -- for his apparent anti-Trump bias. No
audio recording or other documentation of Flynn's comments to the FBI
have been produced. ...
Last week, Comey was asked how the FBI agents ended up at the White
House to interview Flynn in the first place. Comey’s response provided
new details about the circumstances that fueled criticism of the
bureau’s conduct:
“I sent them,” Comey said in a panel discussion
with MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace, and added that it was “something I
probably wouldn’t have done or maybe gotten away with in a
more…organized administration.”
The interview was arranged directly with Flynn, he explained, acknowledging this was not standard procedure.
I wish it were The Mark Steyn Show instead of The Rush Limbaugh Show
Steyn just called for the entire US justice system to be torn down and rebuilt.
Hooah, Mark.
Sunday, December 16, 2018
Obamacare liar Jonathan Gruber decides it's safe to lie again, this time in The Boston Globe
Jonathan Gruber leaves out that millions of Americans already have unusable insurance right now under Obamacare, and that it already costs them tens of thousands of dollars out of pocket every year because their crappy, no-good rotten piece of shit Obamacare-era health insurance plan SUCKS, covering nada, nothing, nichts, doodlysquat.
Gruber just decides not to mention them.
Major lying asshole yesterday, today and forever.
Texas court strikes down Affordable Care Act, putting the health of Americans and our democracy at risk:
Millions of Americans who don’t read the fine print of their insurance contracts could once again buy insurance that leaves them with tens of thousands of dollars in uncovered medical bills.
Friday, December 14, 2018
Priceless: As The Weekly Standard shutters Bill Kristol says "Onward"
Kristol, meanwhile, tweeted optimistically that “we have much more to do. Onward.”
Close enough.
"Investor confidence cracking" in US, record flight to cash in the last week as China misses on two big measures
Uh oh.
Record $46 bln pulled from US-based stock funds in a week, according to Lipper:
More than $46 billion thundered out of U.S. stock mutual funds and
exchange-traded funds, the most ever, while a near-record $13 billion
poured from bonds, according to the research service. Relatively
low-risk money market funds pulled in $81 billion, also the most
recorded, the research service's data showed.
The withdrawals appeared to show investor confidence cracking in the
waning days of a wild year of up-and-down trading that has left many
people with losses across both stock and bond funds, a rare occurrence.
China just reported 'ugly' industrial output and retail sales growth that missed expectations:
The weaker Chinese data in November shows that the positive impact of
front-loading had begun to taper off and that downward pressure on the
Chinese economy was increasing, wrote Sue Trinh, head of Asia foreign
exchange strategy at RBC Capital Markets in Hong Kong.
The industrial output and retail sales data released on Friday were "ugly," she added in a Friday note.
Thursday, December 13, 2018
Ben Shapiro hated on Pat Buchanan as early as 2003, said he was yesterday's news, embraced neoconservatism as mainstream
A guy named Shapiro said all that? Color me shocked!
After Iraq, attack Pat Buchanan:
The conservative movement has progressed beyond the ideology of Pat
Buchanan. But if the conservative movement continues to tolerate him,
even as a fringe character, it endangers the gains it has made.
And fifteen years later some people think Pat Buchanan's doppelgänger currently occupies the White House even as the neoconservative flagship The Weekly Standard is about to close its doors.
The horror . . . the horror.
In Nigel Farage's mind the rioters in France are the Tommy Robinsonites who co-opted his UKIP
Feelings of bitterness can overpower reason and cause one to engage in false equivalencies, as in blaming the American Revolution on the Presbyterians.
Things haven't changed much.
BREXIT is the new chartered right of Englishmen. Unfortunately for them the result of the democratic process matters as little to the duly elected government of Britain as colonial representation mattered to George III.
Nigel is nothing if not a loyalist.
Wednesday, December 12, 2018
Whenever I'm hating Michigan for some reason I just look at this map to remind myself why I'm here
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