Wednesday, January 9, 2019
Chicago Tribune joins NY Post in calling for another amnesty
[G]ive the president the money he wants to spend on concrete or steel fencing as part of a budget agreement that reopens the government.
In exchange, let’s see a deal on DACA.
Tuesday, January 8, 2019
Grand Rapids, Michigan, Climate Update for December 2018
Grand Rapids, Michigan, Climate Update for December 2018:
Max temp 53, Mean Max temp 53
Min temp 13 (tied for 11th highest min on record with 5 other years), Mean Min temp 4
Av temp 32.5, Mean Av temp 28.3
Av temp 2018 49.6, Mean Av temp 48.2
Precip 1.99, Mean precip 2.43
Precip 2018 44.45 (11th wettest year on record), Mean precip 34.60
Snow 3.2 (6th least snow in Dec on record), Mean snow 16.1
Snow season to date 17.6, Mean snow season to date 22.8
CDD 2018 1003 (7th highest season on record), Mean CDD 693
HDD 1000, Mean HDD 1130
HDD season to date 2472, Mean HDD season to date 2486
What a shock, right, libertarian New York Post calls for another amnesty as a compromise
Trump promised to end DACA and hasn't. He also promised to build a wall and hasn't.
We didn't elect him to compromise on these basic campaign promises.
The 1986 amnesty gave us the problem we have now. Another one will only give us another one, and another and another and another, wall or no wall.
End DACA! Build The Wall! Don't let people cut in line!
[T]he two sides need merely agree on granting legal status to the Dreamers.
Monday, January 7, 2019
Trump has learned nothing about politics
Going to the border he is. OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
Take Ted Cruz and Glenn Beck with ya and hand out some soccer balls why dontcha.
That will accomplish about as much as shutting down the government AFTER all your leverage is gone.
Sad!
Former House Freedom Caucus member Mick Mulvaney, now running OMB, finally outed as pro-amnesty
Along with Mike Pence.
Wake up and smell the coffee, people. There was only one Republican in the administration fighting the immigration fight, and Trump fired him. The rest of them have long, explicit histories of being on the wrong side of the issue, along with most everyone in so-called conservative talk radio.
Report: Trump ‘Regularly Asks’ Pro-Amnesty Mick Mulvaney for ‘His Thoughts’ on Immigration Issues
Barry Ritholtz doesn't live in Realville, calls recent wage gains "decent" when they are peanuts
Decent wage gains are showing up in paychecks. That should continue for a while. Workers had an average gain in hourly wages of 3.2 percent in December, well above the average of 2.4 percent during the past five years . . ..
There's nothing wrong with his facts, just his perspective, which isn't long-term. He's content to compare his data to the Obama era, which sucked big-time. Note how he doesn't say that, however, big New York liberal that he is.
Year over year, the average gain in 2018 isn't even Bush-league let alone Clinton-league. And certainly not pre-Reagan-league, when workers in this country got much bigger raises on average than they do in this supposedly booming economy.
Barry likes charts. Here's the only one that counts, showing that raises for 80% of workers on average can't hold a candle to the late 1980s, the 1990s, and the 2000s (when Democrats couldn't stop complaining about George W. Bush's horrible economy).
Employers remain stingy, and there is no employment boom, or else they'd be hiring all the old people the greedy bastards fired in 2009 because they made too much money.
I KNOW.
Sunday, January 6, 2019
Actually record numbers of us WANT you to leave
[M]ost of the recent surge in Americans' desire to migrate has come among groups that typically lean Democratic . . ..
Saturday, January 5, 2019
Trouble already in the freshman Democrat club: Rashida Tlaib, MI-13, wants to erase Israel
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, NY-14, has come out as a Jew.
Must see video: Tucker Carlson says socialism is exactly what we're going to get unless we stop worshipping at the altar of (capitalist) materialism
Pretty smart coming from a guy who eschews intellectualism.
For example, I wish he had said that you can't have limited government without individuals composing it who first limit themselves. He says that, and more, just not in a lapidary way. Tucker is revolting against the reductionism of Conservatism Inc. to mere materialism. He is revolting against ideology, and it's amazing.
Here.
Bons mots:
Republicans see it as their duty to make the world safe for banking.
Questioning markets feels like apostasy to social conservatives.
Economics and culture are not separable one from the other.
Rural America now looks like Detroit.
Putting corporations first is bondage.
We tax capital at half the rate we tax labor.
Divided countries are easier to rule.
Market capitalism is not a religion. It's a tool.
Libertarians tell a lie when they say any deviation from market fundamentalism is socialism.
Ann Coulter says she agrees with AOC: Raise taxes on the rich
Ann just wants to punish the Koch Brothers in the process, but there's a better reason to agree.
Good government acts like a curb on a street, steering behavior. That's what taxing the rich used to be all about.
How so?
Once enacted in 1916, high taxation of ordinary income didn't result in high revenues for government. That's why the income tax was extended to almost all earners instead of just the rich when it became clear within a few years that government wouldn't have enough money to play in the international sandbox without more dough. For their part the rich won long term tax concessions through diverting derivation of income from capitalist enterprises, the latter benefiting not just themselves as owners but also individuals with jobs, the country with productivity, and the government with additional multiple streams of revenue. It was an intricate but effective way of benefiting all concerned.
The mistake with the Reagan Revolution was that it misunderstood human nature. It thought lots of new untaxed ordinary income would end up getting invested just the same way, and turn America into something never before seen. But the money didn't get invested the same way. It fled abroad where the cost of doing business was cheaper. It helped create middle classes wherever it went, but ours withered on the vine. Meanwhile the number of US billionaires mushroomed, the ratio of CEO pay to worker pay went ballistic, and general income inequality increased dramatically. Real incomes for most people have barely moved up since the 1970s.
And now here we are with an America never before seen indeed, where libertarian advocates of this destructive system tell us with a straight face that this is patriotism.
Unfortunately, none of this is in the pea brain of AOC, let alone in Ann Coulter's, Kevin McCarthy's or Donald Trump's.
Michael Savage calls AOC "Alexandria Occasional Cortex", which is just . . . savage
I suppose of all the talkers I've listened to over the years, Savage has been my favorite. For his general positions on borders, language and culture, yes, but more so because he's an independent thinker. It's not just that he's independent. It's that he thinks. No thinking man is a party man. Which is probably why he's out the door.
Not sure I'm a podcast guy, but there's that for those who are more active than passive listeners. I like the radio because it's (mostly) live. Anything big which could happen you hear about almost instantly. And anyone could call in. It's more spontaneous and more exciting. I like to listen while I'm cooking dinner.
Radio certainly is changing. Laura Ingraham hung up the headset in November after many years carrying the baton on immigration. Burning the candle at both ends she was. Chris Plante out of DC is a very welcome alternative to Laura in the mornings. He's very quick upstairs, trenchant and funny.
It would be nice if Mark Steyn replaced Rush Limbaugh one of these days, but somehow I think the Rush Limbaugh show goes away when Rush goes away.
But all of them need to take more callers, and let them talk, dammit. Which is probably too much to ask. Most of the callers aren't any good.
But there was that guy, Geno from The Bronx . . ..
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