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.
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