He should have waited until she was IN Afghanistan.
Friday, January 18, 2019
As president Trump can convene both houses of Congress whenever the hell he wants
The caller to Mark Steyn is correct.
Article II, Section 3, Constitution of the United States:
"He shall from time to time give to the Congress information of the state of the union, and recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient; he may, on extraordinary occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them, and in case of disagreement between them, with respect to the time of adjournment, he may adjourn them to such time as he shall think proper;"
Nanny Nanny Boo Boo.
Thursday, January 17, 2019
Our so-called friends the Israelis sold management of Haifa to China for 25 years for $2 billion
Israel-China port deal triggers U.S. Navy pushback:
While the Israeli Transportation Ministry struck the agreement with SIPG
— a company in which the Chinese government has a majority stake — back
in 2015, the Jerusalem Post reported Saturday that the deal is now
coming under interagency review.
Citing Chinese state-run media reports, the Post noted the deal granted SIPG control over Haifa for 25 years in exchange for a commitment by the company to invest $2 billion in a project to transform Haifa’s bay terminal into the largest harbor in Israel.
The catch is that Haifa, Israel’s
largest port city, regularly hosts joint U.S.-Israeli naval drills and
visits from American vessels — a situation the Post claimed has
triggered concern among U.S. officials.
Mark Levin goes nuclear . . .
. . . calls AIPAC a bunch of quislings.
Pat Buchanan call your office.
Trump gave away 75% of federal spending as a shutdown bargaining chip over immigration in Sept. 2018, so before Sept. 2019 his only other chip is the debt ceiling
Flashback to September 28, 2018:
President Trump on Friday signed an $854 billion spending package that will avert a shutdown by keeping the federal government open into the new fiscal year, which begins Monday.
The measure fully funds most parts of the federal government through fiscal 2019, pushing off a deadline for a partial shutdown — and showdown over funding for Trump's proposed border wall — until early December.
“The signing of this legislation marks a drastic turnaround in the way we have funded the government in recent years," said Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) in a statement announcing the signing. "As of today, 75 percent of the government is funded — on time and through an open, bipartisan process.” ...
[A]fter March 1, the government will need to take "extraordinary measures" to avoid defaulting, and those measures will last for a few months. Ordinary investors should be aware that in 2013, the last time it looked as though Congress might not raise the limit, the market avoided Treasury securities that matured around the dates when the government projected it would exhaust the extraordinary measures.
So, looking ahead, ordinary investors shouldn't be surprised if we see an increase in rates and a decline in liquidity if it looks like the debt ceiling fight is going to be dramatic again. The current state of the shutdown may presage such drama.
Hm, just after the nick of time 1.5 million ineligible voters removed from LA County rolls
Let's see. Hillary won California with 8.75 million votes, minus 1.5 million = 7.25 million. Rinse and repeat for every other California county and see how many it takes to erase the other 2.75 million votes Hillary stole the election by in that state.
Muslim Ilhan Omar gets elected to MN-5 and homophobia runs rampant on Capitol Hill
We need a General Sherman to march on Minneapolis/St. Paul and burn the place down.
Laugh of the Day: German industrial production tanks 4.7% in November, Reuters calls it a tentative sign of slowing growth momentum
The signs were tentative in H1 and worrisome since then. November was a disaster.
[T]here were tentative signs of slackening momentum in the United States and Germany in November.
FBI arrest of White House terrorist is just public relations, another case of standard M/O of entrapment and inducement
They never catch the real threats. The FBI has to help these marks become terrorists by using an agent to pose as another terrorist. The FBI suborns terrorism. Otherwise neither the terrorist mark nor the FBI would "succeed". They had been working on this guy for nine months. Meanwhile the real threats have no resources committed to them because that rarely results in anything, including no press conference where the FBI can pat itself on the back.
Total PR for the low IQ crowd, which is lapping it up like milk.
“All potential threats have been neutralized and were under control from the inception of this case,” said U.S. Attorney Byung J. “BJay” Pak, who added that authorities would take no questions on the investigation, which is ongoing.
Wednesday, January 16, 2019
Contra Richard Spencer, it's not a question of the efficacy of the constitution but of the efficacy of its heirs
The constitution's heirs clearly aren't worthy of it. To slaves it is meaningless, a trifle to be dispensed with. Only already free people could write it, and only still free people can love it.
Like all liberals, Beto O'Rourke is mistaken about human nature
"I trust the wisdom of people. And I'm confident - especially after having traveled Texas for two years - people are good, fundamentally, and if given the choice to do the right thing, they will. To do the good thing, they will," he said, referring to his unsuccessful U.S. Senate campaign while giving a walking tour of El Paso and its Mexican sister city, Juarez.
People are not fundamentally good. Nor are they basically evil. Human nature is irreducibly mixed. If people were fundamentally good we wouldn't need laws or government at all, or lawyers, judges, courts and prisons. If they were basically evil the possibility that is America never would have presented itself to history, and monarchy would still be called for. America is the gift of English dissenting Protestantism.
All our political problems remain spiritual ones. There is no freedom without self-control.
Tuesday, January 15, 2019
Oswald Spengler to NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio: "Left" is, finally and above all, lack of respect for property
De Blasio pitches plan to seize private property of problem landlords, opponents cry ‘communism’:
[W]e will seize their buildings and we will put them in the hands of a community nonprofit that will treat tenants with the respect they deserve.
British Prime Minister Theresa May's soft Brexit, agreed to by EU, defeated in Parliament 432-202
UK leader Theresa May suffers resounding defeat on her Brexit divorce deal:
May’s proposed “Withdrawal Agreement” was agreed with EU leaders in November last year. ... It’s reportedly the largest defeat for a sitting government in U.K. political history. Despite the result, and expressing a defiant tone, May told lawmakers that she wanted to show those who voted leave the EU that it was her “duty to deliver” on Brexit. ... On June 23, 2016, voters in the U.K. favored leaving the EU by 51.9 percent. The U.K. is legally set to leave the political and trading bloc on March 29.
In 1930 each Congressman decided the fates of 283,000 Americans . . .
. . . and now in 2019 754,000.
Don't talk to me about growing executive power, Justin Amash. If you really cared about the original constitution, you'd give the president more cats to herd.
Says Justin Amash, whose party stopped the growth of Congressional representation in the 1920s, consolidating legislative power in ever fewer hands (his)
The president is term-limited, you are not.
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