Thursday, April 4, 2019
Wednesday, April 3, 2019
Climate update for Grand Rapids, MI, March 2019
Max temp 61 / Mean 66
Min temp 8 / Mean 7
Av temp 32.2 / Mean 34
Precip 2.23 / Mean 2.45
Snow 7.9 / Mean 9.1
Snow to date 76.4 / Mean 63.7
Heating degree days 1006 / Mean 955
HDD to date 5910 / Mean 5849
So, it's been 20% snowier than the mean and 1% colder by HDD.
Even when correcting himself Rush is wrong: Beto won election to the Texas House and quit after a year
Democrats Are Ignoring Their Frontrunner [Bernie]:
Oh. I erred, folks. I said Beto O’Rourke had never won an election. He did. He won an election to the Texas House and then quit after a year to run against Cruz in the Senate. What I meant to say was that Beto O’Rourke’s biggest life achievement is losing to Ted Cruz in the Senate race, not that he’s never won an election. Because he has.
Beto was elected to the US House three times, in 2012, 2014 and 2016, representing TX-16.
Tuesday, April 2, 2019
John Gray: The possibility that millions value some things more than economic gain is not considered by the British political classes
Sounds oddly familiar.
Brexit has left the British political class trapped by its own history:
Persistently denying respect to Leave voters in this way can only bring
to Britain the dangerous populism that is steadily marching across the
European continent.
President Kushner has alternative facts about Florida voter registrations by felons
The Tampa Bay Times and Miami Herald looked at the most recent year of data on citizens who lost their right to vote in the 20 largest counties in the state and found a lot of Democrats. In those counties, which hold more than 80 percent of the
state’s voters, 52 percent of those who lost their voting rights because
of a conviction were Democrats. Only 14 percent of those who lost their
voting rights because of felony convictions were Republicans. The rest
had no partisan affiliation. ... Democrats could see a net gain of several hundred thousand votes from the new amendment.
New York's moron Senatrix, Kirsten Gillibrand, doesn't know seven states, including her own, didn't have a popular vote for president, for example in 1796
There was no principle of one person, one vote. The legislatures of Connecticut, Delaware, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Massachusetts and Vermont appointed Electors to the Electoral College. Other states actually had Electors names on the ballots, not the names of the presidential candidates. And women didn't get to vote everywhere as a matter of federal law until 1920.
Kirsten is giving Hawaii's Crazy Mazie a run for her money.
Everything human beings touch turns into a shit-hole, including near-earth orbit
Space debris from India’s anti-satellite missile test a threat to ISS, NASA says :
But speaking on Monday, Bridenstine said NASA had identified 400
pieces of orbital debris from the test, with at least 24 of them — each
one larger than 10 cm — having gone above the apogee of the ISS,
something he described as “a terrible, terrible thing” and which put the
safety of the ISS at risk. However, he confirmed that because the test
was carried out low enough in Earth orbit, the fragments — and therefore
the risk — would dissipate over time. The space agency is currently tracking 23,000 pieces of orbital debris,
each one 10 cm or larger. Scientists, meanwhile, have been working on a
number of different projects aimed at getting rid of the debris.
When Republicans like Rush Limbaugh keep blaming loss of the House on "retirements", just remember Republicans didn't even run candidates in 38 districts
Republicans ran no one against the Democrat in 38 districts in 2018:
AL-7
AZ-7
CA-5
CA-6
CA-13
CA-20
CA-27
CA-34
CA-40
CA-44
FL-10
FL-14
FL-20
FL-21
FL-24
GA-5
LA-2
MA-1
MA-4
MA-7
MA-8
MI-13
MS-2
NY-5
NY-6
NY-7
NY-8
NY-16
NY-17
PA-18
TX-9
TX-20
TX-28
TX-30
VA-3
WA-2
WA-9
WI-2.
Democrats meanwhile abandoned the field in just four districts:
AK-1
CA-8
GA-8
NC-3.
Like lotto, you gotta be in it to win it.
It also helps to have a message.
Do Republicans have one anymore, except more freedom?
You know, freedom to ship your jobs overseas where the labor is cheaper and safety, health, and environmental regulation is next to nonexistent, freedom to cut the taxes of the businesses that won't give you a job, freedom to spend your tax dollars on defense of "US interests" abroad which are really the interests of those businesses not yours, freedom to keep bringing in millions of cheaper laborers to compete for your jobs and drive down your wages, and freedom to keep charging 4.45% for federal students loans in a 2.49% 10-yr note economy.
Yes, we need freedom all right. Freedom from Republicans.
Unfortunately that means Democrats.
Which is why we are well and truly screwed.
Monday, April 1, 2019
Sunday, March 31, 2019
Democrats should man-up and go full socialist and back Bernie: They're gonna lose anyway, might as well pick someone whose lunacy at least has some gravitas
Don't want no gaffe machine!
Don't need no furry queen!
Can't have no renegade cop!
Or a fake Indian tomahawk chop!
Just give us that Bernie man,
And his hurdy-gurdy socialist plan.
Wow, I missed this one: Michael Morell, former CIA director under Obama, in March 2017 said Chris Steele PAID Russkies for dossier info
Clinton Ally Says Smoke, But No Fire: No Russia-Trump Collusion:
About the dossier, Morell said, "Unless you know the
sources, and unless you know how a particular source acquired a
particular piece of information, you can’t judge the information — you
just can’t." The dossier "doesn’t take you anywhere, I don’t think," he said. He continued: "I had two questions when I first read it. One
was, How did Chris talk to these sources? I have subsequently learned
that he used intermediaries. "And then I asked myself, why did these guys provide this
information, what was their motivation? And I subsequently learned that
he paid them. That the intermediaries paid the sources and the
intermediaries got the money from Chris. And that kind of worries me a
little bit because if you’re paying somebody, particularly former FSB
officers, they are going to tell you truth and innuendo and rumor, and
they’re going to call you up and say, ‘hey, let’s have another meeting, I
have more information for you,’ because they want to get paid some
more. "I think you’ve got to take all that into consideration when you consider the dossier." Another former CIA officer in the room pointed out that the CIA also pays its sources. "But we know who the source [i]s and we know how they got the information," Morell responded.
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