Tuesday, May 7, 2019

The Ilhan Omar "occupied" Gaza tweets are identical, but @Ilhan deleted hers while @IlhanMN did not

So, officially Gaza isn't occupied, but personally it is. Or something.

Managing schizophrenia is very difficult. Or something.

Trump's popularity position suggests he's re-electable, but don't forget how Bush 41 utterly blew it

Ahead of Obama, Reagan and Carter at this point in their presidencies, only Carter wasn't re-elected.

If liberals had any brains, or principles, they'd crucify Trump over illegal immigration just as conservatives crucified Bush 41 over taxes, but they have neither brains nor principles. Bush 41 proves you can go from stellar to defeated in little over a year, but Trump, as old Republicans keep reminding us, is no Bush 41. 

Neoliberal exhaustion: Biden keeps soaring over Bernie, now +22.3, even though he's a complete nitwit


Monday, May 6, 2019

Cook County Illinois Inspector General's investigation may have new Democrat Governor Pritzker taking classes from former Governor Rod Blagojevich in prison

Source: Feds Probe Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, First Lady For Property Tax Appeals On Gold Coast Mansion:

The county watchdog said all of that amounted to a “scheme to defraud” taxpayers out of more than $331,000. ...
The property tax scandal picked up steam just a month before the November 2018 gubernatorial election, when the Chicago Sun-Times published news of a confidential memo from Cook County Inspector General Patrick Blanchard. ...
The confidential Sept. 28, 2018 report by the inspector general characterized the Pritzkers’ tax appeal as a “scheme to defraud” taxpayers. Blanchard also connected the scheme to possible violations of state and federal law, including perjury and mail fraud.

 

29 points behind Biden, Kamaltoe Harris questions 2018 elections in Georgia and Florida


Hillary has decided it's OK to threaten democracy by not accepting the results of an election, AND the results of an investigation into an election




Hillary Clinton on Saturday [5/4/2019] ... cautioned that other factors should go into selecting a president. ... "You can run the best campaign, you can even become the nominee, and you can have the election stolen from you," Clinton said, alluding to Russia's election interference efforts.

Sunday, May 5, 2019

Biden vaults to +20.4 over Sanders at Real Clear Politics


Climate Update for Grand Rapids, Michigan, April 2019













Climate Update for Grand Rapids, Michigan, April 2019

Max temp 77, Mean max 79
Min temp 19, Mean min 22
Av temp 47.7, Mean av 46.5
Precip 4.05, Mean 3.31
Precip to date 12.61, Mean to date 9.62 (8th wettest Feb on record, 35th wettest April)
Snow 4.9, Mean 2.4
Snow to date 81.3, Mean to date 66.1 (26th snowiest)
Heating Degree Days 515, Mean 553
HDD to date 6425, Mean to date 6402

The winter season is ending much snowier and wetter than the mean levels, but has been only just slightly colder than the long-term mean, less than 0.4% colder, using heating degree days as a yardstick. 

At Muslim Community Day in Philly the kids were singing and talking about chopping off heads, torture, and liberating Jerusalem

"Jesus loves the lit-tle child-ren, all the little children of the world!" this was not.






Twitter poll on Supreme Court at Democrat Senatorial Campaign Committee isn't going as intended


Saturday, May 4, 2019

Same with education: America was greater when knowledge was pursued as good in and of itself, not for the job it could get you

Beauty for beauty's sake, knowledge for knowledge's sake.



Joe Biden is the Democrats' low-IQ version of the Republicans' low-IQ John McCain

McCain graduated from the Naval Academy in June 1958; he was fifth from the bottom in class rank, 894th out of 899.

Erick Erickson's conservatism adopts the categories of cultural Marxism, is impotent before today's revolutionary speech enemies

Put another way, "there is no contradiction between economic liberalism and socialism".

Counter-revolt, or die.






Speech which is allowed may or may not be prescribed, but speech which is outlawed is definitely proscribed


Average hourly earnings for most people increased at a 2.9% annual rate in April 2019, a downturn from recent average quarterly experience

If this were an economic recovery like past ones, you'd think we could put together a string of year over year increases on a quarterly average basis above 3.5% lasting a couple of years, but that is still far from the case. The best quarter we've had is 4Q2018 at 3.46%.

Employers still have the whip hand.



Biden has opened an 18-point lead over Sanders nationally per Real Clear Politics


Friday, May 3, 2019

ROFL: CNBC says Creepy Uncle Joe parody website outranks his own

A parody website with embarrassing photos of Joe Biden is outranking his official campaign page on Google

Biden2020

University of Arizona-Tucson parking lot, a great place to measure official surface temperature to prove global warming AND kill your unattended baby or dog in the car from heat exposure at the same time

The Hill's John Solomon drops a bomb on Alexandra Chalupa's head, reports she may be source of Trump-Russian collusion narrative even as she spearheaded DNC/Clinton-Ukraine collusion

Ukrainian Embassy confirms DNC contractor solicited Trump dirt in 2016:

In its most detailed account yet, the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington says a Democratic National Committee (DNC) insider during the 2016 election solicited dirt on Donald Trump’s campaign chairman and even tried to enlist the country's president to help.

In written answers to questions, Ambassador Valeriy Chaly's office says DNC contractor Alexandra Chalupa sought information from the Ukrainian government on Paul Manafort’s dealings inside the country, in hopes of forcing the issue before Congress.

Chalupa later tried to arrange for Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to comment on Manafort’s Russian ties on a U.S. visit during the 2016 campaign, the ambassador said.

Chaly says that, at the time of the contacts in 2016, the embassy knew Chalupa primarily as a Ukrainian-American activist and learned only later of her ties to the DNC. He says the embassy considered her requests an inappropriate solicitation of interference in the U.S. election. ...

Reached by phone last week, Chalupa said she was too busy to talk. She did not respond to email and phone messages seeking subsequent comment. ...

Andrii Telizhenko, a former political officer who worked under Chaly from December 2015 through June 2016, told me he was instructed by the ambassador and his top deputy to meet with Chalupa in March 2016 and to gather whatever dirt Ukraine had in its government files about Trump and Manafort. ...

“She said the DNC wanted to collect evidence that Trump, his organization and Manafort were Russian assets, working to hurt the U.S. and working with Putin against the U.S. interests. She indicated if we could find the evidence they would introduce it in Congress in September and try to build a case that Trump should be removed from the ballot, from the election,” he recalled. ...

Though Chaly and Telizhenko disagree on what Ukraine did after it got Chalupa’s request, they confirm that a paid contractor of the DNC solicited their government’s help to find dirt on Trump that could sway the 2016 election.

If you want war with North Korea, Joe Biden is your man