They say that in Flanders fields
wasted young lives abound,
sleeping still beneath the ground;
Yet from what I've seen of life
the waste is all around,
though walking the dead above also are found.
-- Johnny
Monday, May 27, 2019
Sunday, May 26, 2019
A reminder that in addition to being the chief polluter of the atmosphere, China is also the chief polluter of the oceans
What are we going to do about China?
China is turning the whole world into a shit-hole.
America needs someone like Italy's Interior Minister Matteo Salvini who wants to fine charities for rescuing illegal immigrants
Next to America's libertarian do-nothings, the biggest enablers of illegal immigration into the United States are in church this morning.
Imagine their indignation if we did fine them. Could possibly be more fun to watch than Hillary supporters on election eve 2016.
Friday, May 24, 2019
LOL, lowly Republican House member stops $19.1 billion disaster relief spending spree Trump caved on
Notice: It's Not Justin Amash.
House Republican holds up $19 billion disaster relief bill expected to pass unanimously:
The bill was expected to pass the House under a unanimous consent process, to which any member may object. ... “Secondly, it’s a bill that includes nothing to address the clear
national emergency and humanitarian crisis we face at our southern
border,” [Chip] Roy [TX:21] said. ... President Donald Trump has declared the situation on the southern
border a national emergency and had previously sought to include
border-related funding in the bill. He later dropped the demand. ... Roy, in a statement later Friday, wrote that “I stayed in D.C. to
object because this kind of swampy practice is what Texans elected me
to stand against.
LOL, Camille Paglia said in 1991 that Naomi Wolf can't do historical analysis, and Wolf has proven it, again
LISTEN: Clinton, Gore Advisor Naomi Wolf's New Book Exposed For Inaccuracies :
Speaking with interviewer Matthew Street about her new book,
“Outrages,” ... Street pointed out
she had completely misunderstood a legal term. Wolf had decided that
there were several dozen executions of men for sodomy but did not
understand that that fact was incorrect because she didn’t understand
the legal term “death recorded.”
Oops.
Paglia in 1991:
And beauty, according to, um, Miss, um, Naomi
Wolf, is a heterosexist conspiracy by men in a room to keep feminism back--and
all that crap that's going on. I call her, by the way, "Little Miss Pravda."
She and I are head to head on MTV this week, in case you want to know! But I won't
appear with her. Oprah's tried to get me on with her: I won't go on with her.
A talk show in Italy wanted to fly me over to appear with her. No. I always say,
"Would Caruso appear with Tiny Tim?" If you want to see what's wrong with Ivy
League education, look at The Beauty Myth, that book by Naomi Wolf. This is a
woman who graduated from Yale magna cum laude, is a Rhodes scholar, and cannot
write a coherent paragraph. This is a woman who cannot do historical analysis,
and she is a Rhodes scholar? If you want to see the damage done to intelligent
women today in the Ivy League, look at that book. It's a scandal. Naomi
Wolf is an intelligent woman. She has been ill-served by her education. But if
you read Lacan, this is the result. Your brain turns to pudding! She has a case
to make. She cannot make it. She's full of paranoid fantasies about the world.
Her education was completely removed from reality.
Theresa May to resign as UK Prime Minister on June 7
With no Brexit withdrawal arrangement agreed, the prospect of the U.K. suffering a disorderly exit from the European Union now appears to be a more likely outcome. Britain and Northern Ireland’s official departure date from the European Union is October 31, 2019.
Thursday, May 23, 2019
China signed the Montreal Protocol in the 1980s to ban CFCs to heal the ozone hole but has been violating it anyway
Scientists discover China has been secretly emitting banned ozone-depleting gas:
Scientists found that between 40 and 60 per cent of the total global CFC-11 emissions originated from eastern China.
There Rush goes again, lying about Republican retirements in 2018, blaming them for loss of the House
Just 13 House districts out of 52 flipped parties, 3 Dem to Rep and 10 Rep to Dem. Rush could have used Al Gore's amazing internet and found the correct information in seconds, but he's too damn lazy and stupid.
Here's Ballotpedia's article on the subject:
A total of 52 representatives did not seek re-election to their U.S. House districts:
18 Democratic members of the U.S. House [10 retired from public office]
34 Republican members of the U.S. House [23 retired from public office]
In total, 13 of the 52 districts changed party hands. Ten seats flipped from Republican to Democrat. Three seats flipped from Democrat to Republican.
Wednesday, May 22, 2019
Well, well, well, Justin Amash hung out to dry by the billionaire DeVos family, concerned MI-03 not getting representation
A family spokesperson added that the family had made the decision to cut ties with Amash before his controversial tweets suggesting Trump should be impeached.
“Family members have expressed increasingly concerns about a lack of representation for their district, the third congressional, and I would say an inability to advance efforts connected to important policy matters," the spokesperson told the newspaper
National Popular Vote to become law in Nevada, making it 15 states and DC trying for an end run around the Electoral College
The compact would take effect after states totaling 270 electoral votes, and with Nevada, the total would reach 195.
Tuesday, May 21, 2019
Some day the UK's Grauniad will learn to write the English language, but today is not that day
Ask the Queen. I'm reliably informed that she knows the answer.
Memo to Erick Erickson: One of Justin Amash's so-called pro-life principles is that it's OK to abort up to 3-days from conception
Which has been public knowledge since at least March 2013, at the start of the third year of his tenure, but y'all too damn lazy to think about that, or too damn hypocritical to care. I vote both.
Why not up to 4 days?
Why not 4.2?
Why not 42, since 42 is the answer to everything?
How about through the first trimester?
The second?
How about after delivery on Virginia Governor Ralph Northam's desk?
It's laughable to insist Amash has principles when all they are is positions, but it's even funnier to say he's an originalist:
Whether you like Justin Amash or not, he is inarguably one of the
more principled members of the Republican conference in the House of
Representatives. Amash is willing to take unpopular stands in the name
of principle. He is willing to defy his party because of those
principles. Amash is one of the more easily predictable members of
Congress in how he votes because of his principles. Amash believes in the rule of law, limited government, and an originalist interpretation of the constitution.
Originalism is such tosh. The original Constitution had no income tax, accepted slavery, provided a mechanism for the natural growth of representation, knew nothing of women's suffrage, had legislatures elect senators, and knew only sound money. Justin Amash is not known for any of these causes. He's known only for thwarting the causes of others, Republicans' mostly. All he cares about, maybe, is the Constitution as it is, not as it should be, and as real conservatives know, the current Constitution is a mess, otherwise luminaries like Mark Levin wouldn't be proposing a raft of amendments to fix it.
All this hubbub is about is Amash's Trump hatred.
Which is why NeverTrumper Erick Erickson has weighed in on Amash's side.
NAS study finds 43% of 173 bastions of American liberalism have segregated dorms, 72% segregated graduations
Separate but equal, or somethin', Mr. Plessy.
What we found was that neo-segregation is widespread if not pervasive. About 46 percent (80 colleges out of 173 surveyed) segregate student orientation programs; 43 percent (75 colleges out of the total) offer segregated residential arrangements; and 72 percent (125 colleges out of the total) segregate graduation ceremonies.
Public Opinion Research is polling this morning by telephone about possible primary challengers to Justin Amash (MI-03)
Names mentioned were:
Terri Lynn Land, age 60, the shy loser to Gary Peters for US Senate in 2014;
*James Lower, represents Michigan's 70th House District, once worked for Brian Calley, Gov. Snyder's lieutenant;
*Tom Norton, Afghan War vet, sounds a little too eager for war with Iran, seems like a nice guy but can't spell too well, is "pro-Isreal";
Matt Hall, represents Michigan's 63rd House District, endorsed by Fred Upton who seems to hate Trump as much as Amash does, also worked for Terri Lynn Land when she was Michigan Secretary of State, was a "bound delegate" for Trump in 2016;
Bill Hardiman, age 72, Vietnam vet, former black mayor of Kentwood, Michigan for a decade who went on to defeat 2012 Amash challenger Steve Pestka to serve in the Michigan state senate for two terms 2003-2011, was one of five candidates who had sought the seat from MI-03 in the 2010 Republican primary, losing to Amash.
*have already announced runs against Amash
Monday, May 20, 2019
Hey Thomas Sowell, the only person who has been term limited is precisely the wrong person to term limit
Foreign dictators like Xi Jinpingpong know they can outlast 2-term US Commanders in Chief and get away with bloody murder.
The founders didn't believe in term limits, otherwise we'd already have had them in the Constitution, but they did believe in the natural growth of representation, which a tyrannical, power hungry Congress voted to stop in 1929.
Fix that and we can vote the bastards out a lot more easily than we can now. It wouldn't take $10 million to win a lousy House seat representing thirty, forty or fifty thousand people as originally intended like it does now for districts representing on average 757,000 people, and it wouldn't if we also required all campaign money to originate in the respective districts of the representatives (states for Senators).
#RepealAmendment22
#RescindReapportionmentActOf1929
Sunday, May 19, 2019
Justin Amash has never abandoned his principles, and neither has the Devil
If Justin Amash cared one wit about the Constitution, he'd have spent the last ten years in Congress trying to restore the natural growth of representation guaranteed by Article One of the Constitution which a tyrannical legislative took away from the people by the Reapportionment Act of 1929, fixing the number of districts at 435. Justin Amash has been quite content with this power to lord his opinion over many many hundreds of thousands of people whose views he couldn't care less about, when the founders imagined a ratio of one representative to 30,000 people. You'll never hear about that from Mr. Do Everything By The Constitution. Likewise only direct taxes were Constitutional until 1913, but you'll never hear about "originalism" from Mr. Constitution, only that "What is is holy, and we must do it that way." He's an ignoramus who says is means ought, posing as a genius. All he cares about is his view, the "right" view, and getting re-elected in order to keep imposing it.
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