Thursday, June 13, 2019
Wednesday, June 12, 2019
Trump avoided military service with bone spurs, Biden with childhood asthma
Joe Biden’s Draft Record Looks a Lot Like Donald Trump’s. Do Democrats Care? :
Just a few months before President Donald Trump received his
now-infamous diagnosis of “bone spurs in the heels,” former high school
football star Biden got the same 1-Y draft deferment for “asthma as a teenager.”
It was one of five deferments Biden received (the same number as
notorious GOP “draft dodger” Dick Cheney) and allowed him to avoid being
drafted at the height of the war. The year 1968 was one of the
bloodiest of the Vietnam conflict with 296,406 Americans drafted into
military service — the second-highest during the war.
Trump is a fool to insist his hands are tied by bad immigration laws when the US Code already gives him the power to act
HAMMER: Trump Has The Unilateral Power To Stop This Migrant Influx. He Just Needs To Act:
If properly enforced, 8 U.S.C. § 1182(f) could single-handedly eliminate this Central American-originated, Mexican cartel-orchestrated, harrowingly physically dangerous assault on our nation's collective sovereignty. Here is the relevant statutory text (emphasis added):
Whenever the President finds that the entry of any aliens or of any class of aliens into the United States would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, he may by proclamation, and for such period as he shall deem necessary, suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens as immigrants or nonimmigrants, or impose on the entry of aliens any restrictions he may deem to be appropriate.
Tuesday, June 11, 2019
Monday, June 10, 2019
Former House Speaker Paul Ryan's former spokesman calls for increase to Congressional pay
Your man or woman in Congress is already in the top 3% of wage earners in America, but it's not enough, says this guy. Republicans carry the Democrats' water, every damn time.
Brendan Buck, former spokesperson for onetime Speaker Paul D. Ryan, R-Wis., tweeted his support for a pay raise Friday.
“Congressional member and staff pay should be increased. I know that sounds bad, and makes for bad politics, but it’s just true. No, current member pay is by no means paltry, but it is too low, and it’s having a negative effect on Congress,” said Buck.
USA Today op-ed calls Biden "perfect tool of the oligarchy", might as well be referring to Trump
The best among us may get elected to high office in D.C. with high minded ideals and goals but eventually get co-opted by an insidious system, and gradually become an out-of-touch, often-duplicitous, platitude-mouthing D.C. elite.
Trump signed everything a Republican controlled Congress sent him without getting anything on immigration in return, the basis for his candidacy. Now he's running for reelection on immigration again.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice . . ..
The fact is, these two guys could run together on the same ticket.
Meanwhile 744 candidates have filed to run for president as of June 3, 2019, including Communist Michael Tyler Shortshit.
You have choice!
Iraq has handed down at least 3,000 death sentences to ISIS fighters so far
Iraq handing out thousands of death sentences in hasty trials for ISIS fighters:
It remains unclear the window of time between the sentencing and the
execution. Interior Ministry sources say it most often takes years for
the President to sign for the execution – most often by hanging – to be
carried out.
Sunday, June 9, 2019
If the current jobs recovery just equaled the average of previous cycle highs, we'd have 3.1 million more working full time jobs than we do
Six previous full time jobs recoveries since 1968 have meant 51.1% of the population working full time on average at peak, but we appear to have stalled out at around 49.9%.
It looks like a small difference on paper but amounts to almost 3.1 million more working full time today than are.
Population continues to grow, why not full time employment along with it?
This is not a boom.
Saturday, June 8, 2019
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