Paul Sperry identifies so-called whistleblower, links him to DNC Ukraine colluder Alexandra Chalupa, puts her at Obama's White House in November 2015, much earlier than previously admitted

And Ciaramella worked with a Democratic National Committee operative who dug up dirt on the Trump campaign during the 2016 election, inviting her into the White House for meetings, former White House colleagues said. The operative, Alexandra Chalupa, a Ukrainian-American who supported Hillary Clinton, led an effort to link the Republican campaign to the Russian government. “He knows her. He had her in the White House,” said one former co-worker, who requested anonymity to discuss the sensitive matter.

Documents confirm the DNC opposition researcher attended at least one White House meeting with Ciaramella in November 2015.  She visited the White House with a number of Ukrainian officials lobbying the Obama administration for aid for Ukraine. ...

In his complaint, the whistleblower charged that the president used “the power of his office to solicit interference from a foreign country in the 2020 U.S. election.”  Specifically, he cited a controversial July 25 phone call from the White House residence in which Trump asked Ukraine’s new president to help investigate the origins of the Russia “collusion” investigation the Obama administration initiated against his campaign, citing reports that “a lot of it started with Ukraine," where the former pro-Hillary Clinton regime in Kiev worked with Obama diplomats and Chalupa to try to “sabotage” Trump’s run for president.

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Full time employment is still abnormally low in the eighth year of painfully slow recovery

On an average basis through October 2019, just 50.37% of civilian noninstitutional population works full time.

A simple return to the rate of 51.3% which still prevailed throughout 2008, before the black communist got elected and scared employers half to death, would mean almost 3 million more working full time at current population level than do.

It took Reagan only three years to dig out of similar depths to which we sank in 2009, 2010 and 2011, but here we are in the eighth year of recovery and can't crack 50.5%.

Pathetic. 

Climate update for Grand Rapids, Michigan, October 2019: Really wet and not so hot

2019 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, is already the 11th wettest year on record through October, displacing 2018 from that rank.

Precipitation to date is already 44.71 inches when long term mean to date is just 29.48 inches.

On the summer heat front 2019 was nothing like 2018, which was the 7th warmest summer on record.

Cooling Degree Days to date come in at 742 compared with the long term mean to date of 699, about 6.2% above the mean. The record hot summer was in 1921 with 1200 CDD, with the record cool summer in 1992 with just 316 CDD. 2018 CDD came in at 1003.

On the winter cold side of things, while 2018-19 was utterly normal (6722 vs. mean 6705), the 2019-20 season is starting off with Heating Degree Days over 12% below the mean. Most of that was due to September average temperature exceeding the mean average by 3.6 degrees F. Long term mean HDD in September is 134 but came in at just 45.

Grand Rapids, MI, Climate Update October 2019

Max temp 77, mean max 79

Min temp 31, mean min 28

Av temp 50.2, mean av 51.3

Precip 7.13, mean 3.03

CDD 8, mean 9

CDD to date 742, mean to date 699

HDD 459, mean 424

HDD to date (July-Oct) 512, mean to date 585

Snow 0.3, mean 0.4

Grand Rapids, MI, Climate Update September 2019

Max temp 88, mean max 88

Min temp 48, mean min 37

Av temp 66.4, mean av 62.8

Precip 7.32, mean 3.6

CDD 92, mean 76

HDD 45, mean 134

The House impeachment inquiry, which is already being conducted in secret and restricts Republican involvement, was finally authorized but on entirely partisan grounds, by Democrats

232 YEAS (all Democrats plus Justin Amash, the libertarian nutjob from my district in Michigan), 196 NAYS (194 Republicans plus 2 Democrats), and 4 NOT VOTING (3 Republicans plus 1 Democrat:  A personal family emergency, the death of a father, and the call of military duty kept the three Republicans away from the vote; the lone Democrat not voting is recovering from surgery).

YEAS included sexual predator Katie Hill of California, who formally resigns her seat in the US House as of today, and candidate for president Army Major Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii.

BILL TITLE: Directing certain committees to continue their ongoing investigations as part of the existing House of Representatives inquiry into whether sufficient grounds exist for the House of Representatives to exercise its Constitutional power to impeach Donald John Trump, President of the United States of America

This Ann Coulter mistake usefully focuses attention on the fact that Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii could have been Democrat no. 3 to vote against impeachment proceedings, but wasn't

Let the enthusiasm for Tulsi on the right end there.

Tulsi may carry herself like a senator, but really there's no there there if she cannot see that the Democrat alternatives for president are more insane than Trump.

Maybe Tulsi could learn something over a leisurely dinner with Mattress Girl.

Paper tiger Trump has been a magnet for illegal immigration at the southwest border

The US Surgeon General says no amount of marijuana is safe for the developing brain, but self-hating liberalism is hell-bent on legalizing it everywhere

Orange Man Pumpkinator is coming for your soul

Democrats don't give a damn about military honor

Says the shameless woman who tried to ruin General Mike Flynn

Says Moochelle from the safety of her rich white people mansion

The Raven wishes hypocrite King James California shelter from the fires nevermore

Compared to the Great Depression 12 years out from 1929, GDP the last 12 years has been worse

President Norman Vincent Peale everybody

Kim Lardassian gets hers, but illegal immigration just gets worse, health care premiums soar under Obamacare, GDP grows at a crawl, and barely 50% of us have full time jobs

Dumbspeak from Beto O'Rourke: Suspension or expulsion from kindergarten = incarceration

Alexander Vindman is a Ukrainian-American who thinks Ukraine should be NATO's spearhead poking Putin's ass

Go ahead and impeach Trump over a foreign policy difference. That's what this whole thing has been about from the beginning anyway. Hillary Clinton, DNC, John McCain, Neo-con NeverTrump, the whole lot of them hate Trump for this. The American people decided otherwise in 2016. It's their foreign policy Vindman and the rest want to impeach. GFY! 

World Series: Four out in the fifth

That's odd, that new guy in charge of ISIS doesn't look anything like Harvard's Adrian Vermeule

Buh bye Katie Hill, have fun in your next career in the porn industry