WaPo reports here.
Tuesday, September 5, 2017
DACA rescinded with a drop-dead date of March 5, 2018: Pressure transferred to Congress, where it belongs
From the story here:
Acting DHS Secretary Elaine Duke has issued a memo formally rescinding DACA and starting what the administration calls an "orderly wind down."
The government will not process any new applications or requests for DACA protection.
People currently protected will not be affected before March 5, "so Congress can have time to deliver on appropriate legislative solutions," according to Duke.
Current DACA holders' protection from deportation and work permits will remain in effect until they expire, at which time they will no longer be shielded. The government will hear all pending applications for DACA protection and renewals and decide on them on a case-by-case basis.
Monday, September 4, 2017
It's politically smart for Trump to dump DACA in Congress' lap, but we didn't vote for that
Congress looks dumb all by itself, with or without any help from Trump.
Just cancel the DACA executive order and be done with it. If that's not enough incentive for Congress to act, I don't know what is. DACA is nothing more than the open borders clothing gladly worn by the Congress, given to it by Obama after he raped it.
Congress needs to be humiliated bigly. Make it stand there nekkid.
Why Trump should think Republicans can come up with a fix to DACA in six months when they can't fix Obamacare in seven years is beyond me
It sucks trying to make a bunch of losers winners.
Sunday, September 3, 2017
Saturday, September 2, 2017
BAMN (By Any Means Necessary) is a violent Marxist group with teachers as members, active in Michigan and tied to antifa, the NEA and NAMBLA!
And our property tax dollars pay their salaries!
From the story here:
One of BAMN’s most prominent organizers is Yvette Felarca, a Berkeley middle school teacher and pro-violence militant. Felarca currently faces charges of inciting a riot for her role in the Sacramento violence. ...
BAMN is active within both the National Education Association — the nation’s largest teacher’s union — as well as with local and regional teacher’s unions in Michigan and California. Last year, 17 different BAMN members ran for elected positions on the Detroit Federation of Teachers, according to a newsletter sent out by the DFT. BAMN also ran five candidates for different national leadership positions with the NEA in 2017.
John McCain's enjoying himself one last time in Italy
Story here.
He most enjoys himself, it seems, whilst pretending he's the leader of the free world, no matter what country he's in.
Grand Rapids, Michigan, climate update for August 2017
The back of summer was broken last month, and August showed it:
Max Temp: Actual 88, Mean 92
Min Temp: Actual 47, Mean 47
Av Temp: Actual 68.7, Mean 70.2
Precip: Actual 1.72, Mean 3.04
CDD: Actual 140, Mean 188.
The average of the last twelve ONI values is -0.266, the lingering effects of the five month long Weak La Nina, indicating a very slightly cool ocean in the tropical Pacific over the last year.
I used 22% fewer kWh this August than last, but stayed comfortably cool nonetheless.
Every passing day on which Trump fails to rescind DACA only validates its original executive overreach
Rescind the illegal executive order already, not because its content is wrong, which it is, but because the order is an offense to the constitution.
Friday, September 1, 2017
Thursday, August 31, 2017
A materialist imagines that for the first time in history we are free
Wow, while I wasn't looking utopia suddenly arrived. Reminds me of nothing so much as Millerism.
It never occurs to this guy that "the end of the working class" can mean only one thing. The middle class replaces the old working class and becomes the new working class. And that won't be good for your bank account.
Here:
We can hope for something better because, for the first time in history, we are free to choose something better. The low productivity of traditional agriculture meant that mass oppression was unavoidable; the social surplus was so meager that the fruits of civilization were available only to a tiny elite, and the specter of Malthusian catastrophe was never far from view. Once the possibilities of a productivity revolution through energy-intensive mass production were glimpsed, the creation of urban proletariats in one country after another was likewise driven by historical necessity. The economic incentives for industrializing were obvious and powerful, but the political incentives were truly decisive. When military might hinged on industrial success, geopolitical competition ensured that mass mobilizations of working classes would ensue.
Helen Raleigh sounds the alarm: Antifa is Mao's Red Guard
If you read nothing this year, you must read this:
Wednesday, August 30, 2017
Tuesday, August 29, 2017
Meanwhile, we get "broken window fallacy" nonsense from The New York Times about Hurricane Harvey
Destroy the previous products of GDP which produced GDP of their own, and presto! More GDP!
Might as well just print the stuff on steroids and spend it.
About 21% of taxpayer money and borrowings is already misallocated to expenditure by the federal government. Some of that is absolutely necessary, but even that is not spent well.
Hurricanes aren't called disasters for nothing.
Here:
Ellen Zentner, chief United States economist at Morgan Stanley, said that although Hurricane Harvey’s impact on national gross domestic product in the third quarter might be fairly neutral, “the lagged effects of rebuilding homes and replacing motor vehicles can lost longer,” providing a lift to gross domestic product in the fourth quarter and beyond.
On the other hand, an extended rise in gasoline prices could have a more immediate effect. Each 10-cent rise in the price of gasoline is equivalent to a $10 billion tax on consumers, Ms. Zentner said, so “should higher prices be sustained, it would rob other categories of spending as dollars are diverted to filling tanks.” ...
The economic impact of the storm will not be clear with any degree of accuracy for a while. But given Houston’s commercial importance — and its perch along a well-trod hurricane zone — economists and others have long taken it for granted that an epic storm would hit the region eventually, so have a head start on the numbers.
Monday, August 28, 2017
There were lots and lots of articles today about a tax reform bill . . .
. . . as if the Obamacare repeal debacle had never even happened.
Sunday, August 27, 2017
Laugh of the Day: "Maybe this will chase all the Katrina refugees back to New Orleans"
Seen here in the comments.
Cuckservative schizophrenia at The Weekly Standard: 27 antifa arrests for anti-police violence in Boston, but Trump still wrong
From the August 20th story here, which also misses the growing polarization between antifa and BLM:
The atmosphere of the counter-protest was not as violent as these sentiments. Nor, with the exception of the small antifa group, was there the whiff of militarism that leaks from the alt-right. So President Trump was wrong to characterize the crowd as “anti-police agitators.” ...
In the park, the counter-protesters divided into two camps. The BLM protesters gathered on one side, the socialist groups on another. Eventually, the antifa and the police got to grips. The Police Department tweeted a request that people stop throwing “urine, bottles, and other harmful projectiles at our officers.” Twenty-seven people were arrested.
Saturday, August 26, 2017
The victims surrender: Half a million fools march in Barcelona against Islamophobia
From the story here:
"We are here to say we're not afraid, we are united and we want peace," said 59-year-old pensioner Victoria Padilla as she marched. Slogans carried by marchers read "The best answer: peace" and "No to Islamophobia".
Police estimated the march at half a million people.
Members of Spain's Islamic community marched alongside the King and Prime Minister Rajoy, including women wearing hijabs. Speakers gave readings next to a floral display with the words 'Barcelona' and 'I am not afraid' in different languages including Arabic.
Jonah Goldberg knows a thing or two about self-hatred
In "Behind the monument wars is a plague of self-hatred", Goldberg calls self-hatred a "Western disease". Gee, where'd we catch that?
The mobs of students — and their enabling professors and administrators — renaming buildings and bowdlerizing the language are still products of Western civilization. Even the poseurs who think Googling a few phrases from Karl Marx and wearing a Che Guevara T-shirt make them anti-colonialists are disciples of Western thinkers. Where does Mark-Viverito think her mother’s feminism came from? The Arawaks? For centuries, to the extent that educated Muslims talked about the Crusades at all, it was to boast about how they emerged victorious from them.
But Osama bin Laden and his ilk read too much Noam Chomsky and caught the Western disease of victimization and resentment. That’s the plague sweeping the land now. And tearing down some statues and renaming some streets isn’t a cure, it’s a symptom.
Friday, August 25, 2017
Why I haven't flown since TWA Flight 800
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| Memorial to Pam, Shannon and Katie Lychner, 3 of 230 who perished |
I worked for a cargo airline at the time, and we went into freak-out mode after Flight 800 with cargo inspection procedures to prevent against the introduction of explosives. We were promised that technology was just around the corner to insure that everything going on the plane was safe, and that we wouldn't have to expend all the extra effort for long, opening up everything to check it ourselves. But it never happened, at least not adequately, and to this day it hasn't. For me, it meant operational burnout, and I quit.
You fly at your own risk.
Crappy News Network reports, here, that the problems still remain:
As the TSA continues to study its current cargo screening protocols, it is unclear if or when it might implement any changes.
But an airport security official told CNN that new safety protocols and additional resources may not close all the gaps that exist in airline cargo security.
"Cargo is a vast area with lots of access points -- you can never get it completely right," said Mark Hatfield, chief security officer at Miami International Airport.
"It's something that keeps us up at night," he added.
My seventeen year-old said he wants to sit in the front row of a no-whites college orientation . . .
. . . just so he can tell the bastards who object that their kids will be pulling down a statue to him 100 years from now.
"And we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father".
I'm so proud.
Peter Berkowitz agrees with us that Hillary Clinton was the worst candidate since Mondale
Here:
Although Hillary Clinton won the 2016 popular vote, her Electoral College loss—the only result that is constitutionally relevant—to Donald Trump inflicted a trauma for Democrats comparable to 1984. True, Mondale’s margin of defeat was enormous, but he ran against a popular incumbent president and gifted politician whose policies were credited with reviving a moribund economy. And yes, Clinton fell a mere 70,000-combined votes short in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. But the embarrassing scandal for Democrats was that a race between their former secretary of state/former senator/former first lady and the major-party candidate with the highest disapproval ratings and the least political preparation in American history was even close.
But losing 20 states in 2016 to your party's loser from 2004 isn't just embarrassing. It's a sign of popular revulsion.
Chris Jacobs for The Federalist favors the status quo on Medicaid in exchange for Obamacare repeal
It's uncanny how similar Chris Jacobs' overarching point is to the one we expressed here in June when we said that the status quo ante Obamacare was not the way forward, and that the way forward involves getting a buy-in from moderates and liberals on reform, but not repeal, of the Medicaid expansion in exchange for repeal of Obamacare root and branch.
The difference is in solving the funding problem. Jacobs admits his plan precludes "repealing all of Obamacare’s tax increases." Our idea doesn't, in exchange for a broadly based Medicaid payroll tax to democratize the costs. 50 million participants in the small group and individual markets are bearing the burden of funding "health insurance" for the poor, i.e. Medicaid, through grossly more expensive premiums and deductibles than before Obamacare.
As others have observed, the growth of the uninsured post-Obamacare is in this group because they can't afford it anymore.
The way forward is a compromise which keeps the Medicaid expansion, funds it fairly, retains state control of the program (federalism) just as now, and repeals Obamacare.
Jacobs, here:
In both the House and the Senate, debate focused on a push-pull between two competing issues: The status of Medicaid expansion in the 31 states that accepted it, and what to do about Obamacare’s regulatory regime. During the spring and summer, congressional leaders attempted messy compromises on each issue, phasing out the higher federal match for Medicaid expansion populations over time, while crafting complex processes allowing states, insurers, or both to waive some—but not all—of Obamacare’s regulatory requirements.
But rather than constructing substantively cumbersome waiver arrangements—the legislative equivalent of a camel being a horse written by committee—Occam’s Razor suggests a simpler, cleaner solution: Preserving the status quo (i.e., the enhanced federal match) on Medicaid expansion in exchange for full repeal of Obamacare’s insurance regulations at the federal level.
A “grand bargain” in this vein would give Senate moderates a clear win on Medicaid expansion, while providing conservatives their desired outcome on Obamacare’s regulations.
Thursday, August 24, 2017
"The shortage of unskilled, non-English-speaking Mexicans we experienced in the '60s has been remedied by now"
Here:
We fought a civil war 150 years ago to force Democrats to give up slavery. They've become so desperate for servants that now they're importing an underclass to wash their clothes and pick their vegetables. This mass importation of unskilled immigrants is the left's new form of slavery.
Thankfully, shouting Allahu Akbar! is now like shouting Fire! in a crowded theatre in at least one city
What was that slogan from WaPo? Democracy dies in darkness? In Venice at least, the enemies of democracy will die in broad daylight.
Wednesday, August 23, 2017
Tuesday, August 22, 2017
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