Friday, January 5, 2018
Thursday, January 4, 2018
Senator Grassley says Comey's leak of his own memos included classified information
From the story here:
A top Republican senator said Wednesday that it appears former FBI Director James B. Comey leaked classified information in his effort to shape the narrative surrounding President Trump’s decision to fire him. ... He said he’s personally reviewed the seven memos, but was forced to do so in a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility, or SCIF. “The FBI insisted that these reviews take place in a SCIF because the majority of the memos are classified,” he said. “FBI personnel refused to answer factual questions during the document reviews, including questions about the chain of custody of the documents I was reviewing, the date that they were marked classified, and who marked them as classified.”
Comey's original memo calling Hillary "grossly negligent" has been released
From the story here:
The full draft, with edits, leaves little doubt that Comey originally wrote on May 2, 2016 that there was evidence that Clinton and top aides may have violated both felony and misdemeanor statutes, though he did not believe he could prove intent before a jury.
Screw the will of the voters: Marijuana is poison and government should fight it
Sessions’ plan drew immediate strong objection from Republican Sen. Cory Gardner of Colorado, one of eight states that have legalized marijuana for recreational use.
Gardner said in a tweet that the Justice Department “has trampled on the will of the voters” in Colorado and other states. He said the action would contradict what Sessions had told him before the attorney general was confirmed and that he was prepared “to take all steps necessary” to fight the step including holding up the confirmation of Justice Department nominees.
Read the whole thing here.
Scott Rasmussen thinks 15 million will drop Obamacare because now they can, and 6.5 million others already pay a fine
From the story here:
Last year, an estimated 15 million Americans would have dropped out of Obamacare if they could. Now they can. Another 6.5 million paid a fine rather than sign up for coverage. This means that more than 20 million people directly benefit from the repeal of the mandate.
NONE of the increase to working age population aged 25 to 64 since 2005 has gone to household formation . . .
. . . either as renters or homeowners in their own right. They've ALL (and then some) gone to doubling-up on net, mostly with family.
The face of the declining middle class in 2016 was concealed as 15 million more lived in doubled-up households than in 2005
Zillow reported (here) in December that working age adults in 2016 were living in doubled-up households at a rate of 30% compared with 21% in 2005.
That works out to roughly 32 million in 2005 at the 21% rate vs. 50 million in 2016 at the 30% rate, using the Working Age Population data from FRED.
Had the rate remained 21% in 2016, just 35 million would be living doubled-up instead of 50 million.
That's 15 million more adults who can't afford to buy, and can't even afford to rent, thanks to the feckless performances of George W. Bush and Barack H. Obama.
h/t Jeffrey Snider, Alhambra Investments
Wednesday, January 3, 2018
Grand Rapids, Michigan, climate update for December 2017
Grand Rapids, Michigan, climate update for December 2017
Max Temp: Actual 61, Mean 53, 2017 Max 96, Mean Max 94
Min Temp: Actual -12, Mean 4, 2017 Min -12, Mean Min -7
Av. Temp: Actual 24.4, Mean 28.3, Annual Actual 50.3, Annual Mean 48.2
CDD: 2017 Actual 719, Annual Mean 690
Rain: Actual 1.96, Mean 2.43, Annual Actual 39.43, Annual Mean 34.52
Snow: Actual 32.9, Mean 16.2, Season to Date Actual 33.5, Season to Date Mean 22.9
HDD: Actual 1252, Mean 1131, Season to Date Actual 2443, Season to Date Mean 2488
The warming need as expressed by Heating Degree Days thus far into the cool season increased considerably in December and is now running just 1.8% under the mean to date overall.
The year 2012 remained the warmest full year on record by average temperature at 52.8 F going back to 1898, followed by 1931, 1921, 1998, 2016, 2010, 1938, 1939 and now 2017 at 50.3 F placing ninth. The cooling need in the warm season as expressed by Cooling Degree Days was 4.2% above the annual mean. 2017 actual average temperature exceeded the annual mean average temperature by a similar value, 4.35%. The record year 2012 exceeded annual mean average temperature by 9.5%.
Tuesday, January 2, 2018
Sunday, December 31, 2017
Saturday, December 30, 2017
Yahoo and HuffPo call this "normal" winter weather: It's not
Here. But hot summer temperatures evoke global warming headlines.
The mean monthly lowest minimum temperature in Grand Rapids, Michigan in Decembers is +4 F. With today and tomorrow to go, we're already at - 12 F, the third coldest on record.
Average temperature in December 2017 so far ranks 32nd coldest out of 126 Decembers, the 75th percentile. Normal would be the 50th percentile. So it's definitely colder than normal, while not absolutely record setting.
Climate shmimate. These idiots can't predict bupkis three days out let alone from month to month and century to century. All year long average temperature has been running warm, until December ruined their little global warming narrative.
Bwaaaaaaahahahahaha.
Let this be a sign unto you: The era of libertarian looting ushered in by Reagan now reaching apogee will be followed by another FDR-like "progressive" era of welfare statism
Bernie tapped into the amorphous socialism clamored for by today's young people who face dim job prospects while saddled by large college debts for degrees incommensurate with what's available in the job marketplace. This is the direct result of the takeover of public education from bottom to top by the left. It never delivers what it promises, except for hope.
As "millennials" replace the Baby Boom at the polls, their vote will transform America, and already has. Obama and Bernie were signs of this. Expect a return to high taxation of the rich, even larger federal government, and the transformation of existing welfare state programs into universal systems.
Like it or not, that's the future. Patriotism will take the form of socialism for Americans instead of for the world.
Now that Republicanism has thoroughly committed itself to globalism, libertarians are advised to take the money and run.
Friday, December 29, 2017
Michael Savage, crackpot: Emphasizes "wildlife and the earth" at dinner with President Trump
Recounted here.
Trump got elected on the issue of illegal immigration. There has been no progress on the wall in a year, and Savage decides to use his valuable meeting time with Trump to talk about . . . environmentalism. As if environmentalism will be important politically in the midterms.
What a nitwit.
We're being overrun and Savage decides to get all wet.
We're doomed I tell you.
Thursday, December 28, 2017
Alt-right critic Amanda Marcotte says white supremacists are harder to see at the end of 2017
Everyone's harder to see right now. They're all inside because it's like - 11 degrees F outside.
Here:
White supremacists may be harder to see at the end of 2017, but the problem they represent is not going away any time soon.
Tuesday, December 26, 2017
Uh oh: A North Korean soldier who defected to South Korea this year has anthrax antibodies
UPI reports here:
South Korean authorities did not identify the soldier, who was either exposed to or vaccinated for anthrax, but did confirm he had developed immunity to the deadly disease before he defected, local news network Channel A reported Tuesday.
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