Tuesday, March 12, 2019
ICE officers diverted from their jobs by DHS, assisting Border Patrol in catch-and-release of illegals, which is now in overdrive under Trump
ICE officers who endorsed President Trump in 2016 now say he has failed to follow through on his get-tough promises, saying catch-and-release of immigrants living illegally in the U.S. is not only still happening, but has gone into “overdrive.”
Grand Rapids, Michigan, Climate Update for February 2019
Grand Rapids, Michigan, Climate Update for February 2019
Max Temp 48, Mean Max Temp 50
Min Temp -2, Mean Min Temp -2
Av Temp 25.6, Mean Av Temp 24.5
Precip 3.43, Mean Precip 1.80
Snow 20.4, Mean Snow 13.2
Snow Season To Date 68.5, Snow Mean Season To Date 54.6
Heating Degree Days 1099, Mean Heating Degree Days 1136
HDD Season To Date 4904, Mean HDD Season To Date 4894
Using HDD we are now just 0.2% colder than the mean, season to date.
Monday, March 11, 2019
Trump's lizard brain telegraphed over and over and over again that he would betray his own followers
But instead of saying thanks, that snake gave her a vicious bite
“Take me in, oh tender woman
Take me in, for heaven's sake
Take me in oh tender woman,” sighed the snake
“I saved you,” cried that woman
“And you've bit me even, why?
You know your bite is poisonous and now I'm going to die”
“Oh shut up, silly woman,” said the reptile with a grin
“You knew damn well I was a snake before you took me in"
LOL Larry Kudlow: 22,000 new payrolls in February 2019 "fluky", but 54,000 in May 2011 "meager", economy "sputtering", possibly a sign of recession
In recent weeks, a whole bunch of new economic stats have been pointing to a sputtering economy -- maybe even an inflation-prone, less-than-2-percent-growth recession. Stocks have dropped five straight weeks, as they look toward slower growth, jobs, and profits out to year end. And Friday's jobs report didn't buck these trends.
"Anemic" is the adjective being tossed around the media. According to the Labor Department, nonfarm payrolls increased a meager 54,000 in May, while private payrolls gained only 83,000. A week or two ago, Wall Street expected 200,000-plus new jobs. Didn't happen.
I remember when Trump promised a 10% spending cut in Jan 2017, now Kudlow announces a 5% cut after Republicans spend us blind: 100% politics, 0% serious
Trump to whack DC with 10% cut to discretionary spending, 20% cut to personnel
What a crock that turned out to be.
Federal employment is exactly in Feb 2019 where it was in Nov 2016: 2.799 million.
And outlays? Look at the outlays!
Outlays in fiscal 2017 were up 3.3% from 2016, up another 4.8% in 2018, and up again in fiscal 2019 a whopping 5.6%.
Overall for fiscal 2019 spending is up 14.4% from 2016.
Just in time for the next election cycle, however, Larry Kudlow is out promising a spending cut of 5%.
Total BS.
Did Billy Cunningham mention the Trumpster's lousy February jobs number last night?
If he did I must have missed it.
20,000 jobs in February, worst performance in 9 years, but Billy Cunningham blathered on about how socialism fails and how Americans enjoy a high standard of living because of great companies like Kroger, Amazon and Walmart. No mention of this huge anomaly in the Trumpster's so-called economic boom.
I can remember when Walmart was widely perceived as the enemy by wide swaths of America because it destroyed mom and pop stores wherever it decided to leave its giant footprint. Walmart defended itself against this opposition with its "Buy American" policy, but those days are long gone now. Walmart and Amazon are now storefronts for Communist China and the globalism which took away America's best jobs for ordinary folks. And the tax breaks generally provided by state and local governments these days to get big businesses to locate where they are is hardly capitalism, but favoritism, state capitalism and fascism. Too much of American life is now the people vs. government and business allied together against them.
But more to the point is that Billy Cunningham's idea of a great America is an America that consumes, whereas the Protestant ethic which truly made America great was the one where people saved, invested and consumed beneath their means. I guess that ethic is not part of the Sunday homily at Billy's church.
It has been because of losing touch with this real meaning and practice of capitalism which has produced the moribund economic conditions where socialism now appears more attractive to growing numbers of Americans for whom capitalism-light has failed to deliver.
Too bad Billy doesn't really get it.
Whites are over 77% of the population, but received just 7% of the net new jobs since the Great Recession as of Feb 2019
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| up net 963,000 in Feb 2019 |
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| up net 6,569,000 in Feb 2019 |
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| up net 3,023,000 in Feb 2019 |
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| up net 2,637,000 in Feb 2019 |
Hispanics took 50% of the net new jobs.
Sunday, March 10, 2019
Using the historical average of labor participation, 2.3 million more people age 16-24 should have been in the labor force in 2018 than were
The civilian labor force level of people age 16-24 averaged almost 21 million in 2018, 55.2% of the civilian noninstitutional population age 16-24 averaging 38 million. Upping the participation rate simply to the average of 61.2% for all the years shown in the graph below would have raised their labor force level to 23.3 million, 2.3 million higher than actual.
Too bad for them, the low paying jobs they need to get work experience and a leg up on life are being taken by immigrants imported by the millions by the two political parties.
The ones we don't kill in the womb we torture in other ways.
The ones we don't kill in the womb we torture in other ways.
Trump throws Coulter under the bus just like every other woman he has used
Trump used Coulter, not for sex but for the immigration issue, which he stole from her book. Now lies like a rug about it, same as ever. No "wall" is being built. There are renovations only using "fence". Illegal crossings are soaring. Catch and release is soaring. No one's fault but Trump's alone.
We are into Trump's third year as president and Ingraham Angle is still blaming policy failures on Obama holdovers
When exactly is Trump going to become president of the United States? After 2020? We don't have time for the training wheels to come off.
Maybe Trump's policy failures on immigration are HIS FAULT. Blaming Obama holdovers is ridiculous when Bush 41 cleaned house on accession by firing all the Reagan administration holdovers OVERNIGHT.
This reminds me of nothing so much as the Limbaugh Theorem, not holding the president accountable for his own policies, except now Republicans are doing it.
Trump is doing nothing because that's the way he wants it. It's politics, not policy, and for playing politics with the nation's integrity and security, for that alone he shouldn't be president right now, let alone in 2020.
Trump is every bit the scoundrel now his past life says he always was.
Taxpayers fund commercial flights for illegal immigrants
Saturday, March 9, 2019
Trump's had strong wage gains in excess of 3% in six out of the last seven months for 80% of workers
Aug: 3.1%
Sep: 3.4%
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Nov: 3.4%
Dec: 4.2%
Jan: 3.3%
Feb: 3.5%
Keep in mind that wage gains were similarly strong just before and even during the Great Recession.
Alexandria the Great complains of "dark money" in politics but has plenty of her own
Tom Anderson, director of the National Legal and Policy Center's Government Integrity Project, said: "It appears Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her associates ran an off-the-books operation to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars, thus violating the foundation of all campaign finance laws: transparency." ...
Adav Noti, the senior director of the Campaign Legal Center and a former FEC lawyer, said the arrangement was highly unusual and seemed intended to obscure the destination of the funds. "None of that makes any sense," said Noti. "I can't even begin to disentangle that. They're either confused or they're trying to conceal something." ... "It does seem like there's something amiss. I can only think of really two likely possibilities for this sort of pattern of disbursements," said Noti. "One is the scam PAC possibility — they're really just paying themselves and they’re concealing it by using the LLC. The other is that there’s actually another recipient, that the money is going to the LLC and then being disbursed in some other way that they want to conceal."
Friday, March 8, 2019
As of right now, Trump will not win reelection with Michigan
But since only 31 percent of all of those surveyed
said they would definitely vote again for Trump, it shows a problem for
Trump even among those who would be expected to be his most loyal
supporters — the 42 percent who identify as Republican voters. "The vote to re-elect numbers are 31 percent — 11
points below the (Republican) Party identification. That spells trouble
for him," said Porn. "And there are people who are saying they like
him, or are giving him a positive job rating, who are still saying they
won't re-elect him. That gap is a problem." ... For the poll, EPIC-MRA of Lansing randomly surveyed
600 likely voters in Michigan between Sunday and Thursday of this
week. The margin of error is plus or minus 4 percentage points.
Democrats are frauds, but Ilhan Omar is a stupid fraud: In 2017 she LOVED Obama, now he's a murderer
Lying to the infidel. It's not a bug, it's a feature.
Ilhan Omar: Obama’s a ‘pretty face’ who got ‘away with murder’
Ann Coulter is finally starting to put 2 & 2 together: Does Trump WANT to stop the invasion?
As everyone knows by now, Trump pulled the campaign trigger in 2015 about one month after reading ADIOS AMERICA. He had found his issue. It was not his issue. It became his issue. He had found his angle, his tool.
Immigration restriction marked Trump out from all the other candidates. It got him elected, narrowly. The tilt to the libertarian open borders Mercers with Conway and Bannon in August 2016 nearly did him in. He prematurely tracked to the middle (DACA waffling in Arizona townhall, showing he was never sincere), and once in office, did nothing of substance about the issue. There was no liason to Congress on the issue in the White House, coordinating policy. All the appointments in the White House were opposed to immigration restriction save one here or there, confounding his supporters to this day. It was not a priority, until after the House was lost. None of the cabinet appointments were restrictionists, but for Sessions, whom he neutered early over what really matters, muh MAGA presidency.
Now he returns to immigration, putting it front and center as a matter of what, policy? No, as a matter of the reelection campaign, as it was in the beginning. It's an election tool, a campaign issue like abortion has been for decades. He never really intended to do anything about it, and doesn't now, except in a half-hearted kind of way where if he gets lucky with it here and there as a matter of policy, so much the better. That keeps the believers believing, as does the dumpster fire he's created at the border. He keeps signaling over and over again since losing the House how he wants more immigrants to come here than ever before. Well they're coming over like never before! Trump created the National Emergency. Trump created the surge at the border. He wanted it. He needs it. We are in a political campaign.
Donald Trump will go down in history as the man who forever put the stink on running as an immigration restrictionist, which is why you never trust a "former" Democrat with the leadership of your party. It ain't called stupid for nothin'. It was Ronald Reagan, after all, who started us down the road to exporting all those jobs Trump now says he wants to bring back.
How's that working out for you on this winter day reporting a mere 20,000 new payrolls in February?
We are screwed. "Conservatives" and "Republicans" have failed us, utterly. And that much Coulter already knows.
We are screwed. "Conservatives" and "Republicans" have failed us, utterly. And that much Coulter already knows.
Trump as state capitalist: Once was a one-off, twice is a Freudian slip
Trump's brain has no room for the individual qua individual, only for the individual as representative of a brand. The higher reality, the organizing principle of society is the group and the corporation, without which the individual doesn't exist. In that sense he's a good Aristotelian:
This is just stupid: Trump is causing the invasion, he wants the invasion, he needs the invasion!
Trump will veto the bill. There aren't enough votes to override. The National Emergency must and will continue! There's another election coming you fool.
Trump used immigration to distinguish himself from the rest and get elected: It was merely a political tool then as it is now
Wake up and smell the coffee, served up fresh and hot by Juan Valdez you idiots. You are so owned.
Thursday, March 7, 2019
ANYBODY who runs for president now as a Democrat is an anti-Semite
How quickly they drop out now is an index of their disagreement with the Democrat Party's new embrace of anti-Semitism.
Way to go, Sherrod Brownie! Didn't take you even one day!
The New York Times' Paul Krugman: No anti-Semitic enemies to the left, only to the right!
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
What a douche bag, writing for a douche rag.
Contra Dan Henninger of the WSJ, this is hardly the hottest job market in half a century when Obama's was actually better, which ain't sayin' much
This past weekend, The Wall Street Journal published a series of stories titled “Inside the Hottest Job Market in Half a Century.” As far as I’m concerned, this jobs record is the story of the year. The Journal’s articles transformed a year of economic data into the new daily reality of getting paid to work in America. ... It requires a remarkable degree of obtuseness to stare at the policy success of the past two years and pretend it hasn’t happened. Democrats are doing exactly that. Conservatives should pocket the Trump presidency’s Reaganesque policies for massively matching job producers with job seekers.
There's nothing obtuse about the facts, which show that the current job recovery is nothing out of the ordinary and simply continues the recovery which began despite Obama. The fact is that since the election of Trump in 2016 there's actually been a slow down in the rate of job growth compared with the immediately preceding, more robust period from 2013-2016.
Reaganesque policy under Trump hasn't produced a better outcome for job growth compared with that period, which was the immediate result of the John Boehner-Barack Obama deal to make the Bush tax cuts permanent starting in 2013.
For all the bluster by Trump-aligned organs in the media, especially at The Wall Street Journal, Fox and on talk radio, Trump's results so far also haven't come close to matching the pre-2000 era of job creation.
The economy shrank after the end of the 20th century, and we're still trying to recover to the former glory, nineteen years later.
So far, no one has a solution. Short of a giant spending cut and an actual structural commitment to onshoring instead of offshoring, there will not be one.
Repeal the 22nd Amendment, 2019 edition
Limiting the president to two terms when House and Senate members are not so limited increases the political power of the legislative over the executive, contrary to the founders' vision of separated and balanced powers. The executive is automatically lame on reelection as a consequence, and the Congress knows it and exploits it.
The growth of the so-called "imperial presidency" in the post-war has been simply a response to this infringement on the executive. To be sure the individual responses of the executive often become offenses in and of themselves, but nothing has been more offensive in the history of the Republic than Congress' sorry record of unimpeded theft of the American people's money and its headlong leap into the spending abyss.
Like guilty dogs caught peeing on the carpet of the Constitution, the Congress occasionally bows its head and cedes a little power back to the executive in one form or another, the latest example on display being the National Emergencies Act of 1976. With that the Congress is quite content to let the executive take all the political heat for making the difficult decisions in extremis while posturing as defenders of the Constitution. They win both ways, and the president loses. Congress' incumbents know they'll be back for the long run, but the president won't.
Repealing the 22nd Amendment would actually put more of the onus on Congress these poseurs to do their damn job for a change instead of dumping it all on one person while crying "Tyranny!" after he acts to clean up their puddle. And that's why it won't happen.
But it still should.
Why Twitter is better than Facebook
Facebook makes you go to all the trouble of unfriending people for what they believe whereas Twitter saves you a step by automatically unfriending you for that. Much more efficient.
I just hate committing suicide with alcohol
I always wake up the next morning with the worst headache.
Wednesday, March 6, 2019
Democrat Ron Wyden is tired of James Clappers' lies, which were like what, in 2013 . . . 6 light years ago
Expect Ron Wyden to make a statement on the 2019 capture of the Democrat Party by the anti-Semites in . . . 2025.
Correct, but it's "minorities" who are taking all the new jobs, 78% of the jobs to be exact
Trump has left whites behind.
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