He's on a thing called TV, which I haven't had since 2009.
Thursday, June 6, 2019
Wednesday, June 5, 2019
Climate Update for Grand Rapids, MI, May 2019
Climate Update for Grand Rapids, MI, May 2019
Max Temp 79, Mean Max 86
Min Temp 38, Mean Min 32
Av Temp 57, Mean Av 57.9
Precip 5.96, Mean 3.48 (12th wettest May on record)
Snow 0, Mean 0.2
HDD 248, Mean 252
Season to date HDD 6673, Mean 6654
CDD 6, Mean 39
We've had a very wet spring, and now we're seeing caterpillar activity on some pine and apple trees, in addition to vigorous ant activity in our sandy soils. Song birds have a plentiful supply of bugs to eat and are feeding and nesting robustly.
Tuesday, June 4, 2019
Robin Munro: The Tiananmen massacre was not primarily of the students, rather the workers, not in the Square but citywide in Beijing
Remembering Tiananmen Square:
Western criticisms based on a false version of the clearing of Tiananmen Square have handed the butchers of Beijing needless propaganda victories in the U.N. and elsewhere. ... By May 17, the sight of as many as 2,000 idealistic young students collapsing from heat and starvation brought more than a million ordinary Beijing citizens into the square in a moving display of human solidarity. “The students speak on behalf of all of us,” they would tell any foreigner who cared to listen.
Having been passive spectators, the laobaixing now began to act as a bastion of active support for the students, bringing food and other supplies to the square on a round-the-clock basis. This specter of emerging cross-class solidarity led directly to the authorities’ decision to impose martial law in Beijing on May 20. ...
Action groups formed spontaneously throughout Beijing. ... The laobaixing were now in a posture of peaceful, nonviolent but direct confrontation with the government and army, and similar “turmoil”—to use the party’s term—rapidly emerged in dozens of other cities. Moreover, the laobaixing were beginning to articulate their own grievances. ...
However, the birth of the Beijing Workers’ Autonomous Federation a few days after the abortive imposition of martial law posed a much greater threat. That is because this group, headquartered in a couple of scruffy tents in the northwest corner of Tiananmen Square, raised an issue that had been taboo in China since 1949: the right of workers to engage in independent labor organization and self-representation. Such a demand struck at the very core of the Chinese Communist state, for the party’s main claim to legitimacy is that it rules in the name and interests of the “laboring masses.” Although its active membership remained relatively small, its formal membership soared during the first few days of June, reaching a peak of more than 10,000 enrollments after three of its leaders were secretly arrested on May 29.
Autonomous workers’ groups quickly sprang up in most of China’s major cities. This was the “cancer cell” that the authorities had feared from the outset would appear if legal recognition were ever to be conferred on the student organizations. In the government’s eyes, if the statue of the Goddess of Democracy, erected in the square at the end of May, represented the arrogant defiance of the students and the symbolic intrusion of “bourgeois liberalism” and “Western subversion” into the sacred heart of Communist rule, the crude red-and-black banner of the Beijing Workers’ Autonomous Federation, not a hundred yards away from the goddess, represented the terrifying power of the workers awakened.
Both had to be crushed, and the rapidly defecting party apparatus had to be frightened and shocked back into line.
Forget the glowing Wikipedia entry for gay classicist Claude Fredericks of Bennington College, he preyed on students
NICHOLAS DELBANCO: A strange
fellow, Claude Fredericks. He dropped out of Harvard because he refused
to take the swim test or something like that, but he was a genuinely
learned person, an autodidact. Knew Latin, Greek, Japanese. Punctilious
in his self--presentation. And he had an avant-garde printing press,
quite famous at the time, called Banyan Press. It published people like
Gertrude Stein and the poet Jimmy Merrill, who’d been Claude’s lover
early on. ...
MATT JACOBSEN: It was never
unfriendly between me and Claude, but as I fell more deeply in love with
Liz [Glotzer, Jacobsen’s girlfriend and eventual wife], I saw less of
Claude. I realized it was kind of ridiculous to hang out with him, cool
as he was. And he wasn’t going to get what he wanted from me, so he
moved on to greener pastures, started fooling around with another guy
who’d been his student. At the end of the day, Claude was driven by
a—you know—perverse interest in me. And that was wrong. I’m a geezer
now, and I understand how wrong he really was.
Full transcript of John Dowd conversation with Flynn lawyer shows Mueller report's selective quotation intended to insinuate improper behavior when there was none
“Isn’t it ironic that this man who kept indicting and prosecuting people for process crimes committed a false statement in his own report. By taking out half my words, they changed the tenor and the contents of that conversation with [Flynn lawyer] Robert Kelner,” Dowd said of former special counsel Robert Mueller in an interview with Fox News’s Sean Hannity.
Just 58 Republicans had the temerity to vote Nay on the $19 billion disaster relief bill
You'll notice that Democrat Ilhan Omar didn't bother to vote. Must have been busy washing her hijabs.
The bill showers more money on Puerto Rico, and spends nothing on the disaster at the US/Mexico border.
Monday, June 3, 2019
Sunday, June 2, 2019
Twitter's 12-hour punishment of Erick Erickson for this Elizabeth Warren joke was so grade schoolish
Twitter is treating some of its customers like children because it can. The company lost money every year since 2013, when it went public, until 2018, when it turned a profit of $1.2 billion. The service has about 126 million daily users.
ICYMI Twitter banned the conservative who said conservatives banned by Twitter were reactionaries not conservatives
Helping the ࿕ will not protect you.
A multiculturalist self-excommunicates from National Review
"Glory, glory, hallelujah, His truth is marching on."
Erick Erickson is still too wet behind the ears to appreciate how National Review made purging conservatives from the movement its persona, Twitter just puts that on steroids
Catholics excommunicate. Protestants self-excommunicate. Get with it, Erick.
National Review’s Own Struggle With “Ideological Diversity”:
For Murray Rothbard, the history of National Review was largely a story of exclusion. “And so the purges began,” Rothbard recounted in a 1992 article. “One after another, Buckley and the National Review purged
and excommunicated all the radicals, all the nonrespectables. Consider
the roll call: isolationists (such as John T. Flynn), anti-Zionists,
libertarians, Ayn Randians, the John Birch Society, and all those who
continued, like the early National Review, to dare to oppose Martin Luther King and the civil-rights revolution after Buckley had changed and decided to embrace it.”
That
policy of excommunication continued to the present. Over the years, the
magazine has fired or stopped publishing figures like Joseph Sobran (an
editor who should have been fired for his anti-Semitism and racism but was not let go until criticizing Buckley in 1993), Peter Brimelow (an editor who was excessively anti-immigrant) and Ann Coulter (who was fired in 2001 after writing a column arguing saying that the United States should “invade [Muslim] countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity”).
Saturday, June 1, 2019
In China, however, things are mostly wrong, very wrong
Chinese dissidents are being executed for their organs, former hospital worker says:
The world is beginning to wake up to the fact that virtually every
organ transplant in China costs the life of an innocent human being.
That’s why countries like Israel, Spain, Italy and Taiwan have already
banned transplant tourism.
There were zero bank failures in 2018, but we got the first one of 2019 last night
The Enloe State Bank, Cooper, Texas, failed last night, the first bank failure in the US since Dec. 15, 2017. A bank failure hasn't occurred in Texas since 2013.
The failure in Texas is estimated to cost the FDIC's Deposit Insurance Fund $27 million.
The FDIC insures the deposits at 5,362 institutions as of March 31, 2019.
To kick off abnormal pride month, Drudge headlines two stories highlighting gay proclivity for the extreme
An unbelievably lame one from NBC featuring a gay storm chaser who proposes during a tornado (death wish much?), and one from the Advocate featuring supposedly gay Philippine President Duterte, whose regime has encouraged violence in the extra-judicial killings of thousands of drug pushers.
And it's only June 1.
Friday, May 31, 2019
Thursday, May 30, 2019
Disney's threat to halt filming in Georgia over abortion is at least as pathetic as its adult customer base
I hates those meeces to pieces.
Ben Shapiro's "peaceful ethnic cleansing" predates Richard Spencer's by a decade
Transfer is not a dirty word:
Here is the bottom line: If you believe that the Jewish state has a
right to exist, then you must allow Israel to transfer the Palestinians
and the Israeli-Arabs from Judea, Samaria, Gaza and Israel proper. It's
an ugly solution, but it is the only solution. And it is far less ugly
than the prospect of bloody conflict ad infinitum. When two populations
are constantly enmeshed in conflict, it is insane to suggest that
somehow deep-seated ideological change will miraculously occur, allowing
the two sides to live together.
That's Ben Shapiro in 2003.
Here's Richard Spencer, from 2013:
Real diversity and tolerance apparently go only so far, however. In an address at white supremacist Jared Taylor’s 2013 American Renaissance conference,
Spencer called for “peaceful ethnic cleansing.” As an example of how
this could be accomplished, he cited the 1919 Paris Peace Conference,
where new national boundaries were formed at the end of World War I.
“Today, in the public imagination, ‘ethnic cleansing’ has been
associated with civil war and mass murder (understandably so),” Spencer
said. “But this need not be the case. 1919 is a real example of
successful ethnic redistribution — done by fiat, we should remember, but
done peacefully.”
Wednesday, May 29, 2019
65% of voters oppose impeachment proceedings, think immigration is Congress' number one job right now
Poll: Two-thirds of voters oppose impeachment proceedings:
The latest Harvard CAPS/Harris Poll survey found that 65 percent of respondents oppose impeachment proceedings.
John Cleese's three words to sum up why England had to Brexit: Jean-Claude Juncker
John Cleese defiant as he says ‘London ISN’T an English city’, sparking Twitter storm:
The Fawlty Towers star has openly supported Brexit and previously
referred to the country’s debate as “one of the most depressing things
about this country”. ...
John also previously insisted he doesn’t believe Brexit is a “mistake”. He told the Radio Times: “I’m rather delighted that all these
forecasts of doom and destruction have turned out, at this point, not to
have been real.” And elaborating on his reasons why he voted Leave, he added: “I don’t
want to be ruled by Brussels bureaucrats who want to create a super
state. “I was pro-Brexit for that reason. “If I had three words to sum up why we had to get out of Europe, they would be: Jean-Claude Juncker.”
Tuesday, May 28, 2019
Monday, May 27, 2019
Memorial Day 2019
They say that in Flanders fields
wasted young lives abound,
sleeping still beneath the ground;
Yet from what I've seen of life
the waste is all around,
though walking the dead above also are found.
-- Johnny
Sunday, May 26, 2019
A reminder that in addition to being the chief polluter of the atmosphere, China is also the chief polluter of the oceans
What are we going to do about China?
China is turning the whole world into a shit-hole.
America needs someone like Italy's Interior Minister Matteo Salvini who wants to fine charities for rescuing illegal immigrants
Next to America's libertarian do-nothings, the biggest enablers of illegal immigration into the United States are in church this morning.
Imagine their indignation if we did fine them. Could possibly be more fun to watch than Hillary supporters on election eve 2016.
Friday, May 24, 2019
LOL, lowly Republican House member stops $19.1 billion disaster relief spending spree Trump caved on
Notice: It's Not Justin Amash.
House Republican holds up $19 billion disaster relief bill expected to pass unanimously:
The bill was expected to pass the House under a unanimous consent process, to which any member may object. ... “Secondly, it’s a bill that includes nothing to address the clear
national emergency and humanitarian crisis we face at our southern
border,” [Chip] Roy [TX:21] said. ... President Donald Trump has declared the situation on the southern
border a national emergency and had previously sought to include
border-related funding in the bill. He later dropped the demand. ... Roy, in a statement later Friday, wrote that “I stayed in D.C. to
object because this kind of swampy practice is what Texans elected me
to stand against.
LOL, Camille Paglia said in 1991 that Naomi Wolf can't do historical analysis, and Wolf has proven it, again
LISTEN: Clinton, Gore Advisor Naomi Wolf's New Book Exposed For Inaccuracies :
Speaking with interviewer Matthew Street about her new book,
“Outrages,” ... Street pointed out
she had completely misunderstood a legal term. Wolf had decided that
there were several dozen executions of men for sodomy but did not
understand that that fact was incorrect because she didn’t understand
the legal term “death recorded.”
Oops.
Paglia in 1991:
And beauty, according to, um, Miss, um, Naomi
Wolf, is a heterosexist conspiracy by men in a room to keep feminism back--and
all that crap that's going on. I call her, by the way, "Little Miss Pravda."
She and I are head to head on MTV this week, in case you want to know! But I won't
appear with her. Oprah's tried to get me on with her: I won't go on with her.
A talk show in Italy wanted to fly me over to appear with her. No. I always say,
"Would Caruso appear with Tiny Tim?" If you want to see what's wrong with Ivy
League education, look at The Beauty Myth, that book by Naomi Wolf. This is a
woman who graduated from Yale magna cum laude, is a Rhodes scholar, and cannot
write a coherent paragraph. This is a woman who cannot do historical analysis,
and she is a Rhodes scholar? If you want to see the damage done to intelligent
women today in the Ivy League, look at that book. It's a scandal. Naomi
Wolf is an intelligent woman. She has been ill-served by her education. But if
you read Lacan, this is the result. Your brain turns to pudding! She has a case
to make. She cannot make it. She's full of paranoid fantasies about the world.
Her education was completely removed from reality.
Theresa May to resign as UK Prime Minister on June 7
With no Brexit withdrawal arrangement agreed, the prospect of the U.K. suffering a disorderly exit from the European Union now appears to be a more likely outcome. Britain and Northern Ireland’s official departure date from the European Union is October 31, 2019.
Thursday, May 23, 2019
China signed the Montreal Protocol in the 1980s to ban CFCs to heal the ozone hole but has been violating it anyway
Scientists discover China has been secretly emitting banned ozone-depleting gas:
Scientists found that between 40 and 60 per cent of the total global CFC-11 emissions originated from eastern China.
There Rush goes again, lying about Republican retirements in 2018, blaming them for loss of the House
Just 13 House districts out of 52 flipped parties, 3 Dem to Rep and 10 Rep to Dem. Rush could have used Al Gore's amazing internet and found the correct information in seconds, but he's too damn lazy and stupid.
Here's Ballotpedia's article on the subject:
A total of 52 representatives did not seek re-election to their U.S. House districts:
18 Democratic members of the U.S. House [10 retired from public office]
34 Republican members of the U.S. House [23 retired from public office]
In total, 13 of the 52 districts changed party hands. Ten seats flipped from Republican to Democrat. Three seats flipped from Democrat to Republican.
Wednesday, May 22, 2019
Well, well, well, Justin Amash hung out to dry by the billionaire DeVos family, concerned MI-03 not getting representation
A family spokesperson added that the family had made the decision to cut ties with Amash before his controversial tweets suggesting Trump should be impeached.
“Family members have expressed increasingly concerns about a lack of representation for their district, the third congressional, and I would say an inability to advance efforts connected to important policy matters," the spokesperson told the newspaper
National Popular Vote to become law in Nevada, making it 15 states and DC trying for an end run around the Electoral College
The compact would take effect after states totaling 270 electoral votes, and with Nevada, the total would reach 195.
Tuesday, May 21, 2019
Some day the UK's Grauniad will learn to write the English language, but today is not that day
Ask the Queen. I'm reliably informed that she knows the answer.
Memo to Erick Erickson: One of Justin Amash's so-called pro-life principles is that it's OK to abort up to 3-days from conception
Which has been public knowledge since at least March 2013, at the start of the third year of his tenure, but y'all too damn lazy to think about that, or too damn hypocritical to care. I vote both.
Why not up to 4 days?
Why not 4.2?
Why not 42, since 42 is the answer to everything?
How about through the first trimester?
The second?
How about after delivery on Virginia Governor Ralph Northam's desk?
It's laughable to insist Amash has principles when all they are is positions, but it's even funnier to say he's an originalist:
Whether you like Justin Amash or not, he is inarguably one of the
more principled members of the Republican conference in the House of
Representatives. Amash is willing to take unpopular stands in the name
of principle. He is willing to defy his party because of those
principles. Amash is one of the more easily predictable members of
Congress in how he votes because of his principles. Amash believes in the rule of law, limited government, and an originalist interpretation of the constitution.
Originalism is such tosh. The original Constitution had no income tax, accepted slavery, provided a mechanism for the natural growth of representation, knew nothing of women's suffrage, had legislatures elect senators, and knew only sound money. Justin Amash is not known for any of these causes. He's known only for thwarting the causes of others, Republicans' mostly. All he cares about, maybe, is the Constitution as it is, not as it should be, and as real conservatives know, the current Constitution is a mess, otherwise luminaries like Mark Levin wouldn't be proposing a raft of amendments to fix it.
All this hubbub is about is Amash's Trump hatred.
Which is why NeverTrumper Erick Erickson has weighed in on Amash's side.
NAS study finds 43% of 173 bastions of American liberalism have segregated dorms, 72% segregated graduations
Separate but equal, or somethin', Mr. Plessy.
What we found was that neo-segregation is widespread if not pervasive. About 46 percent (80 colleges out of 173 surveyed) segregate student orientation programs; 43 percent (75 colleges out of the total) offer segregated residential arrangements; and 72 percent (125 colleges out of the total) segregate graduation ceremonies.
Public Opinion Research is polling this morning by telephone about possible primary challengers to Justin Amash (MI-03)
Names mentioned were:
Terri Lynn Land, age 60, the shy loser to Gary Peters for US Senate in 2014;
*James Lower, represents Michigan's 70th House District, once worked for Brian Calley, Gov. Snyder's lieutenant;
*Tom Norton, Afghan War vet, sounds a little too eager for war with Iran, seems like a nice guy but can't spell too well, is "pro-Isreal";
Matt Hall, represents Michigan's 63rd House District, endorsed by Fred Upton who seems to hate Trump as much as Amash does, also worked for Terri Lynn Land when she was Michigan Secretary of State, was a "bound delegate" for Trump in 2016;
Bill Hardiman, age 72, Vietnam vet, former black mayor of Kentwood, Michigan for a decade who went on to defeat 2012 Amash challenger Steve Pestka to serve in the Michigan state senate for two terms 2003-2011, was one of five candidates who had sought the seat from MI-03 in the 2010 Republican primary, losing to Amash.
*have already announced runs against Amash
Monday, May 20, 2019
Hey Thomas Sowell, the only person who has been term limited is precisely the wrong person to term limit
Foreign dictators like Xi Jinpingpong know they can outlast 2-term US Commanders in Chief and get away with bloody murder.
The founders didn't believe in term limits, otherwise we'd already have had them in the Constitution, but they did believe in the natural growth of representation, which a tyrannical, power hungry Congress voted to stop in 1929.
Fix that and we can vote the bastards out a lot more easily than we can now. It wouldn't take $10 million to win a lousy House seat representing thirty, forty or fifty thousand people as originally intended like it does now for districts representing on average 757,000 people, and it wouldn't if we also required all campaign money to originate in the respective districts of the representatives (states for Senators).
#RepealAmendment22
#RescindReapportionmentActOf1929
Sunday, May 19, 2019
Justin Amash has never abandoned his principles, and neither has the Devil
If Justin Amash cared one wit about the Constitution, he'd have spent the last ten years in Congress trying to restore the natural growth of representation guaranteed by Article One of the Constitution which a tyrannical legislative took away from the people by the Reapportionment Act of 1929, fixing the number of districts at 435. Justin Amash has been quite content with this power to lord his opinion over many many hundreds of thousands of people whose views he couldn't care less about, when the founders imagined a ratio of one representative to 30,000 people. You'll never hear about that from Mr. Do Everything By The Constitution. Likewise only direct taxes were Constitutional until 1913, but you'll never hear about "originalism" from Mr. Constitution, only that "What is is holy, and we must do it that way." He's an ignoramus who says is means ought, posing as a genius. All he cares about is his view, the "right" view, and getting re-elected in order to keep imposing it.
Like millions of Christians, Justin Amash has read the Bible, too, but is the member of a sect with just 75,000 members in the US
Most people who have read the Mueller report have reached a different conclusion, including Robert Mueller.
Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America
Fascist Burger King goes after the UK's Tommy Robinson like their hamberders attack my colon
Ramones "I'm Against It": I don't like playing ping pong I don't like the Viet Cong I don't like Burger King I don't like anything
What's happened to Justin Amash is simple: He'll be off the political stage in 2021 so he has nothing left to lose
Democrats are about to redistrict him out of a job, he's isolated himself in his own party over five terms, Trump's tariffs threaten the family's Chinese tool business fortune, and his best friends are the likes of WaPo's Jennifer Rubin and union president Randi Weingarten. Might as well go all in against Trump and help deprive him of a win in Michigan while losing re-election to MI-03 or as the inglorious Libertarian Party candidate for president in 2020. It's what libertarians are best at and live to do: spoil elections. Or, just switch to the Democrat Party and go on living like Arlen Specter. Republicans could hasten things along by kicking him out of the party.
Saturday, May 18, 2019
When Mar-a-Lago is full we'll move on to the Trump hotels to house all the illegals Trump is letting in
"Hello room service? Cafe Bustelo for thirty in suite 700. And make it snappy!"
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