Young man has informed opinions, makes good points

Lying to the enemy is standard practice with Chicoms, Muslims, and Democrats

And all Democrats want to see is Trump's tax return

Self-hating, America-hating liberal Peter Fonda finally gets his death wish: of lung cancer at 79

Peter Fonda has wanted to die at least since 1969, when a loose-triggered good ole boy decided he had to kill the witness too, and blow Fonda's character Wyatt away with a shotgun off his motorcycle in the final scene of Easy Rider. Wyatt's partner Billy had the wrong hair cut, you see, and the bad Yankee manners of the wrong hand gesture to go with it, while Wyatt had the wrong flag painted on the gas tank of his chopper and helmet. The Yankee fu was answered with the rebel yells of a twelve gauge. 

Fonda repeated the performance in 1974's little-remarked Open Season as the character Ken, when the father played by William Holden hunts Ken down and kills him. Ken is a sick-in-the-head Vietnam vet who otherwise appears to lead a normal life but abducts and abuses, then releases and hunts and kills humans two weeks every year for sport with his buddies. As young men before the war they had raped Holden's daughter. She had had a child as a result, raised by the Holden character, and ended up in a mental institution. The Yankee fu was answered with the rebel yell of a vigilante's hunting rifle. 

What Fonda couldn't bring himself to do with a gun in real life, he did to himself with drugs. For one reviewer of his 1998 Don't Tell Dad: A Memoir, too much of it "is a catalog of dope smoked". All along the real fu was to himself.

If it's a number and it comes out of Rush Limbaugh's mouth, it's probably wrong

Today Rush Limbaugh corrected a caller about the Summer of Love, saying it was in 1968, not 1969.

Actually it was in 1967.

Rush also said the Beatles had already broken up by the summer of 1969, the summer of Woodstock, the 50th anniversary of which is happening right this very minute.

The break-up of the Beatles actually occurred Dec 31, 1970, when the band members John, George and Ringo first publicly confirmed it. The last photo of all of them together with Paul as a band was taken August 22, 1969, just after Woodstock had ended.

I know these things because I'm younger than Rush Limbaugh. The Beatles were YUGE to my segment of the Baby Boom generation, but not to his to the same degree.

But Rush gets lots of numbers wrong, about far more consequential things than these, as my readers know.

The only ones he doesn't get wrong are the ones that go in his pocket.

Trump last night: Eject the fat guy from our movement of love!

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Hoo boy, Kamala Harris has a live one here, thinks she's named after the capital of Uganda

Throw in AOC and you've got a deal, bud

" . . . 'cause it's too hard for us"

That's why we bought Alaska, dummy, firing from Greenland puts you down wind from the fallout

These damn Yankees haven't learned anything since McClellan.

. . . and then he cries when they call him Fredo!

The left-wing Dayton, Ohio shooter should have just skipped the alcohol and anti-depressants, which cancel each other out, and stayed with the cocaine

Hey wait a minute, aren't drugs illegal in this country?

Notice how five of the seven 30-year bond yield dives are a feature of the recent period since the 2000 bubble

And notice how all the episodes of great stress are post-1986 tax reform.

The chickens . . . are coming home . . . to roost!

Former PIMCO wheeler-dealer is against freedom of the financial press: Why, you might sell before he does

This is shocking: Yield on 30-year US Treasury officially falls below 2% for the first time

Says the guy who already signed First Step bill which is letting guys like this go

Israel practices a little reverse BDS, Boycotts Dumb and Stupider by barring Tlaib and Omar from visiting

Jobless claims through 8/10/19 pop above year ago levels in both seasonally-adjusted and not-seasonally-adjusted

That's now the third time in recent months (May, June, August), a concerning sign given that full time employment usually peaks in 3Q. It's not encouraging to see such weakness at the strongest time of the year. 

Insane DOT under Trump allows mini horses on planes as service animals, ratifying devolution of air travel into Third World country bus ride

Miniature Horses Cleared For Take Off As Service Animals

 

The yield on the US 30-year Treasury dipped below 2% for the first time ever this morning

Obama's minions in Philly, where in 2008 he talked about bringing a gun to a knife fight, laugh at cops being shot

Crowd Taunts Philadelphia Police Officers, Laugh At Them In Midst Of Gunfire During Standoff In Nicetown-Tioga

Obama Goes One on One, Battling ‘Just a Speechmaker’ Label:

He has also been showing a more pugnacious side, commenting at a Philadelphia fund-raiser Friday that he was prepared for a fight with Republicans, saying, “If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun.” That line, from “The Untouchables,” led the campaign of his Republican opponent, Senator John McCain of Arizona, to cry foul and to suggest that hopes for an elevated dialogue were in danger.

Jeffrey Snider: The whole global economy is in trouble, and it isn't because of a few billion in US tariffs on Chinese goods

Rather it is because hundreds of billions of dollars worth of liquidity keep disappearing since the Great Financial Crisis.

Treasury bonds are the most expensive they have been in over sixty years

All "asset" classes are near-record expensive: bonds, stocks, gold, housing, college education, health insurance policies . . .. 

Cliff Asness, here:

So, the bottom line is, as measured by real bond yield, U.S. Treasury bonds are really frickin’ expensive. Measured by the slope of the yield curve they are really frickin’ expensive. But, measured by the average of these two simple variables, they are 60+ year just about record-low frickin’ expensive. This result is not caused by, but is certainly exacerbated by, the (perhaps) surprisingly uncorrelated nature of slope and real bond yield, thus making both so low and at the same time considerably more surprising.

Now that's what I call bi-partisanship: China attacks the Senate Majority Leader and the Speaker of the House

Notably missing from the attack is President Trump. None dare call him Quisling.

China accuses Pelosi and McConnell of inciting ‘chaos’ in Hong Kong

#Freda: Stupid conservatives went to the mat for Sen. Rick Scott, now he supports red flag laws

Same old same old GOP, same as the same old same old Democrat P.

Story.

Trump isn't a revolution because there isn't a deep bench, but because there isn't a bench at all

Rush Limbaugh tries to sandbag his audience, claims guy FILMING himself calling Cuomo Fredo really believed his name was Fredo because Rush calls Cuomo that

If that's true, then Rush's audience is dumber than a million Fredos, which makes Rush pretty stupid for not thinking of that.

Obviously the guy didn't believe that Fredo was Cuomo's real name, otherwise filming the set up would have been completely beside the point. The point was to get the reaction on film.

Rush didn't invent the Fredo meme for Chris Cuomo. It's been out there at least since 2010 in New Yawk City, thanks to Curtis Sliwa.

Rush Limbaugh's taking credit for calling Cuomo "Fredo" in 2017, but Curtis Sliwa first made Cuomo self-aware in Jan 2010 interview

Chris Cuomo once referred to himself as ‘Fredo’ in radio interview

Snowflake presidency: China threatens Hong Kong, Trump delays threatened tariffs until December minutes later

Only we can call each other Fredo

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So every time Michael calls his brother Fredo Fredo he's engaging in Italian self-hatred now?

Got it.

The Fredos of the world unite

If Chris Cuomo were a Michael and not a Fredo, he would have punched that guy right in the kisser just like Buzz Aldrin punched that guy who called him a coward, a liar and a thief. But he didn't. He backed down, just like the guy hurling the insult backed down. This is snowflake America.

#Freda is quietly pushing gun control behind the scenes

What's worse, running some Mickey Mouse nightclub somewhere, or proving to everyone nightly on CNN that you are Fredo?

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Some jerk at Yahoo is messing with the charts again

Rumor has it Kevin Williamson took a dumbasstical to write his new book

THE SMALLEST MINORITY: SHITWEASEL THINKING IN  THE AGE OF MOB POLITICS 

When you're not THAT Jeffrey Epstein, Stephen Miller or Paul Ryan

To Kevin Williamson and National Review conservatism is materialism, and you damn families and your schools in Kentucky and Oklahoma are the problem

It's Kevin Williamson with the mulish refusal to consider and deal with the world as we actually find it. You can spend decades trying to beat the nesting instinct out of mothers but all you'll have to show for it in the end is a different set of mothers to replace them, and a different country. Conservatives would prefer to stick with the one we've got. Libertarians should move . . . out.

Job Security Is Not Coming Back:

[I]t is better that we are not governed by poets. Our policymakers must deal with the world as it is, and our schools and families should prepare children for the world as it is, not as we might wish it were. Imagination and creativity are ... a mulish refusal to consider and deal with the world as we actually find it.

New OJ trying to steal spotlight from USC's old OJ

LOL: With these you can clearly see their . . .

Yes, yes they are.

Joe Biden admits federal government is way too big when he says we'll need at least an F-15 to protect ourselves from it

Either that or he's threatening us.

Senator Blumenthal met the Parkland survivors back when he was in 'Nam, Joe Biden met 'em when he was VP

The New Republic: Man commits suicide waiting in line at the DMV

Just say Kristolnicht to libertarianism

#Epstien = Anti-semitic Twitter

But I repeat myself.

Climate update for Grand Rapids, Michigan, July 2019

Climate update for Grand Rapids, Michigan, July 2019

Max temp 92  Mean Max 94

Min temp 54  Mean Min 49

Av temp 75.4  Mean Av 72.3

Precip 3.92  Mean 3.13

Precip ytd 26.85  Mean ytd 19.78 (36% wetter than normal)

[Snow Jan-Jun 2019 63.7  Mean Jan-Jun 43.5 (46% more than normal)]

[HDD Jan-Jun 2019 were utterly normal, not even 0.7% higher than the mean]

CDD 332  Mean 241

CDD ytd 449  Mean ytd 425 (5.6% warmer than normal)

The surfeit of moisture first from snow and then from rain in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in 2019 year-to-date is characteristic of much of the continental United States, more than 80% of which isn't even abnormally dry at the height of summer at the end of the first week of August 2019. Drought is isolated to pockets making up less than 5% of the Lower 48, particularly near Seattle.

Hillary couldn't have gotten to Epstein had they only jailed him in Wisconsin

Fake Indian tries to stir up racial differences between blacks and whites to advance her political aspirations: Totally sick smear of vindicated cop

Looks like the invasion of the body snatchers came for more than just Donald Trump

Joe Biden in 1976: Diversity is not our strength, that's a bunch of poppycock, differences drive us apart

'Bunch of poppycock': Biden once rejected idea that diversity was America's strength:

Speaking at an annual Jefferson-Jackson Dinner in Boise in February 1976, Biden said: ”I told you [in a previous speech] about my view that the uniqueness of America didn’t lie in the fact that we’re a great melting pot. We hear that all the time, about it being black and white, rich and poor, Christian and Jew — therefore we’re strong. I told you then, I thought that was a bunch of poppycock.

“The fact we are black and white doesn’t bring us together as a nation. The fact that we’re Christian and Jew doesn’t send us running into one another's embrace to herald our differences. The fact is that people fear differences. The fact that the reason this nation is able to be the most heterogeneous nation in the history of mankind is not because it’s a melting pot. It’s because unlike any other nation in the world, we are uniquely a product of our political institutions.

“If France tomorrow, for example, were to turn in a monarchy, I told you, I did not believe that France would substantively change. Because in France there’s an ethnicity that binds them together, a cultural tie. You don’t have that in America,” he added.

"Just look around this country to see how different we are. Unless we get the American people from Delaware to Idaho, Massachusetts to California, believing that the political system can produce results for them, this country is going to spin apart like a gyroscope out of kilter,” said Biden.

“You were saying, ‘No, it can’t happen here, this is America, we’re unique, we are something different.’ Well, the Lord ain’t made a new brand of man in a long time. It can happen here, we can split apart, and we’re moving in the direction of doing just that.

“Without [the public’s] confidence, without their participation in the system, this nation will not see a tricentennial, this nation will not see the year 2000 in a way in which we now think it is composed." ...

“We hear time and again that we are uniquely a melting pot. Because we’re black, white, rich and poor, therefore we’re strong,” said Biden. “The fact that we are black and white, rich and poor drives us apart in America,” he said.

Drudge headline says Epstein found dead in his cell

Rumor has it he'll be buried next to Seth Rich.

Not in labor force averaged a RECORD 95.86 million in the first half of 2019

Rush Limbaugh's favorite group to mock every month under Obama as "all eating but not working".

Now you never hear about them.

The biggest fraud and grifter ever to hit the big time, right behind Trump.

Cuckservatism: Rush Limbaugh's hero Andy McCarthy also waves the white flag for the red flag

'Red-flag' gun laws are constitutional and sensible

Better red than dead: Marco Rubio waves the white flag for the red flag

Leftie Vox today sounds like every so-called conservative last year touting a labor shortage

To Joe Biden the opposite of white is poor and untalented

Can't make this stuff up.

A nation of immigrants is a nation officially committed to cultural appropriation

. . . heh heh.

Senator Hawley be comin' for you @jack, just a matter of time now

Future President Tulsi Gabbard plays ukulele in honor of Lord Krishna

Here.

Sounds like any Christian charismatic worship service I've ever heard, just a different god.

She's very beautiful.

Hank Paulson, who championed the crackpot TARP as Treasury Secretary under Bush 43, is a Christian Scientist

From the story:

But the reality of the existential crisis remained elusive to church officials. In 2005, Nathan Talbot and J Thomas Black, longtime church leaders who had promoted recklessly irresponsible policies encouraging the medical neglect of children, endorsed ambitious plans for raising the dead. Black argued that Eddy wanted to keep alive the possibility of defeating mortality, saying, “What would set us apart as a denomination more than raising the dead?” What indeed? Black himself has had ample opportunity to demonstrate it: he died in December 2011, and hasn’t been seen since. ...

 

So did the softening of some Christian Science attitudes suggest that the church was undergoing a genuine change of heart? Or were they trying to save their jobs, their pride and the institution? At that time, officials were grasping at relationships with ecumenical groups and New Age alternative healers – anything to boost membership. Shirley Paulson, for example, sister-in-law of former US treasury secretary Hank Paulson (also a Christian Scientist, taught by Nathan Talbot), contributed to a series of summit meetings – known as “Church Alive” – which sought to jazz up services with ideas fresh from the 1950s: reading from recent translations of the Bible (more recent than the King James version, that is), singing hymns a cappella, and urging Sunday School students to rap their narcotic weekly “Lesson Sermons”.