Here in "America's newest warship breaks down at sea after 20 days".
Tuesday, December 15, 2015
Rush Limbaugh is full of crap about Ted Cruz being polite and respectful, just ask Senate and House leadership
Here:
"Cruz's behavior here -- and I can't think of another word to describe other than just respectful and polite, treat your enemies with kindness, you know, turn the other cheek, all that sort of stuff. The virtues that are found in the Bible, for example. Cruz has been living them."
Monday, December 14, 2015
Christopher Buckley can go eff himself (practice makes perfect)
Here:
If it does come down next November to Trump vs Clinton we will — all of us — be presented with a choice even the great Hobson could not have imagined. And those of us who would sooner leap into an active, bubbling volcano than vote for Mr Trump will have to try to convince ourselves that really, she’s not that bad. Is she?
DHS missed San Bernardino terrorist's social media posts threatening attacks because it was official policy not to look
The fault lies with Obama and Jeh Johnson, total incompetents, or worse.
Of course our crack media at ABC here don't tell us when the policy not to look was implemented, but you can infer from the story that the Obama Administration made it official policy not to look in the wake of the Edward Snowden revelations in the summer of 2013 in order to make the regime look respectful of privacy rights.
Too bad it's the privacy of foreigners Obama cares about instead of ours.
The guards of a tyrant are foreigners.
Ted Cruz, used car salesman, heavy user of data analytics, becomes what you want, and you want, and you and you and you
From the story here:
To build its data-gathering operation widely, the Cruz campaign hired Cambridge Analytica, a Massachusetts company reportedly owned in part by hedge fund executive Robert Mercer, who has given $11 million to a super PAC supporting Cruz. Cambridge, the U.S. affiliate of London-based behavioral research company SCL Group, has been paid more than $750,000 by the Cruz campaign, according to Federal Election Commission records.
To develop its psychographic models, Cambridge surveyed more than 150,000 households across the country and scored individuals using five basic traits: openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness and neuroticism. A top Cambridge official didn’t respond to a request for comment, but Cruz campaign officials said the company developed its correlations in part by using data from Facebook that included subscribers’ likes. That data helped make the Cambridge data particularly powerful, campaign officials said. ...
Cambridge, which has staffers embedded in the Cruz for President headquarters in Houston, makes behavioral psychologists available for consultation as ads and scripts are drafted. ...
The campaign’s big data operation is not deployed in just voter and supporter outreach. It also is used daily to help make key decisions — where Cruz should travel, what he should say. It has even informed the selection of precinct captains.
FBI Director James Comey is incompetent: doesn't know internet firearm purchases must transfer through an FFL in person
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| Infamous for suggesting Poles committed murders of and atrocities against Jews |
And apparently Senator Lindsey Graham is just as ignorant.
From the story here:
Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) began his question-and-answer period with Comey with a seemingly simple question: “If I buy a gun on the internet, is it delivered to my home?”
Comey, perhaps surprised by the question, seemed to stumble. Graham clarified, asking “if I try to buy a gun on the internet, where do I pick it up?”
Looking perplexed, the FBI Director replied “I assume it’s shipped to you, but I don’t know for sure, actually.” ...
“Okay, well, let’s find out the answer to that,” replied Graham.
Comey recently demonstrated similar thick-headedness to Senator Diane Feinstein, who questioned the FBI's decision not to secure the San Bernardino crime scene, here:
Comey said it was the judgment of FBI investigators and the forensic expert that they were done with the scene and there was nothing else to be gained from it, “which is why it was boarded up and then inventory was left.”
Too bad we'll be living with this guy until 2023, if we live that long, that is.
Chris Plante repeating stupid
The 94 million not in the work force should be working, he says in an aside.
Tell that to your retired aunt and uncle, and your teenager in high school.
Vanity Fair trots out follicularly-challenged author of 1997 hit piece on Trump to append an attack on Trump's hair, in 16 slides
"He has no coherent political philosophy, so comparisons with Fascist leaders miss the mark. He just reacts. "
Sunday, December 13, 2015
P. J. O'Rourke explains why trouble making the mortgage, plundering a retirement account and buying stuff he can't afford all qualify Marco Rubio to be president
Here:
"Rubio owns houses that he has trouble paying for. We, the American people, own two houses (of Congress) and the White House that we have trouble paying for.
"Rubio emptied his retirement account to meet current expenses. This is exactly the way Social Security works.
"Rubio bought a boat he couldn’t afford. The U.S. Navy does so all the time.
"When it comes to dealing with the federal budget, Rubio has the kind of experience that counts."
Bipolar diseased WaPo publishes sympathetic "hit piece" on Marco Rubio
In which you're meant to wonder how one family can produce a viable candidate for the presidency but also a cocaine dealer.
Here.
The heroine through it all is Marco's sister, and frankly it's none of our damn business.
They can't even SPELL fascist at The McLaughlin Group let alone explain it
Ordinary Americans aren't being slaughtered by an influx of Christian refugees illegally storming the country despite the best efforts of border enforcement.
To the left, just saying "No" is demagoguery and calling the cops is fascism.
Saturday, December 12, 2015
Blue state Republicans contribute a majority of convention delegates but only 37% of the primary vote
Which is why Republican presidential nominees tend to be more moderate than rank and file Republicans.
From the story here:
"Blue-state Republicans have already propelled moderates in the 2016 money chase. According to Federal Election Commission filings, donors in the 18 states (plus Washington, D.C.) that have voted Democratic in every presidential election since 1992 have accounted for 45 percent of Rubio’s total itemized contributions, 45 percent of Bush’s, 53 percent of Fiorina’s and 85 percent of Chris Christie’s. By contrast, they’ve provided just 20 percent of Cruz’s contributions and 36 percent of Carson’s. For comparison, blue-state Republicans cast just 37 percent of all votes in the 2012 GOP primaries. But their real mojo lurks in the delegate chase. ... there are 1,247 delegates at stake in Obama-won states, compared with just 1,166 in Romney states."
Mitt Romney's 47% makes a comeback: 47% offended by Trump's Muslim ban plan
Reported here in "Trump holds commanding lead in first national poll since Muslim ban proposal":
"The poll also found that 72 percent of Democrats and 47 percent of overall voters were offended by Trump’s ban."
Not all 47 percents are created equal, however.
For example, Mitt Romney received 47.15% of the popular vote and 47.7% of the US prison population is composed of violent criminals, among other things 47 percent.
Obama Friday signed stop-gap funding expiring December 16, but why hasn't this been an issue in the Republican debates?
The giant spending bill betrayal which gave us Paul Ryan as Speaker has been stoppable all during the presidential debating season, but we have heard narry a word about it.
If Republicans in the Congress wanted to, they could already have returned to "regular order" and debated every dollar of outlays, one by one, but NO. These cowards push on with one giant bill under Paul Ryan's "leadership", an omnibus spending package, which will take spending off the political calendar and put it into the nebulous never-never land of the indeterminate future, safely out of reach of "politics", fleecing the taxpayers as usual.
Meanwhile the candidates for president say nothing about spending in any way critical of the current Congress. They apply no pressure. They throw down no gauntlet to House and Senate leadership. But Donald Trump must endure a rare rebuke from a comedy lookalike.
A bunch of losers. Hollow men. And cowards.
And conservatism lies decomposing.
Crack-smoking Jeb Bush supporters in the US House float Paul Ryan for president at a brokered convention
Well, at least you know they think Jeb! is already dead.
But then you also know what kind of Republican they think Paul Ryan is.
Gabba.Gabba.Nay! Not.one.of.us.
The Hill reports here:
'A small chorus of voices even floated new Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) as a possible nominee if no-one captures the majority of the 2,470 delegates by the time the convention kicks off. ... “I have broad disagreement with Donald Trump. If he is our nominee, I think he loses, I think Republicans lose the Senate, he puts the House at risk and sends the party into the wilderness for the next decade,” said Rep. David Jolly (R-Fla.), a Jeb Bush backer who this week called for Trump to quit the race. “If there is a mechanism to make sure somebody other than Donald Trump wins the nomination, I think that is a good thing for Republicans.” Fellow Florida Republican and Bush supporter, Rep. Carlos Curbelo, agreed: “I wouldn’t support Donald Trump for president if he were our nominee. I would support any reasonable idea to find a better nominee.” ... “I’m thinking about running to be a delegate because I think we may well be in a brokered convention,” [Rep. Luke] Messer [IN-6], another Bush supporter, said in an interview. “In that scenario, who knows? You may have Paul Ryan end up being president.” ... “I really think the Speaker is setting himself up to be considered for the nominee in the case there is a brokered convention,” said [an unnamed] GOP lawmaker, who already has endorsed in the primary.'
These assholes made a big deal of Trump taking the pledge when it's they who should be taking it. The Republican Party. Full of liberal projection syndrome.
Police in Colorado Springs won't investigate ACLUer who called for Trump supporters to be killed, citing freedom of speech
Reported here by CBS Denver:
'The post states, “The thing is, we have to really reach out to those who might consider voting for Trump and say, ‘This is Goebbels. This is the final solution. If you are voting for him I will have to shoot you before Election Day.’ They’re not going to listen to reason, so when justice is gone, there’s always force…” ... Wirbel did not respond to a request for comment. He is from Colorado Springs and police there say his post is covered by free speech and they do not intend to investigate.'
Evidently as long as you don't threaten a specific individual it's permitted to advocate killing the followers of Obama, or Clinton or Madonna or the Pope and so on.
Whatever happened to incitement laws? to law and order?
Colorado Springs has bigger problems than Planned Parenthood shootings.
Larry Kudlow does a 180, calls for sealing the borders
From "War Breeds Unfairness. Seal the Borders" here:
"But I say seal the borders. People hoping to relocate to the U.S. from Syria, Iraq, and anywhere in the Middle East, and people coming here from France, England, Sweden, and wherever will be upset, at least for a while. There may be some unfairness to this. But I don't care. Wars breed unfairness, just as they breed collateral damage."
Spoken like someone who really is running for US Senate in Connecticut.
Update:
The article also appears here and here as "I've Changed. This Is War. Seal the Borders. Stop the Visas".
God, I've changed, honest I have. Please give me another chance.
Update:
The article also appears here and here as "I've Changed. This Is War. Seal the Borders. Stop the Visas".
God, I've changed, honest I have. Please give me another chance.
Friday, December 11, 2015
Drudge reports Quentin Letts "removed" from BBC radio when only one of his broadcasts was
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| Like Rush Limbaugh, Drudge often reads only the (often intentionally misleading) headline and extrapolates from there. |
Letts wasn't "removed", one of his broadcasts was. Tabloid journalism all around, not journalism.
Peggy Noonan admits the GOP elites are for illegal immigration and bear the blame for the split in the party
Here:
"The biggest reason [for the GOP fissure] has been the distance—the chasm—between the party elite at the top, who are more or less for illegal immigration, and the bulk of the party on the ground, who are opposed. In this case there is a chasm between elites concerned that they personally will look bigoted if they take action and voters concerned about who comes into America in the age of ISIS. It is a split, a distance; it is primarily the fault of the top, not the bottom; and Mr. Trump, who through his popularity could choose to be a bridge across the distance is instead functioning as a deepener of it."
Hillary thinks cops are pigs, but rolls out new campaign that love trumps hate
From the story here:
'Republicans scoff at the idea of Clinton preaching a gospel of love. "I think most voters see her as warm and cuddly as a porcupine," said Republican pollster Nicole McCleskey. "It has a hollow ring to it."'
Reince Priebus' brokered convention scheming angers Ben Carson, who threatens to leave the GOP
From the story here:
'“I am prepared to lose fair and square, as I am sure is Donald,” Carson said. “But I will not sit by and watch a theft. I intend on being the nominee. If I am not, the winner will have my support. If the winner isn’t our nominee then we have a massive problem.”'
First GAO and now House Armed Services Committee finds Obama broke law in Bergdahl swap, and Democrats agree
Impeach the bastard.
From the story at The Hill, here:
"A yearlong investigation by the House Armed Services Committee has concluded that the Obama administration broke the law in swapping five Taliban members for Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl — and went out of its way to hide the negotiations as they were happening. ... Last year, the non-partisan Government Accountability Office also found that the Obama administration violated the law on the Bergdahl swap. While Democrats on the committee agreed that the administration broke the law, they strongly objected in a dissenting report to the broader conclusions that the administration kept the swap secret for a political motive."
Thursday, December 10, 2015
Mollie Hemingway doesn't get it that Donald Trump IS the balance
If you can get through all the emoting, you reach this at the end, here:
"Yes, the media industry is just a way to make money via entertaining presentation of the news, and, yes, Trump is getting the media clicks we only dream about. But if there is any sense of gratitude for the role we’re allowed to play in the project of maintaining a civil society, could we just work to achieve a bit more balance? Neither self-abasing freakouts nor servile accommodations regarding Trump?"
When Barack Obama promised he'd transform America, no one knew that he meant with Donald Trump. The Donald is the Yang to Obama's Yin. When Trump is finished, the country might be ready to move along again after the male point of view has had its way with the country for a few years. Like Melania, I'm sure she'll enjoy it.
I'm not criticizing the girl for missing it. She's just a girl.
Ironman thinks the decline of the middle class is demographic, explained by fewer births between 1964-84
Here.
In other words, if you have fewer people in the middle of your data set (Generation X), you'll necessarily have a slump in the middle between old rich Baby Boomers and the more numerous than Gen X Generation Y, which is young and poor, as is everyone at that age.
The middle class decline is therefore most likely to be temporary.
That lying bitch Hillary Clinton tells her biggest lie yet: I told the victims' families it was terrorism
George Stephanopoulos asked her Sunday if she’d told the victims it was about the film. Clinton gave a flat “no.”
She added: “I said very clearly there had been a terrorist group, uh, that had taken responsibility on Facebook, um . . .”
At least four family members disagree.
Read the rest here.
Time to organize the Benghazi Victims' Families For Truth.
Obama's middle class economics at work: Middle class adults outnumbered by upper and lower classes for the first time in 2015
Pew reports here:
80.0 million middle income vs. 51.6 million lower and upper income in 1971, but 120.8 million middle income vs. 121.3 million lower and upper income in 2015.
The middle still outnumbered the lower and the upper by 3 million in 2011, but not anymore. This is what Obama meant by "Forward!" in 2012. Reducing the size of the middle class is the long-stated objective of the communists.
"[T]he lower middle-class masses are the most dangerous enemies of the dictatorship of the proletariat. ... Their special interests are absolutely incompatible with the economic disturbances which are the inevitable accompaniment of transitional periods."
-- Bela Kun
"[T]he lower middle-class masses are the most dangerous enemies of the dictatorship of the proletariat. ... Their special interests are absolutely incompatible with the economic disturbances which are the inevitable accompaniment of transitional periods."
-- Bela Kun
Wednesday, December 9, 2015
16,469 readers agree: Members of British Parliament seem to be in a state of denial about no-go areas
That's the top comment in the story at the UK Daily Mail, here.
Rank and file British coppers say Trump's right, say places in London, Birmingham, Preston, Yorkshire, and the Midlands generally are no-go areas
The Daily Express reports, here:
Serving officers in terrorist hotspots including London and Birmingham said that forces are becoming increasingly nervy over the rising threat of Islamic State (ISIS) inspired attacks, with some telling staff not to wear their uniforms in their OWN patrol cars. ... [F]ear of Islamist extremism within Britain’s police is widespread despite the protestations of the authorities. ... [An] officer with Lancashire police said that officers have to “contact local community leaders to get their permission” before they are allowed to patrol in Muslim areas of Preston. And a policeman posted in Yorkshire said police top brass were so afraid of potential terrorist attacks he had been ordered not to wear police uniform in his own patrol car. ... Meanwhile in an interview last year Tom Winsor, Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Constabulary, warned that there are “cities in the Midlands where the police never go” because local communities refuse to engage with law enforcement.
Whenever the insane left (but I repeat myself) sees something big, it wants to take it, including your HOME
Here in The Nation:
'Let's get rid of private housing. ... [R]eal estate is the most valuable asset form in the United States, and the majority of that value is not that of the building itself, which depreciates until it requires renovation, but of the “unimproved” land it sits on—the location.'
Tuesday, December 8, 2015
Lincoln lover Ralph Peters wants to level Raqqa, just like Trump
Here:
'Obama wouldn’t go to Raqqa. So the jihadis went to Paris. ... The generals who won World War II would start by leveling Raqqa, the ISIS caliphate’s capital. Civilians would die, but those remaining in Raqqa have embraced ISIS, as Germans did Hitler. The jihadis must be crushed. Start with their “Berlin.”'
Democrat Jewish Mayor Rick Kiseman at 727-893-7201 bans Donald Trump from St. Petersburg, Florida
Seen in the comments to the story here:
"Just called the wuss Mayor's office at 727-893-7201 (Rick Kiseman) and left a msg for him - giving him Hades for thinking he can stop anyone from entering St. Petersburg. Kindly join me in letting him know that Donald Trump can go anywhere he chooses."
Monday, December 7, 2015
Hillary Clinton is a rug-munching pervert and proud of it
Here.
And the Bill Clinton line in the story is a complete joke:
It was also reported that in 2000, then-President Bill Clinton told historian Taylor Branch that Hillary experienced “discomfort” around “gay people who were king [sic] of acting out.” He told the historian that Hillary was, “a little put off by some of this stuff” and found gay rights “harder to swallow.”
Yeah, sure she did.
Reported here in September 2013:
Gennifer said: ‘I don’t know Huma or the Weiners. I just know what Bill told me and that was that he was aware that Hillary was bisexual and he didn’t care. He should know. 'He said Hillary had eaten more p***y than he had.’
And the Bill Clinton line in the story is a complete joke:
It was also reported that in 2000, then-President Bill Clinton told historian Taylor Branch that Hillary experienced “discomfort” around “gay people who were king [sic] of acting out.” He told the historian that Hillary was, “a little put off by some of this stuff” and found gay rights “harder to swallow.”
Yeah, sure she did.
Reported here in September 2013:
Gennifer said: ‘I don’t know Huma or the Weiners. I just know what Bill told me and that was that he was aware that Hillary was bisexual and he didn’t care. He should know. 'He said Hillary had eaten more p***y than he had.’
Sunday, December 6, 2015
Sigmar Gabriel of Germany is tracking to the right as anti-Islam sentiment grows
"Wahhabi mosques are financed all over the world by Saudi Arabia. In Germany, many dangerous Islamists come from these communities."
Friday, December 4, 2015
Tashfeen Malik, like lying American liberals, lied about the smallest detail, her home address
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| notice the poorly plucked eyebrows |
Reported here:
'Malik came to the U.S. on what is known as a “fiancé” visa, which allows an American fiancé to petition for his or her partner’s temporary entry before marriage. For the visa application, the address she listed in her Pakistani hometown, ABC News discovered today, does not exist. Malik received a [sic] her Green Card this summer, U.S. officials said.'
"Racist" isn't working against Trump, so now they'll try "fascist"
Ross Douthat, here, where else?, in The New York Times, attempting to lay the groundwork from the right:
'Whether or not we want to call Trump a fascist outright, then, it seems fair to say that he’s closer to the “proto-fascist” zone on the political spectrum than either the average American conservative or his recent predecessors in right-wing populism.'
The critique is almost entirely non-economic and preoccupied with Trump's style, tone and passions, which makes sense since Americans of all political stripes are blind to the essential character of America as a form of state capitalism. Our politics left and right has stewed in that soup from the very beginning when the colonies were formed as corporate instrumentalities of the British Crown, financed by the Bank of England. We can hardly imagine any other economic arrangement. It only comes up momentarily in our politics when our/their cronies get exposed, and then quickly fizzles away when the truth becomes too difficult to face, restoring business as usual.
Just ask the bankers.
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