Dana Mathewson

Alex Occasional-Cortex (suddenly I'm not the only one calling her that -- others must be reading The Aviary!) can't find cheap lodging in DC until she starts drawing a paycheck from us citizens. Oy, the agony!

From the Daily Caller:

Democratic socialist and Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York announced Thursday that issues like finding an apartment in Washington, D.C., before receiving her congressional salary are â€Å“very real.

"I have three months without a salary before I'm a member of Congress, so how do I get an apartment?â€Â Ocasio-Cortez said to The New York Times. â€Å“Those little things are very real.â"

However, she noted that she and her partner have been saving money since before leaving her job as a bartender in New York.

"We're kind of just dealing with the logistics of it day by day" said Ocasio-Cortez. "I've really been just kind of squirreling away and then hoping that gets me to January."

While Ocasio-Cortez told The NYT that she "can't really take a salary" filings by the Federal Election Commission (FEC) show that she has at least taken one "payroll check" during her time as a candidate.

Following publication of her interview with The NYT, the Democratic socialist tweeted about the issue.

"There are many little ways in which our electoral system isn't even designed (nor prepared) for working-class people to lead" Ocasio-Cortez tweeted. "This is one of them (don't worry btw " we're working it out!)"

Hat tip Urgent Agenda.

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Dana Mathewson forwards this:

https://www.foxnews.com/world/dutch-businessman-69-seeks-to-legally-identify-as-20-years-y ounger

This from Tim:

Hey, if you can change your sex based on your self-identification, why not your age?

We all knew this type of thing was coming. Surprised it took as long as it did.

I wonder how long before 18 year old boys get their driver's licences changed to say they are forty year old women to get better insurance rates? Or people looking for a senior discount? How about changing your birth date to receive social security? Medicare? There is every reason to monkey around with your age, and this is going to make a whole new set of problems. It was inevitable after America rejected the idea of objective sexes. Now everything is fluid.

How many criminals are going to claim they are under the age of majority when they are brought to trial?

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Paul Driessen

Jay Lehr and I have been following the debates and battles over the "Linear No Threshold” chemical and radiation toxicity model for years. We’ve always suspected that something more than mere scientific disagreements were involved. Now world-renowned toxicology expert Dr. Edward Calabrese has documented that there was actual fraud behind the 1946 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine that got this LNT model started.

Our article summarizes the chicanery behind this dominant regulatory concept – and explains why human health, well-being andlivesdepend on eliminating or drastically revising it to reflect honest scientific standards and modern knowledge about the true effects of exposure to low doses of radiation.

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Dana Mathewson

Now we see what the donkeys make of their smaller-than-expected victory. Doug Schoen wrote an article that none of them will read, saying among other things that the worst thing the party could do is keep Pelosi as Speaker. He, of course, wants the party to survive and fix its mistakes. We, on the other hand, want it to self-destruct, so hoist a glass to the continuance of Auntie Nancy as keeping the gavel.

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Dana Mathewson

Here's a good summation from Ed Rogers at the Washington Post:

Democrats won the House, but Trump won the election

While Tuesday night was not a complete win for Republicans, there was no blue wave, either. By most measures, Republicans beat the odds of history and nearly everyone's expectations, while Democrats were left disappointed as the fantasy of Beto Oâ€â„¢Rourke, Andrew Gillum, Stacey Abrams and others winning fizzled. Not one new progressive Democrat was successful bursting onto the scene. It will take a few days to process the meaning of this year's election returns, but the instant analysis is clear: Democrats may have won the House, but Trump won the election.

As I always say, in politics, what is supposed to happen tends to happen. I predicted in August that the Democrats would take the House but that alone was not enough for most Democrats. As much as this year's midterms offered an obvious opportunity to rebuke President Trump, little of what the arrogant Democrats and members of the mainstream media expected would happen actually did. So much of what they said turned out to be wrong that it will take a while before the significance becomes clear. And if the 2018 midterms prove anything, it is that Trump is standing strong while Democrats and their allies who thought Trump would have been affirmatively rejected are in fact the ones who have themselves been denied.

Democrats have underperformed in comparison with the historical markers and general expectations of a midterm cycle. The president's party loses 37 seats in the House on average in midterm elections when his approval is below 50 percent  but Democrats aren't projected to pick up nearly that many seats. No liberal will want to admit it, but Trump is an asset to the Republican Party, while President Barack Obama was a disaster for the Democratic Party.

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Hat tip: Urgent Agenda

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Timothy Birdnow

CNN's Jim Acosta has lost his White House credentials after his childish outburst at President Trump and his refusal to hand over his microphone while shouting questions about "Russian collusion" at the President, who had answered his original question (about his tax returns) and was trying to call on someone else.

According to the Washington Times: more...

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Timothy Birdnow

There goes Florida.

Yes, the Sunshine State has restored voting rights to felons, turning the state over to the Democrats (who themselves are, or should be, felons).

Tampabay.com has the details:

"Amendment 4 restores the right to vote to convicted felons who have completed all terms of their sentences, including probation and restitution, but excludes those who are convicted of murder or sex crimes. Those people will still be barred from voting unless their rights are restored by the state clemency board, which consists of the governor and the three cabinet officers (attorney general, chief financial officer and commissioner of agriculture and consumer services)."

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This is expected to re-enfranchise 1.2 million felons, most of whom will likely vote for Democrats. So the Democrats have essentially added one good sized city to their voter base with this one election, and will now likely tip the scales on the absolutely evenly divided state to turn Florida blue.

Needless to say, this was the fondest dream of the left wing glitterati. Again from the article:

"Both Democratic opponents, Sen. Bill Nelson and Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum, supported Amendment 4.

Throughout the campaign, the ballot measure gained star-studded support from the likes of John Legend, Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream, NFL stars like Warrick Dunn and even the Koch-backed Freedom Partners.

Strong financial support came from donors like the American Civil Liberties Union, which paid for more than $5 million in advertising on TV and social media, in both English and Spanish."

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How many illegal aliens voted for this? Inquiring minds want to know.

The Democrats never play by the rules. They have to lie about who they are, cheat, and steal because America really doesn't buy what they have to sell.

So now they automatically return voting rights to felons in Florida, disenfranchising decent citizens of their votes in order to steal another state. And the people of Florida fell for it.

Maybe we should saw Florida off from the rest of the country? It should be possible to dig a canal across the peninsula. Perhaps we can sell it to the Cuban government; it would fit right in with the Castro gulag.

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Timothy Birdnow

The Earth will have a few close calls

"The asteroids - the biggest of which is predicted to measure up to 30 metres across - will whizz past our planet on November 10.

At around 14:03 GMT, an asteroid dubbed 2018 VS1 will pass the Earth.

This asteroid is predicted to measure between 13-28 metres across - suggesting the asteroid could be five times as tall as a giraffe!

Thankfully, NASA’s trajectory estimates indicate that 2018 VS1 will be around 861,700 miles away from Earth during its closest approach.

Just 16 minutes after 2018 VS1 passes our planet, another asteroid dubbed 2018 VR1 will swing by.

This asteroid is predicted to measure up to 30 metres wide, but thankfully will pass at a distance of 3.12 million miles from Earth. with asteroids over the weekend."

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And the last one will pass 237,037 miles from Earth sixteen minutes later.This is just about as far as the Earth from the Moon, so it isn't exactly going to buzz over our heads. It's a close call by astronomical measures, though. This will be the CLOSEST of the three asteroids.

So, no worries mate! We aren't going to get hit, not unless one of these things were to strike something we can't see and move in it's orbit. But that is very, very unlikely.

But what this does illustrate is that we are vulnerable, and no matter how proud we are of our civilization it could be taken out by forces we do not control. Any of these three asteroids hitting the Earth would be a disaster. and we have no way of stopping them at present. A larger asteroid, say, a mile across, would end our civilization.

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Timothy Birdnow

One of the bitter disappointments in Tuesday's elections was a Missouri constitutional amendment that drastically altered redistricting. While innocuously named "Clean Missouri" it was basically a backdoor trick by the Democrats to steal control of Congressional districts by gerrymandering.

The Riverfront Times gives us a few details:

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Timothy Birdnow

While nobody wants to talk about 2020 just yet, I do want to make a few observations about the prospects for the future.

First, I direct your attention to this Rasmussen Report from back in September.. Well before the election Rasmussen looked at how potential outcomes may affect the next election cycle.

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Fay Voshell

Another SCOTUS appointment in the works? Ruth Bader Ginsburg suffered a fall in her office and broke three ribs. She is currently hospitalized.

She has suffered from bad health for a long time.

She has said she will stay at the court until she's ninety. I think her days are numbered, given her health history.
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She has said she will stay at the court until she's ninety. I think her days are numbered, given her health history.

A word from Tim:

I noticed this little tidbit from the story:

"In her absence, the court was going ahead Thursday with a courtroom ceremony welcoming new Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who joined the court last month."

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Could it be Ginsburg just didn't want to attend the welcoming party?

Jack Kemp adds:

Far be it from me to say something unkind about the Democrats on the Supreme Court...ahem...errr...um... 8-) However, Kagan and Sotomayor are really upset that they don't have the third witch to stir the cauldron with them, a la the opening scene of Macbeth. Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble...

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Dana Mathewson

And in other news...

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2018/11/news-earth-moon-dust-clouds-satellites- planets-space/

From the article:

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Dana Mathewson

Anything that gets the military vote recorded in time is GOOD! https://www.foxbusiness.com/features/west-virginia-is-allowing-military-residents-to-cast- ballots-using-their-smartphones

A note from Tim:

How many KIA and MIA will wind up voting using this? If History has taught us anything it is that electronic gadgets can be compromised. I appreciate the intentions but think this is ripe for vote fraud.

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Jack Kemp

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Jack Kemp

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Timothy Birdnow

It's about time.

From El Zorro News:

"At your request, I am submitting my resignation,” Sessions wrote in a Wednesday letter to Trump.

The president tweeted that Matthew Whitaker, who currently serves as chief of staff to Sessions, will become the acting attorney general.

"We are pleased to announce that Matthew G. Whitaker, Chief of Staff to Attorney General Jeff Sessions at the Department of Justice, will become our new Acting Attorney General of the United States. He will serve our Country well,” he said"

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I didn't even know Sessions was still among the living until the Bluenabomber sent his fugazi Wiley-Coyete alarm clock bombs to a bunch of Demolibs and couldn't take out even one of them. Until then Sessions appeared to be doing his best theatrical production of Michael Crichton's Coma. So now Sessions has tendered his resignation; who even noticed?

Sessions was a good Senator who should have remained in Alabama. He was good on illegal aliens, but otherwise did an impression of an eggplant in the refrigerator, only was less animated. It was well past time for him to go.

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Timothy Birdnow

I smell a rat.

While I can't say what is happening elsewhere in these United States, I can say what I see here in Missouri and the Southern Illinois area, and what I have seen is the Democrats overwhelming Republicans in terms of commercials both on television and the radio. They are outspending the GOP by at least five to one, and probably more than that. It's not just Claire McCaskill either; every local race, including many in Illinois, are blitzkreiging the airwaves.

Where did all this money come from?

The Left and their media allies try to claim the Democrats are all fired up, and suggest this is coming from small donations, but somebody tell me how Democrats in Illinois are getting this? "taint happening, folks. There is money coming from a nepharious source, methinks.

Now, we know that the billionaires club donates almost exclusively to Democrats; Tom Steyer, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Eric Schmidt, George Soros, and the rest of the Silicon Valley/Wall Street axis of evil. We also know that Big Environment donates their ill-gotten gain (acquired from the taxpayer and international sources) to the Donks. But this money has been coming year after year and I don't see a major acceleration of it now. Granted, some of the left wingers probably donated more but even then I just doubt they could amass this tidal wave of funding. Even when Obama use dhis trillion dollar stimulus to fund groups engaged in political action we didn't see this sort of thing.

I suspect that we are seeing vast sums of foreign money pouring into the campaign.

Look; Bill Clinton was re-elected in 1996 with the aid of a lot of Chinese money. See here and here. Clinton sold America's security for his re-election, in fact, granting a waiver to Loral Aerospace to allow them to help China fix their satellite launch problems - and thus allow them to fix their ICBM launch problems, making it possible for the Chinese to nuke the U.S. The media yawned at this, despite the fact it was an act of Treason and should have led not just to Clinton's impeachment but his imprisonment. Perhaps even his execution, but we don't do that anymore. There was no reason for Clinton to allow this except to fill his campaign coffers.

So we know the Democrats are willing and able to take foreign money to defeat their domestic enemies.

And a number of foreign powers, including Russia, China, Mexico, even Canada and Germany, have every reason to want to stop Trump's agenda, and to do that the Democrats MUST win. There is powerful incentive to meddle with our election. And, having accused Trump of doing what they themselves are so often guilty of, they are now immune to such accusations. It looks like "nuh,uh, you did it" childishness.

Of course, with the FBI mired in the "Russian Collusion" investigations, nobody is watching the Democrats. Somebody really should.

One of the big themes of the Donkeys is "dark money" yet theirs is the darkest, a veritable black hole of cash. I wonder if we aren't having this election stolen by foreign entities.

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David Dickinson

Hillary and Bill are in South Africa, about as far away as you can get from America for the midterm elections. This is not surprising since most Democrats wanted them to stay that far away from the re-election campaigns too.

Dana Mathewson replies:

Immediately, ideas start screaming through my still cold-damaged brain about how "we" might keep them there. South Africa is pretty much a lost cause by now, anyhow.

2c from Jack Kemp:

I heard a rumor that South Africa has a ransom plan concerning the Clintons. We pay South Africa a billion dollars in ransom - or they will send the Clintons back to us!

From David Dickinson:

Ha. Ironically, the Democrats would happily pay half.

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