January 24, 2018
Hawaiian Governor forgot how to use his Social Media Accounts during Crisis
Dana Mathewson
It doesn't say, so this guy is obviously a Democrat, right?
Hawaiian Governor forgot username, password, during false missile attack alert.
A NOTE FROM TIM:
Gov. David Ige used a social media aid to post this stuff, so why did it take so long, even if he forgot the username and password? Certainly his aid knew it. Ige says he had to track her down, but surely the woman would have received the alert right away. This smells to me.
I suspect Doomsday Dave wanted to scare the baeebers out of Hawaiians as a political ploy. He figured it was a way to embarass the Trump Administration. I agree with the Republicans on the Ha-Ha Hotel Hawaii that Ige should resign. In fact, I wonder if there should not be some sort of investigation done to get to the bottom of what exactly happened.
Democrats try to claim they are the smart ones...
It doesn't say, so this guy is obviously a Democrat, right?
Hawaiian Governor forgot username, password, during false missile attack alert.
A NOTE FROM TIM:
Gov. David Ige used a social media aid to post this stuff, so why did it take so long, even if he forgot the username and password? Certainly his aid knew it. Ige says he had to track her down, but surely the woman would have received the alert right away. This smells to me.
I suspect Doomsday Dave wanted to scare the baeebers out of Hawaiians as a political ploy. He figured it was a way to embarass the Trump Administration. I agree with the Republicans on the Ha-Ha Hotel Hawaii that Ige should resign. In fact, I wonder if there should not be some sort of investigation done to get to the bottom of what exactly happened.
Democrats try to claim they are the smart ones...
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NFL turns away Amvet Superbowl Ad
Dana Mathewson
From the Urgent Agenda website:
From the Urgent Agenda website:
From ARMY TIMES: WASHINGTON
— AMVETS officials are decrying "corporate censorship†from the
National Football League for their decision not to run an ad in their
Super Bowl program which responds to league players’ decision to kneel
for the national anthem in protest of national equality issues. The
ad, which would have cost the veterans organization $30,000, features
the tag "#PleaseStand†with a picture of service members saluting the
American flag and information on how to donate to the
congressionally-chartered organization. Group leaders said NFL
officials refused to include the ad in their Super Bowl publication,
but did not issue a reason why. In a statement, AMVETS National
Commander Marion Polk said the issue is one of fairness and respect.
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more...
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January 23, 2018
Here's how they voted
Dana Mathewson
Both my senators voted to end the shutdown. Will wonders never cease?
I notice McCain didn't vote. Is he still in the hospital?
Here is the roll call.
Both my senators voted to end the shutdown. Will wonders never cease?
I notice McCain didn't vote. Is he still in the hospital?
Here is the roll call.
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Chuckie blinks
Dana Mathewson
There was a great deal of worry on our side that we might blink in the face of the Democrats' threats to shut down the gummint, but it appears now that the blinking has been done on the other side. The Trumpians win again! As they are fond of saying, we never get tired of winning.
One more weapon taken away from the donkeys!
There was a great deal of worry on our side that we might blink in the face of the Democrats' threats to shut down the gummint, but it appears now that the blinking has been done on the other side. The Trumpians win again! As they are fond of saying, we never get tired of winning.
One more weapon taken away from the donkeys!
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January 22, 2018
Munchausen Medicine
Dana Mathewson
As it says in a quote from a comic novel, you have to read it not to believe it.
This is the gist of it, but not all, by any means:
Women who identify as men are not being routinely offered potentially life saving NHS screening for breast and cervical cancer, amid fears it might offend them it is claimed.
However men living as women are being invited for cervical smear tests even though they do not have a cervix, an official guidebook states.
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Class V. Ass
Helen Dyer
See below. I wonder how many of these embarrassingly biased and stupid trough-dwellers would have dreamed of asking questions like this about St Barack???
See below. I wonder how many of these embarrassingly biased and stupid trough-dwellers would have dreamed of asking questions like this about St Barack???
It's a bit like Q&A on steroids!
The link below is to just a collection of insults (to Dr Ronny Jackson as well as Pres Trump) masquerading as questions.
Here's the full press conference. Class vs asses !
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The fake ‘Trump is racist’ issue
Paul Driessen
President Trump is being called racist, because he wants legal immigration and has used salty language to describe the countries of origin of some illegal immigrants. His language is the cover(up) story. Among the real reasons for the faux outrage are the Democrats’ determination to distract attention from the incredible energy, deregulatory, tax reform and economic progress during Mr. Trump’s first year in office.
But an even bigger reason is the liberal-Democrat-environmentalist fear that their policies and actions will be exposed to the glaring light of day. Among them are the ways they took American minority and blue collar family living standards down a couple notches – and have kept the world’s most impoverished, energy-deprived families from improving their lives, except a little bit at the margins – in the name of "protecting the environment†and preventing "dangerous manmade climate change.â€
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Permanently Limiting the EPA
Dana Mathewson
Scott Pruitt has shackled the EPA.
And on a Sunday, no less. No, wait. It was posted on Saturday, but I'm sending it on Sunday. Appropriate anytime, I think.
" Shortly after taking office, Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt set out to permanently limit the agency’s regulatory power in what he billed as a "Back to Basics†agenda focusing on cleaning up toxic waste and providing safe drinking water ― but not curbing new industrial pollution.
Former administrators warn that it could take anywhere from a few years to three decades for future administrations to restore the EPA to where it was a year ago, before the regulatory rollbacks, mass attrition and budget cuts."
Yay! We can hope!
Scott Pruitt has shackled the EPA.
And on a Sunday, no less. No, wait. It was posted on Saturday, but I'm sending it on Sunday. Appropriate anytime, I think.
" Shortly after taking office, Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt set out to permanently limit the agency’s regulatory power in what he billed as a "Back to Basics†agenda focusing on cleaning up toxic waste and providing safe drinking water ― but not curbing new industrial pollution.
Former administrators warn that it could take anywhere from a few years to three decades for future administrations to restore the EPA to where it was a year ago, before the regulatory rollbacks, mass attrition and budget cuts."
Yay! We can hope!
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Whole Foods' stocking problems are its own
Dana Mathewson
It appears that Whole Foods caused their own problems in an attempt to fix other problems. Seems as if in an effort not to waste food, they over-reacted. My, my.
I'm sure this impacts none of you.
It appears that Whole Foods caused their own problems in an attempt to fix other problems. Seems as if in an effort not to waste food, they over-reacted. My, my.
I'm sure this impacts none of you.
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January 20, 2018
Secede from California?
Timothy Birdnow
The more conservative interior of California wants to secede and create New California. Can't say I blame them.
Here's has the dope:
"With the reading of their own version of a Declaration of Independence, founders of the state of New California took the first steps to what they hope will eventually lead to statehood.
To be clear, they don't want to leave the United States, just California.
"Well, it's been ungovernable for a long time. High taxes, education, you name it, and we're rated around 48th or 50th from a business climate and standpoint in California," said founder Robert Paul Preston.
The state of New California would incorporate most of the state's rural counties, leaving the urban coastal counties to the current state of California.:
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Part of Colorado tried this and failed. The problem is, not only does the area in question have to approve it at the ballot box but the state legislature has to approve it likewise. Vermont was part of New York until the state legislature gave permission to secede. Ditto Kentucky, which was part of Virginia. Maine seceded from Massachussetts. But in all of these instances the state legislature gave permission. In Colorado the state legislature would no doubt have denied permission had the people voted to create a new state. And California is NOT going to allow the Imperial Valley to opt out, as it is the primary agreicultural part of the state and is needed to carry the millions of illegals and ne'er do wells that California has taken upon itself to support.
So don't look for New California any time soon.
The more conservative interior of California wants to secede and create New California. Can't say I blame them.
Here's has the dope:
"With the reading of their own version of a Declaration of Independence, founders of the state of New California took the first steps to what they hope will eventually lead to statehood.
To be clear, they don't want to leave the United States, just California.
"Well, it's been ungovernable for a long time. High taxes, education, you name it, and we're rated around 48th or 50th from a business climate and standpoint in California," said founder Robert Paul Preston.
The state of New California would incorporate most of the state's rural counties, leaving the urban coastal counties to the current state of California.:
End excerpt.
Part of Colorado tried this and failed. The problem is, not only does the area in question have to approve it at the ballot box but the state legislature has to approve it likewise. Vermont was part of New York until the state legislature gave permission to secede. Ditto Kentucky, which was part of Virginia. Maine seceded from Massachussetts. But in all of these instances the state legislature gave permission. In Colorado the state legislature would no doubt have denied permission had the people voted to create a new state. And California is NOT going to allow the Imperial Valley to opt out, as it is the primary agreicultural part of the state and is needed to carry the millions of illegals and ne'er do wells that California has taken upon itself to support.
So don't look for New California any time soon.
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The DACA Colonel Bogey March
Timothy Birdnow
Anyone remember The Bridge Over the River Kwai? This 1957 film featured Alec Guinness (Obi Wan Kenobi from Star Wars for you young-ens) as a British Senior POW officer held by the Japanese. This particular POW camp was deep in the jungles of Burma and the captive Allied soldiers were impressed into service to build a railroad bridge over the River Kwai for the Japanese military. Until Lieutenant Colonel Nicholson (Guiness) arrived the POW's loafed about and attempted as best they could to sabotage the project. But Nicholson was a born politician, and he made demands.
Colonel Saito, the Japanese commander, was under a tight deadline and he needed to get this project completed, so he ordered the POW officers to work alongside the men in violation of the Geneva Convention. Nicholson was having nAnone of that, and he openly refused Saito's demands, goinng so far as to face torture in "the hot box" and other things to force Saito to give in. Eventually, with a deadline fast approaching, Saito relented, and in fact handed the whol project over to the British, who chose a new site for the bridge and worked quite willingly. Saito was shamed to the point of considering suicide, but he first had a Samurai duty to finish the project - by giving in to every request of the British prisoners. There is a rather pathetic scene where the POW's and Saito are holding a meeting and Nicholson rattles off a list of requests to which Saito simply repeats over and over "yes" with a grave, defeated face. more...
Anyone remember The Bridge Over the River Kwai? This 1957 film featured Alec Guinness (Obi Wan Kenobi from Star Wars for you young-ens) as a British Senior POW officer held by the Japanese. This particular POW camp was deep in the jungles of Burma and the captive Allied soldiers were impressed into service to build a railroad bridge over the River Kwai for the Japanese military. Until Lieutenant Colonel Nicholson (Guiness) arrived the POW's loafed about and attempted as best they could to sabotage the project. But Nicholson was a born politician, and he made demands.
Colonel Saito, the Japanese commander, was under a tight deadline and he needed to get this project completed, so he ordered the POW officers to work alongside the men in violation of the Geneva Convention. Nicholson was having nAnone of that, and he openly refused Saito's demands, goinng so far as to face torture in "the hot box" and other things to force Saito to give in. Eventually, with a deadline fast approaching, Saito relented, and in fact handed the whol project over to the British, who chose a new site for the bridge and worked quite willingly. Saito was shamed to the point of considering suicide, but he first had a Samurai duty to finish the project - by giving in to every request of the British prisoners. There is a rather pathetic scene where the POW's and Saito are holding a meeting and Nicholson rattles off a list of requests to which Saito simply repeats over and over "yes" with a grave, defeated face. more...
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More on the Newsweek Probe
Jack Kemp
Here is more on Newseek Probe.
Apparently Newsweek is being investigated over money laundering.
Here is more on Newseek Probe.
Apparently Newsweek is being investigated over money laundering.
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January 19, 2018
About those Shutdown Polls
Timothy Birdnow
I did a Google search to find polls on who would be blamed for a government shutdown. The first four pages were "Republicans" and by mainstream media outlets, and I suspected that was not true. Google always slants the search results.
Eventually I came across this:
So the Democrats actually take the most blame here. Interesting, no?
Back on December 8 the public was opposed to shutting down the government for DACA by 55%, according to Five Thirty Eight the Democratic pollster. Nothing has changed between now and then, so there is no reason to believe that the Republicans will be blamed.
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I did a Google search to find polls on who would be blamed for a government shutdown. The first four pages were "Republicans" and by mainstream media outlets, and I suspected that was not true. Google always slants the search results.
Eventually I came across this:
| @sahilkapur | ||
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NEW QUINNIPIAC POLL: If there’s a government shutdown, who would you blame?
34% say Democrats
32% say Republicans
21% say Trump |
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So the Democrats actually take the most blame here. Interesting, no?
Back on December 8 the public was opposed to shutting down the government for DACA by 55%, according to Five Thirty Eight the Democratic pollster. Nothing has changed between now and then, so there is no reason to believe that the Republicans will be blamed.
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H is for Hypocrite
Dana Mathewson
There's a certain type of person who seeks to work in government -- and should at all costs be prevented from doing so.
They all should be made to wear a scarlet H, a la Hester Prynne.
There's a certain type of person who seeks to work in government -- and should at all costs be prevented from doing so.
Witness the Democrats
who are wailing about how the Republicans "want to shut down the
government" now, and contrast their statements the last time it
happened. 180 degrees.
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Manhattan DA Raids newsweek
Jack Kemp forwards this:
About two dozen investigators from the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office raided the offices of Newsweek and its parent company, IBT Media, on Thursday.
IBT Media was co-founded by Jonathan Davis and Etienne Uzac. The IRS placed a $1.2 million federal tax lien against Uzac in December 2017.
The agents were said to be photographing servers in the offices, but not downloading any files at the offices at 7 Hanover Square, according to sources.
They appeared to be photographing the serial numbers on the machines, said a source.
In the past, IBT has been linked to a Christian church founded by Korean-American evangelist David Jang and Olivet University, a university in California that Jang’s followers founded.
The IRS had not responded to a call by press time. The Manhattan DA declined to comment.
Dana Mathewson states:
Perhaps the IRS is still operating in "weaponized" mode? Or it could just be a case of back taxes. However, Christians appear to be in the crosshairs.
This from Tim:
The company I worked for got sued for twenty thousand dollars because they had purchased a used copier and it had "proprietary" software already installed when they purchased it, making it a copyright violation. They hired a lawyer and won, but it cost them. I wonder if taking the photos of these machines wasn't something comparable. more...
About two dozen investigators from the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office raided the offices of Newsweek and its parent company, IBT Media, on Thursday.
IBT Media was co-founded by Jonathan Davis and Etienne Uzac. The IRS placed a $1.2 million federal tax lien against Uzac in December 2017.
The agents were said to be photographing servers in the offices, but not downloading any files at the offices at 7 Hanover Square, according to sources.
They appeared to be photographing the serial numbers on the machines, said a source.
In the past, IBT has been linked to a Christian church founded by Korean-American evangelist David Jang and Olivet University, a university in California that Jang’s followers founded.
The IRS had not responded to a call by press time. The Manhattan DA declined to comment.
Dana Mathewson states:
Perhaps the IRS is still operating in "weaponized" mode? Or it could just be a case of back taxes. However, Christians appear to be in the crosshairs.
This from Tim:
The company I worked for got sued for twenty thousand dollars because they had purchased a used copier and it had "proprietary" software already installed when they purchased it, making it a copyright violation. They hired a lawyer and won, but it cost them. I wonder if taking the photos of these machines wasn't something comparable. more...
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January 18, 2018
Attaboy for Jeff Sessions
Timothy Birdnow
I've been particularly unimpressed by Attorney General Jeff Sessions, but Printus LeBlanc at Americans for Limited Government disagrees, and makes a good case. Read it below:
One of the most overlooked actions Attorney General Jeff Sessions took was to end third-party settlements. Under the previous administration, the Justice Department allowed companies it fined to pay third-parties organizations not associated with the original crime. Not only did the department allow the offenders to pay third-parties, they received double the credit for doing so. The payments would go to Obama administration approved organizations such as National Council of La Raza, the National Community Reinvestment Coalition and the National Urban League. All left leaning organizations that help the help the Democrat Party carry out its mission. Congressional investigators estimate at least $3 billion went to third-party groups during the Obama administration. more...
I've been particularly unimpressed by Attorney General Jeff Sessions, but Printus LeBlanc at Americans for Limited Government disagrees, and makes a good case. Read it below:
One of the most overlooked actions Attorney General Jeff Sessions took was to end third-party settlements. Under the previous administration, the Justice Department allowed companies it fined to pay third-parties organizations not associated with the original crime. Not only did the department allow the offenders to pay third-parties, they received double the credit for doing so. The payments would go to Obama administration approved organizations such as National Council of La Raza, the National Community Reinvestment Coalition and the National Urban League. All left leaning organizations that help the help the Democrat Party carry out its mission. Congressional investigators estimate at least $3 billion went to third-party groups during the Obama administration. more...
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Scoundrels and the 17th Amendment
Timothy Birdnow
Dana Mathewson and I were discussing the direct election of Senators and had a decent exchange.
From Dana:
Can't help wondering if the Founders ever foresaw people getting into Congress solely for themselves? They must have, since there were people around, even then, who were opportunists. Aaron Burr springs to mind. . .
This from Tim: more...
Dana Mathewson and I were discussing the direct election of Senators and had a decent exchange.
From Dana:
Can't help wondering if the Founders ever foresaw people getting into Congress solely for themselves? They must have, since there were people around, even then, who were opportunists. Aaron Burr springs to mind. . .
This from Tim: more...
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CO2 Levels not Correlated to Climate
Helen Dyer
Go to the linkand have a look especially at 4.5 (my bolds):
The
finding here of a natural climate cycle that oscillates on a centennial
scale and impacts temperature in the NH has further implications for
the debate about anthropogenic global warming (AGW). It has been
considered widely that atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2)
emitted by human activities is responsible for the contemporary global warming signal.Recent research shows, however, that neither atmospheric CO2nor
marginal radiative forcing by CO2is
generally correlated discernibly with global temperature over the past 425 million years [3].
Therefore, neither atmospheric CO2nor
marginal radiative forcing by CO2caused
temperature change in the ancient climate [3].
The same study showed that contemporary marginal radiative forcing by atmospheric CO2has
declined by approximately two-thirds since the beginning of the
Industrial Age owing to the well-known logarithmic relationship between
radiative forcing and atmospheric CO2concentration
[3].
Progressively larger concentrations of atmospheric CO2therefore
yield progressively smaller global temperature change, minimizing any possible impact of CO2on
global temperature.
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Korea Marching as One
Dana Mathewson
You can't tell me this would, or could, have happened because of Obama
You can't tell me this would, or could, have happened because of Obama
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How the Graham Cracker Crumbles
Dana Mathewson
Trump and Graham, the end of an ugly friendship
You'll LOVE the first sentence: "Lindsey Graham, the Arlen Specter of the South, has been trying to ingratiate himself with President Trump, his former adversary. By doing so, Graham hopes to achieve his longtime dream of granting amnesty to illegal aliens."
The author does a wonderful job of throwing Lindsey Graham and Dick Durbin under the bus.
Trump and Graham, the end of an ugly friendship
You'll LOVE the first sentence: "Lindsey Graham, the Arlen Specter of the South, has been trying to ingratiate himself with President Trump, his former adversary. By doing so, Graham hopes to achieve his longtime dream of granting amnesty to illegal aliens."
The author does a wonderful job of throwing Lindsey Graham and Dick Durbin under the bus.
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