May 17, 2019

Trump cancels Cal. supertain money

Jack Kemp

The L.A. Times reports that:


The Trump administration transformed its threats against the California bullet train project into a sour reality Thursday, terminating a $929-million grant for construction in the Central Valley.


While loss of the money poses a potentially devastating hit to the project, state officials said, no immediate construction changes are planned because the federal government’s action could be reversed in future legal action....


The railroad administration’s letter notes that the agency rejected every quarterly budget that the state authority submitted since late 2016, repeatedly admonishing the state for "deficiencies and errors” in its documents. The letter alleges the state made ineligible expenditures from the grants, including giving a bonus to consultants for meeting the terms of the grant and paying for expenses "related to a consultant’s name change.”

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Yeah, the L.A. Times thinks they'll get the money back later. Meanwhile Californians can ride the Polar Express at their eightplex movie houses. As is, California acts like it's already riding the Bipolar Express. As I have said before, they called it the High Speed Train because the California legislature was high on speed when the voted for the initial funding.

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James Comey admits he was a Communist

Timothy Birdnow

Mr. "Higher Calling" James Comey, former director of the Fl.B.I., voted for the Communists during the Cold War.

From the article:

The heads of Obama’s FBI and CIA both voted for Communists during the Cold War, yet were somehow able to move up the ranks within the same US intelligence community that had spent decades fighting that very ideology.

"In college, I was left of center,” Comey told New York Magazine, and through a gradual process I found myself more comfortable with a lot of the ideas and approaches the Republicans were using.” He voted for Carter in 1980, but in ’84, "I voted for Reagan—I’d moved from Communist to whatever I am now. I’m not even sure how to characterize myself politically. Maybe at some point, I’ll have to figure it out.”

"I’d moved from Communist to whatever I am now. I’m not even sure how to characterize myself politically.” – @Comey

Comey's wife and four daughters were all huge Hillary supporters, by the way.

A man who cannot identify his political position is either a.a shallow person or b.a liar. I suspect the latter. Communists are famous for denying their political ties.

Please note Comey was a communist during the Cold War. Does anyone think the KGB would let such an asset slip by them?

What is interesting abou this is that John Brennan, the former head of the CIA, admitted to voting for the Communist Party during the 1980. Our top security people were Marxists under Obama.

But then, is that any surprise? Obama was a member of Chicago's New Party, which is a Communist party not associated with the CPUSA. And he admitted he surrounded himself with radicals in college. And he was mentored by Frank Marshall Davis, an acknowledged Communist. In fact, Mr. Obama has been accused of being a Soviet sleeper agent.

The more we look at it, the more it appears the Soviets won the Cold War in fact as opposed to in appearance. It was giving up the radical pose to achieve radical ends. Certainly there were Bolsheviks infecting the highest levels of our government.

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Dress Rehearsal for a Coup

Timothy Birdnow

Rachel Alexander shows how the tactics used to take Donald Trump out were first employed against Republican Congre3ssman Rick Renzi.

From Intellectual Conservative:

Renzi is a Republican businessman who represented Arizona’s first congressional district from 2002 to 2007, before corrupt government officials successfully deployed an array of sleazy, illegal tactics to take him out.From illegal wiretapping to false testimony to evidence hiding, the political forces that ended Renzi’s political career and landed him in prison were relentless in pursuit of a corrupt political agenda to bring down a Republican rising star.

In 2008, an unholy alliance of politically connected prosecutors, corrupt FBI agents and lying witnesses managed to convince a jury to convict Renzi on bogus, trumped-up charges of corruption, ending his political career and unjustly sending him to prison for three years. They’re the same corrupt political forces that are trying to take down Donald Trump right now and these eight tactics used against Renzi are now being used against Trump and his associates.

1. Code names.Both cases were given code names. The political hit job on Trump was called an "insurance policy” by FBI Agents Peter Strzok and Lisa Page. The hit job against Renzi was code named "Operation Eagle.”

2. Fake dossiers. Both cases involved fake dossiers. Fusion GPS, working for Clinton’s DNC, paid a former British agent name Christopher Steele to compile damaging fabricated information about Trump. FBI agent James Stzrok then disseminated and executed the dossier. In Renzi’s case, a fake dossier was paid for by a South African businessman named Bruno Hagner, who hired a former FBI agent named Jim Elroy. Elroy disseminated it to his buddy FBI agent Dan Odom who then executed the dossier.

3. Wiretapping.Both cases involved wiretapping. The FBI wiretapped Trump campaign officials, then denied it had happened. In Renzi’s case, FBI agents illegally wiretapped Renzi’s private conversations with his attorneys and lied to the judge that they had done it. Notably, in over 1,200 calls, they obtained nothing incriminating against Renzi and the judge was forced to throw out the wiretap.

4. FBI Document 302. Both cases involve FBI interview documents called "302s.” Strzok and others are currently under investigation for possibly changing an FBI 302. In Renzi’s case, it was confirmed in court records that FBI agent Odom destroyed exculpatory evidence and withheld a 302 interview of key witness Philip Aries, whose false testimony was central to the prosecution’s case.

5. False testimony.Both cases involve lying under oath. Former FBI Director James Comey gave false testimony to congress; in Renzi’s case, FBI agent Dan Odom knowingly manipulated witnesses to give false testimony to Renzi’s grand jury and at his trial.

6. Robert Mueller.Special Counsel Robert Mueller is currently in the process of carrying out the "insurance policy” on Trump. Mueller was FBI Director when the FBI carried out "Operation Eagle” on Renzi.

7. Unethical payments.The wife of former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe received $467,500 from Clinton crony Terry McAuliffe for her state senate campaign, which many believe was in exchange for making sure the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails went away. In Renzi’s case, FBI agent Odom offered reward money to key witness Aries, who then changed his testimony after being told he would likely be paid. Aries speculated that he might get as much as $25,000, calling it a "home run.” Renzi was convicted on this key witness’s fabricated testimony.

8. The FBI planted spies in the Trump campaign. The FBI used a spy in Renzi’s congressional office to steal legislative documents out of his filing cabinet. They convinced one of Renzi’s staffers to steal these documents.

This is a must read; these are the dirty tricks the Deep State has been using for some time now.

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Did God Order Abortion?

Timothy Birdnow

A big brouhaha erupted on Facebook over the "fidelity test" in the Book of Numbers. The post's author gave us this:

The only mention of abortion in the Bible is a >right< that >husbands< can >compel< their wife to abort if they suspect she’s unfaithful — and a priest will help ‘em do it! Numbers 5:11-31‬

Countless posters tried to argue this justifies abortion.

Needless to say I disagree.
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No Vote Fraud in America?

Timothy Birdnow

A discussion about vote fraud erupted on Facebook recently, and a lot of liberals were crowing about the Trump voter integrity commission not finding massive vote fraud. I am dubious about this, as it flies in the face of every other election, and in fact it makes a number of issues puzzling.

I left the following comment:
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The Government they Deserve

Timothy Birdnow

Nancy Pelosi, the San Francisco Bleat, leader of the Democrats and Speaker of the House of Representatives, says that "merit is a condescending word".

I kid you not.

From the article:

Pelosi appeared just before President Trump revealed his "merit-based” immigration plan that gives preference to well-educated people with job skills, CNSNews reported.

But Pelosi took issue with Trump’s use of the word "merit.”

"Are they saying family is without merit?” Pelosi said in the press conference. "Are they saying most of the people that have ever come to the United States in the history of our country are without merit because they don’t have an engineering degree?”

Pelosi agreed that the U.S. needs the best immigrants. "And certainly, we want to attract the best to our country, and that includes many people from many parts of society,” she said.

But Pelosi disagreed with the president’s ideas of what "merit” means.

"We’ve heard titles like ‘merit,’ which is non-merit,” Pelosi said. "It means merit in the eyes of Donald Trump”:

Well, that certainly explains why this nation is being led by people like Pelosi and Schumer...

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May 16, 2019

Trump Declares State of Emergency over Chinese Tech

Timothy Birdnow

President Trump has declared a state of emergency over IT threats. According to the BBC:


He signed an executive order which effectively bars US companies from using foreign telecoms believed to pose national security risks.

The order does not name any company, but is believed to target Huawei.
Several countries, led by the US, have raised concerns in recent months that Huawei products could be used by China for surveillance, allegations the company has vehemently denied.

The US has been pressuring allies to shun Huawei in their next generation 5G mobile networks.

There is more to this than meets the eye. Donald Trump is playing chicken with the Chinese, who have been building trap doors into their technology for decades,. They have systematically labored to make the U.S. dependent on their technology, and have set about to make it possible to paralyze us if the need should arise. Amazingly, former U.S. regimes were unwilling to confront this because it meant it would cost some of the wealthier companies a good bit of money. But now that Trump is demanding a fairer trade arrangement the Chinese are becoming more active, and Trump realizes our vulnerability. That vulnerability is very serious; it may well be the Chicoms could shut down our electric grid or crash the internet. We are in danger.

The article continues:

According to a White House statement, Mr Trump's order aims to "protect America from foreign adversaries who are actively and increasingly creating and exploiting vulnerabilities in information and communications technology infrastructure and services".

It gives the secretary of commerce the power to "prohibit transactions posing an unacceptable risk to the national security", the statement adds.
Image copyright Reuters Image caption Huawei is the world's largest maker of telecoms equipment

The move was instantly welcomed by Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai, who called it "a significant step toward securing America's networks".


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By declaring a national emergency President Trump can effectively bypass other branches of government and gains access to a raft of special powers.

The Brennan Center for Justice, a non-partisan public policy institute, has compiled a list of more than 120 legal powers the president can use in such an event - they range from taking over farmland to calling up military reservists or seizing property with few or no restrictions.

This goes beyond a trade war; china holds the leash of Kim Jong-Un, the diminutive dictator of North Korea (does anyone else think he resembles Hahn from Two Broke Girls?) as well as has a working relationship with Iran. So many of the world's crises are interrelated, and so many of them are tied inextricably to China's dreams of world power (and Russia's dreams of regaining the Soviet Imperium). Trump is trying to weaken china precisely because they pose an existential threat.

I always said the notion that the Cold War was won was nonsense; a quarter of the world's population continued to live under Communist tyranny, yet we somehow said we "won". After the Soviet collapse we did everything we could to prop up China, to promote it and nurture it, on the theory that they would give up Communism when they enjoyed the riches of the West. It was a stupid idea then and it remains a stupid idea. What we did was create an enemy as dangerous, perhaps more dangerous, than the Soviets. They at least made it clear they were our enemy. China is sly beyond our understanding. But then, Americans have always been direct and forthright, and gullible.

It's interesting to note that Bill Clinton received a huge amount of illegal campaign donations prior to his 1996 election victory from the Chinese, and he has received half a billion dollars from the m for speaking engagements, money ostensibly for the Clinton Foundation. Oh, and Hillary was endorsed by the Chinese elites when she was running against Trump. Why do you suppose that is? The Chinese knew it would be business as usual if Clinton won. Trump's victory meant they were in danger of being exposed for their corrupting influence. That is why the Clintons created the lie of "Russian collusion" to use against Trump; it was pure projection.

The geopolitical situation is growing increasingly dangerous, but it was inevitable.

George Rasley at Conservative HQ explains the nature of our struggle with China. It is a must read.

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Maduro seizes the Airports

Timothy Birdnow

The Maduro government is seizing control of the three airports in Caracas, according to Itar-Tass.

From the article:

"On the instruction of our President Nicolas Maduro, we announce that the government undertakes administrative and operative control over the airports of Caracas, Higuerote and Metropolitano in order to take effective measures and prevent illicit activities," he wrote on Twitter.

The minister noted that the officials will restructure the offices of Interpol, criminal investigation department, border, drug control and immigration services at those airports.

This is the classic move of despots, to control the primary means of transportation. They want to keep everyone in - and opposition out.

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Iranian backed Rebels attack Saudi Pipeline

Timothy Birdnow

Saudi Arabia is claiming Houthi rebels have attacked their pipeline at the behest of Iran.

According to Itar Tass:

The Ansar Allah (Houthi) rebels attacked the pipeline administered by the Saudi Arabian Oil Company, Saudi Aramco, on Iran’s orders, Saudi Deputy Defense Minister Khalid bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud wrote on his official Twitter page on Thursday.

"The attack by the Iranian-backed Houthi militias against the two Aramco pumping stations proves that these militias are merely a tool that Iran's regime uses to implement its expansionist agenda in the region, and not to protect the people of Yemen as the Houthis falsely claim," he wrote. The Deputy Minister also pointed out that "the terrorist acts, ordered by the regime in Tehran, and carried out by the Houthis, are tightening the noose around the ongoing political efforts [to settle the conflict in Yemen]."

At the same time, Saudi Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Adel bin Ahmed Al-Jubeir wrote on his official Twitter page that "the Houthis are an indivisible part of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and subject to the IRGC’s orders." He also stressed that the Ansar Allah group "confirm day after day that they implement Iran’s agenda by sacrificing the need of the Yemeni people for the benefit of Iran."

If that is so then this is an act of war. Of course, the Saudis don't have any real way to project their displeasure with Iran at the moment.

The article continues:

On Tuesday, Saudi Minister of Energy, Industry and Mineral Resources Khalid al-Falih said that at 6-6:30 a.m. local time drones had hit two pumping stations of the pipeline used to deliver oil from the oil deposits in the East of the kingdom to the port of Yanbu in the West. At the same time, he underlined that the oil extraction had not been halted and there were no casualties or injuries following the attack.

According to the Syrian Al Massira TV channel the attack was staged by seven drones operated by the Yemeni Ansar Allah (Houthi) rebels. Per reports, the attack was launched in response to the "kingdom’s aggression against Yemen."

We seem to be moving inexorably toward war in the Middle East.

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U.N. Boss calls for Death of Coal

Timothy Birdnow

United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres has called for the world to stop building coal-fired power plants. Oddly, he did while visiting F.

NOT China. Not India. Not any other place that actually emits large quantities of pollutants from coal. No; he made his pitch in the Pacific, where they have no large industries and no coal production.

The attacks on coal have largely killed the industry. The two largest coal companies in the world - Peabody and Arch - are both located in St. Louis, Mo. and are both in bankruptcy thanks to the war on coal.

After tweeting out platitudes like "we need a green economy, not a grey economy" the U.N. boss says "we need to tax pollution, not people". What does this boob thing a "pollution tax" is? It's a tax on people. People pay it, in the price they pay for products and services.

He does admit political will for imposing these draconian schemes to regulate hot air is losing steam. He's right, because in the end most people realize this is a fake crisis. The leaders of most nations know it, but they are on board because they want to slow down their competitors and maybe get a nice chunk of cash from the rich nations. But in the end they know it is bullsquirt. And the citizens of the rich nations do too, or at least enough of them to stop the implementation of a new world order to solve a largely fictitious problem.

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That's a REALLY Big Fish!

Timothyh Birdnow

We're going to need a bigger boat...

Great white shark weighing 2,137 pounds heading toward Outer Banks, researchers say

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May 15, 2019

Exo-solar Water Worlds

Timothy Birdnow

Most "sub-Neptune" worlds in other solar systems are probably water worlds, according to new research by NASA.

From Space.com:

Much remains hotly debated about sub-Neptunes, such as how they formed. Their compositions remain unknown, and understanding them could help shed light on these exoplanets' origins. Previous research suggested that sub-Neptunes were either gas dwarf planets with rocky cores surrounded by envelopes rich in hydrogen and helium, or water worlds with major amounts of liquid and frozen water in addition to rock and gas.

To investigate the makeup of sub-Neptunes, scientists ran computer simulations of planetary growth to see what scenarios might best explain the masses and diameters seen to date among exoplanets. Knowing the mass and diameter of a planet can help astronomers estimate its average density, and computer simulations of planetary growth can help reveal whether compositions of gas, rock, ice or water might best explain these densities.

The researchers found that sub-Neptunes are more likely to be water worlds than gas dwarfs. They suggested that each sub-Neptune is at least 25%, and possibly more than 50%,liquid or frozen water by mass. (In contrast, Earth is only 0.02% water by mass.)

"Our study suggests that there are on the order of 1,000 water worlds in just the Kepler confirmed and candidate planets," study lead author Li Zeng, a planetary scientist at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, told Space.com. "Statistically speaking, these water worlds may be more abundant than Earth-like rocky planets. Perhaps every typical sunlike star — a star of about one solar mass — has one or more of these water worlds."

With so much water one expects that at least one of them would have developed aquatic life.

Many of these planets would be orbiting flare stars. Most stars are flare stars, and solar flares would wipe out all land life in a close orbit - as in an M class star aka red dwarf. But sea life could well survive. Maybe we are going at this all wrong, looking for alien civilizations on land. Maybe most really smart aliens are aquatic; intelligent squids or starfish or hammerhead sharks. It would be awful hard for them to develop a civilization without fire and not seeing the stars, but then we don't know everything. Maybe they could use chemical reactions or something.

At any rate, this is an interesting point. Water increases the likelihood of life anywhere, at least as we understand it.

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Monsoon Rainfall Decline over last Eighty Years

Timothy Birdnow

Chinese researchers, using tree ring data, have shown that the monsoon seasons have been weakening at an unprecedented level, and have been doing so for the last 80 years.

Read it at  Physorg

The researchers studied Asian Monsoon rainfall and found it has declined considerably. They blame it on industrial pollutants.

Strange; eighty years ago was 1939, well before the rise of industrialism worldwide. There was virtually no industrial emissions in Asia back then, and there was as yet no increase in carbon dioxide levels in the Earth's atmosphere.

But this DOES coincide with the Earth's exit from the Little Ice Age and the warming period of the '30's.

The article tries to blame industrial emissions, but the time scale doesn't wash. It DOES if one assumes natural variability.

Also, one must wonder at the methodology; they used just a few ancient trees to make this determination, one of which was high on a rocky outcropping. Does that give an accurate picture of rainfall?

There are any number of other factors that could explain a reduction in rainfall; the Earth's magnetic field is weakening, for instance, and that could in fact influence wind patterns. Global Warming is but one theory, and in my opinion a weak one, as the reduction in rainfall started reducing before any major increase in carbon dioxide emissions.

Oh, and isn't Global Warming supposed to make the Earth a "warmer, wetter world"? Strange how much it seems to dry everything when the whole theory is predicated on increased water vapor evaporation as a result of the warming driven by co2. And if these \monsoon rainfalls are dropping off in Asia, where are they going? Water vapor doesn't just disappear. I notice this article makes no mention of the rainfall dropping in other places.

My opinion is this research, while attempting to buttress AGW theory, does quite the opposite.


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Legal Pot Increases Car Accidents (DUH!)

Timothy Birdnow

Legalization of Marijuana may reduce pain, and as such can be substituted for opiods, but they increase car accidents and other forms of injury.

From Medical Express:

The researchers found that after legalization, Colorado experienced a 10 percent increase in motor vehicle accidents, as well as a 5 percent increase in alcohol abuse and overdoses that resulted in injury or death. At the same time, the state saw a 5 percent decrease in hospital admissions for chronic pain, Marcus said.

Gee; whoda thunk it? An intoxicating substance increases car accidents, injuries, and overall substance abuse!

The interesting thing is that the Progressives have been waging a war against opium-based painkillers at the same time they have been trying to legalize Cannabis. Far fewer people abuse opioids than abuse Marijuana.

It amazes me how thick so many people on the Left can be.

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Dem Hitman Andrew Weissman was Mueller Probe Recruiter

Timothy Birdnow

Hillary Clinton donor and Democrat hatchet-man Andrew Weissman was the chief recruiter for the Mueller probe.

Accoridg to Judicial Watch and courtesy of Gateway Pundit:

Weissmann’s calendar shows that he began interviewing people for investigator jobs on the Mueller operation almost immediately after it was announced that he had joined the team in early June.

On June 5, 2017, he interviewed former Chief of the Public Corruption Unit of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York Andrew Goldstein. Goldstein was a Time magazine reporter. Goldstein contributed a combined $3,300 to Obama’s campaigns in 2008 and 2012. His wife, Julie Rawe, was a reporter and editor for Time for 13 years, until 2013. He became a lead prosecutor for Mueller.

The next day, on June 6, 2017 Weissmann had a meeting with "FARA [Foreign Agents Registration Act] counsel.”

Weissmann interviewed another prosecutor, Kyle Freeny, from the DOJ Money Laundering Section for the team on June 7, 2017. She contributed a total of $500 to Obama’s presidential campaigns and $250 to Hillary Clinton’s. She was later detailed to the Mueller investigation.

He interviewed a trial attorney who worked with him in the Criminal Fraud Section, Rush Atkinson, on June 9, 2017. Records show that Atkinson donated $200 to Clinton’s campaign in 2016. He is a registered Democrat and contributed $200 to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign. Atkinson also became part of the Mueller team.

Weissmann interviewed DOJ Deputy Assistant Attorney General Greg Andres for the team on June 13, 2017. Andres donated $2,700 to the campaign for Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) in 2018 and $1,000 to the campaign for David Hoffman (D) in 2009. Andres is a registered Democrat. His wife, Ronnie Abrams, a U.S. district judge in Manhattan, was nominated to the bench in 2011 by Obama. He joined the Mueller team in August 2017.

The same day’s calendar entry shows a reference to MLARS [Money Laundering and Asset Recovery Section] at DOJ and to Cyprus MLAT [Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty].

The Mueller probe was nothing but a fishing expedition to get Trump.

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State Department Orders Americans out of Iraq

Timothy Birdnow

The U.S. State Department has ordered out all non-essential personnel from our embassy and consulates in Iraq.

According to Fox News:

The announcement was made in a security alert on its website early Wednesday morning. The alert also said that normal visa services would be temporarily suspended.

This comes amid a standoff between the U.S. and Iran, which has recently threatened to pull out of the nuclear deal and resume higher uranium enrichment if no new deal is put in place.

Iran has grown desperate to end the boycott, and they appear ready to launch a military strike of some sort. We are in a very, very dangerous position at this point - especially considering the Russians are close allies of the Iranians and the Chinese, who are most unhappy with us over our tariffs, are as well. This is the kind of thing that could trigger a world war.

I have little doubt Trump is playing both ends of this. He knows the Iranians are the cause of most of the trouble in the Middle East and the reason so many Americans have died in the wars over there. He also knows the Chinese are both cheating us and planning to ultimately move against us militarily, and he's squeezing both. Iranian oil feeds the Chinese beast, while China provides a lot to the Iranians. And both are backed up by the Russians, who are trying to control the flow of energy to Europe.

Essentially the Trump Administration is trying to cut the Gordian Knot that has bedeviled us for decades. But one must wonder if that knot remained tangled because it was not cutable without all hell breaking loose? I fear this is a much more dangerous time than most Americans realize.

Also, President Trump is preparing to reject Palestinian legal claims to the West Bank and Gaza Strip, something assured to enrage the terrorist groups Hamas and Hizbollah and the others supported largely by Iran. It's just another giant piece pulled from the bottom of the Middle Eastern Jenga monolith.

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Tim Conway RIP

Timothy Birdnow

Tim Conway, the comic genius who co-starred on the carol Burnett show for many years, has passed away

Conway was one of the greats of television, and he never disappointed. I always loved his skits - be it Mr. Tuddball (the immigrant trying to run his business with a bubblepheaded secretary) or the decrepit Post Office employee who moved slower than a turtle. Conway was a real pro and a very funny guy.

Carol Burnett had this to say:

There are no words to describe how much you'll be missed, Tim Conway. Thank you for all of the laughs and memories, I'm so glad we had this time together

Let us pray for his soul and for his family at this, his hour of death.

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Hunter Biden ties to Bulger Crime Family, Ukraine, and Robert Mueller

Timothy Birdnow

Former Vice President and Presidential candidate Joe "Octoplugs" Biden wants us to believe he's just your average lovable lug, a guy who sits on girders on top of buildings and eats his lunch from a pail. I don't know about the groping gourmet, but his son was in bed with none other than the nephew of Whitey Bulger, the kingpin of Boston crime.

The Free Beacon has the story:

Former vice president Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden partnered with infamous mobster Whitey Bulger's nephew and former secretary of state John Kerry's stepson for his lucrative business deal with the Bank of China, according to reporter Peter Schweizer's latest book.

Schweizer points to the business deal with state-owned Bank of China, a $1.5 billion private equity investment, as a possible reason why the current presidential candidate has adopted a conciliatory attitude toward China. The lucrative deal between the Bank of China and Hunter Biden's company was inked in 2013 just weeks after Joe Biden brought his son along on an official trip to China.

Schweizer also lays out the interesting cast of characters who partnered with Biden for the deal, such as the Thornton Group consulting firm, which is headed by James Bulger. The son of Massachusetts state senator Billy Bulger, James is named after his uncle James "Whitey" Bulger, who was killed in prison late last year after a decades-long career in the mob that landed him on the FBI's Most Wanted list.

Also partnered with Biden is Chris Heinz, the stepson of John Kerry. Biden and Heinz control Rosemont Seneca Partners, the private equity firm that received billions of investment dollars from China.
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Computer made Whskey

Jack Kemp forwards this:

Microsoft partners with distillery to create world’s first AI whiskey

Microsoft has helped distill the first-ever whiskey that has been developed by artificial intelligence.

The tech giant, which is usually associated with more sober products, teamed up with a Swedish whiskey distillery to find the perfect recipe.
Details of the process used by the award-winning distillery, Mackmyra, have not been released.

But according to Popular Mechanics, master blenders fed raw data into software, which is run on Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform and AI cognitive services.
The inputted info includes legacy recipes, sales numbers and what customers like.

Algorithms then sift out more than 70 million recipes and predict combinations which are likely to have the perfect flavor.
The possibilities for different whiskeys are said to be endless.

In fact, master blenders, who are responsible for the whiskey flavor and recipes, can spend their whole lives tasting and experimenting to hone the best ones possible.

Dana Mathewson adds:

So this is from the Sun. One would almost expect it to be from the Babylon Bee. But I guess it's genuine. Damn computers get their feet into every door, don't they? But I suppose they have already been used by distillers to speed the process up. It's just that the term "AI" is annoying. . .

And I don't think I'd be all that eager to try a whiskey that Microsoft had anything to do with.
Too liberal for my taste. Emoji

Mr. Kemp replies:

Actually, I saw this whiskey story in the NY Post at https://nypost.com/2019/05/14/microsoft-partners-with-distillery-to-create-worlds-first-ai-whiskey/

And Dana comes back with:

It's usually been my experience that whiskey and computers don't mix all that well -- whether the computer has anything to do with Microsoft, or the land of fruit, or one of the biggies. Trust me, I'm speaking from years of experience.

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May 14, 2019

Rashida Tlaib’s latest: Not anti-Semitic but blatantly false

Dana Mathewson

Is it just because she's Muslim and can't get the truth straight? Or because she's trying to con us?

Rep. Rashida Tlaib is under fire for saying this:

I think two weeks ago or so we celebrated, or just took a moment I think in our country to remember the Holocaust. There’s always kind of a calming feeling I tell folks when I think of the Holocaust, and the tragedy of the Holocaust, and the fact that it was my ancestors — Palestinians — who lost their land and some lost their lives, their livelihood, their human dignity, their existence in many ways, have been wiped out, and some people’s passports… all of it was in the name of trying to create a safe haven for Jews, post-the Holocaust, post-the tragedy and the horrific persecution of Jews across the world at that time. And I love the fact that it was my ancestors that provided that, right, in many ways.

But they did it in a way that took their human dignity away and it was forced on them. And so, when I think about a one-state, I think about the fact that why can’t we do it in a better way? And I don’t want people to do it in the name of Judaism, just like I don’t want people to use Islam in that way. It has to be done in a way of values around equality and around the fact that you shouldn’t oppress others so that you can feel free and safe. Why can’t we all be free and safe together?

(Emphasis added)

Some have criticized Tlaib for getting a "calming feeling” when she thinks of the Holocaust, but that’s not what she said. Her calming feeling supposedly comes from "the fact it was [her] Palestinian ancestors” who "tr[ied] to create a safe haven for Jews post-the Holocaust.”

The problem with Tlaib’s statement isn’t insufficient outrage over the Holocaust. She may or may not be guilty of this, but her statement acknowledges "the tragedy and the horrific persecution of Jews across he world at that time.”

The problem with her statement is the claim that Palestinians tried to create a safe haven for Jews. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Ah, but you really need to go to the full article on Power Line, found here: https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/05/rashida-tlaibs-latest-not-anti-semitic-but-blatantly-false.php

A QUICK NOTE FROM TIM:

The Jews bought this land legally prior to Israeli independence. The Palestinians are trying to claim property they did not own.

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