HAPPY HALLOWEEN! Enjoy the night of the Living Chocolate.

GASLIGHTING: A Democrat specialty.



Watch until the end for the reason.

TELL ME IT ISN'T SO: Financial fraud in ObamaCare co-op?

STILL LOOKING for the 'affordable' in the Affordable Care Act.

MICHAEL BARONE: Free stuff can turn out to be a bad buy. Even in the short run, free stuff is never free.

IT'S HALLOWEEN! And Powerline's Week in Pictures is up. My favorite is this response to the PC social justice warriors who want to destroy Halloween:

The rest are just as good; go now and see them.

HOW MANY IS 'SEVERAL'? Obama administration open to allowing Assad to remain in power for several months.

Hint: January 20, 2017 is 15 months away....

RNC TO NBC: Sod off, swampy.

THE MEDIA’S Potemkin Village starts to topple: "The MSM is shaky right now, no question. So put your shoulder to the wheel and knock it over."

WITH ZERO EVIDENCE, CNN links Carly Fiorina’s falling numbers to her attack on Planned Parenthood.

Evidence? We don't need no stinkin' evidence; we're the lamestream mainstream media.

THE DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY wants you to dress your kids up in energy-themed costumes for 'Energyween'. Okay, how 'bout as an oil well? Or a coal mine?

Anyone who thinks government is underfunded is a fool. Ben Carson is right. Hold the debt ceiling where it is and make the government quit this silly crap.

BRAVO FOR THEM: "The campaign managers for the three outsider campaigns -- Carson, Fiorina and Trump -- agreed to force the RNC and the networks to stop this nonsense and hold a debate."

I hope a few others -- Rubio, Cruz, Christie, perhaps Lindsey Graham -- join in.

NO. Are annual medical exams really necessary? But they are useful in scaring the populace into submission to liberal dogma.

ANOTHER EXAMPLE of 'tolerant' liberalism. Threats of violence are the last refuge of scoundrels.

PUBLIC SCHOOLS are no place for bullies -- unless you're a teacher.

OBAMACARE HAS CANCER. And if it’s not treated quickly and aggressively, it will die.

Wrong on both counts. ObamaCare is cancer. And it should be killed as quickly and aggressively as possible.

AMMO GRRRLL RETURNS with thoughts on the precious little snowflakes (emplasis on 'flakes') of the progressive Left.

CAN PAUL RYAN tame a reckless establishment? Maybe, even hopefully, but I suspect only after the 2016 elections give him a new Congress and President to work with. Otherwise we'll be living in the United Socialist States of America.

#VETERAN LIVES DON'T MATTER: At least not to Hillary Clinton.

FOOD POLICE FAILURE: 1.4 million kids reject Michelle Obama's lunches, starves schools of $1.2 billion in lost revenue. The pity is that $1.2 billion doesn't come out of the (federal) government's coffers.

Explain to me again why government isn't too big, too powerful, too intrusive ... and far too expensive.

CARLY FIORINA: Clinton presidency 'bad for women'. Bad for feminists too, although they have yet to realize it.

THE MOST OPEN & TRANSPARENT ADMINISTRATION EVER: Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) battles NOAA over subpoena for climate study records.

One would think that if the agency were confident of its study, it would be eager to have its analysis fact-checked. It is, after all, the scientific method.

CARSON: PC culture is destroying the U.S.

Punching back.

FIRST THEY THOUGHT SHE WAS DOUR, now the 'ladies' of The View think her smile looks demented.

Their hate of a woman not their own is palpable.

JEFF JACOBY: So what if Ben Carson is a creationist?

Let's remember that John F. Kennedy was a Catholic, and I'm old enough to remember the expressions of concern that he would be the Pope's president. Mitt Romney is a (gasp!) Mormon, and anyone with enough gray matter to rub between thumb and forefinger knows he would have been a better President than our current one.

OH, REALLY? The world still needs the United Nations. There may be a need for a United Nations, just not this one.

UNITED KINGDOM'S VULCAN BOMBER makes its final flight.

IT'S ALL ABOUT THE BENJAMINS: Union lies may squash successful Colorado education reforms. Union lies and liberal dogma....

THE COST OF REDUCING GLOBAL WARMING by one (1!) degree is now estimated at $365 billion (yes, billion) annually.

That's not pocket change.

PUMPKINS: the new cause of global warming. What grim-faced creatures are the new Puritans of the environmental Left.

There is no joy in their world....

FINALLY: Benghazi committee gets classified White House records. Despite the Democrats' earnest desire, Trey Gowdy isn't going to get tired and walk away from the investigation.

BILL WHITTLE: Let's talk about Donald Trump.

13 TO GO: Utah 10th ObamCare startup to close. The way things are going, it may not be necessary for the next President and Congress to kill ObamaCare; just bury the corpse.

SPACEPORT AMERICA: Welcome to the ghost town that Virgin Galactic built.

SEN. TOM COTTON (R-AR) Foreign Policy and the Constitution.

Read it all.

INSTAPUNDIT: Obama's Nobel 'peace' prize.

In Iraq, Obama took a war that we had won at a considerable expense in lives and treasure, and threw it away for the callowest of political reasons. In Syria and Libya, he involved us in wars of choice without Congressional authorization, and proceeded to hand victories to the Islamists. Obama’s policy here has been a debacle of the first order....

Read it all. And remember it all when you go to the polls next.

HEH: Europe now wishing for a Second Amendment.

IT'S NOT A DEMOCRACY; it's an 'ignocracy'. And Judge Judy does not sit on the Supreme Court (although given the quality of Obama's appointees, perhaps she should).

"NOTHING TO SEE HERE if you don’t want us auditing you…"

WHOSE SHRINKING ISLAND? The blue areas tell me exactly where the Syrian refugees should be resettled. The red areas tell me where they will be resettled.

I, MAMMAL! The key identifying characteristic of a progressive is he/she/it is batshit crazy (coupled with the fundamental belief that the rest of the world must be as crazy as he/she/it is).

WHAT'S HAPPENING with Carly Fiorina? It will be interesting to see how the polls change after tonight's debate.

CORNELL UNIVERSITY: We can't have our precious little snowflakes talking to reporters who might try to embarrass them us.

FILE UNDER PROGRESSIVES ARE 'TOO' CRAZY: The word ‘too’ is sexist and hurts women.

No wonder the precious little snowflakes are afraid of global warming -- they'll melt.

AUTUM LEAVES 2015:

Well, I guess I was wrong when I wrote about the color changes last week. Here's this week's photo, and the color changes are dramatic.

I guess all the leaves falling we've been experiencing over the past weeks was Mother Nature telling all the leaves unwilling to cooperate with a spectacular fall colors show to drop off and get out of the way.

JEFF JACOBY: Would Rabin have pulled the plug on a 'peace process' that failed?

Unfortunately, I'm slowly coming to the belief that for there ever to be a lasting Mideast peace, the West will have to bomb the Islamists into submission oblivion and then recolonize.

#BLACKLIVESMATTER: Comey, complete and unexpurgated. From the comments:

If obama [sic] and the Democrats are going to increase the rate at which their zoo animals kill each other, I'm not going to get in the way. And if the innocent ones get tired of being victims of failed Democrat policies, they're welcome to consider changing whom they choose as leaders.

Well said.

NEW YORK CITY is going to the rats. And not the ones in City Hall.

SCIENCE: Sand causes cancer. If that's true, then there are two things we must do: (1) increase fracking, to pump that dangerous stuff well underground, and (2) encourage more progressives to move to the blue coastal areas where the hurricanes and rising waters can wash their bodies away after they die of cancer.

There. Problem solved.

HOT AIR: The Banana Republic of America.

Truer words ....

HEH: Is there anything that hasn't gone to hell in the Age of Obama?

AMERICAN HISTORY: From the melting pot to the salad bowl, with emphasis on the rotten apples in the salad.

SHOULD TEACHERS be allowed to carry guns in schools? The consensus, both in the article and in the comments, appears to by "Yes."

CARPETBAGGERS FOR HILLARY:

The Washington, D.C., suburbs in Northern Virginia have almost singlehandedly transformed Virginia from a deep red state to a swing state in the past two decades and if Hillary Clinton wants to mimic President Barack Obama’s 2008 and 2012 success in the commonwealth, she will have to turn out the government contractors and bureaucrats who now populate the city.

Call it the 'free stuff' bureaucracy....

POOR MANAGEMENT IS NOT A CRIME: The Department of Justice found “substantial evidence of mismanagement, poor judgment, and institutional inertia leading to the belief by many tax-exempt applicants that the IRS targeted them based on their political viewpoints.”

But it wasn't criminal.

Hogwash! Tell that the Wall Street executives now facing possible criminal persecution prosecution.

Corporations can only commit crimes through flesh-and-blood people.... It’s only fair that the people who are responsible for committing those crimes be held accountable. The public needs to have confidence that there is one system of justice and it applies equally regardless of whether that crime occurs on a street corner or in a boardroom.

Unless it's a government boardroom.

I FIND IT AMUSING that the progressives (also known as liberals, Democrats, and media) are forever railing that those evil Republicans are protecting the Wall Street millionaires and billionaires who are stealing from the poor and middle classes to enrich themselves.

And yet ... under the Obama administration, from January 2009 until now the DJIA has risen 101%, from 8778 to 17647, the NASDAQ has risen 219% from 1577 to 5032, even as average household income has declined and remains essentially flat today.

Now, repeat after me, the Republicans are the party of the rich.

I guess I should be happy, since while I'm hardly a Wall Street billionaire, I've seen my savings more than double since Obama became President.

‘MAN-MADE’ CLIMATE CHANGE endangering shrimp, lobsters, crabs. Mostly it's endangering climate-change enthusiasts.

POWERLINE'S WEEK IN PICTURES is up. This week it's the 'Back to the Future' edition. My favorite:

Unfortunately the Democrats are succeeding....

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: "[I]mmigration is all about who will be staffing your nation in the future. Keep that in mind...."

DREADNOUGHT:

The warship of the future.

VOTE FOR THE UNICORN!

Should be the tagline for the entire Democrat party.

THERE ARE TWO SEXES, male and female, and one gender -- crazy.

AN IMPORTANT QUESTION: Does higher education actually contribute to a free society? Probably not. At least not today's version of higher education.

DOCTORS AGREE: Obama's electronic medical records mandate sucks!

It's not about health care; it's about health control. With progressives, it's always about control.

SO HILLARY had no State Department computer. Was she ever really Secretary of State?

AMMO GRRRLL on how to be progressively stupid.

IT'S STILL DEAD: Whatever happened to the molecular computer?

JUSTICE DEPARTMENT: Taxpayer lives don't matter.

BILL KRISTOL: Look for a Rubio-Fiorina ticket. I would prefer a Fiorina-Rubio ticket.

FEAR OF RUSSIA drives high-voltage power projects in the Baltics.

'FACTS ARE IRRELEVANT': Krauthammer on Benghazi coverage and the politics of perception. Sadly, there are no facts in the progressive 'reality world'.

LOOKING BACK:

Looking back at Rasmussen's Obama approval index from his election to today, I think it's safe to say that about 1/4 of America's voting age population is just plain nuts.

HALLOWEEN IS COMING:

Who knew?

YES. NEXT QUESTION? "Have we just become completely insane in this country?"

BREAKING NEWS: eHarmony has competition.

THIS IS WHAT EDJUMACATION HAS COME TO: Middle school election results on hold as principal claims winners aren't diverse enough.

And of course the principal is a young, white, female? social justice warrior.

WHAT HILLARY MEANS when she says "The buck stops with me."

NO. NEXT QUESTION? Can California be saved?

Why bother?

WHY AREN’T THERE MORE BLACK SCIENTISTS? Affirmative action. This has been obvious for years, everywhere except inside the 'reality world' bubble inhabited by progressives.

THOMAS SOWELL: Misinformed should stay home and not vote on election day. (Neal Cavuto: And that would be all MSNBC watchers.)

GALLUP: a majority of Americans believe concealed carry makes the United States safer.

THE ANTI-SCIENCE CANDIDATE ... Bernie Sanders. I think 'pseudo-science' (pronounced psilly-science) is a more accurate descriptor, not just of Bernie Sanders, but of progressives generally.

I'm reminded of the tagline contemptuously applied to evangelicals not that long ago ("The Bible said it, I believe it, and that's all there is to it."). With a simple change of 'Bible' to whatever the Holy Book of progressivism is, it would accurately describe the mind of the 'modern' progressive.

IT EXPLAINS ZOMBIES AND DEMOCRATS: Tapeworms living inside people's brains.

PROTECTION MONEY: More CEOs donate to Clinton than to any GOP candidate.

AND RUSSIA. You forgot Russia.

THOMAS SOWELL: Politician's words, weasel words.

POWERLINE: The only 'global warming' chart you need.

PRO-BUSH PAC LEADER: Trump nothing but a 'false zombie front-runner'. The Bush campaign is whistling past the cemetary....

THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING PRESIDENT:

Heh.

BERNIE SANDERS: light on 'Democratic' and heavy on 'Socialism'.

REALLY? Drugmakers and insurers are Hillary's enemies?

JEFF JACOBY: Make redistricting better by making it color-blind. A measure I've long advocated.

AUTUMN LEAVES 2015:

I've started my 2015 collection of weekly pictures of our house as the leaves begin to change. While the leaves are falling steadily (I have to clear the driveway daily), not much has happened in terms of color change. Here's the first picture, taken last Wednesday:

And here's today's picture:

Except for sun angle, there's very little change in color. But there's a very large change in the number of fallen leaves I've had to blow away. I suspect this is going to be a disappointing year for colors.

WEBB WITHDRAWS: His views have essentially no place in the Democratic Party today.

Jim Webb is the last standing member of the real Democrat party; today's version should more honestly be named the Socialist Party (but of course they're not honest).

UPDATE: A worthy candidate without a constituency.

#BLACK LIVES MATTER:

Martha Washington - our latest adoptee.

PROOF: The inmates are running the asylum.

NINE MYTHS about the environment.

MORE EVIDENCE progressives are beyond parody.

BEFORE PASSING NEW GUN LAWS fix the background check database. Then you might find you don't need new laws that don't address the real problem.

INTERESTING: Who should Trump's Vice President be?

Read the comments.

ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: If Bernie Sanders didn’t have to fight in Vietnam because of his beliefs, why do business owners have to participate in gay weddings in spite of theirs?

PANICKED ESTABLISHMENT readies for war against Trump. And they'll lose. The only way the Republican establishment can win is to recognize that Donald Trump is on to something and try to learn from his successes.

They won't.

LIBERALS PROGRESSIVES ARE FOOLS: non-existent hate crime prompts $1-million diversity initiative.

WASHINGTON EXAMINER: ObamaCare's problems are only just beginning.

They'll get worse before 2017 rolls around..

SENATE DEMOCRATS vote to preserve sanctuary cities. Every Republican congresscritter should be out shouting this from the rooftops tonight.

They won't, which is why they deserve to be known as the Stupid Party.

GEORGE W. BUSH on Ted Cruz: "I just don't like the guy." Frankly, neither do I, but that has absolutely zero bearing on his qualifications to be President. As has been said in other venues, "He may be a SOB, but he's my SOB." If Cruz is the nominee, I'll vote for him.

DEMOCRATS' DEBATE: No Solution for Economic Inequality, No Interest in Economic Growth. The lede is partially incorrect: the Democrats do have a solution for economic inequality - it's called 'poverty'.

RELATED: The Democrats' Preoccupation with Inequality.

GRAPHENE-COATED FABRIC makes for a wearable gas sensor. So you'll know who farted in a crowded subway car....

THOMAS SOWELL: Open season on the police.

You cannot have law without law enforcement. If cops are supposed to back down whenever they are confronted by some brassy young thug, that may indeed save a few lives among the thugs.

Think about that the nest time you rush to prejudge police....

POWERLINE: Hurry, we need more Green Weenies! Snark added here.

A CLIMATE CHANGE TAX MEASURE Democrats and Republicans alike should get behind: Tax the blue zones.

Well, I can't afford to live there anyway, so why not make sure they can't afford to live there either?

WANT A GOOD JOB? Move to Russia. Or Kuwait, Iceland, or the United Arab Emirates.

ROGER KIMBALL: Why the Left hates freedom. Or, as Instapundit has succinctly put it, "insufficient opportunities for graft."

SPECIAL REPORT: Is quality healthcare slipping away?

Bottom Line: "If healthcare in this country is going to be the best in the world, Obamacare has to be repealed and replaced with a system that puts patients and doctors, not bureaucrats, in charge of healthcare decisions."

"ONCE AGAIN, the Party of Science gets a face full of actual science."

WE DON'T NEED 'MOMENTS OF SILENCE', we need action.

LEAD, FOLLOW, OR CRATER: Republican Party facing its moment of truth.

What the Washington insiders and beltway pundits fail to understand about the Tea Party is that we don't expect the Republicans to win every battle, what we want is for them to fight -to get our ideas out in the public domain, promote them, and make the Democrats defend their wacky progressivism.

Donald Trump understands the Tea Party; the Republican establishment does not. That's why his poll numbers are increasing while the establishment remains flat.

RELATED: Cruz understands.

IF ELECTED INDICTED, I will not serve I'll just pardon myself.

VIRGINIA DRIVERS refusing to return Confederate license plates. "[G]overnment’s job is now to protect [hurt] feelings rather than lives."

SECRETS OF THE GENERAL LEE: there were lots of General Lee's.

RICHARD FERNANDEZ: What Putin wants in Syria.

The problem with Obama - and progressives generally - is that he sincerely believes that his worldview is the correct - and only - worldview and thus everyone must share it. The fact that they don't is obviously impossible and therefore dismissed without further thought.

Click through to read Fernandez' entire post.

NO, BERNIE SANDERS, Scandinavia is not a socialist utopia.

THE DEMOCRATS continue to be obsessed with guns and weather, the two biggest things they can’t do anything about. Precisely -- because they can't do anything about them. For the whiners, guns and weather are talking-point gifts that keep on giving.

READER RESPONSE to the Washington Examiner's question about which theme will prevail on Election Day: 1) 'Elect the first woman president' or 2) 'Make America great again':

The answer is both - when Carly Fiorina is elected. - Michael Hankamer

Heh. (And they spelled my name right.)

IT'S EVERYONE'S FAULT BUT OURS: Kerry says climate change made the Syrian civil war worse. (And climate change is America's fault.)

NEVER MET A TAX HE DIDN'T LIKE: Sanders promises to raise taxes on all Americans.

Question: Why doesn't he just move to one of those socialist Scandanavian countries he loves so much? Answer: They probably wouldn't take him.

IF MITT ROMNEY were President....

DEREK HUNTER:

We aren’t going to Hell in a hand basket. It’s a Hummer limo with a stripper pole jutting through the sunroof, “Save the Planet” and “Coexist” bumper stickers, and enough room for a camera crew to capture everyone’s face buried in their phones as they post selfies on their Instagram accounts.

Forget the debt. Never mind the Middle East, the piles of bodies in our cities, etc. Screw it all, some spoiled brat is offended! In a world full of problems, serious problems, if these are what we focus on we might as well just admit we really have no problems at all. If we’re going to go down, we might as well go down in flames.

Bingo!

I'd let 'em go down in flames if they'd promise not to take me with them.

ISRAELI AMBASSADOR explains to MSNBC why you can shoot terrorists wielding knives.

When somebody is coming at you with a knife, there is no middle ground. You have to actually take action in order to thwart that attack. Not everybody who has come at different people with knives have been killed, but there have been instances where a guy’s taking a knife and he is going to kill somebody. They say guns kill people. Knives kill people. That’s why you have to take action.

Actually it's terrorists who kill people. You use guns to stop them.

Obviously the Israelis don't understand MSNBC's belief that terrorists are just friends you haven't made yet....

AMERICAN DIGEST: "People are sick to the back teeth of being told what to think." Watch the video; then read the comments.

FROM THE SCOREKEEPER: Tweet of the day.

THE JIM WEBB DILEMMA: the Democrat party he belongs to doesn't exist any more.

WHAT BERNIE SANDERS DOES UNDERSTAND: "Freedom produces insufficient opportunities for graft. And for demagoguery."

IT'S CLIMATE CHANGE GLOBAL WARMING: World is on brink of 50 year ICE AGE and BRITAIN will bear the brunt. Wasn't the perpetrator of 'climategate' the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in Great Britian? Why, yes, yes it was.

RELATED: the exceptional American who first predicted it.

GOEBBELS WOULD BE PROUD: MSNBC (naturally) peddles full-blown anti-Israel propaganda picture.

The Left's lies aren't even subtle any more. The 'reality-world' bubble they live in is so well insulated that not even death can intrude.

HILLARY'S GUN CONFISCATION PROPOSAL will probably backfire in a big way.

I hope so, but I'm not sanguine about it.

ALWAYS BRING A GUN TO A KNIFE FIGHT: Armed Israeli civilian shoots and kills knife-wielding Palestinian.

Good.

KEVIN D. WILLIAMSON: The case of Uber v. San Antonio. I'm becoming more and more interested in industrial strength 'walk away' policies.

On an individual and local level as well.

SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE just made the best argument for why we need this one new gun law.

But only to keep the collateral damage to a minimum.

THE ONLY THING progressives understand about wealth is that they don't have any.

They also have problems with that 'work' thingy....

DON'T TELL THE DEMOCRATS PROGRESSIVES, but their global warming climate change 'consensus' is collapsing.

THIS IDIOT? Is teaching our kids?

LIBERAL IDIOT: Let me shoot you; then if you survive, you can purchase a weapon.

Okay, I've exaggerated a bit with the "Let me shoot you" lede, but the article does give some insight into the minds of the 'tolerant' Left. That said, I'd almost be willing to take him up on the offer provided I get to shoot back.

DRAFT WOMEN? Why not?

I would suggest, though, that the draft be limited to those whose sex, not gender, is male or female.

CORNELL FACULTY: Few Republicans teach here because they hate science and are generally dumb.

Are the Cornell faculty suggesting that they as smart as Barack Obama? Surely that must be illegal....

BREAKING NEWS from ... way back when: socialism ends inequality by sharing poverty. (But don't tell the progressives; it might hurt the precious little snowflakes' feelings.)

AMMO GRRRLL RETURNS with thoughts about 'science-y' experiments. Apparently progressives have taken her assertion (that if you repeat the experiment enough times you may eventually get the desired outcome) seriously.

WHY ONE OF THE WORLDS TOP PHYSICISTS signed a petition against climate alarmism.

An earlier post is here.

TEACHING ROBOTS to survive face plants.

WORLD OIL PRODUCTION BY COUNTRY: the U.S., Saudi Arabia, and Russia, in that order.

Taken from this post.

POWERLINE: Brooks of the Times. I posted on the NYT's house conservative here. PowerLine doesn't like him either.

PROPERTY RIGHTS: the one constitutional amendment that might garner bipartisan support.

DEMOCRAT PARTY: Not for grown-ups.

[Bernie Sanders] and his party are officially in the reality-free zone where, if you close your eyes and wish with all your heart, dreams really do come true. [But only if you turn three times widdershins with your eyes closed. - Ed.]

Heh.

TALES FROM two socialist paradises.

AT LONG LAST, somebody finally built a fully functional X-Wing drone.

OBAMACARE CO-OP FLOP: The Biggest Obamacare Disaster You’ve Never Heard About. But other than that, everything is peachy wonderful.

TECH HISTORY: Long before FaceTime or Skype, there was the Picturephone. And Western Electric was the thriving development arm of AT&T.

HEH: Montana school lunch program back in the black after dropping first lady's lunch rules.

NOT WELL ENOUGH, I'M AFRAID: "How does your impeachment work? My government believes Obama is quite mentally unwell."

IS HUMAN LABOR going to lose its value? Instapundit: "I dunno, it’s still hard to find a robot that can fix a toilet."

It's even harder to find a Millennial who can.....

BUT WILL THEY ACCEPT SYRIAN REFUGEES? Scientists might have discovered a gigantic alien megastructure in deep space.

POWERLINE'S WEEK IN PICTURES (It's Debatable edition) is up. All are excellent, but here are my two favorites:

Maybe there's something to that Second Amendment thingy....

Beyond the ken of progressives....

HEH:

'Nuff said.

PRESIDENT OBAMA is inadvisable — even by his own advisers. Well, why does he need advisers when, by his own admission, he's the smartest man in the world?

JIM WEBB IS THE ONLY [DEMOCRAT] PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE talking sense on foreign policy. Remove the phrase "on foreign policy" and the statement would still be accurate.

RELATED: Jim Webb deserves to be heard.

JUST IN TIME for the annual enrollment: Two more ObamaCare co-ops fail in Tennessee and Kentucky.

Better healthcare at less cost. R-i-i-i-ght....

UPDATE: and now Colorado.

THE CLIMATE CHANGE FARCE: If we can't convince the climate-change deniers, then we must control them.

WORRISOME: Why the 2016 presidential race will be a historic ideological battle.

MICHAEL RAMIREZ understands "leading from behind."

CALIFORNIA'S LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR - where the inmates are running the asylum - wants to do background checks on ammunition purchases.

Will they apply to his security detail?

COURTESY OF HIGHER EDUCATION INDOCTRINATION 101: Young Democrats loving Bernie, hating Hillary on debate night.

DNC CHAIRWOMAN: Our plantation is very diverse. Our leadership, not so much.

IF YOU LIKE YOUR SCHOOL SYSTEM, YOU CAN KEEP YOUR SCHOOL SYSTEM: ObamaCare mandates force Tennessee school district to shut down.

It's not just healthcare any more....

WASHINGTON EXAMINER: Tulsi Gabbard's rebellion. She, like Jim Webb, is one of the few remaining Democrats in the (now) Progressive party.

RELATED: it may be more than a rebellion.

DEMOCRATS ON GUN CONTROL:

From my email.

TWEET OF THE DAY: Koch: Tend to support GOP b/c they're taking us towards the cliff at 70 mph but the Dems are taking us at 100 mph [@FoxNews].

I remember a comment from somewhere online recently arguing that the Democrats were moving left faster than the Republicans were moving right, but I think that Koch has it more nearly correct: the Democrats are moving left faster than the Republicans are moving left.

IF YOU LIVE IN ILLINOIS, don't buy a lottery ticket!

RANDOM THOUGHT: I don't think there's anything wrong with capitalism when the poorest Socialist in the Senate has an estimated net worth between $600,000 and $2,000,000.

FAKING THE HATE for narrative and profit: another anti-gay hate crime turns out to be a giant hoax. And they will continue until society finally gets fed up and the hoaxers are criminally prosecuted.

A VICTIM of her own stupidity. Maybe she'll grow up, but at Oxford? I doubt it.

SO MAYBE YOU SHOULD QUIT NAGGING us: The more we learn on nutrition, the more we ignore.

THE 97% CONSENSUS IS FALLING APART: Obama 'took the wrong side' on climate change, says physicist Freeman Dyson.

The skeptics were/are right. Will the Obama administration take notice? Not a chance.

FOUR STATEMENTS by former HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius proving she's completely out-of-touch with reality.

That's been the hallmark of the entire Obama administration.

COMPARE AND CONTRAST: Hillary's enemies list includes capitalism and Republicans; Jim Webb's list was shorter - the Viet Cong soldier who attempted to kill him.

LET’S STOP talking about Hillary’s emails and get back to the issues!

JOURNALISM’S DEATH RATTLE: the Washington Post wastes 1000 words lamenting ‘inequality’ in breakfast sandwiches.

THOMAS SOWELL ON GUN CONTROL: May the farce be with you.

This shows up when gun control zealots are asked whether whatever new law they propose would have prevented the shooting rampage that they are using as a stage from which to propose a new clampdown on gun ownership. Almost always, the new law being proposed would not have made the slightest difference. That too is part of the farce. A deadly farce.

So is the automatic assertion that whoever engaged in a shooting rampage was a madman. Yet these supposedly crazy shooters are usually rational enough to choose some "gun-free zone" for their murderous attacks. They seem more rational than gun control zealots who keep creating more "gun-free zones."

The gun controllers live in an alternate reality. Their bodies, though, live - and die - in this one.

NYT’S ‘ HOUSE CONSERVATIVE’ DAVID BROOKS: Actual Conservatives Are ‘Dangerous’.

The only rational reason to consider David Brooks a conservative is that he hasn't moved as far Left as the New York Times.

IS 'POLITICIZED' SCIENCE more reliable science? Instapundit thinks it might.

HOW A MICROSCOPIC SUPERCAPACITOR will supercharge mobile electronics.

Oh, great. Now my wife can be on the cell phone all day instead of only half a day....

WHEN FACED WITH GOVERNMENT 'ADVICE', the wise course is always to do the exact opposite.

THEY WALK AWAY: What happens when union workers are allowed to vote with their feet?

IEEE SPECTRUM: When Engineers Had the Stars in Their Sights. I remember; 1964 was the year I joined the IEEE (then the American Institute of Electrical Engineers).

EVEN IDIOTS CAN LEARN: School reverses ban on Air Force logo. But flatworms learn faster....

CARS THAT THINK: why you shouldn’t worry about liability for self-driving car accidents.

Worry about surviving instead....

ANDREW KLAVAN: Ban facts!

SCANDIPHILIA AND INCOME INEQUALITY: "[E]veryone who is not a liberal has long understood that calls for raising taxes on 'the rich' are always a cover for raising taxes on the middle class."

NOEMIE EMERY: Carly cleans up.

Feminists tend to be cute when they're mad, and they've never been madder than they are at the moment, when they're seeing their long-held dream of a Hillary regency blow up in front of their eyes. Their problems seem to stem from three major facts: They hitched their wagon to the wrong star; they assumed female accord on all things, most of all on abortion; and they ignored what occurred in the 2010 midterms, which should have taught them lessons they chose to ignore.

There are 'feminists'; then there are real feminists....

DRUG PRICES spike under ObamaCare.

I don't know that it's ObamaCare since I don't have any prescription drug coverage, but I do know I haven't paid less that $100 for a prescription this year.

HACKING MISS DAISY: We have 10,000 of your cars under our control. (Probably including my new Volkswagen Eos.)

FORBES: Six things you (probably) didn't know about commercial space travel.

VOLKSWAGEN CEO 'sorry' for emissions cheating software in huge car recall.

Actually, I think he should be proud rather than sorry. The time is well past when companies should be telling the regulators "Screw you. We're not going to obey your silly regulations any more." And then leave the market.

ZOMBIE COAL PLANTS reanimated to stabilize the (supposedly 'smart') power grid. The 'zombie' generators are nothing more that huge synchronous capacitors, needed whenever power is transmitted long distances rather than being generated locally. They do little more than absorb energy and waste money.

OBAMA LIED, and my health plan died ... twice!

BRITISH MAN builds helicopter from 54 drones and a garden chair (VIDEO).

'WOMEN'S ISSUES' left unattended at the Democrats' Presidential debate.

ADM. JAMES LYONS: No moral outrage in the military.

Because the Commander-in-Chief is himself amoral....

CARLY FIORINA arrives at Prickly City.

GOING TO WORK IN A PRESSURE SUIT AND PARACHUTE: 20 kilometer high space elevator tower planned.

FREE AT LAST, Democrats finally come out of the Socialist closet.

[Y]es, the candidates sounded like hard-Left, pie-in-the-sky, free-ice-cream-for-everyone, Socialist pander bears. But they do so because that is what the Democratic Party’s primary voters demand. Don’t blame them; blame the party rank-and-file that craves these promises, rhetoric, and worldview.

There are kindergarten classes with more realistic assessments of cost-benefit tradeoffs than the crowd watching this debate at the Wynn Las Vegas.

But they’re still a criminal organization masquerading as a political party.

THE FAA SCREWS UP AGAIN:

Federal Aviation Administration misses deadline for creating drone regulations.

Federal Aviation Administration estimates around one million drones could be given as presents over the holidays this year.

Nothing like coming to the party late and unprepared....

TRASH HAULING ROBOTS: do we really need them? My suspicion is that the solution is fewer regulations, not more robots.

SEATTLE TRIES to unionize Uber drivers.

Or, as Jeff Jacoby has put it, "The power to regulate is the power to destroy."

THE DEEPER SIGNIFICANCE of Hillary’s ‘enemies’ gaffe.

THE SMART(ER) GRID: Let's build a global power grid. So an earthquake in California can turn the lights out in New Zealand....

A 'smart' grid is one where power is generated where it is consumed,

HILLARY CLINTON’S STAFF: moonlighting becomes them. Hmm. Isn't that because she only pays the female staffers 72% of what she pays the male staffers?

AT CNN, a double standard for Democrat, Republican debates:

Before the Republican presidential debate at the Reagan Library Sept. 16, CNN promised to stage what it called "actual debating."

"Is one of the goals for you … to spur more actual debating?" CNN's Brian Stelter asked debate moderator Jake Tapper a few days before the event.... Tapper said ... "[W]hat the team and I have been doing is trying to craft questions that, in most cases, pit candidates against the other, specific candidates on the stage, on issues where they disagree, whether it's policy or politics or leadership. Let's actually have them discuss and debate."

That was then. Now, another CNN anchor, Anderson Cooper, will be moderating a debate, this time among Democrats, and he says there will be none of that raucous "actual debating" this time around.

"I'm always uncomfortable with that notion of setting people up in order to kind of promote some sort of a faceoff," Cooper told Stelter Sunday. "I think these are all serious people. This is a serious debate. They want to talk about the issues."

Leave the slugfest to the Republicans. The Democratic debate will be a serious discussion of the issues.

The Republicans got hardball; the Democrats, slow-pitch softball.

DID YOU KNOW? There are more than 1.6 million ATMs in the world. There is even one in Antarctica. Friday is the most popular day at the ATM. The average amount withdrawn from an ATM is $80.

CARLY FIORINA'S powerful new friend (8/31) doesn't appear to be enough as her poll numbers are drifting back into the single digits. Pity; in my estimation, she's the cream of the Republican crop for 2016.

REP. JIM JORDAN (R-OH): Republicans 'forfeit before the ref blows the whistle'.

The "number one thing we have to do" is "elevate the debate and take the argument to the other side."

Correct.

A PLEASANT THOUGHT,

but it's best not to drink.

GUN CONTROL NONSENSE: inventively, invectively rebuffed.

HILLARY'S WORST NIGHTMARE:

Another eclipse.

SURPRISED? Putin 'targeting our forces'.

Obama probably is; I'm not.

STOPLIGHT: A 5th-grader explains it all. But, of course, progressives aren't listening.

THE WASHINGTON POST: Fake False but accurate right.

The Washington Post's fact checker team is standing by its decision to rule Carly Fiorina's oft-repeated claim that she rose from secretary to CEO as mostly untrue, even though it concedes the Republican presidential candidate's story is factually accurate.

Spin, spin, spinning...

WHAT IS STIRRING INSIDE SATURN? Strange spiralling ripples in gas giant's rings are revealing the planet's internal structure.

The pictures are spectacular.

UNEXPECTEDLY, AND ON OUR NICKEL: Just another billion dollar boondoggle.

THEY NEVER QUIT: A backdoor ban on all private gun sales.

And just how many criminals are going to be deterred by this piece of Democrat insanity?

Consider this scenario for a moment: criminal buys gun from unsuspecting private seller; uses weapon in armed robbery; is caught and convicted; then sues seller, claiming essentially that "You should have known I was going to use the gun for an armed robbery." If you think that can't happen, you're as nuts as Sen. Tim Kaine (for whom I did not vote).

THEY'RE SMARTER THAN WE ARE: Why did oil-rich Arab countries abandon Muslim refugees?

RELATED: The Migrants and the Elites: A humanitarian crisis threatens the future of Western institutions. (For the complete article, google 'The Migrants and the Elites'; then follow the link.)

I CALLED THIS PLACE ‘AMERICA’S WORST PLACE TO LIVE.’ Then I went there.

You know, it would be useful if the pompous progressive airheads pontificating from their lofty perches on the coasts were forced once a year or so to drive (slowly) through fly-over country. They might learn a bit about humility.

THE 97-LB WEAKLINGS: Where's Charles Atlas when you need him?

Heh.

BOOSTERS OF SILICON VALLEY are years off base: the real tech decade happened in the 1880s.

LET'S FACE IT: the only winners from ObamaCare were the insurance companies. Don't tell the slaves Democrats on the plantation.

TWEET OF THE DAY (@benshapiro): Obama: "How can you, with a straight face, argue that more guns will make us safer?" Why don't you ask your Secret Service, Mr. President?

Better late than never....

REPUBLICANS TRY 'RECONCILIATION' to defund ObamaCare and Planned Parenthood. The Democrats used reconciliation to create ObamaCare; it's time to show them that the sword is double-edged.

DON'T TELL THE ANTI-GMO CROWD, but gluten-free wheat can help celiac patients.

BILL WHITTLE'S FIREWALL:



Putting lie to the gun controllers' myths.

PEGGY NOONAN: What Jeb and Hillary have in common:

Neither Jeb nor Hillary embodies the current spirit of their party. Among Republicans that spirit includes hunger, anger, joyful aggression, a mood of “tear it down” competing with a mood of “build something up.” Among Democrats there’s a tilt leftward, against power centers, rebelling against inevitabilities. Neither party seems all that invested in continuing dynasties.

To read the whole article, google "What Jeb and Hillary Have in Common" and follow the link.

EVEN THE HEALTH LOBBY ISN'T ENAMORED: Hospitals seek loopholes to avoid ObamaCare penalties.

THE FIRST RULE of MSM news coverage:

Whenever the prejudices and illusions of left-wingers are confirmed by an individual incident, the incident is treated as representative; when those prejudices and illusions are contradicted, the incident is considered an aberration — and treating it as representative is deemed hateful.

And here's our message in response:

You lie to us every day and we hate you for it. I’d like to add, Your dishonest narrative isn’t fooling anybody, but I’m sure it is. But not all the people, and not all of the time.

Any questions?

THE SCOREKEEPER'S tweet of the day. Any questions?

IF WHEN I GO DOWN, the Kenyan goes with me.

Fixed....

OBAMA: 'Yes' I would win if I ran for president again.

The arrogance of a$$holes....

FORMER ATTORNEY GENERAL Michael B. Mukasey, on Justice and the Obama 'Just Us' Department.

If you think about it, it makes sense that in America—the only nation in the world to define itself not by blood or land, but by a law, the Constitution—the government agency charged with enforcing that law, and enforcing the laws passed under it, would be called the Department of Justice. As such, the work of the Justice Department is highly important. It plays a fundamental role in our nation’s life, because its work has to do in one way or another with how honest, how fair, and how safe our country is.

That being said, I’m regretful to have to add that in a country where honesty, fairness, and safety are so strongly influenced by one department of government, over the past six years—largely because of that department’s work—our country has grown less honest, less fair, and less safe than it ought to be.

Read it all. As one pundit I heard recently remarked, breaking things is easy. Building them - or rebuilding them - is not.

OBAMA'S UNARMED FORCES MEDLEY:



No wonder Trump is rising on my 'anyone but a Democrat' meter....

9/11: WHAT A DIFFERENCE a day makes. Scroll up and down using the links at the top of the Instapundit post for more reflections.

This post is well beyond its usual 'expiration date' but I've been thinking about this for several weeks now. At 9:30 am on 9/11/2001, I was unaware, unalert, unarmed, and worry-free as I arrived at work. At 9:30 am on 9/11/2015 I was aware, alert, armed, and worried as I was taking my wife to the airport.

Back in 2001, I owned no weapons and had no thought of acquiring them. Today I have a concealed carry permit, multiple weapons, and I practice using them regularly.

What the hell has happened over the past 14 years? My guess: thirty-plus years of the progressives' rainbow-and-unicorn 'reality world' policies have finally come home to roost.

With respect to foreign policy, thirty years of pacifistic 'enemies-are-just-friends-we-haven't-met-yet' and 'all-cultures-are-equal' bullshit have landed us with a President who leads nannies from behind as the wolves roam unhindered.

On the domestic front, the same thirty years of progressive political correctness have given us a society where only self-appointed victims and their enablers have rights, ordinary citizens are constantly hectored by the tenets of political correctness, and Christians, conservatives, and old white men are summarily defined as 'evil'.

Progressives' bodies may exist in this world, but their minds (presuming they have such; I'm giving the benefit of doubt here) are in dreamland. It's time to move them to the childrens' table, where they can be told to sit down, shut up, and (hopefully) learn from their elders.

THE TEN COMMANDMENTS:

As rewritten by Barack Obama for the adherents of the secular religion called progressivism.

ALLEN WEST: "You first."

TRUMP

Some people are getting very nervous, including Barack Hussein Obama, Valerie Jarrett, Eric Holder, Hillary Clinton and Jon Corzine, to name just a few. And I know why.

I wrote a book titled "The Murder of the Middle Class" about the unholy conspiracy between big government, big business and big media. They all benefit by the billions of dollars from this partnership, and it's in all of their interests to protect one another. It's one for all and all for one.

It's a heck of a filthy relationship that makes everyone filthy rich - everyone except the American people. We get ripped off. We're the patsies.

But for once, the powerful socialist cabal and the corrupt crony capitalists are scared. I've never seen them this outraged, this vicious, this motivated or this coordinated. Never in all my years in politics have I seen anything like the way the mad dogs of hell have been unleashed on Donald Trump.

When white supremacist David Duke ran for governor of Louisiana, even he wasn't treated with this kind of outrage, vitriol and disrespect. When a known fraud, scam artist, and tax cheat like Al Sharpton ran for president, I never saw anything remotely close to this. The over-the-top reaction to Trump by politicians of both parties, the media and the biggest corporations of America has been so swift and insanely angry that it suggests they are all threatened and frightened like never before.

Why? Duke was never going to win. Sharpton was never going to win. Ron Paul was never going to win. Ross Perot was never going to win as a third-party candidate. Those candidates either didn't have or couldn't spare the billion dollars it takes to win the presidency. But Donald Trump can self-fund that amount tomorrow and still have another billion left over to pour into the last two-week stretch run before Election Day.

No matter how much they say to the contrary, the media, business and political elite understand that Trump is no joke. He could actually win and upset their nice cozy apple cart.

It's no coincidence that everyone has gotten together to destroy The Donald. No, this is a coordinated conspiracy led by President Barack Hussein Obama himself. Obama himself is making the phone calls and giving the orders; he's the ultimate intimidator who plays by the rules of Chicago thug politics.

Why is this so important to Obama? It's because most of the other politicians are part of the "old boys club." They talk big, but in the end they won't change a thing. Why? They are all beholden to big-money donors. They are all owned by lobbyists, unions, lawyers, gigantic environmental organizations and multinational corporations like Big Pharma or Big Oil. Or they are owned lock, stock and barrel by foreigners like George Soros owns Obama or foreign governments own Hillary with their Clinton Foundation donations.

These run-of-the-mill establishment politicians are all puppets owned by big money. But there's one man - and only one man - who isn't beholden to anyone. There's one man who doesn't need foreigners, or foreign governments, or George Soros, or the United Auto Workers, or the teachers union, or the Service Employees International Union, or the bar association to fund his campaign.

Billionaire tycoon and maverick Donald Trump doesn't need anyone's help.

That means he doesn't care what the media says. He doesn't care what the corporate elites think. That makes him very dangerous to the entrenched interests. That makes Trump a huge threat. Trump can ruin everything for the bribed politicians and their spoiled slave masters.

Don't you ever wonder why the GOP has never tried to impeach Obama? Don't you wonder why John Boehner and Mitch McConnell talk a big game, but never actually try to stop Obama? Don't you wonder why Congress holds the purse strings, yet has never tried to defund Obamacare or Obama's clearly illegal executive action on amnesty for illegal aliens? Bizarre, right? It defies logic, right?

Well, first, I'd guess many key Republicans are being bribed. Secondly, I believe many key Republicans are being blackmailed. Whether they are having affairs, or secretly gay, or stealing taxpayer money, the National Security Agency knows everything.

Ask former House Speaker Dennis Hastert about that. The government even knew he was withdrawing large sums of his own money from his own bank account. Trust me: The NSA, the SEC, the IRS and all the other three-letter government agencies are watching every Republican political leader. They know everything.

Thirdly, many Republicans are petrified of being called "racists." So they are scared to ever criticize Obama or call out his crimes, let alone demand his impeachment.

Fourth, why rock the boat? After defeat or retirement, if you're a "good boy," you've got a $5 million-per-year lobbying job waiting. The big-money interests have the system gamed. Win or lose, they win.

But Trump doesn't play by any of these rules. Trump breaks up this nice, cozy relationship between big government, big media and big business. All the rules are out the window if Trump wins the presidency. The other politicians will protect Obama and his aides - but not Trump.

Remember: Trump is the guy who publicly questioned Obama's birth certificate. He questioned Obama's college records and how a mediocre student got into an Ivy League university.

Now, he's doing something no Republican has the chutzpah to do. He's questioning our relationship with Mexico; questioning why the border is wide open; questioning why no wall has been built across the border; questioning if allowing millions of illegal aliens into America is in our best interests; questioning why so many illegal aliens commit violent crimes yet are not deported; and questioning why our trade deals with Mexico, Russia and China are so bad.

Trump has the audacity to ask out loud why American workers always get the short end of the stick. Good question.

I'm certain Trump will question what happened to the almost billion dollars given in a rigged no-bid contract to college friends of Michelle Obama at foreign companies to build the defective Obamacare website. By the way, that tab is now up to $5 billion.

Trump will ask if Obamacare's architects can be charged with fraud for selling it by lying. He will ask if Obama himself committed fraud when he said, "If you like your healthcare plan, you can keep it."

Trump will investigate Obama's widespread IRS conspiracy, not to mention Obama's college records.

Trump will prosecute Clinton and Obama for fraud committed to cover up Benghazi before the election.

How about the fraud committed by employees of the Labor Department when they made up dramatic job numbers in the last jobs report before the 2012 election?

Obama, the multinational corporations and the media need to stop this. They recognize this could get out of control. If left unchecked telling the raw truth and asking questions everyone else is afraid to ask, Trump could wake a sleeping giant.

Trump's election would be a nightmare. Obama has committed many crimes. No one else but Trump would dare to prosecute. He will not hesitate. Once Trump gets in and gets a look at "the cooked books" and Obama's records, the game is over. The gig is up. The goose is cooked.

Holder could wind up in prison. Jarrett could wind up in prison. Obama bundler Corzine could wind up in prison for losing $1.5 billion of customer money.

Clinton could wind up in jail for deleting 32,000 emails, or for accepting bribes from foreign governments while secretary of state, or for "misplacing" $6 billion as the head of the State Department, or for lying about Benghazi.

The entire upper level management of the IRS could wind up in prison. Obamacare will be defunded and dismantled. The Obama crime family will be prosecuted for crimes against the American people. And Obama himself could wind up ruined, his legacy in tatters.

Trump will investigate. Trump will prosecute. Trump will go after everyone involved - just for fun. That will all happen on Trump's first day in the White House. Who knows what Trump will do on Day 2?

That's why the dogs of hell have been unleashed on Donald Trump.

~ Wayne Allyn Root

A pleasant thought, and almost enough to vote for 'The Donald'.

From my email.

HOW TO MAKE UP A BED with a cat fur person in it:

Yes, she's spoiled....

JOBS? We don't need no stinkin' jobs. We've got welfare.

RANDOM THOUGHTS.

On society -

I don't need anger management. I need people to stop pissing me off!

My people skills are just fine. It's my tolerance to idiots that needs work.

Even duct tape can't fix stupid ... but it can muffle the sound!

When did it change from "We the people" to "screw the people" ?

Lord, grant me the strength to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can & the friends to post my bail when I finally snap.

Old age is coming at a really bad time.

On aging -

Of course I talk to myself. Sometimes I need expert advice.

I don't have gray hair. I have 'wisdom highlights'.

I'm going to retire and live off of my savings. Not sure what I'll do that second week.

The kids text me "plz" which is shorter than please. I text back "no" which is shorter than "yes" .

Oops! Did I roll my eyes out loud?

I don't trip over things, I do random gravity checks!

The biggest lie I tell myself is ..."I don't need to write that down, I'll remember it."

If God wanted me to touch my toes, he would've put them on my knees.

Wouldn't it be great if we could put ourselves in the dryer for ten minutes; come out wrinkle-free and three sizes smaller!

Last year I joined a support group for procrastinators. We haven't met yet!

Why do I have to press one for English when you're just gonna transfer me to someone I can't understand anyway?

At my age "getting lucky" means walking into a room and remembering what I came in there for.

From my email.

OLD BUT STILL GOOD: Benghazi Select Committee Trey Gowdy with questions for the media.



Still unanswered.

THE STUFF OF NIGHTMARES:

Biden takes the Democrat nomination for President. He asks Obama, who can’t run for President again because he has already had two terms, to be his running mate. Obama accepts.

Biden is elected President and thus Obama is Vice President. This sails along for a short period of time and then Biden resigns. Who becomes President? Obama! This appears to be perfectly legal as Obama was elected to the office of Vice President. No violation of the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution.

Obama is back in power again.

PLEASE -- vote Republican.

From my email.

SO WHEN HAS THAT EVER STOPPED OBAMA? U.S. officials conclude Iran deal violates federal law.

FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER: Did you know that by the time a person in the United States is 65 years old, he would have seen an estimated two million television commercials.

Hell, judging from when I watch television (which is rarely), I'd conclude the 2 million number is annually. Or perhaps monthly.