Monday, December 31, 2018

DOES ANYONE BELIEVE 2019 WILL BE BETTER? 2018: a year of living hatefully.
FIRST LADY MELANIA TRUMP: Victory Girls Person Of The Year for 2018.
POWERLINE: 2018 in review. I have two favorites this time:


Shadow likes to play with buttons....


Maybe we'll get lucky and it won't get worse....

Now go and see the rest.
WHAT'S A FEW MORE DEAD AMERICANS if it means the Democrats can score political points?
Every day that they refuse to allow the man we elected president to fulfill the most basic function of a national government - securing its national borders - they make a deliberate choice to accept more dead Americans. Oh, and more crime, poverty and welfare costs too. They are willing to let it all happen because their power means much, much more to them than your prosperity, your security, or your life.
Read it all.
"WALLS DON'T WORK" is for the little people.
DEMOCRATS AREN'T JUST CRAZY; THEY'RE PREJUDICED AS WELL: Kamala Harris and Mazie Hirono are trying to bar observant Catholics from public office.
HERE’S AN IDEA FOR 2019: Stop whining, Offendapotamus.
WHAT A SURPRISE: Baltimore is losing population. I wonder why. Not.
UM, IT IS DECEMBER 31ST, MR. AVENATTI. Would you care to revise your prediction?
SHERIFF DAVID CLARKE (RET): Embracing the term Progressive is appalling.
[T]hese leading Progressive architects weren’t reformers—they were arrogant, elitist, racists whose attitudes had shaped public policy... [T]hey supported forced sterilization and believed in socially engineering a master race. They despised Jews, Asians, Catholics, women and the disabled. They thought these groups were too stupid to vote and should be prevented from doing so. Their interpretation of Democracy was control of the masses by a small group of bureaucratic experts.
Read it all.
AND THEY'RE JUST DUMB ENOUGH TO TRY IT: If Ocasio-Cortez's 'Green New Deal' succeeds in 2019 it will be the most radical plan offered in decades.
HEH: EVEN THE LEFT is complaining about Facebook.

I'm not on Facebook and even I find it annoying.

Sunday, December 30, 2018

IT'S NOT ENOUGH TO MOCK THEM; we must break them.
SO WHO IS THE PUPPET MASTER? With identical tweets, Pelosi and Schumer reveal themselves as mouthpieces.
PROGRESSIVES: America is expendable. So are you.

You know-nothings in Jesusland must stop interfering with our plans for a progressive utopia.
DON SURBER ON THE GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN: Maybe they should learn computer coding.

Hillary would approve - if they weren't government employees.
CAT FIGHT! McCaskill and Ocasio-Cortez scrap.

More like a kitten fight....
POWERLINE'S WEEK IN PICTURES has posted. Here's my favorite:


Wonder Woman. Now go and see the rest.
LADY LIBERTY has a message for Congress.
TRUE FOR ALMOST ALL PROGRESSIVES: It’s not that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez knows nothing, it’s that what she knows is wrong.
YES, LET'S SHUT DOWN THE GOVERNMENT so we can go to the beach.
WHITE IS THE NEW BLACK: Women's March event canceled over concerns of being 'overwhelmingly white'.

Friday, December 28, 2018

THERE'S BEEN ANOTHER DELAY in the global warming apocalypse.
WITH ART LIKE THIS, who needs the National Endowment for the Arts?
POWERFUL MOMENT – Member of United States Army told the President he came back into the military because of him. And President Trump responded “And I am here because of you.”

More here.
OH, MY: We're running out of wind.

Put wind turbines in Democrat strongholds - with all that hot air, there ought to be plenty of wind energy.
THE ANSWER IS YES: Did the New York Times just suggest we treat gun owners as terrorists?
THE EXODUS of New York City’s endangered middle class.
One sector doing a booming “business” is food pantries. Despite a city unemployment rate of 4 percent, New York food pantries report elevated levels of demand, especially during the holiday season.

More than 1 million New Yorkers now worry they won’t have enough food for their families.
And they're the middle class.
DEMOCRATS AT WAR with century-old firearm technology.

Hell, they're at war with anyone who disagrees with them about anything.
THEY CAN'T HELP MAKING FOOLS OF THEMSELVES: Melania Trump gets mocked for wearing Timberland boots while visiting troops in Afghanistan.
MORE GOOD GUYS with guns.

Thursday, December 27, 2018

PRESIDENT TRUMP PROVES MEDIA WRONG. Again.
THE DEMOCRAT 'B' TEAM: Why Biden, Bernie and Beto shouldn’t get cocky.

I would nominate Bloomberg, (Eliza)Beth, Booker, (Sherrod) Brown, (Jerry) Brown, and (de)Blasio to fill out the 'B' team. And I'm sure there are at least 4 more B's to make a baker's dozen.

Now - where is the 'A' Team?
THE GOVERNMENT SHUT DOWN? Who noticed?

Nice comment about the aftereffects of a 'Republican' shutdown....

THE RUSSIAN INVESTIGATION: What we have learned so far (Part I), (Part II), and (Part III).
"TRUMP FINALLY WENT FULL TRUMP. That is, he actually did what he promised, and the establishment lost its collective Schiff."
VICTORY GIRLS: The Hogg goes to Harvard. I'll give him a year, maybe two, before he slinks away.
SO, MR. PRESIDENT, 'You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive'.

And learned the lesson that the American polity hasn't.
GOFUNDME WALL CAMPAIGN hits $16 million in 6 days.

Heh. A counter-campaign to buy "Ladders Over Trump's Wall" has raised $137K.
JUDICIAL NOMINEE FACES SENATE SCRUTINY over Knights of Columbus membership.

MORE: Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Knights of Columbus?
I DON'T NEED EVIDENCE, I need subpoenas.

Tuesday, December 25, 2018

DON SURBER: Day 4 of no government.
The effects of the government shutdown have gone from bad to worse. Last night was eerily silent. Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.
Now go read the rest.
YES, VIRGINIA, there is a Santa Claus.

Not quite what you expected, eh?
AND A TRUMP CHRISTMAS to Congress.
MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM SHADOW'S WORLD:


And Mele Kalikimaka and Feliz Navidad from where we used to live....

Monday, December 24, 2018

IT'S ONLY A PARTIAL GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN: Ocasio-Cortez calls for furlough of congressional salaries.

She's probably pissed because she's not on the payroll yet....
DON SURBER: Day 3 of no government. From the comments:
As a show of solidarity with the hordes of furloughed government workers, I have chosen not to go to the office today or tomorrow.

Solidarity ends Wednesday, however. I've got too many deadlines coming up.
Read it all, including comments.
NO BORDERS, NO WALLS! NYC Mayor Bill De Blasio builds ‘privacy fence’ around Gracie Mansion.

Maybe Trump could get Democrat support for his border wall if he called it a 'privacy fence'....
SAN FRANCISCO BUSINESS OWNER: "We live in a pretty f**ked up city."

So when will the city fathers mothers persons of indeterminate gender you voted for notice?
IRREPARABLE DAMAGE TO THE BUREAU: Former FBI agents sound off on James Comey.
I THINK 'BOTH' IS THE CORRECT ANSWER: Is MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow a bigot or just ignorant?
I'd say we are better off with a private Christian university that affirms the teachings of Jesus Christ, than a government-run university that affirms the teachings of Karl Marx.
Religion may not be fulfilling for everyone, but secular progressivism is fulfilling for no one.

Sunday, December 23, 2018

DOUBLE DOWN: An ethics lesson for USA Today’s “queer” bullies.

Bigots with bylines....
THEY WERE AGAINST HIM BEFORE THEY WERE FOR HIM: Mattis to be replaced by deputy, will leave January 1.

'They' being journalists and Democrats.
SO CLIMATE CHANGE IS BAD? Millions moving to warmer climates.

Linked from Whatfinger News.
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: It was always about the wall.
The solidly blue states of the American Southwest, including Colorado, Nevada and New Mexico, voted red as recently as 2004 for George W. Bush. Progressives understandably conclude that de facto open borders are good long-term politics.
And you can see it playing out in Congress right now.
SO VERY TRUE: Folks in Flyover country are getting sick and tired of politicians.

Linked from Whatfinger News.
PUNCHING BACK: Stephen Miller hands Wolf Blitzer his ass on a silver platter.
I JOURNEY to the land of Social Securities (sic).

I've never had the wait - or 'be interrogated' - at my local Social Security office, and I have to admit that for a federal government organization, the service was pretty good.

Linked from Whatfinger.

Saturday, December 22, 2018

POWERLINE'S WEEK IN PICTURES, Merry Christmas Edition has posted. My favorite:


Think about it ... then go see the rest.
WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG? Elizabeth Warren wants the federal government to start manufacturing ‘affordable’ prescription drugs.

Like 'affordable' ObamaCare? Like 'affordable' Medicaid? Like 'affordable' Medicare?
POWERLINE: Name that criminal defendant!
I am so old, I can remember when intelligence officials leaking top secret information to women they were sleeping with was frowned upon. At one time, the fear was that such women might be Russian spies. Now, it is reasonable to assume that they are Democrats.
But it's a Democrat, so no big deal.
WELCOME TO CHRISTMAS in Washington, D.C. Santa's reindeer have the right idea.

Linked from Whatfinger.
"THEY HATE YOU": Victor Davis Hanson explains the globalist mindset.
JORDAN PETERSON ON ‘BABY IT’S COLD OUTSIDE’: the Left is too P.C. to comprehend playful seduction. But "it gives activists who don’t have anything better to do something additionally useless to complain about and be annoying, so there’s always that."

I'd use the word 'stupid' but after all is said and done, 'P.C.' and 'stupid' are synonyms.
REP. LUIS GUTIERREZ (D-IL) berates ‘remorseless’ [Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen] Nielsen for six minutes and leaves before she can respond.
When he finished [berating her], Nielsen said his accusations of lying were "fighting words."

As she spoke, Gutierrez got up from his chair and left the chamber. Nielsen smiled and said, "He couldn't be bothered to stay, so I'm happy to tell the rest of the committee."
Morons like Gutierrez can't help making fools of themselves.
POLITICO: the unsufferable James Comey.
BREAKING: Government shuts down at midnight; sun still rises.

Democrats chagrined.

Friday, December 21, 2018

Thursday, December 20, 2018

DON'T UNDERESTIMATE dumb voters' appetite for idiot leftist politicians.
NOW THAT Baby it's cold outside has been banned, Don Surber has a list of other Christmas songs to ban.
OHIO GOV. JOHN KASICH: I can’t shake the feeling that I’d lose to Trump in a Republican primary.

He's right.Try a Democrat primary; he'd be head and shoulders above the current competition.
THERE'S NO SCALE LARGE ENOUGH: Measuring left-wing authoritarianism in America.
...a more fundamental definition of authoritarianism would be: The belief that one’s values are superior to the values of others and that one’s beliefs can therefore be ethically imposed upon those with inferior morals.
Not to claim that conservatives are guilt-free, but that definition is as precise a one as I have ever seen of the progressive/liberal mindset.
OBAMA'S NET NEUTRALITY IS DEAD and the U.S. is better off.
THERE'S A REASON WHY NEWS REPORTS ARE CALLED 'STORIES': Writer touted by CNN as 'Journalist of the Year' forced to resign for fabricating stories.

Sunday, December 16, 2018

SO WE SHOULD BE HAPPY PACKED IN URBAN HIGH RISES LIKE BEES IN A HIVE? Single family zoning is an urban dinosaur.

Perhaps the author can explain why so many television commercials show people in their homes and yards in the suburbs? Or fleeing the city for the great outdoors?
FROM POWERLINE'S Week in Pictures, our cats'favorite:


There are many more good ones, including the Ninjabread cookies, the bag of idiots, and Socialist Claws. Go see them all.
ROGER L. SIMON: Good riddance to ObamaCare. Personally I doubt the ruling will stand scrutiny by the Supreme Court, but I'm hopeful, especially if the Republicans work swiftly to propose new legislation.
REDCOATS.
WHAT A SURPRISE: Higher rents correlate to higher homeless rates.
CLEARLY SEXIST: Bras for women.

The comments are hilarious.
IN SUMMARY, President Trump seems to me to be one of the best American presidents I’ve ever seen.

Click through the PowerLine link and read the whole thing.
MEXICANS' PRICELESS REACTION TO CARAVAN confounds liberals.
IT ONLY TOOK 69 YEARS TO RECOGNIZE THE OBVIOUS: "I'm not a person of color."
GET WOKE, GO BROKE: The Weekly Standard, RIP.

Friday, December 14, 2018

THIS COULD (SHOULD) GET INTERESTING: The DOJ Inspector General found 19,000 'Lost' Strzok and Page texts.

UPDATE: Maybe not.
FORTY-SIX YEARS AGO TODAY the last American departed the moon's surface. No one has ever returned.
DEMOCRATS: Transparency is for little people (and Republicans), not us.
THE HUBRIS IS STRONG IN THIS ONE: Amy Schumer promises to stop trying to look ‘super f*ckable’.
'BUNGLING BOB' MUELLER'S bad day.
ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS is a government shutdown.

Me too.
VICTORY GIRLS: The ass in seat 1A and its turkey. People who require 'emotional support animals' should be immediately sent to a mental health facility. Inpatient.
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Comey continues to display his lack of credibility.
Comey's sanctimoniousness and misdeeds pose lots of questions. Is Comey a mere hypocrite? Or in guilt does he project his sins onto others? Or does he by design pose as a moralist to help insulate himself from future legal jeopardy?

Or all of the above?
I vote for all of the above.
MARC THIESSEN: Democrats' negotiating strategy can be summed up in one word - insanity.

Well, insanity has been their hallmark for years....
FAKE NEWS: Washington Post story alleges Intelligence Community concerns about Trump.

If it weren't for fake news, the Washington Post would have nothing to print.

Thursday, December 13, 2018

GOODYEAR SHUTS DOWN IN VENEZUELA; gives tires as severance.

Funny how bad luck seems to follow progressives everywhere....
KURT SCHLICHTER: Don’t underestimate dumb voters’ appetite for idiot leftist politicians.
YOU FIRST, AL: Rep. Al Green [D(umb)-TX] hints he’ll move to impeach Trump for ‘bigotry’.

More proof Democrats are insane.
MICHAEL COHEN: Convicted of not breaking the law.
INCOMING NY ATTORNEY GENERAL vows to make a laughingstock of her office.

She's a Democrat; it shouldn't be difficult.
JAMAL KHASHOGGI is the right Time Person of the Year. But ...
Let’s remember that before he fled to the US a year before he was cruelly murdered in Istanbul, Khashoggi became rich working for a Saudi royal family that was, and remains, among the world’s worst persecutors of journalists. He edited government-controlled Saudi newspapers, which are without exception regime propaganda outlets, and headed TV news channels that were owned by Saudi princes.

Then he outdid himself by working as a media adviser to a senior Saudi prince in London and Washington. He embraced with unbridled enthusiasm his role of justifying Saudi regime atrocities in the Western media. He even denied on the BBC that anyone was ever tortured in Saudi Arabia.
For those posturing politicians on TV every day, let's be clear: Saudi Arabia is no paradise, and Jamal Khashoggi was no angel.
BETO FOR PRESIDENT: “Dems love a Kennedy. Beto might not have the pedigree, but he has the requisite driving skills.”
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON on international disequilibrium in trade, religious freedoms, and immigration.
A THOUGHT for Democrat presidential wannabes Cory Booker and Kamala Harris: if you see racism everywhere you look maybe you're the racist.
ON GOOGLE'S COMMITMENT to diversity and inclusion: Every minority/victim group in exact proportion to their percentage in the general population provided, of course, they all hew to the same progressive 'philosophy'.
TUCKER CARLSON explains the Democrats' commitment to impeach President Trump.
Trump’s a criminal! He’s going to jail! For committing a smaller version of the same made-up crime that we in Congress have committed for years and forced you to pay for. By the way, we’re never apologizing for that, because we don’t have to and CNN isn’t going to make us. Screw you, America, and your stupid election. We’re in charge.
Because he's a Republican.
CALIFORNIA wants to tax text-messaging. "Please do this California government. It just might make millennials start to vote Republican."

Wednesday, December 12, 2018

BUT, BUT ... THE ELITES ARE NEVER WRONG: Getting it wrong on democracy.
HEH:


Linked from Instapundit.
YOUR MOBILE PHONE is tracking you everywhere you go.

NSA must be jealous.
CLIMATE CHANGE is the new Nazi. Here's an example:
CNN then: Caravan just a Trump political stunt
CNN now: Caravan a symptom of climate change!
It's CNN, naturally.
CONGRATULATIONS, MR. PRESIDENT: Trump administration undermines ObamaCare.

Now go and repeal more regulations.
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Defeat and the dossier explain everything.
[W]hat is currently destroying the concept of the American system of jurisprudence are not the self-serving lies of such a minor shady operator [Michael Cohen], but rather the deliberate and more artful prevarication under oath of the nation’s top intelligence and law enforcement officers.
President Trump needs an Attorney General who will vigorously enforce the law within the deep state political class, Republican and Democrat alike.
JAMES COMEY: simply not believable.
GET WOKE, go broke. It's hard to stay in business when you insist on offending your customers.

Tuesday, December 11, 2018

SORRY, LIBERALS: Wage gap the result of differing choices made by men and women.

To use the Left's favorite phrase, "Experts say...."
HEH: Fake news is Time's Person of the Year.
IMPRIMIS: A short history of American medical insurance.

Read it all but pay particular attention to the final section - a way out. Then read Newt Gingrich's proposed Republican pledge on health care. I'm not enamored of all his prescriptions, obviously, but when it comes to price transparency, patient privacy, insurance options, and association purchasing, he's spot on.

I just wish that he would have emphasized that which should be obvious: insurance is a hedge against the catastrophic, in which you spend a few bucks every month - or year - and hope you'll never need to use it, not a prepaid service plan covering things you'll never need, want, or use.

But that's a forlorn hope, as automobile and homeowner insurance are rapidly morphing into service plans (with the appropriate increase in cost).
"STAY IN SCHOOL, PLAY HARD, AND WORK HARD — slimy journalists' careers depend on it."

It's The Babylon Bee, but this time it's not satire.
DEMOCRATS DIMOCRATS ARE SO SMART their agenda is beyond the ken of mere voters. I remember Sen. Hirono from the Kavanaugh hearings; she's so damn dumb she couldn't even read her prepared (for her?) notes without stumbling.

More here.

Based on the recent comments of Hirono, Ocasio-Cortez and other assorted Democrats, it seems to me that they believe zero is the high end of the IQ scale....
SOCIAL JUSTICE: Why we can't get along any more.

I think mockery is the best antidote to the SJW infection. Don't ignore them, mock them.
WHAT DID WE JEWS DO WRONG to deserve an Israel-bashing Socialist who couldn't spell cat if you spot her the 'c' and the 'a'?

Monday, December 10, 2018

A SENATOR FROM VERMONT (make a guess) who says burning fossil fuels is going to be the death of us all torched a shitload of gas flying private around the country to campaign for other people.

Conservation is for little people.
ACCORDING TO NBC NEWS ANCHOR CHUCK TODD, Trump voters in 2016 were “gullible” and victims of gaslighting.

If he and the rest of his birds vultures-of-a-feather want to see gullible and gaslighting, they should look in a mirror.
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Welcome the New Old Left.

Same stupid, different year.
MAKE YOUR COMMUNITY UNAFFORDABLE: fill it with government workers.

On the bright side, I was able to sell high....
SURPRISE, SURPRISE: Gun ownership saves lives.

Even when not used.
IN TRUMP'S WAKE, sanity is catching on.
THE GIFT THAT KEEPS ON GIVING: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez misquotes the Constitution and threatens to run for President.

Sunday, December 09, 2018

WHAT A WAY to tell everybody their government tyranny concerns are unfounded!
GUESS WHO? The Grinch who stole journalistic credibility. Yes, I know it's obvious, but the cartoon is good.
AMERICAN GREATNESS: Progressive politics aren't. "The progressive war has always been one over power not principles or even consistent politics."
FROM LAST WEEK, PowerLine's Week in Pictures. My favorite:


From this week:


Go and see them both.
THE COLLEGE FIX: Conservative law professor takes on progressive nonsense.

Amy Wax is right: defund the Ivies. And while we're at it, quit funding the parasites. They don't need a college degree to get a job at Starbucks.
THANKS, OBAMA: Social Security/Medicare has just notified us that the 2.8% cost-of-living increase for 2019 will actually result in a 2.3% decrease in our net monthly income due to a 49.4% increase in Medicare Parts B & D premiums.


To top it off, thanks to the booming economy that the former President just took credit for, our [401K] retirement savings are down 6.5% this year and our 2019 RMD (required minimum distribution) is estimated to be down by 4.9% despite the fact that the percentage required to be withdrawn is increased each year. [The RMD is the government's excuse for a 'wealth tax'; the money has to be withdrawn and taxed even if we don't need it.]



What really chaps my ass, though, is that after age 65, my choices for health care coverage (formerly known as health insurance) are exactly two:
(1) one size fits all Medicare, and
(2) self-pay.
The former stinks, and the latter is unaffordable because the former is major-league nontransparent (true, of course, outside of Medicare as well). We could have easily paid our medical expenses out-of-pocket, even at double Medicare's parsimonious reimbursement rates, were we allowed to opt-out of Medicare and simply purchase major medical (i.e., hospitalization) insurance.
ISN'T SOCIALISM GRAND? Socialists upset that 'capitalists' protected their own homes from the California wildfires.
FACEBOOK IS SOOO SORRY it 'mistakenly' censored pro-life ads.

It's only sorry it got caught.
YOU WORK, I EAT: The Democrat Party writ large.
THE FARCE IS STRONG IN THIS ONE: Why Trump is getting more popular.

They can't believe their lying eyes....

Saturday, December 08, 2018

GLOBAL WARMING NEWS: Polar bears like it.
GET WOKE:


Linked from PowerLine's Week in Pictures.
ABOUT PROTESTS, Ammo Grrrll wonders: "What do the naked ladies say?"
[N]othing says “War is hell” like wrinkled cleavage. Remember, young people: That tasteful little rose tattoo at the TOP of your breast can, in later years, become a long-stemmed rose down by your waist. Think before you ink.
Good advice.
IMPRIMIS: America's Cold Civil War.

Thursday, December 06, 2018

THE FRENCH ARE REVOLTING and I love it.