(5) Michigan Trump Republicans:Friday, May 25, 2018
Five Ways to Know If You Can Talk to Someone about Climate | Trending
Five Ways to Know If You Can Talk to Someone about Climate | Trending:
"Since we first covered the Climategate Files here at PJ in 2009, the controversy has continued, but with some interesting changes.
For example, the term "global warming" has pretty universally been replaced with the term "climate change".
...Of course, the more the climate dogma is disputed, the more the climate change cultists resist.
...So how can we tell when we're trying to argue with someone who is worth the effort, or if we should just move on to some other topic, like baseball?
So, here are some suggestions of things watch for in order to know when you should be talking about the Mets.
1. Do they use "denier" as an argument?
This is a key giveaway, always. In science, the science is never settled. There is always new information, and everything can be questioned. There are examples every day of "settled science" that turns out to be wrong, and yes this includes "climate science". So, if someone says that it's "settled science" and accuses you of being a "science denier", ask them what they think of the Rockies chances this year..."
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"Since we first covered the Climategate Files here at PJ in 2009, the controversy has continued, but with some interesting changes.
For example, the term "global warming" has pretty universally been replaced with the term "climate change".
...Of course, the more the climate dogma is disputed, the more the climate change cultists resist.
...So how can we tell when we're trying to argue with someone who is worth the effort, or if we should just move on to some other topic, like baseball?
So, here are some suggestions of things watch for in order to know when you should be talking about the Mets.
1. Do they use "denier" as an argument?
This is a key giveaway, always. In science, the science is never settled. There is always new information, and everything can be questioned. There are examples every day of "settled science" that turns out to be wrong, and yes this includes "climate science". So, if someone says that it's "settled science" and accuses you of being a "science denier", ask them what they think of the Rockies chances this year..."
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History for May 25
History for May 25 - On-This-Day.com
Ralph W. Emerson 1803 - Essayist, philosopher, poet, Luther 'Bill' Robinson (Bill "Bojangles" Robinson) 1878 - Tap dancer, actor, Igor Sikorsky (Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky) 1889 - Pioneer in aviation with helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft
Ian McKellen 1939 - Actor, Frank Oz 1944 - Actor, puppeteer (many Muppets characters, Yoda's voice), Mike Myers 1963 - Actor, comedian, screenwriter, cast member on "Saturday Night Live," ("Austin Powers" movies)
1844 - The gasoline engine was patented by Stuart Perry.
1925 - John Scopes was indicted for teaching the Darwinian theory in school.
1927 - Ford Motor Company announced that the Model A would replace the Model T.
1961 - America was asked by U.S. President Kennedy to work toward putting a man on the moon before the end of the decade.
1977 - "Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope" opened and became the largest grossing film to date.
1979 - An American Airlines DC-10 crashed during takeoff at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. 275 people were killed.
1985 - Bangladesh was hit with a hurricane and tidal wave that killed more than 11,000 people.
1999 - A report by the U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee on U.S. National Security and Military/Commercial Concerns with the People's Republic of China concluded that China had "stolen design information on the U.S. most-advanced thermonuclear weapons" and that China's penetration of U.S. weapons laboratories "spans at least the past several decades and almost certainly continues today."
Thursday, May 24, 2018
Trump cancels summit with North Korea due to 'open hostility' - Washington Times
Trump cancels summit with North Korea due to 'open hostility' - Washington Times:
"President Trump canceled his highly anticipated summit Thursday with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, telling him in a letter that North Korea’s “tremendous anger and open hostility” directed at the U.S. were unacceptable.
“You talk about your nuclear capabilities, but ours are so massive and powerful that I pray to God they will never have to be used,” Mr. Trump told the North Korean leader.
The summit was thrown into doubt in recent days due to increasingly hostile comments from North Korean officials. On Wednesday night, a top North Korean diplomat called Vice President Mike Pence a “political dummy” and warned that the U.S. could face a “nuclear-to-nuclear showdown” if the administration didn’t give Pyongyang more respect.
Mr. Trump told Mr. Kim that he was “very much looking forward to being there with you” in Singapore."
"President Trump canceled his highly anticipated summit Thursday with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, telling him in a letter that North Korea’s “tremendous anger and open hostility” directed at the U.S. were unacceptable.“You talk about your nuclear capabilities, but ours are so massive and powerful that I pray to God they will never have to be used,” Mr. Trump told the North Korean leader.
The summit was thrown into doubt in recent days due to increasingly hostile comments from North Korean officials. On Wednesday night, a top North Korean diplomat called Vice President Mike Pence a “political dummy” and warned that the U.S. could face a “nuclear-to-nuclear showdown” if the administration didn’t give Pyongyang more respect.
Mr. Trump told Mr. Kim that he was “very much looking forward to being there with you” in Singapore."
Father of Daughter Killed by MS-13 Gang Members Praises Donald Trump for Using ‘Correct Word’ to Describe Them | Breitbart
"President Donald Trump met with parents of children on Wednesday who were killed by MS-13 gang members, promising to continue deporting illegal immigrant gangs and secure the Southern border.
One father praised the president for describing the gang members as “animals” despite the controversy that followed."
Russia Investigation: Collusion Narrative Collapses | National Review
Russia Investigation: Collusion Narrative Collapses | National Review
"The early righteousness of the anti-Trump lynch-mob has been deflated.
It is now clear that Russian attempts at interference in the 2016 election, though somewhat outrageous, were ineffectual, unconnected with any particular party, a small effort given what a country of Russia’s resources and taste for political skullduggery and chicanery is capable of, and minor compared with the influence many countries, including the United States, have sometimes exercised in the elections of other countries.
No serious person could find anything in the conduct of the president that could be construed as obstruction of justice, the all-purpose catch-all of American prosecutors, who can conjure that charge from the most mundane acts.
The Trump-impeachers, shuffling grimly forward into the desert like Old Testament slaves to the chant of the ineffable millionaire congresswoman Maxine Waters: “Impeach 45!” will perish in the sand.
The vultures will pick their bones in an Ozymandian setting.
No president has ever been impeached and removed successfully
...After two years of exhaustive legal investigation accompanied by intense media innuendos about everything President Trump and his family have done more ambitious than putting on their shoes in the morning (unlike the Clinton case and much closer to the relentless media badgering and defaming of Richard Nixon in the Watergate affair), there is nothing to impeach with, or about..."
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"The early righteousness of the anti-Trump lynch-mob has been deflated.
It is now clear that Russian attempts at interference in the 2016 election, though somewhat outrageous, were ineffectual, unconnected with any particular party, a small effort given what a country of Russia’s resources and taste for political skullduggery and chicanery is capable of, and minor compared with the influence many countries, including the United States, have sometimes exercised in the elections of other countries.
No serious person could find anything in the conduct of the president that could be construed as obstruction of justice, the all-purpose catch-all of American prosecutors, who can conjure that charge from the most mundane acts.The Trump-impeachers, shuffling grimly forward into the desert like Old Testament slaves to the chant of the ineffable millionaire congresswoman Maxine Waters: “Impeach 45!” will perish in the sand.
The vultures will pick their bones in an Ozymandian setting.
No president has ever been impeached and removed successfully
...After two years of exhaustive legal investigation accompanied by intense media innuendos about everything President Trump and his family have done more ambitious than putting on their shoes in the morning (unlike the Clinton case and much closer to the relentless media badgering and defaming of Richard Nixon in the Watergate affair), there is nothing to impeach with, or about..."
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Turkey’s Currency Meltdown - WSJ
Turkey’s Currency Meltdown - WSJ:
"...Argentina has been getting that re-education of late, and now Turkey is watching capital flee for safer climes.
Turkey’s lira fell as much as 5% on Wednesday, and it’s lost more than a fifth of its value this year,
...With capital fleeing, Mr. Erdogan is getting higher interest rates in any case as the central bank tries to stem the lira panic.
On Wednesday the bank lifted a key lending rate to 16.5% from 13.5%.
Consider this the price of the lost credibility of Turkish institutions under Mr. Erdogan’s increasingly authoritarian rule.
Dictators are rarely good economic managers because they want to dictate fiscal and monetary policy as much as they do every political choice..."
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Turkey’s lira fell as much as 5% on Wednesday, and it’s lost more than a fifth of its value this year,
...With capital fleeing, Mr. Erdogan is getting higher interest rates in any case as the central bank tries to stem the lira panic.
On Wednesday the bank lifted a key lending rate to 16.5% from 13.5%.
Consider this the price of the lost credibility of Turkish institutions under Mr. Erdogan’s increasingly authoritarian rule.
Dictators are rarely good economic managers because they want to dictate fiscal and monetary policy as much as they do every political choice..."
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Shapiro At 'National Review': Trump's Superpower | Daily Wire
Shapiro At 'National Review': Trump's Superpower | Daily Wire:
"In the last week alone, Democrats have embraced the terrorist group Hamas and the vicious criminal gang MS-13. There’s a meme making the rounds on social media that conservatives will do [FILL IN THE BLANK] to “own the libs”: sign off on corruption, engage in the most vile insults, etc. But the Democrats will similarly do anything to “own Trump.”"
Fake News CNN Loses Cable Ratings Race To Make Believe Cartoon Sponge in Pants
Fake News CNN Loses Cable Ratings Race To Make Believe Cartoon Sponge in Pants
Fake News CNN Loses Cable Ratings Race To Make Believe Cartoon Sponge in Pants
Who lives in a fantasy with ratings that suck? C-N-N, C-N-N!
You know it's time for a tearful facepalm when you call yourself the 'Most Trusted News Source' and still aren't respected enough to garner the viewers to beat Spongebob Squarepants.
But according to most recent released cable ratings, that just what's happened to CNN.
But according to most recent released cable ratings, that just what's happened to CNN.
Actually, Spongebob is not only more entertaining, but you'll learn more from watching it.
EXCERPT: CNN came in behind Nickelodeon and Home and Garden Television and just a few slots above the History Channel in the latest cable network ratings based on Nielsen Media Research ratings for the week of May 14 to May 20.
https://www.scribd.com/…/Basic-Cable-Ranker-Week-of-May-7-T…"
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Spygate! Trump Brands the Criminal Deep State Scandal of a Lifetime - The Rush Limbaugh Show
Spygate! Trump Brands the Criminal Deep State Scandal of a Lifetime - The Rush Limbaugh Show:
"President Trump’s Spygate could be one of the biggest political scandals in history. And, with that, Trump has given the scandal a name: Spygate. And then listen to this next tweet. This could be the poster and the slug line for the movie: “They go after Phony Collusion with Russia, a made up Scam, and end up getting caught in a major SPY scandal the likes of which this country may never have seen before!”"
"President Trump’s Spygate could be one of the biggest political scandals in history. And, with that, Trump has given the scandal a name: Spygate. And then listen to this next tweet. This could be the poster and the slug line for the movie: “They go after Phony Collusion with Russia, a made up Scam, and end up getting caught in a major SPY scandal the likes of which this country may never have seen before!”"
Fmr Trump Adviser Caputo: More Than One Informant From an Obama Agency Approached the Campaign | Breitbart
Fmr Trump Adviser Caputo: More Than One Informant From an Obama Agency Approached the Campaign | Breitbart:
"Monday on Fox News Channel’s “The Ingraham Angle,” in a joint appearance with former Trump campaign national security adviser Carter Page, former Trump adviser Michael Caputo alleged that there was more than one informant that approached their campaign during the 2016 election cycle."
"Monday on Fox News Channel’s “The Ingraham Angle,” in a joint appearance with former Trump campaign national security adviser Carter Page, former Trump adviser Michael Caputo alleged that there was more than one informant that approached their campaign during the 2016 election cycle."
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON-----Trump Rationale: Why Voters Chose Him and Support Him Now | National Review
Trump Rationale: Why Voters Chose Him and Support Him Now | National Review
Why exactly did nearly half the country vote for Donald Trump?
Why also did the arguments of Never Trump Republicans and conservatives have marginal effect on voters?
...Here are some of reasons voters knew what they were getting with Trump and yet nevertheless assumed he was preferable to a Clinton presidency...
...3) ...A presidential vote is not a one-person race for sainthood but, like it or not, often a choice between a bad and worse option. Hillary Clinton would have likely ensured a 16-year progressive regnum...
4) Something had gone haywire with the Republican party at the national level. Since 1988, it had failed to achieve 51 percent of the popular presidential vote, losing the popular vote in five out of the past six elections, writing off as permanently lost the purple states of the Midwest...
5) Lots of deep-state rust needed scraping.
Yet it is hard to believe that either a Republican or Democratic traditionalist would have seen unemployment go below 4 percent, or the GDP rate exceed 3 percent, or would have ensured the current level of deregulation and energy production.
...I cannot think of a single Republican 2016 candidate who either could or would have in succession withdrawn from the Paris Climate Accord, moved the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, demanded China recalibrate its asymmetrical and often unfair mercantile trade policies, sought to secure the border, renounced the Iran deal, moved to denuclearize North Korea, and hectored front-line NATO allies that their budgets do not reflect their promises or the dangers on their borders..."
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- "His voters knew what they were getting, and most support him still.
Why exactly did nearly half the country vote for Donald Trump?
Why also did the arguments of Never Trump Republicans and conservatives have marginal effect on voters?
...Here are some of reasons voters knew what they were getting with Trump and yet nevertheless assumed he was preferable to a Clinton presidency......3) ...A presidential vote is not a one-person race for sainthood but, like it or not, often a choice between a bad and worse option. Hillary Clinton would have likely ensured a 16-year progressive regnum...
4) Something had gone haywire with the Republican party at the national level. Since 1988, it had failed to achieve 51 percent of the popular presidential vote, losing the popular vote in five out of the past six elections, writing off as permanently lost the purple states of the Midwest...
5) Lots of deep-state rust needed scraping.
Yet it is hard to believe that either a Republican or Democratic traditionalist would have seen unemployment go below 4 percent, or the GDP rate exceed 3 percent, or would have ensured the current level of deregulation and energy production.
...I cannot think of a single Republican 2016 candidate who either could or would have in succession withdrawn from the Paris Climate Accord, moved the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, demanded China recalibrate its asymmetrical and often unfair mercantile trade policies, sought to secure the border, renounced the Iran deal, moved to denuclearize North Korea, and hectored front-line NATO allies that their budgets do not reflect their promises or the dangers on their borders..."
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Baby Bust: 5 Charts Show How Expensive it is to Have Kids in the US Today | Intellectual Takeout
Baby Bust: 5 Charts Show How Expensive it is to Have Kids in the US Today | Intellectual Takeout: "Today, roughly one in five women in the U.S. doesn’t have children.
Thanks in part to this decline in birthrate, for the first time in U.S. history, there may soon be more elderly people than children.
Based on trends in costs, it’s evident why many families are choosing to have fewer children – or in some cases, no children at all.
The cost of having children in the U.S. has grown exponentially since the 1960s, when the government first started collecting data on childhood expenditures.
Between 2000 and 2010, the cost shot up by 40 percent.
As of 2015, American parents spend, on average, US $233,610 on child costs from birth until the age of 17, not including college.
...This spike costs has broad implications, affecting everything from demographic trends and human capital to family consumption...
Thanks in part to this decline in birthrate, for the first time in U.S. history, there may soon be more elderly people than children.
Based on trends in costs, it’s evident why many families are choosing to have fewer children – or in some cases, no children at all.
The cost of having children in the U.S. has grown exponentially since the 1960s, when the government first started collecting data on childhood expenditures.
Between 2000 and 2010, the cost shot up by 40 percent.
As of 2015, American parents spend, on average, US $233,610 on child costs from birth until the age of 17, not including college.
...This spike costs has broad implications, affecting everything from demographic trends and human capital to family consumption...
- Cost of children...
In 2015, a typical middle-income American family spent $12,980 annually per child.
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Charities look to buy their way out of pension squeeze | Crain's Detroit Business
Charities look to buy their way out of pension squeeze | Crain's Detroit Business
Some are considering taking on millions of dollars of new debt or eyeing their endowments to buy their way out of the liability.
As things stand, agency officials say they cannot project costs from year to year because of:
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- Southeast Michigan human service and mentoring agencies strapped with pension liabilities moving to terminate plans.
- Rising and unpredictable liability leads to service cuts
- Some looking at taking on debt, others eyeing endowment funds to terminate plans
Some are considering taking on millions of dollars of new debt or eyeing their endowments to buy their way out of the liability.
As things stand, agency officials say they cannot project costs from year to year because of:
- Market swings affecting the value of plan assets
- Rising liabilities due to pensioners living longer
- Increases in premiums to the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp., a federal agency charged with providing pension benefits in private-sector-defined benefit plans that end without sufficient money to pay all benefits..."
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Trump: Pelosi, Democrats Support MS-13 | The Daily Caller
"President Trump ripped into House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi on her recent defense of the ultra-violent gang, MS-13, at the Susan B. Anthony List gala Tuesday."
How they "think"-----Why Are White Men Stockpiling Guns? - Scientific American Blog Network
Why Are White Men Stockpiling Guns? - Scientific American Blog Network"Research suggests it's largely because they're anxious about their ability to protect their families, insecure about their place in the job market and beset by racial fears.
...Rather, more guns are being stockpiled by a small number of individuals.
Three percent of the population now owns half of the country’s firearms, says a recent, definitive study from the Injury Control Research Center at Harvard University.
So, who is buying all these guns—and why?
...The American citizen most likely to own a gun is a white male—but not just any white guy. According to a growing number of scientific studies, the kind of man who stockpiles weapons or applies for a concealed-carry license meets a very specific profile.
- These are men who are anxious about their ability to protect their families,
- insecure about their place in the job market, and
- beset by racial fears.
- They tend to be less educated.
- For the most part, they don’t appear to be religious—and, suggests one study, faith seems to reduce their attachment to guns.
- In fact, stockpiling guns seems to be a symptom of a much deeper crisis in meaning and purpose in their lives.
- Taken together, these studies describe a population that is struggling to find a new story—one in which they are once again the heroes..."
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