Saturday, November 23, 2019

OUR INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES SEEM TO BE RIDDLED WITH TRAITORS, HACKS, AND INCOMPETENTS: Former CIA off…

Image result for obama change americaInstapundit Blog Archive-- OUR INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES SEEM TO BE RIDDLED WITH TRAITORS, HACKS, AND INCOMPETENTS:
"Former CIA officer sentenced to 19 years for conspiring with Chinese spies; Jerry Chun Shing Lee is the third former U.S. intelligence officer to be convicted in less than a year of conspiring with the Chinese to give them national defense information.--Posted by 

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Rudy Giuliani says US diplomats were doing the bidding of George Soros in Ukraine, in interview with Glenn Beck - TheBlaze

Rudy Giuliani says US diplomats were doing the bidding of George Soros in Ukraine, in interview with Glenn Beck - TheBlaze:

Image result for flickr commons images Rudy GiulianiRudy Giuliani told Glenn Beck during an exclusive interview that U.S. diplomats were doing the bidding of billionaire philanthropist George Soros in Ukraine in a "massive pay-for-play" scheme that included falsifying evidence against President Donald Trump.
Giuliani, the president's personal attorney, spoke to Beck on his program Wednesday about the claims being made against him by Democrats in their ongoing impeachment inquiry.
"The anti-corruption bureau is a contradiction," said Giuliani about the bureau set up in Ukraine to root out corruption.

Property taxes illustrate the problems with 'wealth taxes' - American Experiment

Image result for 'wealth taxes'Property taxes illustrate the problems with 'wealth taxes' - American Experiment
"Minnesota homeowners have been receiving their preliminary estimated property tax bills for 2020
Many of them are unhappy. 
Star Tribune Editorial Board member Patricia Lopez tweeted
Just got my proposed property tax statement, with a big fat $257 increase for the City of St. Paul. This is insane.
Those of an uncharitable frame of mind might point out that if you continually endorse candidates who say they will put your taxes up you can’t get upset when they put your taxes up...
  • Wealth is not the same as income
Property taxes are a form of ‘wealth tax’, they are levied based on some assessment of the market value of an asset you hold....But you cannot pay your tax liability with these assets – the authorities will not accept $3,000 worth of bricks from your house in settlement of a $3,000 property tax bill. Your tax liability has to be settled in cash. And, while your assets may have increased in value by 6%...there is no guarantee that your cash holdings will have increased at a similar rate...
...Property taxes illustrate the problem with ‘wealth taxes’ more generally. 
They seek to raise cash based on an assessment of the notional value of assets but your access to cash is not always congruent with your access to assets."
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History for November 23

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History for November 23 - On-This-Day.com
Franklin Pierce (U.S.) 1804, William H. Bonney (Billy the Kid) 1859, Boris Karloff 1887
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Harpo Marx 1888, Susan Anspach 1945, Steve Landesberg 1945
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1936 - The first edition of "Life" was published.
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1985 - Larry Wu-tai Chin, a retired CIA analyst, was arrested and accused of spying for China. He committed suicide a year after his conviction.
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Friday, November 22, 2019

Devin Nunes Lists 10 Most ‘Asinine’ Trump Conspiracy Theories Pushed By Democrats | The Daily Caller

Devin Nunes Lists 10 Most ‘Asinine’ Trump Conspiracy Theories Pushed By Democrats | The Daily Caller:

Image result for flickr commons images Devin Nunes“Time and again, they floated the possibility of some far-fetched malfeasance by Trump, declared the dire need to investigate it, and then suddenly dropped the issue and moved on to their next asinine theory,” said Nunes, who is the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee.
Nunes rattled off a list of 10 allegations Democrats made against Trump, mostly during the investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian government.

The way we were-----The Vogues - You're The One

Boob-tube-----W.C. Fields Canadian Club

The “Wind and Solar Will Save Us” Delusion | Our Finite World

The “Wind and Solar Will Save Us” Delusion | Our Finite World
"The “Wind and Solar Will Save Us” story is based on a long list of misunderstandings and apples to oranges comparisons. 
Somehow, people seem to believe that our economy of 7.5 billion people can get along with a very short list of energy supplies. 
This short list will not include fossil fuels. 
Some would exclude nuclear, as well. 
Without these energy types, we find ourselves with a short list of types of energy — what BP calls Hydroelectric, Geobiomass (geothermal, wood, wood waste, and other miscellaneous types; also liquid fuels from plants), Wind, and Solar.
Unfortunately, a transition to such a short list of fuels can’t really work. 
These are a few of the problems we encounter:...
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Figure 1. World energy consumption based on data from BP 2016 Statistical Review of World Energy.
Figure 1. World energy consumption based on data from BP 2016 Statistical Review of World Energy.

CLASSY:’ JOE BIDEN SNAPS AT REPORTER AFTER BEING ASKED ABOUT HUNTER’S PATERNITY TEST.

Instapundit Blog Archive 
‘CLASSY:’ JOE BIDEN SNAPS AT REPORTER AFTER BEING ASKED ABOUT HUNTER’S PATERNITY TEST.
"During a press gaggle on Thursday, Biden, 77, was asked to comment on the court filing. Fox News reporter Peter Doocy asked, “I’m wondering if you have a comment on this report and court filing from Arkansas that your son Hunter made you a grandfather again.”
Biden was outraged...
Joe has done this throughout his career as a public servant...
UPDATE: “You know what the saddest part of this video is?”, asks Benny Johnson of Turning Point USA. “The reaction of the other reporters. Not a single journo has the slightest curiosity about Hunter Biden — one of the most consequential people in politics today. 
The same cowards who covered up Epstein.”
Just think of the media as Democratic Party operatives with bylines, and both their reaction and Biden’s makes perfect sense.--Posted by 

Blasey Ford Award Proves the ACLU No Longer Believe in Civil Liberties

Blasey Ford Award Proves the ACLU No Longer Believe in Civil Liberties:

Image result for flickr commons images Blasey FordHonoring Blasey Ford, however, is far worse than backing down on the issue of free speech, for the ACLU is now doing something that at one time would have offended every fiber of its DNA: rewarding, and by extension encouraging, the hurling of false accusations as a means to a political end.
The same ACLU that at one time fought McCarthyism is now promoting and applauding McCarthyism.

Theodore Dalrymple: "Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small"

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See the source image"Theodore Dalrymple: "Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. 
In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. 
When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. (probity-the quality of having strong moral principles; honesty and decency.)
To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. 
One’s standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. 
A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. 
I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to."

Why don't Muslim's hate-crimes enrage the media?-----Brooklyn: Man Arrested for Egging Synagogue Turns Out Not to Be a White Supremacist | Culture

Brooklyn: Man Arrested for Egging Synagogue Turns Out Not to Be a White Supremacist | Culture
"The New York Post reported Thursday that “a teenager who threw an egg at a Brooklyn synagogue and chucked another one at a woman in Borough Park has been arrested on a number of hate crime charges, police said.”
Mohib Hoque. 
A white supremacist, perhaps? 
An avid consumer of “far-right” news analysis?
Anti-Semitic attacks have sharply increased in the U.S., and virtually the entire political and media establishment has agreed that this is attributable to the rise of “white supremacists” and the “far-right.” 
  • One problem with this claim is that actual white supremacists are a minuscule band of losers; 
  • another is that the same political and media establishment attaches the label “far-right” to virtually everyone who dissents from the Leftist agenda. 
  • And a third difficulty with the mainstream view is that it ignores the increasing hostility toward Israel and Jews in general on the Left, and the deeply ingrained anti-Semitism of one of the Left’s protected groups, Muslims – as a recent incident in New York City indicates..."
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Lunch video-----The Paris Climate Fraud

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Foreign-Born Researchers At US Agencies Were Secretly Working For China And Recruiting Others, Senate Report Finds | The Daily Caller

Foreign-Born Researchers At US Agencies Were Secretly Working For China And Recruiting Others, Senate Report Finds | The Daily Caller:

Image result for flickr commons images China FlagForeign-born researchers working at U.S. agencies secretly joined China’s payroll, sending sensitive U.S.-funded research to the country while U.S. government agencies took almost no defensive measures against a major recruitment operation, a Senate investigation found.
Researchers linked to the Chinese government formed a Chinese cell within the Department of Energy, attained access to American genomic data, and recruited other U.S. researchers to join, the bipartisan report stated.

Federal Agencies Admit To $1.2 Trillion In Improper Payments Since 2004

Federal Agencies Admit To $1.2 Trillion In Improper Payments Since 2004
"Since 2004, twenty large federal agencies admit paying out an astonishing $1.2 trillion in improper payments. 
...Last year, these improper payments totaled $140 billion – that’s about $12 billion per month.
...Improper payments in health care are especially troubling. 
In 2011, when President Barack Obama signed the Affordable Care Act, Congress vowed to help pay for it by rooting out waste, fraud, corruption and taxpayer abuse from the Medicare and Medicaid programs.
In fact, the improper payments within these programs soared from $64 billion in 2012 to $85 billion today...
Chart by program of improper payments during the period 2004-2017

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Imagine the media meltdown if a republican had said this idiocy-----Mike Quigley Claims That Hearsay Can Be Better Than Direct Evidence | The Daily Caller

Mike Quigley Claims That Hearsay Can Be Better Than Direct Evidence | The Daily Caller
"Democratic Illinois Rep. Mike Quigley claimed during Wednesday’s impeachment hearing that hearsay could be better than direct evidence.
...“I guess to close, a primer on hearsay, I think the American public needs to be reminded that countless people have been convicted on hearsay,” Quigley said.
“Because the courts have routinely allowed and created, needed exceptions to hearsay.
Hearsay can be much better evidence than direct as we have learned in painful instances and it’s certainly valid in this instance.”..."
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#1 This day 1960-----Maurice Williams & the Zodiacs - Stay

WALSH: A School Allows Boys Into The Girls Room. Parents Object But Still Send Their Kids To Class. This Is The Problem. | The Daily Wire

WALSH: A School Allows Boys Into The Girls Room. Parents Object But Still Send Their Kids To Class. This Is The Problem. | The Daily Wire
Image result for this is abuse"I wrote yesterday about the morally abominable decision by the school board of District 211 in Illinois to allow gender-confused boys into the girls locker room and bathroom.
I linked to a striking video showing the disparate reactions of a biological boy who identifies as transgender and a biological girl after the board’s decision was announced.
The boy, Nova Maday, gloats over his victory while showing no regard or concern for the girls whose privacy has just been obliterated. 
The girl, Julia Burca, tearfully worries that she will now have to get naked every day around boys as she gets changed for swim practice..."
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Outlets Scramble To Retract After Realizing UN Report Cites Record Child Detention Under Obama Instead Of Trump | The Daily Caller

Image result for flickr commons images obamaOutlets Scramble To Retract After Realizing UN Report Cites Record Child Detention Under Obama Instead Of Trump | The Daily Caller:

A day later, Reuters and AFP deleted their stories after the U.N. clarified the numbers were from 2015, when former President Barack Obama was in office. AFP did not immediately respond to a request for comment on why it no longer felt the numbers were newsworthy after being informed they were from 2015.