Gee, I Guess Now I’m Going To Have To Be Happy With Only 90% Of The Stuff I Wanted Trump To Do

Gee, I Guess Now I’m Going To Have To Be Happy With Only 90% Of The Stuff I Wanted Trump To Do
"Chill.

...So we lost this round? 
So what? 
We’ve lost before, and we’ll lose again. 
This is for the long-haul folks. 
It’s a marathon, not a sprint. 
...Trump’s instincts have been right all along.
We doubted he could win.
 He did.
We doubted he would actually remake the courts.
He has.
We doubted he’d fight for the wall, but he did, and he paid a price.
Who else would have withstood the heat this long?
Who would have even picked the fight?
Mitt? Jeb!? Chet the Unicorn?
Name the Republican you want to replace him with.
We’ve been attacking for two years, racking up conservative triumphs you’ve never experienced unless you were one of us who was of age during the Reagan years.
Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh – what other GOP president would have held course and made them happen?
Trump’s remaking the courts and rebuilding our military.
He gutted Obamacare and Obama’s regulations.
He’s pulling us out of useless wars, useless agreements with Iran, and useless climate change scams. He’s got clarity on Israel, on the garbage mainstream media, and America’s useless elite.
...So calm down. 
Don’t be manipulated. 
If you want the wall, keep backing the only possible politician who has any chance at all of delivering one. 
Will he? 
Maybe. 
Maybe not. 
But if you don’t support him, your chances drop to zero.
We lost a fight. 
We have not lost the war. 
We only lose if we do what Nancy and Chuck want and turn on the President.
Chill.
Now, if you want to see what will happen if we abandon Trump like the Democracts are trying to manipulate us into, check out my latest novel, Wildfire, and my earlier installments People’s Republic and Indian Country. 
We better get out heads right and look at the long-term fight instead of wetting ourselves every time stuff doesn’t go our way.
We’re going to lose a lot of fights before we win this war."
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The left’s bigoted obsession with MAGA hats

The left’s bigoted obsession with MAGA hats
"The fundamental offense of the Covington Catholic high-school kids wasn’t so much allegedly mobbing, mocking or getting in the face of an American Indian drummer at the Lincoln Memorial.
It was wearing red Make American Great Again hats.
That was the actual, incontestable conduct that created the predicate for the presumption of guilt and all the rest of the grief they’ve been subjected to since.
For much of progressive America, if you are wearing the hat, you are suiting up for Team Racist. 
You are marking yourself out as a bigot and a goon.
Your individuality doesn’t matter anymore, only the cap..."
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Lunch video-----Scott Adams tells you who won the border security negotiations for no on...

Lunch video-----John Stossel - Recycling Stupidity

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Mark Levin: ‘Nancy Pelosi Is America’s First Fascist’

Mark Levin: ‘Nancy Pelosi Is America’s First Fascist’:

“It is a fascism that not only accepts but embraces anti-Semitism – because that’s what fascists do. It is a fascism that embraces Farrakhan. It is a fascism that embraces Hamas and Hezbollah. It is a fascism that embraces Antifa and Black Lives Matter. It’s a fascism that embraces William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn and Khalidi, and you name them. It’s a fascism that tries to destroy an honorable man, Brett Kavanaugh. It’s a fascism that tries to destroy the children of the president of the United States. It’s a fascism that wants to take 70 percent of your wealth. It’s a fascism that destroys the Constitution, while waving it around.
“Nancy Pelosi is America’s first fascist. And that’s a fact.

Harrabin Peddles Latest Arctic Nonsense | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

Harrabin Peddles Latest Arctic Nonsense | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
"More nonsense from Roger Harrabin:

A rapid climate shift under way in the Barents Sea could spread to other Arctic regions, scientists warn.

The Barents Sea is said to be at a tipping point, changing from an Arctic climate to an Atlantic climate as the water gets warmer.

A conference in Norway heard that the Kara Sea and the Laptev Sea – both further to the east – are likely to become the new Arctic frontier.

The scientists warn that it will affect ecosystems.

It may also impact on global weather patterns, although there’s no agreement on that.

They’re concerned because the north Barents Sea has been governed by an Arctic climate since the end of the last Ice Age, 12,000 years ago.

The Arctic Ocean has a cold, fresh surface layer which acts as a cap on a layer of warm, saltier Atlantic water beneath.

But now in the Barents Sea there’s not enough freshwater-rich sea-ice flowing from the high Arctic to maintain the freshwater cap.

And that’s allowing warm, salty Atlantic water to rise to the surface.

In what’s known as a feedback loop – the more the layers mix, the warmer the surface gets. And the warmer the surface gets, the more the waters mix.

So it’s now only a matter of time, the researchers say, before this section of the Arctic effectively becomes part of the Atlantic. It could happen in as little as a decade, they warn….

And in another puzzle, freshwater in the western Arctic seems to be increasing as it diminishes in the eastern Arctic. Scientists are still struggling to fathom the complexities of human impact on the planet.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-46976040

Why on earth should any of this have to do anything to do with “human impact on the planet”?

You only have to go back to the 1920s to see exactly the same climatic changes in that part of the Arctic.

https://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/1520-0493%281922%2950%3C589a%3ATCA%3E2.0.CO%3B2

This period, called the Warming in the North, is well known to scientists, and lasted from around 1920 to 1960..."

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She’s Nuts on Venezuela, Too [Updated] | Power Line

She’s Nuts on Venezuela, Too [Updated] | Power Line

SHE’S NUTS ON VENEZUELA, TOO [UPDATED]

...when she vents on foreign policy, we have to take her seriously as a member of the House Foreign Relations Committee, courtesy of Nancy Pelosi. So this idiocy is newsworthy:

Ilhan Omar

✔@IlhanMN

A US backed coup in Venezuela is not a solution to the dire issues they face. Trump's efforts to install a far right opposition will only incite violence and further destabilize the region. We must support Mexico, Uruguay & the Vatican's efforts to facilitate a peaceful dialogue.

There is no “US backed coup” in Venezuela, nor is the opposition to Maduro “far right.” 

Omar just makes this stuff up. 

Omar cites left-wing support for Maduro from the governments of Mexico and Uruguay (as well as the appalling Pope Francis), but for some reason doesn’t mention that Russia, China, Iran, Syria and the Palestinian Authority are, like her, pro-Maduro. 
She also doesn’t mention that Brazil, Argentina, Chili, Canada, Peru, Colombia, Paraguay, Ecuador, Honduras, Panama, Guatemala and Costa Rica have all joined the U.S. in recognizing Juan Guaido, the President of the Venezuelan National Assembly, as interim President of Venezuela. 

Nor does she manifest any awareness that “the dire issues they [Venezuelans] face” are the inevitable product of socialism. 

The end stage of Sanders/Ocasio-Cortez/Omar socialism is when people have eaten their pets and zoo animals, and rats are in short supply, along with toilet paper..."

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MUST READ IT ALL!-----Nathan Phillips, character assassin: what even his critics seem to be ignoring about him – The New Neo

Nathan Phillips, character assassin: what even his critics seem to be ignoring about him – The New Neo
"...It was Phillips himself who quite early on, during his Saturday interview with CNN that set the original tone and was widely disseminated, gave the following description of the Covington boys:

It looked like these young men were going to attack [the Black Israelites]. They were going to hurt them. They were going to hurt them because they didn’t like the color of their skin. They didn’t like their religious views. They were just here in front of the Lincoln — Lincoln is not my hero, but at the same time, there was this understanding that he brought the (Emancipation Proclamation) or freed the slaves, and here are American youth who are ready to, look like, lynch these guys. To be honest, they looked like they were going to lynch them. They were in this mob mentality.

That is not some disagreement about who went up to whom, or whether the wall was mentioned by the boys, or what caps some of them wore. 
This is an extremely defamatory statement by a political agitator, designed to shape perceptions that the boys were vicious racists with a killer instinct. The language is purposefully inflammatory and of the harshest variety.

It is a lie, and unless Phillips is clinically insane and out of touch with reality (something I don’t believe is the case), it is a knowing and purposeful lie about a bunch of teenagers who were minding their own business. 
It is a lie so egregious, so foul, that I really lack words to describe the depth and depravity of that lie.

And as far as I can see, just about everyone is ignoring it now.

The lie wasn’t a one-off, either. 
This incredibly misleading article in Rolling Stone(written that same Saturday) is typical of reactions to the incident as well as to another statement by Phillips that he gave (in an interview with the Detroit Free Press) on Saturday [emphasis mine]:

“There was that moment when I realized I’ve put myself between beast and prey,” Phillips told the Detroit Free-Press. “These young men were beastly and these old black individuals [the Black Israelites] was their prey, and I stood in between them and so they needed their pounds of flesh and they were looking at me for that.”

So that saintly elder Nathan Phillips, casting himself as peacemaker, defames the boys once again, in terms designed to inflame the left into a frenzy of hatred against them as beasts preying on innocent black people. 

And the left (and some on the right) bought his peacemaker-against-beasts story, perhaps because of his Native American status and because his demeanor while telling the story fed into some other stereotypes that he, as an activist, was well aware they held.

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Democrats!

Disease at border puts migrants at risk: 'There’s a crisis here'

Disease at border puts migrants at risk: 'There’s a crisis here':

There is a health crisis on the U.S.-Mexico border that was deliberately covered up during a visit by members of Congress, according to the head of a sanitation company supplying outposts there.
Tricia Elbrock, the owner of Elbrock Water Systems in Animas, N.M., supplies portable bathrooms at facilities near the border. She told the Washington Examiner that after she dropped off two portable toilets near the border at the request of the Border Patrol, her cleaning staff was "overwhelmed" after hundreds of migrants used them.

Fewer and fewer people die from climate-related natural disasters.

Reason Matters - Posts

• Bjørn Lomborg: Fewer and fewer people die from climate-related natural disasters.

This is clearly opposite of what you normally hear, but that is because we're often just being told of one disaster after another – telling us how *many* events are happening.
The number of reported events is increasing, but that is mainly due to better reporting, lower thresholds and better accessibility (the CNN effect).
For instance, for Denmark, the database only shows events starting from 1976..."
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Source: The International Disaster Database, http://emdat.be/emdat_db/

AM Fruitcake

History for January 27

History for January 27 - On-This-Day.com
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756, Lewis Carroll 1832, Hyman Rickover 1900


David Seville (Chipmunks) 1919, Donna Reed 1921, Bridget Fonda 1964 


1967 - At Cape Kennedy, FL, astronauts Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, Edward H. White and Roger B. Chaffee died in a flash fire during a test aboard their Apollo I spacecraft.


1998 - U.S. First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton appeared on NBC's "Today" show. She charged that the allegations against her husband were the work of a "vast right-wing conspiracy."

Dershowitz on Mueller move against Roger Stone: 'Trump is the target'

Dershowitz on Mueller move against Roger Stone: 'Trump is the target':

Robert Mueller is trying to force Roger Stone to "flip" and incriminate President Trump by indicting the veteran Republican operative on charges that leave him facing the prospect of dying in jail, according to Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz.
"The obvious purpose of indicting him on these obstructing and false statement charges is to put pressure on him to flip. That's the goal,” said Dershowitz, a Harvard Law School professor emeritus.

The way we were----American Bandstand 1967 -Swing Dance Contest Finalists- You Got To Me, N...

Boob-tube-----Sanford and Son (1972-1977) TV series

This IS the democrat party-----Nancy Pelosi is trying to federalize California's bad election laws

Nancy Pelosi is trying to federalize California's bad election laws
"Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., has made a gargantuan overhaul of election law, campaign finance, and ethics rules the top priority of House Democrats.
...H.R. 1, her proposal, is not likely to clear the Senate, but that’s not the point.
It is a marketing document intended to broach the idea of federalizing some progressive state policies while trying to squeeze more conservative locales into adopting them as well.

• H.R. 1 would require that you be registered without your consent when dealing with any government office...
• If you gave your middle name to one government office and your middle initial to another, you could become registered twice. 
• If a green card holder seeks a driver’s license and gets registered automatically...
• When a county clerk sends mail to a registrant and it bounces, that indicates the intended recipient no longer lives there. Under federal law, that can initiate a four-year process for the record’s eventual removal. 
• Pelosi wants to change that and prevent states from cleaning voter rolls of nonresidents, even after the Supreme Court found such procedures were constitutional under the Husted decision. 
• The bill goes even further to prevent states from sharing data to see who is registered in more than one place — for example, like Democrat congressional nominee Wendy Rosen was when she voted twice in multiple federal elections in Maryland and Florida..."

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WELL, YES: “It just beggars belief that the same liberals who fret about ‘micro-aggressions’ ...

Instapundit  Blog Archive  
"WELL, YES: “It just beggars belief that the same liberals who fret about ‘micro-aggressions’ for 20-somethings were able to see 16-year-olds absorbing the worst racist garbage from religious bigots… and then express the desire to punch the kids in the face. 

How did this grotesque inversion of the truth become the central narrative for what seemed to be the entire class of elite journalists on Twitter?”

Well, it helps that the “elite journalists” are mostly trash. 
Though it’s a fair question whether a society that allows so many awful people to occupy such positions will able to function for long as a democracy.---Posted by Glenn Reynolds "

Border Patrol: Watch This Video Of 110 Migrants Scaling Border Wall; MS-13 Gang Members Arrested | Daily Wire

Border Patrol: Watch This Video Of 110 Migrants Scaling Border Wall; MS-13 Gang Members Arrested | Daily Wire:

U.S. Customs and Border Protection Arizona released footage Wednesday showing over a hundred illegal immigrants scaling the southern border wall in the Yuma sector. The illegal actions of the "110 " migrants ended in their arrest Monday. Shortly after posting the surveillance footage, CBP Arizona announced that they had detained two MS-13 gang members a day later.

Nothing to see here, folks-----St. Louis officer charged after deadly game with revolver

St. Louis officer charged after deadly game with revolver
"ST. LOUIS (AP) - A male St. Louis police officer was charged Friday with involuntary manslaughter in the shooting death of a female officer during what was described as a deadly game with a revolver.

• ...Alix was with two male officers at an apartment when she was killed just before 1 a.m. Thursday . 
• ...“The defendant emptied the cylinder of the revolver and then put one cartridge back into the cylinder,” the statement said. He allegedly spun the cylinder, pointed the gun away and pulled the trigger. The gun did not fire. The statement said Alix took the gun, pointed it at Hendren and pulled the trigger. Again, it didn’t fire. Hendren “took the gun back and pointed it at the victim (and) pulled the trigger causing the gun to discharge,” the statement said. “The victim was struck in the chest.”
• The two men were on-duty at the time of the shooting. Police Chief John Hayden has declined to answer questions about why the officers had gathered at the apartment, which was home to one of the men.
• Alix, a military veteran who was married, was not working but met the men at the apartment...

Fans of Best of the Web Today--Michael Smith

"The main reason institutions (i.e. the church, academia, charitable organizations, even government) are created is for the propagation and defense of commonly shared beliefs, ideals and actions specific to certain groups of people. 

They are the result of humankind creating "rules of the road" for the care and feeding of their civilization.

But humans are undoubtedly the most fickle and feckless beasts of God's creations - and being a human construction, institutions live and institutions die, history notes that their rise and fall is as natural as the changing of seasons

Institutions fail, not at first because their walls are pulled down from without by an invading horde, they do so because they weaken themselves when they fail to enforce their own rules and regulations. They fall after the rot from within weakens those walls enough that they can be breached - or in many cases, the people behind the wall tear them down on their own..."

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Lunch video-----Part one: 13 Investigates IRS tax loophole

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U.S. officials to start pushing asylum seekers back across the border - Los Angeles Times

U.S. officials to start pushing asylum seekers back across the border - Los Angeles Times:

U.S. border officials finalized plans Thursday to require asylum seekers to remain in Mexico while their cases are considered in the United States, the latest escalation of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.
Border officers will start pushing asylum applicants back across the border as soon as orders become operational on Friday, beginning at the San Ysidro Port of Entry in San Diego, a Homeland Security official said on condition of anonymity to discuss internal planning.

Here’s a new one: “The Little Ice Age could offer a glimpse of our tumultuous future.” | Watts Up With That?

Here’s a new one: “The Little Ice Age could offer a glimpse of our tumultuous future.” | Watts Up With That?
"The Little Ice Age was a bona fide climate crisis… Famines, cannibalism, Frankenstein, Dickens, glaciers bulldozing villages…

The Little Ice Age was really bad. It was the coldest climatic phase of the Holocene…

Holocene Climate Reconstruction, Andy May WUWT.

The fact that it’s warmed a bit more than 1 °C since the nadir of the Little Ice Age is a climatic miracle, not the precipice of a “coming climate crisis.”

Barely 40 years ago, we were on the precipice of “The Ice Age Cometh”…

According to the models Gorebal Warming saved us from The Ice Age Cometh.

If not for the miracle of climate models and all of the warming they can’t explain without tripling the climate sensitivity to CO2, we’d still be on the precipice of “The Ice Age Cometh”… "
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