Trump’s job approval rating 151 weeks into his presidency sits at 45 percent, as revealed by a Gallup poll last Wednesday. That puts Trump three points higher than the 42 percent approval rating Gallup found for Obama at the same point of his presidency.
Wednesday, December 25, 2019
Donald Trump Approval Rating Surpasses Barack Obama at Same Point in Presidency
Donald Trump Approval Rating Surpasses Barack Obama at Same Point in Presidency:
President Donald Trump’s approval rating has soared past that of ex-President Barack Obama’s at the same point in his administration, defying negative sterotypes driven by opponents as he became only the third president in U.S. history to be impeached.
Trump’s job approval rating 151 weeks into his presidency sits at 45 percent, as revealed by a Gallup poll last Wednesday. That puts Trump three points higher than the 42 percent approval rating Gallup found for Obama at the same point of his presidency.
Trump’s job approval rating 151 weeks into his presidency sits at 45 percent, as revealed by a Gallup poll last Wednesday. That puts Trump three points higher than the 42 percent approval rating Gallup found for Obama at the same point of his presidency.
On Ricky Gervais, J. K. Rowling, and Speaking Frankly
On Ricky Gervais, J. K. Rowling, and Speaking Frankly"The comedian Ricky Gervais has committed heresy by mocking a modern (and very recent) orthodoxy of the right-thinking intellectual: that a man who takes hormones, has surgery, and behaves like a woman actually is a woman in all respects, no different from women born female.
In support of a statement by J. K. Rowling, the famous children’s author (and by no means social conservative), that a transgender woman is not a woman...
He wrote:
"These awful biological women can never understand what it must be like for you becoming a lovely lady so late in life. They take their girly privileges for granted. Winning at female sports and having their own toilets. Well, enough is enough."
As a result of this tweet, he has been widely condemned as being transphobic—a term implying an irrational fear but used to condemn a person for advocating or supporting bad, aggressive, or even violent conduct toward transsexuals...
This is clearly not the case.
Users of the term make no proper distinction between two questions: the nature of transsexuals and how people should behave toward them.
A question of truth—whether a transsexual woman is in no respect inherently different from a biological female—is transformed into a question of loyalty to a new doctrine, nonacceptance of which in its totality being taken by the right-thinking as a mark of bad or evil character and intent, such that he or she who fails to accept it should be excommunicated by all decent people, discriminated against, and denied employment..."
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Scientists Skeptical of Anthropogenic Global Warming
A comment from are reader:
"The scam that never dies!
I have a PhD in Atmospheric Fluid Dynamics from McGill University.
I am getting increasingly frustrated by the lack of any actual science that backs up this “problem”.
So please answer the following simple, basic, scientific question:
- What, exactly, is being "measured"?
- And how accurate are those measurements, both now and over time?
- And how do you know what the contribution of human activity is to whatever you are measuring?
I'll make it even easier for you.
Since AGW believers frequently bring up surface temperature, let's look at it.
After all, it's about the simplest thing involved, isn't it?
So show me a map of the earth's surface temperature, and a companion map of the margin of error.
Then do the same thing in (say) 1900.
If you prefer another atmospheric parameter than surface temperature, suggest it and provide reasons for your choice, and then answer the same questions.
- Finally, tell me what part of the differences is due to human activity, how you know, and how accurately you know it.
Bet you can’t."
McConnell: 'Absurd Position' for Pelosi to Withhold Impeachment Articles | Breitbart
McConnell: 'Absurd Position' for Pelosi to Withhold Impeachment Articles | Breitbart:
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Monday blasted House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) decision to withhold articles of impeachment.
McConnell told “Fox & Friends” that he finds it a “rather absurd position” and a “political exercise,” calling on the Democratic congressional leadership to treat President Donald Trump’s case just as they did former President Bill Clinton’s impeachment.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Monday blasted House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) decision to withhold articles of impeachment.
McConnell told “Fox & Friends” that he finds it a “rather absurd position” and a “political exercise,” calling on the Democratic congressional leadership to treat President Donald Trump’s case just as they did former President Bill Clinton’s impeachment.
Michigan's version of MEDC-----Nashville In Receivership? Wait, How?
Nashville In Receivership? Wait, How?
"When newly elected Nashville Mayor John Cooper announced that Nashville was in receivership during a speech at David Lipscomb University on Dec. 10, it created shockwaves.
Wait, what!
You can’t be serious!
The Nashville Tennessean and other news outlets echoed calls for the Mayor’s office to issue a retraction.
Two days later, Metro Finance Director Kevin Crumbo announced that State Comptroller Justin Wilson had approved the city budget, thereby avoiding receivership.
How did one of the hottest cities in America get in this mess?
...Mayor Cooper talked to the Wall Street Journal about his mandate to pull the city’s economy back from the brink by (among other things) curbing financial incentives and relocation deals to corporations.
After the prior administration had awarded $167,000,000 in economic incentives in exchange for 13,000 new jobs and $1.2 billion in capital investments, the city could not balance the budget without selling assets like the Nashville Thermal Plant.
Which, IMHO, is like selling your living room furniture to pay your electric bill
...There are many reasons why the city ignored the realities of unsustainable growth.
For several years, revenues grew at 32% while expenses grew at 38%.
No one wanted to confront the reality of having to raise property taxes 16% to pay for the incentives that had been provided to companies like Amazon and Alliance Bernstein..."
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"When newly elected Nashville Mayor John Cooper announced that Nashville was in receivership during a speech at David Lipscomb University on Dec. 10, it created shockwaves.
Wait, what!
You can’t be serious!
Two days later, Metro Finance Director Kevin Crumbo announced that State Comptroller Justin Wilson had approved the city budget, thereby avoiding receivership.
How did one of the hottest cities in America get in this mess?
...Mayor Cooper talked to the Wall Street Journal about his mandate to pull the city’s economy back from the brink by (among other things) curbing financial incentives and relocation deals to corporations.
After the prior administration had awarded $167,000,000 in economic incentives in exchange for 13,000 new jobs and $1.2 billion in capital investments, the city could not balance the budget without selling assets like the Nashville Thermal Plant.
Which, IMHO, is like selling your living room furniture to pay your electric bill
...There are many reasons why the city ignored the realities of unsustainable growth.
For several years, revenues grew at 32% while expenses grew at 38%.
No one wanted to confront the reality of having to raise property taxes 16% to pay for the incentives that had been provided to companies like Amazon and Alliance Bernstein..."
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Donald Trump's 'they're after you' tweet says it all: Goodwin
Donald Trump's 'they're after you' tweet says it all: Goodwin"On its face, a tweet President Trump sent last week is fairly benign.
It doesn’t mock anyone, isn’t personally nasty and hasn’t caused any hair-on-fire controversy.
Yet it is powerful in its own way, for it artfully sums up the Trump era from the perspective of the president and his supporters.
With a likeness to the Uncle Sam “I want you” poster, the disrupter-in-chief reaffirms in 14 words the belief of Trump Nation that the political establishment, the media, the permanent bureaucracy and yes, the deep state are trying to crush him and them.
...Critics regard it as fear-mongering, and there is no denying that the president wanted to rally his base, lest it be discouraged by the day’s events..."
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Aussie PM Scott Morrison Rejects Greta Thunberg's Climate Advice
Aussie PM Scott Morrison Rejects Greta Thunberg's Climate Advice:
Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Monday rejected Swedish climate worrier Greta Thunberg and her gratuitous advice, declaring he was “not here to impress people overseas.”
Thunberg retweeted a video from Australian media outlet 9 News on Sunday, adding politicians had failed to connect “increased extreme weather events and nature disasters.”
Thunberg retweeted a video from Australian media outlet 9 News on Sunday, adding politicians had failed to connect “increased extreme weather events and nature disasters.”
Will a White Supremacist Please Step Forward? | Power Line
Will a White Supremacist Please Step Forward? | Power Line
"The demand for white supremacists vastly exceeds the supply, which is why we see absurdities like the controversy over military academy students supposedly flashing “white power” signs at the Army-Navy football game.
Now, apparently, the age-old “OK” sign means you are a white nationalist, notwithstanding that there are pictures of pretty much everyone in public life giving the sign, like Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and nearly everyone else.
...Who decreed this?...
...This is all craziness, of course, but it is craziness with a purpose.
The Left is desperate to keep its racism narratives alive, no matter how threadbare they may be.
...The goal is political, and is focused especially on the 2020 presidential race.
Likewise with the “OK” sign.
I don’t have a high opinion of the intelligence of the average liberal, but even Democratic Party reporters are not dumb enough to take seriously the idea that Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and the many millions more who have given the “OK” sign are closet white supremacists.
So what is going on here?
Obviously, as noted above, the demand for white supremacists vastly exceeds the supply..."
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"The demand for white supremacists vastly exceeds the supply, which is why we see absurdities like the controversy over military academy students supposedly flashing “white power” signs at the Army-Navy football game.Now, apparently, the age-old “OK” sign means you are a white nationalist, notwithstanding that there are pictures of pretty much everyone in public life giving the sign, like Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and nearly everyone else.
...Who decreed this?...
- To no one’s surprise, two investigations have concluded that the midshipmen and cadets who flashed the “OK” sign were not expressing white nationalist views, but rather were playing “the circle game.” Which sounds dumb, but so what?
- Of course, that doesn’t mean that “OK” hysteria has gone away. On the contrary: School Spends $53K to Reprint Yearbooks Because Students of ‘Various Races’ Made ‘OK’ Sign.
- A high school in the Chicago suburbs is reprinting its 2018-2019 yearbooks at a cost of more than $50,000 after school officials spotted photos of students making “OK” hand gestures.
...This is all craziness, of course, but it is craziness with a purpose.
The Left is desperate to keep its racism narratives alive, no matter how threadbare they may be.
...The goal is political, and is focused especially on the 2020 presidential race.
Likewise with the “OK” sign.
I don’t have a high opinion of the intelligence of the average liberal, but even Democratic Party reporters are not dumb enough to take seriously the idea that Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and the many millions more who have given the “OK” sign are closet white supremacists.
So what is going on here?
Obviously, as noted above, the demand for white supremacists vastly exceeds the supply..."
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In case your media-of-choice sorta missed this-----'Widow's Tax' axed | Military News | Military Families
'Widow's Tax' axed | Military News | Military Families:
"As President Trump signed the National Defense Authorization Act Friday night, a 40-year battle to repeal the military “widow’s tax” came to an end.
The “widow’s tax” was a longstanding policy oversight that affected over 65,000 military survivors.
When a service member dies while on active duty or from a military-related illness their families may be eligible for both the Survivor Benefit Plan (SBP) & Dependency and Indemnity Compensation (DIC).
Because of concurrent receipt laws (provisions to avoid double-dipping in government benefits), for every dollar paid out via the DIC, one dollar was deducted or “offset” from the SBP insurance payment.
This offset cost families roughly $11,000 annually.
Not only have these families lived through the nightmare of losing a spouse or loved one, they have had to fight to stay afloat both emotionally and financially..."
"As President Trump signed the National Defense Authorization Act Friday night, a 40-year battle to repeal the military “widow’s tax” came to an end.
When a service member dies while on active duty or from a military-related illness their families may be eligible for both the Survivor Benefit Plan (SBP) & Dependency and Indemnity Compensation (DIC).
Because of concurrent receipt laws (provisions to avoid double-dipping in government benefits), for every dollar paid out via the DIC, one dollar was deducted or “offset” from the SBP insurance payment.
This offset cost families roughly $11,000 annually.
Not only have these families lived through the nightmare of losing a spouse or loved one, they have had to fight to stay afloat both emotionally and financially..."
White House Asks Navy To Include New Unmanned Vessels In Its Ambitious 355 Fleet Plan - The Drive
White House Asks Navy To Include New Unmanned Vessels In Its Ambitious 355 Fleet Plan - The Drive
"The White House has told the U.S. Navy to come up with a proposal for counting at least some of its unmanned surface vessels and underwater vehicles among its so-called "Battle Force," the portion of its fleet that has historically included larger, manned, traditional warships, such as aircraft carriers and destroyers, and supporting ships.
This would be a major shift that would create a more realistic path for the service to meeting the ambitious Congressionally-mandated goal of a 355-ship Battle Force fleet and would help solidify the already growing importance of unmanned platforms in its future concepts of operation..."
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"The White House has told the U.S. Navy to come up with a proposal for counting at least some of its unmanned surface vessels and underwater vehicles among its so-called "Battle Force," the portion of its fleet that has historically included larger, manned, traditional warships, such as aircraft carriers and destroyers, and supporting ships.This would be a major shift that would create a more realistic path for the service to meeting the ambitious Congressionally-mandated goal of a 355-ship Battle Force fleet and would help solidify the already growing importance of unmanned platforms in its future concepts of operation..."
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Inside the Beltway: The best political outrage of 2019 - Washington Times
Inside the Beltway: The best political outrage of 2019 - Washington Times:
We have just gone through a year full of outrage, melodrama and shenanigans — and quite a few victories for President Trump, despite it all. Congratulations on making it this far, hopefully with some optimism toward the future. What follows is a small sampling of Inside the Beltway items which appeared throughout 2019, reflecting the current political landscape — with 2020 just around the corner.
Does this subtle culture war threaten our very republic? - WND
Does this subtle culture war threaten our very republic? - WND:
Forbes elaborated, "The brain on 'smartphone' is the same as the brain on cocaine: we get an instant high every time our screen lights up with a new notification. It's all thanks to dopamine, the feel-good chemical that gets released every time you do something you enjoy, like eating your favorite meal or getting a hundred likes on your latest Instagram post. Dopamine reinforces (and motivates) behavior that makes us feel good and, in turn, can create addiction."
History for December 25
History for December 25 - On-This-Day.com
Sir Isaac Newton 1642 (Old Style) - Physicist, mathematician, Clara Barton 1821, Conrad Hilton 1887
Humphrey Bogart 1899, Rod Serling 1924, Jimmy Buffett 1946 - Singer
1776 - Gen. George Washington and his troops crossed the Delaware River for a surprise attack against Hessian forces at Trenton, NJ.
1914 - During World War I, British and German troops observed an unofficial truce and even playing football together on the Western Front.
Tuesday, December 24, 2019
PRAGER: Why The Left Doesn't Like Christmas | The Daily Wire
PRAGER: Why The Left Doesn't Like Christmas | The Daily Wire:
The left understands that the more people believe in Christianity (and Judaism), the less chance the left has to gain power. The left doesn’t concern itself with Islam, because it perceives Islam as an ally in its war against Western civilization, and because leftists do not have the courage to confront Islam. They know that confronting religious Muslims can be fatal, whereas confronting religious Christians entails no risks.
Second, the left regards Christianity in America as an intrinsic part of American national identity — an identity it wishes to erode in favor of a “world citizen” identity. The left has not only warred against Christmas; it has sought to undermine other national identity holidays.
Second, the left regards Christianity in America as an intrinsic part of American national identity — an identity it wishes to erode in favor of a “world citizen” identity. The left has not only warred against Christmas; it has sought to undermine other national identity holidays.
Same old Detroit!-----How Did Detroit Schools Spend $286,596 On LA Conference? – Michigan Capitol Confidential
"On Dec. 17, 2017, the Detroit Public Schools Community District sent the staff of its Office of Strategy to a
- six-day conference in Los Angeles at a cost of $286,596.
- $250,000 in spending for staffers to attend a May 2019 conference in Italy and
- $240,000 for a six-day conference in Los Angeles in December 2018.
Michigan’s second largest school district is Utica Community Schools, and it has reported nothing comparable to the Detroit school for travel expenses. That district’s highest expense for out-of-state conferences in 2018-19 was $2,609..."
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No. It's not "climate change"-----Firebugs Behind Destructive Queensland Fires | Climate Dispatch
Firebugs Behind Destructive Queensland Fires | Climate Dispatch"Almost 100 firebugs have deliberately started blazes across Queensland that have destroyed homes and consumed thousands of hectares of bushland.
Some 65 fires continue to burn across the state on Friday, jumping from 55 reported on Thursday, as the fire threat deepens heading into the weekend.
...Figures obtained by AAP reveal 98 people – 31 adults and 67 juveniles – have been dealt with by Queensland police for deliberately setting fires..."
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Trump Founds First New Military Service In 70 Years With Space Force | The Daily Caller
Trump Founds First New Military Service In 70 Years With Space Force | The Daily Caller:
President Donald Trump officially founded Space Force on Friday, part of a $1.4 trillion national security bill he signed into law.
Trump signed the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act Friday, which will provide money for various top national security priorities. Included in the bill is Space Force, a directive Trump first signed in February, which will aim to better protect U.S. interests in space. It is the first new military service since 1947, when the Air Force was launched.
President Donald Trump officially founded Space Force on Friday, part of a $1.4 trillion national security bill he signed into law.
Trump signed the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act Friday, which will provide money for various top national security priorities. Included in the bill is Space Force, a directive Trump first signed in February, which will aim to better protect U.S. interests in space. It is the first new military service since 1947, when the Air Force was launched.
The Murder of Tessa Majors Raises Questions About Criminal Responsibility and Punishment For Adolescents.
"The brutal murder of Tessa Majors, an 18-year-old college student, attacked as she walked through Morningside Park in Manhattan, has chilled New Yorkers.
According to news accounts, Majors was robbed and stabbed by three youths who accosted her, put her in a headlock, and emptied her pockets, then slashed her repeatedly with a four-inch knife blade.
Found by police, she was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where she died.
The prime suspects are three teenage boys, ages 13 and 14—the third hasn’t yet been apprehended—who confessed to seeking robbery victims in the park.
From comments:
- Steve Gregg You’re ignoring the aspect of race in violent crime. Here in New York, blacks and Hispanics compose 25% of the population, yet commit 90% of all violent crime. In this case, the perpetrators are three black boys, of course. Everyone sees through the euphimisms of “teens” or “youths” used by the media. We all know you mean “black punks.” It appears even journalists, themselves, are sick of this deception because they make an effort to include photos or videos of the perpetrators that illustrate their race, subverting the politically correct rules within which they must write their stories, which demand they exclude descriptions of the criminals, for fear they will be too often black. The real answer to such crime is for the government to stop subsidizing the dysfunctional lifestyles which produce crime. Too many black women are taking Uncle Sam for their husband. Sam is a terrible father who raises feral children. Show me a criminal and I’ll show you someone raised on welfare to a single mother, if there is any mother at all. We will have fewer criminals and fewer heinous crimes if we change the government so that it rewards healthy, intact families instead of unhealthy, broken families.
- Meretricious -- Steve Gregg • 2 days ago--absolutely correct--these black "mothers" are really coconspirators in this case.."
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