Sunday, December 29, 2019
History for December 29
History for December 29 - On-This-Day.com
Charles Goodyear 1800, Andrew Johnson 1808, William Gladstone 1809
Mary Tyler Moore 1936 - Actress, Jon Voight 1938 - Actor, Ted Danson 1947 - Actor ("Cheers")
1848 - U.S. President James Polk turned on the first gas light at the White House.
1952 - The first transistorized hearing aid was offered for sale by Sonotone Corporation.
Saturday, December 28, 2019
Report: FISC Only Asked FBI to Review FISA Applications for One Lawyer
Report: FISC Only Asked FBI to Review FISA Applications for One Lawyer:
The court that granted the FBI surveillance warrants on former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page has only ordered that the FBI review all warrant applications related to one FBI attorney and not all FBI agents involved in misconduct, according to a report.
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) earlier this month ordered the FBI to re-verify all previous Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant applications involving Kevin Clinesmith, the FBI attorney who falsified evidence in the FBI’s efforts to seek a renewed surveillance warrant against Page.
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) earlier this month ordered the FBI to re-verify all previous Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant applications involving Kevin Clinesmith, the FBI attorney who falsified evidence in the FBI’s efforts to seek a renewed surveillance warrant against Page.
Heh!-----Maddow Meltdown: In Defense To OAN Lawsuit, Host Argues Her Words Are Not Facts | Zero Hedge
Maddow Meltdown: In Defense To OAN Lawsuit, Host Argues Her Words Are Not Facts | Zero Hedge
"Back in September, we reported that TV network OAN had filed a lawsuit against Rachel Maddow for the time the host said that OAN “really, literally is paid Russian propaganda.”
"Back in September, we reported that TV network OAN had filed a lawsuit against Rachel Maddow for the time the host said that OAN “really, literally is paid Russian propaganda.”
Now, Maddow finds herself having to come up with a defense for her statement in court.
According to Culttture, her lawyers argued in a recent motion that "…the liberal host was clearly offering up her ‘own unique expression’ of her views to capture what she saw as the ‘ridiculous’ nature of the undisputed facts. Her comment, therefore, is a quintessential statement ‘of rhetorical hyperbole, incapable of being proved true or false."
Oh, it's capable of being proved false, alright. Maddow had previously claimed, on air, about one of OAN's reporters:
“In this case, the most obsequiously pro-Trump right wing news outlet in America is really literally is paid Russian propaganda,” and added, “Their on-air politics reporter (Kristian Rouz) is paid by the Russian government to produce propaganda for that government.”
The testimony of UC Santa Barbara linguistics professor Stefan Thomas Gries, however, stands at odds with Maddow's defense. Gries said: “It is very unlikely that an average or reasonable/ordinary viewer would consider the sentence in question to be a statement of opinion.”..."
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Climate-Related Deaths Down 99.9% Since 1932 | Climate Dispatch
Climate-Related Deaths Down 99.9% Since 1932 | Climate Dispatch"The Left’s newest Saint, Greta Thunberg, “informed” us during a now-famous speech she gave at the U.N. Climate Action Summit in NYC.
“You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words...We are in the beginning of a mass extinction, and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth. How dare you.”
She then accused world leaders of doing nothing while “solutions are in sight.”
...As it turns out, building infrastructure to protect against climate-related catastrophes is a heck of a lot easier than altering the world’s temperature through political policies that would require the entire world to sign on.
...Meanwhile, adapting to the climate has saved literally millions of lives per year.
According to the Cato Institute:
In the decade from 2004 to 2013, worldwide climate-related deaths (including droughts, floods, extreme temperatures, wildfires, and storms) plummeted to a level 88.6 percent below that of the peak decade, 1930 to 1939.
The year 2013, with 29,404 reported deaths, had 99.4 percent fewer climate-related deaths than the historic record year of 1932, which had 5,073,283 reported deaths for the same category..."
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Trump Is Impeached—Period. Speaker Pelosi, Let Senate Do Its Work | The Heritage Foundation
Trump Is Impeached—Period. Speaker Pelosi, Let Senate Do Its Work | The Heritage Foundation:
The Constitution’s impeachment process has two steps: Article 1 section 2, gives the House of Representatives the “sole power of impeachment” and section 3 gives the Senate the “sole power to try all impeachments.” The House did its part on Dec. 18, adopting two articles of impeachment. All that’s left is for the House to appoint a few members to act as the prosecutors and, as the Senate’s trial rules put it, notify the Senate that these impeachment “managers” are “directed to carry articles of impeachment to the Senate.”
If this sounds a little familiar, it’s not really different from the indictment and trial you might have watched on any episode of “Law & Order.” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., however, appears to be making up a process of her own. She says she won’t appoint impeachment managers or send the articles to the Senate until the Senate agrees to conduct its trial the way she dictates.
The Constitution’s impeachment process has two steps: Article 1 section 2, gives the House of Representatives the “sole power of impeachment” and section 3 gives the Senate the “sole power to try all impeachments.” The House did its part on Dec. 18, adopting two articles of impeachment. All that’s left is for the House to appoint a few members to act as the prosecutors and, as the Senate’s trial rules put it, notify the Senate that these impeachment “managers” are “directed to carry articles of impeachment to the Senate.”If this sounds a little familiar, it’s not really different from the indictment and trial you might have watched on any episode of “Law & Order.” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., however, appears to be making up a process of her own. She says she won’t appoint impeachment managers or send the articles to the Senate until the Senate agrees to conduct its trial the way she dictates.
Legislation introduced to eliminate modern animal agriculture
- Just when you thought politicians couldn’t be further removed from reality, comes this.
"...Presidential candidate Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), in the tradition of activists certain that they can manage the animal production chain better than those who are doing it, wants to overhaul—actually eliminate over the long term—the heart of animal agriculture.
Not one to under promise, Booker has introduced the “Farm System Reform Act of 2019.”
Among other gems, it includes phasing out all feedyards of 1,000 head or more in 20 years... revising the Packers and Stockyards Act (P&SA) to invite, allow and encourage more packer lawsuits..."
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Their contempt for us "little people" is undeniable-----LET’S TALK ABOUT GHASTLY DISHWASHERS
Instapundit Blog Archive LET’S TALK ABOUT GHASTLY DISHWASHERS: “Why is Trump talking about dishwashers?” asks Slate. “…
"LET’S TALK ABOUT GHASTLY DISHWASHERS:
Plus: “These regulations have caused an infuriating and devastating degradation of the quality of appliances and the quality of life in our homes.
Trump is a smart politician.
He specializes in finding issues that no one else is talking about how they directly affect the quality of life.”--Posted by
"LET’S TALK ABOUT GHASTLY DISHWASHERS:
“Why is Trump talking about dishwashers?” asks Slate. “It’s part of Trump’s core campaign message: nostalgia for a fictitious era in American history where everything was better, simpler.”
Of course. To be fair, when products get worse, that’s usually the reason. See also gas cans.American dishwashers used to work.Maybe. But there’s also this reality: he is 100% correct about this whole topic. It’s a big and important one too.
...Then one day they just stopped doing the work.What happened?Older models of dishwashers used 15 gallons of water. Today the typical “Energy Star” model will attempt to wash with three gallons. Sorry but that’s just not possible, no matter how many fancy tricks you try.
Dishwashers used to wash all the dishes in under one hour. Now they take two hours, three hours, and four hours, and still don’t get the dishes clean....All of this is directly due to government regulations.
Plus: “These regulations have caused an infuriating and devastating degradation of the quality of appliances and the quality of life in our homes.
Trump is a smart politician.
He specializes in finding issues that no one else is talking about how they directly affect the quality of life.”--Posted by
Venezuela’s currency so worthless it’s mostly being used for making crafts | Fox News
Venezuela’s currency so worthless it’s mostly being used for making crafts | Fox News:
Venezuela – once one of the more prosperous countries in Latin America – has been driven into such economic and political turmoil that its currency is no longer of any use.
However, that has not stopped Venezuelan bolivares from becoming a commodity elsewhere.
Across the border in Colombia, Hector Cordero uses the currency to make wallets and purses, which he sells to tourists in Colombia.
“These bolivares soberanos notes are worth nothing,” Cordero, who is from Caracas, told Al Jazeera. “These notes I use are not circulating any more since last year.”
However, that has not stopped Venezuelan bolivares from becoming a commodity elsewhere.
Across the border in Colombia, Hector Cordero uses the currency to make wallets and purses, which he sells to tourists in Colombia.
“These bolivares soberanos notes are worth nothing,” Cordero, who is from Caracas, told Al Jazeera. “These notes I use are not circulating any more since last year.”
Political power!-This was ALWAYS the reason for the Dems "caring" view of illegals.-----Study Finds Immigration Will Shift Electoral College in Favor of Democrats
Study Finds Immigration Will Shift Electoral College in Favor of Democrats"A new analysis finds that immigration will dramatically reshape the Electoral College map in favor of the Democratic Party after completion of the 2020 census.
Rising immigrant populations around the United States will result in several solidly Democratic states gaining more seats in the House of Representatives at the expense of solidly Republican states, the study by the Center for Immigration Studies finds.
The shift ultimately will give the Democratic Party more influence in the Electoral College, CIS says..."
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The shift ultimately will give the Democratic Party more influence in the Electoral College, CIS says..."
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Best rant EVER!-----Clarice Feldman - "Nation still deeply divided day after vote...
Clarice Feldman - CH: "Nation still deeply divided day after vote...Undetermined writer... but BRILLIANT!:
"Nation still deeply divided day after vote
Yeah, I love that trick.
The nation's always "divided" when Dems don't get what they want.
I was forced to go to a Christmas party over the weekend and had to listen to some jackhole whine about how "divisive" Trump was and lament that we couldn't "come together."
I was forced to go to a Christmas party over the weekend and had to listen to some jackhole whine about how "divisive" Trump was and lament that we couldn't "come together."
I unloaded on that nickelfucker -
"You want to talk divisive?
I hated that dog-eating Kenyan crackhead every moment of the eight years he infested the White House.
But you know what I didn't do, asshole?
- I didn't riot in the streets.
- I didn't scream "HE'S NOT MY PRESIDENT!"
- I didn't gin up some phony, childish "Resistance."
- I didn't go into every damned restaurant and public space where Obama or any of his cabinet were and scream in their faces.
- And I sure as hell didn't hijack the FBI to create a phony dossier to impeach him 49 hours after he was inaugurated!
- YOUR filthy party did all of that and more, right from the moment the polls closed and you knew that drunk, morally leprous hag of yours wasn't going to win.
So you can take that fucking 'divisive' talk and your crocodile tears about unity and shove them up your ass until you shit blood for a week!"
Fortunately, I work at home, so I don't have to run into that clown more than perhaps once a month.
But got-DAMN, I am sick of Dems blaming Trump for their own diaper-soiling meltdowns."
Fortunately, I work at home, so I don't have to run into that clown more than perhaps once a month.
But got-DAMN, I am sick of Dems blaming Trump for their own diaper-soiling meltdowns."
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