Scattershots – 2feb2017 (updated 5feb17))

George Rebane

More signs of our times.  SESF Executive Director Russ Steele and I along with our brides attended a robotics competition last Sunday at the Folsom campus of Intel Corporation.  One of the teams competing was from Nevada Union HS, and we were there to root for the home team.  They did quite well, but I’ll let Russ fill you in on the details since he is preparing a piece on the event.  SESF has been deeply involved in STEM education of our county’s youth.  SESF writes and funds the annual TechTests and TechTestJrs merit exams, give seminars on taking tests, and run the TechMentor program for special students.  But nationwide things are not looking all that good, since our K-12 school systems turn out overwhelming numbers of kids who can’t read, write, or reason (more here and H/T to a reader for this latest heads up).

The leftwing mobs protesting free speech on campuses are growing more brazen as witnessed at UC Berkeley yesterday.  Now violence is becoming the norm with fires, rocks, and broken windows as the campus police stand by helplessly not certain whether to enforce the law or run and hide.  One of my current books has been Der Führer (1944) by Konrad Heiden, a detailed history of the rise of Adolph Hitler and National Socialism in prewar Germany.  Today’s headlines reflect mirror images of how our radical (or is it normal?) Left dispatches its ideological opponents similarly to how the SA brown shirts shut down opposition to the Nazis even before they were known as Nazis.

Today one of NPR’s daily hit pieces on Trump featured a Democrat senator opposing Judge Gorsuch for being "out of the mainstream" since he is not a supporter of Roe v Wade.  Mainstream?  Yes, as the litmus test the senator cited that 80% of Americans support RvW.  Someone should inform the beltway sequestered politician that 99.9% of RvW supporters have no clue as to what that law actually provides for, and what factors comprise its deceptively named ‘women’s healthcare’ issue.

A learned friend and RR reader sent me a couple of documentaries, both rather long and informative, but that’s the price of completeness.  The first entitled ‘Death by China’ covers the enormous problem of jobs and China’s impact on America’s growing systemic unemployment.  This, as longtime readers will recognize, is one of RR's seminal themes which the data presented in this video corroborates.

The second documents the abhorrent science behind the global climate change hysteria.  RR has presented detailed analyses of the so-called global warming issue, among these being our lack of a workable atmospheric science upon which we can build reliable general circulation models (GCMs).  The interviewed scientists take us through the latest in the development of climate data, the known science, and the dysfunctional GCMs which are used to create the catastrophe graphics to fuel the politics and policies of central planning and globalization.  The documentary – ‘Doomsday called off’ - should be of special interest to the liberal bobbing heads who can do nothing more than interminably parrot ‘Consensus science! Consensus science! Consensus science! …, Aaaawkk!’  Spoiler alert: Besides the dreadful condition of the GCMs, you’ll learn that histrionics based on surface temperatures just won’t do.  (for more, search RR with ‘global warming’)

[update]  And this just in on how companies, especially the highly regulated ones, view employees as the cost they are, and then do everything they can to keep such costs flexible so that they can respond to the ups and downs of the marketplace.  The solution increasingly adopted by firms is to hire contractors to fill needs which may not be permanent. 'The End of Employees' details this approach which is alarming to many workers of moderate and/or limited skill sets.  All of this is of a piece (see the China report above) with factors that exacerbate our growing systemic unemployment.

[3feb17  update]  ‘Replace ObamaCare, Don’t Rename It’ advises Phil Gramm, former senator and chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, because “trying to cure all the program’s ills will only make them worse – and the GOP will get the blame.”  He also informs us that Obamacare added only 2.3M to the private insurance rolls, and those at a cost of $29,130 each.  Why?  Because the normal accretion (even after failed Hillarycare) to such rolls occurs after each recession without any help (interference?) from government.  The main effort here is to repeal Obamacare’s impact on taxes, rationing, coercion, and economic stagnation.  The GOP’s solution should have a more cost-efficient pre-exisitng conditions proviso, improve Americans’ ability to keep their insurance when they get sick or change jobs, and provide Medicaid block-grants to the states.  “If they try to do more, they will be in danger of only changing the name of ObamaCare.  They would then own a program that is (still) detrimental to freedom, fiscal responsibility, and economic growth.”

[5feb17 update] Readers informed me that some of the liberals’ local leading lights went into histrionics responding to my 4feb17 column ‘Calexit and the Great Divide’ in The Union (and here).  It’s hard to tell whether these worthies are really smarter than their effluent indicates and just playing to their information under-loaded base, or whether they share in those deficits.  The critiques underscored a gross misunderstanding of the US Constitution along with what I said in my column.  The former is abundantly evident in these pages, and the latter is a perennially seminal characteristic of the progressive – ‘We know what you really meant.’  Armed with these, critics proceeded to fabricate their version of my column.

The most astounding aspect of their denials is that they all missed the Calexit gorilla in the room as the most prominent exemplar of the Great Divide.  This movement, now attempting to gather over half million signatures, was the highlight of my column.  And they totally missed it, apparently because the sheltered channels through which they are ‘informed’ never mentioned that little embarrassment to those globalists who have denied the now fully grown schism in the land.

Among the many things of which I was therein accused was the new charge that I am now also “craven” for “enjoying the benefits of American values while trying to deny those benefits to posterity.”  You literally cannot make this stuff up, but they can; it is of a piece of the Left’s growing assault on the Trump presidency.

 

Comments

[George Rebane]

BonnieM 556pm - Hang in there Bonnie, and thank you for the kind words.

[Walt]

Remember the H1B visa discussed a while back?
http://www.breitbart.com/california/2017/02/02/silicon-valley-tech-emigrating-vancouver/

[Paul Emery]

Doesn't matter which poll Gregory they all show historic low approval for Trump. I'm sure you can agree on that.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/latest_polls/

[fish]

Posted by: Paul Emery | 02 February 2017 at 10:13 PM

......still president Paul.

[Don Bessee]

I am sure everyone is glad you enjoy you little polls PE, polls that have been so spectacularly wrong. The President is still the President and is swiftly and methodically dismantling everything 0 did in every agency. What you don't get is that its the view of the results that matter, not if they like his hair cut. By boycotting the committee votes on the cabinet nominees team lefty has shown how irrelevant they are to the process and how far team lefty has fallen from power in the last two cycles. Thank you that 0! ;-)

[Gregory]

Paul, the polls are greatly influenced by the news of the day and when you have journalists in an unprecedented jihad against the candidate they've been united against from the beginning, low poll numbers are nearly meaningless. There will be meaningful polls in 2018 and 2020. See you then.

In the meantime, Gorsuch is the center ring. This will be interesting and the main reason I was relieved by Trump's win. I repeat, having a renowned Jeffersonian textualist as the youngest SCOTUS nominee (and, hopefully, appointee) is a libertarian dream come true, especially when compared to the social justice warriors who have been the mainstay of Democratic Party presidents of late, and would have been HRC's legacy were it not for "Daddy", as Milo would say.

We live in interesting times.

[Paul Emery]

Fish I just don't understand why you voted libertarian are so supportive of Trump. I mean he's getting us more and more entangled in a hopeless international web I thought libertarians work for minimal military outside our borders I just don't get it why you're supporting him e

[Gregory]

Paul, let me answer for fish... Hillary would have been WORSE, and much of Trump to date greatly exceeds expectations. Time will tell.

The way you keep challenging people's libertarianism is a hoot... a lot like the old fable of blind men encountering an elephant and trying to categorize it by what they can feel. It's a spectrum and the party should be a big tent.

In any case, there probably hasn't been a libertarian President since the Whigs self destructed, that Trump isn't one doesn't bother me. Gary Johnson wasn't perfect, either.

[Todd Juvinall]

Trump is kicking ass and taking names. It feels so good to have a plain talker in the White House. Rassmussen polls have Trump up.

[fish]

Posted by: Paul Emery | 03 February 2017 at 12:20 AM

What has Trump gotten us into that we weren't involved with before? Presnit Hope n Change was little more than Bushes third term but with all that racial healing.

The supreme court justices that he's going to force through....well you can thank Harry Reid for them! Merrick Garland....you guys were so sure that the Menopausal Avenger was going to win they wielded Garland as a threat.....get this guy now while you still have a chance to get someone reasonable. An admission that Hillarys picks were going to be so much more partisan that the Republicans had to move now! I'm interested to know just how Mitch McConnell mustered the fortitude to tell Obama to pound sand!

I'm not supportive of Trump so much as what his presence is revealing on the left. An absolute detachment from reality. A deep and pervasive mental illness denied for years but revealed now!

As an example, the fun in Berkeley the other night revealed you as anti free speech....much like (although less stridently) as the professor in the linked video.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-02-03/video-rabid-nyu-professor-melts-down-orders-cops-assault-conservative-vice-co-founde

The fuck do I care what Milo Yiannopoulos or Gavin McInnes says...it's nobodies business except those who come to hear him speak! Rest assured though other people are watching....and making decisions based on the lefts behavior.

And although I was "supportive" of Hillary in a Menckenesque sense early on....that the American people deserved to get it..."good and hard". I came around to Gregorys position, reinforced by the recent antics on the left, that a bellicose shrew beholden to Wall Street with all the charm and political skills of a middle management lifer in the DMV was a worse choice than the Tangerine Tornado!

I still think the whole thing is going to end in tears!

[fish]

I'm not supportive of Trump so much as what his presence is revealing on the left.

I'm not supportive of Trump so much as appreciative of what his presence is revealing on the left.

[fish]

Why Can't the Left Accept a Defeat?

Because Their "Politics" are a Messianic Cult, and Every Religious Zealot Knows You Cannot Repeal the Kingdom of Heaven Come to Earth

http://ace.mu.nu/archives/368229.php

[Bill Tozer]

Fish wrote "I'm not supportive of Trump so much as what his presence is revealing on the left. An absolute detachment from reality. A deep and pervasive mental illness denied for years but revealed now!"

Hmm. You mean like this example of the detachment of reality? The riots at our bastion of free speech, UC Berkley, was caused by right wing paramilitary forces. It was the White Supremacists how did the dastardly deed.

"Despite admitting explicitly that the claim was not based on facts, Reich charged ahead in claiming that Breitbart News had an affiliation with the violent rioters that lit fires around campus and beat and pepper sprayed the MILO supporters who were waiting to get into the venue"

http://www.breitbart.com/milo/2017/02/02/fake-news-robert-reich-claims-breitbart-news-organized-berkeley-riots/

[fish]

Posted by: Bill Tozer | 03 February 2017 at 09:00 AM

Well let's see if the diminutive pseudo-economist has any evidence to back up his claim.

[Walt]

Time to call it what it is. The LIBS have a new KKK in the form of black clad dipshits.

[Bill Tozer]

The Left are certainly entertaining until the predictability wears off. Then it is like watching reruns,

https://www.facebook.com/DysfunctionalVeterans/photos/a.255432461186706.63671.247110128685606/1432419010154706/?type=3&theater

Quote of the morning concerning SCOTUS:

"You can't steal a vacant seat."

[fish]

Always, always, always remember that the left cannot be racist! To even think that it's possible is to not understand the all encompassing brotherhood that INGSOC.....err....modern progressivism promises!

https://gabfiles.blob.core.windows.net/image/589403d8b31dc.jpeg

[Todd Juvinall]

The press, led by the AP today is trying to blame the riots on Milo! Now Berkely.s Congresswoman is the only declared communist in the House and the Mayor there and the city council are all declared leftistas too. So like all liberals/communists, it is always someone else's fault. Milo was invited by the campus Republicans to come speak. Milo is a gay libertarian with a black mate. He doesn't hold back and PC is nowhere to be found in his speeches.

So the student democrats and their Professors (many seen on the roofs around the riot) decided to riot. They invited black mask covered faces to come help them riot. All paid for by lefty organizations. And they did their dirty deeds. Destruction of others property, denial of free speech and violence and beatings. My my, Americans have noticed. There will be a price for this. California is now run by extremist democrats. They own the state. These are their policies and it is not pretty.

Americans of good will and belief in our Constitution and its Bill of Rights must fight back and defeat these thugs and extremists. Words, words and speeches of sanity. In the old days we were the "Silent Majority". Not today. We need to speak up, turn out and don't let the democrats get away with this. Anu student and/or professor who took part in the riots should be booted and shunned. America is better than these thugs. So speak up and don't be afraid. Speak up.

[Walt]

THOU shalt not arrest LIBS!!!!
http://www.breitbart.com/milo/2017/02/03/bb-news-daily-milo-berkeley-police/

“A no arrest policy? It is a policy that they can’t arrest anyone? And is this only for the left, if this was a right wing event of course there would be arrests” replied Marlow"

[Walt]

Then this from NY.
http://dailycaller.com/2017/02/03/nyu-professor-curses-out-nypd-for-not-beating-speaker-she-disagrees-with-video/
Yes,,, another LIB Professor. From Berkeley? (just a presumption.)

[fish]

Former Obama economic advisor, Clinton Secretary of Labor, and Berkely Prof. Robert Reich claimed yesterday in his column at Salon.com that Fox News played a role in the conservative resurgence of 1994:
Posted by: Walt | 03 February 2017 at 11:26 AM

Yes,,, another LIB Professor. From Berkeley? (just a presumption.)

NYU Walt!

Posted by: Bill Tozer | 03 February 2017 at 09:00 AM

.....not the first time Robert Reich just made things up Bill!

In December 1994, Bill Clinton proposed a so-called middle-class bill of rights including more tax credits for families with children, expanded retirement accounts, and tax-deductible college tuition. Clinton had lost his battle for healthcare reform. Even worse, by that time the Dems had lost the House and Senate. Washington was riding a huge anti-incumbent wave. Right-wing populists were the ascendancy, with Newt Gingrich and Fox News leading the charge. Bill Clinton thought it desperately important to assure Americans he was on their side.

But Prof. Reich overlooked one minor detail: Fox News Channel’s first broadcast wasn’t until October 7, 1996.

The plan for FNC wasn’t even outlined until January of 1996, so what could explain such a patently false claim? Is the professor suggesting that even in 1994, Fox News’ imminence did in fact play a role in the political upheaval of that year? Or is this a moment where Fox Derangement Syndrome enters the realm of full-blown paranoia?

https://pjmedia.com/eddriscoll/2010/1/27/robert-reich-rejects-your-reality-and-substitutes-his-own/

[Walt]

Don't we have a Cafe' Mekka here? Now they have competition.
http://static.infowars.com/politicalsidebarimage/shariabucks_large.jpg

[ScenesFromTheApocalypse]

I wonder if this was actually ever published?

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/8b/33/1b/8b331b0c185f791d0a197cdbd2973ab4.jpg

[ScenesFromTheApocalypse]

Article by Asra Nomani

http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/homeland-security/317604-the-alt-lefts-cyber-jihad-against-trump-and-his

[Bill Tozer]

I see a flaw in their plan:

Rules for Radicals #12: “The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.” Never let the enemy score points because you’re caught without a solution to the problem."

Constructive alternative? Hmm, Nancy calling Bannon a "White Supremacist". Being absent without cause from Senate Committee nomination hearings, and offering no solutions or policies. Hmmm. Well, at least they got the mayhem and destruction down pat.

Ok, if they offer no solutions, go back a step:

Rules for Radicals #11: “If you push a negative hard enough, it will push through and become a positive.” Violence from the other side can win the public to your side because the public sympathizes with the underdog.

What violence from the other side? They are not taking the bait. Hmmm, looks like the public sympathizes with the underdog named Milo. Darn. This is not working as planned. Wrong underdog.

Best to go back a step.

[Todd Juvinall]

I think we should boycott German cars and Bosch appliances. Seems the Der Spiegel Newspaper has a cartoon with Trump cutting off the head of the Statue of Liberty and holding her bloody head aloft. And some other magazine has a sniper scope pointed at Trump's head. These are unacceptable. My father and yours defeated the German Nazis in WW2 and this is how they repay us? Screw them. So, no more German stuff until they apologize. Say you?

[Bill Tozer]

Todd @ 1:13 on.
First, Americans of German ancestry are our country's largest ethnic bloc.
Second, the solution to free speech is more free speech.
Third...... Ok, I will boycott buying new Porsches. They bottom out on my road anyway. :)

[Bill Tozer]

Gregory, this link is from Pravda so consider the source. Your wish may come true.

https://www.rt.com/usa/376135-debates-unfair-libertarians-greens/

[Paul Emery]

No problem with Trump supporters exercising free speech at this high school.

"A group of high school seniors in Texas gave the Nazi salute and shouted “Hail Trump” during a class photograph, KPRC Channel 2 reports.

Photos of students at Houston’s Cypress Ranch High School surfaced on social media on Tuesday, showing a group of what appears to be mostly boys holding their hands out in the Nazi salute.

teachers at the school neglected to ask those making the salute to stop. “The just let them be nazi boys,” one text read.

“There were swastikas all over my desk in science,” another person texted."

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/02/texas-high-school-students-make-nazi-salute-and-shout-hail-trump-in-senior-class-photos/

http://www.dallasnews.com/news/education/2017/02/02/texas-students-salute-trump-yell-heil-hitler-senior-photos

[George Rebane]

re PaulE's 150pm - Well, I guess that pretty well evens the score for right/left demonstrations. What a relief!

But I wonder if those union schooled kids even know the history of Nazi Germany. In the past, when these little darlins were asked about WW2 and its prelude, they didn't have a clue.

[fish]

Posted by: Paul Emery | 03 February 2017 at 01:50 PM

Of course one needs to ask if these miscreants set any fires or pepper sprayed anyone?

[Walt]

Most likely LIB kids looking to stir the pot. Paul took the bait.

[Paul Emery]

Yeah lots of lib kids Houston walls

[Walt]

Actually plenty Paul. Forget how to spell?

[fish]

Again Paul a demonstration of ill advised behavior is rude but constitutionally protected. Interesting that you downplay the actual criminal riotous behavior demonstrated at both UC Davis and UC Berkeley but find this admittedly bad behavior so comment worthy!

[Walt]

Hay "new guy". I see you found that, but not a word on all the calls for Trump's assassination.
You would blow a gasket if those threats were against "O".

[Walt]

Ha ha!!! Clockkboy and Daddy have some big lawyer bills to pay.
http://dailycaller.com/2017/02/03/clock-boys-lawsuit-blows-up/
Working to set things up for a big payoff didn't go as planned.

[Gregory]

Scenes 1235 yes, that issue was published. Here's the article it announced:
http://theweek.com/articles/657804/after-trump-loses-real-gop-crackup-begins

It's a British op-ed magazine that is probably not on Brexiter's coffee tables, even if they have coffee tables.

Walt, it's a testament to the incompetence of our designated upper crust that the kid ever got more attention than a note in the local newspaper about the fraud. It was obvious to anyone skilled in electronics it was just a crappy consumer clock radio torn apart and put into a cheap case.

George [update] Unfortunately, the older the cohort, the more they get caught in the temp/jobshop tarbaby despite mastery and past achievements. There's a reason engineers in silicon valley are resorting to botox to keep the HR angel of death away... this includes some of the best engineers/managers/directors I worked with at Cisco, at the top of their game and pay scales.

[ScenesFromTheApocalypse]

Just one of those things you run into:

https://twitter.com/azantifa

Probably just a dog typing madly, but I did see where Antifa = ANTI First Amendment

[Walt]

Gregory. I wonder if he will hit up "O" to help with the bill.

[Bill Tozer]

Scenes:

https://www.thenation.com/article/anti-fascist-activists-are-fighting-the-alt-right-in-the-streets/

[Todd Juvinall]

Trump is trying to get the doctor here who fingered OBL. Obama never tried and it is a shameful thing.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/02/03/backroom-dealings-underway-to-release-hero-doc-who-helped-get-bin-laden.html

[Gregory]

Regarding [update], here's another article about age distribution in Silicon Valley
http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2015/01/05/silicon-valley-age-discrimination-if-youve.html

If you don't die young or own the company, you do have a bigger and bigger target on your back.... if Grads are about 22 and the average age at the biggest companies is about 30, what percentage of 40, 50 and 60 somethings can be expected? Choose a statistical distribution and estimate.

[Bill Tozer]

@ 5:18 pm. Full disclosure. I know nothing about Silicon Valley. But I know people.

Aging in a young workforce.
I brought this up to a group of 30 something techies with young children recently. I asked why they did not work at Google. They laughed. Basically, you have to be single and work ungodly hours if you choose to work/ live on the campus. When I told them I read an article about a Google employee who lived in his car in the Google parking lot for a year to save up money for a house, they laughed, but were not surprised. "Cash rich and house poor" is the term they called it, a phrase they all used. Not a place to work if you have a life.

The ones I know all are trying to get into corporate and out of design. With little chance of advancement, the trick they said is to leave the company for 6 months to a year, then apply for a position higher up the ladder. Get rehired in Mergers and Acquisitions, heads of divisions, or whatever, but they know what your charts reveal: there is no future if they keep on doing what they are doing....with a family. Some gamble by joining a start-up and hoping to be bought out and cash out with early retirement. Uncertain future.

[Bill Tozer]

As far as Milo, inflamed passions, and the anti-fascist fascists are concerned, the last thing we need is to have a Kent State on our hands. It will make martyrs out of the pond scum and play into their blood lust hands. But then again, it did help Reagen's political career, but that was a different era.

Memory Lane
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Bpg0UfpuUAs

[ScenesFromTheApocalypse]

4:46PM. Thanks for the link Mr. Tozer.

Just for fun.

http://peterturchin.com/PDF/Turchin_JPR2012.pdf

A bit of speechifying.

http://www.theamericanmirror.com/shock-video-prof-massive-meltdown-outside-conservative-speech/

I wonder how long it'll be before she has an internet nickname.

[Bill Tozer]

@ 8:43pm. Thanks for the weekend reading material. I'll get to it.....maybe, maybe not. :)

And they say Republicans always overreach.

https://www.facebook.com/UncleSamsMisguidedChildren.Net/photos/a.169953786533962.1073741830.169676909894983/627479584114711/?type=3&theater

[Walt]

I call your teacher,and I raise you one elected official.
http://www.infowars.com/city-council-member-urges-illegals-not-to-cooperate-with-ice/

[Gregory]

Scenes 843

That's what I call one seriously disturbed 'toon.

[ScenesFromTheApocalypse]

Civic discourse in 2017.

https://i.imgur.com/A60PzJ0.gif

[Bill Tozer]

https://bluelivesmatter.blue/portland-micah-rhodes-arrested/

[Todd Juvinall]

Looks like dueling Judges on the travel ban.

[Todd Juvinall]

How can a Judge in Seattle and a Judge in the western district take control of the whole country on this EO banning terrorists from the country? When did a single Hudge get that kind of power? I think there may have to be a better explanation from the SCOTUS since they are this Judge's boss.

And perhaps we should allow the terrorists Trump was trying to keep out to move into that Judge's jurisdiction since it appears he could care less about the safety of the American people. Judicial tyranny was what the Founders were afraid of. Now we see why. Answer?

[Todd Juvinall]

Nordstroms has decided not to carry the products of Ivanka Trump. Well, you hoity-toity Nordstrom executives can kiss my business goodbye. I am headed to a business that has American values and patriotism. I guess the left and I will see who wins.

[Bill Tozer]

Oh Todd, it's just a TRO. It's heading straight to the Supreme Court. It takes time for matters such as legal immigration to work out, be it win lose, or draw. There are some laws passed in the 60's that conflict with the Founding and the 1950's law everyone is quoting. However, as Arizona found out under Obama, immigration falls under the Fed's job, not the states. But, we are getting ahead of ourselves. Exciting first two weeks, eh?

Milo, Trump, and Frederick Douglass. Pretty sure not one commentor here needs a history lesson about Free Speech....but just in case there is one soul out there who never heard of Douglass (besides Trump and the anti-everythingers) or who wants some reading material on a rainy slow news day....

https://reason.com/archives/2017/02/03/left-mocks-trump-for-douglass-ignorance

Duplicity is the theme of the week..

[Gregory]

Todd, Federal District Hudges are the judges that initially hear Federal cases and have the authority to rule on federal law. Expect it to end up with the Supremes.

[ScenesFromTheApocalypse]

It would be hilarious if Trump cut a youtube video, and recited exactly these words.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auZRVqrCLY8

[ScenesFromTheApocalypse]

Scenes from Iraq

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piPex1CrTmU

[Bill Tozer]

Todd, I do feel your pain. But, it's out of our hands. Who knows. This will be put on hold and taken off hold, and bounce back and forth like a ping pong ball for awhile. And this is the easy one, lol.

I don't think Trump or any President can put the hurts on UC Berekely's grants or do much about Sanctuary Cities. Saw a breakdown of Frisco. About a billion dollar budget (almost), 10% comes from Feds, and of that only about 16 million he can grab without creating headaches for him. Maybe 28 million. Also, some of these Federal dollars go for more cops and LE training, not to mention Block Grants to the States. More of a bully pulpit thing right now. I hope we all want limits on big government and any POTUS, even our POTUS. Nonetheless, Yankee Dollars do come with strings.

It is nice to see our friends on the dark side of the street finally waking from their slumber and notice that too much Executive Order stuff appears troubling at first glance. Shoe is on the other foot now.

I expect a firefight over the nominations for Education and EPA. They will fight like the dickens when we come on their home turf. Ear plug time. Devos is not 100% clear on Common Core, but she is crystal clear about school choice. Them are fighting words because the libs have had a monopoly on public education for decades. They have a lock on it. Whatever she does, anything will be an improvement. Same with the EPA.

[Todd Juvinall]

Looks like George's column has all the usual suspects peeing their pants. And namecalling. The commies are pretty vocal these days.

Gregory, I thought the Federal Judges were part of a district and there were 14 or so?

[Gregory]

Todd, and your point is?

My understanding is the administration is free to appeal to (wait for it) the court of appeals, or to go straight to the Scotus (kennedy is the designated justice for that district). I'm not following it closely.

Yes, Federal judges have lots of say over federal law, including the constitution, but are slaves to prior rulings. Except the SCOTUS, there is always a higher court looking over their shoulder... the SCOTUS has the other branches looking over their shoulder.

It's messy and often slow, and IMO that's a good thing.

[Walt]

It's not the first time some low level judge threw a wrench into the gears.
I remember some judge, a step above traffic court messed up the nation. I just can't remember what it was about. He or she's ruling was tossed at a higher level soon after.
Nope, I'm not one bit surprised this happened. If it wasn't this judge, it would have been another. LIBS go judge shopping all the time.
"O" got plenty of his EOs stopped in their tracks the same way. But it's funny that when "O" did pretty much the same thing, no one bitched. It's OK when LIBS do it.

[Walt]

Now on the CALEXIT front,, Plenty are saying "Hit the road!"
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/readersreact/la-ol-le-calexit-republicans-california-secession-20170204-story.html
If and when the FEDS cut off funding to the state, I'm pulling a Boardman, pulling my assets out of the bank. The Commies in Sac. will be looking for every dime they can find.

[Paul Emery]

"So called Judge"

We have a president who apparently does not believe in separation of powers.

[Todd Juvinall]

Trump is tweeting about the Seattle Federal Judge and the lamestream media and the demoncrats are going apoplectic. Why can't we say something about a Judge? They are not GODs. And why can't Trump speak up about them? SChecky Schumer says he will use this against Trump's candidate for the SCOTUS. And listening to the demobncrat Senators, they are certainly saying a lot about Gorsuch. And they are saying really nasty things. So how come a demoncrat Senator can say these things against a Judge, Gorsuch, and Trump can't? Just shows you all why the left is toast. They live by the "do as I say, not as I do" and the American people have finally had it with these hypocrites.

And these lefty protests are really something. Trump supporters are attacked at LAX and so we all see the left's "no free speech" again. Interviewers of these lefty goons shows they don't even know why they are there. They are being paid to protest. Very UNAmerican. So there.

[ScenesFromTheApocalypse]

Global climate change article du jour:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4192182/World-leaders-duped-manipulated-global-warming-data.html

[Paul Emery]

A trumpet-"so called Judge"

That has the maturity of eight year old. I guess Doesn't Trump respect the Constitution and the Separation of Powers. vHe has no respect for anyone with a different opinion than his highness. Fatal character flaw.

[fish]

Posted by: Paul Emery | 04 February 2017 at 05:38 PM

.....still president Paul.

[Don Bessee]

You mean like 0 lecturing the SCOTUS members at the state of the union address PE? 0 had the absolute worst record in court decisions of any president. ;-)

[Bill Tozer]

Play it again!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ydSOadCqyTs

[Walt]

Respect of the Constitution? Now that's a good one Paul. Remember? LIBS call it " List of negative liberties". LIBS hate the Constitution, and have tried to shred it, and have done a pretty good job of it.
Trump HAS the right, and authority. to do what he did. "O" did the same thing, yet NOW you bitch.

[Todd Juvinall]

So PaulE no free speech allowed to complain about a judge? Seems the Congressional democrats according to you have no respect for the separation of powers. Look what they say about the President.

[Bill Tozer]

Time to Drain the Swamp and get them out of our Government

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/02/03/calls-mount-for-trump-administration-to-label-muslim-brotherhood-terrorist-organization.html

[fish]

S Carolina's 1st openly gay lawmaker from deep-red district...

Oh......"Openly"......cuz there's Lindsey. You know John McCains....err......I've said too much!

[Walt]

Yup,, Russians.(not)
http://dailycaller.com/2017/02/04/exclusive-house-intelligence-it-staffers-fired-in-computer-security-probe/
What did I say before about an inside job?

[Bill Tozer]

Smoke them out and publish their names!

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/317946-trump-defends-claims-of-widespread-voter-fraud

[Russ]

Quote of the Day: Wait until everyone in Washington buying 1984 and Animal Farm find out they’re about communism.

[Bill Tozer]

https://www.facebook.com/IPConservative/photos/a.578939558786458.146748.578899028790511/1700015243345545/?type=3&theater

[Bill Tozer]

More Climate Fraud. Drain the Swamp

https://realclimatescience.com/2017/02/nasa-noaa-climate-data-is-fake-data/

[Account Deleted]

Bill T - I think she was referring to this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpkWT5voTSE

[ScenesFromTheApocalypse]

Good night. Sometimes those noises in the dark are real.

https://pjmedia.com/trending/2017/02/04/soros-funded-group-gave-50k-to-goons-who-provoked-berkley-riot/

[Bill Tozer]

Walt's 6:22pm last night is of high interest. The Awan Brothers? Wonder if they are related to the Awan Brothers of Pakistan. Each paid 160k for a 60k/year job? Access to intelligence committee documents. House members mentioned are members of the DCCC. And Debbie Whatername's name mentioned again. Financial problems and criminal record associated with the yet to be accused? Hmmm.

Very interesting.

Walt's link:
http://dailycaller.com/2017/02/04/exclusive-house-intelligence-it-staffers-fired-in-computer-security-probe/

[Russ]

Walt@07:34

I am wondering if the Awan Brothers have any association with the DNC IT guy who was shot in the back while walking home. It looked more like an execution than a robbery gone bad as some claim, as he was shot at some distance in the back. It would be interesting to find out if he was part of the same IT community as the Awan Brothers.

[Bill Tozer]

Russ:
That's Bill @ 8:18 am, but I will defer to Walt. He called the hacks as an inside job and only a foolish impatient fellow would go toe to toe with Walt. The highway is littered with the twisted remains of those who tried...and failed. I merely called it "multiple sources".

BREAKING NEWS!! Next up on the playlist is the quiet one, the hidden one, the Evil One. Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the Brain Bigger Than Karl's, the Dark Lord behind the curtain, the Man Who Shall Not Be Named in Polite Company....the man who said "Darkness is Good", the one who Maureen Dowd wrote,
"where late into the night he plots his Manichaean schemes to blow up everything with trade wars, real wars and battles against the Islamic “caliphate.” He blithely sits at the center like Jabba the Hutt as the slapdash White House sews strife, chaos and cruelty, putting out executive orders restricting immigration and rolling back financial regulations on Wall Street —"
Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you Satan himself, the embodiment of all things Dark, who sees a red door and wants to paint it black.

http://www.newsjs.com/url.php?p=http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/steve-bannon-democrats-bogeyman-234611">http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/steve-bannon-democrats-bogeyman-234611">http://www.newsjs.com/url.php?p=http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/steve-bannon-democrats-bogeyman-234611

Expect incoming from our easily excited BC in addition to our bong water drinking champion. Prepare to duck. Too predictable. Never get tired of winning.

[Bill Tozer]

The Evil One blocked the link @ 8:58 am.

Try this one.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/steve-bannon-democrats-bogeyman-234611

[Todd Juvinall]

Page 8A in the SacBee has a article on how Argentina is now doing a Trump ban on immigrants.

I wonder if our snowflakes will be traveling there to protest?

[Bill Tozer]

Maybe it was not outside thugs as the Chancellor said.

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/02/uc-berkeley-thug-beat-conservative-bragged-online-university-staff-member/

Same o same o.

https://bluelivesmatter.blue/illegal-immigrants-murdered-jill-sundberg/

Nothing to see here.

https://www.facebook.com/UncleSamsMisguidedChildren.Net/photos/a.169953786533962.1073741830.169676909894983/628398977356105/?type=3&theater

[George Rebane]

Administrivia - Apologies for TypePad spamming some comments; they have been released from quarantine.

[ScenesFromTheApocalypse]

I think that the Antifa folks need a new PR agency.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJUPOhO3S8g

http://dailycaller.com/2017/02/02/leftist-activists-get-kicked-out-of-a-food-court-but-not-before-showing-porn-to-a-reporter/

[Paul Emery]

Newest Gallup poll shows Trump support collapsing. Now +11-disappeoval. What started bad is getting worse.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/201617/gallup-daily-trump-job-approval.aspx

[Todd Juvinall]

PaulE Rassmussen Trump up 8 points.

[fish]

Posted by: Paul Emery | 05 February 2017 at 02:54 PM

.......still president Paul.

[Walt]

Paul. "O"'s approval rating.. 85.8% (that he's out of office)
I bet I could get that number just asking union pipelayers, and coal miners. (you now, LIB constituents?)

[Walt]

Is nothing sacred? 84 Lumber runs a pro illegal boarder crosser commercial?
Nope, not going to buy anything from those guys again.

[Walt]

This is what Ca. LIBs elect. What a piece of work. So much for his oath of office.
http://www.breitbart.com/california/2017/02/05/california-state-senate-leader-family-illegal-false-documents-deportation/

[George Rebane]

Walt 546pm - good pick-up Mr Branson. These people are scumbags from the top all the way down. To find common ground with them, we would agree to become what? Half-scumbag?

[Paul Emery]

That's the only one Todd and it's days old. Wait till the next poll. It will show a decline. Historic bad start for a new Pres.

[Bill Tozer]

5:46 pm

What about the oath of office? Scumbags for sure.

[Bill Tozer]

Ts is who they are. Overtime, this will work in our favor. They are true haters.

http://www.lifezette.com/polizette/anti-trump-protesters-block-ambulance/