Sandbox - 5feb18

[We'll keep the 2feb18 sandbox open for some residual Nunes memo discussion until an update post on the now dueling memos.  Mea culpa for not have a general purpose sandbox open during this interval. gjr]

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[Don Bessee]

Jessica Levinson, a professor of law and political ethics at Loyola Law School of Los Angeles — and the current president of the Los Angeles Ethics Commission — said that, if proven true, the accusations against Garcia threaten to seriously damage the nationwide movement that has been credited with bringing the issue of sexual harassment into the open.
“Hypocrisy knows no bounds and no partisanship, it crosses all party affiliations,’’ she said. “To the extent that these are substantiated claims, there’s a picture of Cristina Garcia as a hypocrite in the dictionary.”

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/08/cristina-garcia-california-metoo-398985

;-)

[Todd Juvinall]

Robert Cross | 08 February 2018 at 03:05 PM

Russ will straighten you out about the "science". My position has always been it is political. A scam of immense proportions.

[Walt]

Ya, Cross, climate changes. There used to be a forest where a desert is now in Arizona.
Ice covered where I now sit just yesterday in geologic time.

[Walt]

Besides Bobby,, the globe is cooling. Enjoy.
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2018/02/08/why-sun-will-soon-get-dimmer.html

[Don Bessee]

Warner wrote that he would "rather not have a paper trail" of his messages.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/02/08/democratic-sen-mark-warner-texted-with-russian-oligarch-lobbyist-in-effort-to-contact-dossier-author-christopher-steele.html

;-)

[Walt]

It's the LIBS who are cozy with the Russians.
You can't swing a dead cat without hitting a Lefty and a Rusky at the same time.

[Russ]

The OODA Loop President

This is for the fighter pilots and former military strategists!

Richard Fernandez of the Belmont Club. In a piece he wrote in December 2016, just prior to Trump’s inauguration as our 45th President and in the context of Trump’s signaling with respect to what should be our posture with China, Fernandez wrote that:

The Democratic Party should stop underestimating Donald Trump. The good news is that he moves at nongovernment speed. The bad news is that, due to his outsider status, nobody knows exactly where he is going.

Fernandez, like McLaughlin the year before, was noting the uptempo speed of Trump. McLaughlin’s discussion of Trump’s use of the OODA Loop, correctly noted that speed lies at the core of Boyd’s theory of conflict, and has been the most influential element of Boyd’s strategic thinking. Further, “Boyd’s core insight was about the interactive and disruptive nature of speed on human decision-making: success in conflict can be rapid and dramatic if one can “operate inside the OODA Loop” of the opponent.”

When you begin to understand this, you’re well on your way to understanding our 45th president.

Full article is HERE.

[Russ]

Robert Cross 08 February 2018 at 03:05 PM

The Op-Ed is a collection of climate change disinformation that can be best countered by displaying the actual data for the reader to make their own decision. Sea level rise is not accelerating, ice core temperatures rose before the increase in CO2, storms are not increasing, and volcanos are melting Antarctic ice, not warming air temperatures. I will present the graphics at https://sierrafoothillcommentary.com for those interested in the facts this weekend, or sooner if I find the time.

[Russ]

Robert Cross @ 08 February 2018 at 03:05 PM and Russ@ 08 February 2018 at 10:14 PM

I have posted the Sea Level rise information, no acceleration in rise due to CO2 emissions.

[Bill Tozer.]

Drain the Swamp
Getting closer to the stink. Next up is SOS John Kerry and AG Lynch. Then the Wall of Ben Rhodes, NSA Susan Rice, Samantha Powers, and Valerie Garret to get to the man behind the curtain. That will take years.

“David Laufman, who leads the DOJ’s counterintelligence division, is leaving the DOJ for “personal reasons,” according to The Washington Post.

In addition to working on the investigation into Clinton’s handling of classified information, Laufman has also worked on the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.”

http://dailycaller.com/2018/02/08/laufman-leaves-fbi/

[Bill Tozer.]

Oh my. This will get Walt swinging his battle ax. Or not.

Qaisar Mahmood, a Muslim born in Pakistan, is the new head of the Swedish National Heritage Board. This is an extremely anomalous appointment, since he readily admits that he has not read anything about Sweden’s cultural heritage. But his new job is not really about preserving and protecting Sweden’s cultural heritage and historical sites at all.
http://speisa.com/modules/articles/index.php/item.4085/sweden-appoints-pakistani-to-lead-national-heritage-board.html

[Bill Tozer.]

Peer review paper: Opps, we messed up.

Study Linking Authoritarianism to Conservatives Retracted
The researchers say they read the data backwards; these traits are linked to liberals.

http://www.intellectualtakeout.org/blog/study-linking-authoritarianism-conservatives-retracted

https://www.facebook.com/intellectual.takeout.org/photos/a.10150403039780173.620085.187571410172/10159956285115173/?type=3&theater

[ArchieBunker]

stop the presses, drunk woman feels up man,

https://www.yahoo.com/news/male-staffer-accuses-california-assemblywoman-misconduct-003752466.html

[Todd Juvinall]

So let me get this straight. Gavin Newsome was banging his Chief of Staff's wife while running for Lt. Governor or Mayor and the press says nothing about this. Yet Travis Allen is accused of touching some woman's foot with his big toe and hat is sexual harassment? Have the press any brains? Yes.

[George Boardman]

You don't have it straight Todd, as usual. The story was all over the Bay Area media when it was revealed; why do you think people are still asking Newson about the incident now?

Allen is a campaign going nowhere. He has spent more money than he has raise (love those Republican fiscal hawks!) and will be among the also-rans in the June primary. I'll bet none of the Republican candidates for governor get past the primary.

[George Boardman]

Hey Donnie, is this a good entry into the market, or does the Trump Dump still have legs?

[ArchieBunker]

Todd, our team needs to step it up in the intelligence department. I thought my son in law was a meathead, but you are starting to sound like him.

http://www.politifact.com/california/statements/2018/feb/07/travis-allen/travis-allen-repeats-false-claim-californians-over/

[fish]

Well crap.....now I think I need to see if I can find one!

The Legendary Browning ‘Hi Power’ Pistol Ends Production.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a16720630/browning-hi-power-production-ends/

[Todd Juvinall]

Oh GeorgeB, your ilk brings back things from 40 years ago and your pal Newsome is just a couple of years ago. And yes I know it was reported locally in the Bay Area but you and your pals buried it pretty fast. If it was a Porter it would be national and daily until he resigns. But you protect your own, I get that. So you think California should be governed by such a sleazebag eh? Says a lot about you libs.

I too think the top two will be democrats. A self-inflicted shot by the Cali voters.

ArchieBunmker, not a meathead at all. I am a lot smarter than you, a rcist bigot homophobe so crawl back onto you LazyBoy and consume all your six packs.

[Don Bessee]

Here is one for the po' ol' pollhead - Trump 49% approval -

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/trump_administration/prez_track_feb09

;-)

[Walt]

When the AGW scam just won't go your way.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/02/09/delingpole-sinking-pacific-island-actually-getting-bigger-shock/

[Gregory]

Re the Browning Hi Power, aka P-35

Thanks for the link fish, but true to form, PM gets a key spec wrong... the standard magazines have always held 13 rounds.

[Don Bessee]

The deep state minion admits it ahead of the rush-

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/02/09/obama-state-dept-official-admits-free-flowing-exchange-reports-with-trump-dossier-author.html

;-)

[ArchieBunker]

Mining is now cool, https://www.lifewire.com/cryptocoin-mining-for-beginners-2483064

Stake your claim

[Todd Juvinall]

Hey GeorgeR check out this study on "fake news" done in England I guess. I have been told it is all conservatives.

http://comprop.oii.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/93/2018/02/Polarization-Partisanship-JunkNews.pdf

[George Rebane]

ToddJ 438pm - Conservatives definitely don't come out well in this study.

[Don Bessee]

Lets hope this blows up in their faces in the midterms-

http://www.breitbart.com/2018-elections/2018/02/09/democrats-sacrifice-dreamers-to-preserve-chain-migration-immigration-inflow/

;-)

[Bill Tozer.]

Another one runs away.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/third-highest-ranking-official-at-the-justice-department-stepping-down/2018/02/09/4fae32fc-0de5-11e8-8b0d-891602206fb7_story.html?utm_term=.adc320c2d0ba

[Bill Tozer.]

CNN joins Starman and Elvis and has left the building. Blame Trump for not deporting bad illegals? Oakey Dokey. Let’s make it CNN has left the planet. Ever hear of Sanctuary Cities?

“Camerota then began her rant by acknowledging that Trump had a point that some illegal immigrants should be deported, but she then pivoted to accusing Trump of spending too much effort deporting the wrong kinds of immigrants at the expense of deporting the right kind:”

https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/brad-wilmouth/2018/02/06/cnn-tries-blame-trump-not-deporting-illegal-who-killed-nfl-player?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=marketing&utm_campaign=cnn-blame

[Bill Tozer]

What you sow is what you reap:

“This one would be funny if it weren’t so stupid. Christ the King HS in Queens denied a student’s request to put “Malcolm X” on the back of his senior sweater, reportedly saying the name of the late black activist could offend some students.

The denial reveals that the snowflake movement to stop free speech has reached ridiculous dimensions — because the student’s birth name is Malcolm Xavier Combs.

It would be nice to report the school admitted its mistake and apologized. No such luck, and now Al Sharpton is involved.”

[fish]

Posted by: Bill Tozer | 11 February 2018 at 07:32 AM

".......and now Al Sharpton is involved.”

Snitchy Al can always be counted on to have his snout in the air if the opportunity for publicity is involved!

[fish]

....and I can be counted on to botch the html tags!

[MAGA CoVfefe!]

The Republicans wear no clothes!!! How about that 700 page spending bill that nobody read before they passed it? Fiscal conservative my eye!!!
Playing the good ol’ WE NEED MORE MONEY FOR GUNS card!!!

Trumpski is happy to give the military $50 Billion a year for building roads and bridges and schools in Afghanistan but here in Amerika he wants a wall!!! Just in from the Situation Room we find out that the war in Afghanistan is over and 9-11 perps are toast.
How about less nation building and terminate some of the 7 batttle fronts we are fighting on around the world with no war declarations.

[MAGA CoVfefe!]

From the reality TV Apprentice shows and the reality TV Presidency,,, Amarosa moves to Celebrity Big Brother!!!

Now!!! A new Trump documentary has begun on Showtime,,,free trial available now!!!

OUR CARTOON PRESIDENT!!!

http://www.sho.com/order?s_cid=pse-cartoonpres-10626&gclid=CjwKCAiA8P_TBRA9EiwAJrpHMxu7SB4PhGxv3BDn0sRSZlwlPeE959tmiM3HsIPdsM9IfH-f5Pkv-RoCcnEQAvD_BwE

[Gregory]

MAGA C continues to channel Doug the K.

A Rand Paul admirer and minor contributer to his Dad's presidential campaign in the '80's, both the spending and military adventures are a concern and enough to keep me from registering GOP... but the enemy of my enemy can be my friend and the current Democratic Party is a wretched excess of identity and collectivist politics.

The Janus case and an overturning of the California Rule (that public employee pension promises at time of hiring are a minimum requirement that cannot be modified) will be nice to see. Both may be coming soon.

[fish]

Posted by: MAGA CoVfefe! | 11 February 2018 at 08:12 AM

How about less nation building and terminate some of the 7 batttle fronts we are fighting on around the world with no war declarations.

Actually I'd be in favor of this!

Who knew?

(Oh and Douggy......way to get a handle on the ejaculatory capitalization.....good to see a man regain a little self control!)

[fish]

From my "neck of the woods"!

Controversial Hustler Hollywood store opens in Arden Arcade. Here’s the reaction

.......yawn......would be my first guess!

About 150 people lined up Saturday evening for the opening of a a Hustler Hollywood store in the Arden Arcade area.

Well that's just sad...!

http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article199542584.html

[George Rebane]

re MAGA 812am - It is clear how leftwing blinders work. The just passed spending bill was a bipartisan accomplishment (listen to Schumer) that contained almost equal amounts of deficit spending required by Republicans and Democrats. But it seems the Left only sees that the national security items in the bill are budget busters which, now that Trillions Deficit Obama is gone, are suddenly of great concern to those champions of fiscal prudence.

[MAGA Covfefe!]

HA!!! No Republican ever accused a Lib of being fiscally prudent,,, check your blinders!!! Reps first came up with the BIG BILL full of spending ideas. Dems would not buy in unless they got
equal spending cash to play with too!!!
Question is,,,are border walls and roads and bridges and schools in shithole countries more important than helping our Homeland and people???
Ammo and bombs and rockets and military hardware left on the battlefields of the world are like fireworks displays,,,very pretty and noisy,,, and totally F**k up people and things...But they are disposable items that should be bought with disposable income,,,and we don't have any according to the FREEDOM CAUCUS!!!
Fire up those printing presses at the money factory!!!

[fish]

Posted by: MAGA Covfefe! | 11 February 2018 at 10:18 AM

Two separate issues Douggy. Should we let the rest of the world sort out their shit? Absolutely!

Rest assured though it's the entitlements that are going to bankrupt us!

[Walt]

Trump sure put a quick end to those ISIS videos. I wonder how that happened? (NOT)
More money to the military the better.
Ol' "clueless" can pound sand.
LIBS are all in a tiff. Trump turned the nation around in one year. What no so called Repub or Proggy could never do.(or refused to do)
Libs got more of their huge spending, then turn around and bitch about it.

[Walt]

It's only good when LIBS do it.
http://dailycaller.com/2018/02/11/democrats-republicans-fiscal-stimulus/

[Bill Tozer]

Oh Walt. If the SOTUS showed us one thing, it’s not that the Dems have been branded as anti-Trump. Nay, they showed us they why they are branded as anti-American.
The Dems sat on their hands with big stone faced frowns as dear parents of sons and daughters slain by illegal aliens were introduced to the joint chamber. They did the same as well upon hearing that black and Latino unemployment rate is down, down, down. Heck, they looked like Eastern Island Kon-Tiki statutes sticking out like sore thumbs.

The Dems call American citizens “Deplorables” and illegal aliens “Dreamers.” Nancy stood eight straight hours for illegal aliens, but refused to stand for thirty seconds for Americans.

Dear Democrats:
We will never forget that on Jan. 20, 2018, you brought illegal aliens to the State of the Union instead of American vets. Yes, we will never forget.

[Bill Tozer]

Rand Paul and the budget.

“When the Democrats are in power, Republicans appear to be the conservative party. But when Republicans are in power, it seems there is no conservative party.” —Sen. Rand Paul

To which the elitist Gentry Liberals replied, “Where’s Rand Paul’s neighbor when we need him?” —Bette Midler

[Bill Tozer]

Olympics: NBC steps in it again. Seems to be their MO no matter what the subject matter is.

“Japan and South Korea have not even fully reconciled over atrocities committed during the occupation. While the Japanese government has expressed remorse and set up a fund in the 1990s to help victims it once referred to as “comfort women,” some politicians and academics claim estimates of 200,000 sex slaves are exaggerated. Many South Koreans, in turns, compare those skeptics to Holocaust deniers.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2018/02/11/nbc-apologizes-to-koreans-for-olympics-coverage-that-praised-japans-brutal-occupation/?utm_term=.2ff800a77766

[Walt]

Now don't forget Bill, there is another pressing issue at the Olympics. DOG.. That's what's for dinner. The usual crowd is demanding dog be taken of the nation's official menu. ( Obama would make a good food critic there.)

[Walt]

Closer to home, Calif. LIBs have a new mascot.
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Invasive-20-pound-rodents-increasingly-burrowing-12567822.php
You can bet LIBS will be looking to protect that vermin too.

[Paul Emery]

Bill

The 'slaughter" from illegal aliens is tiny compared to the slaughter caused by crazy people with guns. Or from illegal wars such as the "war" in Iraq. Where are the priorities?

[Walt]

Paul. I don't have a bit of a problem with the extinction of ISIS and friends.
Your "illegal war" crap is just that. Call a cop.
And Trump too care of that little problem with the rules of engagement. No more having to lose a few before shooting back,Or calling lawyers.

There has never been a "good war" in your book. I recall your stance on the Revolutionary war. That was "illegal" too.

[Don Bessee]

Its gonna be an A ticket ride!

https://nypost.com/2018/02/10/peeling-back-the-layers-of-hillary-clintons-deceit/

;-)

[Bill Tozer]

There are 2,300 illegal aliens in our CA prison system sitting in cells convicted for the crime of homicide. Priorities? One murder committed by an illegal alien on US soil, one strong arm robbery, one burlary, one hit and run, one DUI committed by any foreign national who has no authorization to be here is one crime too many.

[Don Bessee]

Even foreigners are calling NBC fake news!

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/dutch-fun-katie-courics-strange-comments-speedskating-005148155.html

;-)

[Michael R. Kesti]

Concerning priorities, I have long held that it's not about whether illegal immigrants are good people but about whether our laws are enforced and our borders are protected.

Concerning layers of HRC's deceit, Wikipedia reports that "As determined by Disney, "A" attractions were the smallest or least popular..." I suspect that you meant "an E ticket ride," Don.

[Don Bessee]

Only us old farts would connect with that one Kesti! ;-)

[Bill Tozer]

Thought this was cool. Good to see Mizzou get some good press (finally) after the Ms. Melissa Click debacle.

https://www.facebook.com/fox4kc/videos/10155616907078645/?hc_ref=ARQY-uFnBH4UX8wPPbuwmyb9EGNnFTFn_dLuTBNHyauLBruaNctsk2_mqmkZ-qRggxE&pnref=story

Thought this was cool as well. Something good is happening in flyover country.

https://www.facebook.com/fox4kc/videos/10155596476143645/?hc_ref=ARQEZj2OTacpP0RdMt7uMeOV-JzxJ-sTOMtQCSvq0Wv9Rb9X5B7QlgX3HGWwLohevpk&pnref=story

[Bill Tozer]

I agree with the Warrior Monk on this one,100%. Out of the 700,000 or so DACAs, there are 800 willing to fight and die for our country. It is only fair. The few, the brave, our comrades in arms.

http://www.oann.com/mattis-daca-recipients-serving-in-the-military-veterans-will-not-be-deported/

[Xenophilliac]

Ran across some info on illegal immigrants. Immigration has not increased for a while. Do we still need to spend the money on a wall?

https://t.co/vbIRDp5QqV

[Xenophilliac]

Trump misses the boat again and none of the 58 Cali county sheriffs will obey ICE;

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ice-detainer-lawsuit-20180209-story.html

[Xenophilliac]

Auschwitz survivor who does like the ICE follies,

https://mobile.twitter.com/NOW1SOLAR/status/960061593156374528/video/1

[fish]

Do we still need to spend the money on a wall?

I'd rather zero out welfare and other government benefits for non-citizens. But since that is politically difficult.....democrat bribes need to be administered both prior to, as well as during voting cycles. The wall should probably be built as a symbol if nothing else.

Trump misses the boat again and none of the 58 Cali county sheriffs will obey ICE;

No animal as greasy and political as the sheriff of a progressive city.....they know who "butters their bread".

Something to do with the corrupt nature of progressivism as practiced today.

Auschwitz survivor who does like the ICE follies,

Not our problem.....tell them to take it up with the Germans.

[Bill Tozer]

Well, if the fake baseless Russian Collusion story can’t take down Trump, #MeToo will try to get the job done. More hearings!

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) said Sunday she believes Congress should hold President Trump accountable for the numerous allegations of sexual misconduct leveled against him.

“I think he should resign, and if he’s unwilling to do that, which is what I assume, then Congress should hold him accountable. We’re obligated to have hearings,” Gillibrand said in an interview with CBS’s “60 Minutes.”

https://hotair.com/archives/2018/02/12/gillibrand-trump-needs-resign-well-take-action/

#Metoo champion?

Of course, while she may have been “among the first” that wasn’t her initial reaction. When several women accused Franken, she initially said she found the accusations “deeply concerning,” and that she expected, “to hear more from Sen. Franken.” Weeks later, on November 30th, after saying that Bill Clinton should have resigned, the Senator was again asked if Franken should resign. She responded by saying, “It’s his decision.”

By December 5th, coming up on a month after the story began and five women had come forward, Gillibrand was given another bite at the apple and had no comment beyond, “I’m not going to say that today.” Of course, she eventually did come out and call for him to resign, but many of her colleagues expressed remorse over the move.

[Gregory]

Xenophagiac 1021pm

The Federal judge is a late term Obama appointment whose parents immigrated from Haiti. His logic may be unclear. In other words, while his decision stands for now, it may not last.

Xenophagiac 1031pm
While everyone gives deference to Auschwitz survivors for their accounts of the Holocaust, there is no parallel between German Nazis and the ICE to be drawn; arresting illegal aliens to repatriate them to the country of their origin safely isn't th same as rounding up innocents to be gassed.

[Gregory]

Xenophagiac 1021pm

The Federal judge is a late term Obama appointment whose parents immigrated from Haiti. His logic may be unclear. In other words, while his decision stands for now, it may not last.

Xenophagiac 1031pm
While everyone gives deference to Auschwitz survivors for their accounts of the Holocaust, there is no parallel between German Nazis and the ICE to be drawn; arresting illegal aliens to repatriate them to the country of their origin safely isn't th same as rounding up innocents to be gassed.

[Gregory]

Xenophagiac 1021pm

The Federal judge is a late term Obama appointment whose parents immigrated from Haiti. His logic may be unclear. In other words, while his decision stands for now, it may not last.

Xenophagiac 1031pm
While everyone gives deference to Auschwitz survivors for their accounts of the Holocaust, there is no parallel between German Nazis and the ICE to be drawn; arresting illegal aliens to repatriate them to the country of their origin safely isn't th same as rounding up innocents to be gassed.

[xenoplilliac]

Posted by: Gregory | 12 February 2018 at 09:51 AM - got it.

[Gregory]

Xenophagiac 1014am

I sincerely doubt you "got it".

[Bill Tozer]

The not so PC Olympics and gawkers vs #Metoo:

First, we have been told repeatedly that a woman’s true worth is not her sex appeal. It’s wtong wrong wtong to gawk and gaze on a woman’s body, aka, the objectification of the fairer sex. Ok, no problem with that.

But, here comes the Tongo man, all shirtless and oiled up. Girls....er...females going wild touching him, runnng their hands over his oiled body, cooing over his physique, giggling, fawning, taking selfies, ....you get the point.

Not to be outdone, here comes BuzzFeed with the top 11 luge bulges (huge luges) that should “win Gold Metals.” I will not post the link, but will tell the reader that no Americans made the list.

Now Kim Kardashian is all upset that the other Kim (Kim Jong Un’s sister) has stolen the spotlight from her. Alas. The press is gushing over the North Korean Minister of Propaganda and Agitation. The Gulag Queen. She is friggin Gerbel, yet the press loves her. Sounds about right. Finally, the easily offended and even easier manipulated PC Social Justice media is being consistent. It’s about time.

* footnote: In other disturbing news from Pyeongchang, the Olympic Committee’s latest press release went unreported.

https://www.facebook.com/lastamericapatriots/photos/a.235087906641439.1073741826.235086849974878/997660870384135/?type=3&theater

[Todd Juvinall]

Looks like some loons are trying to murder Donald Trump Jr. and his wife Vanessa.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/vanessa-trump-taken-hospital-precaution-after-suspicious-letter-n847231

Whoever they are when they are caught I say toss them in Gitmo and don't supply the lube.

[xenoplilliac]

Posted by: Gregory | 12 February 2018 at 10:35 AM - Yes, I get it. The Federal judge's family hails from a shithole country, right? But the part I am not sure of is whether you and Trump are aligned against Mexican and Haitian judges?

http://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/article/2016/jun/08/donald-trumps-racial-comments-about-judge-trump-un/

[George Rebane]

Xeno 957am - You again missed the point. Securing the borders does not depend on the rate of increase in illegal entries, but that the ongoing rate is already unacceptably high. Capice? If so, tell your friends.

[Gregory]

No, xenophage, you don't get it.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Birotte_Jr.

After four years as an Obama appointee as a US Attorney, he got an Obama appointment to the federal bench, less than three years ago... only to find ICE detainers to be without authority in a lawsuit that predates Trump's inauguration.

The only Latino judge Trump accused of bias actually was a La Raza activist (think Mexican KKK) whose thumb was on the scale,arguably on every one of his rulings in the Trump U. civil case. Trump gave up and settled, limiting his losses. Another partisan Democrat with a gavel.

[Bill Tozer]

The cost of the Wall would pay for itself in just one year if you offset the costs of giving illegals tax payed funded safety net freebies (including education) and, of course, incarceration costs. 23% of all inmates in the Federal Prison System are illegals. Illegals have a higher criminal rate than lawful immigrants or the general population at large.

Sure, every country, population, and demographic has its criminal element. Every one. If say for sake of agrument, 10% of illegals are criminals. Say, building the Wall only stops only 10% of the illegal aliens trying to break into our country. That means we just reduced crime. With 2,300 illegal aliens in the CA prison system doing time for homicide, that alone means we just saved 23 Americans from being murdered. Now, say the Wall stops 40-50% of the illegals crossing via the overland route. More lives saved, more money saved.

There is no such thing as a law abiding illegal alien by definition. There is such a thing as legal immigrants, be they law abiding or not. Gotta start somewhere.

[Bill Tozer]

@12:44 pm

FYI, La Raza has changed its name. Rebranding, I reckon.

https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2017/07/21/538381366/the-largest-latino-advocacy-group-changes-their-name-sparking-debate

Blame Trump for name change:

http://www.kansascity.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/mary-sanchez/article161515658.html

[Gregory]

Toes 157pm

Well, not exactly. The La Raza group the judge belonged to was San Diego La Raza Lawyers. While not the main La Raza, it still translates to 'the race' or 'the people' and I'm going to guess anyone clueless enough to found a "Nevada County White Race Lawyers" would be called racist from the get-go.

Remember, racism isn't really racism if white people aren't the racists.

Now, Trump U was a rotten deal but if anyone gave Trump U money thinking it was a real university deserved to get their money taken. Caveat emptor.

[Don Bessee]

You know its bad when -

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/bs-md-ci-baltimore-no-homicides-10-days-20180211-story.html

;-)

[xeno]

Posted by: George Rebane | 12 February 2018 at 11:48 AM - The wall is working fine. Somebody tell Trump.

"Apprehensions of unaccompanied children so far in 2016 are similar to the first six months of 2014. When looking at where unaccompanied children are from, there have been substantially more apprehensions among those from Guatemala (9,383) and El Salvador (7,914) than Honduras (4,224) during the first six months of fiscal 2016. In 2014, Honduras was the leader in the number of unaccompanied minors apprehended.

U.S. government officials have started to prepare for a possible increase in migration from Central America this summer. For example, the Department of Health and Human Services has requested additional contingency funding from Congress to shelter apprehended children. In addition, the governor of Texas extended the deployment of the state’s National Guard at the border with Mexico in December, which coincided with a spike that month in border apprehensions."

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/05/04/u-s-border-apprehensions-of-families-and-unaccompanied-children-jump-dramatically/

[xeno]

Posted by: George Rebane | 12 February 2018 at 11:48 AM - You were saying?

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/04/14/mexico-us-border-apprehensions/

[Gregory]

Xeno, Warrior Princess, 406 and 411

I'm not sure what relevance to reality the info you linked have to Trump in generall and The Wall in particular...

What do border apprehension of "Mexican Citizens" per 100,000 of Mexicans in Mexico through 2016 have to do with Trump and The Wall? Or an increase of unaccompanied minors forecast from Central America before Trump took office?

Just comparing writing styles, I have to ask... are you Michael P. Anderson of Nevada City?

[George Rebane]

xeno 411pm - I'm not sure you understand the Pew data. Apprehensions represent a very small fraction (5-10% by one count) of the number of illegal entrants who disappear into our country's ethnic societies. And there are a number of reasons having to do with Border Patrol operations why apprehensions vary, none of which have much to do with the number of people crawling under/over the fence. That information comes directly from the BP itself.

[Gregory]

Here's a survey, just wondering what people think... who were the indisputable bad boys of the Balkans in the 20th Century?

Croats?
Bosnians?
Serbians?
Kosovars?

[Don Bessee]

A Marxist is the nr 2 at DNC and look who likes him-

http://freebeacon.com/politics/ellison-attended-private-dinner-iranian-president-louis-farrakhan-2013/

;-)

[Bill Tozer]

Oh boy. A conspiracy theory! Russian plane crash, Uranium One, Rosatom, the Dossier and other goodies.

http://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/news/world-news/2053-passengers-killed-on-crashed-russian-plane-include-cfo-of-rosatom-uraniumone-and-russian-source-for-christopher-steele-s-dossier-against-trump

IVANOV Vyacheslav: see caption.
“Fennovoima's shareholders, including 34%-owner Rosatom, made their final investment decision to go ahead with the construction of a Rosatom AES-2006 VVER unit at Hanhikivi earlier this year.”
http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/NN-Labour-ground-rules-set-for-Hanhikivi-2005147.html

This Russian Businessman Sergei Millian allegedly goes by another name; Sergey Panchenko.

Sergey Panchenko just happens to be one of the dead passengers in today's Russian plane crash that killed 71 people.

Translated Russian to English list of passengers that perished.
https://www.reddit.com/r/CBTS_Stream/comments/7wubby/list_of_russian_plane_crash_passengers_translated/

[Don Bessee]

More competition for the Fakenewsman of the Year-

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/new-york-times-writer-ignites-controversy-olympic-tweet-mirai-nagasu-034853159.html

Is it a hate crime to call a US born an immigrant? Surely at least a trigger for the snowflakes to run to their safe space. ;-)

[Bill Tozer]

Security clearances.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1994/03/11/after-year-15-white-house-aides-have-yet-to-receive-security-clearances/16a009dd-256d-44a9-82c9-c49113ed43ca/?utm_term=.0c1db0c2662e

Drugs in the White House! Cocaine, LSD, and smoking crack in the White House.
Some things don’t change with the Dems:

“We cannot do business here with a speaker of the House who is going to engage in these kinds of unfounded allegations," fumed Leon Panetta, the White House chief of staff. He lashed Gingrich for "behaving like an out-of-control radio talk-show host," for making an "absolutely false" accusation, for trafficking in "smear and innuendo."

Clinton adviser George Stephanopoulos labeled Gingrich "irresponsible." Hillary Clinton: "So unfair." Press Secretary Dee Dee Myers: "Reckless charges."

The media agreed. Panetta's heated denunciations were played up big. Few reporters paused to wonder if the gentleman did protest too much -- or if Gingrich's tip bore looking into. On dozens of editorial pages, there were comparisons to the most infamous demagogue in American history. The Georgia Republican's words, said Newsday, were "laced with the kind of innuendo that fueled McCarthy's witchhunt." Herblock, the Washington Post's venerable cartoonist, portrayed Gingrich as McCarthy, cruelly blackening reputations with a broad brush.

Now, 19 months later, it turns out that Gingrich was basically telling the truth and Panetta was lying through his teeth. Shouldn't last week's stories have so noted? It isn't every day that Secret Service agents give evidence under oath of a widespread history of "cocaine usage ... hallucinogenic usages, crack usages" among White House employees. Did no reporter remember how Gingrich had been vilified when he raised the subject a year and a half earlier?“

http://www.jeffjacoby.com/7819/gingrich-was-right-about-white-house-drug-users

Being liberal means never having to say “I’m sorry.”

[Bill Tozer]

The Susan Rice e-mail to herself on Inauguration Day is weirdo stuff. Smells fishy at first glance, if not downright lame, amateurish, and like playing hide-n-seek with a child who giggles behind the curtain when you walk by looking for her playing the game. Lame.

She is vacating her office, post, and work computer in a couple of hours and never coming back.. No means to retrieve her e-mail or get back into that server, leaving the last thing (or first thing) for the new Administration and holdovers to find. She wanted to put something in the record that happened 2 weeks earlier. Weirdo stuff.

Opening paragraph.: “President Obama began the conversation by stressing his continued commitment to ensuring that every aspect of this issue is handled by the Intelligence and law enforcement communities ‘by the book’. The President stressed that he is not asking about, initiating or instructing anything from a law enforcement perspective. He reiterated that our law enforcement team needs to proceed as it normally would by the book.”

https://www.grassley.senate.gov/news/news-releases/grassley-graham-uncover-unusual-email-sent-susan-rice-herself-president-trump-s

Get it. By the book. By the book used in both sentences. Got it loud and clear. Guess that means I should put the date Jan 5, 2018 in the memory bank and let ‘er ride. Did like the Senators’ questions to Ms. Rice.

[Bill Tozer]

Not to mention Jan. 5, 2017.

[George Rebane]

re Susan Rice selfie email - Let's hear from those who don't think this is the most significant yet lame CYA attempt by any administration. Can anyone imagine how stupid Rice thought the eventual readers of this email would be? Can you really? Or do progressives think that this little piece of email legerdemain would really do the cover up trick for their constituencies?

[fish]

Posted by: George Rebane | 13 February 2018 at 10:48 AM

Oh it will be completely convincing to some.....

[Don Bessee]

Gaming the system?

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/how-wall-streets-fear-gauge-is-being-rigged-according-to-one-whistleblower-2018-02-13

;-)

[Bill Tozer]

Looking into my murky crystal ball, the Dems will not go for immigration reform with the Wall in and with extended family free passes (formerly called chain migration) out. No way Jose.
Heard Lindsay Graham authored some bill to take the lottery and stick it somewhere in some bureaucracy safe place alive and well, but out of sight and out of mind.....as well as being called something else. And changing DACA cutoffs from coming here 16 years old and younger to 18 and under.

Anyway, here is some good news on the topic. I don’t see anyway problem here. No way will the Dems go for it. Gee, I hardly got to know ya.

http://money.cnn.com/2018/02/07/news/economy/daca-deal-dreamers/index.html

[Gregory]

No one has an opinion on the Bad Boys of the Balkans?

Croats?
Bosnians?
Serbians?

[Bill Tozer]

@12:00
What happened to the Kosovars? Hmmm. Serbians established their home in Bosnia, yet lost territory in Serbia. Bohemia and Macedonia not on the list. Ok, answer is.....drumroll please....Transylvania, known for bloodthirsty vampire bats and howling wolves. Only the badass lived there.

[Gregory]

A truly great interview on NPR yesterday morning, a cognitive scientist (the real thing) on early reading. A snippet from the transcript:

"Success in reading depends on linking print to speech. There's a massive amount of behavioral research, neuroimaging research, on brain organization and brain development, which conclusively shows that skilled reading is associated with children's spoken language, grammar and the vocabulary they already know. It's about teaching kids the correspondence between the letters on a page and the sounds of words."

-"And you're saying that teachers don't know this?"

"This basic science does not go into the preparation of teachers. More often they're told it's not really relevant, that the science is sterile and has no connection with what teachers do in the classroom.

What I point out in the book is that in order to grasp the research, [teachers] need basic scientific literacy to be able to understand it. They can dismiss [what I'm saying] or they can share my outrage ... The reading wars are over and science lost. Phonics is just one specific component of learning to read that's important at a particular point in a child's development. The reading wars did not focus on this, so the conflict was set up in a bogus way."

https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/02/12/582465905/the-gap-between-the-science-on-kids-and-reading-and-how-it-is-taught

This is making the rounds approvingly in my circles.

[Gregory]

Toez 1224, this is serious stuff, I did specify the last 100 years and was intending on sticking with reality, not a Bram Stoker novel.

[Walt]

Well, so much for more water. But let's piss the money away somewhere else.
http://www.breitbart.com/california/2018/02/13/prop-1-california-water-commission-kills-all-12-proposed-reservoirs/

[Mary Wanna]

Walt!!! Remington going bankrupt!!! Thanks Trumpski!!! MAGA

http://money.cnn.com/2018/02/12/news/companies/remington-bankruptcy-plans/index.html

[Gregory]

Mikey Wanna 245pm, it's the Trump slump. The gunners amongst us are not worried about the 2nd Amendment no mo' and so the money isn't flowing into guns and ammo as much as before... and Remington Arms, that's been around for over 200 years, has some restructuring to do to bring revenue back into line with expenses. Chapter 11, not a Chapter 7 shutdown.

HillBillary would have sent arms sales though the roof afresh.

[Bill Tozer]

Guns and rights

https://www.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343.55586.217926015008110/1256794697787898/?type=3&theater

https://www.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343.55586.217926015008110/1257264657740902/?type=3&theater

[Bill Tozer]

Dr Rebane @ 10:48am.....the Susan Rice selfie e-mail

The second part:

“The President asked Comey to inform him if anything changes in the next few weeks that should affect how we share classified information with the incoming team. Comey said he would.”

Comey said he would. Jan 5, 2017.
So, Obama knew, Sally Yates knew, Rice knew, Clapper knew, Joe Biden knew, the NYT knew, Comey knew, Lynch had to know about the “wiretapping” of Trump into Russian Collusion.

That date is significant because this meeting took place the day before Comey and the FBI visited Trump Tower to brief the president-elect on the investigation and the dossier, which had already been used to justify surveillance of Trump’s campaign. As Rice indicates, the meeting participants debated what and how much to tell Trump — Obama wanted to hide some things.

“Comey said he would.” Hmmm. Ok, let’s get a bigger picture. There is no one to investigate what happened. Count on the FBI investigate itself? Justice Department? No, Sessions recused himself. The CIA? Nope, no prosecutorial power.

Who then is left to investigate except Mueller? Who besides another Special Counsel? Answer: nobody.