George Rebane
Gold-backed dollar or not? Interesting debate now going on over how to set the value of the dollar which is fiat money but still the world’s leading reserve currency. Gold is pooh-poohed by governments and pundits as just an “alternative asset class” which serves many as a “speculative store of value”. Interesting to note is that it is the governments who hoard massive amounts of gold and use it to clear inter-nation trade accounts. Hmm?
Counting Trump’s ‘lies’ has become another favorite pastime for leftwingers. Books have been written on the subject. On closer inspection, such counts include all the bravados and projections and predictions and promises that politicians over the ages and of all hues have generously poured into their constituents’ ears. Today’s under-educated TDS sufferers know nothing of this, and feel proud that they are plowing new ground in such endeavors.
AOC for all seasons and reasons. Seldom has a politician come along who gives so much pleasure to both sides campaigning in a highly polarized political landscape. Today both Repubs and Dems hope that AOC and her brood will continue spewing loud and clear their anti-American assessments and prescriptions for a fundamentally transformed US. Karl Rove calls her “the gift that keeps on giving.”
[19jul19 update] 'Impeachment Phonies' in the 19jul19 WSJ - "So much for high crimes and misdemeanors. Faced with a resolution to impeach President Trump on Wednesday, House Democrats blinked. That was the smart move politically, but what does it say about the courage of their conviction that Mr. Trump is a clear and present danger to the country and Constitution?"
What would you do if given the choice? I would be in the faugetaboutit column. -
https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2019/07/18/netanyahu-to-decide-if-bds-supporters-omar-and-tlaib-can-visit-israel-next-month/
;-)
Posted by: Don Bessee | 18 July 2019 at 05:00 PM
DonB 500pm - That's a tough call for Bebe. It affects the travel of elected reps of your major ally - hard to deny them entry.
Posted by: George Rebane | 18 July 2019 at 07:10 PM
Dr. R- Somehow I don't see the Trump administration felling sorry for the socialist jihadis if they don't get a photo op with the families of 'martyrs' who are getting paid for their terrorism.
;-)
Posted by: Don Bessee | 18 July 2019 at 08:19 PM
Well it looks like the congressional jihadi caucus just gave Jerusalem a reason to block them -
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/jay-sekulow-and-mark-goldfeder-ilhan-omars-outrageous-anti-israel-resolution-should-be-defeated-in-house
;-)
Posted by: Don Bessee | 18 July 2019 at 08:35 PM
Must be Keachies kid.....
The stupid I mean......
I have have to follow behind picking up their dog links....makes a guy wonder who is really in charge?!
https://pjmedia.com/trending/liberals-tweet-goes-viral-white-people-love-dogs-because-they-miss-owning-slaves/
Posted by: fish | 18 July 2019 at 09:07 PM
@ 9:07 pm
“'White People Love Dogs Because They Miss Owning Slaves”. Lol.
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Confirmation bias
“Half a century of research has placed confirmation bias among the most dependable of mental stumbling blocks. Journalists looking to tell a certain story must avoid the tendency to ignore evidence to the contrary; scientists looking to prove a hypothesis must avoid designing experiments with little wiggle room for alternate outcomes. Without confirmation bias, conspiracy theories would fall apart.“
https://www.intellectualtakeout.org/article/medical-dean-sees-fishing-knot-and-calls-it-hate-crime
Posted by: Bill Tozer | 19 July 2019 at 08:35 AM
The Jihad Squad for all the right reasons...
https://www.facebook.com/MindofJamal/videos/2426573544032714/
Posted by: Bill Tozer | 20 July 2019 at 03:49 PM
As I see it, libs cant afford to have anyone run for President.
They owe too much money, and don't pay their bills. Kinda like how they run the country.
https://dailycaller.com/2019/07/20/dnc-june-fundraising-rnc/
The Democratic National Committee raised $8.5 million in June and has $9.3 million in the bank, according to campaign finance records released late Friday.
Both figures are far behind what the Republican National Committee said it has raised. The GOP said it raised $20.8 million in June, and has $43.5 million cash on hand, Fox News reported Wednesday. Republicans also said the party has no debt, while the DNC has $5.7 million in debt, according to FEC records.
Posted by: Walt | 20 July 2019 at 05:52 PM
Walt @ 5:52. They are always in debt and always leave a mess wherever they go.
They are giving their money to super PACs and such. They can come up with 650 million more at the drop of a hat and probably are sitting on at least 600 million right now. If they need finance lawyers or teams of legal lawyers in a place over here or something over there...maybe a crowd gathered and chanting with all the word out within a day’s notice....sometime less. If they sound the alarm and need a couple hundred racing to the airport and signs in less than two hours, they can. They hit the media in the spit of second over a tweet and make it the story under the banner “Trump is a Racist Now FASICT” and run with that until it peters out...then the next crisis thang. Whatever they need they got at the jump of a gun to resist everything Everything. Beds for migrants. Anything. A formidable, yet rather nasty foe.
Obama did not trust the Dem state political parties at all. No siree. Neither did he relish the job of being the de facto head of the DNC. He didn’t care, it was Hillary’s machine now. He meet with Debbi only once a month and a couple missed dates for face to face chats. Before that, he met with the DNC chair every morning over coffee.
Money ain’t going to the Dem party. It’s going to the candidate first, then the “non profits’ and advocacy groups and only the old reliables are giving to the DNC. Good thing Hillary bailed them out last time. For a rather nice price. Now..falling into neglect in only 2 1/2 years.
Cross talk: Walt, if I when I want the best or really good stuff, SPD doesn’t let me down. Outlaw Chili (guaranteed to drive the in-laws out) was the best packaged chili mix I ever saw. And their salad dressings can make for a very nice toss together marinade sauce if you want to go a different way. Smoking. And pork. SPD is you go if want it nice and thick. Necessity is the mother of invention.
Anyway, best to post the following as an excuse for being on topic.
https://news.grabien.com/story-msnbcs-chris-hayes-trump-supporters-must-be-confronted-and-d
Opps. That was off topic. Try this.
Impeachment. They got 94 votes. Jerry Nadler, the old ticket fixer, finally switched left and voted yea for the first time. Well, he probably had to after leading the hearings and demanding 10,000 million zillion subpoenas. Or, maybe, the fact that he is on the Justice Democrat’s hit list, he might as well toss them a bone...just in case. AOC caught the next in line to be whip or higher napping. Only had a 19% turnout in a sleeper primary in New York of all places, not paying the New York Political machines who run the joint any respect.
They got an impeachment vote and a House resolution calling Trump a racist and Trump is still skipping along painting an excellent portrait of the Great Divide. I can’t believe the Dems are ceding the middle. TDS does strange things to people.
Posted by: Bill Tozer | 20 July 2019 at 08:01 PM
BT - great link - "It must be peacefully, nonviolently, politically destroyed with love, compassion and determination, but utterly confronted and destroyed."
Details?
Hah - like all lefties, there are no details.
Love to see Chris show up here and 'peacefully' destroy me.
Love to see Chris do anything beyond flap his gums.
Typical lefty.
Posted by: Scott O | 20 July 2019 at 08:29 PM
Re: AOC, the Four Faces of the Apocaleft and impeachment.. AOC is the best on camera by far and both sides can fundraiser off her, but it’s always been Tliab as the one to watch. She be self appointed Mother bear. She is the real America hater. Under the direction of CAIR and Humas associates. When there was a recess and Omar was facing the Anti- Semitism vote, Tliab was in her office with the head of CAIR, closed door. Anyway.......AOC is easy on the eyes, but the sound of hr voice is starting to grate on me. You are only new once. Like Trump, defiant through and through.
Boy, they just can’t wait for impeachment. Talked about it before he won, before he was sworn in, and they want it like yesterday. Imagine Tliab laying her beloved son down to sleep and saying her goodnight sweet things to the boy and telling him not to worry about bullies cause tomorrow she will be sworn in and we will impeach the motherf**ker. Sweet dreamies. Mommie loves you. Nice bedtime story, Mom. I can she her wearing a suicide vest. Impeach vote for impeach vote’s sakes. Got it on the record. Impeach the mo fo!!
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/03/25/montage_mainstream_media_hype_about_russia_collusion.html
Posted by: Bill Tozer | 20 July 2019 at 10:09 PM