Thursday, November 24, 2016

Robin Vos Unchained!

So Robin Vos granted an interview.

...I have a few priorities. I would like to continue to increase our investment in education, especially public schools and universities. I would like to find a long-term solution for funding road repairs and maintenance. And I would like to make sure that we continue to make our state a place where families can find good-paying jobs that provide benefits....

Vos doesn't mention that the public-school "investment" means giving away laptop computers to every HS student in the State.  For good reason:  that would be a revolting development, in the best sense of the term 'revolt.'

...many of our schools are in steady or declining enrollment, we have to continue to look at our education system, which really has been based on funding pupils. If we are in declining enrollment, that’s going to cause problems in the long run...

Interesting observation.  Should Wisconsin fund 'education' based on buildings?  Teachers?  School buses?  Square mileage? 

"Declining enrollment" is--by the way--localized.  Oconomowoc has exactly the opposite problem and passed a large referendum based on increased enrollment.  Business solves the problem of "declining enrollment" (read:  less consumers-of-the-product) by layoffs and sale of assets such as buildings and grounds.  Is that impossible for school districts?

Get the popcorn.  This should be interesting.

Think There's More to This Story?

We've come to expect this sort of 'journalism'.

One suspects that there is more to this story.  We'll see after the investigation is complete, instead of NOT complete.

The Moonbat Contradiction

For the record, according to THIS moonbat, it's perfectly licit and morally correct to refuse business from those who are politically different.

As HotAir points out, that's not the experience of the cake-bakers or pizza-makers.

So 'patriotism' is invested solely in the Left.

Just so you know.....

Cui Bono? NOT Jill Stein!

It appears that Jill Stein, who captured a stunning 1.1% of the Wisconsin vote, has raised $2 million to force a recount in this State.

ZeroHedge and I are thinking on the same track.

...Jill Stein's effort to raise money for recounts in WI, PA and MI is obviously being done on behalf of the Hillary Clinton campaign. It's a very clever approach (we would expect nothing less) as it allows Hillary to maintain the high road as the gracious loser while allowing someone else to play the bad guy...typical Clinton politics really....

Maybe Jill will find another 3 or 4 Stein votes.  But she won't find 28,000 more Clinton votes.  So we have another $2 million to add to Walker's surplus!!

"Workplace Accident" for North Dakota Terrorist

You've seen the pix before; usually, the victim of a "workplace accident" is a Muhammedan Jihadi whose bomb-in-process detonated a bit too early, leaving the Jihadist at room temperature in several hundred pieces.

Happens in the US, too.  Right in North Dakota, where the usual bunch of Communists and hangers-on (useful idiots) are protesting a petroleum pipeline.

...It was after the female was pulled away from the site of the explosion that Wilansky was brought back to protest medics, with her allies claiming that a police “concussion grenade” injured her....Logic suggests that Sophia Wilansky may have been the female authorities saw wounded in the explosion of a propane canister-based improvised explosive device (IED).

That canister was supposed to roll over to the police line and blow up a couple of cops.

Well.  She will be the first jihadi named "Wilansky".

Half the Truth (or Less) From Ed Flynn

The police chief of Milwaukee got kudos from us for identifying the progenitors of the Sherman Park riots as "Communists from Chicago."

But not everything Flynn says is worthy of respect.  Take, for example, his half-truth about the Wisconsin Concealed Carry law.

....Milwaukee Police Chief Ed Flynn sees a connection between the law’s 2011 enactment and his city’s spike in gun violence. And he notes the reason there’s no evidence is that police are prohibited from looking at their own data on the subject or revealing it to the public.

“What we’re seeing are more guns on the streets,” the chief told USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin. “I can tell you anecdotally we’re seeing a number of shootings involving concealed carry permit holders — many of whom have extensive criminal records — but I’m not allowed to tell you how many or whom, because the law has been carefully written to prevent analysis of that information.”...

What Flynn does NOT say is this:  people can lie on their CC applications.  We know that the WI DOJ can revoke a permit based on a conviction, and we know that they can deny it if there is an 'extensive criminal record' on file in Wisconsin.  But DOJ cannot deny a license if the applicant LIES (and gets away with it.)

By the way, the entire "news" story was created so that the extreme anti-self-defense outfit deceptively titled "Wisconsin Anti-Violence Effort" could gain access to CC permit files.  Note the mention of Jeri Bonavia. 

Good luck, Jeri and Ed.  Nothing's going to change.  Here's why:

“The story kind of is that there is no story,” Attorney General Brad Schimel said. “I’m not aware of evidence of statistical significance that there are people who gain a permit who are committing crime with guns … and there’s not a lot of evidence of people using guns to protect themselves or others.”

Yup.

Democrats Looking for "Conflict of Interest"?

Yah, that's really a laugh-line.  The party which ran the most corrupt candidate since Harding is trying to find "conflict of interest" in a guy who doesn't even have a Gummint position--yet.

The (D) folks should ask Hillary for her Handbook of Corrupt Practices.  It will be easier to find corruption if you follow the instructions of a master.  Get a signed copy while they're available!!

Wednesday, November 23, 2016

So, Wiggy, Is Bannon a Racist?

There's a bunch of "R" word being tossed about, mostly because of this "Alt-Right" thing.

Clearly, there are racists on the Right.  (And the Left, but....)

So.  Read through this offering from Wigderson and tell me:  is he calling Bannon a racist?  Or is he using the NYTimes' stylebook, cleverly inserting the term proximate to Bannon's name...?

Hmmmmm?

NY Gov. Cuomo Going Down?

This item has a lot--repeat, a LOT--of implications, nicely drawn out at HotAir.

...Bharara has made his case to a grand jury and been given the green light to take eight top aides and associates of Governor Andrew Cuomo to trial on charges of corruption. (New York Observer)...

Umnnhhhh....so?  Cuomo's Gummint is corrupt?  And the sun rises in the East, right?

The point is that Bharara is a-political.  He prosecutes Bad Guys (and Bad Babes) on both sides of the aisle.  New York State is full of them.  In fact, one of the Bad Babes lives in that State.

...Bharara is the guy who is currently going after Anthony Weiner… an investigation which produced all sorts of interesting information. And in August he announced that he was investigating corruption at the New York offices of the Clinton Foundation. 

As I said at the time, this isn’t the sort of investigation which was going to be wrapped up in a matter of weeks. These things take time. The FBI may have thrown in the towel on going after Hillary Clinton. Even Donald Trump may be making noises about not needing to “lock her up.” But out there in New York City Preet Bharara is still grinding away at his job. And if he has the Clintons in his sights, don’t expect him to simply go away because the election is over. Preet Bharara is the honey badger of corruption investigations and he is not afraid to do his job....

This may well explain The Donald's decision not to put Hillary in the Graybar Hotel through Sessions.  He won't have to.

Tuesday, November 22, 2016

The Establishment: Donald Trump (!!)

Awwww.  Isn't he a nice fellow??

...Donald Trump is supposedly not going to pursue any prosecution of Secretary Hillary Clinton over her email transgressions or even the pay to play activities of the Clinton Global Initiative....

(That story is not confirmed by The Donald--yet.)

So.  Which Espionage Act sections may WE blatantly and knowingly violate?  How much of the US' patrimony may WE sell for our own 401(k)'s??

Curious minds want to know, Donald.

If that bint is not prosecuted, Donald, then another MAGA movement should start today.

Owen: Zing, Zam, Zoom!

Owen is on top of his game today.

That "budget shortfall" advertised by the MSM?  It's Tony Evers, whole and entire.

While you're there, note that the "conservative" Governor and Legislature cannot bring themselves to reduce State spending.  Boehner-Cantorism lives!

Finally, Nebraska stops the looting of its citizens with a simple law:  the cops can't steal your stuff unless you're actually proven guilty of a crime.  Blue tears flowing.

Voces de la Frontera, Again

It seems that whenever one finds troublesome "marching" and "protesting," one finds Voces de la Frontera someplace near the scene.

Sure enough, good ol' Voces is connected to SorosMoney through another outfit which is an anti-Trump noisemaker.  Something about 'sanctuary' for 'students.' 

Whatever. 

Saturday, November 19, 2016

Sloppy, Lazy, "Journalism": Trump/Racist Claims

Some facts of note:

...[Compared to Romney] Trump made gains among blacks. He made gains among Latinos. He made gains among Asians. The only major racial group where he didn’t get a gain of greater than 5% was white people. I want to repeat that: the group where Trump’s message resonated least over what we would predict from a generic Republican was the white population.

Nor was there some surge in white turnout. I don’t think we have official numbers yet, but by eyeballing what data we have it looks very much like whites turned out in equal or lesser numbers this year than in 2012, 2008, and so on....

Aside from wearing their diaper pins, what is the MSM schlump to do??

Truth Hurts

Heh.






And by the way:  theaters are not good for those who free slaves.  You can ask Mike Pence.

HT: PowerLine

Death by Tariff? No.

Tonelson has been studying economics for longer than many "economists" have been alive.  Here he dismantles the "China will kill the US" fabrications pumped by the Establishment/Chamber-of-Commerce twits.

He begins with the fabulism propagated by state-run media (ChiCom in this instance):

“A batch of Boeing orders will be replaced by Airbus. U.S. auto and iPhone sales in China will suffer a setback, and U.S. soybean and maize imports will be halted. China can also limit the number of Chinese students studying in the U.S.”

Uh-huh.

....if the Chinese newspaper writers really are reflecting their political leaders’ views, then their grip on reality is totally gone. For example, will the United States really be the only country that suffers if iPhone sales in the PRC are limited? Last I checked, nearly all these devices were assembled in China, where Apple and especially subcontractors are mass employers. Further, the Chinese content of manufactured goods across-the-board keeps rising, so Chinese workers across long domestic supply chains would be hit as well....

He mentions the "Chinese students" threat, too.  Since a large number of Chinese 'students' are actually spies, perhaps that's a feature, not a bug.

Finally:

...More important, let’s not forget the broader economic context. Although it’s down some since 2015, China is still on course to run a nearly $350 billion trade surplus with the United States this year. And not only is trade more crucial to China’s growth than it is to America’s (and more important than official figures indicate), but that growth in turn is vital to China’s stability – and to the personal fortunes of its dictators and oligarchs. So could we please stop with the claims that these same Chinese leaders are going to launch a commercial attack on its top customer on net by far?...

Not if you are the WSJ, NYT, or any of the other state-run media (US versions.)

How About "Screw the ADL!!", Governor?

Over the last few decades, the Jewish Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has morphed from a civil rights organization into a fetid leftist swampthing.

So when NPR, another fetid leftist swampthing, asks Gov. Walker and Senator RoJo a question, basing that question on something ADL said, the proper answer is "Screw the ADL!"

There.  That's easy, no?

Friday, November 18, 2016

Did We Mention the Communists?

Yes, in fact, we DID mention the Commies--just yesterday!

Aaaaaaaaaaannnnnnd they're back!

A Marxist, a Venezuelan diplomat and an illegal alien headlined a meeting of organizers of the Trump resistance as they announced their plan to shut down Chicago on Saturday and Washington, D.C. on Inauguration Day....

...CHICAGO ANSWER organizers, Stephanie and Mika, co-chaired the evening and Mika said he was also an organizer with the Party for Socialist and Liberation, a radical Marxist group and a frequent partner of ANSWER....

ANSWER is the successor to ACORN.  ACORN was such an embarrassment--it was so radical and corrupt--that even Obozo agreed to cut off its Federal money.

It would be unfortunate if the Chicago Police tactical squad's armored vehicles ran over these vermin.

Thursday, November 17, 2016

Is Wiggy Clutching His Pearls?

Wigderson mutters and grumbles about Bannon.  Maybe Wiggy knows something that nobody else (including Paul Ryan) knows.  And maybe not.

But hey:  it's a NYTimes-sorta essay; pearls are clutched, gasping is heard, but there's really no "there" there.

Perhaps Wiggy will produce some "there."

We'll wait.  Meantime, a bit of pertinent wisdom from Grim:

...evidence that tends to confirm a theory is not what we really want in science: no theory can ever be confirmed, after all. What we're really looking for is ways to collect evidence that would disprove a theory....

Pipe.  Smoke.  Put.

More Communists. Just Co-Incidence, of Course

For a long time I thought that the Communist Party in the USA (CPUSA) consisted of maybe a few thousand gerontologically-challenged arm-wavers who would soon follow Kruschev into the dust, holding hard-cover, worn-out copies of The Communist Manifesto.

The first sign that I was wrong?  Barack Obama, who is not gerontologically challenged, but is a Communist.  Yes, yes, yes, I know.  That's something Polite Society Folks just do not say out loud, or in pixels.  Screw that.  He's a f*&^%g Commie.

After the realization that there is something radically (heh) wrong with Barry, other anecdotal stuff began to pile up, and as Jack Ryan says, "There is no such thing as co-incidence."  The first was the Milwaukee Riots of this summer; the Milwaukee police chief ID'd the provacateurs as "communists from Chicago."  (It is NOT a co-incidence that Comrade Barry was a Chicago provacateur.)

Now the C-word comes up again:   Police in Austin, Texas have released the identities and mugshots of six communists who participated in weekend demonstrations near the state capitol building in response to the election of Donald Trump as president.

The Commies are a giant toilet-bowl of Not Good.  They have nothing in common with a rightly-ordered society, no matter the addled prattle of a white-hatted Jesuit in Rome.  In fact, the goal of the Commies is to destroy--root and branch--any right order AND whatever happens to surround it, especially the Catholic Church.

There should be a special place for them, with lots of razor-wire, on an island several hundred miles from the USA.  Note:  I did not include "food and water" in that specification.

Wednesday, November 16, 2016

The Empire Will Not Go Quietly

McCaughey is right.  The Donald is about to meet The Immovable Object. 

You may have bet against him in the primaries and the Big Race and lost.  But betting against The Empire?   Hmmmmm.

Donald Trump’s triumph over Hillary Clinton presages an even bigger battle ahead against the heart of the Democratic establishment: the federal workforce. This army of bureaucrats — almost 3 million strong — gave Clinton a large majority of their votes and over 90 percent of their campaign contributions. 

Expect federal workers and their union bosses to use every trick in the book to block Trump’s reform agenda....

They've started.  Look to the smear-and-destroy stories filling the pages of the Usual Suspects.

...Will Trump, a newcomer to Washington, succeed where other presidents have failed? Possibly. He’s shown he gets his money’s worth. After all, he defeated spendthrift Clinton with less than a quarter of the campaign staff and half the spending. 

But federal employees will scramble to stay on the gravy train. They earn a whopping $123,160 a year on average — about a third more than private-sector employees — get over a month’s paid vacation and don’t lose sleep over getting fired. Hard to call them civil “servants.” ...

Maybe an earthquake will detach D.C. and send it into the Atlantic, so there's hope.