Tuesday, August 18, 2015

Walker Going Rogue?

Interesting.  Maybe Walker--or his consultants--have figured out that actually, a lot of real people despise the Establishment, almost as much as the Establishment despises them.

...Walker, appearing on Glenn Beck’s radio show Monday stated, “We were told that if Republicans got the majority in the United States Senate, there would be a bill on the president’s desk to repeal Obamacare. It is August, where is that bill, where was that vote?”...

Well, Scott, that's something you should have asked "Mighty Mouse" Paul Ryan and Senator "Cave-In" Ron Johnson a long, long, time ago.

Where have you been for the last 18 months, Scott?  Nestled in Reince Priebus' comfy lap?

 

Obozo: Stupid? Or Worse Than Anyone Thought?

There are a number of people who think that the Bush War in Iraq was ill-advised.  Reason:  taking out Saddam, while a good thing, triggered a much larger bad thing:  the demolition of order in Iraq.  Yes, Saddam's "order" was dystopian--but he kept a lid on Muslim fanatics.

Such as ISIS, for example.

Now we have Obozo.  After a successful campaign partly founded on Bush-bashing over the war, what is this character doing?

Trying to take out another Middle Eastern dystopia.

And guess what the results have been?

An even more virulent and strong ISIS (which the US armed through its CIA), and a resurgence of Iranian Muslim fanaticism.

But there's more:  remember that Obozo also toppled the government of Egypt, which resulted in another period of riots and destruction until the Egyptian army had had enough of that, dumping the Muslim-fanatic government and restoring order.

So.  Is Obozo just stupid?  Or is he a committed revolutionary, dedicated to overturning order anywhere he can make it happen?

If you're having trouble answering that question, you are exactly what Obozo needed to get elected.

Monday, August 17, 2015

Trump's H1-B Platform

Norm Matloff is a Democrat, but he's honest.

...Trump’s proposals for handling illegal immigration are vintage Trump, some sensible, some off-the-wall, but on H-1B, the man gets an A+. I’ve never seen any politician, even Tom Tancredo, put up such an effective platform as Trump has. He decries that most of the visas go to the bottom two (out of four) wage levels in the legal requirements for H-1B, recognizing that the unrealistic prevailing wage law is at the heart of the problem. He insists that employers be required to give hiring priority to Americans. Most important to me is that, at least as stated, these provisions would go a long way to stem the visa abuse by not only the “Infosyses” (rent–a-programmer firms) but also the Intels, who are just as culpable. One nice added touch: He refers to pro-H-1B Senator Rubio as “Mark Zuckerberg’s personal senator.” ...

One blog-observer (maybe at Ace's place) suggested that the Other Pubbies running for President should pay a LOT of attention to which Trump positions get the crowds excited and simply snatch them instead of stamping their widdle feet and attempting to defend the indefensible or, like Walker on immigration, spewing well-practiced meaningless bullshit.

As if. 

Sunday, August 16, 2015

Good, Short, Advice

This guy speaks like Trump regarding domestic violence perps:

...“Get your concealed weapons permit. Ladies, learn how to safely handle a weapon, learn how to safely store a weapon, and when you’re in a situation like this shoot him in your back yard before he gets in your house. Drop him,” said Wiley....

Ammo is not as expensive as your hospital stay might be, assuming you GET to the hospital.

HT:  BearingArms

The Ridiculous: Gummint Regs

Mind you, this is the story behind killing a pre-born business.

...I decided it might be time to open a retail food establishment in the space that used to be a restaurant. How hard could it be? 

The link will give you all the gory details, but we're talking about $100+K to 'bring into compliance' a 1000 (yes, ONE thousand) square foot bagel shop.  BAGELS!!

There's more to it than just Gummint stupidity, though.  What this entrepreneur doesn't even suspect is that the HVAC, Plumbing, and Electrical contractors' associations (and unions) are usually found behind the scenes agitating for all this horse-puckey--and that's before looking at crony capitalists.

Land of the free, my ass.

HT:  Ticker

The "Mental Illnes" Gun-Grab

Recently, a Texas Senator (Cornyn), the NRA, and a few other less-than-perceptive people (Bobby Jindal, hello!!) have endorsed strengthening a 'mental illnes' provision in the gun-grabber arsenal.  This will include court-ordered psychiatric treatment.

Hmmmm.

So does that mean that Dinesh D'Souza will not be able to purchase or retain guns? 

If one searches for recent news about D’Souza, one will find that a federal judge recently ordered him to undergo ongoing psychiatric treatment as a condition of his probation. 

“Mr. D’Souza has weaknesses in controlling his own impulses and … is prone to anger in reaction to criticism,” the judge stated.

Really?  Or was he too successful in criticizing Barack Obama?...

I'll take Door #2 anytime, although plausible deniability will be in play from the get-go.

Those who forget the past are doomed to re-live it.  The Stalinists were notorious for imprisoning dissenters in 'mental hospitals' and declaring them to be mentally ill.  Why should today's Stalinist-in-Chief be any different?  It worked then and will work again, now, because defining 'mental illness' is sorta like defining 'up high.'

There's another question here which makes for interesting discussion.  Can one distinguish 'mental illness' from 'prone to sin'?  At what point?  

"New/Improved" Air Traffic Control? The Crazies Are Loose

From the summary presented by Aviation Today, it's difficult to sort out who are the knaves, who are the nuts, or even 'who's on first'.

But as an IT project (or ANY project), it's clear:  nobody knew what the Hell they were going to do.  At all.

....Three officials gave three different views, while FAA’s integrated product team lead for en route said she did not understand how it could be accomplished or how often one would have to go into the system at any or all of the ARTCCs to perform the incremental modifications. “There’s nothing practical about this,...

And believe it or not, it actually gets worse.

But then, there were $2.1 BILLION on the line.  Someone has to grab it, eh?

Waco Biker Shooting Mystery

Grim reminds us that there are plenty of questions remaining in the Shootout at the Waco Corral.

In this instance, the police seem to be following the Hillary Clinton procedure manual very well.

Saturday, August 15, 2015

AT&T: NSA's Butt-Buddy

Have AT&T?  Never fear; they're keeping track of you for NSA.

The National Security Agency’s ability to spy on vast quantities of Internet traffic passing through the United States has relied on its extraordinary, decades-long partnership with a single company: the telecom giant AT&T.

While it has been long known that American telecommunications companies worked closely with the spy agency, newly disclosed N.S.A. documents show that the relationship with AT&T has been considered unique and especially productive. One document described it as “highly collaborative,” while another lauded the company’s “extreme willingness to help.

Yah.  The very same AT&T which GM selected as its Wi-Fi carrier!

Maybe NSA has some favorite movies they'll run for you in-car, eh?

Yes, Walker Mush-Mouths on the Illegals

Huh.  When I saw Walker's statement a couple of days ago, I thought 'that's mush-mouthing.'

Turns out I'm not the only one.

We absolutely have to secure our southern border through better infrastructure, personnel, and technology. I’ve visited the border and learned from border state governors how crime, gangs, and international criminal organizations have overwhelmed our border communities. It’s clear we must secure the border first and foremost.  (Breitbart interview of Walker.)

Good ol' Cold Fury read it the same way.

....that meaningless roundabout politicospeak was “serious” candidate Scott Walker....

Contrast that to Trump's specific remedy:

 1) Build a fence, deploy 25,000 additional border agents, utilize Predator drones

 2) Enforce immigration law

 3) No more cozy detention centers

 4) Oppose “DREAM Act”

 5) No future tuition benefits

Walker is not the only (R) candidate who has adopted the Clinton-Parse method of evasion, of course.  But The Donald's polling should tell those "serious" (R) people something.

I doubt that they'll take the hint.

Campaigning for Hillary!

Sure, I'll campaign for Hillary.  But only with THIS yard-sign:





By the way:  The Donald sucks up to HRC.

HT:  Gateway

The HomoNazis, Chapter 34,453

Another cake-baker, another smashing of the 1st Amendment.

In essence, the court toed the Obama administration’s “freedom of worship” line which says you can [go] to whatever church you want but you are forbidden to live life in society according to your faith. In fact, the court’s decision actually invalidates the Catechism and religious principles of the Catholic Church which holds that by cooperating with sin your are participating in sin. This is why driving a woman to an abortion clinic carries the same moral penalty as actually having the abortion. When Phillips was asked to make a wedding cake for a simulated marriage he was put in the position of endorsing that act and participating in that act.

Note well:  HRC and Obozo (and their lawyer-ly cabal) use the well-parsed phrase "freedom of WORSHIP" rather than the Bill of Rights' formula "freedom of RELIGION."  That's specifically written to evade the reality of 'religious practice,' which is a far cry from just 'worshiping.'

And there's a reason that the HomoNazis pick on Christians rather than Muslims.  You get only two guesses as to 'why.'

The Pillars of Anti-Liturgical Heresy

Found in the writings of Dom Prosper Gueranger (Solesmes), and summarized in the writings of Dom Alcuin Reid.

...hatred of Tradition in the formulas of divine worship

...substitution of writings from Sacred Scripture for formulas composed by the Church

...fabrication and introduction of new liturgical formulas

...the contradictory principle that operates from an affection for antiquity that seeks to “reproduce divine worship in its original purity” while spurning development later in liturgical Tradition and yet introducing new elements of “incontestably human” origin

...Guéranger proscribes the rationalistic removal of ceremonies and formulas that leads to a loss of the supernatural or mystical element of the Liturgy without regard for its tangible and poetic nature

...the total extinction of the spirit of prayer or unction from the Liturgy. Guéranger speaks here of pharisaical coldness and cites the Protestant insistence on the vernacular by way of example

...use of the vernacular itself is the eighth. Here Guéranger warns of the transience of the vernacular and of the dangers of using mundane language in worship

...desire to lessen the burden of the Liturgy (by shortening it)

...Rejection of all things papal or Roman

...presbyterianism that downplays the ministerial priesthood forms the eleventh characteristic

...Guéranger deprecates secular or lay persons assuming authority in liturgical reform lest the Liturgy, and consequently dogma, become an entity limited by the boundaries of a nation or region...

As we have mentioned a few times, the Liturgical Movement did not begin in 1963; it had been around since the late 1800's and was largely centered in Germany at the outset.  Gueranger saw the above as dangers already present even in his times.

Bp. Athanasius Schneider's call for re-instituting the pre-1965 Offertory prayers fit neatly into the fourth, fifth, and sixth issues above, by the way.

Gueranger's warning makes him an intellectual predecessor of the "reform of the reform" leaders of today.

Good.

HT:  LiturgyGuy

Friday, August 14, 2015

How About Hacking Your Infusion Device?

So there you are, in the hospital, getting infused, when WHAMMO!!

Some hacker pumps up the juice.

Yes, it can happen.  Right after your Jeep gets hacked off the road, causing you to be hospitalized.

The Continuing Success *Cough* Of ObozoCare

In North Carolina, ObozoCare succeeded in raising its insurance rates by 34%.

We all know that in ObozoLand, a 34% increase is equal to a $2500.00 decrease.

Because Obozo.

Maybe "Homegrown Terrorists" Ain't "Homegrown"?

Once again, Ted Cruz is asking the right question.

With the FBI warning that the homegrown terror problem is growing out of control, especially among the ranks of families who emigrated from the Middle East, two conservative senators want answers on the danger of our immigration policies and the role it has played in homegrown terror.  Sens. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) and Ted Cruz (R-TX) have sent a letter to Attorney General Loretta Lynch, Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson, and Secretary of State John Kerry demanding answers regarding the immigration status of the growing list of individuals caught planning terror attacks, executing terror attacks, or flying abroad to fight for Islamic terror groups....

Well, duh!!

Chris Christie indirectly admits the problem, too.  But he won't "go there," will he?

...After he was asked why he couldn’t get a search warrant, Christie stated, “Because if you don’t have probable cause, you can’t get a search warrant. Let’s remember something, we had in — pre-9/11, we had folks over here who had no apparent terrorist ties, but were getting phone calls from people who did have terrorist ties from out of the country. If we had had the NSA program then, we very well could have matched those phone numbers up, that would have been — given us probable cause to go after the folks who were here in the country before 9/11. I don’t know if that would have prevented 9/11, but it would have given us a much better chance than the one we had....

The unlimited immigration policies exercised (legally or not) by the Feds over the last 20 years have created far more problems than just wage suppression and unemployment of native-born US citizens.

Now we await Cdl Dolan's condemnation of all this as "Xenophobic nativism."  Did Cdl. Dolan's history teaching include reference to "Xenophobic nativism" on the part of FDR during WWI?


EPA/McCarthy's Lips Were Moving

Remember that old saw about how you could tell that some people were lying?

Well.....

Republicans on the House science committee are accusing EPA Chief Administrator Gina McCarthy of lying while testifying before Congress last month, not so subtly reminding her that lying before lawmakers is a criminal offense....

...Republican lawmakers are referring to a July 9 hearing where McCarthy made allegedly false statements regarding the science behind the EPA’s Clean Water Rule, the agency’s approach to regulating ozone levels and concerns about withholding highway funding from states....

And those are the ones that were easy to spot.

ObozoConomy: Non-Performing Loans Up!

This is a "recovery."  Remember that as you read this:

After 5+ years of moving lower, the past two quarters have seen a marked increase in Commercial & Industrial Nonperforming Loans....

... From a low of $8.515 Billion at the end of 2014 C&I NPLs have increased $2.381 Billion for a 27.97% increase in 6 months. The NPL % to total C&I loans has grown from 0.50% in 2014 Q4 to 0.61% in 2015 Q2...

Looking at C&I NPLs at the individual bank level reveals that the $2.381 Billion NPL $ increase is widespread and is not due to a small handful of institutions having issues....

Yah, that means that a LOT of jobs are hanging by a thread.

But we're in a "recovery," ya'know.

Wednesday, August 12, 2015

UW-Mad: Chop-Shop Patrons

The UW-Madison ghouls are worried that their research will be compromised if they can no longer obtain Chop-Shop parts from Abortion, USA's affiliates.

That's not very different from Mengele testifying that his 'research will be compromised' if there are no more concentration camps.

The dean of the University of Wisconsin’s School of Medicine and Public Health declared in a state legislative hearing on Tuesday that his school needs women to keep getting abortions in order to provide a steady stream of aborted fetal body parts and tissue for use in scientific and medical experiments. Also on Tuesday, Media Trackers released information showing University of Wisconsin researchers using fetal tissue acquired from a supplier with ties to Planned Parenthood in various experiments and research projects....

One might wonder how much tax money is extorted just to have the UW 'research'.  Perhaps Mr. Kleefisch should start asking those questions, too.

Establishment Morons: Wehner, Rove, Gerson

Jeff Lord says it as well as anyone.  Naming Wehner, Gerson, and Rove, all of whom have said nasty things about The Donald, Lord reviews the "accomplishments" of that trio.

...President Bush will leave office as one of the most unpopular departing presidents in history, according to a new CBS News/New York Times poll showing Mr. Bush's final approval rating at 22 percent. Seventy-three percent say they disapprove of the way Mr. Bush has handled his job as president over the last eight years. Mr. Bush's final approval rating is the lowest final rating for an outgoing president since Gallup began asking...(quoting CBS News)

Although the war had a lot to do with that, let's not forget Bush's insane rush to "save" GM and Chrysler, his equally insane welfare-state expansion, and his bizarre "No Child" crap.

[What we have here, then, are a]ides who staffed a presidency that was so unpopular it bequeathed the nation with Pelosi, Reid and Obama – and yet here they are lecturing the rest of the GOP that “A GOP led by Donald Trump will fail, and deserve it,”  that Trump is a “stain” on the GOP and, oh yes, “a complete moron.”

The word chutzpah comes to mind. ...

You can bet your house that these same swamp-dwellers will vilify Ted Cruz, who appears to be the most Conservative candidate remaining in the field, as it becomes clear that Perry and Paul will be out in the next 30 days or so.

Sorry, folks:  I'm not a fan of The Donald.  He is not "a moron," but he's in it for The Donald, and The Donald only.  He's not a Conservative, and the USA is not a real-estate empire, either.

But one can make the case that the real "morons" here are Rove, Gerson, and Wehner.  Just look at the evidence.