Saturday, November 29, 2014
Thursday, November 27, 2014
OPEC Policy Ensures U.S. Shale Crash, Russian Tycoon Says
OPEC Policy Ensures U.S. Shale Crash, Russian Tycoon Says - Bloomberg
Put simply. Saudi Arabia keeps the price low, American shale oil companies can't compete and go out of business, Saudi Arabia and OPEC raise the prices. Enjoy low gas prices while you can, they won't last.
Put simply. Saudi Arabia keeps the price low, American shale oil companies can't compete and go out of business, Saudi Arabia and OPEC raise the prices. Enjoy low gas prices while you can, they won't last.
Wednesday, November 26, 2014
Top Democrat sets off intraparty fury after saying Obamacare passage was a ‘mistake’
Top Democrat sets off intraparty fury after saying Obamacare passage was a ‘mistake’ -- Fusion
Fun to watch dems fight. It's like a cat fight for ugly people.
Fun to watch dems fight. It's like a cat fight for ugly people.
Tuesday, November 25, 2014
Darren Wilson Grand Jury Testimony: 'I've never used my weapon before' | Truth Revolt
Darren Wilson Grand Jury Testimony: 'I've never used my weapon before' | Truth Revolt
"His first step is coming towards me, he kind of does like a stutter step to start running. When he does that, his left hand goes in a fist and goes to his side, his right one goes under his shirt in his waistband and he starts running at me."
"His first step is coming towards me, he kind of does like a stutter step to start running. When he does that, his left hand goes in a fist and goes to his side, his right one goes under his shirt in his waistband and he starts running at me."
It’s Incredibly Rare For A Grand Jury To Do What Ferguson’s Just Did | FiveThirtyEight
It’s Incredibly Rare For A Grand Jury To Do What Ferguson’s Just Did | FiveThirtyEight
Rioting, looting, burning... Hard to sympathize when they do this.
Rioting, looting, burning... Hard to sympathize when they do this.
Monday, November 24, 2014
Obama Is Damaging Hillary’s Chances
Obama Is Damaging Hillary’s Chances - WSJ
I doubt she will be the nominee for the dems. She isn't her husband and doesn't have the skills he has. Plus she's shrill and a whole host of other bad things. Someone will come out of the shadows and bounce her off the stage eventually. Obama's recent comment: "Obama: Americans Want "New Car Smell" In Next President, "Fresh Start" " Hillary ain't that.
I doubt she will be the nominee for the dems. She isn't her husband and doesn't have the skills he has. Plus she's shrill and a whole host of other bad things. Someone will come out of the shadows and bounce her off the stage eventually. Obama's recent comment: "Obama: Americans Want "New Car Smell" In Next President, "Fresh Start" " Hillary ain't that.
Sunday, November 23, 2014
Saturday, November 22, 2014
Bill Maher: "Gruber Was Right, He Just Said What People Don't Want To Hear"
Bill Maher: "Gruber Was Right, He Just Said What People Don't Want To Hear" | Video | RealClearPolitics
He joins Gruber in calling the American people stupid and cites some stats to show it. About 40% or so are stupid or so he claims. I guess I'd have to agree to some extent. How else can you explain so many Democrats getting elected... ta dis boom!
He joins Gruber in calling the American people stupid and cites some stats to show it. About 40% or so are stupid or so he claims. I guess I'd have to agree to some extent. How else can you explain so many Democrats getting elected... ta dis boom!
President Obama's 'Gruber speech' (Opinion) - CNN.com
President Obama's 'Gruber speech' (Opinion) - CNN.com
I was shocked to see CNN printing this but when I looked I see it's by Newt Gingrich. Maybe this is CNNs effort to be less lefty...
I was shocked to see CNN printing this but when I looked I see it's by Newt Gingrich. Maybe this is CNNs effort to be less lefty...
Friday, November 21, 2014
Doin' the sidestep...
Best Little Whorehouse in Texas "Governor's Dance Scene"
Charles Durning as Governor doing "The Sidestep"
"Ooh I love to dance a little sidestep, now they see me now they don't-
I've come and gone and, ooh I love to sweep around the wide step,
cut a little swathe and lead the people on."
I've come and gone and, ooh I love to sweep around the wide step,
cut a little swathe and lead the people on."
I can't tell you how many times over the last six years this song has come to mind...
Jonathan Gruber and the Greek Chorus of Progressive Wonks
Jonathan Gruber and the Greek Chorus of Progressive Wonks
How things happen in a tribe. Something we've always known but this describes it well.
How things happen in a tribe. Something we've always known but this describes it well.
Thursday, November 20, 2014
Cool piece of History - I thought this was fascinating!
Frank Hogg
Cool piece of History - I thought this was fascinating!
Starting in 1941, an increasing number of BritishAirmen found themselves as the involuntary guestsof the Third Reich, and the Crown was casting aboutfor ways and means to facilitate their escape. Nowobviously, one of the most helpful aids to that endis a useful and accurate map, one showing not onlywhere stuff was, but also showing the locations of'safe houses' where a POW on-the-lam could go forfood and shelter.Paper maps had some real drawbacks -- they makea lot of noise when you open and fold them, theywear out rapidly, and if they get wet, they turn intomush.Someone in MI-5 (similar to America’s OSS ) gotthe idea of printing escape maps on silk. It'sdurable, can be scrunched-up into tiny wads,and unfolded as many times as needed, andmakes no noise whatsoever.At that time, there was only one manufacturerin Great Britain that had perfected the technologyof printing on silk, and that was JohnWaddington, Ltd. When approached by thegovernment, the firm was only too happy to doits bit for the war effort.By pure coincidence, Waddington was also theU.K. Licensee for the popular American boardgame, Monopoly. As it happened, 'games andpastimes' was a category of item qualified forinsertion into 'CARE packages', dispatched bythe International Red Cross to prisoners of war.Under the strictest of secrecy, in a securelyguarded and inaccessible old workshop onthe grounds of Waddington's, a group ofsworn-to-secrecy employees began massproducing escape maps, keyed to eachregion of Germany or Italy where AlliedPOW camps were regional system).When processed, these maps could be foldedinto such tiny dots that they would actuallyfit inside a Monopoly playing piece.As long as they were at it, the clever workmenat Waddington's also managed to add:1. A playing token, containing a small magneticcompass2. A two-part metal file that could easily bescrewed together3. Useful amounts of genuine high-denominationGerman, Italian, andFrench currency, hidden within the piles ofMonopoly money!British and American air crews were advised,before taking off on their first mission, howto identify a 'rigged' Monopoly set -- by meansof a tiny red dot, one cleverly rigged to looklike an ordinary printing glitch, located in thecorner of the Free Parking square.Of the estimated 35,000 Allied POWS whosuccessfully escaped, an estimated one-thirdwere aided in their flight by the rigged Monopolysets... Everyone who did so was sworn to secrecyIndefinitely, since the British Government mightwant to use this highly successful ruse in stillanother, future war. The story wasn't declassifieduntil 2007, when the surviving craftsmen fromWaddington's, as well as the firm itself, werefinally honoured in a public ceremony.It's always nice when you can play that ’Get Outof Jail' Free' card!I realize many of you are (probably) too youngto have any personal connection to WWII(Dec. '41 to Aug. '45), but this is still interesting.
HT:A via email
Wednesday, November 19, 2014
What Jonathan Gruber is Actually Saying About Obamacare
View from the left... But at the 5 minute mark he shows his true colors and agrees with Gruber that the American voter is stupid. In my many years on this planet I have witnessed many liberals/Progressives/Democrats who believe they are smarter than everyone else. It is reinforced by the fact that they never listen to anyone who disagrees with them. They can best be described by two of the three monkeys, hear no evil, see no evil, from the left but see nothing but evil from the right. They live in a cloistered world and they don't know it. They hate Fox/Rush/Hannity etc but they never listen to them so why do they hate? Because they are conditioned to it by who they do listen too. They are told they are superior but because they don't allow a thought that disagrees with their view they really are not. And even when one of their own tells them he lied to them and thinks they are stupid they assume he is talking about someone else, not them. And that is how Democrats get elected.
Jonathan Gruber quotes contradict Obama promise - CNN.com
Jonathan Gruber quotes contradict Obama promise - CNN.com
CNN? This is from the lefty, Obama friendly, Democrat friendly CNN! Guess even lefties don't like it when the big O lies to them.
CNN? This is from the lefty, Obama friendly, Democrat friendly CNN! Guess even lefties don't like it when the big O lies to them.
"Washington (CNN) -- At a town hall meeting where he campaigned for health care legislation in 2009, President Barack Obama pledged to voters that he did not want any tax on health insurance plans he perceived as wastefully generous to ever impact average Americans. But in recent comments by one of the men who helped draft the legislation, MIT economist Jonathan Gruber, that is not only precisely what will happen -- but that was the intention of the tax.White House officials had no comment, despite repeated requests by CNN. ...
Monday, November 17, 2014
Obama: I Have Stolen Ideas from Jon Gruber Liberally
Gruber is a gift that just keeps giving and giving...
FCC official warns Obama-backed net neutrality plan would bring 'immediate' Internet tax
FCC official warns Obama-backed net neutrality plan would bring 'immediate' Internet tax | Fox News
Of course, he's a dem, taxes, that's what they do...
Of course, he's a dem, taxes, that's what they do...
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Net Neutrality
"The Internet isn't broken so the FCC wants to fix it."
Friday, November 14, 2014
Quote found in local paper
Ta Boom Tis
"Democrats took an early lead in the midterm elections, but once the Republicans got off work, that early lead faded fast".
HT:A
The Honest Man
The Honest Man - WSJ - WSJ
Yeah, it's about Gruber. A man like no other in recent history so completely hoisted by his own petard. His career in politics is over. No one will ever hire him again!
A petard BTW, was, back in olden times, a small explosive device that was very unstable and often blew the person up who was trying to plant it in his enemies location. Hosted in those times referred to being blown up. Often used these days to describe politicians predilection for making fools of themselves when trying to do the same to their opponents. I think we can all agree that pols are very good at making fools of themselves... Sadly, usually at our expense.
Yeah, it's about Gruber. A man like no other in recent history so completely hoisted by his own petard. His career in politics is over. No one will ever hire him again!
A petard BTW, was, back in olden times, a small explosive device that was very unstable and often blew the person up who was trying to plant it in his enemies location. Hosted in those times referred to being blown up. Often used these days to describe politicians predilection for making fools of themselves when trying to do the same to their opponents. I think we can all agree that pols are very good at making fools of themselves... Sadly, usually at our expense.
Thursday, November 13, 2014
Kirsten Powers: "Stunning" That Gruber Video "Has Not Been Covered By Anybody" | Video | RealClearPolitics
Kirsten Powers: "Stunning" That Gruber Video "Has Not Been Covered By Anybody" | Video | RealClearPolitics
I do not regret my decision 6 years ago to stop watching the MSM.
I do not regret my decision 6 years ago to stop watching the MSM.
Howard Kurtz: Media's "Virtual Blackout" Of Gruber's Obamacare Remarks
Howard Kurtz: Media's "Virtual Blackout" Of Gruber's Obamacare Remarks | Video | RealClearPolitics
It's hard to believe they could have gotten any worse... But they have.
It's hard to believe they could have gotten any worse... But they have.
Merle Haggard: ‘It’s Almost Criminal What They Do With Our President’
Merle Haggard: ‘It’s Almost Criminal What They Do With Our President’
He's talking about the media, not the reps.
He's talking about the media, not the reps.
“He’s not conceited,” he adds. “He’s very humble about being the President of the United States, especially in comparison to some presidents we’ve had who come across like they don’t need anybody’s help. I think he knows he’s in over his head. Anybody with any sense who takes that job and thinks they can handle it must be an idiot.”He also seems to contradict himself. Odd read to say the least.
Wednesday, November 12, 2014
Jonathan Gruber brags about the "basic exploitation" of American voters
This guy just doesn't know when to shut up.
2nd Video of Jonathan Gruber Calls Americans 'Too Stupid' To Understand ...
Another video Emerges of Obamacare Architect Calling Americans "Too Stupid” To Understand The Difference. Gruber paid $400,000 by administration, visited White House a dozen timesYet second video has emerged of MIT professor and Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber calling Americans “stupid,” and bragging about how the Affordable Care Act’s drafters had to deceive the public in order to pass the law.Fox News’ Megyn Kelly was the first to air the video on her program, “The Kelly File.” Kelly played the video of Gruber appearing on MSNBC’s “Ronan Farrow Daily” apologizing for his earlier remarks. “I was speaking off the cuff and I spoke inappropriately, and I regret making those comments,” he said.“But now tonight,” Kelly reported, ” more video has surfaced showing this was not the first time Mr. Gruber called the American people stupid in an ‘off-the-cuff’ remark. In this next clip from also last year, Mr. Gruber explains how Democrats played with the language of the Obamacare law so that it achieved their goals, by again, fooling the stupid public.”She then played a short 5-second clip of Gruber, saying the following, that a part of the Obamacare passed because “the American people are too stupid to understand the difference.”I know a lot of libs who would agree with Gruber calling Americans stupid. They believe it and it takes someone with a certain level of intelligence to think that. That level would be low.
snopes.com: Obamacare Architect Jonathan Gruber Hails American 'Stupidity'
snopes.com: Obamacare Architect Jonathan Gruber Hails American 'Stupidity'
Snopes is often called left wing but their comments about this don’t appear to be biased. It would be hard to argue otherwise because the video is damning evidence. BTW everything that Gruber admits was done to get it passed was claimed by the right about the bill at the time of the vote and is probably one of the reasons that no Republican, not a one, voted for it. It is wholly owned by the Democrats and they paid dearly for that on 11/4. I suspect it will come up again for 2016 and well it should. If pols on either side lie to us they should be held accountable.
Watch Obamacare Architect Jonathan Gruber Explain Why "Lack of Transparency" Was Key to Passing the Health Care Law - Hit & Run : Reason.com
Watch Obamacare Architect Jonathan Gruber Explain Why "Lack of Transparency" Was Key to Passing the Health Care Law - Hit & Run : Reason.com
A good analysis of his comments in the video below. Imagine what would have happened if this had come out before the election... And why didn't it. Could it be that was held up for that reason?
A good analysis of his comments in the video below. Imagine what would have happened if this had come out before the election... And why didn't it. Could it be that was held up for that reason?
GRUBER: "Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage."
"Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber bragging about deceiving the American people, who he thinks are stupid."
Tuesday, November 11, 2014
Exclusive: Rush Limbaugh's lawyer on threat to sue DCCC
Exclusive: Rush Limbaugh's lawyer on threat to sue DCCC | Fox News Video
I haven't listened to Rush in a long time but this is about the DCCC taking his words out of context, reversing what he said and using that to try to get people to boycott his advertisers and to raise money for the DCCC. It is one thing to use someones words against them but to do this is, as my father used to say, is lower than whale shit and that’s at the bottom of the ocean and you can’t get any lower than that! He did not say what the DCCC say he said. Everyone, dems especially, should be outraged about this reprehensible lying from the DCCC!
Monday, November 10, 2014
Mr. Miller Doesn’t Go to Washington
Mr. Miller Doesn’t Go to Washington - Matt Miller - POLITICO Magazine
The inside story of what it’s really like to run for office. Very interesting read that reaffirms my feeling that one has to be insane to want it.
Saturday, November 8, 2014
BIG REVIEW SET BY DEMOCRATS AFTER ELECTION LOSSES
News from The Associated Press
... "Our party has a problem," Wasserman Schultz said in a video announcing the project. "We know we're right on the issues. The American people believe in the causes we're fighting for. ...If that were true they would have won.
Friday, November 7, 2014
Obamacare definition
Obamacare definition
I know you all will appreciate this definition. The best description of Obamacare so far:
Remember when Nancy Pelosi said: “We have to pass it, to find out what's in it."
A physician called into a radio show and said: "That's the definition of a stool sample."
HT:A
Senate Democrats pull funding for Landrieu run-off ads
Senate Democrats pull funding for Landrieu run-off ads » News -- GOPUSA
There were three reps, 2 independents and one dem, her running. The independents got less than 2% and she got something like 40%. That means that the three reps got about 58% of the vote. Based on that it seems unlikely she could win and that may be why the dems pulled the money.
There were three reps, 2 independents and one dem, her running. The independents got less than 2% and she got something like 40%. That means that the three reps got about 58% of the vote. Based on that it seems unlikely she could win and that may be why the dems pulled the money.
Esquire's 'The Shooter' Identified: Rob O'Neill | SOFREP
Esquire's 'The Shooter' Identified: Rob O'Neill | SOFREP
It would be hard to deny the fame and fortune.
It would be hard to deny the fame and fortune.
Wednesday, November 5, 2014
The day after: Obama, GOP in new political dynamic
My Way News - The day after: Obama, GOP in new political dynamic
... "Democrats had few bright spots. New Hampshire Sen. Jeanne Shaheen and Gov. Maggie Hassan, who campaigned with potential 2016 candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton last weekend, both won re-election. In Pennsylvania, businessman Tom Wolf dispatched GOP Gov. Tom Corbett."
Everything else went right.
... "Democrats had few bright spots. New Hampshire Sen. Jeanne Shaheen and Gov. Maggie Hassan, who campaigned with potential 2016 candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton last weekend, both won re-election. In Pennsylvania, businessman Tom Wolf dispatched GOP Gov. Tom Corbett."
Everything else went right.
Was 2014 like 1994... Yes it was and here's why
2014 election results - Google Search
As of this writing the results are not all in but for this exercise they need not be.
In 1994 the reps ended up with control of the Senate with 52 to 48. In 2014 reps ended up with control of the Senate with 52 to 43. The reps will add at least one and maybe more but 2014 is very close to 1994.
In 1994 the reps ended up with control of the House with 230 to 176 seats. In 2014 so far the reps have 237 to 159. Again, close to 1994.
In the 1994 governor's races the reps had 30 to the dems 20. So far in 2014 the reps have 28 to the dems 14.
In 1994 the state legislators also made a shift to rep but I haven't looked into that yet. The reason 1994 was so remembered is the amount of shift from dem to rep. The reps had the Congress this time so the shift wasn't as great as 1994. The end results, the amount of seats the reps have vs the dems is very close to 1994. With that in mind I will claim a bit of foresight when I said on November 1st that it was Starting to look like 1994.
As of this writing the results are not all in but for this exercise they need not be.
In 1994 the reps ended up with control of the Senate with 52 to 48. In 2014 reps ended up with control of the Senate with 52 to 43. The reps will add at least one and maybe more but 2014 is very close to 1994.
In 1994 the reps ended up with control of the House with 230 to 176 seats. In 2014 so far the reps have 237 to 159. Again, close to 1994.
In the 1994 governor's races the reps had 30 to the dems 20. So far in 2014 the reps have 28 to the dems 14.
In 1994 the state legislators also made a shift to rep but I haven't looked into that yet. The reason 1994 was so remembered is the amount of shift from dem to rep. The reps had the Congress this time so the shift wasn't as great as 1994. The end results, the amount of seats the reps have vs the dems is very close to 1994. With that in mind I will claim a bit of foresight when I said on November 1st that it was Starting to look like 1994.
Monday, November 3, 2014
» Weather Channel Founder: Man-Made Global Warming is ‘Baloney’ Alex Jones' Infowars: There's a war on for your mind!
» Weather Channel Founder: Man-Made Global Warming is ‘Baloney’ Alex Jones' Infowars: There's a war on for your mind!
"“And if you get down to the hard, cold facts, there’s no question about it: Climate change is not happening, there is no significant, man-made global warming now, there hasn’t been any in the past, and there’s no reason to expect any in the future. There’s a whole lot of baloney.”"
"“And if you get down to the hard, cold facts, there’s no question about it: Climate change is not happening, there is no significant, man-made global warming now, there hasn’t been any in the past, and there’s no reason to expect any in the future. There’s a whole lot of baloney.”"
Sunday, November 2, 2014
New polls show Republicans pulling away in key Senate races
New polls show Republicans pulling away in key Senate races | Fox News
I told you this would happen. This is the way it always was but the leftist pollsters were hoping if they lied that maybe it would come true.
I told you this would happen. This is the way it always was but the leftist pollsters were hoping if they lied that maybe it would come true.
Obama's Border Policy Fueled Epidemic, Evidence Shows
Obama's Border Policy Fueled Epidemic, Evidence Shows | The Daily Caller
"The deadly EV-D68 enterovirus epidemic, which struck thousands of kids this fall, was likely propelled through America by President Barack Obama’s decision to allow tens of thousands of Central Americans across the Texas border, according to a growing body of genetic and statistical evidence."
"The deadly EV-D68 enterovirus epidemic, which struck thousands of kids this fall, was likely propelled through America by President Barack Obama’s decision to allow tens of thousands of Central Americans across the Texas border, according to a growing body of genetic and statistical evidence."
Saturday, November 1, 2014
Starting to look like 1994
Maybe feel like 1994 is better. It's just that as I watch and read about polls and statements from dems about the senate I get this distinct feeling that it will be a much bigger night for reps than anyone is saying. Call it a hunch or maybe wishful thinking but that how it's -starting- to look like to me. I'm also curious about the congress and governors races. If it's like 1994 then that will be good for reps too.
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