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Moving to Texas are you??...Hehehe
Ummmm 3-4 in a row???...even on the mountain you changed...just saying...I'll call Ms. EZ to see if she needs a break...
DAYAM...that's gonna be cold Bro
Indeed he does...morning K
ROFL...perfect...remember I posted last year...we will be starting a mini ice age by 2020
YIKES...YOU Be careful my friend...life here would not be EZer without...EZ...and a meet up is on my bucketlist...and NOT on the mountain...
Morning Larry...only 39 here and no moisture...
Possible independent candidates scaring both parties
By Rick Moran
Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz appeared on 60 Minutes last night and proceeded to scare the bejesus out of the Democratic Party.
CBS:
I am seriously thinking of running for president. I will run as a centrist independent, outside of the two-party system we're living at a most-fragile time not only the fact that this president is not qualified to be the president, but the fact that both parties are consistently not doing what's necessary on behalf of the American people and are engaged, every single day, in revenge politics.
What makes Democrats so skittish is that Schultz doesn't fit the mold of your typical far-left Democrat and would be attractive to several sorts of middle-of-the-road voters. And, of course, he's got more money than King Midas.
Julián Castro, who is contemplating his own run in 2020 as a Democrat, was first out of the box to respond to Schultz.
Daily Caller:
"I have a concern that if he did run, that essentially, it would provide [President] Donald Trump with his best hope of getting re-elected," Julian Castro – a former Housing and Urban Development secretary under the Obama administration and a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate himself – said Sunday when asked by CNN about Schultz's possible run. "I would suggest to Mr. Schultz to truly think about the negative impact that that might make."
The savvy political operative David Axelrod also weighed in on a Starbucks candidacy:
So what are Democrats so worried about? As it looks now, the 2020 presidential election is going to be as close as 2016. A few thousand votes in a couple of states will almost certainly mean the difference between victory and defeat.
Schultz wouldn't have to get millions of votes to get Donald Trump elected. Just 2-3% of the vote – especially in swing states like Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Florida – would assure the president of a second term.
Schultz will have a billion dollars to get his message out. That's an awful lot of campaign commercials. And certainly enough to build a nationwide organization.
Democrats are assuming that most of Schultz's votes will come from disaffected Democrats. But what about disaffected Republicans? Media tycoon Michael Bloomberg has all but announced his candidacy. He says he will run as a Democrat, but in such a crowded field, he may feel he's more competitive as an independent.
Politico:
"He's not going to be running to the far left like the other candidates are. He describes himself as fiscally moderate, fiscally conservative, but he's clearly socially liberal and he's a key driver of social policies," said a top Bloomberg insider. "For Mike, it's not ideologically driven, t's pragmatic. People die from an excess of guns in America. People are dying and suffering and will continue to from the effects of climate change."
Bloomberg is polling and collecting data, the source said, and climate change and guns are "going to drive Democrats to the polls." The politics of climate change have been front and center with the opening of the new Congress as Democrats discuss making a "Green New Deal."
Bloomberg's top boosters insist he hasn't made up his mind about running. He'll make an announcement within a month.
If he runs, Bloomberg told reporters in Iowa last month, he would make climate change "the issue."
Guns won't be far behind.
No, he can't win the election running on those issues. Again, like Schultz, he doesn't have to get a ton of votes to upset the race. To those Republicans looking for an alternative to Trump, Bloomberg might fill the bill.
In truth, it's unknown what real impact either Schultz or Bloomberg will have on the race. Neither party wants to find out.
Read more: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/01/possible_independent_candidates_scaring_both_parties.html#ixzz5dy7d0dhB
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Possible independent candidates scaring both parties
By Rick Moran
Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz appeared on 60 Minutes last night and proceeded to scare the bejesus out of the Democratic Party.
CBS:
I am seriously thinking of running for president. I will run as a centrist independent, outside of the two-party system we're living at a most-fragile time not only the fact that this president is not qualified to be the president, but the fact that both parties are consistently not doing what's necessary on behalf of the American people and are engaged, every single day, in revenge politics.
What makes Democrats so skittish is that Schultz doesn't fit the mold of your typical far-left Democrat and would be attractive to several sorts of middle-of-the-road voters. And, of course, he's got more money than King Midas.
Julián Castro, who is contemplating his own run in 2020 as a Democrat, was first out of the box to respond to Schultz.
Daily Caller:
"I have a concern that if he did run, that essentially, it would provide [President] Donald Trump with his best hope of getting re-elected," Julian Castro – a former Housing and Urban Development secretary under the Obama administration and a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate himself – said Sunday when asked by CNN about Schultz's possible run. "I would suggest to Mr. Schultz to truly think about the negative impact that that might make."
The savvy political operative David Axelrod also weighed in on a Starbucks candidacy:
So what are Democrats so worried about? As it looks now, the 2020 presidential election is going to be as close as 2016. A few thousand votes in a couple of states will almost certainly mean the difference between victory and defeat.
Schultz wouldn't have to get millions of votes to get Donald Trump elected. Just 2-3% of the vote – especially in swing states like Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Florida – would assure the president of a second term.
Schultz will have a billion dollars to get his message out. That's an awful lot of campaign commercials. And certainly enough to build a nationwide organization.
Democrats are assuming that most of Schultz's votes will come from disaffected Democrats. But what about disaffected Republicans? Media tycoon Michael Bloomberg has all but announced his candidacy. He says he will run as a Democrat, but in such a crowded field, he may feel he's more competitive as an independent.
Politico:
"He's not going to be running to the far left like the other candidates are. He describes himself as fiscally moderate, fiscally conservative, but he's clearly socially liberal and he's a key driver of social policies," said a top Bloomberg insider. "For Mike, it's not ideologically driven, t's pragmatic. People die from an excess of guns in America. People are dying and suffering and will continue to from the effects of climate change."
Bloomberg is polling and collecting data, the source said, and climate change and guns are "going to drive Democrats to the polls." The politics of climate change have been front and center with the opening of the new Congress as Democrats discuss making a "Green New Deal."
Bloomberg's top boosters insist he hasn't made up his mind about running. He'll make an announcement within a month.
If he runs, Bloomberg told reporters in Iowa last month, he would make climate change "the issue."
Guns won't be far behind.
No, he can't win the election running on those issues. Again, like Schultz, he doesn't have to get a ton of votes to upset the race. To those Republicans looking for an alternative to Trump, Bloomberg might fill the bill.
In truth, it's unknown what real impact either Schultz or Bloomberg will have on the race. Neither party wants to find out.
Read more: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/01/possible_independent_candidates_scaring_both_parties.html#ixzz5dy7d0dhB
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I like Ted Cruz idea that we take the confiscated 10+ Billion from El Chapo and build the wall with it...after all Mr T said Mexico would pay for it...
Hmmmm...
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My weather map shows your whole State getting snowed on...we get that artic front tonight...but no precip with it...
Same here...7.24 in pre...
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You killing me Smalls...
OMG love it...and genius to come up with the hoodie idea
LMAO...it didn't come through but I've seen it...in FB and YT I believe...freaking hilarious
It's going to be interesting to see how Pelosi and AOC get along...speaking of eating their young...or Old
EWE really are EZ...
Operative word of the day: SNOW...for some it is SNOWbird...
It will be interesting to see if they can get the T3 out for the under 35K price without subsidies
Morning EZ
Wasn't watching...should encourage him to run on the Independent Ticket...THAT will steal plenty of votes...hell he would get my Exes vote...she damaged my Durango trying to go through the drive through...
Didn't her handlers tell her to pull the back of her jacket down and sit on it?
That's from the chip on her shoulder...just call her quasimodo...
Time to eat...later gator
Brown noted that he also helped the careers of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Gov. Gavin Newsom and Sen. Dianne Feinstein - though it is unclear whether any of them were also boffing Brown.
Clearly Brown is an enemy of the State...thanks a lot fookerhead
yep yep yep...and it is Di-time...
It amazes me as well...there is a black guy at work...played football at Rice and had a potential career in the NFL cut short when he blew out his knee...gentile friendly guy unless you mention Republican...he hates them all...the best I could get him to admit is there is bad hombre's on both sides LOL
A single case has been reported in Wyoming, Colorado, Nevada, Texas, Mississippi and Maine, according the CDC.
It was NOT me...I repeat...NOT me...despite any accusations EZ might try to claim...
Morning K...now THAT's news worth listening to...
Looks like I might be busy Monday...LOL
California family says hacked Nest camera warned of North Korea missile attack
A family in California is demanding tech companies take stronger action to protect consumers after their home security system was apparently hijacked. Laura Lyons said hackers took control of her Nest security camera, and it began blasting an emergency alert through her family's home. A voice said three missiles from North Korea were headed to the U.S. and warned them to take shelter, Lyons said.
"If we had any inkling that a data breach had occurred when we heard it coming out of that camera, we would have instantly been suspect as opposed to several minutes of, quite frankly, sheer terror," Lyons said.
The hoax sent Lyons, her husband, and their 8-year-old son into a panic, reports CBS News correspondent Anna Werner.
"We called Nest," Lyons said. "They admitted that they had received multiple reports of Nest cameras being hacked in the last week."
In a statement to CBS News, Google, which owns Nest, said: "Nest was not breached." Instead, the company said customers, like Lyons, had been "using compromised passwords…exposed through breaches on other websites." Last week, a website that tracks compromised online logins claimed it uncovered over 790 million unique email addresses and passwords – all compiled from more than 2,000 alleged databases.
Google said it recently reset all Nest accounts "where customers reused passwords that were previously exposed" and "is actively introducing features that will reject compromised passwords."
Wired news editor Brian Barrett said while tech companies stress greater security and convenience, users shouldn't lose sight of taking precautions of their own.
"You don't want to say anything is a 100 percent secure all the time," Barrett said, adding, "Incidents like this remind people that they need to give their devices a second thought, take a strong look if they really need them, why they need them, and if they are going to get them, how are they going to make sure they will stay protected."
Tech companies like Google, Apple, and Facebook offer a security feature called "two-factor authentication." It makes you take an extra step – such as entering a code – to prove it's really you after giving your username and password. It's something Lyons did not have turned on until this happened.
In addition to not reusing passwords and enabling two-factor authentication, Barrett also recommended a password manager. Lyons said since the incident involving her family's Nest security camera, her husband changed their passwords, turned on two-factor authentication, and turned off the device's microphone and speaker.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nest-camera-california-family-says-hackers-warned-of-north-korea-missile-attack/?ftag=CNM-00-10aac3a&fbclid=IwAR1rl8up_s0CkzO7m7qOg-ukzjFSQbcvMs3a4vR2D9t8Q0ZOM46cr5WscFQ
OMG you were right...this is Hilarious and should go viral before Nanc has it taken down...so did you win??
Texas finds 98,000 non-citizen registrations and 58,000 illegal votes. Imagine California...
By Monica Showalter
Democrats and their press allies are always yelling about voter fraud being a miniscule "actually very rare," practically non-existent thing, a figment of fevered conservative imaginations. But state election officials in Texas have uncovered a whopping 98,000 illegal voter registrations from non-citizens, with more than half - 58,000 - actually casting ballots. Seems the problem is bigger than was imagined, even -- on the right. The story is being covered by the mainstream press. WFAA, a big Texas radio station, had this:
About 95,000 non-citizens are registered to vote in Texas, and more than half of those have cast ballots in at least one election, Texas Secretary of State David Whitley announced on Friday.
Whitley's office, along with the Texas Department of Public Safety, had been investigating possible voter fraud for the last year, according to a news release.
Of the 95,000 non-citizens registered, 58,000 have voted in one or more elections since 1996.
The Secretary of State's office found those numbers by collecting current DPS data of people who have applied for a driver's license or state identification card in the last five years with a green card of visa. The investigators then cross-referenced that data with people who are registered to vote.
The Fort Worth Star-Telegram had this, NBC News had this. Dallas Morning News had this.
Which pretty well puts paid to the Democratic 'talking point' about voter fraud being a non-issue. Actually, this finding, from Texas officials very determined to clean up their voter rolls, is a very big issue. Every ballot cast by a foreigner in the election cancels out the vote of an American citizen. When the elections are close, that's quite a disenfranchisement.
According to the Star-Telegram, citing a Texas official:
“Every single instance of illegal voting threatens democracy in our state and deprives individual Texans of their voice,” Attorney General Ken Paxton said in a prepared statement. “My Election Fraud Unit stands ready to investigate and prosecute crimes against the democratic process when needed.”
He's right. With elections increasingly close, the prospect of foreigners determining the outcome is a rather amazing sort of imperialism against Americans from abroad. And they are getting away with it, they've been getting away with it for more than two decades, as this study showed.
What else can we say about this? It exposes the Democrats and their abnormal obsession with keeping voter rolls unaudited, for the beneficiaries of non-citizens voting. Texas is a red state and red states have no stake in winning illegal votes, which go largely to Democrats. No wonder they yell about these revelations, which they are doing this time, but it's a pretty big tide they're protesting.
California, by contrast, is a solid blue one-party state, coinciding with its initiation of vast benefit packages for illegal immigrants. Not surprisingly, the state houses a quarter of the nation's illegal immigrants. And surprise, surprise, it leads the nation in resistence to voter roll audits, claiming illegal immigrants wouldn't dream of voting illegally here after they crossed into the U.S. illegally. California, which had to be sued into cleaning up its voter rolls, and not completely, continues to resist any effort to maintain the integrity of its vote.
Well, the Texas audit does signal there's a problem. And since Democrats cannot spin this away, though they are trying to by saying maybe all the non-citizen voters became citizens in the interim, they are mostly likely going to try to ignore this away and say it was done by Republicans.
One can only hope it won't work this time, because they've got big plans to make all of the nation's election laws exactly like California's. This is the death of democracy. Venezuela went this route, its failure wasn't just socialism imposed in one swoop, it started with voter fraud. All the more reason to make this report from Texas a major narrative shift in the national conversation.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/01/texas_finds_98000_noncitizen_registrations_and_58000_illegal_votes_imagine_california.html#ixzz5djkbrPxX
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Why Trump went for a 21-day suspension of the partial shutdown, and what happens next
By Thomas Lifson
President Trump’s Rose Garden declaration of an end to the partial shutdown was a tactical retreat, a rejection of a Little Big Horn strategy. He found himself in a no-win situation, and rather than bear unacceptable costs, has redefined the contest on better terms: sending the issue to a House and Senate conference committee charged with coming up with a deal that prevents a resumption of the shutdown, and provides border security, something that Democrats say they believe is important.
Making the best of a bad situation. Rose Garden speech January 25, 2019
Cropped from Fox News, via YouTube
It is important that Nancy Pelosi declined to rule out funding for a physical barrier. We do not know what was said in the process of reaching an agreement to re-start the normal operations of the federal givenrment for the next 21 days.
Democrats naturally are gloating, calling it a surrender and admonishing Trump to “learn his lesson” and acknowledge his defeat by the wise and all-knowing Nancy Pelosi. This certainly gives them a sugar high while providing evidence for future use that their priority is humiliating Trump rather than attending to the needs of border security.
Nonetheless, as President Trump correctly noted in the Rose Garden address, it was an “agreement.” The Dems agreed to procedural rules that can be used to make the case for border barrier construction. The deal will be hashed out in the conference committee, which will then submit the same legislation to both Houses of Congress, with the 21-day clock ticking. Either chamber can modify the legislation, but that happens under the gun of the ticking clock.
Trump’s stonewall on the shutdown had to end because a choke point had been discovered by the opposition (a group that includes Congressional Democrats and government employee unions along with the media): commercial aviation. It was obvious when the Air Traffic Controllers demonstrated their ability to stymie air travel at the nation’s busiest airports that President Trump, having declared ownership of the shutdown, would be blamed for strangling the economy, and was on the hook for any air traffic control disaster that might, God forbid, happen. The Executive VP of the Air Traffic Controllers Association went on CNN to blame Trump for delays and safety issues. With the Super Bowl next weekend in the city with the world’s busiest airport, not only would business and family travel be impaired, the functioning of the nation’s premier sporting event was in peril.
It may be coincidence, but this kill shot job action occurred in the wake of extraordinary signs that House Democrats were wavering in their support for Pelosi’s “not one dollar” opposition to a border wall – while the government is (partially) shut down. This gives Trump’s allies something to work with. Steny Hoyer, second-ranking House Democrat, already has conceded that a physical barrier is part of the solution – just not while the government is shut down. The Democrats now own the House majority because new members have been elected from historically GOP-leaning districts, and many of those freshmen fear facing voters in November next year and being painted as Pelosi’s pawns who prevented a border barrier desired by their constituents.
The Senate members of the conference committee have been announced:
The Republicans are Sens. Richard Shelby of Alabama, Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia, Roy Blunt of Missouri and John Hoeven of North Dakota, and the Democrats are Sens. Patrick Leahy of Vermont, Dick Durbin of Illinois and Jon Tester of Montana.
Tester won re-election in Montana, but cannot afford to be too far left. Leahy is the biggest camera hog in the group, and Dick Durbin is a chronic schemer. None of the Republicans are among the highest profiles in the Senate..
I have not been able to locate a full list of the House members, but Rep. Chuck Fleishmann, the Republican ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee is on it.
It is possible that the conference committee will not be able to come up with anything that satisfies both parties, in which case the partial shutdown resumes, but this time with the Democrats shown to be willing to shut down the government in order to prevent a border barrier. Trump will have met their demand to resume government funding, and they will have refused to meet him halfway. And President Trump will be delivering the State of the Union address at a date to be determined, but before the shutdown might resume. This will allow the highest possible platform for President Trump to comment on the negotiations, with Nancy Pelosi sitting behind him.
Will the Democrats refuse to give Trump funds for something his base would accept as a reasonable start on the wall he promised? They certainly might, in which case the government will partially shut down again, with federal workers having received their back pay, but facing another bout of financial stringency. Would Trump then pull the trigger on a national emergency declaration? If he does, the Democrats will find a judge in the Ninth Circuit who believes that a district court judge has the power to overrule the statutory authority clearly granted to the president to declare a national emergency. What happens then? I think it is quite possible that the Trump administration will appeal directly to the SCOTUS, bypassing the Ninth in the name of a national emergency. He might even decide to take a stand aginst the new concept of district court jurisdiction over the entire United States.
I have a guess, based on the fact that Trump has not deployed insulting nicknames for either Schumer or Pelosi. I suspect that in the discussions that led to the agreement to set up a conference committee both sides agreed that another shutdown was in nobody’s interest, and that a compromise would benefit both parties. If I am wrong, the Democrats will be going to the mattresses over a barrier free border, a position that may please Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez but would not help the Dems win in 2020.
Read more: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/01/why_trump_went_for_a_21day_suspension_of_the_partial_shutdown_and_what_happens_next.html#ixzz5djkAxo5p
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Speaking of things related to Social Media...gone awry...
‘Bikini Climber’ freezes to death after massive fall
The climb to social-media fame can be deadly.
A Taiwanese woman known as the “Bikini Climber” became the latest person to die while hunting for the perfect photo to post online.
Gigi Wu, known on Facebook for posting sizzling seminude pictures atop boulders, was found frozen to death after a 65-foot fall.
The mountaineer, 36, was eight days into a solo hike Saturday when she called a friend to say she’d tumbled down a ravine in central Taiwan’s Yushan Mountain and was unable to move because of a leg injury, Taiwan News reported.
Rescuers were unable to airlift her until 28 hours later because of poor weather conditions. But by then, the young woman was dead, officials said.
The overnight temperature where she fell, at an altitude of over 5,500 feet, was around freezing, said Cmdr. Lin Cheng-I of the Nantou County Fire Department.
Wu, who also went by Wu Chi-yun, was a local social-media star who posed on some of Taiwan’s highest peaks in barely-there outfits.
In one image, she stands in a rainbow bikini and blue hat, with treacherous boulders in the background.
On Christmas Eve, she shared an image showing her scratched-up legs after being injured in a fall that she said she was lucky to survive.
Wu is far from the first person to perish while attempting to snap photos to post online.
An Indian couple fell to their deaths at Yosemite National Park while taking a selfie in October. They were reportedly had been drinking before the accident.
Meenakshi Moorthy, 30, a self-described “adrenaline junkie,” and her husband, Vishnu Viswanath, 29, took photos for social media and a travel blog called “Holidays & Happily Ever Afters.”
A Chinese daredevil who called himself “China’s First Rooftopper” plummeted to his death in December 2017 during a risky stunt near the top of a 62-story building in Changsha.
In June 2017, a 22-year-old Minnesota man was shot and killed by his pregnant girlfriend in a YouTube stunt gone awry.
https://nypost.com/2019/01/21/bikini-climber-freezes-to-death-after-massive-fall/?utm_source=zergnet.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=zergnet_3720640
Just brought my hard copy in and will read...I have a service call to do in a bit so I might disappear for a bit...
me too...it was the hub doing updates or maint...it is available now...
Morning Sir...my Son and his BIL just left...roof over the porch is now secure and leak proof (Bring on the rain) and my gutter is now fixed
LMAO...I sure felt like a Mother Plucker last night...at least...gave the grandkids something to talk about...I swear...I looked at Demetrious and thought he tried to say...WTF???...or maybe he is thinking...what kind of chickenchit outfit have I got myself into???
On the bright side...I did NOT join the wall of flame...instead I had Manganero and Ranch wings...I know...wuss...
The next three weeks will be interesting for sure...have your popcorn ready.
Time for me to eat as well...and Robbie is almost here
Catch you later
Orkney is looking better all the time...LOL
So my thought last night was...wouldn't it be ironic if during the three weeks toe Gov is opened they actually approve the VISA for Dianna...and then shut down thus preventing her from having the final interview at the Embassy???...Hmmmm
LOL I guess time will tell...still plenty of time between now and then
Exactly...GREAT Find...you must not have googled it...LOL
ONLY on your Birthday...funny as hell if someone else is doing it...morning P_S_H