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Naaaaaa...I think he handled it perfectly...LOL
Me too...just have to wait to comment on them...LOL
Howdy....miss me???...
Ms. Pelosi and her Democratic Party House majority have been sent to their room now, awaiting a fateful conference with Daddy.
Not like the old days with a belt...
The flat cap Made me go look for a picture nearly three years ago when I visited England and Orkney...
Here we are in front of Winchester Cathedral...
It is growing very fast here...and I would be able to sell my place for quite a bit...Robbie wants the place bad...if you ever watch the series Doc Martin you would see the charm that's calling me...
I've seen a few ads for Viking cruises but haven't tried to price them...Hmmmm
I concur...and...it doesn't take a Village to raise Americans who lack any real skills and
ambition. ...but...it helps to come from such a Village...just saying
Exactly...
PHOTOS: Democrats Stuck on Bus After Donald Trump Cancels Foreign Trip
Still LMAO over this...photos in the link...
Confused Democrat lawmakers were left sitting idle on a military bus near the Capitol after President Donald Trump postponed their seven-day foreign trip as the partial government shutdown continues.
Photos shared to social media purport to show Democrats on a U.S. Air Force bus traveling to the airport when they received word that their access to a military plane had been blocked:
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Fox is told CapHill security officials got an emergency call from the Pentagon canceling the overseas trip due to shutdown. No one here knows if the trip is going to happen or not. Lots of confusion
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House Members sitting on an Air Force bus b/t the Longworth and Rayburn House Office Buildings waiting to see if they are still going overseas after Trump cancelled the trip.
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Bus taking lawmakers on codel just left Capitol Hill. Lawmakers on board. Unknown who on board and whether Speaker Pelosi was or not
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USAF bus back on Capitol plaza. Mbrs getting off bus & going back into Capitol
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Bus circled around and dropped lawmakers off at Capitol. Rep Adam Schiff came off “I don’t have any comment”
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The bus went around the block and back to the Capitol where members eventually got off.
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Bus leaving Capitol grounds. A few people still on board. Unknown who
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One video shows House Intelligence Committee chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) exiting the bus in front of the Capitol building:
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Members including House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff getting off the bus in front of the Capitol.
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Bus for lawmakers on Pelosi’s codel is circling Capitol Hill, awaiting some definitive answers.
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The bus circled the block again...and is back again...
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House Speaker Pelosi and other Democrats planned to depart around 3:00 p.m. Eastern Thursday for her overseas trip, according to the White House.
Drew Hamill, the speaker’s chief of staff, issued the following statement in response to the cancelation:
“The CODEL to Afghanistan included a required stop in Brussels for pilot rest. In Brussels, the delegation was scheduled to meet with top NATO commanders, U.S. military leaders and key allies–to affirm the United States’ ironclad commitment to the NATO alliance. This weekend visit to Afghanistan did not include a stop in Egypt. The purpose of the trip was to express appreciation and thanks to our men and women in uniform for their service and dedication, and to obtain critical national security & intelligence briefings from those on the front lines. The President traveled to Iraq during the Trump Shutdown as did a Republican CODEL led by Rep. Zeldin.”
In a letter to Pelosi on Thursday, President Trump wrote that due to the shutdown, a trip to Egypt, Brussels, and Afghanistan would be delayed, declaring, “In light of the 800,000 great American workers not receiving pay, I’m sure you would agree that postponing this public relations event is totally appropriate.”
“I also feel that, during this period, it would be better if you were in Washington negotiating with me and joining the strong border security movement to end the shutdown,” the president continued.
Pelosi is welcome to fly on a commercial aircraft to make the trip, he told the House speaker.
Read the full letter below:
While the shutdown drags on, on Thursday, the State Department instructed all U.S. diplomats in Washington and elsewhere to return to work next week with pay, saying it had found money for their salaries, at least temporarily, despite the ongoing government shutdown.
In a notice to staff posted online and sent to employees, the department said it had found money to pay most of its employees, beginning Sunday or Monday, for their next pay period. They will not be paid for time worked since the shutdown began in December until the situation is resolved, said the notice, which was signed by Deputy Under Secretary for Management William Todd.
President Trump declined to address the stalemate over the speech Thursday during a visit to the Pentagon, simply promising that the nation will have “powerful, strong border security,” including $5.7 billion in funding to build a U.S.-Mexico border wall.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/01/17/photos-democrats-stuck-bus-donald-trump-cancels-foreign-trip/
Finally...news to grow on...
GM...ouch...we were supposed to have that kind of cold...well for us...but it has changed now...only mid 30's here now....but...this morning...THICK...and I'm talking pea soup thick FOG
Yes True...I knew that...I have a friend...former co-worker that works for Apple...Facebook is about to occupy the third floor of the building I'm in now...my friend and former supervisor when I was a Supervisor is a manager there...I'm sure they will try to poach workers from us...we are growing fast.
Gotta tell you...I'm watching the series Doc Martin on Hulu...small town living in the UK is looking very appealing...hard to believe Dianna is willing to give that up to be with me...I'm seriously thinking more of when I retire of moving to England or Scotland.
OMG...Now THAT'S a coffee spewer...just in time for team meeting...
LOL no ...clueless...clueless...clueless...that Irish boy is confused...
Beto bombs bigly in long interview with the Washington Post
By Thomas Lifson
When a CNN anchor warns that “It’s a fine line to walk between being a blank canvas and an empty vessel,” a pretty boy, Kennedyesque empty suit progressive candidate, already recognizable by his first name alone, is in trouble.
Beto looks like a beta, if we are to judge by the Washington Post’s account of his “lengthy” interview with their writer Jenna Johnson. The title gives away the verdict: “Beto O’Rourke’s immigration plan: No wall but no specifics.” The lead paragraphs are no kinder. Jenna Johnson wrote:
In a digital ad that recently went viral, Beto O’Rourke tore into President Trump’s desired border wall with soaring footage of the Rio Grande Valley and an explanation of what the wall would do: cut off access to the river, shrink the size of the United States and force the seizure of privately-held land.
It noted that most undocumented immigrants who arrived in the United States in the past decade came not over the border but on visas that then expired.
So what should be done to address visa overstays?
“I don’t know,” O’Rourke said, pausing in a lengthy interview.
The vacuity was so obvious that even CNN anchor Brianna Keilar felt compelled to raise the alarm. The segment is embedded below, but Tommy Christopher of Mediaite cuts to the chase:
Keilar brought up O’Rourke’s recent interview with The Washington Post‘s Jenna Johnson, during which O’Rourke seemed to have trouble answering several questions.
“He was asked how he would handle immigrants who overstay their Visas, and he said ‘I don’t know’,” Keilar said. “On withdrawing troops from Syria, he said there may be a good reason, but he doesn’t necessarily understand. He seemed to be passing on a lot of stuff, the Constitution, he questioned whether a 230 year-old document can be used as a guide for today’s issues, especially international issues.
Tucker Carlson seized on that appalling indication that he doesn’t grasp the meaning of the presidential oath of office “to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States." More on that below. But Keilar continued her discussion with CNN poltical director David Chalian:
“Is he ready?” Keilar asked Chalian. “I mean ,you have to be able to have something of substance and have formed opinions on these things.”
Chalian agreed it was a valid question, but added “remember, we’ve seen that question asked before, I mean, Barack Obama in 2007 was getting criticized from many in the Democratic Party for not issuing white papers. And he made clear I wasn’t going to be the candidate of white papers.”
Chalian suggested that O’Rourke is “trying to preserve as much flexibility as possible, be a blank canvas,” but added “you better believe that is going to raise questions in Democratic circles of does he have what it takes? And only Beto O’Rourke is going to be able to answer that in a future interviews with how he conducts himself.”
“It’s a fine line to walk between being a blank canvas and an empty vessel, right, as someone will accuse you of being,” Keilar said….
Wow! A CNN anchor speaking to their political director said that. Keilar seems to have realized the impact of the words that slipped from her lips, because:
… then [she] hastily added “Not you, you know, collectively, the ‘you.’ Just to be clear, you are a very full vessel full, of very important knowledge.”
Here is the entire segment via Grabien:
Tucker Carlson, free to speak his mind, was devastating in questioning the empty-headedness of Beta:
Rush transcript from Grabien:
RUSH TRANSCRIPT:
>> Tucker: Good evening. Welcome to “Tucker Carlson tonight.” The 2020 presidential race is effectively underway and has been since the midterms in November. The most formidable candidates have not officially announced yet. They want to be fashionably late to the party. It’s obvious who they are. They are lining up donors, genning up publicity and trying to be impressive. The biggest contender in the group is Beto O’rourke. He nearly beat Ted Cruz in a Senate race this fall. Democrats love him for that. Affluent Progressives on the coast love him best. He is one of them. In the betting markets, O’rourke is the favorite to win the democratic nomination. Two years from now he plausibly could be in the oval Office. So it’s work taking Beto O’rourke seriously. What kind of president would he be? At this point we can only guess. We know like most people in his social class he is totally against border walls.
>> We will fought when necessary against a president focused on building walls.
>> No wall is going to solve legitimate security concerns. Then perhaps you can be forgiven thinking that a wall will solve the problem.
>> We in El Paso are ashamed of this now. But this is one of those moments where the folks in Germany look back on the Berlin wall or the united States looks back on the project to intern Japanese Americans in World War II.
>> Did you hear that? Berlin wall, bad. Border wall, also bad. Indeed, bad, very much like interning the Japanese direct World War II was bad. Another racist attack on the Asians from the F.D.R. Administration. Or something like that. Walls are bad. So far that has been the sum total of what we know about Beto O’rourke’s policy views. That and he went to the dentist recently. We know because he put it on Instagram. Thankfully now we know even more. O’rourke just did a two-hour long interview with a reporter from Jeff bezos’ Washington newspaper, “Washington Post,” which like O’rourke himself is a full-time mouthpiece for guilty rich people. O’rourke knew he was speaking to his own community so he relaxed long enough to explain what he really thinks about things, including border walls. Walls are bad, O’rourke explained. Not just because they intern perfectly decent Japanese people but because they literally commit murder. Rather we commit murder when we build walls. As O’rourke put it, if you construct a barrier along the southern border, “You will ensure death. You and I as Americans have caused the deaths of others through these walls.” Let that settle. Whoa! We killed people. We didn’t even know it. That is pretty heavy. How many people did we kill? Should we turn ourselves in to the authorities or prepare for life on the lam? Do we need passports? Extra security? Does Paraguay have extradition treaty? So many questions. But the real question is what the hell is Beto O’rourke talking about? It’s not like he is pretending to know. He makes it perfectly clear he has no idea what he is saying. That is okay. He is not embarrassed about it. When the “Washington Post” asked O’rourke what he would do about illegal aliens oversaying their Visas, a huge part of the immigration crisis he answered this way. “I don’t know.” Thank you, Mr. Specoli, please take your seat. He is not in details. He’s in to ideas. Big ideas. Ideas of the future. Sweeping panoramic truths about being, personhood and new modes of authentic express. The — authentic expression. He is bigger than that of a micro guy. He is a transformer. What he wants to transform next is nothing less than the United States of America, starting with the belief the country was founding on. That is what he told Jeff bezos’ newspaper. Does this still work, he asked? “This” being America. He wasn’t so sure. So he asked a question that future his historians will recognize as a pivot point in the life of this country. Can America “Still be managed by the same principles that were set down 230-plus years ago?” That is not a small question. The principles he refers to would include “Bill of rights” freedom of speech, freedom of assembly and right to self-defense and fair trial. Does any of that still matter? Or are all of those old ideas, stumbling blocks preventing people like Beto, good and brilliant people who went to Columbia and have beautiful weekend homes from getting the power they need to turn the place to a truly awesome country? A country where the skateboards outnumber S.U.V.S, and everyone is thin and has quality child care. A nation that values hot yoga above football. Place WHE insensitive thoughts are banned and punished appropriately. Beto doesn’t know the answer to the questions right now but he is thinking about it.
Read more: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/01/beto_bombs_bigly_in_long_interview_with_the_washington_post.html#ixzz5csjlhpRP
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Nolte: Pelosi ‘Disinviting’ Trump from State of the Union is Yuge Opportunity
Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats just stepped in it, big-time.
According to various news reports, Pelosi has “disinvited” President Trump from making the annual State of the Union address to Congress.
With just days left until he was supposed to deliver this widely-viewed speech on January 29, Politico reports that, fearing Trump will use the nationally-televised address to blame Democrats for the ongoing partial shutdown of the government, Pelosi “asked President Donald Trump to reschedule his State of the Union address — or deliver it in writing — as long as the government remains shut down.”
Pelosi’s pretext is “security concerns,” but even the far-left Politico is forced to admit that is not Pelosi’s real worry.
“[P]rivately,” Politico says, “Democrats also don’t want to give Trump a major platform to blame them for the shutdown when Trump’s demand for billions in wall funding has been the main driver, according to a Democratic lawmaker close to leadership.”
What’s more, NBC News is reporting that the speech has not merely been “postponed”: Trump has been straight-up “disinvited” from making the address.
Every year, per a tradition that reaches back to the early 20th century, and at the invitation of Congress, the president addresses the Congress on the state of the union.
This tradition also, of course, gives Congress the power to not invite the president, or to revoke the invitation, which is what Pelosi is doing.
Obviously, the Democrat leadership have not gamed this out, because what they are actually offering Trump is an extraordinary opportunity, one that allows him to burnish his legacy with the creation of a presidential precedent: a State of the Union address delivered directly to everyday Americans.
On top of the fact that Pelosi is acting petty and small, there is nothing stopping Trump now from giving his January 29 address elsewhere — like, say, an arena in a swing state.
Trump’s constitutional obligation as president periodically to “give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient,” does not require a speech before Congress, or any kind of speech. Between 1801 and 1913, the president addressed the Congress by writing a letter.
So what we have here is Pelosi and her petty Democrats unshackling an iconoclastic president from this stuffy tradition, which allows him to create one of his own…
If Trump is smart, he will grab this historic opportunity with both hands and make the most of it.
Imagine if the annual State of the Union was delivered to We The People, as opposed to the elite ruling class.
Imagine if Trump and his successors were able to escape the DC swamp, the visuals of the opposing party sitting on its hands, and move this important tradition into America’s heartland.
One important point: the occasion should remain the occasion, meaning the State of the Union should remain the State of the Union, and not be turned into a political rally.
Trump has already delivered two State of the Union addresses, and both were very well received, even by a media that loathes him. This is a solemn and serious thing, and should remain so.
On another front, Pelosi just ceded even more congressional authority to the executive branch.
Until now, the State of the Union was something the president did for Congress at the request of Congress; a custom where the president deferred to Congress.
And here is Pelosi, giving a president like the Trump the open opportunity to upend all of that.
The people want to hear from their president. Once a year, we want a serious, in-depth speech from the commander-in-chief, and the viewership numbers prove that.
This is a tradition Americans appreciate, and if Democrats want their historical precedent to be the first time congressional leadership has ever played politics with the State of the Union, Trump can set his own precedent by bringing that message directly to the people.
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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/01/16/nolte-nancy-pelosi-disinviting-trump-from-state-of-the-union-address-is-yuge-opportunity/
Speaker Pelosi apparently forgot that she also has a police force
By Ed Timperlake
she's not even a pretty face...just a waste of flesh and oxygen
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi sent a letter on January 16, 2019 to President Trump asking him to reschedule his upcoming State of the Union because of security concerns:
Sadly, given the security concerns and unless government re-opens this week, I suggest that we work together to determine another suitable date after government has re-opened for this address or for you to consider delivering your State of the Union address in writing to the Congress on January 29th.
Speaker Pelosi’s political gambit to link the security of the State of the Union to the government shutdown was immediately spiked by a “can do” tweet sent out by DHS Secretary Nielson:
The Department of Homeland Security and the US Secret Service are fully prepared to support and secure the State of the Union. We thank the Service for their mission focus and dedication and for all they do each day to secure our homeland.
Additionally, yesterday there was pure public buffoonery between Speaker Pelosi (D-CA), third in line of succession to the presidency, and her Democrat Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD). After Speaker Pelosi sent the President her letter, Representative Hoyer publicly stated that the State of The Union “is off.”
But wait! Congressman Hoyer then admitted that he did not read the letter. He used the saying “Ready… fire… aim” in making his comment.
A representative for Hoyer told INSIDER he had "not read Speaker Pelosi's letter and mischaracterized it" when he told CNN that the State of the Union address "is off."
If the two most powerful leaders in the House of Representative cannot even coordinate a one-page letter, it is no wonder that in discussing “security concerns,” both Speaker Pelosi and her Democrat Majority Leader Hoyer overlooked that they also have a huge leadership role in Capitol Hill security.
To insinuate that security concerns should stop the State Of The Union without even consideration of the successful security role of the Capitol Police is a significant oversight. The Capitol Police day-in-and-day-out guard and protect all who are in the Capitol.
DHS, and specifically the Secret Service, have the lead in protecting their principals but their great and often unheralded (but always successful) addition to a safe and secure event on Capitol Hill is a direct tribute to the courage and professionalism of the Capitol Police. Speaker Pelosi should have known that when she tried to play politics with the shutdown
On July 24 1998, Capitol Police officer Jacob Chestnut and Detective John Gibson were killed by a paranoid schizophrenic Russell Wilson. Wilson survived his being shot by Detective Gibson and is still in a mental institution, having never been brought to trial. For those of us working in the Capitol that day, the debt of gratitude to the fallen offices is incalculable. I was working that day in the Capitol.
As shots rang out we all were told barricade oneself in our offices, my Rules Committee Office was one floor below the running gun battle. In essence, a “shelter in place” security protocol was enacted because in the “fog” of the moment it wasn’t known if it was more than one gunman until the all-clear was passed along.
Days later, we all paid our utmost respect to Officer Chestnut and Detective Gibson as their coffins were placed in honor in the Capitol Rotunda. July 24, 1998 was truly a day of unselfish heroism and also great tragedy for the Capitol Police.
Sadly, a few years later 9/11 changed the course of American history, as our symbols of financial power in New York City and the US Government were targeted by terrorists. The response from the legislative branch was to build additional security barriers and create a new impressive Capitol Visitors Center. Concurrently the Capitol Police assisted by the District Police pushed out from the Capitol a security zone covering many square blocks of historic homes on Capitol Hill.
So, Madame Speaker, please stop overlooking the Executive/Legislative security partnership supported by your own Police Force when playing politics; it is just petty and wrong.
Read more: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/01/speaker_pelosi_apparently_forgot_that_she_also_has_a_police_force_.html#ixzz5crwAVLLy
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Goooo APHA...and another certain research stock not to be named...
Picture this...Castro/Beto ticket for 2020...don't shoot them...just shoot me now...
I would say White...but I'm afraid of being accused of White Privilege...
Before my hours changed I used to listen to David on my way to work...this really quacked me up...the one thing I wish David had asked to the back peddling twat...why should your staff even be concerned of the color of the skin.
David Webb’s White Privilege
By KEVIN D. WILLIAMSON
January 17, 2019 6:30 AM
For the Left, public discourse is Lord of the Flies, and victimhood is the conch.
And here I thought I was the only black man with white privilege.
Areva Martin, a CNN “analyst” — whatever in hell that means anno Domini 2019 — was in the middle of a spirited exchange with the conservative talk-radio host David Webb about racial preferences in hiring. Webb argued — as conservatives of many different races argue! — that race should not be a factor in such decisions, which should be based strictly on qualifications.
Martin, predictably, leaned on identity. “That’s a whole ’nother long conversation about white privilege,” she sniffed. “The things that you have the privilege of doing that people of color don’t have the privilege of.” Webb, sensing something amiss, asked: “How do I have white privilege?” Her answer: Because he is a “white male.”
Half right.
(Disclosure: I don’t think I’ve ever met Mr. Webb, but I did guest-host his radio show a few times a couple of years ago. They stopped asking me to do that after I made fun of his awful bumper music. People are touchy.)
Somehow, we as a culture have managed to forget that ad hominem is a rhetorical fallacy. Which is to say: Relying on the ad hominem mode of argument means that you are stupid, if not generally and categorically stupid then limited-purpose stupid in the context of the debate at hand.
Dennis Prager, relating the story above, mentions that he was denounced — as he must be denounced! — before a college campus speech as a racist, sexist, homophobe, and . . . anti-Semite. Prager is Jewish. He has made opposing anti-Semitism a fundamental part of his public career. The reaction to that news was predictable: “Oops. Well, he’s still a racist, sexist, homophobe . . .”
I’ve heard Charles C. W. Cooke dismissed as a fundamentalist Christian (he’s an atheist) and Guy Benson denounced as a homophobe (he’s gay). I have even heard myself denounced as a sellout self-hating black man (I’m white). We have been the beneficiaries of Voltaire’s prayer: “I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: ‘O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.’ And God granted it.”
But here’s a question: What if they were right? Cooke’s views on abortion or the First Amendment are what they are, and they either have merit or they do not, irrespective of his religious views. David Webb and I have the same views on many things, I imagine. He’s black. I’m white. Presumably, an erroneous opinion bouncing around in my head would be equally erroneous bouncing around in his head, just as a useful observation coming out of my mouth would be an equally useful observation coming out of his.
Not if you are a progressive, apparently. For the Left, public discourse is Lord of the Flies, and victimhood is the conch — that is how they believe we should decide who gets to speak. That’s what the nonsensical business about “intersectionality” is all about. It is at its heart very little more than a reconstitution of old, dumb, primitive, superstitious ideas in the same genus as racism and nationalism, i.e. the belief that certain demographic markers of questionable real-world relevance are supernaturally cementitious determinants of moral meaning. The ugliness and crudity of that view are easy enough to ascertain. There are no political leaders, police officers, journalists, or college professors — only white political leaders, black police officers, gay journalists, disabled college professors, etc. No sensible person believes that we live in a perfectly colorblind society — but it does not follow from that that the most important thing about David Webb is his race. He made the same argument when Areva Martin thought he was white that he would have made if she had known he was black. David Webb is not the variable in that equation.
COMMENTS
But that kind of crudeness is attractive if your rhetorical strategy is to substitute indictment for argument. “I think you have this one wrong, Areva Martin.” “Who are you to say, white man?” Or: “I think the president screwed up the whole wall thing.” “Yeah, well, you’re a #NeverTrumper, so, nanny-nanny-boo-boo.” There’s really nowhere for the conversation to go from there — and that is the point.
But if you insist on being an intellectually backward and morally illiterate racial essentialist, at least do your homework.
KEVIN D. WILLIAMSON — Kevin D. Williamson is the roving correspondent for National Review.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/01/david-webb-white-privilege-charge-left-discourse-victimhood/
I read that story...frikkin amazing...and just heard...roberto AKA Beto was interviewed by the Washington Post...and buried in it he said...the Constitution is old fashioned and needs a redo...it's coming my friend...and we both know why we need 30+ rounds...the Constitution is SPOT ON
2020 hopeful Castro tells New Hampshire voters that 'everyone counts'
by HOLLY RAMER, The Associated Press
Wednesday, January 16th 2019
Here's your buddy...grins
MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Democrat Julian Castro, in the early primary state of New Hampshire for the first time as a presidential candidate, told voters on Wednesday that he believes "everyone counts" and accused the Trump administration of "picking and choosing" who has chances to succeed.
The 44-year-old former Obama administration housing chief spoke at the "Politics & Eggs" event at Saint Anselm College four days after he kicked off his campaign in his hometown of San Antonio. In between, he squeezed in a campaign trip to Puerto Rico.
Castro said he visited the U.S. territory "because I want every single American to know that everyone counts."
He said that "if we've faced any crisis over these last two years, it's that we have an administration that doesn't believe that, that is picking and choosing who gets opportunity and who doesn't based on what you look like, based on your faith, based on how long you've been in this country. We need to get back to an America where everyone counts."
As San Antonio mayor, Castro pushed through a sales tax increase to pay for prekindergarten programs, an accomplishment he cited in New Hampshire, which has prided itself on having neither a sales nor income tax and only recently began providing significant state money for full-day kindergarten.
Castro drew applause when he promised to enact universal preschool as president and said he would work toward tuition-free college degrees, apprenticeships and certificates.
Castro expressed support for a higher minimum wage and a comprehensive immigration overhaul that includes a path to citizenship for those living in the country illegally.
He also supports a Medicare-for-all health care system, but offered no specifics when asked by an audience member how he would pay for it. He said those details would come later, but probably would involve looking at how to reduce costs within the health care system.
Castro later told reporters that he will review tax provisions that benefit the wealthy and corporations.
Castro is part of what is becoming a crowded field for the Democratic nomination. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York launched her exploratory committee Tuesday, and the field could grow to more than a dozen candidates.
Castro, who could end up being the only Latino candidate, said he often gets asked whether he believes that largely-white Iowa and New Hampshire should remain first in the nominating calendar.
"Do I wish in the first two states we had more diversity in those states? Yeah, I do. However, the thing I do appreciate about Iowa and New Hampshire is that people take politics and policy very seriously, and these are relative small states as far as states go, so you can actually meet people one on one and get to know them," he said.
https://cbsaustin.com/news/nation-world/2020-hopeful-castro-tells-new-hampshire-voters-that-everyone-counts
OMB issues guidance on Reduction in Force layoffs due to partial shutdown
By Thomas Lifson
A new statement from the Office of Management and Budget provides cold comfort for federal bureaucrats worried that furloughs during the partial shutdown could become permanent layoffs, as long as Democrats refuse to give in and fund the border barrier.
There will be no immediate layoffs (what the federal government calls reductions-in-force – or RIFs) if and when the current partial shutdown passes the 30 day mark in 4 more days. As I explained yesterday in Trump's shutdown trap?, federal law requires RIFs when federal employees are furloughed more than 30 days.
But after the matter was raised and widely discussed, the OMB issued a statement that indicates it would require an actual reorganization plan that would make furloughed positions permanently identified as unnecessary, in order for the furloughs to be RIFed. Nicole Ogrysko writes in the Federal New Network:
Agencies won’t need to consider targeted layoffs, otherwise known as reductions-in-force (RIFs), if the current partial government shutdown continues for another few days.
While federal statute typically instructs agencies to RIF targeted groups of employees who have been placed on furlough status for 30 days or more, the regulations don’t apply to emergency furlough situations, the Office of Management and Budget confirmed Tuesday. (snip)
There are two kinds of furloughs. “Administrative furloughs” are planned events by an agency “designed to absorb reductions necessitated by downsizing, reduced funding, lack of work or any budget situation other than a lapse in appropriations,” according to the Office of Personnel Management.
“Shutdown furloughs,” also called “emergency furloughs,” occur during lapses in appropriations.
OPM’s 2015 guidance on shutdown furloughs also clarifies the matter.
“Reductions in force furlough regulations and SES competitive furlough requirements are not applicable to emergency shutdown furloughs because the ultimate duration of an emergency shutdown furlough is unknown at the outset and is dependent entirely on congressional action, rather than agency action,” OPM guidance reads. “The RIF furlough regulations and SES competitive furlough requirements, on the other hand, contemplate planned, foreseeable, money-saving furloughs that, at the outset, are planned to exceed 30 days.”
This emphatically does not rule out the shutdown trap hypothesis that I presented. It will take some time for reorganization plans to be prepared, but once they are revealed after the 30 day deadline is reached, the “shutdown furloughs” become “administrative furloughs,” and the RIF layoffs are possible.
As the anonymous Senior Trump Administration official that I quoted yesterday noted, in the absence of bureaucrats with time on their hands and no inclination to help the Trump agenda, a lot is getting accomplished. As that process continues, after the 30-day mark is reached it will be possible to create a downsizing plan, identifying units that could easily get by with a fraction of their current staff, or even be reorganized out of existence.
The head of the OMB, Mick Mulvaney, currently does not have a lot of spare time, serving as head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and as interim White House Chief of Staff (a 24/7 job in its own right). But if he is on board (and why wouldn’t he be?), he could well designate a team to prepare quick plans for downsizing, now that the various agencies have seen how little they need so many of the furloughed bureaucrats. That would make the furloughs qualify for RIFs.
Of course, there would be a dispute on when the clock starts ticking on the 30 days – with the original "shutdown furlough" or from the date of the hypothetical downsizing plan I mention. If the latter -- a delayed start of the clock ticking -- then the pressure on the Democrats to cave in and end the shutdown would amp up. Imagine if Schumer and Pelosi started hearing from federal bureaucrats waiting to be RIFed if another 30 days go by. Would they be willing to say to them that it’s more important to have no border barriers than for their jobs to be preserved? They would have a time bomb of layoffs of government employees, a huge Democrat constituency, affecting many individual members of the House with large numbers of federal employees. I can imagine quite a few House Democrats bolting from Pelosi if she persists in the shutdown, refusing to talk or compromise.
If this plan is followed and a downsizing proposal is officially revealed, Trump either get an end to the shutdown, or he gets to downsize the federal bureaucracy.
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{{{{Hugs}}}}...great to see you....take care
Indeed...and to me even more amazing is how many stupid dumbfooks there are in this country and Canada passing themselves off as HVAC techs...sheesh
OK Rant over...back to calls.
Nothing like sitting atop a screaming banchee surrounded by shrooms...what could go wrong??
I take that as a high compliment...TY Sir EZ...
Just saw this...well put...I did the same thing with my son...and he has grown into quite a man...one I'm very proud of...as you put it...Actions
Heard about it on the way in...the worst defeat in Englands history...to be followed today by a vote of confidence...I have no doubt she will survive but...would LMAO if not...as they used to say...Off with her head...figuratively speaking of course...
They need to exit with no deal...be able to negotiate trade agreements with others like the US does...they will have peeps begging for trade deals.
BTW...FaceBook will be opening on our third floor soon...Hmmmm
Even Triple Wow....however...NOW I know why it is in a museum...can you imagine THAT in your living room??...hold my beer while I shoot the peacock...
Amazing piece of work.
Morning True...after that I had to dig deep into my pockets...even open the coin jar...Hmmm just a little short...looks like maybe a few more cheap chicken days at Popeyes...
To do that math...I only need one finger...
Knowing the story BEHIND that song...words to LIVE by...and I passed it along to the young-uns here at work...
Morning EZ...and...MAKE it a great day
colder here on the weekend...lows in the 20's...Brrrrr
And I'm just saying....
Surprise: Genius behind man-hating Gillette ad is a radical feminist
By DC Larson
In recent days, many online essays have rightly ripped apart Gillette's ugly new "We Believe" advertisement. One online critic dubbed it "feel-bad liberalism."
Carpentered by Grey Advertising for Proctor and Gamble's razors company, it does not detail product attributes, encourage brand loyalty, instill warm feelings in buyers, or even show basic respect for consumers. Instead, the grimly lecturing spot declares masculinity itself toxic, a peril to decent society.
"Is this the best a man can get? Is it?" asks the painfully serious narrator, as a wrongdoing slideshow passes by. "We can't hide from it. It's been going on far too long. We can't laugh it off, making the same old excuses."
"I guess the guy at the ad agency missed the lesson about not taking a dump on the people you want to buy your stuff," cracked comedian Steven Crowder.
"The guy at the ad agency" is actually philosophically unpleasant feminist Kim Gehrig. Hiring her to court the male market is like expecting to accrue impressive rainbow flag sale numbers with spiels from Farrakhan.
Jezebel reported an email message Gehrig sent CNBC: "At the end of the day, sparking conversation is what matters. This gets people to pay attention to the topic and encourages them to consider taking action to make a difference."
She'd previously made the bizarre "Viva La Vulva" spot for Swedish feminine hygiene company Libresse. In that surreal ad, objects that included a conch shell, sliced orange, papaya, and coin purse stood in as ersatz female intimate parts. For the ad's nearly three-minute duration, these items were manipulated as unnatural "singers" of Camille Yarbrough's "Take Yo Praise."
Gehrig's new Gillette effort states her bias boldly by intercutting allusions to abusive acts with images of romantic heterosexuality.
A black-and-white cartoon scene that flashes past shows men whistling at a woman. In another scant bit, a guy sees a pretty female pedestrian. He steps after her but is restrained by a companion. "Not cool," the restrainer admonishes.
Expressions of attraction and related pursuits are natural. They lead to humans reproducing – which is how Gehrig got here, though she might be horrified to learn that.
Adweek pronounced Gehrig's group libel the "Ad of the Week." Gehrig's efforts were also recognized by Best Ads on TV.
Therein lies an issue worth note. Fox News host Greg Gutfeld tweeted: "the only ones lauding the Gillette ad work in media/advertising. everyone else sees it for what it is: a smarmy, condescending virtue signal aimed at the hardworking decent men they have been price-gouging for years."
At this writing, Gillette's YouTube posting of "We Believe" has received 40,000 "thumbs down" votes and only 4,300 positive ratings. Even when possible manipulations have been allowed for, that ratio does not bode well for the company.
Gillette executives may have hoped their brand would realize market uplift from public mind association with trendy messaging. That may also once have been the wish of suits at Dodge, the NFL, Target, Lynx, Nike, PepsiCo, and Dick's Sporting Goods. They all suffered as a consequence of catering to P.C. prejudices.
The greatest ultimate harm caused by Gehrig's Gillette advertising maliciousness may be this: irresponsible,"woke" parents bludgeoning their young sons with her message that just being a boy is unhealthy, a wrong for which they should forever hang their heads.
Poor kids.
DC Larson is the author of Ideas Afoot: Political commentary, cultural observations, and media analyses. His writings have appeared in the American Thinker, the Daily Caller, USA Today, and other newspapers. His political blog is https://americanscenemagazine.blogspot.com.
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Cool let him know for me as well...
Oh I heard about that on my way to work this morning on Breitbart news...they even played some of the video...disgusting...I will NEVER buy another Gillette product again...Period (Not saying I am having a period......)
Hmmm I like...will be looking deeper into this....thanks...
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