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THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
FOR PLANNING PURPOSES ONLY
October 23, 2017
Guidance for President Donald J. Trump’s Remarks on Combatting the Opioid Epidemic
What: President Donald J. Trump’s Remarks on Combatting the Opioid Epidemic
Where: The White House – East Room
When: Thursday, October 26, 2017 at 2:00PM EDT
On Senator McCain’s Trump bashing (emphasis mine):
Because of you, they think, we got identity-politician Sonia Sotomayor on the Supreme Court, not another Neil Gorsuch-type justice instead. We had to read steady reports of “the emerging Democratic majority,” which told us our days were numbered, these conservatives fume. When we voiced other beliefs, cowering Republicans handed us the condescending, inclusive language they’d adopted to adapt to the Obama era. Those other beliefs — God and country, family and home — “That’s not what we’re all about,” conservative members were told.
I only wished that the drone had gone in closer but hey, it’s better than having to go there in person: (H/T: Daily Mail)
But loves Government. Once again, it’s all about “inequality” and how to “fix it – at Davos. Think about inequality at the annual “aren’t we rich and Elite” party they throw for themselves? The AP decided to weigh in on this report from Oxfam (1/16/17):
Sidenote: Oxfam – weren’t they the folks that were just concerned about getting food to hungry people? Oh, right, once a charity, everybody’s morphed into a some kind of Social Justice Warrior – and once an SJW, you become a full spectrum SJW because: INTERSECTIONALITY (where SJWs play “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon” with every issue where “We good, everyone else needs a hearty verbal lashing and internet mobbing”)
So how did it start (reformatted, emphasis mine)?
That would be gay Ray “Bomb the Hague” Buckley of the militant LGBTQRSTUV (and whatever other letters have been added this week – I’m too busy to keep up) wing of the Democrat Party that will use any and all issues. In this case, he decides to use the Democrat Cultural Marxism tactic of “you’re either with us or you are GUILTY AND CULPABLE” tactic back on Aug 4 in the Concord Monitor against Gov Chris Sununu. You know, that collective guilt (emphasis mine, reformatted) should stick when thrown against the wall of his desire.
My Turn: Sununu’s position on transgender Granite Staters is dangerous
Concord Monitor (the ink-stained den for Progressives who have hard times stringing two coherent thoughts together) – on Jan 21, former CongressCritter Paul Hodes said that NH has to raise its entry labor costs in order to attract new businesses to NH (Yeah, as a former business owner, that gets my motor started on that idea again). In his Op-Ed, he’s taking a slap at Sununu for using the Federal minimum wage instead of upping NH’s costs to all the other New England (Democrat) States. But this is what caught my eye:
New Hampshire is the only state in New England that does not have a minimum wage higher than the federal minimum wage dictates. Gov. Sununu opposes setting a higher state minimum wage, which is set to remain at $7.25 through 2018. For a full-time minimum wage worker in New Hampshire, that means $15,080 per year, which is slightly above the poverty line of $14,570 per year for a family of two. Gov. Sununu accepted a bigger pay raise than a New Hampshire minimum wage earner makes in a year. That’s not just bad politics. It’s bad policy.
Yeah, sure thing, Paul. No, that line is just Stupidity writ large.
LifeHacker is a place I go to because, well, tips on how to “hack” your life to save time and money – and cute tricks and sometimes just nerdy type stuff in a pop culture kinda of way. Or, at least that’s what it used to be. As SWJs are taking over as writers at the site, there are less hack posts and more political ones. It’s clear that there is one class of commenters that decry the politics (like me as it used to be an escape from politics) but it is clear that a majority of the commenters are Republican haters (it is rather amusing to see how many Progressive talking points I see) depending on post I’m reading. Like this one this is masquerading as a hack but really is agit-prop (Aug 17):
Your Insurance Premiums Could Be Huge Next Year, and Here’s Why
This week, the White House announced that the government would indeed make this month’s required payments to health insurance companies. We kinda dodged a bullet there, because those CSRs directly affect the price of your insurance if you buy an individual plan. But the threat is only temporarily paused, and your premiums could still spike next year.
But the author left out ONE REALLY IMPORTANT piece of information of these Cost Sharing Reduction / Insurance company bailout payments so I tried to enlighten her and her readers just a wee bit.
The second of Trump’s actions was his Oct. 12 statement that he would suspend cost-sharing reduction payments to health insurance companies. The Obama administration had been making CSR payments since 2014 even though Obamacare’s Section 1401 does not appropriate the money for the payments authorized in Section 1402. This was blatantly unconstitutional. “No Money shall … Read more
Now, Oscar stands for a lot of “new” things, doesn’t it? (H/T: Powerline)
Man Who Identifies As A Woman Named Michelle, Rapes 10 Yr-Old Girl In Ladies Room Miguel Martinez is a transgender who lives in Casper, Wyoming. That’s a place that I have lived before when I was a kid. No way would I have ever dreamed that would be a headline out of that wonderful town. … Read more
What crisis? Global CO2 emissions stalled for the third year in a row From the EUROPEAN COMMISSION JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE The annual assessment of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by the JRC and the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL) confirms that CO2 emissions have stalled for the third year in a row. The report provides updated results … Read more
Actually, Fascism realized that, unlike Socialism, one can have the same outcome as Socialism / Communism. The State didn’t need to own the sources of Production to control them – just an overarching set of laws and regulations that the owners of those means of production that result in effective control without being the legal … Read more
We don’t have a revenue problem – we have a spending problem that gives us these huge annual deficits leading to a $20 Trillion national debt (reformatted, emphasis mine).
Real federal spending in fiscal 2017, which ended on Sept. 30, was higher than in any year in the history of the United States other than fiscal 2009, which was the year that President Barack Obama’s $840 billion stimulus law was enacted. Fiscal 2017 also saw the second highest real federal individual income tax totals of any year in U.S. history, according to the Monthly Treasury Statement released today. Total federal tax revenues were the third highest in U.S. history.
…and xenophobe and (reformatted, emphasis mine)…
No one can fail to be amazed by the courage of the people who protested segregation and bigotry in the 1950s and 1960s. Those who endured physical injury justifiably stick in our minds the most.
Today’s educated liberals lack the courage they admire in their forebears, at a time when it is needed more than ever. Namely, too many liberals in power lack the guts to sanction those dedicated to shouting down speakers from the right. Instead, they let pass a state of dialogue as choked as the one that Berkeley’s Free Speech movement resisted.
To hurl the N-word at someone is an attempt to shut down discussion. Today, the word “racist” serves the same function. Or, today’s fashionable new version is the now grievously overused “white supremacist.” Such that, for example, liberal man of letters and Columbia professor Mark Lilla is accused of making white supremacy “respectable” — for suggesting that Democrats emphasize identity politics less with the goal of winning the White House from Donald Trump. . . .
It has become clear over the past few years that
One example (emphasis mine):
According to the Los Angeles Times, Newsom said the ban will “help prevent the occurrence of high-fatality gun massacres, and … [will] reduce the bloodshed when these tragedies occur.”
Note that Newsom’s claim contains an admission that the ban will not stop “high-fatality” attacks altogether. Rather, it is yet another in a long list of California controls that is promulgated in the name of safety, only to result in diminished freedom.
Well, I am now, as they say, between opportunities. So my time is going to be a bit more flexible. Fortunately, I have a TON of bookmarks on stuff that I marked “use this” that I never got around to posting (perhaps a couple of years worth). Sorta like “reverse prepping” – couldn’t stockpile my time and now I have plenty!
Here’s a snippet from “Stossel” the Fox Biz News show that he left a while ago. Here, he has a guest on that, well, shows that free markets should always have govt regulation:
Back on Jan 7, Katharine Gregg wrote an Op-Ed in the Concord Monitor that showed that she has definitely forgotten how trust works. That it takes a long time to build up trust and it has to be consistent in order to maintain it.
What Trust? She wants us to “try to trust government again.” Yeah, sure thing, ma’am. Coming right up, ma’am. Just after I forget that its folks like your husband that put us $20 trillion in the hole and have made our kids and grandkids and great-grandkids indentured servants IF it is even mathematically possible for “the richest country in history” to pay off that debt.
and didn’t realize it was Trump’s. Pre-conceived world view. (H/T: Campus Review)
Hardly. They never stop at just one thing. Once again, the Democrats in Congress aren’t just willing to go after just one aspect of their civilian disarmament jihad against the Second Amendment. Here’s a couple more “aren’t going any furthers”:
H.R.3984 – Rep. Schiff, Adam B. [D-CA-28] (Introduced 10/05/2017)
Summary: To repeal the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, and provide for the discoverability and admissibility of gun trace information in civil proceedings.
The Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA) protects firearms manufacturers and dealers from being held liable when crimes have been committed with their products.
So if some criminal shoots another one, said criminal can now sue the living snot out of the gun manufacturer – no manufacturers, no guns.
H.R.3962 – Rep. Watson Coleman, Bonnie [D-NJ-12] (Introduced 10/04/2017)
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