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No, not the kind that goes around your neck or on the wall.  No, this is all about NYC cab medallions – and why? Gosh, doesn’t this resemble the housing crash of 2008? Or in similar ways, the problem with the healthcare marketplace being taken over by Government? Or what Government did with “restructuring” the auto market industry?  Or…..well, you get the picture of where I could go with this as it seems that Government has inserted itself everywhere (emphasis mine, reformatted):

Ride Hailing Is Being Blamed For Taking Down Credit Unions In New York City

It was always obvious that ride hailing (or ride sharing) apps such as Uber and Lyft were going to cause big problems for the cab companies. The traditional taxi operations (and their unions) were either going to have to up their game and offer better service or they would go the way of the dinosaur. But in New York City, the rise of this new business model is being blamed for the downfall of some lenders who specialize in catering to the cab industry. The Associated Press has the details.

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Or at least they think so.

They sure thought they knew it all during Trump’s just concluded trip to France. You know, I’d love to call it “fake news” but it isn’t – this is plain getting it wrong at a news company that has $1.2 Billion in revenues and over 4,000 employees. You’d think that they could get basic, commonly known facts. First, the most egregious one:

 

CNN Anchor Poppy Harlow Calls Star-Spangled Banner French National Anthem On-Air

CNN anchor Poppy Harlow mistook the Star-Spangled Banner for the French national anthem during a live broadcast Thursday.

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Good things coming from our neighbors to our East in Maine – workers actually lobbying for a LOWER minimum wage because it is in their own self-interest (go read it as I’m not going to comment on it other than this line which I’ve blogged about in other areas where Governments that have sent the minimum wage arbitrarily sky high: ” first, that it would force employers to raise prices on their menu items, which could affect their current tips; and second, and perhaps more importantly, that employers might be forced to cut servers’ shifts as a result.”).

The second? What happens when there is only the native population left? What happens to that horrible saw that goes “[Illegal] immigrants doing the jobs that Americans won’t do?”

Americans take those jobs (emphasis mine, reformatted)

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“…Liberal Christianity has been hailed by its boosters for 40 years as the future of the Christian church. Instead, as all but a few die-hards now admit, the mainline churches that have blurred doctrine and softened moral precepts are declining and, in the case of the Episcopal Church, disintegrating.

…Somehow slipping out of the headlines is a harsh reality that the denomination has been deserted in droves by an angry or ambivalent membership. Six prominent bishops are ready to take their large dioceses out of the American church and align with conservative Anglican groups in Africa and South America.”

I used to write a lot about the “Mainline Protestant denominations” and how they were crumbling even as they denied that their foundational and Biblical doctrinal changes were the reason why. I just came across a post that updated the sorry state of the Episcopal Church – and the leadership still hasn’t learned the lesson as they win battle after battle against their local churches and refuse to see they are losing that war. They moved from being Biblically oriented to driven by all of the SJW tenets of the day: open borders, gay marriage, less about God and more about the world, to the point of rejecting why they were “in business” (which was saving souls through Christ’s sacrifice on the Cross).

If you no longer believe that Jesus is the Son of God, well, you’re just a country club with ornate windows and an expensive old-fashioned organ but without the greens, tennis courts, and pool.

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They get so upset when they get found out when they let slip that their whole idea is that humanity is the evil that plagues Nature and GAIA (the quaint notion that Earth is a living being).  And then they get upset when we merely observe what they say – and repeat it.  The sick thing is, most of them really mean it like this commenter over at Treehugger (here).  Screenshot:

Notice under the original is that

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Fools.  There are just too many people in Government that believe, simply by dint of receiving a government paycheck, that they know better than everybody else on what they should buy and when.  Like the Cash for Clunkers that didn’t meet its goal of Keynesian “stimulating” the auto industry by paying people up to $4,500 to turn in their old cars (to be crushed) for new ones.

And what did it really accomplish? Other than moving SOME people to make a buying decision earlier (note – who were already predisposed to buying a car ANYWAYS) and cost taxpayers about $24,00/car for the cost of the program, I’ve come to only one conclusion as to what it really did.

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I don’t agree with him all the time but on this, I do.  The GOP made a singular promise, over and over, for seven years.  Now, like the dog that finally caught the car, they don’t seem to know how to govern.  Which is to say, keep that promise, to completely repeal and replace Obamacare, that they made to us and we gave them the House, the Senate, and the Presidency.  Here’s what he had to say (H/T: Breitbart, reformatted and emphasis mine):

I miss the old days, when Republicans stood for repealing Obamacare. Republicans across the country and every member of my caucus campaigned on repeal – often declaring they would tear out Obamacare “root and branch!”
What happened?  Now too many Republicans are falling all over themselves to stuff hundreds of billions of taxpayers’ dollars into a bill that doesn’t repeal Obamacare and feeds Big Insurance a huge bailout.

Obamacare regulations? Still here. Taxes? Many still in place, totaling hundreds of billions of dollars.

Insurance company bailouts? Those, too. Remember when Republicans complained about Obamacare’s risk corridors? Remember when we called the corridors nothing more than insurance company bailouts? I remember when one prominent GOP candidate during a presidential debate explicitly called out the Obamacare risk corridors as a bailout to insurance companies. Does anyone else?

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Seriously – We have to ask babies PERMISSION to pick them up – and then let THEM pick their “gender”???  And then they wonder why college kids are just jerks now, just WAIT to these bunch of adults-to-be grow up.  Admittedly, my primary child-rearing days are 30 years in the rear-view mirror but given that TMEW and I are raising our grandson, I’ve been looking at these kinds of posts with absolute horror – really, who really is in charge here, the babies or the parents (yeah, take one guess – right: no one).  If this is an indication of what’s going to happen in the future, God help us all.

Example #1: Always ask your baby for permission to pick them up.  Even if they have no idea of what you’re saying.  Because RAPE CULTURE!!!! (reformated, emphasis mine):

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SHOT: Shaheen: Proposed Medicaid cuts would have ‘disproportionate impact’ on elderly

CHASER: Fact Check: No, the GOP Healthcare Bill Does Not ‘Slash’ or ‘Cut’ Medicaid

…These attacks are misleading at best, and deliberate fear-mongering at worst. The GOP healthcare bill does not cut, destroy, slash, or ‘any-other-scary-verb’ Medicaid. Just look for yourself. The top line numbers from the CBO don’t lie.  Under current law – that is, ObamaCare – Medicaid spending is expected to spiral from $393 billion this year to $624 billion in 2026. That’s nearly a 50% increase for a program that is already a budget-buster and is growing far faster than the U.S. economy and our national debt can manage.

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Steve set the stage, once again with his “The Paris treaty Is Just Another Progressive Climate Con” post (although I think I’ve mentioned somewhere as well).  Here’s a good example of why it is all about the Benjamins and not the BTUs (reformatted, emphasis mine):

Turkey Retreats From Paris Climate Treaty…

Turkey’s President Recep Erdogan admits the only reason for being in the Paris Climate Treaty was to get money from the U.S. and other more wealthy nations.  Now that the U.S. has pulled out of the treaty, there’s no reason to expect the financial benefits.  Proving yet again, for the eleventyth time, that the entire construct of the Paris Climate Treaty had nothing to do with the actual climate (ie. weather), and everything to do with economic wealth distribution.

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And the news is from CNN (oh wait, should it be believed??)!  Yikes – they’re even saying the stuff we are:

Several factors could be driving the uptick, Gallup said. Premiums rose substantially in 2017 for those who don’t qualify for federal subsidies, and many consumers had fewer choices on the exchanges because insurers bailed out of Obamacare this year.

That which is unsustainable won’t continue. Now, will the GOP in Washington have the political guts to

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