Trump Trolls Rosie O’Donnell Over Comey Firing

Some folks object to Mr. Trump’s use of Twitter but without it, we’d never get gems like this.   We finally agree on something Rosie. https://t.co/BSP5F3PgbZ — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 11, 2017 Twichy

Data Point – Gun Gap

“But there was a time when gun owners weren’t so overwhelmingly Republican. In 1976, 50 percent of Republicans, 48 percent of independents, and 45 percent of Democrats owned a gun. That changed in the 1980s and 1990s. By 2000, 30 percent of independents and only 27 percent of Democrats reported having a gun in the home. … Read more

And I always thought it was my first “christening” shot at my boys’ new basketball hoop

and coming down hard on my heels and jarred my back after not playing for a long time. But maybe another reason for the herniated disks I had that forced me, years ago, to have to use a cane to walk?

Statin Use Increases Odds of Back Disorder: Cohort Study. “In a large observational study of insured individuals in the military and their family members, statin use was associated with increased odds of having a back disorder, including spondylosis, intervertebral disc disorders, herniated discs, and spinal stenosis.”

Perfect ChairI’ve been on statins for over 20 years and have had a “sensitive” back for almost as long.  In fact, for about 3 years, I had to sit in a chair like that (in fact, further back with my back parallel to the floor) as I had difficulty walking and couldn’t sit because the weight on my spine was too much to take – it saved my career.  I put my monitors on a low desk and my keyboard and trackball velcro’d to a lap desk and used a 2 system KVM switch to move from system to system.

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Blogline of the Day – foregone opportunity ahead for the GOP?

DayOfReckoningRemorse after The Day of Reckoning (Nov 8, 2018)?

Unless things change, the GOP is going to look back on 2017-2019 as a wasted opportunity, which is exactly opposite of how Democrats remember 2009-2011.

Sure, there have been a bunch of GOP sponsored bills passed on eliminating

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The (Anti-Trump) Resistance Loses in Omaha

The so-called resistance rallied to defeat a Republican Mayor in Omaha, Nebraska. In what may have been a mild upset victory, Omaha’s Republican Mayor Jean Stothert defeated Bernie Sanders–backed Democrat, Heath Mello. The margin was 53-46. Dave Begley, our man in Omaha (and Council Bluffs), wrote about the Omaha mayor’s race here. He called it … Read more

As the House Considers Reps Behaving Badly

The day’s investigative festivities in a New Hampshire House committee bring to mind Part I, Article 38 of the New Hampshire Constitution. Social Virtues Inculcated. A frequent recurrence to the fundamental principles of the constitution, and a constant adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, industry, frugality, and all the social virtues, are indispensably necessary to preserve … Read more

Another “Global Warming” Beat-Down on the French Wine Crop

Regular readers may recall that the prognosis for last year’s French wine crop was not good. A series of late April freezes coated vines with ice that froze and killed new buds. Early reports from the Loire were not hopeful. “In the memory of vignerons, there are two major freezes: 1991 and 1994. This is on … Read more

Just another two-faced Progressive: Obama

Once more, with VIGOR! for the “LightBringer”: “Fine for me but not for thee”

SHOT: Obama defends Paris climate accord as Trump mulls ditching it

Former US President Barack Obama praised his administration’s record on climate change Tuesday, just as the Trump administration struggles with an internal rift over whether to pull out of the Paris climate accord.  The Paris Agreement was in part brokered by Obama and was seen as a major breakthrough after the previous accord, the Kyoto protocol, failed to include the US and China, the world’s two biggest polluters.

At a summit in Milan, Italy, focused on climate change and food availability, Obama defended the Paris Agreement and said that the US must show leadership and not “sit on the sidelines.” “During the course of my presidency, I made climate change a top priority because I believe that of all the challenges that we face, this is the one that will define the contours of this century, more dramatically perhaps than any other,” Obama said at the Seeds & Chips summit.

“We have been able to bring our emissions down even as we grow our economy. The same is true in many parts of Europe,” he said.

He fails to mention that he did everything he could to stop fracking which is, in no small part, responsible for much of US smaller emissions.  That, and his policies strangled our economy.

CHASER: Barack Obama Jets to Milan to Deliver Climate Change Speech

…After the ex-president enjoyed his flight to the famous Italian city, he hopped in an SUV in a 14 car convoy direct to his hotel

What, he couldn’t do the “climate change” responsible thing and

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Seriously, California? Oh yeah, that difference between Democrats & Socialist thing…

Hammer and sickle

SHOT: California: Hey, maybe communism isn’t so bad after all

EMphasis mine, reformatted: SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Being a communist would no longer be a fireable offense for California government employees under a bill passed Monday by the state Assembly.  Lawmakers narrowly approved the bill to repeal part of a law enacted during the Red Scare of the 1940s and ’50s when fear that communists were trying to infiltrate and overthrow the U.S. government was rampant. The bill now goes to the Senate. It would eliminate part of the law that allows public employees to be fired for being a member of the Communist Party. Employees could still be fired for being members of organizations they know advocate for overthrowing the government by force or violence.

Heck, as we have pointed out before, what’s the difference between the Democrat and Communist USA platforms anyways? Given the results in California, they already have infiltrated with D’s after their names in that single Party rule State.

CHASER: A Hundred Years of Communism.

…Stalin killed so many people in the Great Purge that

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BlogLine of the Day – “EMBRACE THE HEALING POWER OF ‘AND.”

House Conservative: Congress ‘Lacks the Intellect or Lacks the Backbone’ to Avoid ‘Debilitating Insolvency’ Update: Judging by the early returns in the comments, I should have gone with “EMBRACE THE HEALING POWER OF ‘AND’.” I regret the error. Unsure if the Blogline is really line 1 or line 2…either one, it is the Stupid Party. … Read more

Blogline of the Day – no, not THAT one

At reading that first paragraph, you might be thinking “oh, there it is”: THE CRAZIER TRUMP’S OPPONENTS ACT, THE SANER TRUMP SEEMS: Model Chrissy Teigen says Trump should pay for her botox, medical bills because of ‘crippling anxiety.’ “So fucking tired of this manically insane, incompetent president and this dumpster fire administration I’m gonna have … Read more

Blogline of the Day – and here is reinforcement

of my previous post, just differently: But Republicans are the hateful ones, because they [gasp!] disagree with Liberals as in that old saw “Liberals are merely misguided but Conservatives are EVIL”: Their hate is considered merely disagreement, but our mere disagreement is considered hate… (H/T: Liberal Logic 101)  

Notable Quote – Sheldon Richman

The tricky thing about separating church and state is that the state is a kind of church. –Sheldon Richman For Progressives, The State IS their religion and their God.  Where else do you think the phrase “every dollar is sacred” when discussion comes up about cutting the budget?  For them, it’s like taking money out … Read more

Trump Admin Scrubs Green Scum From EPA and Interior

What a beautiful sound. It’s the primal scream coming from the left when confronted with headlines like this from the Washington Post. EPA dismisses half of key board’s scientific advisers; Interior suspends more than 200 advisory panels EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt decided to replace half of the members on one of its key scientific review boards, … Read more

Data Point: How’s that multi-cultural assimilation going?

The UK’s most popular baby names have been revealed in a new survey, with Muhammed and Amelia topping the charts for the capital. Research carried out in every city in the country has shown how long-time favourites such as Emily, Sophie, Jack and Oliver are still going strong in 2017. At the same time, the Arabic … Read more

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