WEIRD, PEOPLE ON MY BLOG WERE SAYING MORE OR LESS THIS LAST WEEK: History Flips.
Archive for 2016
January 17, 2016
DID YOU EXPECT TRUTH IN PRAVDA? Lies of Guantanamo.
DID WE EVER GET OBAMA’S? David Brock demands Sanders’ medical records.
AND WE HAVE TWO KIDS IN COLLEGE: All I can do is work harder, but this is not news. We can feel it in the air. A recession worse than 2008 is coming. Hold on to the sides of the boat. Between this and our foreign policy, the water is about to get very choppy.
AGAIN, IF THIS IS NOT EMBARRASSING WE WANT PICTURES OF THE PRESIDENT ON HIS KNEES: Iran: American sailors are crybabies.
WERE THEY TRULY INTELLIGENT? BY THEMSELVES, THAT IS? Is the Left Even on America’s Side Anymore? And for anyone looking for the rest of that quote, it goes “I don’ t know and I don’t know how we can ever find out. I’m not a lab man; I’m an operator.”
HOW ABOUT PICTURES OF THE PRESIDENT ON HIS KNEES? There are no words for the amount of nausea this administration inspires in me. White House Does Not Think Pictures of Sailors on Their Knees are Embarrassing.
January 16, 2016
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HOMELAND SECURITY: How Neighbors Can Protect Their Community.
PREDICTION: SOMEONE WITH POLITICAL CONNECTIONS WILL MAKE A LOT OF MONEY OUT OF THIS. One of D.C.’s Most Contentious Pieces of Real Estate is 25 Feet Underground.
In the upscale Washington, D.C. neighborhood of Dupont Circle, where galleries, bars, and bookshops jostle for room, a 75,000-square-foot expanse in the heart of the quarter has been almost untouched for 20 years. That’s because in order to access it, you have to grab a flashlight and descend 25 feet below ground, into the vast, abandoned streetcar tunnels that flank Connecticut Avenue.
For the past 60 years, the city and its residents have wondered what to do with this vast subterranean space, whose history features a long list of failed attempts to repurpose it, including plans to make it into a gym, a greenmarket, and a storage facility for funeral urns.
Well, the way things are going it should probably be stocked as a fallout shelter.
THE GERMAN TEENS WHO Rebelled Against Hitler.
HARDLY SURPRISING, CONSIDERING THAT IT WAS ONE OF AMERICA’S BIGGEST SOCIAL-POLICY DISASTERS, AND WE ALL KNOW WHERE THOSE TEND TO COME FROM: “The truth is that Prohibition, in its essence, was a deeply progressive movement. Thus, for example, the forces of women’s liberation backed Prohibition—and the suffragettes were backed in turn by the Temperance Union, whose support (in the certainty that women would vote to outlaw liquor) helped gain women the vote. The goo-goos, the good-government types, similarly aided Prohibition, seeking to purge the rows of rowdy saloons that cluttered the major cities of America—and they enlisted the help of the Prohibitionists to create a national income tax, ending the federal government’s dependence on liquor taxes.”
IMMUNOLOGY: What The Appendix Is For.
DON SURBER: “Trump’s ground game is Twitter.”
BERNIE SANDERS YELLS AT WIKIPEDIA AND CLOUD OVER…CAMPAIGN LOGOS? Sanders’ campaign sent a DMCA takedown notice to Wikipedia for reproducing its campaign logo(!), then eventually came to its senses when it realized that the whole idea of creating a campaign logo is to see it as widely dispersed as possible.
“Seriously, it is a measure of how awful Hillary Clinton is as a candidate that she’s more or less tied with this guy. Or, arguably, losing to him,” Moe Lane writes, having lots of fun with Bernie in full angry old man trying to return soup at a deli mode. “Second: since when do Commies – oh, I’m sorry: ‘Democratic socialists’ – care about copyright, anyway? It all belongs to the People, right? Bernie Sanders supports public financing of elections, yes? So why does he suddenly think that he has the right to dictate what other people do with that logo? Ownership is theft, man. Bernie Sanders shouldn’t act so blatantly privileged, you know what I mean?”
Related: Dems’ hiding debates backfires on Hillary Clinton.
QUESTION ASKED AND ANSWERED: “Can D.C. afford a $15/hour minimum wage?”, the left-leaning Brookings Institute asked in July.
Yesterday’s Washington Post article headlined “District leaders furious Walmart breaking promise to build stores in poor neighborhoods” is a succinct response:
Evans said that, behind closed doors, Walmart officials were more frank about the reasons the company was downsizing. He said the company cited the District’s rising minimum wage, now at $11.50 an hour and possibly going to $15 an hour if a proposed ballot measure is successful in November. He also said a proposal for legislation requiring D.C. employers to pay into a fund for family and medical leave for employees, and another effort to require a minimum amount of hours for hourly workers were compounding costs and concerns for the retailer.
“They were saying, ‘How are we going to run the three stores we have, let alone build two more?’ ” Evans said.
“The optics of this are horrible; they are not going to build the stores east of the river, in largely African American neighborhoods? That’s horrible; you can’t do that,” Evans said. “A deal’s a deal.”
As Tim Worstall responds at Forbes,“Obviously, the people who brokered the deal aren’t happy about this. Yet those same people are the very people that passed the laws that Walmart, informally at least, is saying have led to the change of mind. It is, obviously, always nice to see the biter bit, someone hoist on their own petard. But the people who will lose out from this are the consumers of those poorer areas of the capital. And the reason they’ll lose out is because the politicians have been loading costs onto Walmart by insisting upon higher wages in several different ways.”Additionally, Worstall notes that “Higher minimum wages mean fewer jobs as companies that would have expanded do not. And note again that not only do the workers not gain those higher wages the consumers also lose out on their benefits.”
Plus a reminder that “The correct minimum wage is, as it always has been, $0 per hour, as once even the New York Times knew.”
Why, it’s as if minimum wage laws were designed by the original “Progressives” to hurt low-skilled workers, not help them.
LARRY KUDLOW: A Sad Marker Is Set As GE Quits Connecticut In Wake of Tax Hikes:
Connecticut has the second-highest property tax in the nation, ranking 49th out of 50. The Tax Foundation ranks Connecticut 42nd out of 50 in terms of tax climate (Massachusetts ranks 24th), and second highest in terms of state and local income-tax collections per person.
Massachusetts? It dropped its corporate tax to 8% from 9.5% and has a flat income tax of 5.15%. Connecticut, on the other hand, jacked its corporate tax to 9% from 7.5% and its top income-tax rate to 6.99% from 5%.
These are sizeable differences in favor of Massachusetts. Taxes don’t matter?
And the dirty little secret is that the pension and health-care benefits of the government unions — which dominate Democratic state politics — are roughly 50% unfunded. This spells many future tax hikes. GE’s Mr. Immelt knows it.
Not all the blame goes to Democrats. Connecticut’s first personal income tax was put in place by a Republican governor, Lowell Weicker. And Republican governors ruled for 16 years prior to Malloy’s victory in 2010.
And in last summer’s budget battle, I don’t recall any Republican initiatives to slash business taxes.
One of the key points in the Connecticut disaster is that while big corporations can get $100 million in tax credits, the woman running a small struggling business in Naugatuck gets nothing. But she’s paying for GE’s tax credit.
Connecticut’s high-tax policies do not soak the rich. The rich leave. Meanwhile, exorbitant tax and regulatory burdens slam the middle-class wage earners who have been losing take-home pay for years.
Still though, it’s nice to see that, as with the network’s on-air “talent,” not even GE believes the “high taxes are patriotic” propaganda they paid to broadcast on MSNBC for so many years.
NANOTECHNOLOGY UPDATE: DNA nanotechnology controls which molecules enter cells.
A SHOVEL ADD-ON THAT WILL SAVE YOUR BACK.
ON FACEBOOK, KRISTEN HELFRECHT MURRAY SENT THIS:
Dear Glenn Reynolds, I need to ask you a small favor. Could you please pass this on to Sarah A. Hoyt on of your contributors over at Instapundit.com ( http://pjmedia.com/instapundit.) She kept me up ALL DAMN NIGHT.
You see yesterday I found one of her books, “Darkship Thieves,” while doing some NYE resolution de-cluttering. Iain Murray’s former president and founder of CEI, Fred Smith (a huge Sci-Fi fan) must have given it to him and it got mixed into my stuff. “Oh goody” I thought. I have wanted to read her work since following her contributions on instapundit and Sad Puppies. So I cracked open Darkship Thieves at around 10pm last night hoping to dip into it before going to bed. AND DIDN’T SLEEP ALL NIGHT!!!!!! I literally only put the book down because I heard my daughter’s morning alarm go off at 5:30am.
The only times I have ever compulsively read through the night was when I read Jurassic Park in one night and the first three Harry Potter books in 24 hours. Yes, I am putting Ms. Hoyt in the same group as Michael Crichton and JK Rollings.
My husband woke me up around 11am and I finished the last few chapters of the book and immediately, still in my PJs, teeth unbrushed, came downstairs to write this. I know it’s my own damn fault for staying up all night – but I couldn’t put her book down. And yes, I’m going on Amazon after I clean up and get dressed to buy the other two books in her series.
Thank you Ms. Hoyt. I’m tired but jazzed from reading a fantastic story. I wish I could have put it down and gotten some sleep but thank you for pulling me into a whole new world. Damn it.
I apologize for nothing.
YOU CAN TELL THAT FROM READING TWITTER: Study Finds That Liberals Are More Dogmatic And Simple-Minded Than Conservatives.
YOU HAVE TO BREAK A FEW HUMAN EGGS TO MAKE A NARRATIVE OMELET: MIGRANT SEX ATTACK ‘COVER-UP’: Welcome party for Cologne refugees turned into mass groping.
Today the council official responsible for the integration of refugees in the Cologne region admitted organisers knew about the sex attacks at the event but did not want to make a fuss.
She also shockingly said she “cannot remember” whether she advised the women who were attacked to go to the police, but added she felt the event’s student organisers “had learned from the situation”.
The appalling incident, on November 7, 2015, only became known of at all because one of the victims bravely decided to go to the police in tShe aftermath of the Cologne sex attacks.
She told the city’s Express newspaper how she and her friend were surrounded by migrants at the party, which was held on a boat, and were repeatedly groped despite asking the men to stop.
Remember when rape and sexual assault were the worst things ever, and we were always supposed to believe the victims and take immediate action?