I’M MORE CONCERNED ABOUT THE FRAUDS WHO THINK THEY’RE GREAT: You’re not alone, almost everyone feels like a fraud at work.
Archive for 2016
November 27, 2016
AND YET FOOLS IDOLIZE THEM: The Truth about Fidel and Raul.
OF COURSE HE DID: Fidel Castro wanted nuclear war.
THIS ISN’T THE ALT-RIGHT YOU’RE LOOKING FOR: Truthy Researcher Launches New Fact-Checking Project.
IT AIN’T JUST JOISEY: How teachers unions drive Jersey’s pension crisis.
BY THEIR ASSOCIATIONS YOU SHALL KNOW THEM: Unrepentant hypocrite Colin Kaepernick defends Fidel Castro.
THIS THANKSGIVING WEEKEND, LET’S ENJOY A FEEL GOOD STORY: A Miami Funeral: The “Legacy” of Fidel Castro. Or, IOW: ding dong, the communist dictator is GONE. (Video.) (Fixed.)
November 26, 2016
COMMIES GONNA PRAISE COMMIES: Jill Stein praises Fidel Castro: ‘A symbol of the struggle for justice.’ “In praising Castro, Stein joined former Democratic presidential candidate Jesse Jackson, British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau, and many others with progressive pedigrees in heaping praise on the Marxist ruler who has a great deal of blood on his hands.”
Democrat politicians should be asked whether they agree with this.
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INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY: Outside California, Clinton Is A Big-Time Popular Vote Loser.
So far, Trump has won the popular vote in 29 states, to Clinton’s 20 states. (As of this writing, Michigan is still up in the air, although Trump currently leads in the vote count.) In other words, Trump carried 45% more states than Clinton.
Since winning state elections is what counts in the United States when running for president, Trump clearly outperformed Clinton. (Trump has 25% more electoral votes than Clinton.)
What’s more, Trump’s margin of victory in the states he won was, on average, higher than Clinton’s.
Of the state’s Trump won, he got 56.2% of the vote, on average. Of the states Clinton won, she got only 53.5% of the vote.
The only reason that Clinton is beating Trump in the overall popular vote is that California gave Clinton a huge margin of victory — which currently stands at 61% to 33%.
The thing is, California is a very populous and very liberal state — so far, it has counted more than 10.7 million ballots. As a result, California alone is dumping vast numbers of votes into the Clinton column — where she currently has 3 million more than Trump.
But what if California’s vote was in line with all the other Democratic states, where Clinton beat Trump 53.5% to 40.2%?
If that were the case, Clinton would have received 860,000 fewer votes in California. And if Trump had captured the same share he received in those same Democratic states, he’d have gotten 773,000 more California votes.
In other words, if California was more like the average Democratic state, Trump would currently have a 400,000 vote lead in the nationwide popular vote.
It’s no wonder Boxer wants to do away with the Electoral College, since it would let her state decide presidential elections, even if — as in this election — the Republican candidate did much better in far more states across the country.
As IBD pointed out in a recent editorial, the Electoral College was specifically designed to prevent candidates from winning the presidency simply by appealing to a few heavily-populated, highly partisan regions of the country. The Electoral College forces candidates to compete nationwide if they want to be president. That’s a good thing.
I think we should award electors by Congressional district.
WE ONLY SEE ARTICLES LIKE THIS WHEN REPUBLICANS WIN: WaPo: The American Political System Is Broken.
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MOCKING THE EMINENTLY MOCKABLE: Fidel Castro dies. Justin Trudeau issues statement. Much hilarity ensues. #TrudeauEulogies.
ROGER SIMON: Fidel Castro—My Generation’s Disgrace Finally Died.
AND NOW BACK TO 2016’S ONGOING SUCKAGE: Ron Glass, Emmy-Nominated Actor Known for ‘Barney Miller’ and ‘Firefly,’ Dies at 71.
SO FAR, TUCKER CARLSON’S NEW SHOW is shaping up very well.
SALENA ZITO: Manchin In The Middle.
Joe Manchin said not a day goes by that someone doesn’t ask him if he wants to switch from Democrat to Republican.
Every day? “Every day,” he answers.
From colleagues in Washington to Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, the senior U.S. senator from the Mountaineer State is persistently but politely nudged to make the leap.
Has he ever considered it? “Not one day,” he said.
I think that just means he’s holding out for a better deal.
JEFF CARTER: Hold Their Feet To The Fire.
Republicans made big time gains over the last several years. However, I am not seeing them act on a lot of the issues that are important to everyday people. Now is the time to hold their feet to the fire. What are Republicans afraid of? They should be bold right now and pass legislation that will help everyone. Stay away from the shiny objects that always distract them.
Where is the legislation on public pension reform? Only Indiana passed it under previous governor Mitch Daniels as far as I know. Reforming pensions will be good for workers, and ease the burden on taxpayers. It will also be attractive to new workers. The Federal government would recognize huge cost savings in budgeting by enacting pension reform. So would state and local governments. It’s time to do it. . . .
Where is the legislation on school choice? I am hopeful that Trump’s Education nominee will help enable all states to pursue school choice. If we want to give everyone equal opportunity, we better give them a chance when they are young. School choice can break the back of a highly bureaucratic stuck in the mud standardized guaranteed to fail public school system. Create hope for communities that need it via school choice. Remember, competition is good and there is no competition for public school systems today. School choice will raise up the public school system too.
Where are the modifications of workman’s compensation regulations?
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FROM THE COMMENTS ON MY RECOUNT POST: “Trump should counter with targeted recounts of all the close states that went to the Dems AND should recount all the blue states like CA, NY, MD, IL that give the Dems the popular vote win. Demand that all the mail in and absentee and .mil votes are counted. See if the popular vote can be whittled down. Challenge all the Dem votes where two national votes may have been counted (e.g., snowbirds).”
Plus, this comment: “I just hope that DJT and his people understand that the threat is real, and they need to parachute in a division of attorneys and observers to keep an eye on things, like GWB did in Florida in 2000. The margins may be larger here, but if they exclude enough votes via challenges and then find a few carloads of ‘missing’ votes in Milwaukee, Detroit and Phildelphia, they could just pull this off.”
UPDATE: Wait, what?
YOU’RE NOT TELLING ME IT’S A SCAM, ARE YOU? The Mysterious Case Of Jill Stein’s Surging Recount Costs. “Apparently, the more money she raises the more expensive the recount effort becomes. . . . So, with nearly $5mm raised so far, the question is no longer whether recounts will occur in WI, MI and PA but just how much Jill Stein will be able to drain from the pockets of disaffected Hillary supporters to fund her long-shot efforts. All that said, here is Jill Stein admitting to CNN that she has absolutely no evidence of election hacking….even though she asks that you please keep sending your money anyway.”