The media doesn’t think they are biased. They are Democrats in their thinking regardless of their voter registration. When something benefits or advances the Democrat agenda that is not remarkable to them, it is “normal”. Anything that goes contrary is concerning and perhaps newsworthy.
Yesterday, The Wall Street Journal published a shocking news article that Facebook and “big tech” might not be the friends Democrats thought after all. The article has lots of pop-culture mythology in it that illustrates that many still bitterly cling to the Russia interference myth created by Hillary Clinton’s campaign and Facebook accidentally helped Republicans in 2016. Please note that Facebook helping Democrats in 2008, 2012, 2016 is not newsworthy because that is what is expected of them thus “normal” behavior. The article quotes many leading Democrats—mostly Senators where they are the minority—decrying that “big tech” may need regulation. The author shockingly concludes that Facebook, Google, et al are just corporations and not the friends that Democrats thought after all.
One of my old pastors used to say that one of the ways that God judges people is to give them what they want (as opposed to what they need). Given the anointing of Gavin Newsom on Tuesday by the voters along the coastal part of the state, look at the news since then. Coincidence or an omen of things to come?
Coastal counties vote overwhelmingly for Gavin Newsom (Lt Green areas)
Wednesday begins with Gavin interacting with various folks in the media as he promises once again to do battle with Washington and resist President Trump.
California cemented its role as a defiant counterweight to the federal government Tuesday as the state’s voters elected Gavin Newsom, an enthusiastic adversary of President Trump, as their next governor.
Mental health issues are the main reason for homelessness; an issue which has dominated much of the news of San Francisco in the last two years. Ironically, Gavin has promised to bring his San Francisco track record to Sacramento to do likewise for the rest of the State. He claimed to reduce homelessness during his time as mayor but the statistics don’t prove it.
Newsom cherry-picked his numbers when the reality is that the number of homeless was about the same at the beginning and end of his term as mayor despite shipping 5,000 homeless folks to other communities via Greyhound Buses.
Newsom has said his policies reduced the homeless street population in San Francisco by 40%, an accurate claim for the years 2002 to 2009, according to city statistics. But Newsom was mayor from 2004 to 2011, and the city didn’t perform a count of its homeless population the year he took office, making it difficult to determine the exact number of homeless who left the streets during his tenure.
San Francisco’s homeless count was 7,499 in 2017, compared with 8,640 in 2002, according to the San Francisco Human Services Agency.
The state’s homeless population topped 134,000 in 2017, according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, a 13.7% jump from the previous year and the largest increase in the nation.
Thursday California’s only Paradise was wiped off the map. Yes, in a single day, the city of Paradise was burned to the ground.
The entire town of Paradise was under evacuation as several homes in the area became engulfed in the fire, Cal Fire Public Information Officer Scott McClean said at a press conference Thursday. McLean said the town was largely destroyed and while it was impossible to know the exact number of buildings destroyed, it was “a couple of thousand or more.”
“[Paradise] is devastated, everything is destroyed. There’s nothing left standing,” said Scott Maclean, the state’s forestry and fire protection spokesman.
Many years ago, a young man seeking to improve his lot in life was given the advice to “go west, young man”.
Now, a hundred odd years later, folks in California are echoing Davie Crocket, “you may all go to hell and I will go to Texas”.
About 130,000 more residents left California for other states last year than came here from them, as high costs left many residents without a college degree looking for an exit, according to a Sacramento Bee review of the latest census estimates.
They most often went to cheaper, nearby states — and Texas. Since 2001, about 410,000 more people have left California for Texas than arrived from there. That’s roughly equivalent to the population of Oakland.
California has seen more than 15 consecutive years of net resident losses to other states. The trend was sharpest at the height of the housing boom between 2004 and 2006. It slowed markedly during the housing bust but quickened again during recent years.
Folks the conservative trickle will become a tsunami under Gavin Newsom as the middleclass seeks refuge elsewhere as Gavin does for the State what he did to San Francisco.
However, lest you think the grass is greener, this warning from Texas.
When economist James Gaines gave a talk recently about the economy and the real estate market, his biggest audience response came from an unexpected topic.
Gaines, chief economist at the Real Estate Center at Texas A&M University, told hundreds of local real estate agents what to expect in the years ahead regarding the state’s population growth and demographic changes.
“Do you know what Texas looks like in 30 years?” Gaines asked the audience.
“California,” he offered as the whole ballroom of folks groaned and rolled their eyes.
Nothing gets a bunch of Texans more riled up than to tell them they are turning into California.
“I’m serious about it,” he said. “The problems, the issues, politically, socially, economically, land use, housing resources — go down and tick off the issues. We are going down the same path.”
A house in Texas’ most expensive metro area — Austin — that will cost you just over $300,000 will go for twice that in Los Angeles and more than $1.5 million in San Francisco.
With soaring home and apartment prices on the West Coast and a shortage of affordable labor, no wonder everyone, from recent college grads to Amazon’s top brass, is looking east for greener pastures. And Texas is at the top of their shopping list.
Bottom line: Liberalism doesn’t work here so don’t take it with you when you leave. Don’t turn the rest of the country into a third world cesspool like California. If you aren’t willing to adopt traditional American values, stay home.
The maps below tells the tale of two Californias. These are from the Secretary of State website. If you’re serious about splitting the state, its clear where to draw the lines.
Blue Wave or not tomorrow, the Democrats lose anyway. But what a preposterous claim you ask? Not really. Let’s discuss the dynamics.
Right now, conventional wisdom says that Democrats lose a few seats in the Senate and take control of the House.
Senate I agree that the Republicans will likely increase their majority in the Senate. Please note that this is unusual for a midterm election following a new President taking office. The new Republican controlled Senate looks to be more conservative than it was when Trump took office.John McCain and Jeff Flake are gone, and Lindsey Graham seems to have grown a spine. Who would have predicted that? Ted Cruz owes his reelection to Trump and many of the newly elected Senators as well.
This victory insures that Trump will populate vacancies in Federal Courts with conservative jurists.Look for the Ninth Circuit to move from being an accomplice to our crazy laws in California to becoming an obstacle and a check on the nuttiness here in the once Golden State. Remember too that Trump will likely be replacing Ginsberg and Thomas with younger, conservative judges.
Conclusion—Trump wins tomorrow and Democrats lose.
Trump the Negotiator
House
If Republicans hold the House tomorrow, they owe it to Trump. Trump has remade the House and the new members elected tomorrow will be more conservative than the previous group.Remember that over 40 Republicans quit and did not run for reelection; including, Speaker Paul Ryan. Thank you, Lord.
Trump has had an openly adversarial relationship with the Republicans in the House and either way that ends tomorrow. Trump has crushed any talk of a Democrat wave sweeping the country. He was greatly assisted in his efforts by Senator Dianne Feinstein’s attacks on Brett Kavanaugh.
Yes, tomorrow Democrats will do well in New York, California, Illinois, and other Liberal places but that don’t really matter. The voter turnout thus far seems to suggest that Republicans are voting in high numbers and there is a definite undercurrent that the models used to project Democrat dominance tomorrow might be overly optimistic. But let’s suppose they take the House. How does that translate to a Trump victory?
When Republicans control the House, Trump can’t go around calling the members of his own Party “the enemy”. Politically that doesn’t fly even though we all know it is true. However, if the Dems win, he can go to war with the House all he wants and since they are the opposition Party such rhetoric is expected.
If the Dems win, what is their mandate?We don’t like Trump? Impeach him? OK, so now what?
Trump will probably get more done with Democrats in charge than he could with Republicans running the place. Trump will wheel and deal like Monty Hall.
He will peal off some for this and others for that. Once Dems start working with the guy it will be terribly hard to demonize him when many areas of traditional party gridlock don’t happen.
At the same time, Trump gets to do what I have been saying he wants to do; run a slate of his own people in 2020. Guess what, this slate may not be a Republican only slate. What if he puts forth a bipartisan slate? Any slate that Trump puts forth also nationalizes the election. This neutralizes the impact of the “all politics is local” mantra and makes the Contract with America look like a middle school scrimmage.
If Republicans keep the House Trump gets the credit. If they lose then Trump gets a green light to remake the Republican Party with his own slate and will take back the House in two years. With Democrats in charge, Trump will get to school the country on “The Art of the Deal”.
Unlike Obama, Trump has a positive track record of accomplishments creating jobs and boosting the economy. His job in the next few years is to convert his Executive Orders during the last two years into legislation approved by the Congress so that when the next guy comes along, he can’t undo what Trump has done. Much of Trump’s wheeling and dealing will be to get these changes codified into Federal Law.
Thus, whatever happens tomorrow, Trump wins. A win for Trump is a win for America.
I don’t write too often about the Navy even though I spent six years of my life wearing the uniform but this story is so ridiculous that I can’t let it pass without comment. It concerns the contracting and construction of the aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford. What you learn from reading the story is that the newest carrier in the fleet can’t launch aircraft, can’t safely land them, and can’t equip them with weapons; other than that, it’s a fine vessel.
The $13 billion Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier, the U.S. Navy’s costliest warship, was delivered last year without elevators needed to lift bombs from below deck magazines for loading on fighter jets.
Previously undisclosed problems with the 11 elevators for the ship built by Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc. add to long-standing reliability and technical problems with two other core systems — the electromagnetic system to launch planes and the arresting gear to catch them when they land.
The Advanced Weapons Elevators, which are moved by magnets rather than cables, were supposed to be installed by the vessel’s original delivery date in May 2017. Instead, final installation was delayed by problems including four instances of unsafe “uncommanded movements” since 2015, according to the Navy.
While progress was being made on the carrier’s other flawed systems, the elevator is “our Achilles heel,” Navy Secretary Richard Spencer told reporters in August without providing details.
Technology Risk
The elevator system is “just another example of the Navy pushing technology risk into design and construction — without fully demonstrating it,” said Shelby Oakley, a director with the U.S. Government Accountability Office who monitors Navy shipbuilding.
In the above we learn two more facts, this ship design was the responsibility of Presidents not named Trump since construction takes years to accomplish and second and more importantly, the ship relies on untested technology. Sorry folks but that is not how the military; especially, the Navy did things in my era.
The Navy is in the unique position of traveling wherever they are needed without a traditional supply chain which for them can be stretched or even nonexistent for long periods of time. This forces them to be self-reliant and needing to improvise because parts could be thousands of miles away. Traditionally, they have used lower and more proven tech.
I was in the Naval Nuclear Power Program and the control systems that we used on the reactors were purposely not based on solid-state electronics. If you can believe it, there were zero transistors on any reactor protection systems! Hyman Rickover, who started the Navy’s nuclear powered ship program, did not believe in implementing this technology. I think it was both a supply chain issue and one to prevent propulsion from being crippled by EMP. Instead we used magamps. Magamps are something that was so old-school in the 1980’s that my friend with an electrical engineering degree had never even hear of them in any of his classes.
The only propulsion supply issue that we ever experienced was getting a replacement fuse for the reactor protection ABT (Automatic Bus Transfer). Reactor protection systems had two independent supplies of electrical power available and this switch was able to go from one to the other fast enough not to scram the reactor. The fuse for this switch blew during a routine test. It took ten days to get a replacement. The fuse was about eight inches long and over 3/8th of an inch in diameter; it’s not your typical off the shelf part from Ace Hardware.
Using unproven designs for the catapult system and weapons elevators is not something they should be deploying for all four Ford class carriers currently authorized for construction. As a result, the Navy owns a warship cruise ship ready to go anywhere in the world that can’t conduct war and has a capacity of 10,000 passengers. On many levels, the Ford sounds like the Democrat military model to me.
This is another in a long series of failures by the Navy in recent years. They can’t build ships that work and can’t drive ‘em once they set sail.
The wheels have come off the Democrat Party since the election of Donald Trump as our 45th President. So much so that they have had to abandon their usual talking points of Republicans are racist, sexist, homophobic, or even white supremacists. Now the Democrats have what I call a very odd relationship with children; not so much in a Catholic priest or disgraced Congressman Mark Foley kind of way, more just in general terms.
Exhibit A – Healthcare Repeal
Democrats wheeled out all kinds of children saying my (insert constituent’s name here) son/daughter/binary has (insert condition here) and will be kicked off my health plan after you bad guys repeal it. Blatantly false! Even under the former healthcare plans you were still covered in most every case until at least 18, in some cases far longer. In addition, let’s clear up the “pre-existing conditions” malarkey. If you are under a current plan and come down with let’s say a broken foot, your plan would pay for the injury and all subsequent treatments because you were injured while your plan was in force. A pre-existing condition is if I sign up during open enrollment, because I never had health insurance, and go to my pre-approval physical with said broken leg seeking treatment I would be denied. As that is called a pre-existing condition.
Exhibit B – Immigration
Democrats paint this really nasty picture of children being ripped out of their parents arms a la Elian Gonzalez with said parents being driven back to Mexico in a bus and booted out whenever we darn well please. Then taking said child and essentially sending him to any random Central American country and hoping for the best. False. First these immigration raids usually coincide with a employment or felony/drug/gang sweep led by federal agents. We legally cannot leave a child under 18 alone, so we round them up too and place them in holding trying to find a home for them, or reunite with parents and send back to their former home country. Notice the camera is always on the children, not the parents who are hardened criminals or gang members?
“The Caravan”
Exhibit C – The Caravan
All the Democrats talk about is how we have to take all these people coming here because, look at all the children! Forget the fact we have no clue who any of these people are, they have no regard for the laws of any country they pass through, let alone ours! However we must think of those poor children who will have nowhere to go as if they don’t have any other relatives or anything.
Exhibit D – Children with PTSD Study
This “study” I saw where 1 out of every 4 children has signs of PTSD since Trump got elected? Really? Think it could be their crazy deranged parents? How many children know what PTSD is let alone can spell it!
PTSD is typically experienced by soldiers exposed to brutal combat such as house-to-house fighting, trench warfare, or other combat which is up close, personal, and emotionally traumatic. Think looking the other guy in the face as you plunge a knife into his chest and he’s trying to do likewise to you. The idea that losing an election is anything like that is a perversion. No wonder these folks are called “snowflakes”.
US MarinesThe Snowflake Generation can’t handle the truth which is why so many are still living at home
I think this claim of children with PTSD is a ploy by liberal parents trying to get their children on medical record as being “on the spectrum”. Children on such lists are often candidates for unnecessary medication; especially boys. Once children are listed as being medicated or in a classification that they may be at risk, this history will be used as a backdoor way that will result in making it so anyone with such a history cannot own a gun. Thus Liberals will slowly chip away at the 2nd Amendment by creating a new category of people prohibited from bearing arms. Think about it. Also, would this disqualify them from future military service?
As you can see, this has become a recurring theme of the Liberals. Don’t focus on our bankrupted medical system, or broken healthcare system, focus on these poor needy children. Don’t focus on the gang member parents, or the fact they broke the law to enter here, focus on the poor children. Don’t focus on who the people in this caravan are, focus on the children. Children are now a pawn in the game of elections in our country and frankly it is sick.
This is the same interview where Clinton said she would like to run again in 2020; well maybe.
Mrs. Clinton initially said “no” when asked whether she wanted to run for president again. She then paused and repeated “no.”
But after Ms. Swisher noted the slight hesitation, Mrs. Clinton seemed to reconsider her response, saying that a major task of the next Democratic president will be improving the international standing of the United States.
Not to be outdone by Clinton, Democrat Senator Joe Donnelly of Indiana removed all doubt.
Indiana Sen. Joe Donnelly – one of the most vulnerable Democrats heading into next week’s midterm elections – is taking heat after awkwardly responding to a question during Tuesday night’s Senate debate with Republican Mike Braun by saying several of his staffers are great at their jobs even though they are minorities.
“Our state director is Indian American, but he does an amazing job,” Donnelly said during the debate. “Our director of all constituent services — she’s African American, but she does an even more incredible job than you could ever imagine.”
“Holy cats. Watch this clip. I can’t believe how terrible this is,” said Josh Holmes, a Republican operative and former chief of staff to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
Others argued the comments would be considered a big gaffe – if said by a Republican.
“Had it happened on the other side, I think it would be getting a lot more attention,” Braun said Wednesday on Fox News’ “The Daily Briefing with Dana Perino.”
“Can we just be honest and say that if Mike Braun had said this it would be an issue but it won’t because Donnelly is a Dem?” Fox News contributor Lisa Boothe said.
Folks, part of the problem is that these elitist Democrats don’t see people as people, they see everyone in terms of groups and quotas.
These bogus heirs of Martin Luther King violate the principle at the core of his “I Have a Dream” speech when King states:
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
Rev. Martin Luther King
Democrats only care about the color of your skin or which bodily orifice you prefer to stick your reproductive organs into and not what’s on the inside of a person. They hijacked this Republican minister (Dr. King) and his push for true equality and substituted a fake solution in its place. King wanted a bottom-up solution (this is the core of the Christian Gospel) and the Dems want a top-down (State imposed) one. King wanted to change the hearts and minds of people not impose a solution by force.
This circles back to the post yesterday about Vice-President Mike Pence and Jews. One core assumption of the author of the hit piece on Pence, et al, was that a Messianic Jew—Loren Jacobs— was not a proper representative of the group. His activity in the community or whether he had been scheduled to speak prior to Saturday’s Synagogue attack were never researched or addressed by the author. The author was much more concerned that a Messianic Jew was not a proper representative of the group. Jacobs’ individual merits were irrelevant to his right to be on the stage at a Republican event.
Democrats are the Party of white supremacy and historically always have been.Dinesh D’Souza documents this well in his film, Hillary’s America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party (2016).
Dinesh D’Souza
I marvel that Democrats can say stuff like the above all day long but get a pass while Republicans are ALWAYS presumed to be racist for believing in the value and worth of individuals.
Just to clarify, the 70 million has nothing to do with that rigged mega millions jackpot you Americans play. That is the amount of DEMOCRAT/HOLLYWOOD/SILICON VALLEY money that has flown to Texas to attack Sen Ted Cruz. Cruz is in the Senator who will be winning re-election in a week by around 10% mind you. Cruz may have his misgivings and may have angered the Donald Trump coalition but he was not going to lose re-election, especially with very popular Governor Greg Abbott leading the ticket. Again to re-iterate if you are from Rio Linda or think the Russia colluded, Ted will win with at least around 10% of the vote. Forget about Beto O’Rourke for a minute, I’m going to lay out why those in charge of the Democrat’s Senatorial Campaign arm should be drawn and quartered.
Ted Cruz—CRA Savior
While they were blowing all this money on Cruz the same way Charlie Sheen blows the booger sugar, look at what happened to some of the other races for control of the Senate.
First look at North Dakota. Now full disclosure, the candidate had some missteps, but what if she got $10 million of that allotment? Ten million is a ton in North Dakota, you could even dig up all my dead brethren to vote Left. That seat? Yeah it’s lost as well, GOP +1.
Now let’s take a look at Missouri. The incumbent has had a rough couple weeks since the Kavanaugh “No” vote. She is falling behind her challenger. Again could an infusion of $10 million help? Sorry already went to Beto in Texas. I will call this race for the GOP as well, +2.
Trek up north to Indiana. This race should not be close. The GOP had a disaster of a primary with a challenger emerging mortally wounded. Again the race has closed and appears to be falling the way of the good guys. Polling again is close, but leaning GOP at this time. We will call this +3 again. I think Democrats have been oversampled yet again here. So we still would have had 50 million left, maybe another $10 here?
In Florida it’s a giant unknown who will come out on top, but a 24 year veteran Senator being virtually tied with–let’s say a Governor who carries a lot of baggage with him–is not good for the Democrats; especially headed down the stretch here. It probably would have taken $15 million here but you have a late emerging race where the Democrats could lose.
Now we will look at 3 additional races, 2 held by the GOP. I’m going to ignore the Tennessee seat, because it looks too far for Democrats to reach. In Arizona, I cannot really get a feel on this one, I think the GOP challenger is a good one. The Democrat seems like a Code Pink whacko. Hard to tell here but another $10 million out of that pot may push the Democrat across. This is the seat of aptly named Jeff Flake who basically is making Lindsay Graham into a fire breathing conservative. Much like the Nevada seat we will discuss next I like the fact that the GOP is winning the Governor’s race in both states at current polling.
Nevada is a tough state for the GOP. Clark County, think Las Vegas, is growing and becoming more left quickly. The Senator is an incumbent and has made some missteps. He leads in polling but I think this is one we lose. I think between Arizona and Nevada we lose 1. Montana is another seat just out of our grasp, and a race Democrats could be wondering why they didn’t spend more there. I think the Democrat wins. So far if you’re keeping score at home GOP +2 with 1 pure toss up in Florida. With the House looking likely to switch parties I cannot help but wonder what some Democrats will be thinking after seeing the Senate results.
Vice President Mike Pence, right, prays with Rabbi Loren Jacobs, of Bloomfield Hills’ Congregation Shema Yisrael, for the victims and families of those killed in the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting, at a rally for Republicans in Oakland County, Monday, (Tanya Moutzalias / AP)
On Saturday, some nut killed a bunch of Jewish folks worshipping in a synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Today, Vice-President Mike Pence is in Detroit, Michigan holding a campaign rally for a Jewish Republican named Lena Epstein. The distance between the two cities is about 300 miles, hundreds of precincts, and at state or two.
Pence is an openly Christian man that attends Bible studies in the White House and is known to pray regularly. In the article below, Pence is getting slammed at a campaign stop for having the wrong kind of Jew pray at the campaign rally. Pence had Loren Jacobs pray twice at the rally, once in the beginning and again to close the campaign stop.
Please note that the article posted below is a new article and not and opinion piece.
Instead of opening up with prayers for the 11 Jews shot dead Saturday at the Tree of Life synagogue, Jacobs praised Jesus Christ and then offered prayers for four Republican candidates.
“I pray that you will enable Vice President Pence to fulfill his many and important responsibilities with excellence,” he added.
At the end of the rally, Pence, a devout Christian and hero of evangelicals, invited Jacob back to say a prayer for the victims as “a leader of the Jewish community here in Michigan.”
As you continue in the article then you get to the real rub, which is that Loren Jacobs is a Jew by upbringing and a Christian by faith.
“Messianic ‘Judaism’ is a branch of Christianity & offensive to the Jewish community. Lena Epstein knew this & so did Pence & his team. This wasn’t ecumenical; it was an insulting political stunt,” said Jason Miller, a Detroit rabbi, noting that there are more than 60 official rabbis in Michigan.
The “Messianic Judaism” movement promotes the conversion of Jews to Christianity. One group in the movement goes by the title “Jews for Jesus.”
The movement has the strong support of evangelical Christians, a corner stone of President Donald Trump’s and Republicans’ voter base.
Trump’s lawyer Jay Sekulow is a senior figure in the Messianic Jew movement.
Criticizing Jacob’s involvement in the rally, Danya Ruttenberg, a prominent young rabbi, blasted Pence as a “Christian supremacist.”
“Stop pretending and appropriating my people,” she wrote online.
The White House said Epstein was responsible for inviting Jacob to the event, and that the vice president “invited him back on stage to deliver a message of unity.”
In defense of the Vice-President I would like to ask the following:
How many Jewish Rabbis actually believe the Torah is the Word of God and authoritative in their lives?
How many Torah believing Rabbis are registered to vote as Republicans?
How many Torah believing Rabbis are willing to publicly endorse anyone or anything related to Donald Trump or Mike Pence?
How many did so during the 2016 election cycle?
How many of the above defined Rabbis live in Detroit?
Thus this article is utilizing a strawman argument as a pretext for bashing Christianity.
Oh, my Christian church prayed for the Jewish victims and their families at our Christian worship service the following day as did many millions of Christians across this nation and probably the world.
Those making sour grapes about Pence’s campaign stop are not Republicans and would never vote for the candidates that were on the stage. This article is a political hit piece crafted on the eve of a close election.
