The Paternalistic World View and 401Ks

https://www.vox.com/2019/3/27/18174385/retirement-savings-401-k

A VOX article that lets us look iniside the mind of the left as to their understanding of the "common man", and what ought be done relative to "average people". They believe that humans CAN'T learn to save for the future, so the important job falls on business and the government -- "the elite",

There’s a reason, it turns out, why employers didn’t hand retirement planning off to workers: 401(k)s are terrible at ensuring that those who need to save for retirement do. Indeed, over the same period in which 401(k)s expanded, the share of working-age households at risk of being financially unprepared at age 65 jumped from 31 percent (in 1983) to more than 53 percent (in 2010). Indeed, the terribleness of 401(k)s helped spark a new field of behavioral economics, which showed that voluntary plans in which people manage their own investments defy everything we know about how the brain works.

Reading the short book "The Millionaire Next Door" explains that most of the wealthy in America are people that follow a simple rule ... spend less than you make, put the savings in something that goes up in value. Naturally, there are LOTS of forces trying to tell you that is "foolishness". "What will a million dollars be worth in 50 years anyway?" Is one of the things I've heard ... the answer ; "A million dollars more than zero". As a corollary, MUCH more than a million dollars MINUS a bunch of debt and interest paid out of your pocket!

There are a whole host of reasons that people are more unprepared for retirement today than in '83 ... massive regulation, the economy being basically stagnant for a decade from '08-'16, crushing taxes including ever more crushing FICA tax (in 1975 it was 5.85 on the first 14k, today it is 6.2 on the first 127K! $819 vs $7,874), lots of inflation (much of it undeclared once the government got into the "inflation adjusted" business), no interest on savings, crushing medical costs made 3-5x MORE crushing on those who DID save by BOcare ... the list is just endless and much of the "help" keeping people down is courtesy of the the elite through the Davos crowd, government, and Deep / Administrative State.

However, the BIG reason remains that FICA gives people a very false sense of "security". If it had been created as what it actually is -- "old age POVERTY welfare" (and a giant new federal tax), which would only go to people without savings, assets, pensions and other income streams, then a much higher percentage of people would save more. It **IS** welfare for elderly, and increasingly if you are not impoverished in old age your small benefit is taxed away from you anyway.

In other words, like typical government, those that pay the most get the least -- or nothing.

**IF** the government actually wanted to "help the irresponsible common man", they would do what W proposed ... put something like the FICA percentage in private non-profit fiduciary managed fund of broad indices of stocks, bonds, property, commodities, metals, etc. NOTHING is "certain", and CERTAINLY NOT THE GOVERNMENT! (see numerous failed governments over history ... Venezuela currently, 100's of them around the globe over the past century or so, with runaway inflation in Germany in the early 1920's being a well known case with an "advanced" nation.

Of course, telling the truth would have never given the giant boost to government spending that FICA did. It was set up so that everyone could imagine getting it, but the original dates you could get it insured that very few would actually collect, and most of those would not collect for long. It was a HUGE "win win" for the government ASSUMING "an ever growing employed population, an ever expanding economy, and not very many people reaching retirement age" -- all assumptions that have proven spectacularly wrong like most "government projections".

It really was successful for what it was supposed to be -- a massive vote buying Democrat party operation.

The reality of it all is that "there is no free lunch" ... the vast majority of people (and businesses) MUST spend less than earned and put the remainder in something that goes up in value. When they don't, the person, business or country will go bankrupt and have NOTHING!

"Liberalism" may look and sound "paternalistic", but no good father would really follow policies that are guaranteed to lead to bankruptcy! The idea that the population is less responsible than the government is obvious idiocy in even a democratic republic! Who votes in the supposed "wise men" that are going to care for us all? The same idiots that can't spend less than they make and put the difference in something that rises in value!

Those elected "wise men" have run up over $200 TRILLION in unfunded liabilities ON TOP of the over $20 TRILLION in US debt. On top of that, state and local debt exceeds $3 TRILLION!

Remember, the people running that up are the "elite"  VOX assures you ought to have MORE power because they are "smart and responsible" and you can count on them taking "good care of you"!

Naturally, those folks will tell you that anyone that advises "God, Guns and Gold" is a COMPLETE idiot ... you would not want to be called names by the elite would you?

Proof The Legal System Is Political

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/03/why-is-trump-losing-so-often-in-court.php

The idea of "law" is that the honorable judge rules ONLY on the LAW, not on their bias. As Joshua 1:7 says “Only be strong and very courageous, to observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded thee: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest have good success whithersoever thou goest”

Almost half of the 63 rulings in question (29 of them) came from jurisdictions within the left-wing Ninth Circuit. This percentage is wildly out-of-line with a random distribution. In other words, the numbers the Post touts are the result of extreme bias.

The linked article points out the obvious,  that in BOistan, "law" is just another political process. Any "Judge" that makes their decisions on the basis of politics ... Democrat OR Republican is no Judge at all -- they are a political bureaucrat, just like the millions we have in Federal, State and Local governments.

BOistan is a left wing state run by a massive bureaucracy -- elected, appointed, hired, the power is in "The Party" (TP-D)

Trump, Robert Kraft (Patriots Owner)

https://www.aol.com/article/news/2019/01/24/trump-called-new-england-patriots-owner-robert-kraft-every-week-for-a-year-to-console-him-after-his-wifes-death/23652031/

https://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/2013/01/19/patriots-owner-robert-kraft-talks-about-life-loneliness-and-love/5SYgWQrDBwXGWgLZEnZVfL/story.html

Myra Kraft died in 2011 and Robert Kraft took the death very hard. One of the people that helped him through that time was Donald Trump. Here is what Kraft had to say in one interview ...

"When Myra died, Melania and Donald came up to the funeral in our synagogue, then they came for memorial week to visit with me," Kraft told the Daily News. "Then he called me once a week for the whole year, the most depressing year of my life when I was down and out. He called me every week to see how I was doing, invited me to things, tried to lift my spirits. He was one of five or six people that were like that. I remember that."

You know, Donald Trump the anti-semite.

Does this mean that Trump is a wonderful man? No, of course not. What it DOES mean however is that he is not the one dimensional force of evil that the media constantly paints him to be.

So he isn't the devil. I submit there is no way you can rely on the media to figure out how good he really is, but I think it is totally clear why Robert Kraft, and by extension, many in the Patriots organization are not going to buy the media charicature.

Why would you?

Churchill As Villan

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-02-16/churchill-was-more-villain-than-hero-in-britain-s-colonies

Everyone is entitled to their opinion, and if you have the power of the #11 richest man on earth (Michael Bloomberg) behind you, you can even get it published. If it suited his fancy to increase his number one share, you could likely even get it published in the Washington Post owned by #1 Jeff Bezos.

So what is a "villain"? I guess in this case, it is whomever "Shashi Tardoor" thinks it is. In his "morality", pretty much anyone of the late 19th and early 20th century educated in the west would be "villain". Nearly all of them believed in Darwin for real -- not the modern watered down version of "survival of the fittest". They believed that "the fittest survive" ... meaning WIN, and that Western civilization had proven superior and thus risen to the top. They ALL "believed" this ... Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Margret Sanger (founder of Planned Parenthood), Franklin Roosevelt, etc, etc. They didn't even see it as a "belief" ... they saw it as "empirically proven by results".

So there really isn't any difference between Churchill and Hitler ...

Nor can his views be excused as being reflective of their times; his own Secretary of State for War, Leo Amery, confessed that he could see very little difference between Churchill’s attitude and Hitler’s.

Strangely though, neither Stalin nor Mao are mentioned ... Communist leaders that butchered well over 100 million. Somehow I suspect that Tharoor would find them much more palatable. How might he put it? If you want to make an omlette ..

Thinking like this is why we have wealth like Bloomberg and Bezos and why it provides a platform for cultural relativists that want to do away with historical heros so that more people believe that those with the most money have the best right to shape opinion. Might ... and money make right!

I'm sure that Hitler, Stalin and Mao would go right along with Bezos, Bloomberg and Tharoor -- except unlike Churchill, who used words to win his arguments, Hitler, Stalin and Mao would be quick to put a bullet in the head of guys like Bezos, Bloomberg and Tharoor once they were no longer useful to them.

Was Churchill willing to use harsh rhetoric and even harsh methods when he believed required to defend the British Empire and the future of civilization? Especially the Civilization of the English Speaking Peoples? Certainly ... and without him we would likely be speaking German today.

Certainly people like Tharoor have a right to their opinion. That we live in a world where the richest people on the planet give them a forum to spew their opinion without even the merest semblance of conterpoint is great example of #FAKENEWS ... it may be fake, but those billionaires DO have a purpose. Their big purpose is to have you uncritically read such tripe.

In the world that Tharoor apparently imagines as "better" the caste system would still be ruling over millions dying in hopeless filth in India, and the Indians of N America would still be starving and warring with neighboring tribes, including the taking the scalps of even women and children as trophies.

If you want to see the "just like Hitler" calumny debunked, there is a decent job here ... as in biographies that are far from hagiographies.

The IMPORTANT thing to understand is how critical it is to modern "progressives" to destroy any great man of Western civilization. What they desire is to make "something new" that they promise will be "quite wonderful" ... just "tust them" -- oh, and be sure not to say anything they don't like lest they destroy you as well!

Hang on to your guns ... and your scalp!

Fake News Enemy of Kids, and Decency

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/01/whats-news.php

This PL post does a good job of debunking the whole "teens in MAGA hats "mocked" Native American" headline calumny, He came up to them, started beating a drum in their face, and they stood their ground.

I guess a buddy and I "mocked" a bunch of union thugs attempting to block entrance to a Newt Gingerich talk in Rochester in the mid-90's as we walked through their picket line and they decided that avoiding physical contact was the better part of "valor". They had no business blocking the entrance -- protesting, YES!, with my support, but do not seek to intimidate!

The MSM used to be horribly biased in what they picked as stories and how they reported them -- but they used to stick to things that were at least somewhat "news" -- actual leadership/political actors, famous, well known, wealthy were involved ... "public people".  Not a completely NOT NEWS case of demonstrators attempting to intimidate KIDS and the kids doing NOTHING!

Just think if they reported every time some young "psuedo-toughs" of any race walked down sidewalks forcing other people to get out of their way? I imagine that is how I'll first find out I'm old -- when one of them fails to move out of my way (the norm), or one keeps coming at me as I walk on the right side and they eventually don't bounce off.

Perhaps we could just stick to when youth of any race disrespect their elders -- old veterans in uniform, the Flag, etc. -- oh wait, I guess disrespecting the Flag is now "truth to power", my bad.

The MSM used to just be embarrassingly one sided -- now it is the enemy of the people, even the kids.

If those of us who look at this trash and fail to speak up keep doing so, we deserve what we get -- it won't be old indians with drums doing the intimidating then -- it will be the modern version of the Hitler Youth or the Soviet "Young Pioneers" pushing and kicking us when we are too old to do anything about it.

Bad stuff comes on slowly -- day by day, drip by drip. We ignore it at our peril.

Russian Botnet Helped Beat Roy Moore

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/19/us/alabama-senate-roy-jones-russia.html

A little comparison of "important" election meddling and "totally innocuous election meddling". This from the NY Times on admitted meddling in the Roy Moore election.

The project’s operators created a Facebook page on which they posed as conservative Alabamians, using it to try to divide Republicans and even to endorse a write-in candidate to draw votes from Mr. Moore. It involved a scheme to link the Moore campaign to thousands of Russian accounts that suddenly began following the Republican candidate on Twitter, a development that drew national media attention. “We orchestrated an elaborate ‘false flag’ operation that planted the idea that the Moore campaign was amplified on social media by a Russian botnet,” the report says.

For comparison, the Russians supposedly spent $46K in FB ads on the 2016 presidential election in which $81 MILLION was spent on FB ads by the campaigns. Naturally that doesn't include the billions of free time given to Hildebeast by NPR, CNN, WaPo, NY Times, NBC, CBS, etc, etc.

We can all be VERY certain at this point that the smear campaign against Roy Moore was completely false -- or else certainly the high minded people of the left (or the easily led of the right for that matter) would be hot on prosecuting this nefarious child molester to keep him from repeating -- which they generally do, thus all the sex offender registries. They aren't ... so "mission accomplished" for a KNOWN smear campaign that included influence spending FAR beyond the supposed "2016 election meddling" smear on social media.

Any with even a tiny bit of perspective know that Russia is an oil producer and they have fought hard against fracking in the US to the tune of tens of MILLIONS of dollars as opposed to "$46K" that they ALLEGEDLY spent on EITHER Trump or much more likely just sowing discord in the US.

It is often both funny and sad to read the left wing media doing "fact checking" -- the biggest thing you have to believe for this "fact check" to not just fully say "you would be better off listening to Trump tweets than us for FACTUAL news" is that THE ENDICTMENT says that the Russians were trying to influence the election! They did however admit that 56% of their "thousands of dollars" was spent AFTER the election! "thousands of dollars" on a presidential election where over a billion is spent! One is reminded of ...

If you believe indictments from the Administrative State are "facts", then you will believe anything -- ever hear of a country where INNOCENT until PROVEN guilty was the standard? Wake up and realize that the prosecution of non-Democrat politicans by the Deep/Administrative State is standard operating procedure for the dominant left in BOistan! MANY of those "prosecuted" turn out to be completely Innocent after the damage is done.

We live "down the rabbit hole" where if one works very hard to keep a diet of widely different media, it is remotely possible to occasionally see something approximating "the real world" vs dueling narratives that are more concerned with creating anti-tribes for profit than in providing information needed by CITIZENS vs consumers!

Khashoggi, Reality, Virtue Signalling

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/21/opinion/trump-saudi-arabia-khashoggi.html?fbclid=IwAR0SBsXnC7IDZ3BJOtx0rBVOvAqm70KkmLKxSeYis0yA9XlK-Um-jJ4A1Iw

In an age without religion, fake virtue signalling is the primary measure of "morality". Over and over many on the left and on the right signal their virtue by ranting against the "hypocrisy" of Trump stating "maybe he did, maybe he didn't" ... but Saudi Arabia remains an ally.

As the NY Times opinion piece concudes, OF COURSE that is the case!

The murder of Mr. Khashoggi was a brutal and grotesque act. The United States has registered its feelings loudly and clearly by putting sanctions on the 17 men who were directly involved in the killing. Punishing the de facto leader of Saudi Arabia will not bring justice for Mr. Khashoggi, nor will it make Saudi Arabia a more dependable ally. It will simply diminish the influence of the United States and embolden its enemies. 

The biblical advice to be as “wise as serpents, and harmless as doves” offers sound counsel to anyone who seeks to see their principles influence the world. The advice of Mr. Trump’s critics is long on abstract morality but lacking in strategic wisdom.

It is very hard to imagine "what everyone knows" these days -- so much reasoning is purely emotional and tribal. It is hard for me to imagine that ANYONE seriously wants to give up Saudi Arabia as an ally in the Mideast, especially over the murder of a single journalist. If we wanted to have a serious disagreement, it might be over Yemen for example, but I for one am not interested in going out and trying to figure out the "right" answer to that situation. 

Saudi Arabia and Iraq are locked in a political and Sunni vs Shia religious war in the Mideast that is somewhat comparable to the Cold War with the USSR and the US. They largely fight by proxy, and fighting by proxy tends to be very messy (see Tom Clancey and other novels of the US - Soviet Cold War).

The question in my mind is how many people these days actually believe what they tweet, post, etc about how they are SHOCKED at such things as Trump's comments on the Kashoggi murder!

Fake Manipulation

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/11/the-ultimate-fake-news.php

One of the reasons that we live in such a fractured and failed state is that "The Party" (TP-D) which consists of the MSM, the Administrative/Deep State, academia,  and of course the Democrats (but I repeat myself) can create "facts" out of nothing and convince near majorities that the fabrication is true!

And yet, two-thirds of Democrats say it is either “definitely true” (31%) or “probably true” (36%) that Russia tampered with vote tallies. Women are especially gullible; 48%, across all party lines, have fallen for this fake news. Sadly, 70% of blacks have bought it hook, line and sinker. The Northeast is the country’s most ignorant region, apparently: 47% of Northeasterners have fallen for the hoax. 

So the Democrats, by their constant hysteria and innuendo, have convinced a large majority of their followers, and 42% of all Americans, of a palpable falsehood that was fabricated in order to assure Hillary Clinton’s election and then, when that effort failed, perpetuated in an attempt to cripple President Trump’s administration.

As I've written on this before, two weeks prior to the 2016 election when it was all but certain that Hillary would win, BO himself assured us there were NO ISSUES AT ALL with any sort of "Russian Meddling", let alone modifications of vote totals.

If we had anything remotely close to even just a moderately biased media in this country, TP would be losing by double digits in all elections but those in the core inner city and richest counties. Sadly, what we have is truly the "Enemy of the People", #FAKEMEDIA!

Spartacus Gay #METOO

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/10/whataboutmetoo.php

Rick Moran writes at PJ Media: “A gay man who describes himself as a liberal Democrat is accusing New Jersey Senator Cory Booker of sexually assaulting him in 2014…The man, who wishes to remain anonymous for now, penned a lengthy open letter that was posted on Twitter. In the letter he describes the assault that occurred in a bathroom following a meeting at his workplace, where the two met.” Moran links to the letter posted here on Twitter. As Moran puts it, the letter “goes into excruciating detail.”

"Justice" works in mysterious ways, especially if your version of "justice" relies on a belief that the accuser is always to be trusted and the accused is "guilty" unless they can somehow "prove" a negative!

I await the unlikely event of Booker being held to the same standard as Kavenaugh, Judge Moore, or others on the right.

Betomania, TP On Their Own

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/09/25/beto-orourkes-false-claim-he-did-not-try-leave-scene-dwi/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.5090bd76539d

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-perspec-wilhelm-heather-beto-orouke-ted-cruz-1021-story.html

Unsurprisingly, it looks like "Beto" with his $38 million war chest is going to lose big.

Mr. O’Rourke announced Friday that he had raised over $38 million in the last three months alone, a staggering sum for a statewide race and the most of any Senate candidate in history. But a new poll completed Thursday night by The New York Times Upshot and Siena College indicated that Mr. Cruz now leads Mr. O’Rourke by eight percentage points, 51 percent to 43 percent, with a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3.6 points.

It turns out that "Beto" (Bob) , while a common Hispanic nickname, has not even 1/1,024th Hispanic blood in him -- although lots of people THINK he is Hispanic, something that Ted Cruz actually IS -- 1/2 Cuban descent from his father.

Beto also has a drunk driving arrest in his past, which he tried to "run" away from. "Run" would be a misnomer, since he was so drunk he could hardly walk. He lied about running away in a debate and the WaPol article above gives him 4 Pinnocios after giving lots of creedence to how it "might seem true to HIM".

O’Rourke was so drunk that he could barely get out of the car without falling, so perhaps he would not have gotten far — or he was simply confused. Perhaps in his memory, O’Rourke believes he did not try to leave. But, given his blood alcohol content at the time of the crash, O’Rourke’s memory 20 years after the fact is not nearly as credible as the police reports written just hours after the crash. Even if one is inclined to dismiss police reports as riddled with errors, it is the one contemporary record we have. 

O’Rourke could have dodged the question during the debate or he could have said his memory of the night is not clear. Instead, he chose to dispute the factual record. We also believe in second chances, and O’Rourke should revise his answer if given another opportunity. In the meantime, he earns Four Pinocchios.

They certainly believe in 2nd, 3rd, or 40th chances for DEMOCRATS! For Republicans, well, we just saw with Kavenaugh, any 35 year old assertion against you with no corroboration is as good as a conviction, and 35 years of exemplary life are not evidence of a "2nd chance". For Republicans, the WaPo / TP standard is "One accusal and DONE"!

The middle linked article has this "remarkable" in a sane universe quote ...

Of the countless head-scratching elements of the O’Rourke phenomenon, one wins handily as the head-scratchingest of all: A troubling percentage of the Betomaniacs I have met in Texas moved here after fleeing places ruined by Beto’s favored policies. These locales are often expensive, increasingly dysfunctional, wildly overregulated and inevitably run by Democrats. Why does no one seem to make this connection? I don’t know! One hero in Austin has taken to posting stickers around town featuring an image of a giant locust, paired with the following text: “I MIGRATED TO A THRIVING TEXAS FROM A LEFTIST (NIGHTMARE) AND NOW I’M VOTING FOR BETO FOR SENATE.” (The posters feature a word much worse than “nightmare,” which I’m not reprinting because I run a PG-13 column here.)

I had to flee one of the high tax, high cost of living, job losing economies of CA, OR, IL, etc and move to Texas -- but hey, "consistency is not an issue"! My favorite polices destroyed my own home! Let's see if the same policies have the same effect here!

Yes, as a fat guy, this DOES align with how I deal with food -- "Hey, I lost some weight! Let's have some high calorie food to celebrate!" The IDEA of democracy was that we would have more sense on such things when it came to voting, but since we live in a world that has sworn off cause and effect,  many of us clearly don't ! 

Thirty Years of Rush

https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/08/what-a-rush.php&source=gmail&ust=1539041717483000&usg=AFQjCNFFQmX_U7JdAvVTbA4hNbdIjo7vDw

When I graduated college and went to work for IBM in 1978, I was a Democrat. What else would I be? I wasn't filthy rich or a NE Ivy League snob! The Democrats were the party of "working Americans"!

It was Jimmuh Carter that got me finally looking around to find some thought beyond his "Malise Speech" ... "the world is out of oil,  put on a sweater, shut off your Christmas lights, drive 55, and accept that America's best days are behind her". He was closer to right than I imagined then -- yes, Reagan brought us back in the '80s, and Trump has re-lit the engines for a bit now, but one can't help but escape the sense that the oppression of BOism is going to return in the not too distant future.

Starting in the late '80s, Rush Limbaugh showed up on radio, a direct response to Reagan's repeal of the "Fairness Doctrine" -- the idea that Deep State Democrats ought to decide what was "proper speech"!

One thing that needs to be remembered in this happy occasion, though, is that Rush Limbaugh was only made possible by the Reagan Administration’s repeal of the so-called “fairness doctrine,” which required “equal time” for “opposing viewpoints,” which meant in practice that conservatives existed on short rations in electronic media. There was some sentiment on the left to bring back the “fairness doctrine” under Bill Clinton, and everyone understood it was really a proposal for a “Hush Rush” regulation, and it died quickly. But rest assured that if the left gets back in power again, they will propose a new “fairness doctrine” whose intent will be to shut down Rush and Fox News.

The USSR eventually ended because the could no longer suppress free speech and maintain a remotely viable economy. No question, the folks on the left will continue to try to silence Talk Radio, Fox News, conservative voices on campus, on social media, and anywhere they can. The left can only keep being the left with more and more powerful centralized government with greater control over your whole life. They will seek to destroy and even criminalize those that don't kneel before their ideology -- Brett Kavenaugh has just a recent example. 

Actual diverse thought and true freedom of speech -- of ideas that are in disagreement with "The Party" (TP-D) will ALWAYS be costly -- in reputation, treasure and sometimes your life! 

#COUNTMEOUT!

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/09/thoughts-from-the-ammo-line-240.php

Just go read it -- she is open, honest, forthright, and RIGHT!

Do Unto Kavenaugh

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/09/17/what-should-the-senate-do-with-brett-kavanaugh-219985

The most interesting thing about reading the linked article  is the utter predictability of responses from legal scholars of the left and right. In BOistan, NOTHING is more imprtant than one's political worldview, because in the absence of belief in a transcendent authority (God) -- all is politics, and there is CLEARLY no morality in politics. Obviously, the "rule of law" isn't any substitute for God at all -- even the top legal scholars simply twist "the law" to be what they want it to be.

The immediately obvious thing about the loss of God in this case is the loss of the "Golden Rule". I'm guessing that some people still recall it, though in this tribal state, rarely if ever apply it. The best place to read the basis for it is Matt 22:37- 39 Jesus declared, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.This is the greatest commandment, And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’

These two verses get summarized in Matt 7:12 even more succinctly: "Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets." The "Golden Rule".

We all understand that when seeking a job, we would be completely aghast for someone to come out with a charge against us that they had never brought to our attention in 35 years.  When nobody else agrees with the accusers version of events  (of the 5 people supposedly at the party, none except the accuser says what was charged happened at all) .

In decent society for thousands of years we also understood how to deal with a sin against us. If possible, GO TO THE PERSON, if not, got to "authority" -- QUICKLY, because if this is really a serious matter, other young women might be harmed. When you fail to do this for "weeks, months, or ...", especially when you are talking about a 17 year old boy who is exceedingly well known, you make your charge under no threat of reprisal. We are not talking about the town tough who is going to be sure "you get yours", because he is certain he has no future anyway. Failure to come forward drops your credibility with each passing day. LONG before "35 years", your credibility is gone.

So what of "the woman"?  Given the amount of time, the fact that supposed corroborators swear under oath that what she claims did not happen, 65 women and many others coming forward to vouch for the character of the man she seeks to destroy, and the obvious politically motivated climate she came forward in, her credibility is ZERO.

Perhaps she was attacked when young once or multiple times and imagines that Kavenaugh was one of those attackers, or perhaps she only observed Anita Hill ($9 million net worth), and decided that she too could be a heroine to the left for a price. Women trading virtue for rewards is the oldest proffesion after all. In a world where honor and wealth are attached to calmuny, this is certainly well within the grasp of understanding. When there is no other world to come, the taking of easy wealth and fame in this one actually makes total sense. What would be against it? Morality? What a joke.

A country with even a hint of what used to be called "decency" would make certain that every Democrat up for election in November lost by historically unprecedented margins. If we were were a moral and religious people, that would be the certain case. As John Adams said,  "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other".

Clearly we are NOT that people, and since that state was founded on IDEAS, not territory, religion, ethnicity, etc, -- this is more proof that this is BOistan, not America. BOistan is in the process of development -- and as we see from Clarence Thomas and now Kavenaugh, it is not a good place to live if you are not a member in good standing of "The Party" (TP-D). On the TP plantation, you-uns gotta lay LOW if you don't kneel at the alter of the left.

As the charges against Kavenaugh show, liberty can't survive in such an environment because liberty requires the potential of leadership for people of more than one political stripe. We can run down a short list of men of the left NOT destroyed by charges significantly worse than this one even in the unlikely event that what the accuser says has any truth -- Ted Kennedy and Bill Clinton are only the head of a sordid list from the left.

On the right? Well, Roy Moore is the most recent example of 35-40 year old "charges" being used to take him down. As I covered here, the Stupid Party (R) is reaping what they sowed. Now Kavenaugh. As the last entry in the linked article says ...

Ford, Kavanaugh’s accuser, maintained a stony silence on these allegations for more than 35 years. At no point did she raise them in connection with the Senate confirmation hearings before Kavanaugh was confirmed in 2006. Kavanaugh has categorically denied the allegations. Late last week, Mark Judge, his alleged accomplice, denounced the allegations as “absolutely nuts.” No other woman has ever made any allegation of this sort against Kavanaugh. and 65 women have written an explicit letter in his defense. Kavanaugh is right not to respond beyond his categorical denial, knowing full well that further comment would only draw him further into a vortex on which credibility determinations would be unending. And the Senate is right to continue with the confirmation vote. The institutional damage to the Senate, the Supreme Court, and the nation has already been enormous. What is left now is only the sorry task of damage containment. What sane judge would like to be the next Supreme Court nominee.

The author of that last piece (the best in the bunch) leaves out the obvious "What sane NON LEFTIST judge ...". The BO istan political buzzsaw really only cuts in one direction, and if you are willing to accept a nomination to a position which the left wants to block you from, not only will they try to block you, they will try to remove you from your CURRENT position -- unless you are a member in good standing of TP (The Party - D), it is best to keep your head down!

This nomination process cannot continue as it was before these grave and credible allegations became known. That would be a slap in the face to women and survivors of sexual assault everywhere. The question isn’t only whether Brett Kavanaugh can still be a Supreme Court justice; it’s whether he can still be a federal judge.

CEO Pay Falls Behind

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/09/ceo-pay-fails-to-keep-pace-with-average-workers.php

CEO pay as a giant multiple of workers wages is just another TP / MSM created lie to encourage you to vote for TP to allow the top of the top CEOs in TP controlled companies like FB, Google, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, etc to continue to make vast multiples of their workers salaries!

In 2005, the median worker made $46,242 and the average CEO made around four times that amount, or around $180,000. In 2017 the median worker made a record $61,372 up around 33%, and according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the average CEO made $183,270 in 2017 or just a 2% or 3% increase in twelve years. The average CEO today makes just three times the average worker, so why does media just repeat the lie? Obviously because they collude with Democrats heightening class resentments, and they don’t want the public to know the truth or they are too lazy to do the research.

"Impossible" Jobs Growth Has Happened!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/business/2018/09/09/under-trump-jobs-boom-has-finally-reached-blue-collar-workers-will-it-last/?utm_term=.c691d2437b45&__twitter_impression=true

"The experts" were happy to tell us that Trump was "lying again" ... there was NOT going to be growth in manufacturing jobs!

My definition of "expert" is "always certain, freqently wrong". It would be great if they were only wrong outside of their field of study, but in fact they are often most egregiously wrong IN the field of their supposed expertise. Some of the "big ones" of my lifetime ...

World Hunger -- This was a huge as I was growing up in the 60's and 70's (remember the starving children in India!) and had been an issue since Malthus. To claim that it was less than a crisis was to have no heart during ny school years. It was DEFINITELY going to get worse, MUCH WORSE! There was simply no denying it, the experts all agreed!

Cholesterol / Carbs / Food Pyramid -- If anyone cared, this government debacle has probably killed more people than any other policy outside abortion (60 million and climbing). If they did it now, fruits and veggies would be at the bottom, then likely meats and dairy, with carbs 2nd from the top and sugars taking the peak ... but millions have died from overweight and millions are still dealing with it. THANKS EXPERTS! They "knew what they were doing"! Load up on those carbs!

Peak Oil -- In the late '70's and early 80's you were more dense than a current climate change denier if you claimed that there was "plenty of oil". All the "experts" assured us that we were WELL past "peak oil", and we were just counting down to the end. Anyone foolish enough to question them was a dangerous idiot! This from here.

Global proved oil reserves in 2017 fell slightly by 0.5 billion barrels (-0.03%) to 1696.6 billion barrels, which would be sufficient to meet 50.2 years of global production at 2017 levels

 The end of the USSR -- When Reagan was elected and started talking about Communism and the USSR being well past their "Born on Date", he was universally maligned as an idiot, a dangerous warmonger, out of touch with reality, etc, etc The intelligencia were all completely certain that the USSR was AT LEAST as likely to be around for the long run as the US! Here is just one little quite from the NY Times about a Strobe Talbot book of '84 -- "Strobe" was a leading light of the day, MUCH smarter than Reagan!

He is particularly mocking of Mr. Reagan, who, Mr. Talbott writes, liked to give speeches on arms control, ''but behind the scenes, where decisions were made and policy was set, he was to remain a detached, sometimes befuddled character.'' Mr. Talbott says that even though Mr. Reagan presided at 16 meetings of the National Security Council on strategic arms talks, ''there was ample evidence, during those meetings and on other occasions as well, that he frequently did not understand basic aspects of the nuclear weapons issue and of policies being promulgated in his name.''

 Yes, Reagan thought that WINNING was an objective -- Strobe was certain that was crazy talk. It can be an really great thing when the experts are CERTAIN that the president is "crazy".!

The WaPO article is a classic example of "good news" when TP is not in power ... "Will it last"? "Is it REALLY bad news is we look deeper", "Can we trust the numbers" !!!

All those would be REALLY good questions if they were applied to BOTH sides of politics!

"Unexpected" Best Wage Growth Since 2008

http://fortune.com/2018/09/07/us-wages-jobs-report-august-2018/?xid=fortune-amp-fbshare

Any kind of good news with a "non-TP" (The Party TP-D) in the WH is always "unexpected" to the MSM ... and when TP is in control, bad news is equally "unexpected". Ho hum! It reminds me of the 1980's ... cut taxes so that business has more money to invest, AND more incentive to invest. Likewise, workers have greater prospects to keep more of what they earn if they go out and get a job or ask for a raise, and "unexpectedly", the economy improves! How can that be?

Clearly the MSM, the Administrative State, and the vast majority of "economists" at universities believe that moving more money into government and the Administrative State and the universities is the sure way to ignite growth! Well -- they DO believe it will provide THEM with higher salaries and more power, so in their mind ... GROWTH!

The dumb people that run businesses and work for wages? Let them lose their jobs and vote for more TP folks to up their welfare benefits! Tax the bastards until they STOP and GIVE UP HOPE!

Events like the current state of the economy do nothing but make our elites hopping mad!

NYT: The Deep State Is In The Room With Space Aliens

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/05/opinion/trump-white-house-anonymous-resistance.html

Whether the 1980's has gotten it's foreign policy back is still an open question, but clearly the mood of the press and the Deep State has returned to the age of Reagan ... you remember, the bumbling, senile, loose grasp on reality idiot that constantly needed to be "saved from himself" as he "sleep walked" through a presidency with no success and soon to be ended by impeachment (1986 and on) -- at least that was the "reality" that the "voices of reason" from the administration,  anonymously speaking through a media that believed even worse assured us of!

The primary answer to this article is again, "Space Aliens" ... your source is an obviously disloyal person that ought to RESIGN and then tell any tales they want! Having said that, it is rather amazing that they are as positive as they are, AND have enough self awareness (or cluelessness?) to admit this ...

It may be cold comfort in this chaotic era, but Americans should know that there are adults in the room. We fully recognize what is happening. And we are trying to do what’s right even when Donald Trump won’t.

Thanks be to Satan, the Administrative State is in the room! And, like "father" in the 1950's, "they know best"! I suppose if you thought the old USSR had the right idea, and government bureaucrats from the Administrative / Deep State  are the "kind of people you trust" (even though they are obviously proven weasels as the existence of this column shows), then you are "comforted" that there is swamp weasel in the Trump administration willing to try to stab the president in the back anonymously rather than resign and tell us "the facts" as seen through their beady little weasel eyes.

We know nothing of the private internals of the Trump administration -- other than the Deep State has at least one mole , and likely more than one along with continued monitoring of ALL communications by the NSA / CIA etc constantly looking for ANYTHING that could be exploited to remove Trump from office! Hey, he froze their salaries while BO era inflation continues unabated -- you KNOW they want him out and DEAD, along with his family, friends, and his voters!

What else would one do with an "irredeemable deploreable"?

Crying For SCOTUS Standards

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/03/opinion/supreme-court-kavanaugh-partisan.html

Ah, the NY Tines laments the politicization of the court! They ought to read Scalia ... he predicted the obvious long ago. When the Warren court denied the people, the states, and the nation the proper discussion required to make murdering the unborn a "right", they sowed the seeds of exactly what this article laments. The court decided to take political action in legislating from the bench, so the people decided that the justices needed to be poltically vetted and screened so that they would take their political actions in the direction of the people who voted for presidents in order to get "their" judges on the SCOTUS. 

The article interjects Bush V Gore as a smoke screen -- we might still be litigating the 2K election if the SCOTUS had not put an end to it! Naturally, it was the NY Times "loss", so they need SOMETHING to seem like a "conservative win" in the political court. 

The reality is that there are essentially NO "conservative poltical wins" by the SCOTUS because the judges that conservatives want are strict constructionist / original intent judges that DON'T legislate from the bench. Thus the difficulty in overturning even egregious rulings like Roe or Kehlo that ARE "legislating from the bench". Once the court has ruled, "Stare Decisis" taken seriously by converservative judges tends to make the ratchet of judicial activism always tilts left. 

Even worse, the conservatives on the court tend to defer to the other two branches -- so cases like BOcare forcing people to buy insurance still get decided in favor of the left. 

Naturally, the NY Times likes to have "The Party" (TP-D) always control ALL branches of government, including especially the 4th extra-Constitutional Deep / Administrative State. The idea of the SCOTUS not being in firmly left wing hands is enough to make the Times pine away for a totally non-political court. Their assumption is that there are no principles higher than politics, so conservatives are just as likely to make law from the bench as "progressives". 

Most likely not -- and if they get control of the court again, they will be more than happy to see laws that put Christians in jail for failing to celebrate a gay "marriage", genders yet unimagined, sexual practices to make a Roman blush, and government invasions of all manner of property, thought, and faith! 

Naturally, to the NY Times, that is just "progress"!  No need to have a SCOTUS unless it is fully under control of TP! 

Trade, DOW, No News

https://www.actionforex.com/live-comments/125175-dow-breaks-26000-as-nafta-announce-is-almost-certain/

I knew the market was on a tear yesterday, I did a google of "market breaks 26K", and the articles were sparse ... the linked was the only one on the first page of hits (rest were first 26k break in 2017). Dow news was totally absent CNN, and on my Google News, the first semi-related story was from Bloomberg ... "Trump's Mexico Trade Deal Looks Like a Lemon". Wow, is it yellow?

So the president proimises a new trade deal during the campaign, DELIVERS, and the MARKETS surge as business finds it to be very good news, but virtually the entire US media finds the economy to be a non-story! I DID actually go over and look at Fox on the web, which I rarely do -- OMG, what a total tabloid! Fox is no longer "news" at all, fake, or otherwise ... when this is your "below the fold" on the web, you don't deserve to be clicked by sentient humans ...

"Mysterious Appearance"! And yes, ESPN and CNN are out on a Tiger hatefest because he refused to go make disparaging remarks about the President! I suppose at least 50% of BOistanis find this to be ""news", but this is really NOT "a country", let alone "my country" at this point!

She Was Game, So They Shot Her

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/08/next-stop-the-trump-organization.php

If there was ever any doubt that the whole purpose of the "Russian Collusion" witch hunt was about anything other than overturning the results of the 2016 election and inflicting as much pain as possible on Trump and anyone associated with him, that doubt is LONG past at this point! As the meme shows, "The Party" (TP-D) is living in the Twilight Zone, and they will do ANYTHING to get out ... even fake that it wasn't THEM who colluded with a foreign power!

I'm reminded of the story of two male hunters of Polish descent -- we used to make fun of the polish, maybe we still can because they are white and Poland is pretty pro-Tump. Anyway, they were out hunting, ran into a pretty girl who said she was game, so they shot her.

So Mueller went out hunting for Russian campaign meddling, found Stormy Daniels and shot Paul Manafort.

If there was anyone  actually worried about "Russian election meddling", they  would be pretty pissed about getting bogged down in tax evasion and payoffs to women when "the real issue" was the "sanctity of our elections". (you know, the ones where you don't even need an ID to vote in) Talk about "taking your eye off the ball"!

A person with a brain can get quite a laugh out of how wonderful a person "Stormy" is portrayed as right now.  "An adult film star!" ... no doubt soon to be an "artist". In the old days,  all of the Clinton women were "bimbos, trailer trash, lying sluts, etc, etc". Back then, "sex" was completely private, and we couldn't afford to risk the economy on something so "personal". My my how times have changed!

We all know that nobody on the left actually cares about "Russian meddling" ... why, up to two weeks before the election, BO assured us that the elections were completely fair and reliable, and anyone that said otherwise (Trump) was "treasonous"! Hey, BO himself said it! It just doesn't get much more "reliable" than that! As was proven by the Roy Moore election, where TP assured us whe was a  "child molester" up to the day he was defeated, and then, rather than prosecute this cretin, he was forgotten. Obviously, those making the charges ONLY made the charges to defeat him, and the fact that they didn't continue to agitate to prosecute a "dangerous child molester" proves it! 

All the virtue signalling, about "I'm a Republican, but I can't support a child molester" was actually shouting "I'm a Republican, but I'm so gullible I believe TP when they tell me what to think"!

Now, what "The Party" (TP-D) is working at is taking over the House, after which they will impeach Trump -- that plus making it clear that if you are not a member in good standing of TP who kneels before their every pronouncement, you are in danger of being audited, prosecuted, and jailed! Possibly for life! Get with the freaking program -- TP still has the Administrative / Deep State and most of the judiciary! They can wipe you and your family out and put you, your friends, and your loved ones in JAIL!

Can Trump find a way to seriously put some HURT on TP and all their illicit sources of power? I can't imagine how -- but I keep cheering for him -- it isn't like those of us that still care about tired old forgotten things like "limited government" have much of anyone else even nominally on our side. Certainly not the bulk of the "traditional Republican party", just as indebted to the special interests which are more and more ALSO just other arms of TO connected tot he Administrative / Deep State!

I know it is just fantasy, but I like to visualize Trump in the role of Riggs, and TP in the role of the folks sure "it's over". It brings a smile to my face.