Not a belly dance

Get the message

They MUST be dealt with.

Who's being unconstitutional?

It turns out it's the judge.

The problem with some judges

...goes beyond the immigration ban reasoning.

Anti nevertrump manifesto

I'm a bit more forgiving than this.

Kirk deals with Ashley

AG Sally Yates fired!

Don't let the door hit ya on the way out!

The sweet spot

I've been using a Samsung flip phone a friend gave me years ago back when my LG flip phone got weird on me. I've been reading reviews on various android smartphones after Verizon burned me a year or so ago looking for the sweet spot (enough capability at a low enough price.) I finally settled on the Moto G4 which is too costly to justify just yet. Then decided to get a $30 android first to dip my toe in the water. I set up a gmail account in preparation, but activation of the phone didn't work.

So my only option seems to be to talk to someone at the only phone store in 50 miles... Verizon!

Update: Apparently it was just some kind of activation backlog. My new phone now works.

Skin in the game

Is he right?

Partly I think. One thing the temporary ban has done is explode and expose the hysterical reaction of the Trump haters. All Trump is doing is following Obama with actions he set in motion. The 7 countries chosen were chosen by the Obama admin. Trump is also forcing congress to engage and do their job (while exposing RINO's in the process.)

Some decent people will be adversely affected, but that's true anytime you try to solve a problem that's been allowed to fester. To the left, Trump is Hitler no matter what he does.

OMAROSA, another Trump winner

A great start

CNN seems to have trouble understanding this very straight talk. Trump picked a real winner here.

They just don't get it

The good news: Democrats launch scorched-earth strategy against Trump.

This should guarantee the demise of both the Dems and the media. They are totally clueless.

It should be interesting

No matter how bad you thought Obama was, he's worse.

Let the media whinefest commence.

Passengers

Saw it tonight... it's what SF is supposed to be... a mirror on humanity with thoughtful questions.

Low BP

Most of my life my blood pressure has been rather low even though I'm a very big guy. These last two years it's been running high, but today it stayed very low. It can get very scary when I'm too weak to do very basic things.

Rex Tillerson

Some insight.

Never read it myself

Point 9 from art of the deal.... Deliver the goods

"You can't con people, at least not for long. You can create excitement, you can do wonderful promotion and get all kinds of press, and you can throw in a little hyperbole. But if you don't deliver the goods, people will eventually catch on."

Rand appears to have misconstrued the hyperbole?

Murder by thought

Wrong ideas kill people. That makes them evil.

It's obvious that resources are finite... obviously wrong!

However, there was 1 billion people at the time of Malthus and they had the equivalent in today's dollars of GDP $180 per person. Malthus made the case that there was finite resources and we had to stop population growth. But now there are 7 billion people with the equivalent of $9000 GDP per person. 7 times the population, 50 times the wealth (7 squared) and 350 times the total wealth (7 cubed)

Where did this wealth come from? Bill Whittle explains.

"Space age hasn't begun yet"

If we ever get serious about it...

Also: Flying car in 3 years using EM drive?

BA1500 - 50% larger than I.S.S. in one launch

At less than one per cent the cost.

Drilling 2km for water on mars.

What could you do with a red Dragon?

Judge for yourself

I planned to live 41 more years

I was 10 years old, sitting in a barber chair in Tacoma, discussing my future. I was the oldest of 6 and said I would be the last of my siblings to get married. The barber disagreed but I was right when I finally got married in Feb. 2002 (and divorced a bit over 3 years later.) I also told him I planned to live to 98 which seemed reasonable at the time.

So much for plans. That's why god doesn't plan. He purposes. His name actually means he causes to be. His promises can not fail. Unlike plans which fail all the time.

Last year my kidney specialist told me they were functioning at 30% which is fine since they have over capacity. But my latest blood test puts them at 15% which is near dialysis territory... and I will not do dialysis which means my mars retirement plans are out the window!

I was really looking forward to all the heads exploding during the next 8 years of Trump. But who knows? I now plan on a long slow painful agonizing death while I go blind, but hey, my erratic blood pressure could shorten that plan as well.

It's time for extinction

The left are evil deluded children. The left believes they can destroy America, but they will be spared. They have no clue, but they know how to project.

These articles (here and here) are examples of their mental illness.

We have a republic if we can keep it. The evil party is more so now than ever. The stupid party isn't going to wise up. It is up to the deplorables to save this country. We must destroy the evil party threat once and for all. We may never get the chance again.

We are at a historic inflection point that could go either way. The losers will do anything and are mad... as in psychotic and lawless. We will not get a second chance to get this right.

"We must regain control of the truth"

What an admission by the media that they're the one's doing the gas lighting!

History - sorta, kinda important

Unity crap

What does light have to do with darkness the bible asks? What partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? This call for unity is the same old trap. This country doesn't need to unify. It needs to destroy the enemy within. We will never get this chance again.

We need to destroy their funding which is mostly thievery from the taxpayers funneled through lawless organizations as project Veritas and wikileaks has shown. We need to destroy their flawed philosophy which they pump out with a stranglehold on the media and education.

Update: yes, what goes around comes around and this is a perfect opportunity to destroy the democrats and media fighting against Trump.

A brilliant solution.

I just heard this suggestion on fox... let colleges make direct student loans and get taxpayers off the hook.

If colleges believe they are teaching something with real value why wouldn't they make direct tuition loans?

Sarah is right again

Which is why Trump should put her in charge of the VA.

He can trust her to fix it.

While Sarah is right, Donald can get it right in the future. Saving jobs is an important goal. A level playing field should be the end result, but to get there might require playing favorites on occasion.

That's because it isn't a level playing field when only one side is playing fair. Tit-for-tat is a proven to work in the most effective way strategy.

Trump's plan to lower taxes across the board is a level playing field strategy that can be relied on as momentum builds. Until it has its chance, targeting may be required to get that momentum started.

Update: Another reason Sarah is right: Trump is opening himself up to being played. A company, with no actual intention of doing so, might announce they are moving jobs out of America to get the admin to get them concessions. This would probably be realized rather quickly, but it does create a window of opportunity right now.

Some holiday cheer

Will Dems turn CA red?

California, which has more undocumented immigrants than any other state, offers them driver’s licenses as well as financial aid for college. 

From January 2014 to September 2015, California released immigrants considered deportable under federal law in more than 11,000 instances.

CA may want to secede, but what they've been doing is purging themselves of businesses. As Trump's rally in San Jose demonstrated, the bureaucracy is anti-American. That's the purge that's coming.

Update: They are also trying hard to get 8 years of a Pence presidency after 8 years of Trump.

Are there any more Scalias?

Scalia ridiculed the idea of a "living Constitution" and maintained that the only valid jurisprudence was one that assigned law-making not to the judges but to legislatures.

Being 'conservative' isn't enough. Law has to be blind.

3,000,000 illegal votes for Hillary

Who won the popular vote? Do you think illegals voted for Trump?

DNC astroturfs protesters!

I am a huge fan of Bill Whittle

But anon is saying the same things in defense of Trump as I have said and thought in regard to defense of Trump. He is being slandered and principles require us to come to his defense even when our first PC inculcated response might be to go along with some condemnation...

Don't trust Hillary!

More paid protesters

Violence in Seattle and Portland.

The danger of subversion

Newt is right...

Watching their heads explode!

Loving it.

Canadian still sees the shiny city

Confirmation

That Comey has been obviously compromised (likely by blackmail.)

"Them's da rules"

Isn't that what they were saying when Trump won a primary but Cruz got the electors? Then completely discredits himself by claiming Al Gore won.

I'm going to be in their faces

He hasn't spent a day in office, but we're supposed to believe Trump is already a failed president. This from some of the same geniuses that gave Obama a Nobel peace prize. Trump will be a great president.

This is rich considering what they did to governor Sarah Palin.

When the gloves have to come off...

...When there's enough smoke to indicate a fire. Is Bret Baier being unfair? Considering the true situation none of the news media is being 'unfair enough.' Hillary is an unindicted criminal that makes Al Capone seem like a choir boy. Her crimes are magnitudes greater and decades longer. Her lie and deny, corrupt and intimidate, tactics have been successful in the face of evidence that would convict an intimate friend of Satan under signed demonic contract.

Bret is on target and those attacking him are suspect. This is how you destroy the enemies radar! (Assuming you pay attention.) Why do the good guys never have an enemies list when the bad guys always do?

Being too kind to Hillary

Is a real problem when dealing with evil.

Clinton Crime Network

Is wider and deeper than any of us imagined and it's about to unravel.

Shit hitting fan

This is the feeling of the deplorables.

Amazing events

Somehow the Clinton foundation had $1.8b to move to Qatar. Why now?

NYPD raid Clinton home involving Hillary in pedophile sex slave ring which may involve many in govt (and others?) Hillary took lolita express almost as much as Bill?

Obama and Bushes may also flee the country?

Police are making voter fraud raids and gathering evidence?

Router may indicate Huma forwarded 650,000 emails to Saudi Arabia? Where is Huma?

What do actresses that had Hillary staring at their tits think now?

Update:

...there are at least 6 members of Congress and several leaders from federal agencies that partake in the pedophile ring, which they say was run directly with the Clinton Foundation as a front.

I'd like to know names.

40 untouchables go after largest corruption in American history.

Treason? Follow the router!

We ARE a banana republic!

Alternate view

Delusion; Rand's favorite assertion

This is for you Rand...

The video's author reaches my conclusion with more detail.

More evidence of the Al Capone scenario

My previous speculation.

Voting software

Is Hillary smiling for the same reason as Al Capone did during the untouchables movie trial?

This means paper printouts do not guarantee your vote.

Obama violates election fraud protection

Voting machines owned by Clinton Foundation and Soros.

Since before the second election of Obama.

"You didn't build that!"

The best way to lie is to mostly tell the truth. Consider, 'the pencil':

Lie #1. It's existence is too improbable for any one person to comprehend.

Lie #2. No single person could make a pencil.

Lie #3. Without a connection to everything in the universe a pencil couldn't exist (using absurdity to make my point. This is the title argument.)

Lie #3A "Ancestors of the pencil."

The most insidious is... There is no mastermind and economics adjusts the mix. Insidious because it is absolutely true, but said in a way to support the lies.

Economics is all about alternatives. Listening to 'the pencil' we are strongly encouraged to believe that only a very narrow range of alternatives exist, otherwise the pencil couldn't exist.

Let's get rid of the ancestors argument first. Everything does have ancestors, but they aren't any fixed set of things. Whatever they are or aren't has no direct impact on building or not building a pencil.

You do need the materials and tools to build a pencil, but none of these things must come from the far reaches of the world. They only come from the far reaches of the world because economies of scale make it so. If we can grow wood locally and were suddenly cut off from the cheaper wood from remote parts would we stop making pencils or use the wood we have? The same is true of all other materials. So much for the implication that the pencil requires a world economy.

RE: #2. Why not? Single craftsman make complicated things all the time. How is a pencil any different? Again it's about alternatives. It may make sense for many people to specialize in making elements of a pencil, but that is not a requirement. If those specialists are not available it doesn't mean you can't build a pencil. You may certainly lower the price of pencils over time but that's true of everything.

RE #1. A fabrication to support this house of cards argument. A single person could completely understand all the elements required to produce a pencil. Just because they normally don't need to does not make it unfathomable (which is why they throw in the entire universe as ancestors to make their false point. It's like Zeno's paradox. You can't build anything because the universe is unfathomable and you can never beat a turtle with a head start.)

Economics will always adjust the mix. That's why we have pens.

Fraud: 120% vote for Hillary.

Don't believe your lying eyes! (time 3:30)

Hillary's RICO violations

Laid out bare.

The American news industry is a disgrace.

It's only WW3. What's the big deal?

"Do I need to register everywhere I vote?"

It's about time an adult got angry with a child

I used to like Megyn.

deep thought

Lying Hillary responds to Trump by claiming she will not respond to Trump.

His most important speech

Can we guess your highest grade level quiz.

PhD
Congratulations - you got your doctorate! It's clear that you've put in some solid years in grad school.

Actually I'm a drop-out. Started my life at 16 with a red dodge rt and $50.

It matters

Read it.

Those that ignore the big picture deserve the results.

Law? What a concept!

The house of suggestions...

4 million dead voters

Removed one at a time! Concentrated in republicans states. Publicly funded organization covering up criminal activities.

Massive voter fraud for 50 years!

It's down to a science today.

"You massively implement it in every republican state."

They can do it to you.

They cut wikileaks off the internet.

Is Fox news any different?

Glimpse of the Hydra

The Reader's Digest version...

...of this video, edited to it's essentials, should be Trump's campaign ad. right up 'til voting.

TREASON!

Back home

It's good to get back to my apartment (only an hour after when I was scheduled to be.)

Next time, instead of spending 5 days at the hospital I have the option of having the nurses visit me here. I've got some new meds and a monitor.

The sex allocations

They didn't buy it. They're complicit.

May! have a point?

Ya think?

Hillary is an inventive terrorist

Jill Stein endorses Trump

Things that matter

Trump's mistake.

He needs to counter the smears but not focus on them. Attacking Bill gives Hillary sympathy.

Did they overcome the vapors?

No, I think the people got to them.

The consent lie

Isn't it obvious by now to everyone that 'consent of the governed' is pure fiction?

Not only was Trump right...

I remember seeing Muslim's cheering on 9-11. I also remember American's having righteous anger but not taking it out on Muslims except for a very few incidences. While listening to Coulter's audio book (part 3, last post) it recounts Stephanopolis accusing Trump of being a liar.

The story is even worse. Muslim's were waiting beforehand to watch it happen with models of the towers! more. more.

Snopes and politifact lied about it.

He's our vulgarian

Part One

Part Two

Part Three

Part Four

Considering this... how is it a horse race?

It isn't. The media is lying to us with false polls...

Hillary must lose

Woman that are on to the media

Grow the fuck up

Regarding Trump's vulgarity:

Nobody defends it, but it's time somebody understands it from an adult perspective.

Trump was speaking privately to a guy that chuckled at his humor. Has anyone ever heard of Lisa Lampanelli or Bill Burr? People laugh at vulgarity and some crave those laughs.

What happened immediately after? Did Trump act improperly? No.

Dean Martin used to sing, "you can't get arrested for what you're thinking" (watching girls.) What happens when a mind reading machine becomes available?

Men and woman are vulgar. Without the male libido the human race would go extinct.

It is the responsibility of adults not to pursue thought crimes, but punish real crimes.

Plus Trump was not wrong! Rich celebrities do get away with things. Gold diggers do throw themselves at men. Men like touching women. To deny these things is idiocy.

Meanwhile, actions.

Going to hospital

My blood pressure has become quite erratic so I'm going to spend a few days in the hospital to try to get my medication to the right level. 252/130 is not so good, but the fact that it varies as it does every few minutes is much worse. As my friends when I was a kid used to say, "the worst thing that can happen is you'll live through it." I expect I'll be out in a few days.

Update: It looks like I'm scheduled to be here until Monday. We shall see. I've got to get a BP cuff from the drug store which is about $50. They're talking about me lowering my medication per dose, but more frequent which is why I need to get the cuff. I drove myself to the hospital, but had to call 911 to get somebody to come out with a wheelchair. I really hate being decrepit. I'm too young to be such an old man. Then again, I stopped being young at about 5 years of age. Even in high school, people older than me would call me sir! I used to go to bars and casinos with my [step-]dad when I was 16. I remember one time, when I was 16, my 18 y.o. GF got carded and I didn't. The drinking age in CA was 21.

Sometimes it seems I'm living my life backward, like Merlin, but obviously that's not quite right. It really has been too weird to believe. No, I can't write a book. I wore a suit to the 1st grade. [Step-]dad called me little lord Fauntleroy.

The lying media knows

An adorable deplorible

The last point is the point

No intent is required

This is national security where people die.

Hillary loves oppo

Trump must take her out in the opening of the second debate by saying he is not a man easily humbled, but running for president has been a humbling experience. He must include an apology to his supporters and his running mate. He should also carefully include that being a rich celebrity is a bit like a kid in the candy store and everybody knows in their heart it's just a fact that a lot of candy is out there. He was even with another woman when he met his wife. Then he needs to apologize to individuals starting with his family.

Then he needs to relentlessly attack Hillary without mercy making the case that she's the true victimizer of woman.

Black holes don't exist!?

They say the math is conclusive.

Trump is a jerk

There's no denying it, but he's also not wrong. Rich celebrities can get away with up to murder. Everybody knows this which is why he gets a pass that would destroy others.

Trump is vulgar. He's not alone. He thinks he's a comedian. He isn't.

But he's not wrong on a range of subjects.

He's magnitudes better than the only other real choice.

Illegal votes

I read of one county in PA with confirmed voting by illegals and felons. Then I hear that immigration is fast tracking immigrants so they can illegally vote.

If allowed to continue these are the country's last days.

Reporters abandon logic for bias

I was reading about Trump taking some time off campaigning to prepare for the next debate. So they're asking Pence if Trump is for banning all Muslims. Do you realize the logical ignorance in that question? Trump has also called for 'extreme vetting.' Which these reporters should certainly be aware of. Knowing that, the banning all Muslims question logically answers itself since if true, it would require no vetting at all!

The obvious conclusion, assuming the reporters are not just stupid, is they believe this question embarrasses Trump and suggests the racist narrative they continue to falsely promote.

Discouraged by Musk

Elon's vision and business acumen is making a multiplanetary future closer to possible. But it isn't his job to figure out everything. However he is in a unique position to guide the discussion but isn't really fit for it. His strength is his integrity to his vision. His weakness is his inability to lead/inspire/explain a movement.

Elon himself admits his architecture is wild, but it is a direct result of the numbers associated with his design goals. Some refinements are obvious, such as launching fuel to orbit first before sending crew to orbit. His 100 crew at a time is a claimed requirement to get a large population to mars in a reasonable time, but the real metric to focus on is cost per crew which a large quantity at a time contributes to.

Ironically, bringing cost per crew down too fast might even hurt the colonization of mars (more ahead as to why.)

Admiral Grace Hopper is famous for the expression, "it's better to ask forgiveness than to ask for permission." To colonize mars this thought will probably be essential because there are forces lining up to keep it from happening. Planetary protection is one kind of idiocy that could hold us back, but the biggest issue is the fundamental world view.

Who owns mars? Who will? How does that impact the future? Does it matter?

Is there a connection between these questions and the elephant in the room... funding?

Does it affect the quality of life and growth rate of the colony?

I  believe so. I think the social issues are magnitudes more important than the technical issues. I believe the faith in top down planning will do more harm to colonization than any other single issue. Musk's focus, while understandable, on bringing down cost per crew may be his downfall. Why and how? Because he's really a very traditional business person at heart and is trying to jump past a historically essential element of growth. Things always cost more at the beginning and will in this case as well, but that has good implications for growth.

Colonists will have a certain mass of personal property that will have more value precisely because of the high cost of transportation. Lower that cost too fast and you've robbed those earlier colonists of their assets. Trying to get the colonists to pay for their tickets (inside the box thinking) will limit the number of colonists. Provide them all with free tickets (by thinking outside the box) and the focus correctly goes to those willing to take on the other risks to be colonists.

Mars has all the assets required to pay for every colonists ticket for the first million colonists. All that is required is to realize it. Musk hasn't, nor have any others (even though they have absolutely no argument to reject it.) The only thing they can say is it will not work because people don't believe in it. That's the only thing they get right. But people would believe in it if someone like Musk, who has earned the credibility with his hard work for over a decade, would support it. That's my disappointment.

Includes belly dancers

Comey corruption

What are Russians preparing for?

Share the truth

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