Deven Green - Mrs Betty Bowers, America's Best Christian
May 13, 2019
May 11, 2019
Podcast
Remember:
- The facts are coming out
- Nobody is saying the Mueller Report isn't true - they're kicking up dust, trying to take our focus off of the facts
- Russia interfered - they did it to benefit the Trump campaign and Trump welcomed the help - Trump has done any number of things trying to obstruct the investigation
- There are states asking for help to combat on-going attempts to hack their elections
Chop wood and carry water. It's working.
May 10, 2019
May 9, 2019
About That Church
The Independent put up a story about a plan to rebuild Notre Dame Cathedral:
Paris' Notre Dame Cathedral could be fitted with a new roof that harnesses solar energy to provide enough energy to power nearby buildings, if the design is accepted.
Paris' Notre Dame Cathedral could be fitted with a new roof that harnesses solar energy to provide enough energy to power nearby buildings, if the design is accepted.
Made up of of diamond-shaped glass panels propped up with laminated wooden beams, Vincent Callebaut Architectures claim it would turn the iconic landmark into an energy-positive building.
The panels would store solar power in hydrogen fuel cells, the Paris based firm said. As more than enough energy would be stored to power the Cathedral, the excess could be channelled to nearby buildings.
I don't really care what happens here, I just think it's interesting and cool that the plan is to fit the joint out with solar panels integrated into the roofing materials.
And never mind that it looks like god's rocket being launched from a dragon-skin cross.
Weird as fuck, but really - I don't care.
I don't really care what happens here, I just think it's interesting and cool that the plan is to fit the joint out with solar panels integrated into the roofing materials.
And never mind that it looks like god's rocket being launched from a dragon-skin cross.
Weird as fuck, but really - I don't care.
Today's Equal Opportunity
Why we must insist on every toilet having a lid.
If everybody's required to close the whole contraption, then everybody's doing the same amount of work every time and we've achieved a near-perfect egalitarian balance.
If everybody's required to close the whole contraption, then everybody's doing the same amount of work every time and we've achieved a near-perfect egalitarian balance.
We Are Not Surprised
There's more than one way to fill a bathtub.
It'll get filled if all you do is leave it out the rain for a good while.
What you don't do is open the drain and turn off the taps - are you that fuckin' stoopid?
The Hill:
The federal deficit in the first seven months of fiscal 2019 jumped 38 percent compared to the same period last year, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) said Tuesday.
The deficit ballooned to $531 billion from the beginning of October to the end of April, well above the previous year's $385 billion mark.
But the comparison with 2018 was somewhat inflated, CBO said, due to differences in payments and outlays; without them, the deficit would have been $486 billion.
Expenditures rose by $178 billion during the first seven months of the fiscal year, driven by both increased mandatory spending and a bipartisan agreement to increase discretionary spending. Higher interest rates also contributed.
“Outlays for net interest on the public debt increased by $27 billion (or 13 percent) because interest rates on short-term debt are substantially higher now than they were during the same period in 2018 and because the amount of federal debt is larger than it was a year ago," the CBO said in its report.
Meanwhile, revenues were up only $34 billion, due in part to the 2017 GOP tax law.
“Most of that shortfall stems from lower-than-anticipated withholding of individual income and payroll taxes in December 2018 and January 2019,” CBO said.
A recent CBO analysis found that if current spending and tax policies remain in place, the nation’s debt burden will reach 105 percent of gross domestic product by 2029, just 1 percentage point below the post-World War II record set in 1946.
It'll get filled if all you do is leave it out the rain for a good while.
What you don't do is open the drain and turn off the taps - are you that fuckin' stoopid?
The Hill:
The federal deficit in the first seven months of fiscal 2019 jumped 38 percent compared to the same period last year, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) said Tuesday.
The deficit ballooned to $531 billion from the beginning of October to the end of April, well above the previous year's $385 billion mark.
But the comparison with 2018 was somewhat inflated, CBO said, due to differences in payments and outlays; without them, the deficit would have been $486 billion.
Expenditures rose by $178 billion during the first seven months of the fiscal year, driven by both increased mandatory spending and a bipartisan agreement to increase discretionary spending. Higher interest rates also contributed.
“Outlays for net interest on the public debt increased by $27 billion (or 13 percent) because interest rates on short-term debt are substantially higher now than they were during the same period in 2018 and because the amount of federal debt is larger than it was a year ago," the CBO said in its report.
Meanwhile, revenues were up only $34 billion, due in part to the 2017 GOP tax law.
“Most of that shortfall stems from lower-than-anticipated withholding of individual income and payroll taxes in December 2018 and January 2019,” CBO said.
A recent CBO analysis found that if current spending and tax policies remain in place, the nation’s debt burden will reach 105 percent of gross domestic product by 2029, just 1 percentage point below the post-World War II record set in 1946.
Bad Ass Cassandra
Malcolm Nance, on Bob Cesca's Wednesday show
TRIGGER WARNING
We hear a lot of complaints about how the Dems aren't being forceful enough. While it's extremely frustrating to see it move slowly, we need to keep a coupla things in mind:
- It's a process. We follow process in America. Without process, we're not America.
- Dems own just one part out of the four component parts of our power structure. (one out of five if you include Republican control of a plurality of state governments)
There's no denying we're in a bad fix. We have to move and we have to move as boldly and as decisively as possible - but within the parameters of the law as much as is practicable.
So it's a major dilemma. Our strict adherence to process is the great strength of our form of government, but it's a strength that's being used against us right now by people who refuse to honor that process.
You should always try to get your adversary to fight in a place and at a time of your choosing, but when you can't do that - and you can't avoid the fight - then you have to go to where the fight is and work at shaping the battlefield from there.
It sure as hell doesn't look like we're winning much so far, but I think there's good reason to believe we're not exactly cooked either.
We're fighting from a position of relative weakness. We're outnumbered and out-gunned. But there's a few things to keep in mind.
First - Hillary had to run against Trump, and Bernie (and other 3rd parties), and The Press Poodles, and the enormous war chest funding of people with names like Koch and Mercer etc, and the full force of the Russian government - and she got 3 million more votes.
Second, George Washington went something like 3 and 9 - and we won that one.
Third, the USA went something like 25 and 2 - and we lost in Vietnam.
So if we can see this thing as an exercise in Asymmetric Warfare - and we put ourselves in the role of Insurgency - we can approach it with the understanding that the other side loses if they fail to win a decisive victory.
We win by not losing. We win just by surviving.
May 8, 2019
Paging Mr Trump
"...Mr Donald Trump - your train is here. Mr Trump - Mr Donald Trump - please meet your train at the platform..."
Crying Babies And Chained CPI
When legend overtakes history, print the legend.
Here it comes. Cult45 knows it has nothing but "the Trump economy" to run on. They also know that there's no good news in a soaring Dow Jones average that benefits only those at the top.
So what do you do when you can't get the numbers to add up the way you need them to add up? Just apply a slight variation to Daddy State Awareness rules 4 & 5:
Too many people living in poverty? All you have to do is redefine the Poverty Threshold, and presto-change-o poof - "Millions of Americans lifted out of poverty by the awesomely awesome awesomeness of President Trump's enormous and powerful and tremendously manly manhood grabbing the economy by the pussy and blah blah blah".
"And oh yeah - BTW - if it's not working for you, then it's your own fault - fuckin' loser."
Beau Of The Fifth Column - Justin King:
The Yakov Smirnoff Event Horizon is fast approaching:
Here it comes. Cult45 knows it has nothing but "the Trump economy" to run on. They also know that there's no good news in a soaring Dow Jones average that benefits only those at the top.
So what do you do when you can't get the numbers to add up the way you need them to add up? Just apply a slight variation to Daddy State Awareness rules 4 & 5:
- Change the meaning of words
- Change history
Too many people living in poverty? All you have to do is redefine the Poverty Threshold, and presto-change-o poof - "Millions of Americans lifted out of poverty by the awesomely awesome awesomeness of President Trump's enormous and powerful and tremendously manly manhood grabbing the economy by the pussy and blah blah blah".
"And oh yeah - BTW - if it's not working for you, then it's your own fault - fuckin' loser."
Beau Of The Fifth Column - Justin King:
- 48% of Americans say they can't find jobs that pay a living wage.
- 42% say they're not keeping up with their credit card payments
- 137 million struggle with healthcare costs
- 80% say they're living paycheck-to-paycheck, and a $400 emergency would be catastrophic.
The Yakov Smirnoff Event Horizon is fast approaching:
We pretend to work, and they pretend to pay us.
May 7, 2019
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