“That is libel. But it’s also really stupid,” Carlson said Wednesday night. “And yet Bill Kristol isn’t stupid. I know that because I worked for Bill Kristol for more than five years in the 1990s. I knew him well. He was a genuinely smart guy. He was a good boss, too. He was humane and fair-minded. He was the kind of person I never would imagined would write something that nasty and dishonest about an enemy, much less an old friend. What happened?”
New Rules
Google’s fascist witch-burning of an honest engineer for refusing to bow down at the altar of politically correct lies was the final straw, an unequivocal warning to conservatives that there’s a new set of rules, and that we need to play by them. First they came for the tech geeks; we’re next. That means Republicans at both the federal and the state level need to rein in the skinny-jeaned fascist social justice warriors who control Silicon Valley – and, to a growing extent, our society – through the kind of crushing regulation of these private business that we conservatives used to oppose.
Swamp, Draining
Staff at the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) have been told to avoid using the term climate change in their work, with the officials instructed to reference “weather extremes” instead.
A series of emails obtained by the Guardian between staff at the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), a USDA unit that oversees farmers’ land conservation, show that the incoming Trump administration has had a stark impact on the language used by some federal employees around climate change.
A missive from Bianca Moebius-Clune, director of soil health, lists terms that should be avoided by staff and those that should replace them. “Climate change” is in the “avoid” category, to be replaced by “weather extremes”. Instead of “climate change adaption”, staff are asked to use “resilience to weather extremes”.
The primary cause of human-driven climate change is also targeted, with the term “reduce greenhouse gases” blacklisted in favor of “build soil organic matter, increase nutrient use efficiency”. Meanwhile, “sequester carbon” is ruled out and replaced by “build soil organic matter”.
The Department of Agriculture employing the language of …agriculture. Do tell.
Via
On the evening of July 5, 2016, 1,976 megabytes of data were downloaded from the DNC’s server.
The operation took 87 seconds.
The Gore Effect
Arrives in theatres, nation wide! Gore’s sequel comes in dismal 15th at box office
“We want your gods dead. “
The White House is in flames, says the media. Everything is on fire. Chaos!
In other words, the administration is coming apart and the capital is burning. Trump is slaying sacred cows and, in the words of American Greatness Senior Editor Julie Ponzi, he is killing the gods of the city and no one knows what to do. The only thing anybody knows is that the things we are seeing have never been done before and Donald Trump is refusing to follow any of the proper conventions (if he even knows what they are . . . tsk tsk).
The media–the cornerstone of the establishment–is doing its best to make it clear to the American people that they ought to be wringing their hands about all of this. Chaos reigns in the imperial city, and Trump is to blame. Nothing is getting done, and everything is terrible.
Of course, this is all poppycock.
Heh
With all the military guys and Trump family members in place, the administration is beginning to have a faintly South American flavor to it. So I guess we can all look forward to better empanadas and also the collapse of Western civilization.
You know what’s the funniest thing about all this? The funniest thing is that it’s still better than having the Democrats in power! Like, a lot better. We now know the Obama administration was spying on just about everybody. The Hillary gang seem to have been the ones really colluding with Putin. The Senate minority leader has given up on capitalism. And the former head of the DNC has been doing God-knows-what with a Pakistani IT guy who just got arrested trying to blow the country!
So while the stupid party is reaching Ultimate Stupid, the evil party has been pushing the needle toward Satanic.
Meet The New Boss
Irony.
FBI General Counsel James A. Baker is purportedly under a Department of Justice criminal investigation for allegedly leaking classified national security information to the media, according to multiple government officials close to the probe who spoke with Circa on the condition of anonymity.
Via Ken
Six Republicans who need to go.
One hopes their constituents remember their lies next time they go to the polls.
Sens. Dean Heller (R-NV), Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), John McCain (R-AZ), Lamar Alexander (R-TN), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Rob Portman (R-OH), and Susan Collins (R-ME) voted against Sen. Paul’s clean Obamacare repeal bill. All of these senators except for Sen. Collins voted to rescind Obamacare in 2015.
I’ve said it before
But something smells here and I don’t think DWS’s obstinancy is going to help her in the end.
Via chutzpahticular
Rat, Ship
Feds arrest IT staffer for Wasserman Schultz trying to leave country
Awan, 37, of Virginia, pleaded not guilty Tuesday to one count of bank fraud during his arraignment in federal court in Washington, D.C. He was released but will have to wear a GPS monitor and abide by a curfew.
Awan also was ordered to turn over all his passports. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Aug. 21.
Law enforcements authorities for months have been looking into how Awan may have double-billed the House for equipment like computers, iPads, monitors, keyboards and routers. Several relatives of Awan worked for House Democrats and were fired months ago. Awan, however, was kept on staff by Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., even though he was no longer allowed access to the House server network.
“It’s a beginning…”
Trump kills 16 regulations for every new one, crushing 2-for-1 goal
The Party Is Being Run By Stupid People
A Toronto man who spent $550 building a set of stairs in his community park says he has no regrets, despite the city’s insistence that he should have waited for a $65,000 city project to handle the problem. The city is now threatening to tear down the stairs because they were not built to regulation standards.
“Conservative” Mayor John Tory…
Mayor John Tory acknowledged that the city estimate sounds “completely out of whack with reality” on Wednesday. However, he says that still doesn’t justify allowing private citizens to bypass city bylaws to build public structures themselves.
“I think everyone will understand that it will be more than $550,” he said on Wednesday. “We just can’t have people decide to go out to Home Depot and build a staircase in a park because that’s what they would like to have.”
He actually said that.
He actually said that.
Pay attention, conservative politicians who wish to be re-elected. This is what a conservative politician is supposed to say under such circumstances;
“The city will send an engineer to certify these stairs, and if they are determined to be sound, will compensate Mr. Astl for his materials and time.
After which, I’ll be launching an internal investigation into how this small building project came to generate a $65,000 estimate, and terminate the employment and/or contracts of those responsible for the fiasco.”
You’re welcome.
“Always meet in his/hers jets, ‘accidentally’ nose to nose on the airport tarmac”
All Roads Lead To Lynch
Zerohedge: We look forward to the hearing where Lynch has to explain how she gave this “russian operative” special access to America, then lost track of her, only to discover her again via NSA intercepts, trying to pitch Magnitsky Act repeal to Trump Jr.
Project Veritas and Rebel Media vs. CNN
Sarah Palin commiserates.
Sanders and his wife have been trying to ignore the federal investigation since reporters for VTDigger, an online publication, confirmed the FBI’s involvement in April. The original request for an investigation into the potential bank fraud did indeed come from Brady Toensing, an attorney who chaired Trump’s Vermont campaign, and whose January 2016 letter to the U.S. attorney for Vermont put federal agents on the trail. (Toensing, in an email to Politico Magazine, notes, “The investigation was started more than a year ago under President Obama, his Attorney General Loretta Lynch, and his United States Attorney, all of whom are Democrats.”)
Heights of Irony.
Too rich for fisking.
“It’s a bridge too far for most people I know frankly, to support this president. It’s not about Republican and Democrats. It’s sort of about reveling and blowing up everything that was normal,” she told Meyers. “I find being at MSNBC that I am more upset about him than most of the liberal people that work there because he destroyed something that I cared about, the Republican Party.”
Four sentences, three of which are stupid at best. It’s a different world they inhabit. A different world that lives off the labour of their lessers.
Swamp Creatures
Professor Reynolds: We need a Robert Mueller resignation or a second special counsel