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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
U.S. House approves disaster funds as Trump criticizes Puerto Rico
[REUTERS] A new package of U.S. disaster assistance sailed through the House of Representatives on Thursday, despite President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
expressing impatience with having to devote federal resources for hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico’s recovery.

The Republican-controlled House voted 353-69 to approve $36.5 billion in emergency relief for Puerto Rico and other areas hit by recent disasters. Senate approval is expected in coming weeks.

Trump and his aides on Thursday suggested that there would be a limit to how much help Puerto Rico could expect from Washington to solve some of its longer-term problems, although Trump is expected to sign the latest emergency package.

The White House on Thursday evening issued a statement saying the Trump administration was "pleased" that the House had approved the relief funds and pledged to work with Congress going forward to provide resources to recover and rebuild.
Posted by: Fred || 10/13/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:


Fifth Column
New Study Finds Democrats Moving Left, Driving Growing Partisan Gap
In other words, conservatives are who we always were, and the Left is becoming a monster.
[FreeBeacon] A new study from the Pew Research Center shows a growing partisan gap in opinions on major issues, driven in part by Democrats' leftward drift.

Pew found Democrats have moved substantially left on a variety of issues while Republicans' views remain relatively constant. That was true across social and economic issues; Pew claimed that the split between Republicans and Democrats is more pronounced than any divides by race, gender, or socioeconomic status.

"This poll and some other recent ones show that Democrats are pulling more strongly to the left and Republicans are not pulling quite as strongly to the right as a general matter," said Karlyn Bowman, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute who specializes in American public opinion.

One such leftward shift came in Pew's question about welfare. As to whether or not the government "should do more to help the needy, even if it means going deeper into debt," 71 percent of Democrats respond affirmatively, up 17 points over the past six years.

Republicans' opinions have barely shifted, down slightly from 25 to 24 percent. Additionally, some 76 percent of Democrats say "poor people have hard lives because government benefits don't go far enough"‐the highest proportion of Democrats since Pew started asking the question in 1994.

"The party is being pulled in a more liberal direction, there's no question about that," Bowman said. "I mean Elizabeth Warren's comment a few weeks ago essentially that this isn't Bill Clinton's party, we're not the party of welfare and crime. I think she's reflecting the views of many of the people in her party. And I think a lot of it happened during the Obama years."
Posted by: Herb McCoy7309 || 10/13/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  All their ideas are stupid.
Posted by: newc || 10/13/2017 0:37 Comments || Top||

#2  Maybe the GOP is the Party of Stupid, but the Dems are becoming the party of stark raving lunatic morons! Oh well. Pass the popcorn.
Posted by: gorb || 10/13/2017 1:29 Comments || Top||

#3  Quit calling them liberals or democrats. Call them for what they really are - Socialists.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/13/2017 6:50 Comments || Top||

#4  It is hard to imagine that the Democrats could move any further left without being out-and-out bomb-throwing communists.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/13/2017 8:17 Comments || Top||

#5  See: "Ayres, Bill"
Posted by: Frank G || 10/13/2017 8:45 Comments || Top||

#6  Quit calling them liberals or democrats. Call them for what they really are - Socialists.

I'd call them lazy bums who want Uncle Sugar to do everything for them.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 10/13/2017 10:58 Comments || Top||

#7  It is hard to imagine that the Democrats could move any further left without being out-and-out bomb-throwing communists.

Apart from a handful of Antifa types I think most of them are too weak from the vegan diets and too damn lazy to throw any bombs. Carrying cardboard signs and driving beat up old cars with Bernie bumper stickers is about all they're good for.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 10/13/2017 11:02 Comments || Top||

#8  but the Dems are becoming have become the party of stark raving lunatic morons!

Sorry gorb, wrong tense FIFY.
Posted by: AlanC || 10/13/2017 15:35 Comments || Top||

#9  No shit, Sherlock! Welcome to the Communist party, pal.
Posted by: Raj || 10/13/2017 15:45 Comments || Top||

#10  They took over the schools so now liberals are made younger and younger and their mind starts to rot quicker.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 10/13/2017 23:24 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
San Juan mayor accuses Trump of ‘genocide' after hurricane
Corrupt Democrat Idiot wants more than her 15 minutes
The House overcame a conservative rebellion Thursday to pass a new round of disaster relief, saying the $36.5 billion is needed to replenish funds that are quickly depleting in the wake of hurricanes that have battered Texas, Florida, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico.

The overwhelming 353-69 vote came even as President Trump suggested federal emergency workers cannot remain in Puerto Rico "forever" ‐ and Carmen Yulin Cruz, the mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico, accused Mr. Trump of "genocide" for what she said was an antipathy toward her island territory.

"I ask every American that has love, and not hate in their hearts, to stand with Puerto Rico and let this President know we WILL NOT BE LEFT TO DIE," the mayor said in a statement she sent to Rep. Luis V. Gutierrez, Illinois Democrat, and asked him to publicize on Capitol Hill.
From one attention wh0re to another
Posted by: Frank G || 10/13/2017 07:13 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  FBI Reviews Allegations Of Puerto Rican Officials Withholding Hurricane Relief

The Chicago Way. With a bomba beat.

Until they clean up their act, I don't believe we want these guys as our 58th state.


Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 10/13/2017 8:40 Comments || Top||

#2  Any way we can ship her off to Afghanistan?
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/13/2017 8:51 Comments || Top||

#3  Yes, somewhere in Afghanistan a DFAC cries out for a serving line salad maker.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/13/2017 8:56 Comments || Top||

#4  Yeah, that old chestnut
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 10/13/2017 9:53 Comments || Top||

#5  Are the truck drivers still on strike in San Juan?
Posted by: SteveS || 10/13/2017 14:45 Comments || Top||

#6  So let me see if I have got this right. Anybody getting in the way of Puerto Rico aid is guilty of genocide?
Posted by: gorb || 10/13/2017 15:02 Comments || Top||


Late-Night Host Seth Meyers Flips Off Trump Supporters
[PJMEDIA] NBC late-night host Seth Meyers on Wednesday night burned bridges with any remaining viewers of his who still support President Trump, telling them to go away and flipping them off.

Inspired by Eminem's anti-Trump freestyle rap at the BET Hip Hop Awards on Tuesday night, Meyers told Trump supporters to "get off the fence" and pick a side between the president and his show -- which he noted "constantly mocks and denigrates everything about [Trump]."

"I know it's a tough call," the smarmy host continued. "But the time has come to make a decision."

He then rapped, "My name is Seth and I'm here to say -- if you like Trump, then go away," and flipped the bird to punctuate his message.


Seriously, do these late-night hosts even try to do comedy anymore? These shows are nothing but a more unhinged and less funny version of the anti-Trump hysteria CNN and MSNBC vomit out day after day.
Posted by: Fred || 10/13/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I'll bet the MSM is a swamp of abusers just like Hollywood.
Hence the attempt to morally preen as a way of projecting the evil away from their organisations.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 10/13/2017 5:49 Comments || Top||

#2  Who?
Posted by: Tom || 10/13/2017 6:20 Comments || Top||

#3  Making sure his audience remains rather selective. How are the demographics for sponsors?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/13/2017 6:48 Comments || Top||

#4  I doubt many of his intended targets saw it.
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 10/13/2017 8:23 Comments || Top||

#5  He [Myers] then rapped, "My name is Seth and I'm here to say

I wouldn't bet on his staying power. In a system where the top dogs are beginning to fall for abuses, the underlings may find themselves with little support.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/13/2017 8:24 Comments || Top||

#6  I echo Tom's statement.

Who?

Never heard of the guy.
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/13/2017 8:50 Comments || Top||

#7  I think Tom said it best. But I would add that it's a good reminder, they don't disagree with us, they outright HATE us.
Posted by: Cesare || 10/13/2017 9:56 Comments || Top||

#8  My name is Seth and I'm here to say

Cultural appropriation!
Posted by: Carmen Miranda || 10/13/2017 14:06 Comments || Top||

#9  I had to look him up too. Apparently, he is on a show because he used to be on another show. Like kimmel or colbert, famous for being known.

Kind of makes a person wonder how many weinsteins there are out there, getting talentless people jobs for sex favors.

I'm glad I missed the 'rapping'. I bet he raps like kraft cheese on a mayo sandwich.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/13/2017 17:14 Comments || Top||


CNN, MSNBC Speculate on Removing Trump From Office Via 25th Amendment
[NEWSBUSTERS.ORG] CNN’s Wolf Blitzer and MSNBC's Chris My Thigh is Tingling! Matthews
... the late Tip O'Neill's former gopher who has magazines with centerfolds of Barack Obama in his bathroom...
both eagerly speculated on the latest long shot liberal hope to get rid of Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
: The 25th Amendment. Building off a mention of it Vanity Fair by Steve Bannon, Blitzer on Thursday asked correspondent Jessica Schneider "Tell our viewers who aren’t familiar with the 25th Amendment, Jessica, precisely what it does."

She related the dreams of Democrats: "It lays out the path for removal of the president in cases of inability. And that’s a term that has never been defined or suggested. So here’s what exactly would need to happen to set the 25th Amendment in motion."
Posted by: Fred || 10/13/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Does this dream come with a happy ending?
Posted by: gorb || 10/13/2017 1:28 Comments || Top||

#2  The happy ending costs extra.
Posted by: SteveS || 10/13/2017 1:29 Comments || Top||

#3  Didn't happen with Obama, so why would it happen with Trump?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 10/13/2017 5:56 Comments || Top||

#4  It's Ok. I like speculating about the coming civil war myself.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/13/2017 6:49 Comments || Top||

#5  Pull their licensees.
Posted by: Dale || 10/13/2017 7:47 Comments || Top||

#6  These apparatchiks have been talking impeachment and the 25th amendment before Trump took office. I predict they will end up losing if the pro-Trump Pennsylvania crowd is any indication. This crowd also has a low opinion of Congress and a lower opinion of the MSM.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/13/2017 8:20 Comments || Top||


Did Trump Really Shoot 73 On A Par-72 Course? Lindsey Graham Says Yes
[HOTAIR]
Posted by: Fred || 10/13/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Did Trump Really Shoot 73 On A Par-72 Course? (on a wet and windy day where an 84 would be reasonable per Michael Bamberger of Golf.com)

The word that matters no matter what you are doing:

FOCUS
Posted by: Hupeting Sforza8196 || 10/13/2017 1:28 Comments || Top||

#2  Oh that's nothing. The first time I went golfing, I got a 68!
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Then we moved on to the second hole...
Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance || 10/13/2017 3:41 Comments || Top||

#3  SCFI: How did the second hole go?

Trump's got to be better than the previous duffer in the WH.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/13/2017 8:33 Comments || Top||

#4  has anyone seen O's score?
Posted by: irishrageboy || 10/13/2017 15:46 Comments || Top||

#5  He wrote it down on the back of his Columbia University transcript.
Posted by: gorb || 10/13/2017 21:18 Comments || Top||



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Thu 2017-10-12
  British jihadi Sally Jones killed by US drone strike fleeing ISIS hell
Wed 2017-10-11
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