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Yemen's warring sides accuse each other of violating ceasefire
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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
California wins "Least Educated State"
Posted by: DarthVader || 12/20/2018 04:29 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Adam Sandler character in The Waterboy: "Oh, no! We suck again!"
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/20/2018 7:11 Comments || Top||

#2  It works for the Dims.
Posted by: Ebbavirt Clunk4147 || 12/20/2018 7:53 Comments || Top||

#3  How did it rank in 1967?
Posted by: Glenmore || 12/20/2018 9:11 Comments || Top||

#4  From the wealthiest, most educated, and cleanest state in the union, to the bottom. Welcome to the West coast Detroit... Thanks Dems...
Posted by: 49 Pan || 12/20/2018 9:12 Comments || Top||

#5  The situation will improve right after the dem supermajority increases all taxes to 115%.

/sarc (sorta-kinda)
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/20/2018 9:49 Comments || Top||

#6  When you have millions of Mexican peasants in your schools who aren't even literate in their own language it tends to drag the averages down a bit.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 12/20/2018 12:23 Comments || Top||

#7  What the actual “browning of America” looks like with illegal immigration and no standards for skills and education for those we pretend are going to be assimilated. Just bough a home in Nevada and leaving California after being a resident for 42 years.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 12/20/2018 12:30 Comments || Top||

#8  If you flood places like California with unemployed and uneducated illegals, what do you expect? It's bound to drag down the statistics for literacy and employment rates. These illegals soak up a great deal of government benefits at taxpayer's expense. The cost of the wall would be small in comparison to the costs paid for having these illegals here.

Hillary's State Dept. lost $6 bil that has not been accounted for so far as I know. That is about what Trump is asking for building a wall. So screw the Dems and the uninterested Pubs. I hope they pay the price in the next election.
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/20/2018 14:06 Comments || Top||

#9  Hillary's State Dept. lost $6 bil that has not been accounted for
As the ad says, that's just 'sofa money' compared to what State spends.
Posted by: Glenmore || 12/20/2018 16:47 Comments || Top||

#10  OTOH, they did win "Most Vibrant!" for the 53rd
year running.

Could there be a correlation?

Nahh...
Posted by: charger || 12/20/2018 20:29 Comments || Top||

#11  This wouldn't be important if California doubled its public pensions, real estate prices and rents.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 12/20/2018 20:46 Comments || Top||

#12  When you have millions of Mexican peasants in your schools who aren't even literate in their own language it tends to drag the averages down a bit.

But weren't we told they are worth their weight in gold?
Posted by: gorb || 12/20/2018 20:53 Comments || Top||

#13  I would have thought California would win "Most Stoned."
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/20/2018 22:53 Comments || Top||

#14  I suspect this has a lot to do with schools inability/unwillingness to do anything about disruptive students. Everyones educations suffers and those disruptive students probably don't end up graduating anyway.
Posted by: ruprecht || 12/20/2018 23:40 Comments || Top||

#15  I'd love to see a comparison of the dollars spent per student.
Posted by: ruprecht || 12/20/2018 23:41 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Kasich: I Can't Shake The Feeling That I'd Lose To Trump In A Republican Primary
BLUF:
[Hot Air] "I don’t get into things that I don’t think I can win," the term-limited governor said during a Columbus Metropolitan Club luncheon. "And I think right now, today, inside the Republican Party, I can’t beat him [Trump] in a primary."

Kasich again brought up the prospect of running for president as a independent, though he noted that such candidates usually don’t win.

"I don’t have to be a candidate to have a voice," the governor said. "Because I will have a voice, believe me."
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/20/2018 05:04 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  You would lose to a coke can the way you treat people, asshole.
Posted by: newc || 12/20/2018 6:19 Comments || Top||

#2  Shouldn't he be delivering Christmas packages?
Posted by: Tarzan Hitler4525 || 12/20/2018 6:44 Comments || Top||

#3  Maybe you need to realize you are on the wrong team. You probably do, but realize that the other team is so far to the Left, you won't be welcome there either particularly as you are handicapped being old, white and male. No groupies for you dude.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/20/2018 6:52 Comments || Top||

#4  I can't shake that feeling either...
Posted by: Raj || 12/20/2018 9:41 Comments || Top||

#5  Presidents are rarely unseated during a reelection primary and certainly not by a closeted member of the Opposition party.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 12/20/2018 9:51 Comments || Top||

#6  Go demoncrat Kasich. It is your only hope.
Posted by: DarthVader || 12/20/2018 10:14 Comments || Top||

#7  Duh!
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 12/20/2018 12:23 Comments || Top||

#8  That's the smartest thing I ever heard him say.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 12/20/2018 12:27 Comments || Top||

#9  "Did I tell you I'm the son of a mailman? Luckily my father never knew"
Posted by: Frank G || 12/20/2018 12:29 Comments || Top||

#10  Dangggit Frank.

You would lose to a coke can the way you treat people, asshole.

Think he already lost to the straw.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/20/2018 13:33 Comments || Top||

#11  He's looking forward to dropping a third party Cleveland steamer on the USA.
Posted by: regular joe || 12/20/2018 13:37 Comments || Top||

#12  Nice to see Kasich facing the fact that he is a loser.
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/20/2018 13:53 Comments || Top||

#13  Nice to see Kasich facing the fact that he is a loser.

Always play to your strengths!
Posted by: SteveS || 12/20/2018 14:58 Comments || Top||

#14  McCain would have voted for him.
Posted by: Iblis || 12/20/2018 15:13 Comments || Top||

#15  Elon just dis'ed Kasich too on Twitter and it vaporized

[Kasich]: Offered Musk/Tesla Lordstown
[Musk]: Maybe in a year or two I might be interested in talking...
Posted by: 3dc || 12/20/2018 17:29 Comments || Top||

#16  BTW doesn't GM not Kasich own Lordstown?
Posted by: 3dc || 12/20/2018 17:30 Comments || Top||

#17  Frank, using the logic of Kelo v. New London, Kasich could just condemn it and turn it over to Musk.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 12/20/2018 18:14 Comments || Top||

#18  ? That was 3DC, I think
Posted by: Frank G || 12/20/2018 19:54 Comments || Top||

#19  He shall found a new party named to honor his father.

The Postal Party.

Motto: "Go postal with Kasich!"
Posted by: charger || 12/20/2018 20:27 Comments || Top||


Government
Congress Can No Longer Use Taxpayer Dollars To Settle Their Sexual Harassment Problems
h/t Instapundit
[Redstate] One of the more ridiculous things our taxpayer dollars were used for is taking the financial burden off of politicians who were caught sexually harassing others, essentially making us foot the bill for the Washington elite’s inability to engage with others with common decency.

No longer, however, thanks to a bipartisan bill that unanimously made its way through the Congress and Senate and will shortly appear on President Donald Trump’s desk for signing.

"Time is finally up for members of Congress who think that they can sexually harass and get away with it. They will no longer be able to slink away with no one knowing that they have harassed. ... They will pay back the U.S. Treasury," the bill’s sponsor Rep. Jackie Speier (D-CA) said on Thursday according to Reuters.
The way things work around DC, I expect to read that Jackie is accused of Sexual Harassment, any day now
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/20/2018 01:01 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  we'll see

this just takes it out of one category of eligible expenses

Posted by: lord garth || 12/20/2018 6:02 Comments || Top||

#2  Correct. Money is fungible and they won't be paying their own way no matter what.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/20/2018 7:12 Comments || Top||

#3  GoFundMe donations from several anonymous sources should take care of it also if need be
Posted by: Warthog || 12/20/2018 9:04 Comments || Top||

#4  If the current theory is that Paying off a mistress is an election expense that the FEC must cover, then why isn't this an election expense? Oh, right, it applies to Democrats also...
Posted by: magpie || 12/20/2018 10:59 Comments || Top||

#5  The taxpayer should never have been responsible for paying up for the misconduct of politicians in the first place, and it’s likely that politicians not having any financial responsibility for their actions contributed to the problem of sexual harassment on capitol hill

Misconduct a criteria? I've got a list of 535 candidates--maybe a few short but not many.
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/20/2018 13:47 Comments || Top||

#6  Until they quietly change the rules. Again.
Posted by: Iblis || 12/20/2018 15:14 Comments || Top||

#7  The feel good cover up. That's all it is.
Posted by: Woodrow || 12/20/2018 17:53 Comments || Top||

#8  Moved to the petty cash account.
Posted by: charger || 12/20/2018 20:30 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
John McCain's legacy
[Daily Caller] A longtime associate of late Republican Arizona Sen. John McCain provided a copy of the infamous Steele dossier to BuzzFeed News, according to an explosive court filing released Wednesday.

David Kramer, a former State Department official who was an executive at the McCain Institute, met on Dec. 29, 2016 with BuzzFeed reporter Ken Bensinger, according to a filing submitted Wednesday by U.S. District Court Judge Ursula Ungaro.

BuzzFeed published the dossier, which was authored by former British spy Christopher Steele, on Jan. 10, 2017.

The disclosure was made as part of a final report ahead of Ungaro’s ruling in favor of BuzzFeed in a defamation lawsuit.

The revelation that Kramer was BuzzFeed’s source settles one of the main mysteries of the dossier, which alleges a vast conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russian government to influence the 2016 election.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/20/2018 00:59 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  A hateful & vindictive man no doubt, but for all his faults we'd be better off today had he won in 2008.
Posted by: Jeremiah Elmutch1261 || 12/20/2018 7:25 Comments || Top||

#2  He's in a better place.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/20/2018 7:27 Comments || Top||

#3  Better for the rest of us at any rate...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/20/2018 8:07 Comments || Top||

#4  A hateful & vindictive man no doubt, but for all his faults we'd be better off today had he won in 2008.

I dunno about that. I really don't know.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 12/20/2018 12:26 Comments || Top||

#5  Whatever legacy he might have had he squandered.
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/20/2018 13:42 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Thu 2018-12-20
  Yemen's warring sides accuse each other of violating ceasefire
Wed 2018-12-19
  Jihadist Migrant Plotted to Bomb Vatican, Italian Churches at Christmas
Tue 2018-12-18
  KDF Arrests Al Shabaab Members Planting Explosives In Lamu County
Mon 2018-12-17
  U.S. airstrikes kill 62 al-Shabaab terrorists in Somalia
Sun 2018-12-16
  Israeli Army Says Fourth Hezbollah Attack Tunnel Found Crossing From Lebanon
Sat 2018-12-15
  Heavy clashes breakout in Hodeidah after UN-backed ceasefire announcement
Fri 2018-12-14
  Maulana Samiul Haq's personal secretary arrested, labelled person of interest in murder probe
Thu 2018-12-13
  Egyptian military kills 27 terrorists in recent operations
Wed 2018-12-12
  IDF uncovers third attack tunnel dug from Lebanon into Israel
Tue 2018-12-11
  At least two dead, 11 wounded in French Christmas market shooting
Mon 2018-12-10
  Taliban’s shadow governor for Paktika province has been killed
Sun 2018-12-09
  In rain and mud, IDF exposes another tunnel from Lebanon into Israel
Sat 2018-12-08
  Hizbullah Key Financier Tajideen Pleads Guilty in U.S.
Fri 2018-12-07
  UN peacekeepers confirm existence of tunnel from Lebanon into Israel
Thu 2018-12-06
  Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou’s arrest may prompt China to retaliate, 'take hostages,' expert says


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