Friday, June 28, 2019

Democratic Debates

From Laurie...


"An article John may agree with...
NYT DEMs: Don't Drive Me Away"


Just by the title, I think I agree with her. :-)


I did not watch one minute of the debates...
Too many candidates, not worth my time...


Any thoughts from those who did watch?

Thursday, June 27, 2019

DEMs are More Fiscally Responsible?




Since I got no comments at G2A Get More Pay Less and Bill the Kids, I thought I would be more blatant.  And this is a fascinating graphic.  Just think, Obama was hurt and helped by inheriting Bush's disaster.  But Trump inherited an excellent situation and he is on track to increase the National Debt more than Obama did if he wins a second term.  Worse yet, if that over due recession occurs on his watch he will far exceed any previous President. :-(



FOX Poll - Interesting Results

Fox News Poll: Tariffs hurt economy, Trump has gone too far on immigration

That gives me hope... :-)
Now we can only hope that Trump listens...

Border Funding Passed Over Liberal Concerns

Tuesday, June 25, 2019

Sunday, June 23, 2019

Trump, Women and His Past

VOX Donald Trump is trying to gaslight us on E. Jean Carroll’s account of rape
The president’s response to the advice columnist’s accusation is to make us doubt our own eyes

Trump's statement: “I’ve never met this person in my life.”



Trump's Statement on Video
"Yeah, that’s her. With the gold. I better use some Tic Tacs just in case I start kissing her. You know, I’m automatically attracted to beautiful — I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab ’em by the pussy. You can do anything."

Jean Carroll's account of the sexual assault.
"Carroll claims that in the mid-1990s, she ran into Trump in a Bergdorf Goodman store and was asked to help him buy lingerie for an unnamed woman. The then-52-year-old agreed and from there, their exchange went south. The writer claimed that Trump pinned her against a wall and then forced “his fingers around my private area, thrusts his penis halfway — or completely, I’m not certain — inside me.”

Apparently she makes the 16th woman to accuse the President of doing what he bragged to Billy Bush about.  And yet people who claim to be "good Christians" defend him over and over...

And let's not forget him screwing Stormy soon after Melania delivered him a son...

Sunday, June 16, 2019

Abortion Rights: It's Complicated

NYT: As Passions Flare in Abortion Debate, Many Americans Say ‘It’s Complicated’

I think article was pretty good.

I have an elder aunt who likes to post conservative fluff on FB.  Like this:

FOX Texas border town declares itself sanctuary city for the unborn:
 'Here we will no longer murder our babies'

To which I had to post...
"It is kind of funny how a bunch of old
fat guys could be having babies... :-) 
 I mean "our babies"... Really? 
Did they also approve funding to
help raise the baby? 
Will they wake up in the middle
of the night with the collicky baby?"
Often I ask the questions regarding her position on how to care for the child after it is born and get no answers. :-( 

Tuesday, June 11, 2019

Kids Need More than Good Schools

From Laurie:
Here is an article for John and Jerry to disagree with: The Atlantic Better Schools Won’t Fix America: Like many rich Americans, I used to think educational investment could heal the country’s ills—but I was wrong. Fighting inequality must come first.

I am not sure why Laurie thinks I would disagree with this... I am all for making families healthier and wealthier... Which means promoting households with 2 capable adults in it to help pay the bills and raise the kids. And limiting the number of kids to what you can afford.

By the way, you pretty much wimped out on this comment string. Now some comments from this new link:
He points to the plight of “children who frequently change schools due to poor housing; have little help with homework; have few role models of success; have more exposure to lead and asbestos; have untreated vision, ear, dental, or other health problems; … and live in a chaotic and frequently unsafe environment.  

Indeed, multiple studies have found that only about 20 percent of student outcomes can be attributed to schooling, whereas about 60 percent are explained by family circumstances—most significantly, income. Now consider that, nationwide, just over half of today’s public-school students qualify for free or reduced-price school lunches, up from 38 percent in 2000. Surely if American students are lagging in the literacy, numeracy, and problem-solving skills our modern economy demands, household income deserves most of the blame—not teachers or their unions. 

If we really want to give every American child an honest and equal opportunity to succeed, we must do much more than extend a ladder of opportunity—we must also narrow the distance between the ladder’s rungs. We must invest not only in our children, but in their families and their communities. We must provide high-quality public education, sure, but also high-quality housing, health care, child care, and all the other prerequisites of a secure middle-class life. And most important, if we want to build the sort of prosperous middle-class communities in which great public schools have always thrived, we must pay all our workers, not just software engineers and financiers, a dignified middle-class wage.
So I have to ask...  Would giving everyone more money make them better, more responsible, more capable parents?  I don't think so...  Though I agree it would help some kids.

Sunday, June 9, 2019

Climate Change Again

What Jerry interprets from this source and the 2 graphs on the right below:

I see the first one-- projections vs reality, the most telling, and it IS necessary to draw your own lines, estimating the trend, because what you have is a biased source using biased data (GISS) and STILL, as I eyeball it, real temperatures are trending from -0.1 to +0.7 in the 60 years from 1960 to 2020. That's 100/60*0.8= 1.3 degrees per century, exactly what I keep telling you that every other dataset confirms. When will you accept the actual, measured, scientific data your own "side" is telling you? 
By the way, the "differences from averages" graph tells us that temps have gone from about zero to about 1.2 degrees in 140 years. That is LESS than 1 degree per century. If you want to say global warming started in 1950, it looks like temps have gone from +0.2 to (maybe as high as) +1.2 over the 70 years, or 1.4 degrees per century. Remarkable agreement, would you agree?

Maybe I'll look at it later, now I am going to go mow before the rain... :-) Tap picture to see full size.