Aspirational Pneumonia

Rockin’ pneumonia: A unifying diagnosis | Power Line:

We've come a long way since the 1970's when Chevy Chase pretty much made a career of making fun of Gerald Ford falling ...

A comedian that tried that today would likely turn up dead from a tragic home weight lifting accident.

Back in '92, Arsenio Hall, then a late-night host had this to say:

"Excuse me, George Herbert, irregular heart-beating, read-my-lying-
lipping, slipping in the polls, do nothing, deficit raising, make
less money than Millie the White House dog last year, Quayle-
loving, sushi-puking Bush. I don't remember inviting your ass to
my show. I don't need you on my show. My ratings are higher than
yours."
--Arsenio Hall, on his June 11 show.

Making fun of the Republican  candidates health is a very funny joke. Democrat candidates? Not so much.

The linked PL article raises a good question -- assuming it IS pneumonia (and that is a BIG if), why does a supposedly otherwise healthy 70 year old woman come down with pneumonia in September?

Other than "So she can avoid debating Trump", the answer "aspiration pneumonia" makes pretty good sense. Her own previous testimony talks of concussions, blood clots, and neurologic difficulties bad enough so she completely forgot a series of briefings on e-mail servers and security classifications. Naturally, she may well be lying over those problems as well -- with Hillary, never assume the truth when a lie could be the case.

Elderly people with neurologic issues end up "aspirating"  (breathing) food into the lungs which rots their and causes an infection -- aspiration pneumonia.  Elderly people with neurologic issues also stumble, cough, and even talk about "buckets of deplorables" ... when other choices of words might play better.

We have known she was a SICK woman since she married Bill ... if they are both dying of some venereal disease,  the justice of God would come to mind.

My guess is she had a stroke / fall / complications of one or both and is trying to stumble on to power, because POWER is her only good.

We can only hope she melts ...

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Math Is Racist

Math is racist: How data is driving inequality - Sep. 6, 2016:

As we have covered a lot, math is a tool -- as is science and technology. Your hammer doesn't care if it is pounding a nail or crushing a skull. Humans love to anthropomorphize nearly everything (my cat taught me that word).

"I worried about the separation between technical models and real people, and about the moral repercussions of that separation," O'Neill writes.

All tools can be used in the service of good, evil, boredom, etc -- no tool, not math, not science, not your hammer, nor even a computer have any independent consciousness, free will, moral sense, love, hate, etc. An X-ray machine cares not if it provides a perfect picture of a kid's busted arm or delivers a lethal dose of radiation to the youngster.

Some people that use math and models may be racists, the data may show artifacts of modern black culture (drugs, crime, single parent homes, etc), or something in between. I can say for certain that none of the TOOLS are at fault. Free Will is not in the repertoire of a tool.

Data shows a lot of things we like and a lot of things we don't like -- an ultrasound may show us that we are going to be parents or grandparents of a healthy child, or it may show us that we or someone we love has an inoperable mass that is going to kill is. It's just data.

It turns out that liberal management has not been kind to blacks since the 1960's -- we really don't need difficult math or computer models to tell us that. The number or deaths and wounded from gang gunfire in Chicago, Detroit, DC, Memphis, etc on any given weekend in any newspaper can tell us that if we care to look.

It may be lamentable to liberals that no matter what kind of math or models you put on a shit sandwich, it is still a shit sandwich, but eventually, they may actually have to admit that a shit sandwich is what their policies have created for inner city blacks.

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Deplorable To Hildebeast

Half of Trump Backers Belong in 'Basket of Deplorables:' Clinton

"To just be grossly generalistic, you can put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the 'basket of deplorables,'" Clinton said. "Unfortunately there are people like that. And he has lifted them up."

Just in case you were squeamish about voting for Trump, it is your chance to have Hildebeast find you to be "deplorable"!!

This election, it doesn't get any better than that! I've already donated to Trump, I think I need a "Deplorable to Hildebeast" bumper sticker!

If Hillary can't say she deplores you, can you really look at yourself in the mirror?

This is your chance to have Hildebeast look down her crooked lying nose at you and deplore you just like she does 65 million babies killed in their mothers womb, or the forgotten middle class, dying at rates like the AIDs epidemic. Only difference is that you and the babies DESERVE IT according to Hildebeast's "morals".


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Slick Willie Admits He Is Racist

Clinton: “Make America Great Again” Is Racist! | Power Line:

Just go read the linked article. Slick Willie says that saying "Make America Great Again" is racist -- it is something called "dog whistle racism" .

But if you go to the linked article you can see Slick himself saying that Hillary would "Make America Great Again" in 2008 ...

So, if there was one set of standards, Slick would be admitting that he is a racist, but we know there is NOT one set of standards, there are as many as "The Party", TP-D says there are, and they say WHAT they are and WHEN they are.

So Trump is a racist for the same slogan that Slick was not a racist -- and that is the way things work in BOistan.

The link to the "Dog Whistle Politics" book review above explains all this in excruciating detail.

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Black Social Problems Explained

Corrupt Academics and the Media - Walter E. Williams:

An EXCELLENT article with a lot of good supporting statistics.

Regular readers of this blog know that 90%+ of human problems are solved by:
1). Belief in God ("the beginning of wisdom)
2). Strong family and community
3). Delayed gratification -- realizing that "I want it all, I want it now" is death.

Naturally, the Satan and the left preach just the opposite:
1). There is no God ... nor wisdom or truth
2). YOU are all that matters. Screw family, screw community. It's all bout YOU.
3). You have a RIGHT to have your desires fulfilled, RIGHT NOW!

There is a wealth of statistical evidence in the linked article that supports those assertions and it is WELL worth reading. Here is a teaser.

Academics teach that the breakdown of the black family is the legacy of slavery and discrimination. They ignore the following facts. In 1950, 72 percent of black men and 81 percent of black women had been married. Also, only 17 percent of black children lived in single-parent households; today it's close to 70 percent. Every census from 1890 to 1950 showed that black labor force participation rates exceeded those of whites. During the late 1940s, the unemployment rate for black 16- and 17-year-olds was less than that for white teens.

Sadly, the left is increasingly having the same effect on the white population. Satan is an equal opportunity destroyer.

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BO Son of a Whore

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/09/06/the-son-of-whore-story-is-about-so-much-more-than-dutertes-dirty-mouth/

I'm reminded of the joy in the American press at the shoe being hurled at W in 2008 -- they thought it was GREAT!

BO started his reign with the boot licking apology tour. It now seems he is on the Rodney Dangerfield "I get no respect" tour.

Duterte's insults may seem trivial, but when they lead to the cancellation of high-level U.S.-Philippine meetings, leaving the door open for China, they are not.

China is insulting BO as well, but he has accomplished his mission -- BOistan is not a world power. America was a colonial power and BO destroyed it.

Ghost Ships, Ghost Economy

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-wp-blm-hanjin-392fd65a-74f0-11e6-9781-49e591781754-20160907-story.html

We live in a world in debt bubble unprecedented in history with strange economic situations happening regularly.

Hanjin is one of the world's biggest shipping lines and filed for bankruptcy protection last week in Seoul. That's created a bizarre situation on the high seas for 85 Hanjin ships that have been effectively marooned offshore as ports in the U.S., Asia and Europe have turned the company's ships away. The worry is that Hanjin ships won't be able to pay port fees or their contents might be seized by creditors, which would disrupt port operations.

We don't hear much about "little problems" like this -- to listen to BO and the MSM, one would think that things globally are just going wonderfully. Perhaps.

Hanjin's woes show the container-shipping industry is in bad health, limping from one exigency to another since the 2008 global financial crisis brought trading to its knees.

Military Brass For Trump

88 Generals, Admirals Pen Support for Trump, But Lack Name Recognition of Clinton Supporters | US News:

I love the MSM "hey his generals and admirals aren't as well known as Hildebeast's!".

Isn't THAT surprising? BO has been in power for 8 years, and Trump even disses W's movements in the mideast. But he STILL has 88 generals and admirals in his camp, even though he is essentially an "independent" with no real support from the establishment of either party.

At the upper levels, every position is political -- having more than a handful of brass willing to come out for Trump is rather amazing!



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BOnomics In 9 Charts

These Are The 9 Zero Hedge Charts Showing "Obama's Recovery" That Angered The Washington Post | Zero Hedge:

If Trump keeps speaking "Truth to Power" like this, Jeff Bezos and the WaPo may have a hemorrhage!

You can read the article -- bottom line, economic life sucks in BOistan, WaPo doesn't like that reported, so they would like to change the facts.

Don't worry, the facts always win eventually!









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BOistan, Insulting Tribute

Why wouldn’t China insult Obama? | Power Line:

BOistan is a nation that submits tribute to those in power -- Iran, China, Russia ... even Cuba. When BO fell on his father's and grandfather's graves in Kenya, wept because they had not been able to destroy the colonial powers that treated his self-identified people, the Luo, so badly, he promised that this day would come.

I see BO as the most successful leader in modern world history at succeeding at HIS agenda (ending America) ... although the absolute proof will be in what plays out in the next couple decades.

Reagan was able to arrest the long leftward slide of America into economic stagnation and military weakness, but he could not reverse it, so the slide continued and BO was able to strangle the last of the exceptionalism that was America and covert it to the client state of BOistan.

The linked article gives you one example -- China insults the leader of the nation paying them environmental and economic tribute, while flexing their military muscles and those of their ally, North Korea, in opposing THAAD missile defense in S Korea

The launches also came hours after Chinese President Xi Jinping told his South Korean counterpart at the G20 that Beijing opposes the deployment of the United States' THAAD missile defense system to South Korea.

So, while the world meets for the G20, N Korea accurately fires 3 missiles and China tells S Korea they had best be careful, and then  insults the current leader of BOistan while he signs a deal for us to pay further tribute to China.

In practice, this deal amounts to Americans paying tribute. . . . 

For Americans. . .the result will be to increase the regulatory strictures already strangling an economy now growing at a dismal 1%. You, the American consumer, taxpayer, shunted-aside voter, will pay. For China, the cost is far less clear. As the state-controlled China Daily summarizes the arrangements, China has pledged to “peak” carbon emissions by 2030. Obama, by contrast, has promised that America will cut emissions by 28% by 2025, as compared to the year 2005. 

In other words. . .America starts paying now. China has 14 years to play around before the deal starts to bite. Plus, under China’s despotic system, coupled with a treaty in which governments are effectively held accountable only by their own citizens, the rulers in Beijing have plenty of room to toss their international commitments right out the window.

They also forced BO to exit from the rear of the plane ... usually called "The Hildebeast Exit".


The other recent tribute was BO breaking open $100 billion plus for Iran so they could sign a deal to get nukes in 10 years or so with zero sanctions. He sent them a $400 million ransom as pallets of cash at night from Switzerland, but they took a couple boats hostage at almost the same time and keep harassing our ships this summer, daring them to shoot. At every opportunity they snub their noses at us and bray a bit more about "The Great Satan".  Perhaps they know something we don't?

Biblical scholars have known this for a long time ...

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Believe The DNC Or Your Lying Eyes?

Hillary Clinton Fights Back Coughing Attack - NBC News:

Take the time to go look at it -- she is in GREAT shape! My eyes and yours are broken.

The DNC has assured us that Hidebeast is in fine fettle -- ready to shake down all manner of rouges, potentates and sheiks for millions in booty to the Clinton Fund (Funds -- For Clintons).

Clinton's conservative opponents have sought to raise questions about her health, though they have produced no evidence to indicate she is unwell. 

A doctor for the Democratic presidential nominee wrote a public letter in July of 2015 saying she has no serious health issues

Hey DNC said in July of 2015 that she is healthy? Why are we even looking at video? -- she is in GREAT SHAPE! ... and wasn't that just so "strong" how she brought Trump into it? !

I suppose that in BOistan, "health" is a VERY relative term. Take some BO, add Hildebeast,  and you get "Stronger Together" ... makes perfect sense, since Hildebeast is #2!

The stench has gotten pretty damned strong around BOistan.

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The 5,000 Year Government Debt Bubble

The 5,000-Year Government Debt Bubble - WSJ:

When the international financial house of cards finally comes tumbling down it should be a surprise to no one. Governments have worked very hard to dig this hole, and anyone that cared to look realizes that "voting themselves benefits they can't pay for" is the normal end of "democracy". Even NPR sees this hole.

Mr. Sylla sums it up: “There were no negative bond yields in 5,000 years of recorded history.” 

Put another way, government bonds have never been so expensive.Paul Singer, founder of hedge fund Elliott Management, isn’t expecting a happy ending. He believes that because of massive entitlement promises plus huge debt, “the entire developed world is insolvent.” He says that a negative rate on a government bond is “crazier than zero, and zero was crazy enough.”

Thus we live at a time with slowing or slowed economies, but people largely still living a lifestyle that could only be afforded by rapidly growing economies.

It’s not as if the bond bubble is fun while it lasts. It’s painful for savers and corrosive for society to have governments systematically punishing thrift. It also encourages reckless governments to spend further beyond their means when they are rewarded for borrowing in this way. Perhaps it’s no surprise that the government-engineered bond bubble hasn’t delivered the promised economic growth. Who can confidently invest when the official price of credit appears to be so dishonest?

Corrosive, corrupt, clandestine, coercive,  catatonic,  criminal ... CLINTON!
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Hidebeast's Watergate Irony

Clinton’s FBI Interview What Was Cheryl Mills Doing There? | National Review:

The irony that Hillary Rodham was involved with the Watergate Committee that brought down Richard Nixon on charges of Obstruction of Justice over a botched burglary of the DNC is so incredible as to make one believe that God himself is giving us a "clear text message".

Nobody died in Watergate and it had nothing at all to do with National Security. The burglary didn't change anything -- it was stupid, but McGovern wasn't going to win anyway. As anyone who has even looked at the debacle knows, "it was the cover-up" that took down Nixon.

I’d add that this was five months before she feigned ignorance when Fox News’s Ed Henry pressed her on whether she’d “tried to wipe the entire server … so there could be no email – no personal, no official.” Henry finally asked, “Did you wipe the server?” Famously, Clinton scoffed, “Like with a cloth or something?” But we now know, as the FBI notes recount, she had the server purged with a sophisticated software program, BleachBit, which eventually made it extraordinarily difficult for the FBI to recover her emails, several thousand of which were successfully destroyed.

We absolutely know that Hildebeast explicitly ordered evidence destroyed which DID have a direct bearing on National Security, and that the evidence was related to the Benghazi attacks where people, including a US Ambassador, DID DIE!

We've sunk a LONG way baby!

What really took down Nixon is that there were Republicans that still thought that there were things that were "above politics". What paved the way for Slick Willie, BO, Hildebeast,  and Trump is that by the time we went through Iran-Contra, plus the Bork and Clarence Thomas confirmations, it was totally clear that in fact NOTHING was above politics for "The Party" (TP-D), so all Tribes followed suit and the way was paved for BOistan.

NO RULES means NO RULES! So the Tribes fight over the declining scraps of the once great nation now a tribal backwater known as BOistan.

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God And Man At Yale, WF Buckley

The version of this book I re-read was the 2001, golden anniversary edition of this 1951 book written at the same time as Lionel Trilling uttered this: 

In the United States at this time Liberalism is not only the dominant but even the sole intellectual tradition. For it is the plain fact that nowadays there are no conservative or reactionary ideas in general circulation. This does not mean, of course, that there is no impulse to conservatism or to reaction. Such impulses are certainly very strong, perhaps even stronger than most of us know. But the conservative impulse and the reactionary impulse do not, with some isolated and some ecclesiastical exceptions, express themselves in ideas but only in action or in irritable mental gestures which seek to resemble ideas.

While "liberals" certainly thought that way, there were a lot of folks that took huge exception to WFB's (SUPER Initials!) assertion that Yale had become essentially atheist and collectivist, rather than Christian and Capitalist, which are the ideals it was founded on.

As WFB put it:

"The duel between Christianity and atheism is the most important in the world, and the struggle between individualism and collectivism is the same struggle reproduced on another level".  

He did not write the following himself, but quoted it in his introduction to the 25th anniversary edition and said it would have saved him the trouble of writing the book:

"Unless the great concepts that have been traditional to the western world are rooted in a reasoned view of the universe and man's place in it, and unless this reasoned view contains in it's orbit a place for the spirit, man is left in our day with archaic weapons unsuited for the problems of the present" 

In the chapter on "Individualism at Yale", after pointing out how Yale in 1950 believes in socialism, high taxes on business and individuals, 100% inheritance taxes and a host of well known leftist nostrums, he arrives at the following as to the effect that this will likely have on future Yale graduates after they decide it is useless to try to make it in small business:

So he finally decides to go down to Washington and get a job with some government bureau. Or maybe AT&T (his first question to the pension officer at both will be about pension provisions).  

And Dean DeVane was astounded, puzzled, and shocked in 1949 when he read that the graduating class seemed more interested in security than in enterprise. 

The word "enterprise" was once so revered that US ships and even imaginary starships were christened with the name. Today, maybe "fortress",  "lock box",  or possibly just "security".

"God And Man At Yale" (Gamay) was the book that launched the modern conservative movement that reached its pinnacle in Reagan and it's 2nd act in Newt Gingrich and the Republican House of '95-2000.

WFB was able to hold the darkness at bay with the power of his ideas and communication skills. Yale and the entire educational system was lost along with law and media, and the federal and state bureaucracies exploded in size and power, but as long as the Constitution and Separation of Powers held, it was still possible to keep the great nation from being completely being destroyed.

"Enterprise" -- "the AMERICAN Enterprise", to honestly believe in the future, in building something to PASS ON to one's own children as an inheritance in a nation assumed to get BETTER from generation to generation. Those dreams were in danger in the '50s, they are dead today.

Today we suffer the sadness of the predictions of Gamay come true and with the evil kicker of BO taking out the Constitution and Separation of Powers.

If the warning of the book had been heeded, it might be similar to the result if Admiral De Robeck had decided to continue the attack at Gallipoli on March 19th, 1915, rather than withdrawing, WWI would have been over shortly, Eastern Europe would have been stabilized under British power, and Churchill would have continued on to likely become Prime Minister and have thus been in a position of power to stop Hitler before Hitler became anything but a local madman in Germany.

America did not fall because we lacked the information on the danger. No, we fell because we willfully chose the path of sin and "security" over the path of God and enterprise!

Expensive Health

http://bringmethenews.com/2016/09/01/health-plans-you-buy-on-your-own-or-through-mnsure-might-get-a-lot-pricier/

I hit "publish" rather than save on this one -- "user error".

The bottom line is (surprise, surprise) is healthcare costs are skyrocketing under BOcare and they did the same last year. He promised to "save" everyone "$2,500 a year" on their healthcare, and in general, they have had to spend many thousands more each year -- which has been our case.

Naturally he also promised that BOcare was a "guaranteed win", since if you didn't like the new cheaper healthcare he was going to give you, you could always "keep what you had". That was a lie as well -- "what you had" was forced to meet the new BOcare requirements for acceptance of existing conditions, what was covered, coverage for kids up to 26, everyone having to pay for pre-natal care, delivery, abortion, birth control, etc, so the "healthcare you had" typically became totally unaffordable.

This tends to be a "minimal news story". You read through this and you get the impression that "it probably doesn't apply to you", but in fact, IT ALREADY HAS. You already pay more, have higher deductibles, co-pays, etc and THEY ARE ALSO GOING UP, although maybe your employer has chosen to pay some, or maybe they "spread the increase". You tend to not lower a higher maximum out of pocket if you are a young healthy person. It doesn't hit you until you get sick ...

Which is the old essence of "Nationalized Medicine" or "Single Payer". It doesn't hit you that it is crap until you get sick. National Health is a lot like paying your brother in law for fire insurance, having a fire, and finding out he was just spending your "premiums" and is dead broke.

BOcare is that kind of VERY expensive fire insurance applied to health -- only the premiums go up WAY more than your brother in law as likely to have raised your fire insurance from year to year, since he wasn't a totalitarian government.