How Can We Miss Her When She Won't Leave
In a strategic move to appeal to young white working men and women Democrats today re-elected a rich, wealthy out of touch Californian to lead their irrelevant minority in the House
Why?
Wednesday, November 30, 2016
Forget the Ides of March – December 4th Is the Risky Date
Will Europe Take Another Step Towards Being Ungovernable?
This Sunday there are two critical elections in Europe. In Austria a far right party has at least a
50-50 chance of winning the Presidency.
Austria home to, well you know, is likely to elect a neo
Nazi
In Austria, the Freedom
Party regularly leads opinion polls, with about one-third of the vote, easily
surpassing the mainstream center-left and center-right parties and raising the
once unthinkable possibility that the party will not only win the presidency,
but soon head the government as well.
Its candidate for the Presidency espouses this.
Mr. Hofer, who has picked up on a
previously little-noticed provision that could allow the president to dismiss a
government or individual ministers, clearly aims to mold policy. He has visited
neighboring Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Hungary and the Czech Republic, and
speaks of forging an alliance of Central and Eastern European nations under
Austrian guidance.
In the interview, he repeatedly
expressed hope that Mr. Trump’s victory will lead to relations’ being mended
between the United States and Russia.
Sanctions
against Moscow over its seizure of Crimea and meddling in Ukraine should be
lifted, he said, “because they have not moved anything politically,” yet “have
affected the economy and destroyed jobs.”
Vienna, a neutral meeting place for
the Cold War superpowers, should once again host peace-seeking summits and
foster economic cooperation with Russia, he said.
Yes, an Austria ultra right winger leading eastern Europe
and having common calling with Russia.
Uh, been there, done that, didn’t turn out well.
In Italy a vote will be taken an amending the Constitution
to make the country a little more governable.
Failure will likely cause the fall of the government, and a major
banking crisis looms that could easily doom the EU to another financial
disastere.
Fun times are here again.
Tuesday, November 29, 2016
Today’s Winner of the Mitt Romney Craven Coward Award
IBM – a Tech Giant Aspires to Grovel Like Mitt
In American for most citizens love of money trumps
patriotism, idealism or principle. And
now that Donald Trump is about to be President all those citizens are flocking
to embrace him. Of course none will have
the magic hypocrisy of Mitt Romney, a man willing to sell his very soul to be
Secretary of State. But many will try.
So today we have the
IBM Corporation looking to cement its greedy carcass into the bowel of the
Trump Presidency. IBM Head Ginni Rommety
wrote Trump
In Rometty's letter to Trump, she had offered ways for IBM to work
with the new administration, saying "I know that you are committed to help
America
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/on-leadership/wp/2016/11/29/this-ibm-employee-quit-over-her-ceos-letter-to-donald-trump-2/?hpid=hp_hp-cards_hp-card-business%3Ahomepage%2Fcard&utm_term=.174753df9c39
But there is a silver lining in this story. One principled IBM employee quit because of
this, and told her boss in no uncertain terms why.
Elizabeth Wood, until recently a senior
content strategist at IBM, published an “open
letter to my boss, IBM CEO Ms. Ginni Rometty” last week in which she said she resigned
because she felt the letter, dated Nov. 14, "offered the backing of IBM’s
global workforce in support of his agenda." Wood, 31, wrote that the
tech giant's recruitment materials suggest "the future of the company
hinges on realizing an inclusive and welcoming culture, though you do not
communicate this vision" within the letter Rometty wrote to Trump.
Wood wrote to Rometty that "the president-elect has
demonstrated contempt for immigrants, veterans, people with disabilities,
Black, Latinx, Jewish,
Muslim and LGBTQ communities. These groups
comprise a growing portion of the company you lead."
Ms. Wood, you are an
American hero. And Ms. Ginni Rommetty,
you are the epitomy of a Mitt Romney craven coward. Enjoy Ginni!
Saturday, November 26, 2016
Tragically, He's Right
Quote of the Day
“My knowledge of foreign policy is as good, or better, than anybody they’re talking to.”
— Rudy Giuliani, quoted by the Wall Street Journal, making the case for why he should be Secretary of State.
Florida’s controversial “stand your ground” law was associated with a sharp increase in killings in the state, according to a new study
Gosh, who could have seen that coming?
http://www.wsj.com/articles/florida-sees-killings-increase-after-passage-of-stand-your-ground-gun-law-study-says-1480161606
http://www.wsj.com/articles/florida-sees-killings-increase-after-passage-of-stand-your-ground-gun-law-study-says-1480161606
Friday, November 25, 2016
Donald Trump to Take Presidency Public with IPO
Amazing Just How Much Money Can Be Made From Public Office
He Says
News That Hasn’t Happened, But Could
Nov. 25, 2016 Maro Largo (Rewters) President elect Donald Trump said today that
he would be engaging several investment firms to make a public offering of the
Presidency so that, in his words “High net work people that love me can make
the same millions I am going to make from being President”. Although open to the public, the initial cost
for shares in the Presidency would probably be about $10 million, making them
accessible to only billionaires. And
would be investors would have to submit a signed affidavit stating that they
thought Mr. Trump was a really good guy.
Trump said he got the idea after he realized that there were
no ethics laws governing the Presidency and that there were tremendous
opportunities. Trump plans to refit his
private aircraft to Air Force One standards and rent it to the government for
$5 million a day. He also said he would
set up a reservations service in the White House so that foreign dignitaries
could reserve rooms at a Trump hotel by paying a $1 million reservation fee,
which he said was much cheaper for them.
By having the funds go to his foundation Mr. Trump will avoid income taxes
on the fees.
Another inspiration for Trump was that he noticed how much
money ex-Presidents (except for Harry Truman) made and mocked them on Twitter
for waiting until after they left office to capitalize on their positions. “Don’t they know the real value is when you
are President” he told his son-in-law and soon to be Chief Bagman. Trump referenced the empty rooms at the White
House and noted that they could easily fetch $500,000 a night for insurance
company lobbyists who would soon have a lot of money when Medicare became the
property of the health insurance industry.
The Republican Party issued a statement saying this is just
the sort of thing Democrats condemn because they are anti-business.
We're Laughing At You Mitt
Not With You
Romney Must Apologize If He Wants Appointment
Donald Trump’s transition team wants Mitt Romney to publicly apologize for railing against the president-elect during the campaign if he hopes to become the next Secretary of State, Fox News reports.