Saturday, September 9, 2017
Dilbert: "Kid Rock Master Persuader Rising. If he runs, he wins."
"Epic Kid Rock for Senate Speech."
(Parental discretion advised.)
Dilbert Blog
Charlie Hurt nails it - again:
Charlie Hurt via Breitbart
The Nuclear Option: Trump’s Rebuke of Washington GOP Should Surprise No One
On this day in 1942,
History.Net
JAPAN BOMBS OREGON COAST
On this day in 1942, a Japanese floatplane launched from a submarine and piloted by Nobuo Fujita firebombed Mount Emily in an Oregon state forest, the only air bombing of the continental United States. President Roosevelt responded in part by blacking out all news of the event so as not to panic the American people.
Later that same month, Fujita tried to bomb the U.S. again:
Local ArticleAfter returning to I-25, Fujita was more determined than ever to drop the four remaining incendiary bombs carried aboard the submarine. Captain Tagami shared his enthusiasm. He advised his pilot, We’ll make the next one a night attack, Fujita, for the Americans will be expecting another sunrise one. True to his word, Tagami surfaced I-25 after midnight on September 29,1942, about 50 miles west of Cape Blanco. This time the entire west coast of Oregon, except for the Cape Blanco lighthouse, was blacked out. Fujita’s floatplane was catapulted into the darkness, and the pilot flew east beyond the Cape Blanco lighthouse for about half an hour before dropping the two incendiary bombs. Again Fujita was satisfied with the attack, as he observed two explosions of red fire in the forest below. In order to avoid detection, Fujita cut the Glen’s engine after passing the coastline and glided down to 1,000 feet before starting it again well out at sea, west of Cape Blanco. After some difficulty, Fujita located I-25 by an oil slick caused by a leak, and his plane was hoisted aboard.Meanwhile, below in Oregon, a work crew of forest rangers was remodeling for winter occupation the Grassy Knob lookout station about seven miles east of Port Orford. At 5:22 a.m. they reported to ranger headquarters at Gold Beach the presence of an unidentified aircraft. Noise from the aircraft was described as like a Model T with a rod out. A fire-fighting patrol was sent out from Grassy Knob after daylight on September 29, but it found neither smoke nor any bomb debris during a fruitless two-day search. Neither of the incendiary bombs dropped by Fujita on his second attack has ever been found.Bad weather and heavy seas precluded a final bombing attack with the remaining two bombs. Captain Tagami canceled the third mission, having decided to spend the rest of his patrol time in attacks on shipping. On October 11, I-25 fired her last torpedo and returned to Yokosuka, where Fujita discovered he was something of a national hero.How significant were these two bombing attacks on Oregon, the only times in history that America has been bombed from the air? For the Japanese, they were clearly a major propaganda victory, one that made banner headlines on the home front and to some extent evened the score for the April 18, 1942, Jimmy Doolittle raid on Tokyo, itself a retaliatory raid in return for the Pearl Harbor attack. From a military standpoint, however, the bombing raids were virtually meaningless, because no serious fires were started or significant collateral damage inflicted. Likewise, although some public apprehension was caused by the attacks, no widespread panic developed on the U.S. West Coast, at least partially due to heavy press censorship. The raids were not repeated, because aircraft-carrying submarines gradually disappeared into the increasing category of obsolete weapons. Only one more Japanese submarine, I-12, operated off the West Coast during the remainder of the war. I-25 was sunk less than a year later by USS Patterson (DD-392) off the New Hebrides Islands on September 3, 1943.Warrant Flying Officer Fujita continued reconnaissance flying until 1944, when he returned to Japan to train kamikaze pilots. His crewman, Petty Officer Okuda, was later killed in the South Pacific. After the war, Fujita opened a successful metal products sales business in Japan. Forestry student Johnson later became a U.S. Navy Captain and on January 24, 1974, held a luncheon reunion with Fujita in Tokyo. Executive officer Tatsuo Tsukudo of I-25 retired from the IJN as a vice admiral.
History.Net
Friday, September 8, 2017
Thursday, September 7, 2017
My third favorite economist.
Gary Shilling: Trump and Presidential Executive Orders
Gary Shilling BlogRemember when the teacher in high school civics class taught that the U.S. Congress makes laws and controls the purse while the president merely enforces them and spends the allocated money? That no longer reflects reality.Federal spending has risen from 16 percent of gross domestic product in the early 1960's to 22 percent today. Regulatory bodies have mushroomed, including six new federal departments and numerous agencies. Every national crisis brings more federal involvement -- all of which has resulted in thousands of rules regardless of their costs or benefits. Recent presidents have taken it upon themselves to act unilaterally in regulating and deregulating countless aspects of the economy and business while issuing executive orders on items that on occasion have been stymied by Congress.Despite gridlock in Washington, Trump is moving ahead on his own on deregulation and foreign trade. The former is favorable for investors; the latter is problematic.The Trump administration recently opened NAFTA renegotiations with Mexico and Canada. In line with Trump’s “Buy American” theme, it’s seeking greater flexibility in imposing or reinstating tariffs on Mexican and Canadian imports. Trump is also free to pursue his “America First” trade policies by taking a hard line against China and threatening to impose steep tariffs on Chinese exports.Trump has also pressed for deregulation, but with little success. It’s not for lack of effort. Examples of deregulation under a Trump administration are legion and growing. Through the middle of the year, the federal government made 1,731 preliminary, proposed or final rules, down 40 percent from the 2011 peak under President Barack Obama and a 17-year low. And many actions taken under Trump are actually reversals of earlier rules made by the Obama administration. Of 66 completed actions at the Environmental Protection Agency, a third were rule withdrawals.Trump’s Labor Department undid Obama’s expansion of eligibility for overtime pay while financial regulators dropped plans to tighten restrictions on banker pay. The Interior Department indicated it would rescind proposed rules on oil and gas fracking on federal land. The Federal Communications Commission is reversing the Obama-era decision to regulate internet service providers as utilities. The Food and Drug Administration has signaled faster approvals for new drugs.The fiduciary rule governing retirement-savings accounts is being delayed by 18 months from the Jan. 1, 2018 compliance date to July 1, 2019, so significant revisions may be made. The Treasury Department is proposing the rollback of many restrictions on financial institutions that the Obama administration believed were necessary to curb excessive risk-taking and a repeat of the 2008 financial crisis. Many are part of the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial regulation law.The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is still led by an Obama-appointed director, but is shifting toward lenders’ interest than its previous exclusive focus on consumer borrowers. As its rushes to complete a regulation on payday lenders before a Trump appointee takes over, it is scaling back restrictions on them. Of course, the new leadership may simply not enforce whatever restrictions on payday lenders that survive.The Department of Housing and Urban Development just announced a tightening of rules for reverse mortgages. By requiring bigger upfront fees paid to the Federal Housing Administration that insures the loans and by reducing loans for new borrowers, the government believes the program will be on a sounder footing with less exposure for taxpayers.In another reversal of Obama-era regulations, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission will stop the scheduled collection of data from employers on how much they pay workers of different genders, races and ethnic groups. The 2016 proposal was part of Obama's efforts to address pay disparity among different groups of employees. It would have applied to private firms with 100 or more employees and federal contractors with 50 or more.The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is reducing its reporting of workplace fatalities and is rolling back a regulation that went into effect Jan. 1, at the end of Obama’s presidency, that requires employers to electronically file injury logs to the government.Many of the regulations instituted by Obama were via executive orders, and Trump is using executive orders to rescind them. Within days of taking office, Trump signed two orders supporting the construction of two controversial oil pipelines -- Keystone XL and Dakota Access -- that Obama had refused to back, due mostly to environmental concerns.The Trump administration is also considering reducing the size of some national monuments but not eliminating them. They encompass vast areas of federal land, especially in the western part of the country. Removing acreage would free up land for ranching, hunting and fishing, mining and other commercial use. This, too, can be done without congressional involvement.Trump ended the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program that has offered a reprieve from deportation to 800,000 people -- “Dreamers” -- brought to the U.S. illegally as children. It was instituted by Obama’s executive order five years ago.Interestingly, executive orders were originated out of thin air by Franklin D. Roosevelt. Congress did not prohibit them so the custom became established and has grown tremendously, especially in recent years. They are, in effect, presidential legislation and another vivid example of the awesome power of the president of the United States.
Where were the Russians when Trump needed them?
More than 5,000 out-of-state voters may have tipped New Hampshire against Trump
Another example of why Dems don't complain about voter fraudHarvard Law School unveils memorial honoring enslaved people who enabled its founding
Harvard Law Today
Althouse Blog
Wednesday, September 6, 2017
Tuesday, September 5, 2017
Geez, Rush, don't tell 'em.
Rush Limbaugh: Attacks on Trump Are Backfiring — and Democrats Know It
Rush Transcript
On this day in 1975,
Wikpedia
PRESIDENT FORD SURVIVES ASSASINATION ATTEMPT BY MANSON FAMILY MEMBER
This Day In HistoryOn this day in 1975, President Gerald R. Ford survives an attempt on his life in Sacramento, California.The assailant, a petite, red haired, freckle-faced young woman named Lynette Fromme, approached the president while he was walking near the California Capitol and raised a .45 caliber handgun toward him. Before she was able to fire off a shot, Secret Service agents tackled her and wrestled her to the ground. Seventeen days later, another woman, Sarah Jane Moore, a mentally unstable accountant, tried to assassinate Ford while he was in San Francisco. Her attempt was thwarted by a bystander who instinctively grabbed Moore’s arm when she raised the gun. Although she fired one shot, it did not find its target. The bystander, a former Marine and Vietnam veteran named Oliver Sipple, was publicly thanked by Ford three days later.Lynette Fromme, nicknamed “Squeaky,” was a member of the notorious Charles Manson family, a group of drug-addled groupies who followed cult leader Manson. Manson and other members of his “family” were convicted and sentenced to prison for murdering former actress Sharon Tate and others in 1969. Subsequently, Fromme and other female members of the cult started an order of “nuns” within a new group called the International People’s Court of Retribution. This group terrorized corporate executives who headed environmentally destructive businesses. Fromme herself was still so enamored of Manson that she devised the plot to kill President Ford in order to win Manson’s approval.Fromme was convicted of attempted murder and was sentenced to life in prison in West Virginia. She escaped in 1979, but was caught within 25 miles of the prison. Strangely, Ford’s second would-be assassin, Moore, was imprisoned in the same facility and escaped in 1989. She turned herself in two days later and, like Fromme, was transferred to a higher-security penitentiary. Both women remain incarcerated today.After Fromme’s assassination attempt, Ford stoically continued on to the Capitol to speak before the California legislature. The main topic of his speech was crime.
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President Trump's Statement on Ending DACA
The decades-long failure of Washington, D.C. to enforce federal immigration law has had both predictable and tragic consequences: lower wages and higher unemployment for American workers, substantial burdens on local schools and hospitals, the illicit entry of dangerous drugs and criminal cartels, and many billions of dollars a year in costs paid for by U.S. taxpayers. Yet few in Washington expressed any compassion for the millions of Americans victimized by this unfair system. Before we ask what is fair to illegal immigrants, we must also ask what is fair to American families, students, taxpayers, and jobseekers.Full Statement from President Trump
Liberal Law Prof Jonathan Turley: Obama Did Not Have Authority To Implement DACA - Only Congress Does
The HillMonday, September 4, 2017
12 Times the MSM Told Us Obama ‘Wiretapped’ Trump
Breitbart1) Believing Hillary would win, the Obama administration brazenly spied on Team Trump. You see, if Hillary won, they would never get caught. The goal was to personally (and falsely) destroy Trump as a Russian spy after he lost. Why? To destroy his powerful coalition. Duh.2) The media knew the Obama administration had “wiretapped” Trump because they were the ones benefiting from selective leaks that could only come from monitored phone calls.3) When Trump unexpectedly won the election, the media and the Obama administration simply launched the phony Russian narrative anyway.4) Without thinking it through, the media openly reported on how their super-awesome Barry had busted Trump as a Manchurian candidate, cuz super-awesome Barry did some super-awesome spying cuz he’s super-awesome. But, this blew up in everyone’s face when…5) Trump accurately accused Obama of (the modern definition of) wiretapping, and blew the lid wide open on Barry’s horrific and un-American behavior.6) So now, the media lies about and covers up Barry’s spying by hiding behind the hyper-literal and outdated definition of “wiretap,” even though on 12 different occasions the MSM proudly reported on Barry’s wiretapping — even though the New York Times actually (and accurately) called it wiretapping.
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