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On Friday, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley issued a lengthy statement on the ongoing Iranian protests before an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council.
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Trump accused Democratic opponents of his presidency and “the fake news mainstream media” of trying to use mental health questions to challenge him as they did with Ronald Reagan.
“I went from VERY successful businessman, to top T.V. Star, to President of the United States (on my first try),” Trump wrote. “I think that would qualify as not smart, but genius….and a very stable genius at that!”
Trump said his political enemies were trying to raise questions about his mental stability because the Russian collusion story was a “total hoax.”
He also reminded critics that Hillary Clinton lost miserably despite trying to raise questions about his character and mental health to voters.
Trump is currently at Camp David, where he is meeting with Republican leaders in Congress and members of his Cabinet to discuss his agenda.
….Actually, throughout my life, my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being, like, really smart. Crooked Hillary Clinton also played these cards very hard and, as everyone knows, went down in flames. I went from VERY successful businessman, to top T.V. Star…..
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 6, 2018
….to President of the United States (on my first try). I think that would qualify as not smart, but genius….and a very stable genius at that!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 6, 2018
Now that Russian collusion, after one year of intense study, has proven to be a total hoax on the American public, the Democrats and their lapdogs, the Fake News Mainstream Media, are taking out the old Ronald Reagan playbook and screaming mental stability and intelligence…..
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 6, 2018
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The Trump administration has asked Congress to set aside $18 billion over the next decade to install or replace more than 700 miles of the barrier along the U.S.-Mexico border, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday.
The proposal by U.S. Customs and Border Protection would extend the barrier’s coverage to 970 miles, nearly half the distance of the southern border. It includes 316 miles of new construction and 407 miles of replacement or secondary fencing, a U.S. official with direct knowledge of the matter told the Associated Press.
The request is one of the most detailed insights into how the administration plans to carry out Trump’s signature campaign promise.
Trump has repeatedly promised to construct “a big, beautiful wall,” but offered few details of where it would be built, when and at what cost. His administration asked for $1.6 billion this year to build or replace 74 miles of fencing in Texas and California, and officials have said they also will seek $1.6 billion next year.
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Consider this another data point that will largely get ignored when Democrats and the media start beating the drum again on “Medicare for All” in the 2018 midterms. The UK’s vaunted single-payer system has collapsed into “third world” conditions, thanks to a lack of resources that has ambulances unable to pick up patients, who would find difficulty in getting an empty bed at a hospital. The order came down this week from on high to cancel as many as 50,000 scheduled surgeries over the next several weeks until the National Health Service can figure out how to climb out of the hole (via Guy Benson):
Every hospital in the country has been ordered to cancel all non-urgent surgery until at least February in an unprecedented step by NHS officials.
The instructions on Tuesday night – which will see result in around 50,000 operations being axed – followed claims by senior doctors that patients were being treated in “third world” conditions, as hospital chief executives warned of the worst winter crisis for three decades.
Hospitals are reporting growing chaos, with a spike in winter flu leaving frail patients facing 12-hour waits, and some units running out of corridor space.
It’s not just the hospitals, either. The NHS will close down outpatient clinics as well, leaving Britons with very few options for healthcare at the beginning of 2018:
Sir Bruce Keogh, NHS medical director, on Tuesday ordered NHS trusts to stop taking all but the most urgent cases, closing outpatients clinics for weeks as well as cancelling around 50,000 planned operations.
Believe it or not, UK Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt considers this an improvement over last year’s performance. At least this time people got advance notice of the closures:
Speaking to Sky News, he said: “What is different this year compared to last year is that last year we had a lot of operations cancelled at the last minute. A lot of people were called up the day before their operation and told: ‘I’m sorry, it can’t go ahead.’
“And we recognise that it is better, if you are unfortunately going to have to cancel or postpone some operations, to do it in a planned way … Although if you are someone whose operation has been delayed I don’t belittle that for one moment and indeed I apologise to everyone who that has happened to.”
He thanked NHS staff for their “heroic” job, saying they were working “beyond the call of duty”.
Theresa May had earlier praised the NHS, saying that the socialized-medicine system had done a “fantastic job” of preparing for the winter. Perhaps, but only in the context of single-payer systems that operate on a shortage mentality in the first place. That’s the problem with every single payer system in the world; their funding comes not from an organic exchange of services for payment, but from government budgets which have nothing to do with demand or price signaling at all. The former system allows for investment growth to meet demand, while the latter restricts resources on a rationing basis regardless of demand.
The end result, as Britons continually experience, is third-world conditions and a severe lack of access. But let’s not pick on the UK entirely, either. Americans have plenty of experience in single-payer systems too, such as the VA and the Indian Health Service (IHS), both of which are closed and both of which struggle constantly with rationing issues and corruption, the latter especially in the VA. Medicare only works as well as it does because it exists within a flawed but still functioning private-market system that generates enough capacity for demand. Once we go to a Medicare for All model that locks out private choice, that capacity will rapidly decline — and it will be Americans who have to endure weeks-long shutdowns of care.
For instance, I’ve removed references to geography in this report. Try to figure out whether this is about the NHS, IHS, or VA:
More than one in eight patients rushed to hospital in an ambulance this winter has faced a delay of more than 30 minutes on arrival…
Patients are meant to be handed over to staff within 15 minutes, but more than 75,000 have waited at least twice as long as that in ____.
Some of the worst waits had lasted up to five hours, ambulance crews said.
Of course, it’s the NHS. At the VA, patients wait for months to get a doctor’s appointment. In the IHS, patients have learned not to get sick at all after June.
Philip Klein issues a similar warning at the Washington Examiner:
As the American Left tries to push single-payer into the forefront of the national conversation, it’s important to have a real conversation about the tradeoffs involved. In the U.K., having the government “guarantee” healthcare while trying to contain costs results in strained medical services, turning one of the largest economies in the world into a “third world”-like environment. The NHS “guarantee” doesn’t always translate into actual access to care when you need it. The other option is to throw more money at the system, in which case single-payer becomes much more costly than promised. It’s also worth thinking about the cultural component. Do we think Americans are going to stand for a system in which government officials cancel surgeries en masse based on bureaucratic judgments about what is urgent and go on TV to offer inadequate apologies?
It depends on how well those possibilities are communicated to Americans by their national media. There hasn’t been much coverage of these conditions by US media outlets, despite the significant coverage it gets in the UK and the applicability of them to a political debate that Democrats want to have on the future of healthcare. Shouldn’t the media at least include a look at the performance of their solution in the present?
Finally, let’s recall the 2012 Olympics in London, where organizers presented the best of Britain in its opening ceremonies. This propaganda doesn’t hold up very well six years later, does it? Maybe someone should explain that to Donald Trump.
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But yeah, hey, media run with that. And he’s basically saying because he thinks Trump is a liar that gives him license to say anything he wants. Fine journalism there. But many in MSM are running with the claims as though they were true even when parts have already proven to be false in addition to the disclaimer.
For example, it claims that Roger Ailes suggested John Boehner for a position to Trump. Leaving aside that unlikely event, the book then tells you Trump’s response was ‘Who?” But Trump has multiple tweets over years talking about Boehner and he’s even golfed with him. So he obviously knows him. But it’s put in there to make him sound dangerously ignorant because that serves the narrative.
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On Friday, Secretary of Defense James Mattis said that in 2018 he will be creating concerns for others rather than having them himself.
Mattis was speaking to reporters at the Pentagon in the afternoon when one of them asked what Mattis’ top concern for the year would be. Mattis, however, turned the question around.
“I don’t have concerns. I create them,” Mattis said, according to multiple reports.
Defense Secretary Jim Mattis talked to reporters at the Pentagon this afternoon. Asked his biggest military concern in 2018, he responded: “I don’t have concerns. I create them”
— Marcus Weisgerber (@MarcusReports) January 5, 2018
This is not the first time Mattis has opted to make such a question about America’s enemies. Last year he was asked what keeps him up at night, and he said, “Nothing, I keep other people awake at night.”
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This is too funny. As you know, liberals are constantly crying about the “Internet loophole” that they claim allows anyone to illegally purchase guns from websites and have them shipped to their front door. Some Congressional democrats decided to prove how dangerous this loophole is, but all they managed to show is that it is impossible for prohibited people to get a gun on the Internet.
Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Maryland) and Sens. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) hate guns and are scared of things that don’t exist. In an effort to show the world what a scourge the Internet loophole is, they demanded that the Government Accountability Office (GAO) conduct an investigation into illegal Internet gun sales.
GAO agents posed as prohibited people on a variety of websites in an effort to get people to sell them guns. here’s the result of that investigation:
Tests performed on the Surface Web demonstrated that private sellers GAO contacted on gun forums and other classified ads were unwilling to sell a firearm to an individual who appeared to be prohibited from possessing a firearm. Of the 72 attempts agents made to purchase firearms on the Surface Web, 56 sellers refused to complete a transaction: 29 sellers stated they would not ship a firearm and 27 refused after the disclosure of the undercover identities’ stated prohibited status. Furthermore, in 5 of these 72 attempts, the accounts GAO set up were frozen by the websites, which prevented the agents from using the forums and attempting to make a purchase.
Yes, you read that correctly: out of 72 attempts to illegally obtain a firearm on the Internet, they failed 72 times. With a 100% failure rate it really doesn’t get anymore conclusive than that. There is no Internet loophole.
Despite these findings, here’s how the GAO summed things up:
The relative anonymity of the Internet makes it an ideal means for prohibited individuals to obtain illegal firearms.
Really? Because the GAO agents posing as prohibited people were unable to get their hands on even one firearm. It seems like a more logical conclusion would be that prohibited people cannot get a gun from the Interwebz.
This actually reminds me of an episode of the TV show It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Characters Dennis and Dee are pissed off about gun ownership so they set out to prove how stupid our gun laws are and how easy it is to purchase a firearm. First they go to a gun store and try to buy an AR-15, but they both have criminal records and the sale is denied. They then go to a gun show, but because they are acting suspicious a private dealer refuses to sell to them. Finally, they try to buy a gun off of a street thug, but he rips them off and they end up not getting an “automatic killing machine.”
You may have noticed that this GAO report isn’t exactly big news. Had the GAO agents been able to buy a bunch of guns illegally it would be banner headline material, but the truth about the nonexistent Internet loophole contradicts a very important liberal narrative, so no way in hell will the liberal media report on it.
Despite these conclusive results, you can expect democrats to continue pushing for gun laws to close the Internet loophole, because that’s how full of shit they are.
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The East Coast is very cold and some parts are getting hammered by snow and ice storms. Some might call this phenomenon “winter” but former vice president Al Gore is assuring us that it’s really that global warming stuff he’s been lying about for decades. You see, using liberal physics, cold and warm are the same thing. Sort of like how in liberal ethics right and wrong are synonymous.
Hot on the heels of his box office failure with An Inconvenient Truth 2: Electric Boogaloo, Gore tweeted out this without an ounce of shame:
It’s bitter cold in parts of the US, but climate scientist Dr. Michael Mann explains that’s exactly what we should expect from the climate crisis. https://t.co/6UfJ9Xxpq6
— Al Gore (@algore) January 4, 2018
“It’s bitter cold in parts of the US, but climate scientist Dr. Michael Mann explains that’s exactly what we should expect from the climate crisis,” wrote Gore.
Of course this is complete and utter bullshit, but did you notice his new way to cover up the stink? It went from “global warming” to “climate change” to now “the climate crisis.” Having to constantly change the name of something to make it sound like less of a lie is usually a pretty good indication that it is a huge lie. In this case, arguing that bitter cold is the result of warmth is as nonsense as it gets.
Gore references “climate scientist” Michael Mann” to back up his claim that cold equals warm and even links to an article which calls him “world-renowned climate scientist.” The truth of the matter is that Mann is a fraud who faked data to prove his man-made global warming theory. If you want to see how full of shit this guy is, do yourself a favor and Google “hockey stick” or “Climategate.”
In any case, here’s Mann’s “expert” opinion on how cold is hot or something:
The US East Coast is experiencing an “old-fashioned” winter, with plenty of cold weather and some heavy snowfall in certain places. Listening to climate contrarians like President Donald Trump, you might think this constitutes the death knell for concern over human-caused climate change.
Yet, what we were witnessing play out is in fact very much consistent with our expectations of the response of weather dynamics to human-caused climate change.
So an “old fashioned” winter, like the ones we used to have before liberals invented “the climate crisis” is really proof of global warming? That actually makes even less sense.
And speaking of not making sense, Al Gore and Michael Mann are basically saying that weather is global warming which brings up another liberal paradox. The Mann article made reference to Donald Trump and what he was talking about is this tweet:
In the East, it could be the COLDEST New Year’s Eve on record. Perhaps we could use a little bit of that good old Global Warming that our Country, but not other countries, was going to pay TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS to protect against. Bundle up!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 29, 2017
Liberal global warming cultists freaked out on that tweet to “fact-check” the President that climate change and weather are two different things. Here’s smug-ass CNN douche Chris Cillizza doing just that:
Climate change is about the long-term changing of our climate — and increasing unpredictability in it. Not about a cold spell. https://t.co/mbqtOpp0xS
— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) December 29, 2017
Putting this all together, hot is warm, global warming is normal weather that we’ve experienced for generations until Donald Trump says it is and then it becomes something different.
The sad thing is that lunatics like Gore don’t get why people might be a little skeptical about his man-made global warming claims. I defy him or anyone else to show something this chaotic and conflicted that people actually believe in, not including liberalism. There is more solid evidence and consistent data to prove that Bigfoot exists than climate change.
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Hill, the host of the network’s popular SportsCenter, has continued to spout her political views despite finger waging from ESPN bosses. She has even continued her commentary after the entire company was brought together for a mandatory meeting to go over the company’s ban on overtly political comments on social media. Indeed, she is even unrepentant despite having served a two-week suspension for breaking the company’s social media policy.
Hill first sparked controversy when she jumped to Twitter last year to call President Donald Trump a “white supremacist.” Hill was scolded but not punished by ESPN for that violation, but after a second violation only a few weeks later, network bosses handed Hill a two-week suspension.
This month, Hill appeared on the Sports Illustrated Media Podcast and told host Richard Deitsch that she doesn’t regret her comments in the least. She only regrets that she made her comments on Twitter.
Deitsch asked Hill if she regretted her choice of rhetoric when she called Trump a “white supremacist.” But she was unrepentant, Awful Announcing reported:
“I have more regrets about the medium. …Most of us find out every day in some form or fashion that Twitter is not necessarily a place for nuance. Twitter’s not even really a place where if you want to have some extensive conversation, especially about race, Twitter’s not set up for that. It’s built on quick thoughts, okay, and that’s not something to have quick thoughts about. So I don’t really have any regrets about the language that I used, because I do think that there is some evidence to at least where we can question some of the things that he’s said and done, and for that matter, examine why there are clearly large groups of people, women, people of color, who feel they’re very vulnerable at this time and under attack. I don’t regret what I said or even the language that I used.”
“…It’s just the where. The where is problematic because, of course, there are these problems that are going to be created because of who I represent and who I work for. And that’s just not a conversation that people are accustomed to someone in my position having, especially not in an open forum. And I’ve often wondered, if I were on a panel discussion at Harvard and said the same thing, would it have resonated the same way? Because I do think now that Twitter’s become what it’s become, it’s an easy place to search tweets and create headlines and create sort of this thinkpiece-like environment for other media entities.”
Hill also said the “timing” of her forays into political commentary was probably bad:
“And I think timing is everything, and I regret the timing too, because there is, and I’ve mentioned this before and talked to you about this before, the timing of especially where and how ESPN is being viewed by a lot of people, those are things that in a forum like that, it’s just not going to go over well. So, as I’ve said before, I don’t take anything back from what I said, I’ve been very consistent in that message, but I do think the environment lends itself to it drawing more attention than it was probably worth.”
This is far from the first time Hill has said she doesn’t regret her comments.
At the end of December, Hill said that she was shocked that her comments about Trump raised such a ruckus because she thought “everybody already knew” that Trump was a racist.
“I thought everybody knew (Trump is a white supremacist),” Hill said on the podcast of former NFL running back Arian Foster in December. “I thought water was wet. I didn’t think I was saying anything that was shocking.”
In that interview, Hill also said she didn’t regret the content of her comments.
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One of the major challenges facing Los Angeles, as with every other large city, is how to get rid of all the trash and recycling. For a very long time, the City of Angels actually did an admirable job of dealing with both and L.A. was really a respectably clean place. Then the municipal government took a look at the situation and decided that it simply wasn’t good enough. After years of planning, they came up with a scheme known as RecycLA which would “improve” the city’s green footprint, deal with recycling more efficiently and ensure that people working in that industry were all earning a “living wage” for their efforts. And they’d do it all while saving money in the process.
Does the phrase, “I’m from the government and I’m here to help” leap to anyone else’s mind?
As the Los Angeles Times reports, not long after the full launch of RecycleLA, things quickly turned into what could charitably be referred to as a dumpster fire.
RecycLA, which serves businesses and apartment and condo complexes, was in the planning stages for years but has had what a kind person might call a bumpy rollout.
Others have called it a disaster, a ripoff and a mess. One property manager I spoke to Tuesday had a thought as to who might be in charge.
“This is just literally like the Three Stooges,” said Robert Kilian, who works for Cardinal Management Group and handles the business affairs of 22 homeowner associations in Los Angeles — most of which have had problems with late pickups or price hikes.
Kilian said the 12 homeowners in Hajibekyan’s building had been paying $389 a month for hauling, but that the new bill is more than double that — $825.
There have been reports of costs tripling and even quadrupling for other customers, due in part to added fees tacked on.
Just read some of the stories of apartment complex managers in that article. It’s truly astounding. Back when the trash and recycling were all handled by private companies in a competitive bidding system, recycling was picked up twice a week. Now they are waiting up to two weeks or even more for a pick-up. Trash is building up in the basements and parking garages of these properties like rat-infested mountains. And the prices they are paying have at least doubled, sometimes going up to four times the previous cost. Service is down, costs are up and property managers are angry.
So what went wrong, aside from the fact that the government decided to take over managing the show? The Times reports that the city was faced with the choice of, “maintaining a level of competition among haulers, or they could award exclusive contracts to haulers for designated sectors of the city.” Which one do you think they went with?
So there you have it. The City mandated a number of changes which removed competition, raised labor costs and micromanaged how much recycling would be done. And now there are steaming mountains of garbage in businesses, apartments and condo complexes around the city and the owners are being charged vastly increased costs. Well done, Los Angeles. You’ve really struck a blow for environmental justice, fair wages and a cleaner city.
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