Hey...we could also place signs on them like counties do for cleaning roadsides "Adopt-a-Sentry: This Sentry Gun is brought to you by AJAX Construction Company".
Trump met a guy who knows a guy whose cousin's cleaning lady told him that her sister was only a legal permanent resident and was still able to vote in....something or other-she can't remember what- but still.
5 million people illegally voted in the last election because if this friend's cousin's cleaning lady's sister could vote in...something....then it's evidence of widespread voter fraud...fraud in the region of between 12 and 5 million.
Ladies and gentlemen......the Republicans are back in power.
Good Morning! Peyton Manning is going to speak at the Republican retreat,which is now public knowledge,but according to my source,the rumor had been floating around D.C.
I have a distinct recollection of Trump during one of the debates, ( I think it was one of the latter primaries) using the word, "bigly." He was trying to come up with an adverbial form of big.
That may be, and I have no reason to doubt you. Still, when I hear him speak and use the phrase, it sounds to me like "big league."
Hopefully, Manning's speech will be some variation of "Want to win the Superbowl? Support your quarterback", looking right at offensive guards Bubble Boy and McTurtle.
"Several members of the Brock empire painfully recall what they viewed as self-aggrandizing, exuberant episodes involving their boss. One such memory took place at a Christmas party in 2015 at the Comet Ping Pong pizza joint (of “#Pizzagate” infamy) in Washington, D.C. There, staffers recall, Brock at one point climbed atop the restaurant’s bar to deliver a fired-up speech. As Brock approached the finale of his remarks, the DJ started blasting Queen’s stadium-rock anthem, “We Are The Champions.”
As Brock’s acolytes in the crowd looked on and cheered wildly, various staffers began glancing at one another, raising eyebrows and chuckling about yet another moment that read to them as their fearless leader caring only about perceived power and popularity."
Left unspoken is the current distaste for the no longer communist Russia and preference for the solidly communist China.
The left, globalist billionaires and islam; talk about an unholy trinity.
Good link, Tbt. Dems find themselves stuck with a self-proclaimed Moses they don't like, who's dedicated to leading them out of the wilderness by supporting third-party candidates.
Retreat is a good thing.
We need a concrete unified strategy going forward.
All cabinet positions will be filled in about 3 weeks time.
Good possible picks for SC.
Dems wouldnt be so upset about voter fraud investigation if they didn't know for certain that it exists highly.
John Fund has written an entire book on it.
Absentee ballots are the most vulnerable.
Harder to do than at polling places.
I processed about 75 provisional ballots on Election Day and updated people's registration.
Only people turned away were those at the wrong site and they were given printed out directions to the correct voting location.
Maryrose "Retreat is a good thing.
We need a concrete unified strategy going forward.
All cabinet positions will be filled in about 3 weeks time."
Agree except as to the timing.
Why not retreat right after they were sworn in in early January? Why not retreat in December? Why not create the impression that just as the country elected a new President intent on getting things done, the Congress might pretend at least to want the same thing, and "yesterday" as opposed to "some day far far in the future after you have given us even more power next time?"
Ig's Continetti link links to a Daniel Drezner piece at the Bezos Daily Worker. And that article is just mind-blowingly stupid.
This is an example:
The bipartisan approach to China for the past 30 years has been to do everything possible to get Beijing to want to preserve the global rules of the game, as designed by the United States. China has not always complied in practice, but it has mostly done so in its rhetoric. The final outcome of this approach is a cruel irony: As America turns inward, the rest of the world turns to China.
It's just crap on toast, from the first word to the last. Drezner is a moron, regardless of how many degrees he has, how many people follow his blatherings, or who pays him to write and to teach.
If he's an example of an "intellectual" and an "expert" we can just behead the lot of them and start over with no loss to society at all.
The last time the party of stoopid had a retreat they came away stating that, despite Eric Cantor's loss in the primary and R$'s defeat in the general, the voters really wanted comprehensive immigration reform.
WMAL just reported that the Dem Congressional Motorcade speeding to its own retreat in WV, using motorcycle cops to wave traffic to the side so they could speed by like the Politboro racing to their dachas, caused a multi car pileup (of regular people) with fatalities.
If Hillary had been elected then they would have held the "retreat" once the new Congress came in session. But with Trump they had to wait until the inauguration. At least, I think that is the timing issue. Plus why wait 2 or weeks? Everyone in a unified government needs to synch their priorties and the public's business to come.
WMAL just reported that the Dem Congressional Motorcade speeding to its own retreat in WV, using motorcycle cops to wave traffic to the side so they could speed by like the Politboro racing to their dachas, caused a multi car pileup (of regular people) with fatalities.
AP uses the words "congressional motorcade" but doesn't use the word "Democrat", other than a Bernie Sanders quote noting the Democrats have a meeting 70 miles from the accident site.
DC Channel-4: "Two dump trucks and the SUV traveling westbound on I-70 stopped for the [Congressional Dems] motorcade [by police] when another dump truck rear-ended the SUV after 9 a.m., triggering a chain reaction crash with the other dump trucks ahead of it.
The crash caused an explosion for unknown reasons, and two dump trucks and the SUV became engulfed in flames. [SUV driver died, 2 truck drivers taken in hospital]"
Posted by: HATEFUL EIGHT. | January 26, 2017 at 10:58 AM
good grief.
illegal immigration costs the US and states tens of billions of dollars annually. even if the wall squelched a small percent of the problem (and it would most likely be the most problematic part) it would pay for itself over time.
Too bad more of them didn't resign at the same time.
I would start with the assumption that every single employee of State is a danger to keep and then look for the exceptions rather than the other way around.
Was there vote fraud in even one single voting precinct in the whole USA? The Dems say no.
The several different precincts in black Detroit where more votes were cast and counted than there were registered voters in the precinct say yes.
Under our current loose system, there is going to be vote fraud--plain and simple. Whether it is as bad as Trump suggests, or as nonexistent as the Dems suggest (after all a vote from a deceased Democrat still counts) is an open question.
The scandal in Washington state a few years back where Christine Gregoire (D) finally prevailed on the fourth or fifth recount against Dino Rossi (R) for governor comes to mind. Ms. Gregoire was forty or fifty thousand votes shy of winning on the first count. The voter registrar in King County (Seattle) kept "finding" previously uncounted boxes stuffed
full of Democrat votes in the basement of their office. Didn't find enough on the first recount, found some more boxes on the next recount, and so it went until they had finally pushed Ms. Gregoire over the top.
There is also a distinct odor of fraud in getting Senator Al Franken (Looney-Tunes) elected via multiple recounts in Minnesota.
I was making a big deal about it but no one else seemed to care. Kinda of weird to see Xi headlining the Money Oscars when no one there would willing invest their fortunes there.
The devil you know and all that I guess.
and re: McGuffin ... I'm getting the stench of saudi on him. It wouldn't surprise me in the least actually.
yeah I'm pretty sure a line item in a 3.8 TRILLION dollar budget is going to be the back breaker. just that one thing.
lets not build a billion dollar wall because it costs so much, but tolerate tens of billions in other spending because Mexico needs its welfare state ...
Heh, rich, I mentioned somewhere, mebbe here, that Xi was hoping to persuade the DavosVolk into continuing funding of his green industry. I hope they were sufficiently persuaded.
The State Dept. holdover who wanted to keep his job, Patrick F. Kennedy: "The Republican minority on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence has alleged that Kennedy, as Under Secretary for Management, failed to approve requests for additional security in Benghazi and Tripoli, and failed to implement recommendations regarding high-risk diplomatic posts that had been issued after the bombings of embassies in 1998" ... Good riddance to him and his 3 State Dept. underlings leaving with him.
>>>Heh, rich, I mentioned somewhere, mebbe here, that Xi was hoping to persuade the DavosVolk into continuing funding of his green industry. I hope they were sufficiently persuaded.
Posted by: Regnuable. | January 26, 2017 at 11:51 AM<<<
I don't recall seeing your comment at the time, but he did make a big deal of climate change. Like any good con man tell your marks what they want to hear. Also emphasized the point they would not devalue ... a challenge accepted moment for the more aggressive currency traders I think.
That was my point. If Hillary had been elected they could meet once Congress was in session. So what if Obama made a recess appointment? Hillary would just go ahead and make it permanent later on.
Surely a vast government, shovel-ready infrastructure project is just the thing to stimulate the economy and create millions of new jobs through the magical Dr Keynes multiplier effect.
Then when the wall is done and the labor laid off the economy will be heated to a glowing cherry red by the Dr Pelosi unemployment multiplier.
And anyway, the whole problem with looking at numbers through a DC lens is that they look at the cost of the wall absent any look at the benefits thereof. Just looking at numbers, I wonder what the long term economic value of having a controlled infusion of foreigners, as opposed to open floodgates, might be over thirty years, net-net-net?
"Precipitating event?" LOL. Like reading in the WaPo that Team Trump is going to fire you? Good news indeed. The folks at State are the ones that ran interference for Hillary every step of the way -- and watched while Bill & Clinton Inc. sucked up international dough without a peep. Drain 'em all.
Drain the DoJ bigly, too, Clarice. The monsters weren't at Blackwater! We need to put a stake in the heart of the non-partisan "career professional" myth.
I think I might have introduced the innovation of just copying the date stamp as the antecedent and will do better in the future;) Although it is a tough habit to break.
Agree rich about climate change and marks; and interesting that other given the increasing governmental risk there is in the Chinese currency. Wonder whether George is short or long?
re: briar patch
There's a book of stories, of course, so you don't need the Disney movie to get the reference. But the movie has many warm moments and gives a historically accurate picture of a point in time.
After a sufficient amount of racial healing, one hopes it becomes widely available again.
The song is pretty. Since I used to own it on VHS I don't feel guilty that it mysteriously jumped from Y/T to my iTunes library one dark and stormy night.
I gave an estimate a few days back on another thread.
First, need to design it. Different soils, topography and intrusion systems. Also, need to make it tunnel proof or very difficult. Sheet piling, maybe tie back walls etc.
Second, need to get all the planning permissions, right of way (lot of the real estate is private), no unlike doing a pipeline or highway. Even the Feds have to do an environmental impact study unless Trump EO's al that away.
Then you can start procurement and construction. There is lot of wall in place now may need to upgrade it, install int.rusion detection etc. Depending on design, you could modularize it, off site and save some field labor costs.
I am more interested in the design right now and technical details for preventing tunneling.
In any event you can split up the construction by area. 200 mile segments. Run it like a pipeline - sequential construction.
Posted by: Mebbe both in many ways. | January 26, 2017 at 12:17 PM<<<
neither would be my guess (much "easier" to try to break the HK dollar peg and safer too). He did feature in a chapter in Unrestricted Warfare though (his and the west's actions generally during the Asian Financial Crisis).
Make it a great American race, JiB. Award 100 mile sections to ten contractors at the same time. Award the next ten 100 mile sections to the best (quality, cost, speed) five from the first bunch. Rinse and repeat.
First!
Posted by: Firsty McFirstface | January 26, 2017 at 09:44 AM
Connection Between Bill Clinton And Child Trafficker Laura Silsby
http://www.captainsjournal.com/2017/01/25/connection-between-bill-clinton-and-child-trafficker-laura-silsby/
Posted by: Truthbetold5 | January 26, 2017 at 09:55 AM
I'll have ham on rye and some fries with that.
Posted by: henry | January 26, 2017 at 09:55 AM
Faster Wall?
Place one every 200 yards, pointed South.
Reload as necessary.
Done.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samson_Remote_Controlled_Weapon_Station
Posted by: Old Lurker | January 26, 2017 at 09:57 AM
Official White House site: Latest News. includes press releases, EOs, latest appointments, etc.
Posted by: DebinNC | January 26, 2017 at 09:58 AM
LOL OL... put web cams on them and sell internet subscriptions to pay for it.
Posted by: henry | January 26, 2017 at 09:59 AM
Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, zip-a-dee-ay
My, oh, my, what a wonderful day
Plenty of sunshine headin' my way
Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, zip-a-dee-ay!
Mister Bluebird's on my shoulder
It's the truth, it's "actch'll"
Everything is "satisfactch'll"
Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, zip-a-dee-ay
Wonderful feeling, wonderful day!
"Please don't throw me in that briar patch, Brer Fox!"
Posted by: Miss Marple the Deplorable | January 26, 2017 at 10:02 AM
Great idea, Henry.
You could sell a Silver Membership allowing you to watch.
And a Gold Membership letting you pull the trigger.
Posted by: Old Lurker | January 26, 2017 at 10:03 AM
Hey...we could also place signs on them like counties do for cleaning roadsides "Adopt-a-Sentry: This Sentry Gun is brought to you by AJAX Construction Company".
That might pay for the whole wall.
Posted by: Old Lurker | January 26, 2017 at 10:08 AM
and platinum membership for prime time hours
Posted by: henry | January 26, 2017 at 10:09 AM
Trump met a guy who knows a guy whose cousin's cleaning lady told him that her sister was only a legal permanent resident and was still able to vote in....something or other-she can't remember what- but still.
5 million people illegally voted in the last election because if this friend's cousin's cleaning lady's sister could vote in...something....then it's evidence of widespread voter fraud...fraud in the region of between 12 and 5 million.
Ladies and gentlemen......the Republicans are back in power.
Posted by: dublindave | January 26, 2017 at 10:12 AM
Looking at the list of countries that currently use them, I wonder what the Canadians are using those sentry guns for?
Posted by: James D | January 26, 2017 at 10:14 AM
Good Morning! Peyton Manning is going to speak at the Republican retreat,which is now public knowledge,but according to my source,the rumor had been floating around D.C.
Posted by: Marlene | January 26, 2017 at 10:15 AM
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4158024/Army-soldier-29-opens-dance-Melania-Trump.html
Interview with the soldier who danced with Melania.
Once again I point out that we have to go to a Brit web site to get this information.
Posted by: Miss Marple the Deplorable | January 26, 2017 at 10:18 AM
Bloomberg busy poo-pooing Trump's ability to build the wall.
Isn't the ice-rink in their backyard?
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-26/trump-wants-to-build-a-wall-finding-workers-won-t-be-easy
Posted by: Buckeye | January 26, 2017 at 10:20 AM
James " I wonder what the Canadians are using those sentry guns for?"
Probably to guard the road from Hollywood?
Posted by: Old Lurker | January 26, 2017 at 10:20 AM
ACORN lady on Obama's vote fraud program (before YouTube takes it down).
Posted by: henry | January 26, 2017 at 10:21 AM
I have a distinct recollection of Trump during one of the debates, ( I think it was one of the latter primaries) using the word, "bigly." He was trying to come up with an adverbial form of big.
That may be, and I have no reason to doubt you. Still, when I hear him speak and use the phrase, it sounds to me like "big league."
I agree "bigly" is more fun, of course.
Posted by: PD | January 26, 2017 at 10:21 AM
Rasmussen:Presidential approval now at 59%.
Posted by: Clarice Feldman | January 26, 2017 at 10:24 AM
Hopefully, Manning's speech will be some variation of "Want to win the Superbowl? Support your quarterback", looking right at offensive guards Bubble Boy and McTurtle.
Posted by: DebinNC | January 26, 2017 at 10:24 AM
Wish there were a hidden cam in the Pelosi-Schumer-Soros war room. They seem oddly flummoxed.
Posted by: DebinNC | January 26, 2017 at 10:26 AM
"Several members of the Brock empire painfully recall what they viewed as self-aggrandizing, exuberant episodes involving their boss. One such memory took place at a Christmas party in 2015 at the Comet Ping Pong pizza joint (of “#Pizzagate” infamy) in Washington, D.C. There, staffers recall, Brock at one point climbed atop the restaurant’s bar to deliver a fired-up speech. As Brock approached the finale of his remarks, the DJ started blasting Queen’s stadium-rock anthem, “We Are The Champions.”
As Brock’s acolytes in the crowd looked on and cheered wildly, various staffers began glancing at one another, raising eyebrows and chuckling about yet another moment that read to them as their fearless leader caring only about perceived power and popularity."
Dems to David Brock: Stop Helping, You Are Killing Us
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/01/26/dems-to-david-brock-stop-helping-you-are-killing-us.html
Posted by: Truthbetold5 | January 26, 2017 at 10:27 AM
Lives ruined by DOK corruption--Blackwater Guardshttp://circa.com/world/government-lawyers-acknowledge-that-the-enemy-fired-first-in-blackwater-case?fb_action_ids=10211383965371585&fb_action_types=og.likes
Posted by: Clarice Feldman | January 26, 2017 at 10:31 AM
Deb "Wish there were a hidden cam in the Pelosi-Schumer-Soros war room."
Friendly amendment? Substitute "Sentry Gun" for "Hidden Cam"?
Posted by: Old Lurker | January 26, 2017 at 10:32 AM
Matthew Continetti on the left's growing embrace of China and its bid to be the new leader of the globalist project.
Left unspoken is the current distaste for the no longer communist Russia and preference for the solidly communist China.
The left, globalist billionaires and islam; talk about an unholy trinity.
Posted by: Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki | January 26, 2017 at 10:34 AM
Good link, Tbt. Dems find themselves stuck with a self-proclaimed Moses they don't like, who's dedicated to leading them out of the wilderness by supporting third-party candidates.
Posted by: DebinNC | January 26, 2017 at 10:34 AM
should be DOJ corruption.
Posted by: Clarice Feldman | January 26, 2017 at 10:35 AM
Retreat is a good thing.
We need a concrete unified strategy going forward.
All cabinet positions will be filled in about 3 weeks time.
Good possible picks for SC.
Dems wouldnt be so upset about voter fraud investigation if they didn't know for certain that it exists highly.
John Fund has written an entire book on it.
Absentee ballots are the most vulnerable.
Harder to do than at polling places.
I processed about 75 provisional ballots on Election Day and updated people's registration.
Only people turned away were those at the wrong site and they were given printed out directions to the correct voting location.
Posted by: maryrose | January 26, 2017 at 10:41 AM
Than should be that
Posted by: maryrose | January 26, 2017 at 10:43 AM
Chili's Running Promotion That Donates Funds to Planned Parenthood
http://insider.foxnews.com/2017/01/26/chilis-planned-parenthood-indiana-kentucky-promotion-customers-bills
Posted by: Truthbetold5 | January 26, 2017 at 10:45 AM
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4157682/Trump-White-House-revealed-Lay-s-chips-Andrew-Jackson.html#ixzz4Wq7v9b1n
Posted by: Miss Marple the Deplorable | January 26, 2017 at 10:46 AM
Maryrose "Retreat is a good thing.
We need a concrete unified strategy going forward.
All cabinet positions will be filled in about 3 weeks time."
Agree except as to the timing.
Why not retreat right after they were sworn in in early January? Why not retreat in December? Why not create the impression that just as the country elected a new President intent on getting things done, the Congress might pretend at least to want the same thing, and "yesterday" as opposed to "some day far far in the future after you have given us even more power next time?"
You are WAY too forgiving, Maryrose.
Posted by: Old Lurker | January 26, 2017 at 10:47 AM
Ig's Continetti link links to a Daniel Drezner piece at the Bezos Daily Worker. And that article is just mind-blowingly stupid.
This is an example:
The bipartisan approach to China for the past 30 years has been to do everything possible to get Beijing to want to preserve the global rules of the game, as designed by the United States. China has not always complied in practice, but it has mostly done so in its rhetoric. The final outcome of this approach is a cruel irony: As America turns inward, the rest of the world turns to China.
It's just crap on toast, from the first word to the last. Drezner is a moron, regardless of how many degrees he has, how many people follow his blatherings, or who pays him to write and to teach.
If he's an example of an "intellectual" and an "expert" we can just behead the lot of them and start over with no loss to society at all.
Posted by: James D | January 26, 2017 at 10:48 AM
maryrose
I have always been ask for ID at the polling place, seems pretty buttoned down in Ohio.
What is required to get and submit an absentee ballet? I can't remember.
Posted by: Buckeye | January 26, 2017 at 10:50 AM
All I need to vote in MD is knowing my address.
Posted by: Old Lurker | January 26, 2017 at 10:51 AM
The last time the party of stoopid had a retreat they came away stating that, despite Eric Cantor's loss in the primary and R$'s defeat in the general, the voters really wanted comprehensive immigration reform.
You can't fix that level of cluelessness.
Posted by: Captain Hate | January 26, 2017 at 10:52 AM
WMAL just reported that the Dem Congressional Motorcade speeding to its own retreat in WV, using motorcycle cops to wave traffic to the side so they could speed by like the Politboro racing to their dachas, caused a multi car pileup (of regular people) with fatalities.
Posted by: Old Lurker | January 26, 2017 at 10:56 AM
Put the wall on our credit card. Treat it like a Social Security Promissory Note and write it off permanently.
Magical fiscal misdirection.
Posted by: HATEFUL EIGHT. | January 26, 2017 at 10:58 AM
Old Lurker,
Seems like a real world metaphor for how the democrats operate in everything they do.
Full speed ahead, ignore the consequences, no matter how many people we hurt.
Posted by: Miss Marple the Deplorable | January 26, 2017 at 11:00 AM
OL,
If Hillary had been elected then they would have held the "retreat" once the new Congress came in session. But with Trump they had to wait until the inauguration. At least, I think that is the timing issue. Plus why wait 2 or weeks? Everyone in a unified government needs to synch their priorties and the public's business to come.
Posted by: Jim Eagle | January 26, 2017 at 11:01 AM
Old Lurker,
Furthermore, I bet they blame it on the cops.
Posted by: Miss Marple the Deplorable | January 26, 2017 at 11:01 AM
Ignatz found the conundrum.
You can't play footsie with China and Russia contemporaneously.
Posted by: HATEFUL EIGHT. | January 26, 2017 at 11:01 AM
WMAL just reported that the Dem Congressional Motorcade speeding to its own retreat in WV, using motorcycle cops to wave traffic to the side so they could speed by like the Politboro racing to their dachas, caused a multi car pileup (of regular people) with fatalities.
Fuck Ups.
Posted by: Buckeye | January 26, 2017 at 11:05 AM
AP uses the words "congressional motorcade" but doesn't use the word "Democrat", other than a Bernie Sanders quote noting the Democrats have a meeting 70 miles from the accident site.
Posted by: DebinNC | January 26, 2017 at 11:07 AM
Another tilted kilt?
Posted by: henry | January 26, 2017 at 11:07 AM
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-nafta-mexico-meade-idUSKBN15A1Z8?utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&utm_content=588a102104d3010ce02b512e&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter
Now Mexico says cancelling the summit would fuel uncertainty.
-----------------------------------
To recep:
Meetin scheduled for next week with Pena.
Pena starts making noise about cancelling because of the wall being built.
Trump tweets that we have a huge imbalance in trade so maybe they should go ahead and cancel if they're unwilling to pay for the wall.
Now Mexico says cancelling would be bad.
-------------------
I do love seeing this stuff play out in real time!
Posted by: Miss Marple the Deplorable | January 26, 2017 at 11:10 AM
Apocryphal anecdotal 'stories' like the imaginary friend Mr Langer..are similar to 'the big one that got away'...lol
He really has to work on his version of reality.
Posted by: HATEFUL EIGHT. | January 26, 2017 at 11:13 AM
Now Mexico says cancelling the summit would fuel uncertainty. about their future.
Posted by: Buckeye | January 26, 2017 at 11:14 AM
Are the donks gonna wall themselves off in the underground bomb shelters in the hills of West Virginia for the next few years?
Posted by: Captain Hate | January 26, 2017 at 11:14 AM
DC Channel-4: "Two dump trucks and the SUV traveling westbound on I-70 stopped for the [Congressional Dems] motorcade [by police] when another dump truck rear-ended the SUV after 9 a.m., triggering a chain reaction crash with the other dump trucks ahead of it.
The crash caused an explosion for unknown reasons, and two dump trucks and the SUV became engulfed in flames. [SUV driver died, 2 truck drivers taken in hospital]"
Posted by: DebinNC | January 26, 2017 at 11:15 AM
we can help them with that CH
Posted by: henry | January 26, 2017 at 11:15 AM
The dump truck probably skidded on an oil slick from Schoooomer's scalp.
Posted by: Captain Hate | January 26, 2017 at 11:20 AM
Hopefully sometime in the next few days I'll be able to stop whistling 'Zip-a-dee-doo-dah'! ;)
Posted by: Beasts of England | January 26, 2017 at 11:23 AM
Oh, sorry, Beasts.
Want the lyrics to "It's a SMall World?"
:-)
Posted by: Miss Marple the Deplorable | January 26, 2017 at 11:27 AM
Posted by: James D | January 26, 2017 at 10:48 AM
Xi's Davos speech defending transnational progressivism was a hit in some circles.
Posted by: the generallyistic deplorable rich | January 26, 2017 at 11:30 AM
Good news!
Top State Dept Leadership Resigns En Masse
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/top-state-dept-leadership-resigns
Posted by: Truthbetold5 | January 26, 2017 at 11:33 AM
Yes, rich. I believe Dante might have written about those particular circles.
Posted by: James D | January 26, 2017 at 11:34 AM
Posted by: HATEFUL EIGHT. | January 26, 2017 at 10:58 AM
good grief.
illegal immigration costs the US and states tens of billions of dollars annually. even if the wall squelched a small percent of the problem (and it would most likely be the most problematic part) it would pay for itself over time.
Posted by: the generallyistic deplorable rich | January 26, 2017 at 11:35 AM
The GOP retreating early in January may have handed Obama a recess appointment to the Supremes.
Posted by: Appalled | January 26, 2017 at 11:36 AM
Why do these assholes (both parties) need to have remote retreats? Apparently there are no facilities with conference rooms in D.C.
Posted by: Dave (in MA) | January 26, 2017 at 11:37 AM
It sure sounds like there was some precipitating event.
from the State Department top guys quit thing. Maybe Tillerson asked if they had personal emails for govt business.
Posted by: henry | January 26, 2017 at 11:37 AM
BoE: Truly, your face-to-face assessment of the inarticulate one has been spot-on..lol
Posted by: HATEFUL EIGHT. | January 26, 2017 at 11:38 AM
Too bad more of them didn't resign at the same time.
I would start with the assumption that every single employee of State is a danger to keep and then look for the exceptions rather than the other way around.
Posted by: Old Lurker | January 26, 2017 at 11:38 AM
Was there vote fraud in even one single voting precinct in the whole USA? The Dems say no.
The several different precincts in black Detroit where more votes were cast and counted than there were registered voters in the precinct say yes.
Under our current loose system, there is going to be vote fraud--plain and simple. Whether it is as bad as Trump suggests, or as nonexistent as the Dems suggest (after all a vote from a deceased Democrat still counts) is an open question.
The scandal in Washington state a few years back where Christine Gregoire (D) finally prevailed on the fourth or fifth recount against Dino Rossi (R) for governor comes to mind. Ms. Gregoire was forty or fifty thousand votes shy of winning on the first count. The voter registrar in King County (Seattle) kept "finding" previously uncounted boxes stuffed
full of Democrat votes in the basement of their office. Didn't find enough on the first recount, found some more boxes on the next recount, and so it went until they had finally pushed Ms. Gregoire over the top.
There is also a distinct odor of fraud in getting Senator Al Franken (Looney-Tunes) elected via multiple recounts in Minnesota.
One could go on--but you get the picture.
Posted by: Comanche Voter | January 26, 2017 at 11:39 AM
Appalled at 11:36 makes a very good point.
Accepted.
So why not last December?
Posted by: Old Lurker | January 26, 2017 at 11:39 AM
IT PAYS FOR ITSELF...
Maybe we could use Iraq oil to pay for it...lol.
Posted by: HATEFUL EIGHT. | January 26, 2017 at 11:41 AM
ha JamesD. clever.
I was making a big deal about it but no one else seemed to care. Kinda of weird to see Xi headlining the Money Oscars when no one there would willing invest their fortunes there.
The devil you know and all that I guess.
and re: McGuffin ... I'm getting the stench of saudi on him. It wouldn't surprise me in the least actually.
Posted by: the generallyistic deplorable rich | January 26, 2017 at 11:41 AM
Why do these assholes (both parties) need to have remote retreats? Apparently there are no facilities with conference rooms in D.C.
I'll take "Things the Uniparty Never Considers" for a Billion, Alex.
Posted by: Captain Hate | January 26, 2017 at 11:41 AM
Dave, the Trump Hotel has HUGE meeting rooms.
Posted by: Old Lurker | January 26, 2017 at 11:42 AM
yeah I'm pretty sure a line item in a 3.8 TRILLION dollar budget is going to be the back breaker. just that one thing.
lets not build a billion dollar wall because it costs so much, but tolerate tens of billions in other spending because Mexico needs its welfare state ...
... perfect sense.
Posted by: the generallyistic deplorable rich | January 26, 2017 at 11:46 AM
Mebbe because of the year long term. I dunno, tho. There are many things, particularly to do with the Clintons that he did less than I expected.
Left a lot hanging. Typical.
Posted by: Nobama, oh Mama. | January 26, 2017 at 11:48 AM
Cost estimates $25 B? Get real.
100 to 250 billion depending on our credit card interest.
Just cancel a couple of F35s.
Posted by: HATEFUL EIGHT. | January 26, 2017 at 11:49 AM
Heh, rich, I mentioned somewhere, mebbe here, that Xi was hoping to persuade the DavosVolk into continuing funding of his green industry. I hope they were sufficiently persuaded.
Posted by: Regnuable. | January 26, 2017 at 11:51 AM
delusional. JiB has probably built some walls before so we can get an expert opinion.
Posted by: the generallyistic deplorable rich | January 26, 2017 at 11:52 AM
The State Dept. holdover who wanted to keep his job, Patrick F. Kennedy: "The Republican minority on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence has alleged that Kennedy, as Under Secretary for Management, failed to approve requests for additional security in Benghazi and Tripoli, and failed to implement recommendations regarding high-risk diplomatic posts that had been issued after the bombings of embassies in 1998" ... Good riddance to him and his 3 State Dept. underlings leaving with him.
Posted by: DebinNC | January 26, 2017 at 11:52 AM
>>>Heh, rich, I mentioned somewhere, mebbe here, that Xi was hoping to persuade the DavosVolk into continuing funding of his green industry. I hope they were sufficiently persuaded.
Posted by: Regnuable. | January 26, 2017 at 11:51 AM<<<
I don't recall seeing your comment at the time, but he did make a big deal of climate change. Like any good con man tell your marks what they want to hear. Also emphasized the point they would not devalue ... a challenge accepted moment for the more aggressive currency traders I think.
Posted by: the generallyistic deplorable rich | January 26, 2017 at 11:55 AM
It would be cheaper and more humane if we built the wall with deceased illegals..
Do a King Leonidas on 'em.
Posted by: HATEFUL EIGHT. | January 26, 2017 at 11:56 AM
Looks like little has a new sock.
Posted by: Dave (in MA) | January 26, 2017 at 11:57 AM
OL & Appalled,
That was my point. If Hillary had been elected they could meet once Congress was in session. So what if Obama made a recess appointment? Hillary would just go ahead and make it permanent later on.
Posted by: Jim Eagle | January 26, 2017 at 11:57 AM
25B @7.5% pencils out to 173 million a month for 360 months ... or a sum of payments 62.5B after 30 years.
Posted by: the generallyistic deplorable rich | January 26, 2017 at 12:00 PM
The savings from cutting UN payments 40% alone will pay for the wall.
Works for me.
Posted by: Old Lurker | January 26, 2017 at 12:00 PM
Surely a vast government, shovel-ready infrastructure project is just the thing to stimulate the economy and create millions of new jobs through the magical Dr Keynes multiplier effect.
Then when the wall is done and the labor laid off the economy will be heated to a glowing cherry red by the Dr Pelosi unemployment multiplier.
Posted by: Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki | January 26, 2017 at 12:00 PM
Thanks JiB. I missed that nuance in your post.
Posted by: Old Lurker | January 26, 2017 at 12:02 PM
It's a win/win ain't it Ignatz?
Posted by: XERXES COST FREE WALL | January 26, 2017 at 12:04 PM
And anyway, the whole problem with looking at numbers through a DC lens is that they look at the cost of the wall absent any look at the benefits thereof. Just looking at numbers, I wonder what the long term economic value of having a controlled infusion of foreigners, as opposed to open floodgates, might be over thirty years, net-net-net?
Posted by: Old Lurker | January 26, 2017 at 12:06 PM
It's a free wall built with OPM.
Posted by: XERXES COST FREE WALL | January 26, 2017 at 12:06 PM
tap,tap,tap ... is this thing on?
/flop sweat
Posted by: the generallyistic deplorable rich | January 26, 2017 at 12:09 PM
"Precipitating event?" LOL. Like reading in the WaPo that Team Trump is going to fire you? Good news indeed. The folks at State are the ones that ran interference for Hillary every step of the way -- and watched while Bill & Clinton Inc. sucked up international dough without a peep. Drain 'em all.
Drain the DoJ bigly, too, Clarice. The monsters weren't at Blackwater! We need to put a stake in the heart of the non-partisan "career professional" myth.
Now back to packing....
Posted by: JMHanes | January 26, 2017 at 12:10 PM
YUP, JMH--HAVE AGOOD TIME..One of these days we'll both be in HI visiting our sons at the same time and we can nibble on poke near the surf. XOXO
Posted by: Clarice Feldman | January 26, 2017 at 12:14 PM
Posted by: JMHanes | January 26, 2017 at 12:10 PM
safe and happy travels JM Hanes.
I think I might have introduced the innovation of just copying the date stamp as the antecedent and will do better in the future;) Although it is a tough habit to break.
Posted by: the generallyistic deplorable rich | January 26, 2017 at 12:14 PM
How much do we pay for EBT cards for illegals? Medicaid? Federal aid to overcrowded schools>
How much do we pay for law enforcement? How much for damage to health and property due to drugs brought in?
Trump is looking at both costs and benefits. Seems like it would be a net plus to me.
Posted by: Miss Marple the Deplorable | January 26, 2017 at 12:15 PM
Agree rich about climate change and marks; and interesting that other given the increasing governmental risk there is in the Chinese currency. Wonder whether George is short or long?
Posted by: Mebbe both in many ways. | January 26, 2017 at 12:17 PM
You build the wall with the taxpayer revenue you have, and what they don't have...then just get more of what they don't have.
Posted by: XERXES COST FREE WALL | January 26, 2017 at 12:17 PM
re: briar patch
There's a book of stories, of course, so you don't need the Disney movie to get the reference. But the movie has many warm moments and gives a historically accurate picture of a point in time.
After a sufficient amount of racial healing, one hopes it becomes widely available again.
The song is pretty. Since I used to own it on VHS I don't feel guilty that it mysteriously jumped from Y/T to my iTunes library one dark and stormy night.
Posted by: JimNorCal | January 26, 2017 at 12:23 PM
Miss Marple-
these are the numbers FAIR published in '13 fwiw (iirc they are a for heavy restrictions on legal and illegal immigration)
http://www.fairus.org/publications/the-fiscal-burden-of-illegal-immigration-on-united-states-taxpayers
Posted by: the generallyistic deplorable rich | January 26, 2017 at 12:25 PM
http://www.mediaite.com/online/tucker-carlson-grills-buzzfeeds-editor-in-chief-on-decision-to-publish-dossier/
Posted by: Clarice Feldman | January 26, 2017 at 12:26 PM
rich,
I gave an estimate a few days back on another thread.
First, need to design it. Different soils, topography and intrusion systems. Also, need to make it tunnel proof or very difficult. Sheet piling, maybe tie back walls etc.
Second, need to get all the planning permissions, right of way (lot of the real estate is private), no unlike doing a pipeline or highway. Even the Feds have to do an environmental impact study unless Trump EO's al that away.
Then you can start procurement and construction. There is lot of wall in place now may need to upgrade it, install int.rusion detection etc. Depending on design, you could modularize it, off site and save some field labor costs.
I am more interested in the design right now and technical details for preventing tunneling.
In any event you can split up the construction by area. 200 mile segments. Run it like a pipeline - sequential construction.
Posted by: Jim Eagle | January 26, 2017 at 12:26 PM
Y'all be careful how you step in the middle o' dem pies.
Posted by: Epaminondas. | January 26, 2017 at 12:26 PM
>>>Wonder whether George is short or long?
Posted by: Mebbe both in many ways. | January 26, 2017 at 12:17 PM<<<
neither would be my guess (much "easier" to try to break the HK dollar peg and safer too). He did feature in a chapter in Unrestricted Warfare though (his and the west's actions generally during the Asian Financial Crisis).
Posted by: the generallyistic deplorable rich | January 26, 2017 at 12:33 PM
Make it a great American race, JiB. Award 100 mile sections to ten contractors at the same time. Award the next ten 100 mile sections to the best (quality, cost, speed) five from the first bunch. Rinse and repeat.
Posted by: Old Lurker | January 26, 2017 at 12:34 PM