Politico provides a nice puff piece for Presidential aspirant Gov. Inslee of Washington:
‘Climate warrior’ jolts 2020 presidential field
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee is about to take climate change politics to the next level.
No one has ever won a major statewide race, let alone a presidential nomination, with a single-issue, climate-focused candidacy. But Jay Inslee is about to try.
The Washington state governor launched a White House bid Friday that stands to have a significant effect on the electoral politics surrounding climate change.
Yeah, yeah and good for him. Incredibly, the article makes no mention of the failed, Inslee-backed Nov 2018 Washington State referendum on a carbon tax.
So what's the campaign bumper sticker? "Inslee 2020 - He's Learned From His Mistakes"? Or is this a sly stealth strategy, figuring no one will take seriously a guy who can't get it done?
Baffling. [Not baffling - brand promotion, obvi.]
MORE INTERESTING: The Times writes about the changing climate on climate change within the Republican Party. There are bothTrump v. Science and Trump v. Establishment angles; here we go:
With Climate Science on the March, an Isolated Trump Hunkers Down
By Coral Davenport Feb 28, 2019
WASHINGTON — New efforts by President Trump and his staff to question or undermine the established science of climate change have created a widening rift between the White House on one side, and scientific facts, government agencies, and some leading figures in the president’s own party on the other.
Wait, "Coral" is writing on climate change? What next, "Hemp" on marijuana reform? Anyway, on the to leading figures:
At the same time, more senior Republicans, including those in Congress, are moving in the opposite direction, acknowledging the established science and publicly calling to reduce fossil fuel pollution.
To be sure, some Republicans continue to question, or, more commonly, to remain silent on the issue of human-caused climate change.
But in February, three of the top-ranking Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Greg Walden of Oregon, Fred Upton of Michigan, and John Shimkus of Illinois, published an op-ed on the website Real Clear Policy in which they said, “climate change is real” and called for innovations to “reduce greenhouse gas emissions.”
Similarly, in December, Senator John Barrasso, the Wyoming Republican who is chairman of the Senate Environment Committee, wrote an op-ed in The New York Times in which he acknowledged his acceptance of climate science but also criticized the Paris Agreement and proposals to tax carbon dioxide emissions.
Do let me add that economist and Republican adviser N. Gregory Mankiw pushed a revenue-neutral carbon tax back in 2007.
But for more: Tyler Cowen notes that as some countries go green the price of fossil fuels will probably drop, which may not encourage laggards to also green up.
Megan McArdle notes that since the US isn't really the problem (Spoiler - look to China and India), decarbonizing the US won't be the main solution. What will? Investment and innovation that leads to technologies that can compete with fossil fuels without subsidies only the US, Europe and Japan might be able to afford.
No matter what rich-world economies do about their energy consumption, or what “moral leadership” they exert, people in the non-rich world are going to want to drive cars instead of walking; to wash their clothes in machines instead of in a river; to cool their houses with air-conditioning; to eat meat every day — in other words, to do and own all the things that make modern rich-world lives so safe and pleasant.
I'm finding it hard to believe that Bezos can actually be a climate freak, but who knows. First.
Posted by: hrtshpdbox | March 01, 2019 at 11:31 AM
Billionaires virtue signalling on the backs of everyone else is not a new thing. Why would Bezos avoid that? He chased tail and sexted.
Posted by: henry | March 01, 2019 at 11:35 AM
More Repuke dumbass traitors on the climate shit? A day ending in y.
Posted by: Captain Hate | March 01, 2019 at 11:35 AM
There must be personal money to keep without paying taxes in running for Pres given this absurd "I too can be a contender!" trend.
Posted by: rse | March 01, 2019 at 11:37 AM
RINOs doing the CoC's globalist bidding? What next, an explosion of craft brew options?
Posted by: henry | March 01, 2019 at 11:37 AM
henry--
https://www.csis.org/analysis/whose-rules-quest-digital-standards
Posted by: rse | March 01, 2019 at 11:46 AM
This is from December:
The Green New Deal has Strong Bipartisan Support
lol
And Schumer is livid that McConnell wants to bring it to a vote.
Posted by: Extraneus | March 01, 2019 at 11:46 AM
Schumer fumes over McConnell plan to bring Green New Deal to vote, calls it ‘cynical ploy’
Posted by: Extraneus | March 01, 2019 at 11:48 AM
12 years, then we are all DEAD.
Of what??
Posted by: GUS | March 01, 2019 at 11:50 AM
and this pushing data trusts in addition to gdpr
https://www.nesta.org.uk/blog/new-ecosystem-trust/
Posted by: rse | March 01, 2019 at 11:51 AM
rse, global rules? what a cf.
Posted by: henry | March 01, 2019 at 11:52 AM
rse, they want to end innovation / control the data at the govt level. I'm about ready to colonize the asteroid belt.
Posted by: henry | March 01, 2019 at 11:53 AM
Ah yes, the "experts"
MediaResearchCenter
@theMRC
‘Green New Deal’ Doesn’t Go Far Enough, Says UN ‘Right to Food’ Expert
https://twitter.com/theMRC/status/1101438963674374144
Posted by: henry | March 01, 2019 at 11:55 AM
No Kate's goofy uncle has always worshiped the skydragon, he 86d the incandescent light bulb in 2007 if you recall.
Posted by: Narciso79 | March 01, 2019 at 11:58 AM
"CHOOSING A NEW NAME: The Congressional School Choice Caucus has a new name. It's been rebranded as the Congressional Caucus on Education Innovation and Opportunity, the group's co-chairman Rep. Paul Mitchell (R-Mich.) announced Thursday.
— The name change "reflects a renewed focus on diverse education models that are parent directed, teacher mentored, and customized to meet individual learning styles," Mitchell said in a statement. Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) is the Senate co-chairman of the caucus."
This name change actually fits with what I warned about this am on the previous thread. Where the superficial differences pitched to parents hide the common fundamental shifts parents fail to appreciate.
Posted by: rse | March 01, 2019 at 11:59 AM
henry-that is from a weekly newsletter financed by the macarthur f and the omidyar network.
Posted by: rse | March 01, 2019 at 12:00 PM
Btw the bureau cant definitively match all the bullets to the pulse shooter. A little detail left out of the McCabe congratulatory parade.
Posted by: Narciso79 | March 01, 2019 at 12:02 PM
GUS "Of what??"
Disgust?
Gus, remember the old joke about "Why do men die before their wives? Because they can..."
Posted by: Old Lurker | March 01, 2019 at 12:08 PM
"an average American uses 3 rolls of toilet paper a week and it's devastating forests."
Huh? Insofar are the soft wood trees are replanted and fast-growing -- almost farmed -- this doesn’t make the slightest bit of sense.
Posted by: sbwaters | March 01, 2019 at 12:10 PM
OL, you made a comment to me the other day that was beautiful in it's honest simplicity.
A goldfish does not become a shark.
We have a MOTHERFUCKING BARTENDER creating ABSURD POLICY, and hordes of COMMIES running to keep up with HER. This MOTHERFUCKING BARTENDER is 29 years old and has less accomplishment in life than BI-BARRY TURKEY BASTER BOY.
The WORLD is ending in 11 years 11 months. WHAT THE FUCK??
Posted by: GUS | March 01, 2019 at 12:14 PM
sbw-how many of us have had the poor quality of toilet paper be one of the first insights each of our kids had when travelling abroad?
Posted by: rse | March 01, 2019 at 12:15 PM
In fact, wasn't it plausibly argued some years ago that there are more trees now, *because* of paper usage? For essentially the same reason there are more wheat plants now than there would be if no one ate wheat.
Of course that argument only really works to the extent forests are privately owned, or managed as if they were.
Posted by: jimmyk | March 01, 2019 at 12:15 PM
And we hear the same stupidity about water usage. We have the same amount of water we had a million years ago. I don't know about fresh water versus salt water, but I doubt it's changed much, and if it has, it's not because I removed the flow restrictor in my shower head.
Posted by: jimmyk | March 01, 2019 at 12:18 PM
I have to sign in here everyday.
No ads ever appear.
After Solyndra , green movement took a beating.
Repubs give lip service.
Individual states will decide this issue
I recycle and do my part.
I even donate old plastic bags.
I don’t have air conditioning and I drive cars that are fuel efficient.
My appliances are green approved.
My daughter uses too much toillet paper so I try to balance off her overuse.
That is all I
am willing to do. I don’t own any guns and no liberal is going to change my current lifestyle.
Posted by: D | March 01, 2019 at 12:20 PM
Take it to the bank:
APC is a one termer.
She is more trouble than she is worth.
Posted by: D | March 01, 2019 at 12:22 PM
Compare this:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2019-03-01/trudeau-s-party-is-behind-him-for-now-after-bombshell-testimony
Posted by: Narciso79 | March 01, 2019 at 12:24 PM
I will believe that climate change is a crisis when the people screaming at me that it's a crisis start acting in their own personal lives like it's a crisis.
I'm not holding my breath.
Posted by: James D. | March 01, 2019 at 12:25 PM
If it's as bad as they say, why don't they bicycle to and from their districts and DC?
Posted by: henry | March 01, 2019 at 12:29 PM
According to a spokesman for the school, police have identified the as-of-yet unnamed suspect and are seeking a "felony warrant" for his arrest.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/44104/update-berkeley-pd-concludes-investigation-assault-james-barrett
Posted by: henry | March 01, 2019 at 12:36 PM
Henry's tweet-link from last thread;
From Rosenstein's letter appointing Mueller;
So who's pushing the false narrative?
Posted by: Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki | March 01, 2019 at 12:37 PM
So re pulse, there is the Orlando paper which is part of the Tribune chain and then the Hong Kong paper, just a local crime story I guess.
Posted by: Narciso79 | March 01, 2019 at 12:38 PM
To your earlier point henry--
"Neither technology nor the disruption that comes with it are exogenous forces over which humans have no control (Key informant, interviewed 2018). To treat technology as a tool, we need to develop a global, shared view of how technology affects our lives and reshapes our economic, social, cultural and human environments. This shared view can en-able a critical process of adaptation to the future, which is the result of decisions taken by legislators, regulators, other people in power positions and cit-izens, whose engagement in policy decisions can increase through technology (Poole 2017)."
Posted by: rse | March 01, 2019 at 12:39 PM
we need to develop a global, shared view of how technology affects our lives and reshapes our economic
aka we'll tell you the value of everything... not the free market. efemall
Posted by: henry | March 01, 2019 at 12:41 PM
I'm reading that the charges against Netanyahu are (surprise!) BS, and obviously timed for their upcoming elections. For example, apparently someone gave Netanyahu some cigars and champagne, no quid pro quo. The deep state in Israel is even worse than in the US. I just hope there's someone on the right primed to replace him.
Posted by: jimmyk | March 01, 2019 at 12:41 PM
"At its core, the 4IR is not a question of technology but of culture. New technologies are not only tools but rather metaphors that define how we under-stand the world consciously and unconsciously. The danger is that the complexity of technology underlying the 4IR produces and strengthens in-equalities of power (Brynjolfsson & McAfee 2014; Bridle 2018). At the heart of the issue, there is a fundamental question of values and culture: what do equality and justice mean in this future driven by technologies impacting people’s lives? How do we level the playing field?"
Creating innovative forms of education and then creating False Narratives about them would be one way. Make it Bipartisan.
Posted by: rse | March 01, 2019 at 12:42 PM
Yes the "Russian Government" includes salad dressing and Manafort tax returns.
Posted by: GUS | March 01, 2019 at 12:43 PM
there is a fundamental question of values and culture
all cultures are equal, but the values we set are more equal. gotcha and [expletive string deleted]
Posted by: henry | March 01, 2019 at 12:44 PM
--And for anyone feeling a tinge of optimism, here are gathering storm clouds: Even if we wrestle energy and transportation to the canvas, agriculture and industry are huge greenhouse gas emitters.--
Sorry TM, but utter bullshit.
The net effect of CO2 increases have been hugely positive for the planet.
On top of that there is not a shred of credible evidence that going forward this will change significantly or that there will be catastrophic consequences to a doubling of CO2.
These are the exact same lying assholes who brought us the dioxin scare, alar, the hysteria around anything nuclear, the impending population bomb, peak oil and a thousand other intentional, not accidental, lies and propaganda to take our wealth, our freedoms and self governance.
The fact is prior to the industrial age, the planet was balanced on the knife edge of the bottom limit of CO2 concentrations for healthy plant growth and more importantly, to keep us from exiting the present interglacial we are enjoying and being plunged back into another glacial age of advancing ice sheets, famine and actual catastrophe.
Fool me once shame on you. Fool me a thousand times...?
When are reasonable people like TM going to quit buying this pack of collectivist lies?
Where's kim?
Posted by: Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki | March 01, 2019 at 12:50 PM
Tucker Carlson interview with environmentalist I linked on the last thread:
https://dailycaller.com/2019/03/01/tucker-carlson-wrecks-renewable-energy/
Posted by: henry | March 01, 2019 at 12:53 PM
You forgot one, Ignatz.
Posted by: Extraneus | March 01, 2019 at 12:57 PM
Slowly but surely, the weak succomb to the BULLSHIT.
It's just so hard to be an individual. Being a FULL COMMIE HERD ANIMAL, not so hard.
Show me the damage to our planet. Explain to me how progress has HURT more than HELPED.
Getting a little squishy are we????????
Posted by: GUS | March 01, 2019 at 12:58 PM
Yahoo:
The long-awaited first read on Q4 GDP has just come out, with results better than expected: +2.6%, whereas analysts had been pivoting right around that 2.0% figure ahead of the release. The historically strong Q3 results were revised upward in its third and final headline: 3.5%.
Even though it's too early to take the long view of 2018 GDP as a whole, this 2.6% number joins the 2.2%, 4.2% and now 3.5% from the previous quarter to put preliminary GDP at 3.125%, or above 3% for the first time since prior to the Great Recession a decade ago.
Posted by: Neo | March 01, 2019 at 01:01 PM
When will EPA seriously look at Tesla emissions? (I wonder what toxic lithium oxides they spew when they burn to a crisp after a fender bender).
https://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/hybrid-electric/a26558547/tesla-burnt-vermont-lake/
Posted by: henry | March 01, 2019 at 01:04 PM
Well, decarbonizing the US might be the solution... if the main problem is something other than the futile fight against climate change. But then, what might the main problem be?
Enemies of America learned well the lessons of World War I and World War II. That is, America could mobilize for war and field a virtually indomitable army faster than anybody could imagine. How did we do that? Our capitalist free market economy made it possible for us to do that. How does anybody defeat that?
In order to defeat the industrial might of America, enemies must attack America's traditions of liberty and capitalism. As we all know, the unintended consequences of liberty are great wealth and power, and so liberty must be defeated.
Decarbonizing the US in the name of climate change is one of many solutions aimed at solving that problem.
Posted by: Tom Bowler | March 01, 2019 at 01:07 PM
" global, shared view of "
Sorry, I don't want any part of anything shared by the entire world.
And yes, that includes my definition of my God.
Posted by: Old Lurker | March 01, 2019 at 01:10 PM
Nicely stated Tom Bowler.
Posted by: henry | March 01, 2019 at 01:11 PM
What exactly is a "scientific fact"? Science usually involves measurements, observations, hypotheses and theories, but what are these things they're calling "facts"?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fact
The only provable "facts" associated with the climate hoax are those events that have happened in the past. In fact, even the historical temperature readings aren't facts, and are often manipulated and massaged versions of previous measurements or model-based interpretations of such things as tree rings or ice cores.
Posted by: Extraneus | March 01, 2019 at 01:12 PM
Yes Tesla's don't create emissions. The ELECTRICITY just comes out of the wall.
Posted by: GUS | March 01, 2019 at 01:13 PM
sbw-how many of us have had the poor quality of toilet paper be one of the first insights each of our kids had when traveling abroad?
#1 rule for traveling in China is to carry one of those little packs of Kleenex with you.
If you don't, I can guarantee you will wish you did:)
Posted by: Buckeye | March 01, 2019 at 01:14 PM
Neo:
Thank you for that inspiring information !
Just as our President predicted.
This is excellent news.
Posted by: D | March 01, 2019 at 01:14 PM
Gus "Slowly but surely, the weak succumb to the BULLSHIT."
And that is because the weak always seek to "split the difference" and after doing that a few times, the two poles of "Truth" and "Bullshit" have been blended into all Bullshit.
Posted by: Old Lurker | March 01, 2019 at 01:14 PM
this surprises me:
CJ Ciaramella
@cjciaramella
Court-watching: Federal judge rules New Orleans D.A. doesn't have absolute immunity in ACLU lawsuit over prosecutors sending fake subpoenas to witnesses, allows case to partially proceed
https://twitter.com/cjciaramella/status/1101545705162846209
Posted by: henry | March 01, 2019 at 01:15 PM
--You forgot one, Ignatz.--
Figured that was covered under my "a thousand other" disclaimer. :)
Posted by: Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki | March 01, 2019 at 01:15 PM
OL, did you see the video of MEADOWS hugging the MUZZLIM CUNT?
Posted by: GUS | March 01, 2019 at 01:17 PM
OL:
So true and yes that is precisely what is happening.
It is not happening to me.
I truly believe I am seeing clearly what has happened to our country and I still remain hopeful that there are more of us than there are of them.
Have I become disillusioned with government- yes.Do I think we can get some new good blood in there -also yes.
Posted by: D | March 01, 2019 at 01:18 PM
Well the Likud has waited for 10 years for bibi to leave the scene, many of the presumed successors cant hold a candle to him, the splinter party like that with eva green lookalike shaked probably cant get elected on their own
Posted by: Narciso79 | March 01, 2019 at 01:18 PM
Tom Bowler, as the interrogator said to Winston (?), it is not that we want you to make 2+2=5, we want you to think that it does...
Posted by: Old Lurker | March 01, 2019 at 01:18 PM
Now I know why I never watch the news.
Will you explain why you then posted what followed?
If it's to engender empathy for the complete lowest of the low that our LEOs have to deal with, I get it, you have been successful, and you don't need to persist on my behalf.
My brother is a retired cop. I've known for a long time these people exist, often on our dime.
Posted by: anonamom | March 01, 2019 at 04:51 AM
For one, I'm an over-sharer.
As it happened I was tangentially roped in to the first case of the guy who beat his son to death, much like everyone involved in the Jussie Smollette case.
The guy and his low IQ wife told the police he wandered off and they spent a week looking for him. Search and Rescue teams came to my house twice and combed my 'holler' from top to bottom. The second time I did allow them to search every hen house, etc. From time to time I have had occasions to go to the perimeter of Riverbend Max. I might honk my horn next time if it keeps that guy awake at night. Something should. He admitted to killing his son but he won't tell anyone where the body is.
Posted by: Pinandpuller | March 01, 2019 at 01:19 PM
narciso @ 12:24...Justin of Canada's scandal has an interesting twist. I've been reading Canadian media. Jody Wilson-Raybould,who gave the "bombshell" testimony is a First Nations woman,the first Indigenous minister of justice.Her demotion and resignation has angered First Nations leaders,accusing Trudeau of racism and sexism. Trudeau's government has reneged on promises to First Nations leaders and her advocacy for them may have been a "thorn in the side" according to a quote I read.
Speaking of Canada and the border,earlier this week,almost all of the main roads in northern Maine were closed because of high winds that caused impassable snowdrifts. The Border Patrol in one town had to dig out
the cars of stupid people who tried to drive. The whiteout conditions brought everything to a standstill.
Posted by: Marlene | March 01, 2019 at 01:21 PM
It's also a commentary on the Pax Britannia Bestiary.
Posted by: Pinandpuller | March 01, 2019 at 01:21 PM
For those of you who remember him, Hit's dad died and will be buried tomorrow in Dallas. Wonderful obituary on Facebook.
Boy do I miss him.
Posted by: Jane | March 01, 2019 at 01:23 PM
I remember sitting in the cockpit of MT's bird out West someplace at ~25,000 feet.
As usual, forest was on fire as far as the eye could see.
Little puffs of smoke coming out of coal fired power plants pale by comparison, like spitting in the ocean.
Posted by: Buckeye | March 01, 2019 at 01:23 PM
Jane. Me too.
Posted by: Buckeye | March 01, 2019 at 01:25 PM
Condolences to Hit & family.
Posted by: henry | March 01, 2019 at 01:26 PM
Why the need for the CAGW hoax?
More--
The needs to strengthen collaboration among sectors and stakeholders and to work with a deep recognition of the value of a system is clear. As Schwab (2016) affirmed “with effective mul-ti-stakeholder cooperation ... the Fourth Industrial Revolution has the potential to address – and pos-sibly solve – the major challenges that the world currently faces.” Survey respondents have also stressed interlinkages and relationships as a main area of change that needs to take place in knowl-edge production to better help policy makers ad-dress the challenges of the new technologies.Cooperation could be enabled within a strong knowledge system: it calls for a government and population that can think critically and in interdisci-plinary and cross-disciplinary ways.
Posted by: rse | March 01, 2019 at 01:27 PM
I am pleased to see Shellenburger understands how the grid works. It is called "dispatchable power", and you have 0% reliability with renewables (outside certain Hydroelectric). When you run an unbiased RAMS analysis, you can't achieve the same results (reliability, availability, maintainability) that fossil and nuclear generation can.
There much false or fake science and engineering behind the New Green Deal, that you will never have our media report on since it doesn't fit the Progressive "watermelon" narrative.
Posted by: Jim Eagle | March 01, 2019 at 01:32 PM
Why hasn't Trudeau been arrested? Clearly that is a jailable offense - or maybe not for the OM.
Posted by: Jane | March 01, 2019 at 01:33 PM
Oh, and here is Katie Hopkin's latest on a UK ISIS bride wanting to come home. We need our own Katie to speak up on Ms. Mahana or whatever her name is.....
https://tinyurl.com/y3wpn3jo
Posted by: Jim Eagle | March 01, 2019 at 01:34 PM
Back from the grocery, where I discovered that a LOT of very overweight people like to use those ride-around carts. Now some of them probably have medical conditions, but it seemed highly coincidental that I saw no one of average weight on one.
However, the weekly shopping is done and I have put most of the stuff away. I saved 25% on my bill which is excellent use of sales and digital coupons.
Posted by: MissMarple2 | March 01, 2019 at 01:35 PM
Jane:
Please extend my condolences to Hit and his family.
I miss him as well.
Posted by: D | March 01, 2019 at 01:39 PM
Sorry for Hit.
Never did understand why he left.
Posted by: Old Lurker | March 01, 2019 at 01:42 PM
Why doesn't anyone remember the fact that as we breathe in oxygen and exhale CO2, plants breathe CO2 and exhale oxygen?
I also remember well the "coming Ice Age" of the 70's, and you will never convince me that this climate scam is anything other then a way to impoverish the US, control the population, and let scam artists and political cronies make money on solar panels (useless in Indiana during the winter) and those hideous windmills, which I despise.
Posted by: MissMarple2 | March 01, 2019 at 01:42 PM
Jack,do you know anything about the Quebec engineering company involved in the scandal? SNC-Lavalin.
Posted by: Marlene | March 01, 2019 at 01:42 PM
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/432177-oregon-gov-signs-first-statewide-rent-control-bill
Taking odds on how quickly there will be a hosing shortage.
Posted by: MissMarple2 | March 01, 2019 at 01:48 PM
Thanks, Henry.
OL, based on the rise and popularity of Bernie Sanders and Occasional Cortex there are quite a few out there who do think 2+2=5.
Posted by: Tom Bowler | March 01, 2019 at 01:49 PM
tru dat, Tom, tru dat
Posted by: Old Lurker | March 01, 2019 at 01:52 PM
Condolences to Jeff.
Posted by: jimmyk | March 01, 2019 at 01:56 PM
MM-I have the documents from the 1968 retreat at the Rock F property at bellagio laying it all out.
Thanks for telling us about jeff's dad. Many of us did a lot of offline corresponding.
Posted by: rse | March 01, 2019 at 01:59 PM
http://thefederalist.com/2018/08/24/the-stifling-of-conservative-speech-on-twitter-is-very-real/#.XHlsD5l5zew.twitter
Posted by: MissMarple2 | March 01, 2019 at 02:03 PM
Turning CO2 back into "coal" seems like nirvana. They do not disclose the energy budget to do so. (Shades of perpetual motion).
https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2019/02/27/scientists-just-pulled-co2-from-air-and-turned-it-into-coal/?utm_source=TWITTER&utm_medium=social&utm_content=2163440159&utm_campaign=sprinklrForbesTechTwitter#6972fef24563
Posted by: henry | March 01, 2019 at 02:04 PM
Marlene,
Know them very well both as a competitor and partner. We run up against mostly in hydro but also in the tar sands refining, and pipelines. What’s the scandal? Bribing a Trudeau? Runs in the family.
Posted by: Jim Eagle | March 01, 2019 at 02:05 PM
https://100percentfedup.com/lynne-patton-reveals-shocking-reason-michael-cohen-turned-on-trump/
I figured he had been threatened. Sounds like that is what happened.
Posted by: MissMarple2 | March 01, 2019 at 02:08 PM
Canada allows extradition of Huewei's CFO to US.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/01/canadian-government-allows-extradition-of-huawei-cfo-to-the-us.html
Posted by: henry | March 01, 2019 at 02:14 PM
MM:
That article makes sense.
I put nothing past Weissmann and Mueller
I used to think. Mueller was a good guy. Not anymore.
Rosie flying below the radar and will be gone in 2 weeks.I think if he leaves he will escape prosecution.
Jordan and Meadows consider him the one that got away.
Posted by: D | March 01, 2019 at 02:19 PM
Taking odds on how quickly there will be a hosing shortage.
Apparently Oregon is a hotbed of anti-vaxers. So maybe they won't need as much housing. :(
For example:
https://www.pressherald.com/2019/01/23/an-anti-vaccination-hotspot-in-oregon-declares-an-emergency-over-measles-outbreak/
Posted by: jimmyk | March 01, 2019 at 02:21 PM
via Ace, a take down of the new Hayes / Goldberg thing.
https://theweek.com/articles/826437/new-antitrump-publication-last-thing-conservative-media-needs
Posted by: henry | March 01, 2019 at 02:21 PM
Jimmyk:
Saw a sign at Walgreens advertising measles shots.
Have never seen it before.
Had measles, mumps but no whooping cough as a child.
Posted by: D | March 01, 2019 at 02:26 PM
Elaboration on earlier point:
https://www.nysun.com/national/could-us-face-regime-change-in-trump-era/90589/?fbclid=IwAR0ikfehrb2p1W0J28sj3PTrIGbhpoldrui0wvsA23wNRzVV36DNmxQs4pE#.XHl9tqgELxk.facebook
Posted by: Narciso79 | March 01, 2019 at 02:27 PM
henry,
When 93% of the attendees at CPAC support Trump, as I posted this morning, I cannot see any market for the Hayes/Goldberg contraption.
ChiTown is pretty sure they are being funded by one of the lefty billionaires, and thus their spiel of "looking for investors" is simply a ruse to explain how they keep operating.
What type of return on my "investment" could I expect from them? Zilch, zip, nada. It would, in effect, be a donation, without any tax-deductible benefits.
Nope. If I want to read snarky comments about Trump, I can get it for free on Twitter.
Posted by: MissMarple2 | March 01, 2019 at 02:32 PM
They also took down the McKinley statue in oregon.
Posted by: Narciso79 | March 01, 2019 at 02:32 PM
12 years, then we are all DEAD.
Of what??
Posted by: GUS | March 01, 2019 at 11:50 AM
I thought that 'WE' were the problem.
Posted by: Pinandpuller | March 01, 2019 at 02:38 PM
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/01/us/snow-weather-forecast.html
A 2500-mile snowstorm, stretching from the Sierra Nevada to Maine.
Posted by: MissMarple2 | March 01, 2019 at 02:40 PM
Does this describe the business model of the NRO castaways?
A Rube Goldberg machine is a machine intentionally designed to perform a simple task in an indirect and overcomplicated fashion. Often, these machines consist of a series of simple devices that are linked together to produce a domino effect, in which each device triggers the next one, and the original goal is achieved only after many steps.
Posted by: Pinandpuller | March 01, 2019 at 02:41 PM
MM @ 2:08
I absolutely believe that story.
Posted by: James D. | March 01, 2019 at 02:42 PM
Downtown Los Angeles, California, failed to reach 70º Fahrenheit (21º Celsius) once in the entire month of February, the first time that has happened since temperature records began, 132 years ago.
Posted by: Neo | March 01, 2019 at 02:42 PM
Is Usury just an 'attractive nuisance' that the government is refusing to put a barrier around to protect dumb or desperate people?
Car debt has risen 75 percent since the Great Recession in 2009, reaching an all-time high of $1.2 trillion, according to the U.S. Public Interest Research Group.
"Easy credit and longer repayment terms have coaxed many consumers into buying more car than they can really afford," said Ed Mierzwinski, U.S. PIRG's senior director for consumer programs, in an email. "It's even worse for those who have been subjected to deceptive and predatory lending practices at auto dealers."
http://archive.is/Vafy3#selection-117.0-121.316
Posted by: Pinandpuller | March 01, 2019 at 02:45 PM
I believe it too. Every word of it.
Posted by: Old Lurker | March 01, 2019 at 02:47 PM
Good Morning!
Hold the Revolution: Roberts Keeps Joining High Court Liberals
Chief Justice John Roberts is showing a new willingness to side with the U.S. Supreme Court’s liberal wing after the divisive confirmation fight over Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
Roberts joined the liberals Wednesday in two rulings that left the conservatives in dissent. Most notably, he cast the deciding vote to order a new look at the mental competence of a death row inmate who says he can’t remember the crimes he committed.
The votes add to an unmistakable pattern, offering fresh indications that Roberts is in no hurry to oversee a conservative legal revolution. The chief justice has also joined 5-4 orders that blocked President Donald Trump from curbing bids for asylum at the Mexican border and stopped Louisiana from enforcing new abortion restrictions.
No real surprise to anyone who has been paying attention.
Posted by: daddy | March 01, 2019 at 02:50 PM
https://twitter.com/unseen1_unseen/status/1101557415730991106
A description of the Jim Jones operation and ultimate mass suicide.
Posted by: MissMarple2 | March 01, 2019 at 02:52 PM
Headline: Cuomo appeals to Bezos to bring Amazon back to NYC
It's like Amazon owner Jeff Bezos is the new Al Davis (dead owner of the
Oakland/ LA/ Oakland/Las Vegas Raiders.Posted by: daddy | March 01, 2019 at 02:54 PM