On May 31, 1871, Mary Amelia Tweed and Ambrose MaGinnis were married. A lavish wedding was put on by William ‘Boss’ Tweed. A contemporary newspaper described this as follows:

“THE WEDDING PRESENTS, which were displayed in one of the upper rooms, must have amounted to the value of over $700,000 and presented an appearance of brilliancy which can never have been equaled in munificence even in this Empire City.  They comprised all sorts of jewelry with diamonds enough to stock half a dozen stores; silver sets in profusion and almost everything that the ingenuity of the human mind could suggest in the line of presents.”

Everyone knew that Tweed was hopelessly corrupt. He, like the Clintons, seemed to always get away with it. But in reality the end was right about the corner. In early winter 1871 there was a sleigh accident where a man named James Watson was kicked in the head by a horse and killed. Watson was the county auditor and also the paymaster for Boss Tweed. He was replaced by James O’Rourke who just happened to be an informant for Sherriff O’Brien. O’Rourke managed to get his hands on the Tammany hall accounting records. These proved to be impossible to ignore. The New York Times starting publishing these documents in July 1871 and by the end of the year Tween had been indicted. He would die alone and disgraced in prison.

The Clintons may be on the verge of the same type of meltdown. It turns out that John Huber, that mysterious investigator appointed by Jeff Sessions has been investigating the Clinton Foundation since last year. Nothing has leaked about this until recently. Now there are reports of secret grand jury indictments and at least three whistle blowers have provided mountains of documents. One of them appears to be Andrew Kessel who was CFO of the Clinton foundation. If that is true then the Clintons could be in serious legal jeopardy.

Mueller refered an investigation of Tony Podesta and former Obama White House Counsel Greg Graig to Justice Department prosecutors in New York. That appears to be heating up rapidly.

Perhaps while Mueller himself has not been investigating Clinton, he just may have been providing information to other people, like John Huber, who were doing exactly that. Remember that every senior member of the FBI who was out to get Trump is gone. Is that a coincidence? Just today James Comey refused to answer questions about the FISA warrant that was bought and paid for by Hillary Clinton. A lot of people on both sides of the aisle assumed this is more of the FBI covering up its own errors. But, what if the FBI lawyers are telling the truth about refusing to answer questions because of an ongoing investigation. Remember that Trump ordered those documents to be declassified and he was talked out of it by Rosenstein. Maybe we are closer to learning the real reason for that. Once again the real question is: “who is investigating whom?”

We may know sooner rather than later. The House Oversight committee has a meeting scheduled with John Huber next week. It is quite possible that the Clintons will be wearing a lot of Tweed for Christmas.

TDM

The funeral service for George H.W. Bush was amazing. One could not help but contrast this with the media coverage of this man during the 1992 election. If the public had been told the truth about Bush and Clinton, there is zero chance Clinton would have been elected. The result was that we replaced one of the most competent men ever elected to be President of the United States with, well, Bill Clinton.

It was also very classy of the Bush family to avoid turning this into a trash Trump moment. What a remarkable contrast with the McCain funeral. This was a stark reminder of the contrast between class and crass. The eulogies by John Meacham, Brian Mulroney, Alan K. Simpson and George W. Bush were incredible.

There was also the remarkable public hostility of Hillary Clinton toward Donald Trump. At least the Obama’s showed some class. The Clinton’s showed none. Neither did the usual suspects in the main stream media. They can never resist a chance to trash Trump. Political wrote an article contrasting George H.W. Bush, war hero, with Donald Trump who got draft deferments.

Here is what Politico wrote:

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/12/05/george-hw-bush-funeral-cathedral-1045748

But at times, George W. Bush’s remembrance of his father served as a reminder of his family’s political rival: President Donald Trump. George W. Bush said his father valued character (Trump prefers to elevate people who look the part), taught his children the importance of service (Trump received four medical deferments for bone spurs in his heel and never served in public office until becoming President) and the value of faith and family (Trump has been accused of multiple extramarital affairs).

This is, of course, absurd. Where on earth did they get the line: “Trump prefers to elevate people who look the part?” Actually Trump is famous for firing people who don’t measure up. He is clearly far more focused on results than physical appearance.

Granted Donald Trump, like most other rich college kids at the time, avoided getting drafted during the Vietnam War. If that is the standard, half of congress would not quality. But this is especially absurd because George H. W. Bush was replaced by Bill Clinton, a draft dodger who signed up for reserve duty and then refused even do that when he drew a high lottery number. Trump replaced Barack Obama who had never bothered to sign up for selective service.

With regard to the slam for alleged multiple extramarital affairs, has anyone compared Trump with LBJ, JFK, RFK and the man who set the standard, Bill Clinton. Compared to these guys, Trump looks like an amateur. Yes, Donald Trump was a serial sexual philanderer, but we already knew that. Bill Clinton was literally accused of rape and he didn’t pay his women off, he had Hillary manage a war room designed to suppress bimbo eruptions.

I sure hope the American people who watched this noticed the contrast between the classiness of the event and the pathetic coverage by a self-righteous main stream media so filled with bitterness and hatred that they can’t even spell class.

When the main stream media expresses a longing for a more civil discourse they should be directed to Home Depot where there are plenty of very nice mirrors on sale.

TDM

The truth about the California elections is becoming more obvious and it is a very ugly picture. Everyone who lives in California already knows that no ID is required to vote. You just tell them where you live and then you sign in a register. It does not appear that anyone bothers to check anything. Now you don’t have to vote in person at all, you must mail it in.  That was bad enough, but in 2016 Governor Brown signed legislation making voter fraud inevitable. Previously a mail order ballot could only be picked up by a relative or someone living in the home. This new law changed that so anyone, even paid political campaign workers can collect and return ballots.

Teams of people showed up at every home where they considered it likely the person would vote for Democrat. They then “helped” them with the ballot and graciously offered to bring it to the voting station. Democrats actually brag about this. They call it ballot harvesting. The Republicans not only did not do this, they apparently didn’t realize that Democrats were doing this.

This is why several Republicans were leading by comfortable margins on election night, but they all eventually lost due to late arriving ballots. Ballots delivered by people with a clear partisan agenda. Democrats admit the bias:

“We were not wasting time talking to people who weren’t going to vote for Democrats.”

Even if they did pick up a ballot from someone like to vote Republican, do you really trust them to make sure that ballot was delivered?  Please! So much for every vote counting. Democrats are only interested in counting votes for Democrats.

There is no dispute that the late arrival ballots went hugely Democratic. We already know that hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens are registered to vote. California has made no attempt to reconcile voter registration records with federal databases verifying citizenship.  It would be naïve to think that illegal aliens did not vote, and odds are some Democratic operative were encouraging them to vote.

There doesn’t even appear to be have been any effort to verify that the person signing the ballot was the same as the registered voter. When we voted the people operating the polling station just glanced at the envelop and said to be sure to sign it. They didn’t even ask who we were. They didn’t ask where we lived. They didn’t even ask if our name was on the voter envelope. They didn’t ask if this was out ballot. They didn’t check anything. The only thing they said was to be sure the envelope was signed, by someone.

No one cross referenced anything and we personally observed a lot of people just dropping ballots into the box without any scrutiny at all.  There were drop off boxes all over the place where anyone, and I do mean anyone, can just drop a ballot in the box and leave.

The San Francisco Chronicle wrote about this but failed to even consider the possibility that this could result in voter fraud. Instead they seemed focused on praising Democrats for a great ground game and laughing at Republicans for being oblivious. They have a point about the stupidity of the Republican party but the callous disregard for the integrity of the system is appalling.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/California-s-late-votes-broke-big-for-13432727.php

This legislation passed solely on partisan lines. Democrats seized the day, Republicans ignored the obvious. In Orange County alone 250,000 ballots were dropped off on election day.  The Chronicle admits that almost all of the late voters went Democratic.

Naturally the Republican party is once again determined to learn the wrong lesson from disaster. The only solution is to demand reform that restores integrity to the voting system and prevents systemic fraud. Instead consultants are recommending that “Republicans find a way to match this.” Seriously, “the solution to combating voter fraud is to become better than Democrats at stealing elections?” If Republicans really believe that, they deserve to lose.

Republicans should be demanding an audit of the entire 2016 election, and serious election reform. Every poll shows that both Democrats and Republicans want fair and honest elections. It is only the leaders in the Democrat Party who resist this enabled by the pathetic Republican leadership incapable of pointing out the obvious.

If this continues, Democrats will win every election. Hell, in California, they are already winning  every election. If you want to see what this looks like, move to Chicago, register as a Republican and try running for office.  Good luck with that.

This problem was more than predictable, which is why Democrats passed the law in the first place. Is this really a surprise? If the Republican leadership was really caught by surprise, they should all be fired for incompetence. The Democratic Party in California is hopelessly corrupt, but at least they are competent at playing the game. Republicans didn’t even know what game was being played.

As I wrote earlier, this may (should) have been the Democrats last chance to steal an election, including in California. The new “Real ID” law is going to create a searchable database that should make the next election far easier to regulate. If every other state, Republicans are leading the way toward voter ID and election reform. But here in the Golden State, the Republican party is hopelessly inept. This election is so obviously corrupt that people all over the country have noticed. The only ones not getting the message are those pretending to lead the California Republican Party. They are too busy trying to enlarge the Republican tent to realize that Democrats are driving past that tent with boxes of illegal ballots laughing all the way to the ballot box.

TDM

There is a very interesting story today in the Daily Caller:

https://www.dailycaller.com/2018/11/29/fbi-whistleblower-clinton-uranium/

This begs the question of who is investigating whom. At first glance, the impression is that the FBI is violating the rights of a Whistle Blower. If James Comey was still Director of the FBI, that would be understandable. But the Director of the FBI is Christopher Wray and the Acting Attorney General is Matthew G. Whitaker. That begs the question: why this, why now?

There seems to be two possibilities. One is that they are punishing a Whistle Blower. That is what the author of this article is assuming. The other is that they are verifying the chain of custody of records provided by the Whistleblower. I note that there were sixteen FBI agents involved. This is a big deal. What if they are primarily interested in verifying that the documents delivered by the whistleblower are identical to the documents delivered to congress?

The lawyer for the Cain (the Whistleblower) said the following:

“For the bureau to show up at Mr. Cain’s home suggesting that those same documents are stolen federal property, and then proceed to seize copies of the same documents after being told at the house door that he is a legally protected whistleblower who gave them to Congress, is an outrageous disregard of the law,”

I ignored his opinion with regard to motive and instead focused on what really happened. The FBI seized copies of the original documents reportedly delivered to congress. They also searched the house to be sure there were no other pertinent documents.

This is how the meeting where the documents were originally delivered was described:

Cain met with a senior member of Horowitz’s office at a church close to the White House to deliver the documents to the IG”

Cain sat in a pew with a hoodie and sun glasses, Socarras said. Cain held a double-sealed envelope containing a flash drive with the documents. The IG official met him and, without saying a word, took the pouch over Cain’s shoulder and left.

The obvious question is who took possession of those documents and were they identical to the documents delivered to the House and Senate Intelligence Committee. One has to note that the documents allegedly showed that then FBI Director Robert Mueller failed to investigate allegations of criminal misconduct regarding Hillary Clinton, the Clinton Foundation and Uranium One. It seems possible that the real investigation is whether or not those documents were “redacted” or otherwise altered before they got to congress. Was the FBI raid targeting the whistleblower or the people who received delivery of these documents? He certainly hasn’t ‘been charged with a crime, the FBI didn’t arrest him, they just seized documents.

We don’t know the facts, but what if those documents were redacted or there were material changes before they got delivered to congress? That could be beyond explosive. But even if they weren’t altered at all, they still could be very material.

Imagine you are Director of the FBI and you now report to a new Acting Attorney General. Unlike Jeff Session, the Acting Attorney General has not been recused from the Russia investigation or the supervision of Robert Mueller.

The DOJ has been directed, by both congress and the President of the United States, to investigate the potential criminal misconduct regarding Hillary Clinton, the Clinton Foundation and Uranium One. That has been going on for months. But now you are asked to focus on the actions of Robert Mueller and for the first time the Acting Attorney General is directly involved.

You are nearing the end of your investigation. You are close to making a report. You may even be close to calling for indictments. This is the point where you want to make sure that all the documentation you are using has been verified 100%. You don’t want to risk using documents that have been altered and you also don’t want to risk ignoring other documents that are potentially exculpatory.

I do not know. Neither does anyone else, other than those directly involved. Perhaps this is another, attempt at perpetuating a cover-up conducted by the deep state. Certainly a lot of smart people believe that. But, it is highly unlikely that this raid took place without Whitakers approval and he shows no signs of being part of the Deep State. In addition, this time the documents were picked up by sixteen FBI agents and the chain of custody is absolutely solid. This is very different from how they were obtained originally; with a whistleblower handling over a flash drive while wearing a hoodie and sun glasses in a church pew to someone he doesn’t even know.

TDM

The midterm election has changed everything. Donald Trump has clearly had it with the Mueller investigation and with the unrelenting full-out attack on his Presidency by the liberal left and the main stream media. There are numerous signs he is no longer going to play the game.

Trump came into office with numerous advisers left over from both the Obama and the Bush administrations. These advisers all told him to play nice and avoid confrontation. They warned him against alienating people by being overly aggressive. Trump listened to them, some of the time, with disastrous results. It is increasingly obvious that the liberal left is only interested in destroying Trump and regaining power. They literally do not care who is hurt in the process.

Trump is no saint, but he does appear to love this country and he has now identified those he considers to be enemies. He has also figured out that if he does not destroy his enemies they will continue working to destroy him. In many ways this is a repeat of the day of reckoning for George W. Bush regarding Muslim extremists, when he realized that even though we weren’t at war with them, they were at war with us.

RINO Republicans are famous for suggesting that the best move is to just turn the other cheek and avoid fighting back. George W. Bush literally allowed the main stream media to accuse him of lying about the WMD in Iraq, when it was well documented that he did not do that. Bush clearly believed that the higher moral ground was attained by not fighting back. As a result, Republicans lost both the House and the Senate and paved the way for President Barack Hussein Obama.

When Trump came into office it was obvious that Hillary Clinton was guilty of gross negligence regarding the sending and receiving of classified documents on an unsecured server. He knew the Clinton Foundation was a gigantic scam. He learned that James Comey was lying to him and that people within the FBI were literally working to remove him from office. He became aware that President Obama authorized intelligence agencies to illegally spy on the Trump campaign. He was convinced to not only ignore all this, but to allow the Mueller investigation to continue full speed ahead with no oversight.  He was told that if he fought back, Democrats would investigate him and try to impeach him.

Well guess what, it didn’t matter what Trump did, Democrats are determined to investigate Trump until the end of time praying for a smoking gun that will justify impeachment. That was bad enough, but then, in a desperate attempt to prevent Trump from appointing a conservative to the Supreme Court, Democrats resorted to a new low by promoting obviously false sexual assault charges against Brett Kavanaugh with absolutely zero corroborating evidence. If anyone needed more proof of the depravity of the liberal left, the Kavanaugh hearings removed the last shred of doubt.

I expect Trump to go to war with his opponents. John Huber has already been investigating someone. Trump may even ask for a special prosecutor to investigate the FBI, the DOJ, Hillary Clinton, and the intelligence agencies. He no longer need worry about Democrats investigating him, they have done that and have come up with less than nothing. He has nothing to fear from them, they should be terrified of him. The biggest problem is that all of the above did commit crimes and unlike the accusations against Trump, there are facts available to justify indictments. The only thing lacking was the political will to take on this battle. There are increasing signs that both Donald Trump and Republicans in the U.S. Senate are ready to take this on. The Kavanaugh hearings even “woke” Lindsey Graham.

Democrats are about to learn something very important. The DOJ, FBI and all our intelligence agencies report to Donald Trump. He has the power to investigate them; they do not have the power to investigate him. CNN and the rest of the main stream media can continue to howl at the moon, but that doesn’t mean the moon has to listen.

In addition, Trump can declassify documents. Yesterday he threatened Democrats that if they continue this charade he is going to declassify documents that will be devastating for Democrats. They would be wise to believe him.

Trump’s attorneys had a joint defense agreement with Paul Manafort and Jerome Corsi. That means when Mueller talked to them, their attorneys talked to Trump’s attorneys. Mueller just learned about this and it has clearly rattled his cage. Unlike the MSM, Trump knows exactly what Mueller is after. Right now it looks like Mueller is focused on that weird meeting in the Trump Tower with Donald Trump, Jr. and some silly female Russian attorney promising dirt on Hillary Clinton. If Mueller is focusing on that, it is because he has absolutely nothing else.

Michael Cohen just plead guilty to lying to congress. He says he lied about discussions regarding a Trump hotel in Moscow. Who cares? He also claims that he had told Trump about the bizarre Trump Tower meeting. Apparently the argument is that: “You must believe me now because I was lying before.”  Good luck with that.

Democrats may have made the same mistake as Japan prior to World War II. They have aroused a sleeping giant and filled him with a terrible resolve. The results are likely to be similar.

TDM

There is a bombshell report from the University of Basel in Switzerland.

https://www.irishpost.com/news/adam-eve-exist-proof-162201

Using samples from five million animals including humans, they were able to deduce humans sprang from a single pair of adults following a catastrophic event that wiped out humanity.

It’s not just humans either – nine out of every 10 animal species went through the same.

One will note that the people who did this study did not expect or want this result.

Some, including the author of this article, are viewing this as proof that the biblical account of Adam & Eve is confirmed. That is not quite the case, but it does make that account more consistent with scientific facts. What is really does is destroy the theory of evolution. The theory of evolution is that everything started when some amino acids accidently bumped uglies. This started a chain of mathematically impossible miracles eventually resulting in the world we see today and this strange creature we call humans. This study shows that while a lot of animals have adapted and become quite different from the original, they have NEVER evolved into a different species.

The whole point of the theory of evolution was to come up with “some” explanation that does not require a creator.  Since day one scientists have been desperately searching for the “missing link.” This is the coveted creature proving that humans evolved from apes. Now we know why they have never found a missing link and why they never will find a missing link. If every human came from the same two people, there can be no missing link.

Expect the liberal left to first suppress this report and then try and discount it. They are certain to ignore the significance of these findings. But they have a problem. Nearly every child attending public school in America, since the Scopes trial, has been confronted with school books and teachers promoting the theory of evolution. Anyone who dares question the theory of evolution is dismissed as being ignorant and afraid of science. This is why Republican candidates for President were scornfully asked if they believed in the theory of evolution with the assumption that anyone naïve enough to say no was too stupid to be President of the United States. But most people still don’t buy the theory of evolution. According to a survey by Pew research in 2009, only 32%, of adults believe in evolution due to natural processes, although 87% of Scientists believe this.

There is a reason for this. People were born with eyes and what is obviously true, is obviously true. We have seen apes and we have seen humans and they are very different. We have also noticed that there are dogs and cats.  Earth to scientists, try breeding a dog and a cat. Be sure to stock up on bite proof gloves and don’t expect any offspring. You could breed a husky and a poodle but try breeding a pit bull and a bob cat.

So, the question is why do 87% or 97% of scientists still believe in evolution. The answer quite simply is that if the theory of evolution is not true, there has to be a creation. If there is a creation, there has to be a creator. They know they are too smart to believe in god, so they choose to believe in the “pitbob,” the mythical offspring of a pit bull and a bob cat, too absorbed in their self-righteous arrogance to realize this is really stupid.

TDM

One of my favorite scenes from Gomer Pyle was when Gomer and Sergeant Carter were confronted with a ticking time bomb. The decision was clear. They had to cut either the red wire or the white wire. If they cut the wrong wire, the bomb would immediately explode. If they cut the right wire, the bomb would be defused. Sergeant Carter asked Gomer which wire he would cut. Gomer said the white wire. Sergeant Carter immediately cut the red wire, defusing the bomb. Gomer asked Sergeant Carter why he bother asking him his opinion if he was going to ignore it. Sergeant Carter said: “because the only certain thing was that you would be wrong.”

That is exactly the way I feel about the global warming alarmists. The only thing certain is that they are wrong. NONE of their pevious predictions have been accurate. Mostly of them have been absurdly wrong. These were the same people who convinced Al Gore that the arctic ocean would be completely ice free. He did this several times, in 2007, 2008, and 2009. First this would happen by 2013 but was delayed when the arctic ice inconveniently expanded by 50% over 2012 levels.  Nailed that one Al. So, Al kept making the same predictions, for 2014 and 2016 with the same results.

In case any of you wonder about whether Snopes is credible, here is the result of the Snopes fact check:

Gore did not himself make these predictions but said (in some cases erroneously) that others had; Gore never referred to a year-long lack of ice for both poles, but instead largely referenced Arctic sea ice in the summer.

Then Snopes went on to prove that this is exactly what Gore said.

Now a Government report warns of worsening U.S. disasters. This report was written over several years, so it was heavily influenced by Obama era scientists. These were people who received millions if not billions in funding if they found global warming and were ridiculed if they didn’t

The main stream media promoted this as straight from the lips of God:

https://apnews.com/f9732784135c4f4a8963daff79e2583e

The media ignored the fact that 25 NASA scientists questioned the sanity of Global Warmists back in January.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhW-B2udhQw

If this had been a video by Michael Avenatti criticizing Donald Trump’s treatment of porn stars, you would have all seen this. Since it criticized the conventional non-wisdom, odds are none of you were even aware of this.

Here’s the good news. This report is nonsense. Yes, the weather will change and there will be hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, droughts, floods and fire. There will be times when it will be very hot and times when it will be very cold. This is easy to predict, because it has been going on for thousands of years. We can also predict that none of the very specific and idiotic predictions made by this report will be close to true. Like Sergeant Carter, we may not be able to find reality, but it is very easy to identify who is and will be consistently wrong.

TDM

I wrote previously that this was probably the last chance for Democrats to steal a major election.  In spite of the numerous reports in the main stream media that there is zero evidence of election fraud, we are surrounded by such evidence. Every Orange County Republican was ahead on election night and every one of them lost with late arriving provisional ballots.  Coincidence?  I saw a recent report that last year 449,000 people on the voter registration rolls in California refused to accept jury duty on the basis that they were not actually U.S. citizens. I have not been able to verify this, but it seems accurate. Only a naïve fool or someone who wants non-residents to vote would believe there is no voter fraud in California.

A study by the U.S. Government Accountability Office found that up to 3% of 30,000 individuals called for jury duty from voter registration rolls over a two-year period in just one U.S. district court were not U.S. citizens.  This is more than enough to be the deciding factor in a close election.

California grudgingly passed new voter registration laws in October 2015. This will be fully implemented by October 2020. This reform is the direct result of a federal law passed in 2005 designed to combat terrorism. If you do not have a real ID, proving citizenship, you will no longer be able to board an aircraft or enter any military or federal facility after October 1, 2020.

California Driver’s licenses did not require any proof of citizenship, so they are not considered to be “real id”. Everyone in California has to get a new license. They get a choice between a real ID, which is only obtained after proving citizenship, or a standard license, which cannot be used to register to vote.

When a real ID is issued the information is sent to the Secretary of State electronically which is then required to verify citizenship and to update the voter registration records. Previously California refused to cooperate with the federal government regarding voter registration. But with this law, the California Secretary of State is REQUIRED to confirm citizenship, on a federal database,in order for a California Driver’s license to qualify as a real ID. These means the federal government now has access to real data.

Do not underestimate the significance of this. There is a reason there is a Republican Governor in Georgia and a Republican Governor and Senator in Florida. That is because both states passed voter registration reform. Once again Democrats were poised to steal an election, but voter registration reform stopped them. In California, the difference is likely to be far more significant. We have a lot of non-citizens here, we currently don’t check ids at all and we don’t appear to make any effort to verify who actually voted.

Los Angeles prosecutors just indicted several people for exactly this kind of voter fraud:

https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-skid-row-voter-fraud-20181120-story.html

The crude exchange played out hundreds of times on L.A.’s skid row during the 2016 election cycle and again this year, prosecutors said Tuesday as they announced criminal charges against nine people accused in a fraud scheme.

Using cash and cigarettes as lures, the defendants approached homeless people on skid row and asked them to forge signatures on state ballot measure petitions and voter registration forms, the district attorney’s office said. The defendants — some of whom were scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday — face several criminal charges, including circulating a petition with fake names, voter fraud and registering a fictitious person.

The Los Angeles Times was either unable to determine which party benefited from this scam or they just forgot to tell us. Anyone want to make a guess?

Governor Jerry Brown vetoed a bill that would have banned per-signature payment for those collecting petition signatures, claiming the law might allow ballot control by “the weathiest interests.” Apparently only poor people can afford to pay someone to collect signatures. This is beyond absurd.

But it is also over. While California would definitely like to leave the U.S., except for the money thing, California NEEDS the federal government. Although they will never admit it, California also needs the Federal Government to control our border. If you doubt that, just let Trump declare a two week holiday for ICE and the Border patrol and watch what happens. That is why both Newsom and Brown were groveling for assistance from President Trump. It is why California is, reluctantly, verifying voter records and even more reluctantly, requiring people to prove citizenship to get a “real id” driver’s license. This is also why the political landscape in this state may change faster than anyone can imagine.

Combine this with the Supreme Court decision preventing public sector unions from forcing people to join the union and pay dues and a perfect political storm is on the horizon. This just may be the last year where public sector unions had big bucks to spend on elections.

Although California still looks pretty insane, the smoke is starting to clear and there are actually some pretty good reasons to give thanks.

TDM

Donald Trump visited the devastation in Paradise California, along with Governor Brown and Governor-Elect Gavin Newsom. Several things are very obvious.

Donald Trump did not resemble the mythical uncaring monster described on a nightly basis by CNN, MSNBC and the rest of the main stream media.

He looked very professional and in control. He was the one showing real leadership.

He also showed a lot warmth toward both Newsom and Brown, even though both have made a career our of demonizing him. The same people who had slammed him on a daily basis and who promised to resist his administration at every opportunity, stood there with their tail between their legs practically begging Trump for help. Brown, who has been blaming everything on global warming, admitted we must now consider everything and let science decide. He also admitted that Trump was very realistic about all of this.

Trump made both of them look small by comparison. It was clear who was in charge, who was the one with solutions and who looked way out of their class. He literally killed them with kindness.

The MSM will try to find a way to spin this negatively toward Trump. They can’t help themselves. But they can’t change the picture of Trump standing between Brown and Newsome and towering over both of them in every way possible.

Then there was the pathetic photo op appearance by Senator Kamala Harris. She obviously wasn’t invited to the prior meeting by either Trump, Brown or Newsom. Odds are Brown and Newsom know Kamala Harris cannot be the face of California when asking for assistance from Trump. No one from the press was invited to tour with Harris and the only press coverage was from a video released by her staff.

Kamala Harris can do a great service to California by just shutting up. She has been caught telling flagrant lies about this administration on a regular basis. We can be sure that a phone call from her office to the White House is not going to receive much attention and the attention it does receive will be mostly negative.

California desperately needs the help of the federal government it has tried to obstruct on a nearly daily basis. Earth to idiots. Suing the federal government while arrogantly demanding desperately needed assistance is insanely stupid. Fortunately, Donald Trump showed who is the bigger man, willing to put doing the right thing above partisan politics.

As for the rest of us who live in the state, it was hard not to embarrassed by the caliber of people we have stupidly put in charge. But, at least the weather’s great, when not obscured by smoke from wildfires.

One final thought. Gavin Newsom was married to Kimberly Guilfoyle. That would be the same Kimberly Guilfoyle now “dating” Donald Trump, Jr. Odds are very high that there is a direct back channel of communication between the Trump White House and Gavin Newsom.  Don’t be sure that Newsom will follow in the steps of Governor Brown in suing the federal government at every opportunity. He has a decision to make,. Does he want to be a successful Governor or does he want to continue a war with Donald Trump that he cannot possibly win.

TDM

There is a very interesting article in Skeptical Science which proudly claims it is “Getting skeptical about global warming skepticism”:

https://www.skepticalscience.com/ice-age-predictions-in-1970s-intermediate.htm

When you think about it, this is actually hysterical. They are skeptical about being skeptical, then they document the reasons everyone should be skeptical.

In 1970 Newsweek published an article called “The Cooling World.” My favorite quote is the following:

“Meteorologists disagree about the cause and extent of the cooling trend… But they are almost unanimous in the view that the trend will reduce agricultural productivity for the rest of the century.”  Sound Familiar?

In 1974 Time Magazine published an article called: “Another Ice Age?”

When meteorologists take an average of temperatures around the globe, they find that the atmosphere has been growing gradually cooler for the past three decades. The trend shows no indication of reversing. Climatological Cassandras are becoming increasingly apprehensive, for the weather aberrations they are studying may be the harbinger of another ice age.”

The liberal left is trying to re-write history, again. Now, they claim this was all based of poor reporting by the media and “real scientists” were predicting global warming based on CO2 levels:

“1970s ice age predictions were predominantly media based. The majority of peer reviewed research at the time predicted warming due to increasing CO2. “

So, if the main stream media lying about the concensus amoung scientists in the 1970s, why should we believe them now? Perhaps the most honest analysis was done in 1970:

we do not have a good quantitative understanding of our climate machine and what determines its course. Without the fundamental understanding, it does not seem possible to predict climate…” Since very prediction by the global warming crowd has been wrong, this looks like good advice.

We can predict some things. Like the activity on the Sun. We can predict that because scientists can see it and and can see what’s coming. NASA is now predicting a record cold winter because of the lack of sun spots. This has been well documented for a couple of years. While it is hard to give NASA any credibility when they have botched the global warming predictions by huge margins, this does give one pause. For example NASA’s TIMED statellite show that the thermosphere is cooling and shrinking. Unlike the estimates of ocean temperature, this is actually a real measurement. I am not about to predict our future climate when the real experts admit they don’t have enough data to do that. But I can suggest one thing. Don’t sell your coat!

TDM