PrioritieS

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Democrats and Republicans have theirs. Their priorities and interests (and allegiances) do not align with yours.

A Republican-Democrat spending bill being offered to President Trump spends nearly 40 times as much on foreign aid as it does on a wall to secure the United States-Mexico border.

Though Trump requested about $5.7 billion to fund a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, a spending package written by elected Republicans and Democrats funds just $1.3 billion for 55 miles of wall at the border.

Meanwhile, the deal spends nearly 40 times as much American taxpayer money on foreign aid as it does on a border wall. In total, about $50 billion is spent on foreign aid, including: [a whole bunch of stuff we cannot afford and do not need].

Surely the next election will be the cure, right?

If You Want to Get Really Angry

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Watch the following. Set aside two hours for this. Actually, set aside thirty minutes and you’ll make the rest of the time. This is beyond rough. And, it may shatter more than a few of your happy childhood memories. It will also shatter illusions:

Watch before they take it down. Many thanks to Owen.

Up, Up, and Away … FedGov Debt at $22 Trillion

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Another stupendous milestone on the road from incompetence to ruination:

The national debt surpassed $22 trillion for the first time on Tuesday, a milestone that experts warned is further proof the country is on an unsustainable financial path that could jeopardize the economic security of every American.

The Treasury Department reported the debt hit $22.012 trillion, a jump of more than $30 billion in just this month.

The national debt has been rising at a faster rate following the passage of President Donald Trump’s $1.5 trillion tax-cut package a little more than a year ago and as the result of congressional efforts to increase spending on domestic and military programs. The nation has added more than $1 trillion in debt in the last 11 months alone.

“Reaching this unfortunate milestone so rapidly is the latest sign that our fiscal situation is not only unsustainable but accelerating,” said Michael A. Peterson, chief executive officer of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, a nonpartisan organization working to address the country’s long-term fiscal challenges.

I vaguely recall when both the debt and the annual budget passed the $1 Trillion mark – now a mere year’s deficit. I’m sure this is all Trump’s fault. Nothing the Long Green Mile Deal won’t cure. Strike that. Nothing the Grace Commission can’t conserve our way out of.

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Figure dated 2/12/19, PM – surely higher now … hell, was nearly $50,000 higher immediately after I screenshot…

Several Miles of Fence and DC Cannibalism

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Word came late last night that a renewed government shutdown may be averted. A group of four crusty Senatorial Congress Critters was able to cobble together another temporary can-kicking budget substitute. And, part of the deal includes $20 $5.7 $1.375 Billion for the wall some steel slats, enough to cover all 2,000 55 miles of the Mexican border. Now, the full Congress takes up the mantle.

We’re saved…

$1.375 Billion would, by my calculations, pay for roughly 4,500 A-10 gun runs and a permanent end to the invasion. That obviously not being in the cards, the slats are the best we can hope for. That, and Democrats dropping (for now) their calls to dismantle ICE.

Meanwhile…

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Somalia) has called for rounding up all Jews in America and sending them to gas chambers criticized AIPAC for using its money and influence to place Israeli interests ahead of America’s. AIPAC, by the way, uses its money and influence to place Israeli interests ahead of America’s.

For this, Omar has been labeled an anti-semite. And, she’s going to pay for it. Well, actually, she won’t. The New York Daily News has some good reasons why, which can be summed up in three words: Black. Muslim. Woman.

Ignoring why we have a Black Muslim Woman from Somalia in Congress and the ridiculously idiotic binary view of Israel and anti-semitism, isn’t diversity wonderful? Far from controversy, this is America’s greatest strength. The party of anything goes, has gone, and now deals with where it went. If I may, “Ha!”

Omar’s final words on the issue were, “Listening and learning, but standing strong.” Wouldn’t that American men did the same.

The Small Town Paper

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A TPC Salute of All-American Small Town Newspapers

It occurred to me that mine is an odd position at TPC – the “national affairs” columnist of a decidedly local publication. Da enlightens the esoteric South with charm and wit. Sweetheart Bess writes from the heart tales to warm any heart. Kayla puts the Cool in Chronicles (fits, trust me), fun with every single post. Marshall may be the most dedicated defender of the traditional local scene I’ve ever known. Then there’s me … I bring the battleaxe to the bonfire.

 

I have to. It’s the job. And, it’s me. The rest of the staff see Newton County as home. I see it as 279 of the neatest square miles out of the 3.1 million between Mexico and Canada. There’s a lot of horror out there which, unchecked, can and will creep in the the glorious Georgia Piedmont. Hence, the usual topics.
But, not today. Today is all local. Well, local from multiple locales to keep it “national” in nature. Herein, I proudly present three of my favorite small town sources for news of the doin’s of small town life in the good old U.S. of A. Regardless of geography, one will find great similarity; three towns outside Georgia look and feel a lot like Covington.
My original hometown is inhabited by some 25,000 of the oddest, yet most endearing people in America. Over the past 40 years, the city has transformed from “Stark-Patch,” dead end of the SEC, to “Stark-Vegas,” a capital of college cool. I remember when the new Jitney Jungle opened, next to Harco and behind Danver’s (all gone, now, BTW).

READ  MORE AT TPC

More Lies and Some Theft Too

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Some states, moved by ignorance or communism, are planning to seize guns – cause they can…

Nine states have passed laws over the past year allowing police or household members to seek court orders requiring people deemed threatening to temporarily surrender their guns, bringing the total to 14. Several more are likely to follow in the months ahead.

More than 1,700 orders allowing guns to be seized for weeks, months or up to a year were issued in 2018 by the courts after they determined the individuals were a threat to themselves or others, according to data from several states obtained by The Associated Press. The actual number is probably much higher since the data was incomplete and didn’t include California.

The laws gained momentum after it was learned that the young man accused in the Florida attack, Nikolas Cruz, was widely known to be mentally troubled yet had access to weapons, including the assault-style rifle used to kill 17 students and staff members last Valentine’s Day at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

This is probably big with soccer mom and teevee watchers. Why stop with seizing only guns? To protect the children, is there anything not worth stealing??

Makes Perfect Sense

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Sallust was right and Coonman does come off as a pretty fair master.

The poll, conducted Wednesday through Friday, finds residents split over Northam’s fate, with 47 percent wanting him to step down and 47 percent saying he should stay on. Northam counts higher support among black residents — who say he should remain in office by a margin of 58 percent to 37 percent — than among whites, who are more evenly divided.

Of course. As I noted earlier, the GOP hand wringing is useless.

Social Media for the High IQ

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Many thanks to Vox Day and Co. for a social media platform for the bell curve right extremists: Social Galactic.

I’m there, @perrinlovett. It’s beta testing right now. And, with my SM history, don’t expect too much from me. However, it’s a great concept and a welcome change from the failure of Gab and the … letdown of Oneway. If you’re still on Faceberg or Twitter, it’s probably not for you; there’s a math test to get in.

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UPDATE: Well, that’s over. Site pulled. No socials for me for now.

Vox explains the “why”:

The Nine and Eugenics

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More on my reasoning, from TPC this week, that the Supreme Court is not a threat to Roe: John Roberts didn’t just now join with the liberals.

A divided Supreme Court stopped Louisiana from enforcing new regulations on abortion clinics in a test of the conservative court’s views on abortion rights.

The justices said by a 5-4 vote late Thursday that they will not allow the state to put into effect a law that requires abortion providers to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals.

Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. joined the court’s four liberals in putting a hold on the law, pending a full review of the case.

President Trump’s two Supreme Court appointees, Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett M. Kavanaugh, were among the four conservative members of the court who would have allowed the law to take effect.

Kavanaugh wrote a dissenting opinion in which he said the court’s action was premature because the state had made clear it would allow abortion providers an additional 45 days to obtain admitting privileges before it started enforcing the law.

Dear Baton Rouge, Mr. Roberts has made his ruling, now let him enforce it.

And, Allen Stevo has more on the connections between Coonman, the KKK, and Rehashed Nazi Eugenics, Inc.

Virtually anyone who has done an in depth and wide survey of the most influential American political writing of the past century, knows the strong encouragement that Eastern seaboard intellectuals have shown for both eugenics and abortion, that eugenics and abortion are both firmly at the root of the vast social engineering projects that stem from the progressive worldview, and which today get recycled and deceptively dressed up for the poorly read with well tested talking points. Of course eugenics isn’t openly paraded around because it is no longer a popular view, but eugenics remain at the intellectual foundation of progressivism.

The 21st century talking points around abortion being a civil right may sound wonderful and loving, the intellectual root of the ideas are horrifying.

Margaret Sanger herself, founder of Planned Parenthood didn’t don a faux Klan outfit in some goofy yearbook photo. Instead, according to her autobiography she spoke to the “women’s branch of the Ku Klux Klan at Silver Lake, New Jersey,” likely about the virtues of birth control for whitening and purifying the American population, as was an important topic for her. It was such an important topic that she started her “Negro Project” in 1939 to get black Americans onboard with their own population control, just as German racists were ramping up population control initiatives across the Atlantic. Such an important topic that in 1922, she placed notorious racist writer and Klansman Lothrop Stoddard on the founding six member board of directors for the birth control organization that later became known as Planned Parenthood.