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Reports of protests are overblown. A few incidents around the country, but nothing major.

5 (45.5%)

A few major incidents in capitals, but nothing much in DC.

5 (45.5%)

A major incident in DC, but nothing much around the country.

0 (0%)

More than 10 capitals have major upheavals, but nothing much in DC.

0 (0%)

A major incident in DC plus more than 10 capitals with significant upheavals.

1 (9.1%)

More than half the capitals around the country have problems with protesters, but DC is quiet.

0 (0%)

DC has major problems, while more than half the capitals around the country also have considerable trouble with protesters.

0 (0%)

Huge disruption to the day.

0 (0%)

Total Members Voted: 9

Voting closed: January 19, 2021, 10:49:21 PM

[barton]

So........how's the DOW?

Look, there goes a squirrel!

[barton]

Summer time and living ain’t easy. Fish are dying as the temperatures climb.

http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/jan/18/australia-heatwave-sydneys-west-to-hit-45c-after-week-of-extreme-weather

113*F if my arithmetic is correct. No fun, that.

Pfffft.

Dakotans are cold weather braggarts.   Phoenicians are heat braggarts.   Either place,  if the power goes out,  we're dead.   At least here we can put on coats,  crawl into a sleeping bag,  and have some chance.   There's no garment that repels 113. 

[whiskeypriest]

Summer time and living ain’t easy. Fish are dying as the temperatures climb.

http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/jan/18/australia-heatwave-sydneys-west-to-hit-45c-after-week-of-extreme-weather

113*F if my arithmetic is correct. No fun, that.

Pfffft.

Dakotans are cold weather braggarts.   Phoenicians are heat braggarts.   Either place,  if the power goes out,  we're dead.   At least here we can put on coats,  crawl into a sleeping bag,  and have some chance.   There's no garment that repels 113.

Never skidded out into a ditch on a patch of heat.

You underrate the value of nekkid.

[barton]

  Never skidded out into a ditch on a patch of heat.

You underrate the value of nekkid. 

I'll bet that nekkid is valuable in a sandstorm.

On the ice,  ya got me.   My current vehicle, an S10, when it's on ice is pretty much a coffin with wheels attached.   

[LarryBnDC]

Summer time and living ain’t easy. Fish are dying as the temperatures climb.

http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/jan/18/australia-heatwave-sydneys-west-to-hit-45c-after-week-of-extreme-weather

113*F if my arithmetic is correct. No fun, that.

Pfffft.

Dakotans are cold weather braggarts.   Phoenicians are heat braggarts.   Either place,  if the power goes out,  we're dead.   At least here we can put on coats,  crawl into a sleeping bag,  and have some chance.   There's no garment that repels 113.

Never skidded out into a ditch on a patch of heat.

You underrate the value of nekkid.

Or as my Dad used to say, “I don’t recall anyone freezing to death in the summer.”

[LarryBnDC]

Twelve years ago...


“Here's the back story. After the 9/11 attacks, President Bush deemed it necessary for the speaker of the House, second in line of the presidential succession, to fly with extra security on Air Force jets. Then-Speaker Dennis Hastert, a Republican, used these planes more than 100 times. Pelosi says when she became speaker, the sergeant at arms of the Capitol decided she needed at least the same amount of security as Hastert and maybe more because of all the attention she's gotten as the first female speaker.”


https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7283476

[LarryBnDC]

How the hell does this guy have the juice to compel Trump to shut down the government over the Wall?



https://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/28/us/28ap-rush.html

[REDSTATEWARD]

News Item

Beijing Makes Trump $1 Trillion Offer To Seal China Trade Deal; Dow Jones Rises

JED GRAHAM12:14 PM ET
Beijing is reportedly promising the moon to reach a China trade deal with President Trump. A new Bloomberg News report says China has offered to buy more than $1 trillion in additional imports over six years, shrinking its $323 billion trade surplus with the U.S. to zero by 2024.


Investors seem increasingly confident that a China trade deal will happen but not necessarily a blockbuster like the above report.
Still, the news of a Chinese buying spree added a little hot sauce to the Dow Jones and broader stock market rally on Friday.

[HamiltonIII]

Cohen Hired IT Firm to Rig Early CNBC, Drudge Polls to Favor Trump

https://www.wsj.com/articles/poll-rigging-for-trump-and-creating-womenforcohen-one-it-firms-work-order-11547722801

So, when Trump said it was all "rigged" he was accurate in making that statement.

[HamiltonIII]

KOBANE, Syria — American military leaders are "constantly apologizing" for President Donald Trump's Syria withdrawal plan, according to the commander who oversees a force of 65,000 U.S.-backed fighters that's battling the Islamic State.

“It was a joint war, but they left us in the middle of the road,” said Gen. Mazlum Kobane, who is in charge of the coalition of militias known as the Syrian Democratic Forces.

U.S. troops and Kurdish-led fighters were "brothers in arms" as partners on the ground in the war against ISIS in Syria, he added.---NBC News

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/u-s-troops-embarrassed-trump-s-syria-plan-kurdish-commander-n960126

Embarrassing.

[HamiltonIII]

As 2019 gets underway, mainland Chinese equities are now outperforming the S&P 500. Trump faces an angry, opposition Congress that makes him a lame duck president who may see his polling numbers slip into the thirties by the summer. Democrats won the house on an anti-Trump wave. Impeachment is a real possibility.

The economy is not what it was in 2017. Fiscal stimulus is wearing off, and there will surely be no more of it.

Everybody knows the rest: The business cycle is getting tired. Economic expansion is now in its tenth year. By the start of the third quarter, if the economy is still growing, the U.S. would be witnessing a record long economic expansion. Few doubt this can keep on forever.

A weaker economy gives Trump less ammo to fight the trade war.

The hawks in Trump’s cabinet surely know this and might want to divide loyalties, with Mnuchin the easiest target thanks to his Goldman Sachs liberal economics background.

Assuming there is some friction among those negotiating with China, a weaker stock market could easily put a stop to the threat of more tariffs.



On Friday, Bloomberg summarized a 42-page report by mutual fund firm GMO, saying that a multiyear bubble in U.S. equities was deflating. Investors should go underweight the S&P 500, was Bloomberg’s takeaway. The report, loaded with mathematical equations, did not mention China.---Forbes

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2019/01/18/trade-war-update-is-the-door-closing-on-future-china-tariffs/#38628b185d32

[HamiltonIII]

(JTA) — Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz said she “must walk away” from the national Women’s March organization over the alleged failure of its leaders to condemn anti-Semitism.

Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., who participated in the first Women’s March in 2017 in protest against President Donald Trump, made her remarks in an op-ed published Friday in USA Today.

At “almost every turn,” she wrote, Women’s March co-leader Tamika Mallory ”has failed to clearly denounce” Louis Farrakhan, the leader of the Nation of Islam group, who has a “long history of anti-Semitism.”

“Instead, she has attended Farrakhan’s speeches and posted her support for him on social media, referring to him as the ‘GOAT’ — or, the Greatest Of All Time,” the congresswoman wrote.

“While I still firmly believe in its values and mission, I cannot associate with the national march’s leaders and principles, which refuse to completely repudiate anti-Semitism and all forms of bigotry.”

Linda Sarsour, another Women’s March leader, wrote last year about “folks who masquerade as progressives but always choose their allegiance to Israel over their commitment to democracy and free speech,” Wasserman Schulz said in the op-ed.

“This rhetoric is hurtful and shames the Jewish women who have stood for equality and inclusiveness since before the Women’s March even came into being,” she wrote.

Sarsour and other Women’s March leaders have apologized to what they acknowledged were missteps in tackling anti-Semitism, but some Jewish groups nonetheless have distanced themselves from the movement ahead of its third annual march planned for Saturday in Washington, D.C., and simultaneously in other cities across the country.
 


https://www.jta.org/quick-reads/debbie-wasserman-schultz-breaks-with-womens-march-over-anti-semitism-failures

You can't denounce Farrakhan?  He's your GOAT? WTF?

[HamiltonIII]

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46407999

Trump Russia: Seven legal headaches for the president:

1. Obstruction of justice

2. The presidential inauguration cash

3. Foreign influence

4. Trump hotel

5. Trump Foundation

6. Hush-money payments

7. Russian interference

That's lotta shit.

And likely only the tip of the iceberg.

And don't forget, Rudy Giuliani says we can't rule out that there was collusion.

[whiskeypriest]

  Never skidded out into a ditch on a patch of heat.

You underrate the value of nekkid. 

I'll bet that nekkid is valuable in a sandstorm.

Exfoliation.

[LarryBnDC]

(JTA) — Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz said she “must walk away” from the national Women’s March organization over the alleged failure of its leaders to condemn anti-Semitism.

Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., who participated in the first Women’s March in 2017 in protest against President Donald Trump, made her remarks in an op-ed published Friday in USA Today.

At “almost every turn,” she wrote, Women’s March co-leader Tamika Mallory ”has failed to clearly denounce” Louis Farrakhan, the leader of the Nation of Islam group, who has a “long history of anti-Semitism.”

“Instead, she has attended Farrakhan’s speeches and posted her support for him on social media, referring to him as the ‘GOAT’ — or, the Greatest Of All Time,” the congresswoman wrote.

“While I still firmly believe in its values and mission, I cannot associate with the national march’s leaders and principles, which refuse to completely repudiate anti-Semitism and all forms of bigotry.”

Linda Sarsour, another Women’s March leader, wrote last year about “folks who masquerade as progressives but always choose their allegiance to Israel over their commitment to democracy and free speech,” Wasserman Schulz said in the op-ed.

“This rhetoric is hurtful and shames the Jewish women who have stood for equality and inclusiveness since before the Women’s March even came into being,” she wrote.

Sarsour and other Women’s March leaders have apologized to what they acknowledged were missteps in tackling anti-Semitism, but some Jewish groups nonetheless have distanced themselves from the movement ahead of its third annual march planned for Saturday in Washington, D.C., and simultaneously in other cities across the country.
 


https://www.jta.org/quick-reads/debbie-wasserman-schultz-breaks-with-womens-march-over-anti-semitism-failures

You can't denounce Farrakhan?  He's your GOAT? WTF?

All politics is local.

Farrakhan has the juice of a 25 watt bulb these days. His influence peaked with Million Man March in 1995... but he is still strong locally and in pockets around the country especially in cities where black communities face economic and enforcement “challenges.”

Forcing black activists to publicly denounce the motherfucker is akin to saying, “well you for sure ain’t going to organize the folks in Clifton Terrace!” because in places where the citizens were caught between the police and the criminals without distinguishing who is who, the young men in the suits, ties and haircuts is what allowed ordinary people to get through the day to day.

That was twenty years ago, now there is one guy selling bean pies and the NOI newspaper at the corner of East Capitol and Benning NE and he’s been at it for FIVE years.

But as Farrakhan has done with every black activist since Jesse Jackson, he is making hay out of this attention.