Headlines

El Chapo allegedly bribed former Mexican president while in office

Brace for corporate defaults as Chinese firms with dollar debt are 'under increased pressure'

President says Chief of Staff 'will move on' ...

Democrats to investigate why Trump wants to include U.S. citizenship count on 2020 census

President blasts 'Little Adam Schitt' on Twitter

Survey: Wealthy investors say the bull market is coming to an end, but they don't blame politics

[PM] MAY: Getting rid of me won't help Brexit ...

Dems seek to allow religious head garb in Congress

Trump' Mexico-Canada deal hits trouble in Congress

The White House should challenge the Fed's rate hike rationale

Northeast coldest Thanksgiving on record ... 25 degrees below normal ...

Graham warns against Whitaker interfering with Mueller ...

Bubble Brain

I've often thought that nobody should be allowed to vote unless they can name the three branches of out government (legislative, executive and judicial), Now, newly-elected New York City Congresswoman, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, has exhibited stunning ignorance of even this simple fact. She thinks this answer is the "the president, the Senate and the House" (her new venue). If you don't believe me, please watch: Daily Wire News Video.

Now this 29-year-old new Representative has gone from being a Bronx bartender to a $175,000 per year gig helping to guide our ship of state. She has a cum laude degree in economics from Boston University and has promised her equally-clueless voters free healthcare, free housing, free college and just about free everything else ... without any clear idea of how to pay for this largess. (She also wants to eliminate the Columbus Day holiday.)

She clearly is a babbling bubbling brain ... naive as to what she is getting into. Unfortunately, she is not by herself in that reform school under the dome in Washington, DC.

Afterthought: However, one bright spot -- she is against the NYC tax giveaway to Amazon!

Parasite

Socialism is a parasite on capitalism. The former would not exist without the latter. Left unchecked, this mooch eventually kills its host. -- Anon.

In a Nutshell

How screwed up must America have been in 2016 that we elected a man like Donald Trump to get us out of the hole we were in? And it was the right decision because he is fixing things despite ferocious resistance from many of those folks who put is in our quandary in the first place. Our country is living through this violent clash of two distinct ideologies ... best described as globalism and nationalism ... analogous to socialism versus capitalism. In the past, Trump's flag, nationalism (and capitalism), has always carried us all to a better life. Will it once again?

(Ever notice that, like the socialist ruling class, the globalist elites are authoritarian plutocrats?)

Headlines

After trading barbs for a year, Trump and Newsom meet at California fire zone

Hit hard by trade war, automakers hoping Trump will hold off on next round of tariffs

Trump offers [Pelosi] help securing [speakership] votes ...

Michelle Obama memoire sells 725,00 copies on first da

Trump schedules Mississippi rallies to boost Hyde-Smith [candidancy]

Billionaire banker issues stark warning on brewing debt crisis: 'There's a lot of leverage out there'

Day 10: Stacey Abrams ends run foe [GA] governor ...

Dartmouth students sue three professors for sexual harassment, assault

House conservatives protest LGBT protection in Mexico-Canada trade deal

Fire-plagued California won't let insurers 'cram' through big rate rate hikes n 2019: state regulator

Foreigners dump U.S. treasuries, stocks ...

Another 3,000 caravan migrants arrive in Tijuana ... Mexican protestors grow violent

Generalizations

Generalizations are sweeping statements of what everyone always thinks about all the many facets of everything ... everywhere.

Still Winning?

Is Trump making progress on his MAGA agenda? Let's take a look:


- Orange County, California is now controlled by Democrats

- China's Xi is not yet bending on our trade war

- North Korea's Kim has stopped moving forward on denuclearizing

- The CIA has gone rogue leaking the Crown Prince connection to Khashoggi murder

- Our economy is apparently slowing to below 3%

- Mueller is a coiled snake ready to strike

- CNN's Jim Acosta is back in the White House

- The Central American caravan is still coming

- Out stock market is in a swoon

- Great Britain's is being sucked back into the EU

- The House has ordered boxes of blank subpoenas for next year

- Few NATO members have met their obliged contributions


So what is Trump going to be thankful for on Thursday?

USMCA

No wonder Orange County is now blue.

Headlines

Judge orders White House to return press credentials to CNN's Acosta

Trimp's trade war with China could disrupt the traditional Thanksgiving [stock market] rally

Household debt record high

Globalists latest push: Amnesty for all illegal aliens

John Kelly makes final bid to save Kristjen Nielsen's job

CIA determines that Saudi's crown prince ordered the killing of Jamal Khashoggi

Facebook investors call on Zuckerberg to resign ...

Pence, Xi trade barbs at Pacific summit

Progressives back Pelosi for speaker -- in return for more power

The way to avoiid World War III: avoid delusions about China and U,S. leadership

President says he has answered Mueller questions

Poll: Half of Americans share Trump's nationalist worldview

[Boy] Scout Oath

On my honor I will do my best to do my duty to God and country; to obey the Scout Law; to help other people at all times;  to keep myself physically fit, mentally awake and morally straight.

Obvious Truth #32

It seems the entire elitist world is elbowing each other, the meek and the infirmed out of the way in order to be credited with the last word on anything and everything ... even things they know nothing about. -- Anon.

(Me too?)

Bonanza! Update Again

Over 600 bot hits yesterday and over 3,300 so far today ... see: Bonanza! Update Chain. I'm pretty sure this is an inside (Google) job.

Powerline Pic

Cough, cough ...

Headlines

Trump to visit California on Saturday amid deadly blaze

Cramer says CEOs are telling him off the record the economy has quickly cooled

Gillum refuses to concede -- gains just one vote in recount ...

Majority of GOP voters: Deal with illegal immigration first

[Sen.]Cotton, Trump at odds over criminal justice reform

Canada may slap their own sanctions on Saudis

'Get out': Some Mexico residents  reject migrants arrival ...

Wikileaks: Julian Assange charged in U.S.

Facebook reconsiders Washington approach after Times reveals hardball tactics

Bezos to employees: 'One dau Amazon will fail' but our job is to delay it as long as possible

FACEBOOK DELETES 1.6 BILLION ACCOUNTS ...

California wildfires: 63 dead; number of missing hits 631

Caramba!

Once when Bart was in Cucamonga,

He stole a ride on Marge's Rhomba.

Homer grabbed hin by the neck

'Cause the Rhomba was a wreck.

He escaped ... with his famous "caramba"!

Headlines

McCarthy hits hard at Dems after winning minority leader post

Here are Warren Buffet's 10 biggest holdings now, half of which are banks

Caravan jumps border fence, no troops ...

State Dept: Iran spends $1 billion a year on terrorism

White House dumps senior official after clash with Melania Trump

Stormy Daniels' attorney Michael Avaneti arrested for alleged felony domestic violence

Feds collect record taxes in October ...

22 buses with 900 migrants near U.S. border

Nelson will likely come up short in his recount barrel against Scott

White House curtails Trump trade advisor Navarro's public role as Kudlow rip s him for China comments

China tech factory conditions spawn suicides ...

Trump calls Jerry Brown to offer support against California wildfires

Update Update

Today, almost 3,00 bot hits ... see: Bonanza! Update.

I Voted

Brenda Snipes, Election Official of Broward County, Florida

Daily Humor?

From the New Yorker magazine

Taint funny McGee. (Clearly the sky is falling.)

Shallow Thinking

There are some people who can't fathom that a "bad" person (Trump) can do many good things ... usually are the very same pundits who would not concede  that a "good' person (Obama) could do many bad things. You know who you are ...

Headlines

Republicans used redistributing to build a wall around the House. Trump just tore it down

New York Democrats pick a fight with Amazon over HQ2 in Queens

NY taxpayers to pay $48,00 per job at Amazon's new HQ ...

Trump: NYT story on N. Korea missile bases 'more fake news'

CNN sues Trump to get Jim Acosta's press pass restored

John Kelly may leave after clashing with the First Lady Melania Trump: NBC News

Court orders buoy Abrams in Georgia ...

China bans 10,000 people from social media for 'harmful political information'

Successful passage of FAA legislation means safer U.S. skies

Why oil prices have gone from four-year high to bear market in just 6 weeks

More US children get paralyzing illness, cause still unknown ...

Trump taunts Macron: 'No country more nationalist than France'

Bonanza! Update

Now it's almost 8 thousand bot hits just today!! I could be wealthy!

For reference, see: Bonanza!

Quotable Quote

Those who vote decide nothing. Theos who count the votes decide everything. -- Joseph Stalin

Sunspots

Climate scientists are sounding a warning. But this time it has to do with global cooling. It seems that lack of sunspots, like now, are a reliable predictor of lower global temperatures ... see: Daily Mail Article.

What? I thought that CO2 was the only driver of climate change? (Now it is sunspots ... and there are many others.)

Now, in order to save us from freezing, Al Gore, Barack Obama Jerry Brown and 97% of climate scientists are now pushing for more fossil fuel usage to increase CO2 to counteract our dimming sun. This we will have to do anyway to  burn to help us warm our homes.

Bonanza!

This blog and Google just hit the mother load ... had we been carrying ads here. The generous bot somewhere just gave us over 2,000 hits. Compare and overlay the above activity chart with the one offered in the explanation of this mystery in Google Grift.

Funny thing though ... these bot hits don't seem to go to any particular posts, locations., etc. You'd think these measures should reconcile?

Maybe I should start carrying ads and rake in the dough?

Headlines

Poll: Biden, Bernie, Beto lead 2020 Dem field

There is something about this market sell-off that no one is talking about: The strong dollar

Maxine Waters taunts Trump to 'keep his mouth shut' ...

Poll: 6ercent of Democrats say Republicans are 'racist,' 'bigoted,' 'sexist'

Theresa May: Brexit talks 'in the endgame'

Goldman's 'bear market risk indicator' signals returns will be zero the next twelve months

Jerry Brown blames Climate Deniers [for CA wildfires] ...

Jeb Bush accesses his appointee Brenda Snipes of breaking election laws

Defeated GOP lawmaker blames McCain's Obamacare vote for Demd' House takeover

Marvel Comics legend Stan Lee dead at 95

Justice Department  legal opinion to support Whitaker appointment ...

Turley: Dems will hit Trump with a 'storm of subpoenas'

Wwildfires

And they called the wind "Deniers"...

Headlines

Global leaders snub Trump and his nationalistic vision

Australia prime minister: Concerns about political instability are 'overly stated"

Death toll hits 31 from wildfires at both ends of California ...

Dem Sen. Coons: Acting AG Whitaker should recuse himself ..

Democrats vow to tighten the screws on Whitaker

Oil prices jump 2 percent after Saudi Arabia announces December soppy cuts

Macron rips Nationalism, 'old demons reawakening'

Trump pays tribute to 'great warriors' in cemetery visit ...

Cummings: I won't hand out subpoenas like 'candy on Halloween'

Trump cancels visit to US WWI cemetery due to rain, causing Twitterstorm

WSJ: Hillary will run again ...

Report: Putin has good conversation with Trump in Paris

Obvious Truth #31

"Nationalism is to capitalism as globalism is to socialism" -- Anon.

Like the 'invisible hand' of capitalism produces overall individual benefit ... so does the economic self-interest of nationalism produce an equivalent expansion in the wealth of nations.