Headlines

Mike Bloomberg just made the debate, can he keep his cool?

Coronavirus updates: Gottlieb says Japan on cusp of outbreak, France warns of pandemic risk

Bloomberg set for debate ... surges in poll

Wire — one thing unites establishment Dems: fear of Sanders

Trump threatens lawsuits over Mueller probe

‘Chernobyl like response’ by China means ‘worst is yet to come’ for coronavirus, Raymond James says

Bernie draws 17,000 to rally in Tacoma ...

Indie rock band plays for Bernie Sanders Tacoma rally

Mike Pompeo starts tour of Africa

Coronavirus scare leads fund managers to slash China outlook

Boy Scouts file for bankruptcy due to sex-abuse lawsuits ...

Bloomberg belittled farmers, mechanist as dumb in viral video ...

Headlines

Coronavirus live updates: Cases top 20,000, Macao asks casinos to close

SILVER: Might have screwed up whole nomination process ...

Chinese media: Coronavirus chaos proves Communism is good

‘What a f-ing disaster’: NBC hot mic moment appears to catch panelist trashing Iowa caucuses

Trump approval rating hits new high in Gallup poll [49%], despite impeachment trial

‘Biblical’ plague destroying crops across Middle East, Africa ...

Adam Schiff warns Donald Trump could give Alaska to the Russians

Liberal activists on Twitter celebrate Rush Limbaugh’s cancer diagnosis

Iowa caucuses debacle is one of the worst tech failures ever

Acquittal may have profound effect on presidential power ...

Donald Trump snubs CNN for State of the Union preview lunch

Clinton campaign veterans run firm that that built the disastrous Iowa caucus phone app

Headlines

Why some lesbians don’t want Pete Buttigieg to be president

A recession in 2020 would hurt Trump, but wouldn’t necessarily sink his re-election

Storm Watch: Dorian growing more organized as it heads for Puerto Rico ...

African migrants protest not being allowed passage through Mexico

Trump denies his Doral resort is infested with bedbugs

Key yield curve inverts to worst level since 2007, 30-year rate under 2%

Pew: 109 countries have become majority nonwhite since 2000 ...

Native American critics hesitant to accept Warren’s apologies

Iranian President says he’ll only meet Trump after U.S. drops sanctions

Amazon appears to be cutting prices at Whole Foods again

Footage from camera outside Epstein’s cell deemed ‘unusable’ ...

Woman gets NFL offer

Headlines

Mueller’s busy week offers new signs his report is coming soon

Europe turns its concerns to China’s growing clout as Xi visits

Border agency says ZERO new walls have gone up!

Sweden: Serious crimes committed by returned ISIS fighters

‘Not one woman has got that kind of coverage’: Beto backlash begins

Macron’s Africa visit reveals determination to weaken China’s grip on the continent

Yellow Vest ‘ultimatum’ rally turns violent in France ...

Christchurch shooter most closely aligned himself with China

Bernie Sanders’ staffers unionize in the first for a presidential campaign

Amazon’s 2nd headquarters faces new blocks in Virginia funding vote

Pentagon budget proposal in three words: ‘China, China, China’

Sanders receives stitches after cutting head on shower door

Demographics

"Demographics is destiny" -- Arthur Kemp

- Between 2015 and 2050 world population is expected to increase by 2.4 billion, 1.3 billion in Africa, 0.9 billion in Asia and 0.2 billion in the rest of the world

- China has almost three times the population of the United States

- Because of its past one-child policy, China's population is declining and is disproportionally male

- The United States, at over 326 million, has almost three times the population of Russia

- There are roughly 22 million illegal aliens in the U.S. (about 7%)

- The population of illegal immigrants in federal prisons is about 21%

- In 2018, the U.S. allowed in 1.5 million LEGAL immigrants

- Since the Roe v. Wade decision in 1973, there have been 60 million abortions in America

- In 2020, there will be more Hispanic voters in the U.S. than the black voters

- Russia lost over 20 million people in World War II and is still suffering a serious population decline

- At 127 million, the population of Japan is declining and should fall well below 100 million by 2100

Headlines

Trump backs off national emergency with no end to shutdown in sight

Investors are hiding out in cash. Assets in money market accounts surge past $3 trillion

USA secretly takes nuclear material out of Africa -- with Beijing's help

Donald Trump mocks Democrats for Puerto Rico trip

Barr pledges to allow Mueller to complete investigation

Cramer says the bear market in stocks ended on Christmas Eve

Poll: Trump approval lowest in year

ABC's Karl: Mueller report 'almost certain''to be anticlimactic'

Trump urges Turkey president not to 'mistreat' Kurdish fighters

GOP's John Kasich is looking to work for CNN or MSNBC as he considers running for president in 2020

Gilette ad challenges men to shave their toxic masculinity  ...

Evidence of operations at NKorea nuke facilities

Headlines

GOP scrambles to avoid shutdown

China's slowing demand for oil is a growing concern for the Middleeast

Regulation risk as high-torch giants head to Congress ...

Nike shock: Kaepernick npw face of brand ...

Trump rolls back worker safety rules

Jeff Bezos said he wanted to build 'space hotels' in his 1982 high school graduation speech

Amazon's secret deal with MasterCard to track offline sales ...

Marco Rubio floats military invasion of Venezuela ...

Trump blasts Sessions over charges against GOP congressmen ahead of midterms

China cracks down on cryptocuttrncy speculation, but not blockchain development

China investments in Africa raise concerns of new colonialism ...

Report: Wikileaks consultant mysteriously disappears

Headlines

GOP thinks bashing ing tech companies will rally their base

Pompeo brushes off North Korean 'gangster' claim, pursues more talks

DERSHOWITZ: I'm treated worse for defending Trump than I was for OJ ...

[Se.] Durbin: Trump admin has trapped children in 'bureaucratic cave'

Giuliani: Mueller probe 'most corrupt investigation I've ever seen'

Trump administration halts billions in insurance payments under Obamacare

Turkey dismisses over 18.000 civil servants over alleged terrorist links

Macron urges Africans to stay and 'suceed' in Africa, reduce birth rate

China behind North Korea's latest behavior, [Sen.] Graham says

Why Americans have fallen out of love with NASCAR

Protesters confront McConnell leaving Kemtucky restaurant ...

Rudy: No concerns if Cohen cooperates with feds

Fecal Facts

A kind reader has sent me the following blunt description of life in Senegal (one of Trump's shithole countries?) It is sympathetic yet honest as to what unlimited immigration from fecal African klyptocracies would mean to our American culture. Read it and see if you can still condemn Trump's Durbin-leaked comments:

“What I Learned in the Peace Corp”

By Karin McQuillan

Three weeks after college, I flew to Senegal, West Africa, to run a community center in a rural town.  Life was placid, with no danger, except to your health.  That danger was considerable, because it was, in the words of the Peace Corps doctor, "a fecalized environment."

In plain English: s--- is everywhere.  People defecate on the open ground, and the feces is blown with the dust – onto you, your clothes, your food, the water.  He warned us the first day of training: do not even touch water.  Human feces carries parasites that bore through your skin and cause organ failure.

Never in my wildest dreams would I have imagined that a few decades later, liberals would be pushing the lie that Western civilization is no better than a third-world country.  Or would teach two generations of our kids that loving your own culture and wanting to preserve it are racism.

 Last time I was in Paris, I saw a beautiful African woman in a grand boubou have her child defecate on the sidewalk next to Notre Dame Cathedral.  The French police officer, ten steps from her, turned his head not to see.

I have seen.  I am not turning my head and pretending unpleasant things are not true.

Senegal was not a hellhole.  Very poor people can lead happy, meaningful lives in their own cultures' terms.  But they are not our terms.  The excrement is the least of it.  Our basic ideas of human relations, right and wrong, are incompatible.

 As a twenty-one-year-old starting out in the Peace Corps, I loved Senegal.  In fact, I was euphoric.  I quickly made friends and had an adopted family.  I relished the feeling of the brotherhood of man.  People were open, willing to share their lives and, after they knew you, their innermost thoughts.

The longer I lived there, the more I understood: it became blindingly obvious that the Senegalese are not the same as us.  The truths we hold to be self-evident are not evident to the Senegalese.  How could they be?  Their reality is totally different.  You can't understand anything in Senegal using American terms.

Take something as basic as family.  Family was a few hundred people, extending out to second and third cousins.  All the men in one generation were called "father."  Senegalese are Muslim, with up to four wives.  Girls had their clitorises cut off at puberty.  (I witnessed this, at what I thought was going to be a nice coming-of-age ceremony, like a bat mitzvah or confirmation.)  Sex, I was told, did not include kissing.  Love and friendship in marriage were Western ideas.  Fidelity was not a thing.  Married women would have sex for a few cents to have cash for the market.

What I did witness every day was that women were worked half to death.  Wives raised the food and fed their own children, did the heavy labor of walking miles to gather wood for the fire, drew water from the well or public faucet, pounded grain with heavy hand-held pestles, lived in their own huts, and had conjugal visits from their husbands on a rotating basis with their co-wives.  Their husbands lazed in the shade of the trees.

Yet family was crucial to people there in a way Americans cannot comprehend.

The Ten Commandments were not disobeyed – they were unknown.  The value system was the exact opposite.  You were supposed to steal everything you can to give to your own relatives.  There are some Westernized Africans who try to rebel against the system.  They fail.

 We hear a lot about the kleptocratic elites of Africa.  The kleptocracy extends through the whole society.  My town had a medical clinic donated by international agencies.  The medicine was stolen by the medical workers and sold to the local store.  If you were sick and didn't have money, drop dead.  That was normal.

So here in the States, when we discovered that my 98-year-old father's Muslim health aide from Nigeria had stolen his clothes and wasn't bathing him, I wasn't surprised.  It was familiar.

In Senegal, corruption ruled, from top to bottom.  Go to the post office, and the clerk would name an outrageous price for a stamp.  After paying the bribe, you still didn't know it if it would be mailed or thrown out.  That was normal.

One of my most vivid memories was from the clinic.  One day, as the wait grew hotter in the 110-degree heat, an old woman two feet from the medical aides – who were chatting in the shade of a mango tree instead of working – collapsed to the ground.  They turned their heads so as not to see her and kept talking.  She lay there in the dirt.  Callousness to the sick was normal.

Americans think it is a universal human instinct to do unto others as you would have them do unto you.  It's not.  It seems natural to us because we live in a Bible-based Judeo-Christian culture.

We think the Protestant work ethic is universal.  It's not.  My town was full of young men doing nothing.  They were waiting for a government job.  There was no private enterprise.  Private business was not illegal, just impossible, given the nightmare of a third-world bureaucratic kleptocracy.  It is also incompatible with Senegalese insistence on taking care of relatives.

All the little stores in Senegal were owned by Mauritanians.  If a Senegalese wanted to run a little store, he'd go to another country.  The reason?  Your friends and relatives would ask you for stuff for free, and you would have to say yes.  End of your business.  You are not allowed to be a selfish individual and say no to relatives.  The result: Everyone has nothing.

The more I worked there and visited government officials doing absolutely nothing, the more I realized that no one in Senegal had the idea that a job means work.  A job is something given to you by a relative.  It provides the place where you steal everything to give back to your family.

I couldn't wait to get home.  So why would I want to bring Africa here?  Non-Westerners do not magically become American by arriving on our shores with a visa.

For the rest of my life, I enjoyed the greatest gift of the Peace Corps: I love and treasure America more than ever.  I take seriously my responsibility to defend our culture and our country and pass on the American heritage to the next generation.

African problems are made worse by our aid efforts.  Senegal is full of smart, capable people.  They will eventually solve their own country's problems.  They will do it on their terms, not ours.  The solution is not to bring Africans here.

We are lectured by Democrats that we must privilege third-world immigration by the hundred million with chain migration.  They tell us we must end America as a white, Western, Judeo-Christian, capitalist nation – to prove we are not racist.  I don't need to prove a thing.  Leftists want open borders because they resent whites, resent Western achievements, and hate America.  They want to destroy America as we know it.

As President Trump asked, why would we do that?

 We have the right to choose what kind of country to live in.  I was happy to donate a year of my life as a young woman to help the poor Senegalese.  I am not willing to donate my country.

Donald, Duck!

After a DACA meeting in the Oval Office, Democrat Senator Dick Durbin ran over staffers and guards to find a microphone and tattle that President Trump used the word "shitholes" to refer to Haiti, El Salvatore and four African countries ... saying that we should also be encouraging immigration from Norway rather than from these failed countries. The libs then took these comments and morphed his scatology into referring to the PEOPLE in these outhouses ... expanding the country list into ALL of Africa. "For shame, for shame! Our president hates black and brown people and wants only white immigrants!" ... as always, counting on the gullibility of the American people. This, kind readers, is known as "racial politics" ... as played for the last fifty years almost exclusively by Democrats.

Trouble is ... Trump is not shameable. Since most liberals can know what Trump is thinking, I guess I can too. He is here arguing for merit-based immigration ... and taking immigrants from certain failed third-world countries BECAUSE THEY ARE FAILED makes no sense whatsoever. Such immigrants are very likely to become wards of our government ... as opposed to those from the developed world who are much more likely to contribute to our well-being. And I strongly suspect Trump would rather have a black math teacher  from Haiti than a white street thug from Norway as a new immigrant.

Such comments, particularly if they are scatological can be easily demagogued into a racial slur ... which is exactly what many libs did ... CNN repeated the word "shitholes" 36 times in that evening's broadcasts. Does Trump care? Probably not .... as these media attacks are constant ... and seem to rum off Donald's back like water off a duck's. Perhaps, we might start calling Trump "Duck Donald" or even  "Donald Duck" because of this ability easily to shed such rabid criticism? (Or, perhaps the above-titled warning?)  And the Democrat media might even like it because they could take it as a slur ... when it is just the opposite.

Headlines

All from Internet news sites. Guess which from Politico?

North Korea faces serious food shortage after intense drought and 'very bad harvest'

Kim launches another one

Praise in San Francisco for Pelosi and Trump!

... Ingraham: I don't remember hearing 'repair the fence!' ...

Trump pushes Rick Scott to run for Senate during Irma recovery visit

Explosion at Fort Bragg wounds 15 special operators

School warns students not to chant 'USA!' at events ...

Swedish police may release murder suspect because they can't find an interpreter ...

FBI reveals wider use of Grand Jury subpoenas in Clinton email probe

Lindsey Graham adds his voice to those calling for Comey to testify again

West's appetite for chocolate devastating Africa's forests ...

CNN [chef] host Anthony Bourdain says he would poison Trump's food

Ebola Scare

This looks like a scene from a science-fiction B-movie ... see: YouTube Video. This was all because of a sneeze and a stupid airline passenger comment about having been to Africa. See the consequences in the included commentary.

Climate Disruptions

As previously noted the latest buzzword from the climate charlatans is "climate disruptions." Jerry Brown is blaming the current drought in California on "climate deniers" such as myself ... see: Breitbart Story . (Actually, I don't understand how anyone can deny such a thing as "climate.") Anyhow, to see how many climate disruptions that we have had in the 20th century, I went to Google and found the following table of natural disasters ranked by loss of life ... see: Natural Disasters of the 20th Century.  Peruse this table as you wish, but I will briefly summarize it here:

Droughts           26                (virtually all in Africa)
Earthquakes     25                (last one in 1990 in Iran)
Epidemics         17                (not assumed to be climate related)
Floods                 12                (none after 1959)
Typhoons           12                (last one in 1991 in Bangladesh)
Famines               4                (worst one purposely caused by Stalin)
Volcanoes           2                (Martinique, 1902 and Columbia, 1985)
Landslide             1                (Russia, 1939)
Storm                    1                (China, 1930)

(Please note that there are no hurricanes or tornadoes listed in these top 100.)

Ah, you say ... but what about the 21st century.  So I went back to Google and found the following: Top 10 Natural Disasters of the 21st Century ... which again does not include any hurricanes or tornadoes ... but does include two heat waves ... one in Europe in 2003 and one in Russia in 2010 which would have ranked 57th and 61st in the list of 20th century "disruptions.".  Is this enough evidence to scare the wits out of our children, try to starve plants of their sustenance (CO2), and turn our economies up-side down?

 I am still a doubter.

Ship-of-State Disasters

The Titanic

My previous speculation about Hillary Clinton running as a VP candidate along with Obama against the Romney/Ryan ticket might have led some to believe that I was a fan of Hillary’s. I am not … and never have been.  As I had previously indicated, I believe that she is nothing more than a political poseur … lacking in any real foreign policy vision or implementation skills.  Let me count the ways that I think that she has set this country back years, perhaps decades since she took her Foggy Bottom office:

- Her “reset” with Russia has seen Putin re-emerge as the belligerent bully he really is.  (George W. Bush had this one wrong too.)  Russia has opposed almost every one of America’s foreign policy initiatives regarding Iran, Syria and North Korea.  It (and he) is clearly not our friend but, increasingly our adversary.  Her silly attempt at cozying up with the Russian Bear has been met with repeated rebuffs.

- Her unthinking support of the Arab Spring has seen the Muslim Brotherhood take over Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, and now probably Syria.  Let’s not forget that her State Department re-established diplomatic relations with Syria only a few months before what is effectively a civil war broke out there.  Whether her misreading of what has been going on there is a result of her aide, Huma Abedin (Anthony Weiner’s wife), whispering in her ear is debatable … or her long-standing tilt toward the Palestinians.  But she really has botched things up there but good.

- The policy she has pursued toward Iran has been a demonstrable utter failure.  We have diddled and dawdled with supposed “sanctions” to the point where an atomic weapon capability in Iran appears only months away.  Iran’s Ahmadinejad is now hooking up with Egypt, his considerable friends in Iraq, and even elements in Saudi Arabia to present Israel the gravest of threats.  Yes, Syria seems to be escaping his grasp but, seeing how we bungled these other Middle East uprisings, I’m fairly confident we will screw up Syria too.

- Hillary’s and Barack Obama’s treatment of Israel has been nothing short of shameful.  We have been disdainful, untrustworthy, and naively dismissive toward it, our only true friend in the Middle East.  If and when this tinder box ignites, I (and many others) place it fully on Hillary’s shoulders.

- In South and Central America, Hillary’s and Obama’s deference toward Hugo Chavez of Venezuela and the Castro’s of Cuba has emboldened other nations there to drift even further left … Brazil, Argentina, Nicaragua, Ecuador, Paraguay, Bolivia … all are sounding more and more despotic and socialistic.  I can not think of a single diplomatic success story emanating out of this area of the world during Hillary’s tenure.

- Despite Hillary’s recent swing through Africa, very little progress there has resulted from our State-Department’s policies … which appear vague and wavering.  Africa, in general, is in such a state of disrepair that small initiatives and innovative diplomacy should have yielded great rewards. Where have we been?

- Hillary’s singular visible diplomatic success seems to have been in the Far East – Myanmar (Burma).  Supposedly through her efforts, this country is slowly emerging into the 21st century.  It has freed opposition leader, Suu Kyi, after 21 years of isolation and house arrest to take her seat in Parliament … and begun to introduce gradually democratic freedoms.  However, elsewhere, in this area of the world (China, Indonesia, Japan, Viet Nam, etc.) we seem to exhibit no clear diplomatic weltanschauung.

So, although I understand the tendency of many Americans to moon over our former first lady, I believe that a careful viewing of her tenure as Secretary of State will show her to be a titanic failure.

Afterthought:  Let us not forget that Hillary's State Department recommended against the building of the Keystone Excel pipeline from Canada.