Pushback on China

Here is a list of some of what the Trump administration has done of late to push back against what China is doing to undermine U.S. world political and technology leadership:

- Closed the Chinese consulate in Huston, a hotbed of spying and technology transfer ... see: CNN Story

- Required TikTok to divest itself of it U.S. operations to an American company ... see: CNBC Video

- Charged the head of Harvard’s Chemistry Department with lying about his ties to the Chinese government ... see: Yahoo News Story

- Lowered the hammer on Haiwei, China’s G5 communications company ... constraining U.S. chip sales to it, forbidding its technology to be included in any of our networks ... and in any foreign networks of countries with which we share intelligence ... see: Business Insider Article

- Requiring all Chinese companies listed on U.S. stock exchanges to comply, within three years, with all American generally accepted accounting principles and undergo an annual public audit by a reputable accounting firm ... see: Forbes Story

- More than 1,000 Chinese student visas have been canceled for those w who have been accused of ties to the Chinese military ... see: Forbes Article

- Repeatedly sent U.S. aircraft carrier groups through areas of the South China Sea that China has laid claim to by building artificial islands ... see: NY Post Story

- Last December the U.S. expelled two Chinese diplomats on suspicion of espionage activities .. see: NY Post Story

- And others .,.


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President plotting post-White House tell-all memoir ...

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He bought fencing coach’s house. Then his son got into Harvard ...

... surge of illegal immigration ‘undercutting’ Trump’s wage hikes

My Hat in the Ring

The presidential race is getting crowded on the Democrat side. Every day there seems a new candidate. It is possible that as many as 30 wanna-bes will be running in the 2020 primary. So why not? Today, I too will be declaring as a Social Media Socialist. My campaign slogan will be “pot in every chicken” and I promise that no one will go to bed unimpaired ... possibly hungry though.

I am seeking the endorsement of the Black Lives Matter Movement, #MeToo-ers, Maduro, the Southern Poverty Law Center, Chelsea Clinton, Vladimir Putin and the Harvard faculty. I also seek the support of the LGBs .. but not the Ts ... they are ruining women’s sports and crowding our restrooms.

I am starting a campaign finance committee headed by Anthony Weiner and a GoFundMe page. My monetary objective is two billion dollars or three bitcoins. I also promise a Green New Deal but with airplanes and hamburgers ... and without Brussels sprouts. If elected, I also promise to lock up every other politician and build a wall across the Canadian border ... and Trudeau will pay for it.

I realize I am a little old to be doing this, but then so are many of the other candidates. And besides, I think the world will end in only seven years. But I will pick a youngster as a running mate to compensate ... perhaps Weiner or Jussie Smollett?

I think the hat I am throwing in this presidential ring will be embroidered with MAAA — Make America Awful Again.

Headlines

Trump says he will withdraw from NAFTA, pressuring Congress to approve new trade deal

France to considers [declaring] state of emergency following fresh riots

BLINK: 90-day halt in new [China] tariffs ...

Schiff: Trump 'compromised' by Russian ties ...

Schiff: Mueller tried to 'lock in' Corsi with new plea deal

A chart suggests 'Santa Claus rally' is not coming this year

Mexico's new president vows to end 'rapacious' elites in his first speech

Brenda Snipes rescinds [Broward county] resignation ...

Trump, Xi call truce on new tariffs as trade talks continue

Mining software can't just be used for cryptocurrency -- it can be used to steal corporate secrets

Iran launches stealth warship in Gulf ...

Harvard student faces eviction for legally owned and stored guns ...

Savant Idiot

Larry Summers, onetime Treasury Secretary, President of Harvard (who left under a gaff cloud) and now a cable-news chattering head, last week poo-pooed President Trump's attempt to re-balance our international trade. He said on CNBC that he buys lots at his supermarket but it buys nothing from him ... and this is not a disaster. Thus, h,  a renowned economist, is implying that our huge trade deficits with China are not a worry.

To hear such liberal tripe from such a powerful voice in American policy making shocked me to the core ... and suggest why our country has been asleep at the switch for the last 25 years. Now, I am not a PhD. in economics, but I do know that Summer's has his bubble-head in the clouds on at least this issue ... for these reasons:

- Summer's supermarket analogy is misusing microeconomics. Asserting that this micro conclusion applies to macroeconomics is another gaff by one who clearly should know better.

- If Summers were employed by the supermarket he shops at ... and it bought his services as the other half of his analogy, then let's finish this lesson. If Summers spent much more there than he earned (like the current China trade analogy) them this supermarket would be the classic "company store" ... to which Larry would soon "owe his soul."

- The U.S. has been running growing trade defies with China for decades ... last year totaling about $375 billion. China then uses this sovereign wealth to but American assets. It would not take many more years of such an imbalance before China would effectively own the United States -- not a circumstance any of us (including Summer's I assume) would want to impose on our issue.

QED: Larry Summers is a savant idiot.

Headlines

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White House: China faces 'consequences' from militarization of South China Sea

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Poll: Harvard faculty says Trump has dome a 'very poor job' as president

[Chris] Matthews: 'I'm not sure trust is what the American people want of Trump'

Rudy Giulliani says Trump's on-in-law Jared Kushner is 'disposable,' warns against investigating Ivanka

Americans receiving unemployment aid lowest since 1973 ...

Giuliani: Basis of Muellrt case 'dead'

Lie-a-watha

Massachusetts Senatot Elizabeth Warren (aka, Lie-a-watha) has a reputation for stretching the truth ... like when she claimed to be part Indian to garner a law professorship at UPenn and then later at Harvard. Since then, she has parlayed this fake ethnicity into becoming the senior senator from the Bay State ... but has quietly dropped this native-American fantasy.

Now she is reveling in make-believe once again ... claiming to have been sexually harassed as a "baby law professor" in Texas. Her story was first unraveled in the Boston Globe of all places and now is fully exposed for her mendacity in the Boston Herald.

Like many of Warren's breathless pronouncements, this story smacks of hyperbole (or lies, if it were Trump). Her sexual "predator" clearly didn't chase her around the desk ... he was much older and had had polio. She clearly was not "shaking" because she joked about this incident when she lauded him at his funeral. All in all, Lie-a-watha wanted to jump again onto the "me too" self-promotional bandwagon. She is clearly a poseur all the way to the top feather on her war bonnet.

To be  fair, it's not that Senator Warren may not have some good ideas ... but when her initial heritage premise was a fraud ...  followed up by her additional fake grandstandings ... somehow she loses quite a bit of her luster.

Headlines

All from Internet news sites. Guess which ones from Politico?

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NAVY investigating if cyberattacks caused USS McCain crash ...

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[Breitbart columnist] Ben Shapiro's appearance at Berkeley remains peaceful

Mueller worked for Flynn-linked company not listed on ethics disclosure ...

Report: Iran boosts funding to $800 million for Hezbollah terrorists

Harvard withdraws invitation to Chelsea Manning after backlash

US military believes North Korea has the hydrogen bomb

Maddow interrupts Hillary Clinton interview -- for sneezing panda video ...

Terror arrests in Britain surge 68 per cent to record high

Headlines

All found on Internet news sites. Guess which ones came from Politico?

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Trump: Putin would prefer Hillary Clinton for U.S. president

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11 countries resume compliance with U.S. deportations, halving international resistance

Wray: l've given no loyalty oath to Trump

Harvard Faculty Committee recommends banning frats

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WaPo: NRA hurts itself -- with unwavering support for law enforcement

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These headlines are real ... they have all been discovered on Internet news sites. Guess which ones came from Politico?

One third of French voters either spoiled ballots or abstained

NKorea detains another American citizen ... 'hostage diplomacy' ...

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McCain hammers Tillerson in NYT op-ed

Putin sends warships into NATO waters

Trump to Senators: Ask [Sally] Yates who leaked classified information

Harvard students to hold their own 'black-only' graduation ceremony

TV ads order smartphones to spy ...

Army Rangers kill Afghan ISIS head, 35 fighters -- but at a cost

Democrats launch blitz on Republicans who backed Obamacare repeal

San Francisco Chronicle admits some anti-Trump protesters are paid

Group [Judicial Watch] sues for Sally Yates Justice Department emails

Headlines

These headlines are real ... they have all been discovered on Internet news sites.

Washington Post pushes theory that Trump and Putin poisoned Hillary

B-1B nuke bomber flies over SKorea to rattle Kim ...

Report: John Kerry's State Dept. funneled [$9+] MILLIONS to his daughter's non-profit ...

Hillary featured in 'Women's Health' magazine ... another boo boo

NPR station publishes anti-Trump comic [book] for teachers, students to use in class

Scientists besieged by polar bears at remote Arctic post

Bill Maher: 'I'd vote for dead Hillary'

South Korea tires of North, vows to reduce Pyongyang to ashes

Obama talks about himself 137 times in a speech for Hillary

NFL players holding America flag goes viral

NYT editorial: Candidates must release full medical records

Harvard profs denounce school's return to 'Putitan' worldview

Transomania

Elizabeth Warren

A blue-eyed female white Senator self-identifies as an American Indian. An obviously Caucasian woman claims she is black. A former male Olympic champion self-identifies as a woman. And on and on.

Is it possible that this current transomania (ability to self-identify as anything your very little heart desires) has opened the door to utter mayhem?

- Can I self-identify as a double PH.D. and become a professor emeritus at Harvard?

- Can I self-identify as impoverished and get an EBT card and an Obamaphone?

- Can I self-identify as a Medal of Honor winner and be buried in Arlington Cemetery?

- Can I self-identify as Meryl Streep and claim some Oscar statues?

- Can I self-identify as Sully Sullenberger and fly a 787?

- Can I self-identify as a Puerto Rican and pay no personal federal income taxes?

- Can I self-identify as an illegal immigrant and not have to get a driver's license or car insurance?

This is fun ... perhaps I will claim them all ... and you can't stop me ... otherwise you are a bigot and transophobic! And, of course, Hellery and Oprah will denounce you and Bruce Springsteen will never play another concert in your state! So there!

Gene Genome

Mind-boggling discussions are being held at Harvard about the possibility of synthesizing a complete human genome ... in other words, playing God by creating test-tube human life to our liking ... see: New York Times Article. Basically, scientists think that, within 10 years, they will be able to not just read (which they have been able to do for years), but write the entire three billion DNA sequences comprising the human genome ...  a remarkable achievement and one that means that the resulting manufactured human would be not the result of natural selection, but of unnatural selection.

The thing I am worried about is that it is believed that only about 10% of these chemical pairs have real use in the resulting human. The other 2.7 billion are effectively inert. What if things are more complicated than that? What if some pairs only have meaning in the presence of other pairs? It seems immensely wasteful for evolution to have spent so much effort at all these meaningless encodings. Science should have a much more detailed knowledge of our genome before we begin creating new life.

And , if we did have perfect knowledge, it is quite probable that, when reconstructing say Einstein's 3 billion chemical pairs, one or more DNA sequence errors will also be made. What might we have then? Frank-Einstein? I am not saying that such science should be shut down ... because we have repeatedly seen that the March of Science cannot be stopped by ethical concerns. Science must explore the unexplored ... no matter what the consequences. I just think that we should trod very carefully into this new arena lest we do something that cannot be undone.

Perhaps when the time does come, we might name the first fully manufactured human ... Gene Genome?

Cheap Suit

Harvard University is folding like a cheap suit ... once again. After protesters targeted Harvard for using the term "house masters" for leaders of its 12 college complexes ... apparently suggesting slavery to these pudding-headed students, Harvard has relented and now changed this title to "faculty deans" ... see: Daily Caller Story.

Once again the richness of the English language is being diluted by the slightest suggestion of past national sins. Is that old British nautical term "master" now banned in any context? Are young boys' salutations on letters now to be "Young Boy" instead of "Master?" What will the finest carpenters, "master carpenters," now be called? What about Master Degrees for heavens sake? Are Harvard and other universities going to relable them as ... "Slaveholder Degrees?" Will the Mona Lisa no longer be called an "art masterpiece?" And, lastly, what will we now call sexual self gratification?

Enough of this linguistic silliness! Shame on you Harvard! You are supposed to be one of the guardians of higher learning ... are you now just the guardian of cheap suits?

Bile Green

Can Dartmouth sink any lower? For a rarity at the college on the hill, a conservative was invited to speak to the undergraduates. Apparently the college Republicans had invited Rick Perry, outgoing governor of Texas, to speak at an open event and he drew a number of anal-sex questions from the audience ... some of which were printed on a flyer that was passed out by a sophomoric sophomore, Ben Packer. A typical example was, "Do you [Rick Perry] dislike bootysex because the peeny goes in where the poopy comes out?"

Another green weenie in the audience, senior Emily Sellers, asked the governor if he might engage in anal sex for a large campaign contribution. Wow … such disrespect from seemingly liberal artists! And freshman, Timothy Messen, snidely queried if Rick Perry thought that homosexuals were equivalent to alcoholics. Obviously not everyone in the audience was so crass, but to read more of the details of this sour event see: Breitbart Story.

Because of a recent similarly scatological story coming out of Harvard ... see: UK Daily Mail Story, and an overwhelming vote of the Dartmouth faculty to abolish fraternities and sororities, I was commenting to my wife that college professors must live in a parallel universe ... and she agreed. They must have dispatched pedagogical space ships to bring some of their more naively insipid students along with them.

Obviously, the Dartmouth administration cannot and should not punish these miscreant students like it once attempted to stifle campus conservatives for "vexatious" speech. But it surely would be appropriate to embarrass them (and a few of the more notorious faculty members) in some public way.

Afterward: Here is a link to a related article: Powerline Piece.