Showing posts with label Koch brothers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Koch brothers. Show all posts

Friday, November 02, 2018

Headlines


Trump's 2018 rallies hint at 2020 plan

A private survey shows China's factory activity unexpectedly grows

Oprah set for rallys with Stacey Abrams in GA ...

Koch brothers: 'Against our principles' to end anchor baby policy

Florida Democrats call n Bernie Sander's to turn out college voters

Western universities may be inadvertently helping China's military: Report

Israel silent after Iran hit with violent computer virus ...

Jewish-Americans flock to firearms training in wake of synagogue attack

From Paris to Pittsburgh: Politics of terrorism shift against Trump

Tech stocks plunged in October, suffering their worst month since the 2008 recession

Italy plan to reward female families with state land to boost birth rate ...

Mayor Bill deBlasio forgets to honor NYC terror attack victims at memorial

Saturday, August 04, 2018

Battle of the Titans


It has nothing to do with Russian collusion ... or obstruction of justice. Nor Stormy Daniels nor Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen. Nor the separation of illegal immigrant families. It has nothing to do with Manafort's tax evasion trial nor Jim Acosta's  harassment.  Nor AR-15s. It has nothing to do with Michael Wolfe's or James Comey's best-seller books. These Trump scandals du jour  are merely  tactics in a much larger war ... a battle of the Titans ... much of the old-line TV and print media versus Trump and his followers. I have previously discussed the reason for these hostilities -- the contested supremacy of the media ... see: Uber Alles.

Who will win? Let's see ... it's most of the TV and print media, academia, Mueller, social media, Hollywood, the Chamber of Commerce,  many foreign leaders (particularly those with Herr starting their names), the deep state,  much of the tech industry, George Soros (and the Koch brothers ... talk about strange bedfellows), RINOs, the left coasts, Ivanka Trump, the Clinton posse, suburban women who want free abortions and birth control, (need I go on?) ... all these millions pitted against Trump, his Twitter feed, Sarah Sanders, some of Fox News, most of talk radio, middle America and a few Inherent news sites.

Any sane betting person would wager against Trump. But somehow he is still standing ... in fact he seems to relish the fight. If he prevails, it will be a much bigger upset than he pulled off against Hillary. But then things might get real interesting ...

Friday, November 10, 2017

The 1% of the 1%


It is now a big fat myth that the Republicans are the party of the rich.

I read a headline yesterday that said that Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and Warren Buffet together have as much money (almost $250 billion) as the lowest 1/2 of the U.S. population! To me, this is a surprising statistic  and caused me to go to Google to check out its validity. I asked for the top 10 wealthiest Americans and here is what Forbes magazine indicates who these nabobs are:

#) Name, Wealth, Source of Wealth

1) Bill Gates, $89.0 billion, Microsoft

2) Jeff Bezos, $81.5 billion, Amazon

3) Warren Buffet, $78.0 billion, Berkshire Hathaway

4 ) Mark Zuckerberg, $71.0 billion, Facebook

5) Larry Ellisom, $59.0 billion, Oracle Software

6) Charles Koch, $48.5 billion, Koch Industries

7) David Koch, $48.5 billion, Koch Industries

8) Michael Bloomberg, $46.8 billion, Bloomberg LP

9) Larry Page, $44.6 billion, Google

10) Sergey Brin, $43.4 billion, Google

I'm not sure that these 10 are the 1% of the 1% ... but I bet it's close. Now, here's the test to determine if you will receive an unlimited EBT card and an Obamaphone: What do 8 out of 10 of these billionaires have in common?  Hint: It involves politics ... lefty politics ... moonbat lefty politics ... knee-jerk moonbat lefty politics. Except for the Koch brothers, they're all liberals ... even those older fellows, Bloomberg, Ellison and Buffet.

So you see, faithful readers, that notion that Republicans are the party of the wealthy is just more fake news.

Monday, August 01, 2016

Headlines


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

NY Post splashes nude Melania Trump on cover -- two days in a row!

Erdogan cancels 50,000 passports

Exclusive -- NSA Whistleblower: Agency has all of Hillary's deleted e-mails

Trump's Running Mate [Pence]: 'I don't think name calling has any place in public life'

Muslim female [Olympic] athletes compete while covered

Report: [Clinton campaign manager] Podesta company bagged $35 million from Russian gov't

Women fastest growing group of gun owners in U.S.

Little girl throws tea party for cop who saved her life

Fire Marshal shuts doors on Trump again ... huge empty space inside

Hedge Fund Donations: $123M to Hillary, $19K to Trump

Globalists Kochs refuse to run ads against Hillary

Romney now says Trump can win?

Monday, November 02, 2015

A Country for [Rich] Old Men


Once upon a time very wealthy individuals used their largess to endow libraries, concert halls and museums. Not so anymore.

It seems now that rich old men don't want to leave our world to itself. George Soros is suspected of being behind the massive immigration of Syrians into Europe ... see: Breitbart Story ... and Warren Buffet believes that that our supreme liar Hillary Clinton (or even Bernie Sanders) would make a crackerjack president ... see: Business Insider Story. And, of course there are Harry Reid's bugbears, the Koch brothers ... who want conservative principles to prevail once again in this country. Of course, there are many other people of wealth who believe that this money gives them license to run things politically.

And even our younger plutocrats are fighting the existing social order. Bill Gates strangely now believes that the only solution to our world's problems is Socialism ... see: The U.K. Independent ... and everyone knows how multi-billionaire Donald Trump is grabbing the headlines with his thoughts for national change.

How come amassing vast piles of money in business suggests to these folks that all their ideas deserve to be worshiped?.

Saturday, May 17, 2014

Chaff


I am suffering from indignation fatigue due to a overabundance of national outrages … gender pay inequality, the Benghazi scandal, the Koch brothers’ political donations, the IRS’s Tea Party targeting scandal, climate change, the Fast and Furious government gun-running, the release of illegal-immigrant criminals, our botched foreign policy vis-à-vis Russia, the looming federal carbon tax, Obamacare disruptions to our health-care system, the return of school segregation, NSA eavesdropping, President Obama’s selective enforcement of our laws, Iran’s rush to atomic weaponry, the need to increase the minimum wage, Syria’s continued use of chemical weapons, extending unemployment benefits, continued lethargic national employment and economic growth, our refusal to approve the Keystone pipeline … and so on ad infinitum.

Perspicacious readers might have noticed that the above list contains numerous serious scandals of both commission and omission on the part of our current “government.” But every other outrage listed  is, in my opinion, chaff. Just like fighter planes release metallic chaff to confuse the tracking of enemy radar, the Obama administration and their henchmen are working overtime to manufacture news stories of little real consequence in order to crowd out their numerous serious failings. As a result, the public finds it difficult to separate the wheat from the chaff … and Obama, Pelosi, Reid, etc. are doing their level best to skate through the governmental carnage they have created.

Now, dear reader, you might take some notice of the placement of such chaff on the evening TV news and in our biased print media … and ignore it. We have many too many serious scandals that are being conveniently buried by all this mostly-manufactured filler.

Thursday, May 01, 2014

Flat Line


The United States reported yesterday its first quarter GDP growth at 0.1% … see: My Way News Story. Wow ... a measly 0.1%! This is clearly flat-line economic growth after 4.5 years of mucho-trillions of dollars of fiscal pump-priming by this administration and the unprecedented monetary expansion by our Federal Reserve Bank. This anemic financial news, instead of being reported by banner front-page headlines in the New York Times was relegated to the “Business Day” sub-section of this Obama public relations rag.

Can the media suppress this bad news until after this fall’s elections? Sure … it has a quiver full of Obama’s distracting phony stories to mitigate such voter downsides … the war on women, increasing the minimum wage, rampant racism, the Koch brothers, immigration reform, etc. Yes, the stock market is up substantially since 2009 … primarily due to the Federal Reserve Bank’s easy-money policies. Yes, “reported” unemployment is down to 6.7% … mainly because over three million otherwise-employable adults have dropped out of the work force … see: Christian Science Monitor Story.

It is clear as glass that this administration cares not a twit about economic growth or reducing real unemployment. There are a plethora of levers that they could pull to improve things … meaningful tax reform, oking the Keystone pipeline, more international trade reforms … particularly in the Far East and in Latin America, reducing bureaucratic regulations, reforming entitlements, streamlining government, etc.... none of which seem to be being grabbed.

Actually when one ponders this anemic economic growth, one could easily justify this 0.1% number just with the extravagant spending that taxpayers are footing to keep the Obama clan living in the luxurious style to which they have become accustomed … see: WND Story.

Monday, January 02, 2012

A Nutcracker of a Different Sort


In yesterday's New York Times Magazine there was this question in "The Ethicist" column from Edith Palmer of Brooklyn (where else):
I was excited to take my granddaughter, Rachel, to see a local production of "The Nutcracker."  But this season, the production was being underwritten in large part by David Koch, a billionaire who supports numerous political causes that I think harm our nation ... I'm sure my granddaughter would liked to see the show, but rather than validate this patron's actions and beliefs, I boycotted it.  Should those who feel as I do have joined me?
Ariel Kaminer's response, in short was "[You go girl], it's not [Rachel's] fault that Tchaikovsky makes strange bedfellows."  Read the entire misguided inanity here.  This seems a perfect example of "cutting off your nose to spite your face" (a tip o' the hat to Sissy for this analogy.)

Now the Koch (pronounced "Coke") brothers are a prime target of the left for their donations to right-wing causes.  These attacks are for the most part unfounded (see: Powerline Comments and follow the links therein.)  And the NY Times has been in the forefront in many of these scurrilous attacks (probably why this silly letter made it into this even sillier column.)  Should Edith Palmer (from Brooklyn) deny her granddaughter any loving affections because of her own soft-headed political bent?  Come on  ... does anyone think that the views of any political faction (even if thought-of as loony) could creep into a ballet dedicated to childhood fantasy?  Ooops, I forgot about Michael Moore ... but then he wouldn't part with a nickel of his own millions unless it was spent on his own indulgences.