Let Her Rip!

Nancy Pelosi wants the video of her ripping up Trump’s State of the Union address removed from the Internet. Bullshit! This is my small part in thwarting Nancy’s temper-tantrum cover-up.

Headlines

The strangest State of the Union ever

Coronavirus live updates: WHO says cases surged over 24 hours; Singapore confirms infant with virus

Van Jones warns Dems: Trump helping African-Americans ‘in real life’

Nadler: Bolton subpoena ‘likely’

China trade deficit shrinks as deficit with EU hits record high

Private payrolls surge in January, the best monthly gain in nearly 5 years

Biden’s poor [Iowa] showing rattles establishment ...

Poll: Bernie’s New Hampshire lead widens as Joe Biden falls

The Trump-Pelosi feud spirals out of control

What 4G did for mobile devices, 5G will do for everything around us

China unveils electronic trackers for suspected virus carriers ...

AOC rips Rush Limbaugh as a ‘virulent racist’

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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

MAGA Dittos

Rush Limbaugh gets the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Melania Trump at the State of the Union.

Petty Is

Even that secret never-Trumper, Chris Wallace from FoxNews, has said that it would be petty for the Democrats to hold a Trump “not guilty” vote until after his State of the Union address this coming Tuesday, 2/4/2020. Of course, this would not be any different from how they have conducted this impeachment process up until now: “The case is overwhelming, but we need new evidence.”

The vote is now scheduled for Wednesday. Petty is that petty does.

Headlines

U.S. intelligence chief breaks with Trump on North Korea, Iran, ISIS

Crime still plagues cryptocurrencies as $1.7 billion was stolen from investors last year

Apple opens new chapter as Iphones fall, stock sinks ...

EXCLUSIVE -- Roseanne Barr: 'We have Hamas in Congress'

Diplomats to hammer out details of Trump-Kim summit at DMZ meeting

Severe winter weather grounds more than 1,000 flights as U.S. airlines wave change fees

Consumer confidence falls again ...

Limbaugh: What's the difference between Stormy Daniels and Kamala Harris?

Stacey Abrams to give Democrat response to State of the Union

Trump is slammed by his biggest media supporting ters after reopening government without wall

Howard [Schultz] slams Kamala's plan to abolish health insurance ...

Harris: 'False choice' to say 2nd Amendment covers 'assault weapons'

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Trump exasperated by gaffe-prone Giuliani

Government debt tab hits $66 trillion, 80% of global GDP

Centrist Dems urge Pelosi to break stalemate ...

Pelosi refuses to grant Trump access for state of the Union message

Poll: Shutdown, Russia drive Trump disapproval to all-time high

White House chief economist: We could see 'zero' growth in first quarter ...

USA recognizes Guado as [Venezuela] president

Report: Musk's charitable foundation benefits family and friends

White House going ahead with State of the Union plans

More homes for sale, but fewer are affordable

Michael Cohen delays Congressional testimony ... safety fears ...

Kushner: GOP Senators to offer green cards to illegal aliens

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Centrist Dems urge Peloai to break shutdown logjam

US cancels trade planning meeting with China, sources say

McConnell schedules dueling shutdown votes ...

President Trump: Covington Catholic students.'smeared by media'

Supreme Court seems to rebuff Trump's push for a quick DACA hearing

The unusually large drop in home sales has real estate agents baffled

Maduro on brink?

Taliban resumes peace talks with U.S. 'Hours' after killing at least 45

Republicans load spending bill with hardline measures targeting asylum

Trump moves forward with State of the Union plans despite Pelosi's request to postpone it

'Rapid military escalation' between Israel and Iran ...

Democrat to Pelosu: 'Get in the damn room' with Tr,p over border wall

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Can Joe Kennedy beat the State of the Union curse?

Justice Ginsberg skipping Trump's State of the Union to give her own remarks

Only one woman wins a main [Grammy] award ...

Poll: Black Americans the most supportive of dramatically reducing legal immigration levels

Donald Trump adores Emmanuel Macron

Nikki Haley blasts the Grammys after [Hillary's] 'Fire and Fury' reading

Report: Facebook traffic plunge ...

Gowdy: Leave Mueller 'the hell alone'

Kochs find areas of agreement with Trump

Trump administration is thinking about nationalizing 5G mobil nerwork

Kabul on high alert after ambulance bomb toll tops 100 ...

Italian populist leader promises to deport 500,000 immigrants

Memorable Lines

Tonight, in his State of the Union address, President Obama will deliver a number of memorable lines that will most certainly go down in the annals of history.  Here are just a few of them:

"The New York Rangers have crossed a blue line …"

"If I had a son, he should look a lot like me …"

"We will hunt down all those lawyers … and bring them to the Justice Department …"

"A nursery full of better clingers …"

"Albinos are just typical white persons …"

"If you like your Heath Bar, you can keep it …"

"If you’ve got a business like Solyndra, you didn’t build that …"

"It was all Bush’s fault …"

"You folks … don’t forget … I won …"

Womb to Tomb

In his recent State of the Union message, President Obama has proposed a pedagogical initiative for preschoolers … a Super Head Start Program if you will.  (See: Breitbart Article).  This mandatory (babysitting?) program would involve the federal government matching state funds in order to send children age four and up to preschool … on the governments’ dime … and with Big Brother's oversight and controls.  Here is the meaningful quote from the above article: 

Qualifications for the funding include: teachers would have to hold college degrees in certain categories related to education, restrictions on class size, and a government-approved curriculum.

The catch-term for intrusive government used to be called “cradle to grave.”  Now, since our Solons have determined that they have a lot to say about whether a baby gets born, it really is now “womb to tomb.”  I don’t know about you but I am really beginning to think George Orwell was a major prophet when he wrote his books, Animal Farm and 1984.  I still recall, in my callow youth, a certain dismay at seeing how Russia and China were taking over the rearing of small children at the height of these countries' ideological frenzies … in order to indoctrinate them into the ways of the State.  Now its our turn.

I can’t leave this blog post without repeating one last quote from Our Dear Leader in this same speech to Congress: “Let me repeat – nothing I’m proposing tonight should increase our deficit by a single dime.”

Joesph Goebbels was right: “If you tell a lie often enough, it becomes the truth.”

"His hour upon the stage

And then is heard no more. It is a tale. Told by [a politician], full of sound and fury.  Signifying nothing."  Macbeth by Shakespeare  Full Text of SOTU Speech

Also see: Krauthammer Comments

Salmon-ella

In his recent State of the Union Address, Obama mocked the fact that "the Interior Department is in charge of salmon while they're in fresh water, but the Commerce Department handles them when they're in saltwater."  I can see it coming ... can't you?

  A Salmon Czar!!

And?

Last night Obama gave his State of the Union Address (see: State of the Union Address).  Although I have only heard a few excerpts, I did notice the following quote this morning, "We live and do business in the Information Age, but the last major reorganization of the government happened in the age of black-and-white TV. There are 12 different agencies that deal with exports. There are at least five different agencies that deal with housing policy." 

Unfortunately, he then didn't then call for the consolidation of these federal agencies into just three or four.  How about it House member, Paul Ryan ... can you propose this in your new government cost-cutting measures?  I don't think, given what he just said, President Obama can seriously object.

A Stopped Clock Is Twice Right

President Obama occasionally gets things right. In his State of the Union address he called for more "safe, clean nuclear power plants." And yesterday he called for $54 billion of federal loan guarantees to those who would build this new generation of nuclear power. See: Loan Guarantees. IF we can take him at his word (the big "if" is on purpose), then this would be an important step forward in the U.S.'s attempt to achieve energy independence. In this speech he also mentioned more offshore drilling for gas and oil. This would be wonderful if it happened, but my cynicism takes over here and such a development (ANWR too?) I'm afraid, is even more suspect.

It would seem to this author that the real path to our nation's energy independence might require the following steps:
1) Build as many new nuclear power plants as can be economically financed and open up Yucca Mountain for long-term nuclear waste disposal (if required).
2) Aim to generate all our electrical needs from nuclear energy (east and west coast) and from coal-fired plants (middle America). No more natural gas and oil-fired electrical power plants should be given permits.
3) Encourage all Americans to heat their homes with natural gas and help build the infrastructure and offer the tax incentives to accomplish this. The objective should be no more oil-heated homes.
4) Specify that kerosene, diesel fuel, and gasoline are the most desirable fuels for transportation vehicles (air, rail, and ground). Offer the necessary incentives to achieve better mileage in these vehicles (including hybrid technology). Investigate liquefied coal as a long-term vehicular fuel option.
5) Set a national goal of ceasing all foreign oil imports within ten years (using the above methodologies and including oil recovery from our vast oil shale deposits.) I predict that the price of Mideast oil would plummet as a consequence of just such a goal setting.
6) Stop wasting federal funds on solar, tidal, geothermal, and wind-power projects and use these funds instead on the above items. Let the private sector fund any of these "green" projects that make any economic sense (likely very few).

I can dream can't I? Tick ... tick ... tick.