Below are the words from my daily political diary. It is quite long so scroll on by if not interested. But do stay around and add your commentary and point of view to the thread.
5/14/19
TRUMP, CHINA AND TARIFS
Let me admit right now that I don’t understand tariffs. As my limited understanding is …a tariff is an extra charge put on good imported or exported. Generally that cost becomes part of the cost of goods sold and the consumer pays the tariff.
That’s pretty general and only half right I suppose but what I do know is that China agreed to a tariff arrangement with America and come the time to abide, they renege.
The Chinese….lying and stealing intellectual property is their way of life. The Chinese are fairly nice and industrious people but they are owned and operated by their government. And the government says to cheat, lie and steal intellectual property is okay.
So they do.
Stock market dropping over a thousand points past week.
I think the Chinese will cave.
LET’S CHECK WHAT DELAWARE’S UP TO.
Well we gave you Biden, thank us very much.
The Delaware legislature is at the orgasm of the fiscal year. Every year as the calendar runs up to the end of June and the end of the legislative year, the lights burn bright in Dover as sneaky legislature is enacted.
Here’s a review:
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Senate Bill 82
Permit to Purchase Firearms
Sen. Laura Sturgeon, D-Sharpley
Replacing Senate Bill 69, this new bill makes changes to the language of the original. The revised proposal still seeks to create a system whereby Delawareans would need to obtain a "handgun qualified purchaser card" to purchase a handgun, or a "firearms qualified purchaser card" to buy rifles or shotguns. Obtaining the appropriate card would require applicants to complete a firearms training course, similar to what is required by Delaware's concealed carry permit law. The bill would also create a database of all firearm sales and transfers that would be accessible by law enforcement agencies and the court system. Individuals with concealed carry permits would be exempt from the bill's requirements.
STATUS: Discussed in the Senate Executive Committee this week, but not acted on.
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NOT ACTED ON. Believe me the gun owners were out in force over this one. Because they will take our guns, they will record who gets one, they WILL TAKE AWAY OUR GUNS COME HELL OR HIGH WATER.
Maybe we’re safe for another year.
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Senate Bill 70
Limiting Firearm Magazine Capacity
Sen. Dave Sokola, D-Newark
Also known as the Delaware Large Capacity Magazine Prohibition Act of 2019, this measure seeks to ban the sale and ownership of any firearms' magazines in Delaware with a capacity of more than 15 rounds of ammunition. Under the bill, possession of a large-capacity magazine would be a class B misdemeanor for a first offense and a class E felony for any subsequent offense. The bill would establish a buyback program for non-conforming magazines, at $10 per magazine. STATUS: Discussed in the Senate Executive Committee this week, but not acted on.
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Can’t have too much ammunition. Because if we can’t take your guns away, WE’LL TAKE AWAY YOUR AMMUNITION!!!
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Senate Substitute 1 for Senate Bill 68
Banning the Sale of Certain Semi-automatic Rifles, Shotguns, and Handguns
Sen. Bryan Townsend, D-Newark-Bear
Introduced yesterday (5/9), this measure replaces Senate Bill 68, removing the "voluntary certificate of possession process" that was in the original legislation. According to the sponsor, the new bill is similar to the forerunner "in all other respects." It continues to seek banning the sale of dozens of specific makes and models of semi-automatic rifles, shotguns, and handguns in Delaware, as well as weapons with a combination of certain attributes. Those features include: a folding stock; a grenade or flare launcher; a flash suppressor; and a pistol grip that "protrudes conspicuously beneath the action of the weapon."
STATUS: Pending action in the Senate Executive Committee.
Maybe if we can’t take all of your guns, WE’LL BAN THEM MODEL BY MODEL UNTIL WE GET THEM ALL!!
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House Bill 140
Physician-assisted Suicide
Rep. Paul Baumbach, D-Newark
This bill seeks to create a process that would allow terminally ill Delawareans, with less than six months to live, to obtain and self-administer a lethal dose of medication. The patient's attending physician and a consulting physician would need to confirm eligibility and that he or she was capable of making an informed, rational decision. Individuals seeking this option would be required to be presented with all available alternatives including comfort care, hospice care, and pain control. Two waiting periods would be built into the process. The bill would not allow anyone to request the fatal dosage on behalf of another individual. The Medical Society of Delaware opposes the measure. As of that start of this year, only six states have enacted assisted-suicide laws (California, Colorado, Hawaii, Oregon, Vermont, and Washington). In Montana, the process is legal as the result of a court action.
STATUS: Discussed in the House Health & Human Development this week, but not acted on.
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If you want t kill yourself, GET A BUNCH OF PILLS AND DO IT YOURSELF!!! DO NOT GET THE GUBMINT TO DO IT ELSE THEY WILL KILL ALL OF US WITH OUR OWN GUNSTHAT THEY CONFISCATED!!!
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House Bill 130
Ban on Plastic Shopping Bags
State Rep. Gerald Brady, D-Wilmington West
This bill seeks to ban many Delaware retailers from distributing single-use plastic shopping bags. It would prohibit larger stores (at least 7,000 sq. ft.), and smaller stores with multiple locations, from issuing the bags starting in 2021. According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, only three states -- California, New York, and Hawaii -- have banned single-use plastic shopping bags. STATUS: Released from the House Natural Resources Committee. Pending action in the House of Representatives.
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If we can’t take your guns, WE’LL TAKE YOUR PLASTIC BAGS!!!!
I say use the damn things to empty your cat litter pan.
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So there you have it, all proposed by Democrats, all to take away our rights, all to have gubmint control our lives. 5/15/19
ATTORNEY APPOINTED BY WILLIAM BARR TO INVESTIGATE THE FBI’S FABULOUS COUNTERINTELLIGENCE INVESTIGATION
His name is John Durham and as these things go he is acclaimed as wonderful, fabulous, handsome, glib and a wonderful attorney.
The politicos always say this when someone is appointed to investigate some issues for the gubmint.
I never heard of John Durham but then I don’t live in the swamp, never even visited the place.
BUT…..Comey and his band of merry federal police should be worried. You don’t go inserting yourself in Americans’ personal business, including presidential contenders, based on some stupid dossier. You don’t go inserting people in those campaigns to spy on them, to hope to cause them to lose the election, at the least, get rid of them even if the stupid people of America voted him in.
THE FBI KNOWS WHAT IS BEST FOR US STINKY MINIONS.
I can’t wait to see that arrogant Comey marched off to jail. He needs to stop writing books, granting interviews and acting like he knows all.
If I had one wish for this Durham guy….go after COMEY FIRST!
Get him the hell out of our lives!
ROD ROSENSTEIN TAKES ON JAMES COMEY
First, based on all I’ve read about the Assistant Director of the FBI, Rod Rosenstein, I don’t know whether he is friend or enemy. One of the big rumors going on about Rosenstein is he was somehow involved in some cockamamie plan to wear a wire and record the president.
I am not convinced Rosenstein is all that innocent but I do believe the guy knows the jig is up and James Comey will be writing his books in jail.
I like that bit about “trampling bright lines that should never be crossed”. And allegedly it was Rosenstein who urged President Trump to fire Comey.
So Rosenstein is out and about and mocking Comey, which alone shows he has some good sense.
Rosenstein is no longer the deputy Attorney General, having resigned from the position recently.
Looks like he’s working on NOT going to jail.
MAY DORIS DAY REST IN PEACE
She loves animals and took care of many in her later years. She had a song that will last forever…”Que Sera”. She was involved some way with Rock Hudson although it turns out that Rock got Aids and was not into women.
Here’s hoping Day is in heaven, right near Rainbow Bridge, where there are lots of dogs to join her through eternity.
5/16/19
DONALD TRUMP JUNIOR TO TESTIFY BEFORE SENATE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE
I don’t know who this asshole Burr is except he’s from North Carolina and will betray for most any reason.
President Donald Trump’s eldest son will give private testimony in front of the Senate Intelligence Committee in mid-June, as a result of a deal revealed on Tuesday.
Donald Trump Jr. will answer questions limited to five or six topics for up to four hours, reported Politico.
I just do not know why the White House and all those lawyers are allowing such a thing.
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HERE Committee chair Richard Burr, the senior Republican senator from North Carolina, created tension with Trump’s allies after issuing a subpoena for the president’s son’s testimony, reported The New York Times. (RELATED: Montana’s Democratic Gov Steve Bullock Announces 2020 Run)
Trump Jr. had already volunteered to show up for interviews but failed to appear twice, Burr told other Republican senators last week according to The NYT.
Now Burr is accused of caving to Democrats who are trying to weaken the White House’s position.
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US NON-ESSENTIAL EMPLOYEES IN IRAQ TO LEAVE THE US EMBASSY IN BAGHDAD.
Been hearing about attacks on Saudi buildings, boats and airplanes. Supposedly it’s the “Houthies” or some such, a non-intelligent terror group as they mostly are. A group supported mightily by Iran.
Iran….a country that needs to go. About once every ten years the people of Iran rise up in protest. Many of them are killed, America tries to help but it’s not on us to get involved deeply in other country’s internal issues.
Iran….used to be Persia. I used to date a Persian. Handsome, handsome dude. Wanted me to go live with him in Persia. Said I’d have to wear a hajib to meet his mother.
Me? Not gonna happen. But like I said, he was a handsome dude, loved his country.
Now it’s a swamp filled with nasty Mullahs supporting terrorists all over the world.
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WOMAN SHOVES 74 YEAR OLD MAN OFF BUS TO HIS DEATH.
So she spends the rest of her life in jail.
GOOD!!!
Justice, it’s sweet.
A video of how she violently shoved this man to his death included at the link below.
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HERE Police in Las Vegas have released shocking surveillance footage showing the moment a woman violently pushed an elderly passenger off a bus to his death as she now faces murder charges.
Serge Fournier was reportedly telling the unruly woman on the bus to be nicer to other passengers after she was heard cursing when he was shoved off the vehicle and landed head first on the sidewalk.
Video shows the 74-year-old being shoved down the steps of the public transit bus and smashing his face on the concrete ground.
In the CCTV clip taken from the bus' security cameras, a woman can be seen talking to Fournier as he walked past carrying a walker and heading towards the door.
Then as his back was turned she violently shoved him with both hands, sending the elderly man crashing down the steps.
5/17/19
DIBLASIO…..WHAT THE HELL IS HE DOING?
It’s been a long time since Rudy Giuliani was Mayor of New York. Giuliani was a great mayor, greatly reducing crime, making Times Square fun again and most important, he was NY’s Mayor when those planes hit the towers.
Can you imagine that horrible Diblasio running things after September 11, 2001?
The man is not liked save by the illegal immigrants in NY and a couple of lefty buddies. In fact The NY Post points out:
“If you’re not laughing, then you don’t know Bill de Blasio like we know Bill de Blasio.”
ALABAMA'S ABORTION LAW
I am a bit confused by Alabama’s new abortion law. Not that I don’t understand it. Abortion, save in any case where the life of the mother is in danger, is illegal for all examples.
The scuttlebutt is that the idea is that this law will be appealed up to the Supreme Court. With Gorsuch and Kavanaugh now on the court, it is hoped that the court will refuse to make the law illegal and return such as abortion decisions to the states.
Banning Roe vs. Wade, in other words.
I got mixed thoughts on this matter. Although I don’t suppose abortion will ever be banned in America. Some states might ban it but one wanting an abortion can likely go to another state where it’s legal and have an abortion.
That thought boggles the mind but it is argument against any debate that banning abortion takes away such an important decision for a woman.
Here’s what I know….Rush Limbaugh said that he knows some women want an abortion because of conception by rape or incest. And that is a situation that boggles the mind. I would not want to have a rapist’s baby.
BUT…like Rush says…the argument against abortion for rape is that it’s not the baby’s fault.
And it is not. Of course not.
Same with incest. A 14 year old girl made pregnant by her father…well it’s sad. But again, it’s not the baby’s fault.
All those so vehemently pro-choice have to do to change minds is find a 12 year old girl made pregnant by her own father. Bring her on CNN, interview her. Show her crying and expressing hate for those who are making bear her father’s baby.
Trust me. No one will say that it’s not the baby’s fault.
I think a female should be able to abort a baby up until three months along. None of this waiting until seven months to determine sex, than abort. Certainly a baby should not be killed AFTER birth as allowed in Virginia and New York. Maybe not Virginia but their Governor knows all about it.
Yes I think aborting a child after conception is murder. But for now, at this point, we can’t all of a sudden bring back back-alley abortions and deny women their choice. Let those who think it’s okay to abort to face their savior and get any consequences on judgment day.
PRESIDENT TRUMP OUTLINES LEGAL IMMIGRATION PLAN
President Trump gave a short montage of his ideas to change LEGAL immigration. He wants to eliminate something called the Flores 20 day rule, which limits the holding of children to 20 days then they what? Become citizens?
Trump wants merit based immigrants rather the large percentage of family in America as entrance.
Trump states that if he gets no action on this congress they will wait until 2020 when the Republicans take back the House, already have the Senate and, of course, the presidency.
5/18/19
A LOOK AT A FEW OF THE PRESIDENTIAL CONTENDERS FOR THE DEMOCRATS
It hasn’t been a busy news day and I’m bummed as I learned that Rush Limbaugh will be gone the first three days of next week.
Sigh.
So I thought I’d do a quick piece on a few of the current crop of Democrats who have thrown their hats in the ring to gain the Democrat nomination to run against President Trump.
I understand there’s about 23 of them at this point. I will comment on those that stand out to me as very obvious with their intentions.
-Buttigieg….this guy is running as a test to see if America is ready for a homosexual president, add another test is to see if America is ready for a president male married to another male.
No way will this guy win but he’s being financed by some homosexual lobby to see what the result of his run will be.
-Joe Biden….won't be too long, either his son's shame or something else will knock him down.
I believe Joe, against all odds, threw his name out there because this is his last chance. Guy’s been a senator for yay many years, VP for seven, and he’s done pretty much nothing. And his son, Hunter, is involved in some Ukraine scam, along with Joe, that will not remain secret. I said he wouldn’t run and I was wrong. I say he won’t get the Democratic nomination but at this point the Democrats are so desperate to get a more “normal” type they’re hoping Joe Biden, with his VP background, can carry the load and beat Trump.
Won’t happen. And Biden choosing Philadelphia as his base of operations has pissed off most of Delaware. Our tiny state has carried Biden to where he’s at but he needs Pennsylvania in order to win, the hell with small Delaware and its two electoral votes.
-Bernie Sanders….will never beat Trump, won’t get the nomination, is boring and has some skeletons in his closet.
--Bill DiBlasio….heh…nobody wants him. His town can’t stand the guy.
--Corey Booker….AKA Spartacus hopes to run on his being black and sneak in on President Obama’s coat tails.
--Kirsten Gillibrand….nope. Would be nobody if not for Chuck Schumer and changes positions depending on the weather.
--Beto O'Rourke…heh. We can see him shave and run and live the life of an average American.
--Elizabeth Warren….looking for VP slot, trust me.
That’s my assessment for now. Folks, I hope Biden gets the nod. He’s too gaffe-prone to carry it through.
Harris.