At Vanity Fair, "Giant Baby Trump Balloon May Follow Trump All Over the U.K."
Thursday, July 12, 2018
Alexis Ren Working It!
She's on Twitter.
And at Hollywood Tuna, "Alexis Ren Is Working Hard On Her Booty Pump!"
Also at Drunken Stepfather, "ALEXIS REN OF THE DAY":
And at Hollywood Tuna, "Alexis Ren Is Working Hard On Her Booty Pump!"
Also at Drunken Stepfather, "ALEXIS REN OF THE DAY":
This picture of Alexis Ren is hilarious because she had someone take it, looked at it, loved it, and posted it…knowing that people would be excited by it, knowing that despite it being pretty fucking aggressive, it’s what the people want…and she’s not going to be the one to not give it to them…so here she is giving it to them….I mean I’ve seen butt shots, I’ve seen over the shoulder butt shots, I’ve seen it all, I’ve probably even seen this pose..but it’s so hardcore, hard to believe she was one of the most followed “influencers”…I mean not really with posts like this…it’s the kind of thing I want to follow…
Allie Stuckey vs. Tomi Lahren
Two blonde babes on the issues. The difference here is that Ms. Allie's an intellectual. She's hot, but she's not only smart but she's book-learned, especially Bible-learned. Ms. Tomi's not stupid, but she's more of an enraging personality. She makes strong points and gets you fired up. Sadly though no one is buying her pro-choice positions. She sounds rather pathetic about it, in fact.
Following-up from the other day, "Tomi Lahren Goes Off the Rails on Kavanaugh and the Right to Life (VIDEO)."
Following-up from the other day, "Tomi Lahren Goes Off the Rails on Kavanaugh and the Right to Life (VIDEO)."
Oh, girl. The fact that you think overturning Roe v Wade has anything to do with religion shows how ignorant you are about the constitution & abortion itself.
— Allie Beth Stuckey (@conservmillen) July 11, 2018
Also, now YOU are dictating what conservatives should stand for? No thanks. https://t.co/TboXZQ37gI
Former Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards said that she fears the fate of Roe v. Wade, with Trump's selection of Judge Kavanaugh.
— CRTV (@CRTV) July 11, 2018
Good.
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President Trump Throws NATO Into Crisis (VIDEO)
Well, maybe NATO was already in crisis. Trump is just lifting the lid off.
At LAT, "Trump throws NATO summit into crisis mode with demands, before switching and claiming victory":
At LAT, "Trump throws NATO summit into crisis mode with demands, before switching and claiming victory":
President Trump threw the annual NATO summit into crisis Thursday — forcing an emergency session and suggesting the United States could leave the nearly 70-year-old alliance — before switching positions and claiming victory.More.
As the summit closed, the president held an unexpected news conference, taking credit for having secured firmer commitments from all 28 other member nations to increase their spending on defense.
Other leaders, however, denied that NATO members had made any significantly new commitments to spending beyond what they’d agreed to in 2014, under some pressure from President Obama.
French President Emmanuel Macron, in his own closing news conference, said NATO members had made no new commitments. He also said that Trump "never at any moment, either in public or in private, threatened to withdraw from NATO."
From Brussels, Trump headed next to Britain on a diplomatic tour that will end Monday in Helsinki, Finland, with his first official meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Before departing for London, however, he sent some undiplomatic advance signals in his news conference — calling Britain a “hotspot,” noting the resignations that have threatened Prime Minister Theresa May’s government and questioning whether her “Brexit” plan for Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union is what British voters want.
Trump at NATO’s close cast himself as a savior in a crisis of his own making. Yet in declaring victory and agreeing to sign a closing declaration — emphasizing joint defense against Russia — Trump avoided the debacle that he made of last month’s summit of the Group of 7 industrialized powers in Canada. There, as he flew off, he tweeted his withdrawal from the summit’s final statement and hurled insults at host Justin Trudeau, the Canadian prime minister, for his perceived slights.
In Brussels, Trump said that the NATO members committed to meet the already agreed-to goal of allocating an amount equal to 2% of each nation's gross domestic product toward defense spending, and that he would like to see the benchmark raised to 4% eventually.
"Yesterday, I let them know I was extremely unhappy with what was happening. And now we're very happy. We have a very powerful, very strong NATO — much stronger than it was two days ago,” Trump said at the 35-minute news conference here...
Wednesday, July 11, 2018
University of California Boosts Transfer Admissions
This is interesting.
And it's very helpful for me as a professor, because with efforts by U.C. to increase transfers, and real data on the increased numbers, I can better prod my students to work hard toward attending the U.C. system.
At LAT, "UC opens doors to record number of Californians, led by growth in transfer students":
And it's very helpful for me as a professor, because with efforts by U.C. to increase transfers, and real data on the increased numbers, I can better prod my students to work hard toward attending the U.C. system.
At LAT, "UC opens doors to record number of Californians, led by growth in transfer students":
UC opens doors to record number of Californians, led by growth in transfer students https://t.co/COB6Cbm8NY pic.twitter.com/xvz9Syf0xo— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) July 11, 2018
The University of California opened its doors to a record number of Californians for fall 2018, led by growth in transfer students from across the state, according to preliminary data released Wednesday.RTWT.
The public research university’s nine undergraduate campuses offered seats to 95,654 Californians, nearly 3,000 more students than last year. Overall, UC admitted about three-fifths of the 221,788 California, out-of-state and international students who applied.
“After reviewing yet another record-breaking number of applications, our campuses have offered admission to an exceptionally talented group of students,” UC President Janet Napolitano said in a statement. “With the benefit of a UC education, these accomplished young people from different backgrounds, with diverse beliefs and aspirations, will make California and the world a better place.”
The data reflect UC’s stepped-up efforts to reach more deeply across California for community college students, as it responds to growing pressure from Gov. Jerry Brown and the Legislature to open access for more residents.
Brown has long advocated the transfer option as a cheaper alternative to a four-year degree at a time the state is projected to face a 1.1-million shortfall in college-educated workers by 2030, and he has used his budget power to prod UC to adjust its admission policies. In recent years, state elected officials also have successfully pressed UC to boost enrollment of Californians and limit out-of-state and international students.
The mix of offers for freshmen and transfer students slightly shifted this year in response to such pressure. Most campuses increased offers to California transfer students and decreased them for freshmen.
UCLA, for instance, admitted 562 fewer freshmen but 64 more transfer students this year. Berkeley, Merced, Riverside, Santa Barbara and Santa Cruz also boosted their admission offers to state transfer students. Offers to California freshmen were down at Berkeley, Irvine, San Diego and Santa Cruz in addition to UCLA.
“Transfer students are the future of our university,” said Youlonda Copeland-Morgan, UCLA vice provost of enrollment management.
One of them is Francisco Cruz Tapia, a 24-year-old transfer student from Moreno Valley College who plans to study computer engineering at UCLA this fall. He said he chose to start at a community college to stay closer to family and save money. His costs were minimal, he said, because he lived at home and received a fee waiver for his classes.
At UCLA, his tuition and fees will be covered by Cal Grant and university aid, but he said he’ll need to pay rent in the pricey Westwood area. Cruz Tapia said, however, that the costs will be worth it for a chance to pursue his research interests in artificial intelligence.
“It was really challenging to transfer because I had to take a lot of math and physics classes, but I’m excited to go to one of the top universities in the nation,” Cruz Tapia said.
UCLA particularly focused on recruiting in the Central Valley this year as part of a joint effort between UC and California Community Colleges to increase students from areas with historically low transfer rates. Under the partnership, launched in September 2016, the college system gave UC $2.6 million to help students at 39 of its 114 community colleges become more competitive applicants.
Copeland-Morgan said the campus chose to work with four Central Valley colleges — San Joaquin Delta, Bakersfield, Solano and Reedley — because students there are more geographically isolated, often low-income and the first in their families to attend college. Many have less access to the resources and information needed to succeed in the competitive world of college admissions, she said.
Her recruiters made multiple trips to the colleges to help students and counselors understand how to become not only eligible but also competitive for UC admissions. UC requires a minimum 2.4 GPA for California transfer applicants, but Copeland-Morgan said most successful UCLA applicants have at least a 3.6 GPA..
UCLA boosted applications from those colleges by 29% and admission offers by 34% this year. Overall, the Westwood campus admitted students from 109 state community colleges...
Taylor Swift Bikini Shots
She looks good, healthy.
At Drunken Stepfather, "TAYLOR SWIFT IN A BIKINI WITH THEM TITS ON OF THE DAY."
Also, at the Sun U.K., "NAVEL GAZING: Taylor Swift shows off her rarely-seen belly button in a bikini on romantic holiday with boyfriend Joe Alwyn: After years of reluctance towards wearing clothes that show her navel, the pop star has exposed her stomach to fans."
At Drunken Stepfather, "TAYLOR SWIFT IN A BIKINI WITH THEM TITS ON OF THE DAY."
Also, at the Sun U.K., "NAVEL GAZING: Taylor Swift shows off her rarely-seen belly button in a bikini on romantic holiday with boyfriend Joe Alwyn: After years of reluctance towards wearing clothes that show her navel, the pop star has exposed her stomach to fans."
Kavanaugh Coverage at the Other McCain
From Robert Stacy McCain, "Rhetorical Escalation":
Also at the Other McCain, "Democrats Use Kavanaugh Nomination in Congressional Fundraising Efforts."
Don't know about you, but I don't expect Kavanaugh to have a tough confirmation. Pro-choice Republicans (I know, oxymoron) Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski have signaled their support for the nominee, and most of those red-state Democrats facing reelection this year are likely to fall in line (see the interesting Survey Monkey poll at Axios, "Democrats' Senate dream slips away.")
Kavanaugh will be borked, of course. But he's a decent family man and Democrat opposition to him is going to put the party on the wrong side of the American people, which is where the Democrats are most of the time anyway nowadays (*eye-roll*).
After President Trump announced Brett Kavanaugh as his nominee to the Supreme Court on Monday, Democrats and the media (but I repeat myself) spent all day Tuesday engaged in a competition to demonize Kavanaugh. If you believe what Democrats tell you, Kavanaugh is the most extreme extremist in the history of extremism. How extreme is he? Extremely extreme! He’s not just a right-winger, he’s “far-right.” How far? Extremely far! He’s so extremely far right as to “threaten the lives of millions of Americans for decades,” to quote Clinton crony and former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe. (Hat-tip: Hogewash.)More.
The reader who isn’t tuned into the CNN/MSNBC/Democrat hysteria may wonder, how does a federal judge threaten millions of lives? On MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Chuck Schumer said: “I will oppose this nomination with everything I’ve got. . . . This man should not be on the bench. . . . I believe he is far, far right on so many issues.” Schumer repeatedly asserted that the Kavanaugh nomination is somehow a threat to ObamaCare. Exactly how the Supreme Court affects healthcare legislation, Schumer didn’t specify, but he said that coverage for “pre-existing conditions,” which he described as “very popular” with the Democrat Party’s base, would be jeopardized if Kavanaugh is confirmed.
Because I don’t pay much attention to the paranoid fears of Democrats, it’s possible that Schumer is actually right about this. For all I know, there are cases pending in lower courts challenging elements of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) which Democrats rammed through Congress on a party-line vote just a few months before they lost their majority in the 2010 midterm elections. The ACA’s mandate of coverage for “pre-existing conditions” was one of the worst job-killers in the bill. Requiring employers to provide insurance that covered whatever health problems the employee might have had before being hired meant that a lot of people simply couldn’t get hired, and this measure also sent health insurance rates skyrocketing, as insurers sought to compensate for the (often very expensive) treatments they were now required to cover.
One reason the economy started booming — and unemployment started declining — as soon as Trump was elected was that he promised to repeal ObamaCare and, by executive action, was able to limit the job-killing impact of this badly constructed legislation. If somehow the Supreme Court could render the entirety of ObamaCare null and void, good, although as I say, I’m not aware that this is likely, or even possible...
Also at the Other McCain, "Democrats Use Kavanaugh Nomination in Congressional Fundraising Efforts."
Don't know about you, but I don't expect Kavanaugh to have a tough confirmation. Pro-choice Republicans (I know, oxymoron) Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski have signaled their support for the nominee, and most of those red-state Democrats facing reelection this year are likely to fall in line (see the interesting Survey Monkey poll at Axios, "Democrats' Senate dream slips away.")
Kavanaugh will be borked, of course. But he's a decent family man and Democrat opposition to him is going to put the party on the wrong side of the American people, which is where the Democrats are most of the time anyway nowadays (*eye-roll*).
NATO in the News
It's time to realign NATO to reflect American interests. Donald Trump is doing that, and I'm all for it.
Most importantly, make NATO partners pay more. They can pay more for their own security. They can quit free-riding off the American hegemon.
Following-up from yesterday, "Allies Brace for Trump at NATO Summit (VIDEO)."
At Foreign Affairs, the American Interest, and the National Interest:
Most importantly, make NATO partners pay more. They can pay more for their own security. They can quit free-riding off the American hegemon.
Following-up from yesterday, "Allies Brace for Trump at NATO Summit (VIDEO)."
At Foreign Affairs, the American Interest, and the National Interest:
Since 2014, NATO has seen three consecutive years of growth in defense expenditure across European member states and Canada. https://t.co/Up5noxPWWs
— Foreign Affairs (@ForeignAffairs) July 10, 2018
The question of equitable burden-sharing will not go away. @TomaszSiemoniak @IgorJanke @RadioFreeTom @irishspy https://t.co/fvxpZcVzOT
— Andrew A. Michta (@andrewmichta) July 10, 2018
A Strategic Reset for NATO > Donald Trump's criticism that the alliance isn't fit for form is valid. NATO needs an overhaul. < https://t.co/b5qOPSQQiQ
— Panzer Leader (@ArmorCavSpin) July 10, 2018
Judeo-Christian Values Are the Real Counterculture
This video just popped up as recommended by YouTube, so I watched. It's old, from 2014, but Dennis Prager's worth watching. I love his wisdom, and it's wise to remind people that the leftist culture is the mainstream culture. Conservative values, and especially conservative religious values, are the counterculture
Here's Prager's recent book, at Amazon, The Rational Bible: Exodus.
And watch, at Prager U:
Here's Prager's recent book, at Amazon, The Rational Bible: Exodus.
And watch, at Prager U:
Tomi Lahren Goes Off the Rails on Kavanaugh and the Right to Life (VIDEO)
I'm not sure where she got these weird ideas, but Ms. Tomi's definitely "out there" on the politics of abortion. President Trump won evangelicals because he credibly promised to appoint socially conservative jurists, and the pro-life stand is the sine qua non of social conservatism.
She's been attacked as a "liberal" this week on Twitter, and for good reason at this point. She's digging a hole for herself. I like her spunk. And she's a fox. But c'mon, you're not "conservative" if you're pro-choice. Libertarian maybe, but definitely not conservative.
On Fox & Friends this morning:
She's been attacked as a "liberal" this week on Twitter, and for good reason at this point. She's digging a hole for herself. I like her spunk. And she's a fox. But c'mon, you're not "conservative" if you're pro-choice. Libertarian maybe, but definitely not conservative.
On Fox & Friends this morning:
Tuesday, July 10, 2018
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Democrats Go Completely Bonkers Over Brett Kavanaugh Nomination (VIDEO)
From Laura Ingraham's opening "angle":
Allies Brace for Trump at NATO Summit (VIDEO)
At NYT, "Trump Poised to Enter NATO Meeting as Wild Card Among Allies."
And video from President Trump's comments upon landing in Belgium:
And video from President Trump's comments upon landing in Belgium:
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