‘There are no jobs’

The Humanity               Obama staffers can’t find work in Trump’s DC: ‘There are no jobs’

Following Trump’s surprise victory Nov. 8, Democratic operatives no longer have some 4,000 presidentially appointed jobs for which to apply when the billionaire businessman takes the oath of office Jan. 20. The Democratic workers who were expecting to see a Clinton White House are reportedly finding the transition especially difficult: As outgoing President Barack Obama plans to head off on vacation when he vacates the White House next week, his staffers and appointees are struggling to find work in Washington, D.C. Following President-elect Donald Trump’s victory and Republicans’ major electoral gains in November, outgoing Obama employees and loyalists to failed Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton have found their job prospects in the District foundering, according to Politico. “It feels like there are just thousands of us trying to find a job, and there are no jobs,” longtime Clinton aide Mira Patel, who worked for Clinton in her Senate, State Department and 2016 campaign offices, told the outlet. Following Trump’s surprise victory Nov. 8, Democratic operatives no longer have some 4,000 presidentially appointed jobs for which to apply when the billionaire businessman takes the oath of office Jan. 20. The Democratic workers who were expecting to see a Clinton White House are reportedly finding the transition especially difficult: Clinton aides appear to be having a harder time, both emotionally and practically. “There’s anger, there’s frustration, there’s anxiety, there’s burnout,” said Russ Finkelstein, a managing director at Clearly Next and longtime progressive career guru (including as a founding team member at the lefty jobs board Idealist.org) who has been counseling Clinton alumni. “People are in shock,” said Anastasia Kessler-Dellaccio, 35, who quit her job at Sister Cities International to run Foreign Policy Professionals for Hillary. Some Clinton campaign workers say they’ve lost their bearings because they’re so rattled by the differences in Trump’s values from those represented by Obama and Clinton. Kessler-Dellaccio added, “I think people, myself included, are trying to figure out, ‘How do I recalibrate my dreams?’” But it’s not all bad news. Laslo Bock, Google’s outgoing chief of human resources, has, according to the Wall Street Journal, established a database of résumés to help Obama staffers and Clinton advocates find work after their unexpected yet impending unemployment.  Given the dire situation some outgoing Obama staffers are in: “A lot of us are looking for any fit,” Patel said — the soon-to-be-former president is doing what he can to help his supporters find work in Trump’s Washington. “The president made it a priority to ensure that, throughout his administration, employees had access to professional development resources and tools to help them advance in their careers and transition to new opportunities,” White House spokeswoman Brandi Hoffine told Politico, describing Obama as “extremely grateful” to those staffers who have stayed with him over the years. Pass the caviar dear ...

Step-by-Step Shaun

art is everywhere

Making "Shaun the sheep" Talk about tedious ... but well worth the effort

Whence Snoflake

These days there's so much neology  going on I can scarce keep up.  Snowflake is one such, and it's good because, in context, one will immediately understand .  Anyway, I decided to find out for sure.  Yup.  Beauty.

Father of the Tea Party?

Obama Calls Himself ‘The Father of the Tea Party’ During a recent interview with ABC News correspondent George Stephanopoulos, Barrack Obama once again proved how truly delusional he is in terms of how he will be remembered after leaving the Oval Office. When asked by Stephanopoulos how he would describe his presidency in a single sentence, Obama responded with one of his most bizarre answers to date: “President Obama… um… Believed deeply in this democracy, and the American people… Because as I reflect back on what’s worked for me in this office, it’s been that I’ve gotten people that who maybe didn’t believe in the process to get engaged… I gather that I am the father of the Tea Party.” In much the same way George III may be called the founder of the United States.  So, yeah.  Both were/are nuckin' futz as well.

Blood Money!

Techno Thrills

College Students Demand Free Tampons "My heart bleeds for them." USA Today reports: College students are demanding free tampons on campus Julie Chen, a sophomore at Emory College, wanted to help students get access to free tampons on campus, but she didn’t know how. So she started a petition last January to see how many people would use the supplies. In one week, it received more than 900 responses. “It wasn’t supposed to go viral,” said Chen, now a junior and the college council vice president of finance. “Seeing all of those names made me really motivated and passionate to keep going on with it.” In March, President Barack Obama became the first president to comment on menstruation when he asked why 40 states tax tampons as a luxury item. In July, New York became the 11th state to eliminate the sales tax on menstrual care products. The petition received so many responses that Emory launched a pilot program during the fall 2016 semester to provide free tampons. The university changed the tampon dispensers in three locations — a dining hall, the library and one of its academic buildings — to make them free. If enough people use the program, it could become a permanent, university-wide initiative. “Everyone was really excited about it, and we’ve definitely heard positive responses,” Chen said. “One girl left a comment that said, ‘If men had a need for tampons, they’d be falling out of the sky.’” Emory is not alone: Students at colleges across the country are demanding free menstrual products. The University of Arizona, Columbia University, Reed College and the University of Minnesota, among others, have launched similar programs on campus, according to Inside Higher Ed. Tampons are Funny Charles: What about me? The trouble is I need you several times a week. Camilla: Mmmm, so do I. I need you all the week. All the time. Charles: Oh. God. I'll just live inside your trousers or something. It would be much easier! Camilla: (laughing) "what are you going to turn into, a pair of knickers? Both laugh Camilla: Oh, You're your'e going to come back as a pair of knickers. Charles: Or, God forbid a Tampax. Just my luck! (Laughs) Camilla: You are a complete idiot (Laughs) Oh, what a wonderful idea. Charles: My luck to be chucked down the lavatory and go on and on forever swirling round on the top, never going down. Camilla: (Laughing) Oh, Darling! Charles: Until the next one comes through. Camilla: Oh, perhaps you could come back as a box. Charles: What sort of box? Camilla: A box of Tampax, so you could just keep going. Charles: That's true. ' T H E C A M I L L A G A T E T A P E S '

Stilton Jarlsberg, Alas

I love this panel! Alas, Stilton Jarlsberg (Hope & Change) calling it quits, I'm already missing him.  I know skoonj  will too (he e-mail links me every day).  And, not just his 'toons; his commentary is usually dead-on, and deliciously written.

Carry Reciprocity Coming ?

Tails of the Gun

National Concealed Carry Reciprocity Coming ... Soon? "The Way We Were" In 1833, Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story wrote, “The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered as the palladium of the liberties of a republic; since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them.” Those words are every bit as true today. That’s why it’s important that Rep. Richard Hudson (R-NC) has now introduced the Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2017, which requires states to recognize each other’s concealed carry firearm permits, though citizens must abide by the laws of whatever state they’re visiting. “Our Second Amendment right doesn’t disappear when we cross state lines, and this legislation guarantees that,” Hudson said in a statement. “The Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2017 is a common sense solution to a problem too many Americans face. It will provide law-abiding citizens the right to conceal carry and travel freely between states without worrying about conflicting state codes or onerous civil suits.” Conservatives are normally hesitant to create federal law that overrides state law. But in this case, it’s gun grabbers who are hiding behind the principle of federalism. We don’t believe states like Illinois, for example, are abiding by the Second Amendment, and many constitutionalists believe the Fourteenth Amendment “incorporates” all the Bill of Rights against the states. In other words, Illinois can’t infringe on the Second Amendment rights of its citizens or of the residents of other states whose concealed carry permits are void upon crossing its border. Several deep blue states — California, New York and Oregon among them — do not recognize any other state’s permit. Consider a driver’s license, on the other hand. Any state’s driver’s license allows its holder to drive in any other state, subject to the laws of the state in which he or she is driving. Concealed carry reciprocity already works in a similar manner for states that allow it. It’s time a right actually enumerated in the Constitution worked the same way. [Patriot Post] There will be, of course, the usual reaction.  However, the way things are going in our increasingly lawless country, as people become "victims" of random attacks, that will inevitably mount, so too will acceptance. By the bye.  I just heard on One America News that not only did Cally voters not vote to strike capital punishment, they voted to speed up the execution process.  Their oxen having been gored, so to speak.

Winning Whine

Wine

Unplugged ROLL When the old man was doing Christmas you could (if of age) drink soda or Manhattan's [Jim Beam, a pinch of sweet vermouth and lots of ice]  That's it. The only people drinking were me, him and my b-i-l.  Now, I've had to change the bar menu.  Cater to kids, and their spouses, all of whom drink.  Wine.  That's all. Wine.  So, no Dec 23rd I told my sommelier to put together a case of wines, mostly white, with some red Argentinean wine, which I'd heard good things about.  The jury is in.  The overwhelming winner (based on MoSup telling me it was the "best ever," and all the girls thought so too) is Moscato D'Asti.  I didn't try it, but since it's made in Asti (Italy), I'll guess it tastes like spumante without the bubbles.  No matter.  I like it when she drinks wine (which is seldom), so will be buying more of it.  You should too, especially if you're single and having a party. You're welcome.

Trumps .. "Electoral gold"

Trump's pledge to to deport 2-3 million is electoral gold

From an NPR story headlined "Cities Ready to Resist Trump Calls for Deportations": That leaves 5% of the electorate to gnash their teeth in opposition to the deportations. They're welcome to follow the re-pats back home. This just in ... Czech Government Fears Muslim "Super-Holocaust", Urges Citizens To "Shoot Them Yourselves"

What did Russia do ....?

SPLATTTT! Hey There!

Because it's Bill Fkn Murray!

Hey There!

To Die For

FOOD+

Bitch Slapping the WaPost; et.al.

via Grin Dedicated to the Washington Post

FBI strikes back at the DNC

FBI Now Says Dems Were Behind Hack Investigation Delay

The FBI struck back at the Democratic National Committee on Thursday, accusing it of denying federal investigators access to its computer systems and hamstringing its investigation into the infiltration of DNC servers by Russia-backed hackers.

“The FBI repeatedly stressed to DNC officials the necessity of obtaining direct access to servers and data, only to be rebuffed until well after the initial compromise had been mitigated. This left the FBI no choice but to rely upon a third party for information,” a senior law enforcement official told BuzzFeed News in a statement. “These actions caused significant delays and inhibited the FBI from addressing the intrusion earlier.”

The DNC said the FBI had never asked for access to their hacked servers, BuzzFeed News reported on Wednesday.

A DNC source familiar with the investigation tried to downplay that report on Thursday, hours before the FBI statement was issued. The fact that the FBI didn’t have direct access to the servers was not “significant,” the source said.

“I just don’t think that that’s really material or an important thing,” the source continued. “They had what they needed. There are always haters out here.”

Toons;2006

14 'Toons  from 10 years ago-Some things never change

You're welcome

Lack of Police? I wonder why?

Union: Baltimore City Police in ‘Crisis’ Due to Officer Shortage Really? Some believe specialized units may be the problem. “The rank and file believe that all these specialized units that have been created under this commissioner is what’s depleting patrol,” said Lt. Ryan. Drudge picked up on this CBS (WJZ) news story about Baltimore's lack of police officers crisis that, amazingly, completely ignored the the Freddie Gray Riots, and how Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake sided with the rioters and applauded when  Baltimore State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby charged six officers with homicide.  All of whom were acquitted. This sample of comments  take up that slack. William Carson (@TitaniumTestis) January 6, 2017 at 9:28 am I used to care about the plight of the cities. ------------------------------------- Now? After 8 years of being called the most horrid things by the Dem party, watching as inner city pulls people from cars, beats them bloody, chases white kids down and beats them, ect, ect than they call ME racist and n-zi? You know what? TS. You made your bed, sleep in it. -------------------------------------- Brian The Punter (@BryanThePunter) January 6, 2017 at 1:09 pm Detroit part 2.. what did all you people expect would happen under black leadership and I use that word in the loosest terms. ------------------------------------- bob smitty (@bobbob7896) January 6, 2017 at 9:34 am time to stop caring about crime ridden leftwing run cities who don’t care about anything except how much Federal welfare money they can get. ------------------------------------- Abraham Sampson January 6, 2017 at 9:40 am There are more than 100 fewer Baltimore City PD officers than last year, before the Mayor said that rioters needed room to destroy? Imagine that! Hmm. ------------------------------------- Tom Menino January 6, 2017 at 12:06 pm Seriously. Who wants to work in Mogadishu, Maryland? Any city run by liberal affirmative action leadership is doomed to become a primitive war zone. ------------------------------------- Reply Gene Smith January 6, 2017 at 9:42 am I spent 21 years policing in a city of 350,000 so I know a bit about the topic, but I cannot figure out why any thinking o\person would desire to be a cop in a hell-hole where the mayor and prosecutor are out and out racists who hate cops. When someone arrests and charges that mayor and prosecutor for their racist misconduct you will find it much easier to recruit officers. But until those two snags are behind bars it will be hard to do. ------------------------------------- Charles Tomey January 6, 2017 at 9:45 am More left wing success stories from the democratic Utopia of Baltimore. Hope and Change in action ------------------------------------- John Fogarty January 6, 2017 at 9:48 am Hard to believe, no one wants to be a cop in the rat hole known as Baltimore City. Maybe it’s the criminals outnumber the cops and the City States Attorney is an incompetent racist. ------------------------------------- cpisearey January 6, 2017 at 9:57 am It’s amazing to me that the article does not mention at all about the riots and how Baltimore cops were/are being targeted by both the government and the criminals! Almost like it doesn’t exist. Are you kidding me? That is why the problem will not be solved. Until the liberal city government and liberal/biased media get their heads out of the sand, and acknowledge the real problem, their plans are destined to fail. ------------------------------------- Donald G Hattier Dc January 6, 2017 at 11:14 am ?, its the city managers who created this environment of fear to be a cop? The cops should all find other jobs where people appreciate them and leave Baltimore to the hell hole that it is. ------------------------------------- Pags (@joepapagno) January 6, 2017 at 10:08 am This is what happens when your city chastises police at every turn and sides with BLM over the police. If you want to back the Thugs then you will put them in charge. Good Luck Baltimore, I no longer visit your city because of how bad things are. We used to frequent inner harbor and Camden yards but never again. ------------------------------------- Reply Jack Pod January 6, 2017 at 10:17 am Considering the current political structure, no sane person would apply for a job with the Baltimore Police Dept. ------------------------------------- Reply Sandy Pretoriat January 6, 2017 at 10:20 am I hope all the cops leave. let the Black Looters Matter animals have the city and get the immigrates to build a wall around it. Come back in five years after the vultures have picked all the bones clean and bulldoze everything over. And on, and on, and on ..... Whoops!  Joe Kliplinger Wrote ... January 6, 2017 at 10:04 am Lock up the police in jail until they agree to do their jobs

Chicago Review of Books Editor Says ....

Chicago Review of Books Editor Says MILO’s Words Could Inspire Terrorism In October 2015, the Breitbart News Network placed Yiannopoulos in charge of its new "Breitbart Tech" section, which he said will "be free speech central—and we'll talk about stuff people really care about: Freedom, free speech, love, sex, death, money and porn." The site has six full-time staff, including an esports specialist. Adam Morgan, the Editor in Chief of the Chicago Review of Books, published an article today in The Guardian explaining why the Chicago Review of Books chose to boycott Simon & Schuster, the company publishing MILO’s new book, DANGEROUS. The title of the Guardian article reads, “Publishing Milo Yiannopoulos’ book is wrong. My magazine is fighting back.” However the URL of the article and the Facebook sharing preview reveal the title, “Simon & Schuster is rewarding alt-right hate speech. We cannot stay silent.” But on Saturday, when the biographer of a lesbian artist criticised Simon & Schuster, Yiannopoulos responded: ‘There is only one place for lesbians: porn.’” This may be a simple error but it is also likely that the title calling MILO’s book “alt-right hate speech” was the original tile of the article. The Guardian may have realised their error in calling MILO “alt-right”, a political movement which MILO has repeatedly stated he is not part of, despite the media’s various attempts to paint him as a “leader” of the movement, and changed the article title. Morgan’s article goes on to make a number of claims such as, “2016 taught us that ridiculing women, people of colour, Muslims and members of the LGBTQ community can make someone immensely popular,” and that MILO is, “not a conservative intellectual leader with a political agenda. He’s a clickbait grifter who has made a name for himself spewing hate speech.” [FULL] See: Milo Yiannopoulos @ UCLA Destroys Social Justice Warriors + Empty Liberal Protesters

Daddy, we should have known

Obama's Legacy

Handwriting on the wall ... a look back 22 March 2010 4:48 PM Barack Hussein Obama and Indonesia: there's no place like home [...] One of the reasons a lot of Americans find Obama oddly foreign is that he had an oddly foreign childhood: his formative years were spent in Indonesia. His half-sister, Maya Soetoro Ng, was born there. The rest of Obama's childhood was spent in Honolulu, a Pacific Ocean capital soaked in East Asian culture. What's this got to do with Britain, or indeed with Europe? Plenty. Obama is the first US president who was raised without cultural or emotional or intellectual ties to either Britain or Europe. The British and the Europeans have been so enchanted with  'America's first black president' that they haven't been able to see what he really is: America's first Third World president. [...] What the Obama administration has near-wiped from the president's personal history is that his only childhood links with America were as a schoolboy in a fashionable private school in Asia-dominated Hawaii, where he was raised by his white, bank executive grandmother. Chicago is not Obama's homeland. It never was his formative influence. The president's world view is more aligned with that of Indonesia. You can be sure the gift Obama gives the President of Indonesia will be something more than the dvd box-set of old Hollywood movies he gave to Gordon Brown. The US president's manner on the trip to Indonesia will be more the manner he showed to the King of Saudi Arabia last year. The king received a deep bow, something never done by any US president before. Obama also kow-towed to the Emperor of Japan and to the Chinese premier. [...] The president actually feels that the US Constitution, which grew out of Magna Carta and the 1689 Bill of Rights, is 'inadequate.' Indeed, Obama has stated that, because the US Constitution guarantees only 'negative rights' -- that is, establishes what the US Government may not do to individuals or to the sovereign states -- instead of giving people guarantees of food, shelter education and health care and the rest, it is 'inadequate.' [...] Obama has made it clear he despises both the US Constitution and the British tradition from which it springs. Taken from my list of "Defining  Articles"  (The Obama Timeline Links; Below).

Media’s Hypocrisy on #BLMKidnapping

MSNBC ALL-STARS and CNN ilk                                           ... is worth 1000 words

How Can We Deal With These People? 1)     Steven Crowder Nails Media’s Hypocrisy on #BLMKidnapping Yesterday, four bags of dirt attacked a white guy with special needs while shouting “F*ck Trump! F*ck white people!” I’m sure you can deduce their motive. Hint: it starts with an “h” and ends with “ate crime.” You know, because a group of black people ganged up on a white dude just because he was white. As evidenced by the grunting noises (“F*ck white people!”) they made throughout the video. Seems simple enough. Just not simple enough for the human potatoes at CNN (see EVIL: CNN Claims Racist Facebook Beating NOT a Hate Crime!?) or the rest of the mainstream media. Luckily for us, we have functioning brains. So while we’re on the subject ... Compare; Judge ‘‘That Is Not A Hate Crime’’ Crazy CNN Panelist Blames TRUMP For Kidnapped, Tortured White Man — During a panel discussion on CNN Wednesday night, Symone Sanders blamed an unlikely source for the kidnapping of a white, Chicago man who was mentally disabled. For some reason, Sanders accused Donald Trump for forcing the four black assailants to torture their victim and record it, all while screaming, “fuck Donald Trump! Fuck white people!” [FULL NINCOMPOOPERY]

"Now he’s the first homicide of 2017 in Columbus ... "

Tarak Andrew Underiner wanted Ohio college students to have the right to carry guns on campus so they could defend themselves in dangerous situations – say, leaving the library late at night and traveling home alone.Now he’s the first homicide of 2017 in Columbus. It was right after the car-and-knife attack by a Somali student on campus ....

The deal that Obama made with Iran ...

They Clapped while They Took Jerusalem Away  from the Jews The deal that Obama made with Iran, a deal that facilitates their ability to fulfill their wish of shooting nuclear warheads into the heartland of Israel, was made possible by the consent of the many Jewish Senators who had the ability to stop this dreadful potential Holocaust by simply voting against the measure. They did not. Barry Farber's current column in World Net Daily [http://www.wnd.com/2017/01/who-needs-the-u-n/] makes the case that the U.N. (despite its lofty ideals) is worse than useless, and that the U.S. should renounce its membership and evict the U.N. from NYC (an idea long-espoused by the John Birch Society, which group needs to be viewed apart from the way it's been demonized by Leftist propaganda). As if there weren't already enough reason to condemn the U.N., stop funding it and get the hell out, the cheering reaction of its members to the passage of the recent anti-Israel resolution provides even more rationale for that course of action. ST From today's American Thinker: By Rabbi Aryeh Spero Normally, when the U.N. Security Council passes a resolution, a vote is taken and the result recorded. Period.  Something very unusual happened after the Security Council voted to declare Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria as Arab/Islamic land. The representatives of the nations applauded and celebrated what they had just done by giving themselves a standing ovation. They clapped not so much in behalf of what they gave to “Palestinians” but more so in declaring the Jewish tie to the Old City of Jerusalem as illegitimate and Israel’s attachment to the Temple Mount and Judea and Samaria as illegal.  Rahm Emmanuel and David Axelrod were his chief strategists in the early years when the war against Netanyahu and Israel was launched by the White House. Wendy Sherman was his chief negotiator for the Iran Deal and Jack Lew was a chief advisor and, later, the Treasurer who figured out how to release the billions of dollars to the mullahs of Iran while convincing the Jewish community that “the Deal with Iran was in the best interest of Israel.” It was a celebration by too many of the nations of the world against the history of the Jewish People and their Covenant to the Holy Land. It was an act of anti-Semitism. While Obama finds it easy to socialize with leftwing Jews and employ Jews to implement his agenda and articulate his transnational narratives, he does have a problem with the concept of Jewish sovereignty in those places where he feels Islam must prevail.  His idea of Judaism, as he has stated, is for the Jewish people to sacrifice its aspirations in behalf of causes he considers more important: for example, the Black cause in America and the cause of Islam worldwide… and especially the cause of “Palestinians.” Truth is, Obama feels this way even regarding America -- that America should subsume its needs in behalf of movements and countries he deems more worthy. Obama has a strange morality.  So as to spare the honor and the good name of Islam he has refused to fight during his tenure in behalf of the millions of innocent Christians being killed by the bloody hands of radical Islamic forces, and has ignored the pain of victims of Islamic terror by focusing and sermonizing about “Islam as a religion of peace and tolerance.”  [FULL] There are by definition no Democrat pols who believe in God.