‘Go back to California’: Wave of newcomers fuels backlash in Boise

California bashing is a cyclical sport with a long history in the heart of Idaho’s Treasure Valley. Growth spurts have more than doubled Boise’s population since the 1980 census. Four months before federal counters hit the streets here that year, a Washington Post headline crowed, “To Most Idahoans, A Plague of Locusts Is Californians.”

Boise mayoral candidate Wayne Richey.

LA Times  BOISE, Idaho — This city sure knows how to roll up the welcome mat — that is, if you happen to move here from California.
'Just consider last week’s mayoral election. It was the most competitive race in recent memory, a referendum on growth in the rapidly expanding capital of Idaho. And candidate Wayne Richey ran on a very simple platform: Stop the California invasion.
'His basic plan to fulfill that campaign promise? “Trash the place.”
'Richey figured that would be the best way to keep deep-pocketed Golden Staters from moving to his leafy hometown. He blames them for pushing home prices and rents up so high that Boiseans can’t afford to live here on the meager wages most Idaho jobs pay."  . . .

Jesse Watters Accuses Drudge of Being Anti-Trump: ‘That’s What You Log on to CNN.com For’

Mediaite  "Fox News host Jesse Watters went after The Drudge Report editor Matt Drudge arguing his site is turning against President Donald Trump because it has posted negative headlines.

"Watters prefaced the criticism by saying “The Drudge Report is my favorite website … very fair, very aggressive, very bold” before noting it linked to a number of stories that were negative to Trump.

“You know, that’s what you log on to CNN.com for. I don’t know,” Watters said on Watters World. “But it just seems like the website has recently played up Trump gaffes and downplayed his successes.”

"Watters was joined by Fox News media critic Howard Kurtz who said “I have covered Matt Drudge since he was an unknown blogger and at this point in his career he’s primarily interested in clicks and riding the media wave and the media wave you may have noticed Jesse has been largely anti-Trump.”

“ 'There’s just been additional emphasis on some of the negative stories that you would see on other mainstream platforms,” Watters said. “It’s hard to tell whether as you said he’s riding wave for clicks or there’s something personally inside his heart and his mind that has shifted against the president.' ” . . .  Read more

Call for Alito and Kavanaugh Recusal Exposes Glaring Double Standard

Carrie Severino  

"As Newsweek has reported, Aaron Belkin, the executive director of the liberal activist group Take Back the Court, sent a letter last week to Justices Alito and Kavanaugh demanding that they recuse themselves from the three pending Title VII cases before the Court. The reason: They met and posed for a picture with Brian S. Brown, the president of the National Organization for Marriage (NOM), an organization that has filed an amicus brief in those cases.
"Belkin’s letter makes clear his organization’s belief that anything short of recusal would be unethical and asserts, “The credibility and impartiality of the current Supreme Court is in tatters. Posing for photographs with the president of an advocacy organization that has filed briefs in matters pending before the court makes a mockery of Chief Justice Roberts’ assertion that a judge’s role is to impartially call balls and strikes.”
"Since the letter confines its ire to those two justices, let’s consider whether Belkin himself is calling balls and strikes in reaching the conclusion that those two conservative justices must disqualify themselves.
"First, some context: Brown did indeed meet the two justices. It was as part of a group that took a photo on October 29. Aside from the two justices and Brown, the photo included Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller, Princess Gloria von Thurn und Taxis, and an unidentified priest. Brown posted the photo to his personal Twitter account on October 29 under the caption, “Great day at US Supreme Court #SCOTUS with #CardinalMueller, Princess Gloria #ThurnundTaxis with Justices #SamuelAlito and #BrettKavanaugh.” . . .
Full article.

CARRIE SEVERINO is chief counsel and policy director to the Judicial Crisis Network.

Mollie Hemingway Names The Whistleleaker On Fox

This was after the Fox hosts had been told not to use Eric Ciaramella’s name.
Apparently bootlegged by a viewer.

"House Intelligence Committee chairman Adam Schiff expressed anger he wasn't told ahead of time about the kill mission in Syria. Trump didn't feel he had any need to inform Schiff of the upcoming raid on the Baghdadi compound. He just figured the Whistleblower would tell him about it."  Comedian Argus Hamilton

There was a video in this spot showing Mollie Hemingway discussing the name of the whistleblower. It was removed by YouTube. Let's see what they do with these videos:

Eric Ciaramella. Would that be a good child name?

His name is... Eric Ciaramella

You didn't hear The Name from me, right?

Byron York Breaks Down Vindman’s Transcript Making Schiff Look Even Dirtier

House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy On Impeachment: ‘This Is a Calculated Coup’ That Is ‘Being Orchestrated by Adam Schiff  . . .

Weasel Zippers

Twitchy: ‘Sheer CONTEMPT for members of Congress’: Byron York breaks down Vindman’s transcript making Schiff look even dirtier

"Vindman’s transcript has something like 300+ pages so luckily Byron York was good enough to pull out the important pieces and tweet about them so those of us who have no idea what’s going on most days (ahem, guilty) can actually follow along.

"What a giver.

"And if this series of tweets is any indication, Vindman’s testimony isn’t nearly as damning as the media has claimed it to be.

"We know, you’re shocked." . . .

Iwo Jima: A Story Of Death, Glory And Propaganda In Wonderful Photos

Flashbak  "ON this day in photos:  February 23, 1945: US raises flag raised over Iwo Jima.

"Joe Rosenthal took the wonderful picture as the  U.S. Marines of the 28th Regiment, 5th Division, raised  the American flag atop Mt. Suribachi.
"This picture won the Pulitzer Prize in 1945."

Ira Hayes is seated at the far left

The Ballad of Ira Hayes  "The Ballad of Ira Hayes" is a song written by folk singer Peter La Farge. Its words tell the story of Ira Hayes, one of the six Marines who became famous for having raised the flag on Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima of World War II. The ballad Members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time.^[1]

California lurches even further to the left

Chesa Boudin wins San Francisco D.A. election

Chesa Boudin District Attorney 2019

"Chesa Boudin will serve as San Francisco's next district attorney, the SF Chronicle reported Saturday.
"Boudin, the most progressive candidate on the ballot, won a tight race against interim district attorney Suzy Loftus. Boudin held 85,950 votes as of Saturday afternoon, with about 1,200 ballots left to count, the Chronicle said. Loftus had 83,511 votes.
"The 39-year-old won the seat following four days of ballot counting in the city's first open election for district attorney in over a century following sitting District Attorney George Gascon's departure to run for district attorney in Los Angeles." . . .

Happy, America?  "This is what is shown for his parents when you do an internet search on this guy: 

Parents: David Gilbert (Father) · Kathy Boudin (Mother) · Bill Ayers (Father) · Bernardine Dohrn (Mother)

"Yes. Really.
"NOW, go look up each of the four named "parents."
"Wait, I'll help you out a bit:
" 'Boudin was born in New York City.[1] His parents, Kathy Boudin and David Gilbert, were Weather Underground members.[2] When Boudin was 14 months old, his parents were arrested for their role as getaway car drivers in the Brink's robbery of 1981 in Rockland County, New York.[1][3] His mother was sentenced to 20 years to life[4] and his father to 75 years to life for the felony murders of two police officers and a security guard.[5]
After his parents were incarcerated, Boudin was raised in Chicago by adoptive parents Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, who, like his parents, were members of the Weather Underground.[6]
"Kathy Boudin was released under parole supervision in 2003.[3][7] Boudin descends from a long left-wing lineage. His great-great-uncle, Louis B. Boudin,[8] was a Marxist theoretician and author of a two-volume history of the Supreme Court's influence on American government, and his grandfather Leonard Boudin was an attorney who represented controversial clients such as Fidel Castro and Paul Robeson.[9]
Boudin is also related to Michael Boudin,[8] a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, and I.F. Stone, an independent journalist.[8][10]
"Boudin went to St Antony's College, Oxford on a 2003 Rhodes Scholarship.[2] At Oxford, he earned two master's degrees, one in Forced Migration and the other in Public Policy in Latin America. He received his J.D. degree from Yale Law School in 2011,[11] and began work for the San Francisco Public Defender's Office as a post-doctoral fellow in 2012.[3]" - From Wikipedia" . . .

Nanny Bloomberg rides again with Hillary easing toward the inside

Bloomberg leads Trump by 6 points in 2020 election matchup

One must keep in mind that polls as early as this are meant not to reflect public opinion but to shape into a desired outcome. TD

Hillary Clinton taking calls, getting closer and closer to running

"Democratic voters couldn't be happier with their candidates.
"That's the news from a poll from Gallup last month, reporting that satisfaction with the current field is the highest it's been in decades. So why is Hillary Clinton reportedly taking calls from her buddies from the Democratic National Committee about you-know-what?
"The short answer is simple: The Democratic higher-ups, the elites Hillary hangs with, know that the current crop of cookie-cutter far-left candidates threatening to nationalize the country are not going to cut it in the general. The hoi polloi of their own party are a problem.

"House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who has clashed with the crazed-left "squad" reportedly told Democratic candidates to "Remember November" before they propose yet another $900 trillion tax-and-spend government takeover of something else."Guys like Michael Bloomberg are already jumping in, something that's rattling the current field of Democrats that the Democratic voters are so happy with. "With a divide like this, who does Hillary Clinton listen to? The Democratic elites, who are in this case the bigger realists? Or the looney-bin left who populate the Democratic base? "It explains the dynamic of why Hillary might just be getting ever closer to running." . . .

What Did She Mean by This? Hillary Clinton Gives Bizarre Answer When Asked if She Will Run For President in 2020

"Crooked Hillary Clinton a few day ago was asked if she was going to run for president…again during an interview with Andrew Ross Sorkin at the New York Times’ “DealBook” conference.

"Rather than giving a straight answer, Hillary played coy and gave a bizarre answer — she thinks she is funny, but she isn’t. 

“What would it take you to run?” Andrew Ross Sorkin asked Hillary.
“I’m sorry? To run? You know, I’ve always been a very, very slow runner and um I’m embarrassingly slow — I’ve tried to run races and I’m so far behind that I start to walk, acting like that’s what the plan was all the time so I don’t know that I’m going to take up competitive running right now…but I think you’re asking about something else,” Hillary said.

“Well there’s been some teasing and some hinting that maybe you’re sitting in the wings here waiting for some moment,” Sorkin said.

"Hillary Clinton went on to whine about the 2016 election and claimed she would have made a great president." . . .

Funny Business

. . . "At least, that's what Progressives find hilarious based on an interview in which The Daily Show host, Trevor Noah, asked Hillary Clinton how she killed Jeffrey Epstein - and was greeted with shrill, psychotic, Joker-style laughter by the First Lady of Arkancide. As opposed to, oh, a denial.
. . . No, wait - the book is called "Gutsy Women" and it's filled with examples of women who, like Hillary, were strong and unapologetic historical trailblazers." . . ."And all of whom knew that Jeffrey Epstein did not kill himself."

Thank you, veterans who saw buddies die.

Terrell AfterMath

Five Battle of the Bulge Museums You Must See

Marine Corps Birthday

Nov 10th, Marines will eat like kings and the next day the menu will feature cold cuts.

The battle of Betio Island on Tarawa Atoll in November, 1943

This account has a special significance to the Tunnel Dweller because 17 years later I was privileged to serve with the Second Marine Division for two years in Alpha 1/2. Always we wondered if we would have been as courageous as those Marines on Tarawa in 1943, often fearing we might not be.  TD

The media protected Jeffrey Epstein and crucified Brett Kavanaugh

https://www.americanthinker.com/cartoons/

Washington Examiner  "Is it any wonder the American public distrusts the media?
"This week, Project Veritas released a video featuring ABC News anchor Amy Robach on set, speaking in August with a running camera and a hot mic. In her conversation with others off-camera, apparently during a setup or commercial break, Robach noted with some frustration that she had the story about the allegations against Jeffrey Epstein all to herself three years ago and with about as much detail as anyone could expect. But her network, she added, inexplicably refused to air it.
" 'I've had the story for three years. I've had this interview with Virginia Roberts [Giuffre]. We would not put it on the air,” Robach said. "First of all, I was told, 'Who is Jeffrey Epstein? No one knows who that is. This is a stupid story.' Then [Buckingham] Palace found out that we had her whole allegations about Prince Andrew and threatened us a million different ways. We were so afraid we wouldn't be able to interview Kate and Will that we, that also quashed the story."
" 'It was unbelievable what we had. Clinton, we had everything," she continued. "I tried for three years to get it on to no avail. And now it's all coming out, and it's like these new revelations, and I freaking had all of it."
"After Project Veritas released the video, Robach walked her comments back and said the undercover journalist “caught” her in a “private moment of frustration.” She added that since the Epstein allegations broke, ABC News has “continued to aggressively pursue this important story.”

"Additionally, ABC News has claimed it refused to run Robach’s reporting because it did not meet their editorial standards. Apparently, there wasn't enough corroborating evidence, despite the fact that Robach says in the video that she had multiple witnesses who confirmed her story. Still, ABC News decided that the allegations, despite the corroboration, were just allegations unworthy of airing. And they killed the story that would eventually land Epstein behind bars, triggering his death." . . .

What the University of Alabama's Football Stadium Tells Us about CO2

John Eidson

To get a visual of what an astonishingly tiny portion of the atmosphere is made up of the increased amount of CO2 that's appeared over the last century, take a look at the University of Alabama's Bryant-Denny Stadium, which has a seating capacity of slightly more than 100,000.  Consider that just ten of those 100,000 people in the stands represent the visual equivalent of the increased level of CO2 in our atmosphere.  Just ten.  Ten of the football fans in the jam-packed stadium represent the increased amount of CO2.  The other 99,990 fans represent the rest of what's in the atmosphere — i.e., everything except the increased amount of CO2.

. . . "I'm not a climate scientist, or a scientist of any kind.  But I do have an engineering degree, which I mention only to point out that I'm at least as qualified as most non-scientists to form rational opinions regarding claims about the climate.  Maybe I'm off base, but it doesn't seem plausible to my layman's mind that a microscopic increase in one of the least plentiful atmospheric gases (CO2) is causing the environment to fall apart at the seams." . . .

. . . "There's another possible reason why the planet has warmed over the last 100 years, and it has nothing to do with carbon dioxide.  Earth's climate has always been in a state of flux.  For billions of years, our planet has experienced warming trends followed by a cooling trend, followed by another warming trend, and so on.  That one-followed-by-the-other pattern is unbroken, dating to the time the atmosphere first formed, so maybe the warming trend over the last century was just another event in that timeless pattern.  In other words, maybe the warming was merely coincidental to the slight increase in CO2.

"The peddlers of climate fear have misled us before" . . .

While we're on the subject:

A huge, angry, Greta Thunberg, looming big over San Francisco...

"Seems it wasn't enough for the left to compare young Greta Thunberg, a 16 year old Swedish global warming activist to Joan of Arc or even "Christ's successor."

"The looney left of San Francisco is now putting up a gargantuan mural of her face, uglier, angrier, doughier and shadowier than it really is, as if to scold San Franciscans from above as she did in her theatrically overwrought United Nations tantrum for the cameras." . . .

Breitbart: "Stalin, Mao, Kim Il-Sung, Saddam Hussein, Greta Thunberg…just a few of the cult leaders to have been immortalised by gigantic images designed to cow subject peoples into the correct mood of submission and terrified awe.":