Mike Ramirez and Argus Hamilton on the impeachment project for Maxine Waters

Mike Ramirez:   "Ramirez, who studied premed at the University of California, Irvine, originally considered journalism a hobby. But he was hooked when his first cartoon for the college newspaper, lampooning candidates for student office, had the student assembly demanding an apology.

" 'Editorial cartoons should be smart and substantive, provocative and informative. They should stir passions and deep emotions. Editorial cartoons should be the catalyst for thought, and frankly speaking, if you can make politicians think, that is an accomplishment in itself. If I don't get at least one death threat every few months, then I'm not doing my job," Ramirez says of his penchant for sparking controversy.

"In addition to the 1994 and 2008 Pulitzer Prizes, Ramirez was the 2008 winner of the prestigious Fischetti Award. He is a three-time Sigma Delta Chi, Society of Professional Journalism Award winner, a Lincoln Fellow and a recipient of the UCI Medal.

"He is a senior editor and the editorial cartoonist for Investor's Business Daily. He is formerly the editorial cartoonist for the Los Angeles Times, The Memphis Commercial Appeal and a contributing cartoonist for USA Today. His work is syndicated by Creators Syndicate.

"Don't leave without checking out his editorial cartoons and Ramirez Caricatures."

"Comedy Store reran the impeachment hearings on a back-bar TV before comics who know the facts of the case better than House Members from our own experience. You play the cover charge, we tell the jokes, and that’s the quid pro quo. How hard or how little you laugh is the trial that follows.

"The White House Counsel wrote House Democrats Tuesday saying an impeachment inquiry without a House vote to impeach is invalid. The comedy continues. Joe Biden demanded that Trump be impeached for questioning the honesty of the Eastern European billionaire Hunter Biden."

"Chairman Adam Schiff's impeachment inquiry yielded no eyewitnesses to Trump wrongdoing and ended in Schiff having to deny multiple times he met with the whistleblower. I have just one question for Adam Schiff. How much is Donald Trump paying you to stage this inquiry?"

Judge Blocks Los Angeles Law Forcing Contractors to Disclose Ties to NRA

Legal Insurrection  "The National Rifle Association (NRA) received some good news in its legal challenge to a Los Angeles ordinance requiring businesses to disclose any links with the advocacy group: a federal judge temporarily blocked the rule.

The Los Angeles City Council approved an ordinance this past February requiring companies that do business with the city to disclose any financial connections to the gun-rights advocacy organization.

The Fairfax, Virginia-based organization responded with a federal lawsuit against the city, arguing the policy silences NRA members and supporters in the city by forcing them to disclose their ties with the organization.

"U.S. District Court Judge Stephen V. Wilson found that the Los Angeles City Council enacted the rule to suppress the speech of the NRA and its sponsors or business affiliations." . . .

Greta: Put climate change deniers "against the wall"?

Kurt Schlicter  "Clearly Greta Thunberg is being exploited by her cynical puppetmasters, but equally clearly she’s a tiresome, bizarre Marxist scold whose exploitation of the hapless dummies who buy into the climate change hoax is part of what is an increasingly violent plot to undermine capitalism and freedom. Recently, the cretins at TIME, which shockingly still exists in 2019, named her “Person of the Year.” That’s appropriate, since 2019 has been a very annoying year." . . .
. . . "The kid is a fanatic, and though that’s no fault of her own – she’s a victim of her pinko exploiters – she is still spewing bloodstained poison. 
"Bloodstained poison, really? Isn’t she just a nice Eastern Norwegian who wants a better world with love and hugging? Or is she yet another aspiring fanatic ready to kill for the kreepy kommie climate kult?" . . .

Adam Schiff: the Greta Thunberg of Congress

Schiff town hall meeting in his district erupts in catcalls and chaos  "Adam Schiff walked into a buzz saw at a town hall meeting back in his district in Glendale, California, as blowback erupted for his lies and grandstanding advancing impeachment.

" 'While as a general rule, I deplore the loss of civility as the country polarizes, we have long passed the point where simply behaving ourselves and calling out the other side for its sins has any positive effect.  #Resistance goes both ways beyond a certain point, and that point is now in the rearview mirror.
" 'I think this is the future for Schiff and his co-conspirators:" . . .

WATCH: Chaos Erupts When Constituents Confront Schiff Over Impeachment During a Town Hall  . . . Multiple people sat in the front of the audience with signs that read "Don't Impeach." 
"In a video, audience members in the back of the crowd yelled "liar!" One man said Schiff would be known for "committing treason," a clear reference to Schiff spearheading the impeachment of the president. 
"Those who were Schiff supporters quickly surrounded those who backed President Trump and chanted "Adam! Adam! Adam!"
"As Trump supporters tried exiting the venue, they were pushed and shoved and told to "leave" or "get out." One of the men held up a "re-elect Trump" flag, at which point Schiff supporters attempted to rip the flag out of his hands." . . .

Shameless Schiff goes Sgt. Schultz   . . . "Appearing on the Sunday morning talk shows, he fell back on the Sgt Schultz defense – that he just didn’t know the facts, but with no apology for acting on false information.  That is total BS, as Steve Scalise pointed out on Twitter:" 

Steve Scalise tweeted:

.@DevinNunes was right from the start: bad actors at the FBI abused FISA to spy on @realDonaldTrump's campaign.Schiff had the SAME info as Nunes, yet wrote a false report he still won't fully admit was a fraud.And he's the guy Dems trust to run impeachment? Give me a break.

 Comey and Schiff: Tweedle-dee-Dum and Tweedle-dee-Dee  . . . "The most damning omission from Wallace's interview was not pressing Schiff hard enough about the Nunes Memo of February 2018  in which Nunes laid out everything he had learned to date about the FBI's gross abuse of the FISA courts.  Schiff promptly released his own memo disavowing the facts in the Nunes memo.  Now we know that everything Nunes wrote was true and that Schiff's memo was, as Mollie Hemingway wrote, riddled with lies." . . .
Nunes tells Schiff he needs 'rehabilitation' after IG report: 'Admit you have a problem'


Adam Schiff is Shameless   . . . "Schiff is such a stone-cold partisan that he can’t even put aside his quest for power to care about protecting his grandchildren from anti-Semitism. That is shameful and I’d love to see him try and explain it to his grandkids.

"Schiff, Pelosi, and the rest of the Democrats leading this grossly partisan and undemocratic process are hypocritical jerks who prove day after day that all they care about is partisanship and power. The Constitution? Nah. Democracy? Nope. Patriotism? What’s that? The American people? Seriously…?

. . . "But the “Late Show” where Schiff was afforded a platform to call Republicans shameful? That’s a priority during this very serious time in our country’s history? You betcha. And who cares if it costs taxpayer money to transport him here, surround him with security in the form of Secret Service and local police forces.  Certainly not Adam Schiff.  When Schiff looks in the mirror, he sees “shameful” staring back at him. He’s just too stupid and shameless to know it."

Adam Schiff to Colbert: How Will ‘Shameful’ Republicans Explain Defending Trump to Their Grandchildren
 (Colbert also seems to have an obsession over the penises of world leaders.)   . . . “'For some of our members, who are defending the Constitution, it is their finest hour,” Adam Schiff told Colbert. “But for others, who are willfully blinding themselves to this president’s misconduct, it is the most shameful hour.' ” . . .

Liberals accuse Army, Navy cadets of flashing ‘racist’ hand signs

Trevor Thomas  "Of all the ridiculous, baseless charges of racism taken seriously by people who ought to know better, the claim that cadets used a racist hand gesture at the Army-Navy Game last weekend is among the worst, because it slimes the best among us, who are part of the least racist institution in the United States (and the world)." . . .
. . . "If you need proof that modern liberalism corrupts virtually everything it touches, consider the silly game described above and the Army-Navy football game played over this past weekend. As reported by even USA Today, cadets who were merely playing this silly game are being accused of making the “White Power hand symbol during a pregame broadcast of the Army-Navy game.' ”
. . . 
"The gesture, though, is also used in the so-called Circle Game. In it, a person holds an upside-down OK sign below his or her waist. If someone notices, the person making the symbol is able to punch the person who notices it in the shoulder.
"The Anti-Defamation League in September added the OK symbol as a gesture of hate.
"In October, Universal Studios Resort fired an actor dressed as a "Despicable Me" character after the person was accused of using the symbol."

Army-Navy game: Academies looking into students' hand symbols during pregame broadcast

The climate change debate: liberalism's effect on informed discourse.

The "press" does to climate change skeptics what they continue do to President Trump  All the so-called climate fears have been promulgated by those same people. If we become convinced as to the declared cause of climate change, the immense cost will have to be taught by those more trusted than those we see attempting it daily. TD

So who is Dr. Judith Curry? And why does the media choose to ignore her?

The debate: my presentation by Judith Curry

Climatologist Judith Curry on Bill Nye, the Fake Science Guy

Greta Thunberg paints her German train ride as cattle car deal, actually rode first class

. . . "Here's the spat update from the German train company, which got mad at its portrayal as a moving hellhole:
"A German railway company has taken back an apology they made to Greta Thunberg after they realized the climate activist wasn’t schlepping it on the train’s floor but instead was treated “friendly” in first class.
"The rail company was responding to an image Thunberg tweeted of herself sitting amid bags and suitcases on the floor of what she called “overcrowded trains through Germany' ” . . .

The debate: my presentation, by Judith Curry

George Carlin on Climate Change

Elizabeth Warren Releases Plan For LGBTQ Rights And Equality

Yahoo News  "Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren released a wide-ranging LGBTQ policy plan on Thursday morning, vowing to enact measures and funnel resources toward fighting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender expression.

"In a 12-page memo, the Massachusetts senator outlined dozens of ways a Warren administration would “fight for LGBTQ+ equality in solidarity with the leaders and organizers who have been at the helm from the very beginning.”
"The measures include things like working to pass the Equality Act, which would extend civil rights protections to LGBTQ people, and amending the Religious Freedom Restoration Act to ensure it can’t be used to discriminate against LGBTQ people. "
"Thursday’s plan comes on the heels of a sweeping climate justice proposal Warren released on Wednesday and which reads as an ambitious blueprint of how to implement a Green New Deal." . . .

Pro-Impeachment Dem Returns Home, Faces Wrath Of Her Constituents: ‘We’re Mad As Hell!’

Daily Sounder

"With congressional representatives’ busy schedules and trips to-and-from Washington D.C., there’s often not a lot of time for constituents to hold their elected officials feet to the fire.

"But Oklahoma Rep. Kendra Horn’s constituents found the perfect opportunity to do just that.

"Earlier this week, Horn got an earful from her district voters, who confronted her at a Town Hall meeting. A majority of the backlash came from her pro-impeachment stance, siding with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in her war against President Donald Trump.

“ 'As an independent voter, I think you’re in a lot of trouble if you vote for this impeachment,” Susan Jaslow told Horn. It’s worth noting that, per a Daily Caller report, that Jaslow voted for Horn in 2018, but will not do so if she proceeds with an impeachment vote.

When Horn tried to wiggle her way out of a definite “yes” vote on impeachment, others that were in the crowd jumped in.

“ 'We’re mad as hell. Why did you allow this sham to go on?” one asked.

“ 'You’re in a lot of trouble if you vote for this,” another said.

“ 'Get back to work for the American people!” yet another stated.

"Watch the tense exchange: . . ."

Robert de Niro: Trump a ‘Nasty Little Bitch’ and His Supporters Are Crazy

Edited by TD for the fun of it.

Breitbart  "Leftist actor Robert de Niro attacked President Donald Trump as a “nasty little bitch” and vowed never to portray the president on screen in a wide-ranging interview released Saturday.

Speaking to the New York Times, de Niro, one of President Trump’s most virulent Hollywood critics, explained he would never agree to play the president because he believes he’s an “awful person” with “nothing redeemable about him.”

“I never say that about any character,” The Irishman star then claimed.

Robert De Niro also lashed out at President Trump’s supporters, stating he has “people who follow him who are crazy and want to do crazy things.”

Mike Harris

“Trump has people who follow him who are crazy and want to do crazy things. What we’re doing in film, it’s like a dream. We know it’s not real,” the 76-year-old judged. “There are people who will take anything to be real and that we have no control over.”

“The president is supposed to set an example of trying to do the right thing. Not be a nasty little bitch. Because that’s what he is. He’s a petulant little punk,” he fumed. “There’s not one thing that I see in him or his family, not any redeeming qualities. They’re out on the take. It’s like a gangster family.”

De Niro’s remarks come after he floated South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg as possible White House candidates that could defeat President Trump in 2020.

“I like Bloomberg. He’s an adult. He’s a grownup,” the Meet the Fockers star told CBS’s Late Show with Stephen Colbert." . 

The Business of Climate Change

Real Clear Energy  . . . "Then there’s the psychology of herding, whereby CEOs are fearful of being hung out to dry if they don’t sign the latest statement pledging their company to save the world from climate breakdown. All this might remind readers of two groups in Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged: the Moochers, comprising, in this example, the craven CEOs and their in-house CSR crowd; and the Looters, the environmental NGOs. Their ultimate victim is capitalism, the only economic system ever to have produced durable, transformative economic growth." . . .

. . . "Then there are those desperate to get on the climate bandwagon and never get off. Anyone who has attended a UN climate conference will have noticed that some of the best-dressed participants are from Africa’s poorest nations, some with chunky Rolexes on their wrists. The UN makes sure that they suffer no hardship from their climate-change-fighting efforts. The Daily Subsistence Allowance, once handed out in envelopes with $100 bills, is now disbursed in its plastic equivalent of Swiss value cards. NGOs, whose role at climate conferences is to act as the spontaneous expression of civil society, are also eligible. Unsurprisingly, youth NGOs want to get in on the DSA act, too." . . .

Adam Schiff Finally Goes on Fox, Squirms Trying to Justify Impeachment

Wallace asked how could challenging Democrats in court over their requests for documents or people to testify be considered obstruction, especially given the Supreme Court’s decision to hear the case of Trump challenging turning over financial records. “Why is going to Court an impeachable offense?” Wallace asked.

RedState  "House Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff (D-CA) finally made it on to Fox to try to justify the Democrats’ Articles of Impeachment.
"He drew perhaps who he thought was the most amenable anchor for the interview, Chris Wallace. But Wallace did get in a couple of good questions that left Schiff squirming and spinning untruths.
"Schiff looked horrible with red eyes and with what looked like vampire-like make-up, coupled with nerves. He did not do well.
"Wallace asked after all the claims about bribery and extortion, why Democrats hadn’t included any crimes, much less those in the articles of impeachment?"
. . . 

"He claimed that somehow this “sacrificed our national security.” But indeed, it is the Democrats’ effort of impeachment that has impaired our relationship with Ukraine because of their effort to politicize everything and impede the effort into stopping corruption in Ukraine. Meanwhile, it’s impaired the President’s ability to conduct foreign policy as he should. And it’s incredibly ironic given that Barack Obama left Ukraine naked and open to being invaded by Russia by first getting them to give up their weapons with which they could have defended themselves and then failing to provide them weapons for that defense when they begged for them after the Russians invaded. They only got them after President Donald Trump came in and provided them.

"Wallace also nailed him on obstruction where Schiff’s responses were even weaker." . . .

"Soulless" Hollywood and the Thunbergians

Rob Reiner Defends ‘Champion for Our Survival’ Greta Thunberg Against ‘Soulless’ Trump  "Meathead" speaks nonsense to power as one of those who comes into our home entertainment to shape our children's values and to teach all Americans what they consider morals. 
 "Left-wing actor and director Rob Reiner defended teenage climate alarmist Greta Thunberg, describing her as a “passionate caring champion for the survival of our planet” after President Donald Trump mocked her for being awarded TIME magazine’s “Person of the Year.”
“ 'Greta Thunberg is a passionate caring champion for the survival of our planet. Donald Trump is a Soulless Pathologically Lying Malignant Narcissist who cheats to win and pisses on our Constitution and the Rule of Law. So there’s that,”Rob Reiner, one of the president’s most vocal Hollywood critics, wrote on Twitter Saturday morning." . . .

vienna dave remembers the Vietnam Left:After all those shows with meathead denigrating U.S. servicemen during Viet Nam, he must have squeezed out a s'load of bricks when the National Viet Nam Memorial Wall opened. His TDS is a carry over from his treason!