Taking the pulse of the Markets.

It's called VOLATILITY. Wild swings in the price of stock and even commodities. This usually occurs when trends are changing. The last number was a 400 point increase in the DJI. So, do we now look to a rise in stock prices? I do not think so. The economic conditions that caused stocks to go into a bear market have not changed (energy stocks are down, bankruptcies increasing and the economy slowed). So, what has changed to cause a stock price eruption? What has changed is that the FED has suspended its proposed rate hikes, at least for the time being.

What can we look for in the Markets?

Larry now pegs the drop in the DJI at 13,935 as the lowest. Of course, you understand that this number is a point on his graphics.

Have the gold and silver markets confirmed the breakout? Not yet. Gold needs to close above 1,187 and silver above 15.46. How about oil? Oil is near 34 and is slowly rising. At the rate it is going, it will reach to between 40 and 50 dollars/bbl.

The US dollar is also volatile with an upward bias. A strong dollar keeps commodity prices low, but the deflationary environment puts a damper on commodity prices. Will the FED relent and allow gold prices to rise to end the deflationary environment? That is the big question.

A good question about Obama.

TRump's latest contribution.

Donald Trump has made a number of contributions to the Nation's political life.One has been to appeal to the white middle class; the enemy of the Democrat party and lately even of the GOP. The second contribution has been breaking the Liberal-imposed taboos of politics. The third has been to ask for the repatriation of foreign people residing in the US illegally. The latest contribution is to refuse to participate in tonight's debate. The Media have become the arbiter of who gets through to the people. When it's a Republican being savaged by the Media, the process resembles a keel hauling. It is high time to end Media dominance of the process. The Media should report and when asked MODERATE a debate but not even Megyn Kelley is entitled to act as a participant in the debate. If Megyn wants to participate in the debate, she should run.

That said, Donald Trump should not be a Republican nominee. He is not a Republican, even if he registered as one. Admittedly, he is not as bad as Mayor Doomberg, but that is not enough. Trump is accustomed to having his way and in spite his ability to make deals, his businesses went bankrupt. The US does not need an innovator in govt. The US needs a President that will take us in directions that we know have succeeded in the past. We already have a Party (Democratic Socialists) that will take us into bankruptcy. We do not need a second one.

Hello Bear!

The DOW has gone into a bear market. When? Probably in the July- August period. Confirmation was difficult to get, but now we know.

 The DOW has entered a bear market anticipating a recession. In fact we had a very weak recovery after the last recession. As deflation continues and the FED promises more rises in interest rates, the bear market has a long way to go. How long? Probably 11,500, but opinions vary. The FED now sees that their effort of ultra low interest rates had failed to stimulate the economy so now their attention shifts to preserve the Dollar by raising interest rates. That will exaggerate the slump.

How about O'Bungle's State of the Union praising the recovery? I am not going to comment so my remarks will not be censored.

The Market is now beginning to anticipate a turn in commodities. Gold is beginning to rise and oil has attempted a rally. Oil is expected to hit bottom in March.

Here is the action in gold:

Today's gold price is up over 8 Dollars.

Here again is what Larry expects for the gold price.

Gold did not have a sharp bottom but a double bottom. It is now trying to break above the 1,100 resistance.

Attack the Investigator: Hillary is at it again.

It was a method the Clintons developed to defend their criminal activities. Here are the steps:

1. Deny documents and stall:

2. Lie and deny any wrongdoing;

3. Pretend that there is a conspiracy to ensnare them;

4. Attack the investigator(s);

5. Urge people to move on.

In the current case Hillary had instructed a subordinate to remove the classification of documents. Why? So, she could claim that the documents did not say classification. The Clinton lie was that the documents were later classified.

But, the documents were classified and some of them were more than Top Secret. So now the Clitons are attacking the Inspector General, claiming he is a right winger out to destroy Hillary.

Based on the findings so far, the Inspector General has moved to investigate the Clinton crime family Foundation. It received over $300 million dollars which was really bribe money.

We can now expect the process to start again: deny, lie, claim a conspiracy and continue attacking the Inspector General.

Understanding Trump's appeal.

From a radio commentator.

"I want to read something to you.  I want you to really listen to this.  This was written back in 1996, written by a man named Samuel Francis, who later in life suffered the -- acquired the -- reputation of being a white supremacist. Undeservedly so, but there have been efforts undertaken to destroy his credibility.

But don't let any of that cloud what I'm gonna read to you yet.  I want to read to you from an essay he wrote called "From Household to Nation."  It was published in Chronicles magazine back in 1996. "[S]ooner or later, as the globalist elites seek to drag the country into conflicts and global commitments, preside over the economic pastoralization of the United States, manage the delegitimization of our own culture, and the dispossession of our people, and disregard or diminish our national interests and national sovereignty, a nationalist reaction is almost inevitable and will probably assume populist form when it arrives."

"The theory is that this is Donald Trump.  The theory is that that (written back in 1996) foretold, if you will, or predicted the arrival of Donald Trump. Not by name, but by virtue of somebody realizing what's happening and taking the bull by the horns and reacting to it this way. "Imagine giving this advice to a Republican presidential candidate: What if you stopped calling yourself a conservative and instead just promised to make America great again?" What do you think might happen in the current climate, where the middle class in the country feels totally left out of everything going on? They feel like they've been targeted by every liberal Democrat policy that has not been stopped by the Republican Party.  What if you dropped [talking] about the free market," stop all of that, "and promised to fight the elites who were selling out American jobs? What if you just stopped talking about reforming Medicare and Social Security and instead said that the elites were failing to deliver better health care at a reasonable price? What if, instead of vainly talking about restoring the place of religion in society ... you simply promised to restore the Middle American core," and everything it stands for?

You "promise to restore ... the economic and cultural losers of globalization to their rightful place in America? What if you said you would restore them as the chief clients of the American state under your watch, being mindful of their interests when regulating the economy or negotiating trade deals?" What if you decided to go to middle America and tell them you're the guy that's gonna make it right, that you're the guy that's gonna speak up for them, you're the guy that understands how they have been targeted, how their lives have been under the microscope, how the establishment has raised their taxes, made health care unaffordable, has caused cultural rot?

You can't send your kids to school anymore, because it costs so much they end up with debt. And besides, what's being taught in college reeks!  So what if you come along and promise to fix all that but you don't call yourself a conservative? You just say you're gonna make America great again?  This is the advice this man gave Buchanan back in 1996.  He said (paraphrased), "This is what you need to do, Pat."  Buchanan couldn't do it in 1996 because Buchanan was so identified with conservative policies, conservatism as a conservative.

He couldn't abandon it, because that alone would have destroyed his credibility.  Somebody asked Buchanan recently, after watching Trump run around the past few months: Pat, do you get the impression that Trump... I mean, he's talking about same stuff you do it way back when you ran for president 1996, 1992.  Why do you think Trump's being heralded and supported and leading, and you weren't?  Buchanan said because 20 years ago, he was just sounding the warning.  None of this was really happening.  He was warning people it was coming.  Trump doesn't have to do it.  We're living it.  There's a 20-year record now.


So Trump doesn't have to warn anybody.
All he's gotta do is let people know he recognizes it.  All of this comes from a column called "From Household to Nation," written by this guy Samuel Francis.  Pat Buchanan was the target back in 1996, and here's the simplification of the theory.  It is that "[t]here are a number of Americans who are losers," economic losers, not sad-sack losers. They just lost out in the enterprise of "economic globalization that enriches a transnational global elite. These Middle Americans see jobs disappearing to Asia and increased competition from" unskilled, uneducated, increasing numbers of immigrants, most of them illegal.


They are stuck right in the middle of cultural rot brought about by liberalism.  And the key: "But they are also threatened by conservatives who would take away their Medicare, hand their Social Security earnings to fund-managers in Connecticut, and cut off their unemployment too."  Now, that may make you say, "Wait a minute! Wait a minute! Why would these middle class voters fear conservatives?"  Well, because this goes back to the whole thing, folks.  There's a lot of conservatives out there; many of you in this audience are.


But the theory now with Trump coming... Let me just cut to the real chase.  What the end of all this, people think that the arrival of Trump on the scene and the success he's having has blown whatever alignment there was between the so-called conservative movement and the Republican Party, because what is happening here -- what is being exposed, what's being demonstrated -- is that, yeah, there are a lot of people who are conservative, but many will not call themselves that, and they are not conservatives because of conservative policy.

In other words, they're not wonks.
They don't understand all the ins and outs of classic conservatism.  They're just who they are.  Therefore, it's not conservatism that is the glue that has this group of people in this coalition held together.  It's quite a number of other things, and right now the glue is an absolute opposition to the Democrat Party, to the American left, to the worldwide left, and everything they have done and want to continue doing.  As I said yesterday, if somebody comes along and convinces them that they're serious about stopping this and reversing it, they don't care if it's somebody from Mars!
It doesn't have to be a classical conservative promising this.  It can be anybody who makes them trust him, anybody with credibility.  So the fear is, when you get inside the Beltway, that all of the conservative institutions -- in media and in think tanks, you name it. All the various components are being exposed as really unnecessary and irrelevant, and really haven't done anything for people.  One illustration of that is the reaction to Sarah Palin from the Republican establishment.
She shows up... Not the selection, but Palin showing up to endorse Trump.  Everybody said, "Why in the world would she do that?" Let me ask you a simple question.  "If you're Sarah Palin, what has the Republican establishment done for you -- other than try to destroy you?" The Republican establishment, they assigned people to shepherd her through the McCain campaign who ended up telling the media, "My God, this woman is so stupid, I can't vote for McCain! The thought this woman might become president? Oh, my God, I can't!"

HBO made a movie out of it.  So if you're Sarah Palin, you might ask, you're asking me why I'm endorsing Trump?  Why don't you ask me what has the so-called conservative Republican Party done for me.  Tea Party's a different thing, obviously.  So the Trump triumph, the Trump coalition is exposing the fact that it isn't conservative orthodoxy, or conservatism, or any of the hard work of the conservative elite in persuading people and educating them and informing them that is causing people to be conservative.


No, it's something really basic and simple.  They are fed up with the modern-day Democrat Party.  They're fed up with Obama and all of these people who have set out to transform, which means destroy, this country and rebuild it in ways it was never founded to be or intended to be.  They want it stopped.  They've shown up at the polls twice, 2010, 2014, to get them to stop.
The Republican Party establishment does not understand this.  They do not know who their conservative voters are.  They've overestimated their conservatism, and by that is meant they think they're dyed-in-the-wool conservative theoreticians absorbed in such things as the free market and all these other bells and whistles, and they're not.  They're not liberal.  They're not Democrat.  Many of them do not want to be thought of as conservatives, for a host of reasons.  So somebody who comes along and is able to convey that he or she understands why they're angry and, furthermore, is gonna do everything they can to fix it, is gonna own them.


So what's happening here, nationalism, dirty word, ooh, people hate it, populism, even dirtier word.  Nationalism and populism have overtaken conservatism in terms of appeal.  And when this has happened, when it exposes -- what people in Washington are afraid of --  and that that is, you know, all this money we've asked people to send us and all these donations people have made, this movement, promote that movement, where is conservatism in Washington, they're asking.  Where is it?  The Republican Party isn't conservative.  Where are all these conservative people that are contributing to policy being implemented in Congress or in the Senate.  They don't see it.

 

 By the way, folks, Angelo Codevilla in that original piece he did on the ruling class versus the country class, he predicted this as well.  It's not just this guy back in 1996 whose name was Samuel Francis.  What's interesting about the 1996 piece is how right on it is in foretelling Trump and the way he's campaigning and what he's saying.  This is a guy back in 1996 urging Buchanan to just go all-in.  Forget conservatism, Pat, you're gonna turn too many people off, some people who are conservative but they don't want anybody to know it. They don't want anybody to think it. They're embarrassed of it for whatever reason. Don't even go to conservative.  Don't even mention the word, Pat, just go pro-America, just go nationalism, populism, whatever, and you'll rake 'em in.  You don't need those people, Pat.

This is the summation of his advice.  They'll drag you down.  All they'll want to get in is on your campaign, be your policy expert.  You don't need 'em, Pat.  They're not gonna help you.  But he couldn't.  Buchanan couldn't abandon conservatism; he was too identified as one.  But Trump, nobody's ever thought of him as a conservative.  Doesn't have to abandon anything.  Codevilla predicted this as well more recently.  Codevilla said it was only a matter of time, the country class would figure out that the ruling class is not only not listening to them, but is actively suppressing them, and there would be a price to pay for this.
At some point the country class, which considers itself the group of people that actually make the country work, would simply revolt and abandon the conventional arrangements that have always existed, the parties, party loyalty shmoilty.  It would come down to who is going to fix the problems that everybody agrees are taking place that we face and are being pushed by people in Washington.
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I can give you the theory. I just have...  I mean, here we have... Well, let's go through it very briefly, just very quickly, to get to the question I have about Trump.  See, I think it makes total sense why Trump has support.  I'm not confused by it at all, and I'm not angry.  I think we have two political parties, but we don't.

The Republican Party, for whatever reason, refuses to be an opposition party.  The Republican Party refuses to stand up and even make the pretense of trying to stop Barack Obama.  Out in the real world, Barack Obama and the Democrat Party are seen as destroying this country.  And not just domestically; they're destroying the military; they're destroying foreign policy.  They are nuking up Iran.  They are behaving in ways that befriending our enemies and alienating our friends and allies -- and people are at their wits' end.

They have voted, in large numbers, expecting there to be some opposition and push-back to this.  That's the standard, normal procedure in politics.  Politics is at least two competing organizations, and the winning organization always faces opposition by the losing organization 'cause it wants to get back in power.  Well, the people that vote for Republicans are not seeing any opposition.  They're not seeing any push-back.  In fact, it's even worse than that.  They're seeing the Republican Party agree with the Democrats on something as key as open borders.

If there's one thing that people in this country think is responsible for the direct hit on the economy and their future and their kids' future, it's illegal immigration and the willing importation of unskilled, uneducated, totally dependent people who are gonna be automatic voters for the Democrats, which means this never ends.  So they're expecting the Republican Party to stand up and say, "No!"  They're expecting the Republican Party to stand up and try to stop it.  They're not seeing it.  They're at their wits' end.

They have voted.
They've donated.
They've given money when they could afford it.
They have campaigned.  They've gotten out the vote.  They have shown up as the Tea Party.  They've gone to town meetings.  They have gone neighborhood door-to-door.  They've manned the phone banks.  They've done all of that.  They've got nothing to show for it except maybe they lose their job, maybe they're cut back to 30 hours, maybe their neighborhood Walmart's closing down.  Everything's caving in on them! They're the ones playing by the rules.  They're not cultural perverts.  They're not people breaking the law.
They're doing everything they can to play by the rules, and they don't think anybody is standing up for 'em or representing them.
They feel powerless.
They feel like they're being targeted.
They think they're being blamed for whatever's gone wrong in this country that Obama and the Democrats don't like.  And they're not to blame.  They represent what's great about this country, and they're being winnowed out.  Well, it only stands to reason that when somebody comes along and lets them know that he agrees with that -- and these days are over and we're gonna make this country great again and you're gonna help me do it -- and we're together gonna make this country great, I guarantee you that is a magnet that no Republican, conservative, expert, think tank, whatever, can stop.

It's not hard to understand this at all.  Except the Republican Party I don't think understands what is animating and motivating their base supporters.  They're not worried about the Republican Party future.  They're not worried about the image of the Republican Party, not worried about the media liking them.  They're not worried about money being donated.  They're worried about their country.  They oppose, stridently, the modern-day Democrat Party.  They oppose the policies of Barack Hussein O.  It isn't personal.

They just don't like what's happening.  They don't like the out-of-control spending.  They don't like $4.5 trillion printed and given to Wall Street, and here's Wall Street squandering it now!  They don't like any of this.  Somebody comes along and says, "I don't either.  You know what?  We're gonna work together, and we're gonna make this country great again.  We got stupid people running it."  Well, Trump's not criticizing Democrats, Republicans, liberals, conservatives.  He's criticizing stupid people.

He's gonna be smarter.  He gonna make great deals. He's gonna make the country great again.  People want to believe that.  This is not hard to understand at all, if you ask me. Now, my question is -- and it really is not all that important. Does Trump know he's doing this or did he just... Is it just who he is and he just happened to arrive on the scene at the moment? Is this some sort of grand strategy that he's working out, or did he just fall into this?  I mean right person, right time, or is it strategic?" 

From the website of Rush Limbaugh.

AJ adds: The reason Palin and others endorse Trump is that we know that he can make America great again ONLY IF HE TAKES US BACK TO CONSERVATIVE PRINCIPLES.

 

Explaining the nuts and bolts of Islam. A former terrorist.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zhp7Qaj5NSU

Trump evens the odds in Iowa.

After besting Trump in the debates, Ted Cruz was...well, cruising. Even though Trump was gaining in the polls, Cruz counted on holding on. Iowa votes turn on turnout and other subtle things and you would have some soul searching to stand for a New Yorker. Someone who stood for gay marriage? You kidding?

But, the endorsement from Palin changes things. Even though Palin does not carry the clout she once did, she can make a difference. No doubt, Palin endorsed the Trump we hear today, not the one who supported gay marriage.

That now makes it a sweep among the Conservative ladies: Schlafly, Ann Coulter and now Palin. Trump's unwavering and decisive stand on immigration (meaning standing against remaking America as a Spanish-speaking, Socialist country) may hold the key and I do know it is true for Ann Coulter. Besides, Trump is almost a romantic figure as he  stands unflinching against the slavoring hate of the Media and the Republican establishment. The latter is thawing. The Establishment had started devising plans to make deals with Trump. It will be amusing. It would be funny if the consequenes were not so serious.

Larry's long range forecast. What it means.

In the January Wealth report one of the Readers asked   Larry Edelson:

Q: ....Come the end of the crisis, which you say will be around 2020, what will the world look like?

A: I believe that on the other side, post 2020, we will have a bright, new, peaceful world, chock full of economic potential.

I see a world where government debts are forgiven and forbidden;
I see a world where taxes are cut to the bone, perhaps even a flat tax.
I see a world where archaic burocracies are dismantled, allowing entrepreneurism to flourish.
I also see huge strides in biotechnology, in curing disease and more.

It will be extremely difficult to get there, but the world will get there.

AJ adds: IMHO, this will happen only if the Lord appears and does what He promised He will do. Imagine! No more Democrats to fight for higher taxes and lower growth. Liberal judges gone and Liberal Professors defrocked. And, ahem, the GOP growing a pair.

From the heart of an honest Muslim.

 

From The Heart of an Honest Muslim!

 

By Dr. Tawfik Hamid

 

 

"I am a  Muslim by faith, a Christian by spirit, a Jew by heart,
and above all I am a  human being."

 

Dr. Hamid is an Egyptian scholar and author of the following article...

 

I was born a  Muslim and lived all my life as a follower of Islam.

After the  barbaric terrorist attacks done by the hands of my fellow Muslims everywhere  on this globe, and after the too many violent acts by Islamists in many  parts of the world, I feel responsible as a Muslim and as a human being to speak out and tell the truth to protect the world and Muslims as well from a coming catastrophe and war of civilizations.

 

I have to admit that our current Islamic teaching creates violence and hatred toward non-Muslims.
We Muslims are the ones who need to change.

 

Until now we have accepted polygamy, the beating of women by men, and killing those who convert from Islam to other religions.

 

We have never had a clear and strong stand against the concept of slavery or wars, to spread our religion  and to subjugate others to Islam and force them to pay a humiliating tax called jizia.

 

We ask others to respect our religion while all the time we curse non-Muslims loudly (in Arabic) in ourFriday prayers in the mosques.

 

What message do we convey to our children when we call the Jews "descendants of the pigs and monkeys"?  [Yet,  both Arabs and Jews are descendants of Ibrahim  (Abraham)!]

 

Is this a message of love and peace, or a message of hate?

 

I have been into  [Christian] churches and [Jewish] synagogues where they were praying for Muslims.
While all the time, we curse them, and teach our generations to call them "infidels", and to hate them.

 

We immediately jump in a 'knee jerk reflex' to defend Prophet Mohammad when someone accuses him of being a pedophile while, at the same time, ..we are proud with the story in our Islamic books that he married a young girl seven years old [Aisha] when he was above 50 years old.

 

I am sad to say that many, if not most of us, rejoiced in happiness after September 11th and after many other terror attacks.

 

Muslims denounce these attacks to look good in front of the media, but we condone the Islamic terrorists and sympathise with their cause.

 

Until now our 'reputable' top religious authorities have never issued a fatwa or religious statement to proclaim Bin Laden as an apostate, while an author, like Rushdie, was declared an apostate who should be killed according to Islamic Shari'a law just for writing a book criticizing Islam.

 

Muslims  demonstrated to get more religious rights as we did in France to stop the ban on the hijab (head scarf), while we did not demonstrate with such passion and in such numbers against the terrorist murders. It is our absolute silence against the terrorists that gives the energy to these terrorists to continue doing their evil acts.

 

We Muslims need to stop  blaming our problems on others or on the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.

 

As a matter of honesty, Israel is the only light of democracy, civilization, and human rights in the whole Middle East .

 

We kicked out the Jews with no compensation or mercy from most of the Arab countries to make them "Jews-free countries" while Israel accepted more than a million Arabs to live there, have their own nationality, and enjoy their rights as human beings. In Israel, women cannot be beaten legally by men, and any person can change his/her belief system with no fear of being killed by the Islamic law of 'apostasy,' while in our Islamic world people do not enjoy any of these rights.

 

I agree that the 'Palestinians' suffer, but they suffer because of their corrupt leaders and not because of Israel.

 

It is not common to see Arabs who live in Israel leaving to live in the Arab world.

On the other hand, we used to see thousands of Palestinians going to work with happiness in Israel, its 'enemy.'  If Israel treats Arabs badly as some people claim, surely we would have seen the opposite happening.

 

We Muslims need to admit our problems and face them. Only then we can treat them and start a new era to live in harmony with human mankind.

 

Our religious  leaders have to show a clear, and very strong stand against polygamy, pedophilia, slavery, killing those who convert from Islam to other religion, beating of women by men, and declaring wars on
non-Muslims to spread Islam.

 

Then, and only then, do we have the right to ask others to respect our religion..

 

                    Dr. Tawfik Hamid

The failure of the Republican "modernizers."

After the 2012 defeat of Romney, the RNC commissioned a report on how to win Presidential elections. Basically, it called for the GOP to abandon its principles. It had been updated by a guy named Ford O'Connell. He wrote a book book entitled "Hail Mary: The 10-Step Playbook for Republican Recovery."

Here are some of his pointers: "Hug the Gays; embrace them and make them part of the political base. Reform the GOP primary process to make it a little more like the Lincoln Douglass debates and less like a deathmatch version of 'survivor.'
"Reach out to nontraditional and Leftist media. End the Reagan fetish. Come to terms with the fact that Ronald Reagan and the Reagan coalition are dead and not coming back."

Basically, the "modernizers" call for the GOP to become like the Democrats with their agenda. To be sure, this is nothing new. We called these guys "95 cent Republicans" "moderate Republicans" or "moderately Republican" people. They want to jettison Conservatives and conservatism itself. Jeb Bush, for example, wanted to win the nomination without the 'base.'

The "modernizers" are in a panic. Both Trump and Cruz campaign as Conservatives and they left everyone behind. So, the "modernizers" are saying that it is preferable for the GOP to lose this year if Trump or Cruz are the nominee. They believe that a win by a Conservative would doom the Party.

There is a difference between Trump and Cruz though. Trump is an instinctive Conservative. To some people he does not even appear Conservative. He merely knows what happened in the past and what worked. "Make America great again" means to return to the Conservative principles that guided our country and made it great.  Cruz can tell you what those principles are, how they came to be and what mechanisms assure good results. The modernizers failed again. Let's hope that they do not dictate candidate selection again.

Nikki Haley lays a rotten egg.

Obama's State of the Union speech was full of lies. Perhaps the biggest lie was that the recovery after the recession was the greatest recovery in recent history. This is the middle of a Stock Market meltdown and Wall Mart closing 157 stores in the Country.

Governor Haley owed it to the Country to state the truth about what really is the state of the country. Instead, she decided to parrot the line of the elite that the danger we face is loud voices and that we should take in the Islamic horde. Trump nuked her with the words from the snake. So devastating was the response that the Media didn't notice that Trump called Haley a "stupid woman." I know it wasn't Trump who said that, it's in the poem.  Yeah. Now where is that turnip truck?

Even FOX promotes Trump's trickery.

During the last Republican debate Cruz had Trump on the ropes for a couple of times. One was when Cruz reminded everyone that Trump's lawyers told him there was no birther issue about Cruz. 'The Constitution hasn't changed since September,' Cruz said, 'but the polls have.' Trump conceded the point. The second time Cruz had Trump on the ropes when he told the audience that Trump gave an interview with Chris Matthews in which Trump's ideas were entirely different from what they are now. Trump responded in the interview that this was due to his New York values.

Trump counterattacked. Trump contended that Cruz was criticizing  New York's response to 9-11. All the Media (even FOX) pretends that that is what Cruz said, feigning phony outrage as usual.

The rest of us know what New York values are. And we know what this phoney support for Trump means. It is not that the Media now likes Trump. It is that they desperately want to take down Cruz.

Trump's finest moment - so far.

Donald Trump read this poem to an audience:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qu6_2hFTw74

and here is the musical version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULx9k2QkL94

Alabama vs Clemson: lived up to the hype.

The Nation's number one and number two teams collided last night. They were heavily hyped but lived up to expectations. Amazing how some big guys can move that fast!

Alabama made big plays and Clemson was deliberate but just as effective. The difference was the trick play of Alabama that stopped the Clemson momentum. Considering how good the defenses of both teams were, the scores were amazing. The students who traveled far had gotten their money's worth and more.

Clemson's coach took the loss hard. He can go home though with his head high and try to come back again next year.

Hillary's lead over Sanders vanishing.

Two Republican friends are talking about the Democrats this year. One mentions that the Dems are going crazy. "I mean, look at how Sanders came up in the polls" one says  and pulls up a graphic on his iPhone:

Yeah, the other one responds. Do you know that a quarter of the Dems are on psychoactive drugs? That IS scary, the first one responds. You mean three quarters of them are running around Untreated?

Why Hillay changed rules on govt documents and how.

by Pam Key10 Jan 20161,033

10 Jan, 2016 10 Jan, 2016

On this week’s broadcast of “Fox News Sunday,” while discussing an email from Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state in which she instructed Jake Sullivan, her deputy chief of staff at the time to send her classified information by making sure there was “no identifying heading” and sending it through a non-secure channel, veteran journalist Bob Woodward said Clinton did “subvert the rules.”
Woodward said, “Here you have the secretary of state in 2011 saying let’s subvert the rules, which say you’ve got to send — presumably — it’s very clear from the earlier e-mails that this was a security issue, and I’ve written about non-papers or no papers, and this is the way people in the government take the heading off and create something that exists…By taking it off, it’s just a piece of paper that has a bunch of paragraphs. there’s no classification, there’s no subject, so it’s not in the system, so no one can discover it through Freedom of Information Act or some sort of subpoena. I mean, look, here is Hillary Clinton, somebody who worked on the staff of the Nixon impeachment committee, and what was the lesson? One of the lessons from that? Never write anything down. She did years of Whitewater investigations, where she was the target, and here many years later she’s saying oh, let’s subvert the rules and writing it out herself? Whether that’s some sort of c[l]ime, that is not the issue. The issue is she kind of feels immune. She lives in a bubble, and no one is ever going to find this out. Well, now we have.”
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Venezuelan crisis deepens.

Venezuela's new legislature was sworn in, including the 4 that are under protest by the communist govt. Presidente comrade Maduro insists that the legislature is not legitimate. The armed forces pledges loyalty to the Maduro regime. The country has gotten one step closer to civil war.

Hillary's list of crimes is getting longer.

The Clintons have gotten away with crimes for so long that they do not believe that they can be touched and brought to justice.

There are now over 1,300 emails from Hillary that had communications that unlawfully disclosed classified material.

The Clinton response? Those items were not classified at the time.  Now we find out that Hillary instructed an employee to remove the classification from the material so she could claim that the material was not classified. That is also a felony.

Hungary casts veto over the EU censoring Poland.

The EU is run by a Socialist elite. This elite, like ours, is anti-Christian. That is why they ally so easily with Muslims. Any opponent of Christianity is their friend.

East European governments are not anti-Christian. That is why Hungary enacted a Media law that curbs the misuse of the Press. The EU elite seethed. Now Poland has enacted a Media Law and the EU elite wants to censor Poland. Hungary cast a veto.

Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia are members of the Visegrad group that consult within the EU. There is a bond between Poland and Hungary because they had the same king for a time.

Texas Governor calls for Constitutional Convention.

The plan lays out nine specific proposed amendments that would:

• Prohibit congress from regulating activity that occurs wholly within one state.
• Require Congress to balance its budget.
• Prohibit administrative agencies from creating federal law.
• Prohibit administrative agencies from pre-empting state law.
• Allow a two-thirds majority of the states to override a U.S. Supreme Court decision.
• Require a seven-justice super-majority vote for U.S. Supreme Court decisions that invalidate a democratically enacted law
• Restore the balance of power between the federal and state governments by limiting the former to the powers expressly delegated to it in the Constitution.
• Give state officials the power to sue in federal court when federal officials overstep their bounds.
• Allow a two-thirds majority of the states to override a federal law or regulation.

A convention, Abbott wrote, would force the federal government to “take the Constitution seriously again.”
“The only true downside comes from doing nothing and allowing the federal government to continue ignoring the very document that created it,” Abbott wrote.

Alarming prophecies.

Prophecies always seem to be alarming and dark. Why? Because people ignore Pollyannaish predictions. Besides, disasters always seem to be just around the corner.

Ever since Obama became President, the world is sliding from one disaster to another. Obama believes, as other ultra leftists believe, that the cause of problems in the world is the US. Hence, he wants us to withdraw from the world. He even wants to destroy our capability to exert leadership. How is this working out? Not well.

There are prophecies hat relate to this. If you plug in the word PROPHECIES or prophets or anything similar, you get a whole slew. Obviously, they can't all be right.

We might start with Larry Edelson. Larry is known for his cycle theories that are often right. When he is not, he will tell you that cycles can invert, stretch or shrink. Larry's cycle theory predicts an upsurge of war and violence, a new commodities boom, a collapse of Europe and the EU and a bull market in the US Dollar and Stock Market. He anticipates the next 4 years to be a "roller coaster ride through Hell." To me that means the election of Hillary.

How could that happen? Simple. Donald Trump gets nominated and the Republican Establishment starts a third party to insure Trump's defeat.

Then there are more extreme prophets. One such is "Baba Vanga," born Vangelia Pandora Dimitrova of Macedonia. She was blind and died in 1996. Her accuracy rate is said to be 85%. Baba Vanga predicted that the US would have a black President and that he would be  the last President of the United States. According to Vanga, European countries would cease to exist starting this year and Europe would become virtually depopulated before falling under Muslim rule. Then there is Elder Paisios, who appears to be a Greek Orthodox priest. His prediction is that Russia will destroy Turkey and the Greek army will march on Constantinople. A third of Turks would convert to Christianity, a third would be destroyed and the rest would be dispersed. Turkey itself would be divided.

Baba Vanga is mentioned as the "Nostradamus" of the Balkans, which of course means that her utterances are couched in uncertainties. My favorite Vanga prophecy is that aliens would contact Earth people through Hungarians.  

The Sunni/Shia divide.

It has been a while since I reprinted an article that told us about the coming internal struggle between the Sunni and the Shia. Frankly, I was skeptical. How could these two sects of Islam come to blows in the future? Barak Hussein Obama, that's how. First, by promoting the "Arab Spring" the Obama regime destabilized the Arab regimes in North Africa. Muslim countries, especially the Arab countries, can only governed by a strong force and once Mubarak and Gaddhafi were gone, their countries descended into chaos. Only the decisive action of the Egyptian military saved Egypt.

But, Obama was just getting started in destabilizing the Middle East. The Obama regime has first abandoned Israel then it proceeded to abandon Iraq and Afghanistan, creating a vacuum there. Syria was made incredibly more dangerous after Obama intervened against the Syrian Shiites. The withdrawal from Iraq and arming Al Qaeda affiliates in Syria had created ISIS.

That is not the worst. The Obama regime threw its support behind Iran and set Iran on the path to acquire nuclear weapons. The Saudis (benefactors of the Sunni in Syria) began to seethe. They began the 'war on oil,' the purpose of which is to bankrupt American oil companies. Obama does nothing since he, too, hates American Oil.

That brings us near the present. The Sunni/Shia cold war became a hot war after Iran sent weapons to Bahrein and Syria. Then Saudi Arabia executed a Shiite cleric (Sheikh Nimr) and the Iranians responded by attacking and destroying the Saudi Embassy in Tehran. Technically, it is an act of war, but so far Saudi Arabia merely severed diplomatic relation with Iran. Bahrain, Sudan and the UAE quickly joined the Saudis.

The Saudis blame the US for the drop in oil prices, Saudi Arabia's chief source of income. Sean Broderick tells us that there is a Saudi conspiracy to shoot down Air Force One (with Barak Hussein in it). Of course, the Saudis could hurt us more by forgetting the whole thing and make sure that Barak will finish destroying the US.

Lessons from the Rose Bowl.

We used to say in California that the reason the CA Bears did so bad was that at Berkeley the militants were in the street and the pacifists on the football team. Things changed since then. There are militants now in both places so California does well. Not well enough to go to the Rose Bowl though. That honor went to Stanford. I hope you watched the game.

Stanford being on the Left Coast, you would figure it's PC up to the keister. That would mean a black Head Coach, a black QB and a black running back football star. Well, Stanford has a black Head Coach, but the PC stopped there, much to the discomfort of Iowa. You see, Stanford has a white QB and a star running back/pass receiver who is also white. Not only that, but a running back that comes along once in every generation.

Christian McCaffrey comes from a family of athletes and he has terrific speed. He can be stopped, of course, but by then he may have picked up 10-20 yards. Or more. On the first play of the game against Iowa, he went 75 yards to score. Later he returned a punt for a TD.

What makes him so successful? Speed yeah, for starters. But it is more than that. Imagine that you are a linebacker or a safety, McCaffrey got a good block and is through the line and coming at you. He leans to the right (which indicates that he will try to get by on your left). So, you have three choices: 1. move to your left to block him, 2. stay put or 3. move to your right, figuring that he will cut back to his left. The problem you have is that the guy is very fast. If you move to your left to block him, he will lean to his left and goes by you. If you move to the right, he will complete his fake to move to his right and goes by you. If you stay put, that's soyonara. He is gone. So, how do you defend against such a player? You have to have a three layer backfield dedicated to stopping him. Problem is, that the other team now has an opportunity to block even better with an extra man or two. Iowa was shell shocked and was down 35 to nothing before they found a way to score.

What this game shows is if talented white players are developed they will do well. Maybe this will happen with black coaches who are not beholden to PC but want to win.

On the other end of the football divide, it was the disgrace of Trevon Boykin. He is what I call a "black quarterback" , modeled on Donavan McNabb. McNabb was a powerful running back who could throw the ball. It was very difficult to defense McNabb, because if a team had the receivers covered, McNabb could run for 5-7 yards. Boykin was groomed to be another McNabb, but he was arrested in a bar fight two nights before the Frogs were to face the Ducks. It looked for a while that the Frogs might win without Boykin, but then Oregon figured out the right defense and scored 31 points. There was no Boykin to run the ball.

The bowl season goes on and on. Forty one games so far with more to come.

Algore's 10y doomsday clock about to run out.

It was ten years ago that Algore predicted that in 10 years the world would pass beyond return to Global Warming and irreversible destruction. Rush Limbaugh constructed the now famous Doomsday clock:

The Doomsday clock has close to 20 days to go. What happened to the temperature in that time?

There has not been a great deal of change during that time. The surface record shows a slight upward trend, but nothing of the magnitude forecast by Algore.

NOAA's estimated carbon dioxide vs temperature data show that Algore got the relationship backwords: it is high temperature that triggers a lowering of the carbon dioxide:

The data suggest that both, the atmospheric temperature and the carbon dioxide are driven by another factor and that high carbon dioxide is not causative   of higher temperatures. The best theory is put forth by a Danish scientist who claims that sunspots interact with cosmic radiation and this alters the climate. High level of sunspots reduce the cosmic radiation getting through, which reduces the ionization needed to produce cloud formation. That let's in more sunshine which raises the temperature. As the temperature rises, more water evaporates and more carbon dioxide forms from plants.