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Tuesday, May 8, 2018

The News You Won't Easily Find for May 8, 2018




Reuters Doesn't Like Their Poll on President Trump's Approval Rating

Looks like Reuters is in bed with CNN and MSNBC. Get a result you don't like and simply push it away.

A poll shows that President Donald Trump’s approval rating has spiked since April 27 — prompting the Reuters/Ipsos polling team to quarantine their data.

Every series of polls has the occasional outlier and in our opinion this is one,” the pollster announced. “So, while we are reporting the findings in the interest of transparency, we will not be announcing the start of a new trend until we have more data to validate this pattern.”



Go ahead, whine all you want about the source, it won't change the results one bit!


The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and Washington Posts the Only 3 Newspapers to Survive

According to Warren Buffett. seems all of the 28 papers he bought in 2011 are in the tank. All one has to do is enter a public dining facility and look around to see how many, if any are reading print newspapers or magazines. Usually just old coots like me who don't own smart phones.

Buffett’s latest pronouncement on the newspapers was actually an improvement from his previous position. Earlier this year, the billionaire told CNBC that only two newspapers had an “assured future” at that time, leaving the Washington Post off of his list. In the months since that appearance, Buffett’s opinion of the Jeff Bezos-owned paper has risen.



The 2016 election was far from a fluke


This is a very interesting piece that describes who voted for Trump in 2016 and who will turn out to support him in the midterms. These are not people who pollsters can't easily identify. I have a hunch that, like me, when a pollster calls, will give responses directly opposite to what I/they will do.

On the back roads and side streets of places like Erie, Pa., and Kenosha, Wis., emerge blue-collar optimists, evangelical pragmatists and suburban vacillators who turned the dials just enough to shock the body politic, leading to an emerging populist-conservative alliance that wrecked the old partisan framework.

Far from a fluke, the 2016 election was a product of the tectonic plate-grinding of our society — a backlash against globalism, secularism and coastal elitism. An August 2017 survey of 2,000 self-reporting Trump voters in the Rust Belt, commissioned by me and my co-author, revealed their motivations, priorities and decision making, and reinforced what we had found in our interviews.

These are the Trump cadres:

Hidden in plain sight
Rough rebounders
Christian soldiers
Red blooded and blue collared
Girl gun power



Would You Believe a Rambo 5?


It's official. Stallone's on board for yet another John Rambo blood-soaked, kick-ass flick. Can we hardly wait?

Stallone is officially on board return as the titular super-soldier in the fifth installment of the 36-year-old blockbuster franchise, according to Screen Daily; although it’s unclear who will direct the next installment, production is expected to begin in September. But does does that really matter? It’s Rambo: we know what we’re going to get — even if this installment comes with a very modern plotline.

Here’s the basic premise of the film, according to Screen Daily: Our favorite aging Vietnam war hero has settled into pseudo-retirement, living on a ranch in Arizona and taking the odd job when and where he can until Maria, a long-time family friend, comes to him for help. Her grand-daughter has gone missing after traveling to Mexico for a party — and, because it’s Rambo, he goes right back to war, this time against agents of the country’s nefarious drug cartels.

In the event that, by some wild stretch of the imagination, you're interested in this, go to https://taskandpurpose.com/sylvester-stallone-officially-returns-rambo-5/


The cure for obesity, heart disease, and anxiety? Puppies!


Another one of these high-flautin scientific studies to tell us what we already know. Pets make us feel better about life and that improves our health. But, just to play by the rules, here's a snippet:

Virginia Commonwealth University offers therapy dogs to students during finals week. Experts there found that the dogs significantly reduced pre-exam jitters.

All this research exemplifies the interconnection between human health, animal health, and the environment. That interconnection is the foundation of the One Health movement, to which a number of universities, including St. George's, adhere in their teaching and research efforts.

Medical research shows that pets are the perfect antidote to all sorts of illnesses and ailments. It's time to unleash this knowledge across our healthcare system.



Trump Set to Unveil $15 Billion Spending Cut To Congress

Everybody talks about the Omnibus Bill the President signed but ignore his comments at the time about a lot of spending not being right. It was either sign or shut down the government. So, what is he doing? He's following the leads of Presidents Ford and Clinton by sending a bill to Congress to rescind federal funding.

Over 1000 rescissions have been sent to congress under this authority,” said a Senior Administration Official. “This is the largest proposed by a President.”

The money comes from unused funds from places like the Innovative Tech Loan program, a railroad program that expired in 2012, excess funds from the 2015 Ebola outbreak and tech assistance after hurricane Sandy.



"The Tax Cut Will Decimate Government Income! Balloon the National Debt."

So claimed the DimocRATs when it was passed into law. They also whined that it would hurt individual taxpayers and cause the National Debt to soar - Ignoring the gigantic rise under Obama.

But it isn't quite working ot that way.

U.S. Budget Just Made History: Best Month Ever

In April, the federal government took in a record sum of $515 billion in taxes, according to a newly released Congressional Budget Office report. During that time, we spent $297 billion. Yes, you read that correctly: We actually took in more than we spent — a lot more. That $218 billion surplus is, in fact, a new record, beating the previous record set back in 2001 ($190 billion) by $28 billion.

As The Washington Times points out, the surplus surprised CBO analysts, who were predicting about $40 billion less, though some of that has to do with a shift in timing of payments. In its report, the CBO suggests that the unexpectedly high tax revenues was a result of "stronger-than-expected" economic growth last year and in early 2018.

"Those payments were mostly related to economic activity in 2017 and may reflect stronger-than-expected income growth in that year," reads the summary. "Part of the strength in receipts also may reflect larger-than-anticipated payments for economic activity in 2018. The reasons for the added revenues will be better understood as more detailed information becomes available later this year."




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