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Sunday, February 10, 2019

Watermelon People, Renovating your Bathroom, and lots of other interesting things for February 10, 2019





Insider leaks Trump's "Executive Time"-filled private schedules
I can’t figure out whether this is a hit piece or something that shows what makes this the most productive president in recent history.
But Trump, who often wakes before 6 a.m., is never in the Oval during those hours, according to six sources with direct knowledge.
Instead, he spends his mornings in the residence, watching TV, reading the papers, and responding to what he sees and reads by phoning aides, members of Congress, friends, administration officials and informal advisers.
In other words, he’s constantly gathering information to use in making decisions. Something a good executive does.
Between the lines: The private schedules we published below do not list all Trump's meetings over the past three months.
That's because many of his meetings are spur of the moment, according to senior White House officials with direct knowledge of his daily habits.
It's also because a more detailed schedule — kept within a very small, tight circle — typically has 1 or 2 extra meetings per day that aren't listed on private schedules sent to staff.
The president sometimes has meetings during Executive Time that he doesn't want most West Wing staff to know about for fear of leaks. And his mornings sometimes include calls with heads of state, political meetings and meetings with counsel in the residence, which aren't captured on these schedules.
Trump: ‘I Have Intel People, but That Doesn’t Mean I Have to Agree’ @ https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2019/02/03/trump-i-have-intel-people-but-that-doesnt-mean-i-have-to-agree/

Negotiations Phooey! Wall Being Built.
President Donald Trump’s fight to get border wall funding from Congress aside, construction on new segments of a barrier is already beginning in Texas, according to reports on Monday.
The U.S. government is preparing to begin construction of new segments of the border wall and fencing in the Rio Grande Valley.
The U.S. Customs and Border Protection said that heavy construction equipment is expected to start arriving Monday, according to the Associated Press.
Everybody says the president is going to declare a state of emergency to build more wall. Why? He already has the authority to spend far more than the $5.7 billion talked about from other monies not otherwise committed.
To heck with the Congressional farcial negotiations.
Congress negotiators struggle to reach border security deal @ https://www.oann.com/congress-negotiators-struggle-to-reach-border-security-deal/
Golly. Is that a picture of more barriers being constructed?

Texas Prepares for the Next Caravan
I’m surprised they don’t all head for New Mexico where the governor has withdrawn all of her troops. There’s little or no fencing there.
In anticipation of a mass rush through the border — similar to what happened near Tijuana not long ago — Texas law enforcement officials are taking no chances.
“In preparation for the migrants’ arrivals, the Republican governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, sent 500 officers from the department of public safety to Eagle Pass,” CNN stated.
Sure enough, photos and video published by that news source and several others show police vehicles lining the banks on the U.S. side of the famous Rio Grande waterway. Border Patrol boats could be seen patrolling the river, which is routinely breached by drug smugglers and illegal immigrants.
“As part of our border security plan, we keep DPS on the border with boats & planes. They work with local & federal authorities to enforce the law,” Texas Governor Greg Abbott posted on Twitter.
The problem is, once they set foot on American soil, the laws say we have to take them in to feed and house them, along with medical screening.

Shutdown Revelation: Essentially Nonessential Employees
[This is an entire Executive Department that’s nonessential!]
Did you even notice? Did anything in your life change? The federal government was partially shut down for 35 days, but was your life at all affected?
According to a Fox News poll, 66 percent of the American people considered themselves unaffected by the shutdown, but you would never have known that from the gnashing of teeth and rending of garments on cable news
800,000 federal employees sent home during the shutdown.
The media made a big deal about damage done to national parks because of it – but ignored how most of the private companies involved in them stepped up to clean up the mess left by ignorant and uncaring visitors.
It is clearly time to take a deep look at many executive entities that simply do not have an essential reason for existing.

Attack of the Watermelon People
Once I read the opening, I couldn’t stop laughing. What a perfect description.
The freshman congresswoman from New York released more specifics of her sweeping idea this week. In simpler times, we called extreme environmentalists “watermelons,” because they were green (environmentalists) on the outside, but red (socialist or communist) on the inside. Ocasio-Cortez, her Green New Deal, and all her fellow travelers, are watermelons through and through.
Cory Booker Compares Green New Deal To Fighting The Nazis And The Moon Landing @ https://americanlookout.com/cory-booker-compares-green-new-deal-to-fighting-the-nazis-and-the-moon-landing-video/

Meet the new Red Guard: ‘Justice Democrats’ @ https://legalinsurrection.com/2019/02/meet-the-red-guard-justice-democrats/
The Babylon Bee
New Law Allows Parents To Abort Non-Viable Millennials @ https://babylonbee.com/news/new-law-allows-parents-to-abort-non-viable-millennials
Kamala Harris Polling Poorly Among Unborn Babies @ https://babylonbee.com/news/kamala-harris-polling-poorly-among-unborn-babies

Nation's Tough, Masculine Guys Still Haven't Recovered From Offensive Razor Commercial @ https://babylonbee.com/news/nations-tough-masculine-guys-still-havent-recovered-from-offensive-razor-commercial
Americans Totally Unable To Remember What They Were Outraged About Last Week @ https://babylonbee.com/news/report-americans-totally-unable-to-remember-what-they-were-upset-about-last-week
35 Mind Blowing Facts About America
There’s not enough room to post all of them, so I’ll just pick a few you probably never knew.
#1 Approximately one-fourth of the entire global prison population is in the United States.
#5 According to the American Road and Transportation Builders Association, nearly 56,000 bridges in the United States are currently “structurally deficient”.  What makes that number even more chilling is the fact that vehicles cross those bridges a total of 185 million times a day.
#10 The city of Juneau, Alaska is about 3,000 square miles in size. It is actually larger than the entire state of Delaware.
#14 Montana has three times as many cows as it does people.
#21 Almost one-third of all Millennials are still living with their parents.
#28 The original name of the city of Atlanta was “Terminus“.
#31 Almost one-third of all land in the United States is owned by the federal government.

VA unveils proposed new rules for expanding private-sector care
They keep trying to “fix” things and one has to wonder just what the results are.
Veterans who must drive more than 30 minutes to reach their Department of Veterans Affairs mental health or primary care providers would be allowed to use a private doctor for their health care under proposed rules the VA unveiled Wednesday.
For specialty care, veterans could go outside the VA for medical treatment if a VA provider was longer than a 60-minute drive away.
The draft rules are part of the VA Mission Act – a law scheduled to take effect this summer that aims to extend veterans’ access to private-sector doctors. VA Secretary Robert Wilkie said earlier this week that the new access standards would “revolutionize” the VA health care system.

Mexicans Send $33 Billion Home in 2018
That’s a whole lot of money that could’ve further enhanced the American economy if spent here at home. And, even a mere $5 per transaction would pay for a whole lot of wall – or border security is you prefer the Dimocrap term.
Mexicans working abroad, mainly in the United States, sent US $33.48 billion to Mexico last year, an increase of 10.5% over the 2017 figure, according to the Bank of México (Banxico).
The remittances were sent in 103.9 million separate transactions, a 6% increase on the 2017 figure, and each one was on average $322 compared to $309 the year before, Banxico data shows.
Almost 98% of remittances were sent by electronic means and just over 94% came from the United States.

Uh-Oh, Snopes & AP “Fact Checkers” Abruptly End “Fact Checking” Relationship With Facebook
Looks like the Fact Checkers got checked and had to head for the hills.
It looks like at least two of Facebook’s four self-proclaimed pontificators of what is fact and what is not, Snopes and the Associated Press, have abruptly ended their “fact checking” relationship with the social media giant.
On Friday, Snopes announced that it had “elected not to renew our partnership with Facebook.”
They failed to provide specifics for the reason they chose not to continue in their Nazi-style censoring partnership with Facebook.
“Forgoing an economic opportunity is not a decision that we or any other journalistic enterprise can take lightly,” Snopes added in their statement.
Fact-checkers quit Facebook's anti-fake-news programme, saying the task has become 'impossible' @ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2019/02/02/snopes-quits-facebooks-fact-checking-programme-saying-has-become/

Fact Checkers Struggle to Criticize Trump’s Speech
I’ve seen this on other sites. The Left and its media are going nuts trying to find holes in President Trump’s magnificent State of the Union. He knocked it out of the ballpark and they’re trying their hardest to put a negative side to it.
And they’re doing their best to ignore that horrible Dimocrap response.
To Trump’s claim that “We have created 5.3 million new jobs and importantly added 600,000 new manufacturing jobs,” it wrote: “Trump often inflates the number of jogs created under his presidency by counting Election Day, rather than when he took the oath of office.”
[Notice the goof?]

Man wants to sue his parents for giving birth to him 'without his consent
At what point does the insanity of the Left go beyond belief?
Decide whether or not babies live or dies once they’ve left the wound and not call it murder?
This? Having children is morally wrong?
Speaking to The Print Samuel said: 'I love my parents, and we have a great relationship, but they had me for their joy and their pleasure.
'My life has been amazing, but I don't see why I should put another life through the rigamarole of school and finding a career, especially when they didn't ask to exist.'

Soldiers May be Getting Jet Packs
No longer limited to OO7, they may find their way to an Army unit soon. Using commonly available jet fuel, they may allow soldiers to stay airborne for up to 10 minutes.

Zap the Brain to Cure PTSD
MeRT or magnetic e-resonance therapy, is being studied on Navy SEALS to see if it will cure their PTSD.
Navy SEALS tend to have higher-than-average dominant frequencis, around 11 or 13 Hz. But physical and emotional trauma can disrupt that, causing the back of the brain and the front of the brain to emit electricity at different rates. The result: lopsided brain activity. MeRT seeks to detect arrhythmia, find out which regions are causing it, and nudge the off-kilter ones back onto the beat.
This indicates the FDA has yet to approve it. But, a search of the internet shows a number of companies claiming to use it to cure PTSD.
If the clinical trials bear out and the FDA approves of MeRT as an effective treatment for concussion and/or PTSD, many more people will try it. The dataset will grow, furthering the science. If that happens, the world will soon know whether or not there is a better therapeutic for mood and sleep disorders than drugs; and a huge portion of the pharmaceutical industry will wake up to earth-changing news.

Run a Comprehensive Background Check on Yourself
We all know we’re being watched. And all sorts of people are looking at our present – and our past. Not just credit checks or the applications we know that follow our activities on the internet. Far more.
As the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s 2019 report indicates, any number of financial institutions can request your “report,” including:
  • Lenders (including those that offer credit cards, home, payday, auto including auto leasing and student loans)
  • Employers, volunteer organizations, and government agencies to determine eligibility for government assistance (employment and background screening)
  • Landlords and residential real estate management companies (tenant screening)
  • Banks, credit unions, payment processors and retail stores that accept personal checks (check screening)
  • Companies that market and sell products and services specifically to lower-income consumers and subprime credit applicants, such as short-term lending and rent-to-own businesses among others
  • Debt buyers and collectors
  • Insurance companies (health, life, property insurance screening)
  • Communications and utility companies (e.g., mobile phone; pay TV, electric, gas, water)
  • Retail stores for product return fraud and abuse screening as well as retail stores that offer financing such as appliance and rent-to-own businesses, among others
  • Gaming casinos that extend credit to consumers and/or accept personal checks
Because of the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), you can get copies of these reports yourself from the various consumer reporting agencies if you request one—which is important if you need to correct any inaccuracies they include.

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find them


These are just a few of the creatures in the film. I have no idea who dreamed them up but some are amazing. I had to watch it the second time to appreciate the special effects and how humans were fitted into amazing scenes. Seems a bit on the adult side but I’m willing to bet some kids will enjoy the 2hour movie.

10 Things Nobody Tells You About Renovating Your Bathroom
How many of us are unhappy with the bathroom the contractor left us with. There always seems to be something I wish was different. In my current one, I can’t use the bathtub and really want a walk-in one.
1. Don’t assume your contractor is on the same page.
2. How much does a bathroom remodel cost? More than you think.
3. You may want to rethink that statement-making bathtub.
4. Flattering lighting requires planning.
5. Don’t forget to install accessible outlets.
6. When it comes to tile, you only need to remember a few types.
7. Your grout could make or break your bathroom.
8. Small space? There’s a compact toilet for that.
9. Don’t make storage an afterthought.
10. And, you might not have to remodel.

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