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Wednesday, November 7. 2018

Wednesday morning links

The elections: pretty much as predicted and what I expected. No Blue Wave.


But,  Trump Makes History By Adding Seats to GOP Senate Majority in His First Midterm Election


NR:



 While conservatives have much reason to be encouraged by the Senate results, the bottom line is that the balance of power has shifted tonight, and now the Democrats decisively control one half of one branch of government, a part of the government with considerable power. Don’t be surprised if they use it as aggressively as they can against Donald Trump. 



THE KEY TO A LONG LIFE HAS LITTLE TO DO WITH ‘GOOD GENES’


The story behind Me and Bobby McGee


Note that Bobby was a gal 


 Why won’t liberals admit their homeless policies don’t work?


 Millennial Men Failing To Find Jobs Amid Hottest Market In Decades


 New Jersey Flirts With Requiring Dog Groomers to Obtain a License


 D.C. Bureaucrats Are Trying to Make Parents Get a License to Let Children Play Together


 Girl Scouts in lawsuit claim Boy Scouts will ‘marginalize’ them by rebranding


 Long Island City To Offer Amazon Huge Tax Incentives


Is that fair to regular people? 


 TEXAS ELECTION WORKERS: WE'VE GOT A LOT OF ILLEGAL ALIENS VOTING


 Xinjiang: China's Muslim camp spending 'revealed'


 SHIN BET HEAD: ISRAEL THWARTED 480 PALESTINIAN TERROR ATTACKS IN PAST YEAR


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The clips about the Trump state visit to the UK were apparently from last December.
#1 Rivetjoint on 2018-11-07 08:49 (Reply)
My error. Removed.
#1.1 Bird Dog on 2018-11-07 09:05 (Reply)
Ref playgroups

Sheesh. The human species has shared childcare throughout history, without government meddling,

When I was young, it was common to see supermarket bulletins with 'mother will care for children in her home'. A win-win for both the working mother and the care giving mother. Low cost. Simple (the government doesn't like that). Now 'licensed' childcare costs so much that it outstrips the wages of a working mother in a lower wage job. Hence more government dependency on 'childcare support' . I guess that's the real goal.
#2 Jay on 2018-11-07 09:43 (Reply)
Bummer about the House, but it will be nice to marginalize unreliable senators like Murkowski. I look forward to lots more Senate confirmations.
#3 Texan99 on 2018-11-07 09:55 (Reply)
I wonder how many of the defeated Republicans were Never-Trumpers. Hopefully most were.
#3.1 Stargazer on 2018-11-07 10:02 (Reply)
Most retired.
#3.1.1 LWS on 2018-11-07 10:04 (Reply)
Yeah, given the choice of keeping Congress like it was or how it's going to be now, I really think the latter is better. Now Trump can get better appointments and more regulatory constraints through the Senate more expeditiously, and while parrying whatever irritants the House dems come up with, cut big ticket deals with those House dems whose leadership has a lot better control of their back benchers than Ryan ever dreamt of. To get the House dems on board for his big ticket items he will probably have to toss the House dems a few bones, but any liberal stuff gets into the big ticket items will have to be implemented by Trump appointees in the bureaucracy, so he will have control of the final product.
#3.2 BillH on 2018-11-07 10:44 (Reply)
Just a word regarding the Democrats taking the house: Gerrymandering.
#4 OneGuy on 2018-11-07 10:14 (Reply)
re election

I expect The House to engage their battle with Trump from day 1.

Wonder how long it will take them to impeach him?

Two years of gridlock coming, but given that the Repubs in The House mostly sat on their thumbs and rotated the last two years, nothing much will change on the legislative front.

Expect all investigations into Dem malfeasance to come to an end. Not that it matters as nothing resulted from Repub inquiries.
#5 feeblemind on 2018-11-07 11:00 (Reply)
As Steven Hayward says, gridlock is the next best thing to constitutional government.
#5.1 Texan99 on 2018-11-07 11:56 (Reply)
I would agree except when you're trying to get back to a Constitutional government.
#5.1.1 mudbug on 2018-11-07 12:07 (Reply)
Why won’t liberals admit their homeless policies don’t work? Because then they couldn't just keep spending money foolishly?
After all, if they WORKED, the problem would get fixed, and you can't pass a bill to spend money when there's no problem.

Girl Scouts in lawsuit claim Boy Scouts will ‘marginalize’ them by rebranding: Girls (some of them) want to do the things boys do, but few boys want to do what girls do. Is BUMMER. I have read that Canadian scouts and European scouts are in co-ed troops.
#6 Sam L. on 2018-11-07 13:52 (Reply)
You're right - fixing the homeless problem is pretty much at the bottom of their priority list.

You get money for promising to fix it.
You get good feelings because you're promising to fix it.

If you DO fix it, you're going to have to find something else to get your virtuous jollies from.
#6.1 JLawson on 2018-11-07 14:27 (Reply)
The Senate win was great news for getting work done. Where Trump campaigned for candidates, he won.
#7 jma on 2018-11-07 16:12 (Reply)
Ahh.. longevity.

I'll be there's one thing they didn't look at. Age at first birth for the mother.

Right now college graduates live longer than HS grads live longer than dropouts. Assortive mating has been going on for a few generations. College grads marry college grads- HS grads marry HS grads- dropouts marry dropouts, for the most part. First birth is generally under 18 for dropouts, 18-21 for HS grads, 23 and up for college grads. I notice on my own tree in a one surname search that most of my 6th and 7th cousins were born 20-40 years before me. And lots of 3rd and 4th cousins. And when I look at their branches, there's a shorter lifespan. My parents had lousy lifestyles, lived to age 82. When I look at lifespans of family branches where the distant cousins of the same generation (5, 6, 7th, or whatever even not once or more removed) their ancestors mated the same as my direct ancestors- at later ages. And have longer than average longevities for their time.
#8 Gospace on 2018-11-07 18:23 (Reply)

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