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ABC Edited Out Obama Trashing Biden's Open Border Policy
Did Obama backpedal? https://pjmedia.com/news-and-p
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Investors are turning negative because of prospective rising interest rates and inflation. Is the bull market over? Perhaps but also a bit early to tell, but then, what do I know:
Suddenly, soaring oil and sagging bond prices are complicating DC’s messy tasks
On Tuesday, two major trends converged, and managed to kill two birds with one stone. Commodity bulls and bond vigilantes joined hands to shake up a market that's become too complacent with the status quo, and sent a pointed message to Washington’s perpetually quarreling establishment.
Ahead of D.C.’s deadline to avert a federal government shutdown and a self-inflicted debt ceiling calamity, a sell-off in bonds quickened, triggering a rout in stocks and a spike in interest rates.
Heating up the toxic brew is the price of oil (CL=F), which looks like it is prepping a run above $80 per barrel, especially with global demand so high. Energy shortages in China and the U.K. underscore how fuel price spikes are starting to hit home for industrialized countries.
The moves in markets couldn’t possibly have come at a worse time, with the Federal Reserve carefully calibrating the market’s anxieties about both soaring prices and curtailing its massive bond purchases by next year.
And some think the former is increasingly likely to impact the latter — which is partly why bond investors seem to be forcing the government’s hand.
“Inflation expectations are finally catching up to inflation and the drama in Washington,” Gene Goldman, CIO at Cetera Investment Management, told Yahoo Finance on Tuesday, who argued that the Fed “has been severely underestimating the stickiness of inflation.”
With regard to soaring prices, “transitory” has become a byword of pandemic-era central bank policymaking. The Fed anticipates that much of the pressures pushing up inflation will eventually dissipate.
However, Goldman argued that “the eventual landing spot [of inflation] will be above the pre-pandemic and Fed target levels.” As of August, headline prices were running above 5%, with core prices not far behind.
“If inflation was as transitory as the Fed suggests, year-over-year inflation should not be this high,” Goldman told Yahoo Finance in an email.
“With tapering being the first step to remove stimulus and the Fed not wanting to expand its balance sheet while raising rates, the Fed is most likely to begin tapering ASAP (November) so that if inflation keeps rising, they can address it with higher rates faster,” the investor added.
Within the last week alone, the benchmark 10-year Treasury has added around 20 basis points, while the inflation-sensitive two-year yield spiked to its highest in over a year, according to Marc Chandler, chief market strategist at Bannockburn Global Forex.
Interest rates have sharply risen during the last two weeks
And given that yields are still too low relative to U.S. economic growth, Cetera’s Goldman thinks the 10-year could breach the psychologically important 2%.
As if containing the dragon of inflation wasn’t enough work, the specter of a government shutdown — or worse still, a default — makes the outlook that much worse. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has warned Congress that the debt limit must be raised or suspended by Oct. 18.
While almost nobody expects Uncle Sam will stop paying his bills, Washington’s highly partisan atmosphere is enough to give investors a serious gut check, especially because technology and growth-sensitive stocks are sensitive to rising rates.
"Below the surface of the equity market, long-duration growth stocks have started to underperform as rates have risen, consistent with the historical pattern," Goldman Sachs analysts wrote on Tuesday. "Rising interest rates pose a greater risk to the valuations of long-duration stocks given the high share of cash flows expected to be generated in the distant future."
By Javier E. David, editor at Yahoo Finance. Follow him at @Teflongeek
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Has the downhill slide in our military superiority begun?
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Why this former Marine is suddenly in jail after speaking up
Finally:
https://nypost.com/2021/09/28/
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A president lacking basic recall is either a liar and/or a threat to himself, the nation, the world. Pelosi and Milley concocted a false narrative and the mass media ran with it that we should be worried about Trump having his finger on the red button.
Biden doesn't even know what color the button is but no one seems the least bit worried. It is just that serious.
'No. No One Said That to Me'
Larry O'ConnorLarry O'Connor|Posted: Sep 28, 2021 5:05 PM
The opinions expressed by columnists are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of Townhall.com.
'No. No One Said That to Me'
Just 12 days ago, I detailed how Joe Biden was caught in one of the biggest, most consequential lies in modern presidential history.
Now, this isn't an "I did not have sexual relations" kind of lie designed to cover up an embarrassing Oval Office sexcapade. And it isn't a "biggest presidential inauguration audience in history" kind of lie designed to boost an ego against a negative media cycle. It isn't even an "if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor" kind of lie designed to jam your legislation through with a damnable broken promise.
This lie was in the midst of an ongoing military mission that resulted in the careless and unnecessary murder of 13 servicemembers thrust into harm's way by an incompetent president without full use of his faculties and without serious advisors who recognize his dangerously diminished capabilities but refuse to step in and do anything about it.
As a reminder, in mid-August, as the Taliban took over the last parts of Kabul and terrified Afghans trampled over American citizens as they desperately hurled themselves onto the fuselage of an Air Force jet ending in their eventual plummet back to earth, Joe Biden decided his main problem was a PR challenge that would be cured with some damage control with former Clinton Advisor George Stephanopoulos on ABC News.
Knowing that literally nothing in Biden's feckless career gave him anything close to wisdom or expertise when it comes to military strategic planning, Stephanopolous asked the obvious question: Who in the hell advised you on this nightmare in Afghanistan, and why didn't you listen to the experts?
Here's the key exchange.
STEPHANOPOULOS: But your top military advisors warned against withdrawing on this timeline. They wanted you to keep about 2,500 troops.
BIDEN: No, they didn't. It was split. Tha-- that wasn't true. That wasn't true.
STEPHANOPOULOS: They didn't tell you that they wanted troops to stay?
BIDEN: No. Not at -- not in terms of whether we were going to get out in a timeframe all troops. They didn't argue against that.
STEPHANOPOULOS: So no one told -- your military advisors did not tell you, "No, we should just keep 2,500 troops. It's been a stable situation for the last several years. We can do that. We can continue to do that"?
BIDEN: No. No one said that to me that I can recall.
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You can call me a racist and engaged in too much generalization but, when one goes back in point of time, Muslims have proven to be a radical sect. In terms of our modern era there has not been much improvement in their status regarding the embrace of terrorism except, for the fact, they have become more destructive.
If they were all located in one nation state, like the Nazi's, their elimination and/or defeat might be predictable and doable as with WW 2. However, they are scattered throughout the world, have wormed their way into just about every nation and, when they have, their impact on that society/nation is disproportionate to their numbers. They stir up hatred and become a magnet for other haters. In our own nation they have effectively turned The Democrat Party into a negative position vis a vis one our most trusted allies. They have wrecked free campus speech and, through intimidation, have created discord in the land. Furthermore, the actual destruction they have cost and human misery is incalculable.
Finally, they have watered the seeds of anti-Semitism and made it blossom among the misguided.
Yes, some have made positive contributions and brought a richness to our own culture but, on balance, in my radical view they have been, and remain, a scourge and there is nothing we are likely to be able to do about this "human cancer."
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John was on his deathbed and gasped pitifully.
"Give me one last request, dear," he said.
"Of course, John," his wife said softly.
"Six months after I die," he said, "I want you to marry Bob."
"But I thought you hated Bob," she said.
With his last breath John said, "I do!"
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+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ When you break it down into numbers that relate to a family situation it begins to take on a different meaning. It is Dirksen's "a billion here a billion there. Soon it runs into real money." Now it has escalated to the trillions.
A Brilliant Exercise
This cuts thru all the political double talk we get.It puts it into a much better perspective….Lesson # 1:* U.S. Tax revenue: $2,170,000,000,000* Fed budget: $3,820,000,000,000* New debt: $ 1,650,000,000,000* National debt: $19,271,000,000,000* Recent budget cuts: $ 38,500,000,000Let's now remove 8 zeros and pretend it's a household budget:* Annual family income: $21,700* Money the family spent: $38,200* New debt on the credit card: $16,500* Outstanding balance on the credit card: $192,710* Total budget cuts so far: $385Got It ???OK now Lesson # 2:Here's another way to look at the Debt Ceiling:Let's say, you come home from work and find there has been a sewerbackup in your neighborhood....and your home has sewage all the way upto your ceilings.What do you think you should do ...Raise the ceilings, or pump out the crap?Your choice is coming - November 2022.
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I generally do it my way and that is why Lynn says I am always in deep s---!
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ This from a, I hate to admit it, friend of mine and also a fellow memo reader:
The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet. (O.M.G.!)
A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes. (O.M.G.!!!)
Is that why they are always squealing?
A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death. (Creepy)
(I'm still not over the pig.)
Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
(Don't try this at home; maybe at work.)
The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.
(Honey, I'm home. What the...?)
The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a human jumping the length of a football field.
(30 minutes. Lucky pig! Can you imagine?)
The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.
(What could be so tasty on the bottom of a pond?)
Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
(I still can't believe that pig ...quality over quantity.)
Butterflies taste with their feet.
(Something I always wanted to know.)
The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
(Hmmmmmm.......)
Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people.
(If you're ambidextrous, do you split the difference?)
Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.
(Okay, so that would be a good thing.)
A cat's urine glows under a black light.
(I wonder how much the government paid to figure that out.)
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
(I know some people like that.)
Starfish have no brains.
(I know some people like that, too.)
Polar bears are left-handed.
(If they switch, they'll live a lot longer.)
Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
(What about that pig? Do the dolphins know about the pig?)
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Key Moments From the Senate’s Bombshell Afghanistan Hearing
Congress held its first major public hearing on Afghanistan today with General Mark A. Milley, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, and General Kenneth F. McKenzie. The hearing was nothing but bad news for Biden but the American people were able to hear important details about the withdrawal from Afghanistan and the current state of the military.
Here are the takeaways:
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Read it Here >> And: A must watch: https://youtu.be/VpTz6OQT5qA +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ O'Reilly cuts to the chase: Subject: O'Reilly cutting to the chase and about sums it up: Time for Straight Talk By Bill O'Reilly This column will take no prisoners. Nor will it evacuate anyone. No, what I am writing needs to be said and I will say it. President Biden is not able to effectively run the United States of America. He is directly responsible for the death and destruction in Afghanistan as well as thousands of poor migrants being brutalized in Mexico at this very moment. These are humanitarian disasters on a massive scale. Mr. Biden is a diminished man living in a world of delusion. And now the entire world knows it. No one really understands who, exactly, is running the Executive Branch of the U.S. government. It is certainly not Joe Biden. But the President hired his staff and the cabinet members and the woke Generals, who are embarrassing the military and putting them in grave danger. The corrupt corporate media is also responsible for the incredible mess Biden has caused in seven months. Its destructive hatred of President Trump has led us to this point. The press did everything it could, including peddling rank falsehoods, to demean and destroy Mr. Trump. The result: perhaps the most incompetent leader in American history today works in the Oval Office. Even now, anti-Trump fanatics like Juan Williams and Matthew Dowd spew incomprehensible gibberish about what a great job old Joe is doing. The Democratic Party is also responsible for the madness that’s on vivid display. Speaker Nancy Pelosi will not answer questions about Afghanistan. Why should she? The Congresswoman can’t even explain why her own San Francisco district is overrun with criminality and social chaos. In addition, every single American who voted for Joe Biden is indirectly responsible for America’s dramatic decline. And it’s not just overseas or at the border. Inflation is galloping, the individual work ethic is being destroyed - right along with important American traditions like due process and self-reliance. Yes, most people who voted for Biden did so to get rid of Trump. But casting a ballot on emotion almost always leads to disaster. And that’s what we are now facing as a nation. Like many Americans, I cringe when the President of the United States has to answer questions or read the teleprompter. I’ve been around long enough to know when a person is not able to do a job. There is no debate about this - Joe Biden cannot run the country and the damage he is doing is incalculable. As for a comeback, come on, man (as Biden might say)! Biology is a definite science. Every person ages. All of us are slaves to time. Joe Biden’s time has passed. He is not capable of complicated decision-making. He and his band of enablers are not going to improve. That’s the truth. I’m glad I told it. My two favorites. Kennedy, today's Will Rogers, and the inimical Will:
He is no country bumpkin; he is very insightful and often humorous. Comment about Cuomo lecturing us. "It's like a frog calling you ugly". -Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy "This election in Ga. will be the most important in history. You have nothing to worry about unless you are a taxpayer, parent, gun owner, cop, a person of faith, or an unborn baby!" -Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy Senator John Kennedy from Louisiana describes Democrats as the "well-intended arugula and tofu crowd." -Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy "You can only be young once, but you can always be immature." -Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy "Americans are thinking, there are some good members of Congress, but we can't figure out what they are good for. Others are thinking, how did these morons make it through the birth canal." - Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy "It's as dead as four o'clock. - Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy "Always follow your heart.....but take your brains with you." - Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy "The short answer is 'No'. The long answer is 'Hell No'." - Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy "It must suck to be that dumb." -Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy "When the Portland mayor's IQ gets to 75, he oughta sell." -Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy "I keep trying to see Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer's point of view, but I can't seem to get my head that far up my ass." -Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy "Go sell your crazy somewhere else.....we are all stocked up here." - Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy "She has a Billy goat brain and a mockingbird mouth!" -Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy Sen. John Kennedy (Rep. La.) said on Wednesday that he trusted most Middle Eastern countries as much as gas station sushi. -Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy "You can get a goat to climb a tree, but you'd be better off hiring a squirrel." - Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy "1. This has been going on since Moby Dick was a minnow. 2. Never stand between a dog and a fire hydrant." -Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy "Our country was founded by geniuses, but it's being run by idiots." -Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy "It appears that he might do the right thing, but only when closely supervised and cornered like a rat." - Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy "Dumb enough to be a twin of himself." - Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy "This is why space aliens won't talk to us." - Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy "Democrats are running around like they found a hair in their biscuit." -Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy "Chuck Schumer just moo's and follows Nancy Pelosi into the cow chute." - Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy "What planet did you parachute in from?" - Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy "Just because you CAN sing doesn't mean you should." -Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy Senator John Kennedy on Nancy Pelosi, "She can strut sitting down!" -Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ |