What Is the Alt-Right?

Of the many Democrats I know, most would take exception to an essay that concludes the Alt-Right is more like the left than it is the conservative right. The reasoning here is sound. As a conservative it is plain for me to see that the media enjoys hanging alt-rights activities around the neck of Republicans.



What Is the Alt-Right?: What is the alt-right? What is its worldview? How big is it? Michael Knowles, bestselling author and host of The Michael Knowles Show, took a deep dive into alt-right culture. Here's what he learned.



If the press was interested in accuracy, that would would have learned the the alt-right participants are basically racist socialists. The people in alt-right organizations hate the Democrats because their most important value is diversity, other than that all of the central government policy is aligned. Looking at the last century, who does that remind you of?

Farrah Fawcett

Farrah Fawcett was a beautiful woman by any standard.

This was on the cover of Playboy magazine while I was in college.

This was a poster that I had on my ceiling when I was in high school.
First married to the 6 Million Dollar Man, Lee Majors, and then twice (which I did not know until today) to Ryan O'Neal.

The EU Lectures Journalists about PC Reporting

They have gone so far as to create a document describes the manner in which terroristic acts in the identification of the perpetrators as  moslem you separated.

The EU Lectures Journalists about PC Reporting

Documents such as these are pushed by organizations such as CAIR.

Ihave no doubt that the first place such documents are pressed is from Muslim organizations toward government agencies. This would explain great deal of the behavior of the Obama administration specially in a refusal to label terroristic acts accurately.

These are government acts of subterfuge.

Trick or Treat

Nominations and Confirmations

Congress.org presents MEGAVOTE for October 10, 2017 and Georgia's 13th Congressional District.
Recent Congressional Votes

• Senate: Pai Nomination – Confirmation
• Senate: Quarles Nomination – Confirmation
• Senate: Cissna Nomination – Confirmation
• House: Abortion Ban
• House: Fiscal 2018 Budget Resolution 

Upcoming Congressional Bills

• House: Federal Whistleblower Protections

The Senate is not doing legislative business this week.

The time has passed, I wish they were still in recess.

Recent Senate Votes:
Pai Nomination – Confirmation Vote Confirmed (52-41, 7 Not Voting)
The Senate confirmed the nomination of Ajit V. Pai to be a member of the Federal Communications Commission.
Sen. Johnny Isakson voted YES
Sen. David Perdue voted YES

Pai came into the FCC as an appointment of President Obama. He is a lawyer, undergraduate of Harvard and earned his JD from the Univerity of Chicago. He is an opponent of "Net Neutrality".

Quarles Nomination – Confirmation Vote Confirmed (65-32, 3 Not Voting)
The Senate confirmed the nomination of Randal Quarles to be a member of the Board of Governors for the Federal Reserve System.
Sen. Johnny Isakson voted YES
Sen. David Perdue voted YES

Another lawyer, he was a partner of The Carlyle Group before coming into government during the administration of President posts in the George W. Bush.

Cissna Nomination – Confirmation Vote Confirmed (54-43, 3 Not Voting)
The Senate confirmed the nomination of Lee Francis Cissna to be director of the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services.
Sen. Johnny Isakson voted YES
Sen. David Perdue voted YES

Cissna is 51 years old and a lawyer, earned his undergraduate degree from MIT, MA from Columbia and JD from Georgetown. The current administration supports Lee Cissna for his expertise and study on the displacement of U.S. workers by foreign workers on H-1B visas. A position certainly not palatable in the circles of "we are the world".

Recent House Votes:

Abortion Ban Vote Passed (237-189, 7 Not Voting)
The House passed the bill that would prohibit abortions in cases where the probable age of the fetus is 20 weeks or later, and it imposes criminal penalties on medical professionals who violate the ban.
Rep. David Scott voted NO

Don't see this getting out of the Senate, probably not even to a vote.

Fiscal 2018 Budget Resolution Vote Passed (219-206, 9 Not Voting)
The House adopted the concurrent resolution that would provide for $3.2 trillion in new budget authority in fiscal 2018, not including off-budget accounts. It would assume $1.22 trillion in discretionary spending in fiscal 2018. It would assume the repeal of the 2010 health care overhaul law. It also would propose reducing spending on mandatory programs such as Medicare and Medicaid and changing programs such as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (also known as food stamps). It would call for restructuring Medicare into a “premium support” system beginning in 2024. It would also require the House Ways and Means Committee to report out legislation under the budget reconciliation process that would provide for a revenue-neutral, comprehensive overhaul of the U.S. tax code and would include instructions to 11 House committees to trigger the budget reconciliation process to cut mandatory spending.
Rep. David Scott voted NO

Who knows what is right when they design budgets?

 Chances are good that it's mostly bs.

Upcoming Votes:
Federal Whistleblower Protections - S585 The House will vote on the bill that would provide additional protections for federal employees who are retaliated against for disclosing waste, fraud or abuse, require federal agencies to suspend for at least three days any supervisory employee who retaliates against a whistleblower and require that the supervisory employee be fired for a second offense.

An age old issue, that with the newly developed stigma of being a national populist, has become more of a political argument. People should be motivated by either their god or their moral code to expose wrong doing. Problems arise when "exposures" are generated by those with political axes to grind. Do you think that there is any chance the Snowden would have a chance of seeing daylight fifty years ago?

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Infantilism

Congress.org presents MEGAVOTE for October 2, 2017 and Georgia's 13th Congressional District.

Recent Congressional Votes

• Senate: Fiscal 2018 Defense Authorization
• Senate: Francisco Nomination – Confirmation
• Senate: Delrahim Nomination – Confirmation
• House: Maternal and Infant Home Visit Program
• House: FAA Short Term Reauthorization, Flood Insurance and Hurricane Tax Adjustments
• House: Parole Violators' Benefits Revocation

Upcoming Congressional Bills

• Senate: Pai Nomination
• House: Abortion Ban
• House: Fiscal 2018 Budget Resolution

Recent Senate Votes:

Fiscal 2018 Defense Authorization Vote Agreed to (89-8, 3 Not Voting)

The Senate passed the bill that would authorize $692 billion in discretionary funding for defense programs in fiscal 2018, including $60 billion in Overseas Contingency Operations funding.

Sen. Johnny Isakson voted YES

Sen. David Perdue voted YES

Here is an link to the text of the bill.

1. Paul (R-KY), Nay     
2. Lee (R-UT), Nay 
3. Corker (R-TN), Nay 
4. Merkley (D-OR), Nay
5. Wyden (D-OR), Nay 
6. Leahy (D-VT), Nay   
7. Gillibrand (D-NY), Nay  
8. Sanders (I-VT)

Is is not interesting that the nay voters would all be considered on the extreme side of their party.  Below, folks that know it is f'd up but are unwilling to be on record.

1.  Graham (R-SC), Not Voting
2. Menendez (D-NJ), Not Voting 
3. Rubio (R-FL), Not Voting

Francisco Nomination – Confirmation Vote Confirmed (50-47, 3 Not Voting)

The Senate confirmed the nomination of Noel J. Francisco to be Solicitor General of the United States. Sen. Johnny Isakson voted YES

Sen. David Perdue voted YES

A party line vote except for three abstentions.

1. Cochran (R-MS)
2. Menendez (D-NJ)
3. Moran (R-KS)

Cochran is pissed at the president, and Menendez is busy fighting extradition to New Jersey. Who the heck is Moran. 

Noel Francisco is a lawyer 48 years old, studied at Brandeis University, got his JD at University of Chicago. The new Solicitor General clerked for Supreme Court Antonin Scalia.

The United States Solicitor General is the third-highest-ranking official in the Department of Justice. The Solicitor General represents the federal government of the United States before the Supreme Court of the United States. The Office of the Solicitor General also reviews cases decided against the United States in the federal district courts and approves every case in which the government files an appeal.

Delrahim Nomination – Confirmation Vote Confirmed (73-21, 6 Not Voting)

The Senate confirmed the nomination of Makan Delrahim to be an assistant attorney general in the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division.

Sen. Johnny Isakson voted YES

Sen. David Perdue voted YES

More damned lawyers voting on other lawyers. Less so of a party line vote

Delrahim studied at UCLA and obtained his JD at George Washington University Law School and has worked as a lobbyist for some significant industries entities. No doubt Delrahim's experience is the cause for resistance from from like Elizabeth Warren.

Recent House Votes:

Maternal and Infant Home Visit Program Vote Passed (214-209, 10 Not Voting)

The House passed the bill that would authorize, through fiscal 2022, $400 million a year for the Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting program. The bill would require entities that receive grants under the program to continue to demonstrate improvements in applicable benchmarks and guidelines.

Rep. David Scott voted NO

OMG, my representative voted against children. Just kidding, doubt as a democrat his position is that the requirement is too onerous. My position as a taxpayer is that every dollar spent should have positive effect, if standards make that happen, do it. Truth though is that government requirements are often obstructive in their application.

FAA Short Term Reauthorization, Flood Insurance and Hurricane Tax Adjustments Vote Passed (264-155, 14 Not Voting)

The House passed the bill that would extend through March 31, 2018, various expiring authorities, programs and activities for the Federal Aviation Administration. The measure would also extend multiple health care programs and would establish the basis for the development of a private flood insurance market. It would modify tax provisions for individuals living in areas impacted by Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria, and would allow the federal government to reimburse the governments of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands for any disaster tax relief that those islands provide their citizens.

Rep. David Scott voted NO

More democrats crossed on this one, but not David. Who knows, they load so much unrelated shit into these things, its hard to tell what is right and what is wrong.

Parole Violators' Benefits Revocation Vote Passed (244-171, 18 Not Voting)

The House passed the bill that would prohibit, beginning in 2021, the payment of social security benefits to an individual who is the subject of an outstanding arrest warrant for committing a felony or for violating a condition of parole or probation.

Rep. David Scott voted NO

Don't mess with a man's gub-mint check, anybody who would passes judgement on a wanted fellon must be racist.

Upcoming Votes:

Pai Nomination - PN89 The Senate will vote on the nomination of Ajit V. Pai to be a member of the Federal Communications Commission.

WTFC

Abortion Ban - HR36 The House will vote on the bill that would prohibit abortions in cases where the probable age of the fetus is 20 weeks or later, and it imposes criminal penalties on medical professionals who violate the ban.

Four and a half months is plenty of time for a woman, or couple, to decide on the abortion option. For me evolving in my church life, am against it but accept the judicial position. What seems to be lost in all the bitching about restricting the rights of women, are the rights of a child that could live. Lucky for the feminist column, this will provide fertile (sic) ground for attacking all men and Republicans.

Fiscal 2018 Budget Resolution - HConRes71 The House will vote on the measure that would call for a balanced budget by fiscal 2027, mostly by reducing spending by $4.9 trillion over the next 10 years, including by repealing the 2010 health care overhaul; reducing spending on Medicare, Medicaid and other health programs; and changing other mandatory programs, such as food stamps. It also would assume significant future savings by restructuring Medicare into a "premium support" system beginning in 2024. It would call for the fiscal 2018 cap on defense discretionary spending to be raised by $72.5 billion, while reducing the non-defense cap by $5 billion. Finally, it would include reconciliation instructions for a deficit-neutral overhaul of the tax code, as well as instructions to 11 House committees to produce legislation that reduces mandatory spending by at least $203 billion over 10 years.

WTFC

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Not Much Here

Congress.org presents: MEGAVOTE for September 18, 2017 and Georgia's 13th Congressional District.

Recent Congressional Votes

• Senate: Fiscal 2018 Defense Authorization
• Senate: Patenaude Nomination – Confirmation
• Senate: Fiscal 2018 Defense Authorization
• House: Criminal Gang Members
• House: Fiscal 2018 Omnibus Appropriations

Upcoming Congressional Bills

•  Senate: Fiscal 2018 Defense Authorization Bill

The House is not in session the week if 18-September.

Yes there is a great need for the representatives to be at their home districts explaining, no lying, about why they aren't what they've advertised.

Recent Senate Votes

Fiscal 2018 Defense Authorization Vote Agreed to (61-36, 3 Not Voting)
Corker, R-Tenn., motion to table the McConnell, R-Ky., for Paul, R-Ky., amendment to the McCain, R-Ariz., modified substitute amendment to the bill. The Paul amendment would sunset, six months after enactment, the 2001 authorization for the use of military force in Afghanistan and the 2002 authorization for the use of military force in Iraq.
Sen. Johnny Isakson voted YES
Sen. David Perdue voted YES

Corer and McCain, there is a pair for you. Their support causes me to have immediate distrust in the intent.

Patenaude Nomination – Confirmation
Vote Confirmed (80-17, 3 Not Voting)
The Senate confirmed the nomination of Pamela H. Patenaude to be deputy secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Sen. Johnny Isakson voted YES
Sen. David Perdue voted YES

According to Wikipedia, Pamela Hughes Patenaude, age 56, is the incoming United States Deputy Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Prior to assuming her current position, she served as president of the J. Ronald Terwilliger Foundation for Housing America's Families and as director of housing policy at the Bipartisan Policy Center. She served as Housing and Urban Development assistant secretary for Community, Planning and Development during the George W. Bush Administration. She was proposed as a candidate for Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in the Trump administration, but was ultimately nominated for Deputy Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. 

Fiscal 2018 Defense Authorization Vote Agreed to (84-9, 7 Not Voting)
Motion to invoke cloture (thus limiting debate) on the McCain, R-Ariz., modified substitute amendment that would authorize $692 billion in discretionary funding for defense programs in fiscal 2018.
Sen. Johnny Isakson voted Not Voting
Sen. David Perdue voted YES

War hero or not, I have come to a opinion of John McCain that he is acting like a wounded little brat. Presuming to be the "conscience" of the Republican party while holding the distinction of being the worst Republican candidate for President in the however many years, hell after some thought, I think he is actually the worst ever if you exclude those that got elected at least once. His recent diatribe which amounts to sideways endorsement of globalism, pretty much says it all. He represents what is bad about politics, being more interested in continuing the path of bureaucratic inertia towards a UN styled global government controlled by business.

Recent House Votes:

Criminal Gang Members Vote Passed (233-175, 25 Not Voting)
The House passed the bill that would define a criminal gang as a group of five or more persons that has the primary purpose of the commission of one or more certain criminal offenses and would prohibit individuals defined as foreign criminal gang members from entering the United States.
Rep. David Scott voted NO

David Scott the contrarian, how cute that he would take a stand against a bill that doesn't mean a thing to gang members.

Fiscal 2018 Omnibus Appropriations Vote Passed (211-198, 25 Not Voting)
The House passed the bill, as amended, that would provide $1.23 trillion for federal departments and agencies covered by the 12 unfinished fiscal 2018 spending bills, including $621.5 billion for defense and $511 billion for nondefense discretionary spending.
Rep. David Scott voted NO

What do you think, was his reason for voting no because there was not enough in there for defense?

Upcoming Votes:
Fiscal 2018 Defense Authorization Bill - HR2810 The bill would authorize more than $680 billion for the Pentagon and related agencies as well as the Overseas Contingency Operations account.

Money from nothing but taxes, and a treasury that prints more than it takes in.

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