The Hemingway Report

Wednesday, October 23, 2019

Trump: $16 Billion to Baltimore Was ‘Stolen or Wasted, Ask Elijah Cummings Where it Went’

Here is part of the reason.

Elijah Cummings was a crook along with the last 3 Mayors and here's the kicker...

Elijah Cummings' widow is expected to run for his House seat.

That's right folks! And I bet she wins in a landslide. Why? Because the people who live in Bullethead's rat invested district are assholes. They bitch about rats then elect them to run the city. You would think after all these years the voters in his district would say...'You know what we've been voting Democrat all this time and it's gotten us nowhere. Maybe we should vote Republican'?

Not a f-ing chance!

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The federal government has sent billions of dollars to Baltimore in recent years but the money has been either “stolen or wasted,” President Donald Trump said.

Writing on Twitter, Trump wrote: “Baltimore’s numbers are the worst in the United States on Crime and the Economy. Billions of dollars have been pumped in over the years, but to no avail. The money was stolen or wasted.”

“Ask Elijah Cummings where it went. He should investigate himself with his Oversight Committee!” Trump added, referring to the Democratic Maryland representative, who is chairman of the House Oversight Committee.

Lynne Patton, regional administrator for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, said that $16 billion in grants was given to Cummings’s district alone in 2018.

Hitting back after former Republican National Committee head Michael Steele, Baltimore Mayor Bernard Young, and activist Al Sharpton accused Trump of not spending properly on improving the city, Patton said during an appearance on Fox News that the administration has tried investing in Baltimore.

“I want to say this expressly to Mayor Young and Michael Steele and Al Sharpton, who today called out the president and said let President Trump put his money where his mouth is. Well, boys and girls, I have a message for you, President Trump has given $16 billion in 2018 alone to Elijah Cummings’s district in federal grants,” she said.

Cummings’ district, the 7th Congressional District, includes portions of Maryland outside Baltimore. It received slightly under $15.7 billion grants and other assistance from the federal government in fiscal year 2018, according to government data analyzed by Newsweek.

“We have given more money in homeless funds to Baltimore than the last administration. We have given more money in community development grants than the last administration to Baltimore. My question to you guys is this, what are you actually doing with the money so that it benefits residents in the community for once instead of deep-pocket crooked politicians?” Patton added.

What Bernie and AOC yearn for in America...

Venezuelans buy gas with cigarettes to battle inflation

In this Oct. 8, 2019 photo, gas station attendant Leowaldo Sanchez poses with food items he was paid with by motorists: a bottle of cooking oil, a kilogram if rice and a package of corn flour, as he works at the pump in San Antonio de los Altos on the outskirts of Caracas, Venezuela.

Bartering at the pump has taken off as hyperinflation makes Venezuela’s paper currency, the Bolivar, hard to find and renders some denominations all but worthless, so that nobody will accept them. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Motorists in socialist Venezuela have long enjoyed the world's cheapest gasoline, with fuel so heavily subsidized that a full tank these days costs a tiny fraction of a U.S. penny. But the economy is in such shambles that drivers are now paying for fill-ups with a little food, a candy bar or just a cigarette.

Bartering at the pump has taken off as hyperinflation makes Venezuela's paper currency, the bolivar, hard to find and renders some denominations all but worthless, so that nobody will accept them.

Without cash in their wallets, drivers often hand gas station attendants a bag of rice, cooking oil or whatever is within reach.

"You can pay with a cigarette," said Orlando Molina, filling up his subcompact Ford Ka in Caracas. "Heck, it's no secret to anyone that it goes for nothing."

Gas is so dirt-cheap that station attendants don't even know the price. Emptyhanded drivers get waved through, paying nothing at all.

This barter system, while perhaps the envy of cash-strapped drivers outside the country, is just another symptom of bedlam in Venezuela.

The South American nation of roughly 30 million people is gripped by a deepening political and economic crisis. People live with a nagging feeling that anything from violent street protests to a massive power failure could throw their lives into chaos at any moment.

More than 4 million Venezuelans have fled the country in recent years, escaping low wages, broken hospitals, failing basic services and lack of security.

The International Monetary Fund says inflation is expected to hit a staggering 200,000% this year. Venezuela dropped five zeros from its currency last year in a futile attempt to keep up with inflation. Soaring prices quickly devoured the new denominations.

The smallest bill in circulation, 50 bolivars, is worth about quarter of a U.S. penny. City buses and even banks don't accept it, arguing it would take such a thick wad of bills to pay for even the most modest items that it wouldn't be worth the trouble. The largest bill, 50,000 bolivars, equals $2.50.

Venezuela, which sits atop the world's largest oil reserves, was once rich. But the economy has fallen into ruin because of what critics say has been two decades of corruption and mismanagement under socialist rule.

President Nicolás Maduro's hold on power is under challenge from opposition politician Juan Guaidó, who has the backing of the United States and more than 50 other countries that contend Maduro's re-election in 2018 was crooked.

Gasoline prices are a deadly serious matter in Venezuela. Roughly 300 people died in 1989 during riots that erupted after the country's president at the time ordered a modest rise in fuel prices.

Amid the economic crash, Maduro has not substantially raised gas prices, a strategy that was probably reinforced after violent protests recently forced the president of Ecuador to back off plans to end fuel subsidies there.

Maduro has acknowledged that the state-run oil company, PDVSA, loses billions of dollars a year because of the discrepancy between the price of gasoline and the costs of production.

At the most, a tank of Venezuelan gasoline has historically cost the equivalent of a few U.S. pennies. Because of inflation and devaluation of the currency, that has plunged even further.

Caracas resident Maria Perez filled up one day recently, handing the attendant the equivalent of one penny, the smallest bill she had. Most drivers would gladly pay the true price of gas if the government would use the proceeds to invest in services, she said.

"Our roads are unbearable," she said while running errands on her day off with her mother in the passenger seat. "There are huge holes — craters — that not only damage our cars but also put our own lives at risk."

Gasoline in Venezuela's capital of Caracas, the seat of power and largest population center, has so far been immune from the shortages and mile-long lines that plague other parts of the country and can leave drivers waiting for days to reach the pump. Officials blame the shortages on U.S. sanctions against PDVSA.

Service station attendant Orlando Godoy stacked the food and drinks he received from drivers on top of the pumps — a bag of cooking flour, cooking oil, a bottle of mango juice. He earns minimum wage, which amounts to a few dollars a month, so the food helps feed his family.

"A lot of people show up saying they don't have cash to pay," he said. "The idea is to help people because Venezuelans are going through a rough situation."

Tuesday, October 22, 2019

Jimmy Carter hospitalized after fall at Georgia home

Jimmy Carter is light years away from where the Democratic party is today. I think he is a fine man with a good heart and possessed admirable intentions, but would have been far better, serving as the head of the Habitat for Humanity than POTUS.

It's indisputable... he was totally out of his league sitting in the oval office.

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Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has been hospitalized after breaking his pelvis during a fall at his home in Georgia just weeks after a similar accident left him with heavy facial bruising and 14 stitches.

The 95-year-old suffered a 'minor pelvic fracture' on Monday following the incident at his home in Plains.

Carter, who is the nation's oldest living president, was admitted to the Phoebe Sumter Medical Center for treatment.

A statement from The Carter Center said the former President remains in good spirits and looks forward to recovering at home.

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter was hospitalized on Monday after breaking his pelvis during a fall at his home in Georgia just weeks after a similar accident (above) left him with heavy facial bruising and 14 stitches

It is the second fall Carter has had this month.

The first accident on October 6 left Carter with 14 stitches above his brow and bruising around his left eye.

Despite that, he still showed up to help build a home with Habitat for Humanity the next day in Nashville, Tennessee.

He used a cane when he rallied volunteers that morning.

He told the crowd of volunteers that despite going to hospital, 'I had a number one priority and that was to come to Nashville and build houses'.

He survived a dire cancer diagnosis in 2015 and surpassed George H.W. Bush as the longest-lived U.S. president in history this spring.

Carter, who was president from 1977 to 1981, also broke his hip back in May after falling in his home.

Former President Jimmy Carter makes public appearance after fall.

He is pictured with his wife, Rosalynn just one day after the incident sharing a light-hearted moment which left Carter with 14 stitches above his brow and bruising around his left eye.

Despite his injuries earlier this month, Carter still showed up to help build a home with Habitat for Humanity the next day in Nashville, Tennessee with his wife

He has continued with his humanitarian work despite his health setbacks.

Carter still teaches Sunday school twice a month at Maranatha Baptist Church in his hometown of Plains.

Carter also has occasionally weighs in on politics and policy, recently expressing hopes that his Carter Center will become a more forceful advocate against armed conflicts in the future, including 'wars by the United States'.

'I just want to keep the whole world at peace,' Carter had said as he presented his annual Carter Center report last month.

'We have been at war more than 226 years. We have been at peace for about 16 years' since the Declaration of Independence in 1776, he said, adding that every U.S. military conflict from the Korean War onward has been a war of 'choice'.

Carter has also been accepting visits from several 2020 presidential candidates of late, but he hass held back on endorsing any of his fellow Democrats, offering few clues about his thoughts of the campaign.

Carter, pictured with his wife and a Secret Service agent last year, stayed living in the same town where he was born following his presidency.

Remember Carlos Danger...now we have 'Pierre Delecto'

By John Nolte

Mitt Romney Caught with Secret ‘Pierre Delecto’ Twitter Account to Champion Himself

The rap on Mitt McRomney? Although he's a Republican/Rino he isn't a fan of President Trump, and has an appetite for stabbing him in the back every chance he gets.

Everything about this story says so much about Mitt Romney: his pettiness, his insecurity, his lack of character, honesty, and decency, starting with how it all unraveled: Romney doing business with the establishment media — in this case, the far-left Atlantic and activist-reporter, McKay Coppins, who was originally hired at BuzzFeed to destroy Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign.

Back in 2011, Coppins was the affirmative-action hire of all affirmative-action hires. Determined to win Barack Obama a second term, BuzzFeed knew it needed a left-wing Mormon (or a “media-approved Mormon,” as I dubbed him at the time) on the team, someone who could trash Romney without being called a religious bigot. Before the race was over, among other things, Coppins accused Romney of ginning up a “race war” over his welfare reform proposals.

Moreover, Coppins is not terribly bright. That might seem unfair, but how else to describe a man who assured the world, Evan McMullin “is on the verge of beating Trump and Clinton in deep-red Utah” as he’s “literally building a new party.” Spoiler Alert: Trump won Utah by 18 points and McMullin is now a punchline. How else to describe a man who declared in 2014: “Trump very badly wants to be taken seriously as a potential political candidate and not be written off as a man-boy who cried wolf. But, at the same time, he plainly has no interest in actually running for office.” Spoiler Alert: Trump is the President of the United States.

Anyway, like an abused spouse, Romney continues to cuddle up to his media abusers, people who treated him much worse than Trump ever has.

It’s a clinical condition known as McCain Syndrome, and there’s no known cure.

The moment McRomney chose to carry the baton for Brutus.

And so, because there is a God and He loves us, Romney’s cuddling with his abuser on the pages of the Atlantic has ended in total humiliation after he attempted to brag about his social media savvy (emphasis added):

When I met [Romney] in his office a couple of weeks later, I asked if [Trump’s] Twitter insults bothered him.

“That’s kind of what he does,” Romney said with a shrug, and then got up to retrieve an iPad from his desk. He explained that he uses a secret Twitter account—“What do they call me, a lurker?”—to keep tabs on the political conversation. “I won’t give you the name of it,” he said, but “I’m following 668 people.” Swiping at his tablet, he recited some of the accounts he follows, including journalists, late-night comedians (“What’s his name, the big redhead from Boston?”), and athletes. Trump was not among them. “He tweets so much,” Romney said, comparing the president to one of his nieces who overshares on Instagram. “I love her, but it’s like, Ah, it’s too much.

Except…

We now know it is not a “lurker” account.

Oh no… it is so much more than that…

It took a writer at Slate about fourteen seconds to discover that Mitt Romney, a sitting United States Senator, uses the name Pierre Delecto to run all around Twitter defending… Mitt Romney.

And Romney has already been forced to confirm that “Pierre Delecto” is indeed a fella named Willard.

First off, “Pierre Delecto” sounds like “Carlo Danger’s” serial killing partner. But whereas disgraced former congressman Anthony Weiner used the pseudonym “Carlos Danger” to troll for underage girls, Romney uses “Pierre Delecto” to whimper like a Fredo for a little frikkin’ respect.

Well, not anymore. Now that he’s become the laughingstock of the Internet, Willard has locked up “Pierre” as a private account.

Thankfully, though, before he ran away and hid like a girl, we were able to discover just how much Mitt Romney loves him some Mitt Romney, and when Mitt Romney doesn’t get his due, Mitt Romney is there to say something about the greatness of Mitt Romney.

When Mitt Romney discovers his numero uno shrieking fangirl is disappointed in Mitt Romney, Mitt Romney is there to stand tall for Mitt Romney:

Gosh darn it, Mitt Romney does too have a moral compass.

Mitt Romney has principles, so says Mitt Romney, and so say we all…

But look at what Romney’s really doing, look at how pathetic this all is…

He’s so insecure and hungry for approval, but so cowardly and craven in not wanting to correct or criticize his abusers in the media directly, that he cowers in their mentions under the cloak of just another anonymous nobody.

Why doesn’t Romney use his verified Twitter account to makes these points, to set the record straight? Why doesn’t he reach out directly to those in the media when he wants something corrected?

I’ll tell you why… because he’s a whimpering, abused little quisling of a man — so intimidated and defeated by the corrupt media that when he’s not kissing abuser ass on the pages of the Atlantic, he can only try and regain some of his pride by hiding in the dark and rebelling in a way that isn’t even as nervy as ringing a doorbell and running.

If that’s not bad enough, Romney is using the “like” button on his Pierre Delecto account to file away those tweets that make Mitt Romney’s heart sing: tweets accusing Trump of swindling kids with cancer, about invoking the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office, and attacking Newt Gingrich for impeaching Bill Clinton while cheating on his own wife.

What a catty, cowardly, neurotic, little backstabbing gerbil Mitt Romney is…

But we already knew that.

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Far out? Maybe not.