Ladyboy to be released in May 2017

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/17/us/politics/obama-commutes-bulk-of-chelsea-mannings-sentence.html

Sentenced to 35 years. Conspired with WikiLeaks no less!!!

Wasn't WikiLeaks Hillary's Achilles' heel? Didn't they publish embarrassing emails in the weeks leading up to the Nov. 8 presidential election making the Dem's more transparent than they wanted to be? Oh...and She/He attempted suicide twice last year, according to her lawyers, citing her treatment at Leavenworth. Probably because the bathrooms are not LBGT friendly.

Can Bergdahl be far behind?

Ladyboy to be released in May 2017

50 Demorats, and counting, are not going to the Inaugural

Don't know how I'm going to get over it!

50 Demorats, and counting, are not going to the Inaugural

Schneider forgot to genuflect

Rob Schneider is accused of 'whitesplaining' Martin Luther King Day in tweet to John Lewis after the civil rights hero's feud with Trump

Evidently, Schneider didn’t know Mr. Civil Rights is incapable of any wrongdoing. He knows all, sees all, is all. To question the man’s integrity is tantamount to Blasphemy. Harken back to 2008. Hillary’s ties with Lewis go back many years and she knew she could count on him…until Lewis found out Barry was running and threw her under the bus. Lewis judged by the color of their skin, but not by the content of their character. Because neither one has any. 

BTW...His holiness didn't show up at the Bush 43 inaugural either. Guess what the reason was..."he doesn't believe Bush was the true elected president."

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Comedian Rob Schneider came under fire Monday for attempting to explain Martin Luther King Jr's legacy to Representative and revered civil rights activist John Lewis.

Many thought Schneider's tweet (pictured) was inappropriate, especially coming from a white man to Lewis, who helped organize the March On Washington

(My God, he should have been drawn and quartered!)

President-elect Donald Trump launched his own attack on Lewis last week, calling him 'all talk' and 'no action' and accusing him of not focusing on 'the burning and crime infested inner cities.

Schneider used to be a Democrat but became a Republican in 2013, saying he was disappointed by Democrats' performance in California.

His Monday tweet to Lewis was met by outrage and a good amount of ridicule.

I found out everything turned out okay. Schneider is half Jewish and half Catholic. He received a special dispensation from both Rabbi Goldstein and Father O'Flannery.

Schneider forgot to genuflect

What does Trump, John Lewis, and Michael Symon have in common?

I'll tell you.

Remember the RNC was held in Cleveland right? Michael Symon who owns a slew of restaurants (in particular Lola Bistro where he took a picture with my wife) had this to say about Trump.

http://www.cleveland.com/open/index.ssf/2016/06/michael_symon_on_donald_trump.html

There wasn't a whimper from the MSM. Nothing from the Hollywood elite. They kept their big liberal mouth shut signifying their tacit approval. At that time Trump was hated, still is, he's white, a Republican, therefore it is perfectly acceptable.

Now suppose the Iron-Head chef said this!

There would be protesters galore picketing his restaurants. At Lola the signs would read...

Eat at Lola

Get Ebola

His contract with 'The Chew' and 'Food Network' would be torn up. Don't believe me, ask Paula Deen.

First, they tried to chastise Trump for not accepting the election results. When Trump won (it just possibly couldn't happen) loser Jill Stein wanted a recount for another loser. When that didn't work Hollywood and their flock tried to dissuade the Electoral College from casting their vote for Trump. Meanwhile, Barbara Boxer was hard at work concocting a bill to do away with the Electoral College. When the final Electoral College vote came in Trump lost two Clinton lost 5. Foiled again. Their final straw. But wait a minute, the Russians rigged the election! 

So now what? Mr. Civil Rights John Lewis proclaims Trump, duly elected, is an illegitimate president.

Zilch happens.

Trump goes on the attack. Gets tons of backlash. Reading some of the Tweets he's tantamount to James Earl Ray. Lewis calls a Trump presidency illegitimate and gets away it! Why? Because his 'safe place' is in the arms of liberals and idiots like Bill Kristol to protect him from Trump. Lewis can say whatever he wants. He owns the black crutch. The race card.   

And we're stupid enough to allow it to happen.

What does Trump, John Lewis, and Michael Symon have in common?

Donald Trump's inauguration: These Democrats are skipping the big event

What a surprise! Most are blacks or Hispanic. 

Congressman Hank (Guam is going to tip over) Johnson is not going either. 

He’s in Guam moving everything to the middle of the island.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cesSRfXqS1Q

He later said he was speaking 'metaphorically'. Do you think he's lying?

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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A growing number of Democratic lawmakers are boycotting President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration, particularly after revelations of Russia's alleged meddling in the 2016 election.

Some members of Congress have said they will be protesting in DC and in their districts instead. Here's a list of Democrats who have publicly said they won't be at the ceremony Friday.

Georgia Rep. John Lewis

The civil rights icon declared Friday that he would boycott the event because he doesn't see Trump as a "legitimate" president in light of Russian interference.

"You cannot be at home with something that you feel that is wrong," Lewis told NBC News.

Trump harshly responded Saturday, calling Lewis "all talk" and "no action" and saying he should focus more on "fixing and helping" his district rather than "complaining" about the Russia's role.

California Rep. Mark Takano

"'All talk, no action.' I stand with @repjohnlewis and I will not be attending the inauguration," Takano tweeted Saturday.

New York Rep. Yvette Clarke

"I will NOT attend the inauguration of @realDonaldTrump. When you insult @repjohnlewis, you insult America."

Arizona Rep. Raul Grijalva

"I will not be attending the inauguration of Donald Trump as our next president," the Congressional Progressive Caucus co-chair said Friday on the House floor. "My absence is not motivated by disrespect for the office or motivated by disrespect for the government that we have in this great democracy, but as an individual act, yes, of defiance at the disrespect shown to millions and millions of Americans by this incoming administration, and the actions we are taking in this Congress."

Michigan Rep. John Conyers

The office of Conyers, the dean of the United House of Representatives, confirmed to CNN he won't be attending the inauguration.

California Rep. Mark DeSaulnier

"It is with a heavy heart and deep personal conviction that I have decided not to attend the #TrumpInauguration on January 20, 2017," the California lawmaker tweeted Friday.

New York Rep. Nydia Velazquez

Velazquez tweeted Friday that she will be participating in a women's march protesting policies that activists say are harmful to American women.

"I will not be attending inauguration of @realDonaldTrump but WILL participate in the @womensmarch on January 21st," she tweeted.

Oregon Rep. Kurt Schrader

"I'm just not a big Trump fan. I've met the guy and never been impressed with him," he told Oregon Public Broadcasting Friday. "I'll do my best to work with him when I think he's doing the right thing for the country. But he hasn't proved himself to me at all yet, so I respectfully decline to freeze my ass out there in the cold for this particular ceremony."

Missouri Rep. William Lacy Clay

The lawmaker's spokesperson told the St. Louis Post Dispatch that Clay will be in his home state speaking to school children.

California Rep. Barbara Lee

Lee said she'll spend the day "preparing for resistance."

"Donald Trump has proven that his administration will normalize the most extreme fringes of the Republican Party. On Inauguration Day, I will not be celebrating. I will be organizing and preparing for resistance," she said Thursday in a statement.

New York Rep. Jose Serrano

"I will not attend the #inauguration2017 next week- cannot celebrate the inauguration of a man who has no regard for my constituents. #Bronx," he tweeted Thursday.

Illinois Rep. Luis Gutierrez

"I cannot go to (the) inauguration of a man who's going to appoint people to the Supreme Court and turn back the clock on women and turn back the clock on immigrants and the safety and freedom that we fought for them," Gutierrez said last month on CNN's "New Day."

California Rep. Jared Huffman

"I have decided that instead of attending the inaugural ceremonies in Washington this month, I'll spend time in California with my constituents making a positive difference in our community," he wrote on Facebook Tuesday. "From helping to build homes for local families to pitching in on cleaning up flood debris to welcoming new US citizens at a naturalization ceremony --- it will be an action-packed couple of days. Stay tuned here for more details."

Massachusetts Rep. Katherine Clark

"I support the peaceful transition of power, but I don't feel that I need to attend the pageantry associated with and for this president," she told the Boston Globe earlier this month.

Oregon Rep. Earl Blumenauer

"There is unprecedented concern by my constituents about the many threats posed by a Trump administration seeking to implement the President-elect's policies on health, environment, nuclear weapons and immigration, to name but a few," he said on Facebook.

Donald Trump's inauguration: These Democrats are skipping the big event

Same song different singer

Update:

Where does Lewis get off calling a duly elected president an illegitimate president? Of course, Trump went on the attack. Or should I say… fell for it.. again. My advice, wake up, you just got sucker punched. Now these losers are painting Lewis as another MLK Jr and Trump the new George Wallace.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/01/14/democrats-celebrities-and-republicans-defend-democratic-rep-lewis-after-trumps-tweets.html

According to 2015 data from the Census Bureau, Georgia's 5th Congressional District—which is majority African-American and includes most of Atlanta—as a poverty rate of more than 17 percent, above the national average of 13.5 percent. 

A 2015 report by the Federal Bureau of Investigation ranked Atlanta as 14 among 20 of the most violent U.S. cities.

When the facts are FACTS their only option call it racism knowing it's the only card they have left.

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John Lewis: Trump isn't a legitimate president

The reasoning here is if you're not a Democratic president you're not legitimate. They came up with the same song when Bush was elected in the first go-around. Anyone remember...'a president selected not elected'? There is not one shred of proof the Russians tampered in any way affecting the election results. Yet to delegitimatize Trump they'll keep hammering away on this complete falsehood in the hope if they repeat it enough some a-hole might believe them! 

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Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) said he doesn't believe Donald Trump is a legitimate President in an interview on NBC News "Meet The Press With Chuck Todd."

"You know, I believe in forgiveness. I believe in trying to work with people. It will be hard. It's going to be very difficult. I don't see this president-elect as a legitimate president," Lewis said when asked if he would "forge a relationship" with the president-elect.

When pressed on why he believes Trump's presidency is illegitimate, Lewis pointed to intelligence reports of Russian interference in the election.

"I think the Russians participated in helping this man get elected. And they helped destroy the candidacy of Hillary Clinton," Lewis said.

Trump acknowledged this week that Russia was responsible for some hacking during the campaign, though the president-elect and many on his team assert that it had no effect on election results.

Lewis, in the interview, also said he wouldn't attend the inauguration.

"I don't plan to attend the inauguration. It will be the first one that I miss since I've been in Congress," Lewis said. "You cannot be at home with something that you feel that is wrong, is not right."

Same song different singer

Her last two tweets

Her last two tweets

Bernie Sanders’s claims that ‘36,000 people will die yearly’ if Obamacare is repealed

“As Republicans try to repeal the Affordable Care Act, they should be reminded every day that 36,000 people will die yearly as a result.”

— Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.), in a tweet, Jan. 12, 2017

With the fate of the Affordable Care Act hanging in the balance, the rhetorical warfare is only going to get worse. Earlier this week, we looked at an exaggerated GOP claim about Obamacare premiums.

Then this tweet caught our eye:

As Republicans try to repeal the Affordable Care Act, they should be reminded every day that 36,000 people will die yearly as a result.

— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) January 12, 2017

How is this number calculated and is it credible?

The Facts

For context, more than 2.6 million people died in the United States in 2015, or nearly 7,200 per day. So Sanders is suggesting repeal of the law would increase the number of deaths by 1.4 percent.

Sanders obtained the figure of 36,000 from a calculation by ThinkProgress, a left-leaning website, according to his aides. Essentially, ThinkProgress assumed that repeal will result in 29.8 million people losing their insurance and that one person will die for every 830 people who lose their insurance. That yields a number of 35,903.

So this is an estimate based on two other estimates. How credible are the other two estimates?

The Obama administration says that about 20 million people have gained insurance because of the ACA. We’ve done some digging on this number — some conservative analysts have raised questions about it — but it generally seems in the ballpark. Surprisingly, more of the increase in coverage comes from the expansion of Medicaid, not the creation of the exchanges for individual insurance.

The larger number of 29.8 million comes from an Urban Institute report that assumes Republicans will repeal parts of the law through the reconciliation process without outlining any replacement plan, thus leading to a near collapse of the nongroup insurance market. That’s a pretty big assumption.

Moreover, one cannot assume that everyone will automatically lose coverage. One recent study has indicated that nearly 30 percent of the gain in the insured came from people who were already eligible for Medicaid. This is known as the “woodworker” effect. In theory, these people still would be eligible even if the expansion of Medicaid was repealed, though the authors of the report dispute that, saying the woodworker effect took place precisely because of policies in the law.

In any case, nearly 30 million is certainly a high estimate.

The other part of the calculation is even more problematic. It stems from a study on the effect of the Massachusetts health-care law implemented by then Gov. Mitt Romney, not the Affordable Care Act.

The study compared changes in mortality rates for adults from 2001-2005 to the rates in 2007-2010, after the law was implemented. The research indicated that for every 830 adults who gained insurance, there was one fewer death per year.

But the study clearly noted that “we do not have individual-level insurance information and thus cannot directly link mortality changes to persons gaining insurance coverage.” Moreover, it said the results could not be directly applied to the Affordable Care Act because “Massachusetts differs from the rest of the nation, including lower mortality, higher income and baseline insurance coverage rates, fewer minorities, and the most per capita physicians in the country.”

There are wrong ways and right ways to cite this kind of data. When the White House Council of Economic Advisers in December cited the report, it appropriately noted that it was based on data from Massachusetts: “If experience under the ACA matches what was observed under Massachusetts health reform, an estimated 24,000 deaths are already being avoided annually.”

But Sanders not only directly applied the formula to the ACA, but he also assumed that withdrawing insurance would have the same impact as adding insurance. Benjamin Sommers, the lead author of the study, said: “You’re right that giving insurance versus taking it away may not produce mirror image effects — that adds further uncertainty to the discussion.”

Sommers, who helped implement the ACA as an Obama administration official in 2011-2014, said applying the formula could produce “a reasonable ballpark estimate of what is a difficult question to answer, but it’s clearly not a definitive fact.” He added that Sanders’s tweet was “not a very nuanced assessment. Twitter isn’t the best venue for assessing complex research findings.”

Warren Gunnels, a Sanders policy aide, also pointed to a detailed 2009 study that estimated that out of every 1 million people without insurance, 1,000 will die because they lacked insurance. The study followed a group of patients for 12 years and found that those without insurance had a higher rate of mortality. Roughly speaking, if all 20 million people who gained insurance under the Affordable Care Act lost it, that would mean 20,000 deaths. Not only is that about half as much as the figure touted by Sanders, but it also assumes Republicans will simply leave everyone now covered without health insurance.

The Pinocchio Test

Certainly, the impact of changes in the health-insurance market on the death rate is an important issue in the debate over Obamacare, especially if Republican pledges to keep everyone covered fall short. But the Fact Checker often warns readers to be wary of scare statistics that lack context.

Sanders has tweeted as a definite fact an estimate that a) assumes Republicans will gut Obamacare without a replacement b) assumes the worst possible impact from that policy and c) assumes that data derived from the Massachusetts experience can be applied across the United States.

Those are three very big assumptions. Take away any one of them, and Sanders’s claim that repeal of the law will cause 36,000 people to die a year falls apart.

Ordinarily, this sort of fuzzy math would be worthy of at least Three Pinocchios. But ThinkProgress, in calculating the number, at least said this many people “could” die. Sanders instead stated it as a definitive fact — that 36,000 will die. That tips this claim into Four-Pinocchio territory.

Four Pinocchios

Bernie Sanders’s claims that ‘36,000 people will die yearly’ if Obamacare is repealed

The MSM at their FAWNING best

Matt Lauer: I 'burst out crying' at Biden's Medal of Freedom 

Wonder if they'll be so emotional after Trump gives Mattis a metal for wiping ISIS off the face of the Earth?

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NBC's Matt Lauer says he was reduced to tears when he watched President Obama surprise Vice President Biden with the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Thursday.

"I'm glad there were no cameras in my apartment yesterday because I was just sitting there weeping ... I just burst out crying when I saw that moment. It was incredible,” Lauer, who recently signed a reported $20 million per year contract extension through 2018, said Friday on "Today."

The waterworks were on for Biden himself as well on Thursday when Obama shocked his vice president with the Medal of Freedom. Biden had to turn from the cameras momentarily to compose himself.

NBC News’s chief foreign affairs correspondent, Andrea Mitchell, shared the same sentiment in a report recapping the medal ceremony, saying the friendship between the two men is something “rarely seen” in Washington politics.

"It’s a bond like we've never seen before. At times, more like a White House buddy movie than a political partnership," Mitchell observed.

"After eight years, the Bidens and Obamas forging a friendship so close they consider themselves family. ... Their friendship often reaching a fever pitch on social media," she continued.

"Biden tweeting a photo of a friendship bracelet on the President’s birthday: 'Happy 55th, Barack! A brother to me, a best friend forever.'”

After the "Today" report, guest co-host Meredith Vieira called the event “so beautiful.”

Mitchell later admitted on MSNBC that the surprise White House event had her "in tears" as well.

“You know, every time I watch this — I'm just watching that ceremony — I was in tears,” the “Andrea Mitchell Reports” host said. “We are seeing so much dissension and disruption in Washington and around the country and to see this relationship, this partnership pretty seamless on policy, if they had disputes, they were over their, you know, little lunches and breakfasts that we didn't see.”

Obama and Biden leave office after eight years when President-elect Trump is inaugurated on next Friday. 

The MSM at their FAWNING best

Human Abedin enjoys a meal with friends at upscale NYC eatery

Huma Abedin was spotted having dinner at a trendy Italian restaurant in Manhattan, just hours after her disgraced husband Anthony Weiner stepped out in public for the first time since his stint in rehab for sex addicts .

Hillary Clinton's top aide dined out at Il Cantinori on 10th Street on Thursday night with two male friends and another guest.

A diner told DailyMail.com Huma and her ensemble sat at a corner table and enjoyed a cheerful, cozy night out. 

Abedin then left the restaurant alone and strolled back home to her apartment.

 

The night out comes just hours after sex pest Weiner was seen for the first time since he returned from rehab with the hope of reconciling with his estranged wife.

The disgraced former politician checked into an exclusive all-male sex rehabilitation center in Tennessee last October, after it had been revealed was sending sexually charged texts to an underage girl.

But Weiner is back in New York City, and was spotted during a rare public outing on Thursday. 

Human Abedin enjoys a meal with friends at upscale NYC eatery

Millennials are falling behind their boomer parents

A few visuals for the reason why:

And finally...

Baby Boomers: your millennial children are worse off than you. 

With a median household income of $40,581, millennials earn 20 percent less than boomers did at the same stage of life, despite being better educated, according to a new analysis of Federal Reserve data by the advocacy group Young Invincibles.

The analysis being released Friday gives concrete details about a troubling generational divide that helps to explain much of the anxiety that defined the 2016 election. Millennials have half the net worth of boomers. Their home ownership rate is lower, while their student debt is drastically higher.

The generational gap is a central dilemma for the incoming presidency of Donald Trump, who essentially pledged a return to the prosperity of post-World War II America. The analysis also hints at the issues of culture and identity that divided many voters, showing that white millennials — who still earn much more than their blacks and Latino peers — have seen their incomes plummet the most relative to boomers.

Andrea Ledesma, 28, says her parents owned a house and were raising kids by her age.

Not so for her. Ledesma graduated from college four years ago. After moving through a series of jobs, she now earns $18,000 making pizza at Classic Slice in Milwaukee, shares a two-bedroom apartment with her boyfriend and has $33,000 in student debt. 

"That's not at all how life is now, that's not something that people strive for and it's not something that is even attainable, and I thought it would be at this point," Ledesma said.

Her mother Cheryl Romanowski, 55, was making about $10,000 a year at her age working at a bank without a college education. In today's dollars, that income would be equal to roughly $19,500.

Romanowski said she envies the choices that her daughter has in life, but she acknowledged that her daughter has it harder than her.

"I think the opportunities have just been fading away," she said.

The analysis of the Fed data shows the extent of the decline. It compared 25 to 34 year-olds in 2013, the most recent year available, to the same age group in 1989 after adjusting for inflation.

Education does help boost incomes. But the median college-educated millennial with student debt is only earning slightly more than a baby boomer without a degree did in 1989.

The home ownership rate for this age group dipped to 43 percent from 46 percent in 1989, although the rate has improved for millennials with a college degree relative to boomers.

The median net worth of millennials is $10,090, 56 percent less than it was for boomers. 

Whites still earn dramatically more than Blacks and Latinos, reflecting the legacy of discrimination for jobs, education and housing. 

Yet compared to white baby boomers, some white millennials appear stuck in a pattern of downward mobility. This group has seen their median income tumble more than 21 percent to $47,688. 

Median income for black millennials has fallen just 1.4 percent to $27,892. Latino millennials earn nearly 29 percent more than their boomer predecessors to $30,436. 

The analysis fits into a broader pattern of diminished opportunity. Research last year by economists led by Stanford University's Raj Chetty found that people born in 1950 had a 79 percent chance of making more money than their parents. That figure steadily slipped over the past several decades, such that those born in 1980 had just a 50 percent chance of out-earning their parents. 

This decline has occurred even though younger Americans are increasingly college-educated. The proportion of 25 to 29 year-olds with a college degree has risen to 35.6 percent in 2015 from 23.2 percent in 1990, a report this month by the Brookings Institution noted. 

The declining fortunes of millennials could impact boomers who are retired or on the cusp of retirement. Payroll taxes from millennials helps to finance the Social Security and Medicare benefits that many boomers receive — programs that Trump has said won't be subject to spending cuts. And those same boomers will need younger generations to buy their homes and invest in the financial markets to protect their own savings. 

"The challenges that young adults face today could forecast the challenges that we see down the road," said Tom Allison, deputy policy and research director at Young Invincibles.

Millennials are falling behind their boomer parents