This report says it’s the first time ever, but I have trouble believing that. There were the early booms and World War II ramped up production as well.
“Meanwhile, however, Texas is on track to become the biggest oil producer after Russia and Saudi Arabia, according to production estimates by HSBC, quoted by CNN.”
Via ZeroHedge
Posted in Blogosphere, Science/Engineering, Texana
Manafort’s jury is undergoing a little old-fashioned arm-twisting.
“Why do you suppose seven news organizations–all liberal, presumably–wanted to know who the jurors are and where they live? They are worried that the jury, having heard the evidence, may not render the ‘right’ verdict, i.e., the one that helps the Democratic Party.
“So they want to know who the jurors are so they can apply pressure on them through mob action, newspaper denunciations, online harassment and so on. This is how today’s Democratic Party operates.”
Scumbags.
Via Power Line Blog
UPDATE: No surprise then that Manafort was found guilty on 8 counts while escaping 10 others. After the establishment media had turned the screws. So much for American justice.
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Tagged jury tampering, Manafort jury, Mediacrats
Fake News is really taking it in the shorts, no matter Stelter, Tapper or whiny Acosta.
“CNN’s ace primetime lineup hosts Anderson Cooper and Fredo Cuomo have to be biting their pillows at night being beaten handley by the History Channel which…had 1.06 million viewers in primetime while CNN scored 992,000 average viewers, most of whom were probably stuck at an airport with nothing else to watch. The network didn’t fare much better in the ratings for its daytime programming, finishing in sixth place, lagging far behind Fox News, MSNBC, and Spongebob Squarepants.”
Ever wonder why the Mediacrats focus so much attention on the alt-right?
“Gamergate used to be a debate about the alt-left’s takeover of journalism. Now that the alt-left controls journalism, period, it’s become a national debate about fake news.
“Sarah Jeong’s racism isn’t an isolated incident. It’s a culture that is taking over newsrooms. The complete disregard for facts, the pervasive contempt for the political opposition, the impassioned victimhood, and the ravening hatred poorly disguised as comedy now defines the media.
“And so we don’t talk about the alt-left, because when we talk about the alt-left, we’re talking about the media.”
Via Sultan Knish
Posted in Blogosphere, Fake News, Mediacrats
The Berkeley, California (of all places) cops released on Twitter the mugshots of some unmasked AntiFa terrorists after they were arrested for violence. The Lefist city council complained and the cops apologized. Which is another example of Don Surber’s “Democrat Privilege.”
Mugshots, indeed. These Manson family clones are too fugly for a family blog. You’ll have to go the link to see for yourself.
“Why not publicize them?” asks commentor BA Deplorable Rupertslander at the Small Dead Animals blog. “After all, these are the same people who would shamelessly reveal the address of any government official that displeases them, doing so with the hope that those officials are harassed, if not attacked.”
Via Small Dead Animals and FoxNews
Posted in Blogosphere, Political corruption, The Ruling Class
Tagged AntiFa unmasked, Democrat Privilege, Small Dead Animals
How could that possibly work, you say. The economy is the economy, impervious to, well, just about anything except the high taxes and onerous business regulations and political uncertainty that stifled it for eight years under Bronco Bama.
Not so. “…because the condition of the economy, to a great extent, is what you say it is or, more importantly, feel it is or can convince others that it is. It’s wide open to legerdemain. Economic success is governed almost as much by raw emotion as at is by the reality of profit and loss. What is the mood of consumers? What is the mood of big business, entrepreneurs, etc.?”
So the Progs and their Leftist buddies are taking every opportunity to undermine Trump by “sabotag[ing] the economy by jawing it down, by making it sound worse than it is” with the help of the anti-Trump fake news.
For instance a piece I read the other day claimed more people were living in their vehicles than ever before, quoting some people in California and South Dakota. Sure, California, land of high taxes and higher rents, but South Dakota?
“These cries of economic disaster will only grow more intense as we approach the mid-terms. Every little statistical waver will [be] blown way out of… proportion. Schumer and Pelosi will say that bread lines are imminent.”
Via PJMedia
Posted in Blogosphere, Fake News, The Economy
Tagged PJMedia, sabotaging the economy, the anti-trump news media
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 
Blocked for Comment Section on Newspaper Tagesspiegel
It reads, “Login failed. User account ‘BenGoldstein’ was blocked.”
I cut out Islam, made no jokes (or only benign ones), did not comment on gender…didn’t help. The narrow-mindedness has become extreme. There is no way that my choice of words, the “tone”, could have been a problem. Others actually behave rudely. Most of my comments were on the topic of antisemitism.
I would lie if I said that I don’t find this whole development depressing. How can a culture fall so deeply so fast? Germans are specialists.
And the French are following. According to ZEIT the Supreme court ruled today that the principle of “fraternite” allows people to hide illegal immigrants and break the laws. This is the most ridiculous verdict I have ever heard. It is the abolishment of laws as such and their replacement with gut feelings.
And there is this glib cheering that the article conveyed. The commenters…
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