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There is much talk about the inevitable fact that Florida is certain to plump for the Democrat presidential candidate in 2020 - - - what with a rapidly increasing the Puerto Rican and Third-World populations in that state.

Since the FDR landslide of 1932, Minnesota has been a reliable Big Time Democrat state in presidential elections - - - but Hillary Clinton only managed to win Minnesota by the hair on her chinny-chin chin : Clinton (46.4%); Trump (44.92%). A mere swing of 45,000 towards Trump would have secured victory for him. 2016 was the first election since 1952 in which the Democrat presidential candidate ran behind his or her overall nationwide popular-vote total. 2016 was the first election since 1956 in which the Republican presidential candidate received over 70% of the local state-wide vote in several rural Minnesota counties. It was the twin cities of St. Paul and Minneapolis, alone, that managed to drag Hillary's sorry ass over the Minnesotan battered and bruised finish line.

In 2016, Trump managed to get more than 6% of Minnesota's presidential vote than Romney did in 2012. Who knows? What with the Good Whites rapidly turning into Bad Whites and Mid-West Nice becoming Mid-West Nasty at the drop of a hat, Trump may just be able to win in 2020 in Minnesota and repeat his 2016 Florida victory, even if the "new" Puerto Ricans vote early and often!

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They’re saying that I, Judge Roy Moore,
Once fondled the tits of some whore.
Once-bodacious jugs
Now droopy-ass dugs,
I swear I won’t touch ’em no more.

»» Department of Extra Irony . . .

Gay Talese Defends Kevin Spacey.

Is Mariah Carey Avoiding Sex Harassment Charges?

Regional elections were held yesterday in Sicily. Exit polls forecast that the Right-wing coalition will win with more than 75% of the overall vote. Although Sicily tends to vote for Right-wing parties, she usually does so only in the 55%-60% range. The Sicilian result bodes most ill for the national Left-controlled government in Rome.

A nationwide General Election is scheduled to be held in the Spring. "Migration" was the biggest issue in the Sicilian regionals; the Left could only promise to do a better job in future but their credibility, such as it was, on this pressing issue, had already been shot to pieces by the many recent and unceremonious "migrant" invasions of the beleaguered Italian province.

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Poor Donald Trump. He always gets the blame when something goes wrong but he never gets the credit when something goes right. The good news coming out of Syria shows that Isis has turned tail and is on the run. Why is that? After January 20, did the NYC real estate mogul, who is now President of the United States, thanks to 80,000 White blue-collar voters in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, wave a magic wand and tell the “insurgents” in Syria to lay down their arms and allow themselves to be butchered by Bashir Assad’s Neanderthal cutthroats?

It would appear that The Trumpster has simply stopped subsidizing ISIS. The Obama Administration, in 2009, had a big brainstorm. The thought was, if one could call it a thought, to subsidize “rebellion” in the Arab world. This brainstorm bore fruit of a pretty rotten kind. In 2011 Hillary proclaimed to the world that “we came, we saw, he died” in Libya. In 2012, the American consulate and the CIA Annex were burned to the ground in Benghazi. We lost our Libyan ambassador and four CIA mercenaries, but we kept CIA arms flowing into Syria uninterrupted, straight into the hands of ISIS. The tribal factions in Libya remain, killing each other off and still sending “migrants” into Western Europe for cash - - - but in Syria, ISIS seems to have at least withered away for the time being. Perhaps they have completely died out on the vine, so to speak. Let’s hope ISIS never makes a come-back in Syria. This is what happens when you stop subsidizing ISIS as the Obama administration so enthusiastically did, once upon a time. This is what happens when you stop feeding the big, bad trolls. Let’s have a yuge round of applause for Donald J Trump! Oh, no, is that the sound of crickets?

Magnetic tape recording technology was first invented, in its present form, by Fritz Pfleumer in 1928. During the Nazi period in Germany, IG Farben and AEG further developed the Pfleumer technology, using the state broadcaster RRG for regular test runs of recorded long-form voice and music programming, instead of using massive 16rpm phono-discs. When US Army radio technicians entered the central broadcasting studio of Radio Luxembourg, they came across a treasure trove of magnetic recorders and oxide reel-to-reel tapes, which seemed to have the appearance of utterly bizarre and weird paraphernalia, straight out of a cheap science-fiction novel.

By 1950, the first AMPEX tape-recorders reached the consumer market in the United States. At the same time, 3M (Scotch Tape) led the US consumer market in 7 inch & 3 inch reel tape sales. By 1955, many US manufacturers, most notably RCA, were turning out very sturdy reel-to-reel recorders for home use. An average, top-of-the-line “portable” recorder, that was built to withstand heavy use in “the field,” weighted between 10 and 15 pounds and could record, without interruption, for 2 or 3 hours straight on a 7 inch reel of tape. A top-of-the-line “portable” then cost about $300 (1955 : $300 = 2017 : $2,800). A 7 inch reel of “the best” Scotch Tape then cost about $4, lesser grades of 7 inch reel tape, of inferior quality, were available at about half the price of the expensive Scotch brand in 1955.

So when “The Crime of the Century” was committed on November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas why wasn’t the hours-long DPD interview with the “leading suspect” (Lee Harvey Oswald) recorded on a portable reel-to-reel tape machine? The unadorned explanation was and still is painfully simple : if the Dallas PD had purchased tape recorders for official use in 1955, these valuable machines would have soon found their respective ways out the doors of police headquarters and into the hands of seedy hock shop owners and underworld fences. Such friends of the DPD had always done a land-office business with the notoriously bent DPD, long before the calendar year of 1963 had rolled around. Aren’t you glad you asked?

Paul Ryan, the Speaker of the US House of Representatives, has a well-earned reputation as being an Open Borders kind of a guy. He seems to be sexually attracted, but only, mind you, in a political kind of way, to those Democrats who want to see the United States invaded by the Third World - - - and the sooner the better for the electoral betterment of the Jackass Party. But Paul Ryan, the Speaker of the US House of Representatives, is faced with a yuge and bigly problem. The Trump–Schumer Amnesty bill will have to be introduced into both houses of Congress and will be have to be introduced into both houses of Congress strictly by the Democrats. This is no small problem. Now, an Amnesty bill for about 1 million illegal aliens, the so-called “Dreamers”, will probably hit the U.S. Senate floor as a “clean” bill, that is to say, it will be a pure Amnesty bill, having no amendments. In this shape and form said bill will probably breeze through the Senate because the Senate is now much more “understanding” when it comes to Amnesty for Third-Worlders than it was in 2013, when a much bigger Amnesty package breezed through the Senate, drawing 14 Republican Rino votes.

By the time this legislative monstrosity reaches the House, the anti-Amnesty forces there will have had plenty of time to collect their arguments and their faithful soldiers against the craven Senate bill and will thus be able to put up a fight against it and that fierce anti-Amnesty fight just might prove to be a winnable one, when all is said and done. There will be frisky amendments and many of them in the House. Some of these amendments will be killer amendments. So, when all is said and done and the smoke begins to clear, does Paul Ryan, the Speaker of the US House of Representatives, abandon the majority of his conservative caucus and "go plump" with the majority of the opposition caucus, to wit, the not-so very crypto-Marxist Democrats. If he goes along with the Democrats and if he goes along with getting almost all of their votes in order to ram through a Senate bill that means a high-octane Amnesty for millions upon millions of new illegal alien Democrat voters, now newly made legal, he will most likely find himself as the US Speaker of the House who once was and is now looking for a lobbyist job! What is an Eddie Munster look-alike to do?