The latest? It’s all about Russia. Sigh.

via US Aristocracy Panics That Maybe Trump Is Serious | Zero Hedge

Too fast, say Dems. Too bad, says top GOP solon:

Mr. McConnell brushed aside Democratic complaints Republicans were moving too fast, saying the minority party was was acting out its frustration over the election results.

“We need to grow up here and get past that,” he said. He pointed out that eight years ago when Democrats controlled both the Senate and the White House, seven cabinet officials were confirmed on the day Mr. Obama was sworn into office.

They had no idea how unscrupulous he would be.

Source: Senate Looks to Move Fast on Trump Administration Hearings, Obamacare Repeal – WSJ

This, ladies and gentlemen, be TRANSPARENCY. Get used to it.

Twice what gummint says.

Go, Obama. (Quicker the better):

(CNSNews.com) — Although the national unemployment rate for December was 4.7%, the real or total unemplyment rate — people who work part-time because of the economy and other marginally attached workers — was 9.2%, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Source: Real Unemployment 9.3%

Hope and short change:

When President Obama took office in January 2009, 80,529,000 Americans were not in the labor force, the highest number on record. That number rose steadily during his two terms, reaching a record 95,055,000 in November 2016, then setting another record (95,102,000) in December.

80 mill to 95 mill, hmm:

Last month, a record 152,111,000 Americans were counted as employed, up 63,000 from November; and the number of unemployed stood at 7,529,000, an increase of 120,000 from the prior month.

But people who stop looking for a job are no longer counted as unemployed.

They don’t count.

In an interview with a Chicago reporter yesterday, Obama said he has done “an enormous amount” to create greater economic opportunity for Americans.

“I took an economy that was about to go into a Great Depression, and we’ve now had a little over six years of straight economic job growth, an unemployment rate that’s down below 5 percent, and incomes that have gone up and poverty that has gone down.”

And the reporter asked about the people who don’t count, as above. (Just kidding, OK?)

Source: Record 95,102,000 Americans Not in Labor Force; Number Grew 18% Since Obama Took Office in 2009

342-80 vote.

“Do not be fooled,” House Speaker Paul Ryan said in a rare floor speech. “This U.N. Security Council resolution was not about settlements, and it certainly was not about peace. It was about one thing and one thing only: Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish, democratic state.”

Obama’s parting shot from the anti-Israel far left. Quite disgusting.

Source: House rebukes Obama, UN over Israel vote | Washington Examiner

The charged:

In Washington, White House press secretary Josh Ernest said the Facebook video demonstrated  “a level of depravity that is an outrage to a lot of Americans.”

A lot?

Source: Facebook Live Torture Victim Was Friends With One Of His Tormenters – Hermosa – DNAinfo Chicago

The public will get to see an unclassified version of the intelligence community’s report on Russian hacking by early next week, the director of national intelligence said on Thursday.

President Obama had requested that the report, which is expected to give the public an idea of what influence Russia had on the U.S. election, be released before his term ends on Jan. 20, a deadline the intelligence community seems poised to meet.

Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told the Senate Armed Services Committee that the public version of the report from the CIA, FBI and National Security Agency will be released next week and briefed to Congress.

Clapper said he had four briefings planned for Congress next week, including meetings for the full House and Senate as well as closed sessions with the oversight committees to go into more detail about sources and methods.

While the unclassified report will not include sensitive sources and methods that could hurt the intelligence community, Clapper stressed that he is releasing as much as possible to the public.

Source: White House will release report on Russian hacking to public next week | Washington Examiner

. . . the larcenous trio had cased the place but left when chased by faithful dog.

Faithful dog

Another manager, on duty at that time, about not calling cops after they’d left, 

“I was trying to give them [the teens] the benefit of the doubt,” a mistake she won’t make in the future, she said.

A little experience helps in these matters.

Source: Pet Store Manager Chases Down Lincoln Square Package Thieves – Lincoln Square – DNAinfo Chicago

. . . for arguing, no stating as obvious, what so obviously ain’t so.

New York Times columnist David Brooks writes: Donald Trump doesn’t think in that way, either. He is anti-system.

As my “PBS NewsHour” colleague Mark Shields points out, he has no experience being accountable to anybody, to a board of directors or anybody, to a board of directors or an owner.

Really? Hear the SmarterTimes man:

To say that Mr. Trump “has no experience being accountable to anybody” is a falsehood so blatant that if Mr. Trump himself had uttered it the Times itself would probably have inserted the words “falsely,” as it has taken to doing in an unusually aggressive attempt to fact-check the president-elect.

Etc. A takedown of echo-chamber blather.

Source: Trump’s Accountability :: Smartertimes.com