Comey, DNC, CDC, EPA, "transgenders", the media and Keystone XL

Is this temporary until a new director for the FBI can be found and confirmed?  If not, it's a big mistake:

Comey will continue to stay on as FBI director in the Trump administration
FBI Director James B. Comey, who is under a Department of Justice Inspector General investigation for his handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation, has told people he has been asked to stay in his post in the next administration, people familiar with the matter said. President Trump had notably declined to say during a post-election interview with "60 Minutes" whether he would retain the FBI director, saying he wanted to meet with Comey first.

I find this man to have no credibility whatsoever and leaving him in as director of the FBI sends the wrong signal if your desire is to have the "rule of law" again be preeminent in the land.

Oh, good.  The Trump administration will make the EPA "pay" for the damage it did in the Gold King Mine spill:

Citizens of the Rocky Mountain state are relying on the incoming Trump administration to require that the EPA pay damages in the wake of a massive agency-caused toxic water spill in Colorado. 

Republicans and Democrats have criticized the agency’s decision to ignore victims associated with the Gold King Mine spill, which released 3 million gallons of dangerous metals like lead, cadmium and arsenic into the Animas River. 

Republican Sen. Cory Gardner of Colorado and his Democratic colleague Michael Bennett blasted the Obama administration Thursday for its refusal to help the spill victims. 

“I applaud Attorney General Pruitt’s commitment to review the EPA’s decision to not process FTCA claims related to the Gold King Mine spill,” Gardner said Thursday in a statement, referring to the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA), a nearly 70-year-old law the EPA suggested gives them sovereign immunity from paying $1.2 billion in damages.

Just wondering - does anyone realize from whence the $1.2 billion will come?  Yup, the taxpayer.  And, other than the taxpayer, who else were "victims"?  Oh, and how about a little accountability all up and down the line with fines and firings of those responsible for this gross neglegence?

A real "oh, good."  The CDC is backing out of a "climate change" conference it had scheduled:

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has called off a major conference on climate change planned for February, E&E News reported Monday. 

A statement from the CDC said it was considering plans to reschedule the conference, though it also acknowledged it would have to do so with consideration to budget priorities and another climate change meeting to be hosted by the American Public Health Association later this year.

Well not really.  Instead, consider this:

Georges Benjamin, the APHA’s executive director who was set to speak at the conference, told The Washington Post that the CDC called off the event amid fears that the Trump administration would cancel it anyway. 

“They ran it up the flagpole and realized that it was so close to the inauguration, the chances of it being canceled were pretty real with the administration that was coming in,” Benjamin said.

Call it the "Trump effect."  Also realize that the climate or it's changes aren't the job of the CDC.  Maybe they'll get back to their business now.

Not everyone is happy with the so-called "women's march" the other day.  They simply terrified the trans-gendered:

Mic.com also quoted a “nonbinary” individual—a person who does not identify with either male or female, has multiple gender identities, or a gender identity that changes over time, among other things—whose girlfriend is still a biological male. 

“For 20-year-old Sam Forrey, a nonbinary student in Ohio, and their girlfriend Lilian McDaniel, who is trans, there had been other warning signs that the Women’s March might be a dangerous space for them,” according to the article.
The couple was upset by the “genital-based womanhood” espoused by the women’s march.

I'm coughing at the moment from laughing so hard.  Because we all know, just because you have the equipment doesn't mean you are what your think you are ... or something.  

See, this is where the identity politics of the left derails and not only makes them a laughing stock, but seriously undermines their credibility.  You know, as well as I do, that those fools will take this seriously and then try to find a way to impose what they decide on the rest of us.  Hint: this is why Trump won. Please, keep it up.

And it appears the Democratic party has found a way out of the wilderness.  Yes, they've managed to launch themselves into deep space with no seeming way to get back.  

On a recent CSPAN "debate" highlighting those who would like to have the chair of the DNC, each candidate seemed to try to find a position to the left of the one before.

My personal favorite?  The white woman from Idaho:

Democrats must provide “training” that focuses in part on teaching Americans “how to be sensitive and how to shut their mouths if they are white,” urged the executive director of Idaho’s Democratic Party, Sally Boynton Brown, who is white.  

The event’s moderator, MSNBC’s Joy Ann Reid, asked the candidates how the party should handle the Black Lives Now movement.
The candidates uniformly emphasized that the party must embrace the activists unreservedly.  

“It makes me sad that we’re even having that conversation and that tells me that white leaders in our party have failed,” Brown said. “I’m a white woman, I don’t get it. … My job is to listen and be a voice and shut other white people down when they want to interrupt.” 

“This is life and death” she emphasized. “I am a human being trying to do good work and I can’t do it without y’all. So please, please, please, get ahold of me. Sally at we-the-dnc.org. I need schooling so I can go school the other white people.”

I can't think of anyone more qualified to tell people to "shut up" than an authoritarian lefty with "white guilt". More surprisingly it seems, they think this will appeal to middle America and rebuild their brand.  Lady, you were just convincingly told that this isn't the way to proceed and you double down instead.

Please.  Keep it up.

Meanwhile, the range war will again heat up.  Trump just signed an executive order opening the way for the completion of the Keystone XL pipeline and the Dakota Access pipeline.  Infrastructure, you know. Getting my popcorn and preparing to watch liberal heads explode.  Always entertaining.

Speaking of liberal heads exploding, the precious White House Media is beside itself today.  Why?

Apparently, in an unwritten rule precious only to careerist Beltway journos, the Press Secretary calls on an Associated Press reporter first then follows with questions to other large media companies. For the first time, Spicer chose less storied agencies for the first handful of questions. Did he blacklist journalists from CNN, the New York Times, etc? No, he got to them a few minutes later. In fact, Spicer stayed as long as the reporters wanted, answering questions for well over an hour. 

What so appalled the press was that Spicer upset the media’s caste system. After calling on the New York Post, he went to CBN (Christian cable network), Univision (Spanish-language channel), Fox Business Network, and American Urban Radio Networks (African-American focused service). He also announced the creation of “Skype seats” that will allow reporters who live 50 miles or more from Washington DC to ask questions.

Poor babies.  I'm enjoying every minute of the press's outrage. 

Boy, my lungs are getting a workout today.  Even beginning to cramp up in my ribs from the laughing.

I think I need to take a rest. [*cough* *guffaw*, "oh, ow"]

~McQ