EMT 8/9/15 - [krakatoa]

Did anything happen this weekend? I've been completely disconnected from the world. Saturday was the first day of vacation, and I spent it all doing a few of the errands that have languished during the insane travel and string of weekend jobs this past 2 months.

Ahh the wonders of home ownership. At least we get the advantage of having an appreciating investment.

(checks Zillow)

Crap.

Posted by: Open Blogger at 06:00 AM

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1 First?

Posted by: Ian Galt at August 09, 2015 06:00 AM (dmepw)

2 Ha! Holy Crap Batman!

Posted by: Ian Galt at August 09, 2015 06:00 AM (dmepw)

3 Good Morning Morons. Today is Sunday, August 09, 2015. On this day in 1945 an atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. 35,000 people were killed outright. But what you don't hear very often is that conventional bombing of Tokyo killed a lot more people. In the end the bombing of Nagasaki and Horoshima probably saved lives.

Posted by: Vic at August 09, 2015 06:01 AM (GpgJl)

4 Black agitators take over a Bernie Sanders rally in Seattle. I hope liberals like the shit sandwich they created.

http://fxn.ws/1IWkVeE

Posted by: Vic at August 09, 2015 06:01 AM (GpgJl)

5 Huma gets to fall on her sword for Scankles' illegal activity.

http://fxn.ws/1DEOwZC

Posted by: Vic at August 09, 2015 06:02 AM (GpgJl)

6 The Navy is planning to arm sailors at its reserve centers now.

http://fxn.ws/1Ehcqpa

Posted by: Vic at August 09, 2015 06:02 AM (GpgJl)

7 The BLM had planned on spending a shit-ton of money on a festival in the desert until the public got wind of it.

http://fxn.ws/1IQbglx

Posted by: Vic at August 09, 2015 06:02 AM (GpgJl)

8 Another poor misunderstood black yoot shot by police. Of course Obama has to send the DOJ to stir up shit.

http://fxn.ws/1DEOSzA

Posted by: Vic at August 09, 2015 06:02 AM (GpgJl)

9 The PA AG has been arraigned for felony perjury and leaking classified GJ information. She says she will not resign. Of course she is a Democrat.

http://fxn.ws/1gTVn7K

Posted by: Vic at August 09, 2015 06:03 AM (GpgJl)

10 The RNCe think they have finally contained Trump and can now push their RINO candidates.

http://wapo.st/1gTD6r4

Posted by: Vic at August 09, 2015 06:03 AM (GpgJl)

11 Obama is ignoring the military's advice on Russia while they give him a noogie.

http://bit.ly/1IAXqEx

Posted by: Vic at August 09, 2015 06:03 AM (GpgJl)

12 The EPA has dumped 1 million gal of waste water into a river. Are they going to fine themselves?

http://bit.ly/1HyIx3y

Posted by: Vic at August 09, 2015 06:04 AM (GpgJl)

13 Lawyers for the "Samalia Seven" have a unique defense for their clients charged with aiding terrorists. They maintain that ISIS is not a terrorist organization.

http://bit.ly/1TgbUOZ

Posted by: Vic at August 09, 2015 06:04 AM (GpgJl)

14 Sanders vows to end "institutional racism" after black agitators force him off the stage. I have some news for this senile old commie; institutional racism and discrimination ended with the civil rights act of 1964. Of course it doesn't protect while people.

http://bit.ly/1Mdskr6

Posted by: Vic at August 09, 2015 06:04 AM (GpgJl)

15 The MFM doesn't want you to know there is a crime wave from illegals. In some States they account for 30% of the murders.

http://bit.ly/1UvyeGZ

Posted by: Vic at August 09, 2015 06:04 AM (GpgJl)

16 Ramirez

http://bit.ly/1TgdaBU

Posted by: Vic at August 09, 2015 06:05 AM (GpgJl)

17 Republicans are waiting on permission from the leadership to go after Scankles corruption. Why?

http://bit.ly/1IWFbwL

Posted by: Vic at August 09, 2015 06:05 AM (GpgJl)

18 IBD excoriates the IRS and wants to know when some of these crooks are going to jail? They also don't think a whole of the wishy-washee Senate report. In short, they are saying the same thing I said a few days ago.

http://bit.ly/1KWXykD

Posted by: Vic at August 09, 2015 06:05 AM (GpgJl)

19 And they call Obama's Iran speech a "litany of lies".

http://bit.ly/1Mf821V

Posted by: Vic at August 09, 2015 06:05 AM (GpgJl)

20 Iran's military chief likes the Obama deal. So what does tat tell you?

http://fxn.ws/1MdrPx3

Posted by: Vic at August 09, 2015 06:06 AM (GpgJl)

21 The Daily Deals

http://amzn.to/1IAZIDB

That's it for today folks.

Posted by: Vic at August 09, 2015 06:06 AM (GpgJl)

22 20 Iran's military chief likes the Obama deal. So what does tat tell you?

http://fxn.ws/1MdrPx3

-----Obviously Iran would not have agreed to any deal that did not give them everything they wanted. They knew what they were doing and who they were dealing with.

The Trump thing is just a distraction to keep the focus off this.

Posted by: Chilling the most at August 09, 2015 06:11 AM (zW5rQ)

23 I wish Trump would start a real conservative TV news channel or newspaper and replace Fox.

Posted by: Chilling the most at August 09, 2015 06:15 AM (zW5rQ)

24 Trump is not likely to start a "conservative" anything since he is not a conservative.

Posted by: Vic at August 09, 2015 06:19 AM (GpgJl)

25 At least we get the advantage of having an appreciating investment.

(checks Zillow)

Crap.

Pop Quiz:

If a house sells for $300,000 to a buyer who takes out an 80%, 15 yr mortgage at a rate of 4% ... then what is that same house worth if those mortgage rates go to 12%??

You can use a calculator ... or just wait a few years to find out.

P.S. Holding a huge fixed rate mortgage is a hedge against this price movement - the largest mortgage you can hold.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 09, 2015 06:23 AM (MYSVz)

26
With all of Barky's "could have been his son"s running afoul of the law, are we free to question his parenting skills?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 09, 2015 06:26 AM (hACQf)

27
Last full day of vacationing in the north woods of Michigan. Today's the day we do tasks that my mother can no longer do herself, like rehang a mirror.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 09, 2015 06:31 AM (hACQf)

28 With all of Barky's "could have been his son"s running afoul of the law, are we free to question his parenting skills?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 09, 2015 06:26 AM (hACQf)

As far as i have been able to glean, Barky is devoid of all skills or talents of any sort.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 09, 2015 06:33 AM (MYSVz)

29 f a house sells for $300,000 to a buyer who takes
out an 80%, 15 yr mortgage at a rate of 4% ... then what is that same
house worth if those mortgage rates go to 12%??

You can use a calculator ... or just wait a few years to find out.

P.S. Holding a huge fixed rate mortgage is a hedge against this price movement - the largest mortgage you can hold.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 09, 2015 06:23 AM (MYSVz)

And down here in 30k/year range, buying any kind of house is not in the cards. Yay me, I just get to watch prices go up further out of sight.

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at August 09, 2015 06:35 AM (HalrA)

30 At best Trump might do a random conservative act.

Posted by: Skip at August 09, 2015 06:35 AM (R3Ycp)

31 As far as i have been able to glean, Barky is devoid of all skills or talents of any sort.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 09, 2015 06:33 AM (MYSVz)

Actually, he does have one remarkable gift. It's one of the most amazing talents ever observed in his field of mastery. He's a bringer of ruin.

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at August 09, 2015 06:36 AM (HalrA)

32 30
At best Trump might do a random conservative act.

Posted by: Skip at August 09, 2015 06:35 AM (R3Ycp)

That's more than we'll get out of Boehner, McConnell, Priebus et. al.

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at August 09, 2015 06:37 AM (HalrA)

33
Having spent nearly two weeks back in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, my longest stretch here since the mid-70s, I am convinced that if I lived here I would definitely own an ATV. There are places it is impossible to get to without one.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 09, 2015 06:37 AM (hACQf)

34 I've kinda thought Donald was a front for Clinton from the beginning- here's hoping it's backfiring and Cruz picks up his followers.

Posted by: whiskey tango at August 09, 2015 06:39 AM (SuMLu)

35 Actually, he does have one remarkable gift. It's one of the most amazing talents ever observed in his field of mastery. He's a bringer of ruin.

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at August 09, 2015 06:36 AM (HalrA)

Very true. Luckily for Barky, destruction is one of the only tasks that requires no skill to accomplish - so long as someone else is stupid enough to give one control. A 5 year old wouldn't have a problem running a nuclear aircraft carrier aground if someone was dumb enough to put the kid in control of it.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 09, 2015 06:40 AM (MYSVz)

36 As far as i have been able to glean, Barky is devoid of all skills or talents of any sort.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 09, 2015 06:33 AM

He must be damn good at something. After all, he has evaded impeachment for more than six years, has bankrupted the country, murdered many of its citizens (and lots of foreigners, too), place us and Israel in line for a nuclear wake-up call, crawled in front of our enemies, shown a bias for those who steal, kill and lie, and has in fact committed treason on more than one occasion.

What's he's "good" at, I don't know. But you don't build up an empire based on despotism and willful ignoring of the laws of man and G*d without having some mad skillz, do you?

Posted by: MrScribbler at August 09, 2015 06:40 AM (0atQl)

37 What's he's "good" at, I don't know. But you don't build up an empire based on despotism and willful ignoring of the laws of man and G*d without having some mad skillz, do you?

Posted by: MrScribbler at August 09, 2015 06:40 AM (0atQl)

Just look at those whose job it has been to stop him ...

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 09, 2015 06:43 AM (MYSVz)

38 Barky is basically a sockpuppet of former living Marxists

Posted by: Skip at August 09, 2015 06:49 AM (R3Ycp)

39 NFL pre-season!

Posted by: FireHorse at August 09, 2015 06:49 AM (UvL+Z)

40 anything happen?

looks like political season is upon us. seems to arrive earlier each time.

with that i bid you adieu.

Posted by: steinmetz at August 09, 2015 06:50 AM (CrYC8)

41 Ahh the wonders of home ownership. At least we get the advantage of having an appreciating investment.

(checks Zillow)

Crap.

You get to own a home. The closest I'll ever come to one is executor of the trust once dad shuffles off.

Posted by: Bill H at August 09, 2015 06:50 AM (Baojj)

42 36 Posted by: MrScribbler at August 09, 2015 06:40 AM (0atQl)

He's not good so much as Republicans are so shitty. And it looks like this thread is hanging up no matter what I use to view it.

Posted by: Vic at August 09, 2015 06:50 AM (GpgJl)

43 Yeah, Republicans have to get "permision" from their shitty leadership to attack Democrats. That is how shitty they are.

Posted by: Vic at August 09, 2015 06:54 AM (GpgJl)

44 And it looks like this thread is hanging up no matter what I use to view it.

Posted by: Vic at August 09, 2015 06:50 AM (GpgJl)

Get a decent script blocker so you can shut down whatever script it likely is that is holding up the load. I use HTTP Switchboard, which is awesome.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 09, 2015 06:54 AM (MYSVz)

45 The Navy is planning to arm sailors at its reserve centers now.

http://fxn.ws/1Ehcqpa
Posted by: Vic at August 09, 2015 06:02 AM (GpgJl)

So where does this leave the Lt Commander the Navy is seriously considering fucking over?

Posted by: Bill H at August 09, 2015 06:55 AM (Baojj)

46 44 Get a decent script blocker so you can shut down whatever script it likely is that is holding up the load. I use HTTP Switchboard, which is awesome.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 09, 2015 06:54 AM (MYSVz)

I've got noscript already. I think it is a memory thing. Ace's new ads are massive memory hogs and I do not have a lot of ram in this old machine.

Posted by: Vic at August 09, 2015 06:56 AM (GpgJl)

47 Good morning fine folks. My host took me to dinner last nite and it lasted till about 0130. Then the dude invites to a mountain bike ride at 0700. He said, "just a few kilometers, nothing grueling". We fucking rode for exactly 50km. Luckily it was along a river but it's humid as hell. Thought for sure i was gonna die. Now im cooling off in his pool. Diplomacy is hard work sometimes.

Posted by: fastfreefall at August 09, 2015 06:57 AM (46Hd0)

48 Just look at those whose job it has been to stop him ...

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 09, 2015 06:43 AM

Funny thing: I never thought the primary job of Congress, the military and law enforcement was to stop an out-of-control, America-hating, revenge-driven shitweasel from wreaking destruction on the country. That sounds too much like the plotline for a bad novel.

All I expected those people -- each of whom has sworn an oath -- to do was obey and uphold the laws and Constitution of the United States.

A simple thing, you would think People have been doing it for over 200 years, amirite? There's precedent, and even the Founders, who couldn't have conceived of all the changes that have happened since their time, built in safeguards to protect us from the enemy within. (And, though I will not advocate them here, they mandated punishments for the most severe violations of the law.)

If all were required to obey the laws, as was originally intended, we would not have just a rogue Preezy in prison. We'd have to lock up hundreds who aided and abetted him as well.

Posted by: MrScribbler at August 09, 2015 06:58 AM (0atQl)

49 Ace's new ads are massive memory hogs and I do not have a lot of ram in this old machine.

Posted by: Vic at August 09, 2015 06:56 AM (GpgJl)

I block ads by default, too. I would like to let them through for sites I like ... but it's just not worth the hassle.

Anyway, with scripts, I am blocking a bunch of google analytics and tag scripts and also some go.snoobi scripts and doubleclick ads and have no problems with the page, if this helps you at all.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 09, 2015 07:01 AM (MYSVz)

50 I am blocking a bunch of google analytics and tag
scripts and also some go.snoobi scripts and doubleclick ads and have no
problems with the page, if this helps you at all.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 09, 2015 07:01 AM

Could you perhaps elucidate?

I've heard of script-blockers, but don't see a particular tool in my browser that does so. Recommendation?

It's amazing I know that much. When youse guys start talking Geek, it might as well be Urdu AFAIC.

Posted by: MrScribbler at August 09, 2015 07:05 AM (0atQl)

51

DAY 1,006

457 to go (530 to Inauguration Day 2017)

Muzzies, Marxists, Maoists, Mau-Maus, MFM's, Moochelle, Mao-suits, McCain's, McConnell's, Mahdi megatons, machiavellian Mississippi mudslingers, McAuliffe's, Maduro's, MIRV's, Mexifornians, mewling mattress myth manufacturers, marriage maimers, menacing Mozillan 'mo's, Myrmidons, Mugwumps, Monrovian microbes, mutants, malcontents, malthusians, maniacs, malignant medical mandates, martial law, miscreants, microaggressors, minions, maladjusted masochistic multiculturalists, momzers, mamalukes, mooks, mopes, mariuoli, meeskeits, maricons, marauders, malodorous militants, menstruating mons veneri, malfunctioning Moron microsites and miscellaneous meshugas notwithstanding.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 09, 2015 07:05 AM (St6BJ)

52 Posted by: MrScribbler at August 09, 2015 06:58 AM (0atQl)

The Founders were nice enough to try to nip all these problems in the bud with the "natural born citizen" requirement ... but you remember how so many "conservatives" were aghast that anyone would even bring that up with respect to Barky's 2008 race. Even when Barky held the biggest campaign rally of all time - in a friggin foreign country ... for a bunch of friggin foreigners ... funded in part by a friggin foreign government (all totally illegal and the most repulsive political act ever) - it was impossible to get "Republicans" to put a stop to the criminality or, at the very least, want to get eligibility tested in court. It was clear back then what destruction was coming, given how so many were so happy to sweep aside all laws and all common sense and decency to let Barky do whatever popped into that 84 IQ pea-brain of his.

Oh well. Can't say that the state of things today is any surprise. People were warned at the very beginning.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 09, 2015 07:06 AM (MYSVz)

53 50 Could you perhaps elucidate?I've heard of script-blockers, but don't see a particular tool in my browser that does so. Recommendation?It's amazing I know that much. When youse guys start talking Geek, it might as well be Urdu AFAIC.
Posted by: MrScribbler at August 09, 2015 07:05 AM (0atQl)

Do a serarch on "noscript". It's free.

Posted by: Vic at August 09, 2015 07:07 AM (GpgJl)

54 Having spent nearly two weeks back in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, my longest stretch here since the mid-70s, I am convinced that if I lived here I would definitely own an ATV. There are places it is impossible to get to without one.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 09, 2015 06:37 AM (hACQf)
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Farthest north I've been is Sault Ste Marie. Where are you?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at August 09, 2015 07:08 AM (jR7Wy)

55 30 At best Trump might do a random conservative act.
Posted by: Skip at August 09, 2015 06:35 AM (R3Ycp)

He's doing it right now: blasting the MFM and the GOP-e. If he can continue to do that for most or all of the next 15 months, I'm down for that struggle.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 09, 2015 07:08 AM (St6BJ)

56 Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 09, 2015 07:05 AM (St6BJ)

Michael Savage calls Megan Kelly Mayham Kelly. Nathan might be a good addition to your words.

Posted by: Chilling the most at August 09, 2015 07:09 AM (zW5rQ)

57 Mayham not Nathan!

Posted by: Chilling the most at August 09, 2015 07:11 AM (zW5rQ)

58 I've heard of script-blockers, but don't see a particular tool in my browser that does so. Recommendation?

Posted by: MrScribbler at August 09, 2015 07:05 AM (0atQl)

It depends on what browser you are using. For the big browsers (I use Opera, for instance) you can look through for script-blocker plug-ins that you can download and activate. The most used script blocker is probably NoScript. It's pretty good and available on most browsers. What a script blocker does is disallow scripts to load from certain domains, which cuts off some nasty, intrusive, offensive or annoying scripts that may bother you or cause the page to take forever to load.

You should look for plug-ins for your browser and search for "script blocker". Also look to get an ad blocker (AdBlock Plus is good or Ghostery) and maybe a tracking blocker, too. You will get overlap with these programs but some sites have so much crap loading with them that you need to cover

It's really not as complicated as it sounds and it makes surfing the net so much easier and more pleasant. Sometimes you DO get problems with sites that require log-ins ... and you have to just mess around or turn off your blockers for that site, but generally it's all pretty easy.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 09, 2015 07:12 AM (MYSVz)

59 57 Mayham not Nathan!
Posted by: Chilling the most at August 09, 2015 07:11 AM (zW5rQ)

Momma Megan Mayhem?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 09, 2015 07:12 AM (St6BJ)

60 Oh well. Can't say that the state of things today is any surprise. People were warned at the very beginning.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 09, 2015 07:06 AM

Funny you should mention 2008. I well remember the uproar here and elsewhere when a few of us dared to question Choom Boy's eligibility for office. We were told in no uncertain terms that "going there" was Taboo.

Ditto when a few of us -- remarkably, some of the same people -- began to suggest that, based on his incessant violations of the law, the nation would be best served by impeaching the Mocha Messiah.

Now, some of those same people who admonished us harshly for being Unfair and Engaging in Bad Optics are howling for Trump's head, and extending their own pathetic Fairness Doctrine to a member of the media who deserves it only slightly more than President Historic First�.

Makes me wonder whose side those guardians of Choom Boy's honor were on in the first place....

Posted by: MrScribbler at August 09, 2015 07:13 AM (0atQl)

61 >>Huma gets to fall on her sword for Scankles' illegal activity. http://fxn.ws/1DEOwZC

No way does Hillary let Huma take the fall.
She's been her closest aide for nearly 20 years , so not only is Hillary very dependent on her, Huma surely has enough on Hillary to be a threat.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 09, 2015 07:14 AM (NOIQH)

62 Did anything happen this weekend?

Ace came by for a visit yesterday.

We grilled out a lot so far. Enjoying the beautiful weather.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at August 09, 2015 07:14 AM (qCMvj)

63

Just now listening to Mark Levins 8/7 podcast.

This is why he's called The Great One.

http://www.marklevinshow.com/audio-rewind/

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at August 09, 2015 07:15 AM (qCMvj)

64 Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 09, 2015 07:06 AM (MYSVz)
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Obama's site was run by the ACORN CEO, if I recall, and based outside the U.S. It could redirect viewers (mostly foreign) to his official campaign site where they could make donations do to lack of oversight on internet contributions.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at August 09, 2015 07:16 AM (jR7Wy)

65
Kids, the birth certificate issue was not about him lying about being American. He was lying about being Kenyan.

A stoned Hawaiian pampered schvartze is a much less attractive candidate to Harvard and Columbia than a real, honest to goodness Kenyan. Especially if said Hawaiian's grades can't even pass muster with a bell curve and a quota.

But, at this point . . .

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 09, 2015 07:16 AM (St6BJ)

66 63 Posted by: artisanal 'ette at August 09, 2015 07:15 AM (qCMvj)

Yeah, Friday was good, but the one from earlier in the week or maybe late last week where he utterly disemboweled Yertle McCocksickle is one for the ages.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 09, 2015 07:17 AM (St6BJ)

67 He's doing it right now: blasting the MFM and the GOP-e. If he can continue to do that for most or all of the next 15 months, I'm down for that struggle.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 09, 2015 07:08 AM (St6BJ)

Likewise. The Democrats fear him, the Media hates him, and the Republican Establishment dreads him. All the right people hate him, so I'm willing to let him make a few more mistakes before I give up. Who else do we have that gets this much hate from all of the assholes we're fighting? Nobody, that's who. Cruz is good, but he's a distant second, and I worry that he's bent ever since his inexplicable support for TPP.

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at August 09, 2015 07:17 AM (HalrA)

68 "When Jesus fails your expectations"

http://tinyurl.com/qxped2y

When God seems the most distant is the time to throw yourself into His arms.

Have a blessed day, everyone. Spend time with people you like and love doing things you enjoy.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 09, 2015 07:18 AM (OSs/l)

69

All the "misogynist" stuff exploding from past Erick Erickson and Megyn Kelly statements.

Geez.

Hypocrisy.

thegatewaypundit has a nice rundown

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at August 09, 2015 07:19 AM (qCMvj)

70 Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at August 09, 2015 07:16 AM (jR7Wy)

Yep. Barky campaign donation web page had the AVS intentionally turned off (it is default ON and everyone leaves it on because they don't want ridiculous charge-backs) so that barky's credit card donations could be totally info free and allow gift cards for anonymous donations. All totally illegal, of course. Pam Geller started it all out by making a donation to Barky's campaign under the name John Galt and wrote about it. After that, lots of "conservative" blogs had threads where people were donating under all manner of name - Joseph Stalin, Bugs Bunny, ... and they were going through. That was enough to have Barky thrown out of the race and arrested. Campaign finance crimes are generally pretty serious. But, again, luckily for Barky he was running against a guy who, evidently, had no interest in campaign finance, at all. McShame, it turned out, lost all interest in campaign finance after McShame-Feingold and was happy to let Barky commit finance crimes in the open. What a guy!

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 09, 2015 07:21 AM (MYSVz)

71 Have a blessed day, everyone. Spend time with people you like and love doing things you enjoy.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 09, 2015 07:18 AM (OSs/l)

That's a very true post. When God seems distant, usually it's not because He's the one moving away. Have a blessed day as well.

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at August 09, 2015 07:23 AM (HalrA)

72 Posted by: artisanal 'ette at August 09, 2015 07:15 AM (qCMvj)
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After reading Levin first (Liberty and Tyranny, the Liberty Amendments) with his measured, sensible prose, it's funny to listen to his cranky uncle voice on the webs.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at August 09, 2015 07:23 AM (jR7Wy)

73 Buenos domingo.....

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 09, 2015 07:23 AM (dxw2/)

74 Mark Steyn, always a fun read

Party Pooper

http://www.steynonline.com/7094/party-pooper

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at August 09, 2015 07:24 AM (qCMvj)

75 67 Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at August 09, 2015 07:17 AM (HalrA)

Recall a few weeks ago a rather lengthy pow-wow between Cruz and Trump right here in Hymietown.

We have 15 months to go. It's a long way and the last debate will be old news within a news cycle or so. The thing about Trump, from my perspective is, he has tapped into a raging torrent of justly angered Americans who will seemingly support him no matter what he says/does, whether it's a real lollapalooza of a statement or twisted by the MFM. Plus, he's been in the public eye for decades, either loved or hated.

It would have been great if a Cruz, Walker, whomever could have been the one to harness "the force" but for now, I'm content to watch him kick over the tables and slap some people around.

It has a salutary effect, I think.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 09, 2015 07:24 AM (St6BJ)

76 Kids, the birth certificate issue was not about him lying about being American. He was lying about being Kenyan.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 09, 2015 07:16 AM

JJ, to me the whole thing was simpler than that: it was about the public knowing the truth about Choom Boy. Was he eligible to be President? Was he ineligible? We (the horrible, terrible, no-good racist creeps who dared question His Holiness) wanted clarity. No more.

It is never bad to have the real, honest truth brought out. If our Little Tan God had the right pedigree to satisfy the Constitution, end of discussion. You don't offer "proof" made from evasions, jokes and a "document" that looked as phony as the fake IDs one can buy from a street vendor.

Yeah, I see damn near everything relating to the current Preezy as a black and white issue. Just not the "black and white issue" his enablers accuse me of.

Posted by: MrScribbler at August 09, 2015 07:25 AM (0atQl)

77 It has a salutary effect, I think.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 09, 2015 07:24 AM (St6BJ)

Yeah, me too. As I've said before, he's not the candidate we wanted, but he's the candidate we needed. He's been a bull in the media's china shop, and, well... the bull ain't the one that takes the damage.

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at August 09, 2015 07:27 AM (HalrA)

78 77 Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at August 09, 2015 07:27 AM (HalrA)

If - and that is a YOOOJ "if" - he does win the nomination, then all bets are off. Should that possibility occur and - even more "yooojerer" - he should actually be elected president, I would hope and pray he uses his business sense to surround himself with people like Cruz, Sessions, Mike Lee, etc. et al.

But for now, keep dumping Tootsie Rolls in the mikvah.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 09, 2015 07:29 AM (St6BJ)

79 We will see today whether or not Fox News and the MFM will continue to shun Trump.

Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at August 09, 2015 07:33 AM (1ijHg)

80 76 Posted by: MrScribbler at August 09, 2015 07:25 AM (0atQl)

If Reverend Wright and Frank Marshall Davis didn't do anything, nothing would. Especially since the MFM covered up for him all the way. Plus, Bush! And McStains was not exactly a stunner.

Besides, we had at least 16-24 years of conservatism being bled from the GOP platform and mission (if it was ever there to begin with) and the squandering of the Reagan legacy.

So, no wonder he won. And, schvartze.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 09, 2015 07:33 AM (St6BJ)

81
20 years, not 24.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 09, 2015 07:34 AM (St6BJ)

82

Erickson's statements.

Trump Statement Calls Erickson A 'Deviant' For Criticism Over Megyn Kelly Remarks

"By the way, the guy (Erick Erickson) who made the decision about RedState called Supreme Court Justice David Souter a 'goat [expletive] child molester' and First Lady Michelle Obama a 'Marxist Harpy.' He was forced to make a humbling apology."

Marxist Harpy sounds about right...

thedailycaller

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at August 09, 2015 07:34 AM (qCMvj)

83 sitting here nodding off again.

Posted by: Vic at August 09, 2015 07:36 AM (GpgJl)

84 But for now, keep dumping Tootsie Rolls in the mikvah.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 09, 2015 07:29 AM

So what happens if, by some weird old trick, Trump does become President?

At worst, I'm guessing he spends most of his early days in office rescinding Choom Boy's executive orders, tossing "treaties" in the ashcan, and trying to stabilize the economy so it looks like a better place for investment.

All the while, Congress -- no matter which party wins -- will be acting like the rest of the "Republican" candidates are now: they'll be petulant, whiny, red-faced children, jumping up and down and crying for their mommies, 'cause Trump doesn't love them like Choom Boy did.

In short, things will be stagnant but, for those who love the country, more comfortable.

Is that so bad? Nope.

Posted by: MrScribbler at August 09, 2015 07:36 AM (0atQl)

85 We will see today whether or not Fox News and the MFM will continue to shun Trump.
Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at August 09, 2015 07:33 AM (1ijHg)

They are now handing over "ratings" to the other channels if they don't invite him on, and he runs through the other networks today.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at August 09, 2015 07:36 AM (qCMvj)

86 79 We will see today whether or not Fox News and the MFM will continue to shun Trump.
Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at August 09, 2015 07:33 AM (1ijHg)

Cut the cable 3 years ago, and I never watched Sunday shows anyway. But it will be very interesting to see Chris Wallace.

I'd wager his dentures will be stained green with all the bile gurgling up.

Meh. Stooge.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 09, 2015 07:36 AM (St6BJ)

87 After reading Levin first (Liberty and Tyranny, the Liberty Amendments) with his measured, sensible prose, it's funny to listen to his cranky uncle voice on the webs.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at August 09, 2015 07:23 AM (jR7Wy)

I've only read Liberty & Tyranny, and had to read it twice to absorb it. He's got a new one, not even sure what it is about.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at August 09, 2015 07:39 AM (qCMvj)

88 84 Is that so bad? Nope.
Posted by: MrScribbler at August 09, 2015 07:36 AM (0atQl)

Oh, I totally agree. At least, for a change with Trump and a couple of others, I will actually be voting FOR a candidate for the first time in ages.

The thought of Bolton or West as Sec Def makes me drool.

Speaking of Allen West, his speech at the impromptu anti-Iran rally the other week was epic. Now THAT guy is presidential.

**sigh**

peut-etre "vice presidential???"

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 09, 2015 07:39 AM (St6BJ)

89 Best Qualified: Cruz

Most Talented: Carson

Most Entertaining: Trump

Most Likely to Elucidate a Bowel Movement: Jeb

Hottest: Carly

Most Unlikeable: Kasich

Gayest: Rubio

Forgotten: Pataki, Hukafatt, Walker, Nador, Rand Et Al.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 09, 2015 07:39 AM (JG47A)

90
Cut the cable 3 years ago, and I never watched Sunday shows anyway. But it will be very interesting to see Chris Wallace.

I'd wager his dentures will be stained green with all the bile gurgling up.

Meh. Stooge.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 09, 2015 07:36 AM (St6BJ)

I never watch them either. Ever. My weekends are too precious (once my husband gets up, lol).

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at August 09, 2015 07:40 AM (qCMvj)

91 Anything happen this weekend?

Odd that you should ask. The semi annual field mice invasion has begun. Border patrol agents have been overrun and civilians are overwhelmed just clearing and resetting baited traps.

I blame the GOP for failing to adequately fund field mice control agents. Without federal funding, we are in a desperate struggle to repel the manancial suicide bombers. If Senator McCain would just visit the battlefield he would see the desperate need our meager forces have for new weapons and advanced training. Without new weapons, this war is lost.

Posted by: Ned Corheight at August 09, 2015 07:40 AM (bW5rU)

92 87 I've only read Liberty & Tyranny, and had to read it twice to absorb it. He's got a new one, not even sure what it is about.
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at August 09, 2015 07:39 AM (qCMvj)

"Ameritopia" is, sadly, prescient to what is happening to the country now.

The new one, "Plunder and Deceit" is about how the Leviathan is robbing future generations of their legacy, and using that money to enslave us in the here and now. Can't wait to get one.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 09, 2015 07:41 AM (St6BJ)

93 The new one, "Plunder and Deceit" is about how the Leviathan is robbing future generations of their legacy, and using that money to enslave us in the here and now. Can't wait to get one.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 09, 2015 07:41 AM (St6BJ)

Hmmm. I might purchase that new one. It will be depressing though.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at August 09, 2015 07:42 AM (qCMvj)

94 89 Forgotten: Pataki, Hukafatt, Walker, Nador, Rand Et Al.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 09, 2015 07:39 AM (JG47A)

Who's "Nador?" Is that an evil troll or a mashup of Jim Nabors and Ralph Nader?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 09, 2015 07:42 AM (St6BJ)

95
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at August 09, 2015 07:08 AM (jR7Wy)

Marquette (my former home town).

We just spent a week in Kearsarge, Copper Harbor and points in between looking for minerals in old copper mine dumps and on the beaches of the Keweenaw Peninsula.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 09, 2015 07:42 AM (UiGQV)

96 35 A 5 year old wouldn't have a problem running a nuclear aircraft carrier aground if someone was dumb enough to put the kid in control of it.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 09, 2015 06:40 AM (MYSVz)

Little Joey Biden gasps, stars in his eyes... Yes, this would be lots better than a train.

Posted by: Agent J at August 09, 2015 07:42 AM (ueOgE)

97

heh. Husband's up. Soccer's on.

Time for breakfast!

Have a good one.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at August 09, 2015 07:43 AM (qCMvj)

98 Trump is basically the overturning of the money changers tables and we all know what happened to that guy.

So I think if Trump can smarten up and level up his game and rhetoric he could survive if not then he is going to be pecked and goaded into going a bridge too far.

As they say, we shall see.

Posted by: Kreplach at August 09, 2015 07:43 AM (JbETL)

99 If they can shun a billionaire for speaking salty language, you can damn well bet they'll shun you.

Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at August 09, 2015 07:46 AM (yrHD6)

100 Speaking of Allen West, his speech at the impromptu anti-Iran rally the other week was epic. Now THAT guy is presidential.
**sigh**
peut-etre "vice presidential???"

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 09, 2015 07:39 AM

West is a bit of a puzzle to me. Clearly, dude has the Fire in His Belly, but it seems to flicker out at times.

Posted by: MrScribbler at August 09, 2015 07:46 AM (0atQl)

101 I've only read Liberty & Tyranny, and had to read it twice to absorb it. He's got a new one, not even sure what it is about.

It's called Plunder and Deceit. Got it for Dad for his birthday in a few days.

Posted by: Infidel at August 09, 2015 07:48 AM (D9KIL)

102 100 West is a bit of a puzzle to me. Clearly, dude has the Fire in His Belly, but it seems to flicker out at times.
Posted by: MrScribbler at August 09, 2015 07:46 AM (0atQl)

Well, he hasn't been in the public eye all that much and sadly got gerrymandered out of office.

But I think he is solid. If you watch him speak, it's completely off-the-cuff and passionate, so he believes what he says. Really a mensch.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 09, 2015 07:50 AM (St6BJ)

103 4 Black agitators take over a Bernie Sanders rally in Seattle. I hope liberals like the shit sandwich they created.

http://fxn.ws/1IWkVeE

Posted by: Vic at August 09, 2015 06:01 AM (GpgJl)

I saw this before going to bed last night.

It is to laugh.

They actually called the crowd white supremacist liberals when they expressed in interest in hearing Bernie speak.

I just can't get past the idea that if someone on our side wanted to make this worse, it wouldn't be that difficult.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at August 09, 2015 07:50 AM (oFCZn)

104 We just spent a week in Kearsarge, Copper Harbor and points in between looking for minerals in old copper mine dumps and on the beaches of the Keweenaw Peninsula.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 09, 2015 07:42 AM (UiGQV)
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Lucky you! One of these days I'm going to take an extended vacation up north and see the Keweenaw Pen, Isle Royale, and Beaver Island, then head east to Manitoulin Island.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at August 09, 2015 07:52 AM (jR7Wy)

105 If they can shun a billionaire for speaking salty language, you can damn well bet they'll shun you.

Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at August 09, 2015 07:46 AM

Yes. "They" can do without your puny, pathetic little vote, too.

It's only one.

But when that one puny, pathetic vote is multiplied by millions, the Rinse Priuses, Bitch McConnels and the rest of their incompetent clique had better take notice.

Not that they will....

Posted by: MrScribbler at August 09, 2015 07:52 AM (0atQl)

106 Who's "Nador?" Is that an evil troll or a mashup of Jim Nabors and Ralph Nader?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 09, 2015 07:42 AM (St6BJ)

I think evil mashup. Looks like he smells like an anchovy, but has some talent. Hold on a minute, that's Bruce Springsteen....

Posted by: Bill H at August 09, 2015 07:52 AM (Baojj)

107 99 If they can shun a billionaire for speaking salty language, you can damn well bet they'll shun you.
Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at August 09, 2015 07:46 AM (yrHD6)

Interesting conundrum for the MFM.

Trump = ratings.
MFM loves ratings.
MFM hates Trump.

It's a tautology, wrapped in an ordered pair, inside an hypotenuse.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 09, 2015 07:53 AM (St6BJ)

108 @103

Oh it's going to get worse.

I can see it now all of the GOP candidates events are going to be invaded by La Raza types and the Donk events are going to be invaded by the black loves matters crowd.

So we have La Raza reconquistas and black radicals to look forward to for the next year and change.

Oh and the SCOAMF interjecting himself into the campaign.

Wonderful.

Posted by: Kreplach at August 09, 2015 07:55 AM (JbETL)

109 68 Thank you for this, FenelonSpoke.

May your sunny blessings to us return four-fold on you and yours.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 09, 2015 07:55 AM (u82oZ)

110 103 Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at August 09, 2015 07:50 AM (oFCZn)

Re Bernie Sanders vs black agitators: Somewhere in Heaven, Paddy Chayefsky is taking notes. Actually, he's probably saying "I told you!"

For that reference, see the community leaders' meeting scene in "The Hospital" and the contract negotiating scene with the great Ahmed Khan scene in "Network."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 09, 2015 07:56 AM (St6BJ)

111 But I think he is solid. If you watch him speak, it's completely off-the-cuff and passionate, so he believes what he says. Really a mensch.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 09, 2015 07:50 AM (St6BJ)
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I would LOVE West as president/veep. A student of history as well as a man of action.

And an advocate and fan of torture, if Wikipedia is to be believed.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at August 09, 2015 07:56 AM (jR7Wy)

112 But I think he is solid. If you watch him speak,
it's completely off-the-cuff and passionate, so he believes what he
says. Really a mensch.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 09, 2015 07:50 AM

Indeed. IMO, he's a Real John Kerry, the authentic version of the pathetic, lying, traitorous sack of shit whom Choom Boy picked to be SoS.

Would like to get a chance to cast a vote for him some day.

Posted by: MrScribbler at August 09, 2015 07:56 AM (0atQl)

113 MoDo writes an article about The Donald and mentions a thing that I knew about but quickly forgot:

The whole debate thing totally buried John Stewart's farewell show.

Barely talked about.

I'll bet that egomaniac cried about it.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at August 09, 2015 07:57 AM (oFCZn)

114 West is amazing to listen as he easily uses historical examples from different periods to make his points. Fantastic

Posted by: fastfreefall at August 09, 2015 07:57 AM (46Hd0)

115 And an advocate and fan of torture, if Wikipedia is to be believed.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at August 09, 2015 07:56 AM (jR7Wy)

Excellence. We just found our Secretary of Health and Human services.

Posted by: Bill H at August 09, 2015 07:58 AM (Baojj)

116 Re Bernie Sanders vs black agitators: Somewhere in Heaven, Paddy Chayefsky is taking notes. Actually, he's probably saying "I told you!"

For that reference, see the community leaders' meeting scene in "The Hospital" and the contract negotiating scene with the great Ahmed Khan scene in "Network."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 09, 2015 07:56 AM (St6BJ)
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Or his Oscar comeback to Ms. Redgrave's glassy-eyed acceptance speech praising Palestine and dissing Israel.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at August 09, 2015 07:58 AM (jR7Wy)

117
Steyn:

The GOP thinks the issue is Trump; much of the base thinks the issue is the GOP.

Exactly.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 09, 2015 07:58 AM (UiGQV)

118 112 Would like to get a chance to cast a vote for him some day.
Posted by: MrScribbler at August 09, 2015 07:56 AM (0atQl)

"You can say that twice!"

General Garcia, from "The In-Laws."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 09, 2015 07:58 AM (St6BJ)

119 When Col West last approached "the public eye," you may recall Other Side was lining up binders-ful of women to claim some impropriety or other. Should he stick his head up, they'll be back. It's the go-to for liberals dealing with actual African Americans: you cannot be mild-mannered enough to escape their mandingo stallion stereotype. Cosby Syndrome. Just watch, they'll try it on Carson if he's around long enough.

Why none of this stuck to the current half-black Occupant is left as an exercise for the reader. There are several possible explanations, equally disgusting.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at August 09, 2015 07:59 AM (xq1UY)

120 116 Or his Oscar comeback to Ms. Redgrave's glassy-eyed acceptance speech praising Palestine and dissing Israel.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at August 09, 2015 07:58 AM (jR7Wy)

He was on the same trajectory at that point in his life as David Mamet and David Horowitz. Chayefsky was my biggest influence as a writer. Died way too young.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 09, 2015 08:00 AM (St6BJ)

121 There must be some reason no one would believe zero is a horndog.

Posted by: freaked at August 09, 2015 08:03 AM (BO/km)

122 Why none of this stuck to the current half-black
Occupant is left as an exercise for the reader. There are several
possible explanations, equally disgusting. Posted by: Stringer Davis at August 09, 2015 07:59 AM

That was part of the discussion -- though implied, not explicit, and most people tiptoes around it on little cat feet -- in a thread yesterday.

And in truth it has been applied to Choom Boy, but in a she's-asking-for-it-so-it's-okay way: remember the '08 campaign when the female MFMers (and probably a few of the males) were rhapsodizing over the Mocha Messiah's tight Levi's?

To be blunt and crude about it, there probably wasn't a dry cooter on that plane.

Posted by: MrScribbler at August 09, 2015 08:05 AM (0atQl)

123 Would you be a horndog if you were married to the wookie? Bleck.

Posted by: Infidel at August 09, 2015 08:05 AM (D9KIL)

124 Zillow has my house priced at sitting on a quarter acre with the east end hanging off. Not even close. Maybe I can show this to the tax assessor. No. I would be hooted out of there. Where do Zillowers get this stuff?

Posted by: Lester at August 09, 2015 08:06 AM (2UPXV)

125 Trump may be the "hope and change" the burn-it-down crowd has been waiting for. If the GOPe continues to "other" Trump, to the point where he can ascribe a failure to win the nomination as being cheated, a lot of his supporters will respond with a big F-You to the GOP on election day, and the Dems will win again. Another 8 years of Dem rule ought to do the trick, especially if it's Warren.

It's terribly ironic that as I was reading the comments this morning, it struck me that if we could elect Bill Clinton again, it would be like a centrist picnic compared to these last 7 years of America-hating hell we've had to live through. At least Clinton was happy to let the country continue to live, as long as he got enough sex. (Hillary's a different matter.)

Posted by: Agent J at August 09, 2015 08:06 AM (ueOgE)

126 No one, absolutely no one, has done what Trump has done. At least one of the flavor of the month so-called "conservatives" should have done "this" in 2012. Those who call themselves conservative really need to take a close look. The precious way that brand is worn sometimes feels almost un-American. We don't need Trump to develop a "conservative news channel" (do you realize exactly how that sounds?); we need Trump to fund a new channel. We need a Fourth Estate or our rep-dem is cooked. We need something like Ace of Spades (not so personally -- and creatively -- driven) on the large scale. If we had anything like investigative journalism, no one would like the "bastards" (us and them -- everyone is corruptible, even without knowing it). Everyone would get grilled.

I have my doubts about Trump; but I have despair about changes coming from anyone who has been touched by politics. Fool me once.....Trump is MainStreet; you and I are MainStreet. It is global Wall Street that is permitting TheBigO to pull any chain he chooses; they elected him in the first place. Untouchable because of his "color", even with slave-owning ancestors.

I will follow anyone who will burn it down (out the corrupt political plutocrats and cut off the CronyCorp CofCrats) or who has a whiff of a chance to do so. Not even Cruz, who has done his anti-conservative time like all of them when push comes to shove, can do it or has the will to do it -- even though he seems to have more of it than most. Most importantly of all, "not even Cruz" has the funding to do it. If you don't go Donald at this time, you get BooshTheThird. It is all set up for this outcome. See conservativetreehouse.c. I see no evidence, absolutely no evidence, to prove sundance wrong. We have been had over and over and over again. No more.

Posted by: pyromancer76 at August 09, 2015 08:06 AM (sPfLU)

127 mandingo stallion
----

LOVE. This needs to be the name of a cocktail. Something with Fireball and black vodka.

**rummages around likker cabinet**

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at August 09, 2015 08:06 AM (jR7Wy)

128 He was on the same trajectory at that point in his life as David Mamet and David Horowitz. Chayefsky was my biggest influence as a writer. Died way too young.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 09, 2015 08:00 AM (St6BJ)

Network is my favorite film and has been since I saw it for the first time in the early 1990s.

He did die way too young. In my mind he would've been bigger than even the two you cite.

That Ned Beatty scene my God. Prophetic.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at August 09, 2015 08:09 AM (oFCZn)

129 If I crashed my car into a car dealership and ran amok and the cops shot me after being ordered to lay down would anyone beside my immediate friends and family care? Do you think the FBI would get involved?

What if I was an Eskimo? Or just Canadian? How about an African Canadian?

Posted by: freaked at August 09, 2015 08:10 AM (BO/km)

130 Speaking of real estate, the Aussies are cracking down on the Chinese buying up their housing and driving up the prices. Illegally buying it up of course. http://preview.tinyurl.com/okqr96y

Posted by: Lester at August 09, 2015 08:10 AM (2UPXV)

131 128 Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at August 09, 2015 08:09 AM (oFCZn)

By trajectory, I was referring to his politics. But, he was a brilliant writer.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 09, 2015 08:11 AM (St6BJ)

132 Trump is the most electable candidate in the race. That's why the GOP is scared.

Posted by: @votermom at August 09, 2015 08:13 AM (cbfNE)

133 Thinking about it though with all the dummies and their dummy low brow dummyness there might not be enough people to appreciate Chayefsky's arch wit and intelligent writing.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at August 09, 2015 08:14 AM (oFCZn)

134 Morning, Glories!

Checking in on a Sunday morning. Things moving slowly?

Aren't you glad we have Top Men in the Environmental Pollution Agency?

Where's the coffee?

Posted by: mindful webworker - aloha, y'all at August 09, 2015 08:14 AM (EAA/O)

135 125 At least Clinton was happy to let the country continue to live, as long as he got enough sex. (Hillary's a different matter.)

Posted by: Agent J at August 09, 2015 08:06 AM (ueOgE)

Don't be fooled by the MFM lies about Clinton. He was just as liberal as the rest of them. His so-called triangulation was actually the Gingrich congress reining him in. And the RNCe hated Gingrich and finally destroyed him and the Party has never recovered since.

Posted by: Vic at August 09, 2015 08:15 AM (GpgJl)

136 What's he's "good" at, I don't know. But you don't build up an empire
based on despotism and willful ignoring of the laws of man and G*d
without having some mad skillz, do you?

--

What you say is all true. No arguing that. However, if it weren't for the equally guilty and thoroughly corrupt MFM, coupled with the spineless GOPe, his destruction wouldn't have been nearly as great. He would not have been nearly as successful if he didn't have the wave of complicity in his corner.

Saw my first Ted Cruz yard sign and first Trump bumper sticker yesterday whilst driving around upstate SC.

Posted by: Lady in Black....sigh at August 09, 2015 08:16 AM (hf/Jq)

137 Posted by: Lester at August 09, 2015 08:10 AM (2UPXV)
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Gotta get that sweet graft money out of the country before the reform office goons take you down!

Didn't the Chinese drive up the price of real estate in Vancouver until it was unaffordable to the locals?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at August 09, 2015 08:19 AM (jR7Wy)

138 Where's the coffee?

Posted by: mindful webworker - aloha, y'all at August 09, 2015 08:14 AM (EAA/O)

*raises cup*

Starting my second one. Slowly, things are starting to come into focus.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at August 09, 2015 08:19 AM (oFCZn)

139 The RNCe think they have finally contained Trump and can now push their RINO candidates.

Take $5 out of petty cash, Trumpetdaddy.

Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at August 09, 2015 08:21 AM (oVJmc)

140 I saw part of the second debate at a community center with some of my fellow conservatives. I will say the debate was for ratings, not information transfer. Our media is an agitprop, propaganda and memory hole industry.

I'm beyond frustrated with the entire process. I do not believe that elections can fix the problems. This is too much like the typical third-world "one person, one vote, one time" system. The illegals invading the country (an infantry division worth every month) are being bribed with our money to vote Democratic. Add to that the increasingly sophisticated cheating from the last two elections and I expect the Democrats to sweep into most federal offices, including the President and VP.

An organization that wants to win, as opposed to "GOPe failure theater" and raking in donations, would have a unity ticket with lesser lights as Cabinet choices. This is candidate ego over country improvement.

Any common sense from Trump could be lost in the protracted infantilism of the soi-disant Washingtom demimonde. He needs to have effective staff members.

The Republic is gone, replaced with a weird Chamber of Commerce / liberal fascist proto-police state. Not that it matters. He is a sign of great voter anger that will be disregarded by the insiders in control.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 09, 2015 08:21 AM (u82oZ)

141 132 Trump is the most electable candidate in the race. That's why the GOP is scared.
Posted by: @votermom at August 09, 2015 08:13 AM (cbfNE)

"Electable." We do not think it means what you think it means!

- - The GOP-e

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 09, 2015 08:21 AM (St6BJ)

142 140 Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 09, 2015 08:21 AM (u82oZ)

DING! Give that man a kewpie doll!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 09, 2015 08:22 AM (St6BJ)

143 138 Where's the coffee?

Posted by: mindful webworker - aloha, y'all at August 09, 2015 08:14 AM (EAA/O)

*raises cup*

Starting my second one. Slowly, things are starting to come into focus.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at August 09, 2015 08:19 AM (oFCZn)
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Third cup. Moving slow today for some reason.

Seeing the new Meryl Streep movie in a bit.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at August 09, 2015 08:22 AM (jR7Wy)

144 132 Trump is the most electable candidate in the race. That's why the GOP is scared.

Posted by: @votermom at August 09, 2015 08:13 AM (cbfNE)

I don't know about that. I need to hear some concrete ideas.

Saying the wall is going up and Mexico will pay for it sounds great, but how is that going to work exactly?

I gotta say if that did happen Trump is probably the guy that could make it happen, but I'd like to hear more about it.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at August 09, 2015 08:23 AM (oFCZn)

145 122 To be blunt and crude about it, there probably wasn't a dry cooter on that plane.
Posted by: MrScribbler at August 09, 2015 08:05 AM (0atQl)

Isn't Dry Cooter Ry Cooder's real name?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 09, 2015 08:23 AM (St6BJ)

146 142, Thanks J.J. It means a lot coming from you. We might as well say the truth as we see it.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 09, 2015 08:24 AM (u82oZ)

147 Saying the wall is going up and Mexico will pay for it sounds great, but how is that going to work exactly?

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at August 09, 2015 08:23 AM (oFCZn)
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Coin-operated turnstyles.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at August 09, 2015 08:24 AM (jR7Wy)

148 Seeing the new Meryl Streep movie in a bit.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at August 09, 2015 08:22 AM (jR7Wy)

You'll have to let us know how it is. The girlfriend wants to see a movie and I'm probably going to have to cave and see something she wants. If this one is good maybe it'll be the one. Streep is great when she's on fire.

I actually had to watch The Bridges of Madison County a few years ago and was groaning going in, but she really nailed that one down big time.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at August 09, 2015 08:25 AM (oFCZn)

149 They actually called the crowd white supremacist liberals when they expressed in interest in hearing Bernie speak.

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If they could only put 2 + 2 together and realize the Left are the supremacists, it would be quite interesting. It's the Left (and all its incarnations) that hold black people to a low standard, it's the Left that keeps blacks firmly on the so-called "plantation" by basically convincing them they're nothing, it's the Left that will move Heaven and Earth to make sure blacks are aborted at high rates. If only they could connect the dots.

But that will never happen.

Posted by: Lady in Black....sigh at August 09, 2015 08:27 AM (hf/Jq)

150 Coin-operated turnstyles.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at August 09, 2015 08:24 AM (jR7Wy)

I was hoping for those exploding neck collars from The Running Man.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at August 09, 2015 08:27 AM (oFCZn)

151 Re Bernie Sanders vs black agitators.

"In the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding the tiger, ended up inside..." - John F. Kennedy

Posted by: Raspail at August 09, 2015 08:29 AM (uSM1W)

152 Chicago: 12 shot including 2 children.
Baltimore: nothing reported

Black Children Lives Matter! Need to get Bernie Sanders on this right away, since he is the new champion of the Black Lives Matter movement. Bernie has seen the light, the crusade for votes for Bernie is in the black protests.

Posted by: Colin at August 09, 2015 08:29 AM (+ZK9k)

153 Coin-operated turnstyles.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at August 09, 2015 08:24 AM (jR7Wy)

I am so glad I swallowed my coffee before reading that!

Posted by: @votermom at August 09, 2015 08:31 AM (cbfNE)

154 Mass murder Sunday:

5 kids 3 adults dead in one house in Houston

Vermont woman kills 4

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at August 09, 2015 08:33 AM (oFCZn)

155 Sefton, remember to avoid the sewers.

Exploding collars? Well as long as they are voter initiated ones.

All Hail Eris, no wonder you looking in the booze closet so early... that Meryl Streep movie? Eeekkk..... From Sophie's Choice to that....

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 09, 2015 08:33 AM (JKTqi)

156 148 I actually had to watch The Bridges of Madison County a few years ago and was groaning going in, but she really nailed that one down big time.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at August 09, 2015 08:25 AM (oFCZn)

Streep is a major libbo, but the broad has some serious acting chops.

As an aside, many here may not know that she was the fiance of the late John Cazale, better known as Fredo Corleone.

Hell of an actor. Only appeared in 5 films "Godfather" "The Conversation," "Godfather 2," "Dog Day Afternoon" and "The Deer Hunter."

He was dying of cancer by the time of the last one and passed away not long after it was in the can.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 09, 2015 08:34 AM (St6BJ)

157
Gayest: Rubio

Well!

Posted by: L. Graham at August 09, 2015 08:35 AM (oVJmc)

158 151 Re Bernie Sanders vs black agitators.

"In the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding the tiger, ended up inside..." - John F. Kennedy
Posted by: Raspail at August 09, 2015 08:29 AM (uSM1W)

Kennedy, like Uncle Milty, knows a good line when he steals it. It's from Churchill, of course.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 09, 2015 08:35 AM (St6BJ)

159 Real bloodbath in houston last nite. Cops called to home for welfare check but no one answers. Look thru window and see dead kid and then break in. Hear gunfire so retreat. Talk guy into coming out. Go in and find 5 dead kids and 3 dead adults.

But thank God no one hurt the suspect or there wd have been riots.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at August 09, 2015 08:36 AM (iQIUe)

160 Isn't Dry Cooter Ry Cooder's real name?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 09, 2015 08:23 AM

I think Dry is Ry's illegitimate black-sheep brother.

The comments from yesterday and today have been forcing me to achieve new heights in writing euphemistically. It can be a real drag to search around for ways to say stuff without actually saying it....

Posted by: MrScribbler at August 09, 2015 08:36 AM (0atQl)

161 Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at August 09, 2015 08:23 AM (oFCZn

What I mean is that Trump would peel off lefty LIVs, including blacks, specially if the Dems just run an old whitey.

Posted by: @votermom at August 09, 2015 08:36 AM (cbfNE)

162 In Sophie's etc. Streep spoke her German lines with a Polish accent. Her commitment to voice is amazing.

Posted by: Bandersnatch, team Lefty and Scamp at August 09, 2015 08:37 AM (1xUj/)

163 But thank God no one hurt the suspect or there wd have been riots.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at August 09, 2015 08:36 AM

Was he a Kollej Ath-a-lete too?

Posted by: MrScribbler at August 09, 2015 08:38 AM (0atQl)

164 "Dog Day Afternoon"

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One great film. If you've never had the chance to see it, do so.

The HQ has teh slowz this morning.

Posted by: Lady in Black....sigh at August 09, 2015 08:38 AM (hf/Jq)

165 The BLM had planned on spending a shit-ton of money on a ~~festival~~ drug-fueled freak show orgy in the desert until the public got wind of it.

http://fxn.ws/1IQbglx

Posted by: Vic at August 09, 2015 06:02 AM (GpgJl)

Fixed for accuracy.

Posted by: Country Singer at August 09, 2015 08:39 AM (nL0sw)

166 In Cement Creek, near the spill, the water registered a pH level of
3.74, which the EPA said is similar to the acidity of tomato juice and
apples. Further downstream, in Silverton, pH levels were found to be
about 4.8, which is similar to liquid black coffee.

EPA: see, no problem, just like drinking tomato juice or apple juice..we are from the government and here to fix the problem...

Posted by: Colin at August 09, 2015 08:43 AM (+ZK9k)

167 The HQ has teh slowz this morning. Posted by: Lady in Black....sigh at August 09, 2015 08:38 AM

And here I was thinkin' it was just me....

Posted by: MrScribbler at August 09, 2015 08:44 AM (0atQl)

168
Saw "The Godfather" yesterday at Film Forum in NYC. Aside from some of the greatest lines and bits in film history, it has to have one of the stupidest.

Captain McCluskey at Louis Restaurant says, "how's the Italian food in this place?"

I wanted to jump up and yell, "I don't know, but the matzo ball soup is dynamite."

Sheesh.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 09, 2015 08:44 AM (St6BJ)

169 The MFM doesn't want you to know there is a crime wave from illegals. In some States they account for 30% of the murders.

http://bit.ly/1UvyeGZ

Posted by: Vic at August 09, 2015 06:04 AM (GpgJl)

The MFM wants to paint a picture of poor innocent little lambs coming to the country. Trump has pointed to what is really going on which is why the attacks are on him. Can't expose the left's lies on anything.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at August 09, 2015 08:45 AM (DiZBp)

170 They are filming more high quality Shakespeare plays. Henry the 4th and Richard III. Benedict Cumbersnatch is Richard III.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at August 09, 2015 08:46 AM (iQIUe)

171

Captain McCluskey at Louis Restaurant says, "how's the Italian food in this place?"

I always thought that was a brilliant line as it reveals character.

Posted by: Bandersnatch, team Lefty and Scamp at August 09, 2015 08:47 AM (1xUj/)

172 Sheez, from the ONT, I was just reading the link on the Peter Jennings skirt chaser thing and got hit upside the head with a Bob Keeshan (Captain Kangaroo) story with the word, penis, in it. My childhood memories are now tainted forevermore.

Posted by: Lady in Black....sigh at August 09, 2015 08:47 AM (hf/Jq)

173 Captain McCluskey at Louis Restaurant says, "how's the Italian food in this place?"
Sheesh.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 09, 2015 08:44 AM

Gotta disagree with ya, JJ. That's a great line, IMO, right up there with "where can I get me a hunting license?" and "if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor."

McCluskey was supposed to be a stupid, insensitive dude, so the line fit perfectly.

Posted by: MrScribbler at August 09, 2015 08:48 AM (0atQl)

174 test

Posted by: Mr Wolf at August 09, 2015 08:48 AM (cjgnX)

175 The Republic is gone, replaced with a weird Chamber of Commerce / liberal fascist proto-police state.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 09, 2015 08:21 AM (u82oZ)

The official name is the American Socialist Superstate ... and it smells like A.S.S.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 09, 2015 08:48 AM (MYSVz)

176 They actually called the crowd white supremacist liberals when they expressed in interest in hearing Bernie speak.

Lib on lib attacks are a thing of beauty. How will the lefties in the crowd respond to being called white supremacists? Probably has their little brains spinning.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at August 09, 2015 08:48 AM (DiZBp)

177 I would hate to be in a cinema with Sefton during a screening of Casablanca when Rick says 'Here's looking at you kid'

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 09, 2015 08:49 AM (JKTqi)

178 Reading about the house of death in Houston, I wondered if it made your news recently that a couple of older teens in the Tulsa suburb of Broken Arrow decided to kill mom, dad, some siblings (spared the youngest), and planned to continue killing, but were caught. I wonder because, you see, they used knives, not guns. So, not so newsworthy beyond locally.

Posted by: mindful webworker - news not news at August 09, 2015 08:50 AM (EAA/O)

179 All Hail Eris, no wonder you looking in the booze closet so early... that Meryl Streep movie? Eeekkk..... From Sophie's Choice to that....
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 09, 2015 08:33 AM (JKTqi)
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Well *I* think it looks like fun. Meryl has good comedic chops as well as the pipes. As evidence I give you Postcards From the Edge and Into the Woods.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at August 09, 2015 08:50 AM (jR7Wy)

180 173 McCluskey was supposed to be a stupid, insensitive dude, so the line fit perfectly.
Posted by: MrScribbler at August 09, 2015 08:48 AM (0atQl)

Yeah, I know, I know. But it just sounds dumb.

Anyway, I think Solozzo must have been a prehistoric moron. When he has the first meeting at Genco, he says "Meh, Don Corleone . . ."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 09, 2015 08:50 AM (St6BJ)

181 All Hail Eris, no wonder you looking in the booze closet so early... that Meryl Streep movie? Eeekkk..... From Sophie's Choice to that....
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 09, 2015 08:33 AM (JKTqi)

It's what we actors refer to as "a paycheck."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 09, 2015 08:51 AM (St6BJ)

182 The defense department identified the US casualty who was killed yesterday in Afghanistan.

Master Sgt. Peter A. McKenna Jr., 35, of Bristol, Rhode Island was killed on Camp Integrity in Afghanistan.

MSG McKenna was assigned to 7th Special Forces Group, Elgin AFB FL.

Posted by: Mr Wolf at August 09, 2015 08:51 AM (cjgnX)

183 177 I would hate to be in a cinema with Sefton during a screening of Casablanca when Rick says 'Here's looking at you kid'
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 09, 2015 08:49 AM (JKTqi)

Why?

Speaking of which, I remember that Brit puppet show and they were doing a spoof of "Play It Again, Sam" when the Woody/Soon-Yee scandal first broke.

The Bogey puppet says, "Here's looking at YOUR kid."

I did a spit take.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 09, 2015 08:52 AM (St6BJ)

184 g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at August 09, 2015 08:54 AM (KCxzN)

185 Here in Colorado, the Feds have put some Environmental Protection in us -
http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/07/us/colorado-epa-mine-river-spill-irpt/

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at August 09, 2015 08:54 AM (AVEe1)

186 Anyway, I think Solozzo must have been a prehistoric
moron. When he has the first meeting at Genco, he says "Meh, Don
Corleone . . ."
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 09, 2015 08:50 AM

In any case, it was a great movie. Part Two was good as well, though I would have been happy if they hadn't bothered making the third one....

I remember seeing the first one (just after its release) vividly: I remember where, what car I owned, the girl I took to see it....

Especially the girl. Major-league memories there.

Posted by: MrScribbler at August 09, 2015 08:54 AM (0atQl)

187 As to Meryl Streep, she is very adept at mimicry. Fine actress indeed, but that ability to get accent and mannerism down just elevates it that much more.

Check out her impression of Julia Child in "Julie and Julia." Pretty damn impressive.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 09, 2015 08:55 AM (St6BJ)

188 186 Especially the girl. Major-league memories there.
Posted by: MrScribbler at August 09, 2015 08:54 AM (0atQl)

**bangs on car door**

Hey, Scribbler! You in there?! . . .

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 09, 2015 08:56 AM (St6BJ)

189 And most Sicilians I know cringe when Clemenza puts sugar in the tomato sauce. Now THAT'S an "infamnia."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 09, 2015 08:58 AM (St6BJ)

190 Check out her impression of Julia Child in "Julie and Julia." Pretty damn impressive.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 09, 2015 08:55 AM (St6BJ)

She did a great job in Prime, which turned out to be a really good movie.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 09, 2015 08:58 AM (MYSVz)

191 Hey, Scribbler! You in there?! . . .
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 09, 2015 08:56 AM

The car involved was not much good for recreational activities other than travel, JJ. If you know what a Honda 600 was, you can imagine how much space it offered for interpersonal relationships.

Came close once, but the damn shift lever made it impossible.

Posted by: MrScribbler at August 09, 2015 09:00 AM (0atQl)

192 CNN: When asked if the spill could affect drinking water, the EPA spokesperson said she did not yet know.
But in person, it truly looks like the river was turned into carrot juice.

Unlimited carrot juice, can't be half bad....

Posted by: Colin at August 09, 2015 09:03 AM (+ZK9k)

193 Serious question regarding Hillary's accomplishments:

North Africa; Who has caused more destruction, Hillary Clinton or Irwin Rommel?

Posted by: Fritz at August 09, 2015 09:04 AM (o/UmK)

194 nood book

Posted by: OregonMuse at August 09, 2015 09:05 AM (6Yjmn)

195 191 Posted by: MrScribbler at August 09, 2015 09:00 AM (0atQl)

Many an Italian bambini was conceived in the original Fiat 500.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 09, 2015 09:07 AM (St6BJ)

196 MrScribbler: If you know what a Honda 600 was, you can imagine how much space it offered for interpersonal relationships....

* Increasingly hazy memory reflects on the yoga positions required in a '68 Mustang. And yet we prevailed!*

Posted by: mindful webworker - news not news at August 09, 2015 09:09 AM (EAA/O)

197 North Africa; Who has caused more destruction, Hillary Clinton or Irwin Rommel?

Posted by: Fritz at August 09, 2015 09:04 AM (o/UmK)

Erwin was at least fighting for his country. Hillary not so much

Posted by: TheQuietMan at August 09, 2015 09:10 AM (DiZBp)

198 The scene where Mike makes his bones is also revealing because he ices the Turk with one shot, but shoots the cop in the throat and then caps him.

Remember the cop broke Mike's jaw. It's supposed to be business, but Mike makes it a wee bit personal.

Reveals a bit of his character there I think.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at August 09, 2015 09:12 AM (oFCZn)

199 George Will out does himself in condescension on FNS.

Posted by: gracepc at August 09, 2015 09:39 AM (DMQhB)

200 There was an old saying: "get the nets." Why nets aren't used more often to take down the clearly-out-of-gourd offender is beyond me.

Dealership kid probably had layered problems...opioid abuse had been one of them. If we can't, in time to prevent it, put people like him where they can't wreck the peace and other peoples property , there ought to be a better way to deal with a manic/delusional/brain damaged/altered state person who can't listen to reason.

Posted by: SarahW at August 09, 2015 11:52 AM (3fTXW)

201 My rage at the establishment GOPe is equal to any here. But I just don't get this love of The Donald. I see a self serving bore who changes his ideas as it suits or serves him. What a whiny butt that FOX was hard on him and they didn't give him the respect he was due. They were hard on everyone and he was the front runner. He is not a conservative folks (agree with Vic). If he goes third party because we don't respect him enough, he will put Hillary in the White House. What about that appeals to you? Geez Louise, Cruz is a far better candidate!

Posted by: AnnaS at August 09, 2015 12:31 PM (P+I7L)

202 The SAS marksman, using a .50 calibre sniper rifle fitted with a silencer, killed the executioner just in time.

The source added: "The ISIS thug who was about to decapitate the father was shot in the head and collapsed.

"Everyone just stared in confusion. The sniper then dispatched the two henchmen with single shots -- three kills with three bullets.

"Someone from the crowd then ran over and untied the father and son's hands and took their blindfolds off.

"They just stared at the bodies and then ran. They were last seen heading towards the Turkish border in a pick-up truck.

"It was a good day's work."

A good day's work, indeed.

Posted by: Socratease at August 09, 2015 10:36 PM (2GbWn)

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