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Friday Morning News Dump
- Kim Davis Shows That Breaking The Law Is Only Okay When Progressives Do It
- "Who Needs This"
- Banning Superhero Lunch Boxes
- Why Jeb
- Teen Boy Will Be Charged As Adult For Having Naked Pictures Of A Minor: Himself
- Trump Exposed As A Foreign Policy No Nothing
- Yeah, Those Sexual Violence Numbers Are Bullshit
- Crashed Quadcopter Disrupts Match At US Open
- Rahm Proposing Major Tax Increases In Chicago
- Man Who Set Up Clinton Server Pleads The Fifth
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at September 04, 2015 09:18 AM (AJAk6)
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Boo...
Boo...
Posted by: Hillary Clinton at September 04, 2015 09:18 AM (HSmrB)
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Oh I could be, I could be...
Posted by: mindful webworker - but am I? at September 04, 2015 09:19 AM (T2Zv1)
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Not
Posted by: mindful webworker - but am not at September 04, 2015 09:19 AM (T2Zv1)
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does anyone think Trump's supporters give a shit about foreign policy? Besides that happened on Hew Hewitt so no one actually heard it.
Posted by: Iron Wombat at September 04, 2015 09:20 AM (HEa5q)
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next time mindful
Posted by: phoenixgirl, i was born a rebel at September 04, 2015 09:20 AM (0O7c5)
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Seriously - teen charged as an adult for sheer stupidity (that harms no one)?
Posted by: Lizzy at September 04, 2015 09:20 AM (NOIQH)
Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at September 04, 2015 09:21 AM (1ijHg)
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"No Nothing"?
Posted by: HR trinken trinken trinken at September 04, 2015 09:21 AM (rHXGG)
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Teen Boy Will Be Charged As Adult For Having Naked Pictures Of A Minor: Himself
IT'S THE LAW! THAT'S THE LAW! YOU CAN'T SAY IT'S STUPID! FOLLOW THEAW!
IT'S THE LAW! THAT'S THE LAW! YOU CAN'T SAY IT'S STUPID! FOLLOW THEAW!
Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at September 04, 2015 09:21 AM (AJAk6)
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Morning horde.
Posted by: RWC- Team BOHICA at September 04, 2015 09:22 AM (9jeGC)
Posted by: Bagheera the panther at September 04, 2015 09:23 AM (JO9+V)
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I'm still trying to figure out which law Kim Davis actually broke.
Posted by: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus at September 04, 2015 09:23 AM (S32rP)
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Teen Boy Will Be Charged As Adult For Having Naked Pictures Of A Minor: Himself
Franz Kafka, Call your office.
Franz Kafka, Call your office.
Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at September 04, 2015 09:24 AM (oVJmc)
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Not a Trump supporter, but "Quds - Kurds" - I can get that this was a mishearing on Trump's part.
And I think it's kind of silly to expect even presidential candidates to know by name the personnel of any particular terrorist group. That's why elected officials have staffers and advisors.
And I think it's kind of silly to expect even presidential candidates to know by name the personnel of any particular terrorist group. That's why elected officials have staffers and advisors.
Posted by: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus at September 04, 2015 09:25 AM (S32rP)
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Hewitt did essentially the same thing they did to W re: Musharraf.
The kind of thing which conveniently never happens to Ds.
The kind of thing which conveniently never happens to Ds.
Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at September 04, 2015 09:25 AM (oVJmc)
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Note that the they found the pictures when they searched his phone, something unrelated to sexting.
Why did they search his phone? It's not clear, but local news reports claimed that it had nothing to do with the sexts themselves. The Cumberland County Sheriff's Office did not respond to a request for comment.
No search warrant.
Geez, teen complies w/request for phone and end up on sexual predator list for life. Wonder if it was something as simple as having to turn over phone while in class (or other 'we'll hold your phone for you' situations) and then some nosy adult deciding to look at his photos?
Why did they search his phone? It's not clear, but local news reports claimed that it had nothing to do with the sexts themselves. The Cumberland County Sheriff's Office did not respond to a request for comment.
No search warrant.
Geez, teen complies w/request for phone and end up on sexual predator list for life. Wonder if it was something as simple as having to turn over phone while in class (or other 'we'll hold your phone for you' situations) and then some nosy adult deciding to look at his photos?
Posted by: Lizzy at September 04, 2015 09:26 AM (NOIQH)
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Trump actually pointed out that he's a delegator, and as President he would have people around him able to bring him up to speed.
Hewitt has this gotcha-question-schtick, but that's basically what it is...a schtick. I don't think anyone outside the chattering class really expects someone to have photographic and encyclopedic recall of everything. And besides, if that kind of knowledge were important, Obama wouldn't be sitting in the White House right now.
To make an issue of this is to misunderstand what is driving the Trump candidacy...the outsider who is rebelling against politics as usual. Well, these kinds of gotcha interviews are politics as usual.
Hewitt has this gotcha-question-schtick, but that's basically what it is...a schtick. I don't think anyone outside the chattering class really expects someone to have photographic and encyclopedic recall of everything. And besides, if that kind of knowledge were important, Obama wouldn't be sitting in the White House right now.
To make an issue of this is to misunderstand what is driving the Trump candidacy...the outsider who is rebelling against politics as usual. Well, these kinds of gotcha interviews are politics as usual.
Posted by: VA GOP Sucks at September 04, 2015 09:27 AM (PFy0L)
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does anyone think Trump's supporters give a shit about foreign policy?
Foreign policy or foreigner policy?
Foreign policy or foreigner policy?
Posted by: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus at September 04, 2015 09:27 AM (S32rP)
Posted by: mindful webworker - reportedly at September 04, 2015 09:27 AM (T2Zv1)
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As long as we keep getting our energy from North America, specifically China, I'm ok with Trump not knowing who al-Baghdadi Mustaffa Mufassa Mohammed is.
Posted by: RWC- Team BOHICA at September 04, 2015 09:29 AM (9jeGC)
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>>Not a Trump supporter, but "Quds - Kurds" - I can get that this was a mishearing on Trump's part.
And when will the press ever ask a Dem politician (or any of them) a question that requires them to differentiate between Sunni and Shia Muslims?
And when will the press ever ask a Dem politician (or any of them) a question that requires them to differentiate between Sunni and Shia Muslims?
Posted by: Lizzy at September 04, 2015 09:29 AM (NOIQH)
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"Mildly pressured into sexual activity?"
Um....that describes lots and lots of sexual interaction between men and women.
And marriage.
Um....that describes lots and lots of sexual interaction between men and women.
And marriage.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 04, 2015 09:29 AM (Zu3d9)
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The Vic News Network starts today on the combined ONT-Morning thread
100% fewer gotcha questions, 100% more Ensure.
100% fewer gotcha questions, 100% more Ensure.
Posted by: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus at September 04, 2015 09:30 AM (S32rP)
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Oops. I thought that China gaffe was recent.
Posted by: RWC- Team BOHICA at September 04, 2015 09:30 AM (9jeGC)
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differentiate between Sunni and Shia Muslims
That one's easy. Sunni Muslims are from the sunny parts of the Middle East, the Shee-uh are all female.
That one's easy. Sunni Muslims are from the sunny parts of the Middle East, the Shee-uh are all female.
Posted by: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus at September 04, 2015 09:31 AM (S32rP)
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While it's not optimal that Trump knows nothing about foreign policy, why not lean on the state department and DOD to handle that. DOD is doing a good job when Obama doesn't care what they do.
Posted by: Draki at September 04, 2015 09:33 AM (0eidE)
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"Who Needs This"
Police officers are being executed in their squad cars, and are hung out to dry if they so much as look at a black man funny. I can see where morale and recruitment might be down.
So, how are we law-abiding white middle class folks supposed to protect our lives and property? I guess we are going to have to return to the days of vigilante justice and lynchings.
Police officers are being executed in their squad cars, and are hung out to dry if they so much as look at a black man funny. I can see where morale and recruitment might be down.
So, how are we law-abiding white middle class folks supposed to protect our lives and property? I guess we are going to have to return to the days of vigilante justice and lynchings.
Posted by: rickl at September 04, 2015 09:33 AM (zoehZ)
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Trump has no Foreign Policy creds? Seriously? Where was this knucklehead in 2008 yakking about that in regards to Obama?
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at September 04, 2015 09:33 AM (iONHu)
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differentiate between Sunni and Shia Muslims
One of them cuts off infidel's heads, the other cuts off infidel's heads.
See? Easy peasey, lemon squeezy.
differentiate between Sunni and Shia Muslims
One of them cuts off infidel's heads, the other cuts off infidel's heads.
See? Easy peasey, lemon squeezy.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 04, 2015 09:33 AM (1QsMy)
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So... Show of hands...
Who here believes the Hillary email congressional investigation will bear more fruit than F&F, IRS, Benghazi investigations?
Nobody?
I'm shocked.
Who here believes the Hillary email congressional investigation will bear more fruit than F&F, IRS, Benghazi investigations?
Nobody?
I'm shocked.
Posted by: Semper In Stercus at September 04, 2015 09:34 AM (BZAd3)
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So... Show of hands...
Who here believes the Hillary email congressional investigation will bear more fruit than F&F, IRS, Benghazi investigations?
Nobody?
I'm shocked.
Posted by: Semper In Stercus at September 04, 2015 09:34 AM (BZAd3)
She'll probably get less than Petraeus. She's got Obama by the balls on this one, because lots of his people are on personal email.
Who here believes the Hillary email congressional investigation will bear more fruit than F&F, IRS, Benghazi investigations?
Nobody?
I'm shocked.
Posted by: Semper In Stercus at September 04, 2015 09:34 AM (BZAd3)
She'll probably get less than Petraeus. She's got Obama by the balls on this one, because lots of his people are on personal email.
Posted by: Draki at September 04, 2015 09:35 AM (0eidE)
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JWF is not fond of trump!
There needs to separate out 'sexting' photos from porn laws, apparently, in some way...
There needs to separate out 'sexting' photos from porn laws, apparently, in some way...
Posted by: Lea at September 04, 2015 09:35 AM (lIU4e)
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I was willowed.
On the Harris Faulkner Hasbro thing:
Well, Harris Faulkner is black, and her hair has like a wavy long bangs thing (50s / 60s era long bob). She has big almond shaped eyes with false lashes.
The toy, which is quite cute, is ecru colored with a lock of dark brown wavy bangs and exaggerated almond-shaped eyes and drawn on lashes. I compared the eyes to the eyes of other toys in the line and they all have different styles. It's quite possible that whoever designed the toy was in fact inspired by the real Harris Faulkner.
I think it's not coincidence.
On the Harris Faulkner Hasbro thing:
Well, Harris Faulkner is black, and her hair has like a wavy long bangs thing (50s / 60s era long bob). She has big almond shaped eyes with false lashes.
The toy, which is quite cute, is ecru colored with a lock of dark brown wavy bangs and exaggerated almond-shaped eyes and drawn on lashes. I compared the eyes to the eyes of other toys in the line and they all have different styles. It's quite possible that whoever designed the toy was in fact inspired by the real Harris Faulkner.
I think it's not coincidence.
Posted by: @votermom at September 04, 2015 09:35 AM (cbfNE)
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Quick trip to Ft. Jackson SC to see our baby girl graduate basic training. So proud, yet "soooo don't want my kids in uniform under this feckless JEF".
Posted by: Lilredhen at September 04, 2015 09:35 AM (avEKX)
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You know who Hewitt is trying to help, don't you?
Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at September 04, 2015 09:35 AM (oVJmc)
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The August jobs number is well lower than the "experts" predicted. But the MFM says to have no fear the economy has never been better. Unemployment is 5.1%. Rejoice and ignore the participation rate. CNBC is now trumpeting the unemployment rate is the lowest since 2008. Spin it bitches spin it
Posted by: TheQuietMan at September 04, 2015 09:36 AM (493sH)
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differentiate between Sunni and Shia Muslims
See? Easy peasey, lemon squeezy.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 04, 2015 09:33 AM (1QsMy)
One group is peaceful and the other is moderate?
See? Easy peasey, lemon squeezy.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 04, 2015 09:33 AM (1QsMy)
One group is peaceful and the other is moderate?
Posted by: Semper In Stercus at September 04, 2015 09:36 AM (BZAd3)
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differentiate between Sunni and Shia Muslims
****
Well now that just wouldn't be fair to the partly Sunni.
****
Well now that just wouldn't be fair to the partly Sunni.
Posted by: Muldoon, a solid weatherman at September 04, 2015 09:36 AM (mvenn)
Posted by: VA GOP Sucks at September 04, 2015 09:37 AM (PFy0L)
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If this were in Alabama, Kim Davis would run for, and win, as the District Attorney next November.
Posted by: Grump928(c) at September 04, 2015 09:37 AM (evdj2)
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That teen boy who's being charged for taking selfies sounds like an abandoned Monty Python sketch.
"While that's funny, it's far too preposterous. Let's work on that script about the dead parrot instead. At least our audience will relate to that. After all, who hasn't bought at least one dead parrot in their life?"
"While that's funny, it's far too preposterous. Let's work on that script about the dead parrot instead. At least our audience will relate to that. After all, who hasn't bought at least one dead parrot in their life?"
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at September 04, 2015 09:37 AM (LUgeY)
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#ThanksMichelleObama
"Meeting these mandates has harmed the financial health of nearly 70 percent of school meal programs surveyed, with fewer than 3 percent reporting a financial benefit," said the survey. Some 49 percent of the responding schools said they were forced to cut cafeteria staff as a result.
The financial threat to school food programs has become so grave that the association is calling on Congress to provide more money.
LOL.
http://www.americanthinker.com
"Meeting these mandates has harmed the financial health of nearly 70 percent of school meal programs surveyed, with fewer than 3 percent reporting a financial benefit," said the survey. Some 49 percent of the responding schools said they were forced to cut cafeteria staff as a result.
The financial threat to school food programs has become so grave that the association is calling on Congress to provide more money.
LOL.
http://www.americanthinker.com
Posted by: Lizzy at September 04, 2015 09:37 AM (NOIQH)
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"Who needs this"
There is a short article on Breitbart out of Madison Wisconsin where a police officer is dispatched to 'a brawl' and finds two disorderly females. In attempting to detain the two, a mob (residue from the brawl?) attack the police officer to prevent the arrest.
So I went surfing news headlines for Austin Texas, and quickly reached the conclusion that certain neighborhoods in certain large metropolitan areas are just out of control and should be labeled a 'free crime zone'. Put up signs and fences and just stay out of that area.
There is a short article on Breitbart out of Madison Wisconsin where a police officer is dispatched to 'a brawl' and finds two disorderly females. In attempting to detain the two, a mob (residue from the brawl?) attack the police officer to prevent the arrest.
So I went surfing news headlines for Austin Texas, and quickly reached the conclusion that certain neighborhoods in certain large metropolitan areas are just out of control and should be labeled a 'free crime zone'. Put up signs and fences and just stay out of that area.
Posted by: Roland Gaineslegg at September 04, 2015 09:37 AM (FoI/9)
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36 You know who Hewitt is trying to help, don't you?
Ultimately, Boeing. And other Ex/Im cronies of course.
Ultimately, Boeing. And other Ex/Im cronies of course.
Posted by: Chico Escuela at September 04, 2015 09:39 AM (a7Dd7)
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>>Who here believes the Hillary email congressional investigation will bear more fruit than F&F, IRS, Benghazi investigations?
Well here's one thing we found out yesterday. It seems that Cheryl Mills was given a copy of the ARB report, which was supposed to be an independent oversight of the government's response to Benghazi, and was allowed to make changes to the report before it went public. In other words, that report was a lie.
So that's news.
Well here's one thing we found out yesterday. It seems that Cheryl Mills was given a copy of the ARB report, which was supposed to be an independent oversight of the government's response to Benghazi, and was allowed to make changes to the report before it went public. In other words, that report was a lie.
So that's news.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 04, 2015 09:39 AM (OGm46)
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I'm really glad camera phones didn't exist when I was in highschool, that's all I've got to say.
Posted by: Lauren at September 04, 2015 09:40 AM (GZ6Pf)
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Teen Boy Will Be Charged As Adult For Having Naked Pictures Of A Minor: Himself
I hear he routinely touched that kid's junk, too.
I hear he routinely touched that kid's junk, too.
Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at September 04, 2015 09:40 AM (oVJmc)
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My wife, Shia mad cause I came too Suni!
Posted by: model_1066 at September 04, 2015 09:41 AM (WEvvb)
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>>>I'm still trying to figure out which law Kim Davis actually broke.
.
.
.She didn't break any real law, she disobeyed a Judge's order.
.
.
.She didn't break any real law, she disobeyed a Judge's order.
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at September 04, 2015 09:41 AM (iONHu)
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>>...certain neighborhoods in certain large metropolitan areas are just out of control and should be labeled a 'free crime zone'. Put up signs and fences and just stay out of that area.
District B13
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0414852/?ref_=nv_sr_1
District B13
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0414852/?ref_=nv_sr_1
Posted by: Lizzy at September 04, 2015 09:41 AM (NOIQH)
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Hugh Hewitt was instrumental in foisting on us the Mittbot 3000.
The memory banks of the Mittbot were extremely capacious, with instant recall of the most obscure minutiae, and I don't recall Hugh ever stumping it with a gotcha question.
Airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow? The Mittbot would instantly reply, correct to seven decimal places. Birthplace of Grover Cleveland? The Mittbot knew that plus the name of the midwife and the weather forecast that day.
Unfortunately, the Mittbot couldn't, y'know, WIN THE DAMN ELECTION.
Other than that the thing was great. Thanks Hugh! Awesome work!
The memory banks of the Mittbot were extremely capacious, with instant recall of the most obscure minutiae, and I don't recall Hugh ever stumping it with a gotcha question.
Airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow? The Mittbot would instantly reply, correct to seven decimal places. Birthplace of Grover Cleveland? The Mittbot knew that plus the name of the midwife and the weather forecast that day.
Unfortunately, the Mittbot couldn't, y'know, WIN THE DAMN ELECTION.
Other than that the thing was great. Thanks Hugh! Awesome work!
Posted by: torquewrench at September 04, 2015 09:41 AM (noWW6)
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Sunni Shiite. It has to do with who inherited the pedophile mohamed's super powers.
Posted by: Boss Moss at September 04, 2015 09:41 AM (C5Jpx)
Posted by: HR trinken trinken trinken at September 04, 2015 09:41 AM (rHXGG)
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She didn't break any real law, she disobeyed a Judge's order.
By that standard, shouldn't TFG be in jail?
By that standard, shouldn't TFG be in jail?
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at September 04, 2015 09:42 AM (LUgeY)
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So that's news.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 04, 2015 09:39 AM (OGm46)
Yup,
And nothing will happen
Posted by: JackStraw at September 04, 2015 09:39 AM (OGm46)
Yup,
And nothing will happen
Posted by: Velvet Ambition at September 04, 2015 09:42 AM (R8hU8)
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>>> Where was this knucklehead in 2008 yakking about that in regards to Obama?
Indeed. The one thing we did hear about was how he had no instincts at all for nuclear scenarios.
But, oops, had to apologize for that one, which was promptly memory-holed.
Indeed. The one thing we did hear about was how he had no instincts at all for nuclear scenarios.
But, oops, had to apologize for that one, which was promptly memory-holed.
Posted by: Bigby's Wriggly Fingers at September 04, 2015 09:42 AM (3ZtZW)
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I'm still trying to figure out which law Kim Davis actually broke.
Posted by: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus at September 04, 2015 09:23 AM (S32rP)
The 'Don't piss off a judge' law?
Posted by: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus at September 04, 2015 09:23 AM (S32rP)
The 'Don't piss off a judge' law?
Posted by: Lea at September 04, 2015 09:43 AM (lIU4e)
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If I ever decided to change careers and become a career criminal, I'd want to model my rise within the underworld on Hillary Clinton.
She's a world-class, elite, criminal mastermind.
She's a world-class, elite, criminal mastermind.
Posted by: Fritz at September 04, 2015 09:43 AM (UzPAd)
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>>It seems that Cheryl Mills was given a copy of the ARB report....
Unbelievable! (OK, not really after 6+ years of Obama)
Mills was also the one who led the weekend shredding party at State. So she *knows* the report is wrong because she helped destroy evidence that might have affected it.
Unbelievable! (OK, not really after 6+ years of Obama)
Mills was also the one who led the weekend shredding party at State. So she *knows* the report is wrong because she helped destroy evidence that might have affected it.
Posted by: Lizzy at September 04, 2015 09:43 AM (NOIQH)
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She didn't break any real law, she disobeyed a Judge's order.
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at September 04, 2015 09:41 AM (iONHu)
The best thing would be for all the clerks in the state to announce they will be issuing no licenses until she is out of jail. It never should have come to this point.
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at September 04, 2015 09:41 AM (iONHu)
The best thing would be for all the clerks in the state to announce they will be issuing no licenses until she is out of jail. It never should have come to this point.
Posted by: WOPR at September 04, 2015 09:44 AM (vBuIB)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at September 04, 2015 09:44 AM (LUgeY)
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5: "does anyone think Trump's supporters give a shit about foreign policy?"
I wouldn't expect any candidate to be able to identify the general in charge of one of the military wings of the Iranian army.
Just like I wouldn't expect them to be able to identify who is running MI6 or the Spetznaz.
This is what OUR generals and intelligence officials are for.
Even after a candidate is elected, I wouldn't expect them to know this unless it becomes relevant.
This is what gets me about the expectations for Presidents. There is no way on earth one person could know all the shit that it takes to run our country. Just like a CEO of a company doesn't know what Dave in accounting does on a daily basis.
The President's job is to give policy and goals to his cabinet. The cabinet then implements that policy or achieves the goal according to their expertise.
The more knowledgeable and experienced a President, the better able they will be to craft policy. But damn...it sounds like everyone expects Solomon in the White House doing everything himself.
I wouldn't expect any candidate to be able to identify the general in charge of one of the military wings of the Iranian army.
Just like I wouldn't expect them to be able to identify who is running MI6 or the Spetznaz.
This is what OUR generals and intelligence officials are for.
Even after a candidate is elected, I wouldn't expect them to know this unless it becomes relevant.
This is what gets me about the expectations for Presidents. There is no way on earth one person could know all the shit that it takes to run our country. Just like a CEO of a company doesn't know what Dave in accounting does on a daily basis.
The President's job is to give policy and goals to his cabinet. The cabinet then implements that policy or achieves the goal according to their expertise.
The more knowledgeable and experienced a President, the better able they will be to craft policy. But damn...it sounds like everyone expects Solomon in the White House doing everything himself.
Posted by: Azenogoth (Freedom or Fire) at September 04, 2015 09:44 AM (4nmNX)
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So I went surfing news headlines for Austin Texas, and quickly reached the conclusion that certain neighborhoods in certain large metropolitan areas are just out of control and should be labeled a 'free crime zone'. Put up signs and fences and just stay out of that area.
Posted by: Roland Gaineslegg at September 04, 2015 09:37 AM (FoI/9)
Hamsterdam.
Another example of how the lefties who made The Wire unwittingly made the most searing indictment of Democrat city governance in popular culture.
So I went surfing news headlines for Austin Texas, and quickly reached the conclusion that certain neighborhoods in certain large metropolitan areas are just out of control and should be labeled a 'free crime zone'. Put up signs and fences and just stay out of that area.
Posted by: Roland Gaineslegg at September 04, 2015 09:37 AM (FoI/9)
Hamsterdam.
Another example of how the lefties who made The Wire unwittingly made the most searing indictment of Democrat city governance in popular culture.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 04, 2015 09:45 AM (1QsMy)
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33 JWF is not fond of trump!
He could be a member of the Elitist Writer's Guild who are all extremely intelligent people put on earth to help us rubes stay away from people who think as we do and take action.
Without their guidance, god knows who we would be putting in office.
He could be a member of the Elitist Writer's Guild who are all extremely intelligent people put on earth to help us rubes stay away from people who think as we do and take action.
Without their guidance, god knows who we would be putting in office.
Posted by: jwest at September 04, 2015 09:45 AM (Zs4uk)
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"So I went surfing news headlines for Austin Texas, and quickly reached
the conclusion that certain neighborhoods in certain large metropolitan
areas are just out of control and should be labeled a 'free crime zone'.
Put up signs and fences and just stay out of that area."
In the original _Mad Max_ movie from the 1970s, the Main Force Patrol cops are stretched so thin that they have to put up "proceed at your own risk" signs, with the yearly death toll to date, on the highways with the worst criminal banditry.
the conclusion that certain neighborhoods in certain large metropolitan
areas are just out of control and should be labeled a 'free crime zone'.
Put up signs and fences and just stay out of that area."
In the original _Mad Max_ movie from the 1970s, the Main Force Patrol cops are stretched so thin that they have to put up "proceed at your own risk" signs, with the yearly death toll to date, on the highways with the worst criminal banditry.
Posted by: torquewrench at September 04, 2015 09:45 AM (noWW6)
Posted by: Lizzy at September 04, 2015 09:45 AM (NOIQH)
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out of Madison Wisconsin where a police officer is dispatched to 'a brawl' and finds two disorderly females. In attempting to detain the two, a mob (residue from the brawl?) attack the police officer to prevent the arrest.
=====
Madison is just commie-weird. I really don't see it as a violent place at all.
=====
Madison is just commie-weird. I really don't see it as a violent place at all.
Posted by: Bigby's Wriggly Fingers at September 04, 2015 09:45 AM (3ZtZW)
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Trump is a foreign policy know-nothing? What do you call the fool we have had to endure for the last 7 years? Shit, NOBODY could be as bad as da Zero. NOBODY, and Trump isn't nearly as ignorant as Zero.
Posted by: maddogg at September 04, 2015 09:46 AM (xWW96)
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So, Mrs Clinton, what would you say you do around here?
Posted by: Grump928(c) at September 04, 2015 09:46 AM (evdj2)
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Posted by: RWC- Team BOHICA at September 04, 2015 09:46 AM (9jeGC)
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Trump Exposed As A Foreign Policy No Nothing
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You know what, Hewey, Trump may be a foreign policy no nothing, but I think he has America's best interest at heart. That's more than I can say for anyone on the Democrat side, especially the current President.
And I defy anyone to say that America's foreign policy hasn't been one big clusterf*** since the Berlin wall fell down.
Trump Exposed As A Foreign Policy No Nothing
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You know what, Hewey, Trump may be a foreign policy no nothing, but I think he has America's best interest at heart. That's more than I can say for anyone on the Democrat side, especially the current President.
And I defy anyone to say that America's foreign policy hasn't been one big clusterf*** since the Berlin wall fell down.
Posted by: Make America Great Again at September 04, 2015 09:47 AM (LXJ1e)
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I swear the anti-Trump GOPers feel like some kind of 12 dimensional democratic chess. Why would the party want people to vote for Trump out of spite.
Posted by: Grump928(c) at September 04, 2015 09:48 AM (evdj2)
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Protip in Austin:
Stay west of 35. If you go south of the airport this isn't so important, but anything north of Ben White and East of 35 is a no go zone.
You're welcome.
(oh, and this goes double for the "gentrified" areas east of downtown. Over there you have obnoxious college students, hipsters, AND crime.)
Stay west of 35. If you go south of the airport this isn't so important, but anything north of Ben White and East of 35 is a no go zone.
You're welcome.
(oh, and this goes double for the "gentrified" areas east of downtown. Over there you have obnoxious college students, hipsters, AND crime.)
Posted by: Lauren at September 04, 2015 09:48 AM (GZ6Pf)
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Trump doesn't know anything about foreign policy?
Yeah because I got to tell you the last too jerkoff Presidents had awesome foreign policy.
Yeah because I got to tell you the last too jerkoff Presidents had awesome foreign policy.
Posted by: Kreplach at September 04, 2015 09:48 AM (WVvzl)
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>>Yup,
And nothing will happen
Absolutely possible but this was the document the left was touting as a totes independent, outside report on the response to Benghazi and we now know that it was nothing of the kind. This is the kind of crap Obama has been pulling on virtually every investigation, they lie shamelessly and the msm covers up for them.
If nothing else I think this email issue is going to force a lot of information that was either hidden or lied about into the public view.
And nothing will happen
Absolutely possible but this was the document the left was touting as a totes independent, outside report on the response to Benghazi and we now know that it was nothing of the kind. This is the kind of crap Obama has been pulling on virtually every investigation, they lie shamelessly and the msm covers up for them.
If nothing else I think this email issue is going to force a lot of information that was either hidden or lied about into the public view.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 04, 2015 09:50 AM (OGm46)
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Hewitt is an ass. Fuck him.
Posted by: rickl at September 04, 2015 09:51 AM (zoehZ)
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The LIVs don't understand that a President delegates.
'Obama got Bin Laden!'
Yep, all on his own.
'Obama got Bin Laden!'
Yep, all on his own.
Posted by: RWC- Team BOHICA at September 04, 2015 09:52 AM (9jeGC)
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Hewitt is an ass. Fuck him.
Posted by: rickl at September 04, 2015 09:51 AM (zoehZ)
Hey, I was gonna say that......
Hewitt is an ass. Fuck him.
Posted by: rickl at September 04, 2015 09:51 AM (zoehZ)
Hey, I was gonna say that......
Posted by: Ana Marie Cox at September 04, 2015 09:52 AM (1QsMy)
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Golf clap:
A judge in Tennessee has dismissed a divorce case, saying the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling on same sex marriage has negated his state's ability to define divorce.
Hamilton County Chancellor Jeffrey Altherton wrote in his decision that he cannot grant Thomas and Pamela Bumgardner's divorce because Obergefell v. Hodges redefines the rules for marriage, and thus the rules for divorce.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/ 2015/sep/3/tennessee-judge-dismisses-divorce-case-cites-supre/
A judge in Tennessee has dismissed a divorce case, saying the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling on same sex marriage has negated his state's ability to define divorce.
Hamilton County Chancellor Jeffrey Altherton wrote in his decision that he cannot grant Thomas and Pamela Bumgardner's divorce because Obergefell v. Hodges redefines the rules for marriage, and thus the rules for divorce.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/ 2015/sep/3/tennessee-judge-dismisses-divorce-case-cites-supre/
Posted by: @votermom at September 04, 2015 09:52 AM (cbfNE)
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National Review has become unreadable, just in the last three months or so. What happened over there?
Posted by: Roland Gaineslegg at September 04, 2015 09:52 AM (FoI/9)
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68 out of Madison Wisconsin where a police officer is dispatched to 'a brawl' and finds two disorderly females. In attempting to detain the two, a mob (residue from the brawl?) attack the police officer to prevent the arrest.
But but but...THE LAW!!!!
But but but...THE LAW!!!!
Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at September 04, 2015 09:52 AM (AJAk6)
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What would happen if Trump wins? I mean that as a serious question. It would certainly make for an extremely interesting 4 years.
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at September 04, 2015 09:53 AM (iONHu)
Posted by: Muldoon, a solid weatherman at September 04, 2015 09:53 AM (mvenn)
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Shorter Williamson: Blah blah blah, Gope needs to replace Jeb! as its candidate.
He is not worthy, BURN THE UNCLEAN!
He is not worthy, BURN THE UNCLEAN!
Posted by: BurtTC at September 04, 2015 09:54 AM (Dj0WE)
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Oh noez!!!
Trump doesnt know who the undersecretary of defense for Latvia's 3rd district is either!!!
But, Hugh Hewitt does and he's so smart he wrote a book about Mitt winning the presidency.
Trump doesnt know who the undersecretary of defense for Latvia's 3rd district is either!!!
But, Hugh Hewitt does and he's so smart he wrote a book about Mitt winning the presidency.
Posted by: RoyalOil at September 04, 2015 09:54 AM (ZvKdv)
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Madison is just commie-weird. I really don't see it as a violent place at all.
All the mid-sized former rust-belt cities have shitty dangerous parts. Even Madison.
All the mid-sized former rust-belt cities have shitty dangerous parts. Even Madison.
Posted by: HR trinken trinken trinken at September 04, 2015 09:54 AM (rHXGG)
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I swear the anti-Trump GOPers feel like some kind of 12 dimensional democratic chess. Why would the party want people to vote for Trump out of spite.
Posted by: Grump928(c) at September 04, 2015 09:48 AM (evdj2)
Elites have a bad tendency to get stuck playing 12 dimension chess to the point of thinking everyone is playing the same game for the same goals. Hitler came to power because the elites were clueless about him and thought he was playing the same game they were. Instead he brought a knife to the chess match.
Posted by: Grump928(c) at September 04, 2015 09:48 AM (evdj2)
Elites have a bad tendency to get stuck playing 12 dimension chess to the point of thinking everyone is playing the same game for the same goals. Hitler came to power because the elites were clueless about him and thought he was playing the same game they were. Instead he brought a knife to the chess match.
Posted by: WOPR at September 04, 2015 09:54 AM (vBuIB)
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If Kurd/Qud is the worst they've got against trump in foreign policy? He's not doing badly at all.
Posted by: Lea at September 04, 2015 09:55 AM (lIU4e)
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Rahm proposes new mega tax increase...
How the HELL could Chicago taxes get any higher? The last time we stayed up there, and, it WAS the last, we had a $200ish hotel bill, w/like +$40something in taxes. I can't imagine how galling it must be to live in a progressive utopian colony like Chi-town. Ahhh, thanks again Democrat party.
How the HELL could Chicago taxes get any higher? The last time we stayed up there, and, it WAS the last, we had a $200ish hotel bill, w/like +$40something in taxes. I can't imagine how galling it must be to live in a progressive utopian colony like Chi-town. Ahhh, thanks again Democrat party.
Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at September 04, 2015 09:56 AM (5buP8)
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This is what gets me about the expectations for Presidents. There is no way on earth one person could know all the shit that it takes to run our country. Just like a CEO of a company doesn't know what Dave in accounting does on a daily basis.
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I read some time ago an article about how nobody knows how to make a pencil, the real gritty details of it. Plenty of people know certain steps in the process, but nobody knows everything.
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I read some time ago an article about how nobody knows how to make a pencil, the real gritty details of it. Plenty of people know certain steps in the process, but nobody knows everything.
Posted by: Make America Great Again at September 04, 2015 09:56 AM (LXJ1e)
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And now we have a taste of the esoteric bullshit in the weeds questions Hewitt is going to ask at the CNN debate.
Posted by: Kreplach at September 04, 2015 09:56 AM (WVvzl)
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Hewitt is an ass. F**k him.
Posted by: rickl at September 04, 2015 09:51 AM (zoehZ)
Hey, I was gonna say that......
Posted by: Ana Marie Cox at September 04, 2015 09:52 AM (1QsMy)
Eh heh heh heh, her name is Cox. Heh heh heh heh heh heh.
Posted by: rickl at September 04, 2015 09:51 AM (zoehZ)
Hey, I was gonna say that......
Posted by: Ana Marie Cox at September 04, 2015 09:52 AM (1QsMy)
Eh heh heh heh, her name is Cox. Heh heh heh heh heh heh.
Posted by: Beavis at September 04, 2015 09:56 AM (Dj0WE)
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"National Review has become unreadable, just in the last three months or so. What happened over there?"
Mass panic at _National RINO_ once it became clear that the USS Jeb! was shipping water over the gunwales.
Mass panic at _National RINO_ once it became clear that the USS Jeb! was shipping water over the gunwales.
Posted by: torquewrench at September 04, 2015 09:57 AM (noWW6)
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What would happen if Trump wins?
Things would get better. How could they not? Even if Trump turns out to be a moderate Democrat, he's better than what we have.
Things would get better. How could they not? Even if Trump turns out to be a moderate Democrat, he's better than what we have.
Posted by: Grump928(c) at September 04, 2015 09:58 AM (evdj2)
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PHILADELPHIA -- Three people were charged Thursday with running a $54 million Ponzi scheme built on promises of a green energy technology that would turn trash into fuel and "carbon-negative" housing developments, neither of which were ever fully developed, federal prosecutors said.
"The scheme alleged in this indictment offered investors the best of both worlds -- investing in sustainable and clean energy products while also making a profit," U.S. Attorney Zane Memeger said in a news release. "Unfortunately for the investors, it was all a hoax and they lost precious savings. These defendants preyed on the emotions of their victims and sold them a scam."
The $6 million class-action agreement with a group of defendants once linked to the now defunct Mantria Industries is expected to be filed today by lawyers representing as many as 500 investors who lost millions in a case that began in 2009. The Securities Exchange Commission shut down the company in November of that year and found that the company -- after returning $17 million to early investors -- had just $790,000 of the other $37 million left in assets.
None of the central characters behind Mantria's rise -- its founders, Temple alums Troy Wragg and Amanda Knorr, and the notorious Denver-based investment seminar pitchman, Wayde McKelvey -- is part of the settlement agreement.
Instead, the defendants include Christopher Flannery, a lawyer from a prestigious Philadelphia law firm and Daniel Rink, an accountant from a city accounting firm; both advised Mantria and then became company employees. Their initial companies, including Center City law firm Astor, Weiss, Kaplan Mandel, are also defendants.
Two months before the SEC civil lawsuit, the company was publicly recognized for its stated commitment to "help mitigate global warming" by former President Bill Clinton's Clinton Global Initiative. The company was cited for its plans to develop the biochar technology that it said would sequester carbon dioxide and reduce emissions in developing countries. Wragg appeared on stage with Clinton at the event in September 2009.
"The scheme alleged in this indictment offered investors the best of both worlds -- investing in sustainable and clean energy products while also making a profit," U.S. Attorney Zane Memeger said in a news release. "Unfortunately for the investors, it was all a hoax and they lost precious savings. These defendants preyed on the emotions of their victims and sold them a scam."
The $6 million class-action agreement with a group of defendants once linked to the now defunct Mantria Industries is expected to be filed today by lawyers representing as many as 500 investors who lost millions in a case that began in 2009. The Securities Exchange Commission shut down the company in November of that year and found that the company -- after returning $17 million to early investors -- had just $790,000 of the other $37 million left in assets.
None of the central characters behind Mantria's rise -- its founders, Temple alums Troy Wragg and Amanda Knorr, and the notorious Denver-based investment seminar pitchman, Wayde McKelvey -- is part of the settlement agreement.
Instead, the defendants include Christopher Flannery, a lawyer from a prestigious Philadelphia law firm and Daniel Rink, an accountant from a city accounting firm; both advised Mantria and then became company employees. Their initial companies, including Center City law firm Astor, Weiss, Kaplan Mandel, are also defendants.
Two months before the SEC civil lawsuit, the company was publicly recognized for its stated commitment to "help mitigate global warming" by former President Bill Clinton's Clinton Global Initiative. The company was cited for its plans to develop the biochar technology that it said would sequester carbon dioxide and reduce emissions in developing countries. Wragg appeared on stage with Clinton at the event in September 2009.
Posted by: Debbie Weaselwords Schultz at September 04, 2015 09:58 AM (e8kgV)
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I'd rather have a POTUS who knows what he doesn't know and takes input from generals, than a prog (cpz its always prgs) who thinks he always knows better coz Ideology!
Posted by: @votermom at September 04, 2015 09:58 AM (cbfNE)
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I try to avoid stupidity when I can, but am I to understand that Hugh "Luv Romney's dirty shorts" Hewitt is playing the role of this year's Katie Couric?
Posted by: BurtTC at September 04, 2015 09:59 AM (Dj0WE)
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What would happen if Trump wins? I mean that as a serious question. It would certainly make for an extremely interesting 4 years.
Indeed. While I could dream about Trump dismantling everything TFG has done during his Reign of Error, IMO his biggest impact would be psychological. Positively so.
Much like Ronaldus Magnus' following the debacle of Cahtah.
However, I'm hopeful that a President Trump would understand the need for a drastic reform of Fedzilla. With all his business experience, he should be intimately familiar with the myriad ways government throttles the economy.
Indeed. While I could dream about Trump dismantling everything TFG has done during his Reign of Error, IMO his biggest impact would be psychological. Positively so.
Much like Ronaldus Magnus' following the debacle of Cahtah.
However, I'm hopeful that a President Trump would understand the need for a drastic reform of Fedzilla. With all his business experience, he should be intimately familiar with the myriad ways government throttles the economy.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at September 04, 2015 10:00 AM (LUgeY)
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I can sumerize what will be Trump's foreign policy thusly...
THEY LOSE!
WE WIN!
Capiche, Mr. Hewitt?
THEY LOSE!
WE WIN!
Capiche, Mr. Hewitt?
Posted by: Kreplach at September 04, 2015 10:00 AM (WVvzl)
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76 >>Yup,
And nothing will happen
Absolutely possible but this was the document the left was touting as a totes independent, outside report on the response to Benghazi and we now know that it was nothing of the kind. This is the kind of crap Obama has been pulling on virtually every investigation, they lie shamelessly and the msm covers up for them.
If nothing else I think this email issue is going to force a lot of information that was either hidden or lied about into the public view.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 04, 2015 09:50 AM (OGm46)
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I actually read the report. It was an obvious whitewash. Nobody of was responsible for any poor decisions (except for one person I recall, a low level State lifer) it was all "the process didn't work good". IMO, the general and other guy who authored the report lied to Congress about their independence. THEY should be in jail.
And nothing will happen
Absolutely possible but this was the document the left was touting as a totes independent, outside report on the response to Benghazi and we now know that it was nothing of the kind. This is the kind of crap Obama has been pulling on virtually every investigation, they lie shamelessly and the msm covers up for them.
If nothing else I think this email issue is going to force a lot of information that was either hidden or lied about into the public view.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 04, 2015 09:50 AM (OGm46)
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I actually read the report. It was an obvious whitewash. Nobody of was responsible for any poor decisions (except for one person I recall, a low level State lifer) it was all "the process didn't work good". IMO, the general and other guy who authored the report lied to Congress about their independence. THEY should be in jail.
Posted by: Make America Great Again at September 04, 2015 10:00 AM (LXJ1e)
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Hamilton County Chancellor Jeffrey Altherton wrote in his decision that he cannot grant Thomas and Pamela Bumgardner's divorce because Obergefell v. Hodges redefines the rules for marriage, and thus the rules for divorce.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/ 2015/sep/3/tennessee-judge-dismisses-divorce-case-cites-supre/
Priceless. Nice find @votermom.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/ 2015/sep/3/tennessee-judge-dismisses-divorce-case-cites-supre/
Priceless. Nice find @votermom.
Posted by: Infidel at September 04, 2015 10:01 AM (wxGc8)
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97 I'd rather have a POTUS who knows what he doesn't know and takes input from generals, than a prog (cpz its always prgs) who thinks he always knows better coz Ideology!
Posted by: @votermom at September 04, 2015 09:58 AM (cbfNE)
Yep. I like how he stated that he'll go out and find the right people instead of 'I'm a better speechwriter than my speechwriter.'
Posted by: @votermom at September 04, 2015 09:58 AM (cbfNE)
Yep. I like how he stated that he'll go out and find the right people instead of 'I'm a better speechwriter than my speechwriter.'
Posted by: RWC- Team BOHICA at September 04, 2015 10:01 AM (9jeGC)
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What would happen if Trump wins? I mean that as a serious question. It would certainly make for an extremely interesting 4 years.
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at September 04, 2015 09:53 AM (iONHu)
I think you'll be some interesting and amusing stumbling of the Trump administration as he dukes it out with the bureaucracy. Immigration actually gets some reform (fence on the border, at a minimum the felony immigrants get deported, H1B and legal immigration get some changes). We actually get some better trade deals. It's in Trump's wheelhouse and he isn't going to want to be a sucker. Congress actually fights some epic battles to regain some relevance and authority. The courts get taken down a peg or two because Trump is going to ignore and taunt them at some point. No good news on the budget but maybe some minor improvements. Foreign policy is a crapshoot (and not because of the Hewitt idiocy.)
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at September 04, 2015 09:53 AM (iONHu)
I think you'll be some interesting and amusing stumbling of the Trump administration as he dukes it out with the bureaucracy. Immigration actually gets some reform (fence on the border, at a minimum the felony immigrants get deported, H1B and legal immigration get some changes). We actually get some better trade deals. It's in Trump's wheelhouse and he isn't going to want to be a sucker. Congress actually fights some epic battles to regain some relevance and authority. The courts get taken down a peg or two because Trump is going to ignore and taunt them at some point. No good news on the budget but maybe some minor improvements. Foreign policy is a crapshoot (and not because of the Hewitt idiocy.)
Posted by: WOPR at September 04, 2015 10:03 AM (vBuIB)
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I care more about domestic policy that effects me and mine.
Trumps foreign policy should be if you don't fuck with us we will not fuck with you. If you do we will make you disappear.
Trumps foreign policy should be if you don't fuck with us we will not fuck with you. If you do we will make you disappear.
Posted by: Velvet Ambition at September 04, 2015 10:03 AM (R8hU8)
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"a police officer is dispatched to 'a brawl' and finds two disorderly
females. In attempting to detain the two, a mob (residue from the
brawl?) attack the police officer to prevent the arrest."
In Commiefornia, this swarming tactic has gone on for a long time, but it was only engaged in by blacks, and was confined to the worst parts of places like Watts and Oakland.
It's spreading now far beyond those locales. And it's been picked up on by Hispanics too.
The intent is to make it impossible for individual cops to perform even a simple collar of a perp, and they are succeeding at that. It just can't be done to send a phalanx of cruisers to every arrest site.
females. In attempting to detain the two, a mob (residue from the
brawl?) attack the police officer to prevent the arrest."
In Commiefornia, this swarming tactic has gone on for a long time, but it was only engaged in by blacks, and was confined to the worst parts of places like Watts and Oakland.
It's spreading now far beyond those locales. And it's been picked up on by Hispanics too.
The intent is to make it impossible for individual cops to perform even a simple collar of a perp, and they are succeeding at that. It just can't be done to send a phalanx of cruisers to every arrest site.
Posted by: torquewrench at September 04, 2015 10:03 AM (noWW6)
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103
97 I'd rather have a POTUS who knows what he doesn't know and takes
input from generals, than a prog (cpz its always prgs) who thinks he
always knows better coz Ideology!
Posted by: @votermom at September 04, 2015 09:58 AM (cbfNE)
Yep. I like how he stated that he'll go out and find the right
people instead of 'I'm a better speechwriter than my speechwriter.'
Posted by: RWC- Team BOHICA at September 04, 2015 10:01 AM (9jeGC)
that's why i don't mind trump or carson....
97 I'd rather have a POTUS who knows what he doesn't know and takes
input from generals, than a prog (cpz its always prgs) who thinks he
always knows better coz Ideology!
Posted by: @votermom at September 04, 2015 09:58 AM (cbfNE)
Yep. I like how he stated that he'll go out and find the right
people instead of 'I'm a better speechwriter than my speechwriter.'
Posted by: RWC- Team BOHICA at September 04, 2015 10:01 AM (9jeGC)
that's why i don't mind trump or carson....
Posted by: phoenixgirl, i was born a rebel at September 04, 2015 10:03 AM (0O7c5)
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I'm not a Trump hater but knowing what the Quds Force is and particularly it's leader who was personally named in the UN sanctions that are now crumbling is not exactly a trick question. He's listed as one of our most wanted terrorists and he's been all over the news lately for making an illegal, according to the sanctions agreement, trip to Russia to buy weapons.
Trump does need to up his game if he's going to take this to the next level.
Trump does need to up his game if he's going to take this to the next level.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 04, 2015 10:03 AM (OGm46)
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I read some time ago an article about how nobody knows how to make a pencil, the real gritty details of it. Plenty of people know certain steps in the process, but nobody knows everything.
That article was bullshit. Any random employee could probably tell you exactly how they're made, even the janitor. It's not rocket surgery.
Perhaps the author doesn't know or care to learn, but supposing that other people are just as ignorant is projection.
That article was bullshit. Any random employee could probably tell you exactly how they're made, even the janitor. It's not rocket surgery.
Perhaps the author doesn't know or care to learn, but supposing that other people are just as ignorant is projection.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at September 04, 2015 10:05 AM (LUgeY)
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97 I'd rather have a POTUS who knows what he doesn't know and takes input from generals, than a prog (cpz its always prgs) who thinks he always knows better coz Ideology!
Posted by: @votermom at September 04, 2015 09:58 AM (cbfNE)
Yep. I like how he stated that he'll go out and find the right people instead of 'I'm a better speechwriter than my speechwriter.'
Posted by: RWC- Team BOHICA at September 04, 2015 10:01 AM (9jeGC)
This goes back to the well-publicized at the time situation, early in JFK's tenure, when something or other came up, foreign-policy related. Eisenhower went to visit JFK at Camp David (I think), and attempted to advise him on how to utilize all the foreign policy expertise that would be at his disposal, at the Pentagon, in the State Department, etc.
You know, get info from the people who do this stuff for a living, and then BE the person who makes the informed decisions after gathering it from those who already know.
JFK's response, essentially was, no, we're not going to do that. I think me and my brother Bobby already know what we need to know.
Ike never tried to offer any advise to Kennedy again.
Posted by: @votermom at September 04, 2015 09:58 AM (cbfNE)
Yep. I like how he stated that he'll go out and find the right people instead of 'I'm a better speechwriter than my speechwriter.'
Posted by: RWC- Team BOHICA at September 04, 2015 10:01 AM (9jeGC)
This goes back to the well-publicized at the time situation, early in JFK's tenure, when something or other came up, foreign-policy related. Eisenhower went to visit JFK at Camp David (I think), and attempted to advise him on how to utilize all the foreign policy expertise that would be at his disposal, at the Pentagon, in the State Department, etc.
You know, get info from the people who do this stuff for a living, and then BE the person who makes the informed decisions after gathering it from those who already know.
JFK's response, essentially was, no, we're not going to do that. I think me and my brother Bobby already know what we need to know.
Ike never tried to offer any advise to Kennedy again.
Posted by: BurtTC at September 04, 2015 10:05 AM (Dj0WE)
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out of Madison Wisconsin where a police officer is dispatched to 'a brawl' and finds two disorderly females. In attempting to detain the two, a mob (residue from the brawl?) attack the police officer to prevent the arrest.
But but but...THE LAW!!!!
Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at September 04, 2015 09:52 AM (AJAk6)
Send in the "enlightened" judges to enforce the laws
But but but...THE LAW!!!!
Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at September 04, 2015 09:52 AM (AJAk6)
Send in the "enlightened" judges to enforce the laws
Posted by: TheQuietMan at September 04, 2015 10:06 AM (493sH)
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81 National Review has become unreadable, just in the last three months or so. What happened over there?
Posted by: Roland Gaineslegg at September 04, 2015 09:52 AM (FoI/9)
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They all went TARD. Trump Associative Rubber-room Disorder
Posted by: Roland Gaineslegg at September 04, 2015 09:52 AM (FoI/9)
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They all went TARD. Trump Associative Rubber-room Disorder
Posted by: Make America Great Again at September 04, 2015 10:06 AM (LXJ1e)
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>>I actually read the report. It was an obvious whitewash. Nobody of was responsible for any poor decisions (except for one person I recall, a low level State lifer) it was all "the process didn't work good". IMO, the general and other guy who authored the report lied to Congress about their independence. THEY should be in jail.
Of course it was a whitewash, they didn't even interview the political appointees, just the bureaucrats. But the left insisted that it was an independent report which was good enough for the msm to bury it and move along.
I'm not holding out for any bombshell but a death by a thousand of these cuts could be very damaging to Hillary and the left next year. I'll take what I can get at this point.
Of course it was a whitewash, they didn't even interview the political appointees, just the bureaucrats. But the left insisted that it was an independent report which was good enough for the msm to bury it and move along.
I'm not holding out for any bombshell but a death by a thousand of these cuts could be very damaging to Hillary and the left next year. I'll take what I can get at this point.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 04, 2015 10:09 AM (OGm46)
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BB @ 109 - YouTube. Milton Friedman. The Story of the Pencil.
Posted by: Butch at September 04, 2015 10:09 AM (hXu8T)
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I read the Kevin Williamson piece on Why Jeb? and disagreed with Williamson, as usual. But I'll save you the trouble. Jeb's heart is in the right place but his head is up his ass.
Posted by: Dave, exiled in RI at September 04, 2015 10:10 AM (ZPVGh)
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"What would happen if Trump wins?"
I think a wall would be built with amazing speed.
However, I believe the biggest change would be what will happen when Trump runs up against the bureaucracy and the civil service rules. Any private sector CEO would be appalled at what government workers get away with.
Trump will take it right to the public, telling stories of how the civil service rules prevent common sense solutions and real change from happening. Trump will call out establishment lovers in congress and the senate and shame them into eliminating the old rules.
I think a wall would be built with amazing speed.
However, I believe the biggest change would be what will happen when Trump runs up against the bureaucracy and the civil service rules. Any private sector CEO would be appalled at what government workers get away with.
Trump will take it right to the public, telling stories of how the civil service rules prevent common sense solutions and real change from happening. Trump will call out establishment lovers in congress and the senate and shame them into eliminating the old rules.
Posted by: jwest at September 04, 2015 10:11 AM (Zs4uk)
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That article was bullshit. Any random employee could probably tell you exactly how they're made, even the janitor. It's not rocket surgery.
Perhaps the author doesn't know or care to learn, but supposing that other people are just as ignorant is projection.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at September 04, 2015 10:05 AM (LUgeY)
How, as in actually do it. From mining the stuff out of the ground, cutting the tree down, processing the metal, rubber etc.
No, nobody know how to make a pencil. The procurement guy may know where to buy the rubber from for the eraser, the operator may know how to assemble the eraser to the end, but neither know how to make rubber, or probably even know where it comes from.
Perhaps the author doesn't know or care to learn, but supposing that other people are just as ignorant is projection.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at September 04, 2015 10:05 AM (LUgeY)
How, as in actually do it. From mining the stuff out of the ground, cutting the tree down, processing the metal, rubber etc.
No, nobody know how to make a pencil. The procurement guy may know where to buy the rubber from for the eraser, the operator may know how to assemble the eraser to the end, but neither know how to make rubber, or probably even know where it comes from.
Posted by: Make America Great Again at September 04, 2015 10:11 AM (LXJ1e)
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And now we have a taste of the esoteric bullshit in the weeds questions Hewitt is going to ask at the CNN debate.
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That was exactly the reason I said he was a bad idea at the time it was announced.
At least with the MSN crowd, we know there will be BS questions.
But Hugh is going to feed them a mountain of soundbites, ready made for "look how stupid that Republican is, ha, ha, ha!!"
All because the pompous ass thinks that what _he_ thinks is important is what the voters should care about.
And in that respect, he is no better--perhaps worse--than the MSN assholes.
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That was exactly the reason I said he was a bad idea at the time it was announced.
At least with the MSN crowd, we know there will be BS questions.
But Hugh is going to feed them a mountain of soundbites, ready made for "look how stupid that Republican is, ha, ha, ha!!"
All because the pompous ass thinks that what _he_ thinks is important is what the voters should care about.
And in that respect, he is no better--perhaps worse--than the MSN assholes.
Posted by: RoyalOil at September 04, 2015 10:11 AM (ZvKdv)
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I'm really getting sick of these establishment shills like Hewitt.
Trump will enlist the best and brightest minds to flesh out and fill his administration.
What I like about Trump is his tone and winner temperment.
We all know who Jeb would have as his advisors, James Baker and all of the rest of the GOPe "foreign policy" mensa team.
Trump has said, he is going to have Bolton on his team, so suck it you establishment deuschebags.
Trump will enlist the best and brightest minds to flesh out and fill his administration.
What I like about Trump is his tone and winner temperment.
We all know who Jeb would have as his advisors, James Baker and all of the rest of the GOPe "foreign policy" mensa team.
Trump has said, he is going to have Bolton on his team, so suck it you establishment deuschebags.
Posted by: Kreplach at September 04, 2015 10:11 AM (WVvzl)
Posted by: Grump928(c) at September 04, 2015 10:12 AM (evdj2)
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I read the Kevin Williamson piece on Why Jeb? and disagreed with Williamson, as usual. But I'll save you the trouble. Jeb's heart is in the right place but his head is up his ass.
Posted by: Dave, exiled in RI at September 04, 2015 10:10 AM (ZPVGh)
Let's be honest. Some of these clowns who work for these webzines think they're in the know, and like to pretend they have their finger on the pulse.
What Williamson (and his ilk) know is that Jeb! is blowing his chance to lead Team Gope. They're fishing around for the next guy, but before they are allowed to jump ship, they have to kill this one.
Jeb! must die. Figuratively, of course.
Posted by: Dave, exiled in RI at September 04, 2015 10:10 AM (ZPVGh)
Let's be honest. Some of these clowns who work for these webzines think they're in the know, and like to pretend they have their finger on the pulse.
What Williamson (and his ilk) know is that Jeb! is blowing his chance to lead Team Gope. They're fishing around for the next guy, but before they are allowed to jump ship, they have to kill this one.
Jeb! must die. Figuratively, of course.
Posted by: BurtTC at September 04, 2015 10:13 AM (Dj0WE)
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Will Trump really have Bolton?
Be still, my heart.
Be still, my heart.
Posted by: @votermom at September 04, 2015 10:13 AM (cbfNE)
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Hi,
Any moron lawyers on board this thread.
I had something very weird and fascistic (not kidding) happen to me yesterday and I'd like an opinion.
And yes, I realize free advice on the internet, etc, etc ,etc.
So- just a quick review of the facts.
Yesterday, I was working when into my office came two thugs from the city utility dept-
who said that a business(failed space empty) two spaces down had a valve which required a annual inspection that hadn't been done-
and since they could not get a reply from the landlords-
they were going to shut off my water and my business if I didn't get the their papers and information to the owners of the building.
Plus, they wanted me to sign a paper saying that I had been informed of the landlord's problem and would face penalties if it wasn't corrected.
Of course, i didn't sign. And tried to argue that I had zero to do with neither the failed business nor was the landlord nor was any of this my responsibility and I would not accept liability for this.
But, the thugs kept saying - well, too bad. We picked you and if you don't get in contact with the we'll shut off your water and shut down your business.
As I said I was busy, so I made a couple of quick phone calls to get the monkey off my back- got in touch with the building manager, let them speak and the thugs left.
Then later (I was busy)I called the corporate office to make sure I got the highest possible guy and gave him an earful.
And then waited for the crap to roll downhill- so shortly there-after multiple apologies all around from the landlord end.
Okay- so here's my question - I'd like to nip this kind of violation of my business and personal liberty in the bud.
But, I'm not willing to start a fight with an obviously thuggish and petty bureaucrat-
cause they can hurt me more than I can hurt them-
unless what they did constituted a very clear violation of written law and/or my civil rights.
Then I have the ability to gain justice and prevent any nonsense like this in the future.
So....any lawyerly opinion about this situation.
Or, is it just walk away, it's Valvetown, Jake.
Any moron lawyers on board this thread.
I had something very weird and fascistic (not kidding) happen to me yesterday and I'd like an opinion.
And yes, I realize free advice on the internet, etc, etc ,etc.
So- just a quick review of the facts.
Yesterday, I was working when into my office came two thugs from the city utility dept-
who said that a business(failed space empty) two spaces down had a valve which required a annual inspection that hadn't been done-
and since they could not get a reply from the landlords-
they were going to shut off my water and my business if I didn't get the their papers and information to the owners of the building.
Plus, they wanted me to sign a paper saying that I had been informed of the landlord's problem and would face penalties if it wasn't corrected.
Of course, i didn't sign. And tried to argue that I had zero to do with neither the failed business nor was the landlord nor was any of this my responsibility and I would not accept liability for this.
But, the thugs kept saying - well, too bad. We picked you and if you don't get in contact with the we'll shut off your water and shut down your business.
As I said I was busy, so I made a couple of quick phone calls to get the monkey off my back- got in touch with the building manager, let them speak and the thugs left.
Then later (I was busy)I called the corporate office to make sure I got the highest possible guy and gave him an earful.
And then waited for the crap to roll downhill- so shortly there-after multiple apologies all around from the landlord end.
Okay- so here's my question - I'd like to nip this kind of violation of my business and personal liberty in the bud.
But, I'm not willing to start a fight with an obviously thuggish and petty bureaucrat-
cause they can hurt me more than I can hurt them-
unless what they did constituted a very clear violation of written law and/or my civil rights.
Then I have the ability to gain justice and prevent any nonsense like this in the future.
So....any lawyerly opinion about this situation.
Or, is it just walk away, it's Valvetown, Jake.
Posted by: naturalfake at September 04, 2015 10:14 AM (KUa85)
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Whoever said that The National Review has become unreadable is sooo correct. I have been thinking the same thing since they pushed out Mark Steyn. As a professional conspiracy theorist, I believe all these Beltway pundits are one big organism, and the organism is aware there is a great disturbance in the Force out in the real country.
Posted by: Ancient astronaut theorist at September 04, 2015 10:14 AM (msVAP)
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http://www.michellesmirror.com/
Meet the new Anarchists: Us!
"When the backbone of a country starts thinking that laws and rules are not worth following, it's just a hop, skip and a jump to anarchy. TV has given us the illusion that anarchy is people rioting in the streets, smashing car windows and looting every store in sight. But there's also the polite, quiet, far deadlier anarchy of the core citizenry --- the upright citizenry --- throwing in the towel and deciding it's just not worth it anymore."
Meet the new Anarchists: Us!
"When the backbone of a country starts thinking that laws and rules are not worth following, it's just a hop, skip and a jump to anarchy. TV has given us the illusion that anarchy is people rioting in the streets, smashing car windows and looting every store in sight. But there's also the polite, quiet, far deadlier anarchy of the core citizenry --- the upright citizenry --- throwing in the towel and deciding it's just not worth it anymore."
Posted by: Lizzy at September 04, 2015 10:14 AM (NOIQH)
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I'd like to see Coulter or Dennis Miller do the daily briefing.
Posted by: Infidel at September 04, 2015 10:15 AM (wxGc8)
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I'm not holding out for any bombshell but a death by a thousand of these cuts could be very damaging to Hillary and the left next year. I'll take what I can get at this point.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 04, 2015 10:09 AM (OGm46)
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Me too.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 04, 2015 10:09 AM (OGm46)
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Me too.
Posted by: Make America Great Again at September 04, 2015 10:15 AM (LXJ1e)
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Pencil bit was about how capitalism converges to produce goods, not the inherent difficulty of producing a pencil
Posted by: Bigby's Snake handling Hands at September 04, 2015 10:16 AM (YkUew)
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"Trump will take it right to the public, telling stories of how the civil
service rules prevent common sense solutions and real change from
happening."
There wasn't anything preventing any previous Republican president from consistently attacking and mocking the Fedzilla bureaucracy.
They just weren't serious about it.
Even Reagan pretty much abandoned his long habit of highlighting government's ridiculous inefficiencies once he attained office. All the great zingers and shocking anecdotes came from Candidate Reagan, not President Reagan.
service rules prevent common sense solutions and real change from
happening."
There wasn't anything preventing any previous Republican president from consistently attacking and mocking the Fedzilla bureaucracy.
They just weren't serious about it.
Even Reagan pretty much abandoned his long habit of highlighting government's ridiculous inefficiencies once he attained office. All the great zingers and shocking anecdotes came from Candidate Reagan, not President Reagan.
Posted by: torquewrench at September 04, 2015 10:16 AM (noWW6)
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The intent is to make it impossible for individual cops to perform even a simple collar of a perp, and they are succeeding at that. It just can't be done to send a phalanx of cruisers to every arrest site.
Posted by: torquewrench at September 04, 2015 10:03 AM (noWW6)
Been watching Narcos this week and sort of mulling over how truly messy lack of policing can get...
Posted by: torquewrench at September 04, 2015 10:03 AM (noWW6)
Been watching Narcos this week and sort of mulling over how truly messy lack of policing can get...
Posted by: Lea at September 04, 2015 10:17 AM (lIU4e)
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For many, mainly on the left, (but there are also quite a few from the 'right'), we are at the high point in history of civilization (or it's leftist malapropism - progressiveness). They point to:
Obama- the first black president, the social justice war, the 'end' of the Bush wars, open borders, the discrediting and dismantlement in society of traditional values, and the substitution of constitutional specified rights with inferred constitutional rights, etc. etc.
The height of civilization - the rise of the ultra-poor (as reported recently by CBS, others), ripping apart fetal corpses for parts, the rise of barbarity in the world that rivals the worst in history, the excusing of those acts... hell, this list could go on and on, as well.
Edmund Burke said that evil would prevail if good men did nothing.
My personal take on this observation is that if good men do nothing to resist evil, how can they be called good?
Perhaps that's the problem. It's become too easy - to comfortable(?) - to not resist evil.
Obama- the first black president, the social justice war, the 'end' of the Bush wars, open borders, the discrediting and dismantlement in society of traditional values, and the substitution of constitutional specified rights with inferred constitutional rights, etc. etc.
The height of civilization - the rise of the ultra-poor (as reported recently by CBS, others), ripping apart fetal corpses for parts, the rise of barbarity in the world that rivals the worst in history, the excusing of those acts... hell, this list could go on and on, as well.
Edmund Burke said that evil would prevail if good men did nothing.
My personal take on this observation is that if good men do nothing to resist evil, how can they be called good?
Perhaps that's the problem. It's become too easy - to comfortable(?) - to not resist evil.
Posted by: Semper In Stercus at September 04, 2015 10:17 AM (BZAd3)
132
It takes a village to make a pencil.
Posted by: Muldoon, a solid weatherman at September 04, 2015 10:17 AM (mvenn)
133
Madison is just commie-weird. I really don't see it as a violent place at all.
Madison is really "pockety" (is that a word? I dunno) with it's areas.
You know how some cities have an east side, or a north side or whatever? Madison doesn't have that, exactly. Instead, what it has are areas around 2 or 3 blocks in size that aren't great, and they're spread out all over the place. So you might be ok on Street A, but go 2 blocks north, or 3 blocks south and you could find yourself in trouble.
The worst part is that those areas tend to move around over time as they get cleaned up, or as people move from one spot to another.
Madison is really "pockety" (is that a word? I dunno) with it's areas.
You know how some cities have an east side, or a north side or whatever? Madison doesn't have that, exactly. Instead, what it has are areas around 2 or 3 blocks in size that aren't great, and they're spread out all over the place. So you might be ok on Street A, but go 2 blocks north, or 3 blocks south and you could find yourself in trouble.
The worst part is that those areas tend to move around over time as they get cleaned up, or as people move from one spot to another.
Posted by: GMan at September 04, 2015 10:18 AM (sxq57)
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Sure, we can speculate on what Trump would do, but as far as I know, none here have a British accent.
We need to hear what the insufferable twit Charles CW Cooke says before we form an opinion. He does have an accent, so his views are far more advanced than ours.
We need to hear what the insufferable twit Charles CW Cooke says before we form an opinion. He does have an accent, so his views are far more advanced than ours.
Posted by: jwest at September 04, 2015 10:18 AM (Zs4uk)
135
Screw making a pencil, how do they get that cream inside the twinkie?
Posted by: JackStraw at September 04, 2015 10:18 AM (OGm46)
136
Were Trump to win, I expect him to replace all political appointees with business oriented producers. First thing.
Posted by: Bigby's Snake handling Hands at September 04, 2015 10:18 AM (YkUew)
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And the thing you can guarandamntee about a Trump administration is that he would expect and demand results.
He may govern like a moderate Democrat, but the things that animate him are things that we as conservatives would like.
I see him as a Giulianni figure, sure there were things that Giulanni was liberal about, but damn, the things he was conservative about were awesome.
The dude turned around NYC which was thought impossible.
I think Trump as President and Cruz as his consigulere and the team he would assemble, would be a paradigm shift away from the existing order.
He may govern like a moderate Democrat, but the things that animate him are things that we as conservatives would like.
I see him as a Giulianni figure, sure there were things that Giulanni was liberal about, but damn, the things he was conservative about were awesome.
The dude turned around NYC which was thought impossible.
I think Trump as President and Cruz as his consigulere and the team he would assemble, would be a paradigm shift away from the existing order.
Posted by: Kreplach at September 04, 2015 10:18 AM (WVvzl)
138
Doesn't really seem like a "gotcha" question for Trump.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at September 04, 2015 10:19 AM (LA7Cm)
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Even a broken clock is right once a day.
Well, that at least gives Rick Perry a realistically achievable goal.
Well, that at least gives Rick Perry a realistically achievable goal.
Posted by: Muldoon, a solid weatherman at September 04, 2015 10:19 AM (mvenn)
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However, I believe the biggest change would be what will happen when Trump runs up against the bureaucracy and the civil service rules. Any private sector CEO would be appalled at what government workers get away with.
Trump will take it right to the public, telling stories of how the civil service rules prevent common sense solutions and real change from happening. Trump will call out establishment lovers in congress and the senate and shame them into eliminating the old rules.
Posted by: jwest at September 04, 2015 10:11 AM (Zs4uk)
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I think that will happen too. In fact, I think he will be so disgusted that he will eliminate an entire department just shake things up.
"I've got experience in bankruptcy and closing down things, I'm going to bankrupt and close down certain departments".
Trump will take it right to the public, telling stories of how the civil service rules prevent common sense solutions and real change from happening. Trump will call out establishment lovers in congress and the senate and shame them into eliminating the old rules.
Posted by: jwest at September 04, 2015 10:11 AM (Zs4uk)
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I think that will happen too. In fact, I think he will be so disgusted that he will eliminate an entire department just shake things up.
"I've got experience in bankruptcy and closing down things, I'm going to bankrupt and close down certain departments".
Posted by: Make America Great Again at September 04, 2015 10:19 AM (LXJ1e)
141
AHAHAHAHA! That Alabama poll shows John Kasich--who our idiot governor (currently distracted by the sudden serving of divorce papers a week ago) endorsed a couple of weeks back--gets a whopping 1.3%.
STFU, Gov. Bentley, STFU.
STFU, Gov. Bentley, STFU.
Posted by: Brother Cavil, down with Eph 6:12-13 at September 04, 2015 10:20 AM (9krrF)
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"Screw making a pencil, how do they get that cream inside the twinkie?"
How many angels can fit on the head of a pin...?
How many angels can fit on the head of a pin...?
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at September 04, 2015 10:20 AM (LA7Cm)
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>>What Williamson (and his ilk) know is that Jeb! is blowing his chance to lead Team Gope. They're fishing around for the next guy, but before they are allowed to jump ship, they have to kill this one.
And yet Jeb! was inevitable 2 months ago? He hasn't been all that worse the past two months than he's been in the last 12 months. How long ago was it that some unnamed aide said he'd decided he needed to run against his base to win (i.e. full-steam ahead on things like amnesty and common core)?
But anyone who finds Trump a more attractive candidate than Jeb (not necessarily their top pick, just better than Jeb) is a freakin' idiot?
Uh, we're not the ones who were seduced by Jeb's inevitability.
And yet Jeb! was inevitable 2 months ago? He hasn't been all that worse the past two months than he's been in the last 12 months. How long ago was it that some unnamed aide said he'd decided he needed to run against his base to win (i.e. full-steam ahead on things like amnesty and common core)?
But anyone who finds Trump a more attractive candidate than Jeb (not necessarily their top pick, just better than Jeb) is a freakin' idiot?
Uh, we're not the ones who were seduced by Jeb's inevitability.
Posted by: Lizzy at September 04, 2015 10:21 AM (NOIQH)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at September 04, 2015 10:21 AM (LA7Cm)
Posted by: Roland Gaineslegg at September 04, 2015 10:21 AM (FoI/9)
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The worst part is that those areas tend to move around over time as they get cleaned up, or as people move from one spot to another.
So, like cockroaches?
So, like cockroaches?
Posted by: Infidel at September 04, 2015 10:22 AM (wxGc8)
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Kim Davis is a Democrat, (supposedly). She is getting what she voted for. I suspect she is a LIV that has no idea what that Dems are really all about but she is finding out first hand. I wonder if she will put it all together while sitting in her cell.
Posted by: George Orwell de Leon at September 04, 2015 10:22 AM (1BQGO)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at September 04, 2015 10:23 AM (LUgeY)
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122: "Will Trump really have Bolton?
Be still, my heart."
Ideal Trump Cabinet
SEC State: John Bolton
SEC Defense: Richard Marcinko
Attny General: Re-Animated Roy Bean
SEC DHS: Charles Norris
SEC Interior and SEC Labor are consolidated: Mike Rowe
SEC Treasury: Pick any loanshark or bookie
Dept of Ed, IRS, and Dept of Energy are eliminated.
Be still, my heart."
Ideal Trump Cabinet
SEC State: John Bolton
SEC Defense: Richard Marcinko
Attny General: Re-Animated Roy Bean
SEC DHS: Charles Norris
SEC Interior and SEC Labor are consolidated: Mike Rowe
SEC Treasury: Pick any loanshark or bookie
Dept of Ed, IRS, and Dept of Energy are eliminated.
Posted by: Azenogoth (Freedom or Fire) at September 04, 2015 10:23 AM (4nmNX)
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Been watching Narcos this week and sort of mulling over how truly messy lack of policing can get...
Posted by: Lea at September 04, 2015 10:17 AM (lIU4e)
Finishing tonight. Damn that is a good show.
Been watching Narcos this week and sort of mulling over how truly messy lack of policing can get...
Posted by: Lea at September 04, 2015 10:17 AM (lIU4e)
Finishing tonight. Damn that is a good show.
Posted by: RWC- Team BOHICA at September 04, 2015 10:23 AM (9jeGC)
Posted by: torquewrench at September 04, 2015 10:24 AM (noWW6)
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>> "Screw making a pencil, how do they get that cream inside the twinkie?"
Dude, check out "How It's Made" to answer all your assembly questions.
But back to the pencil story - isn't that a classic economic paper on how distributed markets are superior to central planning?
Dude, check out "How It's Made" to answer all your assembly questions.
But back to the pencil story - isn't that a classic economic paper on how distributed markets are superior to central planning?
Posted by: Lizzy at September 04, 2015 10:25 AM (NOIQH)
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"Dept of Ed, IRS, and Dept of Energy are eliminated."
Hey! That was my......uh......what's the word?
Oops.
Hey! That was my......uh......what's the word?
Oops.
Posted by: R. Perry at September 04, 2015 10:25 AM (LA7Cm)
Posted by: GMan at September 04, 2015 10:26 AM (sxq57)
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"I've got experience in bankruptcy and closing down things, I'm going to bankrupt and close down certain departments"
Posted by: Make America Great Again at September 04, 2015 10:19 AM (LXJ1e)
If that happens the emergency rooms are gonna be busy 'cause I suspect there will be a lot of 'lasting longer than four hours' incidents.
Posted by: Make America Great Again at September 04, 2015 10:19 AM (LXJ1e)
If that happens the emergency rooms are gonna be busy 'cause I suspect there will be a lot of 'lasting longer than four hours' incidents.
Posted by: RWC- Team BOHICA at September 04, 2015 10:26 AM (9jeGC)
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128 Pencil bit was about how capitalism converges to produce goods, not the inherent difficulty of producing a pencil
Posted by: Bigby's Snake handling Hands at September 04, 2015 10:16 AM (YkUew)
Yes how capitalism allows disparate people, material, and processes to achieve useful goods.
Posted by: Bigby's Snake handling Hands at September 04, 2015 10:16 AM (YkUew)
Yes how capitalism allows disparate people, material, and processes to achieve useful goods.
Posted by: Make America Great Again at September 04, 2015 10:27 AM (LXJ1e)
Posted by: @votermom at September 04, 2015 10:28 AM (cbfNE)
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Hewitt is so strange. Who cares about Alger Hiss? The only reason conservatives always bring up Hiss the Wasp instead of some other spy is because they don't want to be accused of anti-semitism, but anybody fixated on communist spies in 2015 has to be some kind of anti-semite, because who cares? It's the same way that "McCarthyism" is always a euphemism for anti-semitism, but nobody cares about McCarthy either.
Posted by: bjk at September 04, 2015 10:28 AM (x2rNW)
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EPA - Sarah Palin or James Inhofe
Really, just to piss off all the right people.
Wouldn't it be fun to watch either of them implement a massive downsizing?
Really, just to piss off all the right people.
Wouldn't it be fun to watch either of them implement a massive downsizing?
Posted by: Lizzy at September 04, 2015 10:28 AM (NOIQH)
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Could you imagine the disgust in the halls of power at the EU at the prospect of having to deal with Trump as President and Cruz as his consigliere and Bolton as his Secretary of State?
OMG!
I would love to see that.
OMG!
I would love to see that.
Posted by: Kreplach at September 04, 2015 10:28 AM (WVvzl)
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143 >>What Williamson (and his ilk) know is that Jeb! is blowing his chance to lead Team Gope.
...
Posted by: Lizzy at September 04, 2015 10:21 AM (NOIQH)
Jeb is doing what a fully established establishment candidate would be expected to do (IMIO) - he is reciting an establishment message - toeing an establishment line - that has worked perennially, up to and including the last election. There is no example to this point, that it has never not worked. It is the ideal of American politics at this point in history - if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
...
Posted by: Lizzy at September 04, 2015 10:21 AM (NOIQH)
Jeb is doing what a fully established establishment candidate would be expected to do (IMIO) - he is reciting an establishment message - toeing an establishment line - that has worked perennially, up to and including the last election. There is no example to this point, that it has never not worked. It is the ideal of American politics at this point in history - if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Posted by: Semper In Stercus at September 04, 2015 10:28 AM (BZAd3)
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Fantasy football: I want Sara Palin as Sec of Interior.
John Bolton has a gift of clear definition of policy goals and he's nobody's fool. SOS definitely in ANY Republican administration.
Jindal is my dark horse because he would be great in so many places.
VP Fiorina because of foreign policy experience (multi-national corporation) and keeping independent fiefdoms in line (Senate).
Cruz is still #1 for Pres because of the 'vision thing' and Trump for whatever department needs the most cleaning -- probably DHS.
John Bolton has a gift of clear definition of policy goals and he's nobody's fool. SOS definitely in ANY Republican administration.
Jindal is my dark horse because he would be great in so many places.
VP Fiorina because of foreign policy experience (multi-national corporation) and keeping independent fiefdoms in line (Senate).
Cruz is still #1 for Pres because of the 'vision thing' and Trump for whatever department needs the most cleaning -- probably DHS.
Posted by: mustbequantum at September 04, 2015 10:30 AM (MIKMs)
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81 National Review has become unreadable, just in the last three months or so. What happened over there?
Posted by: Roland Gaineslegg at September 04, 2015 09:52 AM (FoI/9)
I don't know if it has always been this way, but NR seems kinda "purgy" over the last decade or so.
Coulter, Derbyshire, Steyn. Mark friggin' Steyn? The guy is the crooning muppet of the apocalypse and you can't get along with him? Jeepers. I stopped visiting NR regularly when they canned Derb, just out of principle - I thought they overreacted. But when they parted with Steyn I was positive that they'd gone off the reservation; there just wouldn't be anything for me to read there that I couldn't get sooner from other "unapproved" sources, and have more fun in the bargain.
Posted by: Roland Gaineslegg at September 04, 2015 09:52 AM (FoI/9)
I don't know if it has always been this way, but NR seems kinda "purgy" over the last decade or so.
Coulter, Derbyshire, Steyn. Mark friggin' Steyn? The guy is the crooning muppet of the apocalypse and you can't get along with him? Jeepers. I stopped visiting NR regularly when they canned Derb, just out of principle - I thought they overreacted. But when they parted with Steyn I was positive that they'd gone off the reservation; there just wouldn't be anything for me to read there that I couldn't get sooner from other "unapproved" sources, and have more fun in the bargain.
Posted by: Mahatma Gandhi at September 04, 2015 10:30 AM (6ok4C)
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Jeb's "dance on your own grave, you might as well, what choice do you have?" strategy is apparently not working out as he planned.
Posted by: bjk at September 04, 2015 10:31 AM (x2rNW)
Posted by: Azenogoth (Freedom or Fire) at September 04, 2015 10:32 AM (4nmNX)
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>> There is no example to this point, that it has never not worked.
I get what you're saying, Jeb is certainly the GOPe's ideal in every way. However, McCain and Romney are not examples of what worked. They worked only as far as getting the GOP nomination and then failed.
I get what you're saying, Jeb is certainly the GOPe's ideal in every way. However, McCain and Romney are not examples of what worked. They worked only as far as getting the GOP nomination and then failed.
Posted by: Lizzy at September 04, 2015 10:33 AM (NOIQH)
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"Screw making a pencil, how do they get that cream inside the twinkie?"
What is this, the Mike Tyson Mysteries now?
What is this, the Mike Tyson Mysteries now?
Posted by: Brother Cavil, down with Eph 6:12-13 at September 04, 2015 10:33 AM (9krrF)
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Press Secretary - Dennis Miller
Posted by: Lizzy at September 04, 2015 10:34 AM (NOIQH)
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I've been saying that NRO is unreadable for a long time, so I called it, kudos to me. Ultimately I think any magazine begins to resemble the leader . . . and Lowry is a kind of lawyerly guy who's not very interesting. So you get lots of people like French and McCarthy who are lawyers and write like lawyers. So not very interesting.
By the way, Lowry went to high school with my sister, he was maybe a year ahead of her. Me: Do you remember a guy at your high school called Rich Lowry? She: Who?
By the way, Lowry went to high school with my sister, he was maybe a year ahead of her. Me: Do you remember a guy at your high school called Rich Lowry? She: Who?
Posted by: bjk at September 04, 2015 10:34 AM (x2rNW)
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JFK's response, essentially was, no, we're not going to do that. I think me and my brother Bobby already know what we need to know.
Ike never tried to offer any advise to Kennedy again.
Posted by: BurtTC at September 04, 2015 10:05 AM (Dj0WE)
*snort*
Yeah, Jack. That worked out well.....
JFK's response, essentially was, no, we're not going to do that. I think me and my brother Bobby already know what we need to know.
Ike never tried to offer any advise to Kennedy again.
Posted by: BurtTC at September 04, 2015 10:05 AM (Dj0WE)
*snort*
Yeah, Jack. That worked out well.....
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 04, 2015 10:34 AM (1QsMy)
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Steyn is pushing his book on Beck. I love Steyn.
Posted by: Infidel at September 04, 2015 10:35 AM (wxGc8)
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I get what you're saying, Jeb is certainly the GOPe's ideal in every way. However, McCain and Romney are not examples of what worked. They worked only as far as getting the GOP nomination and then failed.
Either the GOPe isn't really interested in the Presidency (a distinct possibility at this stage) or they're simply so bubbled and out of touch they have no clue what the American people actually want anymore (pretty well established by this point in time).
This is why some of us have been rushing into the breach Trump is opening and cutting loose with flamethrowers. Time to burn the whole rotten thing down and start over.
Either the GOPe isn't really interested in the Presidency (a distinct possibility at this stage) or they're simply so bubbled and out of touch they have no clue what the American people actually want anymore (pretty well established by this point in time).
This is why some of us have been rushing into the breach Trump is opening and cutting loose with flamethrowers. Time to burn the whole rotten thing down and start over.
Posted by: Brother Cavil, down with Eph 6:12-13 at September 04, 2015 10:35 AM (9krrF)
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"VP Fiorina because of foreign policy experience (multi-national corporation)"
The multinational that Fiorina ran into the ground?
While making fawning Islam-is-awesome speeches?
Fiorina is a combative debater and a sharp interview subject. It's understandable that a Republican base who are absolutely starved for candidates who are something other than mushy mannequins would respond to that.
But that's all she is. There's no there there.
The multinational that Fiorina ran into the ground?
While making fawning Islam-is-awesome speeches?
Fiorina is a combative debater and a sharp interview subject. It's understandable that a Republican base who are absolutely starved for candidates who are something other than mushy mannequins would respond to that.
But that's all she is. There's no there there.
Posted by: torquewrench at September 04, 2015 10:36 AM (noWW6)
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But back to the pencil story - isn't that a classic economic paper on how distributed markets are superior to central planning?
Yes it is. Wood from here, rubber from there, metal from way over yonder, filling a need and creating wealth for everyone.
It's a model that pretty much nobody in TFG's clowncar of an administration has any experience with nor even recognizes as a force for good. In fact, those imbeciles think it's evil and are doing their level best to stop it.
The Friedman quote at the top of last night's ONT was dead on accurate: "Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself."
Yes it is. Wood from here, rubber from there, metal from way over yonder, filling a need and creating wealth for everyone.
It's a model that pretty much nobody in TFG's clowncar of an administration has any experience with nor even recognizes as a force for good. In fact, those imbeciles think it's evil and are doing their level best to stop it.
The Friedman quote at the top of last night's ONT was dead on accurate: "Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself."
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at September 04, 2015 10:37 AM (LUgeY)
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Oh little Coooooorgieeeeees.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at September 04, 2015 10:37 AM (GDulk)
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"I don't know if it has always been this way, but NR seems kinda 'purgy' over the last decade or so."
Buckley famously canned various writers and editors who didn't conform to his personal vision of conservatism.
Buckley famously canned various writers and editors who didn't conform to his personal vision of conservatism.
Posted by: torquewrench at September 04, 2015 10:39 AM (noWW6)
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The first 3 Rambo installments are available on Netflix streaming as of Sept. 1. I think I'll watch #1, see if it holds up.
Posted by: Lincolntf at September 04, 2015 10:39 AM (2cS/G)
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Eh, mixed opinion on the Trump thing. On the one hand, I don't wont a fucking history professor for Prez. On the other, as campaign season progresses, candidates have to progress. I always got the vibe Trump was at least partially loud talk hotair and bullshit - fun guy, but that's the vibe and has been for years (90s, Apprentice, everything). He needs to raise his game. He's still a great option to send an FU message, but the deeper this goes, the more he can expect to get embarrassed if all he's got is brash statements. Get an advisor.
Posted by: Asshole Banana Splits Guy at September 04, 2015 10:41 AM (WJ5p6)
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Sorry, torque, I have to reject your premise. As far as I can see, the US is in an existential survival crisis.
HP survived.
HP survived.
Posted by: mustbequantum at September 04, 2015 10:44 AM (MIKMs)
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109 I read some time ago an article about how nobody knows how to make a pencil, the real gritty details of it. Plenty of people know certain steps in the process, but nobody knows everything.
That article was bullshit. Any random employee could probably tell you exactly how they're made, even the janitor. It's not rocket surgery.
Perhaps the author doesn't know or care to learn, but supposing that other people are just as ignorant is projection.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at September 04, 2015 10:05 AM (LUgeY)
"I, Pencil" is a classic explanation of why the free market is superior to central planning.
A central planner could run a pencil factory, but he could never invent the pencil if it didn't already exist.
http://www.econlib.org/library/Essays/rdPncl1.html
That article was bullshit. Any random employee could probably tell you exactly how they're made, even the janitor. It's not rocket surgery.
Perhaps the author doesn't know or care to learn, but supposing that other people are just as ignorant is projection.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at September 04, 2015 10:05 AM (LUgeY)
"I, Pencil" is a classic explanation of why the free market is superior to central planning.
A central planner could run a pencil factory, but he could never invent the pencil if it didn't already exist.
http://www.econlib.org/library/Essays/rdPncl1.html
Posted by: rickl at September 04, 2015 10:45 AM (zoehZ)
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Years ago in B school, there was and element of a business case that has stayed with me forever.
It was about a business owner who had a motto: If it's not good for everyone, it's not good for anyone.
That motto was the source of some pretty intense ideological debate (that was a good thing in college then).
But it seemed that whatever one's initial impression of that motto was, that impression could not be changed. People on the left said that it was inherently unfair to people in the lower strata while the people on the right thought that it was "socialist" inherently.
But (I'm certain that I wasn't alone) I thought that this was the perfect motto. And I think now that it would be the perfect philosophy for changing - and limiting - government.
Nothing is done now in government that is not done to benefit a targeted segment of society. And when this is done, what is done is invariably done to the detriment of all other segments of society.
This as much as anything else, is contributing to the divisions, and other problems in this country and it is also the reason why government works like shit now.
If it's not good for everyone, don't do it.
If it's not good for everyone, then it's not good for anyone.
I like it.
It was about a business owner who had a motto: If it's not good for everyone, it's not good for anyone.
That motto was the source of some pretty intense ideological debate (that was a good thing in college then).
But it seemed that whatever one's initial impression of that motto was, that impression could not be changed. People on the left said that it was inherently unfair to people in the lower strata while the people on the right thought that it was "socialist" inherently.
But (I'm certain that I wasn't alone) I thought that this was the perfect motto. And I think now that it would be the perfect philosophy for changing - and limiting - government.
Nothing is done now in government that is not done to benefit a targeted segment of society. And when this is done, what is done is invariably done to the detriment of all other segments of society.
This as much as anything else, is contributing to the divisions, and other problems in this country and it is also the reason why government works like shit now.
If it's not good for everyone, don't do it.
If it's not good for everyone, then it's not good for anyone.
I like it.
Posted by: Semper In Stercus (Make the world better) at September 04, 2015 10:50 AM (BZAd3)
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1 Trump Exposed As A Foreign Policy No Nothing
He has Hugh Hewitt pegged, though.
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Yup.
That said while nobody cares if he knows the Quds force commanders name... he should probably take a FP briefing sometime soon from a policy adviser or something, at least before the debate.
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"5 does anyone think Trump's supporters give a shit about foreign policy? Besides that happened on Hew Hewitt so no one actually heard it.
Posted by: Iron Wombat at September 04, 2015 09:20 AM (HEa5q) "
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Probably not, and yeah didn't hear it, but they might read about it, lord knows lots of ink will be spilled over trying to make big issue out of it.
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7 Seriously - teen charged as an adult for sheer stupidity (that harms no one)?
Posted by: Lizzy at September 04, 2015 09:20 AM (NOIQH)
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Welcome to the world of the insane in which we presently reside.
He has Hugh Hewitt pegged, though.
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Yup.
That said while nobody cares if he knows the Quds force commanders name... he should probably take a FP briefing sometime soon from a policy adviser or something, at least before the debate.
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"5 does anyone think Trump's supporters give a shit about foreign policy? Besides that happened on Hew Hewitt so no one actually heard it.
Posted by: Iron Wombat at September 04, 2015 09:20 AM (HEa5q) "
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Probably not, and yeah didn't hear it, but they might read about it, lord knows lots of ink will be spilled over trying to make big issue out of it.
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7 Seriously - teen charged as an adult for sheer stupidity (that harms no one)?
Posted by: Lizzy at September 04, 2015 09:20 AM (NOIQH)
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Welcome to the world of the insane in which we presently reside.
Posted by: ThisBeingMilt at September 04, 2015 11:15 AM (MbrzC)
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83 What would happen if Trump wins? I mean that as a serious question. It would certainly make for an extremely interesting 4 years.
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at September 04, 2015 09:53 AM (iONHu)
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Got that feeling that for a couple years nobody would fk with US because they'd be worried the US president might actually do something substantial or unpredictable in response. But really could anyone fuck up our FP worse then the current office holder? I mean it would take some serious talent to fk it up worse.
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at September 04, 2015 09:53 AM (iONHu)
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Got that feeling that for a couple years nobody would fk with US because they'd be worried the US president might actually do something substantial or unpredictable in response. But really could anyone fuck up our FP worse then the current office holder? I mean it would take some serious talent to fk it up worse.
Posted by: ThisBeingMilt at September 04, 2015 11:24 AM (MbrzC)
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Trump does need to up his game if he's going to take this to the next level.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 04, 2015 10:03 AM (OGm46)
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Agreed, though not cause of this interview, but because of the ones likely to come.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 04, 2015 10:03 AM (OGm46)
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Agreed, though not cause of this interview, but because of the ones likely to come.
Posted by: ThisBeingMilt at September 04, 2015 11:28 AM (MbrzC)
Posted by: Seth at September 04, 2015 11:31 AM (ZZSkG)
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122 Will Trump really have Bolton?
Be still, my heart.
Posted by: @votermom at September 04, 2015 10:13 AM (cbfNE)
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IDK... but I heard him mention it once and I thought that would be perfect pro-America tag team having Bolton @State.
Be still, my heart.
Posted by: @votermom at September 04, 2015 10:13 AM (cbfNE)
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IDK... but I heard him mention it once and I thought that would be perfect pro-America tag team having Bolton @State.
Posted by: ThisBeingMilt at September 04, 2015 11:33 AM (MbrzC)
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What good are candidates who know everything but still won't do the right thing?
Posted by: Meremortal at September 04, 2015 11:35 AM (hTqVx)
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187 - That's the key question\difference. We don't need a know it all, we someone to make the right call after being informed of the various options.
Posted by: ThisBeingMilt at September 04, 2015 11:43 AM (MbrzC)
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Buckley famously canned various writers and editors who didn't conform to his personal vision of conservatism.
From the magazine he founded and funded.
From the magazine he founded and funded.
Posted by: Grump928(c) at September 04, 2015 11:47 AM (evdj2)
Posted by: Paul A'Barge at September 04, 2015 12:04 PM (gLOx0)
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I tried this small survey with some Democrats I know.
Which of these three constitutional amendments do you think need the most updating for the 21st century?
1. Second
2. Fourth
3. Fourteenth
Unfortunately my survey was spoiled because some many of the Democrats took the fifth.
Which of these three constitutional amendments do you think need the most updating for the 21st century?
1. Second
2. Fourth
3. Fourteenth
Unfortunately my survey was spoiled because some many of the Democrats took the fifth.
Posted by: jd will at September 04, 2015 12:16 PM (EEqRQ)
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Dr. Moreau: What is the law?
Sayer of the Law: Not to eat meat, that is the law. Are we not men?
Beasts (in unison): Are we not men?
Dr. Moreau: What is the law?
Sayer of the Law: Not to go on all fours, that is the law. Are we not men?
Beasts (in unison): Are we not men?
Dr. Moreau: What is the law?
Sayer of the Law: Not to spill blood, that is the law. Are we not men?
Beasts (in unison): Are we not men?
Dr. Moreau: And if you break the law?
Beasts (whispering in unison): The House of P-A-I-N!
Sayer of the Law: Not to eat meat, that is the law. Are we not men?
Beasts (in unison): Are we not men?
Dr. Moreau: What is the law?
Sayer of the Law: Not to go on all fours, that is the law. Are we not men?
Beasts (in unison): Are we not men?
Dr. Moreau: What is the law?
Sayer of the Law: Not to spill blood, that is the law. Are we not men?
Beasts (in unison): Are we not men?
Dr. Moreau: And if you break the law?
Beasts (whispering in unison): The House of P-A-I-N!
Posted by: vivi at September 04, 2015 12:29 PM (PuvvV)
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"No nothing"...sigh...
Posted by: Jeanne up north at September 04, 2015 01:24 PM (lcy2G)
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hello
Posted by: willllow at September 04, 2015 02:42 PM (qQk+U)
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Welcome to the Hughniverse.
I used to like Hewitt, but he ticked me off for designated Carson as implausible while making lots of air time for the Bush, Rubio, Christie, Kasich, Cruz, ad nauseum.
You get the feeling that he is a Beltway pundit wannabe. He has for a long time provide a fix interview slot in his weekly shows for Chuck Todd, and surprise, guess who is now a regular on "Meet the Press". One hand washing the other.
A decent man, who is very smart, but he's too much enamored with his law degree and Ivy league credentials. But even worse he thinks he's got wit and a sharp sense of humor, which he doesn't.
That's unpardonable.
I used to like Hewitt, but he ticked me off for designated Carson as implausible while making lots of air time for the Bush, Rubio, Christie, Kasich, Cruz, ad nauseum.
You get the feeling that he is a Beltway pundit wannabe. He has for a long time provide a fix interview slot in his weekly shows for Chuck Todd, and surprise, guess who is now a regular on "Meet the Press". One hand washing the other.
A decent man, who is very smart, but he's too much enamored with his law degree and Ivy league credentials. But even worse he thinks he's got wit and a sharp sense of humor, which he doesn't.
That's unpardonable.
Posted by: Levin at September 04, 2015 05:17 PM (s26zM)
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