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Saturday Morning Weird News Dump

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Happy Saturday Morons. Hard to believe its Saturday again. Let's delve into some news stories that didn't get much attention here at the AoSHQ. Fake news? Who knows? You decide.


There is your weird news fix for the week. Feel free to discuss these or anything else you want to in this open thread. There are 2 rules, no running with sharp objects and play nice with one another. Thursday's ONT can be revisited.

Have a great weekend!!!

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at 08:09 AM




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@realDonaldTrump
































Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my "wires tapped" in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!

Posted by: SiliconeSister at March 04, 2017 08:06 AM (KJOmP)

2 Sorry for the crappy formatting above.
Obama got a FISA wiretapping warrant to tap Trump Tower in October.

Posted by: SiliconeSister at March 04, 2017 08:07 AM (KJOmP)

3 The debt limit is coming March 15. Trump should use the current "rebellion" in the government as a pretext to shutting down parts of it.

Posted by: Make America Great Again at March 04, 2017 08:09 AM (A4HOq)

4 OK, Mr. President.

So what are you going to do about it? Other than tweet, that is.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 04, 2017 08:12 AM (EZebt)

5 Also sell it as "I will not spend a dime we don't have". Furlough 500,000 in DC. I looked at the #s last night and he only has to cut back spending 10% for the next six months.

Posted by: Make America Great Again at March 04, 2017 08:13 AM (A4HOq)

6 Morning!

Off to the barrel wit ya, SS!

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at March 04, 2017 08:13 AM (UpGcq)

7 A FISA warrant to tap Trump's phone - must have suspected him of being an Islamic terrorist. Although Barron could have been the real suspect.

Posted by: An Observation at March 04, 2017 08:15 AM (SV3EU)

8 I realize I said open thread, but geez politics this early in the day?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 04, 2017 08:15 AM (voOPb)

9 Richard Nixon Called and wants to know where he goes to get his reputation back?

Posted by: firefirefire at March 04, 2017 08:15 AM (vO2v4)

10 It's official! We have a Lauren Southern bikini pic. No need to thank me:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BQ-_yaOA71b/?taken-by=laurencheriie

Posted by: Independent George at March 04, 2017 08:15 AM (rREU6)

11 Top 20!

Posted by: Uncle Si at March 04, 2017 08:16 AM (ZLmoR)

12 My apologies Misanthropic Humanitarian, he tweeted it around 7 this morning. I don't think the man sleeps.

Posted by: SiliconeSister at March 04, 2017 08:17 AM (KJOmP)

13 Can we start swinging for people's throats yet?

Posted by: Weasel at March 04, 2017 08:19 AM (Sfs6o)

14 Posted by: SiliconeSister at March 04, 2017 08:17 AM (KJOmP)


Apology accepted.

It is an open thread, so you Morons go ahead and open thread away

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 04, 2017 08:19 AM (voOPb)

15 12. He doesn't sleep. The man waits.....

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 04, 2017 08:20 AM (hZg72)

16 I realize I said open thread, but geez politics this early in the day?
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian


Well, compared to bread made from cockroaches, and syphillis rates In florida, politics has a slightly less gross factor.

Just barely.

Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at March 04, 2017 08:20 AM (ZFUt7)

17 I have a serious crush on Lauren Southern.

Posted by: Insomniac - sin valor at March 04, 2017 08:20 AM (0mRoj)

18 Mmmmm. Cock-a-roach flour. Because we're going to run out of food!!

No not the cockroaches you see running around your house. These are special farm raised cockroaches.

Organic
No pesticides
Pasture raised.

Posted by: Bruce at March 04, 2017 08:20 AM (8ikIW)

19 16 I realize I said open thread, but geez politics this early in the day?
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian


Well, compared to bread made from cockroaches, and syphillis rates In florida, politics has a slightly less gross factor.

Just barely.
Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at March 04, 2017 08:20 AM (ZFUt7)


Need I remind you that the title is Weird News Dump?

Perhaps The Good, The Bad & THe Ugly theme needs to make a return visit next Saturday

Bawahhhhh

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 04, 2017 08:21 AM (voOPb)

20 morning mh.

ice fishing today?

Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 04, 2017 08:21 AM (KP5rU)

21 The reaction to Jeff Sessions by the Surrogate-Democrats brings the glacial pace of the alleged "investigation" of the IRS, Lerner and Koskinen into sharp focus.

They are ALL the enemy. Take them down.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 04, 2017 08:21 AM (mbhDw)

22 You do know Lauren Southern is officially male, doncha?

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at March 04, 2017 08:22 AM (UpGcq)

23 So many potential Darwin candidates.

Posted by: BignJames at March 04, 2017 08:22 AM (x9c8r)

24
Free range cockroaches. I'm sure someone approves. But I'm sure it's not me.

Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at March 04, 2017 08:22 AM (ZFUt7)

25 The Villages alone is probably responsible for most of the uptick in STDs. Those retirees are some randy old buggers.

Posted by: Insomniac - sin valor at March 04, 2017 08:22 AM (0mRoj)

26 13 Can we start swinging for people's throats yet?
Posted by: Weasel at March 04, 2017 08:19 AM (Sfs6o)


Agreed. There is no time to grab them by the pussies.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 04, 2017 08:22 AM (mbhDw)

27 22 You do know Lauren Southern is officially male, doncha?
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at March 04, 2017 08:22 AM (UpGcq)

Heh. Yes, and I don't care.

Posted by: Insomniac - sin valor at March 04, 2017 08:23 AM (0mRoj)

28 24
Free range cockroaches. I'm sure someone approves. But I'm sure it's not me.

Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at March 04, 2017 08:22 AM (ZFUt7)


My pet chameleon named Anita Dunn.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 04, 2017 08:23 AM (mbhDw)

29 Cockroach flour. Oh MisHum, what have we done now.

Posted by: bluebell at March 04, 2017 08:24 AM (sBOL1)

30 Hi bluebell!

Posted by: Weasel at March 04, 2017 08:24 AM (Sfs6o)

31 Trump doesn't give up...Some on here worry that he is being sunk by his enemies. Just when things look bleak, things change. I'd bet that all the other candidates for president a months ago would have given in by now and cowered in the corner.

Posted by: Colin at March 04, 2017 08:25 AM (izi2Z)

32 Howdy, Weasel! Going to the range today?

Posted by: bluebell at March 04, 2017 08:25 AM (sBOL1)

33 G'day from Down Under and it's Sunday

On the way home from a school reunion dinner ( Aussie Bloke)

And I'm reading an Aussie blog where President Trumps tweets are Big News Huge in fact.....

The Pres is very very cross!


Posted by: aussie at March 04, 2017 08:25 AM (TI2xr)

34 22 You do know Lauren Southern is officially male, doncha?
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at March 04, 2017 08:22 AM (UpGcq)
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Sure, by Canadian standards. Which we all know are meaningless.

Posted by: Independent George at March 04, 2017 08:25 AM (rREU6)

35 8 I realize I said open thread, but geez politics this early in the day?
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 04, 2017 08:15 AM (voOPb)

===

I employ millennials and have to badger them all day every day to 1) come to work and 2) do their work. Maybe I should do an "adulting" class for them too.

Nah. They do not want to know what they don't know. And they don't know jack.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 04, 2017 08:26 AM (EZebt)

36
No attempt to subvert your editorial discretion, Mis Hum.

But it seems like the two stories I clicked on made we want to stop clicking, brush my teeth, go back to bed, and pull the covers over my head.

Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at March 04, 2017 08:26 AM (ZFUt7)

37 25. Even Del Boca Vista, Phase II?

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 04, 2017 08:26 AM (hZg72)

38 Nah. They do not want to know what they don't know. And they don't know jack.





Posted by: San Franpsycho

Most are experts on how things should be though.

Posted by: Bruce at March 04, 2017 08:27 AM (8ikIW)

39 Hello, aussie. It amazes me that you're able to stay up so late every day.

Posted by: bluebell at March 04, 2017 08:27 AM (sBOL1)

40 37 25. Even Del Boca Vista, Phase II?
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 04, 2017 08:26 AM (hZg72)

Huh?

Posted by: Insomniac - sin valor at March 04, 2017 08:27 AM (0mRoj)

41 Cockroach flour.....

The scientists in the story "believe" food shortages will be a major concern in 10-20 years or some such nonsense. But they never say why. And what about the last 70 years with Bangladesh and Ethiopia leading the pack. Remember the idiots singing about both?

Food shortages exist in all 3rd world commie/socialist shitholes since they became 3rd world commie/socialist commie shitholes.

Eliminate the commie/socialist part and viola! no more food "shortages".

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 04, 2017 08:28 AM (5VlCp)

42 25. Even Del Boca Vista, Phase II?

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine.


All air conditioners are stuck in the ON position. They must huddle for warmth. And, you know, things happen

Posted by: Bruce at March 04, 2017 08:28 AM (8ikIW)

43 check out right wing yankee's book!
link in nic

Posted by: @votermom @vm at March 04, 2017 08:28 AM (Om16U)

44 The worthless media that salivates at the prospect of another Watergate has just that right here. But, nah, nevermind. Trump should go after Obama for sedition.

Posted by: Jmel at March 04, 2017 08:28 AM (OeWgo)

45 Eliminate the commie/socialist part and viola! no more food "shortages".

Posted by: Hairyback Guy

Plus, I like to catch and eat my "flour" on the hoof...what the hell do you call cockyroaches feets?

Posted by: Bruce at March 04, 2017 08:29 AM (8ikIW)

46 20 morning mh.

ice fishing today?
Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 04, 2017 08:21 AM (KP5rU)

Cabin run, need to check out the roof.
Fishing on ice tomorrow in the 50s

What are you up to?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 04, 2017 08:30 AM (voOPb)

47 32 Howdy, Weasel! Going to the range today?
Posted by: bluebell at March 04, 2017 08:25 AM (sBOL1)
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Not today - I thought I was going to be out of town on bidness but that trip didn't materialize. Then I thought I was supposed to be babysitting our goddaughter of color, but she's sick and staying home. My backup plan was to do some springtime work in the yard, but it's only 35 degrees - so not happening.

Posted by: Weasel at March 04, 2017 08:30 AM (Sfs6o)

48 Got to wonder how many other political opponents Obama was wire-tapping.
My guess - all of them.

Posted by: @votermom @vm at March 04, 2017 08:30 AM (Om16U)

49 42, I think they call it hot yoga.

Posted by: Donald Fagen at March 04, 2017 08:30 AM (M3DRt)

50 17 I have a serious crush on Lauren Southern.
Posted by: Insomniac - sin valor at March 04, 2017 08:20 AM (0mRoj)
===

You and me both.

Posted by: Independent George at March 04, 2017 08:30 AM (rREU6)

51 40. Fictional retirement community from Seinfeld. Jerry's folks moved there first, then the Costanzas moved there, out of spite.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 04, 2017 08:31 AM (hZg72)

52
Thanks! The coffee sounds great!

But, what's with the Eggrolls?

Posted by: TheSev at March 04, 2017 08:31 AM (Av8i6)

53 39 I just assume aussie is a vampire

Posted by: @votermom @vm at March 04, 2017 08:31 AM (Om16U)

54 Obama and his minions' arrogance knows no bounds.

Posted by: Martell at March 04, 2017 08:31 AM (ri7Kw)

55 Even if there is no evidence that Obama conspired with a FISA court to obtain wiretaps on then-Candidate/now-President Trump, the serious of the charge requires multiple special prosecutors to investigate every aspect of this heinous act!

Posted by: Hrothgar at March 04, 2017 08:32 AM (cV6Ls)

56 Well, Weasel, looks like you have a nice day ahead of you of doing whatever you want.

You officially have the all-clear to return to all your rifle sports and all? I hope so.

Posted by: bluebell at March 04, 2017 08:33 AM (sBOL1)

57 36
No attempt to subvert your editorial discretion, Mis Hum.

But it seems like the two stories I clicked on made we want to stop clicking, brush my teeth, go back to bed, and pull the covers over my head.
Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at March 04, 2017 08:26 AM (ZFUt7)

Funny you said that.
I had the same reaction Thursday night.

Maybe I need a vacation or .................

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 04, 2017 08:33 AM (voOPb)

58 39 bluebell

Hi I'm a night person and in my youth always loved working nights

But right now we're battling Sydney traffic to get home

One car accident on the motorway ...crawling along at 10kms/hour!

And I can sleep in later!

Posted by: aussie at March 04, 2017 08:33 AM (TI2xr)

59 OK. Here's something we think you'll really like:
http://tinyurl.com/jc7gsar

Bravo sir, Bra-VO

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 04, 2017 08:34 AM (bU860)

60 53. Antipodians......shifty bunch, no mistake.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 04, 2017 08:34 AM (hZg72)

61
Trump should seek a FISA wiretap for all his potential 2020 opponents now.

0bama has created precedent.

Although I feel sorry for anyone listening in on Al Frankens phone line.

Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at March 04, 2017 08:35 AM (ZFUt7)

62
You officially have the all-clear to return to all your rifle sports and all? I hope so.

Posted by: bluebell at March 04, 2017 08:33 AM (sBOL1)
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Oh yeah - all clear. Thanks. We're preparing for the World Championship in Ottawa this summer, but right now I'm kind of enjoying the break between work being crazy and shooting season getting started.

Posted by: Weasel at March 04, 2017 08:36 AM (Sfs6o)

63 But, what's with the Eggrolls?
Posted by: TheSev at March 04, 2017 08:31 AM (Av8i6)

===

I live in the largest Chinese population outside China and cannot get a decent egg roll.

So are egg rolls actually Chinese food, or are they as American as Chop Suey?

Every time I reminisce about all the great places I went as a kid on Mott St. Mrs. Franpsycho starts rolling her eyes at me...

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 04, 2017 08:36 AM (EZebt)

64 I'd bet that all the other candidates for president a months ago would have given in by now and cowered in the corner.

Posted by: Colin at March 04, 2017 08:25 AM (izi2Z)


Sirrah, I resent that remark!

¡Please to clap, mi amigos!

Posted by: ¡ Jeb! at March 04, 2017 08:37 AM (cV6Ls)

65 Thanks! The coffee sounds great!



But, what's with the Eggrolls?



Posted by: TheSev

Maybe they're cabbage rolls.

Schmenge Bros.
https://tinyurl.com/hltoyfc

Posted by: Bruce at March 04, 2017 08:37 AM (8ikIW)

66 OK. Here's something we think you'll really like:
http://tinyurl.com/jc7gsar

Bravo sir, Bra-VO
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 04, 2017 08:34 AM (bU860)
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Amazing. He didn't even bat an eye. Just reached up and grabbed it.


Posted by: bluebell at March 04, 2017 08:37 AM (sBOL1)

67
4 OK, Mr. President.

So what are you going to do about it? Other than tweet, that is.

Posted by: San Franpsycho


I know what Ace is doing. He's building a flaming skull. A big, beautiful flaming skull. It will be huge. With a beautiful hole where the mouth is, suitable for a bag o' dicks.

Posted by: PDT (call me Donald) at March 04, 2017 08:37 AM (iWW0H)

68 Barky still sucks, and will continue to suck.

Posted by: Killerdog at March 04, 2017 08:38 AM (7SC+O)

69 "The reaction to Jeff Sessions by the Surrogate-Democrats brings the glacial pace of the alleged "investigation" of the IRS, Lerner and Koskinen into sharp focus. They are ALL the enemy. Take them down. Posted by JJ Sefton

yeah, just a couple rogue agents in Cinci turned out to go right to the White House, 100's of tea party groups were indeed targeted, yet Lerner retire comfortably on six figures. (and Sen Durbin won when Lerner with FEC (?) held an investigation over his opponent's head, he said Lerner even told him it would be dropped if he agreed not to run, he later won the frivolous case)

Holder lied about actually running guns to cartels and not bothering to track them .. two years later he submits an amended report ... held in contempt yet no real penalty.

They are so desperate on the Russia stuff perhaps because that was the grounds for the FISA limited wire tap, and they are pushing the narrative that Trump is guilty. but if Trump can get his own people in, the real FBI may start to put the real culprits through the meat grinder. They went after the king, but they did not kill him (yet)

Posted by: illiniwek at March 04, 2017 08:38 AM (YMJtx)

70 Forbes doesn't like my adblocker.

Tough shit, Forbes.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at March 04, 2017 08:38 AM (oVJmc)

71 Shot just got real.

Posted by: Czar Peter at March 04, 2017 08:38 AM (qaWk6)

72 46; right now, not much. later on, meet some of wifes friends from work for food and drinks. most of them are morons so should be good.

they are still fishing on our little mill pond here. not me.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 04, 2017 08:38 AM (KP5rU)

73 "Some people have said they want their kids to be like me"--Sexless alien freak

I see it has an active fantasy life, complete with imaginary friends.

Posted by: Brunette the 'Ette at March 04, 2017 08:39 AM (adsVM)

74 53 votormum


I wish I could do smiley faces - with some vampire teeth in the pic!

Stuck in traffic at 12.45am and you've made me laugh! Thanks !

Posted by: aussie at March 04, 2017 08:39 AM (TI2xr)

75 I keep having to remind myself that Obama's Admin was scandal free.

Posted by: SiliconeSister at March 04, 2017 08:40 AM (KJOmP)

76 Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at March 04, 2017 08:35 AM (ZFUt7)

Spicer should drop a line about using the surveillance state against minions of any party might be necessary, citing James Rosen as an example.

Posted by: Hrothgar at March 04, 2017 08:40 AM (cV6Ls)

77 Trump's tweets are now headlines on all major websites.

Sh*t starting to get real.

Posted by: WisRich at March 04, 2017 08:40 AM (OAlmw)

78 Trump tweet #6 today

Arnold Schwarzenegger isn't voluntarily leaving the Apprentice, he was fired by his bad (pathetic) ratings, not by me. Sad end to great show.

Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at March 04, 2017 08:41 AM (ZFUt7)

79 Dear Pres. Trump,

Please please please tell the Obama appointee holder-overs

"You're fired!"

Posted by: JAS at March 04, 2017 08:41 AM (4sHXv)

80 66 OK. Here's something we think you'll really like:
http://tinyurl.com/jc7gsar

Bravo sir, Bra-VO
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 04, 2017 08:34 AM (bU860)
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Amazing. He didn't even bat an eye. Just reached up and grabbed it.


Posted by: bluebell at March 04, 2017 08:37 AM (sBOL1)
----------------
Is it warm in here?

Posted by: Brunette the 'Ette at March 04, 2017 08:42 AM (adsVM)

81 63. Heh.....reminds me of an observation that I think PJ O'Rourke stole from my favorite uncle. During the Brezhnev years, mt uncle was in the USSR, lookinf for relatives or any word on their fate. 'You can't get Chicken Kiev in Kiev.'

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 04, 2017 08:42 AM (hZg72)

82 51 40. Fictional retirement community from Seinfeld. Jerry's folks moved there first, then the Costanzas moved there, out of spite.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 04, 2017 08:31 AM (hZg72)

Oh. I was never a big Seinfeld fan.

Posted by: Insomniac - sin valor at March 04, 2017 08:43 AM (0mRoj)

83 So one politician is eavesdropping on the other party's candidate before a major election, using law-enforcement agencies?

Sounds oh-so-legit to me.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at March 04, 2017 08:43 AM (oVJmc)

84 Trump's tweets are now headlines on all major websites.

Sh*t starting to get real.


THIS is why he shouldn't stop tweeting.

He can FORCE the media to cover details they don't want to mention.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at March 04, 2017 08:44 AM (oVJmc)

85 82. I liked the Costanzas. Says a lot about me, I'm sure.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 04, 2017 08:45 AM (hZg72)

86 THIS is why he shouldn't stop tweeting.

He can FORCE the media to cover details they don't want to mention.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at March 04, 2017 08:44 AM (oVJmc)
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Agreed!

Posted by: Weasel at March 04, 2017 08:45 AM (Sfs6o)

87 Ayeeee! The flour is people!!!!!!!!

Posted by: cockroach Frank Thorn at March 04, 2017 08:46 AM (DMUuz)

88 60 Uncle etc

Yes that's why we are banished to the arse end of the world my dear where we can't bother anyone!

Posted by: aussie at March 04, 2017 08:46 AM (TI2xr)

89 Stuck in traffic at 12.45am and you've made me laugh! Thanks !
Posted by: aussie at March 04, 2017 08:39 AM (TI2xr)

===

Wow. How is that possible? Too few roads?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 04, 2017 08:47 AM (EZebt)

90 Police arrested the former manager of Sen. John McCain's Pueblo presidential campaign office Wednesday on charges he sexually assaulted a 5-year-old boy left in his care so the boy's mother could attend a rally for McCain's running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, The Denver Post's Howard Pankratz reported Thursday afternoon.

It's the second arrest on charges of sexual assault on a child by a person in position of trust in a week for Jeffrey Claude Bartleson, 52, who has faced similar allegations at least five times since 1982 without being convicted of a crime, according to the Pueblo Chieftain's Nick Bonham.

Two detectives have been assigned full-time to the investigation and are looking into allegations Bartleson lured victims through church groups, his work as a sponsor at a hospital drug rehab unit, and during involvement in political work.

Bartleson listed his occupation as "political consultant" at the Pueblo County Jail, the Chieftain reported, but state Republican groups were quick to distance themselves from him. Bartleson indeed ran the McCain office in Pueblo and directed the Republican nominee's southern Colorado campaign, the chairman of the Pueblo County Republican Party told Pankratz, but doesn't hold an official party position and had only attended a few GOP meetings. The state Republican Party told Pankratz they had had "no contact" with Bartleson.

In an arrest affidavit, one alleged victim said Bartleson was "wearing clothes the same as John McCain," the Chieftain reported.

Posted by: undocumented SMOD at March 04, 2017 08:47 AM (e8kgV)

91 McCarthy article was good, as someone linked to here
he points out that he may change his view on breaking down "the wall" because it can be used to Trump up a national security issue with no evidence, as it seems Obama did.

The question becomes how far they taps went ... Trump was not named, and Trump states in this morning tweet "Nothing found". But Obama approved the spreading of the wiretaps so it could (illegally, yet Obama changed rules to help hide the crime, indicating Obama's intent?) be leaked to MFM to spread doubt and ask probing questions with advantage of wiretapped private conversations.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/443768/obama-fisa-trump-wiretap

Posted by: illiniwek at March 04, 2017 08:48 AM (YMJtx)

92 Some woman won a case of Budweiser home delivered by the clydesdales. She gave up beer for Lent. Any moron going to tell her that the Sundays are not in Lent?

Posted by: JAS at March 04, 2017 08:48 AM (4sHXv)

93 Getting ready to leave for breakfast - I'm thinking ham, cheese and onion omelette, and an engrish muffin.

Posted by: Weasel at March 04, 2017 08:48 AM (Sfs6o)

94 Count me in the minority.

Trump is NOT BEING STRONG ENOUGH on the wiretapping.

He either needs to get his ass out of Mar Lago and /or have the heads of the FBI, NSA, DOJ, etc etc etc to Florida right now or he needs to be back in DC declaring open, relentless war against the saborteurs.

Putting this stuff on Twitter is WEAK. So weak that methinks Trump may be lying...our exaggerating at a minimum.

IF he called all the heads of the appropriate agencies to the White House and laid out what he thinks happened and what he wants done THEN I 'd believe it.

All he has done with his tweets today is ......EXACTLY NOTHING.

Posted by: 'Cold Civil War'. That seems apt. at March 04, 2017 08:49 AM (oBuXO)

95 PDT's tweet was just the beginning. If Hillary had won (like they thought) it would be nothing, but since Trump won, this will be a big deal. Trump and Sessions will know what to do about it and because of the Democrat trickery and prickery, it will be no holds barred. This one is one for the history books. IMHO.

Posted by: Dirks Strewn at March 04, 2017 08:49 AM (iWW0H)

96 You'll have to pass the Repeal and Replace bill to find out what's in it.

(Thanks, Nancy.)

Posted by: Pauligirl Ryan at March 04, 2017 08:50 AM (97XyN)

97
I just wish Trump would hand the phone to someone and say, 'proofread this for me' before hitting send. He *is* the president. Who can refuse?

Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at March 04, 2017 08:50 AM (ZFUt7)

98 I'm afraid that Obama's skin color will render him immune to any consequences for this. And he's relying on that.

Posted by: SiliconeSister at March 04, 2017 08:50 AM (KJOmP)

99 President Trumps tweets are being noticed Down Under

Action time!

Posted by: aussie at March 04, 2017 08:50 AM (TI2xr)

100 88. Went to uni with a buncha limey bastards. Called Aussies 'Yanks in chains.'

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 04, 2017 08:50 AM (hZg72)

101 81 63. Heh.....reminds me of an observation that I think PJ O'Rourke stole from my favorite uncle. During the Brezhnev years, mt uncle was in the USSR, lookinf for relatives or any word on their fate. 'You can't get Chicken Kiev in Kiev.'
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 04, 2017 08:42 AM (hZg72)
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O'Rourke was going met with some govvie types in a ME country (I forget where) and they asked him to bring pita bread. "We can't get f*cking pita bread here!"

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 04, 2017 08:50 AM (EnKk6)

102 Did Ace's giraffe ever give birth?

Posted by: Ktgreat at March 04, 2017 08:51 AM (Bl4dy)

103 So one politician is eavesdropping on the other party's candidate before a major election, using law-enforcement agencies?

Sounds oh-so-legit to me.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at March 04, 2017 08:43 AM (oVJmc)


To be perfectly clear, it was apparent that Candidate Trump posed a clear and present danger to the New World Order's Globalist Uber State, so appropriate measures had to be taken. You do understand the necessity do you not, comrade citizen?

Posted by: Hrothgar at March 04, 2017 08:51 AM (cV6Ls)

104 Putting this stuff on Twitter is WEAK. So weak that methinks Trump may be lying...our exaggerating at a minimum.
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He's not lying. Read the National Review article linked at comment 91.

Posted by: bluebell at March 04, 2017 08:51 AM (sBOL1)

105 Trump should hold a national televised address and reveal all of the spying that the Obama administration committed against his campaign.

He's now the President he can declasify anything or reveal anything he wants.

It's time to go to the matresses with the deep state.

And Paul Ryan is a disgusting piece of shit, he was on FOX mitigating the revelation.

These GOPe cocksucker need to be primaried and gotten rid of.

The Democrats are not our main enemy, per se, it, idiots like McConnel, Ryan and the other assorted GOPe fucktards.

Posted by: Kreplach at March 04, 2017 08:51 AM (+lv+r)

106 Posted by: Weasel at March 04, 2017 08:48 AM (Sfs6o)

Sticking w/liquids here, bloody marys...Irish coffee.

Posted by: BignJames at March 04, 2017 08:51 AM (x9c8r)

107 93 Getting ready to leave for breakfast - I'm thinking ham, cheese and onion omelette, and an engrish muffin.
Posted by: Weasel at March 04, 2017 08:48 AM (Sfs6o)
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Don't forget the ketchup!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 04, 2017 08:51 AM (EZebt)

108 good morning.......looks like i have to eat my skynyrd tickets.....and i'm not happy about that at all....

Posted by: phoenixgirl..spring training at March 04, 2017 08:51 AM (0O7c5)

109 All he has done with his tweets today is ......EXACTLY NOTHING.
Posted by: 'Cold Civil War'. That seems apt. at March 04, 2017 08:49 AM (oBuXO)
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There's two fronts: The Public (tweets) and the Private.

Don't think for a minute they aren't working this behind the scenes.

Posted by: WisRich at March 04, 2017 08:52 AM (OAlmw)

110 Also, though this is not a GAINZZ thread I have a major PR to report.

Did a sub ten minute mile and a sub 35 minute 5K.

Going on my first mountain hike of the season tomorrow, can't wait.

Posted by: Kreplach at March 04, 2017 08:53 AM (+lv+r)

111 One of the things that stood out for me on my first trip to Shanghai was how completely inauthentic the Chinese food was.

/s

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 04, 2017 08:53 AM (DMUuz)

112 94 Count me in the minority.

Trump is NOT BEING STRONG ENOUGH on the wiretapping.

He either needs to get his ass out of Mar Lago and /or have the heads of the FBI, NSA, DOJ, etc etc etc to Florida right now or he needs to be back in DC declaring open, relentless war against the saborteurs.

Putting this stuff on Twitter is WEAK. So weak that methinks Trump may be lying...our exaggerating at a minimum.

IF he called all the heads of the appropriate agencies to the White House and laid out what he thinks happened and what he wants done THEN I 'd believe it.

All he has done with his tweets today is ......EXACTLY NOTHING.

Posted by: 'Cold Civil War'. That seems apt.

There's a lot of the right people shitting their pants, that ought to count for something.

Posted by: Dirks Strewn at March 04, 2017 08:53 AM (iWW0H)

113 Plus, I like to catch and eat my "flour" on the hoof...what the hell do you call cockyroaches feets?
Posted by: Bruce at March 04, 2017 08:29 AM (8ikIW)

Chuckie Schumers?

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 04, 2017 08:53 AM (5VlCp)

114 94
All he has done with his tweets today is ......EXACTLY NOTHING.
Posted by: 'Cold Civil War'. That seems apt. at March 04, 2017 08:49 AM (oBuXO)


Tweets are like the proverbial tip of the iceberg. Just the tip.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 04, 2017 08:54 AM (mbhDw)

115 2 Obama got a FISA wiretapping warrant to tap Trump Tower in October.
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Further proof that a fish rots from the head.

Posted by: socalcon at March 04, 2017 08:55 AM (UXScn)

116
Off to my studio to do some "shmearing" as my dad, of blessed memory, used to say.

Have a great day, everyone.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 04, 2017 08:55 AM (mbhDw)

117 From the complete joke that is Yahoo:

'This is Nixon/Watergate': Without evidence, Trump accuses Obama of wire tapping Trump Tower before election



Yahoo, there is a lot of evidence that you are a completely shit site with a bunch of cretins working for it starting with that lefty ditz at the top

Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 04, 2017 08:55 AM (auHtY)

118 89 Sanfran Psycho

Accident ahead!

It's raining here and some drivers forget that roads can be wet!

Anyway home now. .

Posted by: aussie at March 04, 2017 08:56 AM (TI2xr)

119 Bye, JJ. Hope it's relaxing for you.

Posted by: bluebell at March 04, 2017 08:56 AM (sBOL1)

120 97 I'm not entirely convinced he doesn't do it on purpose.
Bait the MSM and Dems into mocking his idiocy, because they can't resist, and they lose focus on the big picture.

Posted by: gewa76 at March 04, 2017 08:56 AM (B6OKy)

121 All he's done, that we know about, is tweet.

Posted by: Nigel West Dickens at March 04, 2017 08:57 AM (FqgrG)

122 "THIS is why he shouldn't stop tweeting. He can FORCE the media to cover details they don't want to mention. Posted by: Mr. Peebles

right ... they come at him and he does the jujitsu with the tweet to reveal they are fake news, and the real perp is their Dem cohorts.

He might expand to doing You-Tube 3-5 minute segments on different topics. One by the lawyer McCarthy on the wiretap thing would be good. He can even link them right from the tweet. Same with global warming, open borders, etc.

He doesn't have to FORCE the media to stop spinning/lying. He can bypass the liars and communicate directly. New media made the old corrupt media obsolete, and Trump has properly branded them as a leftist propaganda machine.

Posted by: illiniwek at March 04, 2017 08:57 AM (YMJtx)

123 Good morning all! Have to say that the Homeland Security apparatchiks created by Bush have not increased our security at all. IMO, it was not worth the loss of our freedom.

Posted by: mustbequantum at March 04, 2017 08:57 AM (MIKMs)

124
Don't forget the ketchup!
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 04, 2017 08:51 AM (EZebt)
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Nothing better than ketchup (catsup?) on a fried egg sammich, but I usually just add a few drops of Tabasco to an omelette.

Posted by: Weasel at March 04, 2017 08:57 AM (Sfs6o)

125 Tweets are like the proverbial tip of the iceberg. Just the tip.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 04, 2017 08:54 AM (mbhDw)


Yes, I find it very hard to believe that nothing is going on behind the scenes. If it were to be done, it had best be done in the shadows, then presented as a fait accompli for all to see!

Posted by: Hrothgar at March 04, 2017 08:57 AM (cV6Ls)

126 I don't have a problem with keeping the Obamacare Replace Bill under wraps. If a congressman is not on the committee, all he/she is going to do is bitch about it. I say, let the committed do their job unhindered.

Posted by: JAS at March 04, 2017 08:58 AM (4sHXv)

127
Top cbs news stories are about Trump tweets.

Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at March 04, 2017 08:58 AM (ZFUt7)

128 Sticking w/liquids here, bloody marys...Irish coffee.
Posted by: BignJames at March 04, 2017 08:51 AM (x9c8r)
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Good call!

Posted by: Weasel at March 04, 2017 08:59 AM (Sfs6o)

129 *I realize I said open thread, but geez politics this early in the day?
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 04, 2017 08:15 AM (voOPb)*

Morons gotta motron.

COB unexpectedly surprised.

Posted by: tbodie at March 04, 2017 08:59 AM (n8pMb)

130 Did Ace's giraffe ever give birth?
Posted by: Ktgreat at March 04, 2017 08:51 AM


It's possible WeirdDave's gaffe has given birth to an AoSHQ meme.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 04, 2017 08:59 AM (DMUuz)

131 Sticking w/liquids here, bloody marys...Irish coffee.
Posted by: BignJames at March 04, 2017 08:51 AM (x9c8r)
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Actually, some of my fondest memories of visiting friends in Central America is drinking for breakfast.

Posted by: Weasel at March 04, 2017 09:00 AM (Sfs6o)

132 Just the tip.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 04, 2017 08:54 AM


Teaser!

Posted by: Lena at March 04, 2017 09:01 AM (DMUuz)

133 No, Geraldo, it is not legal to "tap" Trump's phones. FISA is not a law enforcement tool, it is an intelligence tool. Obama may have seriously violated the law, including the 4th Amendment.

Posted by: The Mouse that Roared at March 04, 2017 09:02 AM (7N6ox)

134 The wire tapping revelation, Dem's screaming, and Trump's tweets has taken this issue to a level that Government will have to something, somebody's going down.

At this point, you can't just say "Nevermind, nothing to see here".

Posted by: WisRich at March 04, 2017 09:03 AM (OAlmw)

135 117; yahoo, the paragon of fake news. made to order while you wait. like a comet pizza. yahoo should have been litigated out of existance years ago.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 04, 2017 09:03 AM (KP5rU)

136 101. He came bavk and swore up and down he'd seen with his own eyes that the Soviet union didn't have much time left. Everybody thought he was exaggerating, but he was right. The proof - the epiphany - came when he put his own toilet paper into the bathroom in his hotel and he looked at the grainy bar of sorta grey soap they'd provided for him.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 04, 2017 09:03 AM (hZg72)

137 April is currently chewing on something and staring straight into the camera. I think she is not amused.

Posted by: bluebell at March 04, 2017 09:03 AM (sBOL1)

138 3 teen girls kidnapped by Salvadoran gang in Houston

Two MS-13 gang members from El Salvador, both in the United States illegally, held three teenage girls against their will and killed one of them in a satanic ritual, authorities in Houston said Friday.



Houston is a "sanctuary" city. The mayor should be up on charges too.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 04, 2017 09:03 AM (auHtY)

139 I worked this stuff(corruption at the highest levels behind the scenes)....I cannot for the life of me see any ...ANY...advantage to having a tweet out on the allegation.

NONE.

I it is the first truly stupid thing I have seen
Trump do......well, ok grabbing the mish tape was pretty damn stupid but , in his official capacity, the tweets today are useless.
some body ....Sessions?...needs to fly to Florida and stomp his gd twitter thingy into the dirt.
Temporarily, at least.

Posted by: 'Cold Civil War'. That seems apt. at March 04, 2017 09:03 AM (oBuXO)

140
Has the giraffe buried under six tons of porn given birth yet?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 04, 2017 09:04 AM (ugwJg)

141 Posted by: Mr. Peebles at March 04, 2017 08:43 AM (oVJmc)

And if Hellary had won she would have made O's illegal surveillance look like friendly interest. She abused FBI power as first female when she didn't have any power and there's no way she would do less as president.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 04, 2017 09:04 AM (sEDyY)

142 Trump needs to use the upcoming March 15 debt limit as an opportunity to disable the deep state. Furlough half a million.

Posted by: Make America Great Again at March 04, 2017 09:04 AM (A4HOq)

143 The "concern" is getting thick here. Funny thing, the forecast doesn't call for any.

This is concerning.

Posted by: Tim in Illinois at March 04, 2017 09:06 AM (d76uN)

144 the person that is ceo of yahoo is from wausau, wi. she is tammy baldwinesque radioactive stupid. but, very rich.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 04, 2017 09:06 AM (KP5rU)

145 136. Contd. And it struck him - he was in a 'fine' InTurist hotel in Moscow, a place set up to make a good impression, and this was the best they could do.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 04, 2017 09:06 AM (hZg72)

146 I am now one week without a cigarette.

I'd stay away if I were you.

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at March 04, 2017 09:06 AM (sF/De)

147 i want to stay away from politics, but poltics don't want to stay away from me. sad

Posted by: runner at March 04, 2017 09:07 AM (fO42p)

148 Looks like it's gonna be an early night.

Posted by: Nigel West Dickens at March 04, 2017 09:07 AM (FqgrG)

149 I think the Trump Tweets are good policy and politics. There is no other way to get stuff out to the public without the media explaining stuff away. Keep going!

Posted by: mustbequantum at March 04, 2017 09:07 AM (MIKMs)

150 143
The "concern" is getting thick here. Funny thing, the forecast doesn't call for any.



This is concerning.

Posted by: Tim in Illinois at March 04, 2017 09:06 AM (d76uN)

I noted a slight uptick in the "concern" level. I was afraid it was just my trick knee acting up again.

Posted by: The Mouse that Roared at March 04, 2017 09:07 AM (7N6ox)

151 143. I'm concerned that you're concerned.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 04, 2017 09:07 AM (hZg72)

152 the person that is ceo of yahoo is from wausau, wi. she is tammy baldwinesque radioactive stupid. but, very rich.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 04, 2017 09:06 AM (KP5rU)



Marissa Meyer, poor widdle girl didn't get her $2 million bonus. The liberal ditz has driven that company into the ground all while have two major hackings of peoples' accounts. She should not only have been fired she should be sued out of existence

Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 04, 2017 09:08 AM (auHtY)

153 152: well, that's one solution.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 04, 2017 09:09 AM (KP5rU)

154 those are not egg-rolls, those are cherry blintzes

Posted by: runner at March 04, 2017 09:09 AM (fO42p)

155
Cracked a tooth Wednesday and now, thirty minutes snd $200 later, it's fixed. My dentist and hygienist had "never seen anything like it". I'm such a giver.

Now for coffee...

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 04, 2017 09:09 AM (ugwJg)

156 The Concernometer is pegging past the red line! whud shud we du??

Halp!!!

Posted by: Tim in Illinois at March 04, 2017 09:09 AM (d76uN)

157 >>>Where the hell are the parents?

This Adulting 101 will really add hits to the AoS site. One of the classes is:

News and the like - How to find and understand real news on the Internet

Obviously, they will be directing all their students to come here for their news fix.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at March 04, 2017 09:09 AM (vRcUp)

158 151
143. I'm concerned that you're concerned.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine

Meh, I couldn't care less.
Or is it I could care less.

Off to read the AoS style manual and syllabus.


Posted by: Bruce at March 04, 2017 09:10 AM (8ikIW)

159 I've been saying for weeks that the Obama administration spying on the Trump campaign is the real scandal, perhaps the biggest scandal in American history.

Posted by: Make America Great Again at March 04, 2017 09:10 AM (A4HOq)

160 151 143. Based on that, I'm getting really concerned!

Posted by: Hrothgar at March 04, 2017 09:11 AM (cV6Ls)

161 Andressa Lucas and Lauren Menegon, two engineering students at the Federal University of Rio Grande, in Brazil, have developed a flour made from cockroaches that contains 40% more protein than regular wheat flour and can be used to make all kinds of baked goods.

Alternate headline:

Don't ask these two ladies to make you a sammich

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at March 04, 2017 09:11 AM (vRcUp)

162 Could

Posted by: Donald Fagen at March 04, 2017 09:11 AM (M3DRt)

163 157. I seem to recall someone putting together Millennial Merit badges for things like:

Having a meal without taking pictures of it first
Paying rent with more than 50% of your own money, etc.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 04, 2017 09:12 AM (hZg72)

164 Don't ask these two ladies to make you a sammich

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear

It all depends on the sammich.

Boom chicka wah wow.

Posted by: Bruce at March 04, 2017 09:12 AM (8ikIW)

165 Posted by: Make America Great Again at March 04, 2017 09:10 AM (A4HOq)

Humanity is so clever, I think there has never been a law, tool, or process created that could not be put to an ill purpose!

Posted by: Hrothgar at March 04, 2017 09:13 AM (cV6Ls)

166 160. Quick! Everybody panic!

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 04, 2017 09:13 AM (hZg72)

167 Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 04, 2017 09:03 AM (auHtY)

What's interesting is that the alphabet FNM are actually admitting it was a crime by illegals. Breaking that wall of silence is a big deal.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 04, 2017 09:14 AM (sEDyY)

168 160. When the hero of the spear-Danes is concerned, it's time to get concerned!

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 04, 2017 09:15 AM (hZg72)

169 The Concernometer is pegging past the red line! whud shud we du??

Halp!!!
Posted by: Tim in Illinois at March 04, 2017 09:09 AM (d76uN)

Put him on staff.

Posted by: BignJames at March 04, 2017 09:15 AM (x9c8r)

170 And before you start acting all disgusted, the flour is not made from bugs like tho ones crawling through your kitchen at night, but of a species called Nauphoeta cinerea. They are sourced from a specialized breeder, where they are produced according to the hygiene requirements of the ANVISA, the Brazilian health surveillance agency, and fed exclusively on fruits and vegetables.


Can anyone spot the problem here? Maybe problem is the wrong word. Have these scientists ever heard the phrase "eliminate the middle man"?

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at March 04, 2017 09:15 AM (vRcUp)

171 i wonder if they bugged mar-a lago too

Posted by: runner at March 04, 2017 09:16 AM (fO42p)

172 "Quick! Everybody panic!"

Don't be overly concerned here. This concern cover is due to break up as the temp rises.

Now I'm happy and unconcerned.

Posted by: Tim in Illinois at March 04, 2017 09:16 AM (d76uN)

173 168
160. When the hero of the spear-Danes is concerned, it's time to get concerned!

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan!
No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 04, 2017 09:15 AM (hZg72)

[]But is it look around warily concerned?[]pull the weapon from the holster concerned?[]or crawl under the desk and kiss your ass goodbye concerned?

Posted by: The Mouse that Roared at March 04, 2017 09:17 AM (7N6ox)

174 i'll focus my concern on those that attack trump......and our country.....i'm more concerned that our press is so utterly corrupt that trump has to tweet.....the only news we get is #fake ...

Posted by: phoenixgirl..spring training at March 04, 2017 09:17 AM (0O7c5)

175 **stops running in circles with his arms flailing around. Pauses, lowers arms**

Well, shit....what now?

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 04, 2017 09:18 AM (hZg72)

176 I am now one week without a cigarette.I'd stay away if I were you.Posted by: Herr Morgenholz 


If It becomes unbearable, go down to your local gas station and buy a Markten XL. Classic or menthol, whatever.

No withdrawal symptoms. Of course you're still addicted to nicotine, but at half the cost.

There are YouTube videos on how to refill the buggers. If you buy your own juice, you're now down to 10% of the cost of cigarettes.

Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at March 04, 2017 09:18 AM (ZFUt7)

177 Well, shit....what now?

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine

Run around the other way, you done Supermaned the Earth!!

Posted by: Bruce at March 04, 2017 09:19 AM (8ikIW)

178 Just got here and better as a food thread subject, or not, but there are mico bugs we find in store bought dried pasta. Take a look at a box of spaghetti and you miight find these eating their way through the center.

Posted by: Skip at March 04, 2017 09:19 AM (HDU3V)

179 173. Watchful wariness, I guess. But that's sorta kinda 'all systems nominal,' innit?

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 04, 2017 09:20 AM (hZg72)

180 Home safe and sound after a lovely dinner at Mr Tongs Chinese Restaurant at North Ryde RSL Club

My dear Aussie Bloke (lefty but not too bad) had his annual school reunion dinner and how nice it was to see these really good blokes sharing the memories of the good times at a Christian Brothers College

I mentioned before it was Mel Gibson's school too


Good on President Trump and his tweets otherwise we Down Under would never ever hear anything other than news filtered through the MSM and ours is as feral as yours

Someone mentioned egg rolls which I thought we don't have here so I researched (Wiki) and yes we do do have them

But we call them spring rolls! Yum !

Posted by: Aussie at March 04, 2017 09:20 AM (N/OEj)

181 177. In a minute.....I'm a bit winded....

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 04, 2017 09:21 AM (hZg72)

182 Aye aye Commander Palpatine! Resume normal wariness watch.

Posted by: The Mouse that Roared at March 04, 2017 09:22 AM (7N6ox)

183 I'm sure Vic would back me up: if you use gasoline to make electricity to charge a battery to power your electric car, you are wasting more energy than if you used the gasoline to fuel a car directly. And if you grow fruits and vegetables and feed them to a cockroach and turn the cockroach into food, you are wasting more energy than if you ate the fruits and vegetables directly, since some of that energy gets used up by the cockroach's moving around, metabolism, etc. There is no reason, pragmatic or otherwise, to stuff bugs in your mouth.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at March 04, 2017 09:22 AM (vRcUp)

184 I had a weird dream last night. I was on vacation somewhere, and decided to launch four model rockets simultaneously for some reason. I set everything up and put them on a timer set for 7:00.

Then I got invited to dinner, and around 7:10 I suddenly remembered the rockets. I was later told that they were pretty spectacular.

Posted by: rickl at March 04, 2017 09:23 AM (sdi6R)

185 Syphilis has been rising everywhere not just Florida.

Posted by: Bigby's Typing Hands at March 04, 2017 09:23 AM (U0lQa)

186 181
177. In a minute.....I'm a bit winded....

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan!
No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 04, 2017 09:21 AM (hZg72)

i don't want to rush you .....but....

Posted by: phoenixgirl..spring training at March 04, 2017 09:23 AM (0O7c5)

187 180. What's the wrapper like? American Chinese eggrolls have thick, golden wrappers, deep fried. Spring rolls by us are sorta translucent white - more a VN and SE Asian thing.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 04, 2017 09:23 AM (hZg72)

188 Trump tweets to move things.

I said Obama was making a big mistake crossing Trump.

Read his books. You mess with the bull you get the horns. Trump has been gracious to Obama and Clinton and in return they spit on him. Publicly.

You made him angry. You won't like him when he's angry.

Posted by: blaster at March 04, 2017 09:25 AM (+RF8x)

189 Sen. Rand Paul on Thursday suggested he was getting tired of the House Republican process for repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act, the healthcare law better known as Obamacare.

In a series of tweets, the Republican senator from Kentucky said the House GOP had hidden its plan from other lawmakers and the public. He said the secretive nature was "unacceptable."



Why it's like the Vichy Republicans are playing for the other side

Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 04, 2017 09:25 AM (auHtY)

190 186. Heh......

If I had a nickel for every time a woman's said that to me.....

And what are you complaining? Gave you extra lazy Saturday minutes.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 04, 2017 09:26 AM (hZg72)

191 I'm very concerned too over this concerning Twitter outburst from Drumpf because Saintly non-Concerning Obama would never wiretap another person, especially a non-concerning American citizen...

I have incorporated this concerning outburst into my polling model and have generated the following concerning results:

Revived Hill-dawg: 99.8%
Trumpf: -69.9%
Egg McMuffin: 0.2%

If this trend holds, Trump is going to have an early night on Tuesday.

Posted by: Davy Veneral (who is especially concerned) at March 04, 2017 09:26 AM (E/ibL)

192 187 Uncle etc

Aussie Chinese spring rolls have thick golden wrappers too just like your egg rolls so I reckon they're the same thing

The Vietnamese rolls use translucent rice paper rolls which I do like *bigly*

Posted by: Aussie at March 04, 2017 09:28 AM (N/OEj)

193 Re: #12

So I beat Trump by 7 hours?

"371 Obama, FISA, and timing.

http://tinyurl.com/hhwsd39

Didn't
realize that Obama got a FISA warrant to spy on Trump during election.
Or that they had tried and been turned down 4 months before in June 2016
before the convention even.


Posted by: geoffb5 at March 03, 2017 11:47 PM (d3wbb)"


Posted by: geoffb5 at March 04, 2017 09:28 AM (d3wbb)

194 Why it's like the Vichy Republicans are playing for the other side
Posted by: TheQuietMan 

Then he whispered to Nancy Pelosi that the plan was stashed in the basement. So she immediately got before the cameras and announced that the plan was stashed in the basement.

As if she could talk.

Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at March 04, 2017 09:28 AM (ZFUt7)

195 >>>Swimming in a toilet?

Bah! It's really a "toilet" unless it contains #2 as well. I'm on it.

Posted by: Syrian refugee at March 04, 2017 09:28 AM (vRcUp)

196
But we call them spring rolls! Yum !

Posted by: Aussie at March 04, 2017 09:20 AM (N/OEj)

The best spring roll wrapper is the kind for lumpia.

Posted by: @votermom @vm at March 04, 2017 09:29 AM (Om16U)

197 "Hey, I like bacon as much as the next guy, but you can't just go around stealing it," police said in the Facebook post.

I guess he's never heard of entitlements.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at March 04, 2017 09:30 AM (vRcUp)

198 192. Ahhh.....my angel and her clan make those all the time. Good eating, like a lot of VN food, once you learn the wisdom of Prufrock: 'Oh, do not ask what is it'.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 04, 2017 09:30 AM (hZg72)

199 183 I'm sure Vic would back me up: if you use gasoline to make electricity to charge a battery to power your electric car, you are wasting more energy than if you used the gasoline to fuel a car directly. And if you grow fruits and vegetables and feed them to a cockroach and turn the cockroach into food, you are wasting more energy than if you ate the fruits and vegetables directly, since some of that energy gets used up by the cockroach's moving around, metabolism, etc. There is no reason, pragmatic or otherwise, to stuff bugs in your mouth.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at March 04, 2017 09:22 AM (vRcUp)

===

But the bugs convert the fruits and vegetables to digestible protein.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 04, 2017 09:31 AM (EZebt)

200 189>> After the resounding applause he got for asking the congress to repeal Obamacare during his speech, I wish trump would have turned to Ryan and said: "Well alrighty then, it seems you have everything you need to get the job done Paul. I'll expect one of those bills you've already submitted over the last 7 years to be on my desk by the end of the week."

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 04, 2017 09:31 AM (bU860)

201 Aussie, the Easybeats were incredible RIP, Stevie.

Posted by: Donald Fagen at March 04, 2017 09:31 AM (M3DRt)

202 Beware the Ides of March.

I'm starting to wonder if Trump will use the debt ceiling to purge everyone as a loophole to existing law protecting these bureaucrats from getting shitcanned.

Posted by: #AlwaysBeTrumping at March 04, 2017 09:32 AM (BlSID)

203
I'm waiting for the first small drone with LCD lights that spell MAGA to buzz 0bama's new digs. Seriously, whoever had the idea of keeping him in dc is mental.

Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at March 04, 2017 09:33 AM (ZFUt7)

204 I was thinking they could use the cockroach flour to alleviate the food shortage in Venezuela, but they probably don't have cockroaches in Venezuela because there's no food for them to eat.

Posted by: rickl at March 04, 2017 09:33 AM (sdi6R)

205 187 180. What's the wrapper like? American Chinese eggrolls have thick, golden wrappers, deep fried. Spring rolls by us are sorta translucent white - more a VN and SE Asian thing.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 04, 2017 09:23 AM (hZg72)

===

That's what we have in SF, spring rolls. They're great, but they're not thick and chewy, filled with cabbage and BBQ pork like egg rolls.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 04, 2017 09:33 AM (EZebt)

206 The MSM is still in full denial mode. Aghast that Trump would make such an accusation. I hope they have their talking points ready for the first backtrack, when the FISA warrant is acknowledged. I can already predict it: "Well, if they got a FISA warrant, they must have had probable cause, because Trump is a Russian agent." That will be followed by, "Well, they didn't find anything, but the investigation is ongoing!"

Posted by: gewa76 at March 04, 2017 09:34 AM (B6OKy)

207 196 @votermom @vm


" The best spring roll wrapper is the kind for lumpia. "

Goodness I just binged that and I'm hungry again even after my lovely dinner at Mr Tongs Chinese Restaurant

Is the Food Thread Saturday or Sunday?

Posted by: Aussie at March 04, 2017 09:34 AM (N/OEj)

208 Vinny Ohh claims that he doesn't identify as either male or female and this ongoing process of transforming into an alien being is meant to mirror how he feels inside.

Is he related to Ricky Oh?

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at March 04, 2017 09:35 AM (vRcUp)

209 205. Bingo! If it ain't got cabbage and pork in a crusty, deep-fried shell, it might be a good.many things, but it ain't an American eggroll

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 04, 2017 09:36 AM (hZg72)

210 Is the Food Thread Saturday or Sunday?

Posted by: Aussie


Yes.

Posted by: Barack Obama at March 04, 2017 09:36 AM (vRcUp)

211 189,

The Obamacare repeal is in the same room as the Obama secret Iran deal side deals.

http://tinyurl.com/h8a2s9d

Unclassified, but "really secret."

Posted by: geoffb5 at March 04, 2017 09:36 AM (d3wbb)

212 I sent a note to the senator of my State (Virginia, Sen. Warner) who is on the Senates Intelligence Committee. Of course, Warner is a donk, so i didnt ask him to do anything. But i did state that I thought he was probably complicit in using intelligence means for such a purpose and how unethical it was. I asked him how is such a practice any different that what a totalitarian regime would do?

Posted by: goatexchange at March 04, 2017 09:36 AM (d54GV)

213 Is this coup de main from Barak and his DOJ going to be shut down and participates fired?

Posted by: Skip at March 04, 2017 09:37 AM (HDU3V)

214 All this talk of egg roll wrappers led me to search if there was a bacon wrapper. Of course there is. Madness.

Posted by: Bigby's Typing Hands at March 04, 2017 09:37 AM (U0lQa)

215 Obama bugged everyone, everywhere in hopes of a coup.

Posted by: dagny at March 04, 2017 09:37 AM (Mc+44)

216 Why is everyone upset about Trump and the Russians?



BERNIE SPENT HIS HONEY MOON IN COMMUNIST MOSCOW.

Posted by: Walter Duranty at March 04, 2017 09:37 AM (si7IO)

217 And if you grow fruits and vegetables and feed them to a cockroach and turn the cockroach into food, you are wasting more energy than if you ate the fruits and vegetables directly, since some of that energy gets used up by the cockroach's moving around, metabolism, etc ... posted by: Steve and Cold Bear

True, but that is true of meat/poultry/fish as well. I've heard as much as 90% of the calories in corn (for example) are lost in running it through the cow to get beef.

Maybe cockroaches convert the calories more efficiently into protein, but whether they can reconstitute cockroach mash into a good steak is another problem.

Posted by: illiniwek at March 04, 2017 09:37 AM (YMJtx)

218 207. Sunday by us, which is Tuesday for you, I think.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 04, 2017 09:37 AM (hZg72)

219 I worked this stuff(corruption at the highest levels behind the scenes)....I cannot for the life of me see any ...ANY...advantage to having a tweet out on the allegation.

************************************

Concern Status:

[ ] Noted
[ ] Not Noted
[ X ] Trump, because fuck you bitch

Posted by: #AlwaysBeTrumping at March 04, 2017 09:38 AM (BlSID)

220 i miss san francisco chinese food......

Posted by: phoenixgirl..spring training at March 04, 2017 09:40 AM (0O7c5)

221 216
Why is everyone upset about Trump and the Russians?



BERNIE SPENT HIS HONEY MOON IN COMMUNIST MOSCOW.


Posted by: Walter Duranty at March 04, 2017 09:37 AM (si7IO)
snap

Posted by: phoenixgirl..spring training at March 04, 2017 09:40 AM (0O7c5)

222 Trump must have evidence to make such a claim. wonder what that is

Posted by: runner at March 04, 2017 09:41 AM (fO42p)

223 ...and why he only realized now

Posted by: runner at March 04, 2017 09:41 AM (fO42p)

224 Obama - responsible for the greatest US caused Mexican deaths since the US invasion of Mexico in 1846.

"Holder lied about actually running guns to cartels and not bothering to track them .. two years later he submits an amended report ... held in contempt yet no real penalty."

Posted by: Davod at March 04, 2017 09:41 AM (FWznJ)

225 The Villages alone is probably responsible for most of the uptick in STDs. Those retirees are some randy old buggers.
Posted by: Insomniac - sin valor at March 04, 2017 08:22 AM (0mRoj)


A long-time Patrick McGoohan fan, I would resist moving to any place called "The Villages"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4eUSmUWsUY

(I have no Idea who Jessica Erskine is, but I think I want to adopt her)

Posted by: Kindltot at March 04, 2017 09:42 AM (WQX/u)

226 Why is everyone upset about Trump and the Russians?


BERNIE SPENT HIS HONEY MOON IN COMMUNIST MOSCOW.

Posted by: Walter Duranty at March 04, 2017 09:37 AM (si7IO)



They were commies back then which was made it just dandy. Not commies any more so they're bad guys.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 04, 2017 09:42 AM (auHtY)

227 192 Uncle etc

On my last visit to Vietnam we went to a tiny little place along the highway out of Ho Chi Minh City to watch rice paper being made

I love Vietnam and I'm going back in March next year with a dear friend who has a visit to Vietnam on her bucket list

Posted by: Aussie at March 04, 2017 09:42 AM (N/OEj)

228 Kindtot, be seeing you

Posted by: Donald Fagen at March 04, 2017 09:43 AM (M3DRt)

229 222. He might release some of it, bit he'll never release all of it. Gotta leave the deep state in the dark as much as possible about what he knows.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 04, 2017 09:43 AM (hZg72)

230 Weekend lineup
Saturday
EMT, Weird News, Before the Garden, Garden thread,Pet, Chess, any other breaking news as needed
Sunday
EMT, Book, Food, any breaking news as needed

Posted by: Skip at March 04, 2017 09:43 AM (HDU3V)

231 They were commies back then which was made it just dandy. Not commies any more so they're bad guys.
Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 04, 2017 09:42 AM

I disagree, they are just don't want to admit it

Posted by: Skip at March 04, 2017 09:44 AM (HDU3V)

232 But the bugs convert the fruits and vegetables to digestible protein.

Posted by: San Franpsycho


Fair enough. But as stated upthread, this is all based on UN climate alarmist nonsense anyway.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at March 04, 2017 09:45 AM (vRcUp)

233 From the sidebar, in case you missed it:

And without that kind of sometimes-dopey belief in luck, you might wind up just sitting around in your comfort zone forever. Then, twelve years on, you find yourself blogging about luck on a Friday night round 10:50 pm.

Posted by: tbodie at March 04, 2017 09:45 AM (zsMTB)

234
Someone mentioned egg rolls which I thought we don't have here so I researched (Wiki) and yes we do do have them



But we call them spring rolls! Yum !

Posted by: Aussie at March 04, 2017 09:20 AM (N/OEj)


They are also called lumpia, if'n you got Philipinos.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 04, 2017 09:45 AM (WQX/u)

235 Kindltot, whole series is on Amazon.

Posted by: Donald Fagen at March 04, 2017 09:46 AM (M3DRt)

236 180 Home safe and sound after a lovely dinner at Mr Tongs Chinese Restaurant at North Ryde RSL Club

My dear Aussie Bloke (lefty but not too bad) had his annual school reunion dinner and how nice it was to see these really good blokes sharing the memories of the good times at a Christian Brothers College

I mentioned before it was Mel Gibson's school too


Good on President Trump and his tweets otherwise we Down Under would never ever hear anything other than news filtered through the MSM and ours is as feral as yours

Someone mentioned egg rolls which I thought we don't have here so I researched (Wiki) and yes we do do have them

But we call them spring rolls! Yum !

Posted by: Aussie

I always have Crispy Aromatic Duck when having Chinese food in the UK. Never seen it in Canada. Do you have it in Australia?

Posted by: Dirks Strewn at March 04, 2017 09:47 AM (iWW0H)

237 231 They were commies back then which was made it just dandy. Not commies any more so they're bad guys.
Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 04, 2017 09:42 AM

I disagree, they are just don't want to admit it
Posted by: Skip at March 04, 2017 09:44 AM (HDU3V)


I heard their corporate tax rate is lower than ours. So if they're still commie, we're even more so.

Posted by: rickl at March 04, 2017 09:47 AM (sdi6R)

238 @Uncle Palpatine - I demand evidence !! no, i'm kidding. he does need to keep the buggers in the dark

Posted by: runner at March 04, 2017 09:47 AM (fO42p)

239 227. Nice! I went last year with my angel and her numerous and quarrelsome clan to visit their relatives still there. Stayed in Saigon - HCM City, but they all called it Saigon - most of the time, but did go out to see some relations in the countryside. I was viewed with suspicion b/c of my looks and build and manners, but once she vouched for me, they couldn't have been friendlier or more welcoming.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 04, 2017 09:47 AM (hZg72)

240 on the topic of eating cockroaches, a reminder that the soylent green should only be eaten in months with a "R" in them. The hobo meat gets a little rancid before being picked up in warmer months.

Posted by: illiniwek at March 04, 2017 09:47 AM (YMJtx)

241 @142 Trump needs to use the upcoming March 15 debt limit as an opportunity to disable the deep state. Furlough half a million.

====

Or he could just fire every single Obama appointee.

We seriously need mass firing now. This is reaching the point of treason.

Posted by: JC at March 04, 2017 09:47 AM (3GSgE)

242 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4eUSmUWsUY

Well, that was surreal.

And funny.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at March 04, 2017 09:47 AM (oVJmc)

243 230 Weekend lineup
Saturday
EMT, Weird News, Before the Garden, Garden thread,Pet, Chess, any other breaking news as needed
Sunday
EMT, Book, Food, any breaking news as needed.

Please note that all threads will become gun threads at some point. Also, crossbows vs long bows.

Posted by: Tennessee Jed at March 04, 2017 09:47 AM (RseVj)

244 Speaking (into the mic, please) of cockroaches, this is Obama's Cockroach Coup.

And for the record, Jeff Sessions has more integrity in his little pinkie than Obama and his Orkin Rejects have in their entire exo-skeletons.

Enjoy that waffle, Barry.

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at March 04, 2017 09:48 AM (Ndje9)

245 Today I'm more inclined to believe Pravda than the U.S. FNM.

Posted by: rickl at March 04, 2017 09:49 AM (sdi6R)

246 Posted by: Dirks Strewn at March 04, 2017 09:47 AM (iWW0H)

Is that the same as Peking duck? I know that is meant to be crispy.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 04, 2017 09:49 AM (sEDyY)

247 201 Donald Fagen

Hi there and the Easybeats were the very first band I saw when I was very young (my dad dropped me off and picked me up to make sure I was safe)

https://tinyurl.com/gw2dxea

Posted by: Aussie at March 04, 2017 09:50 AM (N/OEj)

248 Mmmm, plum sauce

Posted by: Donald Fagen at March 04, 2017 09:51 AM (M3DRt)

249 they (russia) are not exactly communist - that would imply the economy is run centrally as well as employing a police state to keep all inline. they have a police state of sorts, but they are attempting a market based economy.

Posted by: runner at March 04, 2017 09:51 AM (fO42p)

250 They are also called lumpia, if'n you got Philipinos.


Posted by: Kindltot

Or pierogi when in Poland

Posted by: Bruce at March 04, 2017 09:52 AM (8ikIW)

251 239. To explain: looks & build - short, thin, dark hair, grey eyes with a bit of an almond shape when i laugh (half german jew/half polish jew). Manners - worked for and with chinese for nearly 15 years before i met her. Her family thought I was a Russian for the longest time

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 04, 2017 09:52 AM (hZg72)

252 I had a long day and short sleep but shouldn't this be a YUUGE thing?

Posted by: Hah at March 04, 2017 09:53 AM (o7lm0)

253 Best thing about SEX DOLLS : Either they can't talk. Or they have a "Stop talking!" button!

Sorta like real hookers : You don't pay them for sex, you pay them to go away!

Posted by: old codger at March 04, 2017 09:54 AM (fpd99)

254 218 Uncle etc

Monday it is then *smiley face*

Your Sunday is my Monday

Posted by: Aussie at March 04, 2017 09:54 AM (N/OEj)

255 242 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4eUSmUWsUY

Well, that was surreal.

And funny.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at March 04, 2017 09:47 AM (oVJmc)


That was excellent! Even had the correct type font on the titles.

Posted by: rickl at March 04, 2017 09:55 AM (sdi6R)

256 250. Ohhh......so tasty and such a comfort food. But bad for gainzz.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 04, 2017 09:55 AM (hZg72)

257 https://goo.gl/MSSS5U

Like I said yesterday about the Yemen raid yield, here come the anal probes.

Posted by: JEM at March 04, 2017 09:55 AM (D7HXY)

258 Today I'm more inclined to believe Pravda than the U.S. FNM.
Posted by: rickl at March 04, 2017 09:49 AM (sdi6R)

I remember reading an article about six years back in Pravda criticizing the American capitalist system, for tax rates, regulations...

It could have been written by anyone here.

I still insist that the democrats didn't hate the Russians until Putin cut off the supply of Russian infants to the usa. *That* really pissed them off.

Not a Pizzagate guy but smoke is smoke.

Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at March 04, 2017 09:57 AM (ZFUt7)

259 Russian pelmeni, same same. When i served with Soviets a long time ago, we had to share cooking responsibilities (we were in an isolated outpost along the Suez Canal). The russkies were clueless about cooking, so their wives would boil and make up a ton of these mini-monstrosities, freeze them in tupperware containers, which the Sovs would then scrape off a layer from the permafrost and then either fry or boil them for a meal. ugh. So i have eaten thousands of these Siberian gut-bombs.

Posted by: goatexchange at March 04, 2017 09:57 AM (d54GV)

260 We seriously need mass firing now. This is reaching the point of treason.

What part of the Wild Kingdom is it that herds their prey off cliffs? I'm thinking that's the ideal model.

And if something eats you, you don't suck a pension from the taxpayers, either.

Posted by: JEM at March 04, 2017 09:58 AM (D7HXY)

261 TSA pat-downs, those are for people who refuse the body scanner, no ?

Posted by: runner at March 04, 2017 09:58 AM (fO42p)

262 McMuffin is going down...

Posted by: William Eaton at March 04, 2017 10:00 AM (MuTTO)

263 I still insist that the democrats didn't hate the Russians until Putin
cut off the supply of Russian infants to the usa. *That* really pissed
them off.

=======

I agree with you; and treating bo and his minions like pansies

Posted by: runner at March 04, 2017 10:01 AM (fO42p)

264 Sex dolls for rent? Gives the term 'sloppy seconds' a whole new meaning.

Posted by: JEM at March 04, 2017 10:01 AM (D7HXY)

265 Andrew McCarthy ( the really smart one) at NR has a lng but good explanation of this Russian saga.

Posted by: Skip at March 04, 2017 10:02 AM (HDU3V)

266 259. Count yourself lucky. Kasha can be good, but the Red Army guys I knew used to call it 'bintni' - 'bolts- because an uncooked kernel was hard as a rock. Heh....and tushonka and shchi....

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 04, 2017 10:02 AM (hZg72)

267 I worked this stuff(corruption at the highest levels behind the
scenes)....I cannot for the life of me see any ...ANY...advantage to
having a tweet out on the allegation.
===


So did James Comey.





Troll

Posted by: Mortimer - FINISH HER ! at March 04, 2017 10:02 AM (KgpWR)

268 Aussie, I like the story of Paul McCartney hearing Good Times on the radio while driving and pulling over to call the DJ to play it again.

Posted by: Donald Fagen at March 04, 2017 10:04 AM (M3DRt)

269 McMuffin is going down...

Posted by: William Eaton
===


Yay!


Wait. Is that political? Or breakfast?



Posted by: Mortimer - FINISH HER ! at March 04, 2017 10:04 AM (KgpWR)

270 "Swimming in a toilet?"

Hi, morons!

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at March 04, 2017 10:04 AM (6FqZa)

271 McMuffin is getting nervous...

"Thank US law enforcement & the courts for this, not Obama. But will this be where Trump starts using state power for political retribution?"

https://twitter.com/Evan_McMullin/status/838040432005218305

Yea Evan it is just like the Bay of Pigs...

Posted by: William Eaton at March 04, 2017 10:05 AM (MuTTO)

272 McMuffin is going down...

But they'll just pick it up and wrap it anyway.

Posted by: JEM at March 04, 2017 10:05 AM (D7HXY)

273 Didn't totally explain who 'they' are, Leftists but the Russians are not far behind

Posted by: Skip at March 04, 2017 10:06 AM (HDU3V)

274 I thought McMuffin liked state power going after political opponents.

I always lose my place.

Posted by: blaster at March 04, 2017 10:06 AM (+RF8x)

275 Yay!

Wait. Is that political? Or breakfast?

Posted by: Mortimer - FINISH HER ! at March 04, 2017 10:04 AM (KgpWR)

------------------------------------------------

Digesting in my stomach now...

Posted by: William Eaton at March 04, 2017 10:06 AM (MuTTO)

276 >>"Thank US law enforcement the courts for this, not Obama. But will
this be where Trump starts using state power for political
retribution?"



"Uh, don't look at us..." - IRS, fully-weaponized against Obama's political enemies

Posted by: Lizzy at March 04, 2017 10:06 AM (NOIQH)

277 But they'll just pick it up and wrap it anyway.

Posted by: JEM at March 04, 2017 10:05 AM (D7HXY)

They never obey the 5 second rule.

Posted by: BignJames at March 04, 2017 10:06 AM (x9c8r)

278 Evan McMullin. The dog shit on the American political landscape.

Posted by: JEM at March 04, 2017 10:07 AM (D7HXY)

279 FL: "Surprising because it makes me worry about who I do. I mean, if I do hook up with someone," said Khayree Mutakabbir of Fort Myers

Your imam should be telling you to keep it to your wives.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at March 04, 2017 10:07 AM (6FqZa)

280 Guy w connections to White House says Trump has gone to head of snake and set a trap. Going to take down opposition.

Posted by: Hah at March 04, 2017 10:07 AM (o7lm0)

281 "Thank US law enforcement & the courts for this, not Obama. But will this be where Trump starts using state power for political retribution?"

Uh, I'd say Obama is already using state power for political sabotage. Extra-legally, even, with the co-ordinated leaks.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at March 04, 2017 10:08 AM (oVJmc)

282 Corruption investigator reference - check

Nevertrump - check

Concern troll - check

Legal terminology - check



Patterico?



Posted by: Mortimer - FINISH HER ! at March 04, 2017 10:09 AM (KgpWR)

283 271 McMuffin is getting nervous...

"Thank US law enforcement & the courts for this, not Obama. But will this be where Trump starts using state power for political retribution?"

https://twitter.com/Evan_McMullin/status/838040432005218305

Posted by: William Eaton at March 04, 2017 10:05 AM (MuTTO)


Yep, I said something like that last night. If Trump starts prosecuting people for leaks or wiretaps, it will be "See? Trump is arresting his political enemies!"

Just like You Know Who.

Posted by: rickl at March 04, 2017 10:09 AM (sdi6R)

284 274 I thought McMuffin liked state power going after political opponents.

I always lose my place.
Posted by: blaster at March 04, 2017 10:06 AM (+RF8x)

---------------------------------------------------------------

He does, and now he can enjoy being on the other end himself. I am sure he will wrap himself in the constitution all boy scout like.

Posted by: William Eaton at March 04, 2017 10:09 AM (MuTTO)

285 And....Sessions did not recuse from wiretap investigation.

Posted by: Hah at March 04, 2017 10:09 AM (o7lm0)

286 >>Best thing about SEX DOLLS : Either they can't talk. Or they have a "Stop talking!" button!



They've never even heard of the patriarchy, and they don't have a need for clunky glasses, tattoos or odd body piercings.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 04, 2017 10:09 AM (NOIQH)

287 "The oldest profession has a new twist. Sex dolls for rent."
...

Dirty Harry already did it in "The Enforcer", 1976.

Posted by: AshevilleRobert at March 04, 2017 10:10 AM (w+Jhj)

288 "Thank US law enforcement the courts for this,
not Obama. But will this be where Trump starts using state power for
political retribution?"



https://twitter.com/Evan_McMullin/status/838040432005218305



Yea Evan it is just like the Bay of Pigs...

Posted by: William Eaton at March 04, 2017 10:05 AM (MuTTO)

The abuse of State power is a crime, and it is quite appropriate for the President to demand an investigation into the ABUSE. I have seen nothing yet to infer, imply or implicate the Trump administration with criminal, seditious or treasonous behavior. Sorry Egg. USSID 18 protects US Persons, even those running political campaigns.

Posted by: The Mouse that Roared at March 04, 2017 10:11 AM (7N6ox)

289 The IC is already proven to be leaking to the press.

Is this the same IC that is supposedly beyond reproach?

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at March 04, 2017 10:11 AM (oVJmc)

290 And....Sessions did not recuse from wiretap investigation.
===

As long as Obama is not Russian , no problem.

Posted by: Mortimer - FINISH HER ! at March 04, 2017 10:11 AM (KgpWR)

291
I've linked this before (and will probably link it again)

http://www.crisismagazine.com/2013/the-story-
behind-russians-gay-adoption-ban

Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at March 04, 2017 10:12 AM (ZFUt7)

292 236 Dirks Strewn

That sounds lovely - my local Chinese has a nice dish - duck in crabmeat sauce

However , my dish there to die for is crispy skin chicken with ginger and shallots in golden brown sauce

OK I'm going to make myself a Vegemite toast snack now!

Posted by: Aussie at March 04, 2017 10:12 AM (N/OEj)

293 Both Ends Burning is a really great Roxy song. My inflatable darling

Posted by: Donald Fagen at March 04, 2017 10:12 AM (M3DRt)

294 And the IC that is already proven to be leaking to the press is the same IC that provides the foundation of all the 'Russia Hacked the Election' premise.

All you need is one lie to get the whole ball rolling, then everything else can be done legally, all based on that one lie.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at March 04, 2017 10:12 AM (oVJmc)

295 For your daily ration of Squee, This is apparently from a panda refuge in Sichuan, China:

"Panda wants a hug from nanny, but nanny is working"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8B-RuJRI2A

Posted by: Kindltot at March 04, 2017 10:12 AM (WQX/u)

296 @280 I don't doubt that is happening but no way they are talking about it.

I honestly think people close to Obama are going to jail.

Posted by: blaster at March 04, 2017 10:13 AM (+RF8x)

297 291. Yep. That was the case. Saw a Rooshian documentary about it. There are no words for what that poor child suffered.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 04, 2017 10:14 AM (hZg72)

298 265 Andrew McCarthy ( the really smart one) at NR has a lng but good explanation of this Russian saga.
Posted by: Skip at March 04, 2017 10:02 AM (HDU3V)

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That is a good piece. But McCarthy was a big defender of the whole business of a secret court approving secret ex parte DOJ demands for secret wiretaps because National Security, and assured us nooooooo, it would never be used as a political weapon because DOJ Integrity. Maybe back in the days when McCarthy was there, but not in the Obama years.

McCarthy needs to publicly flagellate himself three times and then put his brain to work figuring out how to fix the process so that we have a Fourth Amendment again and our politicians are not at the mercy of government spook blackmailers.

Posted by: Scalia's Ghost at March 04, 2017 10:15 AM (3OAG2)

299 Sit back, relax and take a dip in Temple Tank.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTUTFjqO8ik&feature=youtu.be

I'm real happy with the way this one came out, the dogs love it too!

-Scott

Posted by: svitelli at March 04, 2017 10:15 AM (q9n5w)

300 I honestly think people close to Obama are going to jail.

Nightmare scenario: some Obama mole in a police department tips off Soros' goons, and the cops can't physically reach them.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at March 04, 2017 10:16 AM (6FqZa)

301 292. I tried Marmite once. Once.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 04, 2017 10:16 AM (hZg72)

302 I honestly think people close to Obama are going to jail.

Posted by: blaster at March 04, 2017 10:13 AM (+RF8x)

I wish....this whole "above the law" thing really chaps my ass. I might turn my head at extra-judicial sanctions.

Posted by: BignJames at March 04, 2017 10:17 AM (x9c8r)

303 OK I'm going to make myself a Vegemite toast snack now!
Posted by: Aussie at March 04, 2017 10:12 AM (N/OEj)


Oooh. Then you can follow it with a big pink stick of Musk candy.

(good lord. The things you are willing to eat)

Posted by: Kindltot at March 04, 2017 10:17 AM (WQX/u)

304 I love Marmite sexually.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at March 04, 2017 10:17 AM (6FqZa)

305

All he has done with his tweets today is ......EXACTLY NOTHING.

Posted by: 'Cold Civil War'. That seems apt.
======


Trump's releasing this on Twitter is brilliant.

He is talking to his voters and his base. Tunnelling through the media filters, denying them a "scoop" and the ability to twist anything.

He is putting out public statements of fact with his actual unfiltered opinions and that of his staff.

But hey 'Cold Civil War'

If you like the MSM version you can always flip on MSNBC or CNN.

Or you could peruse that fine, well written piece in WaPo yesterday. They called Trump 'Hitler' but hey. At least they didn't do it on Twitter? Right?

It's interesting to me that someone with the handle 'Cold Civil War' claiming 'highest level corruption investigations' has no apparent awareness of the situation on the battlefield.



Posted by: Mortimer - FINISH HER ! at March 04, 2017 10:18 AM (KgpWR)

306 He does, and now he can enjoy being on the other end
himself. I am sure he will wrap himself in the constitution all boy
scout like.

Posted by: William Eaton at March 04, 2017 10:09 AM (MuTTO)
he'll wrap himself around a boy scout......guy is a creep

Posted by: phoenixgirl..spring training at March 04, 2017 10:18 AM (0O7c5)

307 I can't believe I never saw that Prisoner parody until now. It was letter-perfect.

Best YouTube comment:
"I would watch THE ENTIRE SERIES like this."

Posted by: rickl at March 04, 2017 10:20 AM (sdi6R)

308 304.

**adds boulder terlit hobo to The List**

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 04, 2017 10:22 AM (VBCEV)

309 Has the baby giraffe arrived yet? That's the question on my mind first thing every morning. Pitiful I know. I curse whoever put that link up last week.

Posted by: Tuna at March 04, 2017 10:23 AM (jm1YL)

310 Trump tweets to his 20 million* followers that Obama has been doing surveillance on the opposite party before a national election.

The media cannot bury the story now. They have to report what Trump said. No more memory hole.

They can try to disprove it or soft-peddle it, but the fact that Obama was wiretapping political enemies is now part of the public record and discourse.

But, yeah, that's stupid or something.



*That's more audience than ANY media outlet has.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at March 04, 2017 10:23 AM (oVJmc)

311 Doesn't concern concern you? I think it should concern all of us.

*snaps on sunglasses*

Posted by: Horatio Caine at March 04, 2017 10:23 AM (LTHVh)

312 >>I honestly think people close to Obama are going to jail.



I really, really hope so.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 04, 2017 10:24 AM (NOIQH)

313 The Bogus Man is on his way, as fast as he can run.

Posted by: Donald Fagen at March 04, 2017 10:24 AM (M3DRt)

314 Trump's releasing this on Twitter is brilliant.

Posted by: Mortimer - FINISH HER ! at March 04, 2017 10:18 AM (KgpWR)

Yep. It certainly wouldn't be smart to just arrest Obama and his people cold for illegally wiretapping political opponents. You've got to start beating the drum about what they did and take a good amount of time to prepare the ground and get the public ready for something like that.

Posted by: Scalia's Ghost at March 04, 2017 10:24 AM (3OAG2)

315 239 Uncle etc

I love the country - next year will be my 3rd visit

I'm really interested in the Vietnam war history and last visit a lovely cyclo owner gave me a guided tour of places of interest

When I paid him he said that was enough to pay for his family's health care for a year! He wanted some tiny amount and I paid what I thought was appropriate

The visit before I saw the American Embassy before it was demolished

Posted by: Aussie at March 04, 2017 10:25 AM (N/OEj)

316 Posted by: Scalia's Ghost at March 04, 2017 10:15 AM (3OAG2)

As I recall it wasn't the use as a political weapon that was criticized but rather the inherent rights of privacy of the private citizen. I can't find anything that discussed its use as a political tool. It was assumed , I believe rightly so at the time, that checks and balances would not allow it. I assumed wrong but somewhere the checks and balances failed. I liked to know where.

Posted by: Jack Sock at March 04, 2017 10:26 AM (IDPbH)

317 >>Best thing about SEX DOLLS : Either they can't talk. Or they have a "Stop talking!" button!

They've never even heard of the patriarchy, and they don't have a need for clunky glasses, tattoos or odd body piercings.

Posted by: Lizzy



Remember what they are trying to do with Siri and Alexa (the thread ace shut down)?

I guarantee you, if there are talking sex bots, feminist researchers will test how they respond to sexually harassing talk, and will try to bully manufacturers and lawmakers in programming the dolls to give what they deem appropriate responses.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at March 04, 2017 10:27 AM (vRcUp)

318 they (russia) are not exactly communist - that would imply the economy is run centrally as well as employing a police state to keep all inline. they have a police state of sorts, but they are attempting a market based economy.
Posted by: runner at March 04, 2017 09:51 AM (fO42p)


Most of the old labels don't work anymore, and I don't know why anyone should be surprised by that.

We aren't strictly capitalist, of course. Neither is anyone else in the world.

If anything, we're all melding into our own versions of fascism. Soft fascism (like Obama giving away hundreds of billions of dollars to favored entities who perpetually suck off the federal teet), or hard fascism, where Russian oligarchs use organized crime tactics to maintain market control, with the approval of government.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 04, 2017 10:28 AM (Pz4pT)

319 Also

He either needs to get his ass out of Mar Lago and /or have the heads of
the FBI, NSA, DOJ, etc etc etc to Florida right now or he needs to be
back in DC declaring open, relentless war against the saborteurs.


What would you have Trump do? The POTUS requested a wiretap. They followed the process and Obama got his wiretap.

What would you charge the heads of the agencies with? You think they didn't dot every legal i and cross every t ?

Trump can't even get the traitorous judges in half the districts to enforce the law. They publicly challenge his authority at every turn.

This Deep State situation has developed over 50 years at least, since FDR. Obama has had 8 years to plant his political terrorists. There are no quick solutions.

Trump knows this and is playing the long game. This is not simply about Trump winning. This is about America winning.

Want to get pissed off? Try getting pissed off at the 52% that voted a radical, activist, terrorist into the White House - twice.

Posted by: Mortimer - FINISH HER ! at March 04, 2017 10:28 AM (KgpWR)

320 My mother buried me under 6 tons of giraffe porn once.



Once.

Posted by: Danny Vermin at March 04, 2017 10:29 AM (yHzRI)

321 I love Marmite sexually.

===

There's perfectly decent lubes available for free at any clinic, fyi

Posted by: Bigby's Typing Hands at March 04, 2017 10:29 AM (U0lQa)

322 298,

This seems to be a McCarthy walk back.

http://tinyurl.com/gnuk2hb

Posted by: geoffb5 at March 04, 2017 10:30 AM (d3wbb)

323 Mr Peebles,

It's actually 25 million now. WINNING

BTW, all nevertrump trolls like Civil War are Egg McMuffin, who sucks cock by choice.

Posted by: #AlwaysBeTrumping at March 04, 2017 10:30 AM (BlSID)

324 Can you imagine if GWB had wiretapped Obama's home during the transition of power?

Posted by: SiliconeSister at March 04, 2017 10:30 AM (KJOmP)

325 The wire tapping involved hacking into Trump's server and rummaging around for damning information. This was obstensibly because Trump did business with Russian banks.

Look at the timeline: in June 2016 Wikileaks releases Podesta's email and, in apparent retaliation the Obama admin sought to hack into Trump's server (ie emails).

Posted by: Make America Great Again at March 04, 2017 10:30 AM (A4HOq)

326 I wonder who else TFG was tapping? I hope Pres. Trump had the White House thoroughly sweep for listening devices.

Posted by: Tuna at March 04, 2017 10:32 AM (jm1YL)

327 Yep. That was the case. Saw a Rooshian documentary about it. There are no words for what that poor child suffered.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine.


The way I look at it, whenever their was a vote the American people overwhelmingly defined marriage as man and woman. The supreme court gave not f_ck #one what we thought. Obama trying to exert his perception of marriage and morality on the Russians was just as stupid as thinking we could take three different islamic sects in Iraq and build a nation out of them - in short order.

The Russian people let their leaders know what they thought of ghey adoption in light of the abuse in the USA. So in a democratic process the Russian government and Putin ended it.

In first paragraph the will of the people was subverted, while second paragraph the will of the people was upheld.

This is why we have Trump.

Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at March 04, 2017 10:32 AM (ZFUt7)

328 Evan McMullin.


Who?

Posted by: Horatio Caine at March 04, 2017 10:32 AM (LTHVh)

329 Make America Great Again: This was also just before Homeland Security hacked into Georgia's voting system.

Posted by: SiliconeSister at March 04, 2017 10:32 AM (KJOmP)

330 >>Trump's releasing this on Twitter is brilliant.

LOVE this!!

>>I guarantee you, if there are talking sex bots, feminist researchers
will test how they respond to sexually harassing talk, and will try to
bully manufacturers and lawmakers in programming the dolls to give what
they deem appropriate responses.


Heh. I'm not a guy but even I know that a sexbot doesn't have to talk at all, right? Maybe just some "ooohs" and "ahhhhs," right?

Posted by: Lizzy at March 04, 2017 10:32 AM (NOIQH)

331 3 teen girls kidnapped by Salvadoran gang in Houston



Two MS-13 gang members from El Salvador, both in the United States
illegally, held three teenage girls against their will and killed one of
them in a satanic ritual, authorities in Houston said Friday.







Houston is a "sanctuary" city. The mayor should be up on charges too.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 04, 2017 09:03 AM (auHtY)

Last time something like that happened in Houston, all of the convicted yutes got the Death Penalty. Jennifer Ertman and Elizabeth Pena 1993.

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 04, 2017 10:32 AM (JO9+V)

332 I wonder who else TFG was tapping?

Reggie. Hmm Hmm Hmmm

Posted by: Bruce at March 04, 2017 10:32 AM (8ikIW)

333 If anything, we're all melding into our own versions of fascism.

==

Global corporate fascism

Posted by: Bigby's Typing Hands at March 04, 2017 10:33 AM (U0lQa)

334 315. My strongest memories were - we all brought an extra suitcase each, packed with clothes in all sizes, for her relatives to sell. It was inventory for their shop for a year or more. And, out in the countryside, the way they kept boiling water for our tea, and I realized how expensive that must have been - the kerosene - but knew not to object. Wonderful people.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 04, 2017 10:33 AM (VBCEV)

335 Trump tweets to his 20 million* followers that Obama has been doing surveillance on the opposite party before a national election.

The media cannot bury the story now. They have to report what Trump said. No more memory hole.

They can try to disprove it or soft-peddle it, but the fact that Obama was wiretapping political enemies is now part of the public record and discourse.

But, yeah, that's stupid or something.

*That's more audience than ANY media outlet has.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at March 04, 2017 10:23 AM (oVJmc)


Seems to me the people who recoil to Trumps twitter tweets are the ones who have an interest in seeing the old Media Industrial Complex maintain its control over information.

I have faith that even opponents of what Trump is doing will eventually see the folly of having a few select individual media outlets who control the vast flow of knowledge, and that the concept is not only wrong, but incredibly illogical.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 04, 2017 10:33 AM (Pz4pT)

336 324 Can you imagine if GWB had wiretapped Obama's home during the transition of power?
Posted by: SiliconeSister at March 04, 2017 10:30 AM (KJOmP)

and the poor FBI agents having to listen to all the sucking noises when the press came to visit.

Posted by: Scalia's Ghost at March 04, 2017 10:34 AM (3OAG2)

337 268 Donald Fagen


" Aussie, I like the story of Paul McCartney hearing Good Times on the radio while driving and pulling over to call the DJ to play it again. "

I hadn't heard that story ... Good Times!


https://tinyurl.com/hud4s8j

Posted by: Aussie at March 04, 2017 10:34 AM (N/OEj)

338 I wonder who else TFG was tapping? I hope Pres. Trump had the White House thoroughly sweep for listening devices.

Posted by: Tuna at March 04, 2017 10:32 AM (jm1YL)

TFG is a bottom, not a top.

Posted by: Reggie Love, Presidential Bodyman at March 04, 2017 10:34 AM (JO9+V)

339 This story about Obama tapping Trump Towers had better be true, or else Trump's going to look like a whack job.

Posted by: JoeF. at March 04, 2017 10:34 AM (7uYFy)

340 The media cannot bury the story now. They have to report what Trump said. No more memory hole.

===

He's a madman tho!

Posted by: Bigby's Typing Hands at March 04, 2017 10:35 AM (U0lQa)

341 318
If anything, we're all melding into our own versions of fascism. Soft fascism (like Obama giving away hundreds of billions of dollars to favored entities who perpetually suck off the federal teet), or hard fascism, where Russian oligarchs use organized crime tactics to maintain market control, with the approval of government.
Posted by: BurtTC at March 04, 2017 10:28 AM (Pz4pT)


I think Fascism is now the leading political/economic system in the world. Even China, which still features all the symbols and trappings of Communism, is Fascist. The People's Liberation Army owns and operates businesses.

How often do we hear the phrase "public/private partnership"? That is virtually the essence of Fascism.

Mussolini must be laughing in his grave.

Posted by: rickl at March 04, 2017 10:35 AM (sdi6R)

342 Mortimer

Trump can shut down entire departments, agencies, etc with the upcoming debt ceiling. Based on precedent he will have nearly unlimited flexibility and power to fight back. Image furloughing entire sections engaged in sedition.

Posted by: Make America Great Again at March 04, 2017 10:35 AM (A4HOq)

343 320. Love the Horde's hive-mind.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 04, 2017 10:35 AM (VBCEV)

344 Now I'm thinking maybe the Pres. Needs to start tapping TFG's lines.

Posted by: Tuna at March 04, 2017 10:35 AM (jm1YL)

345 >>Can you imagine if GWB had wiretapped Obama's home during the transition of power?


No, not W. However, I remember when a bunch of FBI files of political opponents were found in the Clinton's family quarters of the WH. So it's no unheard of, but definitely cranked up to "11" --- no, wait, more like "111" what Obama did.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 04, 2017 10:36 AM (NOIQH)

346 If anything, we're all melding into our own versions of fascism.

==

Global corporate fascism
Posted by: Bigby's Typing Hands at March 04, 2017 10:33 AM (U0lQa)


Those three words are the primary source of the vicious opposition to Trump.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 04, 2017 10:36 AM (Pz4pT)

347 LI - New Transportation Secretary cuts funding for California Leftists Magic Bullet Train.

Fund it youself, maybe all the illegals can help.

Posted by: Skip at March 04, 2017 10:37 AM (HDU3V)

348 If this IS true, the one thing I like about it is that the headline---"Obama tapped Trump Tower"-- is easy for LIV's to understand. No amount of media filtering can muddy that up.

Posted by: JoeF. at March 04, 2017 10:39 AM (7uYFy)

349 Aussie, I know he's a Scot, but just saw Colin Hay show with a full band. It was very great.

Posted by: Donald Fagen at March 04, 2017 10:40 AM (M3DRt)

350 >>LI - New Transportation Secretary cuts funding for California Leftists Magic Bullet Train.


This is excellent! Trump's team is wasting no time in picking off low-hanging fruit like this, the EPA's climate change projects, etc.
Nice way to start - sends a message.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 04, 2017 10:40 AM (NOIQH)

351 LI - New Transportation Secretary cuts funding for California Leftists Magic Bullet Train.

Schadenboner just went Death Star

Posted by: JEM at March 04, 2017 10:40 AM (D7HXY)

352 Can a FORMER president be impeached?

Posted by: JoeF. at March 04, 2017 10:40 AM (7uYFy)

353 Trump's 20M twitter folks are mostly on the right, and reaching them helps. But the MFM as a whole still has more power by far. They do usually have to cover his more pointed tweets, but mostly to discredit and spin them. And their PC Religion has many faithful that won't leave their "tribe" easily.

Even some of my Republican FB friends of old, professionals, still tend to swallow every HuffPo post and have hate for Trump, even if they voted for him.

The social media discussions have to reach those that will never directly read a Trump tweet. It will be a long battle, but the MFM lies are getting very blatant. Hillary getting $145M from Russians for uranium and her putting top secret info routinely through her server, versus no evidence of Trump ties to Russia.

Trump now has the keys to the death star, and targeting of prime criminals is under way (as opposed to Obama/Hilda targeting honest tea party types).

Posted by: illiniwek at March 04, 2017 10:40 AM (BrMft)

354 339 This story about Obama tapping Trump Towers had better be true, or else Trump's going to look like a whack job.
Posted by: JoeF. at March 04, 2017 10:34 AM (7uYFy)

Yes - thank you - don't forget everyone in the Trump camp conspired with the Russians!!1!!

Posted by: Not a whack-Job Democrat at March 04, 2017 10:40 AM (mtGE/)

355 Posted by: BurtTC at March 04, 2017 10:28 AM (Pz4pT)

I think Fascism is now the leading political/economic system in the world. Even China, which still features all the symbols and trappings of Communism, is Fascist. The People's Liberation Army owns and operates businesses.

How often do we hear the phrase "public/private partnership"? That is virtually the essence of Fascism.

Mussolini must be laughing in his grave.
Posted by: rickl at March 04, 2017 10:35 AM (sdi6R)


I was having a conversation with someone the other day, we were talking about Vietnam. Looking back on it, what were they? When we were fighting against them, does anybody really know?

It's one of the great mysteries. The proponents of Ho Chi Min say he was just a nationalist, who wanted his country to be left alone (or something like that), while the American perspective is he was a satellite commie stooge.

Which is it? I really don't think we know. Although Vietnam today is more closely a fascist system today than anything else... and if it must be said, a much more benign version that most other places in the world.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 04, 2017 10:41 AM (Pz4pT)

356 301 Uncle etc

Marmite is NOT Vegemite


Vegemite is unique

https://tinyurl.com/zkgugzy

Posted by: Aussie at March 04, 2017 10:41 AM (N/OEj)

357
CBSN thinks that Lindsey Grahams town hall in South Carolina is realtime broadcast worthy.

Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at March 04, 2017 10:41 AM (ZFUt7)

358 352. I'm guessing not. He'd just be indicted and brought to trial like any other citizen.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 04, 2017 10:42 AM (VBCEV)

359 329 Make America Great Again: This was also just before Homeland Security hacked into Georgia's voting system.
Posted by: SiliconeSister at March 04, 2017 10:32 AM (KJOmP)


They tried but failed, is what I heard.

Why would DHS try to hack into a state's voting system? Did they do this with any other states?

Seems to me that if they could have flipped a handful of key states, they could have changed the outcome.

Posted by: rickl at March 04, 2017 10:42 AM (sdi6R)

360 Well Rush was on a tear this past week. I wondered if he was going to lose his voice he was yelling so much. If this wire tapping thing is true it's gonna be another great listening week.

Posted by: Tuna at March 04, 2017 10:43 AM (jm1YL)

361 BTW, does anyone actually think that the Obama admin would let a pesky court order get in the way of spying on the Trump campaign. We would have to fools to think so.

FISA court: warrant denied

Obama: let's do it anyway

Posted by: Make America Great Again at March 04, 2017 10:43 AM (A4HOq)

362 303 Kindltot

Musk candy at almost 3am - No way it's Aussie chardy right now because I can sleep in

Posted by: Aussie at March 04, 2017 10:43 AM (N/OEj)

363 LI - New Transportation Secretary cuts funding for California Leftists Magic Bullet Train.

Fund it youself, maybe all the illegals can help.
Posted by: Skip at March 04, 2017 10:37 AM (HDU3V)


And if it must be said, this IS two separate issues: Federal funding of these things? Hell no! Stop that nonsense, now.

The actual concept and execution of high speed rail between well traveled hubs? Oh hells yes! Let the private enterprise begin. Competition for the airlines = unmitigated good.

Now, don't just cut off funding, you gotta also make sure the Airline Industrial Complex doesn't exert political pressure to keep private parties for pursuing this, unimpeded.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 04, 2017 10:45 AM (Pz4pT)

364
Hey! Who'sa the smarta guy now?


Mussolini! That'sa right!

You all justa meataballs inna my sauce.







You guysa still no make-a the trainsa run on time!

Schiocchi!!!

Posted by: Mussolini at March 04, 2017 10:45 AM (9q7Dl)

365 >>>Marmite is NOT Vegemite

I thought a marmite was a gay woodchuck.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at March 04, 2017 10:46 AM (vRcUp)

366 355. The commies called themselves commies and took Soviet aid bigly. They were commies and still are, officially. Not as bad as when the Colonel and angel-clan fled, but bad enough. Fear of their state security apparatus keeps him from ever returning. And they hate tje Chinese more than they hate the west. Always have, always will, esp after they went to war.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 04, 2017 10:46 AM (VBCEV)

367 Would love it if Trump started communicating with his appointments via quill pen and delivered by ravens.

I put nothing past the WWE Hall of Famer.

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at March 04, 2017 10:46 AM (jJHMW)

368 I thought a marmite was a gay woodchuck.

it's a type of weasel

Posted by: AltonJackson at March 04, 2017 10:46 AM (KCxzN)

369 Aussie, Vegemite...shudder. My cousins tried to make me eat it when we were in Melbourne a few years ago...my daughter ran out of the house screaming..

Posted by: IC at March 04, 2017 10:47 AM (gcme+)

370 rickl: It's still being investigated

Posted by: SiliconeSister at March 04, 2017 10:47 AM (KJOmP)

371 You know what's so unusual about the Georgia vote system hacking? Georgia was called very, very late. Trump was never going to lose and the vote wasn't even close. There was no reason not to call it other for some last minute surprise.

Posted by: Make America Great Again at March 04, 2017 10:47 AM (A4HOq)

372 305 Mortimer -

The Pres Trumps tweets were hitting our conservative blogs as he tweeted

Without this alternative media we would never hear of anything if we relied on the MSM Down Under

Twitter - thank you!

Posted by: Aussie at March 04, 2017 10:48 AM (N/OEj)

373 Marmite is a kind of weasel.

Everyone knows that.


Vegemite is a breakfast spread made out mites which live on vegetables.


The more you know, people. The more you know.

Posted by: naturalfake at March 04, 2017 10:48 AM (9q7Dl)

374 Now I wonder how long Pres. Trump has known about the tapping and whether he was bidding his time to use the info at just the right moment.

Posted by: Tuna at March 04, 2017 10:48 AM (jm1YL)

375 BTW, does anyone actually think that the Obama admin would let a pesky court order get in the way of spying on the Trump campaign. We would have to fools to think so.

FISA court: warrant denied

Obama: let's do it anyway
Posted by: Make America Great Again at March 04, 2017 10:43 AM (A4HOq)


How quickly we misremember. One of the greatest debates of the post-9/11 event, was just how vital it was that courts control who gets wiretapped and when.

How we fought and fought over these things...

And yeah, I have no doubt the B. Hussein Administration did it all the time. Why? Because they could.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 04, 2017 10:48 AM (Pz4pT)

376 I worked this stuff(corruption at the highest levels behind the scenes)....I cannot for the life of me see any ...ANY...advantage to having a tweet out on the allegation.

Egg McMuffin, is that you?

Posted by: Ian S. at March 04, 2017 10:48 AM (5dOnv)

377 There is no reason, pragmatic or otherwise, to stuff bugs in your mouth.

It's why God made meat.

Posted by: t-bird at March 04, 2017 10:49 AM (k8DTS)

378 So here's the thing about that Brown Streak funding:

It's $647M to electrify Caltrain, which is a commute train that runs from SF to San Jose.

It really has nothing to do with the Brown Streak directly, but it's part of the infrastructure it'd eventually use.

Over half a billion dollars to put wires over rails that already exist.

I use Caltrain. It's actually great for getting back and forth to the shop that I use for some of the tire and suspension work on my cars. Drop off car, jog to Caltrain, read aos on the train, jog home.

And it'd work better if electrified. But is this really something that should be stirred into the Federal tax soup? No.

If we want it we should pay for it, and this state approves bonds like they're fucking cocaine. It's ridiculous what the voters of this state will inhale.

Posted by: JEM at March 04, 2017 10:49 AM (TppKb)

379 I still see signs saying "Georgia is turning purple, y'all"

Posted by: Donald Fagen at March 04, 2017 10:50 AM (M3DRt)

380 What brand of toilet paper does a man who is found buried under six tonnes of pr0n use?

This type of course.
http://www.ufunk.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/selection-du-weekend-234-33.jpg

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 04, 2017 10:50 AM (wkJHs)

381 359 329 Make America Great Again: This was also just before Homeland Security hacked into Georgia's voting system.
Posted by: SiliconeSister at March 04, 2017 10:32 AM (KJOmP)

They tried but failed, is what I heard.

Why would DHS try to hack into a state's voting system? Did they do this with any other states?

Seems to me that if they could have flipped a handful of key states, they could have changed the outcome.
Posted by: rickl at March 04, 2017 10:42 AM (

Election Fruad. They tried in in Indiana as well. And Kentucky. And these are the only states that we know of. Lord only knows what states thus gained access to.

And also after the election to clean up the voter rolls from all the fraudulent Establishment voters.

Let's be real both parties are knee deep in this shit storm. Dims worse than. the GOPe but the GOPe benefits with their DIM party members winning elections.

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at March 04, 2017 10:51 AM (jJHMW)

382 Of course the Lefties in the twitterverse are knocking Trump for spelling "tap" as "tapp."

Posted by: JoeF. at March 04, 2017 10:51 AM (7uYFy)

383 The commies called themselves commies and took Soviet aid bigly. They were commies and still are, officially. Not as bad as when the Colonel and angel-clan fled, but bad enough. Fear of their state security apparatus keeps him from ever returning. And they hate tje Chinese more than they hate the west. Always have, always will, esp after they went to war.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 04, 2017 10:46 AM (VBCEV)


Yeah, I don't believe it is anywhere near that simple.

It is entirely possible the Vietnamese are much smarter than anyone gave them credit for, and played the Soviets like a drum, for aid and support, while never having any real notion of trying to be a communist economy. Which they aren't, and really, never have been.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 04, 2017 10:51 AM (Pz4pT)

384 They story is not just that they wiretapped a server of Trump and possibly his campaign in October 2016 but also that they tried to get a much more extensive wiretap order, through the FISA court back in June 2016 which would be before the convention even. That one seems to have been aimed at all communications that Trump and 3 persons or just 4 persons associated with him were having with anyone.


Paragraph down toward bottom of this Guardian piece from January 11th
http://tinyurl.com/zz2kw2b

Heat Street piece on the FISA warrant.
http://tinyurl.com/gus84mb


Posted by: geoffb5 at March 04, 2017 10:52 AM (d3wbb)

385 You know, real life doesn't wrap things up in 60 minutes. These demands for "do something immediately!" are tiresome. This will be handled competently and correctly, which is more important than taking immediate action.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 04, 2017 10:52 AM (Lqy/e)

386 WDB was reporting yesterday that Kennesaw voting machines db had been hacked.

Posted by: Donald Fagen at March 04, 2017 10:53 AM (M3DRt)

387 Of course the Lefties in the twitterverse are knocking Trump for spelling "tap" as "tapp."

Tapp is a German word. Ergo, Trump is Hitler.

Posted by: blaster at March 04, 2017 10:54 AM (HV1LS)

388 I was curious and bought a small jar of Vegemite awhile ago. (Wegmans has it.) Every now and then I make toast with butter and Vegemite as a snack.

Unfortunately, that was right before I learned that grains and carbs are no good, so I don't make toast as often as I used to.

But I think Vegemite has a shelf life of eternity, so no worries.

Posted by: rickl at March 04, 2017 10:54 AM (sdi6R)

389 Someone above asked if Trump had known about the wiretapping and was waiting for the "right time" to reveal the information. Maybe. But is early Saturday morning the "right time?"

Posted by: JoeF. at March 04, 2017 10:54 AM (7uYFy)

390 383
I'll admit - nothing is ever as simple as it looks. And Leninism is an odd pick for an agrarian people. Could have been a smart play to keep the Chinese at bay, among other things.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 04, 2017 10:54 AM (VBCEV)

391 >>>So here's the thing about that Brown Streak funding:


People are paying the governor of California to run around naked?

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at March 04, 2017 10:54 AM (vRcUp)

392 384. So basically this is "old news."
Move along....

Posted by: JoeF. at March 04, 2017 10:56 AM (7uYFy)

393 Can a FORMER president be impeached?
===

Interesting question.

From what I am reading, legally yes.

Posted by: Mortimer - FINISH HER ! at March 04, 2017 10:57 AM (KgpWR)

394 >So here's the thing about that Brown Streak funding:


People are paying the governor of California to run around naked?
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at March 04, 2017 10:54 AM (vRcUp)


In his brown-streaked underwear?
Ewwwww....

Posted by: JoeF. at March 04, 2017 10:57 AM (7uYFy)

395 while never having any real notion of trying to be a communist economy. Which they aren't, and really, never have been.

Oh, uncle Ho was a commie from Russian Revolution days. Doesn't mean everyone else behind him was as ardent, certainly the higher-ups were, buy mainly they're just following the Chinese state-capitalism model.

Posted by: JEM at March 04, 2017 10:58 AM (D7HXY)

396 How quickly we misremember. One of the greatest debates of the post-9/11 event, was just how vital it was that courts control who gets wiretapped and when.

How we fought and fought over these things...

And yeah, I have no doubt the B. Hussein Administration did it all the time. Why? Because they could.
Posted by: BurtTC at March 04, 2017 10:48 AM (Pz4pT

2009 MIAC report leaked where the targets were Vets, Constitutionalists, 2nd amendment activists, Ron Paul supporters, anti-abortion, ect

If anything Snowden was misdirection a bit because he made it seem like we were tracking Islamists but the potential was there for all Americans.

What has really been going on is the groups the MIAC report listed were targets who were being watched while Islamists were able to set up shop and have full reign over our country for 8 years plus.

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at March 04, 2017 10:58 AM (jJHMW)

397 334 Uncle etc

Yes, it's quite an experience seeing howothers live..

My dear cyclo driver was wonderful and I really could not pay him what he asked for because he spent the whole day taking me to war scenes around Ho hi Minh City (pointing out bullet holes in walls etc)

To think what I did pay him could pay for his whole family's health care for the year was very sobering

Posted by: Aussie at March 04, 2017 10:58 AM (N/OEj)

398 Basically the President can declassify and reveal investigations and information, he should order all departments to reveal any and all investigations the government were conducting against him and his surrogates.

This is war, fight it as war.

Posted by: Kreplach at March 04, 2017 10:59 AM (O6Hj/)

399 "Obama Tapped the Tower" put dems back on defense where they belong.

"but we had FISA approval" ... puts Dems on the path to explaining why they kept surveilling after finding nothing, did they have real cause? What the public will understand is they had paper thin cause in the first place, yet now those very private transcripts (of innocence) are spread around Obama's administration via last minute change of rule on spreading such intel, and that has been handed to the "enemy" NY Times.

This is (potentially) far worse than Watergate, but details of whether they had enough alibi built in to avoid prison is another question.

Hillary complains about Podesta being hacked by Russians (still unknown, since he gave away his password, so not very sophisticated) and she blindly blames Trump. But it was Obama tapping the Trump campaign directly, then helping hide his spies that would pass the transcripts to NY Times for a smear campaign.

I think Trump has known this for a couple weeks at least, but is careful on when to reveal any details. Cockroaches are scurrying for cover as lights go on.

Posted by: illiniwek at March 04, 2017 10:59 AM (BrMft)

400 382 Of course the Lefties in the twitterverse are knocking Trump for spelling "tap" as "tapp."
Posted by: JoeF. at March 04, 2017 10:51 AM (7uYFy)


That's the first time anyone ever made a typo or misspelled a word in the history of the internet!

Clearly, Trump is unqualified to be President and should resign immediately.

Posted by: rickl at March 04, 2017 10:59 AM (sdi6R)

401 OT, but why are old commies affectionately called "Uncle?" Like "Uncle Joe", or "Uncle Ho?" Makes them seem benign...

Posted by: JoeF. at March 04, 2017 11:00 AM (7uYFy)

402 397. Same with the bags of cheap clothes we'd brought. You'd think we were piling up cash for them. Guess we were, in a way.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 04, 2017 11:00 AM (VBCEV)

403 386 WDB was reporting yesterday that Kennesaw voting machines db had been hacked.
Posted by: Donald Fagen at March 04, 2017 10:53 AM (M3DRt

Georgia has one of the top security on voting machines in the state and takes pride in it. This is not good news.

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at March 04, 2017 11:00 AM (jJHMW)

404 do we hate germans or russians or italians now? i need a scorecard for flavor of the hour. i have no idea where to channel my outrage. maybe i'll just stick with GOPe.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 04, 2017 11:01 AM (KP5rU)

405 Fascism is a form of socialism. Its development was in reaction to the violence of the anarcho-socialist movements in Europe and the US in the late 1800's and early 1900's.
It was an attempt to be the "middle path" between the unbridled capitalism and violent socialism. I like to refer to the movie World War Z where the solution was to make everyone 'sort of infected' to make the violent mindless beasts ignore the now mostly healthy

Anyways, Ralph Raico has several lectures on this

This one is an hour and a quarter long. Sweet man, and a bomb-thrower in a very learned, Bronx accented way

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdXj6tnvdZA

Posted by: Kindltot at March 04, 2017 11:01 AM (WQX/u)

406 Deputy Culture Editor sounds vey Orwellian.

Posted by: Donald Fagen at March 04, 2017 11:01 AM (M3DRt)

407 What brand of toilet paper does a man who is found buried under six tonnes of pr0n use?

This type of course.
http://www.ufunk.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/selection-du-weekend-234-33.jpg

Posted by: Anna Puma


Japanese American support for Trump plummeted when they realized he was promoting MAGA, not Manga.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at March 04, 2017 11:02 AM (vRcUp)

408 Okay, next question for debate: when moving from one state to another, should you be required to sign a contract to pay (or take) your share of the net bonded and pension indebtedness of the state you're leaving vs the state you're moving into?

Posted by: JEM at March 04, 2017 11:02 AM (TppKb)

409 I wrote a book called "Liberal Fascism."

Posted by: Jonah Goldberg at March 04, 2017 11:03 AM (4sHXv)

410 Japanese American support for Trump plummeted when they realized he was promoting MAGA, not Manga.

But Jewish self-defense outfits reaped the benefit.

Posted by: JEM at March 04, 2017 11:03 AM (TppKb)

411 >>But I think Vegemite has a shelf life of eternity, so no worries.

If it will outlive the cockroaches, then there really is no point in cockroach flour.

Posted by: Mama AJ, nice person, not a witch at March 04, 2017 11:04 AM (gTQoY)

412 401. That's the point. In many cultures, 'uncle' is a title of respect you confer on a man of a certain age and status. But with stalin, at least, I thought fdr gave him that nickname. (That's the origin of my moniker here - young ladies at my old gig called me 'shu-shu' - uncle.)

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 04, 2017 11:04 AM (VBCEV)

413 I'll admit - nothing is ever as simple as it looks. And Leninism is an odd pick for an agrarian people. Could have been a smart play to keep the Chinese at bay, among other things.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 04, 2017 10:54 AM (VBCEV)


The thing I find more interesting is that we have collectively, as a nation, decided not to look back at it. I'm sure that's the way many Germans respond to Hilter and the Nazis, that trying to sort it all out is too much. Probably exponentially worse for the Germans, really.

Still, it may not matter. A century from now, when it's not so raw, a more thorough examination of, well, pretty much ALL of the 20th century may yield some interesting information that we were not capable of understanding.

Not that we'll be around to find out, and I suspect it's going to depend on all of us who lived through it to be dead and buried.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 04, 2017 11:04 AM (Pz4pT)

414 Apropos of nothing

I do not think I can become Eastern Orthodox. They have to give up meat products and dairy and fish with a backbone for the entirety of Lent, not just on Ash Wednesday and the Fridays of Lent, so unless I want to eat shellfish for all of Lent I 'd be in trouble. And they fast at other times too. This must be why in an Orthodox Church you do not see many heavy women-or at least in this church. They're fasting at other times too. However, the services are very lovely and it is conservative theologically and socially.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 04, 2017 11:04 AM (fDdVG)

415 I cant wait to see how CNN spins this as an anti-Trump story.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 04, 2017 11:04 AM (uSlc8)

416 349 Donald Fagen

"I know he's a Scot, but just saw Colin Hay show with a full band. It was very great. "

Hey, Men at Work - what a great Aussie band!

https://tinyurl.com/jnc3u2u


Glad you enjoyed Colin's show

Posted by: Aussie at March 04, 2017 11:05 AM (N/OEj)

417 371 You know what's so unusual about the Georgia vote system hacking? Georgia was called very, very late. Trump was never going to lose and the vote wasn't even close. There was no reason not to call it other for some last minute surprise.
Posted by: Make America Great Again at March 04, 2017 10:47 AM (A4HOq

I watched the election covereage for the first time and they fully expected Georgia to go blue.

I have no doubt there was massive fraud in blue and swing states and maybe red states as well. I also have zero doubt they have been cleaning up the voters rolls to cover theri tracks.

We need a audit of every county in the country.

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at March 04, 2017 11:05 AM (jJHMW)

418 What the crap is a Law Enforcement Producer?

Posted by: Donald Fagen at March 04, 2017 11:05 AM (M3DRt)

419 Of course the Lefties in the twitterverse are knocking Trump for spelling "tap" as "tapp."

Or visa versa, they have no idea. Can you imagine twitter withOUT auto-cucumbers in the wild?

Posted by: t-bird at March 04, 2017 11:05 AM (/wWB4)

420 Don't prosecute the dork child-king, you'll make him a martyr. Go for every single underling.

Posted by: JT in KC at March 04, 2017 11:05 AM (Jf6ov)

421 Burt TC
Vietnam was part of the "domino theory" foreign policy at the time.
The USA at the time was fiercely anti communist.

This was before we started electing them to the Presidency.

Posted by: navybrat at March 04, 2017 11:05 AM (w7KSn)

422 I cant wait to see how CNN spins this as an anti-Trump story.

"If Trump had nothing to hide, why was he worried????"

That's so trite I'd give it odds of being used at 100%.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at March 04, 2017 11:06 AM (oVJmc)

423 Okay, next question for debate: when moving from one state to another, should you be required to sign a contract to pay (or take) your share of the net bonded and pension indebtedness of the state you're leaving vs the state you're moving into?

Posted by: JEM at March 04, 2017 11:02 AM (TppKb)


Californica or Illnoise?

Because I haven't heard any other state that is trying to do that.

Which should make the answer patently obvious.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 04, 2017 11:06 AM (Pz4pT)

424 Let's all remember that obama is an abject failure. He screws up and fails at everything he touches. Valerie Jarrett moving into his house at this moment is actually really telling. She is the cleaner of all of his mess.

I can see Barry curled up in a ball on the floor profusely sweating while Valerie Jarrett tries desperately to cover up his tracks. Say what you will about her, the fact that he is still allowed to breathe shows great patience on her part.

Posted by: stacyaw at March 04, 2017 11:06 AM (sPwat)

425 This was before we started electing them to the Presidency.

Well, we elected their sleeper mole AFTER the USSR fell.

Posted by: JEM at March 04, 2017 11:07 AM (TppKb)

426 Liberals A) criticizing spelling B) on Twitter.

Oy.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at March 04, 2017 11:07 AM (oVJmc)

427 382
"Of course the Lefties in the twitterverse are knocking Trump for spelling "tap" as "tapp.""

This is how you get the story Tweeted beyond the 20 million of your own followers.

Posted by: geoffb5 at March 04, 2017 11:07 AM (d3wbb)

428 Burt TC
Vietnam was part of the "domino theory" foreign policy at the time.
The USA at the time was fiercely anti communist.

This was before we started electing them to the Presidency.
Posted by: navybrat at March 04, 2017 11:05 AM (w7KSn)


Yes, that's what we thought. At the time. Doesn't mean we were right.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 04, 2017 11:08 AM (Pz4pT)

429 Brazilian Scientists Bake Bread Out of Cockroach Flour

They'll be hearing from our lawyers.

Posted by: Whizzo Chocolate Co. at March 04, 2017 11:08 AM (V4Qfo)

430 405 Fascism is a form of socialism. Its development was in reaction to the violence of the anarcho-socialist movements in Europe and the US in the late 1800's and early 1900's.
It was an attempt to be the "middle path" between the unbridled capitalism and violent socialism.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdXj6tnvdZA
Posted by: Kindltot at March 04, 2017 11:01 AM (WQX/u)


In Jonah Goldberg's book "Liberal Fascism", Mussolini was an ardent socialist in his youth and invented fascism as a "new, improved" version of socialism. He wanted to harness capitalism in service to the state.

That's my phrase, not Goldberg's, but that's how I saw it.

Posted by: rickl at March 04, 2017 11:08 AM (sdi6R)

431 I wonder who else TFG was tapping?

Phrasing!

Posted by: Reggie at March 04, 2017 11:09 AM (8zL5i)

432 Californica or Illnoise?

Purely hypothetical, but I can see certain states trying to make something like that happen.

Posted by: JEM at March 04, 2017 11:09 AM (TppKb)

433 @427: Yup. That's how you ensure that everyone on Twitter sees the story regardless of which "bubble" they're in.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 04, 2017 11:09 AM (5dOnv)

434 Okay, next question for debate: when moving from one state to another, should you be required to sign a contract to pay (or take) your share of the net bonded and pension indebtedness of the state you're leaving vs the state you're moving into?

Posted by: JEM at March 04, 2017 11:02 AM (TppKb)

How's that gonna work?

Posted by: BignJames at March 04, 2017 11:09 AM (x9c8r)

435 413 & 421. Both true. Complicated beyond my ken.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 04, 2017 11:09 AM (VBCEV)

436 "The wiretaps were appropriate because we had probable cause to believe that Mr. Trump was plotting to illegally monopolize the taco bowl market."

Posted by: Loretta Lynch at March 04, 2017 11:10 AM (uSlc8)

437 "Doesn't mean we were right."

I tend to agree, if we wanted to fight commies we should have done it in Cuba, where our supply lines would have been shorter.

My father (bless his memory) got paid to kill commies (in the service) and I think many times of what an honor that would have been.

Posted by: navybrat at March 04, 2017 11:10 AM (w7KSn)

438 Let's all remember that obama is an abject failure. He screws up and fails at everything he touches. Valerie Jarrett moving into his house at this moment is actually really telling. She is the cleaner of all of his mess.

I can see Barry curled up in a ball on the floor profusely sweating while Valerie Jarrett tries desperately to cover up his tracks. Say what you will about her, the fact that he is still allowed to breathe shows great patience on her part.
Posted by: stacyaw at March 04, 2017 11:06 AM (sPwat)


I still say it's like a bad sitcom. He's sitting in the mancave, trying to play his XBox or shining his golf clubs, and she's nagging him about getting back at the evildoers in the White House.

Or, he's got a dummy version of him with his back to her, and every few seconds it says "Yes Val, let's get right on that." Meanwhile, he's on the green, trying to tap in the fourth putt.

Complete with laugh track.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 04, 2017 11:11 AM (Pz4pT)

439 I cant wait to see how CNN spins this as an anti-Trump story.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 04, 2017 11:04 AM (uSlc


First they'll convene a panel discussion ( 6 liberals/ 2 anti-Trump "Republicans") where they will all wear "Wtf?" expressions, laughing about it. Then they'll get all serious and wonder if it's "presidential" to accuse your predecessor of such things and further that Trump might "need help."
Then when it get's more serious, they'll site the old Heat Street and NR columns and say it's "old news."

A lot will also depend on whether their "boyfriend" issues a statement. Then they'll take his cue...

Posted by: JoeF. at March 04, 2017 11:11 AM (7uYFy)

440 So, a pertinent question for the horde. I applied for a position, contingent on contract approval. After the initial machine generated message, there was no further interaction. Then in late January, the company did reach out, thanking me for my submission but they were not awarded the contract.

This week I was at the VA for bloodwork when I met a guy wearing a logo shirt for the job (different company) I applied for. So I engaged him in conversation, and he gave me a business card for a Human Relations agent with this company, a handwritten phone number for his supervisor. I went to the company page, 2 positions remain, so I submitted my resume and filled the application form.

Should I send an email directly to the company HR Rep with my resume? Should I contact the supervisor to inquire and network myself?

Posted by: The Mouse that Roared at March 04, 2017 11:12 AM (7N6ox)

441 369 Posted by: IC at March 04, 2017 10:47 AM (gc


Aussie, Vegemite...shudder. My cousins tried to make me eat it when we were in Melbourne a few years ago...my daughter ran out of the house screaming..


Hi there and I've just enjoyed some Vegemite on toast as a 3am snack! Lots of butter of course

However my two adult kids hate it even though they had Vegemite fan parents

Posted by: Aussie at March 04, 2017 11:12 AM (N/OEj)

442 437. I lost an uncle there. Air Force - first and only in our history - he was a Thud jockey, not an assignment I'd want to pull.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 04, 2017 11:12 AM (VBCEV)

443 And, of course, at top of Google News, the newspapers are making sure their readers know right up front in the headlines what to think about this development.

"Trump, citing no evidence, accuses Obama of 'Nixon/Watergate' plot to wiretap Trump Tower" - Washington Post
"Trump, Offering No Evidence, Says Obama Tapped His Phones" - New York Times

Posted by: Dan K. at March 04, 2017 11:13 AM (UROJb)

444
"Trump, citing no evidence, accuses Obama of 'Nixon/Watergate' plot to wiretap Trump Tower" - Washington Post
"Trump, Offering No Evidence, Says Obama Tapped His Phones" - New York Times


Aren't the FISA decisions on the record?

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at March 04, 2017 11:14 AM (oVJmc)

445 California is notorious for taxing its ex-pats.

Posted by: navybrat at March 04, 2017 11:14 AM (w7KSn)

446 What part of the Wild Kingdom is it that herds their prey off cliffs?
====

Was my people, paleface. Run buffalo off cliff.

Posted by: Elizabeth Warren at March 04, 2017 11:14 AM (10LGw)

447 Okay, next question for debate: when moving from one state to another, should you be required to sign a contract to pay (or take) your share of the net bonded and pension indebtedness of the state you're leaving vs the state you're moving into?

Posted by: JEM at March 04, 2017 11:02 AM (TppKb)

How's that gonna work?
Posted by: BignJames at March 04, 2017 11:09 AM (x9c8r)


They send you a bill.

Really.

I don't know where it is now, if they've passed the laws, or if they're tied up in court, but both Illnoise and Californica were trying to implement a system.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 04, 2017 11:14 AM (Pz4pT)

448 417
I watched the election covereage for the first time and they fully expected Georgia to go blue.

I have no doubt there was massive fraud in blue and swing states and maybe red states as well. I also have zero doubt they have been cleaning up the voters rolls to cover theri tracks.

We need a audit of every county in the country.
Posted by: Widespread Pepe at March 04, 2017 11:05 AM (jJHMW)


I think one of the reasons the Left/FNM/Deep State is freaking out so much is that they know Trump won beyond the margin of fraud.

If we could magically subtract the vote fraud and illegal votes, he won by a landslide. I'm absolutely convinced of that.

Posted by: rickl at March 04, 2017 11:14 AM (sdi6R)

449 443 And, of course, at top of Google News, the newspapers are making sure their readers know right up front in the headlines what to think about this development.

--------


It's our job to tell you what to think, rube.

Posted by: Mika Brzenszki at March 04, 2017 11:15 AM (uSlc8)

450 nd, of course, at top of Google News, the newspapers are making sure their readers know right up front in the headlines what to think about this development.

"Trump, citing no evidence, accuses Obama of 'Nixon/Watergate' plot to wiretap Trump Tower" - Washington Post
"Trump, Offering No Evidence, Says Obama Tapped His Phones" - New York Times
Posted by: Dan K. at March 04, 2017 11:13 AM (UROJb)


Yup. And notice how they NEVER say, "Hillary (or the DEMS) citing no evidence, accuse Russia and Trump colluding to steal election..."

Posted by: JoeF. at March 04, 2017 11:15 AM (7uYFy)

451 >>>If it will outlive the cockroaches, then there really is no point in cockroach flour.

Those scientists could start their own company Renfield Bakeries, and market to the goth crowd.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at March 04, 2017 11:15 AM (vRcUp)

452 Actually, while I think Trump says some stupid stuff on Twitter (Do we really need to know about Arnold Schwarznegger and "The Apprentice"?) I think it's smart of him to get out the stories about the wiretapping and the Obama admin setting up meeting with Russian Ambassador and Sessions, because lots of people don't know this stuff.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 04, 2017 11:15 AM (fDdVG)

453 Should I send an email directly to the company HR Rep with my resume? Should I contact the supervisor to inquire and network myself?

Supervisor, and mention the guy you were talking to. HR are pinheads.

Posted by: t-bird at March 04, 2017 11:15 AM (8zL5i)

454 442
437. I lost an uncle there. Air Force - first and only in our history -
he was a Thud jockey, not an assignment I'd want to pull.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan!
No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 04, 2017 11:12 AM (VBCEV)

My dad was MACV-Naval Advisory Group teaching the RVN Navy how to conduct riverine/coastal patrol operations. He earned a bronze star with combat distinguishing device for a bad ass firefight. No matter how I tried, I could not get the enemy to shoot at me in Iraq or Afghanistan. Chickenshits.

Posted by: The Mouse that Roared at March 04, 2017 11:17 AM (7N6ox)

455 Vietnam initiated as the resistance to the Japanese Empire, and after fighting that, lots of locals being very unhappy at being asked to be a good French colony again.
And remember, a lot of the French administrators and teachers and such were also communists and spread their beliefs and attitudes, making it a good seed bed for the whole Comintern program

Posted by: Kindltot at March 04, 2017 11:17 AM (WQX/u)

456 If it wasn't for HR departments, "studies" majors would never be able to pay off their student loans.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 04, 2017 11:17 AM (uSlc8)

457 CNN doofus is actually saying Trump as President has power to shut down FISA courts.

Posted by: Donald Fagen at March 04, 2017 11:17 AM (M3DRt)

458 Real dinosaurs! Now complete with government cover-up conspiracy!

https://youtu.be/zsyFmdm3hP0

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks. Now worse than Hitler! at March 04, 2017 11:17 AM (Nwg0u)

459 Posted by: BurtTC at March 04, 2017 11:14 AM (Pz4pT)

Tax you...for the future...that you declined by moving.

Posted by: BignJames at March 04, 2017 11:17 AM (x9c8r)

460 Should I send an email directly to the company HR Rep with my resume? Should I contact the supervisor to inquire and network myself?
Posted by: The Mouse that Roared at March 04, 2017 11:12 AM (7N6ox)


Federal contractor?

Hmmm, I might reach out to the supervisor first. If this person IS the hiring manager, then it certainly doesn't hurt to make that connection BEFORE dealing with the soulless drones of HR.

My opinion. I'm most definitely not an expert on this topic.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 04, 2017 11:18 AM (Pz4pT)

461 388 rickl

Put Vegemite on cracker bikkies or on rice crackers

And it does last forever...

Posted by: Aussie at March 04, 2017 11:18 AM (N/OEj)

462 The little whispering campaign implicating the president's son-in-law being in contact with the Russians might have been one step too far.

Posted by: Tuna at March 04, 2017 11:18 AM (jm1YL)

463 Trump, citing no evidence...
"Trump, Offering No Evidence...


That's funny. He should have put all his sources into his 140-character Tweet.

Posted by: t-bird at March 04, 2017 11:19 AM (kCDOM)

464 "Trump, Offering No Evidence, Says Obama Tapped His Phones" - New York Times
====

Yeah, that's the smart play, media.

*shakes head fondly*

The smarter ones are trying: "This proves he must have been doing something wrong."

Posted by: Geronimo Stilton at March 04, 2017 11:20 AM (10LGw)

465 Genderless "thing," demented. Teaching snowflakes: add table manners and how to eat with a fork. I have been appalled at what I see in restaurants, these kids would look terrible at a coorporate dinner party.

Posted by: Pet Pal at March 04, 2017 11:20 AM (YFKyN)

466 The National Review article kinda blows the doors off of "no sources". I assume Trump either read that or heard Mark Levin talking about it.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 04, 2017 11:20 AM (5dOnv)

467 413
The thing I find more interesting is that we have collectively, as a nation, decided not to look back at it. I'm sure that's the way many Germans respond to Hilter and the Nazis, that trying to sort it all out is too much. Probably exponentially worse for the Germans, really.

Still, it may not matter. A century from now, when it's not so raw, a more thorough examination of, well, pretty much ALL of the 20th century may yield some interesting information that we were not capable of understanding.
Posted by: BurtTC at March 04, 2017 11:04 AM (Pz4pT)


*cough*

Posted by: Diana West at March 04, 2017 11:21 AM (sdi6R)

468 Posted by: BurtTC at March 04, 2017 11:14 AM (Pz4pT)

Tax you...for the future...that you declined by moving.
Posted by: BignJames at March 04, 2017 11:17 AM (x9c8r)


Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's how it works. Because you "enjoyed" the benefits while you were there, so the debt that flows forward is partially yours.

I don't know how that's legal, but hey, I didn't stay at a Holiday Inn last night.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 04, 2017 11:21 AM (Pz4pT)

469 Federal contractor?



Hmmm, I might reach out to the supervisor first. If this person IS
the hiring manager, then it certainly doesn't hurt to make that
connection BEFORE dealing with the soulless drones of HR.



My opinion. I'm most definitely not an expert on this topic.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 04, 2017 11:18 AM (Pz4pT)

I know the supervisor is a retired Marine, so chances are good we are two degrees of separation, like the guy I talked to. We have many of the same associates and experiences, though we don't know each other. Probably smarter to do that. Thanks Burt.

Posted by: The Mouse that Roared at March 04, 2017 11:21 AM (7N6ox)

470 Of course the Lefties in the twitterverse are knocking Trump for spelling "tap" as "tapp."
Posted by: JoeF. at March 04, 2017 10:51 AM (7uYFy)


You're spelling is wrong therefore your argument is INVALID

Posted by: MFM shill at March 04, 2017 11:21 AM (WQX/u)

471 Obligatory "Life during wartime" reference...

Posted by: Bacon Jeff at March 04, 2017 11:21 AM (VSenK)

472 What's the big story here? I've been tapping the president for years.

Posted by: Reggie Love at March 04, 2017 11:23 AM (uSlc8)

473 States should not have "debt recoup" laws. However, Red States who have operated sanely should have "anti-locust" voting laws. The right to vote from anyone coming in should be restricted to a ten year residency requirement. That can be waived if they have an inter-state compact with another State like the 2nd amendment compacts.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 04, 2017 11:23 AM (mpXpK)

474 Posted by: BurtTC at March 04, 2017 11:18 AM (Pz4pT)

I know the supervisor is a retired Marine, so chances are good we are two degrees of separation, like the guy I talked to. We have many of the same associates and experiences, though we don't know each other. Probably smarter to do that. Thanks Burt.
Posted by: The Mouse that Roared at March 04, 2017 11:21 AM (7N6ox)


You're welcome! It appears that you know what to do. I hope it works out.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 04, 2017 11:24 AM (Pz4pT)

475 You're spelling is wrong therefore your argument is INVALID
Posted by: MFM shill
------------

Uh, oh.

Posted by: Mike Hemmer, etc., etc. at March 04, 2017 11:24 AM (ZO497)

476 Vietnam would not have been a loss if JFK/LBJ had played to win that little conflict from day one like the Communists had.

Then the ROEs would not have been so restrictive in regards to attacking SA-2 sites or telling pilots that no they can't bomb the USSR and PRC cargo ships in Haiphong who were shooting at them.

Over 400 F-105 Thunderchiefs were lost over the skies of North Vietnam. Or almost half the total production run. Thus sending men like Leo Thorsness to the Hanoi Hilton or others to Arlington. In the 66-67 time frame, the chances of a Thud pilot making it to one hundred missions was abysmal.

The men at the pointy end were willing to win, just the politicians in DC were not.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 04, 2017 11:25 AM (wkJHs)

477 Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's how it works. Because you "enjoyed" the benefits while you were there, so the debt that flows forward is partially yours.

I don't know how that's legal, but hey, I didn't stay at a Holiday Inn last night.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 04, 2017 11:21 AM (Pz4pT)

Guess you'll never know if you don't try.

Posted by: BignJames at March 04, 2017 11:26 AM (x9c8r)

478 455. Most amazing thing I learned last year - the allied force in the Russian civil war that was at Vladivostok had a Japanese commander with brit, American, and Vietnamese ('French colonial troops') troops.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 04, 2017 11:26 AM (VBCEV)

479 462--

As soon as I saw that, I knew it was a major mistake. No way was PDT going to stay silent on that.

Posted by: Czar Peter at March 04, 2017 11:27 AM (2uera)

480 Posted by: rickl at March 04, 2017 11:08 AM (sdi6R)

Mussolini did not invent Fascism, but he did adopt and adapt it, and turned it from a socialist dream into a sort-of functioning system.

Posted by: MFM shill at March 04, 2017 11:28 AM (WQX/u)

481 Eyes are blurry so time for bed

Nightynight everyone and have a wonderful yesterday!


BTW during the week there was talk about HR departments

Ours is called the People and Culture Department!

Posted by: Aussie at March 04, 2017 11:28 AM (N/OEj)

482 The men at the pointy end were willing to win, just the politicians in DC were not.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 04, 2017 11:25 AM (wkJHs)


That sounds so familiar, I just can't remember the context of where I last heard that!

Posted by: Hrothgar at March 04, 2017 11:28 AM (cV6Ls)

483 471. This ain't no party
This ain't no disco
This ain't no fooling around.

This is library!

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 04, 2017 11:29 AM (VBCEV)

484 Renfield Bakeries?

Bet that would be a smash in San Francisco...

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 04, 2017 11:30 AM (wkJHs)

485 Okay, next question for debate: when moving from one state to another, should you be required to sign a contract to pay (or take) your share of the net bonded and pension indebtedness of the state you're leaving vs the state you're moving into?

Did you cosign the loan?

Posted by: Grump928(C) at March 04, 2017 11:30 AM (LTHVh)

486 cnn panel is trying very hard not to blink

Posted by: Donald Fagen at March 04, 2017 11:30 AM (M3DRt)

487 The little whispering campaign implicating the president's son-in-law being in contact with the Russians might have been one step too far.

Trump worked (and worked with) the old-school New York and New Jersey Dems, mobs, and unions (BIRM) and made billions. Does today's Momjean Left really stand a chance?

Posted by: t-bird at March 04, 2017 11:31 AM (NBHj5)

488 Back from breakfast - can we start shooting yet?

Posted by: Weasel at March 04, 2017 11:31 AM (Sfs6o)

489 The little whispering campaign implicating the president's son-in-law being in contact with the Russians might have been one step too far.

Trump worked (and worked with) the old-school New York and New Jersey Dems, mobs, and unions (BIRM) and made billions. Does today's Momjean Left really stand a chance?
Posted by: t-bird at March 04, 2017 11:31 AM (NBHj5)

Trump IS in many ways an old school NY/NJ Democrat.
And, for these times, that's a good thing.

Posted by: JoeF. at March 04, 2017 11:33 AM (7uYFy)

490 Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's how it works. Because you "enjoyed" the benefits while you were there, so the debt that flows forward is partially yours.

I don't know how that's legal, but hey, I didn't stay at a Holiday Inn last night.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 04, 2017 11:21 AM (Pz4pT)

Guess you'll never know if you don't try.
Posted by: BignJames at March 04, 2017 11:26 AM (x9c8r)


That would be one of the general principles by which governments operate, when it comes to reaching into our pockets.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 04, 2017 11:33 AM (Pz4pT)

491 Because you "enjoyed" the benefits while you were there, so the debt that flows forward is partially yours.

I don't know how that's legal, but hey, I didn't stay at a Holiday Inn last night.


So the Democrats are still the party of slavery.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at March 04, 2017 11:34 AM (vRcUp)

492 can we start shooting yet?
Posted by: Weasel at March 04, 2017 11:31 AM

I want to so bad, pumped out 73 more musket balls this morning, made well over 200 so far.

Posted by: Skip at March 04, 2017 11:35 AM (HDU3V)

493 Ours is called the People and Culture Department!
Posted by: Aussie at March 04, 2017 11:28 AM (N/OEj)
---------
I refer to our HR Dept as "Human Remains" as you might guess I hold them in very low regard.

Posted by: Weasel at March 04, 2017 11:36 AM (Sfs6o)

494 Over 400 F-105 Thunderchiefs were lost over the skies of North Vietnam. Or almost half the total production run. Thus sending men like Leo Thorsness to the Hanoi Hilton or others to Arlington. In the 66-67 time frame, the chances of a Thud pilot making it to one hundred missions was abysmal.

The men at the pointy end were willing to win, just the politicians in DC were not.
Posted by: Anna Puma
-------------

One of those was a friend of mine:
http://preview.tinyurl.com/zoq8tth

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 04, 2017 11:36 AM (ZO497)

495 Okay, next question for debate: when moving from one state to another, should you be required to sign a contract to pay (or take) your share of the net bonded and pension indebtedness of the state you're leaving vs the state you're moving into?
-----------------------------------
Did you cosign the loan?
Posted by: Grump928(C) at March 04, 2017 11:30 AM (LTHVh)


I would think for our Government betters, taking that first breath is your agreement to assume your part of the debt.

Of course, for some, like Butcher Gosnell and Pete Singer, it takes substantially more than one breath.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 04, 2017 11:37 AM (Pz4pT)

496


Fortunately we have the GOP Congress on our side.



Posted by: Mortimer - FINISH HER ! at March 04, 2017 11:38 AM (KgpWR)

497 https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10000/blasphemy-laws

Our Canadian neighbors are not far behind the Europeans in surrendering to Islam. Its Leftists getting in bed with them.

Posted by: Skip at March 04, 2017 11:39 AM (HDU3V)

498 492 can we start shooting yet?
Posted by: Weasel at March 04, 2017 11:31 AM

I want to so bad, pumped out 73 more musket balls this morning, made well over 200 so far.
Posted by: Skip at March 04, 2017 11:35 AM (HDU3V)
---------
Nice!
Since I'm pretty sure I'm already on every list there is, I had an attorney set up a firearms trust to hold Class 3 items. Figured it's as good a time as any.

Posted by: Weasel at March 04, 2017 11:40 AM (Sfs6o)

499 Hrothgar, you mean like from Col. Robin Olds? Ace fighter pilot? Later Commandant of the Air Force Academy.

As in when LBJ asked him at the White House how to get out of the war? Robin replied - "It's simple sir -- you win it!"

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 04, 2017 11:40 AM (wkJHs)

500 So the Democrats are still the party of slavery.

Boom.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at March 04, 2017 11:41 AM (LTHVh)

501 Sorry if this is a stupid question, trying to get up to speed on this: but, wouldn't PDT be privy to all the FISA requests, including past ones? Could he verify if JEF judge-shopped?

Posted by: ever at March 04, 2017 11:41 AM (QZdJj)

502 Fortunately we have the GOP Congress on our side.





Posted by: Mortimer -


Did you forget the sarc tag?

Posted by: Minnie at March 04, 2017 11:41 AM (ByNzS)

503 Remain In Light is one of the greatest albums ever.

Posted by: Donald Fagen at March 04, 2017 11:42 AM (M3DRt)

504 This stuff used to be commonplace...Truman, Eisenhower, JFK, LBJ and Nixon all wiretapped political opponents. It ended for a while after Nixon because the deep state had to out it in order to bring him down.

Posted by: Czar Peter at March 04, 2017 11:42 AM (2uera)

505 Fuck the democrats and their puppet king Obama to death.

War.

Posted by: most deplorable Ghost of kari - certified sidebar at March 04, 2017 11:42 AM (Iy6JT)

506 Our Canadian neighbors are not far behind the Europeans in surrendering to Islam. Its Leftists getting in bed with them.

Posted by: Skip at March 04, 2017 11:39 AM (HDU3V)


They don't understand that while you might ride the small islamic tiger for a while, eventually the big grown-up islamic tiger will ride YOU!

Posted by: Ali Ali Otsen Mahomet at March 04, 2017 11:44 AM (cV6Ls)

507 503. I'm a tumbler, born under punches....


Easily their best work, that album.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 04, 2017 11:45 AM (VBCEV)

508 As in when LBJ asked him at the White House how to get out of the war? Robin replied - "It's simple sir -- you win it!"


Posted by: Anna Puma at March 04, 2017 11:40 AM (wkJHs)

"The quickest way to end the war, is to lose" Dystopia - Megadeth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bK95lWHl7js




Posted by: The Mouse that Roared at March 04, 2017 11:45 AM (7N6ox)

509 502 Fortunately we have the GOP Congress on our side.





Posted by: Mortimer -


Did you forget the sarc tag?
Posted by: Minnie at March 04, 2017 11:41 AM (ByNzS)


Was it really necessary?

Posted by: Diana West at March 04, 2017 11:46 AM (sdi6R)

510 Off, sock.

Posted by: rickl at March 04, 2017 11:46 AM (sdi6R)

511 Posted by: Anna Puma at March 04, 2017 11:40 AM (wkJHs)

Yes, men like this are exactly what I had in mind!

Posted by: Ali Ali Otsen Mahomet at March 04, 2017 11:47 AM (cV6Ls)

512 Sock reset!

Posted by: Hrothgar at March 04, 2017 11:47 AM (cV6Ls)

513 I still think certain people need to be lamp posted, set an example for the rest.

Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at March 04, 2017 11:48 AM (aMlLZ)

514 I still think certain people need to be lamp posted, set an example for the rest.

Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at March 04, 2017 11:48 AM (aMlLZ)


Pour encourager les autres!

Posted by: Hrothgar at March 04, 2017 11:49 AM (cV6Ls)

515 So there's a teaser for Deadpool 2 at the beginning of Logan on some theaters.

Ryan Reynolds has put it up on his YouTube page.

https://youtu.be/Z5ezsReZcxU

Posted by: buzzion at March 04, 2017 11:49 AM (cAnNx)

516 Swimming in the toilet is both relaxing and great exercise.

Posted by: Queef Olberdouche at March 04, 2017 11:50 AM (Tyii7)

517 Not really.

off stupid sock

Posted by: Infidel at March 04, 2017 11:50 AM (ByNzS)

518 good morning.......looks like i have to eat my skynyrd tickets.....and i'm not happy about that at all....

Posted by: phoenixgirl..spring training at March 04, 2017 08:51 AM (0O7c5)

What happened, PG? The band fail to show?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 04, 2017 11:53 AM (WDdjT)

519 Something's got to give. Let the bodies hit the floor.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at March 04, 2017 11:54 AM (vRcUp)

520
I see like many a dump deposited in our modern low flush toilets, this one still won't go down.

Who's ordered the 55-gallon drum on vinegar to dump in this place to free the clog?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 04, 2017 11:54 AM (v1g1+)

521 Late to the party, but doesn't the Obongo wiretap kinda put "paid" to the Russian complicity angle?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 04, 2017 11:54 AM (SRKgf)

522 516 Sign at hotel swimming pool, really:

"We don't swim in your toilet, so don't pee in our pool."

Posted by: irw at March 04, 2017 11:54 AM (0Su3S)

523 Mike Hammer I briefly interacted online with one Thud driver. Ed Rasimus. 100 missions in the F-105D and later 100+ missions in the F-4E. He wrote three books - When Thunder Rolled, Cobra Palace, and with Christina Olds published Robin Olds' biography Fighter Pilot: The Memoirs of Legendary Ace Robin Olds.

Ed went radio silent in December 2012 and passed away in January 2013.
http://thundertales.blogspot.com/

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 04, 2017 11:54 AM (wkJHs)

524 513 I still think certain people need to be lamp posted, set an example for the rest.
Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at March 04, 2017 11:48 AM (aMlLZ)
--------
Windchimes.

Posted by: Weasel at March 04, 2017 11:54 AM (Sfs6o)

525 Swimming in the toilet is both relaxing and great exercise.

Posted by: Queef Olberdouche at March 04, 2017 11:50 AM (Tyii7)


I prefer drinking from it and playing with the things I find in it. I'll report it all to the country every morning so they can be kept in the toilet loop.

Posted by: Ghandi at March 04, 2017 11:55 AM (zc3Db)

526 Pre Garden Nood

Posted by: Skip at March 04, 2017 11:55 AM (HDU3V)

527 I still think certain people need to be lamp posted, set an example for the rest.
Posted by: Berserker
----------

Probably. But Mussolini may not be a good example. Bear in mind that it wasn't the Italian government that did him in. It was communist partisans who (arguably illegally) executed him.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 04, 2017 11:56 AM (ZO497)

528 Heard some plastic being rattled by a cat in the "junk room." (You've got a junk drawer, we've got a junk room.) Went to investigate.

On top of some storage trunks, on top of some framed art (lying face down) and other stuff, was a plastic bag with odds & ends in it... covered in fresh cat pee. Fortunately, most of the pee was on the plastic bag, but some leaked down onto the framed stuff.

Grabbed cat, rubbed his nose in it, threw him outside, and began clean-up. Joys of pet ownership.

I may not be around for the pet thread, so I though I'd share this Joy of the Morning with y'all.

Posted by: mindful webworker, pet-peevishly at March 04, 2017 11:57 AM (FTf+m)

529 Lets just say evidence did lead back to Obama, I get the feeling the left would snap if their Messiah was threatened. We have already seen these people are living in a alternate reality.

Posted by: William Eaton at March 04, 2017 11:57 AM (MuTTO)

530 Lets just say evidence did lead back to Obama, I get the feeling the left would snap if their Messiah was threatened. We have already seen these people are living in a alternate reality.

Posted by: William Eaton at March 04, 2017 11:57 AM (MuTTO)


Nothing would be better for this country than throwing that America-hating piece of shit in jail.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 04, 2017 11:59 AM (zc3Db)

531 Fuck off, NeverTrump concern trolls.

Posted by: andycanuck at March 04, 2017 12:01 PM (nlbfN)

532 On top of some storage trunks, on top of some framed art (lying face down) and other stuff, was a plastic bag with odds & ends in it... covered in fresh cat pee. Fortunately, most of the pee was on the plastic bag, but some leaked down onto the framed stuff.
-

Cats are known to be harsh art critics.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 04, 2017 12:01 PM (ZO497)

533 Late to the party, but doesn't the Obongo wiretap kinda put "paid" to the Russian complicity angle?
---

lalalala we can't hear you!

Up next: a triggered millennial that has proof Trump IS Hitler.

Posted by: Cnn at March 04, 2017 12:02 PM (J5mC3)

534 528
(You've got a junk drawer, we've got a junk room.)

Posted by: mindful webworker, pet-peevishly at March 04, 2017 11:57 AM (FTf+m)


I've got a junk house.

Posted by: rickl at March 04, 2017 12:02 PM (sdi6R)

535 Posted by: mindful webworker, pet-peevishly at March 04, 2017 11:57 AM (FTf+m)
--------
Is your kitty otherwise OK? Sometimes peeing in an unusual place can be a sign of stress. WeaselCat v2 twice peed in a conspicuous place when she had bladder stones. The vet said its her way of letting you know something is up.

Posted by: Weasel at March 04, 2017 12:03 PM (Sfs6o)

536 I've got a junk house.
--

I'm an only child who has inherited junk from FOUR people.

Plus my own.

/I need a bigger place.

Posted by: shibumi at March 04, 2017 12:03 PM (J5mC3)

537 Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 04, 2017 11:54 AM (v1g1+)

Not sure if this would work, but I had a country concoction recommended to me that cleared a bad sink clog.

One cup baking soda poured in drain followed by one cup of table salt, followed by one cup of white vinegar. Took three passes but the drain seems to have cleared. YMMV!

Posted by: Hrothgar at March 04, 2017 12:05 PM (cV6Ls)

538 Should I send an email directly to the company HR Rep with my resume? Should I contact the supervisor to inquire and network myself?
Posted by: The Mouse that Roared at March 04, 2017 11:12 AM (7N6ox)

Your fellow Marine gave you an in with the supervisor's number. Contact him.

Posted by: Fox2! at March 04, 2017 12:07 PM (brIR5)

539 Posted by: Fox2! at March 04, 2017 12:07 PM (brIR5)

Thanks Fox2! It is the live in my car attitude that will get me hired. Something I saw on Tucker last night.

Posted by: The Mouse that Roared at March 04, 2017 12:09 PM (7N6ox)

540 155
Cracked a tooth Wednesday and now, thirty minutes and $200 later, it's fixed. My dentist and hygienist had "never seen anything like it". I'm such a giver.

Now for coffee...
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM)


Had emergency dental sick call during the AFC Chanpionships one year when stationed in Germany. Needed a root canal on a lateral incisor. Looong root. Doc had to break out the K-9 set. Told me he was gonna write up a paper on the event.

Fortunately, we both had VCR's.

Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at March 04, 2017 12:13 PM (di1hb)

541 536
I've got a junk house.
--

I'm an only child who has inherited junk from FOUR people.

Plus my own.

/I need a bigger place.


Posted by: shibumi at March 04, 2017 12:03 PM (J5mC3)

i'm in the process of trying to sort and get rid of stuff......we have many life changing things going on right now.....one more year and we are empty nesters......i'm ready to downsize.....i'm struggling with letting stuff go....but it's also very freeing.....i just keep reminding myself that just because someone gave it to me...doesn't mean i have to keep it.......i refuse to be held hostage by other peoples stuff/crap/junk........

Posted by: phoenixgirl..spring training at March 04, 2017 12:27 PM (0O7c5)

542 I don't know if anyone ever reads these long comment threads - but I wanted to say that I LOVE the Virtual Cup of Coffee to share. Just yesterday, had a mocha and a scone with an acquaintance I hadn't seen in over a year - good to catch up with her. We both have lots of garden plans for this year.

Posted by: Pat* at March 04, 2017 12:27 PM (qC1ju)

543 Can a FORMER president be impeached?

Posted by: JoeF. at March 04, 2017 10:40 AM (7uYFy)


No, but Barry should be arrested for sedition.

Posted by: RickZ at March 04, 2017 12:43 PM (zRegE)

544 541
i'm in the process of trying to sort and get rid of stuff......we have many life changing things going on right now.....one more year and we are empty nesters......i'm ready to downsize.....i'm struggling with letting stuff go....but it's also very freeing.....i just keep reminding myself that just because someone gave it to me...doesn't mean i have to keep it.......i refuse to be held hostage by other peoples stuff/crap/junk........
Posted by: phoenixgirl..spring training at March 04, 2017 12:27 PM (0O7c5)


Yeah, but everything I have has some sentimental value. And some of it is irreplaceable memorabilia, and it would be a crime to just throw it out.

Posted by: rickl at March 04, 2017 01:34 PM (sdi6R)

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Here's What's Bugging Me: Goose and Slider
My Own Micah Wright Style Confession of Dishonesty
Outraged "Conservatives" React to the FMA
An On-Line Impression of Dennis Miller Having Sex with a Kodiak Bear
The Story the Rightwing Media Refuses to Report!
Our Lunch with David "Glengarry Glen Ross" Mamet
The House of Love: Paul Krugman
A Michael Moore Mystery (TM)
The Dowd-O-Matic!
Liberal Consistency and Other Myths
Kepler's Laws of Liberal Media Bias
John Kerry-- The Splunge! Candidate
"Divisive" Politics & "Attacks on Patriotism" (very long)
The Donkey ("The Raven" parody)
News/Chat