Court Dismisses 14 of 15 Charges in the Persecution of Those Who Exposed the Trade in Organs of Aborted Babies

When you charge someone with 15 counts, and 14 of them are so obviously without merit a judge dismisses them pre-trial, it shows the prosecution to be a politically motivated exercise in weaponized government.

On Wednesday the San Francisco Superior Court tossed for lack of evidence 14 of 15 criminal charges against journalists who recorded high-level Planned Parenthood employees discussing trafficking the body parts of aborted babies, reports LifeSiteNews. California’s Department of Justice says it will re-file the charges within the ten-day deadline for providing more evidence.
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As a Democratic member of Congress, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra received thousands of dollars in campaign donations both from Planned Parenthood and fellow abortion promoter NARAL. His predecessor, whose department initiated the action, received $81,000 from Planned Parenthood for her campaigns.
In May, another California judge, who had contributed a quarter of a million dollars to former president Barack Obama’s campaign, slapped Merritt and Daleiden with contempt charges for releasing another video despite a restraining order. Their attorneys say the videos are already public thanks to their opponents’ public court filings, and the already released videos remain on CMP’s YouTube page.
In April, California’s Department of Justice raided Daleiden’s home and seized the recordings.

Posted by: Ace at 01:32 PM

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1 First?

Posted by: WitchDoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks at June 23, 2017 01:23 PM (eytER)

2 A rare moment of sanity in the Californian judicial system.

Posted by: IC at June 23, 2017 01:23 PM (a0IVu)

3 The Process is the Punishment.

How many others has this persecution discouraged?

Posted by: rd at June 23, 2017 01:24 PM (4dz1m)

4 Planned Parenthood (Jake Tapper's wife's employer) was the second largest contributor to Tossoff's campaign.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 23, 2017 01:24 PM (PY9jH)

5 Not just any court, a San Francisco court. Hats off to the judge who still seems to believe in the rule of law and had the guts grant the motion to throw out the charges. It'll be interesting to see if the state has more evidence to file or if they'll just throw in the towel on some of those charges.

Posted by: Alex #11 at June 23, 2017 01:25 PM (ka13S)

6 A conviction is just the cherry on top. The real weapon is the process, charging, arresting and shaming the people who dare say abortionists have utter monsters among their already morally-suspect congregation.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at June 23, 2017 01:25 PM (3OIiX)

7 Yes, I'm just restating what Ace said...oy, I need a chocolate and banana milk shake.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at June 23, 2017 01:26 PM (3OIiX)

8 Usually the prosecutor throws everything on the wall hoping something will stick (like spaghetti) in a effort to get the bail jacked up.

Posted by: JAS at June 23, 2017 01:26 PM (EX4Wr)

9 Agree and amplify!

Also milk shake.

Where's Kellis. What's she looking like nowadays?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at June 23, 2017 01:27 PM (3OIiX)

10 Keep in mind ... not a single judge or prosecutor raided shit or detained anybody.

That was all done by police who are blindly obedient to the State.

Remember ScoggDog Maxim Number Three ... The problem isn't too few cops. The problem is too many.

Posted by: ScoggDog at June 23, 2017 01:27 PM (/LX46)

11 Still one charge left, though?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 23, 2017 01:27 PM (IqV8l)

12 Remind me again. Who was Xavier Becerra's predecessor?

Posted by: JAS at June 23, 2017 01:28 PM (EX4Wr)

13 4
Planned Parenthood (Jake Tapper's wife's employer) was the second largest contributor to Tossoff's campaign.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 23, 2017 01:24 PM (PY9jH)

All that money wasted. Yet it is an act of war to defund them.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at June 23, 2017 01:28 PM (jxbfJ)

14 I read this backwards for a second and my blood pressure started rising.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at June 23, 2017 01:28 PM (KUaJL)

15 When you charge someone with 15 counts, and 14 of them are so obviously without merit a judge dismisses them pre-trial, it shows the prosecution to be a politically motivated exercise in weaponized government.

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"What's wrong with that?"
-Democrats with total power in California

"Everything is wrong with that."
-Democrats in California looking at D.C., imagining Trump going after the gheys

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at June 23, 2017 01:28 PM (viSzi)

16 Man, that judge needs to be shot.

Posted by: Some Guy in Nebraska at June 23, 2017 01:28 PM (baYK5)

17 Planned Parenthood (Jake Tapper's wife's employer) was the second largest contributor to Tossoff's campaign.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 23, 2017 01:24 PM (PY9jH)

I guess I'm not the only one who doesn't wand him to produce offspring.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at June 23, 2017 01:29 PM (KUaJL)

18 The Process is the Punishment.

How many others has this persecution discouraged?

^^^^^^^^^^THIS X 1,000^^^^^^^
Would love to know the demeanor of the thugs, ermm, LEOs who raided their homes. F*#^ing Fascists.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at June 23, 2017 01:29 PM (ty7RM)

19 Planned Parenthood is a body parts wharehouse.

Posted by: dantesed at June 23, 2017 01:30 PM (88xKn)

20 16 Man, that judge needs to be shot.
Posted by: Some Guy in Nebraska at June 23, 2017 01:28 PM (baYK5)

==============

"This is terrible! We have nothing to do with him!"
-Bernie Sanders

"We need to fight Republicans using every tool we have!"
-Also Bernie Sanders, 5 minutes later

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at June 23, 2017 01:30 PM (viSzi)

21 The remaining charge is conspiracy.

A conspiracy to do what? Their only crime was getting the truth on video. The Planned Parenthood people damned themselves, the CMP just got it on tape.

Posted by: rd at June 23, 2017 01:30 PM (4dz1m)

22 wharehouse = warehouse

Posted by: dantesed at June 23, 2017 01:30 PM (88xKn)

23 ace I know you've been a little ambivalent about abortion, but have always been very jus/fair to us that have really been angry and considered it not a solution to what ails women.

have you thoughts changed, or are you still just being fair to give Us a voice?

Posted by: willow at June 23, 2017 01:30 PM (v12G8)

24 But count fifteen is now a capital charge.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at June 23, 2017 01:30 PM (7ZVPa)

25 Anyone check the temperature in hell???

Posted by: lin-duh fell at June 23, 2017 01:30 PM (kufk0)

26 But hey, the Resistance Summer has brought us this:

From WZ

http://preview.tinyurl.com/ydfazmop

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at June 23, 2017 01:31 PM (jxbfJ)

27 warehouse? or whorehouse? or both?

Posted by: JAS at June 23, 2017 01:31 PM (EX4Wr)

28 Wands!
What can't they do?

Posted by: Roland THTG at June 23, 2017 01:31 PM (QM5S2)

29 21 The remaining charge is conspiracy.

A conspiracy to do what? Their only crime was getting the truth on video. The Planned Parenthood people damned themselves, the CMP just got it on tape.
Posted by: rd at June 23, 2017 01:30 PM (4dz1m)

===============

"Sounds like an open and shut case to us. Life in prison."
-San Francisco jury

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at June 23, 2017 01:31 PM (viSzi)

30 I didn't realize Moloch paid so well.

Posted by: *Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet Carries ACME Products for Our Democrat Customers! at June 23, 2017 01:31 PM (hLRSq)

31
I guess I'm not the only one who doesn't wand him to produce offspring.

WE WISH HIM TO PRODUCE OFFSPRING. IN A MANNER OF SPEAKING - HA HA.

Posted by: The parasite-implanting Zeknars at June 23, 2017 01:32 PM (eXSOZ)

32 Would love to know the demeanor of the thugs, ermm, LEOs who raided their homes. F*#^ing Fascists.
Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at June 23, 2017 01:29 PM (ty7RM)

How dare you besmirch our heroes in law enforcement! Why do you hate cops? Why do you hate America? Next time you need help, why don't you call Black Lives Matter?

Posted by: Insomniac at June 23, 2017 01:32 PM (0mRoj)

33 anybody who thinks cops and the military will be on our side, needs to really think about that. bet some jews in germany and poland thought the same thing.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at June 23, 2017 01:32 PM (KP5rU)

34 ***Would love to know the demeanor of the thugs, ermm, LEOs who raided their homes. F*#^ing Fascists.

Fabulous!

Posted by: Dave at Buffalo Roam at June 23, 2017 01:32 PM (uoiU7)

35 18 The Process is the Punishment.

How many others has this persecution discouraged?

^^^^^^^^^^THIS X 1,000^^^^^^^
Would love to know the demeanor of the thugs, ermm, LEOs who raided their homes. F*#^ing Fascists.
Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at June 23, 2017 01:29 PM (ty7RM)

BEFEHL IST BEFEHL!

Posted by: Every Nazi Stooge ever at June 23, 2017 01:32 PM (4dz1m)

36 They're all a bunch of fascist, baby-butchering cocksuckers. I hope they all die horribly and burn in hell forever.

Posted by: Insomniac at June 23, 2017 01:32 PM (0mRoj)

37 33 anybody who thinks cops and the military will be on our side,

I have no such fantasy.

Posted by: Under Fire at June 23, 2017 01:33 PM (l4aLi)

38 Question for you legal beagles.....do these two have any recourse to sue the State of CA for malicious prosecution or whatever it's called?

Posted by: Cheri at June 23, 2017 01:33 PM (oiNtH)

39 30 I didn't realize Moloch paid so well.
Posted by: *Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet Carries ACME Products for Our Democrat Customers! at June 23, 2017 01:31 PM (hLRSq)

Moloch gets government funding for fuck's sake.

Posted by: Insomniac at June 23, 2017 01:33 PM (0mRoj)

40 I used to pray these Leftists would see the light on the road to Damascus but now I find myself hoping that they feel the maximum consequences of their actions.

Making me have these unchristian thoughts is the worse thing the Left can do to me.

Posted by: Jack Sock at June 23, 2017 01:33 PM (X8p7j)

41 I wouldn't read too much into this. I read elsewhere that the reason the judge gave was that the charges were not specific to any particular video in the set of videos that was made. So, once the prosecution amends their charges to be more specific, something the judge gave them leave to do, the prosecution will proceed. It's good that the prosecution is being forced to be more specific, so the defense can then have something more substantive to defend against, but the case will go on.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at June 23, 2017 01:34 PM (WzbqD)

42 6 A conviction is just the cherry on top. The real weapon is the process, charging, arresting and shaming the people who dare say abortionists have utter monsters among their already morally-suspect congregation.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at June 23, 2017 01:25 PM (3OIiX)

And even moreso, financially breaking them into homelessness, if you can.

That's the real end goal. Financial ruination.

Posted by: Hikaru at June 23, 2017 01:34 PM (XMDuf)

43 anybody who thinks cops and the military will be on
our side, needs to really think about that. bet some jews in germany and
poland thought the same thing.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at June 23, 2017 01:32 PM (KP5rU) I don't depend on cops but the military will be on our side.

Posted by: MAC SOG at June 23, 2017 01:34 PM (QPdNE)

44 Wands!
What can't they do?
Posted by: Roland THTG at June 23, 2017 01:31 PM (QM5S2)

You can dual wield one with a scimitar if you're a Magus.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at June 23, 2017 01:35 PM (3OIiX)

45 A conviction is just the cherry on top. The real weapon is the process, charging, arresting and shaming the people who dare say abortionists have utter monsters among their already morally-suspect congregation.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at June 23, 2017 01:25 PM (3OIiX)

And even moreso, financially breaking them into homelessness, if you can.

That's the real end goal. Financial ruination.
Posted by: Hikaru at June 23, 2017 01:34 PM (XMDuf)

The Law is a weapon, it is not Justice.

We need to be better at Lawfare.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at June 23, 2017 01:35 PM (3OIiX)

46 I was just following orders, and serving a search warrant.

I don't know how all those drawers were strewn about and the dishes got smashed?!

Posted by: Every Nazi Stooge ever at June 23, 2017 01:36 PM (4dz1m)

47 38 Question for you legal beagles.....do these two have any recourse to sue the State of CA for malicious prosecution or whatever it's called?
Posted by: Cheri at June 23, 2017 01:33 PM (oiNtH)

Criminal prosecutors typically have immunity.

Posted by: Insomniac at June 23, 2017 01:36 PM (0mRoj)

48 43; hope you're right. i'm not convinced yet. eight years of nikita obama will do that to your psyche.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at June 23, 2017 01:37 PM (KP5rU)

49 12 Remind me again. Who was Xavier Becerra's predecessor?

Posted by: JAS at June 23, 2017 01:28 PM (EX4Wr)

( *frantically waves hand* )

Ooh ooh! I know! I know!

( *doesn't wait to be called on, blurts out* )

Kamala Harris!

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader at June 23, 2017 01:37 PM (9d741)

50 A lot of this was coordinated by that twat bitch Kamala Harris.

Bitch should burn from her evil.

Posted by: Kreplach at June 23, 2017 01:37 PM (7qs4u)

51 "37 33 anybody who thinks cops and the military will be on our side,

I have no such fantasy.

Posted by: Under Fire"

Me either. Witnessing cops gleefully beating the shit out of pro-life protesters for the high crime of praying the Rosary while blocking a Planned Parenthood entrance rid me of that delusion at an early age.

Posted by: Benji Carver at June 23, 2017 01:37 PM (OD2ni)

52 Reverse the roles, place this in a red state during 2008 to 2016--and it's a 100% guarantee Obama's AG would have already brought civil rights violation charges against the state AG.

But, no one has seen nor heard from Sessions since his brief appearance before Congress.

Posted by: RoyalOil at June 23, 2017 01:37 PM (Qj2Mo)

53 Our Recipe for Baby Part Stew was a trade secret! It was never for public realease!

Posted by: Planned Parenthood at June 23, 2017 01:38 PM (A3b6q)

54 Reports are coming in now from Alaska's North Slope that AG Sessions may have been sighted. The witness reported seeing a man mushing a dog sled north. The man matchs Mr. Sessions appearance. Developing.

Posted by: Gone Missing News GMN at June 23, 2017 01:38 PM (l4aLi)

55 44 You can dual wield one with a scimitar if you're a Magus.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at June 23, 2017 01:35 PM (3OIiX)

Come on now. Everybody knows that if you have a scimitar in one hand, you've got a severed kuffar head in the other.

Insh'allah.

Posted by: Hikaru at June 23, 2017 01:39 PM (XMDuf)

56 WE in Brattleboro think the Government needs to protect all unborn Gay and Lesbian Children. This is the rite thing to do to protect these poor children that will be leading a tough life after being buorn.

Posted by: Mary Clogginstien from Brattleboro, VT at June 23, 2017 01:39 PM (WmgTn)

57
anybody who thinks cops and the military will be on our side, needs to really think about that. bet some jews in germany and poland thought the same thing.

They military would disintegrate

Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at June 23, 2017 01:39 PM (lKyWE)

58 The court dismissed 14 charges of "substance" but left the last conspiracy charge? How does that work? You are part of a conspiracy to commit ... nothing illegal.

Of course, the court left the 14 bullshit charges still open to be refiled, which the tyrants will do.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at June 23, 2017 01:40 PM (rZ+mb)

59 Is it an ethics violation for the CA AG Becerra to be on this case given Planned Parenthood's donations to his campaign?

If so, what legal action can be taken against him?

Posted by: bonhomme at June 23, 2017 01:40 PM (jhqr1)

60 56 WE in Brattleboro think the Government needs to protect all unborn Gay and Lesbian Children. This is the rite thing to do to protect these poor children that will be leading a tough life after being buorn.
Posted by: Mary Clogginstien from Brattleboro, VT at June 23, 2017 01:39 PM (WmgTn)

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Not so much the straight white ones, apparently...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at June 23, 2017 01:40 PM (viSzi)

61 Hmm. Still wondering why Cali types should be allowed in Texas?

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at June 23, 2017 01:40 PM (MINbv)

62 From the article at the link, the remaining charge is conspiracy to invade privacy which could carry a one year sentence. They were in a public place where they could be overheard by anybody.

What an utter travesty. I pray for both of them and others that justice will see the light of day.

Posted by: Cheri at June 23, 2017 01:40 PM (oiNtH)

63 You know, a lot of the things that irritate me wouldn't be happening if Jeff Sessions were still alive.

Posted by: Furious George at June 23, 2017 01:41 PM (j+dfT)

64 have you thoughts changed, or are you still just being fair to give Us a voice?
Posted by: willow at June 23, 2017 01:30 PM (v12G

Ace may be ambivalent about abortion, but, if I may venture to speak for him, one thing he's not ambivalent on is his utter contempt and hatred for fascist thug stormtroopers using weaponized instruments of government to harass and silence pro-life citizens into submission.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader at June 23, 2017 01:41 PM (9d741)

65 53 53 Our Recipe for Baby Part Stew was a trade secret! It was never for public realease!

Posted by: Planned Parenthood at June 23, 2017 01:38 PM (A3b6q)

Then how did we get our hands on it?

Posted by: Comet Ping Pong at June 23, 2017 01:41 PM (XMDuf)

66 You can dual wield one with a scimitar if you're a Magus.

But with a -2 on attacks with either hand, because it duplicates Two-Weapon Fighting for the purposes of those items, right?

Posted by: Sporkatus at June 23, 2017 01:41 PM (eXSOZ)

67 California is beginning to resemble North Korea, or the old Soviet Union at least.

Posted by: Javems at June 23, 2017 01:42 PM (yOqwj)

68 51 "37 33 anybody who thinks cops and the military will be on our side,

I have no such fantasy.

Posted by: Under Fire"

Me either. Witnessing cops gleefully beating the shit out of pro-life protesters for the high crime of praying the Rosary while blocking a Planned Parenthood entrance rid me of that delusion at an early age.

Posted by: Benji Carver

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It was Waco that made me realize how dangerous the politicized police are. It took a few years though.

Posted by: rd at June 23, 2017 01:42 PM (4dz1m)

69 63 You know, a lot of the things that irritate me wouldn't be happening if Jeff Sessions were still alive.
Posted by: Furious George at June 23, 2017 01:41 PM (j+dfT)

Ha! Early thread winner.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader at June 23, 2017 01:42 PM (9d741)

70 36 They're all a bunch of fascist, baby-butchering cocksuckers. I hope they all die horribly and burn in hell forever.
Posted by: Insomniac at June 23, 2017 01:32 PM (0mRoj)
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Why don't you tell us how you REALLY feel......

Posted by: lin-duh fell at June 23, 2017 01:42 PM (kufk0)

71 I love the balls on that team defying the bs restraining order.

Lol I typed "retraining order" and changed it but now that I think about it, that may be the more accurate term.

Posted by: mx4 at June 23, 2017 01:43 PM (uJqEF)

72 56 WE in Brattleboro think the Government needs to protect all unborn Gay and Lesbian Children. This is the rite thing to do to protect these poor children that will be leading a tough life after being buorn.

Posted by: Mary Clogginstien from Brattleboro, VT at June 23, 2017 01:39 PM (WmgTn)

We in Dearborn thinks that the filthy kuffar Cloggenstein needs to STFU and put on this Burqa.

Posted by: Your Friendly Neighborhood Imam at June 23, 2017 01:43 PM (XMDuf)

73 67. I'm thinking more like Albania - it's got good weather.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. All Honor & Glory to Kekistan! at June 23, 2017 01:43 PM (TwwWO)

74 The Process is the Punishment.
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How many of you can afford to lose $10k - $20k?

That's the minimum you'll need to have a good lawyer to get you off even if you are 100% innocent.

Once the state goes after you, they have no incentive--other than the morals of the prosecutor--to change course.
Even after they have iron-clad evidence of your innocence.

1,000s and 1,000s of prosecutors around this country. Hundreds and hundreds of wrongful convictions.

And the only one I can recall that ever suffered any punishment was Mike Nifong.

Odd, no?

Posted by: RoyalOil at June 23, 2017 01:43 PM (Qj2Mo)

75 From the article at the link, the remaining charge is conspiracy to invade privacy which could carry a one year sentence.

Posted by: Cheri at June 23, 2017 01:40 PM (oiNtH)

Oh, that's what that conspiracy charge was? WTF is a "conspiracy to invade privacy" anyway? Pretty much every internet company, cable company, government operation, advertiser, ... could be brought up on that charge, whatever the hell it's supposed to be.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at June 23, 2017 01:44 PM (rZ+mb)

76 I grew up in California and Reagan was our Governor. It was paradise.

Now? But I guess there are quite a few places like that now.

Posted by: Cheri at June 23, 2017 01:44 PM (oiNtH)

77 OT: There was talk of this in the last thread.....FBN reporting on the Johnny Depp story said SS is aware of what he said. Also, reporting that Depp is $40 Milllllion in debt.

Posted by: Tami at June 23, 2017 01:44 PM (Enq6K)

78 >>But with a -2 on attacks with either hand, because it duplicates Two-Weapon Fighting for the purposes of those items, right? Posted by: Sporkatus at June 23, 2017 01:41 PM (eXSOZ)

Roll 1d8 for geek save.

Posted by: General Zod at June 23, 2017 01:44 PM (Bdeb0)

79 Hand me that hard drive!
Don't touch that hard drive!
*blam blam blam blam*

Posted by: Public Servant Brave LEO Swat Guy at June 23, 2017 01:44 PM (QtQaN)

80 Has anyone ever found out which Moron plays this Mary Clogginstien character?

Who ever s/he is, they're hilarious, and dedicated.

Posted by: bonhomme at June 23, 2017 01:44 PM (jhqr1)

81 Why don't you tell us how you REALLY feel......
Posted by: lin-duh fell at June 23, 2017 01:42 PM (kufk0)

I'd get banned. I was showing restraint. This is a convergence of two issues I get pretty hot about: baby-killing and abuse of government power.

Posted by: Insomniac at June 23, 2017 01:45 PM (0mRoj)

82 I'll say it again: I fear the day these sons-o-bitches get back in power.

Posted by: bicentennialguy at June 23, 2017 01:45 PM (vg8iE)

83 68 It was Waco that made me realize how dangerous the politicized police are. It took a few years though.

Posted by: rd at June 23, 2017 01:42 PM (4dz1m)

I think I finally got it (way too late) seeing N'awlins cops busting their way into houses and forcibly confiscating citizens' legally-obtained firearms after Katrina.

Posted by: Hikaru at June 23, 2017 01:45 PM (XMDuf)

84

The Process is the Punishment.

The winning "Moral of the Story" came early in this thread.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 23, 2017 01:46 PM (r+sAi)

85 Inre the military...

The command structure has been under persistent attack by the Left for a long time now. Even to the NCO level, there is a lot of dysfunction there.

It's not just Obama. My BIL is a Bosnia vet, former Army officer, and he decided one day to lecture me in my own house about how private citizens don't "need" guns, particularly the M1 I was showing my FIL. He's exactly the type who wouldn't think twice about executing an order to go door-to-door.

I have very little doubt that when push comes to shove, there are enough soldiers who will simply follow orders.

Posted by: WitchDoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks at June 23, 2017 01:46 PM (tVWQB)

86 What's strange is that other countries that are considered more progressive than us have stricter abortion laws.

Posted by: Max Power at June 23, 2017 01:46 PM (q177U)

87 OT: There was talk of this in the last thread.....FBN reporting on the Johnny Depp story said SS is aware of what he said. Also, reporting that Depp is $40 Milllllion in debt.
Posted by: Tami

Well we know that he didn't spend that money on acting lessons, toothpaste, or an education.

Posted by: Cheri at June 23, 2017 01:47 PM (oiNtH)

88
anybody who thinks cops and the military will be on our side, needs to really think about that. bet some jews in germany and poland thought the same thing.

They military would disintegrate

-----

Who will control the codes for the Permissive Action Links? It isn't 0000 anymore.

What will the Ohio Class boomers do?

Posted by: rd at June 23, 2017 01:47 PM (4dz1m)

89 >>...it shows the prosecution to be a politically motivated exercise in weaponized government.

This was done by Kamala Harris, right?

Posted by: Lizzy at June 23, 2017 01:47 PM (NOIQH)

90 I'm a fan of Insty's proposition on this kind of stuff:

1. Eliminate prosecutorial immunity and let the DA's office buy an insurance policy akin to malpractice insurance for the rest of the bar.

2. The DA's office must pay out of its budget the percentage of the defendant's attorney's fees for every charge that is dismissed by the court or voluntarily dismissed. So, in this case, the DA's office would pay 14/15th of the defendants' legal fees.

What's that? Then there would be shrieking about not having the money to prosecute rapists and murderers and drunk drivers? Yeah, well, explain that to the voters next reelection.

It is out and out blackmail to bring myriad questionable charges against a person in an attempt to coerce a plea deal because, hey, you're looking at a high-level felony and 20 years in jail if you're convicted of everything.

Posted by: alexthechick - I need a pail for to build a castle now at June 23, 2017 01:47 PM (dEQP3)

91 Also, reporting that Depp is $40 Milllllion in debt.

Last I heard, dude was trying to sell his French village.

That's right, he bought a village.

Posted by: bonhomme at June 23, 2017 01:47 PM (jhqr1)

92 80 Has anyone ever found out which Moron plays this Mary Clogginstien character?

Who ever s/he is, they're hilarious, and dedicated.
Posted by: bonhomme at June 23, 2017 01:44 PM (jhqr1)

Mary Cloggenstien isn't a person. She's an idea. Like Batman. You could ban a commenter, like Bruce Wayne, but you can't ban a symbol like Mary Cloggenstien.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at June 23, 2017 01:47 PM (KUaJL)

93 1,000s and 1,000s of prosecutors around this country. Hundreds and hundreds of wrongful convictions.

And the only one I can recall that ever suffered any punishment was Mike Nifong.

Odd, no?

Posted by: RoyalOil at June 23, 2017 01:43 PM (Qj2Mo)

And Nifong received the slightest slap on the wrist for what he did. He should have been sentenced to the amount of time he put the duke guys in jeopardy, in total, plus a punitive extra few years/decades for having abused his power in the government.

People like to say that no one is above the law but those who make, enforce and adjudicate the law should be held to stricter standards and should always receive the harshest punishments when they break laws.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at June 23, 2017 01:47 PM (rZ+mb)

94 I grew up in California and Reagan was our Governor. It was paradise.

Now? But I guess there are quite a few places like that now.

Colofornia smiles knowingly. See also: prog invasion of Montana.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at June 23, 2017 01:48 PM (ty7RM)

95 Can't wait for that TWELVE CENTS A GALLON gas tax to kick in. This state is fucked.

Posted by: Max Power at June 23, 2017 01:48 PM (q177U)

96 The Same State who is boycotting other states for not agreeing to the Humpty-Dumpty version of gender, can't figure out if a baby at any stage of development is human.

Posted by: Batterup at June 23, 2017 01:48 PM (mtGE/)

97 Last I heard, dude was trying to sell his French village.

That's right, he bought a village.

Posted by: bonhomme at June 23, 2017 01:47 PM (jhqr1)

Idiot needed a village.

Posted by: Tami at June 23, 2017 01:48 PM (Enq6K)

98 Well...that was fun. Apocalyptic, torrential downpour and power loss. Ah, Summer!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 23, 2017 01:48 PM (p+Wdc)

99 Last I heard, dude was trying to sell his French village.

That's right, he bought a village.

Posted by: bonhomme at June 23, 2017 01:47 PM (jhqr1)

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Johnny, call me.

Posted by: Kim Basinger at June 23, 2017 01:48 PM (vg8iE)

100 What's strange is that other countries that are considered more progressive than us have stricter abortion laws.
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SHUT UP with your facts and stuff!!!!

Posted by: lin-duh fell at June 23, 2017 01:48 PM (kufk0)

101 "86 What's strange is that other countries that are considered more progressive than us have stricter abortion laws.
Posted by: Max Power"

Yup. We are the outlier when it comes to late term abortions.

Posted by: Benji Carver at June 23, 2017 01:48 PM (OD2ni)

102 OT: There was talk of this in the last thread.....FBN reporting on the Johnny Depp story said SS is aware of what he said. Also, reporting that Depp is $40 Milllllion in debt.
Posted by: Tami

Well we know that he didn't spend that money on acting lessons, toothpaste, or an education.
Posted by: Cheri at June 23, 2017 01:47 PM (oiNtH)

I just thought of something, isn't he saying that assassinating Lincoln was a good thing?

Posted by: alexthechick - I need a pail for to build a castle now at June 23, 2017 01:48 PM (dEQP3)

103 77 OT: There was talk of this in the last thread.....FBN reporting on the Johnny Depp story said SS is aware of what he said. Also, reporting that Depp is $40 Milllllion in debt.

Posted by: Tami at June 23, 2017 01:44 PM (Enq6K)

How the hell does someone with as long an acting career and who's made as much money as he has get $40 million in debt?

Posted by: Insomniac at June 23, 2017 01:49 PM (0mRoj)

104 85; thanks for making my point. i trust noone.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at June 23, 2017 01:49 PM (KP5rU)

105 Dear California - we don't care that you are not visiting us - just please stop moving here!

Posted by: Texas at June 23, 2017 01:49 PM (mtGE/)

106
: There was talk of this in the last thread.....FBN reporting on the Johnny Depp story said SS is aware of what he said. Also, reporting that Depp is $40 Milllllion in debt. Posted by: Tami

He's trying to sell off his private island and his 18 million dollar yacht.

Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at June 23, 2017 01:49 PM (lKyWE)

107 92 Mary Cloggenstien isn't a person. She's an idea. Like Batman. You could ban a commenter, like Bruce Wayne, but you can't ban a symbol like Mary Cloggenstien.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at June 23, 2017 01:47 PM (KUaJL)

Cloggenstein is somewhat like a whore, in that many men are in and out of her, when they feel a certain need.

...Over the line?

Posted by: Hikaru at June 23, 2017 01:49 PM (XMDuf)

108 Someone on Twitter put on one of those social media sites posted something about Johnny Depp saying "Jonny, if you want to be John Wilkes Booth, first you have to get people into a theatre" which I thought was rather clever.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 23, 2017 01:50 PM (qES5k)

109 How the hell does someone with as long an acting career and who's made as much money as he has get $40 million in debt?
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Helllllloooooo, baaaaaby!

Posted by: Cocaine at June 23, 2017 01:50 PM (vg8iE)

110 95 Can't wait for that TWELVE CENTS A GALLON gas tax to kick in. This state is fucked.
Posted by: Max Power at June 23, 2017 01:48 PM (q177U)

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"But oh my, will I never vote Republican. Just think of what my super tolerant friends would call me!"
-California Democrat

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at June 23, 2017 01:50 PM (viSzi)

111 I think I finally got it (way too late) seeing
N'awlins cops busting their way into houses and forcibly confiscating
citizens' legally-obtained firearms after Katrina.

Posted by: Hikaru at June 23, 2017 01:45 PM (XMDuf)

Remember Boston Strong? Driving parents, young children, and grannies into the streets with their hands on their heads, screaming F-bombs at them?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 23, 2017 01:50 PM (PY9jH)

112
How the hell does someone with as long an acting career and who's made as much money as he has get $40 million in debt?

Posted by: Insomniac at June 23, 2017 01:49 PM (0mRoj)

Snorted it....

Posted by: Tami at June 23, 2017 01:50 PM (Enq6K)

113 I think I finally got it (way too late) seeing N'awlins cops busting their way into houses and forcibly confiscating citizens' legally-obtained firearms after Katrina.
Posted by: Hikaru at June 23, 2017 01:45 PM (XMDuf)

And looting Wal-Mart.

Posted by: Insomniac at June 23, 2017 01:50 PM (0mRoj)

114 O/T, but I find it hilarious that Juanita Broaddrick trolls Chelsea on Twitter.

Posted by: Benji Carver at June 23, 2017 01:50 PM (OD2ni)

115 So, the Senate just made the Lynch thing an official investigation. AND FEINSTEIN SIGNED THE LETTER.

No word yet on whether CNN will run a countdown clock.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at June 23, 2017 01:50 PM (B+qrE)

116 How the hell does someone with as long an acting career and who's made as much money as he has get $40 million in debt?
Posted by: Insomniac at June 23, 2017 01:49 PM (0mRoj)

By buying a French village and going through something like a million a month, yes, month in wine.

Posted by: alexthechick - I need a pail for to build a castle now at June 23, 2017 01:50 PM (dEQP3)

117
And definitely note the line that they will re-file to provide more evidence to get the charges reinstated. They will not stop until they have a conviction or SCOTUS slaps them.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 23, 2017 01:51 PM (r+sAi)

118 102 OT: There was talk of this in the last thread.....FBN reporting on the Johnny Depp story said SS is aware of what he said. Also, reporting that Depp is $40 Milllllion in debt.
Posted by: Tami

Well we know that he didn't spend that money on acting lessons, toothpaste, or an education.
Posted by: Cheri at June 23, 2017 01:47 PM (oiNtH)

I just thought of something, isn't he saying that assassinating Lincoln was a good thing?
Posted by: alexthechick - I need a pail for to build a castle now at June 23, 2017 01:48 PM (dEQP3)

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There does seem to be some level of implication that he does.

Of course, that's probably giving too much credit for a stupid thing a stupid person said.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at June 23, 2017 01:51 PM (viSzi)

119 @alexthechick, there was a Rockford Files episode precisely where a town was using outrageous charges to coerce travelers into plea-bargaining and paying outrageous fines. Like, framing people for drug dealing, child prostitution, or murder, and then bargaining down to, like, criminal mischief with a $10,000 fine (in the 70s, mind you). The argument the mayor made at the end is that all taxes and fines are nothing more than legalized extortion, and she was extorting people from the outside of her town for the benefit of the people in it.

Posted by: sunny-dee at June 23, 2017 01:52 PM (QAOZh)

120 FBN: Senate judiciary committee opens probe into Lynch over HRC FBI investigation....oh, I mean 'matter'.

Posted by: Tami at June 23, 2017 01:52 PM (Enq6K)

121 So, the Senate just made the Lynch thing an official investigation. AND FEINSTEIN SIGNED THE LETTER.

No word yet on whether CNN will run a countdown clock.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at June 23, 2017 01:50 PM (B+qrE)
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Hmmmm, I wonder if Feinstein will achieve "unperson" status.

Posted by: bicentennialguy at June 23, 2017 01:52 PM (vg8iE)

122 How the hell does someone with as long an acting career and who's made as much money as he has get $40 million in debt?

You a) assuming that he has a clue about life in general--nope and b) makes intelligent decisions--nope.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at June 23, 2017 01:52 PM (B+qrE)

123 1. Eliminate prosecutorial immunity and let the DA's office buy an insurance policy akin to malpractice insurance for the rest of the bar.

I agree, and also believe we should eliminate qualified immunity for law enforcement. Require them to have insurance or a bond.

Posted by: Insomniac at June 23, 2017 01:52 PM (0mRoj)

124 Someone on Twitter put on one of those social media sites posted something about Johnny Depp saying "Jonny, if you want to be John Wilkes Booth, first you have to get people into a theatre" which I thought was rather clever.

*snort

Posted by: rickb223 at June 23, 2017 01:52 PM (j+h+K)

125 Hmmm,you'd think having received all that money the AG would have a conflict of interests....

Posted by: steevy at June 23, 2017 01:52 PM (rmVvL)

126 If everyone were gay, there would be no NEED for abortions! The only pregnancies would be lesbians getting voluntarily pregnant with the sperm I donated. So if you conservatives really want to end abortion, BECOME GAY.

Posted by: Shep Smith at June 23, 2017 01:52 PM (xAvrH)

127 112
How the hell does someone with as long an acting career and who's made as much money as he has get $40 million in debt?

Posted by: Insomniac at June 23, 2017 01:49 PM (0mRoj)

Snorted it....
Posted by: Tami at June 23, 2017 01:50 PM (Enq6K)

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Apparently by buying villages without a plan for profit because profit is evil, but tens of millions of dollars for Pirates movies is not.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at June 23, 2017 01:52 PM (viSzi)

128
Can't wait for that TWELVE CENTS A GALLON gas tax to kick in. This state is fucked.
Posted by: Max Power

Indiana passed a ten cent gas tax hike PLUS and an increase in the cost of yearly registration PLUS an approval to turn "free" roads into toll roads.

We truly have Illinois envy.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 23, 2017 01:52 PM (IqV8l)

129
How the hell does someone with as long an acting career and who's made as much money as he has get $40 million in debt? Posted by: Insomniac at June 23, 2017 01:49 PM (0mRoj)

Having 40 people on your personal staff gets expensive

Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at June 23, 2017 01:52 PM (lKyWE)

130 I'm declaring myself "First!" ex post facto!!!

Posted by: California at June 23, 2017 01:53 PM (nlbfN)

131 80 Has anyone ever found out which Moron plays this Mary Clogginstien character?

Who ever s/he is, they're hilarious, and dedicated.
Posted by: bonhomme at June 23, 2017 01:44 PM (jhqr1)

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I know who the original Mary Clogginstein was. I'm not sure who this one is. Still might be the original.

Posted by: Soona at June 23, 2017 01:53 PM (Fmupd)

132 I'm surprised the Feinstein would do that, but maybe she's getting some ethics in her old age.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 23, 2017 01:53 PM (qES5k)

133 By buying a French village and going through something like a million a month, yes, month in wine.
Posted by: alexthechick - I need a pail for to build a castle now at June 23, 2017 01:50 PM (dEQP3)

What. The. Fuck.

Posted by: Insomniac at June 23, 2017 01:53 PM (0mRoj)

134 >>2. The DA's office must pay out of its budget the percentage of the
defendant's attorney's fees for every charge that is dismissed by the
court or voluntarily dismissed. So, in this case, the DA's office would
pay 14/15th of the defendants' legal fees.

Translated: Taxpayers must--in addition to all the other legal folderol they are compelled to pay for--must financially underwrite incompetent prosecutions, unpredictable juries, or other juridicial anomalies.

Let's take this one back to the workshop.

Posted by: General Zod at June 23, 2017 01:53 PM (Bdeb0)

135 I just thought of something, isn't he saying that assassinating Lincoln was a good thing?

Posted by: alexthechick

I never thought of that but bingo - you're right. Johnny, why do you hate Lincoln so much?

Posted by: Cheri at June 23, 2017 01:53 PM (oiNtH)

136 How the hell does someone with as long an acting career and who's made as much money as he has get $40 million in debt?
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Quality hookers and blow aren't cheap?

Posted by: shibumi at June 23, 2017 01:53 PM (aT+Bx)

137 I just thought of something, isn't he saying that assassinating Lincoln was a good thing?

It's either that or he doesn't know a damn thing about history. I'm leaning towards the latter given the general stupidity of the Hollywood creature.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at June 23, 2017 01:53 PM (B+qrE)

138
How the hell does someone with as long an acting career and who's made as much money as he has get $40 million in debt?

He's imitating Mike Tyson.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 23, 2017 01:54 PM (IqV8l)

139 121 So, the Senate just made the Lynch thing an official investigation. AND FEINSTEIN SIGNED THE LETTER.

No word yet on whether CNN will run a countdown clock.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at June 23, 2017 01:50 PM (B+qrE)
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Hmmmm, I wonder if Feinstein will achieve "unperson" status.
Posted by: bicentennialguy at June 23, 2017 01:52 PM (vg8iE)

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Considering the number of people on the left begging for Clinton to go away?

It might not be as likely as you assume.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at June 23, 2017 01:54 PM (viSzi)

140 Every single time I watch "Fixer Upper," which is mostly filmed in Waco, I can't get the image of the tanks storming Koresh's compound and the families and children being burned alive.

I imagine Janet Reno had some 'splainin' to do to her Maker.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 23, 2017 01:54 PM (PY9jH)

141 How the hell does someone with as long an acting career and who's made as much money as he has get $40 million in debt.

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Cocaine is God's way of telling you that you have too much money.

- supposedly said by an NBA Player in the 1980's

Posted by: rd at June 23, 2017 01:54 PM (4dz1m)

142 Okay I was wrong, it's only $30,000 a month on wine. It was $2 million a month on various expenses.

http://bit.ly/2kpWsco

Posted by: alexthechick - I need a pail for to build a castle now at June 23, 2017 01:54 PM (dEQP3)

143 >>136
How the hell does someone with as long an acting career and who's made as much money as he has get $40 million in debt?

He's purchasing top-drawer cock.

Posted by: General Zod at June 23, 2017 01:55 PM (Bdeb0)

144 And looting Wal-Mart.

Posted by: Insomniac at June 23, 2017 01:50 PM (0mRoj)

That was the one good show that Olbermann ever did:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYn-P72lp3M

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at June 23, 2017 01:55 PM (rZ+mb)

145 It's either that or he doesn't know a damn thing about history. I'm
leaning towards the latter given the general stupidity of the Hollywood
creature.
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We don't call them stupid.

They're "differently abled." And "special."

Posted by: shibumi at June 23, 2017 01:55 PM (aT+Bx)

146 I just thought of something, isn't he saying that assassinating Lincoln was a good thing?

Posted by: alexthechick - I need a pail for to build a castle now at June 23, 2017 01:48 PM

The Democrats have never forgiven Republicans for freeing the slaves.

Posted by: *Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet Carries ACME Products for Our Democrat Customers! at June 23, 2017 01:55 PM (hLRSq)

147 We're on to DiFi. Last minute amends don't cut it up here.

Posted by: St. Peter at June 23, 2017 01:56 PM (l4aLi)

148 The Democrats have never forgiven Republicans for freeing the slaves.

Posted by: *Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet Carries ACME Products for Our Democrat Customers! at June 23, 2017 01:55 PM (hLRSq)

Well, they're enslaved now, on the Dem plantation.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 23, 2017 01:56 PM (PY9jH)

149 Depp is suing his financial management company. They came back by saying, "Dude, you're blowing through $2MM a month, get help."

http://preview.tinyurl.com/h76zgh6

Posted by: bonhomme at June 23, 2017 01:56 PM (jhqr1)

150
The Democrats have never forgiven Republicans for freeing the slaves.
Posted by: *Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet Carries ACME Products for Our Democrat Customers! at June 23, 2017 01:55 PM

LBJ took care of that.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 23, 2017 01:56 PM (IqV8l)

151 How the hell does someone with as long an acting career and who's made as much money as he has get $40 million in debt?

Posted by: Insomniac

Um, well.....

Posted by: Mike Tyson at June 23, 2017 01:56 PM (oiNtH)

152 91
Also, reporting that Depp is $40 Milllllion in debt.

Last I heard, dude was trying to sell his French village.

That's right, he bought a village.

Posted by: bonhomme at June 23, 2017 01:47 PM (jhqr1)

_------------------------------------------------

Actually some are pretty reasonable considering. They mostly require a lot of work though.
Depps cost him 63 million though.

Posted by: Javems at June 23, 2017 01:56 PM (yOqwj)

153 >>140
Every single time I watch "Fixer Upper," which is mostly filmed in Waco,
I can't get the image of the tanks storming Koresh's compound and the
families and children being burned alive.

"So what we have here is a complete re-do. The view is great, and the price is right, but we're gonna take down all the walls down to the foundation and the roof, for starters. You'll wanna put on this hardhat and goggles for this..."

Posted by: General Zod at June 23, 2017 01:56 PM (Bdeb0)

154 From what I've found on teh interwebz, CA's criminal invasion of privacy statute requires, among other elements, that there be a "confidential communication." The term "confidential communication" includes any communication carried on in circumstances as may reasonably indicate that any party to the communication desires it to be confined to the parties thereto, but excludes a communication made in a public gathering or in any legislative, judicial, executive or administrative proceeding open to the public, or in any other circumstance in which the parties to the communication may reasonably expect that the communication may be overheard or recorded. Seems to me that an open-air conversation in a crowded restaurant would be a communication reasonably expected to be overheard or recorded.

Posted by: Insomniac at June 23, 2017 01:57 PM (0mRoj)

155 So, the Senate just made the Lynch thing an official investigation. AND FEINSTEIN SIGNED THE LETTER.

No word yet on whether CNN will run a countdown clock.
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This is a local story. Not worth covering.

Posted by: CNN... yes, we are ISIS and Proud! at June 23, 2017 01:57 PM (aT+Bx)

156 Depp had his problems, but I think his debt is more a case of him being a poor businessman. I know he has a production company that's largely a vanity project...which costs money. He does the vineyard thing...which costs money. He was involved in a trendy Parisian restaurant/club...which costs money.

I don't think he's snorting his bucks. I think he's just bad at business.

Posted by: WitchDoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks at June 23, 2017 01:57 PM (tVWQB)

157 Apparently by buying villages without a plan for profit because profit is evil, but tens of millions of dollars for Pirates movies is not.

Pirates of the Caribbean V won't be evil.

Posted by: rd at June 23, 2017 01:57 PM (4dz1m)

158 How the hell does someone with as long an acting career and who's made as much money as he has get $40 million in debt?
Posted by: Insomniac at June 23, 2017 01:49 PM (0mRoj)

I know! Right?

Posted by: Nicolas Cage at June 23, 2017 01:57 PM (A3b6q)

159 112 How the hell does someone with as long an acting career and who's made as much money as he has get $40 million in debt?

Posted by: Insomniac at June 23, 2017 01:49 PM (0mRoj)

Snorted it....
Posted by: Tami at June 23, 2017 01:50 PM (Enq6K)

I intend to find out using the scientific method. My hypothesis is that cocaine alone isn't enough to go through that much cash. There must also be lavish vacations with insane sports cars, yachts, and ladies, I'm thinking. I'll keep you posted.

Posted by: mx4 at June 23, 2017 01:58 PM (uJqEF)

160 Depps cost him 63 million though.

And there would be your answer.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at June 23, 2017 01:58 PM (B+qrE)

161 How the hell does someone with as long an acting career and who's made as much money as he has get $40 million in debt?
Posted by: Insomniac at June 23, 2017 01:49 PM (0mRoj)

I found a very easy way.

Posted by: Wesley Snipes at June 23, 2017 01:58 PM (A3b6q)

162 I imagine Janet Reno had some 'splainin' to do to her Maker.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 23, 2017 01:54 PM (PY9jH)

She was last seen giving Baal the secret handshake.

Posted by: *Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet Carries ACME Products for Our Democrat Customers! at June 23, 2017 01:58 PM (hLRSq)

163 When Mueller,with great fanare,brings some bullshit charges against Trump or someone in the administration,shit is going to get real.

Posted by: steevy at June 23, 2017 01:59 PM (rmVvL)

164
How the hell does someone with as long an acting career and who's made as much money as he has get $40 million in debt?

Spending grows with income, then income dwindles...

Dude's had a string of mega-bombs.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 23, 2017 01:59 PM (oVJmc)

165 I think it was Rush Limbaugh that opined that if being gay was genetic and there was a pregnancy test, you would see a real shit show if parents started aborting their gay children.

Posted by: publix at June 23, 2017 01:59 PM (glZzV)

166 How the hell does someone with as long an acting career and who's made as much money as he has get $40 million in debt?

Well ... you only snort so much cocaine and that probably wouldn't even put a dent in Depp's finances. Most likely stupid "investments" and holding tons of properties (most of which probably sit empty, outside of staff and Magnum PI types living there) that cost a shitload in monthly upkeep.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at June 23, 2017 02:00 PM (rZ+mb)

167 I know! Right?
Posted by: Nicolas Cage

I've heard Cage is a legit shopaholic. Like he can't even drive by the Ferrari dealership because he can't control himself.

Posted by: bonhomme at June 23, 2017 02:00 PM (jhqr1)

168
I imagine Janet Reno had some 'splainin' to do to her Maker.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 23, 2017 01:54 PM

Didn't Janet and her supporters claim the fire was started by a kerosene lantern?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 23, 2017 02:00 PM (IqV8l)

169 Where has Kim Bassinger been lately? I remember several years ago she bought a small, near-empty town in Georgia.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 23, 2017 02:01 PM (PY9jH)

170
I don't think he's snorting his bucks. I think he's just bad at business.
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Yeah, that's actually worse.

I think most can understand, "I want to be high all the time and serviced by women/men sexually whenever I want, by the way, I'm an addict."

However... "Wheeee! I've got Billions and Billions of Dollars to Spend. How much does Africa cost? I want to buy Africa right now," is a bit harder to swallow.

Posted by: shibumi at June 23, 2017 02:01 PM (aT+Bx)

171 161 How the hell does someone with as long an acting career and who's made as much money as he has get $40 million in debt?
Posted by: Insomniac at June 23, 2017 01:49 PM (0mRoj)

I found a very easy way.
Posted by: Wesley Snipes at June 23, 2017 01:58 PM (A3b6q)

I wrote that book.

Posted by: Willie Nelson at June 23, 2017 02:01 PM (A3b6q)

172 166 How the hell does someone with as long an acting career and who's made as much money as he has get $40 million in debt?

Well ... you only snort so much cocaine and that probably wouldn't even put a dent in Depp's finances. Most likely stupid "investments" and holding tons of properties (most of which probably sit empty, outside of staff and Magnum PI types living there) that cost a shitload in monthly upkeep.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at June 23, 2017 02:00 PM (rZ+mb)

I just read the article and that's a large part of it apparently. The guy owns a shitload of houses and other properties.

Posted by: Insomniac at June 23, 2017 02:01 PM (0mRoj)

173 In April, California's Department of Justice raided Daleiden's home and seized the recordings.

Glad to see the state commissars have nothing else to worry about but some videos

Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 23, 2017 02:01 PM (493sH)

174 Hmmmm, I wonder if Feinstein will achieve "unperson" status.
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Weirdly, I think she has more brains working than McCain. I think they are the same vintage (class of new senators) -- she has flashes of sanity and he has none. If a choice between the two, I'd take her because at least a chance that she would be lucid and/or reasonable.

Posted by: mustbequantum at June 23, 2017 02:01 PM (MIKMs)

175 Didn't Janet and her supporters claim the fire was started by a kerosene lantern?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 23, 2017 02:00 PM (IqV8l)

Yeah, sure.

A kerosene lantern and tanks. But mostly tanks.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 23, 2017 02:02 PM (PY9jH)

176 80 Has anyone ever found out which Moron plays this Mary Clogginstien character?
Who ever s/he is, they're hilarious, and dedicated.
Posted by: bonhomme at June 23, 2017 01:44 PM (jhqr1)

I think mutiple morons have done the Clogginstein sock.

Like the Ben Roethlisberger sock.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader at June 23, 2017 02:02 PM (9d741)

177 How the hell does someone with as long an acting career and who's made as much money as he has get $40 million in debt?

Slowly at first, then very quickly.

Posted by: McCool at June 23, 2017 02:02 PM (WXSv6)

178 Off topic.

French Police entering a nonexistent NO GO Zone.

http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2017/06/la-diversite-is.html

I think it needs Yakety Sax as background music.

Posted by: rd at June 23, 2017 02:02 PM (4dz1m)

179 171 161 How the hell does someone with as long an acting career and who's made as much money as he has get $40 million in debt?
Posted by: Insomniac at June 23, 2017 01:49 PM (0mRoj)

I found a very easy way.
Posted by: Wesley Snipes at June 23, 2017 01:58 PM (A3b6q)

I wrote that book.
Posted by: Willie Nelson at June 23, 2017 02:01 PM (A3b6q)

Willie, You Magnificent Bastard! I READ YOUR BOOK!!!

Posted by: M.C. Hammer at June 23, 2017 02:02 PM (A3b6q)

180 164
How the hell does someone with as long an acting career and who's made as much money as he has get $40 million in debt?

Spending grows with income, then income dwindles...

Dude's had a string of mega-bombs.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 23, 2017 01:59 PM (oVJmc)

He probably gets paid up front. He's such a big name I don't see him taking any movies on a percentage.

Posted by: Insomniac at June 23, 2017 02:02 PM (0mRoj)

181 California is Illinois, give or take a year.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 23, 2017 02:02 PM (oVJmc)

182 There is no such thing as innocence: only degrees of guilt.

Posted by: California DA office, Imperium of Man at June 23, 2017 02:03 PM (eXSOZ)

183
Dude's had a string of mega-bombs.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 23, 2017 01:59 PM (oVJmc)

And his successful movies have been with Disney who are notorious cheapskates.

Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at June 23, 2017 02:03 PM (lKyWE)

184 There is only one way to make money and that is to SPEND money.

Posted by: Johnny Depp at June 23, 2017 02:03 PM (aT+Bx)

185 WE in Brattleboro think the Government needs to protect all unborn Gay and Lesbian Children. This is the rite thing to do to protect these poor children that will be leading a tough life after being buorn.

Posted by: Mary Clogginstien from Brattleboro, VT at June 23, 2017 01:39 PM (WmgTn)

What about unborn childrens of colors?

Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 23, 2017 02:03 PM (493sH)

186 I'd take her because at least a chance that she would be lucid and/or reasonable.

Posted by: mustbequantum at June 23, 2017 02:01 PM (MIKMs)

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Yeah, I'd do her too.

Posted by: Bill Cosby at June 23, 2017 02:03 PM (vg8iE)

187 How the hell does someone with as long an acting career and who's made as much money as he has get $40 million in debt?
Posted by: Insomniac at June 23, 2017 01:49 PM (0mRoj)

I found a very easy way.
Posted by: Wesley Snipes at June 23, 2017 01:58 PM (A3b6q)

I wrote that book.
Posted by: Willie Nelson at June 23, 2017 02:01 PM (A3b6q)

Willie, You Magnificent Bastard! I READ YOUR BOOK!!!

Posted by: M.C. Hammer at June 23, 2017 02:02 PM (A3b6q)

You're all pikers.

Posted by: Bunker Hunt at June 23, 2017 02:03 PM (rZ+mb)

188 Seems to me that an open-air conversation in a crowded restaurant would be a communication reasonably expected to be overheard or recorded.
Posted by: Insomniac at June 23, 2017 01:57 PM (0mRoj)

No - they will subpoena the hostess who will remember that they sat at a booth, which everyone knows is private.

Posted by: Batterup at June 23, 2017 02:03 PM (mtGE/)

189 184 There is only one way to make money and that is to SPEND money.
Posted by: Johnny Depp at June 23, 2017 02:03 PM (aT+Bx)

I have a paste start-up concern I'd like to talk to you about.

Posted by: Joe Biden at June 23, 2017 02:04 PM (0mRoj)

190 Fox News Radio just reported a multiple shooting in Minneapolis. Filthy scandi's again.

Posted by: Under Fire at June 23, 2017 02:04 PM (l4aLi)

191 It is amazing human being's ability to ramp up their spending so close to their income, no matter how high in the stratosphere it goes.

I've seen this first hand, and it does make you sick.

A lot of it too is these people attract parasites.

Posted by: publix at June 23, 2017 02:04 PM (glZzV)

192 I just read the article and that's a large part of it apparently. The guy owns a shitload of houses and other properties.
Posted by: Insomniac at June 23, 2017 02:01 PM (0mRoj)

You know what's even more expensive than cocaine? Art collecting on the highest levels. Depp owns a ton of art.

Steve Martin has one of the world's premiere private art collections. He's said that his wife has told him that when he wants another painting, he has to make another movie.

Posted by: alexthechick - I need a pail for to build a castle now at June 23, 2017 02:04 PM (dEQP3)

193 190. Lord.....

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. All Honor & Glory to Kekistan! at June 23, 2017 02:04 PM (TwwWO)

194 I imagine Janet Reno had some 'splainin' to do to her Maker.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 23, 2017 01:54 PM

You want to make yourself sick, go read Janet Reno's wiki entry, particularly all those bogus child abuse cases she prosecuted in Florida before she was appointed as Bill Clinton's AG. It will turn your stomach.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader at June 23, 2017 02:04 PM (9d741)

195 184 There is only one way to make money and that is to SPEND money.
Posted by: Johnny Depp
_________

Hey Johnny, who the hell do you think you are, stealing all my best lines--Amy Schumer?

Posted by: Joe Biden at June 23, 2017 02:05 PM (j+dfT)

196 Weirdly, I think she has more brains working than McCain. I think they are the same vintage (class of new senators) -- she has flashes of sanity and he has none. If a choice between the two, I'd take her because at least a chance that she would be lucid and/or reasonable

I would take Feinstein because she at least will honestly admit she hates me. McCain, not so much.

Posted by: rd at June 23, 2017 02:05 PM (4dz1m)

197 165 I think it was Rush Limbaugh that opined that if being gay was genetic and there was a pregnancy test, you would see a real shit show if parents started aborting their gay children.
Posted by: publix at June 23, 2017 01:59 PM (glZzV)

Pee on the strip and it turns rainbow-colored.

Posted by: Insomniac at June 23, 2017 02:05 PM (0mRoj)

198 I think it was Rush Limbaugh that opined that if being gay was genetic and there was a pregnancy test, you would see a real shit show if parents started aborting their gay children.

Posted by: publix

Gays are a race. Aborting a gayby would be akin to a lynching.

Posted by: Shep Smith at June 23, 2017 02:05 PM (xAvrH)

199 It is amazing human being's ability to ramp up their spending so close to their income, no matter how high in the stratosphere it goes.

I've seen this first hand, and it does make you sick.

A lot of it too is these people attract parasites.

Posted by: publix at June 23, 2017 02:04 PM (glZzV)

Just look at lottery winners. No matter how much it is a good percentage of them have blown it all after 5 years and have nothing left to show for it.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at June 23, 2017 02:05 PM (rZ+mb)

200 When you charge someone with 15 counts, and 14 of them are so obviously
without merit a judge dismisses them pre-trial, it shows the prosecution
to be a politically motivated...

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When you cannot even convince a San Fransisco judge to go along with your persecution, you know you have gone too far.

Posted by: redbanzai at June 23, 2017 02:05 PM (SrkNc)

201 I think mutiple morons have done the Clogginstein sock.

Like the Ben Roethlisberger sock.

I think the current most-common Cloggensteinmonger is the one who had a short stint as Dorcas Blimline. Used to not be so good, has improved their skill tremendously.

Posted by: Sporkatus at June 23, 2017 02:05 PM (eXSOZ)

202 176 80 Has anyone ever found out which Moron plays this Mary Clogginstien character?
Who ever s/he is, they're hilarious, and dedicated.
Posted by: bonhomme at June 23, 2017 01:44 PM (jhqr1)

I think mutiple morons have done the Clogginstein sock.

Like the Ben Roethlisberger sock.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader at June 23, 2017 02:02 PM (9d741)

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Next thing you'll tell me is that Santa Claus isn't real.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at June 23, 2017 02:05 PM (viSzi)

203 California is Illinois, give or take a year.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 23, 2017 02:02 PM (oVJmc)

Only with fewer governors in the hoosegow.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader at June 23, 2017 02:06 PM (9d741)

204 Weirdly, I think she has more brains working than McCain. I think they are the same vintage (class of new senators) -- she has flashes of sanity and he has none. If a choice between the two, I'd take her because at least a chance that she would be lucid and/or reasonable.
Posted by: mustbequantum

++++

I feel the same way.

I don't like Feinstein's politics, but at least she can pretend to be a sane adult every once in a while.

Posted by: publix at June 23, 2017 02:06 PM (glZzV)

205 194 I imagine Janet Reno had some 'splainin' to do to her Maker.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 23, 2017 01:54 PM

You want to make yourself sick, go read Janet Reno's wiki entry, particularly all those bogus child abuse cases she prosecuted in Florida before she was appointed as Bill Clinton's AG. It will turn your stomach.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader at June 23, 2017 02:04 PM (9d741)

As a Florida boy I'm quite familiar with those. She destroyed people's lives with nary a fuck given.

Posted by: Insomniac at June 23, 2017 02:06 PM (0mRoj)

206 A lot of it too is these people attract parasites.

Posted by: publix at June 23, 2017 02:04 PM (glZzV)

It's not that these people attract parasites. It's that money attracts parasites, and not everyone is wary enough to fend them off.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at June 23, 2017 02:06 PM (KUaJL)

207 How the hell does someone with as long an acting career and who's made as much money as he has get $40 million in debt?

Posted by: Insomniac at June 23, 2017 01:49 PM (0mRoj)

A few years ago I worked for a company that managed money and some clients were athletes. The spending they do is unreal. We'd even run charts showing them when they'd run out of money (but 45 you'll be broke) but it didn't stop them

Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 23, 2017 02:07 PM (493sH)

208 California is Illinois, give or take a year.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 23, 2017 02:02 PM (oVJmc)

Only with fewer governors in the hoosegow.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader

+++

I'm starting to think it was a big mistake for Illinois to elect a Republican right when the place is going under.

Posted by: publix at June 23, 2017 02:07 PM (glZzV)

209 >>>>>>So, the Senate just made the Lynch thing an official investigation. AND FEINSTEIN SIGNED THE LETTER.

No word yet on whether CNN will run a countdown clock.
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This is a local story. Not worth covering.
.
.
.I have a feeling this will not be covered by the msm and pretty much every public hearing will be conducted without the press present.

And you just know she will refuse to testify.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at June 23, 2017 02:07 PM (0pcwX)

210
I'm starting to think it was a big mistake for Illinois to elect a Republican right when the place is going under.

Posted by: publix at June 23, 2017 02:07 PM (glZzV)
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You think he was elected? He was "elected."

Posted by: George Soros & The Chicago Machine at June 23, 2017 02:08 PM (vg8iE)

211 A few years ago I worked for a company that managed money and some clients were athletes. The spending they do is unreal. We'd even run charts showing them when they'd run out of money (but 45 you'll be broke) but it didn't stop them
Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 23, 2017 02:07 PM (493sH)

I know it happens, but it never ceases to astonish me. And $40 million in the hole to boot. Just flabbergasting.

Posted by: Insomniac at June 23, 2017 02:08 PM (0mRoj)

212 Didn't Janet and her supporters claim the fire was started by a kerosene lantern?

Last I heard there was a specific type of teargas round that could be incendiary. The gov't denied they used that type, but two of them were found in evidence. They had to admit they did in fact use that type.

Posted by: bonhomme at June 23, 2017 02:08 PM (jhqr1)

213 Depps cost him 63 million though.

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Sorry, that is what it is listed for currently.

Posted by: Javems at June 23, 2017 02:08 PM (yOqwj)

214 Becerra's also the loony fuckwit who banned Cali state employee travel to Texas, Alabama, South Dakota, and Kentucky. Maybe we can goad the evil bastards into building a wall along the San Andreas fault to keep their inmates inside the asylum.

Posted by: cornbred at June 23, 2017 02:08 PM (2Vjyl)

215 A lot of it too is these people attract parasites.

Posted by: publix at June 23, 2017 02:04 PM (glZzV)

It's not that these people attract parasites. It's that money attracts parasites, and not everyone is wary enough to fend them off.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously

+++

People in that industry are incredibly needy and the whole "easy come, easy go" applies as well.

Someone who starts a business and is successful usually doesn't have a "entourage" when they want to go outside.

Posted by: publix at June 23, 2017 02:09 PM (glZzV)

216 155 So, the Senate just made the Lynch thing an official investigation. AND FEINSTEIN SIGNED THE LETTER.

Posted by: CNN... yes, we are ISIS and Proud!
_________

When Loretta Lynch left office, she certainly had some undersized shoes to fill.

Posted by: Furious George at June 23, 2017 02:09 PM (j+dfT)

217 In order to get one of her convictions, Janet Reno had a woman close to the guy abused and mistreated in jail until she testified against him -- she later said nothing she said was true. Why Reno wasn't prosecuted for coercing a witness or abuse of power or some such is itself a crime.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader at June 23, 2017 02:09 PM (9d741)

218 Speaking of courts, no decision on the travel ban pending form SCOTUS today I'm guessing?

Posted by: IC at June 23, 2017 02:09 PM (a0IVu)

219 >>>>It is amazing human being's ability to ramp up their spending so
close to their income, no matter how high in the stratosphere it goes.

I've seen this first hand, and it does make you sick.

A lot of it too is these people attract parasites.

Posted by: publix at June 23, 2017 02:04 PM (glZzV)

Just look at lottery winners. No matter how much it is a good
percentage of them have blown it all after 5 years and have nothing left
to show for it.
.
.
.Someone wrote a book about lottery winners and what happened to them after they won. It was horrible to see what that kind of money does to most people.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at June 23, 2017 02:09 PM (0pcwX)

220 If I had that kind of money you'd probably never know it. I've always made it a point to live below my means wherever possible. My ex-wife, on the other hand...

Posted by: Insomniac at June 23, 2017 02:10 PM (0mRoj)

221 A lot of it too is these people attract parasites.

Posted by: publix at June 23, 2017 02:04 PM (glZzV)

I know this is hard ... but it's something you have to watch ...

[cat-juggling movie plays]

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at June 23, 2017 02:10 PM (rZ+mb)

222 O/T but did anyone see/hear Wolf Blitzed yesterday freak out over the WH having a no-cameras press briefing?

Blitzed went on-air like a passive-aggressive little lying bitch making it sound like there was a total embargo on anything said in there when that was a fucking lie. There was an audio feed that could have and was broadcasted by those who chose to such as Fox.

Posted by: bicentennialguy at June 23, 2017 02:10 PM (vg8iE)

223 California is run like the Mafia. Only not as profitable. Or solvent.

There are a lot of good people out there. Mostly in the Northern part.

But there are so many good reasons to roast weenies over the dead burning corpse of that government. That day is coming. I have extra buns if anyone needs them.

Posted by: Marcus T at June 23, 2017 02:10 PM (M3pAJ)

224 I don't like Feinstein's politics, but at least she can pretend to be a sane adult every once in a while.

Posted by: publix at June 23, 2017 02:06 PM (glZzV)

She seems to take the job seriously - more serious than most of them.

Posted by: *Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet Carries ACME Products for Our Democrat Customers! at June 23, 2017 02:10 PM (hLRSq)

225 Just look at lottery winners. No matter how much it is a good
percentage of them have blown it all after 5 years and have nothing left
to show for it.

Aaaa Good Times...good times...

Posted by: Dude pushing a shopping cart full cans at June 23, 2017 02:11 PM (DPvCq)

226 175 Didn't Janet and her supporters claim the fire was started by a kerosene lantern?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 23, 2017 02:00 PM (IqV8l)

Yeah, sure. A kerosene lantern and tanks. But mostly tanks.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 23, 2017 02:02 PM (PY9jH)

Don't forget the cow. It kicked over one of the tanks.

Posted by: Minuteman at June 23, 2017 02:11 PM (A3b6q)

227 A few years ago I worked for a company that managed money and some clients were athletes. The spending they do is unreal. We'd even run charts showing them when they'd run out of money (but 45 you'll be broke) but it didn't stop them
Posted by: TheQuietMan

++++

I think I read the average career in the NFL is like 2-3 years.

Something like 90% of athletes file for bankruptcy a few years after they are no longer pros

Posted by: publix at June 23, 2017 02:11 PM (glZzV)

228 Becerra's also the loony fuckwit who banned Cali state employee travel to Texas, Alabama, South Dakota, and Kentucky.

Reciprocity--especially in Texas' case is going to hurt.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at June 23, 2017 02:11 PM (B+qrE)

229 Depp's former wife Amber Heard was GAY. She probably cost him a lot of alimony. If Depp were GAY he wouldn't be having these problems.

Posted by: Shep Smith at June 23, 2017 02:11 PM (xAvrH)

230 As a Florida boy I'm quite familiar with those. She destroyed people's lives with nary a fuck given.
Posted by: Insomniac at June 23, 2017 02:06 PM (0mRoj)

I think she is (was) the most thoroughly evil public official I've ever seen.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader at June 23, 2017 02:11 PM (9d741)

231 217 In order to get one of her convictions, Janet Reno had a woman close to the guy abused and mistreated in jail until she testified against him -- she later said nothing she said was true. Why Reno wasn't prosecuted for coercing a witness or abuse of power or some such is itself a crime.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader at June 23, 2017 02:09 PM (9d741)

The power structure tends to protect its own.

Posted by: Insomniac at June 23, 2017 02:12 PM (0mRoj)

232 Why Reno wasn't prosecuted for coercing a witness or abuse of power or some such is itself a crime.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader

The power of D ...

Posted by: Adriane the Political Critic ... at June 23, 2017 02:12 PM (AoK0a)

233 It is deeply saddening to me that as blatantly evil and lawless an organization as Planned Parenthood not only is able to stay open, but is openly praised and publicly funded. Taxpayer dollars go into this ghastly evil every year. Its inconceivable to me. This is like having the KKK funded by the federal government and praised on TV by actors.

"They do heroic work!"
-Susan Sarandon

"Lynchings are only a small part of the work they do for women!"
-George Clooney

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 23, 2017 02:12 PM (39g3+)

234 Next thing you'll tell me is that Santa Claus isn't real.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at June 23, 2017 02:05 PM (viSzi)
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Hey there, you! Are you going to send me anything for the cookbook? Food to watch movies by? Something?

Posted by: bluebell ~ don't resist me, much! at June 23, 2017 02:12 PM (sBOL1)

235 I think I read the average career in the NFL is like 2-3 years.

Something like 90% of athletes file for bankruptcy a few years after they are no longer pros

Posted by: publix at June 23, 2017 02:11 PM (glZzV)

And then they whine like babies and file a bullshit concussion suit against the league that provided them with all that money (and fame) that they blew like retards.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at June 23, 2017 02:12 PM (rZ+mb)

236 231 217 In order to get one of her convictions, Janet Reno had a woman close to the guy abused and mistreated in jail until she testified against him -- she later said nothing she said was true. Why Reno wasn't prosecuted for coercing a witness or abuse of power or some such is itself a crime.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader at June 23, 2017 02:09 PM (9d741)

The power structure tends to protect its own.
Posted by: Insomniac at June 23, 2017 02:12 PM (0mRoj)

================

It's really the only constitutional ideal that matters.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at June 23, 2017 02:12 PM (viSzi)

237
And you just know she will refuse to testify.
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Yeah, about that.

If I as an individual refuse to testify, I'll go to jail.

Yet as a an Honored Party Member, it's totes oK for Dems and is just SOP?

And RINOs just accept this?

Posted by: shibumi at June 23, 2017 02:12 PM (aT+Bx)

238 205
194 I imagine Janet Reno had some 'splainin' to do to her Maker.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 23, 2017 01:54 PM

You want to make yourself sick, go read Janet Reno's wiki entry,
particularly all those bogus child abuse cases she prosecuted in Florida
before she was appointed as Bill Clinton's AG. It will turn your
stomach.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader at June 23, 2017 02:04 PM (9d741)

As a Florida boy I'm quite familiar with those. She destroyed people's lives with nary a fuck given.

Posted by: Insomniac

Same thing happened in CA. The 80's were a witch hunt against daycare providers. No doubt there were some abuses, but my god, the stuff they were making up could've filled pulp novels. I'm shocked there weren't revenge killings for what people suffered.

Posted by: SFGoth at June 23, 2017 02:13 PM (dZ756)

239 230. Heh....let me introduce you to Hillary....

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. All Honor & Glory to Kekistan! at June 23, 2017 02:13 PM (TwwWO)

240 234 Next thing you'll tell me is that Santa Claus isn't real.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at June 23, 2017 02:05 PM (viSzi)
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Hey there, you! Are you going to send me anything for the cookbook? Food to watch movies by? Something?

Posted by: bluebell ~ don't resist me, much! at June 23, 2017 02:12 PM (sBOL1)

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I got a great recipe for microwavable popcorn!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at June 23, 2017 02:13 PM (viSzi)

241 228
Becerra's also the loony fuckwit who banned Cali state employee travel to Texas, Alabama, South Dakota, and Kentucky.

Reciprocity--especially in Texas' case is going to hurt.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at June 23, 2017 02:11 PM (B+qrE)
Cali cannot stop the exodus of manufacturing and other businesses out of this state to Texas. This fool is just grandstanding. Everyone knows what is going on, except for the rabid lefties.

Posted by: IC at June 23, 2017 02:13 PM (a0IVu)

242 California (unfortunately) has a lot of captive industry and they can probably just keep squeezing and squeezing forever as the people still there totally buy into that dream as well. Plus perfect weather.

Illinois doesn't have that, even without a fiscal collapse, people want to get the hell out of there.

Posted by: publix at June 23, 2017 02:13 PM (glZzV)

243 233 It is deeply saddening to me that as blatantly evil and lawless an organization as Planned Parenthood not only is able to stay open, but is openly praised and publicly funded. Taxpayer dollars go into this ghastly evil every year. Its inconceivable to me. This is like having the KKK funded by the federal government and praised on TV by actors.

"They do heroic work!"
-Susan Sarandon

"Lynchings are only a small part of the work they do for women!"
-George Clooney
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 23, 2017 02:12 PM (39g3+)

The Klan was instrumental in rape deterrence. You know how those darkies get around the white wimmin...

Posted by: Insomniac at June 23, 2017 02:13 PM (0mRoj)

244 I imagine Janet Reno had some 'splainin' to do to her Maker.

I'm guessing Satan told her, "Well done, good and faithful serpent."

Posted by: Blanco Basura at June 23, 2017 02:14 PM (IZPn8)

245 >>Depp's former wife Amber Heard was GAY. She probably cost him a lot of
alimony. If Depp were GAY he wouldn't be having these problems.

Think she cost him more when they were married - she was spending his money like no tomorrow (which made two big spenders in the family).

And she's now dating Elon Musk. Odds she'll do the same thing?

Posted by: Lizzy at June 23, 2017 02:14 PM (NOIQH)

246 Someone wrote a book about lottery winners and what happened to them after they won. It was horrible to see what that kind of money does to most people.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at June 23, 2017 02:09 PM (0pcwX)

I think we need to do a proper experiment. All we need is someone to give me 100 million dollars.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at June 23, 2017 02:15 PM (wB8Tg)

247 Nobody cared about the tofu and all the hippy living stuff from California. In fact I thought it was kind of quaint. That is until they started using government Brown Shirts to punish people who didn't agree with it or uttered words against their liberal fuhrer.

Posted by: Marcus T at June 23, 2017 02:15 PM (M3pAJ)

248 Why Reno wasn't prosecuted for coercing a witness or abuse of power or some such is itself a crime.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader at June 23, 2017 02:09 PM (9d741)
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Oh, you know why. Sing it with me, people - Democrat.

Posted by: bluebell ~ don't resist me, much! at June 23, 2017 02:15 PM (sBOL1)

249 We'll know when we've entered Stage IV DC Cancer when the Congress votes to approve reciprocity--for them only.

Posted by: Under Fire at June 23, 2017 02:16 PM (l4aLi)

250 And she's now dating Elon Musk. Odds she'll do the same thing?

Posted by: Lizzy at June 23, 2017 02:14 PM (NOIQH)

Probably ... but she's hot enough so it's pretty much okay with everyone.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at June 23, 2017 02:16 PM (rZ+mb)

251 Someone wrote a book about lottery winners and what happened to them after they won. It was horrible to see what that kind of money does to most people.

One of the best 30 for 30 shows ESPN did was what happens to athletes when they get their contract. Most of these guys didn't even know how to cash a check, and someone hands them more money than their family has made in 5 generations combined.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 23, 2017 02:16 PM (39g3+)

252 Planned Parenthood is the last bulwark of protection for the explicit constitutional right to Cuisinart your baby and sell the pieces.

Was that too euphemistic?

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at June 23, 2017 02:16 PM (wB8Tg)

253 Moloch will not be happy.

Posted by: Eromero at June 23, 2017 02:16 PM (zLDYs)

254 And she's now dating Elon Musk.

Don't stick your Tesla in the crazy.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at June 23, 2017 02:17 PM (B+qrE)

255 I got a great recipe for microwavable popcorn!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at June 23, 2017 02:13 PM (viSzi)
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Hmmm. No thanks. The last time one of the kids tried that, it honest-to-goodness blew up our microwave.

What's Dolley got?

Posted by: bluebell ~ don't resist me, much! at June 23, 2017 02:17 PM (sBOL1)

256 French Police entering a nonexistent NO GO Zone.

http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2017/06/la-diversite-is.html

There's even an Allahu Akbar thrown in at the very end, just in case you weren't sure they were Muslim yoots.

Posted by: bonhomme at June 23, 2017 02:17 PM (jhqr1)

257 Hey there, you! Are you going to send me anything for the cookbook? Food to watch movies by? Something?

Posted by: bluebell ~ don't resist me, much! at June 23, 2017 02:12 PM (sBOL1)

I sent you Mrs. Muse's sooper sekrit salsa recipe!

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader at June 23, 2017 02:17 PM (9d741)

258 I admit up front I'd blow $10-20 million right away.

But I'd blow it on a new design for a permanent artificial heart, so that might or might not be seen as "wasteful."

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at June 23, 2017 02:17 PM (wB8Tg)

259 You have to appreciate how the liberals have separated Nazi Tactics from their creed, to make the former apparently acceptable amongst the liberals.

Posted by: Marcus T at June 23, 2017 02:18 PM (M3pAJ)

260 Don't stick your Tesla in the crazy.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at June 23, 2017 02:17 PM (B+qrE)

I'd happily fuck her all the way to the poorhouse.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at June 23, 2017 02:18 PM (rZ+mb)

261 I sent you Mrs. Muse's sooper sekrit salsa recipe!
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader at June 23, 2017 02:17 PM (9d741)
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Yes - thank you thank you thank you! We won't tell anyone but us morons!

Posted by: bluebell ~ don't resist me, much! at June 23, 2017 02:18 PM (sBOL1)

262 Elon Musk sounds like a nasty animal excretion..

Posted by: steevy at June 23, 2017 02:18 PM (rmVvL)

263 I got a great recipe for microwavable popcorn!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at June 23, 2017 02:13 PM (viSzi)

I've got some great potted meat delicacies to offer as well.

Posted by: Under Fire at June 23, 2017 02:18 PM (l4aLi)

264 And she's now dating Elon Musk. Odds she'll do the same thing?

Posted by: Lizzy at June 23, 2017 02:14 PM (NOIQH)

Probably ... but she's hot enough so it's pretty much okay with everyone.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair

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I can't believe how stupid some guys are.

Yea, she's hot, but if you're a famous young billionaire, you can get plenty of hot ass without jeopardizing everything with a crazy gold digger that stages domestic abuse to shake people down.

Posted by: publix at June 23, 2017 02:18 PM (glZzV)

265 I'm pretty sure Amber Heard's propensity for evil is in direct correlation with how smoking hot she is.

Posted by: grognard at June 23, 2017 02:19 PM (/29Nl)

266 I'm guessing Satan told her, "Well done, good and faithful serpent."

Posted by: Blanco Basura at June 23, 2017 02:14 PM (IZPn

Very nice. I wish I had thought of it.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader at June 23, 2017 02:19 PM (9d741)

267 That is until they started using government Brown Shirts to punish people who didn't agree with it or uttered words against their liberal fuhrer.

Jello Biafra got it decades ago. He saw it coming, the soft tyranny of the left.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 23, 2017 02:19 PM (39g3+)

268 F-1 practice is on NBCSN for the Grand Prix at Azerbaijan

Posted by: Skip at June 23, 2017 02:19 PM (Ot7+c)

269 HaHaHaHa

https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/268272/

Posted by: steevy at June 23, 2017 02:19 PM (rmVvL)

270 255 I got a great recipe for microwavable popcorn!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at June 23, 2017 02:13 PM (viSzi)
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Hmmm. No thanks. The last time one of the kids tried that, it honest-to-goodness blew up our microwave.

What's Dolley got?

Posted by: bluebell ~ don't resist me, much! at June 23, 2017 02:17 PM (sBOL1)

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I'll have to see. She mostly cooks from cookbooks, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at June 23, 2017 02:19 PM (viSzi)

271 I'm guessing Satan told her, "Well done, good and faithful serpent."

Posted by: Blanco Basura at June 23, 2017 02:14 PM (IZPn

Very nice. I wish I had thought of it.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader at June 23, 2017 02:19 PM (9d741)
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Agreed. Blanco, you hit that out of the park.

Posted by: bluebell ~ don't resist me, much! at June 23, 2017 02:19 PM (sBOL1)

272 What makes an Elon guard its Musk? Courage.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 23, 2017 02:19 PM (IqV8l)

273 So Amber Heard spends Elon's rocket fuel budget while munching carpet?

Posted by: JEM at June 23, 2017 02:20 PM (TppKb)

274 263 I got a great recipe for microwavable popcorn!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at June 23, 2017 02:13 PM (viSzi)

I've got some great potted meat delicacies to offer as well.
Posted by: Under Fire at June 23, 2017 02:18 PM (l4aLi)

Pro tip: remove it from the can before warming in the microwave.

Posted by: Insomniac at June 23, 2017 02:20 PM (0mRoj)

275 Same thing happened in CA. The 80's were a witch hunt against daycare providers. No doubt there were some abuses, but my god, the stuff they were making up could've filled pulp novels. I'm shocked there weren't revenge killings for what people suffered.
Posted by: SFGoth at June 23, 2017 02:13 PM (dZ756)

A Texas couple was finally exonerated after spending 21 years in jail for being Satanic child abusers. He's 75. She's 67.

http://bit.ly/2rOfPR1 (I know it's an Intercept article but it's the most comprehensive)

At least they will be getting compensation for each year wrongfully imprisoned.

What should happen, but won't, is that the prosecutors and the investigators should now be heading off to do their 21 years. There is no possible way in the world that anyone can claim this prosecution was brought in good faith.

Posted by: alexthechick - I need a pail for to build a castle now at June 23, 2017 02:20 PM (dEQP3)

276 I'll have to see. She mostly cooks from cookbooks, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at June 23, 2017 02:19 PM (viSzi)
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That's fine! So do the rest of us. Actually, what we're putting together is a cookbook too.

Coincidence? I think not.

Posted by: bluebell ~ don't resist me, much! at June 23, 2017 02:21 PM (sBOL1)

277 I have a paste start-up concern I'd like to talk to you about.
Posted by: Joe Biden at June 23, 2017 02:04 PM (0mRoj)

Talk about eating into your profits!

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 23, 2017 02:21 PM (AURKQ)

278
103 77 OT: There was talk of this in the last thread.....FBN reporting on the Johnny Depp story said SS is aware of what he said. Also, reporting that Depp is $40 Milllllion in debt.

Posted by: Tami at June 23, 2017 01:44 PM (Enq6K)

How the hell does someone with as long an acting career and who's made as much money as he has get $40 million in debt?

Posted by: Insomniac at June 23, 2017 01:49 PM (0mRoj)

About a month ago Drudge linked a long story about Depp's financial troubles. I was struck by the fact that all his real estate holdings were homes and vacation spots for his personal use. NOTHING that would generate an income or pay for their own upkeep.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 23, 2017 02:21 PM (XWkhW)

279 F1 in Azerbaijan? How far Bernie has fallen - not Sanders the other one.

Posted by: JEM at June 23, 2017 02:21 PM (TppKb)

280 276 I'll have to see. She mostly cooks from cookbooks, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at June 23, 2017 02:19 PM (viSzi)
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That's fine! So do the rest of us. Actually, what we're putting together is a cookbook too.

Coincidence? I think not.

Posted by: bluebell ~ don't resist me, much! at June 23, 2017 02:21 PM (sBOL1)

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I get it, I'm just not sure how excited you might get over a recipe written by Julia Childs that we use from time to time.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at June 23, 2017 02:21 PM (viSzi)

281 I think I read the average career in the NFL is like 2-3 years.

Something like 90% of athletes file for bankruptcy a few years after they are no longer pros

Posted by: publix at June 23, 2017 02:11 PM (glZzV)

Scottie Pippen who played for the Bulls went through $120 million and was pretty much broke. $120 million

Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 23, 2017 02:22 PM (493sH)

282 >>>>And you just know she will refuse to testify.
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Yeah, about that.

If I as an individual refuse to testify, I'll go to jail.

Yet as a an Honored Party Member, it's totes oK for Dems and is just SOP?

And RINOs just accept this?
.
.
.Well she is a "D". Remember when comey "interviewed" hiallry and did not put her under oath and did not takes notes and refused to follow standard FBI protocol about taping the interview?

Yeah...she will get a pass.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at June 23, 2017 02:23 PM (0pcwX)

283 Trump should buy Depp's village, put in a movie theater, and play 'Lone Ranger' on a loop 24/7.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 23, 2017 02:23 PM (oVJmc)

284 The only way Janet Reno could've been any hawter is if she had a buzzcut.

Posted by: Shep Smith at June 23, 2017 02:23 PM (xAvrH)

285 A Texas couple was finally exonerated after spending 21 years in jail for being Satanic child abusers. He's 75. She's 67.

http://bit.ly/2rOfPR1 (I know it's an Intercept article but it's the most comprehensive)

The guy in the McMartin case has the distinction of being the person imprisoned the longest in US history without a trial.

At least they will be getting compensation for each year wrongfully imprisoned.

What should happen, but won't, is that the prosecutors and the investigators should now be heading off to do their 21 years. There is no possible way in the world that anyone can claim this prosecution was brought in good faith.

Posted by: alexthechick - I need a pail for to build a castle now at June 23, 2017 02:20 PM (dEQP3)

Yep. The prosecutors (and all else involved who knew what was going on - which means, basically, everyone) should all suffer, not only the time that the couple served, but the time they put them in jeopardy of having to serve. That is fair and every reasonable human instinctively knows that.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at June 23, 2017 02:23 PM (rZ+mb)

286 281

Scottie Pippen who played for the Bulls went through $120 million and was pretty much broke. $120 million
Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 23, 2017 02:22 PM (493sH)

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I could do that.

In fact, that could be fun.

Just set aside $5 million so that you can return to a quiet middle class life (without a job) once the fun is done.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at June 23, 2017 02:23 PM (viSzi)

287 About a month ago Drudge linked a long story about Depp's financial troubles. I was struck by the fact that all his real estate holdings were homes and vacation spots for his personal use. NOTHING that would generate an income or pay for their own upkeep.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur

+++

That's definitely a trap a lot of celebrities seem to fall into.

They think they are too good to rent when they go on vacation.

Houses burn up a lot of money just sitting their idle

Posted by: publix at June 23, 2017 02:23 PM (glZzV)

288 A Texas couple was finally exonerated after spending 21 years in jail for being Satanic child abusers. He's 75. She's 67.

McMartin preschool.

Posted by: JEM at June 23, 2017 02:24 PM (TppKb)

289 And yet people can't rationalize California's quest to eliminate guns.

They are the reason The Second Amendment exists. They are the epitome of abuse of power.

Posted by: Marcus T at June 23, 2017 02:24 PM (M3pAJ)

290 283 Trump should buy Depp's village, put in a movie theater, and play 'Lone Ranger' on a loop 24/7.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 23, 2017 02:23 PM (oVJmc)

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I'd pop in for the final chase.

Nothing else, though. That movie is garbage otherwise.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at June 23, 2017 02:24 PM (viSzi)

291 Yea, she's hot, but if you're a famous young billionaire, you can get plenty of hot ass without jeopardizing everything with a crazy gold digger that stages domestic abuse to shake people down.
Posted by: publix at June 23, 2017 02:18 PM (glZzV)

Oh thank fuck I was worried there that we would have a thread about Johnny Depp where someone didn't call Amber Heard a gold digging liar.

You know, most gold diggers don't donate the entirety of their divorce settlement.

https://usat.ly/2sKDgbe

This must be some super duper secret reverse gold digging where you give all the money away. But, hey, don't let facts stand in your way. By all means, do, do go on.

Posted by: alexthechick - munch carpet lick hardwood all's good to me at June 23, 2017 02:24 PM (dEQP3)

292 Well she is a "D". Remember when comey "interviewed" hiallry and did not put her under oath and did not takes notes and refused to follow standard FBI protocol about taping the interview?

-----

But Comey made COPIOUS notes and memorandum detailing his meetings with Trump.

Posted by: fixerupper at June 23, 2017 02:24 PM (8XRCm)

293 Depp's former wife Amber Heard was GAY. She probably cost him a lot of alimony. If Depp were GAY he wouldn't be having these problems.

Think she cost him more when they were married - she was spending his money like no tomorrow (which made two big spenders in the family).

And she's now dating Elon Musk. Odds she'll do the same thing?

Posted by: Lizzy at June 23, 2017 02:14 PM (NOIQH)

Wait, she was gay and then married a man and is now dating another man? I thought they are born that way and only haters deny that. Which one of the letters in LGBTLQQRSTUVXYZ is I was gay but not any more?

Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 23, 2017 02:25 PM (493sH)

294 A fool and his money are soon parted.
Fool = Depp, most of the NBA and NFL athletes, ost Hollywood actors.Not Fool = Trump, Tom Brady, Peyton Manning

Posted by: IC at June 23, 2017 02:25 PM (a0IVu)

295 I could do that.

In fact, that could be fun.

Just set aside $5 million so that you can return to a quiet middle class life (without a job) once the fun is done.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

++++

I think that's why most professional leagues have a mandatory pension, so they are forced to basically squirrel something away.

But I'm sure you can structure a loan against that guaranteed income.

Posted by: publix at June 23, 2017 02:25 PM (glZzV)

296 "Same thing happened in CA. The 80's were a witch hunt against daycare providers. No doubt there were some abuses, but my god, the stuff they were making up could've filled pulp novels."

The movie about the McMartin case with James Woods as the defense attorney was fascinating. The scumbag prosecutors realized the charges were BS but pushed forward anyway because they were political hacks.

Posted by: Benji Carver at June 23, 2017 02:25 PM (OD2ni)

297 Sometimes I think the average NBA player spends 120 million on tats.

Posted by: JEM at June 23, 2017 02:25 PM (TppKb)

298 Wait, she was gay and then married a man and is now dating another man? I thought they are born that way and only haters deny that. Which one of the letters in LGBTLQQRSTUVXYZ is I was gay but not any more?
Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 23, 2017 02:25 PM (493sH)

She's diddle-fluid.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 23, 2017 02:25 PM (AURKQ)

299 A fool and his money are soon parted.
Fool = Depp, most of the NBA and NFL athletes, ost Hollywood actors.Not Fool = Trump, Tom Brady, Peyton Manning
Posted by: IC

++

You could also make some politically incorrect conclusions based on race and which athletes are better stewards of their money.

Posted by: publix at June 23, 2017 02:26 PM (glZzV)

300 I get it, I'm just not sure how excited you might get over a recipe written by Julia Childs that we use from time to time.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at June 23, 2017 02:21 PM (viSzi)
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Seriously, if it's something you guys like to make, send it in. It's a cookbook by morons, for morons, so mostly what we do is cook what other people tell us to.

Posted by: bluebell ~ don't resist me, much! at June 23, 2017 02:26 PM (sBOL1)

301

I Refuse to Be Burdened With a Child as a Form of Punishment! It's not MY fault the free birth control you are required to give me didn't work because I forgot to use it! I'd give the kid to it's dad, if I knew who it was!

Posted by: B. Arky at June 23, 2017 02:26 PM (fcU1Y)

302
265 I'm pretty sure Amber Heard's propensity for evil is in direct correlation with how smoking hot she is.

Posted by: grognard at June 23, 2017 02:19 PM (/29Nl)

"Witch, n. (1) An ugly and repulsive old woman, in a wicked league with the devil. (2) A beautiful and attractive young woman, in wickedness a league beyond the devil."

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 23, 2017 02:26 PM (XWkhW)

303 Wait, she was gay and then married a man and is now dating another man? I thought they are born that way and only haters deny that. Which one of the letters in LGBTLQQRSTUVXYZ is I was gay but not any more?
Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 23, 2017 02:25 PM (493sH)

The part where she's bisexual.

Posted by: alexthechick - munch carpet lick hardwood all's good to me at June 23, 2017 02:27 PM (dEQP3)

304 300 I get it, I'm just not sure how excited you might get over a recipe written by Julia Childs that we use from time to time.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at June 23, 2017 02:21 PM (viSzi)
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Seriously, if it's something you guys like to make, send it in. It's a cookbook by morons, for morons, so mostly what we do is cook what other people tell us to.

Posted by: bluebell ~ don't resist me, much! at June 23, 2017 02:26 PM (sBOL1)

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I'll get you something then. For sure.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at June 23, 2017 02:27 PM (viSzi)

305 I think that's why most professional leagues have a mandatory pension, so they are forced to basically squirrel something away.

Posted by: publix at June 23, 2017 02:25 PM (glZzV)

Which is total bullshit, anyway. These pros are adults and should be responsible for their actions and their own finances. The problem is that courts actually let these idiots plead "stupidity" as an accepted defense for their stupidity.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at June 23, 2017 02:27 PM (rZ+mb)

306 Posted by: steevy at June 23, 2017 02:19 PM (rmVvL)

I will bet Johnny Depp's French village that election guru David Wasserman of the Cook Political Report didn't come within the distance to Alpha Centauri on the outcome last November.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at June 23, 2017 02:27 PM (B+qrE)

307 To Serve Man ...

Posted by: g6loq at June 23, 2017 02:28 PM (FHmKp)

308 I cannot figure out why if someone is given a choice between football and baseball they'd ever take football. NFL players have a shorter average career, lower pay unless you're a superstar, and more injuries; its just such an obvious choice

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 23, 2017 02:28 PM (39g3+)

309 I think it was a conspiracy to monitor the monitors who are monitoring other monitors.

Posted by: JAS at June 23, 2017 02:28 PM (EX4Wr)

310 Seriously, if it's something you guys like to make, send it in. It's a cookbook by morons, for morons, so mostly what we do is cook what other people tell us to.

Posted by: bluebell ~ don't resist me, much! at June 23, 2017 02:26 PM (sBOL1)

bluebell, if it's someone else's previously published recipe, you CANNOT just turn around and republish it without obtaining the rights.

Please, please tell me those of you working on the cookbook know this.

Posted by: alexthechick - munch carpet lick hardwood all's good to me at June 23, 2017 02:28 PM (dEQP3)

311 >>>>Same thing happened in CA. The 80's were a witch hunt against daycare
providers. No doubt there were some abuses, but my god, the stuff they
were making up could've filled pulp novels. I'm shocked there weren't
revenge killings for what people suffered.

Posted by: SFGoth at June 23, 2017 02:13 PM (dZ756)

A Texas couple was finally exonerated after spending 21 years in jail for being Satanic child abusers. He's 75. She's 67.

http://bit.ly/2rOfPR1 (I know it's an Intercept article but it's the most comprehensive)

At least they will be getting compensation for each year wrongfully imprisoned.

What should happen, but won't, is that the prosecutors and the
investigators should now be heading off to do their 21 years. There
is no possible way in the world that anyone can claim this prosecution
was brought in good faith.
.
.
.Go read about the Fells Acre case in Mass. Coakley led the prosecution on that one. It had hot air balloons, statnic rituals and kids allegedly getting anally raped with butcher knifes without a mark being left on their bodies.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at June 23, 2017 02:29 PM (0pcwX)

312 Seriously, if it's something you guys like to make, send it in. It's a cookbook by morons, for morons, so mostly what we do is cook what other people tell us to.

For example, the last recipe I sent:

Really Good Hamburgers

Ingredients

20 one dollar bills
1 gallon gas

Put gas in car and preheat. Drive to Five Guys. Order bacon cheeseburger. Divide one dollar bills as appropriate.

Enjoy!

Posted by: WitchDoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks at June 23, 2017 02:29 PM (tVWQB)

313 "
I cannot figure out why if someone is given a choice between football
and baseball they'd ever take football. NFL players have a shorter
average career, lower pay unless you're a superstar, and more injuries;
its just such an obvious choice

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 23, 2017 02:28 PM (39g3+)"
Sheesh. You're telling me.

Posted by: Bo Jackson at June 23, 2017 02:29 PM (EX4Wr)

314 I would only ask Johnny Depp, who apparently for years has mostly lived in France because he hates America to begin with, to hang around Paris in a high profile way.

I'm sure he would look good on Daesh's trophy wall.

Asshole

Posted by: Marcus T at June 23, 2017 02:29 PM (M3pAJ)

315 Go read about the Fells Acre case in Mass. Coakley led the prosecution on that one. It had hot air balloons, statnic rituals and kids allegedly getting anally raped with butcher knifes without a mark being left on their bodies.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at June 23, 2017 02:29 PM (0pcwX)

"Kids heal quickly." -- Martha Coakley

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at June 23, 2017 02:30 PM (rZ+mb)

316 Nood

Posted by: steevy at June 23, 2017 02:30 PM (rmVvL)

317 When's the deadline? Sheesh. we are morons. I have several recipes that are quite tolerable. But I will submit them too late.

I yam what I yam.

Posted by: JAS at June 23, 2017 02:31 PM (EX4Wr)

318 I'd pop in for the final chase.

Yeah, the movie was terrible right up until the point when the music started playing and he was chasing the train. Then it became pretty good, I actually liked it. But 90 minutes of awful for 5 minutes of okay is not a good exchange

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 23, 2017 02:31 PM (39g3+)

319 I cannot figure out why if someone is given a choice between football and baseball they'd ever take football. NFL players have a shorter average career, lower pay unless you're a superstar, and more injuries; its just such an obvious choice
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

Not everyone is Bo Jackson

Really if you were smart, you'd have your kid eat breath and sleep golf and become a pro.

Much less determined by genetics and you can have a really long career

Posted by: publix at June 23, 2017 02:31 PM (glZzV)

320 When's the deadline? Sheesh. we are morons. I have several recipes that are quite tolerable. But I will submit them too late.

I yam what I yam.

Deadline is the 30th.

Posted by: WitchDoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks at June 23, 2017 02:32 PM (tVWQB)

321 Some of the most demonstrably horrific abuses of our society have come from prosecutors, lawyers and the courts.

But yeah, let's get the "bankers"

Posted by: Marcus T at June 23, 2017 02:32 PM (M3pAJ)

322 Please, please tell me those of you working on the cookbook know this.
Posted by: alexthechick - munch carpet lick hardwood all's good to me at June 23, 2017 02:28 PM (dEQP3)
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We do, alex. We looked into this extensively. It's why we are asking everyone to put their source on the form when they submit it to us, and why everything is going to be edited to some degree.

We even got an attorney to weigh in. We're good.

Posted by: bluebell ~ don't resist me, much! at June 23, 2017 02:32 PM (sBOL1)

323 318 I'd pop in for the final chase.

Yeah, the movie was terrible right up until the point when the music started playing and he was chasing the train. Then it became pretty good, I actually liked it. But 90 minutes of awful for 5 minutes of okay is not a good exchange
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 23, 2017 02:31 PM (39g3+)

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You forget the length of that movie.

It was about 2 hours and 20 minutes.

It was a slog.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at June 23, 2017 02:32 PM (viSzi)

324 Much hotter, wilder, and saner girls out there than Amber Heard. Elon Musk is a fucking idiot for bringing her into his life.

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at June 23, 2017 02:32 PM (2qHjF)

325 23 ace I know you've been a little ambivalent about abortion, but have always been very jus/fair to us that have really been angry and considered it not a solution to what ails women.

have you thoughts changed, or are you still just being fair to give Us a voice?
Posted by: willow at June 23, 2017 01:30 PM (v12G

Lots of us who are not anti-abortion do not want to see (Un)Planned Parenthood get a red cent.

Let the wealthy leftist celebs have fundraising drives for them.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at June 23, 2017 02:33 PM (ujg0T)

326 From Drudge...

The freighter that the U.S. destroyer collided with was on autopilot running straight and true when the destroyer crossed it's path.

With hundreds of millions of the latest detection equipment aboard, along with mandatory personnel on watch, our destroyer couldn't see a 700+ foot container ship.

We are now vulnerable to Roman and Viking naval attacks.

Just fucking great.

Posted by: jwest at June 23, 2017 02:33 PM (Zs4uk)

327
I will offer my financial common sense services for professional athletes and actors for just one half of one percent of their contract. Much much cheaper than some licensed financial management company scammer and skimmer.

I give my first piece of advice free: you only have half the amount of money your contract says, the other half goes for federal, state and local taxes. Don't spend that money.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 23, 2017 02:33 PM (r+sAi)

328 325 Lots of us who are not anti-abortion do not want to see (Un)Planned Parenthood get a red cent.

Let the wealthy leftist celebs have fundraising drives for them.
Posted by: Curmudgeon at June 23, 2017 02:33 PM (ujg0T)

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Cut off the federal cash and PP quickly becomes less and less important politically.

Suddenly, Democrats stop caring about abortion in larger and larger numbers.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at June 23, 2017 02:34 PM (viSzi)

329 I can make sticky pudding. Take Eagle brand condensed milk. Put the unopened can in boiling water being careful to cover the entire can with boiling water. Boil for a half hour or to taste. Remove can and let cool. Open can. Voila! Sticky pudding.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, the Unwoking Dead at June 23, 2017 02:35 PM (Nwg0u)

330
The freighter that the U.S. destroyer collided with was on autopilot running straight and true when the destroyer crossed it's path.

With hundreds of millions of the latest detection equipment aboard, along with mandatory personnel on watch, our destroyer couldn't see a 700+ foot container ship.

We are now vulnerable to Roman and Viking naval attacks.

Just fucking great.

Posted by: jwest

The only thing that makes sense is that they were practicing their WW2 destryoer ramming tactics.

Posted by: Jean at June 23, 2017 02:36 PM (uiO3l)

331 The freighter that the U.S. destroyer collided with was on autopilot running straight and true when the destroyer crossed it's path.

With hundreds of millions of the latest detection equipment aboard, along with mandatory personnel on watch, our destroyer couldn't see a 700+ foot container ship.

We are now vulnerable to Roman and Viking naval attacks.

Just fucking great.

Posted by: jwest

+++

Which is why I'm skeptical about the trillions we flush down the toilet with having a global military peace keeping force that always needs a dozen new aircraft carriers.

The fact a freaking cargo ship took out that ship is an embarrassment

Posted by: publix at June 23, 2017 02:37 PM (glZzV)

332 Elon Musk looks gay. Maybe Amber is his beard.

Posted by: Shep Smith at June 23, 2017 02:37 PM (xAvrH)

333 50 A lot of this was coordinated by that twat bitch Kamala Harris.

Bitch should burn from her evil.
Posted by: Kreplach at June 23, 2017 01:37 PM (7qs4u)

I visualize her stripped and flogged.

Then again, the political whore got her start keeping Willie Brown's bed warm.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at June 23, 2017 02:37 PM (ujg0T)

334
You want to make yourself sick, go read Janet Reno's wiki entry,

particularly all those bogus child abuse cases she prosecuted in Florida

before she was appointed as Bill Clinton's AG. It will turn your

stomach.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader at June 23, 2017 02:04 PM (9d741)

As a Florida boy I'm quite familiar with those. She destroyed people's lives with nary a fuck given.

Posted by: Insomniac

Same thing happened in CA. The 80's were
a witch hunt against daycare providers. No doubt there were some
abuses, but my god, the stuff they were making up could've filled pulp
novels. I'm shocked there weren't revenge killings for what people
suffered.

Posted by: SFGoth at June 23, 2017 02:13 PM

You don't say.....

Posted by: "Tookie" Amirault at June 23, 2017 02:38 PM (p+Wdc)

335 Lots of us who are not anti-abortion do not want to see (Un)Planned Parenthood get a red cent.

Let the wealthy leftist celebs have fundraising drives for them.
Posted by: Curmudgeon

++++

I'm sort of agnostic on the abortion issue politically, but I'm HUGELY in favor of cutting off Planned Parenthood.

I was reading the other day where they gave close to a million to Ossoff.

It's a Democrat slush fund paid by taxpayers

Posted by: publix at June 23, 2017 02:38 PM (glZzV)

336 "When you charge someone with 15 counts, and 14 of them are so
obviously without merit a judge dismisses them pre-trial, it shows the
prosecution to be a politically motivated exercise in weaponized government."

Yes and no. It's become a given that prosecutors will *ridiculously* overcharge defendants in criminal cases these days. They routinely throw in any and every conceivable charge, no matter how tenuous. The idea is to force the defendant to cop a plea, rather than risk trial on a dozen or more charges.

Posted by: FaCubeItches at June 23, 2017 02:38 PM (rznWS)

337
Cooking for morons (continued)

Just brought home a freeby summer recipe magazine, sitting there at check out, because pretty pictures of char-broiled foods.

Saw a recipe for kabobs:
1. Place wooden skewers in water. Let sit for 30 minutes. Drain water.

I mean WTF were you going to do with wood infused water? Use it in the recipe?

Posted by: Slippery Slope Salesman at June 23, 2017 02:39 PM (PduNE)

338 We do, alex. We looked into this extensively. It's
why we are asking everyone to put their source on the form when they
submit it to us, and why everything is going to be edited to some
degree.

We even got an attorney to weigh in. We're good.

Posted by: bluebell ~ don't resist me, much! at June 23, 2017 02:32 PM

*whistles*

*looks around innocently*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 23, 2017 02:40 PM (p+Wdc)

339 Which is why I'm skeptical about the trillions we flush down the toilet with having a global military peace keeping force that always needs a dozen new aircraft carriers.

The fact a freaking cargo ship took out that ship is an embarrassment
Posted by: publix at June 23, 2017 02:37 PM (glZzV)

The only way this can happen is if the CIA and FBI were supplying information on the freighter's course.

Our entire military/intelligence infrastructure has turned to shit.

Posted by: jwest at June 23, 2017 02:41 PM (Zs4uk)

340 A lot of this was coordinated by that twat bitch Kamala Harris.

Bitch should burn from her evil.

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Ooo eee, ooo ah ah, ting tang Kamala walla, bing bang

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, the Unwoking Dead at June 23, 2017 02:42 PM (Nwg0u)

341 Ace may be ambivalent about abortion, but, if I may venture to speak for him, one thing he's not ambivalent on is his utter contempt and hatred for fascist thug stormtroopers using weaponized instruments of government to harass and silence pro-life citizens into submission.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader at June 23, 2017 01:41 PM (9d741)

Bingo. THIS.

Although I must say I do enjoy the anti-abortion demonstrators using the same tactics that the leftist luddites have used against construction projects, nuclear power plants, and the like.

You magnificent bastards, they read your book, as Patton, or George C. Scott, said.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at June 23, 2017 02:42 PM (ujg0T)

342 "Witch, n. (1) An ugly and repulsive old woman, in a wicked league with the devil. (2) A beautiful and attractive young woman, in wickedness a league beyond the devil." (3) Any mildly attractive ginger.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 23, 2017 02:26 PM (

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Small addendum.

Posted by: Soona at June 23, 2017 02:44 PM (Fmupd)

343 The only way this can happen is if the CIA and FBI were supplying information on the freighter's course.

Our entire military/intelligence infrastructure has turned to shit.
Posted by: jwest

++++

Considering also the Pentagon has turned left-wing Deep State also.

So now we have the CIA, NSA, FBI, ATF and military brass firmly against conservatives

Might be a good policy to have small government across the board

Posted by: publix at June 23, 2017 02:44 PM (glZzV)

344 We are now vulnerable to Roman and Viking naval attacks.

Man the oars!

Posted by: Ragnar Lodbrok at June 23, 2017 02:46 PM (PduNE)

345 339 Which is why I'm skeptical about the trillions we flush down the toilet with having a global military peace keeping force that always needs a dozen new aircraft carriers.

The fact a freaking cargo ship took out that ship is an embarrassment
Posted by: publix at June 23, 2017 02:37 PM (glZzV)

The only way this can happen is if the CIA and FBI were supplying information on the freighter's course.

Our entire military/intelligence infrastructure has turned to shit.
Posted by: jwest at June 23, 2017 02:41 PM (Zs4uk)

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I'm pretty sure it'll come out that all the Navy ship's radar operators were attending diversity training at the time leading up to the collision.

Posted by: Soona at June 23, 2017 02:49 PM (Fmupd)

346 The fact a freaking cargo ship took out that ship is an embarrassment

Posted by: publix at June 23, 2017 02:37 PM (glZzV)

There has to be more to it. Even a janitor on the deck could see that ship coming for miles. They must have been playing chicken or something.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at June 23, 2017 02:51 PM (rZ+mb)

347 So gubberment robs taxpayer and gives to PP. PP gives to Tossoff.

Gubberment robs taxpayer and hires union employees. Employees give unions taxpayer money. Unions give Tossoff taxpayer money.

Republicans are left with having to get money from government contractors who have to overcharge government.

What a system

Posted by: torabora at June 23, 2017 02:55 PM (AyXPo)

348 294
A fool and his money are soon parted.
Fool = Depp, most of the NBA and NFL athletes, ost Hollywood actors.Not Fool = Trump, Tom Brady, Peyton Manning

Posted by: IC at June 23, 2017 02:25 PM (a0IVu)

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Don't forger Roger Staubach, net worth $600,000,000.

https://tinyurl.com/yasw6f4x

Posted by: Javems at June 23, 2017 02:56 PM (yOqwj)

349 It's a Democrat slush fund paid by taxpayers
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Most unions are the same.

Posted by: mustbequantum at June 23, 2017 02:57 PM (MIKMs)

350 Seems a good time to remind everyone that the former speaker of the house was hanging on until a story broke about his sister heading one of these baby-parts companies, and he resigned the next day, I think. Never saw the story again.

Posted by: artemis at June 23, 2017 02:57 PM (AwPyG)

351 There has to be more to it. Even a janitor on the deck could see that ship coming for miles. They must have been playing chicken or something.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair

+++

That's almost worse that someone that wreckless was entrusted with a Navy ship

Posted by: publix at June 23, 2017 02:58 PM (glZzV)

352 I'm pretty sure it'll come out that all the Navy ship's radar operators were attending diversity training at the time leading up to the collision.

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I have not yet begun to diversity!

- Admiral Obama

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, the Unwoking Dead at June 23, 2017 03:06 PM (Nwg0u)

353 223 California is run like the Mafia. Only not as profitable. Or solvent.

There are a lot of good people out there. Mostly in the ~~Northern~~ Interior part.

But there are so many good reasons to roast weenies over the dead burning corpse of that government. That day is coming. I have extra buns if anyone needs them.
Posted by: Marcus T at June 23, 2017 02:10 PM (M3pAJ)

If you look at the voting patterns, the real split in California is not North vs. South, but rather Coast (or Bayside) vs. Interior.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at June 23, 2017 03:07 PM (ujg0T)

354 My guess is that in this age of the coed military they should have hung out a sign that read if this destroyer's rockin', don't come knockin'.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, the Unwoking Dead at June 23, 2017 03:09 PM (Nwg0u)

355 242 California (unfortunately) has a lot of captive industry and they can probably just keep squeezing and squeezing forever as the people still there totally buy into that dream as well. Plus perfect weather.

Illinois doesn't have that, even without a fiscal collapse, people want to get the hell out of there.
Posted by: publix at June 23, 2017 02:13 PM (glZzV)

Sadly THIS. Family, nostalgia for what used to be, and unbeatable climate keep me here, at least for 14 more years.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at June 23, 2017 03:10 PM (ujg0T)

356 Wait, she was gay and then married a man and is now dating another man? I thought they are born that way and only haters deny that. Which one of the letters in LGBTLQQRSTUVXYZ is I was gay but not any more?
Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 23, 2017 02:25 PM (493sH)

I like the slang term "Hasbian" myself.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at June 23, 2017 03:14 PM (ujg0T)

357 Yeah, sure. A kerosene lantern and tanks. But mostly tanks.

Actually, an combat engineer vehicle, not a tank.

Posted by: Fox2! at June 23, 2017 10:37 PM (brIR5)

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