Court Documents: Fusion GPS Made Payments To Three Journalists From 2016 to 2017

If you're going to work for the left anyway, you might as well get paid, right?

The revelation could be a breakthrough for House Republicans, who are exploring whether Fusion GPS used the dossier, which was later criticized for having inaccurate information on Trump, to feed anti-Trump stories to the press during and after the presidential campaign. The three journalists who were paid by Fusion GPS are known to have reported on "Russia issues relevant to [the committee's] investigation," the House Intelligence Committee said in a court filing.
But the recipients' names, the amounts, and purposes of those payments were either redacted from the documents that Fusion GPS filed to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia or were not disclosed.
Fusion has asked the court to issue a restraining order against the House committee, which is demanding documents from the company that, among other things, explain the payments it made to reporters. Most of the documents sought are banking records.

Posted by: Ace at 12:36 PM

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1 Ha ha block

Posted by: Max Power at November 22, 2017 12:38 PM (QCc6B)

2 Why shouldn't the names be made public?

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at November 22, 2017 12:38 PM (UBzPO)

3 No first for you!

Posted by: Max Power at November 22, 2017 12:38 PM (QCc6B)

4 I'll call the others

Posted by: rickb223 at November 22, 2017 12:39 PM (f/e+k)

5 Yeah! Top ten!

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at November 22, 2017 12:39 PM (tbOMB)

6 I claimed nood

Posted by: Max Power at November 22, 2017 12:39 PM (QCc6B)

7 Glad Leon is now the judge and the Obama appointee is gone.

Posted by: Ever at November 22, 2017 12:39 PM (wQ1Qo)

8 Corgis called

Posted by: rickb223 at November 22, 2017 12:39 PM (f/e+k)

9 Why shouldn't the names be made public?

Because that will distract O.J. from finding the real killers.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at November 22, 2017 12:40 PM (CClpm)

10 Ryan's divorce records -- open; Fusion's bank records sealed forever

Posted by: Jean at November 22, 2017 12:41 PM (yM/Yl)

11 Well, I'm so shocked you could blow me over with a feather.

And if I was Charlie Rose, I would say you could just blow me. Ba-dum Tss.

I'll see myself out.

Posted by: Flyguy at November 22, 2017 12:41 PM (3sOO0)

12
Does this mean three journalists were colluding with the Russians to advance a narrative? They were republican journalists, right? Connected to the Trump campaign, obviously.

/she oot, he mumbled.

Posted by: Harmon Ne at November 22, 2017 12:41 PM (4XCge)

13 Wow, it's almost like they're in the tank or...sumthin.

Posted by: tu3031 at November 22, 2017 12:41 PM (O5Q3r)

14 When you make yourself part of the scam you make yourself part of the investigation. That "you" would be the media.

Posted by: joncelli, predenounced for your pleasure at November 22, 2017 12:41 PM (RD7QR)

15 So the swamp is getting a tiny bit drained. It's like draining a large pool with a garden hose, it seems to take forever.

Posted by: Max Power at November 22, 2017 12:41 PM (QCc6B)

16 zzzzZZZZzzzz wuh?

Posted by: J. Sessions at November 22, 2017 12:41 PM (r9UYA)

17 Media Prostitutes?

I guess it isn't just ideological. A little under the table money too?

Posted by: rd at November 22, 2017 12:42 PM (4dz1m)

18 Is CNN on this?

Posted by: Meremortal, no prosecutions, no peace! at November 22, 2017 12:42 PM (3myMJ)

19 Shouldn't journalists be in scare quotes?

Posted by: Muldoon at November 22, 2017 12:42 PM (wPiJc)

20 Transparency is a good thing. FOR YOU! For us, not so much.

Posted by: The ultraethical media at November 22, 2017 12:42 PM (LAe3v)

21 How DARE YOU question our integrity.

Posted by: MSM at November 22, 2017 12:42 PM (L6Zpd)

22 Well, I wasn't one of them.

Posted by: Charlie Rose at November 22, 2017 12:42 PM (O5Q3r)

23 OK, but who's paying Sonobi?

Posted by: Hikaru at November 22, 2017 12:43 PM (9TK8E)

24 The question becomes, does this discredit the entire MSM, or is there going to be a case of mass Gell-Mann Amnesia?

Posted by: Flyguy at November 22, 2017 12:43 PM (3sOO0)

25 The horde term is "Presstitutes"

Posted by: Jean at November 22, 2017 12:44 PM (yM/Yl)

26 Wasn't me. At least I don't think so. Wait. It might've been me.

Posted by: GlennThrush at November 22, 2017 12:44 PM (O5Q3r)

27 Why is it CONGRESS who is doing this...

Shouldn't it be the Federal Election Commission... and Dept of Justice?

Posted by: Don Q. at November 22, 2017 12:44 PM (NgKpN)

28 Because that will distract O.J. from finding the real killers.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at November 22, 2017 12:40 PM

Comments are made from time to time about the tight secrecy surrounding much of TFG's pre-public office documentation.

Considering that O.J. has concentrated his search on various golf courses, just why is the information that would lead one to conclude that the real killers are most likely to be found in such a location held that tightly, as well?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 22, 2017 12:44 PM (ctuyM)

29
Well, the list of suspects should be easy to to compose.

Journalist = suspect.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at November 22, 2017 12:44 PM (veoSD)

30 The rest of journalist will get pissed they didn't get paid.

Posted by: Jean at November 22, 2017 12:44 PM (yM/Yl)

31 Time to start asking the Networks and Newspapers if their reporters and columnists are allowed to accept gifts and gratuities?

Posted by: rd at November 22, 2017 12:44 PM (4dz1m)

32 2 Why shouldn't the names be made public?

The Deep State thrives in Darkness.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at November 22, 2017 12:44 PM (ul9CR)

33 "Why shouldn't the names be made public?"

It's Lois Lerner Logic. If the extent of our crimes against the public become known -- we'll be ruined for all time.

Posted by: Ignoramus at November 22, 2017 12:44 PM (cAXIk)

34 It would be wonderful if there were to be a Grand Scandal Convergence (GSC). Something along the lines of the media using their payoffs to cover up sexual harassment lawsuits would do nicely.

Posted by: pep at November 22, 2017 12:44 PM (LAe3v)

35 I know it is fun to pick on Fusion GPS and the left for such things we suspected they do - plant stories, quid pro quo - but we should also rightfully suspect that the uniparty GOPe is doing the same, as against their insurgents, the Tea Party, Trumpkins, etc.

The attempted Moore takeout has all the hallmarks of a GOPe clusterfuck as much as dem fingerprints. There was some recent story by a friendly to GOPe outlet that had the AL primary loser attempting to distance and absolve himself of any wrongdoing. And we all know the details about the Jeb!/Rubio operatives shopping pussygate before it was released. I suspect the reason that Lerner is not rotting in a cell is because the GOPe was complicit.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at November 22, 2017 12:45 PM (tbOMB)

36 Interesting tactic. House is investigating you, get a restraining order to stop the investigation.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 22, 2017 12:45 PM (BoMuO)

37 I bet David Corn is one of them. He was one of the first to report on this along with Buzzfeed and he used the dossier as if it were fact.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 22, 2017 12:45 PM (/tuJf)

38 Why shouldn't the names be made public?
---

Releasing the names might put people, and their young children in danger. So it simply CANNOT be done.

Posted by: Fusion GPS at November 22, 2017 12:45 PM (aT+Bx)

39 Horrywood, MSM, Uniparty DC. Trump has started so many brushfires that once they all connect he really will have burned it down.

Really looking forward to the Salting & Scattering times as well.

Posted by: tbodie at November 22, 2017 12:45 PM (M2urV)

40 Considering that O.J. has concentrated his search on various golf
courses, just why is the information that would lead one to conclude
that the real killers are most likely to be found in such a location
held that tightly, as well?

I think he's searching the bars in Vegas now.

Posted by: tu3031 at November 22, 2017 12:45 PM (O5Q3r)

41 "Fusion has asked the court to issue a restraining order against the House committee, "

That takes some fuckin' chutzpah.

They are scared.

Posted by: zombie at November 22, 2017 12:45 PM (42M22)

42 "$20, same as in town"

Posted by: MeAgain Kelly at November 22, 2017 12:46 PM (326rv)

43 No first for you!
Posted by: Max Power at November 22, 2017 12:38 PM (QCc6B)

----

Yeah... thats what your Mom said too.

Posted by: fixerupper at November 22, 2017 12:46 PM (8XRCm)

44 And not one word of this would ever have got out if Felonia had won.

Thank you, PDT.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at November 22, 2017 12:46 PM (ul9CR)

45 Leftist bad news gets locked up forever and there's a one-way ratchet on it.

Like with Obama's transcripts.

But the dirt on Republicans? That bank vault gets blown easier than a pin-yata.

Posted by: Les Kinetic at November 22, 2017 12:46 PM (U6f54)

46 2
Why shouldn't the names be made public?

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at November 22, 2017 12:38 PM (UBzPO)

Democracy dies in darkness, by design.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at November 22, 2017 12:46 PM (tbOMB)

47 No need to question their patriotism; only their asking price.

"How much is it going to cost me to get this story in the news?"

Posted by: Harmon Ne at November 22, 2017 12:47 PM (4XCge)

48 42
Horrywood, MSM, Uniparty DC. Trump has started so many brushfires that
once they all connect he really will have burned it down.

See my @37. Great minds.

Posted by: pep at November 22, 2017 12:47 PM (LAe3v)

49 And a WaPo journalist was a panelist at the recent Dem strategy confab in Ca. WaPo had no idea she was there. Riiiiiight.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 22, 2017 12:47 PM (BoMuO)

50 I suspect the reason that Lerner is not rotting in a cell is because the GOPe was complicit.
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at November 22, 2017 12:45 PM

You are far too young to be so cynical.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 22, 2017 12:47 PM (ctuyM)

51 So, who'd like to make guesses about the identities of the three journos involved?

Posted by: MWR, Public Intellectual, aka Beth at November 22, 2017 12:47 PM (rP4OC)

52 Aaaand the chance that this winds up with any kind of punishment?

Zero.
Point zero.

Or thereabouts.

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at November 22, 2017 12:47 PM (MINbv)

53
Who were the first three whores to report on those "revelations" in the dossier?

There's your three payoff recipients. And if they aren't.....fuck it. As journalists, they deserve a little dorking up the squeekhole.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at November 22, 2017 12:47 PM (veoSD)

54 Since the payments were supposedly for research, did Fusion GPS send them 1099s?

Posted by: Ever at November 22, 2017 12:47 PM (wQ1Qo)

55 Speaking of the greatest news media in the world, Mrs. Wrecks had CNN Headline News on this morning. They featured a black female attorney who told us that she could tell from the body language of the pro-Moore witnesses that they were not only lying but were actually threatening Moore's victims.

They report. They decide.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I'm Dreaming of a White Privilege at November 22, 2017 12:47 PM (+y/Ru)

56 Journalists are advertising their services on Backpage.

Posted by: Monk at November 22, 2017 12:48 PM (g4lFK)

57 Why shouldn't the names be made public?"

It's Lois Lerner Logic. If the extent of our crimes against the public become known -- we'll be ruined for all time.
Posted by: Ignoramus

Preach it. my character was impugned!

Posted by: zombie Charles Manson at November 22, 2017 12:48 PM (326rv)

58 51 So, who'd like to make guesses about the identities of the three journos involved?

David Corn, Bill Kristol, and...

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at November 22, 2017 12:48 PM (ul9CR)

59 Well, it certainly wasn't ME! A man of my integrity is above such chicanery!!

Posted by: Bill Kristol at November 22, 2017 12:48 PM (O5Q3r)

60
Why is it CONGRESS who is doing this...

Shouldn't it be the Federal Election Commission... and Dept of Justice?
Posted by: Don Q. at November 22, 2017 12:44 PM (NgKpN)

-------

Because FEC and Dept of Justice CAN arrest, subpoena and actually do shit.

Congress cannot. So.... shitshow.

Posted by: fixerupper at November 22, 2017 12:48 PM (8XRCm)

61 From previous thread:

The "Expert" Tom Nichols is now saying he is done with Repub party if Moore wins. I thought that smug asshole left after Trump won I'm not a big fan of Moore, but these freakin drama queens are making me root for him.

Posted by: Benji Carver at November 22, 2017 12:48 PM (OD2ni)

62 But Judge Moore!!!!

Posted by: Cannibal Bob 'long pork, the gourmets choice' at November 22, 2017 12:48 PM (VezBU)

63 50
I suspect the reason that Lerner is not rotting in a cell is because the GOPe was complicit.
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at November 22, 2017 12:45 PM

You are far too young to be so cynical.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 22, 2017 12:47 PM (ctuyM)

I wish that were the case.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at November 22, 2017 12:48 PM (tbOMB)

64 Fusion has asked the court to issue a restraining order against the House committee

I'm no lawyer, but it seems to me that that would have a host of constitutional issues, and could grind the proceedings to a complete halt for years while......never mind.

Posted by: pep at November 22, 2017 12:48 PM (LAe3v)

65 "It would be wonderful if there were to be a Grand Scandal Convergence (GSC)."

I'm beginning to have just a glimmer of hope that all the Democrats' crimes will come to light. If there's a drip-drip-drip for the next eight months or so, the mid-terms might get very interesting.

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at November 22, 2017 12:49 PM (398bZ)

66 Speaking of the greatest news media in the world, Mrs. Wrecks had CNN Headline News on this morning. They featured a black female attorney who told us that she could tell from the body language of the pro-Moore witnesses that they were not only lying but were actually threatening Moore's victims.

They report. They decide.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Elmo says, don't like it? Fuch you!

Posted by: This is the CNN shitshow at November 22, 2017 12:49 PM (326rv)

67 Just three 'journalists'? I thought it was all of them. Dang.

Posted by: Eromero at November 22, 2017 12:49 PM (zLDYs)

68 Who were the first three whores to report on those "revelations" in the dossier?

There's your three payoff recipients. And if they aren't.....fuck
it. As journalists, they deserve a little dorking up the squeekhole.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at November 22, 2017 12:47 PM (veoSD)
Well the dossier was initially published by Buzzfeed, right? So Buzzfeed Benny seems high on the list of probables.

Posted by: MWR, Public Intellectual, aka Beth at November 22, 2017 12:49 PM (rP4OC)

69 This "scandal" whipped up by the Democrats is getting sweeter and sweeter as it comes back to bite them on the ass.

Imagine it's 1973 and during the Watergate hearings it is revealed that the "burglars" who broke into Dem offices at the Watergate apartments turned out to be Democratic party operatives on the Dem payroll, and they only committed the break-in to frame Nixon.

That's basically what's happening here as the "Russiagate" scandal unfurls -- there IS a scandal, but it's the exact opposite of what we were lead to believe! The accusers are the villains!

Posted by: zombie at November 22, 2017 12:49 PM (42M22)

70 $20, same as in town"
Posted by: MeAgain Kelly at November 22, 2017 12:46 PM (326rv)

Damn. Down from $50 for a half and half.

Posted by: Monk at November 22, 2017 12:49 PM (g4lFK)

71 "51 So, who'd like to make guesses about the identities of the three journos involved?"

Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic would be my guess. He was exposed for pushing Ben Rhodes propaganda before the Iran deal.

Posted by: Benji Carver at November 22, 2017 12:49 PM (OD2ni)

72 Where are the leakers on OUR side?

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at November 22, 2017 12:50 PM (oVJmc)

73 But the recipients' names, the amounts, and purposes of those payments were either redacted from the documents that Fusion GPS filed to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia or were not disclosed.

-
The names of the guilty have been deleted to protect the narrative.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I'm Dreaming of a White Privilege at November 22, 2017 12:50 PM (+y/Ru)

74 56 Journalists are advertising their services on Backpage.

HOT Journalism in YOUR City!

Sexy smear stories our specialty! Call for a hot sexy news story TONIGHT!

Call Now! 555-6969

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at November 22, 2017 12:50 PM (ul9CR)

75 Well, the alleged story from Fusion GPS is that they paid "journolists" for doing research for them.

Really.

And again, isn't that some kind of integrity problem, for a journolist to be doing research for some partisan political outfit?

The whole thing just stinks, and it's going to smell worse next week.....for the Demokrats.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative....outlaw in America at November 22, 2017 12:50 PM (S6Pax)

76 61 From previous thread:

The "Expert" Tom Nichols is now saying he is done with Repub party if Moore wins. I thought that smug asshole left after Trump won I'm not a big fan of Moore, but these freakin drama queens are making me root for him.
Posted by: Benji Carver at November 22, 2017 12:48 PM (OD2ni)

Literally who?

Posted by: Monk at November 22, 2017 12:50 PM (g4lFK)

77 I suspect the reason that Lerner is not rotting in a cell is because the GOPe was complicit. Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at November 22, 2017 12:45 PM (tbOMB)
=====

BINGO.

Posted by: mustbequantum at November 22, 2017 12:50 PM (MIKMs)

78 So, who'd like to make guesses about the identities of the three journos involved?

David Corn, Bill Kristol, and...

The category was journalists, not effete little girlymen. Although I suppose there is a rather large overlap.

Posted by: pep at November 22, 2017 12:50 PM (LAe3v)

79 I worked for the RNCC during a midterm election. I had a task of researching a particular story and shopping it to a friendly. I hear tale of another task that had to do with doing that thing PACs are not supposed to do with candidates' coordination or prior approval.

It's all rotten.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at November 22, 2017 12:51 PM (tbOMB)

80 Funny how people who normally can't find their asses with both hands are suddenly experts at research if you pass them a little extra cash.

Posted by: huerfano at November 22, 2017 12:51 PM (Dp2K8)

81 Fusion bomb

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 22, 2017 12:51 PM (IqV8l)

82 I think he's searching the bars in Vegas now.
Posted by: tu3031 at November 22, 2017 12:45 PM (O5Q3r)

Way back, before OJ went back to jail, I read something about a guy playing one of OJ's favorite courses. He saw a course ranger and said, "Seen OJ today?"

Ranger answered, "He's on 14, looking for clues."

Cracked me up.

Posted by: Meremortal, no prosecutions, no peace! at November 22, 2017 12:51 PM (3myMJ)

83 OT, Meg McCain got secretly married this last weekend...hmm..maybe her dad is sicker than he appears to be?

Posted by: IC at November 22, 2017 12:52 PM (a0IVu)

84 Why shouldn't the names be made public?

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at November 22, 2017 12:38 PM (UBzPO)

Someone might bring them to justice

Posted by: Lois Lerner at November 22, 2017 12:52 PM (XQvuQ)

85 Watching Outnumbered. Jillion said she had asked other networks if it was common practice to pay for research polls contacts and they said yes. Melissa was stunned at paying for contacts.

Posted by: Jen the original at November 22, 2017 12:52 PM (jErY5)

86 bet David Corn is one of them. He was one of the first to report on this along with Buzzfeed and he used the dossier as if it were fact.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 22, 2017 12:45 PM (/tuJf)

That name David Corn convinces me that we may live in a cheap computer simulation.

Posted by: Monk at November 22, 2017 12:52 PM (g4lFK)

87
83 OT, Meg McCain got secretly married this last weekend...hmm..maybe her dad is sicker than he appears to be?

Posted by: IC at November 22, 2017 12:52 PM (a0IVu)

Don't tease. It's cruel.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at November 22, 2017 12:52 PM (veoSD)

88 "Literally who?

Posted by: Monk"

Goes by Radio Free Tom on Twitter. Brags that coastal elites are better people. Frequent target of Ace's "love" on Twitter.

Posted by: Benji Carver at November 22, 2017 12:52 PM (OD2ni)

89 did Fusion GPS send them 1099s?"

That's funny. And would matter, if the IRS weren't on the same side.

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at November 22, 2017 12:52 PM (MINbv)

90 71
"51 So, who'd like to make guesses about the identities of the three journos involved?"

Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic would be my guess. He was exposed for pushing Ben Rhodes propaganda before the Iran deal.

Posted by: Benji Carver at November 22, 2017 12:49 PM (OD2ni)

I would guess Indiana Jones and the Temple of Poon. Gave Podesta editorial control of at least one of his articles, too.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at November 22, 2017 12:53 PM (tbOMB)

91 burn. it. down.

Posted by: Shosaana Dreyfus at November 22, 2017 12:53 PM (DIosY)

92 58 51 So, who'd like to make guesses about the identities of the three journos involved?

David Corn, Bill Kristol, and...

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at November 22, 2017 12:48 PM (ul9CR

Nah it wouldn't be Kristol. He's likely connected to the Washington Free Beacon paying Fusion GPS. Why would they pay him.

Posted by: buzzion - guess my sign at November 22, 2017 12:54 PM (cAnNx)

93 OT, Meg McCain got secretly married this last weekend...hmm..maybe her dad is sicker than he appears to be?
Posted by: IC at November 22, 2017 12:52 PM (a0IVu)

Lucky dude.

Posted by: Monk at November 22, 2017 12:54 PM (g4lFK)

94 But the recipients' names, the amounts, and purposes of those payments were either redacted from the documents that Fusion GPS filed to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia or were not disclosed.

-
Yeah, you look for journalists in bar rooms and whore houses.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I'm Dreaming of a White Privilege at November 22, 2017 12:54 PM (+y/Ru)

95 1099
Proof of a crime.
When will subside my
schadenboner?

Posted by: zombie at November 22, 2017 12:54 PM (42M22)

96 83 OT, Meg McCain got secretly married this last weekend...hmm..maybe her dad is sicker than he appears to be?

Posted by: IC at November 22, 2017 12:52 PM (a0IVu)

Poor chump better have a Clydesdale sized feedbag.

Posted by: Under Fire at November 22, 2017 12:54 PM (r9UYA)

97 "bet David Corn is one of them. He was one of the first to report on this along with Buzzfeed and he used the dossier as if it were fact.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 22, 2017 12:45 PM (/tuJf)"

Maybe, but I have my doubts. Corn is such a partisan hack that he does not need to be bribed to push BS that suits his partisan narrative.

Posted by: Benji Carver at November 22, 2017 12:54 PM (OD2ni)

98 Well, it certainly wasn't ME! A man of my integrity is above such chicanery!! Posted by: Bill Kristol at November 22, 2017 12:48 PM (O5Q3r)
=====

Me too. Signed, John McCain.

Posted by: mustbequantum at November 22, 2017 12:54 PM (MIKMs)

99 Kristol's not a journalist.

He's a type of weasel.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at November 22, 2017 12:54 PM (oVJmc)

100 "Imagine it's 1973 and during the Watergate hearings it is revealed that the "burglars" who broke into Dem offices at the Watergate apartments turned out to be Democratic party operatives on the Dem payroll, and they only committed the break-in to frame Nixon. "

And paid reporters at WaPo to run with the story.

Posted by: Ignoramus at November 22, 2017 12:54 PM (cAXIk)

101 76 61 From previous thread:

The "Expert" Tom Nichols is now saying he is done with Repub party if Moore wins. I thought that smug asshole left after Trump won I'm not a big fan of Moore, but these freakin drama queens are making me root for him.
Posted by: Benji Carver at November 22, 2017 12:48 PM (OD2ni)

Literally who?
Posted by: Monk at November 22, 2017 12:50 PM (g4lFK)

Should their be a search for someone who gives a fuck?

Posted by: Northernlurker, the lurkingest lurker of the north. Still proudly lurking. at November 22, 2017 12:55 PM (nBr1j)

102 99
Kristol's not a journalist.

He's a type of weasel.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at November 22, 2017 12:54 PM (oVJmc)

Fair point.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at November 22, 2017 12:55 PM (tbOMB)

103 Goes by Radio Free Tom on Twitter. Brags that coastal elites are better people. Frequent target of Ace's "love" on Twitter.
Posted by: Benji Carver at November 22, 2017 12:52 PM (OD2ni)

I read Ace's Twitter Love once a week, usually Sunday night. Its quite entertaining.

Posted by: Monk at November 22, 2017 12:56 PM (g4lFK)

104 Meg McCain has been pivoting more to the Right lately, or at least to not being the attention-seeking troll she was 2009-16. Maybe fiance-now-hubby had a hand in that.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at November 22, 2017 12:56 PM (6FqZa)

105 35...The attempted Moore takeout has all the hallmarks of a GOPe clusterfuck as much as dem fingerprints. There was some recent story by a friendly to GOPe outlet that had the AL primary loser attempting to distance and absolve himself of any wrongdoing. And we all know the details about the Jeb!/Rubio operatives shopping pussygate before it was released. I suspect the reason that Lerner is not rotting in a cell is because the GOPe was complicit.
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at November 22, 2017 12:45 PM (tbOMB)

-------------------------------------------------------
If Moore or Jones wins it will have another hallmark of the GOPe: FAILURE.

They either failed to take Moore out, or they got a Democrat elected in Alabama. Either way it is on them no matter how they spin it.

Posted by: William Eaton at November 22, 2017 12:56 PM (MuTTO)

106 No need to question their patriotism; only their asking price.

"How much is it going to cost me to get this story in the news?"

---

Actually, the question we're asking now is:

"How much is it going to cost me to get this story out of the news?"

Posted by: Fusion GPS at November 22, 2017 12:56 PM (aT+Bx)

107

FusionABCNBCCBSPBSCNNDNC News, All PoopNews, All the Time!

Nothing more than 'incestuous stochastic sodomy.'

Posted by: In Vino Veritits at November 22, 2017 12:56 PM (T/KY7)

108 Signed, John "Crash" McCain.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I'm Dreaming of a White Privilege at November 22, 2017 12:56 PM (+y/Ru)

109 >>Maybe, but I have my doubts. Corn is such a partisan hack that he does not need to be bribed to push BS that suits his partisan narrative.

They are all partisan hacks, if we only go by partisanship we could indict about 99% of the DC media. But Corn was using the dossier to do his "reporting" early on in the process.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 22, 2017 12:56 PM (/tuJf)

110 A man of my integrity is above such chicanery!!
Posted by: Bill Kristol

******

What, you're not letting your inner chicaner out?

Posted by: Muldoon at November 22, 2017 12:56 PM (wPiJc)

111 Michael Isikoff of Yahoo News is a likely guilty party as well.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at November 22, 2017 12:58 PM (ul9CR)

112
*Glub* .... *bloop*

Posted by: ARA San Juan at November 22, 2017 12:58 PM (3myMJ)

113 "83 OT, Meg McCain got secretly married this last weekend...hmm..maybe her dad is sicker than he appears to be?
Posted by: IC "

Good for them. Ben Domenich seems like a good dude. And Meghan McCain seems to have matured a lot. She does not go along with the media's expected "you are only here to bash Republicans" role like tubby Ana Navarro.

Posted by: Benji Carver at November 22, 2017 12:58 PM (OD2ni)

114 Fusion has asked the court to issue a restraining order against the House committee

I'm
no lawyer, but it seems to me that that would have a host of
constitutional issues, and could grind the proceedings to a complete
halt for years while......never mind.
---
I'll take 'How to get congress to agree with Trump on eliminating judicial positions' for $2000, Alex

Posted by: Methos at November 22, 2017 12:58 PM (XQvuQ)

115 96 83 OT, Meg McCain got secretly married this last weekend...hmm..maybe her dad is sicker than he appears to be?

Posted by: IC at November 22, 2017 12:52 PM (a0IVu)

Poor chump better have a Clydesdale sized feedbag.
Posted by: Under Fire at November 22, 2017 12:54 PM (r9UYA)

She is very pretty. She just needs to hit the weights and throw in some cardio.

Posted by: Monk at November 22, 2017 12:58 PM (g4lFK)

116 My understanding is that bank records related to reporters reporting on Russia collusion were the only one's allowed to be disclosed to the committee and would not include the potentially hundreds of other payments (at earlier and later times) to reporters writing Demprop on other topics.

Posted by: Dirks Stewn DA 1977 at November 22, 2017 12:59 PM (kfcYC)

117 Nothing more than 'incestuous stochastic sodomy.'
Posted by: In Vino Veritits

******

Great. Now you've invoked an invidious coprophilic dichotomy!

Posted by: Muldoon at November 22, 2017 12:59 PM (wPiJc)

118 104 Meg McCain has been pivoting more to the Right lately, or at least to not being the attention-seeking troll she was 2009-16. Maybe fiance-now-hubby had a hand in that.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at November 22, 2017 12:56 PM (6FqZa)

I'd still llike to know who he plagiarized his proposal speech from. Or how much Malaysia paid him to do it.

Posted by: buzzion - guess my sign at November 22, 2017 12:59 PM (cAnNx)

119 GOP Sen. Lamar Alexander on Amnesty: 'I Would Vote for it Again'
-BB

Staunch conservative Lamar Alexander.

Posted by: Under Fire at November 22, 2017 12:59 PM (r9UYA)

120 PriorThread:

"Boy, I sure am glad that Trump is president now
instead of that skinny, closeted, black fag. Could you pass the fucking
potatoes please?"
How was that?

Posted by: tu3031

Good B+ effort.
You forgot Muslim and halfa in front of all the other descriptors

Posted by: Swedish Chef at November 22, 2017 01:00 PM (FhXTo)

121 Posted by: ARA San Juan at November 22, 2017 12:58 PM (3myMJ)

Nice to finally have a friend down here!

Posted by: General Belgrano at November 22, 2017 01:00 PM (Fikbq)

122
97 "bet David Corn is one of them. He was one of the first to report on this along with Buzzfeed and he used the dossier as if it were fact.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 22, 2017 12:45 PM (/tuJf)"

Maybe, but I have my doubts. Corn is such a partisan hack that he does not need to be bribed to push BS that suits his partisan narrative.

Posted by: Benji Carver at November 22, 2017 12:54 PM (OD2ni)

Hey, if someone's willing to pay you to do something that you'd be willing to do for free, why wouldn't you take the money? Hookers and blow don't buy themselves.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at November 22, 2017 01:00 PM (veoSD)

123 I may pass out from the complete lack of surprise.

Posted by: Insomniac - Nobody in Particular at November 22, 2017 01:01 PM (NWiLs)

124 "She is very pretty. She just needs to hit the weights and throw in some cardio.
Posted by: Monk"

Agreed. Judging by her mother, she should age very well. Throw in the money and the beer distributorship, good marriage material.

Posted by: Benji Carver at November 22, 2017 01:01 PM (OD2ni)

125 51 So, who'd like to make guesses about the identities of the three journos involved?
Posted by: MWR, Public Intellectual, aka Beth at November 22, 2017 12:47 PM (rP4OC)

Accuse them all of it. Make them deny it. Then scoff at their denials.

Make them nervous that their shenanigans are going to come out too.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 22, 2017 01:01 PM (YqDXo)

126 Great. Now you've invoked an invidious coprophilic dichotomy!
Posted by: Muldoon at November 22, 2017 12:59 PM (wPiJc)

Well, the candles and pentagram are ready, incense is burning, bowel of blood in the middle... I'd feel more secure though if I had a skin bound OED handy... I do have a handful of rubber gum erasers...

Posted by: In Vino Veritits at November 22, 2017 01:02 PM (T/KY7)

127 I'm going with a statute-of-limitations on the plagiarism.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at November 22, 2017 01:02 PM (6FqZa)

128 110 A man of my integrity is above such chicanery!!
Posted by: Bill Kristol

******

What, you're not letting your inner chicaner out?
Posted by: Muldoon at November 22, 2017 12:56 PM (wPiJc)

No, no, his chicaner is below him. He just said that.

Try to keep up.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 22, 2017 01:03 PM (YqDXo)

129 If the public were allowed to know the details of our operations, our family might be put at risk. So please don't let this Sammy "the Bull" Gravano person testify.

- John Gotti

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I'm Dreaming of a White Privilege at November 22, 2017 01:03 PM (+y/Ru)

130 Maybe fiance-now-hubby had a hand in that"

So, fis, er, phrasing?

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at November 22, 2017 01:03 PM (MINbv)

131 Court requests documents. Supply said documents with incriminating bits redacted. Balls of steel.

I'm going to try that with my w-2s next year. Claim $10 in income, and supply a redacted W2 with my return.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 22, 2017 01:03 PM (BoMuO)

132 Release the Names!

Release the Names!

Release the Names!

I wonder if one rhymes with Wolf and ends in asshole.

Oops, my mistake Wolf Asshole a'int no urinalist.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at November 22, 2017 01:04 PM (nUkMr)

133 What, you're not letting your inner chicaner out?

-
I like Chicaner food. Gives me the runs, though.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I'm Dreaming of a White Privilege at November 22, 2017 01:04 PM (+y/Ru)

134 Well, the candles and pentagram are ready, incense is burning, bowel of blood in the middle... I'd feel more secure though if I had a skin bound OED handy... I do have a handful of rubber gum erasers...
Posted by: In Vino Veritits at November 22, 2017 01:02 PM (T/KY7)

You should probably get somebody to check out that bowel of blood.

Posted by: Northernlurker, the lurkingest lurker of the north. Still proudly lurking. at November 22, 2017 01:04 PM (nBr1j)

135 127 I'm going with a statute-of-limitations on the plagiarism.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at November 22, 2017 01:02 PM (6FqZa)

I'm just teasing about it. The Malaysia thing is just funny.

Posted by: buzzion - guess my sign at November 22, 2017 01:04 PM (cAnNx)

136 Agreed. Judging by her mother, she should age very well. Throw in the
money and the beer distributorship, good marriage material.
=====

1st or 2nd marriage? Always confuses me. 2nd was the money for marriage, but 1st was with 'POW' stuff.

Posted by: mustbequantum at November 22, 2017 01:04 PM (MIKMs)

137 From last thread for Great White Scotsman:

Are you at the one in Grapevine? Because they never have enough people at the gun counter there. I go to the one Garland if they have something I want to look at.
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman

Yeah. Because I can hit it on my lunch hour. Screw 'em. They lost two shotgun sales. I ordered them from Bud's over my phone on the drive back. Yeah, it cost a bit more, but they'll be sent to the transfer dealer a mile from the house.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 22, 2017 01:05 PM (f/e+k)

138 A potentially record-setting uptick in travel this Thanksgiving will coincide with TSA's implementation of new screening rules. -politico

Genius!

Posted by: Under Fire at November 22, 2017 01:05 PM (r9UYA)

139 "Hey, if someone's willing to pay you to do something that you'd be willing to do for free, why wouldn't you take the money? Hookers and blow don't buy themselves.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur"

I suppose. But if you know someone will do it for free, why pay them.

Corn is a joke even among liberal journalists. I remember when he ran head first into the "Cory Gardner lied about playing HS football" story and even libs were laughing at him.

Posted by: Benji Carver at November 22, 2017 01:05 PM (OD2ni)

140 $10 on Jake Tapper

Posted by: Votermom's phone at November 22, 2017 01:05 PM (2TmvQ)

141 News for sale
Who will buy?
Who would like to sample my supply?
Who`s prepared to pay the price
For a trip to paradise?
News for sale

Posted by: Shep Smith in a cocktail dress singing from atop a piano at November 22, 2017 01:05 PM (oVJmc)

142

Bowel of blood came from a really annoying neighbor. Take it out, tie off one end, fill with blood, tie off the other end.

Kind of a hemoglobin haggis. Dichotomies love 'em...

Posted by: In Vino Veritits at November 22, 2017 01:06 PM (T/KY7)

143 They can't release the names and amounts. The ones who got less would be hurt.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I'm Dreaming of a White Privilege at November 22, 2017 01:06 PM (+y/Ru)

144 A man of my integrity is above such chicanery!!
Posted by: Bill Kristol

******

What, you're not letting your inner chicaner out?
Posted by: Muldoon at November 22, 2017 12:56 PM (wPiJc)

Que?

Posted by: rickb223 at November 22, 2017 01:06 PM (f/e+k)

145 True Evil! No different than Journ O List that wrote Propaganda in Germany or USSR.

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 22, 2017 01:07 PM (BtQd4)

146 Megs has the Maverick genes and her baby fat has lasted for 33 years.

Posted by: Under Fire at November 22, 2017 01:07 PM (r9UYA)

147 142. Black pudding, it's called.
Black it is, but pudding it ain't.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at November 22, 2017 01:07 PM (fA1SL)

148 Collusion? What, you mean like with smoke and mirrors?

*hic* *shart* *cackle*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at November 22, 2017 01:07 PM (H7ZyP)

149 I saw Bowel of Blood open for Cannibal Corpse

Cleveland Agora, 2002

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at November 22, 2017 01:07 PM (ul9CR)

150 142

Bowel of blood came from a really annoying neighbor. Take it out, tie off one end, fill with blood, tie off the other end.

Kind of a hemoglobin haggis. Dichotomies love 'em...
Posted by: In Vino Veritits at November 22, 2017 01:06 PM (T/KY7)

Interesting. I've never been prepared to try blood sausage.

Posted by: Northernlurker, the lurkingest lurker of the north. Still proudly lurking. at November 22, 2017 01:07 PM (nBr1j)

151 Over 100 posts, so....gun!

Son, the earthmover operator, called to ask a favor. Seems a local outfitter has Anderson stripped lowers on sale for $36 is you buy 4 or more. He wants ne to pick up 4 for him.

Busy as hell today (2 wk vaca trip starting Fri and then cooking for tomorrow), but I wouldn't mind one or two of those myself. Have to squeeze in 90 min from house prep and packing, I guess.

Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at November 22, 2017 01:08 PM (di1hb)

152

I think you get a Dichotomy of more syllables with the hemoglobin haggis. YMMV.

Posted by: In Vino Veritits at November 22, 2017 01:08 PM (T/KY7)

153 No big supporter of wikileaks, but if they want to do something useful the full banking records of Fusion GPS would be . . . useful.

Posted by: just sayin' at November 22, 2017 01:09 PM (2xFe7)

154 143 They can't release the names and amounts. The ones who got less would be hurt.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks,

In Norway that is a state law that ALL salaries must be published publicly. As a result, everyone in the country knows the income of literally everyone else. Bizarre. They claim it "eliminates envy," but I saw a mini-documentary which demonstrated that the opposite is true, that people obsessively look up the salaries of their co-workers, and stew about it.

Posted by: zombie at November 22, 2017 01:09 PM (42M22)

155 In Norway that is a state law = In Norway THERE is a state law

Posted by: zombie at November 22, 2017 01:09 PM (42M22)

156 What, you're not letting your inner chicaner out?
Posted by: Muldoon at November 22, 2017 12:56 PM (wPiJc)

Que?

Posted by: rickb223

*****

Yesterday Billy K was releasing his inner socialist, his inner feminist, his inner such and other.

Posted by: Muldoon at November 22, 2017 01:09 PM (wPiJc)

157 "Inaccurate information."

Aka lies. Each of which sprung from a singular mind. When something real is investigated the investigation will spread out to multiple sources each having direct knowledge of the event being looked at. A lie will funnel back to a singular source.

Whoever made up the lies that became the Steele dossier funneled them through Steele who said he had sources A to E for the information. He also said he paid no money to them for this information.

http://tinyurl.com/y8ww9llk

Maybe the Russians gave false information to Steele who then did no footwork to try to verify it but accepted it at face value. Maybe, as is my own view, Steele was only used and paid to be the credible face of false stories written by others who wanted them planted in the media and in the Obama DOJ and IC.

That Steele was "ex" MI6 and that that agency could unmask any US person themselves from the same data pool that the US IC has but can't legally get at without a FISA okay is just a coincidence.

Fusion's whole existence is based on taking innocuous real things and mixing them with pernicious lies that tell the story their clients want told and then getting those stories fed into the MSM in someway that makes them look credible, believable. That's what was done with the "stories" that form the dossier.

Posted by: geoffb at November 22, 2017 01:09 PM (zOpu5)

158 "Dr. Larry Nassar just pled guilty to multiple counts of sexually assaulting multiple girls while working as a doctor for Team USA gymnastics and Michigan State U. He faces 25-40 years in prison."

He must be one of the little people.

Posted by: Meremortal, no prosecutions, no peace! at November 22, 2017 01:09 PM (3myMJ)

159 Accuse them all of it. Make them deny it. Then scoff at their denials.
Make them nervous that their shenanigans are going to come out too.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 22, 2017 01:01 PM

That is not who we are.

Posted by: GOPe at November 22, 2017 01:10 PM (ctuyM)

160 Walk this way, talk this way
Walk this way, talk this way
Walk this way, talk this way
Walk this way, talk this way
Just give me a kiss
Like this

- GPS Aerosmith

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I'm Dreaming of a White Privilege at November 22, 2017 01:10 PM (+y/Ru)

161 Honey, Here is a little money, go buy yourself something nice. I would take you shopping, but you know how it goes.

Posted by: GPS Fusion at November 22, 2017 01:10 PM (4dz1m)

162 No big supporter of wikileaks, but if they want to do something useful the full banking records of

all 535 congresspersons would be nice.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 22, 2017 01:10 PM (f/e+k)

163 And just when I thought Matthew Dowd could not be more of an insufferable jackass, he outdoes himself.*

*Check Twitchy.

Posted by: Benji Carver at November 22, 2017 01:10 PM (OD2ni)

164 154. 'If into the salary records you look, only pain will you find.' - Yoda Yodassen.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at November 22, 2017 01:10 PM (fA1SL)

165 Seems a local outfitter has Anderson stripped lowers on sale for $36 is you buy 4 or more. He wants ne to pick up 4 for him.

-----

Not to be an ass.... but thats a no no.

Posted by: fixerupper at November 22, 2017 01:10 PM (8XRCm)

166 Blood Sausage and knotting is legal in some states.

Posted by: Dana Perina at November 22, 2017 01:11 PM (g4lFK)

167 Accuse them all of it. Make them deny it. Then scoff at their denials.
Make them nervous that their shenanigans are going to come out too.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 22, 2017 01:01 PM

That is not who we are.
Posted by: GOPe

It's who I am.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 22, 2017 01:11 PM (f/e+k)

168 Are we guessing who?

Posted by: Grump928(C) at November 22, 2017 01:11 PM (60v4h)

169 ... but I wouldn't mind one or two of those
myself. Have to squeeze in 90 min from house prep and packing, I guess.
Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at November 22, 2017 01:08 PM

A man's got to know his priorities.

Posted by: Obi Juan Sonobi at November 22, 2017 01:12 PM (ctuyM)

170 Walk this way, talk this way
Walk this way, talk this way
Walk this way, talk this way
Walk this way, talk this way
Just give me a kiss
Like this

- GPS Aerosmith

I'm gonna need you to touch it.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 22, 2017 01:12 PM (BoMuO)

171 Seems a local outfitter has Anderson stripped lowers on sale for $36 is you buy 4 or more. He wants ne to pick up 4 for him.

-----

Not to be an ass.... but thats a no no.
Posted by: fixerupper

Why?

Posted by: rickb223 at November 22, 2017 01:12 PM (f/e+k)

172 In Norway that is a state law that ALL salaries must be published publicly. As a result, everyone in the country knows the income of literally everyone else. Bizarre. They claim it "eliminates envy," but I saw a mini-documentary which demonstrated that the opposite is true, that people obsessively look up the salaries of their co-workers, and stew about it.
Posted by: zombie at November 22, 2017 01:09 PM (42M22)

#FakeNews

Posted by: Facebook Users at November 22, 2017 01:13 PM (g4lFK)

173 Posted by: geoffb at November 22, 2017 01:09 PM (zOpu5)

Interesting. Innocuous real stuff mixed with pernicious lies is exactly what is being done to Moore. Wonder if there is any overlap with Fusion "journalists".

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at November 22, 2017 01:13 PM (rp9xB)

174 I've been thinking, and sometimes saying, that reporters have been committing some type of fraud. If it can be shown they received payment from a third party to plant stories I think it may be possible to show that they defrauded their customers and a class action lawsuit may be possible for recovery of damages.

Posted by: MAGA at November 22, 2017 01:13 PM (u4tZ6)

175 The congressional committee should simply start to subpoena journalists, starting with some unlikely suspects, put them under oath, and ask if they received these payments from Fusion GPS, or know who did, and remind that perjury is a criminal offense. Gradually work up to the probable recipients, if they haven't outed themselves by then.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 22, 2017 01:13 PM (oPNmq)

176 Not to be an ass.... but thats a no no.
Posted by: fixerupper

Why?
Posted by: rickb223 at November 22, 2017 01:12 PM (f/e+k)

----

Who's filling out the 4473?? Question 11a.

Posted by: fixerupper at November 22, 2017 01:14 PM (8XRCm)

177 Are we guessing who?
Posted by: Grump928(C) at November 22, 2017 01:11 PM (60v4h)

Literally or metaphorically?

Posted by: Monk at November 22, 2017 01:14 PM (g4lFK)

178 And just when I thought Matthew Dowd could not be more of an insufferable jackass, he outdoes himself.*

-
Extremism in defense of abortion is no vice.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I'm Dreaming of a White Privilege at November 22, 2017 01:14 PM (+y/Ru)

179 125 51 So, who'd like to make guesses about the identities of the three journos involved?
Posted by: MWR, Public Intellectual, aka Beth at November 22, 2017 12:47 PM (rP4OC)

Accuse them all of it. Make them deny it. Then scoff at their denials.

Make them nervous that their shenanigans are going to come out too.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 22, 2017 01:01 PM (YqDXo)

While we're at it, let's find people who'll accuse them of being part of the Podesta Pedophile Ring.

Posted by: Hikaru at November 22, 2017 01:14 PM (9TK8E)

180 That Steele was "ex" MI6 and that that agency could unmask any US person
themselves from the same data pool that the US IC has but can't legally
get at without a FISA okay is just a coincidence.
=====

You smart folks can laugh at me all you want, but I swear right now that most of congress gets their info from handouts -- fax or newfangled -- and they trade it around as though it is real. Spy vs Spy.

Posted by: mustbequantum at November 22, 2017 01:14 PM (MIKMs)

181 Am I supposed to talk about this at dinner tomorrow?

I'm confused.

Posted by: Bruce at November 22, 2017 01:14 PM (1rrXc)

182
1st or 2nd marriage? Always confuses me. 2nd was the money for marriage, but 1st was with 'POW' stuff.
Posted by: mustbequantum at November 22, 2017 01:04 PM (MIKMs)

Megan is the first kid from the 2nd marriage with the beer heiress. McCain has 3 kids from the first marriage and four from the second.

Posted by: all thenSJWs at November 22, 2017 01:15 PM (6HFDU)

183 165 Seems a local outfitter has Anderson stripped lowers on sale for $36 is you buy 4 or more. He wants ne to pick up 4 for him.

-----

Not to be an ass.... but thats a no no.
Posted by: fixerupper

Yeah, good point

Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at November 22, 2017 01:15 PM (di1hb)

184 Fusion has asked the court to issue a restraining order against the House committee, which is demanding documents from the company that, among other things, explain the payments it made to reporters.

Any federal judge who doesn't immediately throw this request out of his/her court, accompanied with gales of disdainful laughter, should the very next day be impeached and thrown out of office by Congress.

Because Separation Of Powers.

But we all know this would never ever happen.

Because GOPe. And Democrats.

Posted by: filbert at November 22, 2017 01:15 PM (ivAiA)

185 Fusion GPS has done 1000x more 'meddling in our elections' than Russia has.

Get every scrap of paper they've ever been involved with and lay it out for the world to see.

This is a propaganda conspiracy against the American electorate.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at November 22, 2017 01:16 PM (oVJmc)

186 175. 'Under oath' is a funny spelling for 'into an oubliette,' as 'a criminal offense' is an odd rendering of 'a ticket to the Tree of Woe.' Must be one of those regional dialect things.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at November 22, 2017 01:16 PM (fA1SL)

187 53
Who were the first three whores to report on those "revelations" in the dossier?

There's your three payoff recipients. And if they aren't.....fuck it. As journalists, they deserve a little dorking up the squeekhole.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at November 22, 2017 12:47 PM (veoSD)

Question for atc or other legal eagles: does publishing demonstrably false information with the intent to harm another meet the standard for libel? Could DJT sue the presstitutes and their new organization(s) for libel?

Posted by: cornbred at November 22, 2017 01:16 PM (kZ/w1)

188 The attempted Moore takeout has all the hallmarks of a GOPe clusterfuck as much as dem fingerprints...

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at November 22, 2017 12:45 PM (tbOMB)

Check out Bill Kristol's Twitter page. He's getting in touch with his inner liberal, he says. He has also called for the creation of a new Whig Party, and he proposes it without irony.

There is no qualitative difference between the GOPe, which can be seen as a re-imagining of the Whigs, and the Democrats.

History is the bitch that keeps coming back.

Posted by: troyriser at November 22, 2017 01:16 PM (raGQi)

189
"Boy, I sure am glad that Trump is president now

instead of that skinny, closeted, black fag. Could you pass the fucking

potatoes please?"
How was that?
---

Let's go a bit farther:

"Boy, I sure am glad that we have a tall blonde white man with a smoking hot European wife as president now, instead of that skinny, closeted, half black Commie Muslim fag with a tranny wife who had the style sense of that old sofa Aunt Martha had to throw out last year since Goodwill didn't want it.

Could you pass the fucking
potatoes please?"

Posted by: Vyx at November 22, 2017 01:16 PM (aT+Bx)

190 Jimmy Gilmer and Libby Holman are smiling up in heaven. To be remembered is to be immortal.

Posted by: zombie at November 22, 2017 01:17 PM (42M22)

191 Not to be an ass.... but thats a no no.
Posted by: fixerupper

Why?
Posted by: rickb223 at November 22, 2017 01:12 PM (f/e+k)

Because those stripped lowers are a firearm according to BATF. Buying for someone else technically constitutes a straw purchase, which is illegal.

Here's an idea: Buy all four, then give two of them to your son for Christmas.

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at November 22, 2017 01:17 PM (398bZ)

192 >>>that people obsessively look up the salaries of their co-workers, and stew about it.

THAT FUCKER SVEN DOES NOTHING ALL DAY BUT POST BLOG COMMENTS!!!!

Posted by: Banana Splits Guy - Nostrildamus (No Smoothies) at November 22, 2017 01:17 PM (4RH1F)

193 The congressional committee should simply start to subpoena journalists, starting with some unlikely suspects, put them under oath, and ask if they received these payments from Fusion GPS, or know who did, and remind that perjury is a criminal offense. Gradually work up to the probable recipients, if they haven't outed themselves by then.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 22, 2017 01:13 PM (oPNmq)

Is it a witch hunt if who you are hunting are, in fact, witches?

Posted by: filbert at November 22, 2017 01:17 PM (ivAiA)

194 184 Because Separation Of Powers.

But we all know this would never ever happen.

Because GOPe. And Democrats.
Posted by: filbert at November 22, 2017 01:15 PM (ivAiA)

"My friendsshhhh, you have nothing to fear from judge William Orreck..."

-John "Tumors" McPlanecrash

Posted by: Hikaru at November 22, 2017 01:17 PM (9TK8E)

195 What good is a free press if you can't make a buck?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I'm Dreaming of a White Privilege at November 22, 2017 01:17 PM (+y/Ru)

196 >>Who were the first three whores to report on those "revelations" in the dossier?

Well the very first was David Corn and I think Buzzfeed was second. Not sure who went third.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 22, 2017 01:17 PM (/tuJf)

197
While we're at it, let's find people who'll accuse them of being part of the Podesta Pedophile Ring.

Posted by: Hikaru at November 22, 2017 01:14 PM
--

It's on the list.

Posted by: 4 chan /pol/ at November 22, 2017 01:18 PM (aT+Bx)

198

At the dinner table when progtards bring it up:

"Fusion GPS? Yeah thats the stuff I used for my colonoscopy bowl prep... you wouldn't BELIEVE the stuff that came out in my shit! There was..."

Posted by: In Vino Veritits at November 22, 2017 01:18 PM (T/KY7)

199 If Moore or Jones wins it will have another hallmark of the GOPe: FAILURE.

They either failed to take Moore out, or they got a Democrat elected
in Alabama. Either way it is on them no matter how they spin it.

Posted by: William Eaton at November 22, 2017 12:56 PM

Objection. Falsely assumes the GOPe would regard a D in the seat as a failure.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 22, 2017 01:18 PM (p+Wdc)

200 Who's filling out the 4473?? Question 11a.
Posted by: fixerupper

Yes. I am the actual buyer. I just bought two shotguns.
One for me, and one I'll let my wife shoot. Or, I'll sell it to her.
And yes, I'll hold the shotgun for a year before selling it to her.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 22, 2017 01:19 PM (f/e+k)

201 153 No big supporter of wikileaks, but if they want to do something useful the full banking records of Fusion GPS would be . . . useful.
Posted by: just sayin' at November 22, 2017 01:09 PM (2xFe7)

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

I think that would be worth a Presidential pardon for doing good service for the safety of our republic.

The fact is Wikileaks is behaving more a like an honest media outfit than our so called big corporate "media".

Posted by: William Eaton at November 22, 2017 01:19 PM (MuTTO)

202 You smart folks can laugh at me all you want, but I swear right now that most of congress gets their info from handouts -- fax or newfangled -- and they trade it around as though it is real. Spy vs Spy.
Posted by: mustbequantum at November 22, 2017 01:14 PM (MIKMs)

I'm not laughing, I do find that plausible. But then, I'm a moron not a smart folk.

Posted by: Hands Solo at November 22, 2017 01:20 PM (EzdLW)

203 Could you pass the fucking
potatoes please?"

Posted by: Vyx at November 22, 2017 01:16 PM (aT+Bx)

In light of recent events, I think we need to denounce those potatoes immediately.

Posted by: tcn in AK at November 22, 2017 01:20 PM (7UW64)

204 Is it a witch hunt if who you are hunting are, in fact, witches?"

How will we know?

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at November 22, 2017 01:20 PM (MINbv)

205 Honey, Here is a little money, go buy yourself something nice. I would take you shopping, but you know how it goes.
Posted by: GPS Fusion at November 22, 2017 01:10 PM (4dz1m)

Can you at least drop me off at the Flying J?....

Posted by: Lot Lizard MSM at November 22, 2017 01:21 PM (nUkMr)

206

"Are these WHITE potatoes?"

Posted by: In Vino Veritits at November 22, 2017 01:21 PM (T/KY7)

207 Objection. Falsely assumes the GOPe would regard a D in the seat as a failure.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 22, 2017 01:18 PM (p+Wdc)

Correct. They'll just use it as another excuse not to get anything through Congress that will help Donald Trump.

"We don't have the votes, damnit! Almost!"

Posted by: Ace Tractor Seat Supply at November 22, 2017 01:21 PM (ajiE5)

208 Kevin Sullivan used the Tree of Woe quite effectively.

Posted by: Monk at November 22, 2017 01:21 PM (g4lFK)

209 Asking for a restraining order against the House committee, is asking for a restraining order against the United States of America.

Well you can do whatever you want to us, but we're not going to sit here and listen to you badmouth the United States of America!

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at November 22, 2017 01:21 PM (xfb67)

210 In light of recent events, I think we need to denounce those potatoes immediately.

*****

That one's a masher!!!

Posted by: Muldoon at November 22, 2017 01:22 PM (wPiJc)

211 Rand Paul's wife says he now has pneumonia in addition to the six broken ribs and pleural effusion.

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at November 22, 2017 01:22 PM (398bZ)

212 210 In light of recent events, I think we need to denounce those potatoes immediately.

*****

That one's a masher!!!
Posted by: Muldoon at November 22, 2017 01:22 PM (wPiJc)

Better keep an eye on him.

Posted by: Insomniac - Nobody in Particular at November 22, 2017 01:22 PM (NWiLs)

213 In light of recent events, I think we need to denounce those potatoes immediately.

Posted by: tcn in AK at November 22, 2017 01:20 PM (7UW64)

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Do not denounce the potatoes. They are a protected food since so many of them died in 19th century Irish famine.

Posted by: RioBravo at November 22, 2017 01:22 PM (5NMZN)

214 Objection. Falsely assumes the GOPe would regard a D in the seat as a failure.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 22, 2017 01:18 PM (p+Wdc)

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

True, but the rest of us "normal people" would...I really don't care what the GOPe thinks is "victory" at this point. I just want them retired or in jail. Whatever makes that happen is good enough for me.

Posted by: William Eaton at November 22, 2017 01:22 PM (MuTTO)

215 Asking for a restraining order against the House committee, is asking
for a restraining order against the United States of America.

Well you can do whatever you want to us, but we're not going to sit
here and listen to you badmouth the United States of America!
--

Actually, we're OK with it.

Restraining order granted!

Posted by: Random Obama appointed Judge at November 22, 2017 01:23 PM (aT+Bx)

216 By the time these journalists are identified they'll already be gone for grabtastic T&A abuse.

Posted by: Mr. Feverhead at November 22, 2017 01:23 PM (hUqh+)

217 Is it a witch hunt if who you are hunting are, in fact, witches?"

How will we know?

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at November 22, 2017 01:20 PM

Do they weigh as much as a duck?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 22, 2017 01:23 PM (p+Wdc)

218 Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) is crafting legislation that would unseal all sex settlement records and ban the use of tax dollars to pay the claims. -GP

Posted by: Under Fire at November 22, 2017 01:24 PM (r9UYA)

219 >>>>>>From last thread for Great White Scotsman:

Are you at the one in Grapevine? Because they never have enough people at the gun counter there. I go to the one Garland if they have something I want to look at.
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman

Yeah. Because I can hit it on my lunch hour. Screw 'em. They lost two shotgun sales. I ordered them from Bud's over my phone on the drive back. Yeah, it cost a bit more, but they'll be sent to the transfer dealer a mile from the house.
.
.
.Buds was my gun store when we lived in Kentucky. I went there at least twice a week to use the range and browse. The usually have pretty good deals and gave us special prices for being Retired Navy. We got the LE prices on a lot of stuff.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at November 22, 2017 01:24 PM (Vz9Up)

220 In light of recent events, I think we need to denounce those potatoes immediately.

*****

That one's a masher!!!
Posted by: Muldoon at November 22, 2017 01:22 PM (wPiJc)

~~Better~~ Butter keep an eye on him.
Posted by: Insomniac

FIFY

Posted by: rickb223 at November 22, 2017 01:24 PM (f/e+k)

221 191 Not to be an ass.... but thats a no no.
Posted by: fixerupper

Why?
Posted by: rickb223 at November 22, 2017 01:12 PM (f/e+k)

Because those stripped lowers are a firearm according to BATF. Buying for someone else technically constitutes a straw purchase, which is illegal.

Here's an idea: Buy all four, then give two of them to your son for Christmas.
Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at November 22, 2017 01:17 PM (398bZ)

There was a Supreme Court case on this very issue.

Someone bought a relative a Glock using his Law Enforcement discount. Relative gives him a check to pay back, with Glock written in Check's memo field. Both people passed background checks and were perfectly legal to buy firearms. Did not matter.

Straw purchase. Go to jail. Go directly to jail.

Buy them and gift them. Wrap them up and publicly gift them.

Or go to the local FFL and legally xfer them.

Posted by: rd at November 22, 2017 01:24 PM (4dz1m)

222 Just about every congressional hearing I watch, they are being stonewalled on subpoenaed documents, and the only way to get to the bottom of anything is if Judicial Watch sues to have their FOIA requests complied with.

Posted by: 2017 HOLD MY BEER at November 22, 2017 01:24 PM (2X7pN)

223 Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) is crafting legislation
that would unseal all sex settlement records and ban the use of tax
dollars to pay the claims. -GP

Posted by: Under Fire at November 22, 2017 01:24 PM (r9UYA)
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Is THAT the seventh seal?

Posted by: RioBravo at November 22, 2017 01:25 PM (5NMZN)

224 Rand Paul's wife says he now has pneumonia in addition to the six broken ribs and pleural effusion.
Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at November 22, 2017 01:22 PM (398bZ)

Oh, Lord. That's frightening. Prayers his way.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at November 22, 2017 01:25 PM (sGSvK)

225 >>By the time these journalists are identified they'll already be gone for grabtastic T&A abuse.

Funny you should mention that. Corn has been under investigation by Mother Jones for sexual harassment for some time now.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 22, 2017 01:26 PM (/tuJf)

226 Is THAT the seventh seal?

Could be. Pass the potatoes.

Posted by: God at November 22, 2017 01:26 PM (r9UYA)

227 224
Rand Paul's wife says he now has pneumonia in addition to the six broken ribs and pleural effusion.

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at November 22, 2017 01:22 PM (398bZ)

Oh, Lord. That's frightening. Prayers his way.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at November 22, 2017 01:25 PM (sGSvK)
Oh wow..poor chap. I do hope he has a speedy recovery and that asshole neighbor is thrown in the slammer.

Posted by: IC at November 22, 2017 01:26 PM (a0IVu)

228 Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) is crafting legislation

that would unseal all sex settlement records and ban the use of tax

dollars to pay the claims. -GP

Posted by: Under Fire at November 22, 2017 01:24 PM

Good luck getting any votes for that one.

"Why...we can't unseal the records. The victims would be named and that would victimize them all over again!" *has vapors*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 22, 2017 01:27 PM (p+Wdc)

229 Rand Paul's wife says he now has pneumonia in addition to the six broken ribs and pleural effusion.

A significant crushing of your ribcage is nothing to sneeze at.

I expect Rand will be recovering for many months.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at November 22, 2017 01:27 PM (oVJmc)

230 BTW, I invented the selfie.

Posted by: Paris Hilton at November 22, 2017 01:27 PM (ctuyM)

231 224 Rand Paul's wife says he now has pneumonia in addition to the six broken ribs and pleural effusion.
Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at November 22, 2017 01:22 PM (398bZ)

Oh, Lord. That's frightening. Prayers his way.
Posted by: Pug Mahon at November 22, 2017 01:25 PM (sGSvK)

Perfect opportunity for the left to once again reveal their vileness.

Posted by: Northernlurker, the lurkingest lurker of the north. Still proudly lurking. at November 22, 2017 01:27 PM (nBr1j)

232 There was a Supreme Court case on this very issue.

Someone bought a relative a Glock using his Law Enforcement discount. Relative gives him a check to pay back, with Glock written in Check's memo field. Both people passed background checks and were perfectly legal to buy firearms. Did not matter.

Straw purchase. Go to jail. Go directly to jail.

Buy them and gift them. Wrap them up and publicly gift them.

Or go to the local FFL and legally xfer them.
Posted by: rd

As G Gordon Liddy said, "I don't own a gun. But you should see Mrs. Liddy's collection!"

Posted by: rickb223 at November 22, 2017 01:27 PM (f/e+k)

233 Someone bought a relative a Glock using his Law Enforcement discount. Relative gives him a check to pay back, with Glock written in Check's memo field. Both people passed background checks and were perfectly legal to buy firearms. Did not matter.

----

Abramski v United States

Posted by: fixerupper at November 22, 2017 01:28 PM (8XRCm)

234 I would love to see 3 political parties.
-The Socialists
-The left/center
-The Right

Since we are a center/right country, the Right should do well.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 22, 2017 01:28 PM (BoMuO)

235 Rand Paul barely spoke to the neighbor in years,no dispute or arguments.The issue was in the guys mind(leftist rage).He came charging down a slope and tackled Rand Paul from behind who didn't hear him coming.

https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/281501/

Posted by: steevy at November 22, 2017 01:28 PM (LiyEm)

236 Perfect opportunity for the left to once again reveal their vileness.

Posted by: Northernlurker, the lurkingest lurker of the north. Still proudly lurking. at November 22, 2017 01:27 PM

Or, a day ending in "y".

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 22, 2017 01:28 PM (p+Wdc)

237 BTW, I invented the selfie.
Posted by: Paris Hilton at November 22, 2017 01:27 PM (ctuyM)

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Lady.... in my day, a "selfie" meant something *entirely* different.

Now. Git offa my lawn..

Posted by: fixerupper at November 22, 2017 01:29 PM (8XRCm)

238 He has also called for the creation of a new Whig Party, and he proposes it without irony.

And there it is.
I was wondering what the inner liberal stuff was about.
And now I know.

Posted by: Gumdrop Gorilla is fan of Professor Chaos at November 22, 2017 01:29 PM (St5qb)

239 In light of recent events, I think we need to denounce those potatoes immediately.

*****

That one's a masher!!!

I yam what I yam.
C'mere my little sweet potato.

Posted by: Spuds at November 22, 2017 01:29 PM (FhXTo)

240 The neighbor who hurt Rand better pray for his health. If he dies due to complications from that beating then it is homicide, no matter how much time has passed.

Posted by: geoffb at November 22, 2017 01:29 PM (zOpu5)

241 Since Adam Schiff summarizes only the Dem slanted talking points from a days 'investigating', where is the Pubbie outlet to let us know whose tit is actually in the ringer? C'mon Pubbies, its way past time to pile on.

Posted by: Puddin Head at November 22, 2017 01:30 PM (YV+SU)

242 OT: Who would have expected to agree with The Root? They are noting that Apple fired a black woman for saying diversity should include experience and opinions, even among whites, a replaced her with a *white* woman who they believe will follow the script better.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at November 22, 2017 01:31 PM (rp9xB)

243 234 I would love to see 3 political parties.
-The Socialists
-The left/center
-The Right

Since we are a center/right country, the Right should do well.
-----------------
I suggest the creation of The American Party. Pubbies and Dems are both colonial enterprises.

Posted by: Puddin Head at November 22, 2017 01:31 PM (YV+SU)

244 224 Rand Paul's wife says he now has pneumonia in addition to the six broken ribs and pleural effusion.
Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at November 22, 2017 01:22 PM (398b

Yup. That happens with broken ribs if you don't use your incentive spirometer. Shallow breaths because of the pain--->atelectasis--->pneumonia. That is why I admit my elderly rib fractures for pain control and respiratory therapy. Not that Rand is elderly.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 22, 2017 01:31 PM (BoMuO)

245 It's rice on Thanksgiving and Potatoes on Christmas.

Bunch of savages.

Posted by: Monk at November 22, 2017 01:32 PM (g4lFK)

246 ". . . and ban the use of tax dollars to pay the claims."
______________________________________

I don't know how they are doing that now. It isn't authorized.

The taxpayers have authorized the use of taxpayer money related to damage caused by legitimate government activities.

I don't recall the taxpayers authorizing sexual harassment by congressmen or congresswomen.

That needs to come out of their own pocket.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at November 22, 2017 01:32 PM (ATVNj)

247 I hope that Rand's neighbor gets some serious jail time. Seeing leftist rage is bad enough but being a victim to it is getting way out of hand.

This guy is a doctor? Jesus.

Posted by: Toonces at November 22, 2017 01:32 PM (oiNtH)

248 245 It's rice on Thanksgiving and Potatoes on Christmas.

Bunch of savages.
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Rice and gravy on both. Potatoes are tumors of the earth. Pimples of the earth.

Posted by: Puddin Head at November 22, 2017 01:33 PM (YV+SU)

249 OT: Who would have expected to agree with The Root?
They are noting that Apple fired a black woman for saying diversity
should include experience and opinions, even among whites, a replaced
her with a *white* woman who they believe will follow the script better.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at November 22, 2017 01:31 PM

She blasphemed against the gods of diversity. She's obviously not really black. Ergo, no foul.

Posted by: Progs everywhere at November 22, 2017 01:34 PM (p+Wdc)

250 How about Repiblicans drawing up a bill where having an abortion makes one lose their right to vote for life.

Posted by: Monk at November 22, 2017 01:34 PM (g4lFK)

251 The American Party

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

That was the party created by the Know-nothings (Order of the Star-Spangled Banner). There are probably some existing groups with the name today.

Posted by: RioBravo at November 22, 2017 01:34 PM (5NMZN)

252 History doesn't tap, but it does do the old soft shoe.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at November 22, 2017 01:34 PM (QQ+il)

253 Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) is crafting legislation

that would unseal all sex settlement records and ban the use of tax

dollars to pay the claims. -GP

This is a violation of our cherished right to privacy!! Obviously it violates one of our constitutional rights!! Harrrumph harrrumph harrrrumph...

Posted by: Your Betters in Congress at November 22, 2017 01:34 PM (O5Q3r)

254 248. They have their uses, potatoes do - vodka comes to mind.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at November 22, 2017 01:34 PM (fA1SL)

255 Dave Brat: Why Is Our Party Going Along With Democrats On Immigration?

Will introduce new immigration bill.

Posted by: Under Fire at November 22, 2017 01:34 PM (r9UYA)

256 247 I hope that Rand's neighbor gets some serious jail time. Seeing leftist rage is bad enough but being a victim to it is getting way out of hand.

This guy is a doctor? Jesus.
Posted by: Toonces at November 22, 2017 01:32 PM (oiNtH)

Being a doctor and being mentally well do not necessarily go hand-in-hand.

Posted by: Insomniac - Nobody in Particular at November 22, 2017 01:35 PM (NWiLs)

257 "Yup. That happens with broken ribs if you don't use your incentive spirometer. Shallow breaths because of the pain--->atelectasis--->pneumonia. That is why I admit my elderly rib fractures for pain control and respiratory therapy. Not that Rand is elderly.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy"

I cracked a rib once and the pain was awful so I can only imagine what Rand Paul is going through. Can't breathe, laugh, or sneeze without severe pain. And taking a dump? Unbearable.

Posted by: Benji Carver at November 22, 2017 01:35 PM (OD2ni)

258 He has also called for the creation of a new Whig Party, and he proposes it without irony.

Maxine Waters will be the Party Leader.

Posted by: rd at November 22, 2017 01:35 PM (4dz1m)

259 *hits crack pipe*

You know, as long as you work for the common good, I don't really care if you rape people. Hell, even if you kill someone, if you apologize and agree with my politics it's cool dude.

Posted by: Matthew Dowd at November 22, 2017 01:35 PM (SkuXa)

260 I believe Mueller busted down the door of Paul Manaforte in the middle of the night over potential "money laundering" and "failure to register" --predating the campaign and therefore having nothing to do with his supposed mandate to investigate Russian "interference in the election."

I can only conclude that the lack of any similar response, and the delay of response, that Mueller is allowing Fusion ample time to destroy evidence of the actual Obama/Holder/Lynch/Clinton/Mueller crime syndicate.

Posted by: xnycpeasant at November 22, 2017 01:35 PM (W/SyC)

261 Rand Paul's wife says he now has pneumonia in addition to the six broken ribs and pleural effusion.

I was afraid of that.
I'm sure the MSM is all over this and beseeching people not to use violence. And about the Congressman's condition, and the shooting of congressman Steve S.

Oh wait. No. That would mean I went back in the time machine to when we had a real press.

Posted by: Gumdrop Gorilla is fan of Professor Chaos at November 22, 2017 01:35 PM (St5qb)

262 >>245 It's rice on Thanksgiving

Dirty rice?

Posted by: Charlie Rose at November 22, 2017 01:36 PM (r9UYA)

263 best use of potatoes 1) baked and topped with bacon 2) french fries and topped with bacon

Posted by: IC at November 22, 2017 01:36 PM (a0IVu)

264 Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at November 22, 2017 01:32 PM (ATVNj)

Yeah, the brazen attitude is breathtaking. We pay if we accidentally break a law *and* if *they* break a law. Lawsuit payouts have always been that already, but this takes it to a new level.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at November 22, 2017 01:36 PM (rp9xB)

265 Well the very first was David Corn and I think Buzzfeed was second. Not sure who went third.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 22, 2017 01:17 PM (/tuJf)

I believe the third was Yahoo News.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at November 22, 2017 01:36 PM (ul9CR)

266 >>>>Someone bought a relative a Glock using his Law Enforcement discount. Relative gives him a check to pay back, with Glock written in Check's memo field. Both people passed background checks and were perfectly legal to buy firearms. Did not matter.

----

Abramski v United States
.
.
.Which has absolutely nothing to do with buying a gun as a gift. The ATF form adresses that very issue and says yes you can sign the form saying the gun you are buying is for you even if you are going to give it as a gift ti a friend or relative.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at November 22, 2017 01:36 PM (Vz9Up)

267 Being a doctor and being mentally well do not necessarily go hand-in-hand.

Posted by: Insomniac -

Your right....Howard Dean among others.

Posted by: Cheri at November 22, 2017 01:36 PM (oiNtH)

268 Being a doctor and being mentally well do not necessarily go hand-in-hand.

Posted by: Insomniac - Nobody in Particular at November 22, 2017 01:35 PM

Spot on.

Posted by: Zombie Dr. Crippen at November 22, 2017 01:36 PM (p+Wdc)

269 Being a doctor and being mentally well do not necessarily go hand-in-hand.

Especially if you are an anesthesiologist.

Posted by: Gumdrop Gorilla is fan of Professor Chaos at November 22, 2017 01:36 PM (St5qb)

270 >>I believe the third was Yahoo News.

Which would be Michael Isikoff.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 22, 2017 01:37 PM (/tuJf)

271 Potato Puns now?

Sweet.

Posted by: General Belgrano at November 22, 2017 01:38 PM (Fikbq)

272 "261 Rand Paul's wife says he now has pneumonia in addition to the six broken ribs and pleural effusion."

Stop it. You're killing me here. Hahahahaha!!!

Posted by: Kasie Hunt at November 22, 2017 01:38 PM (OD2ni)

273 You know, gravy is sexist. Pass the vegetable medley.

Posted by: Fritz at November 22, 2017 01:38 PM (2Mnv1)

274 The ATF form adresses that very issue and says yes you can sign the form saying the gun you are buying is for you even if you are going to give it as a gift ti a friend or relative.

Just don't gift it to someone who will gift you back a check with the memo 'FOR THAT GUN - PAID IN FULL".

Posted by: Grump928(c) at November 22, 2017 01:38 PM (QQ+il)

275 268. *fistbump* - Dr. BENWAY

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at November 22, 2017 01:38 PM (fA1SL)

276 Especially if you are an anesthesiologist.
Posted by: Gumdrop Gorilla is fan of Professor Chaos at November 22, 2017 01:36 PM (St5qb)

They have been known to dip into their own supply from time to time.

Posted by: Insomniac - Nobody in Particular at November 22, 2017 01:39 PM (NWiLs)

277 Potato Puns now?

We have to nip this in the spud.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at November 22, 2017 01:39 PM (gIRsn)

278 They report. They decide.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Well, if you go on Youtube under "Body language of Roy Moore accuser" or something like that there's a woman who takes a look at the Press Conference by the woman represented by Gloria Allred- Beverly Nelson Young or whatever her name is, and says she's liar. It's rather interesting actually. So there. ;^)

Communist News Network has no journalistic integrity whatsoever, but i'm sure the people who weren't going to vote for Moore any are convinced.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 22, 2017 01:39 PM (8+Ozj)

279 Being a doctor and being mentally well do not necessarily go hand-in-hand.

Especially if you are an anesthesiologist.
Posted by: Gumdrop Gorilla is fan of Professor Chaos at November 22, 2017 01:36 PM (St5qb)

Maybe he can make up for it by giving Rand a nerve block.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 22, 2017 01:39 PM (BoMuO)

280 Being a doctor and being mentally well do not necessarily go hand-in-hand.

On the brightside, they can self-medicated with the good stuff.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at November 22, 2017 01:39 PM (QQ+il)

281 He has also called for the creation of a new ~~Whig~~ Wig Party, and he proposes it without irony.

Maxine Waters will be the Party Leader.
Posted by: rd

FIFY

Posted by: rickb223 at November 22, 2017 01:39 PM (f/e+k)

282 Which has absolutely nothing to do with buying a gun as a gift. The ATF form adresses that very issue and says yes you can sign the form saying the gun you are buying is for you even if you are going to give it as a gift ti a friend or relative.
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at November 22, 2017 01:36 PM (Vz9Up)

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Provided two things.

1. The recipient is legally able to own firearms. You cannot gift to your felon brother.

2. There is no renumeration and its truly a gift. If you accept money in return, it is a straw purchase.

The original question was picking up four stripped receivers for somebody else. That is still a no-no.

Posted by: fixerupper at November 22, 2017 01:39 PM (8XRCm)

283 Is there something going on with Twitter?

Posted by: Shopgirl: #raisedRoyal at November 22, 2017 01:39 PM (C8sF1)

284 Speaking of guns, I had firmly resolved not to buy any more this year, but the Christmas sales are tempting me.

Savage Axis II XP in .223 with a Weaver 3x9x40 scope for $150 after rebate. I don't know the shipping cost.

http://tinyurl.com/yd3uxf64

Savage Mark II FV .22LR $119 shipped after rebate.

http://tinyurl.com/y9cwqjhk

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at November 22, 2017 01:40 PM (398bZ)

285 We have to nip this in the spud.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at November 22, 2017 01:39 PM

I'll keep an eye on it.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 22, 2017 01:40 PM (p+Wdc)

286 Potato Puns now?

We have to nip this in the spud.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at November 22, 2017 01:39 PM (gIRsn)

----

Potatoes are dangerous. They cause tuber-cleosis.

Posted by: fixerupper at November 22, 2017 01:40 PM (8XRCm)

287 Potato Puns now?

We have to nip this in the spud.
Posted by: Bandersnatch

Eye see what you did there.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 22, 2017 01:40 PM (f/e+k)

288 283 Is there something going on with Twitter?
Posted by: Shopgirl: #raisedRoyal at November 22, 2017 01:39 PM (C8sF1)

Other than a bunch of window-lickers who think they're clever throwing verbal poo at each other 140 characters or less at a time? Not that I'm aware of.

Posted by: Insomniac - Nobody in Particular at November 22, 2017 01:41 PM (NWiLs)

289 Yeah, the brazen attitude is breathtaking. We pay if we accidentally break a law *and* if *they* break a law. Lawsuit payouts have always been that already, but this takes it to a new level.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at November 22, 2017 01:36 PM
_____________________________________

There is no disincentive to committing sexual harassment if someone else pays and the sexual harassment is kept secret.

The Congressional system of dealing with this is a hold harmless policy for sexual predators.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at November 22, 2017 01:41 PM (ATVNj)

290 Potatoes are dangerous. They cause tuber-cleosis.
Posted by: fixerupper at November 22, 2017 01:40 PM (8XRCm)

I can dig it.

Posted by: Insomniac - Nobody in Particular at November 22, 2017 01:41 PM (NWiLs)

291 .Which has absolutely nothing to do with buying a gun as a gift. The ATF form adresses that very issue and says yes you can sign the form saying the gun you are buying is for you even if you are going to give it as a gift ti a friend or relative.

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Buying four firearms for a relative that will pay you back is NOT A GIFT!!!

Abramski got caught because of the damned check memo field. The FBI was after him for something completely unrelated, but could not nail his ass. They found their man, and then they found their crime.

Do not do stupid shit. Do it right from the start.

Posted by: rd at November 22, 2017 01:42 PM (4dz1m)

292 I would try to do a pun about potatoes but not being the masterful Muldoon I don't really know how to starch.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 22, 2017 01:42 PM (8+Ozj)

293 I invented the acronym LOL

Posted by: Al Gore at November 22, 2017 01:42 PM (roZeO)

294 Two things that *must* be revealed, leaked, or made the object of relentless questioning, abuse, and sarcasm - identities/details of congressional settlements, identities/details of Fusion GPS payments to "journalists".

BTW, Teh Donald's twit is amusing again today. Called LaVar Ball a poor man's version of Don King, without the hair. This alone justifies his election. Let the insecure lightweight misinformed sorts who know little of the world or the Beltway recoil in horror, and soak in their mediocrity.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 22, 2017 01:42 PM (QDnY+)

295 The Congressional system of dealing with this is a hold harmless policy for sexual predators.
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And where the hell was Madame Plushbotton herself -- Kristen Gillibrand -- when this policy was adopted?

She being the Great Crusader against sexual harassment on college campuses and the military.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at November 22, 2017 01:42 PM (ATVNj)

296 290 Potatoes are dangerous. They cause tuber-cleosis.
Posted by: fixerupper at November 22, 2017 01:40 PM (8XRCm)

I can dig it.
Posted by: Insomniac - Nobody in Particular at November 22, 2017 01:41 PM (NWiLs)

Good one! This Spud's for you.

Posted by: Northernlurker, the lurkingest lurker of the north. Still proudly lurking. at November 22, 2017 01:43 PM (nBr1j)

297 "Potato Puns now?

We have to nip this in the spud.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at November 22, 2017 01:39 PM (gIRsn)"

Great. Thanks a latkes

Posted by: Kasie Hunt at November 22, 2017 01:43 PM (OD2ni)

298 So last night I saw that Black Feminist who quit Lenny's Letter (some Lena Dunham vehicle) is calling out all black women to turn against her.

Then discussing her hipster racism b/c of her college friends.

But then, ALL White women got thrown under the bus for taking credit for black women's writing...and that all white women should be...I don't know...shunned?

On the Twitter page there were Black women saying YES! White women apologizing for their privilege, and one lone soul going WTF? Re: All white women. She couldn't figure out how it went from Lena to all white women.

I thought...this is why I'm not on twitter.

Posted by: Gumdrop Gorilla is fan of Professor Chaos at November 22, 2017 01:43 PM (St5qb)

299 I invented the acronym LOL
Posted by: Al Gore at November 22, 2017 01:42 PM (roZeO)

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Lying on-line??

Posted by: fixerupper at November 22, 2017 01:43 PM (8XRCm)

300 I would try to do a pun about potatoes but not being the masterful Muldoon I don't really know how to starch.

You know your limitations, you step back and say

I yam what I yam and that's all that I yam.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at November 22, 2017 01:44 PM (gIRsn)

301 Noodity!

Posted by: Monk at November 22, 2017 01:44 PM (g4lFK)

302 293 I invented the acronym LOL

Posted by: Al Gore at November 22, 2017 01:42 PM (roZeO)
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Ahem.

Posted by: Lawrence Ottavio Lichtensteiner at November 22, 2017 01:44 PM (ATVNj)

303 Sarah Huckabee Sanders should use this in the pressers.

Before answering any of the rude questions, she should ask the reporter, "hey, before I go with this, we're trying to find the reporters that received payments from Fusion GPS. Are you one? Do you have any leads of this for us?"

Posted by: Les Kinetic at November 22, 2017 01:44 PM (U6f54)

304 "I invented the acronym LOL
Posted by: Al Gore at November"

I thought you invented calling a happy ending releasing your chakra?

Posted by: Benji Carver at November 22, 2017 01:45 PM (OD2ni)

305 I yam what I yam and that's all that I yam.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at November 22, 2017 01:44 PM

Cogito, ergo spud. I think, therefore I yam.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 22, 2017 01:45 PM (p+Wdc)

306 Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at November 22, 2017 01:41 PM (ATVNj)

Exactly. It is a prog dream come true.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at November 22, 2017 01:45 PM (rp9xB)

307
I invented the acronym LOL
Posted by: Al Gore

But you spelled it backwards

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 22, 2017 01:46 PM (IqV8l)

308 Called LaVar Ball a poor man's version of Don King, without the hair.

I laughed a lot about that. My husband-who likes a lot of things Trump has done in a serious vein- still thinks he is the most entertaining President we have ever had. My husband laughed too, and I am an infrequent reader or reporter on Trump's tweets.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 22, 2017 01:46 PM (8+Ozj)

309 Let the insecure lightweight misinformed sorts who know little of the world or the Beltway recoil in horror, and soak in their mediocrity.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 22, 2017 01:42 PM (QDnY+)

Recoil in horror? You understate my degree of repugnance. Has the man no shame?

Posted by: Thurston Donovan Pendergrast III at November 22, 2017 01:46 PM (ajiE5)

310 You guys are whipping up some great potato puns. We should mash them together.

Posted by: Gumdrop Gorilla is fan of Professor Chaos at November 22, 2017 01:46 PM (St5qb)

311 "I can only conclude that the lack of any similar
response, and the delay of response, that Mueller is allowing Fusion
ample time to destroy evidence of the actual
Obama/Holder/Lynch/Clinton/Mueller crime syndicate.
Posted by: xnycpeasant

right ... and how long did Hillary have her server, secret docs, copies to her lawyer and others that had no clearance ... never went in to confiscate the servers. She delivered the bleach bit hard drive and laughed ... "there, you have the evidence, chortle".

That same mob has been covering up the Uranium One info., except Comey got immediately replaced with Mueller, another Clinton helper.
this lays out a lot
http://tinyurl.com/y7kgnokp

Posted by: illiniwek at November 22, 2017 01:47 PM (/aIFg)

312 I can only conclude that the lack of any similar response, and the delay of response, that Mueller is allowing Fusion ample time to destroy evidence of the actual Obama/Holder/Lynch/Clinton/Mueller crime syndicate.
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Mueller can't do that while Congress is investigating Fusion GPS without starting a civil war. Mueller is realizing that Clinton's star is no longer and he must tread lightly when picking targets. Fusion GPS is more about the corruption of the FBI and DOJ than Russian collusion.

Posted by: Puddin Head at November 22, 2017 01:48 PM (YV+SU)

313 I invented the acronym LOL
Posted by: Al Gore

But you spelled it backwards

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 22, 2017 01:46 PM (IqV8l)

Can I borrow that? I want to tweet that out to all my followers. Both of them.

Posted by: Chelshire Clinton at November 22, 2017 01:48 PM (ajiE5)

314 Potential 50-megaton generic partisan ad shaping up for next year.

Near-fatal, violent attacks on GOP legislators by crazed fascist/racist, er, "prog" crazies.

Tsunami of scandals afflicting/felling dozens of high-profile Dem/prog donors and mouthpieces, and "journalists".

Insh'allah, names of several prominent Dem incumbents aside from Conyers implicated in abuse/settlement scandal.

Key Trump agenda items that are most popular, unaddressed, hobbled, or otherwise not implemented due to Dem obstructionism (um, a distortion, but it could be made right by including references to GOP trash like McCain, Collins, et al.).

Saturate the few competitive districts, and most of the Senate races, with versions of this stuff. Obvious. Any bets on whether the RNC, the NRSC, or the HRCC will do anything remotely like this?

Posted by: rhomboid at November 22, 2017 01:49 PM (QDnY+)

315 Insomniac: I asked because all my Twitter follows are coming up as a blank screen. Including Ace.

Posted by: Shopgirl: #raisedRoyal at November 22, 2017 01:49 PM (C8sF1)

316 You guys are whipping up some great potato puns.

Yes, the cheerleaders will now treat us with pommes pommes.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at November 22, 2017 01:49 PM (gIRsn)

317
The Congressional system of dealing with this is a hold harmless policy for sexual predators. Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at November 22, 2017 01:41 PM (ATVNj)
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Not only that, but various OSHA and other alphabet infractions. Congress should not be exempt from any of the bs.

Posted by: mustbequantum at November 22, 2017 01:51 PM (MIKMs)

318 288 283 Is there something going on with Twitter?
Posted by: Shopgirl: #raisedRoyal at November 22, 2017 01:39 PM (C8sF1)

Other than a bunch of window-lickers who think they're clever throwing verbal poo at each other 140 characters or less at a time? Not that I'm aware of.

Posted by: Insomniac - Nobody in Particular at November 22, 2017 01:41 PM (NWiLs)

Hey now that's a dirty lie!

They can use 280 characters now.

Posted by: buzzion - guess my sign at November 22, 2017 01:52 PM (cAnNx)

319 Redact the redactions!

my sign if I was one of those protest going sign carrying hippies.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at November 22, 2017 01:53 PM (r+sAi)

320 They can use 280 characters now.

Posted by: buzzion - guess my sign at November 22, 2017 01:52 PM (cAnNx)

They must have heard of my idea to compete against them. It was going to be called Bitter.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob 'long pork, the gourmets choice' at November 22, 2017 01:59 PM (VezBU)

321 I cracked a rib once and the pain was awful so I can only imagine what Rand Paul is going through. Can't breathe, laugh, or sneeze without severe pain. And taking a dump? Unbearable.
Posted by: Benji Carver at November 22, 2017 01:35 PM (OD2ni)

I cracked a few ribs while in the Army and my buddies would tell awful jokes that for some reason I couldn't help but laugh at, causing even more pain. They thought it was hilarious.

Some days I wonder if they really were my buddies, the evil bastards.

Posted by: troyriser at November 22, 2017 02:00 PM (raGQi)

322

Straw purchase. Go to jail. Go directly to jail.

Buy them and gift them. Wrap them up and publicly gift them.

Or go to the local FFL and legally xfer them.
Posted by: rd at November 22, 2017 01:24 PM (4dz1m)

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Glad I live in Oklahoma.

Posted by: Soona at November 22, 2017 02:15 PM (ZAAkQ)

323 Let's just make a guess at who those 3 might be based on recent news:

Glenn Thrush
Charlie Rose
Mark Halperin

Or at least ONE of these guys. They only throw them under the bus when big news is about to strike.

Posted by: K-E at November 22, 2017 02:20 PM (eGjdB)

324 Could someone please explain to me how a lesser court could in any way issue a restraining order against Congress?

Posted by: ThomasD at November 22, 2017 02:29 PM (XFFNW)

325 321 I cracked a rib once and the pain was awful so I can only imagine what Rand Paul is going through. Can't breathe, laugh, or sneeze without severe pain. And taking a dump? Unbearable.
Posted by: Benji Carver at November 22, 2017 01:35 PM (OD2ni)

I cracked a few ribs while in the Army and my buddies would tell awful jokes that for some reason I couldn't help but laugh at, causing even more pain. They thought it was hilarious.

Some days I wonder if they really were my buddies, the evil bastards.
Posted by: troyriser

I cracked some ribs and broke and arm one time and didn't feel a bit of pain. Of course it was someone else's ribs and arm that I broke.

Posted by: Dirks Stewn DA Loud Mouthed Tough Guy Since 1977 at November 22, 2017 02:35 PM (kfcYC)

326 Whores, the lot of them. Reporter's "privilege" should not apply to these pressholes, i.e., their 'sources' are not protected from disclosure.

Posted by: oddnot has come to hate the Left, viscerally at November 22, 2017 02:52 PM (g1MTt)

327 I guess naming the reporters would be a kind of rape. Like releasing Lois Lerner's deposition.

F*** them all.

Posted by: George LeS at November 22, 2017 02:54 PM (+TcCF)

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