California Democrat Assemblyman Resigns Immediately After Wave of Sexual Conduct Allegations

As Comrade Arthur says, "So it is possible that a Democrat can resign..."

He had previously said he would resign at the end of his term, but now with more women accusing him of "unwanted touching," he's decided to resign immediately.

California Assemblyman Raul Bocanegra said Monday he is resigning effective immediately after multiple women accused him of sexual harassment and unwanted touching, after previously announcing he would wait until the end of the legislative term.
"Upon further reflection during the recent holiday weekend, and conversations with family, friends, supporters, I have decided to resign earlier from the State Assembly effective immediately, which was my original intention," Bocanegra said in a statement released Monday.

Incidentally, Al Franken gave a quick presser in which he basically repeated what he'd said in his earlier statement to local papers -- in fact, he specifically quoted himself.

Once again he said his memory differed from Leeanne Tweeden's, but did not say what his memory was. Once again he offered Apologies Without Admissions. He apologized for effects alleged -- making women feel "uncomfortable" -- but not for any specific actions on his part, such as groping, that caused those effects.

Franken is basically denying these allegations without saying so. Being a Democrat, he is required to Believe All Women (or pretend to), so he contradicts them implicitly rather than explicitly. He claims to not remember if he groped strangers -- a bizarre failure of memory, as most men, I think, can remember all breasts and buttocks they've fondled. So what he really means when he says he doesn't remember this happening is that it did not happen, but he can't actually say that. He just implies they're liars -- he doesn't say plainly that they are.

Such is the progress Democrats have made since they suddenly developed a conscience about Bill Clinton's serial sexual crimes two weeks ago. They've made the huge leap from claiming female accusers are nuts and sluts recruited from trailer parks to make rightwing conspiracy allegations to merely strongly implying they are, while apologizing for making them "uncomfortable" being paid liars for Richard Scaife.

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1
I saw Unwanted Touching....

Posted by: Half Senile Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at November 27, 2017 06:25 PM (VTsbl)

2 Well, at least Franken is consistent.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 27, 2017 06:27 PM (wmaTe)

3 He has to quote himself.

No one else wants his words in their mouth.

Posted by: Lily(Formerly of Hot Air) now of AoSHQ, Assassin in the Night at November 27, 2017 06:27 PM (vivhj)

4 So a Democrat from California does the 'right' thing, given teh circumstances. I am shocked. First time Sacramento showed some common sense.

Posted by: IC at November 27, 2017 06:27 PM (a0IVu)

5 as most men, I think, can remember all breasts and buttocks they've fondled.

++++

Fondly.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at November 27, 2017 06:27 PM (pvjTE)

6 The Assemblyman is only stepping down because he knows the Democrat majority is safe in CA. He's expendable.

Posted by: Blake at November 27, 2017 06:28 PM (qC1Sy)

7 * chops uo several more lines *

I'm ready for this thread now.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at November 27, 2017 06:28 PM (fA1SL)

8 >>Raul Bocanegra

Bocanegra is Spanish for Franken.

Posted by: garrett at November 27, 2017 06:28 PM (0G4o5)

9 No one else wants his words in their mouth.
====

That would not my first choice of what to put in their mouths anyway.

Posted by: Al at November 27, 2017 06:29 PM (nILVB)

10 And I'm out!!!

Posted by: Assemblyman Blackmouth at November 27, 2017 06:29 PM (hMwEB)

11 >>He claims to not remember if he groped strangers -- a bizarre failure of memory, as most men, I think, can remember all breasts and buttocks they've fondled.

Not Wilt Chamberlain.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 27, 2017 06:29 PM (/tuJf)

12 as most men, I think, can remember all breasts and buttocks they've fondled.

and rank them.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at November 27, 2017 06:29 PM (60v4h)

13 Who?

Posted by: Banana Splits Guy - Nostrildamus (No Smoothies) at November 27, 2017 06:29 PM (wmBTD)

14 ok that's it I'm all shopped out!

Posted by: votermom pimping great books! at November 27, 2017 06:29 PM (hMwEB)

15 Actually.... allegations of sexual misconduct in Sacramento are only beginning...

I personally know of many many transgressions from local politicians... and as it is now OK for women to come out about these...

Sacramento could get reallllllyyyy ugly...

Posted by: Don Q. at November 27, 2017 06:29 PM (NgKpN)

16 Actually resigning.
Hmmm...must be some serious shit coming up on this asshat.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 27, 2017 06:29 PM (0tfLf)

17 Gotta be pretty bad when you're in CA and you actually resign your sinecure. Guess Nan doesn't consider him an icon.

Posted by: Peaches at November 27, 2017 06:29 PM (14URa)

18 >> most men, I think, can remember all breasts and buttocks they've fondled.

I never forget a pie.

Posted by: garrett at November 27, 2017 06:30 PM (0G4o5)

19 He is a Democrat, but one time he spent the night in a Trump hotel, so clearly he has close ties to Trump. Impeach!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 27, 2017 06:30 PM (BoMuO)

20 "Upon further reflection during the recent holiday weekend, and conversations with family, friends, supporters,and lawyers but mostly lawyers...."

Posted by: Jukin el deplorable at November 27, 2017 06:30 PM (3BFzK)

21 13
Not your assemblyman. Not your business.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at November 27, 2017 06:30 PM (fA1SL)

22 Bocanegra? Also a type of weasel.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at November 27, 2017 06:30 PM (tbOMB)

23 12 as most men, I think, can remember all breasts and buttocks they've fondled.

and rank them.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at November 27, 2017 06:29 PM

Starting with that girl in Chemistry 101...

Posted by: Diogenes at November 27, 2017 06:31 PM (0tfLf)

24 Maybe the Republicans can pick up his seat.

....I kid.

Posted by: garrett at November 27, 2017 06:31 PM (0G4o5)

25 Maybe Franken has molested soo many women that he honestly cannot remember who he has violated.

Posted by: American at November 27, 2017 06:31 PM (HbpCe)

26 most men, I think, can remember all breasts and buttocks they've fondled.

brb

Posted by: DaveA at November 27, 2017 06:32 PM (FhXTo)

27 >>>Not your assemblyman. Not your business.

What next, reporting on the Tallahootchie School Board?

Posted by: Banana Splits Guy - Nostrildamus (No Smoothies) at November 27, 2017 06:32 PM (wmBTD)

28 I'm sorry also for making women feel queasy...with my face.

Posted by: Al Franken aka Senator Grabass at November 27, 2017 06:32 PM (JhE5a)

29 I'm begining to get a little bit pissed off!! Why didn't Uncle Chucky bring some of these democrat moleste...ahh politicians over when I was young....or older...or anytime...

Posted by: Amy Schumer at November 27, 2017 06:32 PM (3BFzK)

30 If I see Al and punch him in the nose I will be sure to apologize for any pain he may have experienced from a broken schnoz through my inadvertent touching that I may or may not have caused and won't remember already.

BTW NBC broadcast opened with Pocogate and the story somehow ended saying that the middle class will pay higher taxes if the bill goes through. Because they are really the same story.

Posted by: Daybrother at November 27, 2017 06:32 PM (6j79Y)

31 Bocanegra? Also a type of weasel.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at November 27, 2017 06:30 PM

Sacramento? Weasels all the way down.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 27, 2017 06:32 PM (p+Wdc)

32 most men, I think, can remember all breasts and buttocks they've fondled.

Not only can but do. Every shower.

Posted by: Peaches at November 27, 2017 06:33 PM (14URa)

33 California Assemblyman Raul Bocanegra said Monday

If there is any hope for the moribund GOP in CA, it is explointing the rift between the "Brown" Demunist Faction (and I don't mean Jerry) on one side and the "Green" and "Pink" Demunist Factions on the other.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at November 27, 2017 06:33 PM (ujg0T)

34 >>>Not only can but do. Every shower.

I WAS JUST WORKING UP A LATHER!!!
SHEESH!

Posted by: Banana Splits Guy - Nostrildamus (No Smoothies) at November 27, 2017 06:34 PM (wmBTD)

35 I apologize that you remember my touching you inappropriately differently than I remember myself touching you and if you were offended by your false memory, then I'm sorry.

Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 Gigawatt SanityProd (tm) at November 27, 2017 06:34 PM (/o9Qk)

36 Maybe the Republicans can pick up his seat.

I hope whoever takes that seat sprays it down first.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at November 27, 2017 06:34 PM (6FqZa)

37 Gotta be pretty bad when you're in CA and you actually resign your sinecure. Guess Nan doesn't consider him an icon.
Posted by: Peaches

Yeah, probably resigning with a 7 figure retirement income for life.

Posted by: Daybrother at November 27, 2017 06:34 PM (6j79Y)

38 My zombie lawyers will be in touch.

Posted by: zombie Richard Mellon Scaife at November 27, 2017 06:34 PM (zCyNd)

39 Why haven't any of these Democrats asked Hillary for advice on how to shame sluts?

Posted by: Fritz at November 27, 2017 06:34 PM (H7ZyP)

40 Was this the guy who dressed up like Tigger and bad touched his staffers?

Posted by: garrett at November 27, 2017 06:34 PM (0G4o5)

41 But But But Pochahontas?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at November 27, 2017 06:35 PM (5y11N)

42 I, for one, am shocked.

Now, someone needs to rub that unfunny Minnesota joke's nose in that for a few days.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at November 27, 2017 06:35 PM (tRaq7)

43 This story's got more holes than a frog's got sixguns.

That's what we used to say in Texas, anyway.

Posted by: Dan Rather at November 27, 2017 06:35 PM (398bZ)

44 Not only can but do. Every shower.

Posted by: Peaches at November 27, 2017 06:33 PM (14URa)

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

I like to run a one...maybe two per shower. That way my loop reruns every 4 months. And yeah smartys, I shower every damn day..mostly...except in months with with a "Y".

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable, Profoundly Unserious & Immature Scientifically at November 27, 2017 06:35 PM (3BFzK)

45 >>I apologize that you remember my touching you inappropriately differently than I remember myself touching you and if you were offended by your false memory, then I'm sorry.

Nicely played.

Posted by: garrett at November 27, 2017 06:36 PM (0G4o5)

46 Reasonableness is such a wonderful trait. I wonder why now?

Posted by: Kindltot at November 27, 2017 06:36 PM (4p7KH)

47 You know, I've said that I'm a hugger. If you people think your hugging technique is sooo great that you never accidentally grab an ass--well, none of us are perfect!

Posted by: Al Franken aka Senator Grabass at November 27, 2017 06:36 PM (JhE5a)

48 32 most men, I think, can remember all breasts and buttocks they've fondled.

Not only can but do. Every shower.
Posted by: Peaches at November 27, 2017 06:33 PM (14URa)

We're just combing our hair!

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at November 27, 2017 06:36 PM (tbOMB)

49 David Wu was the #tigerboner guy.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at November 27, 2017 06:36 PM (6FqZa)

50 When I think about you,
I touch my shelf.
- ewok karaoke

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at November 27, 2017 06:37 PM (fA1SL)

51 >> David Wu was the #tigerboner guy.

He peed on my rug, man.

Posted by: The Dude at November 27, 2017 06:37 PM (0G4o5)

52 Yeah, probably resigning with a 7 figure retirement income for life.

Posted by: Daybrother at November 27, 2017 06:34 PM (6j79Y)
They take care of their own out there. That waste of oxygen "Antonio Villaraigosa" (nee Tony Villar) left office penniless, really, no car, no job, no money, no home. Now, oh, look, a millionaire!

Posted by: Peaches at November 27, 2017 06:37 PM (14URa)

53 Tengo un verga muy grande y me gusto a punch panoches todas tiempo.

Posted by: Jukin el deplorable at November 27, 2017 06:37 PM (3BFzK)

54 Bocanegra means "black mouth".

oooooooooooo *use Floyd the barber enunciation*

Posted by: straight outta Sacramento at November 27, 2017 06:37 PM (zCyNd)

55 24 Maybe the Republicans can pick up his seat.

....I kid.
Posted by: garrett at November 27, 2017 06:31 PM (0G4o5)

Given the "open primary" laws, sadly not. And a curse on every GOP Establican who tried to sell us on that crap.

Between a Reconquista Brown Beret and a Working Stiff, we might get a Working Stiff (if we can say that in Spanish?)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California%27s_39th_State_Assembly_district

Posted by: Curmudgeon at November 27, 2017 06:37 PM (ujg0T)

56 Wu Hu?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 27, 2017 06:37 PM (IqV8l)

57 LOL.

Democrat congressman who is calling for Trump impeachment sued the drug addiced staffer he slept with when she claimed she was in a hostile environment.

Daily Caller.

Also... not sure that sentence even makes sense.

Posted by: shibumi at November 27, 2017 06:38 PM (aT+Bx)

58 Some men are born with an extra pair of hands. They're not controlled by the brain, either.

Tragic, really. I think it's long past time that the government fund solutions to this horrible medical condition.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at November 27, 2017 06:38 PM (4ErVI)

59 Franken is the final evolution of the Graboid.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at November 27, 2017 06:38 PM (60v4h)

60 - although Bob Filner (D, CA) wasn't exactly a prince either.

In California, you kind of have to distinguish between the furry perverts, the harassing perverts, and the paedo perverts.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at November 27, 2017 06:38 PM (6FqZa)

61 >>Wu Hu?

*High Five*

Posted by: Ric Flair at November 27, 2017 06:38 PM (0G4o5)

62 Recently disgraced NY state pol Shelly Silver was once one of the Three Men in a Room that ran NY politics. At times, he had more real clout than the Governor.

This was because Shelly was the head of the Assembly (=the House) and all the Ds in the Assembly voted the way that Shelly told them.

And this was because he knew all about their affairs and sexual harassments.

Posted by: Ignoramus at November 27, 2017 06:38 PM (cAXIk)

63 David Wu was the #tigerboner guy.
====

And I was the anti-gun gun runner!

Posted by: Leland Ye at November 27, 2017 06:38 PM (nILVB)

64 What does "bocanegra" mean? "Vegetarian hamburger that is black"? And is this guy an illegal? Maybe that's why he wants to keep a low profile.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at November 27, 2017 06:39 PM (/qEW2)

65 I'll just be over there smoking a cigarette >>>>>>>>.
Posted by: The Margins

Posted by: rickb223 at November 27, 2017 06:39 PM (B4a+D)

66
Bocanegra means "black mouth".

Does Boca Raton mean rat mouth?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 27, 2017 06:39 PM (IqV8l)

67 In California, you kind of have to distinguish between the furry perverts, the harassing perverts, and the paedo perverts.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at November 27, 2017 06:38 PM (6FqZa)

I sense a grant proposal coming on....

Posted by: Prof. Dr. Dr. Miklos Molnar at November 27, 2017 06:40 PM (zCyNd)

68 DRUDGE: Huge Tiger Shark Spotted Feet Off South Beach Shore...

That one writes itself...

Posted by: Meremortal, no prosecutions, no peace! at November 27, 2017 06:40 PM (3myMJ)

69 Can we move along the House IT scandal and implicate the California AG while we're at it?

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at November 27, 2017 06:40 PM (oVJmc)

70 Does Boca Raton mean rat mouth?

Means God's Waiting Room.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 27, 2017 06:40 PM (B4a+D)

71 Tune in tomorrow morning where we will beat the issues of Pocahontas being a rapey racist word and that all of the women grabbing is due to Trump.

Posted by: Joe & Mika at November 27, 2017 06:40 PM (3BFzK)

72 His story makes Franken sense. And mirth.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at November 27, 2017 06:41 PM (gIRsn)

73 I know I said I wouldn't do that thing in your mouth, and I'm sorry I made you uncomfortable while doing it.

When can I see you again?

Posted by: GnuBreed at November 27, 2017 06:41 PM (0ogQG)

74 Curmudgeon, I doubt there's any hope for the GOP in CA, unless/until it began to offer some dramatic alternative, and not the watered down, "not who we are", Yeb!-like crap that it usually does. And even then, no hope. Because CA voters are - obviously - pretty much incapable of self-government. Lulled into complacency by prosperity and often very competent government in a previous era, now dumbed down beyond recognition.

Given the CPSU-like, degraded state of things in Sacramento, I can imagine the sexual and other misbehavior is epic. There is only one party (the powerless one is mostly pathetic in its own right), and even THAT party doesn't really run anything. The teacher's union, public and select other unions, and a few moonbat cause-f**k groups literally tell the legislature what to do. And now, in his final phase of moral and intellectual collapse, Brown mostly goes along (even a few years ago, he held the line on certain craziness).

Is there another state legislature where union lobbyists yell at incumbent legislators, in front of their staffs, as though they are lowly employees held in contempt (which they are)?

Posted by: rhomboid at November 27, 2017 06:41 PM (QDnY+)

75
DRUDGE: Huge Tiger Shark Spotted Feet Off South Beach Shore...

Feet don't fail me now!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 27, 2017 06:41 PM (IqV8l)

76 57 LOL.

Democrat congressman who is calling for Trump impeachment sued the drug addiced staffer he slept with when she claimed she was in a hostile environment.

Daily Caller.

Also... not sure that sentence even makes sense.
Posted by: shibumi

She said he had a tiny penis while screwing in the office?

Posted by: Puddleglum at November 27, 2017 06:42 PM (pY+s4)

77 Does Boca Raton mean rat mouth?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 27, 2017 06:39 PM (IqV8l)

My haranguing ex-mother-in-law lives there. So...yes.

Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 Gigawatt SanityProd (tm) at November 27, 2017 06:42 PM (/o9Qk)

78 Maybe the Republicans can pick up his seat.

Electoral buttock fondling.

Posted by: Hands Solo at November 27, 2017 06:42 PM (EzdLW)

79 22 Bocanegra? Also a type of weasel.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at November 27, 2017 06:30 PM (tbOMB)

And a dance. A mating dance performed by the Bocanegria tribe on the Isle of Copacobanegra. Its kinda like the watusi and the hokey pocket, but naked and drunk on Bocanut juice.True story.

Posted by: Bocanegra historian at November 27, 2017 06:43 PM (VezBU)

80 Jazz Shaw: There's a fine line between respecting constitutional rights and clever lawyering, with this looking very much like the latter. It sounds like the Doctor's attorneys were throwing everything they could find at the wall to see if something would stick. One issue was the practice of the FBI paying small bits of reward money to Best Buy technicians who notified them when potentially illegal images were discovered. Also, the image in question had been deleted (as you might expect him to do before turning over the computer) but was recovered from "unallocated" space. And finally, there was the argument that the picture of the nude child was "child erotica" which apparently isn't illegal (!?!?), so all of the actual hardcore material discovered on his phone was fruit of the poisonous tree. After prosecutors missed a deadline for filing an appeal they basically gave up and the judge dumped the case.

Jazz apparently a big fan of FBI gestapo tactics of getting third parties to rat out their neighbors. People would take their computers to the Geek Squad to get them repaired. The Geek Squad would search the hard drive for images of illegal things and report them to the FBI for a bounty. This is wrong and any case using this type of "found" evidence should be thrown out. Additionally, the single image the Geek Squad found was not technically illegal, but the FBI described it a child porn to get the warrant to search the house and seize other computers, where actual child porn ultimately was found. So, yes, a child pornographer walks, but we can not have government abuse like this.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 27, 2017 06:43 PM (BoMuO)

81 I've decided to run for state senator from San Fernando Valley.

Posted by: Peter North at November 27, 2017 06:43 PM (3BFzK)

82 Maybe the Republicans can pick up his seat.

You'd be hard pressed to tell the difference out there. They were fully complicit in their own decades-long downfall. Hard to believe Reagan came out of there and, to a lesser extent, Nixon.

Posted by: Peaches at November 27, 2017 06:44 PM (14URa)

83 Bocanegra? Black mouth?

Posted by: Insomniac - Nobody in Particular at November 27, 2017 06:44 PM (NWiLs)

84 >>Wu Hu?

*High Five*

*High Four*

Posted by: Homer Simpson at November 27, 2017 06:44 PM (EzdLW)

85 True Fact : Teddy Roosevelt led the charge of the Roughriders on the Whorehouse at BocaNegra.

Posted by: garrett at November 27, 2017 06:44 PM (0G4o5)

86 79 22 Bocanegra? Also a type of weasel.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at November 27, 2017 06:30 PM (tbOMB)

And a dance. A mating dance performed by the Bocanegria tribe on the Isle of Copacobanegra. Its kinda like the watusi and the hokey pocket, but naked and drunk on Bocanut juice.True story.
Posted by: Bocanegra historian at November 27, 2017 06:43 PM (VezBU)

I was there, man. In the shit. With the grunts.

Posted by: Brian Williams at November 27, 2017 06:44 PM (tbOMB)

87 DRUDGE: Huge Tiger Shark Spotted Feet Off South Beach Shore...

All staff are encouraged to swim with a (slower) colleague.

Posted by: Boca Raton Exterminators, Inc. at November 27, 2017 06:45 PM (zCyNd)

88 Actually immediately suing your accusers is about the only option. It's either that or bending over for your pegging.

If you're going down for the count, might as well inflict damage while it happens.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at November 27, 2017 06:45 PM (4ErVI)

89 66
Bocanegra means "black mouth".

Does Boca Raton mean rat mouth?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 27, 2017 06:39 PM (IqV8l)

Yep.

Posted by: Insomniac - Nobody in Particular at November 27, 2017 06:45 PM (NWiLs)

90 Slow Day, Busy night

Posted by: Nevergiveup at November 27, 2017 06:45 PM (5y11N)

91 Is there another state legislature where union
lobbyists yell at incumbent legislators, in front of their staffs, as
though they are lowly employees held in contempt (which they are)?

Posted by: rhomboid at November 27, 2017 06:41 PM (QDnY+)
My client who had a great project was hounded out of Cali (literally, they declared bankruptcy and left the state) all because a very prominent environmental group (I've met them and they are bat shit insane) threatened the three Sacramento legislators with election consequences if they approved the project. They caved. I heard from contacts that these enviro loonies yelled, screamed and cussed out the legislators.

Posted by: IC at November 27, 2017 06:45 PM (a0IVu)

92 74 Curmudgeon, I doubt there's any hope for the GOP in CA, unless/until it began to offer some dramatic alternative, and not the watered down, "not who we are", Yeb!-like crap that it usually does. And even then, no hope. Because CA voters are - obviously - pretty much incapable of self-government. Lulled into complacency by prosperity and often very competent government in a previous era, now dumbed down beyond recognition.

Sadly, I concur. And the last CA politician who saw what was coming, Pete Wilson, was a RINO in so many respects.

But Pete understood that the GOP could never win a Hispandering Contest, something Jack Kemp and the rest of the GOPee did not.

Granted, NO Republican can win if the A-Word ever comes up--this state is abortion on demand and will remain so until the end of the time even if the monstrosity of Roe v. Wade is overturned and the issue goes back to the states, as it should.

But there ARE rifts in the Grievance Groups that make up the Demunist Commiecrat Party out here, that can be exploited.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at November 27, 2017 06:45 PM (ujg0T)

93 It's hard to think of this as having to do with American politics. I feel like I'm reading about some event in another nation. "A member of the General Assembly of Ibuanastan resigns following allegations ..."

Emotionally, California is no longer a part of the US. We just need to seal the deal.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at November 27, 2017 06:45 PM (/qEW2)

94 #draintheswamp

Posted by: phoenixgirl...baseball can't get here soon enough at November 27, 2017 06:46 PM (0O7c5)

95 His story makes Franken sense. And mirth.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at November 27, 2017 06:41 PM (gIRsn)

That comment is gold!

Posted by: Hands Solo at November 27, 2017 06:46 PM (EzdLW)

96 Ahh pero senors el weather is muy bueno en kalifornia. Tambien las chicas de pipe carne are tiene muy jugo.

Posted by: Jukin el deplorable at November 27, 2017 06:47 PM (3BFzK)

97 Daily Wire has a list of 24 Dem politicians faced with sexual harassment/assault charges (19 within the last month) , that CNN failed to ever cover:

https://tinyurl.com/y829koua

Bocanegra is on the list.

Posted by: GnuBreed at November 27, 2017 06:47 PM (0ogQG)

98 But there ARE rifts in the Grievance Groups that make up the Demunist Commiecrat Party out here, that can be exploited.
Posted by: Curmudgeon

Calexit. I vote for it.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 27, 2017 06:47 PM (B4a+D)

99 #draintheswamp

The we'll have to ID the bodies.

Posted by: garrett at November 27, 2017 06:47 PM (0G4o5)

100 93. I've got a better idea - California stays. The people fucking it up have to leave. Where they go is not America's problem, but they cannot return.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at November 27, 2017 06:47 PM (fA1SL)

101 35 I apologize that you remember my touching you inappropriately differently than I remember myself touching you and if you were offended by your false memory, then I'm sorry.
Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 Gigawatt SanityProd (tm) at November 27, 2017 06:34 PM (/o9Qk)

I see a career for you as a political spokesperson/speechwriter.

Posted by: rickl at November 27, 2017 06:48 PM (sdi6R)

102 But there ARE rifts in the Grievance Groups that make up the Demunist Commiecrat Party out here, that can be exploited.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at November 27, 2017 06:45 PM (ujg0T)

And they will be once the great hallowing out of GOPe occurs. Which it must occur. The people replacing Muh Principles are going to play the part of England managing its colonies. We're going to get these pukes at each others' throats.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at November 27, 2017 06:48 PM (4ErVI)

103 Posted by: Curmudgeon at November 27, 2017 06:45 PM (ujg0T)

You know who I was really excited about (until I wasn't)? Tom McClintock. He was so great. Then he just wasn't.

Posted by: Peaches at November 27, 2017 06:48 PM (14URa)

104 ace did you know that just a few years ago, at one time, about 10% (3) the ruling state Senate Dem caucus was under felony arrest? Betcha didn't (like the rest of CA and America, cuz, no press, duh).

One for campaign finance violations (IIRC) - the Hispanic guy; one for violating various rules about residence of record etc. - the black guy; and the best, one for *international arms trafficking conspiracy* (not making this up) - the Chinese guy (who BTW was also one of several leading obnoxious gun-grabbing authoritarian pieces of garbage in his party in CA).

Yet, mysteriously, this was a non-issue. The "press" inexplicably did not mount an hysterical "culture of corruption" campaign, nor did the "opposition" party, and the stupid lazy electorate remained mostly unaware, and as always unconcerned, about it. Dunno, but can't imagine any of the perps were replaced by anything other than carbon copies (as to ethnicity, and vile alien values and policy ideas) in their districts.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 27, 2017 06:49 PM (QDnY+)

105 99. * fistbump *

Bog-men, all the way down.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at November 27, 2017 06:49 PM (fA1SL)

106 BTW NBC broadcast opened with Pocogate and the story somehow ended saying that the middle class will pay higher taxes if the bill goes through. Because they are really the same story.
Posted by: Daybrother at November 27, 2017 06:32 PM (6j79Y)

You're joking. We have been calling her Pocahontas for years. As has Trump.

Why would they choose today to suddenly be offended that he's calling out a woman for spending decades pretending to be an American Indian?

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 27, 2017 06:50 PM (wmaTe)

107 I say we hang Raul up like a pinata and let these six women beat him with "due process" sticks.

Posted by: Fritz at November 27, 2017 06:51 PM (H7ZyP)

108 >>NBC broadcast opened with Pocogate

Is Jim Messina OK?

Posted by: garrett at November 27, 2017 06:51 PM (0G4o5)

109 You know who I was really excited about (until I wasn't)? Tom McClintock. He was so great. Then he just wasn't.
Posted by: Peaches at November 27, 2017 06:48 PM (14URa)

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

Yeah, McClintock lost me when he recommended voting for the water storage bill. I knew, going in, that Sacramento could not be trusted to hold to the letter of the law and would siphon the money off for everything but what the money was originally intended for.

Posted by: Blake at November 27, 2017 06:51 PM (qC1Sy)

110 I've got a better idea - California stays. The people fucking it up have to leave. Where they go is not America's problem, but they cannot return.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at November 27, 2017 06:47 PM (fA1SL)

Nah. Do a reverse Hong Kong. Lease California (Ka-shi Special Administrative Zone) to China for 99 years.

National debt paid; the Chinese will be too confused/busy to cause other problems.

Posted by: Dr. Miklos Kissinger at November 27, 2017 06:51 PM (zCyNd)

111 "most men, I think, can remember all breasts and buttocks they've fondled"

Hell, I can even remember those I didn't fondle, but wanted to!

Posted by: Eric Hoffer's Thumb at November 27, 2017 06:52 PM (lKEuo)

112 His story makes Franken sense. And mirth.

Posted by: Bandersnatch

*****

Lots of wise guys. No virgins however.

Posted by: Muldoon at November 27, 2017 06:52 PM (wPiJc)

113 You'd be hard pressed to tell the difference out there. They were fully complicit in their own decades-long downfall. Hard to believe Reagan came out of there and, to a lesser extent, Nixon.

Posted by: Peaches at November 27, 2017 06:44 PM (14URa)

The Irony Of Cold War Victory. We defeated the Communists abroad only to have Commiecrats take over at home. When the aerospace, related computer hardware and defense industries folded up and the military bases closed, there went the GOP in Cali. :-(

1978--besides the year of San Francisco going mad from the People's Temple to Dan White, it was the year Tourism--much of it Gay Sex related--overtook Financial Services as the main industry in San Francisco. (Believe it or not, at one time SF city fathers saw the city's post WW2 future as "Wall Street West" and a Pacific Rim financial center.)

1992--besides the year of LA rioting, it was the year Entertainment overtook Aerospace as the main industry of Los Angeles.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at November 27, 2017 06:52 PM (ujg0T)

114 110. * kicks pebbles *

Darn it! I had my heart set on REMOVE CAL-BAB!

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at November 27, 2017 06:53 PM (fA1SL)

115 >>... most men, I think, can remember all breasts and buttocks they've fondled.

When I was seventeen, it was a very good year...

Hey, this sounds familiar?

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at November 27, 2017 06:53 PM (LWu6U)

116 6 BTW NBC broadcast opened with Pocogate and the story somehow ended saying that the middle class will pay higher taxes if the bill goes through. Because they are really the same story.
Posted by: Daybrother at November 27, 2017 06:32 PM (6j79Y)

You're joking. We have been calling her Pocahontas for years. As has Trump.

Why would they choose today to suddenly be offended that he's calling out a woman for spending decades pretending to be an American Indian?
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 27, 2017 06:50 PM (wmaTe)

They're always offended by it. But they don't want to talk about the gropey Democrats. And they can't have it be a positive story about Trump honoring the Navajo. So time to turn their outrage up to eleven.

Posted by: Buzzion - guess my sign at November 27, 2017 06:54 PM (z/Ubi)

117 115 >>... most men, I think, can remember all breasts and buttocks they've fondled.

When I was seventeen, it was a very good year...

Hey, this sounds familiar?
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at November 27, 2017 06:53 PM (LWu6U)

17 was mostly awful.

Posted by: Insomniac - Nobody in Particular at November 27, 2017 06:54 PM (NWiLs)

118 107 I say we hang Raul up like a pinata and let these six women beat him with "due process" sticks.
Posted by: Fritz at November 27, 2017 06:51 PM (H7ZyP)

A bit of trivia. "Due process" sticks are called Baton Rouges.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at November 27, 2017 06:54 PM (tbOMB)

119
You know that song goes mmm mmm mmmmm mm with the trumpet, and then goes They can feel it all ohhhhver?

Posted by: Half Senile Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at November 27, 2017 06:55 PM (VTsbl)

120 What is the Washington Post story on O'Keffe ? It's behind a pay wall on Drudge

Posted by: Nevergiveup at November 27, 2017 06:57 PM (5y11N)

121 We would like to state for the record, that referring to Elizabeth Warren as "Pocahontas" is less offensive to the Cherokee than referring to her as Cherokee.

Posted by: the Cherokee Elders at November 27, 2017 06:57 PM (zCyNd)

122 113
1992--besides the year of LA rioting, it was the year Entertainment overtook Aerospace as the main industry of Los Angeles.
Posted by: Curmudgeon at November 27, 2017 06:52 PM (ujg0T)

Yesterday I watched a number of videos on YouTube about the Atlas missile project from the late 1950s. California seemingly had infinite promise and potential back then. It's pretty horrifying to see what has happened.

Posted by: rickl at November 27, 2017 06:58 PM (sdi6R)

123 California is a lost cause, politically.

And it exerts a really stupid influence on the rest of the country, because of its size and population.

And, frankly, I am surprised no one has taken a pot shot at Victor Hanson, he being a very outspoken and articulate conservative writer.

Hard to believe what it once was, in my lifetime. No, I am not from California, or even spent any time there. But it once was reliably Republican, and the wealthiest state in the country.
Get some of the big tech firms to leave northern California, and the state economy would really start to circle the drain.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative....unfrozen caveman moron at November 27, 2017 06:58 PM (S6Pax)

124 I'm not so sure that I like Democrats resigning. When they are obviously guilty and they stay in office, it's like an inoculation for conservatives.
Lefties can never win an argument again about character or ethics. I just shout "Franken, Conyers, Clinton, Kennedy... spare me your outrage, YOU HAVE NO MORALS!" and they can't reply with anything.

I hope these sleazy Dems stay put and render their party impotent.

Posted by: Log Cabin at November 27, 2017 06:58 PM (Ve2ZO)

125 That comment is gold!

Posted by: Hands Solo at November 27, 2017 06:46 PM (EzdLW)
---
Ehhh?

Posted by: Kenny Bania at November 27, 2017 06:59 PM (JhE5a)

126 120 What is the Washington Post story on O'Keffe ? It's behind a pay wall on Drudge
Posted by: Nevergiveup at November 27, 2017 06:57 PM (5y11N)

Looks like a sting op got outed... had a Woman who was trying to peddle a Judge Moore story... but they followed her and she went to Veritas building...

Who knew that Reporters could actually... you know... follow someone and report?

Posted by: Don Q. at November 27, 2017 06:59 PM (NgKpN)

127 117
17 was mostly awful.
Posted by: Insomniac - Nobody in Particular at November 27, 2017 06:54 PM (NWiLs)

I know, right?

Posted by: Janis Ian at November 27, 2017 06:59 PM (sdi6R)

128 109 You know who I was really excited about (until I wasn't)? Tom McClintock. He was so great. Then he just wasn't.
Posted by: Peaches at November 27, 2017 06:48 PM (14URa)

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

Yeah, McClintock lost me when he recommended voting for the water storage bill. I knew, going in, that Sacramento could not be trusted to hold to the letter of the law and would siphon the money off for everything but what the money was originally intended for.
Posted by: Blake at November 27, 2017 06:51 PM (qC1Sy)

Honestly? McClintock is the Last Honest Calif Politician, or the first of their return, assuming California really is going Atlas Shrugged.

I know the Demunists in Cali have a nasty habit of turning "Water supply" bills into Wilderness Acquisition bills (more "Watershed" don't you know!), but if we even get one more hydro dam....

Posted by: Curmudgeon at November 27, 2017 07:00 PM (ujg0T)

129 Inoculation for conservatives?

I share your concern.

/s

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at November 27, 2017 07:00 PM (tbOMB)

130

Repeating Et tu, Brett Bair?repeating unsourced anonymous sources claiming Trump says the old mish tape is not authentic.

As one brave panelists pointed out, the press has done a horrible job understanding what Trump says.

Ridiculous. Obvious and silly effort Trying to tie Trump in with and distract from Conyers and Franken

Posted by: LASue at November 27, 2017 07:01 PM (hZ+us)

131 Dang, I missed Piegate thread! That gave me a chuckle over the holidays.

Related to this thread and the last: libs are such ridiculous lying poseurs, it's almost impressive.

Posted by: LizLem at November 27, 2017 07:01 PM (hvf9s)

132 Looks like a sting op got outed... had a Woman who was trying to peddle a Judge Moore story... but they followed her and she went to Veritas building...

Who knew that Reporters could actually... you know... follow someone and report?
Posted by: Don Q.

_________

Something tells me they do nowhere near that sort of vetting when a Soros operative is suspected.

I guess they sent a reporter to a Veritas office?

Think they camp out in front of any left-wing groups and see who goes in and out?

Posted by: Maritime at November 27, 2017 07:01 PM (lKmt3)

133 They're always offended by it. But they don't want to talk about the gropey Democrats. And they can't have it be a positive story about Trump honoring the Navajo. So time to turn their outrage up to eleven.
Posted by: Buzzion - guess my sign at November 27, 2017 06:54 PM (z/Ubi)

makes sense.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 27, 2017 07:01 PM (wmaTe)

134 What is the Washington Post story on O'Keffe ? It's behind a pay wall on Drudge

Posted by: Nevergiveup at November 27, 2017 06:57 PM (5y11N)
I glanced at it. Started out saying he sent some undercover chick in with a made up story about Moore. I lost interest at that point. Sometimes if you google the exact name of the article, you can get it outside the paywall.

Posted by: Peaches at November 27, 2017 07:01 PM (14URa)

135 Curmudgeon there is key truth in your milestone analysis about how/when CA changed. Added to this of course were mass immigration, much of it illegal, and the degradation of public education and civic culture finally starting to take its toll.

IC, the story of the lobbyist dressing down the office-holder in Sacramento, in his office in front of his staff, actually was talked about briefly, on the fringes, when it happened. Your story surely has been repeated dozens of times. The only limiting factor is that few of these people need to be screamed at to know what they must do.

A particularly delightful bit of lawless race-baiting Third World degradation lately has been the public, Saddam-like boasting of a prominent Dem (DeLeon) about all the illegal family members he has here. He may run for governor. Perfect.

There is no hope for CA in my lifetime, but it's frustrating that (so it seems, so far) the Trump administration doesn't realize what it's up against, and what sort of serious application of power will be needed to smash the racist lawlessness in this state on immigration. That at least would provide some entertainment, as the vile idiots ruining the state would be smacked down and humiliated to some extent.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 27, 2017 07:01 PM (QDnY+)

136 Racist last name.

Posted by: Les Kinetic at November 27, 2017 07:02 PM (U6f54)

137 NGU: Daily Caller has a post on the WaPo story.

https://tinyurl.com/ya6cmrtt

Posted by: Dan Rather at November 27, 2017 07:02 PM (398bZ)

138 Ralph Blackmouth?

Posted by: wth at November 27, 2017 07:03 PM (HgMAr)

139 Hard to believe what it once was, in my lifetime. No, I am not from California, or even spent any time there. But it once was reliably Republican, and the wealthiest state in the country.
Get some of the big tech firms to leave northern California, and the state economy would really start to circle the drain.
Posted by: Bozo Conservative....unfrozen caveman moron at November 27, 2017 06:58 PM (S6Pax)

Want to kill Calif. Economy?

Stop H1Bs and other foreign worker permits.

57% of the MAMAGEMENT of Sillycone Valley is foreign born... workers are an even greater percentage.

Posted by: Don Q. at November 27, 2017 07:03 PM (NgKpN)

140
Repeating Et tu, Brett Bair?repeating unsourced anonymous sources claiming Trump says the old mish tape is not authentic.
---

I went back around election time and listened to the mish tape.

IIRC, he does not say he did that.

Just that women will LET you do that.

So it's the difference between "I had sex with my dog" and "a dog will let you have sex with it."

Totally different meanings.

Posted by: shibumi at November 27, 2017 07:03 PM (aT+Bx)

141 138 Ralph Blackmouth?

Posted by: wth at November 27, 2017 07:03 PM (HgMAr)

Blackadder?

Posted by: the Molnar Elders at November 27, 2017 07:04 PM (zCyNd)

142 A woman who falsely claimed to The Washington Post that Roy Moore, the Republican U.S. Senate candidate in Alabama, impregnated her as a teenager appears to work with an organization that uses deceptive tactics to secretly record conversations in an effort to embarrass its targets.

In a series of interviews over two weeks, the woman shared a dramatic story about an alleged sexual relationship with Moore in 1992 that led to an abortion when she was 15. During the interviews, she repeatedly pressed Post reporters to give their opinions on the effects that her claims could have on Moore's candidacy if she went public.

The Post did not publish an article based on her unsubstantiated account. When Post reporters confronted her with inconsistencies in her story and an Internet posting that raised doubts about her motivations, she insisted that she was not working with any organization that targets journalists.

But on Monday morning, Post reporters saw her walking into the New York offices of Project Veritas, an organization that targets the mainstream news media and left-leaning groups.

http://tinyurl.com/ycqsrhz7
WaPo

My response: a swing and a miss. So what. O'Keefe put out the bait and the WaPo sniffed it out and didn't fall for it. That they think the whole thing is a major story just shows how lame they are. Not a news organization, but a partisan player.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at November 27, 2017 07:04 PM (FUu/Z)

143 It's funny to fondle a fanny! Why can't women take a joke? My wife always laughs along with my funny jokes. Why are women so uptight? Sorry, not sorry.

Posted by: Al busyhands Franken at November 27, 2017 07:05 PM (yEAdf)

144 Get some of the big tech firms to leave northern California, and the state economy would really start to circle the drain.
Posted by: Bozo Conservative....unfrozen caveman moron at November 27, 2017 06:58 PM (S6Pax)

We've imported new voters.

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 27, 2017 07:05 PM (Ri/rl)

145 On all radio stations, and over tv, sms messaging, and psyops aircraft, in all languages: 'People of California, we apologize for any inconvenience caused by our routine incendiary attacks, and for any damage caused by ARCLIGHT follow-up strikes. Americans are to report to the nearest U.S. embassy for processing. All others - REMOVE CAL-BAB will continue. '

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at November 27, 2017 07:05 PM (fA1SL)

146 But on Monday morning, Post reporters saw her walking into the New
York offices of Project Veritas, an organization that targets the
mainstream news media and left-leaning groups.

Weird how they left out how they tail all their other "sources."

Posted by: Peaches at November 27, 2017 07:06 PM (14URa)

147 That they think the whole thing is a major story just shows how lame they are. Not a news organization, but a partisan player.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at November 27, 2017 07:04 PM (FUu/Z)

Look at us. We didn't get caught with our hand in the cookie jar this time.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at November 27, 2017 07:06 PM (tbOMB)

148 1131992--besides the year of LA rioting, it was the year Entertainment overtook Aerospace as the main industry of Los Angeles.
Posted by: Curmudgeon

I saw a documentary about that, "Falling Down". :-)

Posted by: Puddleglum at November 27, 2017 07:06 PM (pY+s4)

149 "I share your concern. "

I get your remark. I'm not a 'concerned, conservative.' Yes, Ive been around this siter long enough to remember. Nor am I Greg.

I just meant when debating all the commie-libs that I find myself surrounded by.
And besides, I'm 3 martinis in already. I'm no longer that sharp, IYKWIMAITYD.

Posted by: Log Cabin at November 27, 2017 07:06 PM (Ve2ZO)

150 Schizo is a way of life for Dems.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 27, 2017 07:07 PM (HpeUK)

151 Fair enough. Conservative to me means keeping hands off OPP. Other people's pie.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at November 27, 2017 07:08 PM (tbOMB)

152 I'm all in to take one for the cause.

Posted by: Poundmetoo at November 27, 2017 07:09 PM (UdKB7)

153 140. Yes, I always got that distinction. But the press obviously ignores it.

Posted by: LASue at November 27, 2017 07:09 PM (hZ+us)

154 149.

Gin?
Or vodka?

* reaches for a club *

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at November 27, 2017 07:09 PM (fA1SL)

155 Does no one remember Weiner?

He resigned.

GOP did not bother to use him and Tony the Tiger to damage the Dem brand.

They fret they will all be Roy Moore but never flip the script. .

Posted by: blaster at November 27, 2017 07:09 PM (jHrzU)

156 150 Schizo is a way of life for Dems.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 27, 2017 07:07 PM (HpeUK)

And zometimes Anna, a banana is chust a banana.

Posted by: Dr Sigmund Freud (D) at November 27, 2017 07:09 PM (zCyNd)

157 MSM can do "journalism" when they get worked up. They went from a standing start to being all over Sarah Palin's two-headed love child in just a couple of days.

Posted by: Ignoramus at November 27, 2017 07:09 PM (cAXIk)

158 NYSlimes says (opinion piece) "if you let boys be boys they will murder their fathers and sleep with their mothers"

not sure where in NY/DC they collected that data, but if you let Dems be Dems they will rape/kill their dates and commit treason against their country, and have the FBI cover it up.

https://twitter.com/OrwellNGoode/status/934904739032166400

Posted by: illiniwek at November 27, 2017 07:10 PM (/aIFg)

159 Palp,
Vodka... very cold. Excellent.

Posted by: Log Cabin at November 27, 2017 07:10 PM (Ve2ZO)

160 135
There is no hope for CA in my lifetime, but it's frustrating that (so it seems, so far) the Trump administration doesn't realize what it's up against, and what sort of serious application of power will be needed to smash the racist lawlessness in this state on immigration. That at least would provide some entertainment, as the vile idiots ruining the state would be smacked down and humiliated to some extent.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 27, 2017 07:01 PM (QDnY+)

Sending federal troops into California to defend the rights of white citizens, much as they were used in the 50s and 60s in some southern states to defend the rights of black citizens?

That would be entertaining.

Posted by: rickl at November 27, 2017 07:10 PM (sdi6R)

161
* reaches for a club *

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at November 27, 2017 07:09 PM (fA1SL)

The club soda is for the mojitos, sir.

Posted by: Miklos the mixologist at November 27, 2017 07:11 PM (zCyNd)

162 Maybe WaPo was sceptical becuz they know their other story is bullshit.

Posted by: LASue at November 27, 2017 07:11 PM (hZ+us)

163 159. Hmmm......vodka martinis?

I'll allow it. Live and let live.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at November 27, 2017 07:11 PM (fA1SL)

164 >>There is no hope for CA in my lifetime

I wouldn't say that.

Posted by: San Andreas Fault at November 27, 2017 07:12 PM (0G4o5)

165 Posted by: Don Q. at November 27, 2017 07:03 PM (NgKpN)

MAMAGEMENT

That's what we call breast fondling in Silicon Valley.

Posted by: Hands Solo at November 27, 2017 07:12 PM (EzdLW)

166 g'early evenin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at November 27, 2017 07:12 PM (KCxzN)

167 "Because of our customary journalistic rigor, we weren't fooled"

Posted by: The Washington Poundmetoo at November 27, 2017 07:13 PM (UdKB7)

168 Want to kill Calif. Economy?

Stop H1Bs and other foreign worker permits.

57% of the MAMAGEMENT of Sillycone Valley is foreign born... workers are an even greater percentage.
Posted by: Don Q. at November 27, 2017 07:03 PM (NgKpN)

Speaking of which, I am reminded of a brief period in the 2000s when the American Spectator went haywire and goo-goo-for-globalism, when George Gilder and the other technofuturists briefly took it over.

Maybe in their little enclave immigration is nothing but upside, but not for the rest of California, let alone the rest of the nation.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at November 27, 2017 07:13 PM (ujg0T)

169 161. Nicely done, ya Magyar miscreant!

* pours Zwack slivo, pushes it to Miklos *

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at November 27, 2017 07:13 PM (fA1SL)

170 158 NYSlimes says (opinion piece) "if you let boys be boys they will murder their fathers and sleep with their mothers"

Lawsuit underway.

Posted by: Sophocles, per Molnar Law Firm at November 27, 2017 07:13 PM (zCyNd)

171 It was a goof.

Posted by: Nico Toscani at November 27, 2017 07:14 PM (H7ZyP)

172 165 Posted by: Don Q. at November 27, 2017 07:03 PM (NgKpN)

MAMAGEMENT

That's what we call breast fondling in Silicon Valley.
Posted by: Hands Solo at November 27, 2017 07:12 PM (EzdLW)

Nice. I'll have to try that out on Mrs. Flounder.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at November 27, 2017 07:14 PM (tbOMB)

173 >>NYSlimes says "if you let boys be boys they will murder their fathers and sleep with their mothers"

...and he walked on down the hall.

Posted by: Zombie Jim Morrison at November 27, 2017 07:16 PM (0G4o5)

174 "NYSlimes says (opinion piece) "if you let boys be boys they will murder their fathers and sleep with their mothers"

They are going to sleep with their father's mothers? It's worse than we thought!

Posted by: Dr Poundmetoo at November 27, 2017 07:16 PM (UdKB7)

175 He must have let his finger linger.

Posted by: torabora at November 27, 2017 07:17 PM (6dFYM)

176 Maybe in their little enclave immigration is nothing but upside, but not for the rest of California, let alone the rest of the nation.
Posted by: Curmudgeon at November 27, 2017 07:13 PM (ujg0T)

I could show you some neighborhoods that look like Tijuana, trash dumped all over rural roads.

There are too many immigrants and they are not assimilating.

I can go into the bank and I'm the only English speaker there.

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 27, 2017 07:17 PM (Ri/rl)

177 Raul has old man balls.

Posted by: wth at November 27, 2017 07:17 PM (HgMAr)

178 "I have decided to resign earlier from the State Assembly effective immediately, which was my original intention," Bocanegra said in a statement released Monday.

The Spin is strong in this one.

His original intention was to resign earlier than immediately?

Posted by: Hands Solo at November 27, 2017 07:17 PM (EzdLW)

179 Here's what I don't get about all the gropey gropes.

I have in my day been as big a dog as Paul Bunyan's friend Sport. Love the feel, sight, heft, smell, and umami of boobage more than lobster in drawn butter.

But a huge part of the thrill is the consent, and better, the desire of the gropee.

"Suzy Hotpants let me get to second base" is a thrill and a memory".

"I grabbed Suzy Hotpants' boob when she passed out and now her brother wants to beat me up" is just pathetic.

It doesn't show anything about your suavity among the distaff. It says you're an ass, so you don't say it.

Without reciprocation of some sort boobage is just an interesting texture. It should turn her on, then it can turn you on.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at November 27, 2017 07:17 PM (gIRsn)

180 Franken
Franken
Franken

Resign
Resign
Resign

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at November 27, 2017 07:17 PM (nUkMr)

181 KeithOlbermann: "I am retiring from political commentary in all media venues."

Keith Olbermann@KeithOlbermann
NEW VIDEO: After "Pocahontas," Trump's an ex-president waiting to happen - imminently. So this will be the last episode of #TheResistanceGQ.

He's declaring victory and going home.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I'm Dreaming of a White Privilege at November 27, 2017 07:17 PM (+y/Ru)

182 rickl, actually a slight variation on your humorous idea is one I think should be part of a federal onslaught here.

Civil rights suits against officials directly involved in release of illegals sought by the feds who then go on to commit serious crimes. Along with the other two elements:

* strict reciprocity by federal LE when dealing with "sanctuary" jurisdictions - basically ignore their needs and requests apart from national security cases

* simple binding language in appropriations bills making expenditure of select federal $$$ in CA dependent on DOJ/DHS certifying full cooperation by state and local authorities in enforcing immigration law

There's nothing at risk in CA politically, and - amazing yet true - you'd have majority support for most of this tough action by the feds in most parts of the state.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 27, 2017 07:18 PM (QDnY+)

183 * pours Zwack slivo, pushes it to Miklos *

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at November 27, 2017 07:13 PM (fA1SL)

Koszonom, uram. As the weather turns colder, Zwack Unicum season begins.

Posted by: Seasonal Molnar at November 27, 2017 07:18 PM (zCyNd)

184 Speaking of which, I am reminded of a brief period in the 2000s when the American Spectator went haywire and goo-goo-for-globalism, when George Gilder and the other technofuturists briefly took it over.

Maybe in their little enclave immigration is nothing but upside, but not for the rest of California, let alone the rest of the nation.
Posted by: Curmudgeon at November 27, 2017 07:13 PM (ujg0T)

I'm a 58 year old Network engineer... I literally helped create some of this technology...

Last phone interview I had was cut off as soon as they found out how old I was... and was retired Military...

Calif. is insane.

Posted by: Don Q. at November 27, 2017 07:19 PM (NgKpN)

185 This here mish-manglin' and boobie-boppin' has gotten way outta control. Heh.

Posted by: Bubba Clintoon at November 27, 2017 07:19 PM (Tyii7)

186 >>Posted by: Bandersnatch at November 27, 2017 07:17 PM (gIRsn)

A Romantic.

Which is just a type of Italic, btw.

Posted by: garrett at November 27, 2017 07:19 PM (0G4o5)

187 There's nothing at risk in CA politically, and - amazing yet true - you'd have majority support for most of this tough action by the feds in most parts of the state.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 27, 2017 07:18 PM (QDnY+)

Are you a native Californian also? I cannot believe how much my state has changed.

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 27, 2017 07:19 PM (Ri/rl)

188 Aaaaand sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, and sometimes gropey ex-presidents put them in young ladies' humidors.

Posted by: tcn in AK at November 27, 2017 07:19 PM (7UW64)

189 So Pajama Media has an old Howard Stern audio clip of Gary saying that Al Franken was bragging about grabbing Kathie Lee' ass and kissing her in the green room.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at November 27, 2017 07:20 PM (dKiJG)

190 183. Koszonom, uram.
***
Shit! He's possessed!

* throws holy water *

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at November 27, 2017 07:20 PM (fA1SL)

191
...and he walked on down the hall.

-
Ha! I'm listening to some Doors rivnt now, Spanish Caravan.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I'm Dreaming of a White Privilege at November 27, 2017 07:20 PM (+y/Ru)

192 Last phone interview I had was cut off as soon as they found out how old I was... and was retired Military...

Calif. is insane.
Posted by: Don Q. at November 27, 2017 07:19 PM (NgKpN)

I'm sorry, that's awful. We are not all insane, remember that.

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 27, 2017 07:20 PM (Ri/rl)

193 An Italic is some kind of weasel, right?

Posted by: Bandersnatch at November 27, 2017 07:20 PM (gIRsn)

194 most men, I think, can remember all breasts and buttocks they've fondled

mmmm, chicken
mmmm, ham

Posted by: the way to a man's heart at November 27, 2017 07:20 PM (EzdLW)

195 I'm a 58 year old Network engineer... I literally helped create some of this technology...

Last phone interview I had was cut off as soon as they found out how old I was... and was retired Military...

Calif. is insane.
Posted by: Don Q. at November 27, 2017 07:19 PM (NgKpN)

Yeah, but dat weather though!

Posted by: Insomniac - Nobody in Particular at November 27, 2017 07:20 PM (NWiLs)

196 The Doors were often hit or miss, but always original.

Posted by: Ignoramus at November 27, 2017 07:20 PM (cAXIk)

197 KeithOlbermann: "I am retiring from political commentary in all media venues."

He's like a white man's Colin Kaepernick, taking a knee.

Posted by: Peaches at November 27, 2017 07:21 PM (14URa)

198 an organization that uses deceptive tactics to secretly record conversations in an effort to embarrass its targets.

60 Minutes?

Posted by: Grump928(C) at November 27, 2017 07:21 PM (60v4h)

199 Zombie Jim Morrison at November 27, 2017 07:16 PM (0G4o5)

Yea sure. You thought it up.

Posted by: Sophocles at November 27, 2017 07:22 PM (/tuJf)

200 CaliGirl, not technically native, but effectively, yeah. Many years back east and elsewhere, but has always been "home". So I've seen first-hand so much in CA go from truly great and world-leading to awful and despicable and stupid.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 27, 2017 07:22 PM (QDnY+)

201 It's really sad about California. When I was a young teen in the early 60's, California was the golden land. Aerospace, industry, energy, research. Beautiful weather and beautiful women. It was a state you could aspire to move to. Now I just wish all the Californicators that have flooded Colorado would just STFU and go home.

Posted by: Old Blue at November 27, 2017 07:22 PM (gEvQ8)

202 183. Is always slivo season. Always. Rakija. And vodka.

Always......

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at November 27, 2017 07:23 PM (fA1SL)

203 187 There's nothing at risk in CA politically, and - amazing yet true - you'd have majority support for most of this tough action by the feds in most parts of the state.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 27, 2017 07:18 PM (QDnY+)

Are you a native Californian also? I cannot believe how much my state has changed.
Posted by: CaliGirl at November 27, 2017 07:19 PM (Ri/rl)

Cali support group! Who is with me?

That said, I have 12 years and 9 months in the day job (where I am a Conservative Mole) to go, and they can't take the nice weather and low insect population away from me no matter what happens.

Where to go when I retire? I have asked myself that. The old folks are still in San Jose, but they will pass away. Sisters and nieces and nephews are still here, but many friends have left.

I just don't want to jump to perceived greener pastures only to discover they are not.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at November 27, 2017 07:23 PM (ujg0T)

204
Yeah, but dat weather though!
Posted by: Insomniac - Nobody in Particular at November 27, 2017 07:20 PM (NWiLs)

I know, it was in the 90s this week, I'm freezing today, high 60s.

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 27, 2017 07:23 PM (Ri/rl)

205 I know a fella that divorced his wife and soon married his ex mother in law. Christmas must be awesome.

Posted by: torabora at November 27, 2017 07:24 PM (6dFYM)

206 NYSlimes says (opinion piece) "if you let boys be boys they will murder their fathers and sleep with their mothers"
Posted by: illiniwek at November 27, 2017 07:10 PM (/aIFg)

And this is why we aren't to be trusted with guns, either. Everyone else MUST be as stupendously fucked up as they are. If they had guns, they'd murder people all the time (y'know... as they do), so naturally everyone else must be likewise tempted. If they had functional genitals, they'd go all Œdipus, naturlich everyone else really wants to, knowwhatimsayin guys? Amirite?

Projection ain't just a lake in Peruvia.

Posted by: hogmartin at November 27, 2017 07:25 PM (y87Qq)

207 202 183. Is always slivo season. Always. Rakija. And vodka.

Always......

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at November 27, 2017 07:23 PM (fA1SL)

Miklos not waste such beautiful things on gopniks. Like Maria Antoinette, Miklos say "let them drink kvass".

Posted by: Old Man Molnar, having lawn at November 27, 2017 07:25 PM (zCyNd)

208 Nood sportsball

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at November 27, 2017 07:25 PM (fA1SL)

209 >> I know a fella that divorced his wife and soon married his ex mother in law. Christmas must be awesome.

Well, they all eventually turn into their mothers...

this way he's at least got a chance at the life insurance.

Posted by: garrett at November 27, 2017 07:26 PM (0G4o5)

210 Where to go when I retire? I have asked myself that. The old folks are still in San Jose, but they will pass away. Sisters and nieces and nephews are still here, but many friends have left.

I just don't want to jump to perceived greener pastures only to discover they are not.
Posted by: Curmudgeon at November 27, 2017 07:23 PM (

I want to die in CA but they are making it tough. I keep thinking where we could move after our parents are gone. I don't know. I don't do humidity or bugs. What are chiggers? I don't want to know.
Florida? I could maybe live there during the winter, Montana in the summer.

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 27, 2017 07:26 PM (Ri/rl)

211 196 The Doors were often hit or miss, but always original.
Posted by: Ignoramus at November 27, 2017 07:20 PM (cAXIk)

In an interview with the then slavish music press (save for Lester Bangs), Jim Morrisson once said "Here young people grow up more freely than just about anywhere else, but it is also a place where old people come to die. We know both (sentiments) in our music and we express both...."

Posted by: Curmudgeon at November 27, 2017 07:26 PM (ujg0T)

212 I know a fella that divorced his wife and soon married his ex mother in law.

Nothing wrong with that, mon ami.

Posted by: La Macron at November 27, 2017 07:27 PM (Tyii7)

213 207. Kvass - for brushing teeth and mouthwash.

* rises, leaving pile of semechki shells *

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at November 27, 2017 07:27 PM (fA1SL)

214 Etiquette demands I mention nood sportsball. Or the AOS stylebook; whichever is classier.

Posted by: Vanceone at November 27, 2017 07:27 PM (HDMVB)

215 203 187 There's nothing at risk in CA politically, and - amazing yet true - you'd have majority support for most of this tough action by the feds in most parts of the state.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 27, 2017 07:18 PM (QDnY+)

Are you a native Californian also? I cannot believe how much my state has changed.
Posted by: CaliGirl at November 27, 2017 07:19 PM (Ri/rl)

Cali support group! Who is with me?

That said, I have 12 years and 9 months in the day job (where I am a Conservative Mole) to go, and they can't take the nice weather and low insect population away from me no matter what happens.

Where to go when I retire? I have asked myself that. The old folks are still in San Jose, but they will pass away. Sisters and nieces and nephews are still here, but many friends have left.

I just don't want to jump to perceived greener pastures only to discover they are not.
Posted by: Curmudgeon at November 27, 2017 07:23 PM (ujg0T)

IN!

Although only until I don't need to take care of my 89 year old Mom... her life is here... it would kill her to move...

Posted by: Don Q. at November 27, 2017 07:28 PM (NgKpN)

216 200 CaliGirl, not technically native, but effectively, yeah. Many years back east and elsewhere, but has always been "home". So I've seen first-hand so much in CA go from truly great and world-leading to awful and despicable and stupid.
Posted by: rhomboid at November 27, 2017 07:22 PM (QDnY+)

I think we've had this conversation before.

Our dream was a condo in the desert area during winter and the coast in the summer, I'm thinking we are going to have to find a new dream.
My husband wants a condo in Hawaii but I think they are almost as crazy as CA.

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 27, 2017 07:30 PM (Ri/rl)

217 204
I know, it was in the 90s this week, I'm freezing today, high 60s.
Posted by: CaliGirl at November 27, 2017 07:23 PM (Ri/rl)

Oh, I like high 60s. That's my idea of perfect temperature. I don't mind wearing a sweatshirt.

Posted by: rickl at November 27, 2017 07:30 PM (sdi6R)

218 Although only until I don't need to take care of my 89 year old Mom... her life is here... it would kill her to move...
Posted by: Don Q. at November 27, 2017 07:28 PM (NgKpN)

My mother and MIL are here in CA and all our families. Except my BIL just bailed to MO. Retired law enforcement. 3 x 30, must be nice.

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 27, 2017 07:32 PM (Ri/rl)

219 Florida? I could maybe live there during the winter, Montana in the summer.
Posted by: CaliGirl at November 27, 2017 07:26 PM (Ri/rl)

I would like to have seen Montana.

Posted by: капита́н 2-го р́ан at November 27, 2017 07:32 PM (y87Qq)

220 Our dream was a condo in the desert area during winter and the coast in the summer, I'm thinking we are going to have to find a new dream.
My husband wants a condo in Hawaii but I think they are almost as crazy as CA.
Posted by: CaliGirl at November 27, 2017 07:30 PM (Ri/rl)

Coast and Mountains.... two condos... that's the goal...

One so I can learn to sail... one so I can keep skiing.

Posted by: Don Q. at November 27, 2017 07:33 PM (NgKpN)

221 218 Although only until I don't need to take care of my 89 year old Mom... her life is here... it would kill her to move...
Posted by: Don Q. at November 27, 2017 07:28 PM (NgKpN)

My mother and MIL are here in CA and all our families. Except my BIL just bailed to MO. Retired law enforcement. 3 x 30, must be nice.
Posted by: CaliGirl at November 27, 2017 07:32 PM (Ri/rl)

Me and some friends are actually looking at land just over the Nevada border near Tahoe...

To build a compound where we can all retire.

Posted by: Don Q. at November 27, 2017 07:35 PM (NgKpN)

222 To build a compound where we can all retire.
Posted by: Don Q. at November 27, 2017 07:35 PM (NgKpN)

That sounds nice. I don't ski.

Some of my friends have bunkers built on their ranches here. They are prepared. They also have compounds.

I also thought we might be able to live in someplace like Scottsdale during the winter through spring. I still love the coast for summer. Scottsdale is not any cheaper than here though.

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 27, 2017 07:39 PM (Ri/rl)

223 Don Q, have you looked in the Minden Valley?

Posted by: Ben Had at November 27, 2017 07:39 PM (PiO1Y)

224 At present I am in Sacramento halfway between the ocean the mountains. Reno and Minden and Carson City might be options.

Although getting further away from the Santa Barbara area, which has the closest thing on Earth that resembles Heaven weather wise, will make me sad.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at November 27, 2017 07:41 PM (ujg0T)

225 To reduce the total amount of groping incidents, I volunteer to become the sole male groper of women.

Sometimes you got to take one for the team.

Posted by: Bill C. at November 27, 2017 07:43 PM (JhE5a)

226 Although getting further away from the Santa Barbara area, which has the closest thing on Earth that resembles Heaven weather wise, will make me sad.
Posted by: Curmudgeon at November 27, 2017 07:41 PM (

Born and raised, Santa Barbara County. AKA home.

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 27, 2017 07:45 PM (Ri/rl)

227 San Jose myself. No, the city today is nothing like it was in the 1980s or even 1990s.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at November 27, 2017 07:47 PM (ujg0T)

228 I find all this mixing of sex and political office truly disgusting. Maybe it's because I am an older lady from the conservative South.

My friend Fanne Fox agrees.

Posted by: Rita Jenrette at November 27, 2017 07:47 PM (zCyNd)

229
227 San Jose myself. No, the city today is nothing like it was in the 1980s or even 1990s.
Posted by: Curmudgeon at November 27, 2017 07:47 PM (ujg0T)

My friends were there 2 weeks ago for a concert. Not Katy Perry, they saw third eye blind. They said the venue was really nice.

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 27, 2017 07:53 PM (Ri/rl)

230 I was stuck in this really crowded place all noise and bustle and there he was! with his groping hand on her ass!!!! I tried to intervene but the crowd swept me away...

Posted by: Brian Williams at November 27, 2017 08:05 PM (6dFYM)

231 Congresscritters are considering FULL AUTO Tax Increases if revenues fall short.

Notice how they do not consider FULL AUTO Sprnding decreases.

I hate these fuckers with the heat of 1000 political suns.

Posted by: torabora at November 27, 2017 08:08 PM (6dFYM)

232 Dear Whoever,

Blah blah blah bleh bleh bleh-bleh bloo blow blee whatever sounds I need to make to keep my job Bleh blah blah blabby grabby blah blah.

Sincerely,

Posted by: Sen. Al Frankly My Dear at November 27, 2017 08:19 PM (Ndje9)

233 Hmmm......vodka martinis?

I'll allow it. Live and let live.

Gin for me. Plymouth if they have it!

Posted by: free tibet, with purchase of equal or greater value tibet at November 27, 2017 08:43 PM (CL76w)

234 I want to die in CA but they are making it tough. I keep thinking where we could move after our parents are gone. I don't know. I don't do humidity or bugs. What are chiggers? I don't want to know.
Florida? I could maybe live there during the winter, Montana in the summer.

Played golf this Thanksgiving day in Montana- 63 degrees . No wind and sunny. Of course it could be 20 with snow, but mos tof the time the snow goes away a few times through the winter (Billings).

Posted by: free tibet, with purchase of equal or greater value tibet at November 27, 2017 08:48 PM (CL76w)

235 http://www.memes.com/m/RGTh

Posted by: Locke Common at November 27, 2017 09:47 PM (nltFn)

236 Holy shit. The Pixy hamsters must've REALLY crashed their little wheels this time...

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